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Who is your first pick in the deputy leadership race? This poll is closed.
R. Allin-Khan	6	1.60%
R. Burgon	80	21.33%
D. Butler	72	19.20%
A. Rayner	35	9.33%
I. Murray	5	1.33%
P. Flaps	177	47.20%
Total:	375 votes

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OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

Surely if you buy several disc magnets in increasing sizes you can make your own.

# ? Mar 30, 2020 13:09

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# ? May 23, 2024 13:46

goddamnedtwisto: Dec 31, 2004; If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you; Fun Shoe

Pesky Splinter posted:

......It's magnets up his bum, isn't it.

Look if you can think of a quicker and easier way of getting rid of the nose magnets than to pull them down into his stomach for eventual expulsion I can't wait to hear it.

# ? Mar 30, 2020 13:11

Wachter: Mar 23, 2007; You and whose knees?

Mocking this dude is really mean-spirited. Every year dozens of doctors end up in casualty with amateur telescopes jammed up their bums, but you don't see anyone taking the piss out of them now do you?

# ? Mar 30, 2020 13:14

Miftan: Mar 31, 2012; Terry knows what he can do with his bloody chocolate orange...

Wachter posted:

Mocking this dude is really mean-spirited. Every year dozens of doctors end up in casualty with amateur telescopes jammed up their bums, but you don't see anyone taking the piss out of them now do you?

That's just because we haven't been aware of it, tbh.

# ? Mar 30, 2020 13:14

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Miftan is still alive :toot:

I was getting worried this past few days and hoped you were just insanely busy with whatever it is that happens when the country falls into disorganized chaos.

e: or

Miftan posted:

new Animal Crossing is out on the 20th.

# ? Mar 30, 2020 13:24

Jel Shaker: Apr 19, 2003

Answers Me posted:

What's the Ethically Correct way to buy books at the moment? I don't really want to support a system that forces warehouse workers, delivery drivers etc to put themselves in danger by carrying on working, but I kinda need to pick some things up for my own work (and also I'm going to be bored as gently caress in my spare time.

Look up my local independent bookstore and see if they're doing postal deliveries? Again, I'm torn between wanting to support them and forcing them to work unnecessarily. Stick to e-books for a while?

I�ve used hive.co.uk as you can give some of the profits to your local independent bookstore to keep them open

# ? Mar 30, 2020 13:26

fridge corn: Apr 2, 2003; NO MERCY, ONLY PAIN

So I've just got off the phone with my boss who has informed me that I'm being made redundant on the same day that notices being sent out to everyone else about being furloughed under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. I've not had any written communication yet about this. I've not received any written or verbal warnings about either behaviour or performance during my period of employment. Unfortunately I've only been working there for a year and a half. Is there anything I can do?

# ? Mar 30, 2020 13:26

Pesky Splinter: Feb 16, 2011; A worried pug.

Miftan posted:

Do you know how hard it is to get a magnet with a flared base?

Google image search brings up a lot of interesting magnet shapes, unfortunately they're only for roadmarkers.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Look if you can think of a quicker and easier way of getting rid of the nose magnets than to pull them down into his stomach for eventual expulsion I can't wait to hear it.

Wachter posted:

Mocking this dude is really mean-spirited. Every year dozens of doctors end up in casualty with amateur telescopes jammed up their bums, but you don't see anyone taking the piss out of them now do you?

"Accidentally tripped and fell while stargazing."
Or
:dadjoke:

"Accidentally tripped and fell while searching for Uranu-" :suicide:

# ? Mar 30, 2020 13:28

Oodles: Oct 31, 2005

fridge corn posted:

Unfortunately I've only been working there for a year and a half. Is there anything I can do?

Are you in a Union? What justification did they give for getting rid of you? What's your contract say about terms of notice, etc?

# ? Mar 30, 2020 13:31

Comrade Fakename: Feb 13, 2012

OwlFancier posted:

smh if you can't get a 50p in there and out again.

I don't think shaking your head would help much.

# ? Mar 30, 2020 13:37

Communist Thoughts: Jan 7, 2008; Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!

I was gonna say do you think once the labour right wins power again they will mysteriously find that purging is actually easy?
But I don't think they even need to purge anyone do they? 5 years later they still control like 75% of the MPs

# ? Mar 30, 2020 13:39

crispix: Mar 28, 2015; Grand-Maman m'a raconté
_{(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)}

Hello, dear

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Anyone know if the theory (/fervent hope/delusion) that coronavirus spreads much less well in warm weather is true? It smells to me like another facet of the "It's just the flu" just-so story.

