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What happens if your spouse is deaf? Does British Sign Language count as English? Given this government's record with disabilities I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't.
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Jan 28, 2016 15:52
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I like how since May the main leitmotif of political debate in this country is polls and the politics of interpretation. Statisticians and literary theorists must be exhausted.
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Jan 28, 2016 15:54
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NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:What happens if your spouse is deaf? Does British Sign Language count as English? Given this government's record with disabilities I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't. i think this is the sort of thing that is safe to assume that people are expecting would be ironed out in the eventuality of a law like this passing
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Jan 28, 2016 15:54
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IDS is a oval office.
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Jan 28, 2016 15:55
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V. Illych L. posted:i think this is the sort of thing that is safe to assume that people are expecting would be ironed out in the eventuality of a law like this passing now now, I don't think the government will flatten deaf people with giant irons they'd just starve them to death by sanctioning them
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Jan 28, 2016 15:56
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On the other hand https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/692672788730155008 https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/692672815976284160 Hmm yes national service let's bring that back
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Jan 28, 2016 16:02
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RobotNinjaHornets posted:On the other hand "healthly"?
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Jan 28, 2016 16:03
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Bring back hanging and the cane imo
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Jan 28, 2016 16:03
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It's a poifectly cromulent wurd / spellang.
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Jan 28, 2016 16:04
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RobotNinjaHornets posted:On the other hand J_RBG posted:Bring back hanging and the cane imo Except discriminating based on race (e: or gender or sexuality). UKIP seem pretty keen to bring back that.
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Jan 28, 2016 16:11
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Bring back Jacobin traditions. Guillotine the rich, guillotine the poor, guillotine the natives, guillotine the foreigners. Off with all heads, let's make Saudi Arabia feel ashamed at our superior head-slicey.
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Jan 28, 2016 16:16
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Looks like Cameron's secured his four year ban on filthy bunches of EU citizens coming to abuse our generous welfare state: http://news.trust.org/item/20160128132543-nz4dd quote:BRUSSELS, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The European Union is offering Britain a new "emergency brake" rule that could help curb immigration from other EU states in a reform package before a British referendum on EU membership, sources close to the negotiations told Reuters on Thursday.
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Jan 28, 2016 16:18
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Good to know the EU will bend over for our pissy little country because they're scared we might leave their lovely union.
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Jan 28, 2016 16:22
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Guavanaut posted:Depends whether it has to be militarized or whether it could be entirely a civic thing, like helping the NHS/firefighters/building flood defenses/making lovely housing less poo poo. I'm not sure the amount of training that would be required would make it worthwhile for a 3/4 year stint though. If the army can you have combat ready in under a year I'm pretty sure you can train some people to do some civic jobs for the benefit of the less fortunate in much less time. It doesn't even have to be full time, just a couple of days a week. Might go a long way to helping people empathize with those lousy scroungers!
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Jan 28, 2016 16:26
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This country is a sack of poo poo.
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Jan 28, 2016 16:27
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They'll never be able to prove that the benefits system is under excessive strain as a result of migration though.
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Jan 28, 2016 16:28
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If you look at their close work with IBM the Nazis were better than most at managing large scale government IT contracts
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Jan 28, 2016 16:31
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Gonzo McFee posted:This country is a sack of poo poo. And that reflects poorly on Corbyn's leadership.
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Jan 28, 2016 16:31
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Bring back national service, but only for people who vote for national service. It's pretty unfair to take however many years of someones life because they happen to be young (and possibly of a certain gender), especially when they can't even vote against it and people who didn't and won't have to do it can. It's not even wartime, they're just bastards.
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Jan 28, 2016 16:35
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Tesseraction posted:Good to know the EU will bend over for our pissy little country because they're scared we might leave their lovely union. it's an interesting strategy of negotiating, and it would be clever if it weren't so obviously unsustainable: set up the daedalus' sword of the referendum, then try to leverage that to squeeze concessions in the interim i don't think it's going to work, though, merkel and juncker do not normally brook this kind of foolishness, and merkel needs her clout in the EU now more than ever as events in cologne have seen her position somewhat weakened
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Jan 28, 2016 16:37
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Bring back capital punishment: by which I mean we punish the capital for the awful polices they keep producing. Hang London, burn Manchester, nuke Birmingham.
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Jan 28, 2016 16:38
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Miftan posted:If the army can you have combat ready in under a year I'm pretty sure you can train some people to do some civic jobs for the benefit of the less fortunate in much less time. It doesn't even have to be full time, just a couple of days a week. Might go a long way to helping people empathize with those lousy scroungers! (Of course there would be, because it would end up being designed by shits, but I mean ideally.)
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Jan 28, 2016 16:38
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Guavanaut posted:Also it'd mean that people from all walks of life had to intermingle during their tenure, there would be no opt-out for public schoolboys and no special elite division of the civic service. It's more that the public schoolboys would be made the officers. As in civil life, so in the military.
