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The Tories, corrupt, money-grubbing cunts, you say? No way! https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/graham-brady-michael-fallon-free-trip-cayman-islands
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Darth Walrus posted:Well, who is best girl?  Failed Imagineer posted:Yeah, there were Hedge Schools. But, you could be killed for teaching at a Hedge School, it wasn't really a case of "lol whatever" even in the People's Republic of Cork lemonadesweetheart posted:If by Catholic Church you mean the Tudors. Then you have the organized oppression of what types of schools and churches were allowed in the 19th century, which was very different. And from what I've read, a period in between with Anglo-Irish landlords and an English speaking Church and bilingual middle class but most workers speaking Irish at home, but idk the exact degree of organized oppression there.
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Aphex- posted:Greggs is definitely poo poo. I had a sausage and egg roll there the other day for breakfast and it was like I was transported back to being a poor freshman who buys the cheapest ingredients I can find and cooks them really badly. The egg turned to dust in my mouth. Agreed on all fronts. The rooster sriracha is MUCH better than the goose stuff. The goose brand tastes really artificial, somehow. Greggs is poo poo, but the value is that you know it will only be some value of poo poo other than completely poo poo. I never used to have their stuff much because I'm a vegetarian and they didn't have much (before vegan sos rolls), but yeah, at least they're consistent and cheap. Also yeah I think Tesco was a pioneer in supermarkets in the 90's - they did a lot of stuff nobody seemed to have done yet, but now they're just in this weird middle ground. Some of their food is alright.
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LOL - one of the dirtiest men in British politics says:quote:Lord Mandelson: I feel dirty staying in the Labour Party https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/lord-mandelson-i-feel-dirty-staying-in-the-labour-party-1.486914 quote:Lord Mandelson has said he feels “dirty” staying in a Labour Party in which “no effective action” is being taken against people holding antisemitic views.
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So thousands of new people joined the Labour party? Sounds good. Some small minority of those people are racists? Sounds bad but par for the course in Britain. Some of those people were only exposed as racists through social media use? Welcome to 2019. Where's the bit where it spreads 'like a virus' and non-racist Labour members are now racist Mandy?
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So what I'm getting from these proposed border solutions is that we're leaving Europe very briefly before we get annexed for trying to immediately invade a member state 
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Tesseraction posted:editing 4 hours of Scottish posters arguing over which English poster is the biggest bawbag while the bristol set discuss bars/clubs and namtab and I debate which is Best Girl this season I am so up for doing a podcast ep where me, sebzilla and mfcrocker spend the whole making GBS threads on Mr. Wolf's (Realtalk: a UKMT podcast could probably end up working really well cause we've got such a wide variety of interests, areas of knowledge and expertises that people could rotate in and out to fit the subject matter)
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Lord Ludikrous posted:Yes it’s with the DPS, and we have photographic proof that we’ve left the carpets in better condition than we found them. I went through basically the same, although in Scotland (but I think they work the same now). The first stage is you email the agent/landlord and say you have photos, you don't see any reason why you should pay for additional carpet cleaning. They should just give up at this point. If they don't, they have to submit the bill to the DPS in order to claim it from the deposit. The onus is on them to prove that the cleaning is required, which is why it will almost certainly fail if they are actually cleaner than when you started. You then dispute the bill through the DPS, with the photos included, and wait for the arbitrator to check them. They then find in your favour and return your deposit in full. As far as I can tell from my experience and what I've heard from others, the tenant will normally win as long as they dispute it, but letting agents are all total loving chancers and it doesn't cost them anything to try so of course they will apply for it anyway. The cleaning company will be owned by the letting agent anyway and charge double the market rate for their books, so if they don't get the money out of your deposit they will probably just charge it to the landlord instead. Either way they make bank.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Has this been done? I brought it up last thread because having spent 31 years of my life in Slough I'd never heard of Slough General, though I have spent many hours in the A&E department of Wexham Park. Oddly enough, most kids I grew up with were born in Heatherwood Hospital in Ascot because their maternity ward was much better than Wexham Park's and everything I've heard since tells me that even now that's still true
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Failed Imagineer posted:I guess a lot of the Penal Laws were a response to the Gunpowder Plot If I could travel back as a non apparition I'd tread on the first thing that tried to come out of the sea. e: ^^^ Isn't the "NHS touting to wealthy non-EU people to pay to get operations done in British hospitals" a real thing though, since they cut funding and increased the allowed percentage of paid work? And the BXP tosser is just confusing problems of capitalism with problems of immigration as always. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Aug 1, 2019 |
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Guavanaut posted:If I could travel back in time and appear as an apparition like in that Orson Scott Card book I'd appear to Paul on the road to Damascus and call him a oval office. It'd stop so much trouble in the long run, although I suspect the peoples of Europe would find something else to be a dick about. Are you completely sure that's not what happened to him anyway?
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Rarity posted:I am so up for doing a podcast ep where me, sebzilla and mfcrocker spend the whole making GBS threads on Mr. Wolf's Don't think I've ever actually been there so my contributions would be limited to being salty that they've never booked any of my bands.
