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I saw on HIGNFY that David Axelrod is running the labour campaign now so I expect to see some big vote winning policies and smarter attacks against the tories. Whether they will actually follow up in government is another question.
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Trickjaw posted:Yes, that is a load of poo poo, document everything (in case someone else gets sanctioned, and needs it) and also so you get your travel expenses back. Its also probably been done by someone who has suffered at their hands, not much consolation, but people do lose perspective when they are really bloody angry, and getting no where. I'm not angry that it was done, the place is a shithole and probably deserves far worse. I'm loving fuming about their response, though, which explains exactly why someone thought to gently caress with them in the first place. I was lucky enough to get the info early so I know I need to go on a 2 hour round trip on the bus. I really can't wait to see what happens when they try to enforce IDS' policy of having everyone there every day.
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Lost amidst the sandwich chat:Alecto posted:I just posted this in the EU thread, but I'll post it here too. This is excellent but I'm having trouble interpreting it, probably because I'm thick. What exactly is the zero-to-nine stuff in columns F-AG?
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KKKlean Energy posted:Lost amidst the sandwich chat: I believe that's showing how each party's vote gets divided up under the D'Hondt system - basically, if a region has multiple MEPs to allocate, they're divvied up between the competing parties on the basis of V/(N+1) where V is the number of votes the party got and N is their current number of MEPs. So to begin with, N=0 for all parties and the first MEP is simply allocated to the party with the most votes. That party now has N=1 while all other parties still have N=0, so the first party's vote share is divided by two and the next MEP is allocated by comparing the first party's modified vote total to all other parties' unmodified totals, etc. etc.
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Subway sandwiches are poo poo. Make your own, or frequent a local place, both cheaper, both better. Then you can go to the chippy on your lunchbreak, and stuff your moderately healthy sandwich full of hot greasy chips slathered in sauce (bonus points for dipping the resulting beast in a tub of curry sauce).Barry Foster posted:Airports are magical, liminal areas that exist outside of local time and space, in which stuff like 'drinking at half five in the morning' is perfectly normal. That's why they're fun places to be. If I'm flying, it probably means I'm not driving, so gently caress being sober- especially when 6"4 of me has to cram into a teeny airbus seat. Plus, airline dependent, its cheaper than buying on board (though most airlines turn a blind eye to you carrying on duty free and getting hammered on that).
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DesperateDan posted:Subway sandwiches are poo poo. Make your own, or frequent a local place, both cheaper, both better. Then you can go to the chippy on your lunchbreak, and stuff your moderately healthy sandwich full of hot greasy chips slathered in sauce (bonus points for dipping the resulting beast in a tub of curry sauce). When I flew American Airlines, I don't think the air steward had met a British person before because he seemed mildly shocked at the rate I could sink the complimentary booze. Eat all, sup all, pay nowt.
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TinTower posted:When it comes to buying meat most of the time, you're buying meat that's been unethically treated anyway (either through battery farming or non-stunned killing). TinTower posted:I used to get KFC every Sunday from their Halifax branch (one of the first Halal KFCs) and I didn't get turned Muslim then, so... Just so you know, KFC chickens are not battery farmed and are stun-killed. edit: Chickens are stunned by passing them through an argon chamber first which causes them to lose consciousness then electrically stunned by passing them through an electrified water bath, before having their necks cut to ensure death and blood loss. Contrast this with someone picking up a chicken and slitting their throat which would cause insensibility but not unconsciousness. I'd also add that "most meat" produced and slaughtered in Britain actually has been ethically treated, hasn't been battery farmed and has been stun killed. There's a heck of a lot of scientific study that gets used to improve the welfare of animals through the slaughter process and things like bolt stunning have been shown to completely end any brain function in cattle instantly, whereas the halal and shecita methods have been shown to gradually decrease brain function over the course of a minute or more. Cattle, particularly, have a propensity to fight the blood loss and have blood flow to the brain beyond the carotid arteries, so what can happen is after they've been cut they'll gradually lose consciousness, only to regain it for another minute or two. Halal and Shecita methods are used because religious beliefs forbid people from consuming blood and that some of these methods also forbid stunning because they think bloodloss occurs more quickly and fully without stunning, even though scientific evidence is contrary to this. I can't say I really understand the need for different slaughter practices as industrially produced meat is also bled out fully, most scientific evidence suggests the animals suffer less and there are fewer complications when "correct" slaughter technique is employed. Larry_Mullet fucked around with this message at 10:45 on May 2, 2014 |
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Which two posters were having the housing market dick waving contest? http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/may/01/bank-of-england-warns-housing-market-property-price-boom-crash
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KKKlean Energy posted:Lost amidst the sandwich chat: Yes, sorry (and thanks!), Lemon's basically got it. The numbers to the right of the vote share are the party's quotient in that round, largest quotient gets the seat, the quotient is calculated by dividing the number of votes the party received by 1+ the number of seats they already have. They're not relevant if you just want the overall seats, but they allow you to work out by how many votes a party won a seat, which helped me decide whether to vote Labour or Green in my region. If anyone's downloaded it then the values you need to change are the party's vote share in each individual region, and the turnout for each region. Everything else calculates itself or is input from the ONS. I made it so I could easily make my own predictions based on election night exit polls etc.
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Pilchenstein posted:I really don't get the homemade sandwich vs subway thing going on here - surely the deciding factor is geography? Or are you lot carrying bread and meat around town in your pockets just in case you get peckish? I carry a little snackbox full of nuts, dried fruit and biltong but that's mainly because I'm trying to keep an eye on what I eat and have a decent supply of protein for after the gym. Also found it's pretty useful for the nightbus home after the booze. As for the halal thing - I thought most meat in the UK/EU was stunned before killing anyway, regardless of wether it's halal or not?
