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Guavanaut posted:Apparently she said they were antisemitic because the JLM told her that they were, without doing any due diligence. Jose posted:She admitted not that long ago she'd never heard of BDS Hm. Having a rethink about RLB. Major reason I'm quitting the party is false anti-semitism smears. Another page snipe! I don't believe it! Let me think. 1970s 36 inch hips were size 12 (UK). Now they are size 8 (M&S-UK) (actually 35.5) How women are duped. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Jan 8, 2020 |
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Lobster God posted:Definitely ring them. Some unis may have a specialist number for mature students (not always obvious on web site) so have a dig for that or phone UG admissions and ask if they have a specialist team. I had 3 attempts at the first year of uni back around the millennium, and failed all 3. The first two attempts from dropping out through anxiety, then had a year working full-time, then another attempt after being diagnosed with dyspraxia but being told the uni / LEA had no support policy for that. Cut to 2008, I'm signed off work with chronic RSI, I decide to contact the uni for advice about if it's possible to go back as a mature student. If I remember correctly, it was after talking to someone who worked at the uni, who said most mature students are accepted based on portfolios rather than qualifications. I applied, and got through basically by contacting the heads of creative writing and sending them samples of the stuff I'd written. Thankfully the LEA agreed to fund me because of what they called 'a litany of failures' on their end over disability support, but if I hadn't had the previous attempts it's very much a 'If the uni will have you we'll fund it' sort of situation. I don't really know if this would work for a STEM degree though if that's what CoolCab is more interested in. I do know that from the perspective of the LEA everyone is entitled to gently caress up a year, so if he's just looking to just doss about for 4 years as an undergrad, then that is definitely a viable route. I'll admit though the thing I took away from that article about the manc rapist guy was the fact that he was described as a "perpetual student." I'd loving love to be a perpetual student, it's the only thing i've ever been any good at. About what time of year would I need to start thinking about PHD applications? I have several ideas, and thankfully my uni's creative writing department's idea for a pitch is 'write a book.' I'm just unsure about how to even approach the funding side of it.
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baka kaba posted:
Jaeluni Asjil posted:1970s 36 inch hips were size 12 (UK). Now they are size 8 (M&S-UK) (actually 35.5)
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Guavanaut posted:I'm Northamptehran. Isn't size zero an american thing? No they want women to think they're smaller than they are. A lot of women won't buy garments if the size label is too big "I swear I'm never buying a size 18" as they squeeze into a 16 (which would have been a size 20 in the late 70s? The diet industry on the other hand....
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baka kaba posted:
Who the gently caress is pointing at the goddamn Mediterranean
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baka kaba posted:
rip truro JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Who the gently caress is pointing at the goddamn Mediterranean there are people who don't know what the sea is on a map
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Bobby Deluxe posted:
While it's usual to start PhDs in September/October, you can actually start anytime. Though be aware that they'll often start you on as a masters student til you've proved yourself a bit. I started in a January (because like a clot I wanted a complete whole year working at a particular place on my cv and thought 8 months would look bad - little did I know that doing a PhD would have the effect of wiping out 16 years experience much at senior level in the minds of recruiters so it was pointless. But I digress.) Re funding, not sure quite how it works right now, but back in the olden days when I did mine (about 20 years ago), PhD applications were invited to fill places available on projects for which research funding had been granted (and a certain number of PhD folk to go with it) and you'd get funding from whichever research council was paying overall. Mine was PPARC back in those ancient times. Otherwise, you can apply anyway as 'self-funding' then you would have to explore what bodies might be in the business of giving grants or loans to PhD students based on subject matter or other non-subject criteria.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Isn't size zero an american thing? US size zero is roughly the equivalent to a UK size four.
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Guavanaut posted:I'm Northamptehran. I'm North Searan.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Isn't size zero an american thing? The Size Zero cultural thing came out of the diet industry though, and that was all about how you're larger than you think you are.
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in more Iran (where we live) news, Trump did a statement where he said more sanctions and also he wants NATO to be more involved in the Middle East somehow?? he mostly slurred and talked about how great his presidency has been so it's not LET'S WAR at least
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Now I'm wondering what happened to the stan empire and who came up with the name despite them not having a language in common that I'm aware of. Also I'm Sri ranka.
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It's Persian in root but a lot of it is just from lingering empire (or partition by other empires collapsing in the vicinity).
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OwlFancier posted:Now I'm wondering what happened to the stan empire and who came up with the name despite them not having a language in common that I'm aware of. It was someone who stanned heavily for Islam, I think.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/jan/08/iran-trump-news-today-live-latest-updates-attack-us-base-iraq So do Trump and his organ grinders want this war or not? What the gently caress is happening? 
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baka kaba posted:in more Iran (where we live) news, Trump did a statement where he said more sanctions and also he wants NATO to be more involved in the Middle East somehow?? You're in Iran? This is on a few of my friends' FB feeds: I think 2017. Agent Orange bleating on about oil. https://www.facebook.com/100016994893006/videos/591959674713857/
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:You're in Iran? We are all in Iran according to at least one respondent of that survery upthread...
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/jan/08/iran-trump-news-today-live-latest-updates-attack-us-base-iraq I think he wanted it but was probably shaken at the scale of Iran's retaliation and hopefully US military chiefs forced him to back down. I hope.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/jan/08/iran-trump-news-today-live-latest-updates-attack-us-base-iraq it kinda feels like standing down, seems like Iran basically gave warning about its missile strikes (which took place during Soleimani's funeral) and the US gets to claim its badass best military and got an early warning......... system, the greatest, and took measures so nobody was hurt. He just talked about himself a lot, and how big and fast his missiles are, and he's still annoyed about the nuclear deal. But officially at least, it was pretty low key (and low energy) Jaeluni Asjil posted:You're in Iran? I'm not cool enough to be in Iran 
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OwlFancier posted:Also I'm Sri ranka.