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Darth Walrus posted:Are you completely sure that's not what happened to him anyway? 
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I would be up for editing a UKMT podcast if such a thing ever came about, I enjoyed editing the radio pieces I did in college when I was training to be a hack until my conscience pointed out they were almost universally cunts. E: I may join in too if people want bad takes and a staunch defence of the red monster munch being the best monster munch
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Rarity posted:I am so up for doing a podcast ep where me, sebzilla and mfcrocker spend the whole making GBS threads on Mr. Wolf's I am 100% up for doing a podcast
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It's actually quite interesting to Google £2 billion and see what it gets you. It's quite a bit of money for a city infrastructure project. For a national resilience project, not so much. The bank bailout for the 2008 financial crisis, for instance, cost north of £400 billion.
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I'm assuming it's easy enough to record a voice chat or something? The first one could just be a round up of the weekly news, someone to host/curate/keep things on topic. We'd also immediately be somewhat popular because as an SA project we'd be chapo/hbomb/Shaun adjacent
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Azza Bamboo posted:What exactly are they going to spend this on? Bunting and countdown clocks.
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Azza Bamboo posted:What exactly are they going to spend this on? Preparation projects all done by private companies who all happen to be owned by Boris' mates.
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Azza Bamboo posted:What exactly are they going to spend this on? Infrastructure investment seems the most obvious answer, but lol if you think a mere £2 billion will get you anywhere near the number of roads and warehouses you need for NDB.
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Darth Walrus posted:It's actually quite interesting to Google £2 billion and see what it gets you. It's quite a bit of money for a city infrastructure project. For a national resilience project, not so much. The bank bailout for the 2008 financial crisis, for instance, cost north of £400 billion.
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Beefeater1980 posted:Neoliberalism is strictly inferior to either democratic socialism or social democracy, promotes awful behaviour and is in theory eventually unsustainable, but that doesn’t make it fascism. Fascism is anti-globalist; it needs rules to prevent anyone from outside the chosen group from getting uppity and needs privileges for people inside the chosen group. But neoliberalism is a form of capitalism, and fascism is a big part of the capitalism toolkit. So while you're right to say that neoliberalism is not itself fascist, it will definitely lead to an increase of fascism as it starts to fall apart.
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https://www.gov.uk/government/news/chancellor-announces-billions-to-turbo-charge-no-deal-preparationsquote:Targeted funding allocated today will support critical operations, including: that's not a lot of funding and amounts to leasing temporary storage and equipment, not building anything much
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Azza Bamboo posted:How much does a bridge to Northern Ireland cost? At least triple what the Channel Tunnel did even before you add in all the extra "efficiency" we've managed to find in megaprojects since then. (based on the original estimates for the channel crossing with a bridge being at least triple the price of a tunnel - doesn't account for the much bigger engineering problems, plus the massive extra infrastructure required at either side - there were already ports at both sides of the Channel Tunnel, but there's absolutely gently caress-all on the mainland side of the shortest crossing distance) goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Aug 1, 2019 |
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Darth Walrus posted:Are you completely sure that's not what happened to him anyway? This is like the micro-SF version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_Go_to_Golgotha!
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when I get my SIA license will the jobcentre want me to apply for the new border force jobs?
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Azza Bamboo posted:when I get my SIA license will the jobcentre want me to apply for the new border force jobs? I hope you have sturdy kneecaps
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Azza Bamboo posted:How much does a bridge to Northern Ireland cost? A 2010 study suggest about £21bn. Add in the sort of insanely incompetent budgeting that saw HS2 go from £20bn to a predicted £85bn and you're probably easily looking in the £40-50bn range. And I'm not even sure if that figure includes the cost of cleaning up Beaufort's Dyke.
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Azza Bamboo posted:How much does a bridge to Northern Ireland cost? 3.5 billion at the last estimate.
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Guavanaut posted:So thousands of new people joined the Labour party? Sounds good. Coohoolin posted:I'm assuming it's easy enough to record a voice chat or something? The first one could just be a round up of the weekly news, someone to host/curate/keep things on topic. We'd also immediately be somewhat popular because as an SA project we'd be chapo/hbomb/Shaun adjacent I would very much be interested in listening to a UK focused Chapo. You just need a good title.
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forkboy84 posted:A 2010 study suggest about £21bn. Add in the sort of insanely incompetent budgeting that saw HS2 go from £20bn to a predicted £85bn and you're probably easily looking in the £40-50bn range. And I'm not even sure if that figure includes the cost of cleaning up Beaufort's Dyke. Does that account for how much the pound will be worth post brexit?
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Bobby Deluxe posted:You just need a good title. UKMT is a brand, and we need to preserve it in case the mirror universe counterparts start their own podcast. I wouldn’t want to be confused with confirmed enemies of the
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Bobby Deluxe posted:You just need a good title. "Listening to us is Praxis"
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Sanitary Naptime posted:UKMT is a brand, and we need to preserve it in case the mirror universe counterparts start their own podcast. I wouldn’t want to be confused with confirmed enemies of the
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