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I just have protein shakes after gym. Cookies and cream flavour, of course.
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Yeah a protip for anyone: there isn't Halal food in the UK. drat near zero. You find me a slaughterhouse that correctly positions animals after watching over them to ensure a dignified death and then prays with the corpse, and I'll show you a free market inefficiency. Halal restaurants serve no Haram meat and if you're lucky you might get it from someone who does the butchering by hand. You are not getting fully Halal meat because it takes bloody ages and you can't really do more than one animal at a time. Also, have you tried cutting a cows neck deep enough to fully sever the windpipe? I mean, I haven't, but I doubt it's easy. No windpipe in the first cut, the animal has unduly suffered, it's Haram.
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You guys read the Alistair Campbell interviews Farage article? http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/comment/articles/2014-05/01/nigel-farage-alastair-campbell-interview/viewall
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What's the deal with the Subway sandwich artist asking if you want your subway melt toasted? Hey buddy, it isn't going to melt itself!
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Subway chicken tikka is pretty decent. If you don't have any cheese or mayo it's actually relatively healthy, too (but of course you will because you're a fat goony goon).
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Regardless of the quality of Subway's food, they use workfare so you shouldn't go there regardless. poo poo food, poo poo business ethics, just a poo poo business all around.
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If you don't salt your own beef (or get your butcher to do it) you're a slave to the sandwich industry imo.
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Dakha posted:You guys read the Alistair Campbell interviews Farage article? TL;DR version: quote:Q. Which Tories do you admire? quote:Q. Which current world leader do you most admire?
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Umiapik posted:The Tories need to do their sums: there's far more voting renters than there are voting landlords.
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Barry Foster posted:Airports are magical, liminal areas that exist outside of local time and space, in which stuff like 'drinking at half five in the morning' is perfectly normal. That's why they're fun places to be.
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KKKlean Energy posted:TL;DR version: You missed the best bit: quote:
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May 2, 2014 12:21
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As if I give a poo poo about business ethics when it's lunchtime and I'm hungry.
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El Scotch posted:Imagine the satisfaction of leaving an upper-decker at Cameron or Farrage's house. Why would that be satisfying? You would be ruining their cleaners' days, not theirs.
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Airports are far more weird when they're closed. When I get to work on a Sunday morning, for the first two hours I see more empty planes than I do people - it's not unusual to have seen a grand total of two people in that time. Large airports are even weirder at 2am. I recall driving around Stansted in the middle of the night, with the only things moving being me, two other vans, and a Security team doing their rounds. Dead silence, which is a huge contrast to the daytime!
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KKKlean Energy posted:Lost amidst the sandwich chat: Haha!
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Crane Fist posted:The thing that gets me about Subway is that you can go to one anywhere in the entire world and they all smell identical. They've all got this weird slightly rank bread smell about them and you don't even have to go in, it extends about ten feet out of the place even when the door's closed They will have a corporate scent. Lots of places to it. Pump in smells through the air conditioning, not just food places. Also if anyone actually desires a subway that delivers, you really need to evaluate your life a choices
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JFairfax posted:They will have a corporate scent. Lots of places to it. Pump in smells through the air conditioning, not just food places. Lush makes me feel queasy whenever I pass one.
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Larry_Mullet posted:Halal and Shecita methods are used because religious beliefs forbid people from consuming blood and that some of these methods also forbid stunning because they think bloodloss occurs more quickly and fully without stunning, even though scientific evidence is contrary to this. I can't say I really understand the need for different slaughter practices as industrially produced meat is also bled out fully, most scientific evidence suggests the animals suffer less and there are fewer complications when "correct" slaughter technique is employed. The regulations for humane slaughter state that unstunned slaughter can only be used for meat destined for specialist religious butchers, and that it should not reach the general market for consumption by non-Muslim and non-Jewish communities. For example, all lamb imported from New Zealand has been pre-stunned before slaughter, whether it is labelled as Halal or not, and all meat sold in supermarkets and high-street restaurants should be as well. Of course the regulations probably also state that beef should not be made of pigs or horses, so who knows what the proportion of unstunned animals is, but it's certainly not all meat that is branded as Halal.
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Jose posted:Max Clifford got 8 years Only *has* to serve 4 though
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He's 71 so even 4 years is a pretty good chunk of time. Is there a list of Yewtree targets with current status anywhere?
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Jose posted:Max Clifford only got 8 years fyp
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The Guardian's online website keeps going haywire and matching the wrong photos to it's front page headlines. I particularly like this one:
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Somehow I doubt good grammar will help me get laid
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It's this really annoying thing that I guess the sub-editors are to blame for, what with it being the Grauniad. Take one line from a column, blow it up into something ridiculous, and then laugh as your readers discover that it's actually about the author judging the Bad Grammar awards, with a two-line anecdote about a friend pulling on a school trip thirty years ago. They do this with pretty much every comment piece they've ever run and it drives me up the wall because I still make the mistake of expecting a headline to be relevant to the subject matter.
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Phoon posted:Somehow I doubt good grammar will help me get laid I think a journalist as distinguished as Hadley Freeman knows what she's talking about 
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Phoon posted:Somehow I doubt good grammar will help me get laid your wrong their
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Umiapik posted:The Guardian's online website keeps going haywire and matching the wrong photos to it's front page headlines. I particularly like this one: Glad to see the Grauniad is keeping certain traditions alive in the digital age.
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Jose posted:Max Clifford got 8 years The sentencing remarks are here.
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