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« on: October 15, 2014, 09:32:18 PM »
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« on: October 15, 2014, 08:19:58 PM »
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« on: October 15, 2014, 04:14:14 PM »
http://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/shinydragonitexy... So this chap seems to be basically running a pokemon black market ring. Well maybe that's not the best description but he's selling a shit tonne of various fancy pokemon that either have good stats/natures/shiny and the like. Or are event legendaries. ... It's just kind of bizarre, and even more so that it's not bullshit if the thousands of buyer reviews are to be believed .-. It's the scale of it that has me speechless, he must either be working with a bunch of people and sharing the profits or he's literally sat with a bunch of 3DSs in front of him all day playing pokemon 24/7. .-.
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« on: October 15, 2014, 02:17:42 PM »
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« on: October 14, 2014, 11:05:55 AM »
Holy shit .-. The flying bit... anyone have any idea just how fucking cool that could turn out to be? <_<
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« on: October 14, 2014, 05:38:39 AM »
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29596822Spoiler MPs have voted in favour of recognising Palestine as a state alongside Israel.
The House of Commons backed the move "as a contribution to securing a negotiated two-state solution" - although less than half of MPs took part in the vote.
The result, 274 to 12, is symbolic but could have international implications.
Ministers abstained on the vote, on a motion put forward by Labour MP Grahame Morris and amended by former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.
Middle East Minister Tobias Ellwood said the UK reserved the right to recognise Palestine when it was "appropriate for the peace process".
In 2012 the UN General Assembly voted to upgrade the Palestinians' status to that of "non-member observer state". Some 41 nations - including the UK - abstained.
Current UK government policy is that it "reserves the right to recognise a Palestinian state bilaterally at the moment of our choosing and when it can best help bring about peace".
'Two-state solution'
During the Commons debate on Monday Mr Morris said recognising Palestine as a state would be a "symbolically important" step towards peace, saying relations between Israelis and Palestinians were "stuck at an impasse".
The full motion stated: "That this House believes that the government should recognise the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel as a contribution to securing a negotiated two-state solution."
Explaining Labour's support, shadow foreign minister Ian Lucas said it would "strengthen the moderate voices among the Palestinians who want to pursue the path of politics, not the path of violence".
"This is not an alternative to negotiations. It is a bridge for beginning them," he said.
Conservative Nicholas Soames said: "I'm convinced that to recognise Palestine is both morally right and is in our national interest."
Another former foreign secretary, Conservative MP Sir Malcolm Rifkind, said he too wanted to see a two-state solution but added: "Symbolism sometimes has a purpose. It sometimes has a role. But I have to say you do not recognise a state which has not yet got the fundamental ingredients that a state requires if it's going to carry out its international functions and therefore, at the very least, I would respectfully suggest this motion is premature."
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Labour MP Graham Morris says recognising the state of Palestine is the "right thing to do" ahead of a vote in the Commons
It is convention that ministers abstain when voting takes place on a backbench MP's motion and those of both the Liberal Democrat and Conservative parties did so. It is, however, Lib Dem policy to support recognition of Palestinian statehood.
The government is not bound to do anything as a result of the vote. Mr Ellwood said the timing of when the UK opts to accept Palestinian statehood was "critical", insisting: "You can after all only play this card once."
He added that Israel lived "in a tough neighbourhood" and had the right to defend itself. But he said its recent expansion settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem made it hard for its friends, including the UK, to make the case that it was committed to peace.
Mr Ellwood also said: "Only an end to the occupation will ensure that Palestinian statehood becomes a reality on the ground. The UK will bilaterally recognise a Palestinian state when we judge that it can best help bring about the peace."
The vote comes amid moves elsewhere in Europe to recognise Palestinian statehood officially, more than 100 countries having done so.
Israel says moves to recognise Palestine are premature and undermine efforts to reach a peace settlement between the two sides.
But Palestinian officials say they have been forced to pursue measures including seeking greater recognition internationally because a succession of peace talks has failed.
Labour has twice called on the government - in 2011 and 2012 - to back Palestine's request for official state recognition at the UN. Thoughts? I think it's about damn time.
