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ThomasPaine posted:Can someone give me the Cliffnotes version of understanding Tory-speak on the deficit. Osborne is basically our version of Vladislav Surkov. Oh dear.
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The Free Market has decided the next Government will be Conservative: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jan/02/labour-general-election-campaign-douglas-alexander quote:Labour is likely to be outspent by the Conservatives by a factor of three to one in the general election, the party’s election boss has admitted, but insists it can still win the tightest battle in generations through an intensive ground war built around local party activism.
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Jan 2, 2015 21:13
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baka kaba posted:You forgot something put this poo poo in the op
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Jan 2, 2015 21:14
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The Guardian is salivating about a Grand Coalition.
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Jan 2, 2015 21:16
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tory speechwriter advocating a single party state :o
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Jan 2, 2015 21:28
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Here's one I prepared earlier
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LemonDrizzle posted:[*]Ebola will be eliminated I assume they mean the current outbreak will end, which is not the same thing at all
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Zephro posted:So Ebola will join smallpox as the only human diseases to have been successfully exterminated? Somehow I doubt it.
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Jan 2, 2015 22:12
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Guavanaut posted:The Rotarians almost managed it with polio.
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Didn't they reach a stage where they thought that they had for quite a while, only to be disappointed by a fairly recent outbreak?
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Guavanaut posted:Didn't they reach a stage where they thought that they had for quite a while, only to be disappointed by a fairly recent outbreak? They had it basically down to four countries (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Nigeria) where political and/or religious problems had kept them out. It's now spreading back out from those bases, and the situation in the original countries has only got worse.
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baka kaba posted:I couldn't find a high street shot so have liverpool instead This looks like one of the streets just outside anfield where the football ground has been aggressively buying up houses and destroying the area so they could expand/build a new ground for peanuts. Its a proper fuckin shithole and they should have been dragged in front of the courts for it.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:They had it basically down to four countries (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Nigeria) where political and/or religious problems had kept them out. It's now spreading back out from those bases, and the situation in the original countries has only got worse. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-27/polio-resurges-as-health-emergency-in-pakistan/5478144 quote:Senior Pakistani health officials have welcomed a move by US intelligence agencies to stop using immunisation programs as a cover for their operations.
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Happy new year and all that. We need more of this next year.  Not that you university educated fucks are ever going to provide it. I have excused myself on account of age and having done my bit.
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A 16 year old kid in Britain today is more likely to have a smart phone than live with their dad. loving hell
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General China posted:I have excused myself on account of age and having done my bit. Mao posted:To regard oneself as having rendered great service to the revolution, to pride oneself on being a veteran, to disdain minor assignments while being quite unequal to major tasks, to be slipshod in work and slack in study. This is a tenth type.
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serious gaylord posted:This looks like one of the streets just outside anfield where the football ground has been aggressively buying up houses and destroying the area so they could expand/build a new ground for peanuts. Its a proper fuckin shithole and they should have been dragged in front of the courts for it. Oh yeah? Sounds like a plan, along with Nationalise Everything. I've seen lots of streets like that though, I think some councils try to buy them up and use them for social housing, but generally they're just left tinned up and it's a huge waste. Even worse where there's like one or two families living alone in the street, like a ghost town Total Meatlove posted:A 16 year old kid in Britain today is more likely to have a smart phone than live with their dad. loving hell Is this that weird? Phones are kinda ubiquitous for kids now, and single-parent families or ones with step-parents aren't that unusual. Plus some 16-year-olds might have moved out if they're out of school
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baka kaba posted:Oh yeah? Sounds like a plan, along with Nationalise Everything. I've seen lots of streets like that though, I think some councils try to buy them up and use them for social housing, but generally they're just left tinned up and it's a huge waste. Even worse where there's like one or two families living alone in the street, like a ghost town They started by offering higher than value to some homes and then when they bought them, boarded them up which dropped the prices. They then made it public that they were buying up houses to develop the new ground which tanked house prices some more and then offered people just below what they were worth then boarded those up too. They also took over the freehold for all the commercial buildings and kicked them all out on their arses. Anyone that didn't sell up then basically had to go grovelling to them to sell for as low as they could get away with as the streets were deserted and havens of drug abuse and crime. All for a ground which they're most likely not going to build now.
