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Indeed, because the main cause of congestion is the unemployed driving their cars, and has nothing to do with the masses of commuters on their way to and from the workplace, along with all the freight traffic passing through the country. Which as anyone who commutes in Kent and usually uses the M20 (like myself) with Operation Stack running can tell you.
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mfcrocker posted:You complete and total loving Gove. Jeremy Hunt is already rhyming slang for himself, and Johnson would mean penis without Boris's exemplary contribution, so those two need to be used with care.
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Jan 22, 2015 11:19
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I wonder how many jobless people have cars compared with those who are employed to see how even more ridiculous the idea is
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Jan 22, 2015 11:35
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Disinterested posted:Given the poor were kind of seen as the responsibility of their parish, people really didn't like the idea of poor people who were someone else's responsibility turning up and becoming their problem. It would also add a huge amount of paperwork for businesses that need drivers. Gotta get your government "I'm a worker" card before you can drive again. Slows up the whole hiring process. Man, if they're lying about the libertarian part of their party, maybe they're lying about the non-racist bit. 
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Jan 22, 2015 11:36
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Guavanaut posted:Now then, let's not say things that we can't take back. You bloody Pob
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Jan 22, 2015 11:37
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Jose posted:I wonder how many jobless people have cars compared with those who are employed to see how even more ridiculous the idea is Unemployed people just love to go for a drive before the hours of 9AM and after 5PM.
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Jan 22, 2015 11:37
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People should be permitted a devil's bargain permitting them to abandon all forms of offensive language in exchange for being able to use one word or type forever. I'll trade moron/mongoloid/etc. for racial epithets about the French, Irish or Germans any day.
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Guavanaut posted:Now then, let's not say things that we can't take back. 'BoJo the Clown' has a nice ring to it though. Disinterested posted:People should be permitted a devil's bargain permitting them to abandon all forms of offensive language in exchange for being able to use one word or type forever. Edit: I may have misread what you said in which case apologies Jose posted:I wonder how many jobless people have cars compared with those who are employed to see how even more ridiculous the idea is Kegluneq fucked around with this message at 11:51 on Jan 22, 2015 |
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Jan 22, 2015 11:47
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Complete aside but as car chat and the horrible expense of running them has come up, is there a reason why my car insurance quotes are more expensive this year than last? Last year was £158 for the year with 5 years no claims, this year cheapest quote is £190 with 6 years no claims (no claims, no traffic crimes, everything the same except we're another year older and have another year of no claims).
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Jan 22, 2015 11:53
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Kegluneq posted:You do realise 'Mongoloid' is itself a racial epithet, right? It's used in slang to imply that people with Down's syndrome look like people from Asia (as both may have pronounced epicanthic folds). So yeah, it's a double whammy of a lovely insult. Ya, I know. I actually have heard, only once, the word being used to describe a person with Down's. The woman who said it was an American in her nineties.
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Jan 22, 2015 11:54
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hookerbot 5000 posted:Complete aside but as car chat and the horrible expense of running them has come up, is there a reason why my car insurance quotes are more expensive this year than last? Last year was £158 for the year with 5 years no claims, this year cheapest quote is £190 with 6 years no claims (no claims, no traffic crimes, everything the same except we're another year older and have another year of no claims). No idea, mine was about half the price but I went from 2 -> 3 years no claims and I'm entering my late 20s. How do insurance quotes work 
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Jan 22, 2015 11:57
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mfcrocker posted:No idea, mine was about half the price but I went from 2 -> 3 years no claims and I'm entering my late 20s. Black magic. Moving from the 18-24 into the 25-30 age bracket helps. Make and model of car affect it, some types of car are just more likely to be involved in accidents, an example cited to me by the insurance guy I spoke to when I renewed mine last month: VW Golfs have higher insurance rates because so many 18-25 year old males crash them. Driveway versus road parking, where you live. God knows how they compute it all. I put my girlfriend as a named driver on my 2003 Seat Ibiza, my insurance goes up ~£150. Hell no, sorry love. But changing my occupation from "full time student" to "IT - Application Developer" knocked £100 off. She puts me as a named driver on her 2010 Honda Jazz, her insurance goes down £40.
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Jan 22, 2015 12:07
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Kegluneq posted:You do realise 'Mongoloid' is itself a racial epithet, right? It's used in slang to imply that people with Down's syndrome look like people from Asia (as both may have pronounced epicanthic folds). So yeah, it's a double whammy of a lovely insult.
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Jan 22, 2015 12:08
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hookerbot 5000 posted:Complete aside but as car chat and the horrible expense of running them has come up, is there a reason why my car insurance quotes are more expensive this year than last? Last year was £158 for the year with 5 years no claims, this year cheapest quote is £190 with 6 years no claims (no claims, no traffic crimes, everything the same except we're another year older and have another year of no claims). I heard on the radio that they're going up again across the board after three years of declining premium costs.
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Jan 22, 2015 12:09
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Zveroboy posted:Black magic. Adding me to my husbands car insurance back when I only had a provisional license put his insurance down too. It's weird. Edit: Pissflaps posted:I heard on the radio that they're going up again across the board after three years of declining premium costs. Bugger 
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Jan 22, 2015 12:11
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Zveroboy posted:I put my girlfriend as a named driver on my 2003 Seat Ibiza, my insurance goes up ~£150. Hell no, sorry love. But changing my occupation from "full time student" to "IT - Application Developer" knocked £100 off. This can be a handy tool for cutting a few percent off your insurance: http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/insurance/car-insurance-job-picker/ Are you really an IT Manager, or would you describe yourself more as a Data Administrator (for 10% lower premiums)?