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« on: October 13, 2014, 05:56:34 PM »
Alright fellow britbongs, europoors and our friends across the sea <.< Disable your anti-british filters to appreciate this thread in it's entirety. Example of the filter blocking out the image of a cup of tea. For information on how to do so visit this site. www.howtodisabletheantibritbongfilter.comWith that out of the way, you can now enjoy the entirety of the Chav thread. Some soothing music to help set the mood Chav Fights NAH I'M NOT FAKIN KIDDIN BRAV Bouncer Assassination takedown Observe the chav on horseback  Next up: The Anatomy of the Chav Anatomy of the Chav  Article 1, Headwear. Typically the chav will wear either a baseball cap and/or hoodie. For the yanks and europoors among us, that is a hooded jumper or tracksuit. Article 2, Bling. In order to attract a mate* a chav will wear as much shiny fake gold as it is possible to move it. It is not shown on this filthy pleb as it is concealed by his burberry tracksuit. Article 3, The tracksuit. The most ubiquitous of Chav clothing, typically sportswear or other tasteless crap from high street clothing stores. Article 4, The trainers. No chav is complete without a pair of ridiculously overpriced sports trainers, these are an extension of the bling mentioned in article 2. Article 5, The slouch. Very rarely you will ever encounter a Chav walking or standing normally, they are always either doing some kind of moronic swagger that looks like they have defecated themselves or they are just blind drunk at 9 in the morning. They prop themselves up on lampposts, walls, windows and other street furniture to maintain their balance and to "LOOK FOOKIN 'ARD" *A mate can both refer to a spawning partner and an acquaintance who will help you kick old lady's heads in. Comparisons may be drawn between Chav dialect and the particular version of Orkish found in Warhammer 40,000. Here is an example of such an accent. Another interesting thing to note is what Chav stands for, much debate among pseudo-intellectuals on wikipedia and the guardian tries to dispel the idea that it stands for Council Housed and Violent, but anyone with any first hand experience of such degenerate creatures will know that the acronym is entirely correct. Chav reproduction. Little is known about just how Chavs manage to replicate themselves in such large numbers but several credible scientists have again drawn comparison to the Orks of Warhammer 40,000. They reproduce their sheer numbers as a part of their perculiar biology in which they are actually a form of sentient fungal xenos that when killed releases thousands of spores into the air which will eventually grow into other individual orks. The hypothesis is that when a Chav and a Chavette come into contact in the Dole queue, they release the corresponding halves of their spores into the air which combine to produce infectious particles, capable of mutating otherwise pleasant schoolchildren into yet more of their disgusting ilk. The counter point is that by constantly feeding them benefits they are able to spend all day fornicating and as they are too stupid to use contraception they reproduce at a rate comparable to rodents. This information has been brought to you by the Campaign for the Extermination of all Chav Inbred Lifeforms. Or CECIL.  For more information on how to properly counter the virulent threat of the chav menace, please keep your eyes peeled for the update to the Original Post.
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« on: October 12, 2014, 12:09:56 AM »
It be 6 bong.
Six a bong six a bong, this is a shitty shitpost.
Anyone doing anything interesting at this late hour?
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« on: October 10, 2014, 11:57:03 PM »
I know I've made a similar thread before but this one has something interesting. I was idly flicking through wikipedia, as you do, and I came across this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_rhythm_sleep_disorderIt's easy to just shove sleep troubles under insomnia, but I think some of these might actually be more accurate. At least for me <.< My problem is that the time that I'm awake and alert to my fullest tends to be late at night, sluggish as hell in the morning and sleeping to the afternoon easily. I don't think it's just the typical teenager sleep troubles as the particular aspects are that my circadian appears to shift around the clock in cycles of roughly 20-30 days. Do any of these sound like they might apply to any of you? Or do you just struggle with regular insomnia? Or are you one of those lucky bastards that doesn't have sleep as an arch enemy? <.<
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« on: October 10, 2014, 10:04:13 AM »
Disregarding the obvious (See Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs) what are the three things that you would hate to live without?
For me it would have to be the Internet, Books and Tea <_<
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« on: October 10, 2014, 07:34:54 AM »
No money in srs pls
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« on: October 09, 2014, 05:17:10 PM »
Alright so this has been raised several times tonight.
