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So, in the last year and a half the ceiling in our shared house's front room has collapsed twice due to flooding from the shower above as well as having the electrics blow and need to be re-wired twice. In the last week I'd heard scratching for the last week but assumed it was mice, and last night it sounded like something was rearranging the crap up my sink (mostly plastic bags, bin liners, kitchen roll and the like) so you can imagine my surprise when I got in from work to see a loving rat leaping off the lip of my bin to scurry away. Basically, at which point can I tell the lettings agency to go gently caress themselves with regards to rent and fix this poo poo?
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Sep 1, 2016 18:40
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Prince John posted:From your post, it looks like the lettings agency has actually fixed the ceiling twice and re-wired the electrics twice (aka, they've actually upheld their obligations for repairs). Yeah, I just felt like ranting to be honest because I think some of the people I share this house with have really never lived alone before and the rat woke me up at 3am this morning and I couldn't get back to sleep
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Sep 1, 2016 19:01
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MrL_JaKiri posted:A piece of advice that seems to come up every other month: yeah, I know that I'm just trying to figure out ways to actually get them to actually do the poo poo that's required in a timely fashion. Some screening of the dribbling idiots they let stay here would be nice too, but I think they're solitary concern is "can they pay rent", rather than "are the actually functionally able to live with other people"
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Sep 1, 2016 22:38
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MrL_JaKiri posted:As with all housing questions ever, talk to Shelter. Be prepared for disappointment, mind - we're currently on a "landlords get to be real fuckers" upswing. this is the thing: the landlord and his wife are actually lovely people. We point things out that we'd like doing - I think very early on I said that the foxes were attacking the rubbish people left outside my window (I live on the ground floor, and there's a tiny sort of paved bit where the bin bags live until bin day), and the next day we had actual plastic bins for people to put their rubbish in and the fox problem went away. Now we've been told *explicitly* by the lettings agency that any problems/issues have to go through them, and we even had letters telling us in no uncertain terms to never ever contact our landlord. So we tell them, and about three months later they get fixed, but they don't even have the courtesy to acknowledge that we've said something needs doing. Even an email to say "yeah, that's a problem, we'll see what we can do" would be nice
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Sep 1, 2016 22:59
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Tesseraction posted:Being around a load of people who are drinking when you don't drink can be hell, tbh. every Lent I give up alcohol, and one time I went out with my friends clubbing in London. At one point, I was stood stone cold sober with my mates wife while he and two of my friends were having a drunk conversation 50 yards behind us and refusing to move. I turned to his wife, who was also fairly sober and said "loving hell, are we always like this when we're drunk?" to which she gave me the most incredulous look and said "this is actually not bad for you lot". I felt quite ashamed to be honest
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Sep 2, 2016 12:39
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Renaissance Robot posted:Porn would be so much better if they'd stop trying to make "cunny" happen. It's not going to happen. I watch a poo poo ton of porn, and I have never ever heard anyone say "cunny". Now hentai...
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Sep 2, 2016 20:53
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forkboy84 posted:
that's a loving tune shut up why do you hate classics belieber
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Sep 2, 2016 21:20
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Kegluneq posted:Also Tom Cruise is legit great in Collateral want to third this, because he was really loving great in that movie
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Sep 3, 2016 17:55
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Jose posted:they should have just got the SAS involved i bet there is nothing voldemort could do about a sniper miles away he's a loving wizard who brought himself back to life. I'm pretty sure a bullet is nothing for why the gently caress am I arguing this poo poo?
