CoolCab posted:

here i am an english person better name this hot new taste craze that's sweeping the globe in which you take a potato, and you chip it, and then you fry it. of course: crisps! better pour myself a new pot of warm and maybe have some square, mmm!

Ratjaculation posted:

Ratjaculation posted:

Jose posted:

*in brexiter voice* gently caress off back to Canada

jammyozzy posted:

Hi all, I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction with a work hours issue my mum is having?

She is contracted for, and has been paid, 20 hours a week with her company for the last few months. However several weeks have gone by where she hasn't been given 20 hours worth of work, and all of a sudden her line manager is insisting she 'owes' like 80+ hours back.

This is clearly horseshit, but I'm not in any way a contract expert and cannot prove why it's horseshit. Where is her best place to go for advice? I was going to suggest she take a copy of her contract to Citizens Advice and sought guidance there, is that a good idea or is there something better she can do?

crispix posted:

crispix posted:

Any of y'all know what this guy is? I know some of you take to do with insects and that. I have been keeping my windows closed because of the huge number of incredibly aggressive wasps in my area at the moment. One still got into the kitchen through a vent yesterday and set about dive bombing my head until one of us met our end by way of a rolled up newspaper. I would generally try to shoo even wasps out the window but like I say, these ones this year seem like they have no other interest but diving stingy arse first at other creatures. I opened the bathroom curtains this morning and this guy here zoomed down straight onto my NUDE rear end and I batted it off thinking it was a wasp. I realised I wasn't stung though, and despite being the most satanic looking insect I have ever seen this guy was very docile. I put him in the glass and put him outside. I kind of hope we have a cold autumn this year :/

jammyozzy posted:

Hi all, I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction with a work hours issue my mum is having?

She is contracted for, and has been paid, 20 hours a week with her company for the last few months. However several weeks have gone by where she hasn't been given 20 hours worth of work, and all of a sudden her line manager is insisting she 'owes' like 80+ hours back.

This is clearly horseshit, but I'm not in any way a contract expert and cannot prove why it's horseshit. Where is her best place to go for advice? I was going to suggest she take a copy of her contract to Citizens Advice and sought guidance there, is that a good idea or is there something better she can do?

Bobby Deluxe posted:

I was thinking about this yesterday after hearing Chapo talking about Toby Young's recollection of seeing Boris Johnson at an Oxford debate society.

I think that the alt right are aware of debating technique, but are aware that there are arguments that are barred from formal debates as either bad practice, logical fallacies or unfair because everyone knows that philosophers haven't come up with answers for that yet.

But outside of debate societies these techniques work. Nobody penalises you for ad hominems or strawmen in the real world, and most seasoned debaters are unprepared to deal with them because they require long complicated explainations.

So I think in a way, alt righters have been studying the places that formal debates won't go, and using them in arguments outside of debating structures.

Which makes their favourite attention grabbing technique of 'debate me' really loving disingenuous, since if they were debating in a formal setting with adjudicators and rules, their particular blend of moral relativism would be torn to shreds.

quote:

He did not rule out the Labour party officially being neutral in any second referendum on Brexit. Labour has said it would go into a general election promising a referendum on Brexit, with voters given the choice between backing remain and a credible leave option. McDonnell said he personally would campaign for remain. But asked if he would be happy for the party as a whole to be “agnostic” on the issue, McDonnell replied:

That’s one of the issues we’ve got to debate in the party. You know our democratic processes. I know people get frustrated with this ... but we’re a democratic party.

quote:

Q: Could Labour remain neutral in a second referendum on Brexit?
Corbyn says he wants to bring people together. There has to be an understanding of why particular communities voted leave. He is offering policies that would transform society, he says.
He says Labour would make sure people have the final say and the final choice.

Corbyn refuses to rule out Labour officially remaining neutral in a second referendum on Brexit held after a general election.

quote:

Boris Johnson claims he is 'confident' EU will shift its position on backstop
Boris Johnson has been speaking to broadcasters on a visit to the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro, where he has been promoting measures to increase the number of parents getting their children vaccinated. Here are the key points he has been making.

Johnson claimed he remained “confident” that the EU would shift its position on the Northern Ireland backstop, allowing a Brexit deal to be agreed before 31 October. Asked about planning for no deal, he said:

quote:

I’m not going to suggest that there won’t be - as I said on the steps of Downing Street - there may well be bumps in the road but we will be ready to come out on October 31 deal or no deal.

Now of course our friends and partners on the other side of the Channel are showing a little bit of reluctance at the moment to change their position.

That’s fine - I’m confident that they will - but in the meantime we have to get ready for a no deal outcome.

