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This plague might have been the biggest boost to the antivaxxer movement in years. smdh e: May 1960 was when some load of overrated Liverpudlians changed their name to the Silver Beetles. In July they became the Silver Beatles, and I don't need to tell you what name they settled on that August. Venomous fucked around with this message at 20:56 on May 11, 2020 |
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Well done Dr Paine you officially Clever Bugger (tm). Great accomplishment, well deserved
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Sloth Life posted:Well done Dr Paine you officially Clever Bugger (tm). Great accomplishment, well deserved Actually I think you'll find he's now a TOP BOFFIN
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May 11, 2020 21:06
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:https://twitter.com/RichardKeppler1/status/1259866885300125696?s=19 Yeah Starmer's just... you could have rang up central casting and they might have found a better example of boring centrist nerd, but they would have had to look deep behind the couch. Even if you're of the opinion that Starmer was 100% the right choice in terms of policy or whatever, come on, you need a bit of fire when you're talking about a crisis that has already killed thirty two thousand Brits and the government seems to be angling to drive that number far higher. Thirty two thousand excess deaths in what is ostensibly one of the most technologically advanced, politically and civically developed, wealthiest countries in the world. One which the tories themselves are always insisting can stand proudly as a leader among nations! Second-highest deaths in the world when we're not the secondmost populous country in the world is not the kind of leadership we thought they meant!!
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Pesky Splinter posted:Congratulations! https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Thaddeus_Paine_(Earth-616) Marvel, actually.
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Venomous posted:This plague might have been the biggest boost to the antivaxxer movement in years. smdh The Silver Scousers
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Congratulations on becoming forensic dr paine phd.
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ThomasPaine posted:oh hey i'm a dr now apparently lol, they let anyone into academia these days i tells ya  , but i'm afraid we've had enough of experts, so get in the skip and don't come out till we call for you
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EvilHawk posted:I'm not really behind the "gently caress Starmer for literally every decision he makes" train at the moment, but gently caress me I listened to the whole 2 minutes and is that supposed to be forensic? It was waffley, he stumbled over his words, he was shuffling his papers around trying to find the point. It's not over every decision he makes, just every bad decision. I don't criticise him for deciding to get out of bed in the morning.
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Dunno, seems highly dubious given what he currently spends his waking hours doing.
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oh hey congrats T Paine, bet you can get a blue tick now and everything!
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forkboy84 posted:Eh, there's a point. The Scottish Government didn't have to just follow what Westminster did. Health and Law & Order are both devolved, they could've done more sooner. While this is true, and I was raging at them for not doing anything earlier, it's probably pretty difficult to get people to stay at home if you can't furlough them, if you have to rely on the UK government to provide the funding for a lockdown. We need independence like, yesterday, and I'm anxious the SNP won't capitalise properly on this massive open goal.
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The sad fact being there are probably an awful lot of landlords in the Labour party. There are loads of otherwise well-meaning people who happen to own a house in addition to whatever their job is, which they don't want to sell right now but also don't want to live in, so they rent it out.
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Coohoolin posted:I'm anxious the SNP won't capitalise properly on this massive open goal. not that this isn't an important thing to think about at some point, but given there's probably not going to be even a start in the process for an independence referendum for a good year or so I feel it's probably a good idea for them to wait until after people stop dying at the rate of hundreds a week to do this
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https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1259920450634813441 dunno who this oval office is but he has a blue tick and these tweets are real bad no one was ever seriously talking about a 10% mortality rate averaged over the population including people who had it but weren't testing. When we locked down it was on the assumption that the mortality rate was ~1% cf. the Imperial prediction of 250,000 deaths in a do-nothing scenario which assumed some 50+% fraction of the population would get it before it burnt itself out the "everyone already has it and the IFR is actually 0.000000001% pussies" stuff will get people killed lies by some arsehole who thinks he's smarter than everyone else when actually he's just greedy and bloodthirsty oval office
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Coohoolin posted:While this is true, and I was raging at them for not doing anything earlier, it's probably pretty difficult to get people to stay at home if you can't furlough them, if you have to rely on the UK government to provide the funding for a lockdown. We need independence like, yesterday, and I'm anxious the SNP won't capitalise properly on this massive open goal. Yeah real talk is that Health and Law being devolved doesn't mean anything if the scots gov aren't able to open the purse strings unilaterally, like the rest of us they had to wait until the UK gov decided to spend some money to allow a lockdown to actually happen. It's ridiculuous to criticise them for not being able to take an action they weren't able to take.
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Vitamin P posted:Yeah real talk is that Health and Law being devolved doesn't mean anything if the scots gov aren't able to open the purse strings unilaterally, like the rest of us they had to wait until the UK gov decided to spend some money to allow a lockdown to actually happen. It's ridiculuous to criticise them for not being able to take an action they weren't able to take. In organisations I worked in, responsibilities would be devolved downline, but without the resources to deal with the responsibilities effectively. There was a layer of management - 2/3 below Board level - which we used to call the 'go to jail jobs'. These were where the responsibility bucks stopped in terms of getting hauled into court if there was a systemic failure but quite often their requests for adequate funding, personnel or whatever to manage their responsibilities effectively were denied by the upper layers. Same sort of thing here: Wales & Scotland have the devolved responsibilities but do not get the adequate funding that they need so the assemblies take the flack but are not really in a position to take appropriate action if funding is needed.
