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forkboy84 posted:The entire process is entirely unable to cope with mental health. Well, in a way that deems people with mental health problems as worthy of basic decency. I get what you mean, but the system is actually coping exactly as intended. I have a physical health condition (which the DWP does not dispute) and I get all the same paragraphs about how I did not display my symptoms to my assessor and am therefore obviously fine most days and fit to work.
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The assessment process is very simple and easy to understand. Did you show up for your appointment? If no, then you're just lazy and your application is denied. If yes, then you're clearly functional and your application is denied.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:loving lol that liberal heart-throb Trudeau has just had to apologise twice in twenty-four hours for blacking up and has now issued a blanket "I have no idea how many times I did it" pre-emptive apology. Can't wait for the CIF pieces about how actually blackface isn't that big a deal and it's the left who are the real racists. Current argument seems to be: oh it was 2001, nobody in Canada knew blackface was wrong. Also (megathreads bleeding over), Scheer, the con leader, seemed less than genuine in his (‘Trudeau can’t lead’) response, prolly cause he hates queers like a lot.
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forkboy84 posted:Was about to go to bed, went to brush my teeth and noticed I'd carried a slug into the living room. And it had gone wild over a huge amount of the room for a slow beastie, leaving all its mucusy slime trail everywhere. I remember I was once attacked by a slug. Frankly, I was just impressed with its gumption.
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mediaphage posted:Current argument seems to be: oh it was 2001, nobody in Canada knew blackface was wrong. Also, out and out homophobes and bigots in his party can be forgiven so long as they say sorry but this doesn’t apply to Trudeau because
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Nah, it's a load of bullshit. The article intentionally divides ethnic minorities and the working class into two separate categories when the truth is that a large part of the working class is made up of ethnic minorities and it then goes on to use this to have a go at Labour on Brexit with no real justificating link. When you're calling Labour "a fanatical party of Remain" then you're being just as willfully deceitful as the Lib Dems.
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Yeah the Morning Star has the Lexit brainworms, as opposed to the FBPE ones.
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Sep 20, 2019 07:29
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Behold, the worst job spec in the world that I was sent actually sent yesterday:
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:Behold, the worst job spec in the world that I was sent actually sent yesterday: Osmeone sounds like an awesome new research chemical for maximum strength gains. I’ll also be lookig at osmeone.
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Last few pages have been interesting to read as I've been thinking along similar lines - I have two groups of friends. One group I've known for years, I can have a laugh with them but they sometimes have lovely views or do lovely things, generally they're quite self-destructive and their own worst enemy but I love them anyway. Another, newer group, are all really good people, they do work that helps other people, have healthy lifestyles and good opinions about things. But I also struggle as their sense of humour is quite different to mine - they're always quite reasonable and come up with other perspectives and so on. Basically I talk to them differently than I do my other group of friends. I want to be 'good' and more like the latter group, but in my heart I think I'm more like the former group. I like making horrible jokes and watching media that has that sensibility, but on the other hand hanging around with them has made me question if that behaviour is harmful in some way (if not to others, maybe to myself?). It's a fine line I guess.
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:Behold, the worst job spec in the world that I was sent actually sent yesterday: The extremely slick operation that apparently hasn't heard of proofreading.
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Cerebral Bore posted:The extremely slick operation that apparently hasn't heard of proofreading. By slick they mean covered in grease, so hitting the right keys is really difficult.
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"£25k is for most experienced" is what really makes me clench my teeth. I don't know what it's like outside London but within London £25k is not that far above a break-even wage. It's hosed that an "experienced" worker in anything would be paid just slightly more than what they need to live, but hey, we live in a grimdark hellscape where exploitation is the only law. Management strategy: pay everyone poo poo wages and use the slightly-less-poo poo wages of the most experienced staff as a carrot for everyone else and a stick for the more experienced. Purple Prince fucked around with this message at 08:02 on Sep 20, 2019 |
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Sep 20, 2019 07:57
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It's better than that marriot(?) "RED" hotel ad that just makes you want to throw up
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Purple Prince posted:"£25k is for most experienced" is what really makes me clench my teeth. National median wage is 23k or thereabouts, and with a company car that's not too bad taken in isolation (depending on how they handle the tax situation on the company car), it's everything else about the JD that raises red flags (and not the good kind that shroud our martyred dead)
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We've done this already this month, they're a fairly big London/Essex construction and demolition company, and it just proves the utter contempt the right wing has for ever even looking at working-class things that we're not arse-deep in lovely jokes about it.
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Interesting stuff in that thread. There's also this thread talking about the badness of their 'advice'. https://twitter.com/NoraReed/status/1174523272664215552 the whole thing is based on the idea that the only people who get abuse online are 'public figures' https://twitter.com/NoraReed/status/1174903592135749632 https://twitter.com/NoraReed/status/1174904792767877122 https://twitter.com/NoraReed/status/1174905578717499395  It's quite telling that as far as I've seen the only public figures they have criticised are David Lammy and Owen Jones, who they admonished for talking publicly about the abuse they get.
