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People who use "I'm stealing your meme" memes.

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What tog are your duvets? I'd rather add blankets than clothes if I'm cold in bed. Couldn't sleep comfortable in clothes. I'm with Paul, socks are a definite no no.

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Boxers for me.

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Yes Gev. Now we are talking. A completely fabricated entity designed to appeal to faux anarchists as if it is in someway "sticking it to the man" but is really just another commodity to be sold to the bourgeois. I'd almost equate it to Rage against the Machine but I'd give them more credit...

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Why are you able to buy flight tickets months in advance but, depending on the airline, you are only able to check in and print boarding passes within 48 hours? I know most people just use their phones now but I prefer to print off the boarding pass and I would like to be able to print the return fl...

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Anyone else getting weird text on the forum. Looks like certain code is visible. I've copied and pasted an example below. Moderator: Jon O'Neill [phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/vendor/twig/twig/lib/Twig/Extension/Core.php on line 1266: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that ...

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Always amazes me how Conservatives know that being a Conservative and having Conservative opinions is shitty and they have to try and distance themselves from acknowledging it.

"No No, I don't watch the ludicrous far right propaganda channel, I just have it on in the background."

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Meanwhile my "working from home" schedule has turned into filtering data with GB News on in the background. I count having things on in the background and consuming their output as watching them. I don’t count having a news channel on in the background as “watching” it. So if Gavin only h...

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You still watch that rubbish? You watch GB news. I don't. I follow them on Twitter. As I do with almost every newspaper and broadcast media. Sourced from http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=14904 Meanwhile my "working from home" schedule has turned into filtering data wit...

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Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Mon Nov 15, 2021 10:44 am You still watch that rubbish?

You watch GB news.

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Watched The Hole in the Ground which was OK. I was watching during the day while "working" from home and had to rewind the last act and pull the curtains so I could actually see what was happening. Also watched Snowpiercer which was OK as well. Overused slow motion a bit during the fight s...

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Saw someone on twitter describe the Democrats as the "party paid to not do good things party" and the Republicans as the "paid to do bad things party". Think that can be applied to Labour and the Conservatives too.

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I don't think people should be expected to vote for anyone and should vote for the party that matches their views the closest. I guess the only reason why you wouldn't do this is if you had a local candidate whose views didn't match yours but did a lot in your local area. It's not about being expec...

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Why are the left expected to hold their nose and vote for centre, if not centre right, candidates just to beat tories or republicans. Shouldn't the likes of James O'Brien have be saying "I don't like Corbyn but we must vote Labour to defeat the Conservatives" instead of saying he would be...

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Why are the left expected to hold their nose and vote for centre, if not centre right, candidates just to beat tories or republicans. Shouldn't the likes of James O'Brien have be saying "I don't like Corbyn but we must vote Labour to defeat the Conservatives" instead of saying he would be ...

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New season of Curb your Enthusiasm. It's fine. The endings to both episodes I've seen so far have a been a bit subdued, no real big pay off of converging storylines which is a usual hallmark, and the whole Larry shopping a show to different networks and screwing up arc was done before. Still some go...

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Labour (certainly the right wing faction) can't win elections simply on not being as bad as the tories in the same way centre right democrats can win by not being as bad as the republicans in the states (and even at that they needed Trump to be perceived as uniquely bad). But that's not Starmer's co...

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In fairness, current Labour probably would be as bad. Starmer being a useless gombeen should probably get a bit mention here too.

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Always amazes me what inspires people to post in here compared to what doesn't. Sewage being dumped in rivers? Johnson's a-historical diatribe about the fall of Rome which practically mirrors white supremacist talking points? Nothing. But someone pointing out that Robert Peston, who no-one likes, sa...

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This is a cool idea. You could actually make two different games. Yours seems to be Scrabble with countdown elements. You could also do Countdown with scrabble elements, like regular countdown but with the letter points from scrabble. You get points for the length of the word plus the letter values....

