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Thanks for all the advice!JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Not sure how practical this is likely to be but you could possibly airbnb a cheap place for like a week to go flat hunting? That's the plan if I don't have anything sorted by mid-October, hoping it won't come to it because I really want to just get settled in as quick as possible. Miftan posted:Or just like a 3 month contract, I know there's a few of those knocking about. It's only a 6 month grant thing I'm on anyway so I doubt I'll be in London longer than that unless someone offers me money to do a postdoc at UCL or something. forkboy84 posted:I have never had a commute that short. But fine, Londoners are spoiled children, so what's another place with a funny name? Fond memories of my 1hr 45min each way commute to my old job before I got on the PhD gravy train that is now rapidly approaching the end of the line  Lord Ludikrous posted:So a few weeks ago I excitedly announced in this thread that I was going to be a dad. Sorry mate, my condolences
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My wife always got a kick of St. John's Wood on the Jubilee line. "That's not very saintly of him!"Lord Ludikrous posted:So a few weeks ago I excitedly announced in this thread that I was going to be a dad. I'm sorry mate, sending you virtual love.
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Lord Ludikrous posted:Thanks all, it’s really appreciated honestly. Sorry bud. Look after yourselves eh
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Julio Cruz posted:I mean if you want to spend 2 hours a day crammed into a stranger's armpit then you do you I guess Well yes, I'm doing me by not living in London. I suppose that might change if I win the Euromillions tonight (spoiler, I won't but some times false hope is better than none at all) but as it stands the odds of me living in Grozny are about the same as me living in London so funny names are far more important than realistic commutes.
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countdown to CORBYN TWEETS CHILLING STALINIST THREAT AGAINST FREE PRESS https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1174022528760721410
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I trusted the wrong fart at work today lads.
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communism bitch posted:I trusted the wrong fart at work today lads. That happened to me as a kid in school and no joke I just sat in my own poo poo for an hour and a half before I could go home rather than let anyone find out.
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ThomasPaine posted:That happened to me as a kid in school and no joke I just sat in my own poo poo for an hour and a half before I could go home rather than let anyone find out. 
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ThomasPaine posted:That happened to me as a kid in school and no joke I just sat in my own poo poo for an hour and a half before I could go home rather than let anyone find out. I was a little luckier than that. Taking a slash, went to fart, felt it squelch out between my arse cheeks. Froze up, negotiated my trousers and boxers to the ground, found (thankfully) that it hadn't touched cloth. Took a poo poo and cleaned myself up and went back to work. I have never felt so loving nasty tho. Naturally I had to share this with the internet.
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Lord Ludikrous posted:So a few weeks ago I excitedly announced in this thread that I was going to be a dad. Deepest deepest condolences, that’s an awful thing to handle. Hope you and your wife get through it as well as anyone can.
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OneSizeFitsAll posted:OK the abomination that is the US healthcare system is a big one, but on the flip side, isn't property generally a lot cheaper over there, due to the amount of space they have? I've certainly been led to believe this is the case. Consumer goods seem generally cheaper too, with the price figure being the same in dollars there as it is in pounds here. Go house shopping in Silicon Valley or NYC and see where that gets you. Houses in backwater Nebraska are cheap, but the same is true of the grottiest areas of Grimsby. Bear in mind consumer goods (and indeed e.g. food) prices are shown without sales tax whereas ours bake in VAT; granted theirs more usually run at like 6% than 20%. Having lived in both countries, I didn't notice food being hugely cheaper there with the possible exception of meat.
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These slice of life details are what make the UKMT pop Referring to ober making GBS threads himself ofc
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lol I thought this poo poo only happened to people who have Crohn's disease like me
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Andrast posted:lol I thought this poo poo only happened to people who have Crohn's disease like me Too much coffee, too much cigarettes, and too bad of a diet will do it too, apparently.
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communism bitch posted:I was a little luckier than that. Taking a slash, went to fart, felt it squelch out between my arse cheeks. Froze up, negotiated my trousers and boxers to the ground, found (thankfully) that it hadn't touched cloth. Took a poo poo and cleaned myself up and went back to work. I have never felt so loving nasty tho. Naturally I had to share this with the internet. I had to replace the cushions on my chair last time that happened. Fortune favours you goonsir.
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Also cheery news as autistic man found dead in flat, 9 months after benefits were cut off (content warning for suicide). Apparently a note on his computer said he didn't have the strength to fight any more. Not only that, but social workers had been telling his parents that he didn't want to see them, so they were unable to intervene on his behalf. This is exactly the kind of poo poo the podcast was discussing. They want sick and vulnerable people to die and stop being a burden on the system.
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Also that time when I was 15 and had appendicitis and had to do a big ol' hot chocolate high velocity into the bin in my room.
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Julio Cruz posted:For Kensington my first thought would be to look around in the Putney area Putney was also the site of the Putney Debates and is thus obviously a Correct place to live.
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communism bitch posted:Too much coffee, too much cigarettes, and too bad of a diet will do it too, apparently. Next time be sure you're close to a convenient train platform
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Also cheery news as autistic man found dead in flat, 9 months after benefits were cut off (content warning for suicide). At this point I really would settle for just seeing IDS and his ilk tried and strung up from the top of grenfell tower, don't care what else a labour government achieves as long as they can manage that.
