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Pissflaps posted:I love Middlesbrough. This is what years of inhaling petrochemicals does to a person.
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Zombywuf posted:This is what years of inhaling petrochemicals does to a person. Hey, that's... Yeah. Sunderland fans came to a game with gas masks on. 
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Aug 6, 2014 18:22
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 No Gregg's in Northern Ireland. I'm kinda sad cause I like unhealthy food.
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Aug 6, 2014 18:31
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There's no Greggs in Cornwall?
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Aug 6, 2014 18:42
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Gregs is delicious and so is Subway. That said, I think all food is delicious, except brussel sprouts and olives. I do find it hilarious though that rather than keep their food hot, Greggs have trained all their staff to say "it's not that warm, is that okay?" in every one I've been in, word for word. Lazy fuckers.
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Aug 6, 2014 18:43
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Bloody cornish pasty cartels.
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Aug 6, 2014 18:44
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Brown Moses posted:There's no Greggs in Cornwall? They tried to open one, a local tasted the loving meat paste in an envelope Greggs dares to call a pasty, and there was a wicker man built before you could say "bloody handsome that".
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Aug 6, 2014 18:50
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Praseodymi posted:Hey, that's... Yeah. I grew up in a little village to the south of Middlesbrough, the sunsets were quite spectacular.
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Aug 6, 2014 19:26
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Zombywuf posted:This is what years of inhaling petrochemicals does to a person. Our air quality is better than London's.
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Aug 6, 2014 19:48
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Greggs do make some decent sweet stuff, I was a fiend for their yum-yums when I was doing my Master's because they were cheap enough for a Master's student budget but still delicious. Their hot food is pretty bad though.
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Aug 6, 2014 20:13
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Mister Adequate posted:Greggs do make some decent sweet stuff, I was a fiend for their yum-yums when I was doing my Master's because they were cheap enough for a Master's student budget but still delicious. Their hot food is pretty bad though. Greggs cakes are also poo poo. Their yum yums and donuts are almost always harder and staler compared to poo poo you can get out of the supermarket or a proper bakery. The shittest thing about them is that they put almost all the other local bakeries out of business by undercutting them and as a result are the only people in town to get any kind of warm to hot pastries other than the supermarkets.
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Aug 6, 2014 20:26
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Isn't the magma pasty/tepid block of filling the fault of the pasty tax a few years ago, meaning Greggs can't reheat their poo poo without adding another 20p on to a steak bake? loving tories ruining everything. Not that it matters, the best thing from Greggs are the bandito sandwiches and the chocolate cookies. Also note that like 3-4 years ago sausage rolls used to be 50p, now they're like 80 last I checked. And McDonalds double cheeseburgers are now £1 loving 50. Happy Meals are £2.40 as well.
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Aug 6, 2014 20:37
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Pissflaps posted:Our air quality is better than London's. Also, what petrochems? I don't think there's been any oil industry on the tees since the 80s. Mostly it's just Haber process stuff on both old ICI sites (not that Ammonia & nitrates won't gently caress your day up).
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Fingerless Gloves posted:Isn't the magma pasty/tepid block of filling the fault of the pasty tax a few years ago, meaning Greggs can't reheat their poo poo without adding another 20p on to a steak bake? loving tories ruining everything. Not that it matters, the best thing from Greggs are the bandito sandwiches and the chocolate cookies. Percy Ingles (East End and Essex chain that took over a lot of the old Lyons business in London when they went under in the 70s) manage to keep stuff acceptably warm and somehow manage to make things edible in the first place. It's notable that Greggs have never been able to gain any kind of traction in areas where Ingles (or other decent local bakeries) exist, they almost exclusively inhabit "redeveloped" high streets where local businesses have already been crushed. Greggs tea is also loving awful. How can you gently caress up tea, for fucks sake?
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JoylessJester posted:"Bristol is ok if you avoid St.Paul's Bedminster, Brislington, Easton, Fishpounds, Filton, Frenchay, Hartcliffe, Knowle, Lawrence Hill, Southmead and St.George"- My last Boss. Knife murders happen all over, there's nothing wrong with fishponds  goddamnedtwisto posted:Greggs tea is also loving awful. How can you gently caress up tea, for fucks sake? Microwave it? 
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Aug 6, 2014 20:54
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I like Greggs.
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Carrier posted:I like Greggs. History's Greatest Monster.
