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(Not UK) I got mine by ignoring what it said on the health ministry's site about age, and typing my actual birth year into the totally separate vaccine booking site, and didn't get questioned at any point. Everyone else at the vaccine centre was old though. Then I got Covid the next day anyway  double immune! Or something...Guavanaut posted:It's amazing that instead of it creating an East Asian style culture of wearing masks anyway during flu season just in case, it created a culture of harassing people deciding to wear them. Because of freedom or something. Of course we couldn't even settle in the middle (i.e. the superior position by definition  ) of letting people wear masks and leaving them alone when they do
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Dec 8, 2023 19:57
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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1734210517856600401 This is a fun game, as Privacy Badger has now started blocking Twitter embeds (and I'm not about to figure out how to turn that off!)... and I'm definitely not clicking on it. So I'm going to guess... Tim Farron, in the House of Commons, with a frog E: bahh you edited in the name, now my No-Twitter-Cluedo makes no sense 
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Dec 11, 2023 17:37
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I like being a teaching case. Feels like you're doing some good, you know? The second last thing I remember before my butt surgery on my butt was seeing the surgeon and several students/junior doctors crowding round to get a good look The last thing I remember is saying "hey can you turn up the Propofol, I still seem to be awake" 
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Dec 11, 2023 19:56
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quote:The figures come as the Bank of England prepares to keep interest rates on hold on Thursday for a third consecutive time against a backdrop of stubbornly high inflation and growing concerns over the impact of 14 previous increases on households and businesses. Hmmmmmmm MAYBE the problem wasn't people having too much money after all!
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Dec 13, 2023 10:00
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bessantj posted:Oh I'd love to work on that network, I'm told they still do live line maintenance. 
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Dec 15, 2023 16:32
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smellmycheese posted:Unsurprising he felt ill. Those are past their sell by date I'm pretty sure 20DIC23 is the sell-by date, so they'll become spoiled and inedible at midnight in 4 days (that's how it works right?) FP is probably fecha de producción or similar </languagenerd>
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Dec 16, 2023 14:26
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My UPS story: I booked my phone in with Apple for a new battery during the lockdown, and got an email saying "UPS will pick up your phone with a special box. Under no circumstances must you pack your phone inside anything, or it WILL be rejected!!!" UPS sub-sub-contractor (guy in a van) turns up, looks at my bare iPhone like "wtf am I supposed to do with that?", goes away again while I sort it out with Apple. Spent a few days going back and forth with Apple support (guy in his bedroom in England), escalated to a manager (guy in his bedroom in Ireland), none of them had any idea how to make these two ideas work together. I just gave up in the end.
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Dec 18, 2023 21:35
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Guavanaut posted:Yeah I think Shades of Gray is the best well sourced thing I last read on it As a fellow Fforde Ffan I was confused there for a second... Sequel in February!
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Dec 21, 2023 20:42
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This has moved on from "a dial taht says racism" and into "Homer adding salt and fresh water to a fish tank containing different kinds of marine life"
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Dec 22, 2023 20:53
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Guavanaut posted:I got one of the V8 cordless stick hoovers about 6 years ago and it has been pretty good in terms of storing under the stairs and not being a pain to lug up steep terraced house stairs, but I also got it on a massive discount. I got a "Tineco" brand knock-off stick hoover and it's been doing us very well. Then we did some heavy DIY and supplemented it with a Henry - it's weird though, it's made in Britain and I'm a "leftard" and I still didn't burst into flames/out crying/through the wall... baffling.
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Dec 23, 2023 18:50
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You'd think that I'd be feeling unchristmassy because I decided to stay home and rest my post-Covid sequelae... but actually it's quite nice just being home on my own with the cats, and I dodged both hitting the Channel Tunnel just as its staff went on strike, and my parents have just caught Covid themselves. No, the reason I feel unchristmassy (apart from gestures at everything) is that it Hasn't. Stopped. Raining. for the last several weeks, and seems to want to keep doing that. Interspersed with the occasional crazy wind storm (even for NL) The Perfect Element posted:I still think that if you could get the alt right conspiracy nuts just to sit down and read a few copies of that rather than just slurping up the latest YouTube fash de jeur, it could do a lot of good for channelling their incoherent anger at the world in the right direction. I've thought this too, though I fear the conspiracy theorist mindset wouldn't be satisfied with the actual "conspiracies" of the world, that are being done 80% out in the open with a sneer of "what are you going to do about it? Vote?"... doesn't give the same rush of being In on the Secret, and decoding the Scooby Doo clues (Scooby Clues?) that the delightfully devilish conspirators make sure to leave.
