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As an atheist I'd like to apologise for Josef Stalin, Pol Pot and Dick Dorkins.
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Jan 10, 2015 18:21
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As a human being I'd like to apologize in general, we're pretty awful.
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Jan 10, 2015 18:25
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As an Earthling I don't see any need to apologise because the only people we're shits to are each other.
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Jan 10, 2015 18:26
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Kegluneq posted:As an atheist I'd like to apologise for Josef Stalin, Pol Pot and Dick Dorkins. The other two I can forgive but gently caress you and gently caress me and gently caress all other atheists for Dick "Please stop calling me Dick Dorkins" Dorkins.
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Jan 10, 2015 19:52
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As a representative of the fine country of Wales I would personally like to apologize for Tom Jones, and by proxy The Voice.
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Jan 10, 2015 19:56
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A slightly weird thing happened today. I was in my kitchen using noisy stuff then heard someone shouting 'hallooo' in the hall, went out and there were two plainclothes policemen halfway up my stairs (I wouldn't have heard if they'd knocked because of the noisy kitchen stuff so presumably they did knock then just walked in). They came up and said they were just wondering about what was happening in the flat downstairs. I said nothing that I knew of, they asked some random questions about whether I'd seen the guy downstairs then said that it wasn't actually anything to do with the guy downstairs and someone had phoned them up because they had seen a strange person in the village that they didn't know and he looked like he might be dodgy. Do police actually go and look for random dodgy looking people? That seems ridiculous. My husband probably looks dodgy (think a cross between captain jack sparrow and a tramp) and my son grew the most ridiculous beard when he was away at uni so may have frightened the locals when he was home for christmas, but looking dodgy isn't a crime as far as I know. Or maybe they were just lying and were here for something else completely. It was weird though.
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Jan 10, 2015 19:57
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They were scoping your place out. Expect an armed raid later on.
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Jan 10, 2015 19:59
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This is the second time in the last few months that the police have just walked into my home. It's my own fault for not locking the door but it's funny that as a relatively law abiding person I'm going to have to start locking the door to keep the police out.
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Jan 10, 2015 20:02
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Back in the day you could leave your door unlocked with undesirables walking in
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Jan 10, 2015 20:14
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hookerbot 5000 posted:This is the second time in the last few months that the police have just walked into my home. It's my own fault for not locking the door but it's funny that as a relatively law abiding person I'm going to have to start locking the door to keep the police out. It's not your fault. And next time you might like to politely remind the police that in normal circumstances they have no more right to just walk in uninvited than anyone else.
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Jan 10, 2015 20:17
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Well I just called them and yes it turns out they do just come out and go door to door if someone calls them and says there's a dodgy looking person in the village. I'd not said to them when they were round that my son had been home for christmas because it just hadn't occurred to me that he could be who they were talking about until later. They didn't know it was my son (they seemed to think it was someone living downstairs) so the walking into my house was still unwarranted and I am beyond incensed that someone actually called the police because there was an unshaven youth standing near the post office. I asked the police whether he'd been doing anything dodgy but no, it was just being not recognised as a local and being 'unshaven'. I mean, it was a remarkably stupid beard but still. And he left to go back to uni a week ago so if he was a badun the police obviously weren't that bothered. Rant over, sorry.
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Jan 10, 2015 20:33
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Ddraig posted:As a representative of the fine country of Wales I would personally like to apologize for Tom Jones, and by proxy The Voice. Thank you for Nye Bevan though!  Wait, are large groups of people equally responsible for the good ones too?
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Jan 10, 2015 22:49
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Stottie Kyek posted:Thank you for Nye Bevan though! The bad ones are bad because. The good ones are good despite. Remember your Marxist social theory, comrade.
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Jan 10, 2015 22:53
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Anybody want a 100% (i.e. no deposit required) interest-only BTL mortgage? No income or repayment plan necessary, but mummy and daddy must have a decent chunk of cash or equity in their home: http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/jan/10/mortgage-students-buy-own-homes quote:He’s in his third year at university, studying hard ahead of his final exams this year – but, unlike other students, Jonathan Pearson will graduate with a profit, not a student debt. He is not from a wealthy background but stands to make at least £30,000 after buying a home, rather than renting while at college. We have totally learned our lesson and have now taken to lending responsibly. 
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Jan 11, 2015 10:05
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Apparently the government are looking at cutting unsocial hours payments in the NHS. Haven't heard any official announcement about it or seen anything in the news about it, but all my nursing friends have already started their facebook statuses
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Jan 11, 2015 10:09
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LemonDrizzle posted:Anybody want a 100% (i.e. no deposit required) interest-only BTL mortgage? No income or repayment plan necessary, but mummy and daddy must have a decent chunk of cash or equity in their home: No no, you see, he is a hard-scrabbling entrepreneur, just the sort of chap we want in the New Britain.
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Jan 11, 2015 11:03
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Ddraig posted:As a representative of the fine country of Wales I would personally like to apologize for Tom Jones, and by proxy The Voice. You should really apologise for Ian Watkins as well.
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Jan 11, 2015 15:39
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StoneOfShame posted:You should really apologise for Ian Watkins as well. The other members of Steps share some of the blame too, don't blame it all on him.
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Jan 11, 2015 15:54
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thatinfernalpigeon posted:The other members of Steps share some of the blame too, don't blame it all on him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RleE--HDBiU
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Jan 11, 2015 15:59
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Jedit posted:It maybe isn't right wing, and it's not quite on the level of shifting the tax brackets where the poor get nothing, but it does benefit the middle class while not doing as much as you think for the poor. People on Income Support already get prescriptions for free across the UK, so it's not a policy that helps them. By this argument wouldn't a national minimum income a right-wing/regressive policy? If a service is only free for poor people the it is always in danger of getting cut while if everyone uses it including the wealthy then it will be held to a better standard.