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Aug 6, 2014 21:41
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Before I stoped eating meat I used to love a Greggs Christmas sandwich. None of that sentence was a euphemism.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Percy Ingles (East End and Essex chain that took over a lot of the old Lyons business in London when they went under in the 70s) manage to keep stuff acceptably warm and somehow manage to make things edible in the first place. It's notable that Greggs have never been able to gain any kind of traction in areas where Ingles (or other decent local bakeries) exist, they almost exclusively inhabit "redeveloped" high streets where local businesses have already been crushed. Percy Ingles is great for a sausage roll and one of the good things about working at the Royal London again is that I can pop round the corner to Watney Market and grab one for my lunch.
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kim jong-illin posted:Percy Ingles is great for a sausage roll and one of the good things about working at the Royal London again is that I can pop round the corner to Watney Market and grab one for my lunch. You know there's also an Ingles like directly opposite the front door (of the old building) on Whitechapel Road? Having said that Watney Market has a Wimpy and an independent hardware store, it's like a lovely little timewarp. (Also I've made a mental note not to get ill/seriously hurt in the next six months - can you think of anything more terrifying than a doctor asking if you have stairs in your house?)
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Aug 6, 2014 22:12
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Greggs tea is also loving awful. How can you gently caress up tea, for fucks sake? Greggs also charge you extra to put a bit of butter on a bacon roll, but give you free sauce if you want it.  How loving tight is that?Who the gently caress eats dry bacon rolls?
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Aug 6, 2014 22:17
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Fingerless Gloves posted:Isn't the magma pasty/tepid block of filling the fault of the pasty tax a few years ago, meaning Greggs can't reheat their poo poo without adding another 20p on to a steak bake? loving tories ruining everything. Not that it matters, the best thing from Greggs are the bandito sandwiches and the chocolate cookies. Wasn't the pasty tax scrapped, or have I misremembered? e: yes, it seems it was abolished back in May 2012 or there abouts.
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Oh, I just assumed that's why they stopped heating their pasties. The amount of research I did was 'Look on wikipedia' and they didn't say anything about it being abolished. I guess Greggs are just cheaping out, who could have guessed. Is Sayers still a thing? Around Liverpool all their shops are becoming Pound Bakeries.
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Aug 6, 2014 22:31
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Greggs started being poo poo when they dropped the Chicken Tikka slices.
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Aug 6, 2014 22:41
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Greggs sell whole pizzas for £5.
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SybilVimes posted:Also, what petrochems? I don't think there's been any oil industry on the tees since the 80s. Mostly it's just Haber process stuff on both old ICI sites (not that Ammonia & nitrates won't gently caress your day up). In Boro they sniff petrol fumes for fun.
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Aromatic Stretch posted:In Boro they sniff petrol fumes for fun. That was one guy and he was caught and brought to justice.
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Lib Dems are pissy about that Cabinet resignation.quote:Sayeeda Warsi did not need to quit in protest over coalition policy on Gaza because the Liberal Democrats were winning the argument inside government, the energy secretary Ed Davey has said. Guess they can't deal with the fact that the first person to resign from this nightmare of a coalition on moral grounds was fuckin' Warsi. I mean, what does that say about them?
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The Lib Dems aren't going to have a single MP come the next election.
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Gort posted:The Lib Dems aren't going to have a single MP come the next election. I dunno, they've got some pretty safe seats and a lot of back-benchers have been quietly distancing themselves from the wreck over the past four year. I wonder if there's a spread market on their results next year? I mean it'll be an obliteration whatever way, but I wouldn't be surprised if 15 or 20 Lib Dems managed to stagger away with their seats.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I dunno, they've got some pretty safe seats and a lot of back-benchers have been quietly distancing themselves from the wreck over the past four year. I wonder if there's a spread market on their results next year? I mean it'll be an obliteration whatever way, but I wouldn't be surprised if 15 or 20 Lib Dems managed to stagger away with their seats. Politicalbetting had a post a few months ago which said the betting market had them at holding 35 seats. But this was before the internal polling scuffle which showed even super safe seats like Danny Alexander's flipping, and Lord Ashcroft has since done polling of Lib/Lab marginals which showed an average 20% swing to Lab. twoot fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Aug 6, 2014 |
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Gort posted:The Lib Dems aren't going to have a single MP come the next election. Yes, yes they will. Almost definitely double figures, maybe more than 20. Even with the ~8% of the vote they're predicted, with the distribution as it has been in previous elections, they'd have around 15. Resilient buggars.
