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happyhippy posted:Jews have space lasers. But during National Brotherhood Week...
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Mar 2, 2024 09:28
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kingturnip posted:I've been dealing with a bout of what I think is flu since Friday (headache, fever, aching, sore throat, cough and uncontrollable shivering), which has wiped out my weekend. 
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Mar 3, 2024 17:30
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jaete posted:Ok stupid question: why? Wasn't the fixed terms act abolished? So the PM could just decide to not have an election this year... but everyone is completely certain that he will call an election this year I guess, why exactly? The FTPA (First Toast Post Aaah!) set the minimum to 5 years, so the coalition partners couldn't (threaten to) explode the coalition for political gain, but there's always been a maximum. Though it's probably written on a stone in Wiltshire and also made up, but thankfully the government can't just go on forever. E: a brief wiki-looki while cooking my dinner says that the 2022 bill that repealed the FTPA also re-affirmed the 5-year maximum, which was in force before since the Parliament Act 1911 Bobstar fucked around with this message at 20:54 on Mar 3, 2024 |
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Mar 3, 2024 20:50
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That reminded me of a John Harris headline from the other day "For years, the Tories said austerity was over. But look around: it’s getting worse, and there’s more to come" Now obviously austerity was never over, but when did the Tories claim it was? I feel like I would have remembered that.
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Mar 5, 2024 22:19
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Failed Imagineer posted:Watching a Channel 4 Labour party political broadcast, and they seem to be using the time to go after.... American candy shops in central London? Tough on teeth, tough on the causes of teeth
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Mar 6, 2024 21:04
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Mar 12, 2024 08:56
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 Starbucks posted:In a decently insulated house air conditioning heats a room up faster than a radiator, and provides cooling in the summer. Our obsession with radiators is crap. Also frees up wall space for putting things against. Love my floor/ceiling vents.
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Mar 16, 2024 13:22
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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". If someone writes "an historic" I assume they're a Tory If someone writes "an herb" I assume their brain is broken =American E: I shouldn't be grumpy, I have a nice view from my hotel roo 
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Mar 17, 2024 11:40
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Oh no what have I started  I was mostly joking about the 'erbs, I do find it amusing as an example of non-RP and American English being similar. Another one being the glottal stop as detailed in this SMBC comic which I started noticing in my US colleagues when they talk about "bu'ons" on our devices. Mebh is right, I've stopped caring for the most part (hard to deprogram(me) yourself from being the kid that's "good at words"). The only ones that make me shudder still are the hypercorrect plurals I hear some Americans use - "process-eeez" and "bias-eeez". Presumably influenced by words like basis or crisis, but they're just normal plurals, stop it! Also I like that "earthed" is a 2-syllable word for our Irish colleagues 
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Mar 17, 2024 18:50
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 E: the 77 is a bus from Waterloo to Tooting (toot toot)
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Mar 20, 2024 09:44
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Josef bugman posted:Whatever this was appears gone now. It was a "micro-blogging" website called Twitter. But then Elon Musk bought it...
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Mar 25, 2024 09:26
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Sad Panda posted:I'm talking with my form about cost of living crisis and wealth inequality tomorrow. They're 16. It seems like a good opportunity to show some short videos about this. Would love to hear if anything good come to mind? Talking about inheritance and how lots of people get their money from parents seems important and any numbers or catchy things related to that also sounds like it could be useful. I only watch extremely long videos, but this has good stuff in it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7nFA19Gzrw smellmycheese posted:So you can get speed for ADHD, weed for anxiety. When are we going to get prescription cocaine for social introversion? Can't help with cocaine, but the US should be getting MDMA-supported therapy soon. This book's very interesting, gives the whole history of the drug and what's going on now https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/i-feel-love-9781635579581/ I'm sure the UK will build an MDMA-proof wall and make David Nutt pay for it, rather than adopt this (Incidentally, apparently it's called Molly these days when used recreationally, which sounds like something the media would make up, that the kids are "totally calling it" now)
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Mar 26, 2024 21:20
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Divorceddad's Last Theorem: "I have discovered a marvelous proof that women be junkies, but this margin is too woke to contain it"
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Mar 27, 2024 12:44
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My address bar autocompletes to "guardian.co.uk" which they now redirect to "theguardian.com" "We're an international news organisation, not some backwater national rag" [Australian office yells at them for being transphobes] "No not like that"
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Apr 1, 2024 19:49
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All of the above. Solidarity to all trans posters, you deserve a better island, and no quarter for trolls, sealions, JAQoffs, etc.
