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quote:In October 1989, around the time your parents were thinking of buying their first home, the average London property price stood at under £80,000. In 1985, one of my work colleagues bought a 4-bed terrace in Leytonstone for £29500. OK it needed doing up and she and her boyfriend only got a mortgage because he was a builder by trade, but that is probably worth £800-£900k now. Ed: 83 is apparently code for bisexual. (Who knew?) TOP DEFINITION 83 Cover-up term for bisexual. This is because of the periodic table of the chemical elements (chemistry): The 83rd element is Bismuth, which is abbreviated with "Bi". Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 00:03 on Oct 9, 2019 |
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Oct 9, 2019 00:07
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Newstatemen take on the big Spectator post from yesterday re No 10 and brexit:quote:
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2019/10/how-leaked-briefing-suggests-no-10-not-yet-nearing-reckless-no-deal-brexit TL:DR - not quite hosed yet but no unity government because Swinson won't play ball and Corbyn won't back down.
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Oct 9, 2019 00:07
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my mam sold a flat in london for £10k when she moved back up north and apparently due to its location and some peculiar features about it its now worth like £2m
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Oct 9, 2019 00:08
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Barry Foster posted:Grit my teeth and try to wait it out, usually. Try to accept rough patches happen and it's not my fault, and I can't necessarily talk myself out of moods, so just hang on. It's insane isn't it, our country is essentially going to commit political and economic suicide and nothing we do can prevent this from happening, can you even imagine the collective relief when our lives are ultimately claimed in the immediate melee that would result from brexit This really loving sucks and it's weighing on me heavily and what makes it harder to cope is that no matter how hard I prepare or scream the futility of our circumstance is immense in its magnitude and scope
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Oct 9, 2019 00:09
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Josef bugman posted:These last few days have been very tricky, not gonna lie. What does everyone else do when they feel themselves slipping back into bad ways of coping?
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Oct 9, 2019 00:10
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Jose posted:my mam sold a flat in london for £10k when she moved back up north and apparently due to its location and some peculiar features about it its now worth like £2m Lol our generation will never own their own loving house will it
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Oct 9, 2019 00:10
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gently caress off tom watson you massive oval office https://twitter.com/tom_watson/status/1181642678708195329?s=20
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Oct 9, 2019 00:14
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4 bed terrace in St Anne's Court, W1, £4.5m!! This little backwater used to house a fab Science Fiction bookshop called Dark They Were and Golden Eyed, and then that turned into a heavy metal record store called Shades. I was an avid customer of both these shops for years. Most of the residential buildings in St Anne's Court had 'french model upstairs' type notices on their doorbells. How the fallen have risen.
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Oct 9, 2019 00:18
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suck my woke dick posted:Concentration is actually good for sustainability, unless you have some super centralised megacity that still has people commuting for hours every day to the jobs in the center. Ah, you’ve been to São Paulo I see. winegums posted:https://twitter.com/EmmaKennedy/status/1181589905589329922 FBPEs are drawn from the white collar professional classes. In a structured office environment, which is where they spend 80% of the time they spend awake, successful people (a) observe social conventions; and (b) win arguments by pointing out inconsistencies. This is a shockingly bad way of understanding how to have mass scale political influence, which is to have a simple message that is repeated again and again, and to deny anything that conflicts with the message.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:4 bed terrace in St Anne's Court, W1, £4.5m!! Lol my mate used to have one of those flats after the vice squad/gentrification had moved on the brothels in the mid nineties - he was paying something like 100 quid a month which was both incredibly cheap for a place right in the middle of Soho and also incredibly expensive for what was basically a 10' by 10' room with a paper-thin divider down it between the "bedroom" and "kitchen". The bedroom had a toilet and a bidet in it though, so that was handy. TBH with flatscreen tellys and monitors I could probably live quite happily in that much space nowadays.