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Dec 24, 2023 15:57
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fuctifino posted:
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Dec 25, 2023 00:33
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My "not a strange right-wing sect" T-shirt etc...
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Dec 29, 2023 10:57
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Guavanaut posted:John Logie Baird made a receiver out of random radio parts, so if you have anything in your house, you must also have a TV licence. That's not really fair though, he was smarter than the average
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Dec 30, 2023 09:42
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Guavanaut posted:Many of the adaptations are called some variation of Fab 5. 
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Jan 2, 2024 21:03
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Bobby Deluxe posted:^^ No you see those are luxury bones, you don't need those except for eating and interacting with the rest of society without them going 'where the hell are your teeth?' Why is it the greatest champions of Britain always turn out to dismantle the NHS? You! [addressing Tory, pointing to forums poster Reveilled] Where the gently caress are his teeth?
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Jan 3, 2024 19:31
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Jan 4, 2024 21:38
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OwlFancier posted:I'm sure the obvious answers of "most people don't have hearths and/or wooden christmas trees" are not the reason and there is some plot by the wokes to stop people. Feeding my plastic tree into the gas...jet? I guess? of my combi boiler, one plastic needle at a time, to own the wokes
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Jan 6, 2024 09:46
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Guavanaut posted:What would the opposition look like with Tories in third? Lib Dems being the entire shadow cabinet between the 5 of them, all wearing a variety of fake moustaches. Can you imagine how funny they'd look? Old... Steve? Reggie? Those guys. And the frog one. And bring back the Facebook one and make him a Lord, why not.
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Jan 15, 2024 20:53
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OwlFancier posted:GOVERNMENTY This reminded me, I went down a rabbit hole earlier and discovered that Comirnaty, the brand name on the Pfizer vaccine, "represents a combination of the terms COVID‑19, mRNA, community, and immunity" Drug naming is silly. Also I Did My Own Research on this "Humza Haroon Yousaf" character and it turns out none of his names mean any kind of fish
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Jan 16, 2024 17:57
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Wachter posted:What's with all them foreign lines above your name, Theresa?! Early stages of Zalgo. Nothing to be done once those start to show up
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Jan 18, 2024 14:08
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ThomasPaine posted:There are easy ways round this though, and Tesco could and would implement workarounds if they were forced to. One simple solution would be to charge the customer only the delivery fee up front, then have the rest of the money taken once it's successfully dropped off. I don't see why that couldn't be automated, but at a push you could just give the delivery people a remote card reader and have them process the payment on site before they unload the van. That's what we do here in But we also don't have a method of charging somebody's card in absentia as a "pull" type thing anyway. So that's probably also why.
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Jan 22, 2024 17:05
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Microplastics posted:You mean a WOKElift Hmm. Maybe we've been looking at this all wrong. Maybe it's not just a treadmill of PC becomes SJW becomes woke becomes the next thing. Maybe it's like crabs. Everything becomes woke. Social justice? Woke! Racial justice? Woke! Elf'n'safety gone mad? Woke! Crabs? Woke!
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Jan 22, 2024 20:48
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How many kinds of knives do you know In a Zombie Ninja Garden?
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Jan 24, 2024 12:16
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Tesseraction posted:The Muslamics will do anything to get a funeral these days, I saw a whole family of them in whiteface down at the local Polish church, speaking their weird Mohammed language. loving cheek of it. This made me giggle. "I bet sklep is Arabic for halal"
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Feb 6, 2024 21:41
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sinky posted:"At least the fiscal rules are intact" as I shatter like the T-1000  "Yes, the country was destroyed, but at least the tabloids didn't say 'Keith the Squid spent all the Quids'... well they did... but it wasn't true!"
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Feb 7, 2024 21:24
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Guavanaut posted:I do like that the old 2A and 5A outlets are still legal, even if its probably for some oldass reason like how chains are still used as a unit in the railways (or more likely the theatre in this case). Funnily enough, we would only use 2A and 5A in theatre as part of the set, if the play's set in a British living room in the old days  The 15A is still in common use, which is like the round pin one there but scaled up to the size of 13A normal one. Also the mainstream plug type of South Africa for some reason. Theatre's kind of slowly moving towards 16A ceeform but they're big and blue and ugly and the 15A is still allowed, so meh.
