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justcola posted:Aye, we're overdue the slab putting his thumbs up and grinning with a wee tube in his nose. Instead he'll be unconcious on his front with a tube down like everyone else. If he were faking it I can't imagine the biggest NDA's in the world would stop that leaking. America is going to be at 1x 9/11 a day by middle of next week if trends hold.
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Do you know how the Conservapedia guy was convinced that Fidel Castro was secretly dead, like 15 years before he actually died, and kept insisting so against all evidence or logic? I think I'm going to become him if they keep claiming that Boris lives.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:If almost all countries have suffered economically from the virus, Big assumption that all countries would suffer equally, though your general feeling about the economy being made up is completely accurate. Won't stop the imposition of harsher austerity in service to the Number though. Only mass action would stop that
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Nenonen posted:Do you know how the Conservapedia guy was convinced that Fidel Castro was secretly dead, like 15 years before he actually died, and kept insisting so against all evidence or logic? I think I'm going to become him if they keep claiming that Boris lives. Well so far, the evidence is that Alexander de Pfeffel ist sitting up and "engaging positively" with NHS staff, just out of frame!
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The pandemic is definitely well tailored to get at least a few people asking questions like "what exactly is 'the economy' and why is it so important that it keeps growing"
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:If almost all countries have suffered economically from the virus, then they all remain (relatively speaking) in proportion to each other, so does 'economic recovery' matter on the macroscale? The source of capital is labour. The only way to gain any advantage is to reduce the amount of labour lost due to lockdowns and illness absences. Also, the places that fall deep into recession are more likely to see defaults on its loans and similar assets. That's going to see a lot of collateral assets falling into the hands of the capital class at a point where they're producing no value and might not have any local buyers interested. Any place that does get an advantage could be in a position to claim these assets for a low price as their prize and begin harvesting them for capital once the labour force returns. If you were expecting some kind of collaborative globalist operation to mitigate the economic damage worldwide, the only question I'd have is 'why would they?' Azza Bamboo fucked around with this message at 11:45 on Apr 9, 2020 |
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Even if he doesn't die, he's going to be out of action for a long time now. Just cause the docs rate him as 'not imminently about to die' and send him home doesn't mean he'll be back at work next Tuesday. It's going to be a very long and unprecedented period where he's around but not running the show. Has anyone heard from Cummings lately? Last seen running away from No.10 with the rona in tow.
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Maugrim posted:The pandemic is definitely well tailored to get at least a few people asking questions like "what exactly is 'the economy' and why is it so important that it keeps growing" I can see a Lot of houses coming on the market as younger middle class people do the time off vs house size maths. “Actually if we downgrade the house then both of us can work part time and as we won’t have to pay out for childcare....”
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Took the plunge and bought some clippers. Oh boy.
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I've been clippersing for years. Those bad boys have paid for themselves in haircuts I never had to shell out for.
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Jose posted:singapore is on their second outbreak after relaxing the lock down Singapore didn't go into lockdown till last weekend - I was living there till mid-march and life went on as normal with some canceled events for feb/march. They actually have an outbreak now, mostly because of singaporians going to europe/USA catching covid and bringing it home with them.
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Nenonen posted:Do you know how the Conservapedia guy was convinced that Fidel Castro was secretly dead, like 15 years before he actually died, and kept insisting so against all evidence or logic? I think I'm going to become him if they keep claiming that Boris lives. Just looked up the Conservapedia page for COVID 19. It does its usual shtick of starting off sane enough before devolving into "China! and Russia!! because socialism!!!  "The Tories are literally going to pull an North Korea "Eternal Leader" 
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Lambert posted:Well so far, the evidence is that Alexander de Pfeffel ist sitting up and "engaging positively" with NHS staff, just out of frame!  At the hospital having the time of my life with Boris. He's just out of frame,
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52219930quote:Staff working for Her Majesty's Passport Office believe their lives are being put at risk because of demands that they return to work. lol, guess Priti Patel has been excluded from the limelight because she's stubbornly refusing to let go of herd immunity?
