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OwlFancier posted:That's her yep. Spent the last several years doing little but whinge about the leadership and the party for self promotion. Fan of jacob rees mogg. Guavanaut posted:It was never proven to be a lie, but that's likely only because Diane gets so much abuse from stupid lovely pricks that she doesn't memorize every time some edgy chancer does it. Still, imagine trying to score cool points with that anecdote. EDIT: 13, a baker's dozen. bessantj fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Jan 3, 2020 |
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Pesky Splinter posted:"As a working class who grew up on council pop, I find it shameful that members of my own party voted against the Tory 'Kill the Poor Act 2020'. It's bad that the Tories do want to kill the poors, but as I discussed in conversation with my BFF Jacko Moggs, we really should know our place as social inferiors. Also Babs."
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https://twitter.com/billoislove/status/1213177323131953153 lol looks like being a piece of poo poo wrecker does not, in fact, stop the right from smearing you anyways
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Noswaith dda goons. Does anyone have any advice on joining a Union? It's one of the things I should have done a while ago but decided for it to be one of my new years resolutions. I'm in Cardiff but does anyone have any recommendations? I'm a bit green on the area - I know what a union is but not the actual workings of joining. Unite is about 10 minutes from my current work place (being made redundant in April was my Christmas present from them) so might work as a starting point.
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RottenK posted:https://twitter.com/billoislove/status/1213177323131953153 Ayup. https://twitter.com/solhugheswriter/status/1213043859510505473?s=21
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Bardeh posted:Talking about the BBC and linguistics made me remember the BBC Pidgin service they started a couple of years ago. I tore a rubber with a trans superhero once.
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Flipswitch posted:Noswaith dda goons. Does anyone have any advice on joining a Union? It's one of the things I should have done a while ago but decided for it to be one of my new years resolutions. I'm in Cardiff but does anyone have any recommendations? I'm a bit green on the area - I know what a union is but not the actual workings of joining. Unite is about 10 minutes from my current work place (being made redundant in April was my Christmas present from them) so might work as a starting point. What is your work (be as broad or as specific as you feel comfortable with) - that will by and large define what unions you are eligible to join.
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Gonzo McFee posted:I tore a rubber with a trans superhero once. https://twitter.com/bbcnewspidgin/status/1212716813844439042 I feel like I take an economist a lot more seriously when he starts out with "don't spend all your money starting a cocaine selling business because despite it being lucrative, you might go to prison"
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I'm not but I'm old enough and fat enough to be safe so bring back National Service immediately! Same. Though when I did move to America in 2002, at age 24, having to register for the draft was...sobering.
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Guavanaut posted:Also we need to start talking about nonces what touch kids *entire Tory benches cough nervously* and plot together in their mosks and kebab shops and whatnot *posh cheering noises* gently caress me it's gonna be grim if she gets even close. Although I suspect this is just to boost her profile, without any real expectations of actually winning. Starmer would be bad in the usual bland centrist management way - he's not very inspiring, very suspect actions he's supported in the past, and couldn't really be trusted to not try to lurch things back a decade or so. Jessflaps would be worse; she's entirely self-serving at best, and a wrecker/Tory-enabler at worst. RottenK posted:https://twitter.com/billoislove/status/1213177323131953153 Ha! They've spent the entirety of Corbyn's leadership aiding and abetting the press with this sort of poo poo...and they're loving suprised the press turned on them the second Corbyn seemed diminished as a threat.
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Guavanaut posted:It was never proven to be a lie, but that's likely only because Diane gets so much abuse from stupid lovely pricks that she doesn't memorize every time some edgy chancer does it. it does prove that Jess Phillips thinks joining in with that abuse is ok and she did it to win political clout good leadership material!!
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thespaceinvader posted:What is your work (be as broad or as specific as you feel comfortable with) - that will by and large define what unions you are eligible to join. Flipswitch fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Jan 3, 2020 |
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Shocking revelations about Phillips, from a colleague of the missing hard-hitting journalist, Wurrance Telephene. https://twitter.com/CecilCentigrade/status/1208812569009541121
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Flipswitch posted:I work in the charity sector at the moment. But likely to be leaving here rather than applying internally for another role. Thanks for the reply, I'm a bit unsure how it all works. A couple of the unions - eg Unite - have a 'community' section for unemployed, retired, a student or a carer and so on to join regardless of your previous occupation. Here's a link to the Unite one. (I'm in this one. I'm also in professional STEM work-related bodies, but also wanted to be in a union). https://unitetheunion.org/why-join/membership-types/community-membership/
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Flipswitch posted:I work in the charity sector at the moment. But likely to be leaving here rather than applying internally for another role. Thanks for the reply, I'm a bit unsure how it all works. The charity sector has really poor union penetration unfortunately. You can probably join Unite or Unison but I wouldn't be at all surprised if you wouldn't have a direct rep or steward, because as I say, unions don't really have a lot of presence in the charity sector. It was something that really put me off when I worked there for a while, and, coincidentally enough, really exploitative working practices are loving RIFE In the charity sector, not least because it relies on the good-nature of the people working in it not to challenge them.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://twitter.com/RealNatalieRowe/status/1213119730829217806 She spells cum, as come. Minus 50 DKP. For each use.
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The Question IRL posted:She spells cum, as come. 
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(Puts on Judge Dredd helmet and leather speedos.) I AM THE RAW! IF YOU DON'T COMPLY, YOU WILL BE SENT TO THE ISO-CUBES.
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The Question IRL posted:She spells cum, as come. Perfectly cromulent British English - "come" as the verb for an orgasm and "cum" as the noun for the ejaculate.
