Customer service call from car place. Satisfaction survey. Marks out of 5, would you recommend friends and family, will you return, any questions?
Did the whole thing in Portuguese. Understood it all. Feeling really good about that.
Sylvia is like, “and you didn’t even misgender yourself with your adjectives! Impressive for an English speaker!”
Illegal immigrant fucks around and finds out.
I keep seeing these people pop up in “ex pat” (hate that term) groups here in Portugal. Mate, Brexit was in the news and stuff.
Portugal is being patient, but I assume there are limits. theguardian.com/politics/2024/…
Singer claims Sweden ‘punishing’ her British husband by refusing him leave to remain
Tess Merkel Solomons says handling of husband’s case after he missed application deadline has been ‘disgusting’Lisa O'Carroll (The Guardian)
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NHS (UK): repeat prescription? We track it to the milligram! Don’t think you can cheat the system!
SNS (Portugal): a repeat? Let’s SPIN THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE! See what you get!
The fuck am I supposed to do with six asthma inhalers?
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Two consecutive emails:
Amazon.co.uk: Black Friday discounts start at midnight!
Amazon.es: Black Friday discounts start at 23h.
Weird timezone artefacts.
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‘We were horrified’: parents heartbroken as baby girl registered as male
Parents told Nottinghamshire registrar’s error on birth certificate cannot be changedAmelia Hill (The Guardian)
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Need a catchy name for the group of countries like the US, Russia, Israel, North Korea.
I’m thinking “The Axis of Can You Just Not?”
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*I'm from one of them after all.
Just got this Reddit ad for US ambulance chasers implying hormonal birth control is dangerous and causing mass health problems.
It’s starting. We (trans women) bloody warned you.
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When I was 15, I got a new pair of shoes for school. They were too tight and caused hyperkeratosis on the ridges of my big toes. This got so bad that the skin started painfully splitting.
The right one slowly resolved itself over time. The left has got worse and worse. 36 years later it has spread to three toes on that foot and despite trying to control it with debriding, salicylic acid, and steroids, it gets worse, and frequently cracks to the point it bleeds.
I have searched and searched and searched on the internet for the same presentation, but it’s always the other side of the foot. Never on the ridges of the toe joints.
Until yesterday. I saw the exact same thing in a photo on duck duck go.
I clicked through.
“Patient told to stop sitting on foot”.
I looked down. I was sitting on my left foot.
Fucksake.
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Burning a candle for Ponte Vasco da Gama to regain its crown here.
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Studied WW1 in school but never went hard on the July Crisis that started it.
Read up on it now and feeling like the Treaty of Versailles was a lot less unfair than I previously thought.
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@goatsarah Starts Episode 465 with a 4 parter on the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
therestishistory.com/465-the-m…
followed by 6 episodes on "The Road to War"
465. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Killer (Part 1) - The Rest is History
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to one of the world’s greatest empires, in June 1914, set in motion a series of events that would culminate in the First World War, where more than 15 million people would lose their lives.Bryan Dooley (The Rest is History)
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@Sion [main] Musk was profiting from SLS either way because he had the contract to provide the lander.
But he isn’t really competition. SLS was never a viable launch system; more a way to endlessly launder money to corporate donors.
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@clacksee The place is clearly due some sort of hard reset. I had hope it could avoid it - at least within my lifetime, now I'm not so sure.
The first US civil war wasn't, really, civil. Because there was a foreign occupying power to fight. Maybe every nation has to go through a 'proper' one. It certainly feels like the nation is irreperably split. Maybe that will keep them occupied for the next 4 years.
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@BoneHouseWasps but spooky 🎃 @Shouty person England has had, like 7, at least.
They happen. They’re never pleasant.
@clacksee This is why, as America has been quietly arming its populace, the rest of the world has been vigorously shaking its head.
Googled it, btw. Thanks for the Wiki homework. 😁
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Dear Apple, when the device is localised (see that S there?) into British English, "chips" does NOT go under "confectionary" in the shopping list.
Goddam fuckmuppet seppo nonsense.
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A prediction:
The EU is going to decide that it needs to protect itself against Putin’s aggression.
Trump will abandon Europe to Putin.
Starmer will be like, “I’ll align with the second guy”.
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Western progressive parties stop doing this challenge 2024:
“The other guys are right. Don’t vote for them!”
The obvious thing happens.
“The other guys are REALLY right. Don’t vote for them”
Why are you like this?
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Just been reading about a horrible bully who stabbed and brutally killed a critically endangered animal that was just minding its own business by a tumtum tree.
Disgusting
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The day after the Brexit vote, I was stuck in bed having panic attacks on repeat.
It shoved me out of my comfort zone and now my life, in Portugal, is better for it (immigrant stress is real though), but it was a profoundly shitty thing to go through, and my heart utterly goes out to the millions of Americans, especially the young women, the LGBT people, and the terrified immigrants, and others now experiencing the same thing.
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Anyway, by this time next year, I will have submitted my paperwork saying that I have no criminal record in the UK, along with proof of 5 years residency, Portuguese language proficiency, and a copy of my (post gender recognition) birth certificate.
And when it is approved, I will be registered as a Portuguese citizen born overseas (female).
And as far as the state will be concerned, I’m a cis woman.
That’s going to be a useful insurance policy.
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@will-h it was logistically very very difficult. Yeah.
And then in 2021 my mum got a terminal cancer diagnosis.
Spent a lot of time being one of only half a dozen passengers on a 737.
Hope everything goes well. It's a huge weight off your the shoulders, to have the magic legal status that wont ever expire or go away.
I assume by now you feel perfectly at home, but let me know if you need anything. I've finally made up my mind and I'm back (and fucking hell, that was stressful AF… somehow I managed to pull it off).
A lot of people, probably the majority, see things in irredeemable scum bags, like Trump, like Boris Johnson, like LePen, and going back, like Hitler, which they like.
And I just don’t get it.
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So glad I got my nervous breakdown response to this shit out of the way after the Brexit referendum.
My deepest, most profound sympathies for anyone going through anything similar today. It’s fucking horrible.
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So I know it’s all very funny, ha ha, but here’s why the orcas don’t go after the boats of the ultra rich.
Two photos. One a multi million euro luxury yacht. Notice it has two props. They steer by vectoring the thrust. There is no rudder.
The other, my boat. It costs what a new car costs (like if you were buying a low end Tesla. Expensive, but not stupid money). It has a rudder because it’s a sailboat. It can’t rely on thrust being present.
No rudder - no orca attack. People who can afford sailboats, which the orcas are attacking, cannot afford luxury motor yachts, which they aren’t.
A sailboat is like a mouldy caravan, but floating, and slower.
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Something happen to make you offer this generous discount, did it?
How about you fuck off 500 miles, and then fuck off 500 more, WaPo?
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@transworld There’s evidence on Twitter that they actually added more ketchup to their shirt for the photo they put online.
Also, if they actually had any guts they would have tried that stunt in the Rutland Arms, and not the Benjamin Huntsman ‘Spoons.
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