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Pesky Splinter posted:The Tories are literally going to pull an North Korea "Eternal Leader" Already did this with Thatcher.
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I’m not sure I want to meet the Liberal Democrat voter who thought “I know, now is the perfect time to put in a passport application!” Same energy as that Facebook dude who went around taking photos of a hospital to highlight how unsafe the staff were (and got 12 weeks)
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Jippa posted:Took the plunge and bought some clippers. Oh boy. how much did you pay/where did you get them from?
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learnincurve posted:I’m not sure I want to meet the Liberal Democrat voter who thought “I know, now is the perfect time to put in a passport application!” There's a depressingly large number of things where you need a passport as ID if you don't have a driver's license. Might have something to do with that huge spike in UC applications, unless they've changed the system since I checked last. Darth Walrus fucked around with this message at 12:04 on Apr 9, 2020 |
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Darth Walrus posted:There's a depressingly large number of things where you need a passport as ID if you don't have a driver's license. I’ve been doing this recently for the kids and tbh getting a provisional licence is by far the easier and cheaper option.  mine won’t run out till 2049
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learnincurve posted:I’ve been doing this recently for the kids and tbh getting a provisional licence is by far the easier and cheaper option. GOV.UK says 'lolnope'.
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escapegoat posted:Already did this with Thatcher. The immortal science of Thatcherism cannot fail, it can only be failed.
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josh04 posted:It's the union of "most positive sounding way to describe the truth" and "the last lie a government minister said". https://twitter.com/SkyNewsPolitics/status/1248204915412996098
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Darth Walrus posted:There's a depressingly large number of things where you need a passport as ID if you don't have a driver's license. I applied for a new passport a week or so before the lockdown, though only as i changed my name recently and i don't have a drivers license. So now my only photo id is a shiny new passport delivered to my parents house on the other side of town which i absolutely cannot go to for the time being. Haven't asked them to check what colour it is yet. Main thing i used it for was picking up parcels though, so it's not like I'm going to have trouble being in for deliveries for the foreseeable
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josh04 posted:Update: "Doctor, am I accessible and capable of making decisions?" "Yes." "Well I wasn't before!" (plays piano)
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Bacon Terrorist posted:My father in law was informed he was to be furloughed yesterday afternoon. Today is his company's monthly pay day: they've paid him the furlough rate. Taking the piss surely? Probably illegal
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learnincurve posted:I’m not sure I want to meet the Liberal Democrat voter who thought “I know, now is the perfect time to put in a passport application!”
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Bacon Terrorist posted:My father in law was informed he was to be furloughed yesterday afternoon. Today is his company's monthly pay day: they've paid him the furlough rate. Taking the piss surely? Absolutely illegal because if he is paid in arrears he had already performed the work he is being paid for, which means he cannot be furloughed for that period and the company cannot claim for it from the government.
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peanut- posted:Absolutely illegal because if he is paid in arrears he had already performed the work he is being paid for, which means he cannot be furloughed for that period and the company cannot claim for it from the government. As I thought. I suspect they will claim he is paid a month in advance to get around this.
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Bacon Terrorist posted:As I thought. I suspect they will claim he is paid a month in advance to get around this. not really something there can be an argument about. either he’s been paid in arrears or in advance before. or half n half, some places do that. get him to check what his contract says, but also you can just go off history of previous payments. if they have hosed up and done it wrong, that’s blatantly illegal. best of luck getting that sorted quickly
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Accessible? Does that mean they can get him to give a thumbs up to confirm he's alive or does that mean his throat hasn't closed up and they can get a tube down it?
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Azza Bamboo posted:Accessible?
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It means they haven't yet had to seal the room with a great arcane hex.
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ThomasPaine posted:someone photoshop bojos dumb face onto the golden throne from 40k It got bottom-of-paged a couple back. 
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School dinner vouchers for mainstream secondary schools just hit email accounts if this applies to anyone.
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