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forkboy84 posted:I used to fantasise of going to London, hanging around the DWP until Duncan Smith hosed off home for the day and committing suicide in some grand gesture. But eventually I realised it'd be a complete waste of time and he'd probably just feel satisfaction in a job well done. You could immolate yourself like a Vietnamese monk and he'd not blink an eye, maybe even take in a deep breathe to really savour the smell of cooking flesh. Lucy Parsons posted:Next winter when the cold blasts are creeping through the rents in your seedy garments, when the frost is biting your feet through the holes in your worn-out shoes, and when all wretchedness seems to have centered in and upon you, when misery has marked you for her own and life has become a burden and existence a mockery, when you have walked the streets by day and slept upon hard boards by night, and at last determine by your own hand to take your life — for you would rather go out into utter nothingness than to longer endure an existence which has become such a burden — so, perchance, you determine to dash yourself into the cold embrace of the lake rather than longer suffer thus. (Not horrendously radicalised by the coalition government.) Pesmerga posted:Yeah the Morning Star has the Lexit brainworms, as opposed to the FBPE ones.  justcola posted:Last few pages have been interesting to read as I've been thinking along similar lines - I have two groups of friends. One group I've known for years, I can have a laugh with them but they sometimes have lovely views or do lovely things, generally they're quite self-destructive and their own worst enemy but I love them anyway. Another, newer group, are all really good people, they do work that helps other people, have healthy lifestyles and good opinions about things. But I also struggle as their sense of humour is quite different to mine - they're always quite reasonable and come up with other perspectives and so on. Basically I talk to them differently than I do my other group of friends. Like nobody would talk to their parents, their boss, their friends down the WMC, their lover, their brother, and their nan in the exact same frame and way, or if they did they'd have the sort of relationship that would have Freud hiding behind a fern tree. I guess the big plus of this is a lot of people keep outing themselves as racists when they think they're in a racism safe space, but the downside is *gestures at social media toxicity*
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loving helllll the sheer amount of brainworms the Trudeau thing brought out of hiding. Apparently I’m overreacting and political correctness gone wild guys!
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justcola posted:Last few pages have been interesting to read as I've been thinking along similar lines - I have two groups of friends. One group I've known for years, I can have a laugh with them but they sometimes have lovely views or do lovely things, generally they're quite self-destructive and their own worst enemy but I love them anyway. Another, newer group, are all really good people, they do work that helps other people, have healthy lifestyles and good opinions about things. But I also struggle as their sense of humour is quite different to mine - they're always quite reasonable and come up with other perspectives and so on. Basically I talk to them differently than I do my other group of friends. Don’t feel bad about identifying with the lovely views group; everybody is wired to enjoy cheap shots and gossip and to hold regressive views at some level, that’s why they’re so pervasive. Immerse yourself in company where those things aren’t acceptable and ‘better’ viewpoints are discussed instead and those modes of thought will become habitual instead.
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Pochoclo posted:loving helllll the sheer amount of brainworms the Trudeau thing brought out of hiding. Apparently I’m overreacting and political correctness gone wild guys!  No actually this happened once and is just as racist which therefore excuses all blackface and Trudeau was just doing a traditional English morris dance as black pete and they took away our gollywogs off the marmalade even though we still let them have tim martin as a gross over-simplistic caricature of english and also let me tell you about Daine Abbotts.
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quote:One group I've known for years, quote:Another, newer group justcola posted:in my heart I think I'm more like the former group. e: beaten by tacd
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The solutions came when Calder Hall spooled up 60 years ago, but lol at the idea that billpayers will be paid anything rather than the owners of privatized utilities taking more home (tell Sid).
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How's that Extinction Rebellion plan of trusting the police working out, you ask? https://twitter.com/samjknights/status/1174780895598956544 ...not great
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:Behold, the worst job spec in the world that I was sent actually sent yesterday: Is this a job ad for a printer tech? If so may God have mercy on their souls
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Sosmoen was a good worker and he always liks mentors.
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ChairmanGoesWoof posted:How's that Extinction Rebellion plan of trusting the police working out, you ask? Why the hell do Labour delegates need to ask the police for permission to go to their own conference
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baka kaba posted:Why the hell do Labour delegates need to ask the police for permission to go to their own conference Because the police are called in to guard the conference and make sure someone doesn't bomb the damned place. It's a legacy of the Troubles.
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EmptyVessel posted:Boris Not-Godunov? Yes, there's your problem. You showed them your best day. You need to show them your worst.
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Darth Walrus posted:Because the police are called in to guard the conference and make sure someone doesn't bomb the damned place. It's a legacy of the Troubles. The press have overplayed their hand so far now that it's not like the headlines would be any worse than present if he literally got the 'ra to guard the Labour conference.
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