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Jose posted:i loving hate how the centrists who refused to ever get on board iwth corbyn constantly complain about factionalism lol its true, all factions agree e: im not gonna vote for their ghoul unless they work for my vote, so i dont expect anything diff from them
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Personally I have long since gone past specific things I hate and just... generally hate. I don't have time for specifics, there's far too many things to direct it at.
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Bacon Terrorist posted:My wife's employer seem to think they are going to furlough some people for three weeks, the bring them back, and furlough a different group of people for 3 weeks, bring them back etc https://www.lewissilkin.com/en/insights/furloughing-employefaqs-for-employers-on-the-coronavirus-job-retention-scheme seems to suggest that quote:An employee must be furloughed for a minimum period of 3 weeks. A furloughed employee can then return to work, and put on furlough again later if needed. To quote the police though, it's certainly not in the spirit of the rules.
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Comrade Fakename posted:
I find that eventually one follows the other quite naturally
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Local coop still empty of loads of stuff: no pasta, rice, lentils or anything like that, and almost no veg. All the veggie protein stuff was gone too (Quorn/sausages/tofu) Is this still caused by panic buying or is there a problem with supply chains?
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josh04 posted:Friend made this: https://whichisthebestthing.com/ 
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Some considerate souls who obviously are worried I'll get bored with self-isolation have gifted me a lovely complicated jig-saw to complete.* *By which I mean that some absolute fuckers sometime during the last two weeks decided to kick in the rear light clusters on my spare-parts van (SORN source of bits for the running one). Vehicle is over 20 years old so almost never show up in breakers yards so I'm busy with super-glue and all the bits - all that flint refitting experience paying off! Second bit of vehicle vandalism this year - in January some (the same?) fuckers decided to smash off all 4 wing mirrors (2 on each van). In conclusion, cunts.
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Pantsmaster Bill posted:Local coop still empty of loads of stuff: no pasta, rice, lentils or anything like that, and almost no veg. All the veggie protein stuff was gone too (Quorn/sausages/tofu) I've no idea but people talk about going to the shops early enough - if I go past 3 there's not much, I've taken the last tin of beans or whatever on a shelf. I don't see anyone walking round with paletts of tinned tomatoes any more so I'm wondering if the supply chain is mucked. I'm struggling to know how to get hold of non-essential but sort of useful things like lightbulbs, nail clippers, chairs, clothes - I don't really want to stress delivery services more than they're needed but I don't know where to go otherwise. e:  Next year then? justcola fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Apr 2, 2020 |
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Bacon Terrorist posted:My wife's employer seem to think they are going to furlough some people for three weeks, the bring them back, and furlough a different group of people for 3 weeks, bring them back etc why not? if you’ve only got half the work to be doing it makes more sense to rotate half the staff on/off than leave some permanently on full workload and some on zero
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Cerv posted:why not? probably an argument for the staff, too - gets that extra 20% of salary and ensures everyone stays fresh in the role
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Labour have had all 3 candidates pre-record victory speeches for tomorrow. instead of just live streaming the winner. this is disappointing, I want to see what Starmer’s got strategically placed on the bookcase like every middle management twat showing off in the conference call
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justcola posted:I've no idea but people talk about going to the shops early enough - if I go past 3 there's not much, I've taken the last tin of beans or whatever on a shelf. I don't see anyone walking round with paletts of tinned tomatoes any more so I'm wondering if the supply chain is mucked. Even with an imperfect lockdown, it is absolutely not going to take 9 months to get the numbers under control well enough to relax the lockdown. There may be further waves after that demanding restrictions are reintroduced, but we're not going to be fully housebound until 2021 and it's absurd to think we will be. Yes, consider this a 
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Cerv posted:Labour have had all 3 candidates pre-record victory speeches for tomorrow. instead of just live streaming the winner. You probably will still get to see that, unfortunately.
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RLB shoots it in front of a greenscreen with Red Square as the background, Lisa Nandy accidentaly engages snapchat filter and offers her speech as a cat.
