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fuctifino posted:One bit of LOL news from today, Fox has discontinued suing someone who called him racist Not on twitter these days but glad for the lad
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Mar 4, 2024 21:25
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Yep it's a death spiral Evergreen page snipe
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Mar 5, 2024 13:59
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The obvious jokes are the best ones
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Mar 8, 2024 13:24
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I remember this, less than a year before Princess Diana was hounded to her death http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9610/08/diana.hoax/ Though it wasn't the palace putting out the fake images back then...
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Mar 11, 2024 00:36
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Phrakusca posted:I'm reminded of a debate that consumed a lecture back when I was at uni on whether or not it was ok to write/say "an historic". Another good debate is whether data is singular or plural... or do I mean, whether data are plural or singular...
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Mar 17, 2024 12:08
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Oh god don't. One of my PhD examiners had a real bee in his bonnet about that and I had never given it much thought before and one of the corrections I had to do was go through it finding every mention of data and change to datum if singular. Out of my two examiners, one gave me just a handful of 'corrections' and the other about 5 sheets of A4 and it was all punctuation and formatting apart from one small section where I had used bullet points and he told me to rewrite it as a proper paragraph because 'bullet points have no place in academic work'. Fortunately I think some journals are being less pissy about it these days. Thinking about corrections on a PhD thesis still gives me sweats, my examiner offered me the choice of submitting with minor corrections or go back to the lab to get a bit more data. I eagerly took the first option, I was so done with it by then.
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Mar 17, 2024 12:29
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Too many people caught up in living in a big city, if you just broadened your horizens you could live somewhere beautiful and affordable like... https://www.onthemarket.com/new-homes/property/garboldisham/ (I jogged place this development last night, it's even worse seeing it in person)
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Mar 21, 2024 13:30
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xtothez posted:I've never seen a list of UK places that looked more like it was generated by AI than this. It's so weird not recognising a single one. Just to help your disbelief, make sure you use the authentic pronunciation too, like "Garblesham"
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Mar 21, 2024 13:53
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What kind of idiot would actually want to try and fix the country's problems? Can you imagine how much hard work that will be?
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Mar 22, 2024 13:46
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fuctifino posted:https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/plymouth-mp-johnny-mercer-faces-9189170 Am I misreading this, or is that guy actually trying to protect whistleblowers? Just seems pretty opposite to what you'd normally expect especially from a Tory MP
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Mar 26, 2024 13:18
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The only moral cocaine is my cocaine
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Mar 27, 2024 13:45
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kingturnip posted:It's a bit mean-spirited, but I'm thoroughly enjoying the stories of people who looked at their expired passport and thought "It'll be fine to go on holiday with this", only to find out [shock] that it wasn't fine. I actually upset my wife a bit yesterday as we were discussing this and she'd misinterpreted the story and somehow thought you needed 10 years left on your passport to go to Europe now, and I was just dumbfounded at how the story could be so badly mistaken. For the couple in the news recently, their problem was that pre-2018 passports have an extra 9 months on their expiry date, but the EU won't let you in if it was issued over 10 years ago (even if the passport says it's valid). So the error is slightly more understandable but anyone travelling with less than a year left on their passport really should be checking before they travel no matter what. And also renew sooner to get that sweet new passport colour, of course.
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Mar 30, 2024 11:54
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happyhippy posted:Millions of quid now going to be diverted from uni teaching to develop a boat that travels quicker in diarrhea. I like that the first thing I saw when I clicked this poo link was "DO YOU AGREE TO COOKIES?"
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Mar 30, 2024 20:05
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Camilla a oval office? It's always the ones you least expect
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Mar 31, 2024 12:49
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That sounds like it would make for a good problem article for Anna Sims at the guardian, look her upm
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Mar 31, 2024 21:53
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Skulker posted:Scotland hate law's a load of shite, it's so vague that it should be frightening but the police are pretty open about having 0 intent to enforce it ever. gently caress sake, round here they can't even investigate murders, let alone Internet slapfights. Problem is, loads of crime and a useless lazy police force, faced with the option of investigating burglaries or going after violent killers or popping round JK's castle for a cosy cuppa while they roll their eyes at the wokerati who have insisted they investigate, I know what they'll be doing...
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Apr 1, 2024 14:58
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Rarity posted:The report rejects dozens of verified studies about the benefit of puberty blockers for spurious reasons and hints at denying gender-affirming care to anyone with neurodiversity, anxiety or depression (and lol we're trans, we all have depression) Ah, so it's like with all the covidiots - they don't count because they have a pre-existing condition. Also I am not exactly surprised to see that they are now moving on to wanting to stop treatment for adults, it's almost like they don't actually care about kids...
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Apr 11, 2024 20:20
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WhatEvil posted:I had a car insurer - 1stCentral - somehow manage to open 2 separate policies for me on the same car, with wildly different start dates. I spoke to them a load of times wasting literally hours on hold, was assured that it would be closed, that they would stop asking for money, that it was definitely dealt with this time... until I got a letter from them saying that if I did not pay it would be sent to bailiffs. How long ago was that though? As an organisation that can hold shifty businesses to account, it's unsurprisingly been pretty neutered in recent years
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Apr 12, 2024 17:46
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Guavanaut posted:Easy solution there, be too busy to respond to the next one. Next question? Double down, next time we use the full strength of the British military. Blow up a cactus or something
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Apr 16, 2024 20:21
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grobbo posted:this definitely deserves more attention, because according to Menzies' own sources, the reason he needed £5,000 in Tory donor money at 3.15am after a night of drinking and partying was that he was being "falsely" accused of being sick all over his host's flat and causing unspecified "other expenses" and they wouldn't let him leave until he settled it. Peep Show/Thick of It crossover sounding amazing
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Apr 18, 2024 12:19
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Literally from one paragraph to the next: Schools must be allowed to decide what's best for children. Also, schools should not be making decisions for parents. That's on top of "This government is banning too much stuff, which is why I applaud the decision to ban Muslims from praying".
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Apr 20, 2024 11:21
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Trainee PornStar posted:£97.98 sounds about right for losing a leg in the UK. And a beautifully signed "Fit for work" certificate, no doubt
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Apr 25, 2024 21:02
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mediaphage posted:
Well he's already burnt those bridges, so nothing to lose at this point eh
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Apr 27, 2024 12:26
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Jedit posted:Inform your friend that their murdering thieving oval office of a fiancee is not welcome, and if they don't like it then they're not welcome either. Can you imagine if a few days later, they get back to them: "Good news, he's seen the error of his ways, he's switching to Labour now!"
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May 5, 2024 18:48
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Necrothatcher posted:Huh, thanks to this chat I just checked my Student Loan balance and it's -£2000. I thought it was well known that when you get close to paying it all off, you need to call up and pay off the balance, otherwise they will just keep taking your money until the start of the next year. Not that they would explicitly tell anyone that themselves, though...
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May 6, 2024 11:05
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