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Oct 9, 2019 00:34
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My family inherited 3 houses which lay in a row, over a hundreds years worth of family history in them all. We sold them a few years ago so my mum could a bungalow for her old age, these houses were 4 stories and so she couldn't get up the stairs half the time. Sold for £125k for all three as this is wasteland Northern Ireland and no one wants to live in sheep country. If they were I am renting now in cork city, they would be just hitting a million.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Lol my mate used to have one of those flats after the vice squad/gentrification had moved on the brothels in the mid nineties - he was paying something like 100 quid a month which was both incredibly cheap for a place right in the middle of Soho and also incredibly expensive for what was basically a 10' by 10' room with a paper-thin divider down it between the "bedroom" and "kitchen". The bedroom had a toilet and a bidet in it though, so that was handy. TBH with flatscreen tellys and monitors I could probably live quite happily in that much space nowadays. I spent around 20 years of my adult life living in that much space in assorted house shares, NHS and student accommodation in and around central London. Fortunately without the bathroom in the middle of the bedroom, but shared with a corridor full of other folks.
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Beefeater1980 posted:
The simple message that Brexit is a bad idea because it is run by the stupid and the corrupt, so we should not do it, may well be something you personally dislike, for whatever reason. But it is demonstrably highly effective\, competing with the massive right wing propaganda machine on equal terms in a way rarely achieved over the last few decades. It certainly leaves more nuanced and complicated positions trailing in the dust.
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radmonger posted:The simple message that Brexit is a bad idea because it is run by the stupid and the corrupt, so we should not do it, may well be something you personally dislike, for whatever reason. But it is demonstrably highly effective\, competing with the massive right wing propaganda machine on equal terms in a way rarely achieved over the last few decades. I'm not entirely sure that that approach is effective though, because it ultimately means people have to accept they were hoodwinked by the stupid and the corrupt. This is... not a thing human people tend to find easy to do.
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Oct 9, 2019 01:26
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Jose posted:gently caress off tom watson you massive oval office Damaging to your donors, you mean. gently caress right off. Give the rights back to BBC/ITV to show matches.
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njsykora posted:Premier League shocked that fans aren't willing to pay £45 a month to watch their team. Maybe the Premier League sides should be better with their money, live within their means & all that. Like, don't spunk £20m up on the wall for Oliver McBurnie, a striker with 16 EPL games to his name & 0 goals. The money floating about in English football is absurd and if they can't budget for it then nae oval office to blame but themselves.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Most of the residential buildings in St Anne's Court had 'french model upstairs' type notices on their doorbells. How the fallen have risen. It's because a property tycoon put pressure on the police to raid all those models under the guise of "rescuing trafficked women" so they could clean out the area around there and Berwick street so they could build a bunch of towers and hotels. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/11/soho-police-raids-sex-workers-fear-trafficking http://prostitutescollective.net/2014/01/the-soho-raids-what-really-happened/ https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/jul/25/saving-soho-battle-keep-berwick-street-market-independent https://stateofsoho.wordpress.com/2018/11/07/learning-lessons-from-berwick-st/
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I don't think Boris is going to seek a last second extension. I think he is going to force the no deal exit, then on November 1st call an election. With Britain out, the remain/exit debate will become moot and he'll be hoping that will kill a lot of the Lib Dem momentum, get the Tories re-elected and then be able to talk about how it's time to move on.
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Oct 9, 2019 05:23
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forkboy84 posted:Maybe the Premier League sides should be better with their money, live within their means & all that. Like, don't spunk £20m up on the wall for Oliver McBurnie, a striker with 16 EPL games to his name & 0 goals. The money floating about in English football is absurd and if they can't budget for it then nae oval office to blame but themselves. Sheff Utd could have bought a stadium of their own if they hadn't wasted all their money on Oliver McBurnie toast, you hate to see it
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Ms Adequate posted:I don't profess to know what the Queen actually intends to do, but if she decides that the Proper Way Things Are Done is that Joris has to go, I wouldn't be betting on him in that exchange. She has been a controlling sociopath far longer than he has.
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CGI Stardust posted:you wouldn't download a VAR I'm slowly working through my uncle's vinyl LPs (sorting out which ones I want to keep, and which ones can be dispensed with) and every so often I'll come across one with a sleeve that has "HOME RECORDING IS DESTROYING MUSIC" printed in bold. I prefer the ones with the lyrics printed on, to be honest. At least the band made some sort of effort.
