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 A concept thousands of years old and that's how you end up describing it?
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My job interview scheduled for next Thursday and the recruitment for the post has just been cancelled. It was just a 10 hours a week admin job but was going to be a 1 hour panel interview with a test on excel and word to follow.
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Mar 18, 2020 19:19
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Mar 18, 2020 19:21
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Our small independent grocers and some of the local cafes are offering home delivery locally. yeah that sounds like good advice, thanks! I was wondering more about straight-up "shop on a website" stuff though, basically the most low effort options so I can push people to get signed up and try it out, so they're ready if they suddenly need to stay home for whatever reason
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Mar 18, 2020 19:22
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Ratjaculation posted:So how about that Brexit? 
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Mar 18, 2020 19:24
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It's hard when you're cooped up indoors and doing nothing but stewing in your own thoughts and imagining worst case scenarios, but I think it is worth remembering from time to time that for the great majority of us, while it would be no fun at all, the chance of this virus killing us is infinitesimally small. Even amongst the sick and elderly, you're more likely not to die than to die. It's a scary time, but this isn't going to be the end of the world, and we're already seeing mass radicalisation as a result of it as people plainly see for the first time the government completely unable to keep up any pretense of even appearing to care. There's an opportunity here, there really is.
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Mar 18, 2020 19:26
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ThomasPaine posted:we're already seeing mass radicalisation as a result of it as people plainly see for the first time the government completely unable to keep up any pretense of even appearing to care. There's an opportunity here, there really is. lmao
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Mar 18, 2020 19:27
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Mate, everyone is pivoting left. Even the centrists are parroting Corbyn's manifesto, and I've seen some choice thoughts about landlords from people I wouldn't have expected it from.
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Mar 18, 2020 19:33
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ThomasPaine posted:Mate, everyone is pivoting left. Even the centrists are parroting Corbyn's manifesto, and I've seen some choice thoughts about landlords from people I wouldn't have expected it from. It won't last though.
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Mar 18, 2020 19:37
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TheRat posted:It won't last though. Well I'm going be hopeful about it rather than add another layer of misery to wallow in if you don't mind 
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Mar 18, 2020 19:40
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Jose posted:genuinely more for american people than obama did after 2008 Interesting that I only read Boris talking about "no-fault evictions", which of course not paying your rent wouldn't be.
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Mar 18, 2020 19:41
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:My job interview scheduled for next Thursday and the recruitment for the post has just been cancelled. I also had an interview cancelled, now feeling kind of screwed because I have no savings left (been living off them looking for a job in a new area since Jan.)
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Mar 18, 2020 19:44
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TheRat posted:It won't last though. Pretty much. It'll be spun as "see, this stuff only worked during a crisis - and socialists want a crisis everyday  !"And all the inherent, down-ward spiralling, contradictions of capitalism brought to light for people under this will be simply brushed aside as "Oh well, it was the crisis of coronavirus", and not literally the last 40 years of a system making GBS threads itself to death.
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Mar 18, 2020 19:47
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endlessmonotony posted:
Hah yes fair one, I should have referenced the ancient myth of Cassandra and the Repeated Written Warnings
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baka kaba posted:is there any roundup of the options for online grocery shopping and delivery? I haven't done that before and I'm trying to get other people ready for it too Tesco, asda, waitrose/ocado, morrisons, iceland are the normal options. All will sub or refund items if you don't have them in stock. I think Sainsburys also do online delivery, but they don't, or didn't used to price-match subs so they'd hit you with surprising charges, unlike all the others. Morrisons should be opening more slots at some point, if they haven't already, and (before the world ended) I've never had a single sub from them. Last shop I did was asda, and half of it, including all the fresh veg, was missing. Do a small order and check it out to permanently reserve a slot, you can always go back and edit it until the day before it's sent out (this is the same with all places) Amazon subscribe and save is normally pretty solid with vouchers and 15% off if you buy over 5 things, they also do grocieries (from morrisons) and same day delivery with Prime Now if you're in the right areas and have prime. Watch out for price hikes with subcribe and save, vendors can increases the prices before it gets sent out and you will get charged the new price, so keep an eye on it. I also googled "potatos [my area]" and found a local farm who normally stock the chip shops, that delivered me 75kg of good potatoes for £30 (warrington/st helens area, it's in my post history) so that's worth a try too. Local feedstore did me 12kg of horse carrots, so that's worth checking if you're somewhere rural and have a car. Jaeluni Asjil posted:If you go to https://www.parsleybox.com/ME3 This seems legit too. Nettle Soup fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Mar 18, 2020 |
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Mar 18, 2020 19:48
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TheRat posted:It won't last though. good news: we're going to kettle the entire country and do literally nothing but talk about boris until autumn at the earliest! maybe everyone will get over it, or maybe we should be organising right loving now for the inevitable sustained civil unrest
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Mar 18, 2020 19:49
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Blackouts were/are a common feature in Egypt In Cornwall too!
