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Another government IT story: sometime last year I went to demo the replacement for a system which had been going since before I was born. The key user there had his (quite large) monitor set to 800x600 with a huge Win95-style novelty dinosaur cursor. It kinda owned actually, I can respect a man who uses a dinosaur cursor e: dinosnipe 
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Trickjaw posted:Get your cheque books out lads and lasses. Our old friend Louise Mensch's former partner Luke Bozier has a new exciting project, and this time its not under-age girlies! Babl is a twitter replacement that gets shot of all those extraneous characters and limits it to ten. Another winner, but less likely to have Operation Yewtree sniffing about. Bankrupt fits within the ten character limit, luckily. So does "paedophile".
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http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/meeting-the-future-faces-of-the-tory-party?utm_source=vicefbukquote:RISE OF THE TORY YOUTH: MEETING BRITAIN'S YOUNG CONSERVATIVES Recommend reading the whole thing. quote:And if you do a degree in something that’s not going to give you practical skills, what can you expect?” said James Price, a 23-year-old security studies student from Gloucester', a Young Tory explaining the growth of youth unemployment. 
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Apr 15, 2014 13:02
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I lived with one of the people in that picture and he's a nice enough bloke and I get on with him socially but his politics are loving insane.
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Apr 15, 2014 13:16
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So, 1 in 5 of Generation Y, and over 50% of 18-24 year olds support/would vote for the Tories while a whole bunch of other bright young things are buying Brand's 'No Point Voting' schtick. Kill the young.
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Apr 15, 2014 13:22
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Network Rail is currently switching from XP to Windows 7 at the moment, and it's a bloody nightmare. The entire railway is going to collapse unless someone can rework really old Excel macros and formulas into the new format.
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Apr 15, 2014 13:28
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Bozza posted:Network Rail is currently switching from XP to Windows 7 at the moment, and it's a bloody nightmare. I think i mentioned this in the last thread, but becoming a power user in excel really is a good way to land a lot of jobs. EmptyVessel posted:So, 1 in 5 of Generation Y, and over 50% of 18-24 year olds support/would vote for the Tories while a whole bunch of other bright young things are buying Brand's 'No Point Voting' schtick. I would think the rise is also to do with the government pricing out a lot of people from going to uni. Mostly the type of people that wouldn't vote Tory.
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Apr 15, 2014 13:32
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It just so happens I'm looking for a new job, so if a billion "Oh god someone with Excel skills now" positions are coming out of the woodwork then it looks like I'm in luck!
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KKKlean Energy posted:It just so happens I'm looking for a new job, so if a billion "Oh god someone with Excel skills now" positions are coming out of the woodwork then it looks like I'm in luck! All of them will be part time, minimum wage and based in the centre of London 
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Apr 15, 2014 13:54
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Better paying than my first tech-guy job. It was an anti-unemployment gig, a prototype work-programme, for a startup office building. Less than minimum wage because we were getting training as well. That training consisted of being blitzed through Learn Direct literacy and numeracy, then moving furniture. When an IT startup there found some people knew their way around computers, we got poached (but not paid more!) and told to set up a server, with no actual instruction. Any questions like 'will there be full-time positions in 6 months when this contract expires' were answered with 'Well, there's apprenticeships!' It was pretty lovely. The actual Work Programme worked out much better though, they hired me themselves for a genuine apprenticeship.
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Apr 15, 2014 14:04
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Prism Mirror Lens posted:Another government IT story: sometime last year I went to demo the replacement for a system which had been going since before I was born. The key user there had his (quite large) monitor set to 800x600 with a huge Win95-style novelty dinosaur cursor. It kinda owned actually, I can respect a man who uses a dinosaur cursor If it's gov spending gently caress ups, have another here. Worked for 6 months as IT Officer for local council, when LCD screen PDA's were new tech so long ago. One department head paid for one out of his own pocket, and he used it to record data from all the places he would have to visit around the county. He had a legit use for it. Once the other heads saw it, they requested one for themselves, with full works. Leather cases, docking stations, memory upgrades, the works. Out of department money even when they had no legit use for it. My (IT) manager threw a poo poo fit when they started asking for Lotus Mail subscriptions be bought so they could take and read their work mails at home, and she was overruled and told to buy and install it on the network. Must have wasted £20-30k on these pieces of poo poo. All this while a good percentage of computers the normal council employees were using were chugging away of computers several years out of date that really needed updating.
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I would be interested in a chart showing the correlation between "being a young Tory" and "having a bright red face".
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sebzilla posted:Has anyone here read Thomas Piketty? Apparently he's making waves with some unorthodox economic though. Thanks for reminding me to read this
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Disgusting Coward posted:I would be interested in a chart showing the correlation between "being a young Tory" and "having a bright red face". They're being interviewed for something called "Young and Tory" in Vice. My face would be red, buried in my hands and deeply sobbing out of shame alone.