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This is pretty much the opposite of really obvious but I did just find out that Grimace, the big purple yoke that hangs out with Ronald McDonald, is actually a taste bud. I also found this fantastic quote about the fate of Grimace on the McDonald's wiki Following an appearance at Dodger Stadium on J...

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Whatever happened to the Bermuda Triangle? Are things still getting lost there. You don't hear about it much these days.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/white-privilege-tory-mp-jonathan-gullis-b1935308.html "We have to do something about cancel culture. We can't have people being sacked for expressing themselves. In order to stop it we must sack people for expressing themselves." Why is it tha...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Fri Oct 08, 2021 2:22 pm Surely drummers are all basically the same. Once you reach the point where you can actually play the drums.

I mean, you don't listen to music for the drums.

This is so stupid I immediately assumed Rhys had said it.

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I would agree the general public probably doesn't give a shit about Rachel's antics on twitter but her odiousness is definitely a factor for why I don't watch much anymore. She was obviously nice to look at at the start but now she has shown that side of her personality she doesn't look quite as goo...

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I haven't watched in years. I would like to think some sort of change could entice me back but it probably can't. Certainly I can't watch it live in its current time slot but then I never get to see Only Connect either but I record that. What could entice me to record Countdown? I think going back t...

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Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 8:03 pm How can there be an excess of and shortage of CO2 at the same time?

How do people die of thirst in the middle of the ocean?

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If Derry Girls was quintessentially British it would be called Londonderry Girls.

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https://inews.co.uk/news/john-whittingdale-public-sector-broadcasters-british-only-fools-fleabag-1201634?ito=twitter_share_article-top So government ministers want to mandate that public broadcasters produce shows that are distinctly British. They mention a number of shows already produced that fit ...

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https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-57928647.amp

Interesting story this. Some company tried to pay YouTube influencers to spread Covid misinformation. I wonder what would have happened if you took their money but didn't read out what they wanted.

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Straight to describe someone's sexuality. Why can't we just say normal?

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Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Wed Sep 08, 2021 7:46 pm Remind me never to make a joke again.

Again?

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Might have said this before on another thread but the whole glass half full for optimism thing. If you take an empty glass and fill it halfway it's half full. If you take a full glass and empty half of it, it's half empty.

And of course when stupid Americans say they "could care less".

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I used to like going on twitter even though I didn't have an account. You could just put urls of people's pages in to your browser and read them. You can still go to people's pages but if you try click into a particular tweet to read the replies you can't anymore. I was able to a few hours ago so it...

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People who are high risk can choose not to get the vaccine too. The issue is whether it's a good idea to not got the vaccine. You said there were good reasons not to but have been unable to give an example. The current medical advice is for the people who can get the vaccine to get it. Whether that'...

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Still waiting on the good reason not to get the vaccine. What was your reason for not getting a flu vaccine in 2019? I'll use that. But what if my reason for not getting it was not a good reason? Anyway, the flu vaccine is not offered for free for people in my age group. Nor is it recommended to pe...

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I love most flags. Really hard to pick a favourite. Bhutan 🇧🇹 maybe? Even if they are just three stripes of colours I still like them especially if the colour choice is good like Estonia 🇪🇪 or Armenia 🇦🇲. Chad and Romania lose points for being the same 🇷🇴. Worst has to be Indonesia 🇮🇩, Monaco 🇲🇨 and...

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Jimmi Hendrix version of Star Spangled Banner is great.

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UK's is easily the worst. I hate Ireland's Call, the compromise anthem the Irish rugby team uses because the actual Irish anthem is considered "inappropriate".

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I might have a go at that video and podcast, but a while ago I did also watch this programme with Martina Navratilova looking into the advantages of trans athletes. Can't watch iplayer in my region unfortunately. In the podcast Harper mentions having long conversations with Navratilova. The podcast...

