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So my phone story. Almost three years ago I recieved a bunch of cash from a number of cases I had done, and like a mook I blew it on a new phone instead of saving it. But rather than sign up to a two year plan (and I needed a good plan as I made lots of phone calls as part of work so needed minutes.) I signed up to a really good, reliable Sim only plan. Then I bought my phone Sim Free online. I wanted a Samsung, since I'm a tech sheeple but I love their phones. Anyway my trick was rather than buy the phone Sim Free from Samsung or Vodafone I bought it from Amazon. But not just any Amazon, I bought it from Amazon Italy. It was a pain going through the translations on their website over and over but I found one for €250 less than what the main stores were selling. The only drawbacks were I had to make sure it was an Unlocked version of the phone. And the plug for the charger had the European pins on it not the Irish/UK ones. But after fixing them and changing the default language to English, the phone has worked well for almost three years now. If you are looking for a phone consider Importing it from another EU country while you still can.
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CoolCab posted:Northumbria actually - I meant the town, sorry. Northumbria has a campus in London with a really nice pizza place at the bottom of it, hmu if you ever make it there.
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Jan 22, 2020 13:11
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The Northumbrian Centre For Excellence in Precision Geolocation, London.
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Jan 22, 2020 13:23
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Can someone quickly explain to me the connection/link between Lisa Nandy and Blue Labour? I’m trying to google stuff up but results are swamped with useless stuff.
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Jan 22, 2020 13:44
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Terry Jones is dead, only one good Python left.
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Ratjaculation posted:Terry Jones is dead, only one good Python left. gently caress. RIP 
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Jan 22, 2020 13:47
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why aren't white community leaders denouncing this???
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Jan 22, 2020 13:51
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baka kaba posted:why aren't white community leaders denouncing this??? I do love that BBC is celebrating local woman with zero imagination, dreams or self-respect.
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forkboy84 posted:I just remembered that I need to think about whether or not my new phone has a headphone jack. Truly we live in the stupidest loving age. I've got some cheap Anker Bluetooth earphones and they're vastly superior to wired ones because the short wire can't get tangled up or anything else
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^^^ you can get a USB-C adaptor and just use your usual earbuds toozentigeist posted:I do love that BBC is celebrating local woman with zero imagination, dreams or self-respect. hell it wouldn't be so bad if it was one individual doing her own thing, they're pushing a movement entirely based around regressive gender roles and women knowing their place
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Jan 22, 2020 14:04
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I heard a bit of PMQs earlier and Iain Blackford said something about Holocaust Memorial Day and how antisemitism and all other forms of racism are bad so I guess the SNP hates Jews now.
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Jan 22, 2020 14:05
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baka kaba posted:^^^ you can get a USB-C adaptor and just use your usual earbuds too baka kaba posted:hell it wouldn't be so bad if it was one individual doing her own thing, they're pushing a movement entirely based around regressive gender roles and women knowing their place Bet she doesn't even change sockets or taps either.
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Jan 22, 2020 14:08
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Borrovan posted:Flops backs Nandy How would Butler as deputy PM damage Momentum's long term influence? She's very much ideologically aligned with them.
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baka kaba posted:hell it wouldn't be so bad if it was one individual doing her own thing, they're pushing a movement entirely based around regressive gender roles and women knowing their place I still think any woman who wants to be a tradwife needs to get a grip, but yea if it's the actual white supremacist poo poo it's completely worse.
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Jan 22, 2020 14:16
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someone in the replies said Christofascist and 
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Rarity posted:How would Butler as deputy PM damage Momentum's long term influence? She's very much ideologically aligned with them. She's aligned with them on a lot of policies but I've been told (by momentum people) butler makes some momentum people nervous because she isn't aligned officially with any faction. I take that to mean she hasn't kissed the ring, essentially, which I don't care about. I don't think it'll hurt momentum, they don't have to dictate to the party all the time. Anyway a lot of people in the org aren't happy about rayner and want burgon from what I'm hearing so we'll see how the deputy thing goes down. I think butler probably won't make it, but I'm gonna push to get her on the ballot at least if I can.
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The fascist undertones are basically just tones https://twitter.com/bbcstories/status/1218216597111951362 Featuring the classic "a time when you could leave your front door unlocked" When has that ever been true lol
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Before consumer capitalism and in the time of extended families, because there would always be a few people at home and not much worth taking.
