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Rarity posted:It's completely anonymous, dude. Hence why I said allegedly cause it's not fully confirmed that this is her. You didn't say allegedly initially, you stated it as fact 'Lowtax's abuse of his wife' so you've clearly made a judgement in the case or happy with the characterisation at least. Aramoro fucked around with this message at 12:49 on Jan 23, 2020 |
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Aramoro posted:You didn't say allegedly initially, you stated it as fact 'Lowtax's abuse of his wife' so you've clearly made a judgement in the case or happy with the characterisation at least. Women who cross state lines with their kids to go to domestic abuse shelters don't normally do it for shits and giggles
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xtothez posted:Is this a reverse psychology thing? Maybe if everyone started publicly thanking Trump for all he's done to fight racism & climate change he'll have to go along with it because nothing is more important to him than his ego. OwlFancier posted:Apparently there was an earthquake this morning? I didn't feel anything.  Regarde Aduck posted:Was the chiding before or after this became a court case?
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://twitter.com/EyesLeftPod/status/1220222227263574016 Getting mad about not being saluted is 100% the most fragile thing about officers and it’s always hilarious.
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Lord of the Llamas posted:Yeah GW Bush was in solid double digit net approval for most of his term (even before 9/11) and even as that narrowed to fluctuate around 0 as the election approached and everyone got partisan the worst score he ever got was around -6 whereas trump has been steady at around -10 for pretty much his entire term. Trump's approval rating is unusual in that it's been very stable and always low, see here. RE: this pic also bear in mind that riiight when it looked like Bush was in trouble Osama bin Laden popped up with a new video going "ooga booga I'm gonna do 9/11 2" and bam, up goes Bush's approval rating.
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Sanitary Naptime posted:Getting mad about not being saluted is 100% the most fragile thing about officers and it’s always hilarious. 
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Sanitary Naptime posted:Getting mad about not being saluted is 100% the most fragile thing about officers and it’s always hilarious. IDF is kind of lax about it once you're out of basic training, but it's still technically required before you're fully certified and always with big wigs. We used to always salute officers when they were carrying heavy stuff when in training because they weren't allowed to ignore us (they did eventually ignore us).
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Miftan posted:IDF is kind of lax about it once you're out of basic training, but it's still technically required before you're fully certified and always with big wigs. We used to always salute officers when they were carrying heavy stuff when in training because they weren't allowed to ignore us (they did eventually ignore us). Once in cadets I saluted an officer who was smoking a cigar in his right hand and he battered the loving business end of it right off his forehead. Managed to do the same to a TA officer in the street once around Remembrance Day except he smashed a sausage roll into his head.
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Sanitary Naptime posted:Once in cadets I saluted an officer who was smoking a cigar in his right hand and he battered the loving business end of it right off his forehead. That's assaulting an officer, mate. This is why you're on all those lists!
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Sanitary Naptime posted:Once in cadets I saluted an officer who was smoking a cigar in his right hand and he battered the loving business end of it right off his forehead. Okay, this is praxis, and I need to learn a proper salute so I can try it with the idiot recruiting fucks from the queen at office.
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Guavanaut posted:Meanwhile, in Camden for £1,625 pcm. "En Shite", in this case.
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Guavanaut posted:Meanwhile, in Camden for £1,625 pcm. Destroy the housing market.
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Guavanaut posted:Meanwhile, in Camden for £1,625 pcm. That is almost exactly the same sq.m. as my flat. However, I have separate kitchen, bathroom (with a bath no-less), bedroom with double bed in it and living room. (And I don't pay rent because I bought it so just pay service charges + bills etc, but if it was up for rent round here, it would probably be about £500-£600pcm)
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You could use the money you're saving to install loos in all the other rooms!VideoGames posted:Destroy the housing market.  1,625 pcm. Seriously. That's more than what I pay a month for a two bed terraced even if you include council tax, power bill, water rates, food, internets, phone, random poo poo I order... London is another world and it's transparently obvious how much of it is just siphoned into land monopolists and property developers' pockets.
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It’s £350 a month less than the average UK salary. Who can’t get by on £80 / week for all expenditure.
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mehall posted:Okay, this is praxis, and I need to learn a proper salute so I can try it with the idiot recruiting fucks from the queen at office. You need to be in full uniform for them to do it back so it’s not worth it
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Total Meatlove posted:It’s £350 a month less than the average UK salary. Who can’t get by on £80 / week for all expenditure.
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https://twitter.com/SarahxDorman/status/1220312604352090114 Between this and the Nandy endorsement without even a hint of consultation I think I'm about done with GMB, any recommendations for a grab-bag union (I absolutely refuse to join any of the unions specialising in my profession).
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Guavanaut posted:You could use the money you're saving to install loos in all the other rooms! My mortgage on a 3.5 bedroom / 100sqm house leaves exactly £1k in change from that bill. London is insane.
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Sanitary Naptime posted:You need to be in full uniform for them to do it back so it’s not worth it Most are still so completely cowed by sergeant-majors screaming at them in induction that they'll salute anybody saluting them in any kind of even vaguely military headgear (and given the long and ridiculous tradition of British military headgear this can mean anything from a yarmulke to a Marie Antoinette six-foot beehive wig). Spike Milligan's war memoirs talk about idle Gunners setting up "saluting traps" when they had nothing better to do - find a long bit of road, position as many people as you can along it at six-foot intervals, and try to give an officer RSI of the right arm by all saluting him as he passes. I don't know why but that idea still makes me giggle to this day.
