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Who is your first pick in the deputy leadership race? This poll is closed. |
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| R. Allin-Khan |
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| P. Flaps |
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big scary monsters posted:lol that's not even going to be close to legal unless they're a lodger or something. I hope they told the landlord to get hosed. You have to give lodgers at least 28 days to leave, so not even that. Edit.. drat it - have my fat cat. 
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theenglish.jpg Coohoolin posted:Forgot to post before my set but if anyone's missing the pub I set up a wee group for virtual concerts, my mate arthur is up in a few minutes and he's a wonderful fiddler, check it out! loving hell 
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knox_harrington posted:https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2005755 quote:the football authorities (both rugby and soccer)
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Guavanaut posted:This is important to keep remembering because the bootlickers are already spinning hard that Big Daddy Dom Boris had to do all those things because ~you just wouldn't listen~ rather than him reluctantly doing them three days after even the businesses were screaming in his ear, and that's the kind of attitude that needs to be smothered before the Tories try to apply it to any of the other poo poo they want to do. He wants to be liked more than he wants to do the right thing. If you close the pubs to save lives people will look at you as a tyrant. If you wait until people are begging you to close the pubs, people will look at you as a hero. I think the rush to the great outdoors we've seen this weekend is partly because the savvier ones know a lockdown is coming and want one last good day out, and partly because of our cultural belief that fresh air and exercise gives good health. Who doesn't want that in a time of disease? The same urge that drove pilgrims to Canterbury now drives townies up the miner's track in rockports with a carrier bag full of carling. The goal is the same- salvation.
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That article's a good overview though - I wonder if one of the advisors who's appeared with Johnson is going to be scapegoated for all this when it starts to really take off. "We're following the science, we have always followed the science" really has that ring of "it was him, he said to do things this way"
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ThomasPaine posted:I've just come up with the best idea to deal with my landlord (who won't let me end my contract a month early and insists I pay the rent on a flat I'm not living in). Or you could say, in that case I won't pay the rent and I won't leave and you'll have to evict me through the courts. (That'll take very very many moons).
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:North Wales: Anyone that goes to Barry Island willingly deserves everything they get.
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What's wrong with that?
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Apparently Johnson only took more decisive action yesterday because Macron gave him an ultimatum: https://twitter.com/quatremer/status/1241456825238720514?s=20
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Lungboy posted:Anyone that goes to Barry Island willingly deserves everything they get. Yeah but Barry Island is South Wales.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Yeah but Barry Island is South Wales. The quoted text from the article that didn't appear when I quoted it mentioned Barry.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Or you could say, in that case I won't pay the rent and I won't leave and you'll have to evict me through the courts. I'm leaving because I very much want to get out of the epicentre of the pandemic asap!
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There's mini eggs in my fridge but they've only been in there 2.5 days not the full 3 needed for proper quarantine of plastic. This is torture (but also good for my diet).
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They're going to try and spin this but I think it'll get hard once we hit Italy's numbers https://twitter.com/KeejayOV2/status/1241488768286240768?s=19
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Jose posted:They're going to try and spin this but I think it'll get hard once we hit Italy's numbers This might finally make the olds get the loving message at least.
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ThomasPaine posted:I'm leaving because I very much want to get out of the epicentre of the pandemic asap! Yes I get that, but they don't need to know that!
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sassassin posted:What's wrong with that? it just sounded funny in that awkwardly americanised way
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Jose posted:They're going to try and spin this but I think it'll get hard once we hit Italy's numbers 
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baka kaba posted:it just sounded funny in that awkwardly americanised way It's the new england journal
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ThomasPaine posted:I'm leaving because I very much want to get out of the epicentre of the pandemic asap! Make sure you take meter readings, and in this instance I'd contact the suppliers etc and give them the readings as you move out - and pay the bills. And make sure Everything is redirected (or not cared about) before your abandon date. (I had to abandon a flat many years ago when the wife walked out and I was suddenly a single person in a 2 bed flat that housing benefit wouldn't cover- the bills have more potential to give you grief down the line then the landlord)
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Coronavirus is kind of an extreme way to way to get the spotlight off Andrew.