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Mar 18, 2020 19:49
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I'm going out my mind. Day 2 in the SpicePro flat alone, I have it better than most: I live alone and mid 30s so I don't have to worry too much about being physically sick even if I'm in That There London but the carnage this is doing to my mental health is intolerable. That and uh I work in the travel sector (IT, mind) and that's probably my job gone. How am I going to pay for...anything? The only family I have is my 70 something Mother who can look after herself but couldn't help me even if I dared to ask which I wouldn't she should be enjoying her retirement. This is NOT good for my PTST even with avoiding the news. The worst thing is thinking and knowing about how worse off so many other people are going to be even if I do end up homeless. I need a glass of wine or 10 while I spiral out of my head space. I'm feeling very selfish and I should try keep it together but I need to vent. Stay safe everyone and if anyone needs someone in the East London area for support I'll do my best.
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Mar 18, 2020 19:54
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So do people think it's going to get significantly worse? Like roaming gangs/mad max level? Because I just see a load of places likely to close. Also found out I am at least getting paid till 1st of May alongside everyone else at my work, thank gently caress.
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Mar 18, 2020 19:55
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Do go out for walks if you're well enough to do so, obviously staying a distance away from others. It really does help.
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Mar 18, 2020 19:58
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Do go out for walks if you're well enough to do so, obviously staying a distance away from others. It really does help. I'm used to cycling to work daily, 14 mile round trip, which usually keeps the black dog at bay. I'm contemplating some big loops around Epping Forest tomorrow to calm my nerves which I think is relatively safe and good.
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Mar 18, 2020 20:03
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My work have graciously said that if we're forced to self-isolate they will *consider* allowing us to use remaining holiday, should all our sick time already be used up. And they are issuing us each 32 paracetamol which isn't bad tbh considering how fast it's flying off the shelves.
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Mar 18, 2020 20:06
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Spangly A posted:good news: we're going to kettle the entire country and do literally nothing but talk about boris until autumn at the earliest! I was wondering about this, cause its baffling to me the gov response is to just repeatedly lie and then backtrack on every single thing. But thinking about it, it's a good strategy, the number of people in the country who like... Keep track and form a context in their head of any individual government lie compared to the previous ones is vanishingly small, certainly no journalists do this. So I think by the end of this they'll have u turned on everything, many many many people will have died, more than they said and for the reasons that were given by everyone else. But nobody will remember back that far cause that was a year of lies ago. Even the "good" journalists take like 3 days to oppose things like "infect everyone in the country with covid in less than a year" and that being a plan and wasting so much time will be completely vanished from the public consciousness by the end of this.
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Mar 18, 2020 20:06
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saw someone on facebook unironically compare Sunak to george bailey
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Mar 18, 2020 20:07
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Really our only hope is that the whole media hold the government to account and they will NEVER do this. The British doctrine has always been that to do that in a time of crisis is irresponsible and dangerous. Its not in the public interest.
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Mar 18, 2020 20:08
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Nettle Soup posted:I also googled "potatos [my area]" and found a local farm who normally stock the chip shops, that delivered me 75kg of good potatoes for £30 (warrington/st helens area, it's in my post history) so that's worth a try too. Local feedstore did me 12kg of horse carrots, so that's worth checking if you're somewhere rural and have a car.
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baka kaba posted:is there any roundup of the options for online grocery shopping and delivery? I haven't done that before and I'm trying to get other people ready for it too It actually depends on where they pick the goods in your specific area. Turns out for home delivery in our area Morrisons are the ones who have a central warehouse and the systems reserves your food when you order it, (where as for click and collect they have someone going round store) but Sainsbury’s/Tesco’s don’t.