A bloke at work I bump into sometimes and have to make smalltalk with said back in January that it wouldn't come here and that it was only spreading in China because of their "tropical" climate. The pictures of Wuhan on the news at the time showed snow everywhere. He apparently did more of his unique kind of research and concluded instead that the virus was a bioweapon developed by "the chinkies" to lower the world's population because :butt:

. Mercifully I suffered a prolapsed spinal disc and went off work at the start of March so I'm out of the loop now

# ? Mar 30, 2020 13:48

Failed Imagineer: Sep 22, 2018

UKMT: Mercifully I suffered a prolapse

# ? Mar 30, 2020 13:52

sassassin: Apr 3, 2010; by Azathoth

Prince Charles is out of isolation because apparently after 7 days you're not infectious any more?

# ? Mar 30, 2020 13:53

Communist Thoughts: Jan 7, 2008; Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!

sassassin posted:

Prince Charles is out of isolation because apparently after 7 days you're not infectious any more?

that actually, insanely, is the genuine advice the government is giving yes

covid only lasts 7 days and masks make the spread worse

# ? Mar 30, 2020 13:54

justcola: May 22, 2004; La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo

fridge corn posted:

So I've just got off the phone with my boss who has informed me that I'm being made redundant on the same day that notices being sent out to everyone else about being furloughed under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. I've not had any written communication yet about this. I've not received any written or verbal warnings about either behaviour or performance during my period of employment. Unfortunately I've only been working there for a year and a half. Is there anything I can do?

Check your initial contract if you have it to hand. I'd get it down in writing and also ask why you were being made redundant and would they reconsider you being a furloughed worker as the government would pay 80% of your wage rather than them? (Seems a bit cunty of them but anyway) -

You need at least a weeks notice if you've been working there less than 2 years, which is also paid. You're also entitled to a 'consultancy' with them that should have happened weeks ago if they were planning on letting you go.

Check the TUC website and see if you have any unions within your place of work: https://www.tuc.org.uk/workplace-guidance/redundancy

Also consider making a GDPR request around your personal information regarding how it was decided you were made redundant

Good luck!

justcola fucked around with this message at 13:58 on Mar 30, 2020

# ? Mar 30, 2020 13:56

Answers Me: Apr 24, 2012

Two tweets that give an idea of just how much this government has hosed our healthcare workers:

https://twitter.com/AndrewBloch/status/1244333354679443456

https://twitter.com/kp104_/status/1244359867009245184

# ? Mar 30, 2020 13:57

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

ThomasPaine posted:

E: also on labour, you don't have to vote for them even as a member as long as you don't tell anyone... At least staying in gives you some tiny power to influence the direction

And you can still vote for them even if you are not a member.
Sent my resignation late last night. Was going to hang in there through the crisis, but seeing that shitlist of Starmer's yesterday, forget it.

# ? Mar 30, 2020 13:58

keep punching joe: Jan 22, 2006; Die Satan!

sassassin posted:

Prince Charles is out of isolation because apparently after 7 days you're not infectious any more?

Good.

Hope he gives it to his whole wretched family.

# ? Mar 30, 2020 13:59

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

hosed up that Tory MPs get their own special isolation ward.
https://twitter.com/DrIqbalSarwar/status/1244543062505750528

# ? Mar 30, 2020 14:07

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

Tragic news everyone: BrightHouse is in administration...

# ? Mar 30, 2020 14:09

crispix: Mar 28, 2015; Grand-Maman m'a raconté
_{(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)}

Hello, dear

Answers Me posted:

Two tweets that give an idea of just how much this government has hosed our healthcare workers:

https://twitter.com/AndrewBloch/status/1244333354679443456

https://twitter.com/kp104_/status/1244359867009245184

There are pictures doing the rounds of clinical staff in New York wearing bin bags. Just fighting a pandemic in a makeshift halloween costume :spooky:

Pablo Bluth posted:

Tragic news everyone: BrightHouse is in administration...