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Jan 22, 2015 12:18
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Guavanaut posted:This is why I'm conflicted about 'Lesbian'. Does the sexual orientation group have the right to reclaim a word that started off as a pseudoscientific categorization with an ethnic bias? They can reclaim whatever the hell they want, because it's an insult directed at them (doubly so if they're Greek lesbians) but I don't recall anyone trying to reclaim 'mongoloid' as anything other than racist or ableist.
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Jan 22, 2015 12:22
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Wolfsbane posted:This can be a handy tool for cutting a few percent off your insurance: One weird trick. Insurance companies hate him!
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Jan 22, 2015 12:31
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Wolfsbane posted:This can be a handy tool for cutting a few percent off your insurance: I like to think when I pick my job (actuary) the actuaries who have set the price have snuck in a sneaky discount for us
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Andre Le Fuckface posted:I like to think when I pick my job (actuary) the actuaries who have set the price have snuck in a sneaky discount for us It's because you're boring 
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Jan 22, 2015 12:35
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Darth Walrus posted:They can reclaim whatever the hell they want, because it's an insult directed at them (doubly so if they're Greek lesbians) but I don't recall anyone trying to reclaim 'mongoloid' as anything other than racist or ableist.
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Jan 22, 2015 12:37
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Disinterested posted:It's because you're boring He could be a baller actuary, like SloMo???
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Disinterested posted:Given the poor were kind of seen as the responsibility of their parish, people really didn't like the idea of poor people who were someone else's responsibility turning up and becoming their problem. In the 17th century, quite
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Ludicro posted:Which as anyone who commutes in Kent and usually uses the M20 (like myself) with Operation Stack running can tell you. As some who used to live in Folkestone, good luck getting home. Although you're pretty spoilt because normally the M20 is fine since its three lanes and the A20 is a useful backup. Although I get more screwed by urban traffic jams than motorways.
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Jesus H, people are complaining that sub £200 insurance premiums are too high? I've just paid out £550 up from £400 with 4 years no claims in my late 20s in an old C3, no points or criminal record, with the only accident I've been in was completely accepted 100% fault by the other party as pulling out when they should have given way. What I'd give for sub £200 (I would give less than £350). And I shopped around for that price, that was the lowest. Fat Turkey fucked around with this message at 13:58 on Jan 22, 2015 |
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Jan 22, 2015 13:54
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Fat Turkey posted:Jesus H, people are complaining that sub £200 insurance premiums are too high? I've just paid out £550 up from £400 with 4 years no claims in my late 20s in an old C3, with the only accident I've been in was completely accepted 100% fault by the other party as pulling out when they should have given way. What I'd give for sub £200 (I would give less than £350). Yeah when I say half the price I am talking about it going down to £650 
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Jan 22, 2015 13:55
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Maybe you should be more careful on the road?
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Pissflaps posted:Maybe you should be more careful on the road? Did you miss the 'no claims' bit? You'd be better asking them to just move to a nicer neighbourhood, or build a garage to put their car in.
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Jan 22, 2015 14:32
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Maybe they could be more careful and drive smaller cars?
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Jan 22, 2015 14:37
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What's the insurance like on those tiny electric cars?
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Pissflaps posted:Maybe they could be more careful and drive smaller cars? Smaller and safer than a C3 with no claims? Do you know anything about driving at all? Electric/newer cars probably are cheaper to run/tax/insure, but they're also significantly more expensive to begin with.
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Kegluneq posted:Smaller and safer than a C3 with no claims? Do you know anything about driving at all? You seem quite arrogant about driving which may explain your high premiums. You should aim to drive defensively.
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Sometimes the Telegraph is amazing. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11359984/The-Tories-need-to-make-a-fantastic-offer-to-win-the-election-heres-a-suggestion.html quote:None of the good news of the past few months has changed a simple fact: swathes of urban Britain and of the North have become Tory-free zones, and support among most ethnic minorities remains depressingly low. Having embraced the wrong kind of modernisation in the late 2000s, the Tory brand remains contaminated, with the party widely perceived to be serving the interests of the rich, rather than standing up for aspirational, hard-working families of all backgrounds.
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Like Jimmy Saville before him, Leon Brittan just died, so expect all the stories about him to come out.
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The only sympathy I will ever have for Leon Brittan is that he was once arguably the second most prominent Jewish politician in the country, and yet he looked precisely like a Julius Streicher caricature from Der Sturmer.
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Pissflaps posted:You seem quite arrogant about driving which may explain your high premiums. You should aim to drive defensively. Do you know anything about how insurance works?
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Jan 22, 2015 16:07
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quote:You seem quite arrogant about posting. You should aim to post defensively.
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Kegluneq posted:Do you know anything about how insurance works? *Kegluneq does not turn left*
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Regarde Aduck posted:*Kegluneq does not turn left* This poster is not for turning.
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Kegluneq posted:Do you know anything about how insurance works? Yes. I'm fully insured.
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