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Today I got an election leaflet (well, it's their newsletter) from the local anarchist group of all things. They don't call themselves anarchist but they think the borough can manage without a council and suggest voting for nobody. Here's a PDF of their newsletter on their website (to read it in its proper order, read the second page of the first PDF, then the second PDF, then the first page of the first PDF) http://www.haringey.org.uk/content/images/hsg/newsletters/2014-02-election-special-front-back.pdf http://www.haringey.org.uk/content/images/hsg/newsletters/2014-02-election-special-inner.pdf
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baka kaba posted:Playing devil's advocate a second, is there any research that points to memory and accurate recollection of events improving after 48 hours, when the subject has undergone extreme stress or is in a state of shock? I know memory goes to pot very rapidly after the event, but I didn't want to just assume that holds for extreme situations where decompressing might actually help. (I'm guessing it still makes things worse) I do work on memory psych and witness testimony and there's no evidence to this effect. The forgetting curve for accurate recall can be steep or shallow situationally but it always goes down.
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May 19, 2014 12:19
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Tories allowing Natural England's proposal to allow destruction of birds' nests/eggs. Turns out the Chair of Natural England (and Big Tory Donater) is one of the founders of Linden Homes who have problems with birds, nests and the like. http://tompride.wordpress.com/2014/05/18/heres-the-real-reason-the-tories-are-allowing-the-destruction-of-robin-eggs-and-nests/
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May 19, 2014 12:55
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Housechat? Housechat. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...-mortgages.html quote:The price of an average home increased by nearly £10,000 between April and May, the biggest month-on-month cash increase ever recorded. Earn less than £200k/year? Congratulations on being less productive and valuable than an inanimate assembly of bricks and mortar, slacker. If you're on less than £80k, you're not even as productive as a provincial inanimate assembly of bricks and mortar.
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May 19, 2014 13:01
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Biggus Dickus posted:Tories allowing Natural England's proposal to allow destruction of birds' nests/eggs. Turns out the Chair of Natural England (and Big Tory Donater) is one of the founders of Linden Homes who have problems with birds, nests and the like. It's just blatant corruption isn't it and they keep getting away with it.
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May 19, 2014 13:07
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Did this come up last month? I don't remember it. Well anyway, I imagine most posters in this thread would very much enjoy this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0418p80 Benet Brandreth, son of former Tory MP Gyles Brandreth, openly proposing a revolution to replace the house of commons with a legislature drawn by lot (though with what sincerity I'm not quite sure) Microplastics fucked around with this message at 14:05 on May 19, 2014 |
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May 19, 2014 13:31
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LemonDrizzle posted:Housechat? Housechat. How is the value of houses increasing at double the rate of inflation "not a bubble"? 
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May 19, 2014 13:59
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^^^ It'll be a bubble the moment the Tories lose the general election and the 'recovery' is going on under someone elseBoing posted:I do work on memory psych and witness testimony and there's no evidence to this effect. The forgetting curve for accurate recall can be steep or shallow situationally but it always goes down. I knew people here knew stuff about things! So yeah, 'the current system gives the best evidence' is definitely  in every way, no surprises there. Cheers boing
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May 19, 2014 14:15
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Apparently holding views that your political enemies should be executed is just a 'little strong' to UKIPers... http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/may/19/ukip-apology-pro-europe-politicians-hanged
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May 19, 2014 14:18
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Relative price increase doesn't necessarily entail a bubble, houses could just be more valuable now, for instance due to scarcity.
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May 19, 2014 14:19
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Ha, the Daily Mail has discovered that Cards Against Humanity game.
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May 19, 2014 14:30
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SybilVimes posted:Apparently holding views that your political enemies should be executed is just a 'little strong' to UKIPers... Hold on a second. He's just an "ordinary chap" with no "media training". How's he to know that our PC gone mad media won't look kindly upon a desire for murder. Flagrant character assassination of UKIP politicians continues relentlessly.
