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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1333498533521936384?s=19 Interestingly I did a retweet the other day which has a video, and my tweet has almost 60,000 impressions, and ~350 retweets. It has *11* media clicks from all of that. And it doesn't even have subtitles (though the important bit of what's being said is in the body of the tweet itself). https://twitter.com/WhatEvil/status/1333085807423463428?s=20 Given that I'm reasonably sure you need to click on the vid to get the sound, almost 100% of people who saw this did not listen to the sound. Just thought that was really interesting.
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Cool news out of Spain. https://twitter.com/EoghanGilmartin/status/1321022214842552320?s=20
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Jose posted:foster got the sack when she poked fun at another guardian columnist on twitter for misunderstanding something Maybe it was around the same time but she seems to think it was because of this, lol: https://twitter.com/TwitDinosaur/status/1283698431094140930?s=20
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I'm friends with someone here in Ottawa who has just (like a week ago) asked us to call her by her new name and pronouns. I knew she was trans before this - she'd just started the process of getting on meds and stuff when I met her around a year ago. I think she's around 32? Do what makes you happy, friend. Don't let others (or your fears of how others might react) hold you back - if they can't accept the true you then they likely weren't worth keeping around anyway. It's never too late.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Canadian, early 30s, transitioning this week? Must be pretty neat that Elliot Page (formerly Ellen Page) also just announced the same Heh when I was saying "she"/"her" in relation to my friend, those are her new pronouns, so no sadly I do not know Elliot Page.
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TheRat posted:lmao keith, you sure know how to pick em This just gets worse and worse: https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/1333862616838660097?s=20 https://twitter.com/terryfuck45/status/1333872893965475840?s=20 So it turns out this loving weasel is not only a huge racist piece of poo poo, Starmer personally courted him to become a donor again, AND Starmer was Director of Public Prosecutions when the decision was made not to prosecute him for illegally funneling money to the Labour Party through proxies. https://twitter.com/terryfuck45/status/1333873665964974081?s=20
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Lol this is the leader of the "left" party in Canada: https://twitter.com/ETito604/status/1334191883002683393?s=20 "This person can no longer work 3 jobs! Disgraceful!" E: Cat tax. https://twitter.com/WhatEvil/status/1334221164546318343?s=20
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ThomasPaine posted:TIL that Americans can't send money directly bank to bank without paying fees for wire transfer and often still pay rent by literally handing the landlord a cheque. Wow. How is this this most powerful country on the planet again? You'd think the US would if nothing else have perfected the easy movement of capital. I assume it's the same as in Canada, i.e. completely loving backwards. We have "Interac" transfers here but that only goes up to $3000 - which admittedly is fine for most stuff but when you have say, a deposit on a rental, or want to buy a car or something then yeah it's physical cheque or bank draft only. Not only that you have to pay to get cheques, they're like a couple of dollars each. Also Interac transfers are more of a faff - you have to enter a password then give that password to the other person and they have to enter it. Also bank accounts are not free - $17/month for a current account (though they refund it if you keep the balance above $4k). Oh and there's a weird unequivalence of debit and credit cards - most stuff like online payments is credit cards only. Similarly for weird random stuff like contactless parking meters - if you don't have a credit card you literally can't pay for some things.
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happyhippy posted:JC3 gave us an excellent cover of Firestarter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjAWgUN5y3U That's pretty good, not heard that one before. This is my fave downtempo cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAWf21Mfc4w
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Before I went on my honeymoon I called Barclays to say "I'm going on holiday, *DON'T BLOCK MY SODDING CARD*" and they said "Ah no it's all automatic now, we won't block it! We promise!"... I'm sure you can guess my tone when I had to ring them up from Bali. Of course, they only blocked it after I'd been there a week... surely they could see that I had previously paid for plane tickets, that I had had transactions at the airport in the UK, at the airport in Singapore, and then in Bali for a week, whilst also making no transactions in the UK during that time. Like, yes, I'm on holiday, my spending will be "unusual" for as long as I am on holiday. WhatEvil fucked around with this message at 21:36 on Dec 3, 2020 |
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Am I reading that right? Labour just suspended two Jewish members for antisemitism. You are correct, and I'm 99% sure it's not the first time they've done it.
