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OwlFancier posted:The DVLA were not impressed with the photo I sent them for my license I tell you what. Improper use of a helmet HauntedRobot fucked around with this message at 09:03 on Aug 14, 2019 |
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:You're supposed to make sure the hair is swept back. Like a passport photo.
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Aug 14, 2019 09:01
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Aug 14, 2019 09:10
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Motorbikes are real fun if you drive them sensibly, and we should have them more in this country due to their lower footprint. But also all able drivers should have to do some sort of motorbike/road cyclist experience in order to get a driving licence I came off my bike when a bus was taking over a bus on a blind corner. This was in Vietnam though.... About 200m past a smashed up bus that 5 people had died in. Nobody is safe.
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Morning all, here's an utterly filthy groove https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj3gFN4XYHw BalloonFish posted:The idea of regimented factory labour with set tasks, work rate and hours and managerial oversight was wholly alien to many of these people. They saw their job at the Alfa plant in the same way they saw walking over to the next valley to spend a day clearing ditches - something they'd do if they needed the money and felt like working that day. Faced with wage labour (on generous rates), many workers would simply down tools at whatever point in the day they'd earned 'enough', and only work the first three days of the week. As was their norm, if there was work required on their farm they simply wouldn't go in to the factory - at best they'd follow their own protocol and send a family member in their place; a family member who was not an Alfa employee and had had no training. During the tomato harvest or wine making season as much as half the workforce simply wouldn't show up for days on end. Guavanaut posted:Been a while, but Radical Technologies by Adam Greenfield was interesting. Very anti-tech elite and technotarian lol, but not anti-tech. Ta for the recommendation, will look it up.
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Ratjaculation posted:Motorbikes are real fun if you drive them sensibly, There's your problem. Guy came off his bike right in front of my bus the other day, on the main street. Thankfully he wasn't hurt, but if the bus hadn't been stopping then he was dead.
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Aug 14, 2019 09:28
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CGI Stardust posted:
Yeah. Of course, the mistake they made was only hiring the men, who were used to being bosses supervising a labour force of a dozen or so women and children. Current Chinese capitalists are not so foolish, which is why iPhone factories have mostly female employees.
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Aug 14, 2019 09:45
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Ratjaculation posted:
You were lucky lol. Dozens of English tourists die in bike accidents in SE Asia every year. There's something about the culture there that encourages normally reasonably sensible people to knock back a few beers, hire a rattling deathtrap and zoom off helmetless into the insane city traffic in their protective shorts, t-shirt and flip flops.
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Aug 14, 2019 09:46
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"Having a chilled out time in Koh Samui with road rash, a shattered pelvis and no medical insurance  "
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Julio Cruz posted:or really in the summer, once everything's planted you're not doing too much more than sitting around waiting for it to grow (depending on the crop ofc) After everything is planted, you'd be pulling up weeds by the hand to make sure something actually worth harvesting emerged. I leave it to you to decide how much fun weeding two hectares by hand is ...
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Aug 14, 2019 10:01
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Niric posted:I mean, OK, but this is literally something that already exists: Yes but things Westminster does are bad and wrong and or dont exist you see and it's only good if Holyrood does it and furthermore
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Aug 14, 2019 10:03
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Eschenique posted:Didn't Thatcher specifically remove the citizenship of the people of Hong Kong (and all other territories outside the main islands) the last time things escalated out of fear of non-whites moving to the UK? Not British citizenship. Before the 1981 Nationality Act they had Citizenship of The United Kingdom and Colonies which was a bit different and removed by Thatcher then. The 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act has already made it so CUKCs who weren’t born in the UK or already living here had no automatic right to abode in the UK. I.e ethnic Chinese Hongkongers were kept out. 1981 Act didn’t change their situation substantially But it was an opportunity to change things for the better, and not doing so does seem to have sent the message that the UK didn’t care about them. When CUKC status was removed, some gained British citizenship, but it was explicitly “we don’t consider these guys so important” to give most the lesser British Dependent Territories / British Overseas citizenship statuses instead.