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Just got a yougov survey invite. First (skipable) page: Are you a member of any of the following organisations? Conservative party Labour party Liberal Democrat party UK Independence Party (UKIP) Green party Scottish National Party (SNP) Trade Union National Trust RSPB Royal British Legion Greenpeace Freemasons English Heritage Women's Institute Saga Weight Watchers The Scout Association St John Ambulance Girlguiding UK World Wildlife Fund Historic Scotland National Trust for Scotland Plaid Cymru None of these Can't help noticing they've missed out CADW (Welsh equiv of English Heritage and Historic Scotland). Wondering which of these organisations would join Labour in a 'progressive alliance'. LOL
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Just got a yougov survey invite. First (skipable) page: Ok I'm picking the all star dream team of freemasons, historic scotland, and the boy scouts to fight the great satan of the conservatives, greenpeace, and weight watchers. RSPB as the umpire.
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My RSPB/St John Ambulance/Trade Union coalition will be unstoppable.
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Just Guido showing their rear end, crack to taint: https://twitter.com/RLong_Bailey/status/1214947793841872896?s=19
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Guavanaut posted:He was a bit poo poo to civilians and may have been indiscriminate while he was defeating ISIS and al-Nusra, but that puts him more in the league of Bernard Montgomery than Osama bin Laden. Katt posted:I believe he was the head of a bunch of Iran's foreign insurgent groups. So he was probably your standard war hawk rear end in a top hat but nothing particular. Miftan posted:Let's not sugar coat this though, dude was in charge AFAIK of Iran's intelligence? That means finding terrorist orgs at the very least. He was not a good dude by any metric but here's the thing: THAT DOESN'T MATTER. You can't assassinate people, even if they're terrorists, out of nowhere. You know why? Because the category of who is and isn't a terrorist is very subject to change based on whims. CyberPingu posted:The NY Times Daily podcast did a good summary of him yesterday, tldr, he was seen as "the guy" to a lot of what we consider terrorist organisations. When his mother died a couple of years ago. The leaders of Hezbollah, ISIS and a couple of others all turned up to show their gratification towards him and pay respects, which is pretty odd according to the journalist who was reporting on this. Doccykins posted:there's a really interesting This World program on Sulemani that aired on Monday night after Newsnight: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003871 Big thanks. thespaceinvader posted:Does it matter? He was extrajudicially assassinated by Team America World Police, I frankly don't give a gently caress what he did, that's not OK, it's how wars start and oh look It was more for my own knowledge. I wondered my suddenly people who had never talked about him before were all for his assassination.
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BizarroAzrael posted:Just Guido showing their rear end, crack to taint: Great journalism from Guido.
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bessantj posted:It was more for my own knowledge. I wondered my suddenly people who had never talked about him before were all for his assassination. Someone was doing time-ranged twitter searches of all these politicians and journos who were calling him the biggest bad guy ever, and surprise surprise none of them had even mentioned him before he was killed Trump did, but that was a tweet from 2015 where he was complaining about gotcha questions from the media he didn't want to answer including one about Soleimani In his statement thing trump drifted off into talking about ISIS for a while and how they're a big threat and eventually said America defeated them and Iran should be happy they're gone... after assassinating someone who's seen as a regional hero who defeated ISIS and saved everyone from living under the black flag. It's hard to know when he's gone off script, but drat https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1214949816347906048
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The chapo bit on war with iran from a few months ago is funny in hindsight because they specifically mentioned soleimani.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51033911 Just a reminder this country is full of awful terfs
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Stormgale posted:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51033911 Urgh I caught a moment of reporting on the tv about that and wanted to just start screaming at it.
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Stormgale posted:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51033911 quote:Lawyers will argue it is illegal to prescribe the drugs, as children cannot give informed consent to the treatment. But wait! What if there were some kind of system of allowing potentially hazardous medical interventions to be given to children where the benefit outweighed the risks? (Also I wonder what the Venn diagram of "mothers concerned about early puberty 10 years ago" and "this" is.) Also this is interesting: quote:Of these 2,590: We don't seem to talk a lot about trans men much in current discourse, when that seems to be a significant majority of these cases.
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quote:Lawyers will argue it is illegal to perform any surgery, because what do you mean you're going to cut them open with a knife, that's illegal, people can't do that!
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Who was the tory that was, I think, the head of the MoD, I think he gave himself the job, and appeared to be pretty gung ho about going to war with China before getting turfed out. Can't imagine how happy he would have been if Sulemani had died while he was about.
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Sounds like dominic raab. The guy who looks a bit like agent smith got a job in politics?
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OwlFancier posted:Sounds like dominic raab. Maybe it was him and I'm getting a couple of people mixed up in my head. Thanks.
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bessantj posted:Maybe it was him and I'm getting a couple of people mixed up in my head. Thanks. Or maybe Spiderboy aka Gavin Williamson.
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Incy posted:Or maybe Spiderboy aka Gavin Williamson. Yep that's the man. Just did a bit of research (imagine that, it worked.) and that who I was thinking of.
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I used to think my MP was a good guy if a little centrist, but he’s a certified loving melt the daft oval office https://twitter.com/darrenpjones/status/1214630292201365506?s=21
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Are you saying you can think of a better pitch to voters than "you should vote to me because I want to be the prime minister"
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oi I wanna be the fackin proime ministah yaaaaaaas
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