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Mar 18, 2020 20:13
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Just to clarify Ocado aren't prioritising new customers at the moment so I'd swerve them.
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the farm over the road from me does potatoes and horse carrots but they had conservative posters up during the election so I would literally rather starve than give them money e: I mean all farmers are bastards, but this time it's personal E2: Jess Phillips, landlord apologist https://mobile.twitter.com/jessphillips/status/1240028136252887041 E3: Jess Phillips, Tory apologist https://mobile.twitter.com/jessphillips/status/1240022579152330752 XMNN fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Mar 18, 2020 |
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Mar 18, 2020 20:14
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Ocado and Morrisons are essentially the same thing in deliveries backend so I'd expect them to have much the same struggles as one another. Vvv delivery on Saturday is the same thing, locked. Who knows how complete it'll be I guess NotJustANumber99 fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Mar 18, 2020 |
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Mar 18, 2020 20:16
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Yeah my mum's Ocado order is locked now so she can't edit it (it's due Friday) and they've closed down and aren't taking any more orders for the moment.
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So I'm building raised planters out of some old shelf sets that were left in my garden. No issue making the sets with some brackets and finding a decent North South sunny spot so the plants don't over shade each other. What I'm unsure about is pests. Mostly slugs and snails I guess. In Spain everything got eaten by grubs and caterpillars except our chilli plants. I'm keen to avoid a repeat of that. Anyone got any tips or suggestions for a series of things to prep for. I'm in Sheffield if locale makes any difference.
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SpicePro posted:I'm used to cycling to work daily, 14 mile round trip, which usually keeps the black dog at bay. I'm contemplating some big loops around Epping Forest tomorrow to calm my nerves which I think is relatively safe and good. You should consider not reading SA, including this thread. Lots of people on SA enjoy doom saying and this thread has people who wallow in misery. Most of the time it's fine but eh, not great at the moment. In fact don't go anywhere where people can't stop talking about covid. I dipped in today just to see how things are going and it's like, 'yep italy still hosed, no boris hasn't enforced a proper lockdown yet' and already regret it. I'd just about calmed down but now i'm back to being constantly light headed.
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Nettle Soup posted:Tesco, asda, waitrose/ocado, morrisons, iceland are the normal options. All will sub or refund items if you don't have them in stock. I think Sainsburys also do online delivery, but they don't, or didn't used to price-match subs so they'd hit you with surprising charges, unlike all the others. this is extremely good inside info, thanks!  also that's a lot of potatoes learnincurve posted:It actually depends on where they pick the goods in your specific area. Turns out for home delivery in our area Morrisons are the ones who have a central warehouse and the systems reserves your food when you order it, (where as for click and collect they have someone going round store) but Sainsbury’s/Tesco’s don’t. hmm I'll have a dig around and see if I can find anything out, but it helps to know what to look for, cheers!
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Mebh posted:So I'm building raised planters out of some old shelf sets that were left in my garden. Broken eggshell around the bottoms of the stalks - basically barbed wire for invertebrates. You'll get caterpillars and insects munching on them too but the solution there is a bird feeder - encourage wild birds into your garden and they'll keep the pests down to a reasonable level.
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Regarde Aduck posted:You should consider not reading SA, including this thread. Lots of people on SA enjoy doom saying and this thread has people who wallow in misery. Most of the time it's fine but eh, not great at the moment. In fact don't go anywhere where people can't stop talking about covid. I dipped in today just to see how things are going and it's like, 'yep italy still hosed, no boris hasn't enforced a proper lockdown yet' and already regret it. I'd just about calmed down but now i'm back to being constantly light headed. Thanks, think I'm dropping out from looking at this thread/SA now, stay safe everyone.
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Mar 18, 2020 20:31
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Xeno posted:Hello neighbour. baka kaba posted:this is extremely good inside info, thanks! Not as many as you'd think. I only kept one 25kg bag for myself, and I'm kinda regretting not saving 2. Interestingly, I posted about it on the local facebook group and my post was instantly and silently deleted. Their loss!
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Broken eggshell around the bottoms of the stalks - basically barbed wire for invertebrates. You'll get caterpillars and insects munching on them too but the solution there is a bird feeder - encourage wild birds into your garden and they'll keep the pests down to a reasonable level. Cheers mate! To amazon to buy a bird feeder! Yay birbs.
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