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'I make £120,000 but I can’t recall the last time we went out for dinner’quote:The British economy is looking buoyant. With a growth in GDP of three per cent, UK Plc is once more afloat. But a rising tide should lift all boats – and so far there is little sign of that in the becalmed waters of the Squeezed Middle.
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DELICIOUS TEARS ALERT http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/10812086/I-make-120000-but-I-cant-recall-the-last-time-we-went-out-for-dinner.html The Telegraph posted:E: OH FOR FUCKS SAKE TWOOT Also the future is a boot stamping on James Delingpole's face forever. A glorious future.
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# ? May 7, 2014 15:41 |
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tentish klown posted:Yeah so gently caress the Spectator and James Delingpole James Delingpole doesn't know the usage nor context of words he writes. Film at 11. Barry Foster posted:Also, looks like the Skull Cracker's robbed a Chelsea Building Society down my road. Exciting stuff. Lotta cop choppers about. I am pretty pissy about the whole thing because the tories have already started to jump on the "throw away the key" bandwagon and it seems to be going well for them.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-27305266 Question, if you were nearly 60 and faced with rest of life in nick, wouldnt you leg it if given the chance?
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# ? May 7, 2014 15:41 |
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Skull Cracker makes him sound like a loving comic book villain. I just can't take the name seriously. Apparently they got him though.
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# ? May 7, 2014 15:43 |
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Seaside Loafer posted:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-27305266 He was being primed for release, that was why he was in an open prison and allowed day-release in the first place.
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# ? May 7, 2014 15:44 |
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My GP when I lived in Bristol had the best system of all: no appointments, just turn up and wait your turn. Sometimes you'd have to wait a long time, but never as long as in hospital, and it meant you could always see a doctor on the day, rather than having to wait days for an empty slot.
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# ? May 7, 2014 15:46 |
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I've prepared an eloquent response:
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# ? May 7, 2014 15:47 |
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Labour made a thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1BaQkH_q2s It's... well, it's a thing. Almost on par with the BNP's thing.
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# ? May 7, 2014 15:54 |
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Why are they calling for Boris to go on strike? I mean I'd love if he hosed off for let's say the next two years, but it seems very unlike the Sextator to call for that sort of thing considering he used to be their dear leader.
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# ? May 7, 2014 16:09 |
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lol at his £350,000 mortgage for a family home in Farnham. That would buy you a two-bed flat somewhere in Zone 2 if you took it out these days. How are his kids gonna manage when they need to find half a million quid for their first flat?
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# ? May 7, 2014 16:10 |
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LemonDrizzle posted:Labour made a thing.
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# ? May 7, 2014 16:10 |
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Seaside Loafer posted:Is that actualy official? Im all for political parties making comedy videos ... actually no im not ... gently caress me im confused and cant finish this post, sorry. It was actually vaguely well done but I'm not sure
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# ? May 7, 2014 16:13 |
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It's like they've had comedy described to them, but don't actually know what it is.
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# ? May 7, 2014 16:22 |
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ThomasPaine posted:It was actually vaguely well done but I'm not sure I thought it was very reminiscent of "The Now Show".
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HortonNash posted:I thought it was very reminiscent of "The Now Show". petrol blue posted:It's like they've had comedy described to them, but don't actually know what it is.
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Oh dear me posted:My GP when I lived in Bristol had the best system of all: no appointments, just turn up and wait your turn. Sometimes you'd have to wait a long time, but never as long as in hospital, and it meant you could always see a doctor on the day, rather than having to wait days for an empty slot. Can you give me some more information on this? I'm in Bristol.
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ThomasPaine posted:It was actually vaguely well done but I'm not sure
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PoshAlligator posted:Can you give me some more information on this? I'm in Bristol. Don't most surgeries have 'Open Surgery' at some point? Ours does, but the problem is it means sitting there for 2-3 hours, and even sitting there 10 minutes for an appointment with my compromised immune system pretty much guarantees I'll come down with something the next day. e: also, things that are forbidden from open-surgery: diabetic clinic prescription renewal/review which tend to be the two things I go there for the most SybilVimes fucked around with this message at 17:02 on May 7, 2014 |
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Seaside Loafer posted:Ok hows this. It was very well done and produced, got the points across just about, but wasn't at all funny, would that sum it up accurately? I chuckled a few times. Not side splitting, but I think they captured the idea of the Tories sitting around a table saying "how can we be bigger bastards?" quite well.
