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177 | 47.20% |
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knox_harrington posted:I can only imagine how poo poo judges are at using conference call software. So much feedback and non-muting. I told them to assume that every minute they're in the room with the laptop to assume that both camera and mic are live. Last thing I want is some gout-ridden old geezer farting all the way through some child abuse evidence.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:What I do: 25p seems pretty high for an electricity unit rate, even on an Eco7 day rate. Are you on a fixed or variable tariff?
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Brendan Rodgers posted:A year ago I had a super serious flare up of Crohn's disease, and started 3 immuno-surpressant medicines, now down to 2, I spent most of the year self-isolating, extremely germophobic and anxious, and recently started trying to go back to normal, then Corona hits. If it was just the isolation I could probably handle it but the isolation coupled with the uncertainty of the situation, and the incredible irritation that I'd honestly made a lot of progress in the last 6 months and I was ready to go OUT and DO THINGS and whatnot and then... nope. Plus feeling even more useless to the world than normal - I'd just got a job I felt was as useful as I could probably be in the current climate, and then this happens and that entire arm of the organisation is shut for the foreseeable future and I feel like a wastrel entering back data from last term's education rgisters when people are literally being left out in the cold because the loving building is closed.
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Mar 24, 2020 10:57
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Don't know if it was in last night's broadcast but reservist squaddies are starting to be called up
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Mar 24, 2020 10:59
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Well I've been told that my role isn't considered essentially but until the company make an official decision I have to come to work
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Mar 24, 2020 11:01
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sassassin posted:You realise that your "being helpful" is adding to the problem, right? Doing a tour of every shop in town is a great way to catch and spread the virus. People assume you must be looking for things for yourself as the alternative is bizarre given the current situation. I maintained social distance at all time. I don't think it's bizarre at all. Otherwise you will have hundreds of people marauding round trying to find bogroll. Also I'm on a group of people who will be doing shopping for others who can't (ed: so them having the info that there's no bogroll to be found in 10 of the shops stops them going into those shops and spreading). Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 11:13 on Mar 24, 2020 |
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Mar 24, 2020 11:04
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Aphex- posted:25p seems pretty high for an electricity unit rate, even on an Eco7 day rate. Are you on a fixed or variable tariff? It is high. Sadly tied in for 18 months. It was supposed to be a joint rate with broadband with the broadband rate £13 per month for 40MB fibre. SSE are the supplier and because I'd been happy with them in my last place then I stuck with them. BUT SSE on the broadband front were bloody useless and to cut a very long and boring story short I ended up with £50 compensation and a Three homehub for £22pm and 80MB (no phone line necessary) and too late to change the tariff. I assume they were making a bit of bunce on the electric to cover the lower cost of the broadband. Stuck with this tariff for another year approx.
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Mar 24, 2020 11:11
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outside Waitrose at 8 I shouted at the crowd to form an orderly queue, 2m apart. and they did. feels like the first genuinely useful thing I’ve done all week. still want the guy who skipped ahead of me before that to catch the rona and die though. gently caress him. and I know someone posted a company email yesterday saying don’t wear masks on the shop floor. fwiw it doesn’t look like that’s being enforced.
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Mar 24, 2020 11:12
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becareful of the pigs and stazi/gauleiters when going outside
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Mar 24, 2020 11:17
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Ash Crimson posted:becareful of the pigs and stazi/gauleiters when going outside I'm sure the 20 or so beat cops available on shift to southend polis will do their best to oppress the 175,000 people here They might have to bring in what military personnel are available though- someone who did 5 years in the royal naval reserve some time in the mid seventies could drive along the seafront later in their motability scooter and yell at people to gently caress off home. He's actually been doing it for years anyway, off his own bat. Sarcasm aside, things do seem quieter on the street today, planning on going out for an exercise and a vitals shop on friday
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crispix posted:Can you go to pet funerals if my dog dies in the next few months we've already decided to dig a hole in the garden and chuck him in it (not really, but if the vet's closed due to self-isolation etc I'm not sure what other option we'd have)
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Okay, interesting thought experiment time - what if there was a cure for COVID? Not a miracle cure, something with nasty side-effects that needs proper testing? Presumably governments would know about this, and I guarantee that the cowboys on either side of the Atlantic would *absolutely* put off lockdown as long as possible figuring if they can keep the death toll in the thousands or even tens of thousands while keeping the economy ticking over they'd look like absolute loving geniuses. Trump thinks that antimalarial medicine is a miracle cure, based off a chain email he read or something. So you could have your scenario with the people in charge being both malicious and incompetent
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Mar 24, 2020 11:29
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a pipe smoking dog posted:I find it very eery that someone with such a similar user name and avatar does a job that is connected to my own. Holy poo poo. Steve? Is that you?
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Okay, interesting thought experiment time... We saw exactly what happens here with tamiflu and the swine flu outbreak. They buy it without thinking, build up huge stockpiles, and prioritise healthcare workers to get it.
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Mar 24, 2020 11:38
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We have a little shop around the corner from us that stocks the essentials - booze, bread, milk, some frozen foods, more booze, etc. Due to the previous owner taking a severe beating in a robbery some years ago, there is now a glass and metal construction inside the shop which protects most of the goods and you are served out of a hatch. I was around there the other day and the owner asked if we had everything we needed, which was very good of him. He told me that he is not raising his prices, but warned that wholesalers are, and that he is restricting people to one of each item: one bread, one milk etc. Because he serves out of a hatch and the goods are behind glass, he assumed he would be able to do this easily. There are a lot of elderly people in the area, so he is not just a lifeline for us but for a lot of vulnerable people that cannot easily get to the supermarket. Fast forward to yesterday (a space of four days) and he was telling me he is thinking of closing all together. He is copping dogs abuse for limiting items to people, folk are hammering on the glass sides, calling him a p*ki oval office etc. All because they're greedy. We were hoping to get through this with his help and also keep him in business by using the shop. I'm sickened by the way a lot of people are behaving throughout this.
