Exactly.
For the first time ever here, I’ve used the ignore function.
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Muting the thread that Mark is wombling everything into also works.
Next and John Lewis can have a punch in the nads for forgetting that the colour brown exists. Brown is not Neutral. It’s about as far from Neutral as you can get. Marketing twats can fuck off and die.
Next:
John Lewis:
Yeah could be ringing Jack Reacher at that point.
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What’s “cototn”? Is it related to berders or covfefe?
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I saw that. Frankly it’s emblematic of the enshitification of the once superb John Lewis.
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It’s what your soldiers wear at your birthday perade.
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Yes, despite the whole “partner” bullshit, they’re just another shitty corporate these days.
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Tell me !
The Cockpunch Thread is always at its best in hot, sweddy weather 
True. Hot weather makes me angry.
That’s why I could never go on holiday to Spain.
Or Margate.
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Joys of being a carer, 15hr shift in this heat and the times you walk in to someone’s house and they have the heating on full cos it’s bit chilly out. My uniform now has an environment and life all of it’s own.
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Kemi Badenoch
Isn’t she a permanent resident in here?
Just a reminder, we mustn’t become complacent.
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Oriel College Oxford or, more likely I suspect, its Provost, Lord Mendoza. He is also a Tory peer and (perhaps sadly for our historic buildings) Chair of Historic England. He was a founder member of the Piers Gaveston Society.
This article from Wednesday’s Times reveals some of the goings-on surrounding East Oxford’s much loved historic independent community cinema.
Long story short: Oriel College bought it in 2020. The people who run it have done so since 2022 and are in the process of restoring it to its former glory, but they only have a lease until 2037. This is too short for them to be eligible for certain types of grant support.
Oriel College haven’t agreed to extend the lease and now Mendoza is saying they plan, when it runs out, to ‘return the building to college use’. What do you mean ‘return’ ? It’s never been in college use. You mean you want to ‘turn’ it into that. You also say your plans won’t ‘preclude some use of the building as a heritage cinema’. What else are you going to use it for ?
JUST LOOK AT IT !
IT’S A HERITAGE CINEMA YOU TWAT !!
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I wonder if they’ve removed the original sound system. Sometimes they just put new speaker system in leaving the old ones in place as they’re too heavy and awkward to move.
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I’ll bet they have. The building is small and every cubic inch of space is precious. The ‘box office’, for example, is a telephone-box-sized booth planted on the front of it and access to the projector is up a steel ladder from inside that booth !
I think the screen is actually hung on the back wall with no space behind it and the speakers are mounted on the side walls. The Ladies and Gents (simply labelled, for years, ‘Pearl’ and ‘Dean’ respectively) are several steps below floor-level so they can be squeezed in below the screen.
There wouldn’t have been an ‘original’ sound system of course. 1911. So everything was silent 
. Where they hid the first one I’ve no idea (probably up with the projector).
Love this.
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