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The Question IRL posted:(Puts on Judge Dredd helmet and leather speedos.) Ooh, I have to pay for this normally.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Jessflaps standing official: Meh, I want to like Jess Phillips but I just... can't. Her attitude is kinda promising, why does she have to be completely terrible feedmegin posted:Same. Though when I did move to America in 2002, at age 24, having to register for the draft was...sobering. Wait, what. The draft... in 2002? In the US? Or in the UK? What the gently caress?
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Pesky Splinter posted:Shocking revelations about Phillips, from a colleague of the missing hard-hitting journalist, Wurrance Telephene.
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jaete posted:Wait, what. The draft... in 2002? In the US? Or in the UK? What the gently caress? It's the whole selective service thing they have going on, right? You won't be drafted unless they institute a formal draft, but they make you eligible to be drafted anyway.
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https://twitter.com/Mike_Pence/status/1213189757708189699 I'm pleased to no longer have to actually tell stories about what the leadup to the Iraq War felt like to people too young to remember it at the time (who are now somehow old enough to vote, how the gently caress did that happen?) because the Americans are literally doing a search-and-replace on everything they said in 2002. e: Stolen from my family Whatsapp - "Once as tragedy twice as farce but somehow we're still involved in the loving tragedy" goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Jan 4, 2020 |
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jaete posted:Meh, I want to like Jess Phillips but I just... can't. Her attitude is kinda promising, why does she have to be completely terrible Her idea of speaking truth to power includes posing with Rees Mogg for an Observer special article about how these dangerous ideologues are dividing us, your lizard brain is protecting you.
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As I was away and off news for a few days, and as the US have started changing the story about what happened in Iraq to bring about the assassination of QS, it's getting harder to discover what really happened. From glances at the news a couple of days ago, I kinda had the notion that some Iranians held a protest outside the US Embassy in Baghdad but now it's being briefed out as an 'attack' 'justifying' the assassination. Is my memory correct or was it an 'attack' from the start?
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:As I was away and off news for a few days, and as the US have started changing the story about what happened in Iraq to bring about the assassination of QS, it's getting harder to discover what really happened. My (admittedly muddy) understanding is that Iraqi citizens (who were either involved with or supported by Iranian militias) were protesting outside the US embassy in Baghdad. About what, I'm not certain, I wasn't paying attention early enough to catch that. It was definitely reported as a protest at first though.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://twitter.com/Mike_Pence/status/1213189757708189699 Once is tragedy, twice is *checks notes* nope, it says here 'still tragedy, because hundreds of thousads or millions of people will still loving die'.
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Okay I'm finding myself down an interesting rabbit hole here. Check out https://twitter.com/search?q=%22Go%20Jess%22&src=trend_click and scroll down until you see a generic username and/or a Union Jack avi - there's an awful lot of "people" who are enthusiastically pro-Jessflaps who until December 12th were rabidly pro-Brexit and pro-Tory. Obviously bots get used in politics a lot but this is particularly naked, and really makes you wonder exactly who's doing her campaign management and what numbers they have in their contact books...
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jaete posted:Wait, what. The draft... in 2002? In the US? Or in the UK? What the gently caress? Pretty sure in the UK all those of voting age and above are eligible to be drafted in to national service, one of the reasons why I'm not keen on lowering the voting age.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Okay I'm finding myself down an interesting rabbit hole here. Check out https://twitter.com/search?q=%22Go%20Jess%22&src=trend_click and scroll down until you see a generic username and/or a Union Jack avi - there's an awful lot of "people" who are enthusiastically pro-Jessflaps who until December 12th were rabidly pro-Brexit and pro-Tory. Obviously bots get used in politics a lot but this is particularly naked, and really makes you wonder exactly who's doing her campaign management and what numbers they have in their contact books... Thank god I have two votes - 1 as a member and 1 as a union affiliate 
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MonkeyLibFront posted:Pretty sure in the UK all those of voting age and above are eligible to be drafted in to national service, one of the reasons why I'm not keen on lowering the voting age. Voting age has nothing to do with it, there's no particular reason why they couldn't conscript 16-year-olds (or 6-year-olds or 66-year-olds) into the Forces if they decided to. Conscription age was 18 in the two wars we used it in even though the voting age was 21 (and in WWI many even of age still didn't get a vote). There's no formal framework for conscription, they just pass a law saying "Oi you grab a gun and go shoot people". Currently you can join the Forces at 16 (with parental permission) but can't be sent into active duty until 18 (although they blur the lines on that sometimes, several of my mates from school ended up in Kuwait for the Gulf War because they were due to turn 18 during the deployment, although as it turned out they got there too late for the party). If they were to restart conscription it's likely they'd stick to that formula - but as I said earlier we're not getting National Service 2.0 at any point in the foreseeable future, especially given we struggle to keep even our current lot supplied. e: You've probably got it confused with the US where they send you your Selective Service forms along with your first voter registration in some states.
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Thanks for the info regarding age of conscription in regards to voting, I know a lad who had to sit in Minhad on our way to Bastion for three days which I found slightly amusing as he celebrated his birthday there.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Not so much the 'roaring twenties' as the 'continuous wail of existential anguish twenties.' The endless screaming twenties.
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Facehammer posted:The endless screaming twenties. the warring twenties
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thespaceinvader posted:What is your work (be as broad or as specific as you feel comfortable with) - that will by and large define what unions you are eligible to join. I'm also looking to join up, I'm in software testing. How long a commitment is union membership, I know there is a games industry union now and would be looking to join that if I ever go back.
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jaete posted:Wait, what. The draft... in 2002? In the US? Or in the UK? What the gently caress? To register for it in case the US decided to institute one. It's a condition of getting a green card. Which given this was around when the US invaded Iraq and given I was of age was alarming but doesn't actually mean they sent me over there with an M16.
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