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Apr 11, 2024 08:36
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smellmycheese posted:Crispix for President A vote for crispix is a vote for anarchy!
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Apr 11, 2024 19:31
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Guavanaut posted:MNN* *Except in Arizona during the summer** **Except in the Navajo Nation*** ***Except in the Hopi Reservation that lies entirely within
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Apr 14, 2024 20:45
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:i honestly can't think of another politician who had such a spectacular, monumental failure and then shamelessly didn't go away. even hillary clinton has the decency to only occasionally pop her head out and try to pretend 2016 never happened And at least HC failed against someone. Truss just kind of imploded like a billionaire submersible, but decided to post through it
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Apr 15, 2024 22:41
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Dabir posted:I know he's talented, but I didn't think 47 cared much for music beyond Ave Maria ahem 
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Apr 16, 2024 20:58
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Jakabite posted:I’d be up for a darts, pool and quiz triathlon to be fair. It would mean my quiz team would need to find a darts player though. Surely it's all at once - dart in one hand, pool racket in the other, while trying to answer questions with your brain
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Apr 23, 2024 16:23
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Apr 23, 2024 16:32
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Kin posted:Like, I struggle to remember many specific highlights from about 2005 to 2024, other than things like the tories getting into power, referendums on brexit/independence, the Xbox and shite like strictly taking over TV. I always say the roundness of the year 2000 broke my brain, so now I'm stuck thinking it's "about the year 2000", which is true in millennium terms, decreasingly so for centuries, and definitely not for decades. But if someone was born in 1942 my brain immediately goes "ah, they're about 60 then" But it probably also has to do with my age at the time, and the blahhh of events from 2001 onwards, as you say. Then Covid totally broke my sense of time. A social media post I saw sums it up (adjusted to today): "Happy 1578th day of 2020!"
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Apr 28, 2024 21:07
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keep punching joe posted:Those foreign students are a real drain on the state, with their boundless wealth and huge tuition and rental fees. And other countries' having paid to raise them to adulthood. Deport these opposite-of-freeloaders, now!
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Apr 29, 2024 08:19
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Nuclear Spoon posted:i mean it worked in the last 4 elections Off topic but: baby tapir! 
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Apr 29, 2024 12:48
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Failed Imagineer posted:Love a Coalition of Chaos I do Prospective FM must have name with same cadence as Ed Miliband, otherwise it's just sparkling disorder
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Apr 29, 2024 17:33
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When all you have is denial, everything looks like Hamas
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May 3, 2024 12:53
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Ziggy Tzardust posted:lol even Havering showed a mild swing to Khan (Boris Johnson singing in a bad Scottish accent, while holding a guitar by the wrong side of the capo) "And I would vote 500 times and I would vote 500 more Just to be the man who votes 1000 times To keep the UK poor"
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May 4, 2024 16:24
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Our flat in London had a nice extractor hood over the gas hob  Of course we later discovered it wasn't actually connected to anything. Just a round hose hole at the top, leading nowhere
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May 8, 2024 20:57
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OwlFancier posted:"I have never been near a school in the morning or afternoon" because anyone who has would know that kids are still rowdy. Except at Michaela, where zombie children is policy
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May 9, 2024 20:06
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forkboy84 posted:Tony Blair was a war criminal. Also his da was a lawyer & he went to Fettes. Bit uncalled for, there's plenty to criticise Tonty for, and lots of people put on weight as they get older 
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May 11, 2024 13:47
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Angepain posted:last big one I remember was The Secret, which was a while back. i guess it just keeps getting reinvented with different names and a new set of books to buy every few years This is the premise of the podcast If Books Could Kill, which dissects and mocks this type of thing. Running gag: they're all the same book.
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May 13, 2024 16:42
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