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May 19, 2014 14:47
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djf posted:Hold on a second. He's just an "ordinary chap" with no "media training". Which translates to 'I didn't know we weren't supposed to say what we *actually* think'
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May 19, 2014 14:58
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The sun is dropping Page 3 (only temporarily, mind you), prepare for the 'it's PC gawn maad!!!' http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/may/19/world-cup-marketing-the-sun
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McDragon posted:Ha, the Daily Mail has discovered that Cards Against Humanity game. They're revealing trade secrets of how they compile their articles? That's surprising.
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May 19, 2014 15:06
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SybilVimes posted:The sun is dropping Page 3 (only temporarily, mind you), prepare for the 'it's PC gawn maad!!!' More poo poo through the front door is all I take away from this.
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May 19, 2014 15:07
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At least they have the sense to stay the gently caress out of Liverpool.
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May 19, 2014 15:11
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KKKlean Energy posted:Did this come up last month? I don't remember it. Well anyway, I imagine most posters in this thread would very much enjoy this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0418p80 It was mentioned (http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3621414&userid=192357#post428697415) but nice of the Beeb to repeat it so soon. Worth a listen.
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So when do you Brits finally choose which lizard person will be ruling over you?
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May 19, 2014 17:56
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Thursday. Not that I can vote.
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May 19, 2014 18:06
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Except it's just the European Parliament elections and so doesn't matter
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Pfizer? I barely knew her!quote:With Pfizer's bid for AstraZeneca on the ropes tonight, investment bankers face missing out on some pretty lucrative fees. 
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quote:With Pfizer's bid for AstraZeneca on the ropes tonight, investment bankers face missing out on some pretty lucrative fees.
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Redgrendel2001 posted:So when do you Brits finally choose which lizard person will be ruling over you? It depends on what you mean by that really. Should E  lizabeth gently caress off: NeverShould the UK tell Europe to gently caress off warm up elections: Thursday Should the UK tell Europe to gently caress off seriously guys: TBC - If the Tories win maybe there might be an in-out referendum on the EU maybe (Cameron begins to twitch nervously) Should Scotland tell the UK to gently caress off: 18 September 2014 Should the UK tell the Tories to gently caress off: "Probably May or something" 2015 While I'm here there's also apparently local elections in England and Northern Ireland on Thursday as well, jolly.
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May 19, 2014 18:27
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There are council elections on Thursday too. In Liverpool, a Lib/Lab marginal is beset by accusations of homophobia. This time, it's the Labour Party:Campaigner may face the axe from Labour party over ‘gimp in basement’ accusations posted:A Labour party member and campaigner could be thrown out of his party after suggesting a Liberal Party rival kept a “gimp” in his cellar. At least this time the guilty party is facing expulsion. Seven years ago, Miranda Grell was disqualified from holding the Leyton council seat she was elected to a year before due to making allegations of paedophilia against her Lib Dem opponent. Her appeal was funded by the party and several prominent activists, including the current Shadow Business Secretary, publicly supported her.
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quote:But Mr Poulson claimed the post was in response to Councillor Radford attempting to flyer a “non political event”, and wrote: “Any posting I make on social media is my own personal opinion and in no way connected to the Labour Party.”
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Seaside Loafer posted:Thursday Edit this out, you dolt
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TinTower posted:At least this time the guilty party is facing expulsion. Seven years ago, Miranda Grell was disqualified from holding the Leyton council seat she was elected to a year before due to making allegations of paedophilia against her Lib Dem opponent. Her appeal was funded by the party and several prominent activists, including the current Shadow Business Secretary, publicly supported her. Was she standing against Cyril Smith?
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May 19, 2014 20:08
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Universal Credit is working as intended it seems. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/benefit-reforms-one-year-on-universal-credit-is-not-working-9391283.html
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JFairfax posted:Was she standing against Cyril Smith? Nah, a sitting councillor, I believe.