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Interested on people's take on this video: https://youtu.be/6VtjgZF9RE8 I gave it a go. The initial preamble isn't promising, in that the maker of the video pretty much states his position that anybody having concerns about trans athletes competing in the female category of sports is wrong and wors...

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I watched a bit of the climbing. The music was really annoying. If I was a climber i think it would distract me. Are they allowed to request it be shut off?

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Interested on people's take on this video:

https://youtu.be/6VtjgZF9RE8

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John Lithgow in Cliffhanger is the most underrated movie villain. Watched a tweet little movie called Beatriz at Dinner which was on BBC the other night featuring Lithgow as a bad guy I guess. Not as over top as in Cliffhanger but he was good. Overall the movie was OK, nothing amazing. Did get to s...

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I have a good friend and colleague who hasn't been vaccinated. I think he's wrong and I don't think his reasons are sound, but the important thing is that he does think they're sound. While I will discuss and attempt to persuade, I won't call him a selfish moron. Everything these days has become so...

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What part of variants have a higher chance of mutating among unvaccinated populations are you not understanding? The bit about it being true. https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/mounting-evidence-suggests-covid-vaccines-do-reduce-transmission-how-does-work Mounting evidence suggests vaccines do reduc...

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I was just trying to amplify the point that there's no good reason to refuse the vaccine. Really? Just because most people who refuse the vaccine give bad reasons as to why they do so, doesn't mean there aren't good reasons. If you are a healthy 20 something, you are at virtually zero risk of being...

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What is this need to pedantically defend morons? What's the actual argument here? It's fine to call them morons but not selfish morons? Anyway, of course there is personal gain. They are not having to do something that they don't want to do. That is a gain even if they are too stupid to realise it w...

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People are free not to take the vaccine and I'm free to call them selfish morons.

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I dunk on the Olympics a lot and I still think there's lots to be critical about it but that moment at the high jump when they shared the gold was fantastic.

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Sure, why not. If you can get it for free, get the flu vaccine unless advised by a medical professional not to. The point is vaccines are safe.

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Unless your doctor advises you not to get it due to your current health situation, at which point I would say you no longer have the ability to get it so I have covered that, then the risk/benefit calculation you are doing is the conspiracy theory. If you have the ability to get the vaccine and, hav...

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The vast majority of the Olympics audience is made up of people who don't generally pay attention to sports. They are event junkies. They only watch it because it has been built up as this prestige event. It's like people who don't follow horse racing but put a bet on the Grand National. To become a...

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That's the only thing I've had as well in response to the injection. It's not as bad after this second jab, just a bit tender but I could barely move my arm after the first one. Doesn't seem to kick in until the day after though. Was fine on the day I got the jab. Glad to be fully vaccinated now. If...

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Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Sun Jul 25, 2021 9:24 pm What is more relevant is Robert Peston publishing a load of fake news today and NOT retracting it.

So relevant that you don't bother to provide any links to what was said or explain why it was wrong.

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Highly recommend Train Valley 2 which is a bargain as part of this latest Fanatical bundle - https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-slayer-bundle-2 I loved the first game and the second one takes a different approach but is just as awesome. I'm currently splitting my video game ob...

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Alarms. All alarms should shut off automatically after an hour. If no one is going to respond to the alarm within that time then your shit deserves to get robbed. There's one going off all night. Can't sleep. Just an update on this. It was a business's alarm that was going off. I rang the police ar...

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Rhys Benjamin wrote: ↑Tue Jul 13, 2021 9:29 am I don’t think the ad hominem merits a response, really.

Insults are not ad hominems. I had arguments to go along with the insults.

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Alarms. All alarms should shut off automatically after an hour. If no one is going to respond to the alarm within that time then your shit deserves to get robbed. There's one going off all night. Can't sleep.

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This idea that England fans are "entitled" is 50 years out of date. After the Spain Italy match Rio Ferdinand said there was nothing about either team for England to worry about in the final. They hadn't beaten Denmark yet. In 2016 there was a "what to watch" segment in a newspa...

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