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JoylessJester posted:"Bristol is ok if you avoid St.Paul's Bedminster, Brislington, Easton, Fishpounds, Filton, Frenchay, Hartcliffe, Knowle, Lawrence Hill, Southmead and St.George"- My last Boss. LOL your last boss is a massive wanker and probably a racialist. loving rah toff clifton / redland types who can't stand poors and browns seem to think that st pauls is a hive of crack dealers and muggers and whores. I mean. partly true but it's all pretty safe these days. much more likely to get raped in clifton than anywhere else in the city I feel. bedminster is coming up up up (well except for east street which is probably condemned to bit a poo poo hole forever) and easton is certainly a great place to buy a house. those other areas are fine, but they're pretty much residential and to be fair they're a bit rough around the edges, but meh. better than loving clifton. BS3 4LYFE Fun fact, bristol has a street called Whiteladies Road and another called Black Boy Hill which runs just off it.
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Web 2.0 news Wikipedia edits made by government sought to minimise high profile killings Articles pertaining to Jean Charles de Menezes and Damilola Taylor were edited using devices on government internet quote:Wikipedia articles about the killings of Damilola Taylor and Jean Charles de Menezes were among those edited using computers from inside government, it has emerged. I love that bold bit. There has been a public backlash against the innocent man who was shot dead, for his sheer audacity and attention-grabbing behaviour
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Gort posted:The Lib Dems aren't going to have a single MP come the next election. On the current data, for all 4 main parties you can make a highly plausible argument that they're going to do extremely badly at the next election. Labour: No economic credibility, failing to gain support in Conservative areas, hobbled by Ed Miliband's low opinion poll ratings. Conservatives: Have failed to reach out to voters beyond their base in the prosperous SE, still widely seen as the 'nasty party', struggling to prevent supporters from defecting to Ukip. Lib Dems: Support has flatlined for years at 10% or less and absolutely zero signs of any improvement in this. Ukip: has noisy and highly visible supporters but their support is too evenly spread across the country to be able to pick up more than a handful of seats, max. So there you go: the next election will be won by... Nobody! (seriously though, I expect Labour to scrape in with a small majority of seats on the back of a highly unimpressive share of the vote.)
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Manic_Misanthrope posted:Greggs started being poo poo when they dropped the Chicken Tikka slices. I was disgusted to find that you cannot buy stottie cakes from Greggs in Lancashire. I may have to resort to baking them myself.
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Gort posted:The Lib Dems aren't going to have a single MP come the next election. My constituency (Bristol W) will be a good indicator of just how hosed they are. If Stephen Williams goes (I loving hope so) then pretty much no-one is safe. (I'll also laugh if Cleggy loses his seat) E: How reliable is Electoral Calculus? Their vulnerable list has some pretty big names mfcrocker fucked around with this message at 09:29 on Aug 7, 2014 |
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baka kaba posted:Web 2.0 news Bet the gov's less keen on people collecting "mere metadata" on this sort of thing
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mfcrocker posted:E: How reliable is Electoral Calculus? Their vulnerable list has some pretty big names From their FAQ: Local factors can be very important. These can include a particularly popular (or unpopular) incumbent, a recent by-election, an important local issue, and so on. Unfortunately they cannot be included, as predictions are driven by national levels of support, as measured by national opinion polls. On average local factors must balance out, but the prediction in a particular seat may be incorrect. Given that the Lib Dems' hopes of remaining a force after 2015 rest almost entirely on local factors, I'm not sure that you can pay too much attention to that site. I don't think Williams is a good bellwether for the Lib Dems' hopes, tbh - he's not especially popular in his own right within his area AFAIK (unlike, say, Julian Huppert) and he's in a very studenty constituency so the tuition fees backstab will hurt him a lot.
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LemonDrizzle posted:Given that the Lib Dems' hopes of remaining a force after 2015 rest almost entirely on local factors, I'm not sure that you can pay too much attention to that site. I don't think Williams is a good bellwether for the Lib Dems' hopes, tbh - he's not especially popular in his own right within his area AFAIK (unlike, say, Julian Huppert) and he's in a very studenty constituency so the tuition fees backstab will hurt him a lot. He's not massively popular or unpopular (I personally really don't like him because he's a sycophant). I don't know how much tuition fees will hurt him beyond the baseline "gently caress the Lib Dems" sentiment. I'll have to research what the Labour candidate is like (and the Green one when they finally get round to selecting one)
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