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I vaguely remember the EU saying they wouldn't force no deal if Parliament was prorogued going into an election, as it would be seen as extenuating circumstances. Did I imagine that, or was that a thing? And if so, could the EU just give us an extension in response to Boris clearly trying to gently caress around? I feel like I'm probably being too optimistic
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Jose posted:gently caress off tom watson you massive oval office This tweet in support of more money for billionaires comes hot on the heels of Corbyn calling out Mike Ashley by name just a day earlier. Truly Watson is a man of the people, with his finger on the pulse of society.
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Oct 9, 2019 07:24
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Ms Fuchi posted:I vaguely remember the EU saying they wouldn't force no deal if Parliament was prorogued going into an election, as it would be seen as extenuating circumstances. Did I imagine that, or was that a thing? And if so, could the EU just give us an extension in response to Boris clearly trying to gently caress around? It's not their decision to make. An A50 extension has to be requested first, one can't be imposed unilaterally. Either Boris sends the letter or a GNU has to.
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xtothez posted:This tweet in support of more money for billionaires comes hot on the heels of Corbyn calling out Mike Ashley by name just a day earlier. It’s hilarious given that almost ten years ago, he was trying to set himself up as being the anti-copyright candidate with incredibly loud and angry speeches about the Digital Economy Act.
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Pound_Coin posted:It's because a property tycoon put pressure on the police to raid all those models under the guise of "rescuing trafficked women" so they could clean out the area around there and Berwick street so they could build a bunch of towers and hotels. Wow! I had no idea (re the sex workers) - shameful behaviour by the police. That is Egypt-standard policing. (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/12/defendants-cleared-cairo-bath-house-debauchery) TBH I thought Soho had been cleared of sex workers a lot earlier - Wardour St in particular.
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xtothez posted:It's not their decision to make. An A50 extension has to be requested first, one can't be imposed unilaterally. quote:“G” means that the message must be passed on, “N” means “not logged”, and “U” means the message should be turned around at the end of a line. quote:Pratchett’s 33rd Discworld novel, Going Postal, tells of the creation of an internet-like system of communication towers called “the clacks”. When John Dearheart, the son of its inventor, is murdered, a piece of code is written called “GNU John Dearheart” to echo his name up and down the lines. “G” means that the message must be passed on, “N” means “not logged”, and “U” means the message should be turned around at the end of a line. (This was also a realworld tech joke: GNU is a free operating system, and its name stands, with recursive geek humour, for “GNU’s not Unix”.) The code causes Dearheart’s name to be repeated indefinitely throughout the system, because: “A man is not dead while his name is still spoken.”
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Ash Crimson posted:It's insane isn't it, our country is essentially going to commit political and economic suicide and nothing we do can prevent this from happening, can you even imagine the collective relief when our lives are ultimately claimed in the immediate melee that would result from brexit Stop reading the news for a week or two.
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Or forever, news is shite, imo. Just read the thread and let the people with the specific kind of brain mutation that allows them to parse news to translate it into human for you.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Wow! I had no idea (re the sex workers) - shameful behaviour by the police. That is Egypt-standard policing. (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/12/defendants-cleared-cairo-bath-house-debauchery) Wait until you find out what West End Central were up to in the seventies. There's a reason Soho became quite so blatant a red light district and it's nothing at all to do with Netherlands-style tolerance.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Wait until you find out what West End Central were up to in the seventies. There's a reason Soho became quite so blatant a red light district and it's nothing at all to do with Netherlands-style tolerance. Care to tell us?
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Josef bugman posted:Care to tell us? Don't ask twisto to tell on himself
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xtothez posted:This tweet in support of more money for billionaires comes hot on the heels of Corbyn calling out Mike Ashley by name just a day earlier. Newcastle United has issued the following statement in response to recent comments made by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. quote:"We are disappointed by comments made by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn at the weekend regarding football governance and club ownership, in which he specifically attacked Newcastle United.
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