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Strom Cuzewon posted:My rule of thumb is that acronyms don't actually exist. The thumb in that means the same thing. e: In 1943 Abbott Laboratories requested approval for methamphetamine to be sold for the treatment of a number of ailments, including hay fever. These were later recanted, however less active l-methamphetamine is still used in some Vicks' VapoInhalers.
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Guavanaut posted:THUMB actually means Thumb Headed Unionist Male Brexiteer. TIARA Is A Recursive Acronym
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 15:14 |
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Farage is on the BBC announcing that the Brexit Party will be contesting 600 seats.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 15:20 |
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Strom Cuzewon posted:My rule of thumb is that acronyms don't actually exist. 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
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quote:Swinson confirms suspect package sent to office 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? Red Oktober posted:Farage is on the BBC announcing that the Brexit Party will be contesting 600 seats. 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.
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It was a Lib Dem membership request form, you can see their confusion
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 15:26 |
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She was sent some non-LD electoral projections.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 15:29 |
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Red Oktober posted:Farage is on the BBC announcing that the Brexit Party will be contesting 600 seats. So what's going to be the big effect of this do you think? Trump and Farage, the gammon duo are both disparaging Boris for the Brexit situation but the Tories remain fairly popular from what I see regardless? Do people who have to suffer through gammon media notice people turning on Boris at all?
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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? Initially it appeared to be the offer of an electoral pact with no strings attached. On later examination of the reverse side of the paper it did indeed have the expected list of principles for the Lib Dems to chuck out the window, so it was non-suspicious. 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. I'd absolutely believe this, Farage's entire grift is being nearly able to Brexit.
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Julio Cruz posted:99% of the claims that a certain word derives from an acronym (almost always swears or other slang) are bollocks Aha, Based On Lazy Laconicization Of Commonly Known Sayings? Interesting.
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sebzilla posted:TIARA Is A Recursive Acronym GNU's Not UNIX WINE Is Not an Emulator The Hurd in GNU Hurd stands for "Hird of Unix-replacing Daemons", and the hird in that stands for "Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth" Open source engineers are word nerds.
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:It was a Lib Dem membership request form, you can see their confusion
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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 But yeah, there must be a million "hey did you know what gently caress means?" drifting around there, and they're all wrong, because fokking exists in most Germanic dialects (except in Dutch, where a kippenfokker would be a chicken farmer, but something very different in Afrkiaans). It definitely means Found Under Chuka's Knob though.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 15:34 |
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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. 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.
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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? *reads first paragraph* yes *reads second paragraph* also yes
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/04/labours-momentum-raises-250000-in-six-days-to-fight-electionquote:Momentum seeks ‘Labour legends’ to take a week off to campaign 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.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 15:39 |
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Julio Cruz posted:99% of the claims that a certain word derives from an acronym (almost always swears or other slang) are bollocks I had a fun five minutes explaining what a quango was to one of my German colleagues this morning. Quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation, i.e pay people a stupid salary to sit around and have a bureaucratic circle jerk. I wanted to post the lib Dem thing earlier, but it seemed insensitive to say that the lib dems were trying to fake it up for attention because nobody really cares enough about them to send anthrax. E: Contrast that to McDonnels casual 'oh yeah I get two death threats a week on average' comment from earlier. RockyB fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Nov 4, 2019 |
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ronya posted:employee-side flexibility is the conventional meaning of "flexible working hours" in formal/academic contexts (e.g.) Indeed, so employees having more agency in the matter of flexible and from-home working will reduce the phenomenon of bullshit jobs, in which as you say people are mostly judged on whether they turn up, not whether they do any work. Those employees who wish to could possibly also get a pay bump for managing themselves.
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Sadly I'm not allowed holidays at this time of year so I'm just volunteering when I can shuffle it around work.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 15:43 |
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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?
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team overhead smash posted:https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/04/labours-momentum-raises-250000-in-six-days-to-fight-election I've only got 2.5 hours of holiday left to take, going to run about town in the afternoon of the 12th doing GOTV stuff I think. Work from home on the 13th to deal with election night insomnia/hangover.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 15:46 |
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Penis PenisPenis isn't seeking reelection! He's going to have a baby with his Spectator journalist girlfriend.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 15:46 |
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*five seconds later* We regret to inform you the baby is also racist.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 15:47 |
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Tsietisin posted:This would be really bad for bookies as the would be no way for a punter to lose money. I'm going to pretend i wasn't imagining a two horse race and not that i just post post post! without thinking about the numbers.
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His girlfriend is Isobel Hardman, so if they got married and they double-barrelled their name he would evolve into... Penis Penis-PenisPenis. The world is not ready for this.
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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. Its free tier slack so exports cant be done on demand theres stuff around using the api export data but i believe its public channels only by default
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 15:50 |
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I desperately want John Woodcock-Hardman to become a thing.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 15:54 |
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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? As I recall they cried that equal time would make all their front pages less sensational and kill their sales. All the more reason to do it, imo
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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? Traditionally we've never had statutory regulation of printed media (apart from for obscene materials). I think the coincidence of timing of radio and TV both coming to mass-market adoption not long after world wars, which were the few times that the Press (and public) were accepting of mass censorship, as well as our first broadcaster on both being State-controlled, means that there was far less pushback against regulation once the private sector got involved.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 15:58 |
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All 4 sales that they currently have. Went up to Edinburgh and no-one I know has suffered a fatal calamity, so that was good. Also talked to my oldest friends about stuff so that was nice.
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Junior G-man posted:Look who slithered out of his haunted mansion: I was right all along and this country's drift Torywards has nothing to do with the fact that I ran it for a decade! Also I think it's a good thing compared to Dread Corbynism!
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Harman says she'll create a new deputy speaker role for a "minority party" Surely that'll mostly just have the effect of limiting their voting impact? Lab/Con can soak the loss of a single seat up and it's effectively paired by the other deputies, but if Plaid (for example) gave 1/4 of their seats up it seems like a pretty bad deal for them.
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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? Paper is cheap, any old idiot can print a newspaper. Historically the airwaves have been a limited resource, so it's considered important that what goes out on them has standards.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 16:18 |
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https://twitter.com/peterwalker99/status/1191369565248380928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw lol
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 16:19 |
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do they have to stump up for their own deposits?
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 16:22 |
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First ballot result should be around 16:15 or so for Speaker
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Goodbye, Penis PenisPenis https://twitter.com/JWoodcockMP/status/1191352598147878913
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Rustybear posted:do they have to stump up for their own deposits? Probably. Did you hear about the process of becoming a PPC for the BP? You literally submitted like £300 and your details to the Brexit Party website, and then wait to hear back. Most people who applied this way did not get the chance to run, and in fact Farage just parachuted in his mates to favourable seats lmao
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 16:24 |
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And people thought he was ever only going to contest 20 seats lol
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I'm from the area and at a cursory glance the new candidate seems to be a good egg? He was born in Furness at least.
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