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Feb 9, 2024 17:47
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Guavanaut posted:That's interesting. I knew the performing arts liked the Ah interesting, I didn't know SA used Europlug too. I quite like the combination of Schuko and Europlug myself. That or wire up all houses with ELV DC as well, to power all our many gadgets. I have also seen 5A in hotels for standard lamps, which go off with the lights (and also the alternative regular 13A and then your phone doesn't charge). Re theatre, aside from 15 being better than 13, is 2 more... it's partially pin incompatabilty to stop the cleaner plugging the hoover into a dimmer circuit, but mainly so that when a lamp blows overhead, it doesn't take out the fuse on the extension that's buried in a loom and covered in tape.
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Feb 10, 2024 16:08
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plugs but was never sure why and assumed it was part of coming as a current gradated set.
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I gave Seinfeld a go, but I never got as far as any spin-offs
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Feb 12, 2024 09:20
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I tried to parse this as Jacob Lease-Mogg, JRM's even landlordier brother
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Feb 14, 2024 15:54
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I still think the Vince McMahon falling over emote looks more like Kenneth Williams Oooh matron!
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Feb 17, 2024 11:04
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Guavanaut posted:Had to google who the Lib Dem leader even is, it's still Sir Edward Jonathan Davey. The guy off QI who always loses?
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Feb 22, 2024 16:28
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Labour ‘must spend billions on welfare or poverty will soar’ Even the friendly charities and thinktanks are getting nervous now. Labour's response? quote:“Labour is committed to fixing this Tory failure. Our plan to tackle the root causes of poverty will grow the economy to put money back into people’s pockets, reform social security, create well-paid jobs, and deliver a bold, new cross-government child poverty strategy.” Plz grow economy? No money! Only grow! Realistically, Labour's only chance to do any good is to turn on the money firehose on day one - and equally important, the money sump pump to collect it again once it's trickled to the top. Even a few months of dithering and waiting for the "economy" to "grow" will probably doom them to nothing improving by the following election. But they either don't want to do that, or are scared of being accused of spending all the pounds, or both 
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Feb 25, 2024 15:51
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Wouldn't that plan rely on them actually taxing companies? 
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Feb 25, 2024 16:16
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Lord Ludikrous posted:The worst thing with recent TVs is how many of them keep the brightness/backlight setting behind a submenu or two. You know, the one option you'll probably want to adjust fairly regularly. My TV did that. Right in the "rule of thirds" spot, so people looked very unwell in close up shots. I used it as an excuse to buy a new TV, but I also thought I'd try replacing the LEDs and give the old one to my parents. I found the LED strips, found a video on how to take the whole thing apart, it worked perfectly... and then in the final step I put too much pressure on the bezel and cracked the LCD. Off to the dump it went
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Feb 26, 2024 08:39
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One horseshoe that is kind of true, though not particularly useful, is what Naomi Klein (fine) talks about her latest book - how the conspiracy loons get the facts wrong but the feelings right. They feel there's something wrong with the world (true), the status quo isn't doing them or their friends any favours (true), things are controlled by powerful unaccountable people who don't have their best interests at heart (true), but then they go off in completely the wrong direction about the specifics. Meanwhile, the centrists are unlike either "side" because they're sitting in the middle going "this is fine" or "America is already great". I say it's not useful because, while the far left and far right are more alike in that sense than either is like the centrists, the consequent actual worldview and actions that flow from it are so unalike as to make it more of a twisted S-shape. Guavanaut posted:Like some kind of skunk Anansi? I appreciated this
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Feb 29, 2024 20:48
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OwlFancier posted:I feel like there is a significant contingent of centrists who do think everything is poo poo but their takeaway is "well we can't do anything about it, it's supposed to be poo poo, if you think otherwise you're a baby" And alongside the well-known smugness of being Big Sensible Adults who Know How Things Really Work, this also has the "advantage" of placing you on the winning team most of the time. Can't be owned by meanie lefties if you always bet on things getting worse *head tapping meme*
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Feb 29, 2024 21:53
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