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PoshAlligator posted:Can you give me some more information on this? I'm in Bristol. I went to Whiteladies Health Centre.
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winegums posted:I chuckled a few times. Not side splitting, but I think they captured the idea of the Tories sitting around a table saying "how can we be bigger bastards?" quite well.
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# ? May 7, 2014 17:24 |
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Seaside Loafer posted:Hah well I lol at 8 of 10 cats and the big bang theory so im not really a good judge of funny You find humour in the misery of existence? You're not suitable for this thread.
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Seaside Loafer posted:Hah well I lol at 8 of 10 cats and the big bang theory so im not really a good judge of funny Don't worry, you made the funniest UKMT post ever, you can judge comedy all you like.
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# ? May 7, 2014 17:35 |
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baka kaba posted:Not only do they have private healthcare, many of them own private healthcare companies, or at least have financial and business links to them. Yeh it is sickening to see it being dismantle piecemeal, and bar protesting there doesn't seem to be much people can do. Which brings me to a point on privatization. How do people feel about Miliband with him hoping to re-acquire railways etc?
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# ? May 7, 2014 17:38 |
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LemonDrizzle posted:Labour made a thing. This is so terrible, i wish parties wouldn't so this poo poo. I was thinking voting Green but since I've seen this I might have second thoughts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDsV8YumePk In other news, I had Tory and Lib Dem leaflets addressed specifically to me the other day. Is my address freely available for political parties to spam?
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# ? May 7, 2014 17:41 |
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Hahaha, holy gently caress, that telegraph article. Those stuck up shits spend more than I make in a loving year sending their kids to loving boarding school than I make in a loving year of design work and they have the loving nerve to state they're having problems making ends meet? It's people like this that make me realise that Britain is hosed. The people who do the actual jobs that require effort or skill get paid gently caress all and the guys at the top just juggle money while leeching off workers and get millions for doing it. Burn the rich, Jesus Christ.
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SybilVimes posted:Don't most surgeries have 'Open Surgery' at some point? Ours does, but the problem is it means sitting there for 2-3 hours When I worked in a GP practice, one guy came in (with what seemed like a cold) and after waiting ~45 minutes, got his phone and started loudly asking Directory Enquiries for the details of some private GPs and then explaining why. I found the whole thing so amusing I let him keep it up for 10 minutes before I told him to hang up or go outside.
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Answers Me posted:In other news, I had Tory and Lib Dem leaflets addressed specifically to me the other day. Is my address freely available for political parties to spam?
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# ? May 7, 2014 18:16 |
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The electoral roll is open to anyone to look at. https://www.gov.uk/electoral-register quote:Who can use your details?
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# ? May 7, 2014 18:18 |
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twoot posted:'I make £120,000 but I can’t recall the last time we went out for dinner’ loving hell, there's so much entrenched class prejudice wrapped up in just that one little statement it's unreal.
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# ? May 7, 2014 18:24 |
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That attitude extends down to people I know who are on 40k a year etc. I mean its almost as if no one thinks they earn enough and always find a way to spend it on something. There is probably a solution other than putting these sorts of people up against a wall, but Ill be damned if I can think of it right now. He doesnt get to eat out? His kids education costs more than some households earnings combined? What hardship! For anyone who cant tell, 120k is an awful lot of money. If you spend it all and want more I dont think you have any right to complain, especially when you try to use it to justify tax cuts for yourself at the expense of people who really do have it tough.
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Oh dear me posted:My GP when I lived in Bristol had the best system of all: no appointments, just turn up and wait your turn. Sometimes you'd have to wait a long time, but never as long as in hospital, and it meant you could always see a doctor on the day, rather than having to wait days for an empty slot. This is what my current GP does and so did my GP when I was at uni. The current one is a bit broken though. They run something like 7.30am to 10am each day and you'll always be seen as long as you turn up within that time. At first 7.30am sounds good because you can see the GP and still be on time for work if you're lucky. In practice you still need time off though because for some reason every single day there are pensioners queueing outside the door at 7.30am even though they are all seen by 9.30. Whether you turn up at 7.30 or 9.30 you'll be seen at 9.45 regardless. They put up a bunch of signs to try to stop the queue forming at 7am and added a 4pm - 6pm window on Mondays to try to help but now they've given up and let people make appointments again.