As far as I understand it, the main highlighted point has been PSU's goodbye thread which quickly turned into a shitfest. There were some issues with the moderation actions taken and some participation in the shitflinging itself.
Both of these specific points have been addressed, PSU is no longer Moderated as that was an excessive warning and the person in particular has been spoken to about their participation.
The bigger picture of perceived bias for and against certain members is an issue that needs addressing and it is being figured out, the important things to remember are that the new rules implemented today require some adjusting to on behalf of the moderation team and the community. It's not just an easy light switch on and off, which is in part why I have encouraged some leniency tonight to ease people into things.
I want to emphasise a few things.
-If you see something you don't like, you think that someone is getting away with attacking/flaming another user then PM myself, one of the other moderators or Cheat over it. There is no need to make a hundred threads on the front page declaring it, not because it's about covering asses but because it's just straight up disruptive.
-I think the leniency plea is going to end pretty soon because I personally have been dealing with this shit for the last 8 hours, along with a lot of the other mods and monitors (And of course Cheat)
You have had some time to adjust, you've vented your frustrations and I've made a terrible botched job of cleaning up after you all <_< So, if you have any further complaints please post them in here.
I'm not going to censor anyone, if you have a complaint then bring it up. Just please do so cleanly without all caps and a howling stream of obscenities.
Any other questions can be posted here, it's not an exclusively moderation related thread.
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« on: October 08, 2014, 10:40:51 PM »
Maybe the Lib Dems aren't all completely fucking useless. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29533857Spoiler Playing devil's advocate, you could say the government is setting its mental health targets in the areas and at the levels it knows the NHS can achieve.
Already nearly two-thirds of patients get access to talking therapies within 28 days. So asking the NHS to ensure 95% are seen within 18 weeks does not seem a big ask.
A similar thing could be said for the two-week wait for help for people experiencing psychosis for the first time.
Nonetheless, those working in the sector are still delighted.
Why? To understand that, you have to consider where mental health stands in the pecking order of the NHS.
Some refer to it as the Cinderella service or poor cousin - as I have written about before. Figures show that the condition gets 11% of the budget, but accounts for 28% of the disease burden.
The result is that many people go without help - something England's chief medical officer Dame Sally Davies highlighted in her recent annual report. An estimated three-quarters of people with a mental illness receive no treatment. For physical disorders, the rate is nearer a quarter.
The hope now of many involved in providing such services is that the attention the targets will bring will lead to more money and resources being ploughed into care.
Ministers - or at least the Liberal Democrat ones who have unveiled the policy at their annual conference - have been referring to it as a "watershed" moment.
But there is still much work that needs to be done to ensure the introduction of targets becomes the truly significant moment both the government and sector hope it will.
Experts believe it is not just how long patients have to wait that is a problem, it is whether they can get a referral and on to a waiting list in the first place.
This is known as eligibility, and Centre for Mental Health deputy chief executive Andy Bell says it goes hand-in-hand with waiting-time targets.
"You can't have one without another if you want to make a real difference. We need to hear more about this," he says.
Although, to be fair, the Department of Health is referring to these targets as a "starting point" on which it wants to build.
This certainly happened with the introduction of targets for routine operations, such as knee and hip replacements, under the Blair government.
Ministers initially focused on the length of the waiting list. But when it became clear that what mattered most was how long people waited, a target of six months was set.
But this only measured the point from diagnosis to treatment. The result was that waits from GP referral to diagnosis started going up and so the target was changed to include that part of the patient journey as well.
The target was eventually reduced to 18 weeks in 2008, but that was 11 years after ministers started tinkering.
That in itself should act as a warning to anyone expecting immediate results from these new targets. But you also need to consider that in many ways mental health care is even more complex than routine surgery.
The government has chosen just two parts of the system - talking therapies and treatment for psychosis. Arguably much more problematic areas are crisis care and child and adolescent mental health services.
Reports have emerged that both are struggling to cope with demand. Outgoing Royal College of Psychiatrists president Prof Sue Bailey recently described the state of services as a "car crash". This focus on mental health promises to be a long journey. I can't really tl;dr this properly, especially not at 5am but give it a read britbongers. And any interested Yanks/Europlebs/Aussies/Canadians/everyone else. The important bit is that the lib dem conference appear to have announced a new set of policies to put some fucking funding into Mental Health. To highlight one part in particular, 11% of the Budget goes to treating 28% of patients. The other bit, that really fucking pisses me off is this. 3/4 of people with mental illness receive no treatment at all, whilst the same figure is at a quarter for those with physical illness. So yeah, Thank fucking shrek. It's about damn time.