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Rename t Paine Dr fleshlight after he admitted he had one
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Jose posted:Rename t Paine Dr fleshlight after he admitted he had one Sure thing mister prolapse.
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OwlFancier posted:Sure thing mister prolapse. Just look out for posts from toys for rear end bum who took a photo of his prolapse and stuck googly eyes on it for an av if you want to see who it's from
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thespaceinvader posted:The sad fact being there are probably an awful lot of landlords in the Labour party. There are loads of otherwise well-meaning people who happen to own a house in addition to whatever their job is, which they don't want to sell right now but also don't want to live in, so they rent it out. Old stats, last year I think, but 11% of labour MPs are landlords. 28% of Tories. 25% of Lib Dems but I think that means like 1 dude?
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The Apollo 11 documentary is on netflix and it's so loving good if you care about anything involving space
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Just saw these comments under the Crace thing in the Graun: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/may/11/motor-misfires-as-pm-tries-to-steer-away-from-car-crash-of-night-before quote:Comment: Please can someone kindly explain to me how we can "control" a virus which isn't visible to the naked eye just by being alert?
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I got a letter through from HMRC today. I used to be self-employed, and apparently they think I'm eligible to apply for the self-employed income support thingy even though I'm already on 80% furlough from my current job. They say I can apply from Wednesday. I still make residual income from my old self-employed stuff and still file taxes for it, which is probably why. Once they discover that my self-employed income isn't my main income anymore I'm sure they won't give me any more money, but I figure it's worth a shot for more free government bucks.
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Bardeh posted:I got a letter through from HMRC today. I used to be self-employed, and apparently they think I'm eligible to apply for the self-employed income support thingy even though I'm already on 80% furlough from my current job. They say I can apply from Wednesday. I still make residual income from my old self-employed stuff and still file taxes for it, which is probably why. Once they discover that my self-employed income isn't my main income anymore I'm sure they won't give me any more money, but I figure it's worth a shot for more free government bucks. Careful with that. They're equally likely to give you money, then decide at some time in the future that they shouldn't have given you that money and demand all of it back.
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https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/coro...ocid=spartandhp Blaming Gordon Brown for the wrong kind of goggles. quote:
Even if they were the wrong spec in 2008, this should have been picked up years ago. I am just shocked that they don't rotate stock of things that could go out of date. Surely that's operational management 101! I even rotate my apocalypse cans of veg and bottled water supplies!
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I WAS loving JOKING.OwlFancier posted:Isn't that pretty normal? I thought that's what the emergency stockpiles were, basically. They take the expired stuff and hang onto it for a bit cos it probably still mostly works. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 01:46 on May 12, 2020 |
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thespaceinvader posted:The sad fact being there are probably an awful lot of landlords in the Labour party. There are loads of otherwise well-meaning people who happen to own a house in addition to whatever their job is, which they don't want to sell right now but also don't want to live in, so they rent it out. This describes me. However I let my house out at a negative cost on the mortgage. After 2 years of renting my tenants are now buying my house at 19,200 cheaper than the price because their rent went towards my house price. Ps. Please don't put me against the wall please please. Also. Hl.
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https://twitter.com/AledGwynWiliams/status/1259826054862176257 oval office.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and access to their Nearest Beach
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OwlFancier posted:I WAS loving JOKING. And the lesson learned? Don't make jokes on a public forum, the govt is watching for ideas.....
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he's the one that was going to go to Poland and ask them to veto the extensions to article 50 lol his Wikipedia article is one big list of reasons he's a oval office https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kawczynski?wprov=sfla1 e.g. quote:In 2020, he was reprimanded for sharing a platform with right-wing populist politicians such as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and former Deputy Prime Minister of Italy Matteo Salvini, at a conference organised by the Edmund Burke Foundation. He faced several calls to be suspended from Parliament. He was eventually given a formal warning by the Conservative Party, but did not have the whip withdrawn. His attendance was later defended by Yoram Hazony and Frank Furedi. also maybe if going to the beach is such a high priority to you that not being able to do it in the middle of a pandemic makes you you angry enough to dissolve an entire government, take some personal responsibility and don't live in loving Shrewsbury e: tbf I am also sort of disappointed in the Welsh, it's been several hundred years since they burnt any of these lovely little border towns to the ground
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One of the comments under the Crace article: someone said their son is a Whitehall civil servant and they had a briefing this week and were told to forget about the virus and just focus on brexit.
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Mebh posted:This describes me. This sounds like tax evasion, you're defo going to prison.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:One of the comments under the Crace article: someone said their son is a Whitehall civil servant and they had a briefing this week and were told to forget about the virus and just focus on brexit. So I guess Cabinet saw they're not going to get hung from the lampposts no matter how badly they handle things and decided "gently caress it let's not even bother, it's a hassle anyway"
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OwlFancier posted:I mean I wouldn't necessarily take my mate in the comments section of the article whose son works for the government told him, as gospel. Came to say this myself lol
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OwlFancier posted:I mean I wouldn't necessarily take my mate in the comments section of the article whose son works for the government told him, as gospel. You say that, but if "my mate in the comments section of the article whose son works for the government" told me that Danial Kawczynski hosed squirrels and hung their eviscerated carcasses from the canopy of his four-post bed, I'd believe it
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