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Guavanaut posted:Meanwhile, in Camden for £1,625 pcm. idk where you found that poo poo but I've sent it on to Joel Golby in the hopes he'll do a funny London Rental Opportunity of the Week article on Vice about it.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Most are still so completely cowed by sergeant-majors screaming at them in induction that they'll salute anybody saluting them in any kind of even vaguely military headgear (and given the long and ridiculous tradition of British military headgear this can mean anything from a yarmulke to a Marie Antoinette six-foot beehive wig). That the next day he saluted An ice cream man, an usher, and a nun Why did everyone from the bus conductor to the gas man dress like they were some kind of fascist dictator in a low budget stage production in the 50s? Was it something to do with #tradwives?  Tesseraction posted:A little off-topic but do any of you have good game griefing stories you can share? I'm working on something
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sebzilla posted:idk where you found that poo poo but I've sent it on to Joel Golby in the hopes he'll do a funny London Rental Opportunity of the Week article on Vice about it. - Impressive studio flat - Engineered wood floors - Premium Smeg oven with unique styling - You'll poo poo literally two feet from your bed
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Guavanaut posted:Its effects were so well rooted a Good Humor man, unless there's another version I'm unaware of
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Tesseraction posted:A little off-topic but do any of you have good game griefing stories you can share? I'm working on something Well, there's the original... https://www.notacult.com/fansythefamous.htm
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://twitter.com/SarahxDorman/status/1220312604352090114 So I get why large scale unions end up not being helpful because of entrenched staff putting their job security ahead of the workers they represent but why the gently caress don't all the people in GMB just leave for somewhere else? Is there a reason they can't?
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Wachter posted:- Impressive studio flat He's already bloody done it hasn't he? Twitter reputation ruined 
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Julio Cruz posted:a Good Humor man, unless there's another version I'm unaware of Maybe there's a dark martial history of gelatofascism I don't know of.
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Guavanaut posted:Why did everyone from the bus conductor to the gas man dress like they were some kind of fascist dictator in a low budget stage production in the 50s? Was it something to do with #tradwives? It was multi-faceted thing going back to the Victorian era. There was the purely practical fact that many workers had the arse out of their trousers so you pretty much had to give clothes to anyone public-facing and there were a lot of factories set up to make military uniforms, so they tended to be cheap (especially if left undyed or just bleached, hence the proliferation of browns, greys and whites). It was also a proto-branding thing; dressing all of your employees the same showed that you were a large and serious concern. Finally, especially for your two examples (not the ice cream man, we'll come to him in a minute) it was a convenient short-circuiting of the class system - people would tend to unthinkingly follow the instructions of someone in a uniform even if they knew it was just Fred from Garnet Street. Ice cream men wore white to prove that their premises were clean (in those days the bloke selling it was almost always the one who actually made it), the same as most other food service workers, and the hat - like the straight-up generalissimo uniforms warn by ushers and doormen - was just peacocking, although ushers could at least claim a practical purpose, the idea being that taxi drivers would be more likely to notice them when they were trying to hail them (with the implicit premise that a really gaudy doorman was probably from a particularly fancy business or building so the taxi would go to them in preference to the ordinary prole trying to hail them across the road).
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Between this and the Nandy endorsement without even a hint of consultation I think I'm about done with GMB, any recommendations for a grab-bag union (I absolutely refuse to join any of the unions specialising in my profession). One of my friends works for Prospect (currently loving HIAL up for them dicking about) they seem good. They're non-affiliated as well if that helps in that matter. Aramoro fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Jan 23, 2020 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://twitter.com/SarahxDorman/status/1220312604352090114 Rarity posted:So I get why large scale unions end up not being helpful because of entrenched staff putting their job security ahead of the workers they represent but why the gently caress don't all the people in GMB just leave for somewhere else? Is there a reason they can't? I'm pretty done with GMB as well, but they're one of 2 unions recognised by my employer and the other one has decided that industrial action over them cutting our pensions isn't worth it as the employer has said that they'll bring it back up 'once their finances are sorted'.
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Total Meatlove posted:It’s £350 a month less than the average UK salary. Who can’t get by on £80 / week for all expenditure.
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sebzilla posted:He's already bloody done it hasn't he? Nah that was just me arsing about. I love that the floorplan has separate labels for "Reception Room" and "Kitchen". It's the same loving room!
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Wachter posted:Nah that was just me arsing about. https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/jgep5k/a-toilet-bedroom-flat-camden tbh I think it would be a far far better flat if you just slept in the "reception room" and put a loving bath in the bathroom.
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But then where would you receive people? And if you aren't, then why a flat in Camden?goddamnedtwisto posted:people would tend to unthinkingly follow the instructions of someone in a uniform even if they knew it was just Fred from Garnet Street.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Spike Milligan's war memoirs talk about idle Gunners setting up "saluting traps" when they had nothing better to do - find a long bit of road, position as many people as you can along it at six-foot intervals, and try to give an officer RSI of the right arm by all saluting him as he passes. I don't know why but that idea still makes me giggle to this day. Tesseraction posted:A little off-topic but do any of you have good game griefing stories you can share? I'm working on something
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