I hope people get to keep their stuff

# ? Mar 30, 2020 14:09

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Communist Thoughts posted:

I was gonna say do you think once the labour right wins power again they will mysteriously find that purging is actually easy?
But I don't think they even need to purge anyone do they? 5 years later they still control like 75% of the MPs

Yeah, they might purge a few of the Militant vets and SWP perverts who rejoined under Corbyn out of principle but they won't need a large scale purge, they'll just change the rules to reduce the importance of the membership in a leadership contest, like copying the Tories where the MPs are the ones who whittle down the contest to just 2 choices before the members vote.

The complete lack of ruthlessness really counts against Corbyn and his people.

# ? Mar 30, 2020 14:12

goddamnedtwisto: Dec 31, 2004; If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you; Fun Shoe

sassassin posted:

Prince Charles is out of isolation because apparently after 7 days you're not infectious any more?

7 days *without symptoms*, isn't it? I was sure they were saying he was showing mild symptoms when he tested positive, too.

# ? Mar 30, 2020 14:13

Wachter: Mar 23, 2007; You and whose knees?

Pablo Bluth posted:

Tragic news everyone: BrightHouse is in administration...

yay

The Beeb posted:

BrightHouse customers, about a third of whom are in work, will continue with payments, even if the company goes into administration

boo

# ? Mar 30, 2020 14:13

fridge corn: Apr 2, 2003; NO MERCY, ONLY PAIN

justcola posted:

Check your initial contract if you have it to hand. I'd get it down in writing and also ask why you were being made redundant and would they reconsider you being a furloughed worker as the government would pay 80% of your wage rather than them? (Seems a bit cunty of them but anyway) -

You need at least a weeks notice if you've been working there less than 2 years, which is also paid. You're also entitled to a 'consultancy' with them that should have happened weeks ago if they were planning on letting you go.

Check the TUC website and see if you have any unions within your place of work: https://www.tuc.org.uk/workplace-guidance/redundancy

Also consider making a GDPR request around your personal information regarding how it was decided you were made redundant

Good luck!

Thank you. Good information

# ? Mar 30, 2020 14:18

crispix: Mar 28, 2015; Grand-Maman m'a raconté
_{(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)}

Hello, dear

Wachter posted:

yay

boo

A third of whom are real people and not benefits scroungers!

# ? Mar 30, 2020 14:19

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

goddamnedtwisto posted:

7 days *without symptoms*, isn't it? I was sure they were saying he was showing mild symptoms when he tested positive, too.

There are reports of viral shedding for up to 37 days post-infection.

Maybe Charles is getting tired of waiting for the throne.

# ? Mar 30, 2020 14:21

OzyMandrill: Aug 12, 2013; Look upon my words
and despair

goddamnedtwisto posted:

7 days *without symptoms*, isn't it? I was sure they were saying he was showing mild symptoms when he tested positive, too.

Nope. From the bbc:

# ? Mar 30, 2020 14:21

crispix: Mar 28, 2015; Grand-Maman m'a raconté
_{(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)}

Hello, dear

They probably have the queen and the frankenduke locked up in luxury clean rooms

# ? Mar 30, 2020 14:22

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
TO RACE TO THE THEATRES"
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OzyMandrill posted:

Nope. From the bbc:

gutteral screaming noise

# ? Mar 30, 2020 14:23

sassassin: Apr 3, 2010; by Azathoth

We're hosed.

# ? Mar 30, 2020 14:28

Miftan: Mar 31, 2012; Terry knows what he can do with his bloody chocolate orange...

Guavanaut posted:

Miftan is still alive

I was getting worried this past few days and hoped you were just insanely busy with whatever it is that happens when the country falls into disorganized chaos.

e: or

Half that and half planning a D&D game, which we'll hopefully be streaming/recording for the pod to amuse people in quarantine.

# ? Mar 30, 2020 14:31

Jel Shaker: Apr 19, 2003

When do the deliveroo people realise that they are worth their weight in gold right now and strike

# ? Mar 30, 2020 14:34

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

https://twitter.com/balazscseko/status/1244612142831198209?s=21

Hungary has made its dictatorship official.

# ? Mar 30, 2020 14:37

sassassin: Apr 3, 2010; by Azathoth

Sounds like people aren't actually that infectious after 8-10 days of showing symptoms, based on a German study. In mild cases, anyway. If you develop pneumonia and worse symptoms that infectious period is longer.

https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/09...ecovery-begins/

# ? Mar 30, 2020 14:38