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Had a bit of a jolt while out on my walk - plain black refrigerated van with two guys in masks driving slowly down the street, the guys looking hawkishly out of both sides. Then one jumped out with a clipboard while another put on some gloves. The were delivering veg to a little takeaway place
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Lisa Nyandy.goddamnedtwisto posted:Had a bit of a jolt while out on my walk - plain black refrigerated van with two guys in masks driving slowly down the street, the guys looking hawkishly out of both sides. Then one jumped out with a clipboard while another put on some gloves. I'm used to the corpse wagons being slate grey and marked as "private ambulance" but maybe london does it differently 
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ThomasPaine posted:Even with an imperfect lockdown, it is absolutely not going to take 9 months to get the numbers under control well enough to relax the lockdown. I think we'll probably end up playing peekaboo with the disease like that article suggested (and I roundly rubbished) a couple of weeks ago. Wait for deaths to drop below a certain level, unlock, then lock back up when the numbers start going up again, or maybe the same but with ICU bed occupancy. It's a long loving way from ideal (and the one area where I sort of agree with the nudge unit people - the observance of each successive lockdown is going to get worse and worse) but absent a viable treatment or vaccine it's about the only way even vaguely acceptable to the NUMBER crowd who still are basically in control of the response across the West.
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ThomasPaine posted:Even with an imperfect lockdown, it is absolutely not going to take 9 months to get the numbers under control well enough to relax the lockdown. wuhan is looking at a 3 month absolute lockdown, and that's with widespread testing and a far more comprehensive understanding of essential worker. the virus is still spreading in the uk, we've just slowed it down significantly goddamnedtwisto posted:I think we'll probably end up playing peekaboo with the disease like that article suggested (and I roundly rubbished) a couple of weeks ago. Wait for deaths to drop below a certain level, unlock, then lock back up when the numbers start going up again, or maybe the same but with ICU bed occupancy. It's a long loving way from ideal (and the one area where I sort of agree with the nudge unit people - the observance of each successive lockdown is going to get worse and worse) but absent a viable treatment or vaccine it's about the only way even vaguely acceptable to the NUMBER crowd who still are basically in control of the response across the West.
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OwlFancier posted:Lisa Nyandy. Black but still marked as an ambulance, IME.
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if you want to know what's actually happening in the uk watch today's scotland briefing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyecq4przIE it gets into technical questions and follows alongside uk's plan but as per usual gives far more facts than the uk one
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Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:well consider we haven't infected 1% of the population yet This seems a fairly big claim IMO. If we take the poll in the last thread as a survey of how many people read/post in this thread, there's been at least 5 symptomatic cases out of 375*. Leyton Orient have had 4 confirmed cases in their staff of 50ish, and they definitely don't have the exotic lifestyle excuse of Premiership clubs (their youth team take the Central Line between their training ground and academy). Assuming the 33% growth a day number is right, it only takes 33 days to go from 100 cases to 690,000 (near as dammit 1%) - given we had the first confirmed cases at the beginning of February, I suspect we've gone *way* past that number now, probably nearer 10% than 1%. Unscientific as poo poo, I know, but probably still more statistically valid than our alleged testing regime. * Of a population that's already pretty socially isolated, arf arf.
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So what's the easiest way of quitting the party? I mean I will wait till the result but I'm not paying even a pittance a month to be led by that sack of shite starmer
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Is there a decent website for totally novice people looking to grow their own veg? I'm talking a step by step guide with links to things to buy and explanations for any and all jargon. I basically just wanna try growing poo poo like potatoes, carrots, broccoli etc but have absolutely no idea where to begin.
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DesperateDan posted:So what's the easiest way of quitting the party? I mean I will wait till the result but I'm not paying even a pittance a month to be led by that sack of shite starmer Being mildly critical of Israel on Twitter should do the trick.