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« on: October 06, 2014, 06:49:23 PM »
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« on: October 05, 2014, 07:16:16 PM »
As some of you know, I've been moving house over the last few days hence the decreased activity <.< Again, a few of you know that I'm addicted to books <.< So I thought that taking an inventory whilst unpacking my ... 18 boxes... of books would be a good idea >.> It's still underway but so far I've unpacked and catalogued 165 books. Pics of the boxes Things are settling down as I unpack and soon I can perhaps post pics of my library when it's unpacked and arranged. I have so many fracking books lol. Also any questions ama me anything you know the drill <.<
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« on: October 02, 2014, 05:13:22 PM »
I just found a jar of it in the cupboard at home, it looks like it's the imported stuff too >.> I tried a little bit on some bread and god damn it's delicious. I've now decided to pour a little into my tea as an experiment to celebrate Britbong and Syrupchugging relations 
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« on: September 30, 2014, 05:29:55 PM »
What particular denomination of your faith do you follow?
And a word of warning, no baiting/trolling/flaming/fedora tipping ITT.
Even if you find all religion to be farcical, please keep that to yourself as I'd like to discuss things with the faithful among us without it turning into a shitstorm/flamewar/ebinfedoramaymays. Got it? .-.
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« on: September 30, 2014, 11:02:18 AM »
Do you still suffer from laggy connections and shitty games when it's school kicking out time where you live?
4pm-8pm here is almost unplayable because of the hundreds of kids getting on netflix/XBL/youtube/twitch etc but since this is broadband, I'm wondering if fibre users still suffer from this problem.
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« on: September 30, 2014, 08:26:30 AM »
I'm downloading the patch now, if this actually fixes my major gripes with the game... I will sacrifice a hundred babbys to shrek.
>No bouncy reticules
>4x Scopes are useable
>No trigger delay on the .44 swagnum
>'Improved netcode' - remains to be seen.
If this is all true, hallelujah.
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« on: September 29, 2014, 06:39:24 PM »
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« on: September 29, 2014, 10:14:07 AM »
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29408121[Parody copyright laws set to come into effect] Changes to UK legislation are to come into force later this week allowing the parody of copyright works.
Under current rules, there has been a risk of being sued for breach of copyright if clips of films, TV shows or songs were used without consent.
But the new European Copyright Directive will allow the use of the material so long as it is fair and does not compete with the original version.
The new law will come into effect on 1 October.
Owners of the copyrighted works will only be able to sue if the parody conveys a discriminatory message.
It would then be down to a judge to decide if the parody is funny.
"The only, and essential, characteristics of parody are, on the one hand, to evoke an existing work while being noticeably different from it and, on the other, to constitute an expression of humour or mockery," the EU rules state.
"If a parody conveys a discriminatory message (for example, by replacing the original characters with people wearing veils and people of colour), the holders of the rights to the work parodied have, in principle, a legitimate interest in ensuring that their work is not associated with such a message."
Continue reading the main story
ANALYSIS
image of Clive Coleman Clive Coleman Legal correspondent, BBC News
In the past comedians like French and Saunders and many others have parodied famous films, TV shows and songs using the copyright material in them, but there has always been a risk they could be sued by the copyright owner.
Copyright owners would often grant a licence to those who wanted to use their work, and charge a fee for doing so. That meant many people wanting to parody were deterred from doing so. However, the view that parody is a form of free expression and creativity has driven the change to the law.
Recently there's been an explosion of online parodies made by comically re-editing or "mashing-up" snippets of TV, film and songs. A mash-up of The Apprentice has had more than five million hits, while a parody of the Miley Cyrus song Wrecking Ball has had more than 50 million.
The new law should lead to a growth of that kind of creativity by parodists who can now plunder copyright material from movies to boy bands.
'Being censored'
Cassette Boy, who is known for his online mash-up parodies of shows including The Apprentice and Dragons' Den, told the BBC's Clive Coleman that current rules meant he had to negotiate many legal issues which often led to frustration.
