Strom Cuzewon posted:

My rule of thumb is that acronyms don't actually exist.

Occasionally I'll get caught out, and something actually is an acronym, but the odds are very much in my favour.

Guavanaut posted:

THUMB actually means Thumb Headed Unionist Male Brexiteer.

The thumb in that means the same thing.

Strom Cuzewon posted:

My rule of thumb is that acronyms don't actually exist.

Occasionally I'll get caught out, and something actually is an acronym, but the odds are very much in my favour.

quote:

Swinson confirms suspect package sent to office

“I can confirm that a suspect package was this morning delivered to Jo Swinson’s Parliamentary office," a spokesperson for her says.

“The staff immediately notified the police who attended and have now assessed the package as non-suspicious," they add.

Red Oktober posted:

Farage is on the BBC announcing that the Brexit Party will be contesting 600 seats.

xtothez posted:

Red Oktober posted:

Farage is on the BBC announcing that the Brexit Party will be contesting 600 seats.

xtothez posted:

What the gently caress Lib Dems? If you're contradicting yourself in literally the next loving sentence of a public statement then maybe you don't need to be making a public statement?

xtothez posted:

Perhaps Farage has realised that if he splits the vote and gets a Remain / referendum supporting government in, he can keep the grift going for much longer than if Brexit just happens in a couple of months.

Julio Cruz posted:

99% of the claims that a certain word derives from an acronym (almost always swears or other slang) are bollocks

sebzilla posted:

TIARA Is A Recursive Acronym

ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:

It was a Lib Dem membership request form, you can see their confusion

Julio Cruz posted:

acronyms are a relatively very recent invention - RADAR was one of the first commonly used ones and that was invented the 1940s

99% of the claims that a certain word derives from an acronym (almost always swears or other slang) are bollocks

Rustybear posted:

A market where one option is 10/11 and the other 100/1 is really bad for the bookies as nobody will bother with either the dead cert that pays nothing or the longshot that will never come good.

xtothez posted:

What the gently caress Lib Dems? If you're contradicting yourself in literally the next loving sentence of a public statement then maybe you don't need to be making a public statement?


Perhaps Farage has realised that if he splits the vote and gets a Remain / referendum supporting government in, he can keep the grift going for much longer than if Brexit just happens in a couple of months.

quote:

Momentum seeks ‘Labour legends’ to take a week off to campaign

Leftwing group launches election strategy after raising £250,000 in record time

Julio Cruz posted:

99% of the claims that a certain word derives from an acronym (almost always swears or other slang) are bollocks

ronya posted:

employee-side flexibility is the conventional meaning of "flexible working hours" in formal/academic contexts (e.g.)

employer-side flexibility is generally called on-call work or "variable working hours", but there is no particular guarantee of consistent usage

in the context of Moore's article that HDS quotes, it probably has the conventional meaning in mind - employee-side flexible hours and and the employee's discretion in remote work for "normal" days.

Even so, it's worth being aware that this does come at a cost to employees who do not value these aspects of a workplace. It is piecework pay for knowledge workers, since a workplace that invests in flexible work hours necessarily finds other ways to assess employee contributions besides being present at a worksite to take orders from management, and these metrics are then applied to workers who do not take up flextime anyway - in English, for example, a project team might be expected to meet certain project milestones on time but retain discretion over how/when they show up to do so; the milestones are then set assuming a broadly 40 hour week. The employee is then taking on the managerial duty of managing themselves to meet those milestones, and this would remain true whether or not one leverages those flexible hours. This would be annoying if what one instead expects from work is to perform pre-specified tasks for pre-specified hours in a day, and have management entirely own the responsibility for making sure those tasks translate into revenues.

team overhead smash posted:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/04/labours-momentum-raises-250000-in-six-days-to-fight-election



I've got a week's holiday I can take and already have my Christmas holiday sorted. Think I'm gonna do it.

Mods plz create and then give me a labour legends gang tag.

Tsietisin posted:

This would be really bad for bookies as the would be no way for a punter to lose money.

Put £110 on the 10/11 shot
Put £2 on the 100/1

Total outlay £112. Minimum return is £202 no matter the result.

It's why you will never see these odds together on a 2 horse race.

Comrade Fakename posted:

Unfortunately Slack has a limit of nine people in a chat, and the the Secret Goon Cru chat is now full. If someone who knows more about Slack than I do can convince me that I can do it without the higher-ups knowing about it, I might look into making a private channel.

Bardeh posted:

So having never really paid much attention to the media during elections before, why is it that TV stations have to adhere to a stricter set of rules regarding impartiality, but newspapers don't?

Bardeh posted:

So having never really paid much attention to the media during elections before, why is it that TV stations have to adhere to a stricter set of rules regarding impartiality, but newspapers don't?

Junior G-man posted:

Look who slithered out of his haunted mansion:


Shut. The. gently caress. Up. Tony.

Bardeh posted:

So having never really paid much attention to the media during elections before, why is it that TV stations have to adhere to a stricter set of rules regarding impartiality, but newspapers don't?

Rustybear posted:

do they have to stump up for their own deposits?