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Sep 4, 2016 11:40
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Guavanaut posted:Can't they use kryptonite bullets? WRONG FICTIONAL UNIVERSE!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sep 4, 2016 12:29
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Portsmouth City Council does recycling every two weeks and normal bins weekly, and I think Slough did both weekly but on different days but it's been a while since I lived there
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Sep 4, 2016 19:40
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this is probably the high end (she's a fairly famous pornstar), but these are the going rates she charges escorting: obviously most sex workers don't charge that much
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Sep 5, 2016 00:22
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Pistol_Pete posted:Why are you trying to renew your license anyway, don't they last for about 40 years? they last ten years, and mine's up for renewal in January
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Sep 5, 2016 20:57
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Pistol_Pete posted:I've just checked and mine's good until 2047. You all must have some inferior, plebs version of the driving license mine is good until 2050 :smug harder:
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Sep 5, 2016 21:09
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OwlFancier posted:Joke's on you we won't have roads by then. jokes on everyone as I intend to be long dead before then
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Sep 5, 2016 22:03
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Spotted a white van with the phrase "YES! WE! VOTED! LEAVE!" sloppily spray painted in red n the back of his van. Must have been a little awkward for the guy in the Dutch car behind him stuck in traffic on the M27 though
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Sep 6, 2016 11:01
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So tonight has been the primary meeting to discuss reviewing Fabric's licence, and judging by the statements coming out the stunning disconnect between the police and the war on drugs is staggering beyond belief. Not to mention that the committee ultimately responsible for the licence asked in all seriousness if lowering the BPM of the music played might be an option to stop the drug use in the club
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Sep 6, 2016 23:46
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:So tonight has been the primary meeting to discuss reviewing Fabric's licence, and judging by the statements coming out the stunning disconnect between the police and the war on drugs is staggering beyond belief. Not to mention that the committee ultimately responsible for the licence asked in all seriousness if lowering the BPM of the music played might be an option to stop the drug use in the club And gone, and judging by the flimsiest of reasons the Met gave for shutting it down, no club is safe and could have their licences revoked at any time
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Sep 7, 2016 07:15
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Having said all that... Fabric had a reputation 20 years ago as basically swimming in drugs and they've never really attempted to clean it up, and they can't claim it was unexpected that someone would eventually notice. no worse than what goes down at the Warehouse Project in Manchester, or the Ministry Of Sound or any other club for that matter. But closing it down just moves the problem elsewhere because those pills are still going to be in circulation and people are still going to take them. I just hope that no-one is really dumb enough to think that quad popping in an hour is a good idea
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Sep 7, 2016 08:35
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Turns out that the closure of Fabric was a 'dodgy dossier' for clubbers because of course it was. When even the police say “the general atmosphere of the club was friendly and non-threatening” you think that it is just pure vindictiveness
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Sep 7, 2016 20:15
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Tesseraction posted:It came up a few pages back. One poster noted it seemed to be have been shut down on questionable written evidence. Indeed I did, the undercover police report stated that there was no actual drug dealing they saw *but* people were pretty brazenly either on drugs or asking where they could score. So of course Islington council took this as a sure sign it was a drug filled den of sin and revoked the licence, the decision of which Fabric has lodged an appeal against
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Sep 8, 2016 17:09
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TomViolence posted:The whole thing's dumb as gently caress, because surely it's better that folk are on drugs in a safe and controlled environment rather than being off their tits out on the street or at a friend of a friend of a friend's house party or in some rough-as-gently caress old man's pub round the corner. this is the exact sort of forward thinking the Manchester police have used towards drug purity testing in the Warehouse Project, but that's far too much for London to deal with. I mean, the war on drugs has failed, so why not try and protect people who are taking them to have a good time?
