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Britain and France are sibling countries: We spend a thousand years fighting like cat and dog because MUM SAID I COULD HAVE CALAIS, YOU COW!
And then Germany comes along and messes with one, and the other is like, "HITTING MY SISTER IS MY JOB! DIE!"
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@Pete Alex Harris๐ฆก๐ธ๏ธ๐ฒ/โ๐ชโซ @John Macintosh UUUUUUUULA!
And presently they came to Tillingham, where, if Wells had done his research properly, he would have known it is basically a mudflat and far too shallow to float a torpedo ram, which had a draft of 6 metres.
Going through moons of the solar system, and I get the naming scheme, but it's still funny that Uranus has a moon called Margaret.
My aunt is called Margaret.
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I now have a Welcome To Paradise earworm! (~2:30) Wonderfully cathartic song for those brought up in that world.
youtu.be/osQMG9f0HC0?si=8cFc23โฆ
Front 242 Welcome To Paradise V 1 0 V
Front 242 - Welcome To Paradise. 1988 Wax Trax Records. A slick track by a slick band chastising tele evangelists. Great industrial example of angst and rebe...YouTube
Seeing someone on Reddit saying that they never used the maths (specifically, โpiโ) they learned at school, and that it was pointless learning it.
I have used trigonometry and calculus in my everyday life to make short work of problems, mostly relating to DIY. If you reach middle age without m any this stuff, then I can almost guarantee that you have done several things the hard way when you didnโt need to.
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Iโve used very little of the math they tried to teach me and forgotten an awful lot of it:(
But my opinion wasnโt that it was a pointless thing to be taught, but that school did one hell of a bad job at doing it:( At one point I was good at maths (at least compared to my peers) and slowly they sucked every bit of fun and wonder out of it:(
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Green Party 'At Risk of Going Bust' Amid Trans Row Legal Challenge from Former Deputy Leader โ Byline Times
The party's accounts suggest there is "significant doubt" about whether it can continue as a "going concern" due to a series of legal challenges.Josiah Mortimer (Byline Times)
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Standard British things that you donโt realise are creepy and authoritarian as fuck when you grow up in the UK.
These are meant to frighten you. You can safely throw them in the bin.
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@rachel_norfolk There are three of us???
Also I said day one that Google having a browser was to further their own goals of stealing information and forcing ads everywhere.
People were quite upset with me for having that opinion. But here we are, and I have no joy in being right about this or anything else negative:(
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Hang on, Dorries told Sunak, โhistory will not judge you kindlyโ?!?
Girl, get some self awareness!
Lost most of Thursday to a migraine.
โThatโs oddโ, thinks me. โHavenโt had a migraine in agesโ
This morning: depression and extreme fatigue.
This evening: joint pains in my index finger.
Aww crap, I ate gluten, didnโt I?
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@Ted donโt even know what it was. Iโm pretty careful.
And so many doctors are like, โnon coeliacs donโt get extra-intestinal responses to glutenโ.
Bullshit.
โIf we canโt do crimes, there will be a civil warโ
Grow the fuck up
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New flat has a halogen hob
I hate it. Itโs total bullshit.
Itโs got to go.
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Those UK Election manifestos in full:
Tories: We are going to take the light fittings and run to a tax haven. We will blame this on the trans.
Labour: Weโre going to let other people take the light fittings and run to tax havens. Itโs still the transโ fault.
Lib Dems: 48 hour moritorium on stealing light fittings.
SNP: We want independence from HMRC, in case the light fittings are taxable.
Greens: Screw this, weโre going down the pub.
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Britain: a country in terminal decline, which needs bold new visions and an actual fucking intervention.
Instead, the current state of opposition politics in Britain is, โpause dumping shit into the rivers for a weekendโ. standard.co.uk/news/politics/sโฆ
Ban sewage discharges over Bank Holiday weekend โ Lib Dems
The Environment Agency has no record of sewage discharges during July and AugustMartina Bet (Evening Standard)
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@Alexandra Lanes @Eddie Mullen ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ ๐ England and Wales: rudderless decline in red or yellow, or grifting bullshitters.
Scotland: same, except the grifting bullshitters are in tartan.
Tried to overthrow Putin
He moved his army into the game
Ra ra Prigorzin
Turned round halfway to the Kremlin
And got a bomb smuggled onto his plane
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โI fell out of the windowโ
โThe window was on a planeโ
โThen the plane also fell out of the windowโ
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Just seen a taxi with โadvanced bookings onlyโ written on it.