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Well, Thompson's may be union shills, but any opposition to 0 hours is welcome. http://www.thompsons.law.co.uk/personal-injury/law-firm-slams-governments-zero-hours-contracts.htm
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Any experts on negotiations for job offers? After 2 years of temping I've finally been offered a permanent job at where I work, which is nice. For the pay grade I'll be on (which is relatively high) they've offered me the low end of the scale, and I feel like I'm meant to say "NOOOO GIVE ME MORE" but on the other hand, it's a good payrise for me and probably still a couple of thousand more than the going rate for the job (the going rate's not massive either, it's not like we're anything important like investment bankers or professional tweetists, we just make life-saving products), so I'm not feeling hard done by. But if there's any magic words that will get me more $$$ without making the nice HR lady hate me, then do tell and I'll collectively owe the thread a drink.
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Squalitude posted:Any experts on negotiations for job offers? After 2 years of temping I've finally been offered a permanent job at where I work, which is nice. For the pay grade I'll be on (which is relatively high) they've offered me the low end of the scale, and I feel like I'm meant to say "NOOOO GIVE ME MORE" but on the other hand, it's a good payrise for me and probably still a couple of thousand more than the going rate for the job (the going rate's not massive either, it's not like we're anything important like investment bankers or professional tweetists, we just make life-saving products), so I'm not feeling hard done by. But if there's any magic words that will get me more $$$ without making the nice HR lady hate me, then do tell and I'll collectively owe the thread a drink. There's no magical spell to cast but you have to understand that you have absolutely nothing to lose by asking for more, especially if you can back it up with good performance in the past. Just ask for a lot more, they will likely give you a bit more just for asking It's so much harder to get a payrise once you have the job. This is your time to negotiate.
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Squalitude posted:Any experts on negotiations for job offers? After 2 years of temping I've finally been offered a permanent job at where I work, which is nice. For the pay grade I'll be on (which is relatively high) they've offered me the low end of the scale, and I feel like I'm meant to say "NOOOO GIVE ME MORE" but on the other hand, it's a good payrise for me and probably still a couple of thousand more than the going rate for the job (the going rate's not massive either, it's not like we're anything important like investment bankers or professional tweetists, we just make life-saving products), so I'm not feeling hard done by. But if there's any magic words that will get me more $$$ without making the nice HR lady hate me, then do tell and I'll collectively owe the thread a drink.
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Thanks for the advices. It's probably just a confidence thing on my end but I feel that what they've offered isn't unfair and is a great improvement on what I currently get (but then, temps do get treated really bad. They've even changed to a new temping agency which offers new temps 5 days less holiday than permanent staff which I think is not quite legal, though I may be mistaken). I just remembered I was offered a similar job earlier in the year at another company, they also offered the lowest rate on the advert, I came back and said I'd not be able to accept that offer because of [insert valid reasons], and then they never even replied to me! So maybe that factors in to my mindset.
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Are you an internal applicant or are you going through a recruitment agency for this? Also have you at any point in the process stated what your desired salary is? Negotiation is a tricky one, if you like the role, company and the salary is an improvement you don't want to jeopardise that. What you need to do is go through the job specification. How many years experience are they looking for? Are you ticking all of their required skills and experience? The aim is to be realistic in your appraisal of your skills and experience so that you can push back and say 'no, I hit every criteria for this role and deserve the top of the bracket'. How well do you know the people in the process? So long as you're not asking for anything outside of their salary banding you shouldn't have an issue. A slight problem is that they also know what you were getting paid before and that this is an improvement. But if you don't ask you don't get, however as you've seen first hand it can also cause problems.
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Kegluneq posted:loving lol. Has he not been following the news re: UKIP gaffes at all? Isn't the difference here that this is just a labour party member and canvasser and not an actual candidate who hopes to get elected (as with the UKIP gaffes)? I mean the labour party does have a few hundred thousand members, I'm sure no small number of them have homophobic/racist tweets to their names, doesn't mean it should reflect on the party as a whole.
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UKIP have taken to spamming people in Tower Hamlets-related groups on Facebook from fake profiles. Because when they see a new patch of poo poo that UK political parties haven't been rolling in they just have to go loving roll in it.
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