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So when homes were crowded and everyone was dirt poor *dreams nostalgically*
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:When has that ever been true lol Well I guess it depends, do you mean locked when home because we don't lock the door when at home. If we leave we lock the door just in case. I don't think I ever bother locking my car though.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:The fascist undertones are basically just tones "jewing... DURING" 
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Back in rural Wales we only ever locked the door when we went away for a few days, because well...Guavanaut posted:there would always be a few people at home and not much worth taking. Plus most locks are just a psychological deterrent. If someone wants to get in, they'll find a way
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Am I on a huge limb here to say that if women want to take on more 'traditional' roles of their own free will that should be up to them? I get their desire to do so could be down to structural issues (ingrained mysogony, nostalgia etc.) but I don't tend to criticise other people for making choices based on societal influence beyond their control. For example I think the current tenancy to bash the working class people who voted for Brexit as idiots etc is very unhelpful. The majority of them seem intelligent and privaledged people. I mean I wouldn't pick it for my daughter but that's kind of the point, it's not mine to pick. Challenge mysogony and confront the hard right but I don't think that necessarily means kicking this lot. It's at worst a symptom, not a cause. Although the fact they seem to be making a big song and dance about it is a bit sus I don't see why it's inherently fascist or sexist or even right wing. Edit: I crossed over with the vids bove so haven't watched and obvs if they're being coerced in some way that's different. Zalakwe fucked around with this message at 15:06 on Jan 22, 2020 |
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e:^^^ because of the poo poo in JeremoudCorbynejad's post. "I am perfectly happy with traditional gender roles & voluntarily choose them as an independent person" is fine (as long as it is a free & independent choice, which is sometimes iffy). "I am happy with this and everyone else should be too" is not.Rarity posted:How would Butler as deputy PM damage Momentum's long term influence? She's very much ideologically aligned with them. If we end up with Starmer+non-Rayner, Momentum is done, and we're not done with it yet. Borrovan fucked around with this message at 15:11 on Jan 22, 2020 |
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Zalakwe posted:Am I on a huge limb here... if... haven't watched yeah
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Debbie Does Dagon posted:Plus most locks are just a psychological deterrent. If someone wants to get in, they'll find a way They will buy time though. You can walk in an open door on a street and look like you belong there, whereas someone loving about with a lock for 10 minutes or throwing a brick through a window usually doesn't. What results from that depends on the type of community and environment in the area. Zalakwe posted:Am I on a huge limb here to say that if women want to take on more 'traditional' roles of their own free will that should be up to them? I've got no problem with people who want to dress up and shoot matchlocks on the weekend and doff their broad hat to another guy in fancy dress on a shire-horse either, but I wouldn't like a return of the material conditions that made that anything other than a hobby, and I'd think anyone who treats it as an authentic condition is a bit weird.
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"I had no idea this movement could be seen as resembling a nationalist/fascist state" I exclaim while sitting in front of my portrait-sized Truly Great British flag picture. Zalakwe posted:Am I on a huge limb here to say that if women want to take on more 'traditional' roles of their own free will that should be up to them? Yep, absolutely. There's nothing wrong with a women wanting to be a homemaker. What is a problem is when an inherently patriarchal system uses these women to promote it as an aspirational ideology Plus yeah, the tradwife identity specficially is inherently mixed with other ideologies that you can absolutely have a go at them for
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Advocating for a "return" to an imagined & idealised version of a repressive past is inherently fashy as gently caress basically, that's literally fascists' whole thing. Live how you want, but don't do that. & don't act like people are wrong for not doing it.
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I mean individual choice is still a tricky subject because we do live in a patriarchy, feminism hasn't won, there's still pressures and coercive elements pushing women towards domestic roles and the like. So there's still the question of why individuals choose to do this stuff, how much society still pushes people in these directions, and whether people embracing this stuff just entrenches and normalises it, and makes it harder to fix those issues But people going on about a movement and  we don't know what our national identity is can do one
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I wish I could be the homemaker. I would quite like to be a stay at home Dad and look after the house/kids and all that. I am sure I would get more out of it emotionally and mentally than in the workplace.
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you will come home to your pipe and slippers and like it!!
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oh god glinner is a #TradDad isn't he
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Rarity posted:"I had no idea this movement could be seen as resembling a nationalist/fascist state" I exclaim while sitting in front of my portrait-sized Truly Great British flag picture. All of the above is interesting and helpful thanks folks. This was my main takeaway though, there is a difference between doing something for yourself and becoming part of a movement to commodity it with suspect motives. Also all the nationalist stuff is obviously naff but as I said I didn't watch what was shared.
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VideoGames posted:I wish I could be the homemaker. I would quite like to be a stay at home Dad and look after the house/kids and all that. Especially now that the social hierarchies have been ameliorated a bit and the parts that made housework a back breaking chore have been automated. But because of that last bit they're essentially building something that never existed, and could not have existed within its own alleged timeframe outside of houses with a dozen servants. What you end up with is pining for the luxury automated version of 50s America that set the stage for the 60s without all the things that caused it to set the stage for the 60s. It's a form of free floating parasitic nostalgia that has landed on and perverted the part of the brain that recognizes that work is poo poo and there are fulfilling things to do within the home. baka kaba posted:oh god glinner is a #TradDad isn't he Father TED 
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My partner and I have a pretty "traditional" family structure but we've discussed it at length and decided that actually it's a shining example of Socialism In One
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Phyllis Schlafly used to get obeisant columns about her in liberal rags like the NYT, this isn't much new.
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There's also a big logical paradox in the whole tradwife thing if it is to be subjected to analysis. If it is fine for tradwives to give power of decision making to their husbands as long as it is their free choice to do so, what happens if their husband decides that the wife is to be a radical feminist?
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If you're going to regress to an idealised past please go to one where the bare minimum number of people work on a Sunday. Also give every citizen a plot of land to grow their food on and teach us how to use a longbow.
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I ended up with a Samsung android I don't care about anything else, this new phone is so such better than my old museum model.
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Guavanaut posted:what happens if their husband decides that the wife is to be a radical feminist? Funnily enough this isn't a problem that ever seems to come up 
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