Mate, Iโve booked multi leg rail journeys in the uk involving backtracking and stuff and know the difference between London terminals and London via Thameslink.
How advanced cash hiring your mere car possibly be?
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There are a couple of places when driving I have to play certain tracks, because it's the law:
Crossing the bridge between the Algarve and Spain, I play Back to the Future because it's a timezone border and growing up in an island nation, that still weirds me out a bit.
The A3 near Petersfield has a roundabout with a brown tourism roadsigns to "Bird World". That one gets the Jurassic Park theme.
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> [the British press] They're on a deadline, and if you make them conclude that life is too short, they will leave you the fuck alone.
That's fucking gold, thanks for sharing it.
Everyone: Covid is spiking! Wear a facemask!
Boots: Masks? Masks? Sell masks? What do you imagine us to be, a pharmacy or some such?!?
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Nobody in the lemmyverse has defederated me! Hurrah!
Has anyone defederated your instance? Introducing Defederation Investigator
cross-posted from: lemmy.basedcount.com/post/1137โฆI couldn't find any tools to check this, so I built one myself.This is a little site I built: the Defederation Investigator defed.xyz. With it, you can get a comprehensive view of which instances have blocked yours, as well as which ones you are federated with.
The tool is open source and available on GitHub. Hopefully someone will find it useful, enjoy.
Defederation Investigator for Lemmy
Discover who has defederated your Lemmy instance with the Defederation Investigator.defed.xyz
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Is there any urban wildlife as dangerous and aggressive as the British Herring Gull?
It will absolutely fuck you up for a chip.
Apparently Sydney, in Australia, is having problems with aggressive gulls and theyโve employed dog walkers to scare them off. I saw a picture.
In England, the gulls would take the dog. Easily. It was not a big dog.
The Herring Gull would totally win in a fight.
Donโt mess with them. They remember you, and after making you bleed, will make a point of shitting on you every time it sees you afterwards.
If it wants the chip, give it the bag. Honestly, not giving it the chip is risking you getting into some serious โI just killed John Wickโs dogโ type shit.
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@Inken Paper Thing is (and we have Canada geese in the UK too), theyโre basically bluffing. You can run screaming at geese and they will usually flee. Geese are colossal bullshitters who only follow through if they think you are intimidated by them (see also swans).
A seagull, however, will bear a grudge on you and your descendants for generations if you cross it.
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@Inken Paper It knows how to make your life a misery and it will fight a war of attrition against you literally for years. Every time you leave the house, it will shit on you. It will dive bomb you with its mates. It will learn your habits and lie waiting in ambush. They are basically mafia.
Geese have nothing in comparison.
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Fediverse acclimatisation test. Do not write on both sides of this toot at once.
1) What is a stavlet?
2) Do you agree?
(1) Stavlet: follower of Zoรซasstrianism, a yeastern school of philosophy.
(2) It is always safest to agree with the custodienne of the Var.
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StavLet - Oribi
StavLet Et avanceret staveprogram, som retter stavefejl og grammatikfejl pรฅ dansk Kรธb StavLet StavLet fungerer pรฅ Windows, macOS og ChromeOS.Oribi
If your spoon economy is anything like mine, "once or twice a week" is much more spoon-load than "twice a week", which in turn is much more than "every Wednesday and Saturday".
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@Wufflekins there aren't tournaments that are only open to men, afaik. Generally, tournaments are either open to everyone, or have specific qualifications (like rating, title, or winning a qualifying event).
There are, however, tournaments that are only open to women. Ostensibly, these exist to encourage participation, although many have suggested that it is actually to shield women from rampant misogyny in the chess scene that institutions are unwilling to handle properly.
That's a weird one for me. I absolutely understand the need for a safe space for women, and, as a man, I have no experience of the issues women face but, to me, it feels like that should be a refereeing issue. If men and women (and whoever identifies as whichever) can't participate on an even footing, regardless of gender, that's a fundamental problem with the way the sport is being supervised, isn't it?
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@ajlanes Regolithobraking, even!
One of my favourite euphemisms, up there with "engine-rich exhaust"
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •*goes to add to kindle*
*finds it's already in the pile*
Somewhere around the coal layers...
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