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Gonzo McFee posted:on the nose Is this some kind of joke? SUSPENDED
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Pistol_Pete posted:Hey, I never voted for Starmer but I attended his 1st Zoom call as party leader, along with 7000 other members and was broadly impressed with him - he seemed sincere, grounded and genuine about wanting to unite the party and move forwards after our election defeat. This is it, right, either he lied about the things he wanted, or he's staggeringly incompetent. Those are the only two options and neither is good for him.
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forkboy84 posted:It's both OP. I know! He's clearly actively and intentionally working against "party unity" but he's also poo poo at it, can't even get rid of Corbyn right.
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If Breath Ray's posts don't all start with "Jerk Detected!" you're doing it wrong.
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Well Millwall lost. Lol. https://twitter.com/MillwallFC/status/1335265361516777479?s=20 Replies to this are pretty good.
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I don't know much about football hooligans but I did watch I.D. once. Good movie that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.D._(1995_film)
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Mebh posted:That's really rough! Our office is opening up for a few others to do the same who want to so I hope you get the same. My company invested in everyone's workspaces that needed it. We got desks and pcs delivered to us and I just got a ps5 devkit too. Work provided noise cancelling headphones and keeps giving us just eat and amazon vouchers to make up for no team events. From experience of noise issues (kids playing football next door IN THE (attached) HOUSE FFS, headphones, including noise-cancelling ones, only do so much for THUD THUD THUD noises.
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The thing I've learned about whiskey (from having been given a glass a few times by friends who are whiskey-heads) is that I only like the really expensive stuff, at the £100+ per bottle end. Therefore I do not drink whiskey, because gently caress paying that much. Rum is cheaper and nicer. Cognac is nice, but from my very limited experience of trying cognacs, I think that the slightly cheaper stuff is actually nicer than the really long-aged stuff.
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https://twitter.com/GenZdemagogue/status/1336630432289480705?s=20 Obviously we did not need telling this. I'm certain it applies in the UK too.
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We called my best mate in the UK a Tory for years, and all he would say is "I'm not a Tory". Then in the lead up to the 2019 election he came out as a Lib Dem. So what I'm saying is, we were right all along. Also he said that me saying that the press had it in for Corbyn was "Trumpian". Lol.
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Sure it's already been mentioned, but Alexei Sayle's podcast is very good and you should all be listening to it. https://twitter.com/BenJolly9/status/1336957364671574016?s=20 https://audioboom.com/channels/5038428
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therattle posted:But I think a lot of people are more negative about the UK than it deserves. They are absolutely not. People are nowhere near negative enough about the UK. It is a toxic influence on the world and has been for many hundreds of years, plus what the government is doing to its own people with brutal austerity and now disaster capitalism. There are other bad countries too but the perpetuation of the myth of the UK as a "great nation" and excusing all of the awful poo poo it gets involved in is a large part of the reason why it all continues.
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I mean there is also the whole thing where the laser-targeted ad system on facebook allowed Cambridge Analytica and other politically malicious entities (such as the Conservative Party) are able to reach directly into racist's brains with lies and manipulate them into doing what they want. Like you can literally, if you know enough about a person, target an advert specifically at them. You can select people within an age range and a gender and a household status (e.g. "empty nester"), by device use, within a particular postcode, etc. etc. and in fact people in Labour HQ used it to target Corbyn to trick him into thinking that Labour ads were running widely. WhatEvil fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Dec 12, 2020 |
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Osama Bin Laden played Counter Strike and if that's not proof then I don't know what is. E: But yeah what Twisto said is correct. The algorithm is the evil part, also the fact that they actively refuse to clamp down on islamophobia, hate groups and racism generally. WhatEvil fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Dec 12, 2020 |
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blunt posted:you think Youtube doesn't do that with recommended videos I'm well aware that YouTube does that too and I'm not particularly happy about that either.
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happyhippy posted:Can see a rise in vegetarians due to Brexit. Lots of people in poverty are vegetarian by necessity due to cost already.