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Mar 24, 2020 11:48
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:It is high. Sadly tied in for 18 months. It was supposed to be a joint rate with broadband with the broadband rate £13 per month for 40MB fibre. Out of contract electricity rates are 25.5p/kWh. They're more than just "making bunce", they're ripping you off.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:I find it very eery that someone with such a similar user name and avatar does a job that is connected to my own. Do you work at the dog piping factory or the pipe dogging factory?
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Mar 24, 2020 11:50
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Doccykins posted:Don't know if it was in last night's broadcast but reservist squaddies are starting to be called up Suddenly realising that I'm ex army and have no idea how this whole regular reserve business even works
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Mar 24, 2020 11:50
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Not sure what else anyone would expect from the blitz spirit of a group of people who are convinced they were born 40 years earlier than they were and have spent their whole lives telling everyone else to get hosed if it so much as inconveniences them.
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Light the beacons, the rent strike is on! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52016263 Burger King chief executive Alasdair Murdoch has said that the fast food chain will not be paying rent due on its UK restaurants this week.
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Mar 24, 2020 11:52
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Turns out the blitz spirit just means "telling people how tough my life is"
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Mar 24, 2020 11:53
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OwlFancier posted:Not sure what else anyone would expect from the blitz spirit of a group of people who are convinced they were born 40 years earlier than they were and have spent their whole lives telling everyone else to get hosed if it so much as inconveniences them. Experience of World War 2 limited to watching Dad's Army reruns. "We've faced much worse" "They didn't collect the bins in 1978!"
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The real PM https://twitter.com/SandyAdam5/status/1242375121114935297
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biglads posted:Experience of World War 2 limited to watching Dad's Army reruns. Watching the Dad's Army intro with parents: 'He's dead. He's dead. Oooh, he died young. He's dead. Every time.
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Qwertycoatl posted:Trump thinks that antimalarial medicine is a miracle cure, based off a chain email he read or something. So you could have your scenario with the people in charge being both malicious and incompetent The hydroxyquinone thing was what I specifically had in mind, yes, but I'm certain every compound known to medical science is being thrown at this thing. Which leads into a wider ethical question - say it turns out that British Anti-Lewisite turns out to be the cure (I pick this as an obscure drug that's mostly been supplanted by others but which still has some non-quack (and lots and lots of quack) applications). It's a drug with some very nasty side-effects, and there are at the moment limited supplies of it, and it might take a month or two to ramp up production to the point where there's enough to go round. Would it be ethical for the researchers who discovered it's effectiveness to openly publish the results, knowing it would cause multiple deaths among the worried well (like the bloke who drunk aquarium cleaner because he saw "hydroxyquinone" in the ingredients list), would definitely lead to people taking isolation much less seriously, leading to far more deaths in vulnerable populations and those unable to take the treatment, as well as deaths in people with conditions currently being treated with it who find supplies dried up by profiteers? Or even given that, would it still be the more ethical thing for them to do to openly publish it to prevent governments (and drug companies) attempting to manipulate the cure for their own ends? Like I say this is definitely more of a thought experiment than an actual theory about what might be happening in the world, but let's face it we've all got extra thinking time right now.
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Of course they're all dead they were all old when it was filmed and that was a lifetime ago. The only one conceivably not dead is Pike and he'd be like 80 now or something. E: 74 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Lavender E: also apparently the vicar, at 88. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 12:00 on Mar 24, 2020 |
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Building is one I would put on a case by case basis. Like if you've taken someone's roof off or but their water etc then at least work until you've made it weather tight.
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Dog Pipes posted:Watching the Dad's Army intro with parents: Uncanny, it must be hard coded in. I also got, "they filmed that bit down the road you know".
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Wasn't it a Mary Whitehouse Experience bit?
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OwlFancier posted:Of course they're all dead they were all old when it was filmed and that was a lifetime ago. The vicar's still alive too, he was in the film. Clive Dunn was only in his 40s when it started shooting, but that was still - holy poo poo - 52 years ago.
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OwlFancier posted:Of course they're all dead they were all old when it was filmed and that was a lifetime ago. Vicar reprised the role in the remake.
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Aramoro posted:Building is one I would put on a case by case basis. Like if you've taken someone's roof off or but their water etc then at least work until you've made it weather tight. Yeah, it's tough. I subcontract for Clancy Docwra, who lay a huge amount of the new water mains on new developments. They also do a lot of the repair and maintenance of existing mains. Obviously the R+M stuff is still essential, but what about the new stuff that nobody's using yet? My work only relates to new mains, so if that's all called off we shut up shop until the sites reopen / the gangs are back out laying main, I guess. Kinda hoping for that tbh.
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I mean John Laurie (Frazer) was born in the 19th century, it'd be terrifying if he wasn't dead
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Mar 24, 2020 12:14
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Looks like us self employed might be a bit safer https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10158216401728308&id=811788307
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Isomermaid posted:Wasn't it a Mary Whitehouse Experience bit? Yep, and it was wonderfully observed because that's what the olds do every single time.
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thespaceinvader posted:If it was just the isolation I could probably handle it but the isolation coupled with the uncertainty of the situation, and the incredible irritation that I'd honestly made a lot of progress in the last 6 months and I was ready to go OUT and DO THINGS and whatnot and then... nope. None of this is your fault
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