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My NHS employer has just seen a change in caterer. Previously G4S, it's now an organisation I don't immediately mentally-link to dead asylum seekers. So it's a shame the food is now both more expensive and worse. Also my 1-5 monthly travelcard has gone up by a tenner. 2015 is off to a poo poo start. On the subject of phones, having phoned around trying to book someone in for an appointment for next week, the first family that had an accurate mobile number was the first I managed to speak to (attempt #6). Basically, anyone who still thinks that a mobile phone is a 'luxury' is nothing less than an menu item come the revolution.
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Jan 2, 2015 23:29
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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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ThomasPaine posted:Can someone give me the Cliffnotes version of understanding Tory-speak on the deficit. The Tory defense to this is Plan A is working just fine thank you very much, it's just going to take longer. How much longer? Let me just consult this piece of string (but in the meantime the blood-letting must continue). edit: to answer the specific question, the deficit as a ratio of GDP has roughly halved. They are conveniently leaving the ratio part out of the campaign message (in cash terms it's only reduced by about a third so it's a lie by omission). Taratang fucked around with this message at 23:52 on Jan 2, 2015 |
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baka kaba posted:Is this that weird? Phones are kinda ubiquitous for kids now, and single-parent families or ones with step-parents aren't that unusual. Plus some 16-year-olds might have moved out if they're out of school Yeah you can get a cheap android smartphone for like £50 these days.
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marktheando posted:Yeah you can get a cheap android smartphone for like £50 these days. lots of people buy things on credit at places like Brighthouse which basically see them saddled with weekly payments for years.
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marktheando posted:Yeah you can get a cheap android smartphone for like £50 these days. £50 is a lot of money.
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General China posted:£50 is a lot of money. In the grand scheme of things it isn't really.
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It's £1 a week for slightly less than a year
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Pantsuit posted:lots of people buy things on credit at places like Brighthouse which basically see them saddled with weekly payments for years. Those places should be outlawed.
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JFairfax posted:In the grand scheme of things it isn't really. some people don't operate on the grand scheme of things
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Also how many of you are familiar with this song? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxZ1214WYP8 I love Roots Manuva's verse which includes the lyrics: hot footing stepping from the SPGs that's special police groups that bust up your knees and maggie the milk snatcher miners strikes and bmx bikes cuts in education, rising inflation police brutality and mass frustration the brixton riots and the new sports centre it didn't quite achieve the poo poo that it was meant'a
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JFairfax posted:Also how many of you are familiar with this song? n the grand scheme of things it isn't really.
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New competition- what university did JFairfax go to?
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I know the answer to this.
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Guavanaut posted:The Rotarians almost managed it with polio. The Polio and Smallpox viruses don't have non-human reservoirs. If they are eliminated from the human population for long enough to die out in the environment then they can be completely eradicated. Ebola virus infects other primates and is believed to hang around in bats, which would make complete eradication a bit more difficult.
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JFairfax posted:I know the answer to this. eludicate us
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The big stupid university for dumb babbies
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If you really want to know, I went to Liverpool University to study history, but I dropped out after failing the second year and went back to Somerset to work various minimum wage factory jobs. Last year I took a couple of modules with the Open University, using the points I had acquired at Liverpool and putting them towards an open degree qualification with the OU. If I take another 60 point module with the OU I can get a degree without honours but if I get another 120 points I will be eligible to get a degree with honours. That help? Incidentally I think I was in the second year of people to pay tuition fees, they were £1500 a year if I remember correctly. I am still paying off the loans for my failed degree attempt.
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Regarde Aduck posted:The big stupid university for dumb babbies this one.
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JFairfax posted:If you really want to know, I went to Liverpool University to study history, but I dropped out after failing the second year and went back to Somerset to work various minimum wage factory jobs. higher education is bourgeois excess
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