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Uncool Keith and the Ultrarepellant MPs
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Mar 7, 2024 12:50
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justcola posted:old goons: what was working in an office like before the internet/computers? Was it just rooms of people typing and smoking cigarettes? I imagine it would be such a clatter that it'd make me spring from my desk to see what was the matter. My dad did an office job in the 70s and was proper old school vibes "defer to the boss" kind of thing. It was a financial company still in its old victorian offices, brass nameplates on the door, metal filing cabinets, green glass desk lamps, furniture that looked like it had had the building built around it. All the customer records lived on these weird square cards and came home with him in a metal box about a foot cubed that hinged open like a packet of fags. He was issued a mechanical typewriter for doing work on and a mechanical adding machine - we were still finding stashes of the rolls of paper for that when we cleared their house. Mum was still working at the deaf school in those days and I have memories of being told to sit in this massive draughty office and wait for him to finish and that it was very important I was quiet because of the boss, you see. Didn't want to get Dad in trouble. Part of me thinks that was just a thing they said to keep me quiet but it really did feel like there was this strict hierarchy there, seeped into the walls of the building. Don't remember smoke except EVERYTHING look like it had had smoke in it for 100 years. They cleared out and moved into "modern" 80s offices not long after which had Computers and he was given a ruggedized thing that looked like a ZX spectrum with a LCD screen that he had to connect up to a modem to talk to the mainframe. (Till he died, he pronounced it "modum"). Dad didn't get on with it, hated the electronic typewriter, hated the company's sans serif rebrand, hated the surreal adverts on TV but especially hated having to call his new boss by his first name. Man was analogue as gently caress.
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Mar 8, 2024 22:41
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All jokes aside you do have to wonder if it's starting to sink in at the palace how tenuous their control on the media is getting.
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Mar 11, 2024 10:56
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"the Kate Middleton pic was taken last year because if you look at this picture from then you can compare the outfits. Now, they all look different but they just shows how drastic the photoshopping is" is an AMAZING take
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Mar 12, 2024 09:54
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OwlFancier posted:I do honestly wonder if there isn't some perverse attraction to being told to gently caress off by the plebs. Like they get deference in the rest of their life so they're unable to really deal with someone just telling them to eat a dick. People are disagreeing with me and I don't like it = They are bad people and they are being nasty Bad people are being nasty = I am, by contrast, good Lots of people are being nasty to me in quite a big number = Wow, I must be brilliant Narcissism all the way down, basically
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Mar 13, 2024 21:59
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Always nice to see the Tories getting a kicking especially when it involves justly calling them out but the thing is they've been enacting racist policies their whole tenure and are still doing, and will keep doing as long as they're in. The racism never stops. If you're in power these days you can do or say anything you like as long as you do it with enough decorum, and I can't help think that the only thing that's tripped them up this time isn't that the racism was especially egregious for them, it was just delivered in an indecorous way, and that kind of takes the sheen off it a bit.
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Mar 15, 2024 11:26
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Vodka, midori and lemonade is a nice melon flavoured drink. But also you can freeze chunks of watermelon and use them with rum and lime juice and a few other things and make watermelon daiquiri. I forget the recipe I have to look it up every time
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Mar 16, 2024 00:47
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They also have Greggs Outlet stores that sell unsold food at a discount to cut food waste and help people on low incomes
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Mar 20, 2024 10:40
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Did you know Milton Keynes is named after neither Milton, nor Keynes Edit: Someone told me this and it was only when I hit enter on this post I thought "wait, surely that's bullshit" and sure enough... Isomermaid fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Mar 23, 2024 |
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Mar 23, 2024 21:31
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Rarity posted:I see the cops have already made Scotland's anti-hate law irrelevant by giving JK a free pass No though it's great, official sign-off at the highest level in the land that we can just ignore laws we disagree with! I can think of a few amazing ones if we can use this excuse
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Apr 3, 2024 16:48
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keep punching joe posted:He made it to the new money, I wonder if he'll live to see them in circulation? He appears to be the king of *squints* Sugland
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Apr 9, 2024 17:22
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We can't all be Necrothatcher
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Apr 10, 2024 18:41
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It is exhausting and confusing trying to square in my head the kind of poo poo that is being pulled with Cass and the responses to it, and the love and support I get from places like here and my day today. Yesterday depressed me mostly because I'm thinking of the trans kids I met on my own journey who are being talked about but never to in this endless loving "debate". Kids who had a sense of clarity of self and bravery that I never had at that age. Worrying about my own safety feels abstract and indulgent (it's not, but a voice inside tells me it is). But the kids in the path of this that society had started to accommodate that have just had the rug pulled on them, that's just depressing up and down. It feels like we're standing *this close* to a better loving world and the Starmers and the Streetings of the world are standing in safety on the wall of it kicking people back into danger. There are lots of people out there with their heads on right that are furious as I am about this, I know. Not least the trans kids themselves. It seems telling that we are never allowed to hear from them in the news, just what Reasonable Concerns from Tunbridge Wells thinks about them while people with nothing to say and nothing to add poo poo up this thread and every other outlet with "well actually, if you listen to what Reasonable Concerns is saying raar raar". gently caress that, listen to trans kids