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Jan 28, 2016 16:40
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Sounds like we should do it for 40-60 year olds. e: If it was retroactive, I'd be fine with it but it would just be another way for baby boomers and gen x to take a massive poo poo on the young after pulling up all the ladders i cant wait till theyre dead
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Jan 28, 2016 16:41
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XMNN posted:Sounds like we should do it for 40-60 year olds. I agree. The Baby Boomers got out of doing it and we have suffered for it. Force them to do the backbreaking military labour and then decide if they want future generations to do it.
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Jan 28, 2016 16:45
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feedmegin posted:It's more that the public schoolboys would be made the officers. As in civil life, so in the military. Officers should be selected by the local councils, being as they're the ones who will be getting the most public benefit. I can't think of any other way that wouldn't result in rampant favoritism for the elite. Then again, placing a bunch of randomly selected 17 year olds under the purview of British local authorities has the possibility of going badly wrong too. 
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Jan 28, 2016 16:46
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Random Integer posted:Lots of people in IT are libertarian because they're loving idiots who think knowing how to code or administer networks makes them Randian Ubermensch when they're actually just technology janitors. It also contains a disproportionately high number of middle class white dudes who have never really had to struggle for anything so they think anyone who does have to struggle for anything must really just be lazy/stupid. I say this as a middle class white dude who works in IT and has never really had to struggle for anything. I don't get what's wrong with being a technology janitor, that's useful work. I wish I could be a technology janitor.
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Jan 28, 2016 16:50
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V. Illych L. posted:it's an interesting strategy of negotiating, and it would be clever if it weren't so obviously unsustainable: set up the daedalus' sword of the referendum, then try to leverage that to squeeze concessions in the interim FYI the phrase you're looking for is "sword of damocles". Daedalus is the guy who built the labyrinth on Crete. Daedalus' sword would probably be covered in dicks and shoot fire and come to life at night and gently caress your wife. Renaissance Robot fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Jan 28, 2016 |
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Jan 28, 2016 16:52
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And also fly, being as Daedalus was the father of Icarus.
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Jan 28, 2016 16:58
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I learned about the Sword of Damocles from the first Tomb Raider game where you had to traverse the Damocles Room where swords would drop from the ceiling if you weren't careful where you trod.
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Jan 28, 2016 16:59
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Another blunder for Corbyn as he misses an open goal opportunity by refusing to condemn parents of children who choose not to get dressed before taking their kids to school.quote:The Labour leader smiled and said: “I didn’t know the teacher had written to parents. A head teacher of a school in Darlington wrote to parents asking them to not come to school in their pyjamas.
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Jan 28, 2016 17:16
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Its going to be p. hilarious if Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland tip the Brexit referendum to a stay result with England voting to leave, the gap is small enough that looks like it could happen (bearing in mind ICM doesn't gather data in Northern Ireland which, though only 3% of the population, is looking to carry a good few yes votes). It's going to EVEL on crack if that happens.
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Jan 28, 2016 17:20
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kustomkarkommando posted:Its going to be p. hilarious if Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland tip the Brexit referendum to a stay result with England voting to leave, the gap is small enough that looks like it could happen (bearing in mind ICM doesn't gather data in Northern Ireland which, though only 3% of the population, is looking to carry a good few yes votes). I don't see that being a problem unless the Leave campaign really pushes it as an 'England' issue.
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Jan 28, 2016 17:22
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Haha are ICM really not polling one of the likely yes strongholds? How do they account for that in their methodology, extra Scots?
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Jan 28, 2016 17:24
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Pissflaps posted:Another blunder for Corbyn as he misses an open goal opportunity by refusing to condemn parents of children who choose not to get dressed before taking their kids to school. I don't really see what the big deal is if parents take their kids to school in pyjamas. I haven't ever done it myself (though when it is especially cold and I am especially lazy I have put clothes on top of my pyjamas) but like he said, if the kids have been fed and appropriately clothed why does it really matter?
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Jan 28, 2016 17:31
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Saw this on Twitter  Anyone know of any figures that show this to be true. I can only find one that says Wales get more money that they put in (Though they do admit it's hard to get accurate figures) which is what I've heard in the past. Has this changed recently?
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Jan 28, 2016 17:32
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hookerbot 5000 posted:I don't really see what the big deal is if parents take their kids to school in pyjamas. I haven't ever done it myself (though when it is especially cold and I am especially lazy I have put clothes on top of my pyjamas) but like he said, if the kids have been fed and appropriately clothed why does it really matter? It matters to me. It's revolting, especially when the same people will wander to the shops in their jim jams in the middle of the day. It's slovenly as gently caress.
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Jan 28, 2016 17:32
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Phoon posted:Haha are ICM really not polling one of the likely yes strongholds? How do they account for that in their methodology, extra Scots? No, they simply don't account for it at all so that an exit vote seems more likely.
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Jan 28, 2016 17:36
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Oberleutnant posted:Add it to the op imo Done.
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NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:What happens if your spouse is deaf? Does British Sign Language count as English? Given this government's record with disabilities I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't. It doesn't count as English. It's s language in its own right. Pissflaps posted:Another blunder for Corbyn as he misses an open goal opportunity by refusing to condemn parents of children who choose not to get dressed before taking their kids to school. I think you are reaching now
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