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Sep 8, 2016 17:15
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Pissflaps posted:Is a nightclub really a 'safe controlled environment'? safer than the alternative yes
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Sep 8, 2016 18:08
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Julio Cruz posted:Note that the alternative is not "have an early night and don't do any drugs". Closing down a place like Fabric because it's seen as a marketplace for drugs doesn't somehow magically remove those elements of supply and demand, it just moves them into an abandoned warehouse/patch of woodland/empty field miles away from anywhere which certainly won't have door staff/fire alarms/access to drinking water etc - basically any of the infrastructure that a club legally has to have to protect its patrons before it can open its doors. precisely, there has to be a common ground in terms of drug policing between turning a blind eye, using a bit of common sense and zero tolerance. I may have said it before but when my dad was in the force, if he collared you with an amount of drugs which he determined made you not a dealer, he'd make you throw them down the drain because gently caress having to charge someone and have it on their criminal record that they wanted a few pills or a bit of weed for a night out
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Sep 8, 2016 20:32
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Alchenar posted:Problem is you can't ever let anyone know you are doing this. which is why a wholescale rethink on the country's drug policy is needed. If you're going to go full zero tolerance then do it, and if you're going the Dutch route then do it and give everyone some clarity on it
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Sep 8, 2016 21:16
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I'm not even entirely sure how I got there but google actually helped tell me that I do have swan neck deformity in four of my fingers. But reading about what may have caused the condition and what it can be an indicator of was a little bit terrifying
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Sep 11, 2016 21:51
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EdBlackadder posted:Patient.info and NHS Choices are good general sites for sensible info in plain English. Funnily enough, whacking what it is doesn't really help. I know it's something to do with arthritis because my mum's got arthritis, my brother got arthritis in his hip when he was in his mid 20s and I think my dad had arthritis too. I spoke to my friend's wife about it and she said "if it bothers you, there's probably an op to fix it" but it doesn't bother me. It does freak people out when I do it and they don't know I can
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Sep 11, 2016 22:34
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Demiurge4 posted:It was tough, but I transitioned away from my lovely hotmail during my 20's and even managed to make a Gmail with my actual name. there's an Irish guy with my name who thinks he has firstname.lastname@gmail.com, but according to gmail, that's my email address as well. So he gets all my porn circulars, and I get all his receipts from just eat.
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Sep 12, 2016 22:57
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I got mine when it was still invite only in 2004, and only started getting his emails three years later if memory serves. I have no idea if he can access it or anything else as I've never had rogue purchases or the like turn up to the best of my knowledge
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Sep 12, 2016 23:02
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Cerv posted:They're treated as the same address. Can't both register them. I just called it spam and now I don't get them. What's more spooky is that not only does he have the exact same name as me, even though both my first and last names are extremely common in Ireland, is that he lives one street down from where my granddad lived out his last few years. Or at least according to some of the receipts for things I received
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Sep 12, 2016 23:21
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Re Boundary changes, apparently the central Slough ward of Chalvey will be transferred into the Windsor & Maidenhead constituency which is a little strange as Eton College, the Jubilee River and the M4 between them. Even stranger was that the original plan was to take some of the wards in South Bucks north of Slough and move them into the constituency, which means you have a ward that is split in two with a town between the two parts
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Sep 13, 2016 19:38
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I genuinely believe that there are people who truly thought that by voting leave we could close our borders, still receive EU subsidies, not contribute in any way to the EU and still have access to the single market. And I honestly believe Farage thinks this is the case too
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Sep 14, 2016 23:16
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Cerv posted:But he frequently contradicts himself as if the writers don't even watch any of the previous episodes and "It's not lupus" is pretty much interchangeable with "This is bad for Corbyn" until the one time it will actually be bad for Corbyn
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Sep 15, 2016 19:08
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Miftan posted:Jeremy Corbyn has Lupus? It's Not Lupus
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Sep 15, 2016 20:00
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OwlFancier posted:That's ignoring the bulk of what I said and I'll answer it when you respond properly. I hope you bought a good book or three, and adequate supplies
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Sep 15, 2016 21:52
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I don't remember any of this stuff when I did the 12+. My mum gave me half a dozen mock exams to do and left me to it. Don't remember any of us being really that bothered by doing the exams, except that we got the time off from doing proper school work
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Sep 17, 2016 20:14
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Demiurge4 posted:Australia has pretty sensible prostitution laws and regulations, don't they? I asked an Australian who sells sex toys and her response was "I think we have a long way to go"
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Sep 18, 2016 11:06
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XMNN posted:Not in Japan to be fair, I'd take Japan's more, I dunno, "liberal" take on porn than what the British industry churns out. This is also not to say that British pornstars are terrible either
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Sep 19, 2016 20:08
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OwlFancier posted:You want it all to be censored? When I said "liberal" I meant "really loving weird". Though the BBFC's censorship rules are seemingly driving all of our deviants to PornHub if the names of the scenes "Hot Videos In The UK" and "Most Watched In The UK" are meant to be believed
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Sep 19, 2016 20:49
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