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It was pointed out earlier on twitter that Emilie Oldknow helped allow Rod Liddle to stay in Labour (at least initially) after he did a massive Islamophobia. It was in the leaked report but I had missed this previously:quote:John Stolliday, then head of governance and legal, asked colleague Emilie Oldknow if journalist Rod Liddle could be suspended after Mr Liddle wrote in The Spectator that anti-semitism was “absolutely endemic” among Muslims due to an “envy” of Jewish people.
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Dawn Foster worked for the Guardian and tried to write something that was not poo poo (criticising Tom Watson) and they canned her.
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SpicePro posted:I was brought up veggie and so have never eaten a 'traditional' christmas dinner, in a way this means there is no real boundaries on what I should be eating like you might normally impose...I have contemplated a christmas style pizza the last few years, maybe roasted veg and stuffing? Potato? Bread sauce and cranberries? My world is limitless!! Yeah, same here, parents were vegetarian from before I was born so I have never had a "traditional" christmas dinner. What we've typically had over the years was a sort of vegetarian buffet thing with lots of different foods and nibbles. My Mum used to make a cheese and onion flan almost every year, plus other stuff like veggie sausage rolls, a bean and rice salad thing, then there would be crisps and nuts and twiglets and stuff plus salad veg to go with. Just loads of comfort food really. My last christmas in the UK we all went round to my brother's house and he and I had both made pizza dough, and used each of our countertop pizza ovens to make like 4 big christmassy pizzas. Chestnuts go really well on pizza. Previously we also had a "Christmas Pie" as a main. I think it was this one or something very similar: https://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/recipes/butternut-squash-spinach-and-goats-cheese-pie/ Butternut squash, goat's cheese, pine nuts, spinach, garlic, red onions and Moroccan spices. Really decadent and epic enough for a Christmas main IMO. E: Re: Broccoli. OwlFancier posted:Broccoli is OK but it's not as good as sprouts, and I would rather have cauliflower generally. Jose posted:You're wildly overcooking your broccoli. Anyways roast it in salt and olive oil after a par boil to get it charred a bit Miftan posted:For people who like brocoli, you can actually eat the stalks! They require a bit more cooking but definitely edible. You're all doing it wrong TBH. The best way to cook broccoli is to get a nice hot pan (like, 7 out of 10 on your stove settings) with just a little oil (helps if the pan is cast iron or non-stick) and sear it til you get some nice charring. Brings out the flavour, doesn't make it turn to mush like with boiling and it'll even cook the stalks decently. WhatEvil fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Dec 16, 2020 |
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Borrovan posted:I'd forgotten who posted that a couple of years back, I've made it a bunch of times since, it is loving amazing. Thank you, & highly recommended for anyone else. You're welcome, I'm very happy that others have made it and enjoyed it! The chestnut en croute recipes you and OwlFancier have posted both look good too, I might try a variation on this this year - typically what I do these days when I make any recipe is look up multiple versions to compare, and often add elements of both anyway, so it's good to have two recommendations for similar things.
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OwlFancier posted:I have not posted any recipes so you may be thinking of someone else Feck. Thanks rescinded. It was Jose. Sorry Jose.
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Sorry to all in the UK for this poo poo. Genuinely feel bad for everyone. With my Mum dying recently it would've been nice for me to be able to come back to the UK and see my family but it's been obvious for a few months that that would be a bad idea. Although it doesn't change anything for me I worry about my Dad and the rest of my family. I don't even know what the status is in Canada - no point in looking 'cause we were just gonna be staying home anyway, as we have been this whole time. In other news, my brother is in loving Tenerife right now. Stupid oval office. Don't know what he's playing at. I expect they'll probably be going to see my Dad (in his 60s, and probably doesn't have great lungs due to smoking for ~40 years before switching to vaping) for Christmas, though I haven't asked him. He won't be loving told anyway.
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bump_fn posted:being mad at individuals instead of the government is wrong but it’s ok to be mad at home counties gammon in principle Being mad at people without the means or brains to do or know better is bad, being mad at people with both the means and brains to do or know better who choose not to is fine.
