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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:What... what has this got to do with tolerance? And he knows this is as much an indictment of the right, right? "So much for the tolerant left" is the "thanks obama" of our day.
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How would that work then? Did the left employ some sort of anti-clapping technique to perfectly cancel out the sound produced by all the gammons enthusiastically clapping?
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I would have clapped, but there wasn't a news article saying he was dead
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OwlFancier posted:https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1247575091229188099 Could you sleep if you knew Raab had access to them, though?
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Twitter was mostly full of people saying they don't want him to die but gently caress off clapping for him.
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Went into town for the first time since all this kicked off. Absolutely dead except for one old guy with a bottle of vodka who asked me if I could get Bon Jovi on my headphones even though they're modern, and if so, could he listen to some. Otherwise pretended I was the last person left on the planet It was actually kind of relaxing. Moreso than being in the middle of a plague, anyway
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Barry Foster posted:Went into town for the first time since all this kicked off. Absolutely dead except for one old guy with a bottle of vodka who asked me if I could get Bon Jovi on my headphones even though they're modern, and if so, could he listen to some. You need to have a go at detached irony about it it's a lot more pleasant for your brain
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Some of the estimations about his chances of living have been a bit glum, not as its about him, but everybody else going through similar motions at the moment. We're at 55,200 confirmed cases and 6,100 deaths (that they've seemed to have reported less after Boris went in) Continue gloating but saying his chances at living are down to a coin flip might be poo poo for some people reading maybe.
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justcola posted:Some of the estimations about his chances of living have been a bit glum, not as its about him, but everybody else going through similar motions at the moment. We're at 55,200 confirmed cases and 6,100 deaths (that they've seemed to have reported less after Boris went in) Yeah true, though I've started being grim and just intentionally frightening my family and friends into protecting themselves more. I kinda feel like there actually is a time for grim scary truths it turns out and I feel like it's now. Things are gonna get worse before they get better.
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John Rentoul is taking a principled stand against consequences, https://twitter.com/JohnRentoul/status/1247565360431280140 also strings of garlic, holy water, etc
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crispix posted:I think PJW just has a thing for big daddy men tbh Alex jones has a pretty good bear bod but I don't see the appeal in bojo tbh.
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OwlFancier posted:Alex jones has a pretty good bear bod but I don't see the appeal in bojo tbh. He's rich op
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I just took a poo poo for Boris
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josh04 posted:John Rentoul is taking a principled stand against consequences,
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thespaceinvader posted:He's rich op How rich is he anyway? And will any of his bastard sires see any of that filthy cash?
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Jose posted:You need to have a go at detached irony about it it's a lot more pleasant for your brain I'm usually 90% of the way there but some small voice in my head does sometimes worry that if I go too far that way the bits I've tourniqued will go gangrenous and fall off huge amounts of weed helps shut that guy up tho Barry Foster fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Apr 7, 2020 |
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Failed Imagineer posted:How rich is he anyway? And will any of his bastard sires see any of that filthy cash? gently caress knows, millionaire almost certainly, likely 10 millionaire, probably not hundred millionaire at a guess.
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Barry Foster posted:I'm usually 90% of the way there but some small voice in my head does sometimes worry that if I go too far that way the bits I've tourniqued will go gangrenous and fall off Oh yeah it's a bit of an issue largely not giving a poo poo about your own mortality sometimes but it makes pandemics a lot easier lol
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Failed Imagineer posted:How rich is he anyway? And will any of his bastard sires see any of that filthy cash? Remember, when he was Foreign Sec he rented out his home house to a saudi business man. Then when he was fired he squatted in downing street until he was forced out to get max money from his own home
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Bardeh posted:He's not even been tubed yet, so maybe he got taken to intensive care way before any pleb would have been taken. According to Ontario’s numbers it seems like about half of covid patients in the ICU here are on vents at any given point
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Katty! posted:I've had like 8 days in class this semester between strike action and closing for the virus, now all I'm getting are powerpoint slides with audio recorded over them. naturally I'm still expected to pay the full fee Also worth noting: the management of just about every UK university that's not Oxbridge is visibly making GBS threads themselves in terror at the implications for their finances. We get most of our money from tuition fees - particularly from international students - and enrolment of new first years is going to dive off a cliff in October. Hiring freezes and even layoffs are fairly common in the sector right now. I'm pretty sure management couldn't refund anyone's fees if they wanted to. (Of course, the obvious answer here is for the government to step in and help, but lol if you think that's going to happen under the tories.)
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pumpinglemma posted:Sincere question, not trying to dig at you: what do you actually want, beyond for the coronavirus to not be happening? As a third year student, mostly I just want reliable communication from lecturers - we keep getting emails saying "more details will follow later today/tomorrow/this week" and then just nothing from them after that. Even if they're waiting for more details themselves it would be much better if they actually told us that. edit: this is probably worsened since it's a health care degree and we've been waiting to hear about temporary registration etc. If it was happening in my first degree (psychology) I would probably be less bothered. minema fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Apr 7, 2020 |
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pumpinglemma posted:Sincere question, not trying to dig at you: what do you actually want, beyond for the coronavirus to not be happening? I'm a computer science lecturer, and from where I'm standing all the options look poo poo, but powerpoint slides with audio looks the least poo poo. Livestreaming lectures is far more trouble than it's worth in most cases, since even in CS we can't rely on our students having a stable Internet connection right now, or even a free schedule if they're caring for others, and despite our best efforts there was never much interaction with the audience in lectures anyway. From our end we're spending more time on teaching now rather than less, since (again even in CS) most of us have never done online lectures before, and you don't have to do multiple takes or try different encodings or deal with the university's godawful video upload system with a live lecture. Granted my Uni might have just been poo poo, but almost all of my mathematics lectures were us just copying down what the lecturer wrote on the blackboard, which they themselves were copying from their notes from previous years. We literally spent about 15 hours a week manually copying formulas and stuff. The economics ones weren't much better as they simply regurgitated what was in the prescribed textbooks. It was like routine for them and when i resat one of the lectures one year it was weird because it was a little like groundhog day. There was even one year where i skipped all of the economics classes, didn't even do the coursework or final exam, and was all but guaranteed a fail. Over the summer i just read the course textbook and then aced the re-sit which gave me a passing mark. Kind of put things into perspective for me. I'm not really dissing on universities and whatnot because education is important, but if a class is essentially just churning out knowledge from other sources, what is the justification for the crazy high fees? Do other universities and other courses have more engaging teaching methods or is it secretly about the social network you build up at university which is the real thing that propels you into the next stage of your life?
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OwlFancier posted:It's hard to see anything happening unless the universities face some consequences, if they're going to sell education as a commodity they can't be immune from consequences when they fail to provide it. And they also can't be allowed to use staff as human shields for their lovely governance. e: As for where the money went, I think mostly the government cut the teaching budget to match so we never got much (if any) extra money to begin with. In terms of what waste I can see now, mostly the existence of upper management and their fetish for shiny new buildings. pumpinglemma fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Apr 7, 2020 |
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