I want a deal. We’re ready to work with our friends and partners to get a deal but if you want a good deal for the UK, you must simultaneously get ready to come out without one.

It is hard to see why Johnson is confident that the EU will back down because European leaders have been saying, almost unanimously and ad nauseam, that they are not willing to renegotiate the withdrawal agreement.

Coohoolin posted:

I was gonna post something snarky about going back to "constructive ambiguity" but it seems to have been a rather tenuous headline. Still not super great, mind.

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...obox=1566204278

thespaceinvader posted:

See also, eyes (pun intended).

EVery part of healthcare should be free at point of use.

The fact that teeth and eyes are accepted as excluded from that is one of the biggest victories for creeping privatisation.

OwlFancier posted:

That's literally how a referendum is supposed to work, though? Why call one if the officiating body wants one of the outcomes to win?

A referendum is when you have two options that you're willing to do so you ask everyone which one they want.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

And ears in many areas now! My GP won't syringe ears anymore and I need it doing annually. One of my friends needs hers dewaxing 2-3 times a year.
I have to pay £40 a go to have it done privately because the waiting list for the hospital is 6 months!!
Imagine if you have something like that which is so unnecessarily detrimental and mentally draining to your life that is sort outable in 10 minutes or so.
I'm fortunate that I can chuck my credit card at it.
For a few years I was able to do it myself with hot water and a syringe but for the last 3 years that hasn't worked and I've needed the machine in the audiologists.

(And no, ramming my ears full of olive oil has never done anything but make matters worse before anyone suggests it.)

Coohoolin posted:

Sure maybe but do you see this playing well with the public given what we've seen so far?

thespaceinvader posted:

Hearing aids, too. My wife gets hers on the NHS because her condition is lifelong and genetic but an awful lot of people just buy them and the batteries for them which is pretty bad.

Viruswithshoes posted:

Crisp status: God tier

CoolCab posted:

here i am an english person better name this hot new taste craze that's sweeping the globe in which you take a potato, and you chip it, and then you fry it. of course: crisps! better pour myself a new pot of warm and maybe have some square, mmm!

Coohoolin posted:

I was gonna post something snarky about going back to "constructive ambiguity" but it seems to have been a rather tenuous headline. Still not super great, mind.

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...obox=1566204278

Coohoolin posted:

Sure maybe but do you see this playing well with the public given what we've seen so far?

Sanitary Naptime posted:

Seriously though, it’s a good thing that they’re allowing it to play out, and it’s right that the party has a chance to have a say on how it goes when the party is in a position to do what it decides.

Coohoolin posted:

I was gonna post something snarky about going back to "constructive ambiguity" but it seems to have been a rather tenuous headline. Still not super great, mind.

Sanitary Naptime posted:

Square sausage is a thing, how dare you

Jose posted:

Ok so actually it's austerity to blame for measles coming back

https://twitter.com/imbadatlife/status/1163422596630765569?s=19

Borrovan posted:

Considering the only realistic way to have a second referendum is to negotiate a deal to put to it, it seems a bit absurd to say "we'd definitely campaign against our own deal that we plan to negotiate", no? imo a genuine good faith effort to negotiate the least worst deal possible and then an official neutrality policy whilst allowing MPs to campaign however the hell they want in a deal vs remain referendum is basically as Remain-ey as a realistic policy of Government can get without actually revoking A50 or negotiating a deal in bad faith, knowing that you'll campaign against it

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Labour party chat: Just had a reminder to vote for Conference Arrangements Committee.
Any recommendations who I should vote for?

Borrovan posted:

Seema Chandwani and Billy Hayes

Seem to remember that they look best from the candidate statements anyway, but that's the Momentum slate
e: & the Labour left kinda needs to keep presenting a united front in these things until the right learns that they cannot win, and we can go to actually picking candidates on their merit rather than having to check and double check which candidate in this socialist party is actually a socialist

e2: & since I seem to remember you posting something about Wales before: it's Shahien Taj for PCC if you happen to live in South Wales

OwlFancier posted:

The momentum slate has like 90% of the CLP nominations as well.

Borrovan posted:

Considering the only realistic way to have a second referendum is to negotiate a deal to put to it, it seems a bit absurd to say "we'd definitely campaign against our own deal that we plan to negotiate", no? imo a genuine good faith effort to negotiate the least worst deal possible and then an official neutrality policy whilst allowing MPs to campaign however the hell they want in a deal vs remain referendum is basically as Remain-ey as a realistic policy of Government can get without actually revoking A50 or negotiating a deal in bad faith, knowing that you'll campaign against it

crispix posted:

NUDE rear end