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Junior G-man posted:I leave it to you to decide how much fun weeding two hectares by hand is ... I've had a lot of fun weeding fields in the summer; it's enjoyable work in the sun, especially in a group. (e: You do know people do weeding in their leisure time, of their own accord, in land they have access to, right?) Oh dear me fucked around with this message at 10:22 on Aug 14, 2019 |
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Aug 14, 2019 10:19
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https://mobile.twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1161563464504156160 Deciding university admissions based on students' actual exam results, what a crazy idea!  I wasn't aware "predicted grades" were a thing in the UK before reading this. Jesus Christ.
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Cerv posted:Not British citizenship. Before the 1981 Nationality Act they had Citizenship of The United Kingdom and Colonies which was a bit different and removed by Thatcher then. that's actually genuinely pretty interesting, good post.
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Aug 14, 2019 10:24
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Pistol_Pete posted:... English tourists ... normally reasonably sensible people Does not compute
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Aug 14, 2019 10:26
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Loving the "what about the poor hard done by universities having to actually work based on grades rather than guesswork" in the comments.
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Aug 14, 2019 10:26
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Bardeh posted:
Little late to the party, but this guy is on dialysis. Without the NHS his lifespan will literally be the size of his wallet. Turkeys, Christmas etc.
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Aug 14, 2019 10:27
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Pistol_Pete posted:You were lucky lol. Dozens of English tourists die in bike accidents in SE Asia every year. There's something about the culture there that encourages normally reasonably sensible people to knock back a few beers, hire a rattling deathtrap and zoom off helmetless into the insane city traffic in their protective shorts, t-shirt and flip flops.  Oh dear me posted:I've had a lot of fun weeding fields in the summer; it's enjoyable work in the sun, especially in a group.  Cerv posted:CUKCs who weren’t born in the UK 
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Kassad posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1161563464504156160 Yep. And then there's the fact that markers will sometimes tweak your marks for a wrong answer if they believe it can push you into *just* getting the next grade up. Hence my A in biology by the exact number of points required and 0 more.
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Kassad posted:I wasn't aware "predicted grades" were a thing in the UK before reading this. Jesus Christ. Yeah its incredibly dumb. Which incidentally is roughly what my school said to ucas about me.
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Aug 14, 2019 10:32
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I learned yesterday that he briefly pretended to have a black grandpa in order to deflect accusations of racism until he severely undermined it by uploading a video of his dad playing one of his games and revealed him to definitely be a white guy.
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TBH I'm not sure if we wouldn't be better off just abolishing university. The obsession with qualifications is loving stupid. If you need training for something then it should be done vocationally if and when you need it, and if you want to just do academia that shouldn't be something you do as a mandatory part of being able to get a job.
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Kassad posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1161563464504156160 20 (!!) years ago, I was predicted a C for one of my A-Levels, which was actually very generous, considering how badly I'd hosed my end-of-Year-12 exams. It was in line with what my teachers would have expected me to get, mind you.
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Kassad posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1161563464504156160 Seems like a hell of a lot of work to dump on university admins during the one time of the year when all the academics aren't there tho. If it's even possible to get 2 million admissions done in the month or so between a level results and the start of term. Unless they're going to give everyone a year off between A levels and University, which would be great but would also need them to actually have something to do. In principle, it's a great idea, in practice I'm not sure how it would work, logistically.
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i was predicted something like AAB and got BCC. that'll show them for not accounting for my laziness
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OwlFancier posted:TBH I'm not sure if we wouldn't be better off just abolishing university. The obsession with qualifications is loving stupid. If you need training for something then it should be done vocationally if and when you need it, and if you want to just do academia that shouldn't be something you do as a mandatory part of being able to get a job. What am I going to do with all this student accommodation I've just built and was expecting exorbitant rent from though?