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Apr 11, 2024 09:12
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Josef bugman posted:I am glad that there are a lot of supportive people in the thread. Does anyone know what we can do in practicalities to help people suffering from this, is their a pressure group or organisation specifically helping out or setting up opposition to this poo poo? Off the top of my head and things that aren't like "your local queer bookshop probably has a bunch of stuff", Good Law Project amongst other things does some good work trying to challenge the legal/political system. As does Gendered Intelligence. And if your access to healthcare has been shut off, hrtcafe.net exists
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Apr 11, 2024 11:47
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Bone density is fucky, obvs I transitioned late anyway, but they warned me about how hormones can do a number on your bones because of something to do with calcium, but the answer was "keep an eye on it, drink milk and make sure you get lots of vitamin D cos it metabolises to something that helps wtih that". It's not like it's an insurmountable problem, it's like anything medical. Either way it's wildly, massively preferable to not transitioning, there's no world where I'm sitting there in my old body going "ah well, at least I have really dense bones".
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Apr 12, 2024 13:05
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Lately I've been listening to DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ whos last album was a 4 hour album of plunderphonic outsider house. She's anonymous but apparently from London so go British music I guess.
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Apr 16, 2024 10:12
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Genuinely pathetic to see these papers contort themselves to give a poo poo about *checks notes* tabletop gaming.
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Apr 17, 2024 10:59
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"people died so you could have that vote" is wild when you think about it. Invoking legalised state violence as a defence of a system that arguably exists to stop illegalised violence *against* the state. I dunno maybe the most "well duh" thing I've ever said but it's never really clicked for me how succinct that little nugget is. Then you think about the people that died at the hands of the state directly and indirectly... Crazy how these little things people just embed so many contradictions within them
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Apr 21, 2024 07:43
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forkboy84 posted:OK, standard fare at the start but going from that to "we need a general election" just makes it sound like he doesn't realise that the Scottish elections are different to the Westminster ones. For a long time now we've had a whole bunch of fundamentally unserious people in politics who don't seem to have much of a grasp of how the system works at all sorts of levels but the amount the whole thing's bent to accomodate and protect them means it doesn't actually have any consequences for them. They kind of just say whatever they like and pretend whatever happens was what they want to do all along. Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak as those kids at the amusement arcade "playing" the "insert coin" screen, in a Tory Power Stance.
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Apr 29, 2024 11:57
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Nothing going on in my deep blue southern seat so no ballots to spoil. I'm moving up North soon though (to a city!) so hopefully something meaningful to do by the time a general rolls around.
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May 2, 2024 10:53
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Pistol_Pete posted:He really does have a remarkable propensity for provocative, extremely badly thought out actions, doesn't he? His whole shtik is riding the "you can't do anything nowadays" outrage but because the thought police state he's conjuring is totally imaginary, the only way he can get the pushback he wants is by committing actual crimes. Absolute batshit kicking yourself in the nuts behaviour.
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May 2, 2024 19:23
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And you may tell yourself - "This is not my beautiful country!"
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May 5, 2024 22:22
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Uncanny valleys
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May 13, 2024 14:10
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God, I can see getting to the beach and being determined to have your holiday but why would you paddle in that? Get out of the water 
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May 13, 2024 17:52
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Get one of those fancy see through toasters so you can see how done the toast is and stop it when its the perfect shade of done
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May 15, 2024 12:22
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Guavanaut posted:
"Bec De Corbin  "
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May 16, 2024 17:36
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That's rough, Jaeluni, I'm so sorry. All I know about cancer is what I've seen from watching family members and friends deal with it so all I can contribute about treatment is it can be very individual what people can get on with and what works best. But the flip side of that it is absolutely out there, there are lots of options, and I've seen it work. I hope you find something, and all goes well.
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May 18, 2024 12:17
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keep punching joe posted:Daily Mail ran two articles today complaining about pubs favouring cashless transactions. I don't get it, why are old people so wedded to using cash for everything. With the cards they can track you, yeah? Everything you spend goes into a computer and stores it against your number and they can keep an eye on if you're eating what they want you to eat and doing what they don't want you to do. And the pounds have the queen's head on them cos they're British but they don't want you thinking about that cos it's not allowed Or something like that
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May 18, 2024 19:55
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