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baka kaba posted:That article's a good overview though - I wonder if one of the advisors who's appeared with Johnson is going to be scapegoated for all this when it starts to really take off. "We're following the science, we have always followed the science" really has that ring of "it was him, he said to do things this way" Maybe not right when it starts to kick off (because we'll have bigger things to worry about at that exact moment) but seeing as we seem to be following Italy's trajectory and therefore probably going to rack up an at least moderately horrific death toll, I'd hope we'll some sort of public inquiry into the handling of this. if we do then that will definitely be the politicians' defence, and I actually don't think it's entirely unreasonable. The political response has obviously been muddled and far too slow and limited, so the politicians should definitely shoulder If the government has genuinely been acting on their advice, then that advice was obviously flawed. Flawed in a way that any observer could see and for which there really is no excuse, given the information about this disease was freely available for weeks or months before they decided to use it and declare the science "changed". If the government wasn't following their advice or chose one particular model over another because they preferred its predictions or the reporting of the advice has been misleading, or something like that, then obviously the blame rests more with the politicians. If the "nudge unit" had as much to do with the government's initial (deliberate lack of) strategy as has been suggested, then that's probably a situation where I'd blame the politicians mostly. XMNN fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Mar 21, 2020 |
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baka kaba posted:it just sounded funny in that awkwardly americanised way "Soccer" is absolutely the right word there because it was originally coined (in England) specifically to differentiate it from rugby. Of course a big part of the problem is that we use "authorities" even to refer to singular entities, so "football authorities" on its own would have made most people think just of the FA, "football authorities (both rugby and football)" traps you in a recursive linguistic loop, and "football authorities (both rugby and association)" would have both been clunkier and also still ambiguous because guess what the governing authority for rugby is called?
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Guavanaut posted:theenglish.jpg how the hell do you cook a chicken(?) breast and not even get a tiny bit of colour on it, that shouldn't even be possible
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Apparently Johnson only took more decisive action yesterday because Macron gave him an ultimatum: For those of us who don't speak French?
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Since I have to go to work I can't stay home and as a result just walked to the local offlicense to get some sweets
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Julio Cruz posted:how the hell do you cook a chicken(?) breast and not even get a tiny bit of colour on it, that shouldn't even be possible boil it??
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goddamnedtwisto posted:"Soccer" is absolutely the right word there because it was originally coined (in England) specifically to differentiate it from rugby. you could just say "rugby and football authorities" and I think people would get it!
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Jedit posted:For those of us who don't speak French? do you want the whole thing or just the tweet? Macron threatened to close the French borders to the British (and the rest of the EU would have followed suit) if Boris didn't order a shutdown Julio Cruz fucked around with this message at 00:01 on Mar 22, 2020 |
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Jedit posted:For those of us who don't speak French? Almost every word in that headline has an English derivative, just pretend it's weirdly-spelled English and even if you've never heard a word of French "Emannuel Macron menaced Boris Johnson [...] the French border [...] no decided measures sanitary" is pretty easily understood as saying what Jaeluni described it as.
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baka kaba posted:you could just say "rugby and football authorities" and I think people would get it! But that would be ambiguous because the game is literally called "Rugby football", and someone used to writing in medical journals probably doesn't think "Ah, they'll know what I mean".
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Almost every word in that headline has an English derivative, just pretend it's weirdly-spelled English Ah so it’s just someone typing in a ____________ accent then
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Jedit posted:For those of us who don't speak French? Google translate: quote:Emmanuel Macron threatened Boris Johnson to close the French borders if he did not decide on sanitary measures https://www.liberation.fr/planete/2020/03/21/coronavirus-les-coulisses-du-bras-de-fer-entre-emmanuel-macron-et-boris-johnson_1782622
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Google translate: The EU saves the British from themselves? Who would've thought.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Of course a big part of the problem is that we use "authorities" even to refer to singular entities, so "football authorities" on its own would have made most people think just of the FA, "football authorities (both rugby and football)" traps you in a recursive linguistic loop, and "football authorities (both rugby and association)" would have both been clunkier and also still ambiguous because guess what the governing authority for rugby is called? *dies of public school*
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Solidarity Fund Update Thanks so much to everyone who has been so generously donating. We passed £2k today which is loving amazing. We have also helped our first goon! Remember that you can receive as well as give, if you're financially unstable and some unexpected expense is threatening to knock you off your feet, that's what we're here for. The constitution has undergone minor changes following feedback and will be adopted tomorrow if nothing further arises. Future updates will be posted at the start of each month (and probably whenever anything of interest happens because it's nice to have some  news amidst the nonstop doom.)
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Like the argument of X funds the contruction of Y, Y existing is good so X claiming some excess profit from Y after their investment is legit morally sound, I've never had a problem with the basic concept. But between mass financialisation, rentierism, lack of social housing builds and the broader lack of action on costs of living vs wages there isn't any moral or intellectual justification for the continued existence of landlordism as it currently functions. These people are human filth. It's literal parasites causing a tremendous amount of pain to people that are their objective value creation and moral superiors, it's grotesque and inefficient and it can't continue. I really hope there emerges a humane way to deal with the landlord issue.
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