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This is cool. https://twitter.com/bojack90s/status/1341089831506616327?s=20 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-55368922 WhatEvil fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Dec 21, 2020 |
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Only Kindness posted:Entirely due to great budgeting, and not at all to do with anything going on about a year ago in the world of political reporting, or anything happening a day ago in the literary world, I find myself exactly £157.50 a year better off! Just in case anyone doesn't get it, they cancelled their TV license, probably due to BBC stuff with JKR. I believe Mermaids is good, they help trans kids.
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Some of you may remember that a year ago Corbyn proposed to plant 2 billion trees in 20 years and it was dismissed as unachievable, pie-in-the-sky nonsense from our cursed commentariat. Canada has just announced it'll plant 2 billion trees in 10 years, and we have half the population over here. https://www.canada.ca/en/natural-resources-canada/news/2020/12/minister-oregan-launches-canadas-plan-to-plant-two-billion-trees.html quote:Today, the Honourable Seamus O’Regan, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, launched the Government of Canada’s plan to plant two billion trees over 10 years, with an investment of $3.16 billion. Meeting this commitment will help Canada address climate change by reducing carbon pollution and is a key part of Canada’s efforts to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
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At least the fishing stuff might bring some benefit to a number of small-time businesses and worker- https://twitter.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1341310888528261120?s=20 Oh.
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I had a good Christmas. Just spent it at home with my wife and we made a nice meal and played some online board games with the wife's fam. Did like 5 hours of food prep on Christmas Eve including chopping up all the veg, parboiling the taters, making stuffing balls (homemade, not from a mix) ready to go into the oven and making the filling for that blue cheese & spinach chestnut en croute that somebody posted before: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/chestnut-spinach-blue-cheese-en-croute So all I had to do on the day was roll out the (store-bought) pastry, fill it with the filling, seal it up, and bung stuff in the oven (plus like, peas and stuff on the stove). Worked really well and the food turned out great. That chestnut en croute thing is not lying when it says "serves 8" - was bloody huge. Tasty though so I'll be happy to eat it for the next 3 days. Oh also we had baked camembert for lunch which was amazing. E: It was Borrovan who posted this one. Thanks bud!
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Had a good chat with my Dad today, and it's the first time we've really gotten into much specific politics. He's broadly a lefty, thought that Corbyn was genuine and principled but thinks that he possibly didn't have the steel for the top job... which in hindsight I also think. He agreed with me that the right wing of the Labour party are awful people, and that Corbyn mainly lost because of the press pushing the false antisemitism narrative and that "there's a big difference between being anti-Israel and being antisemitic" which it something he came out with himself without any prompting or leading from me, so he's pretty switched on compared to most boomers. BUT he did say that he thinks that maybe Starmer is being shrewd by laying low and not being labelled a "loony left socialist" (he put air-quotes around it, so he wasn't saying that he thinks being socialist is a bad thing), I said "well no, he isn't one" and we had a bit of a chat more generally - I mentioned that I think the press aren't attacking him because it's more convenient to keep him around, since they know he's not a threat. He didn't disagree but he didn't exactly agree either. I definitely wouldn't say he's a Starmer "fan" exactly but I think he's giving Starmer much more credit than I am. Still, it was a good chat. He echoed many sentiments I've had, like thinking "Am I loving crazy? Is nobody else seeing this poo poo?" but then finding more of a left-wing presence and people calling out the Tories etc. and feeling sane again, as well as just generally wanting a fairer world. He'd also picked up on the stuff that's happening with the Tories and the press attacking anybody with actual principles and I told him to look out for people getting called "Woke" and about "Virtue Signalling" as a dogwhistle. He also said that he thinks the entire media is corrupt and working for the establishment "with the possible exception of the Guardian" and I laughed a bit and said "I wouldn't be so sure about that" and told him about some of the stuff in this article: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-09-11-how-the-uk-security-services-neutralised-the-countrys-leading-liberal-newspaper/ Which I have now sent to him - it's a good read btw if any of you haven't seen it, about how the Graun is in bed with the security services etc.
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