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Jan 11, 2015 17:20
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return0 posted:By this argument wouldn't a national minimum income a right-wing/regressive policy? If a service is only free for poor people the it is always in danger of getting cut while if everyone uses it including the wealthy then it will be held to a better standard. Don't wealthy people already use the nhs?
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Jan 11, 2015 17:36
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Pissflaps posted:Don't wealthy people already use the nhs? Every now and again to feel British and patriotic, then they write angry letters to the Daily Mail about how the nurses only spoke Swahili and the waiting room smelled of curry and why are their tax pounds being used to pay for people who don't drink tea properly???
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Jan 11, 2015 17:47
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Coohoolin posted:Every now and again to feel British and patriotic, then they write angry letters to the Daily Mail about how the nurses only spoke Swahili and the waiting room smelled of curry and why are their tax pounds being used to pay for people who don't drink tea properly??? Your crack is shite.
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Jan 11, 2015 17:48
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It's spelled "craic".
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Jan 11, 2015 18:14
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Coohoolin posted:It's spelled "craic". It's 'crack'. You're displaying a deep ignorance of the Teesside language.
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Jan 11, 2015 18:18
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hookerbot 5000 posted:Well I just called them and yes it turns out they do just come out and go door to door if someone calls them and says there's a dodgy looking person in the village. I'd not said to them when they were round that my son had been home for christmas because it just hadn't occurred to me that he could be who they were talking about until later. They didn't know it was my son (they seemed to think it was someone living downstairs) so the walking into my house was still unwarranted and I am beyond incensed that someone actually called the police because there was an unshaven youth standing near the post office. I asked the police whether he'd been doing anything dodgy but no, it was just being not recognised as a local and being 'unshaven'. I mean, it was a remarkably stupid beard but still. And he left to go back to uni a week ago so if he was a badun the police obviously weren't that bothered.
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Jan 11, 2015 18:34
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Coohoolin posted:It's spelled "craic". It wasn't even loving borrowed that long ago, mid 20th century at the earliest. So it's quite funny that shitloads of Irish and Scots apparently assume it's some millennia old Celtic tradition or some bullshit.
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Jan 11, 2015 19:08
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Does anyone know what's happening with mixed-sex civil unions in the UK? I remember reading that it got shut down in England and Wales by the Tories on the grounds of 'undermining marriage' or some poo poo, but that the SNP said they would actively investigate implementing it in Scotland during early 2014. I've not heard anything further on it since though.
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Jan 11, 2015 19:24
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Pissflaps posted:Don't wealthy people already use the nhs? no they use BUPA and poo poo i guess tooterfish posted:Craic comes from the English word crack. ya 
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Jan 11, 2015 19:32
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Proposal: Members of parliament (both houses) and senior government officials are required by law to only use the NHS for all medical work, and their hospital is randomly assigned. Hypothesis: NHS funding gets tripled on the next budget.
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Jan 11, 2015 19:42
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OwlFancier posted:Proposal: Members of parliament (both houses) and senior government officials are required by law to only use the NHS for all medical work, and their hospital is randomly assigned. I think really you'd need to stop them owning shares in private healthcare companies.
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Jan 11, 2015 20:01
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Guavanaut posted:Does anyone know what's happening with mixed-sex civil unions in the UK? You're pretty much right. The Tories don't want either humanist marriage or mixed-sex civil partnerships because Lynton says so. The Scottish government has the right to implement them through secondary legislation, but they're still working on it. There's been no traction on people from other jurisdictions converting their civil partnerships to marriage, either, to the chagrin of some Northern Irish couples.
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Jan 11, 2015 20:08
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tooterfish posted:Craic comes from the English word crack. yeah p. unreasonable for peoples abused for millennia by the english to assume they nicked a word here and there
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Jan 11, 2015 20:14
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Mister Adequate posted:yeah p. unreasonable for peoples abused for millennia by the english to assume they nicked a word here and there um "the english" have only existed for like 600 years. they were abused by the anglo-normans, the angles, saxons, and romans before that. get your poo poo straight.
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Jan 11, 2015 20:21
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Don't forget the Vikings!!
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Jan 11, 2015 20:23
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what was your favourite abuse of Scots? mine was when Hadrian built that sick loving wall to keep them out of our glorious Roman Empire. 
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Jan 11, 2015 20:27
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TinTower posted:You're pretty much right. The Tories don't want either humanist marriage or mixed-sex civil partnerships because Lynton says so. The Scottish government has the right to implement them through secondary legislation, but they're still working on it.
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Jan 11, 2015 20:32
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Oberleutnant posted:um "the english" have only existed for like 600 years. they were abused by the anglo-normans, the angles, saxons, and romans before that. Then the Saxons arrived, and they were apparently so hard that according to respected historian Mister Adequate, they managed to brutally oppress the Irish backwards through time. They literally hit them so hard their grand-daddies felt it. That's actually pretty badass. Oberleutnant posted:what was your favourite abuse of Scots? tooterfish fucked around with this message at 20:54 on Jan 11, 2015 |
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Oberleutnant posted:what was your favourite abuse of Scots? mine was when Hadrian built that sick loving wall to keep them out of our glorious Roman Empire. That was abuse of the Picts and Caledones, the Scots hadn't arrived yet. Also, anyone who thinks that the Scots weren't pretty drat good at abusing themselves hasn't looked at much Scottish history. tooterfish posted:Braveheart.
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