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Andrast posted:lol I thought this poo poo only happened to people who have Crohn's disease like me Jack Leach, is that you? (I just read that about him on Wiki, must be inconvenient to have to stand on a cricket field all day)
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ThomasPaine posted:Does anyone have any advice for flat hunting in London? I'm due to be moving down the first week of November so I've been looking at Rightmove and all the rest of it. Found a really nice little studio within my budget in an area I've been told is decent, right next to a tube station - perfect! Only I called the lettings agent and they were all 'November! Ha! Landlord won't be waiting that long my friend!'. That's like what, a month and a half? I know the London rental market is exploitative and apathetic as gently caress, but jesus am I supposed to find a flat, get all the paperwork sorted, get the lease signed, and move in within the space of like a week? Is it more reasonable to maybe start calling places at the start of October? In past experience the process of calling the landlord to moving in has taken at least a few weeks minimum. This is a loving headache I cba with while I'm trying to finish my bloody thesis. ThomasPaine posted:Kensington. I don't mind a commute though so as long as I'm relatively close to any tube line and can get in within maybe 30-40mins I'm cool. ThomasPaine posted:It's only a 6 month grant thing I'm on anyway so I doubt I'll be in London longer than that unless someone offers me money to do a postdoc at UCL or something. If you're on your own, find a room on spareroom.co.uk or similar. That aside, I have some code for finding the cheapest rent for a given commute in London. For a commute to Kensington High Street, it recommends North Greenwich. 25 mins, most of it on the Jubilee (a good line). Greenwich has gentrified a bunch since I wrote the thing in 2013 though, so maybe it isn't still as much of a deal.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Also cheery news as autistic man found dead in flat, 9 months after benefits were cut off (content warning for suicide). quote:They had battled for six years to see him after he told his social workers during an assessment that he did not wish contact with his family. Because whatever he's thinking would happen, what he's asking for amounts to "the state should have more leeway to overrule the consent of the people they want dead" and I can't see much good coming out of that.
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coffeetable posted:If you're on your own, find a room on spareroom.co.uk or similar. I would really much prefer my own space tbh. I'm just old enough now that living with a bunch of flatmates seems more frustrating than fun.
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I have an alright house in a nice enough area of a bad town, and my commute is 30 minutes door to door. e; tbh the only issue with this town versus other ones is it's not old so it's not got all the fancy old expensive homes.
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coffeetable posted:If you're on your own, find a room on spareroom.co.uk or similar. you could also try openrent.co.uk which usually cuts out agents
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Also cheery news as autistic man found dead in flat, 9 months after benefits were cut off (content warning for suicide). quote:“If the DWP are not going to understand that my condition is immutable, then I am not going to play along,” he added. And then he hanged himself, playing along with the DWP entirely. I don't know what kind of psychopath you have to be to work there these days.
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Acton has a healthy goon population it seems... Goon meet at the G&D? So sorry to hear the other thread news. It's ok to not be ok. Zalakwe fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Sep 17, 2019 |
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So I know one or two of you enjoy the odd snippets from wok that I post every now and again. I've been dealing with a lot of 17th C papers from the Court of Chivalry lately, and among them are records of cases involving a Katherine de la Haye, who really didn't seem to get on with her neighbour Mr Lydsey.quote:Petition of Katherine, wife of Captain John de la Hay. She went to an orchard called the quote:Deposition of Katherine de la Haye of Kingston-upon-Thames [co. Surrey], and James Blisse, I just really like the inventiveness of some of the insults, so here are one or two more: quote:Petition of John Prichard, gent., a groom of His Majesty's chamber. Recites that John Thomas quote:Petition of Thomas White of St. Dunstan in the West, London, esq. Recites that he is quote:Petition of John Aston 'by his Birth a Gentleman and discended of the Anncient Family of the quote:Petition of Mrs Eliz: Peirse, widow, that Walter Rowlestone called her ' base-slutt, and saying Thank you for reading my post.
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thank u idle based queane.
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That Italian Guy posted:Also in the US it's normal to get out of college with a 100k+ student loan debt, so you're paying a mortgage-like monthly payment from the get go, on top of your mortgage or rent and other mandatory expenses (like insurance, bills and groceries). It's normal here to get out of college with £50k of debt - https://university.which.co.uk/advice/student-finance/how-much-debt-will-i-actually-get-into-by-going-to-university - so it's not like it's that much better over here (both places allow income-based deferments, though).
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mehall posted:I have an alright house in a nice enough area of a bad town, and my commute is 30 minutes door to door. i live in the carcass of northern industry five minutes away from my job, it's great. gently caress cities.
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CoolCab posted:i live in the carcass of northern industry five minutes away from my job, it's great. gently caress cities. I work in the city centre of Glasgow, and it's great.
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Wachter posted:I have to stifle a laugh every time the DLR stops at Mudchute The best thing is the name isn't one of those "Oh in 1227 it was owned by the Comte de Middeshoote" things that you normally get with place names - when they dug out the docks, they got rid of the spoil by pushing it down a chute into the lower-laying marshy areas south and east of the docks. They called the chute the mud chute, and the name then stuck to the area they'd dumped the mud (as did everything else). Then when they needed to put all the mud they dredged up from around the dock entrances once they were running, well it's already called Mudchute, why not put it there?
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Lord Ludikrous posted:So a few weeks ago I excitedly announced in this thread that I was going to be a dad. Echoing everyone else's sympathies and kind words. I wish I knew what else to say.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:The best thing is the name isn't one of those "Oh in 1227 it was owned by the Comte de Middeshoote" Comtes/counts/comes are a Carolingian thing, we never had them over here 
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feedmegin posted:It's normal here to get out of college with £50k of debt - https://university.which.co.uk/advice/student-finance/how-much-debt-will-i-actually-get-into-by-going-to-university - so it's not like it's that much better over here (both places allow income-based deferments, though). Unless you come from *social liberal paradise Scotland*. But seriously, I'm in England these days and I'd love to think about a post-grad then realise I could never afford that and/or not manage with the anxiety of a loan.
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