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# ? May 7, 2014 18:45 |
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Great Political Trolls of the 21st Century Number 17 in a series of 200
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I read that headline and immediately knew it was a Telegraph article. That paper particularly specializes in tear-jerking articles about how beaten down and misunderstood very rich people actually are. On the subject of the Spectator: it's a reactionary magazine specifically aimed at well-off, elderly, upper-middle and upper class people; the articles it prints naturally follow on from that. They DO print more thoughtful pieces too, for example this: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2014/05/why-does-the-tory-party-have-a-problem-with-ethnic-minority-voters-because-it-deserves-to/ And this: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2014/05/labour-market-flexibility-and-dignity/ (note: read the comments accompanying these articles to be suitably reassured that the Conservatives are going to lose the next election.)
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:DELICIOUS TEARS ALERT Something weird going on with that article, they've deleted all the comments but people are now posting on the previous one stuff like this: quote:They had a load of comments including mine saying the FCA Registers showed that he was "Inactive" as of 30/04/14. And that he was involved in a deauthorised firm previously. Apparently this is the guy in the article: https://www.fsa.gov.uk/register/indivHistory.do?sid=349533 He is inactive as of end of last month, his most recent listed firm is "not authorised to hold client money", (is that some kind of penalty or standard for some types of firms?) and the firm before that is no longer authorised. At least most of the comments on there are agreeing that someone who can't make ends meet on 120k is certainly more stupid than suffering, but the most popular solution is massive cuts in government spending followed by tax cuts.
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Scikar posted:Something weird going on with that article, they've deleted all the comments but people are now posting on the previous one stuff like this: Client money is like if you give a solicitor a deposit on the house your buying, and it goes into a specific account for that purpose alone (i.e not able to skim interest off). It just means he has no provison for accepting funds to pass on to another party. Its also an anti-money laundering technique
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Facebook is awash with racist fucks that are apparently INCREDIBLY ANGRY about the news that Pizza Express uses halal chicken, but wait, they're not racist, they're just concerned about the poor chickens being killed inhumanely. Some of them are so incensed at this inhumane killing that they're planning on stabbing pigs to death on PE's doorsteps
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Umiapik posted:I read that headline and immediately knew it was a Telegraph article. That paper particularly specializes in tear-jerking articles about how beaten down and misunderstood very rich people actually are. I also stumbled across this today, about Thomas Pikettys Capital in the 21st Century. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jeremywarner/100027209/cant-be-bothered-to-read-piketty-heres-a-cheats-guide/ Article admits no one (and you can believe they've looked) can find flaws in his methodology or data but still Quote: "So do we just have to accept that Piketty is right?" - " - Not at all. He is completely wrong". So why do the collected intellectual titans of the Telegraph conclude this in defiance of what they themselves were forced to admit is the evidence? Because poor people today have fridges and televisions unlike they're 19th century equivalent, so obviously vast inequalites just don't matter. Also the dirty Frog is allegedly a wife beater. Hurrah! And Capitalism was saved! Bonuses for everyone, by which we only mean bonuses for bankers, zero-hour contracts for everyone else.
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Kegluneq posted:Apparently so - we had a personally addressed BNP leaflet yesterday after all, inside a personally addressed Tory leaflet. Both show information on the address from our electoral roll numbers. The other parties must not like me. The only leaflet I've had was from UKIP. Since they are the only party who care enough for my vote I'll vote for them SybilVimes posted:Facebook is awash with racist fucks that are apparently INCREDIBLY ANGRY about the news that Pizza Express uses halal chicken, but wait, they're not racist, they're just concerned about the poor chickens being killed inhumanely. Some of them are so incensed at this inhumane killing that they're planning on stabbing pigs to death on PE's doorsteps Wait I thought halal meat was just when the animal was killed in the name of Allah? So killing a chicken in the exact same way you normally do but saying Allah a few times is inhumane? I seriously wonder what is going through the minds of these people.
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