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DesperateDan posted:So what's the easiest way of quitting the party? I mean I will wait till the result but I'm not paying even a pittance a month to be led by that sack of shite starmer First, I stopped my direct debit (which was monthly - the late March payment had just been taken). Then I emailed "labourmembership@labour.org.uk" quoting my membership number and also stating that I have stopped my DD, and copied my CLP chair and secretary both in. I didn't give my reasons, my CLP Chair knows and if anyone asks her she knows enough to say it's not a hissy fit about Corbyn standing down (which it mostly isn't).
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goddamnedtwisto posted:This seems a fairly big claim IMO. If we take the poll in the last thread as a survey of how many people read/post in this thread, there's been at least 5 symptomatic cases out of 375*. Leyton Orient have had 4 confirmed cases in their staff of 50ish, and they definitely don't have the exotic lifestyle excuse of Premiership clubs (their youth team take the Central Line between their training ground and academy). Assuming the 33% growth a day number is right, it only takes 33 days to go from 100 cases to 690,000 (near as dammit 1%) - given we had the first confirmed cases at the beginning of February, I suspect we've gone *way* past that number now, probably nearer 10% than 1%. everyone keeps wishing it's the case, but that hasn't changed reality and i strongly doubt it'll change it if we continuing wishing even harder
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Pantsmaster Bill posted:Local coop still empty of loads of stuff: no pasta, rice, lentils or anything like that, and almost no veg. All the veggie protein stuff was gone too (Quorn/sausages/tofu) The big sainsbury near me (Edinburgh) is almost back to normal, other than pasta, handwash and peanut butter. Tons of fruit and veg. I think shelves are a little bit emptier than normal late in the day though, but that might be because more people are shopping during daytime hours who would previously have gone shopping after work in the evening maybe?
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Kin posted:Is there a decent website for totally novice people looking to grow their own veg? How much land do you have? Some vegetables can be grown in containers if you don't have a garden, even potatoes.
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Kin posted:Is there a decent website for totally novice people looking to grow their own veg? Chuck em in the dirt and water them, done. Slightly more seriously, the instructions on the seed packets (assuming you're not going to try and go completely native) should do the trick with a bit of judicious googling - most fruit and veg is extremely tolerant of suboptimal soil conditions and general mistreatment because it's been bred to be that way. Chuck some fertiliser designed for food plants rather than flowers in there occasionally, don't let the soil get completely dry or completely waterlogged, and take precautions to keep weeds and pests away (a thin layer of gravel or broken stone over the soil when you sow will do the former (and keep moisture in over the summer), and some cheap netting and broken eggshells should keep most of the latter away). One thing I will say is you're pretty late to be sowing anything now, make sure you check the seeds carefully to make sure you're not just wasting your time for something that will get murdered by winter before it has a chance to make a crop. Potatoes and carrots should be fine though.
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forkboy84 posted:I have read about 10 of the Bernard Cromwell Sharpe books in the last 3 weeks. Also gone back to the Complete Marvel Reading Order & reading so many comic books. Missing my wrestling though. There's been 9 shows this month I've watched, which...well, significantly down on what it should be to the point where I even watched 2 Stardom shows & some Big Japan which aren't in my regular rotation. Been no New Japan Cup, missed a few Dragon Gate shows, several AJPW & NOAH. And now this month All Japan have cancelled their big tournament. It's nice having time & all but I'm pretty much just done with this now, give me my Japanese wrestling back. I have a couple of freaking hefty books that I have been looking to get through for a while, big book of Korean history Myths and Gods of India etc. Finally finished Xcom on legendary, God after a certain point it was like pulling teeth. I'm sorry your shows aren't on though mate.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:It's a long loving way from ideal (and the one area where I sort of agree with the nudge unit people - the observance of each successive lockdown is going to get worse and worse) They'd have a chance if they'd taken charge of the situation like South Korea - immediate response, diverting resources into equipment and testing, explaining to people exactly what needed to happen and why, providing support to help people isolate etc they went for bumbling and inept instead so now nobody has any reason to trust them, and trying to regulate control measures is just gonna look like more indecision and confusion. Like they didn't just gently caress up the actual response, they're also eroding the state's authority and power to actually get everyone to listen and pull together
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