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Yeah its incredibly dumb. I don't know why I'm even surprised the UK would do something in a blatantly stupid way that just so happens to gently caress over the poor and ethnic minorities
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thespaceinvader posted:Seems like a hell of a lot of work to dump on university admins during the one time of the year when all the academics aren't there tho. If it's even possible to get 2 million admissions done in the month or so between a level results and the start of term. Looking into the proposals a bit more, it involves sitting A-levels earlier and first year uni students starting later
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Kassad posted:I don't know why I'm even surprised the UK would do something in a blatantly stupid way that just so happens to gently caress over the poor and ethnic minorities It's not designed that way, it's just that middle-class parents are more likely to harass teachers who predict Tristan will only get a B. It's only when it goes hand-in-hand with unconditional offers that the class bias really shows through
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 Are you telling me that university entrance is based on grades the system thinks you will get. Are you loving serious lmao. [e] I've lived here nearly five years and still run into inexplicable poo poo like this regularly. Saros fucked around with this message at 10:44 on Aug 14, 2019 |
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kingturnip posted:20 (!!) years ago, I was predicted a C for one of my A-Levels, which was actually very generous, considering how badly I'd hosed my end-of-Year-12 exams. I see your 20 years and raise you 42! I was predicted A for maths (no A* in those days) and got it. The other 8 girls predicted A got no higher than C. The only other person getting A had been predicted C. Some girls got F (ie lower than O-levels - which is what we did back then before GCSEs were born) so having got A (or whatever the top grade was then) for O-level maths and studying A-level maths for 2 years, they got LOWER than O? Wasn't just our school. Other schools had the same experience too. Didn't help that one of the questions on the paper was unsolvable so anyone who tried it lost a lot of time. I wrote 'this question is unsolvable' at the bottom and abandoned it. Others didn't. Exam papers were 3 hours long in those days (actually A-level maths were 3h15mins - you had to just read the paper for 15 mins and not write anything at the start), not these lightweight 1.5 hour things they do now.
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Saros posted:
The offer is based on that. Then you have to get it. Although not always.
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Z the IVth posted:Little late to the party, but this guy is on dialysis. Without the NHS his lifespan will literally be the size of his wallet. Turkeys, Christmas etc. Dialisys is one private healthcare firms hate offering too because it’s expensive, basically permanantly required and insurers quickly tire of receiving a 30 grand bill every week that is going to continue to arrive every week for 20 years.
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thespaceinvader posted:Seems like a hell of a lot of work to dump on university admins during the one time of the year when all the academics aren't there tho. If it's even possible to get 2 million admissions done in the month or so between a level results and the start of term. OwlFancier posted:TBH I'm not sure if we wouldn't be better off just abolishing university. The obsession with qualifications is loving stupid. If you need training for something then it should be done vocationally if and when you need it, and if you want to just do academia that shouldn't be something you do as a mandatory part of being able to get a job. At the moment though, they're possibly too structured, too isolated, and too based around "being useful". quote:At present, the universities are supposed to provide, in a more systematic way, what the leisure class provided accidentally and as a by-product. This is a great improvement, but it has certain drawbacks. University life is so different from life in the world at large that men who live in academic milieu tend to be unaware of the preoccupations and problems of ordinary men and women; moreover their ways of expressing themselves are usually such as to rob their opinions of the influence that they ought to have upon the general public. Another disadvantage is that in universities studies are organized, and the man who thinks of some original line of research is likely to be discouraged. Academic institutions, therefore, useful as they are, are not adequate guardians of the interests of civilization in a world where everyone outside their walls is too busy for unutilitarian pursuits. Maybe a world of part time university where you work as well and aren't expected to be 'useful' in your studies, so you can study precolonial Mesoamerican dance if that's what you like, would be a nice social balance while still producing academic output that is occasionally utilitarian.
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feedmegin posted:Yes but things Westminster does are bad and wrong and or dont exist you see and it's only good if Holyrood does it and furthermore It'd be less annoying and feel more like a genuine attempt at informing if the initial post wasn't literally just a recopied SNP/Scottish Government press release. If anything Coohoolin is even more propagandist than an honest-to-god government-funded communique, since he's morphed "specialist helpline service" into the grander-sounding "free expert advice"
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I see your 20 years and raise you 42! I am like I dunno a quarter of your age or something I think... didn't get an A for maths... and just lol at remembering what I got in school exams let alone what any of the questions were.
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OwlFancier posted:Loving the "what about the poor hard done by universities having to actually work based on grades rather than guesswork" in the comments. And also the "Labour want equality of outcome, which means no one will ever work again" replies
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All this talk of transport and my car has failed its Mot several times over. Whoo hoo (my wife can drive me to work instead). Also I just scrolled through the whole list of smileys to see if we had that Damien Sandown hand to face one for that ukip guy posted above, sadly we do not. But rest assured he really resembles a failed wrassler
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