"It feels like our chosen form of expression is being censored," he said.
"It's like being a painter in a country where paint is illegal. In the past, our work has just disappeared from the internet overnight."
Comedy writer Graham Linehan, who was behind TV shows such as The IT Crowd, Father Ted and Black Books, agreed the rules had been "quite restrictive" in his experience.
"It seems harder to do innocent mentions of anything to represent something that is part of our lives," he told the BBC.
"Artists need to be protected, but recently there's been an automated quality to some of the legal challenges. You might do something and you know full well the author of the original work will love the thing your doing and see it as a tribute or friendly nod, but the lawyers - they don't see any of that, they just see something they have to act on.
"We had an annoying thing recently where have a joke in the new series of Count Arthur Strong that involved a guy in a Predator costume and where the word 'predator' is the thing that makes it funny.
"Quite a long time after we wrote the script, we were told we couldn't use [the word], so we changed it to "alien bounty hunter" and suddenly the joke goes. It's ok, but it's not the joke we wanted."
Linehan added the new legislation change was "a brilliant thing".
"The thing it's most important and useful for, is the explosion of creativity that's come about because of the internet and the ability to share it," he said.
"People like to create new work and up until now those people have been in such a legal limbo. They can do something that's incredibly clever and very funny but it gets taken down in moments." Tl;dr is that the EU has passed a directive/legislation that protects parody material from copyright claims, with a few caveats for things like discriminatory content- 'Owners of the copyrighted works will only be able to sue if the parody conveys a discriminatory message. It would then be down to a judge to decide if the parody is funny.' So... yay or nay?
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« on: September 29, 2014, 10:10:48 AM »
Disclaimer: This OP will contain lots of pisstaking, but there is a serious discussion here so bear with it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29402844[George Osbourne proposes two year benefits freeze] A future Conservative government would freeze benefits paid to people of working age for two years, Chancellor George Osborne has told the Conservative Party conference.
Mr Osborne said the proposed freeze, which would not include pensions, disability benefits and maternity pay - would save £3bn.
It would come into effect in 2016, if the Tories win the next election. Spoiler The only one who can save us now.  ALLAHU THATCHER  Now, I'm not going to comment on the effectiveness of the economic policy idea - Meta might be better able to do so <.< I will however say that this is going to be quite the An Hero for the tories, people don't exactly vote off their heads and if the unemployed masses see that he's going to make life 'perceivably' worse for them then that's not going to win him any favours with the plebs.
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« on: September 28, 2014, 05:39:14 PM »
The most common one being that the US Government had a hand in orchestrating 9/11, which wouldn't surprise me completely if it turned out to be true but I don't quite think it is a conspiracy.
So rather than this being a shitfest of Obummer is a kenyan arab muslim reptile, try to think of ones that could actually have some truth to them.
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« on: September 27, 2014, 04:29:40 PM »
Copypastramifrombyrne If enough people are interested, I'll make a room and link it here in the description.
http://pyx-1.socialgamer.net/game.jsp#game=37
Password is "Flood" and there's only 8 spaces available, due to the messiness that happens if more than that join.
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« on: September 27, 2014, 01:11:45 PM »
Please don't take this thread too seriously, that's why it's not in serious.
I would Shill for DICE in exchange for Battlesnacks.
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« on: September 27, 2014, 12:20:18 PM »
Don't you dare put the M16A3 in BF4. Don't you fucking dare.
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« on: September 26, 2014, 02:46:14 PM »
*looks at meta*
I don't just mean specifically locked digital content but the whole 'exclusive to this country' crap in general.
Could someone explain why this shit is still a thing?
Region locked consoles, Exclusive preorder crap, Netflix limitations (This one I understand slightly but it's still a joke anyway) Aside from the relentless copyright bullshit that hits everything on youtube with 'not available in your country'.
I mean most of this stuff is just pointless because of stuff like VPNs and the like but back to my original point.
Can anyone see an actual point and purpose in terms of economic/financial benefit to this crap? Aside from extortion that is <.<
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« on: September 25, 2014, 01:22:49 AM »
-My brain isn't working well, it's time to stop posting-
LC to the rescue >.>
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