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Disgusting Coward posted:I would be interested in a chart showing the correlation between "being a young Tory" and "having a bright red face".
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Paul.Power posted:Anecdotal, but I have a bright red face and am not a young Tory. Outlier 
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KKKlean Energy posted:It just so happens I'm looking for a new job, so if a billion "Oh god someone with Excel skills now" positions are coming out of the woodwork then it looks like I'm in luck! Well Business Analysts are in reasonable demand and it requires pretty good Excel skills to be one of them.
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Disgusting Coward posted:I would be interested in a chart showing the correlation between "being a young Tory" and "having a bright red face". lol at goons thinking the tell tale sign of exercising outside in the sun makes you look like a tory.
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Ah, you see, that's a sign of the changing times. It used to be that having a tan and muscles was considered unattractive, as it meant you were an outdoors labourer, and not a member of the upper classes. Then, as luxury holidays became popular, more people gained more sedentary jobs and fast food grew, it became the rich elite who could afford to lounge in the sun, and had the free time for fitness training.  It's also a sign of having had too much to drink.
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I loving hate young conservatives. "yes hello we have discovered the cause of all your ills, turns out you shouldn't be poor so we think to make you not be poor the government shouldn't help you any more. Now run along we have important decisions to make about biscuits and how the economy is just like a credit card. Be like us we pulled ourselves up by our own bootstraps rah rah rah."   cunts.
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Apr 15, 2014 15:25
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Is that James Bachman at the end? 
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I want to choke the one that looks like Evil Daniel Radcliffe with his own ascot.
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Apr 15, 2014 15:35
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This just reinforces my suspicion that anyone wearing brightly coloured trousers is probably a twat.
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When I did the count at the last general election you could tell who the young tories were immediately because all the guys dress like 40 year old men.
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I'm not going to read it again because gently caress that, but doesn't one of them smugly say that they grow up poor and then went to some posh school and 'just got on'? What a complete lack of self-awareness. Hey as a working class person I got given the privilege that most rich people get and from that point on my life magically started to be a bit more like a rich person's, it must be because I STRIVED SO HARD, unlike those other scum who didn't get to go to grammar school for some reason. Probably because they didn't strive hard enough when they were 11. Scroungers. Also what's all the fuss about Piketty, is it coz his book has maths in and that makes people take him seriously even though he's saying the same stuff other people have been for years? e: strived? strove? Prism Mirror Lens fucked around with this message at 15:57 on Apr 15, 2014 |
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:I loving hate young conservatives. "yes hello we have discovered the cause of all your ills, turns out you shouldn't be poor so we think to make you not be poor the government shouldn't help you any more. Now run along we have important decisions to make about biscuits and how the economy is just like a credit card. Be like us we pulled ourselves up by our own bootstraps rah rah rah." loving hell Gove has budded.
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Elfface posted:Ah, you see, that's a sign of the changing times. It used to be that having a tan and muscles was considered unattractive, as it meant you were an outdoors labourer, and not a member of the upper classes. Being poor and voting Tory is also a sign of having had too much to drink.
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You scrub up well, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 
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XMNN posted:This just reinforces my suspicion that anyone wearing brightly coloured trousers is probably a twat. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of brightly coloured chinos, must be a terrible loving wanker. Red ones especially.
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A collection of photographs in celebration of the vibrant and burgeoning red-trousered communities of London and elsewhere
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Trickjaw posted:loving hell Gove has budded. I thought it was established recently that Gove reproduces by way of Hot Sex.
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Apr 15, 2014 16:32
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I like how the one on the right looks like he's already being punched in the face by an invisible hand.
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KKKlean Energy posted:I thought it was established recently that Gove reproduces by way of Hot Sex. Gove's o-face https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dqxZo_myyA&t=13s
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Apr 15, 2014 16:43
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Saved us the effort of getting them against a wall.
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glitchkrieg posted:You scrub up well, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad thats not me this is me  wooooargh edgy
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"ROB THE RICH" - Alarm Clock Britain
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Barry Foster posted:It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of brightly coloured chinos, must be a terrible loving wanker. My heterosexual male life-partner wears red chinos almost nonstop. He's a full communist from watford and looks shockingly like young stalin. He's a sociopath though so I guess it counts. Meanwhile, Farage didn't even bother denying it. "It's an allowance! I can spend it how I like!" On ales, then.
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Nigel Faberge is just highlighting the problem with MP expenses in that it can be used for anything. Nigel is merely mad about EU waste, mad about the causes of EU waste. Such as himself.
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