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This is the darkest day since the axing of The Learning Zone 
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josh04 posted:Don't be silly, their cleaner does that. https://twitter.com/will_corder/status/1260135771215998979
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May 14, 2020 13:20
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I like BBC 4 but there is something about it which reminds me of the famous Yes Minister sketch where he explains why they need to keep funding the opera rather than things most people enjoy
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May 14, 2020 13:20
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Today at my workplace there is a huge uproar about people having to cut their nails. Like people threatening to go take legal action if they make them cut their nails. Honestly absolutely done, we've been working as normal will no changes during the rona. As normal apparently means more work than we can cope with and a huge amount of overtime meaning our team has to (while doing a normal 9-5) come in for an early morning shift like 3am. I have spent fruitless weeks trying to organise there but it is one of the only workplaces I've ever seen with ZERO solidarity. Every single person is friends with our boss, they work more hours than contracted every day and everyone has broken down in tears due to the massive workload. They also constantly break social distancing and basically moralise their own health when the risk is pointed out, I've had a co-worker claim "I won't get it, I've got a strong immune system because I wasn't coddled as a child". Any suggestion I make to get together and try and improve things is met with their apathy or them grassing on me to the managers. BUT CUTTING NAILS IS THE LAST STRAW?? I think I have a stomach ulcer now guys. help. thrashingteeth fucked around with this message at 13:30 on May 14, 2020 |
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May 14, 2020 13:21
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I will break lockdown to get my hair done but do not ask me to trim my nails!  kecske posted:they might insist on it as the law is due to change in July (?) regarding the obligations of the landlord regarding electrical safety. The changes have been drafted hastily and theres a lot likely to be amended but the gist of it as written is that any tenancies renewed after July will require a set of test certificates for the property. It also says that a competent spark will no longer be able to declare older installs as safe - everything will have to comply to the newest 18th edition regulations which would require a huge amount of rented properties all over the country to be rewired. This will certainly be changed but I imagine councils are issuing letters to cover themselves in line with current guidance.  Europe has known were safe forever but Triumphant Britane steadfastly ignored, like you can have a spur off of a spur as long as the whole thing is correctly fused and rated, or you can have sockets closer to water as long as there's an RCD fitted, and you no longer have to have the main supply be a ring main, but can instead have a German style radial circuit like most developed functioning nations? Also something about things other than lights on lighting circuits, now that everyone who isn't a Daily Mail reading paranoid isn't using a dozen 100W heatglobes on them?Not disagreeing that a lot of rental properties will fail the 18th edition (or even the 1st edition do not have frayed heater cords in the bathroom), but there's more scope for improvements now. Also this is my favourite diagram from the regs because it's like a cross between everything my dad said never to do with electricity and a wish dot com tea urn, but is completely legit. 
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May 14, 2020 13:30
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zentigeist posted:Today at my workplace there is a huge uproar about people having to cut their nails. Like people threatening to go take legal action if they make them cut their nails. Not to sound too dismissive, but are you in a position to quit? Quitting some bullshit job that just winds you up and is constantly thankless and surrounded by co-workers who are either poo poo-stirrers or boot-lickers tends to be a good decision - I've never regretted quitting a job. I had a quick look to see if businesses are still hiring and there seems to be a glut of coronavirus-based work about - plus loads of charities and grant giving bodies will be giving out awards in the next month that should boost some more availability (plus all the temp stuff thats always on) Or just stop caring, turn up, do the bare minimum, find something else you enjoy outside of work that gives you fulfilment and potentially experience to hop over to another career. Either way, good luck! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu7rPq_0kJ0
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May 14, 2020 13:38
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Have a friend in England that may be the first landmark Corvid court case for being fired. Basically, when the lockdown started he went told his bosses that was going home until it was legally safe again. He lives with his two parents, both at risk to corvid, and he travels an hour each way on public transport, train mainly. He's not going to risk them. But his office never shut down the whole time, they were not essential workers either, the bosses just told everyone to remain. They stalled paying him for the work owed, didn't pay him for the last month at all, now want him to come in to complete the work that he should have done that has an upcoming deadline. Thing is, he can work from home, just the office didn't want them to. Will update if it progresses.
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May 14, 2020 13:43
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Guavanaut posted:
It's all just white feminism; aka wealthy white women wanting their turn to own slaves.
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May 14, 2020 13:46
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you might call it an astroterf campaign 😏
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May 14, 2020 13:51
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Been sent home from work today as someone else in the office went home yesterday with suspected covid and went off to get a test, and I can't come back in until Monday now. I also can't do my actual job either because Airbus's advice was to "stay at home for 72 hours and do not leave the house", so welp
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May 14, 2020 13:59
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zentigeist posted:Today at my workplace there is a huge uproar about people having to cut their nails. Like people threatening to go take legal action if they make them cut their nails. That's pretty rough dude. I know it's a luxury option but that place sounds toxic and you should quit if at all possible for your own health! Another option is to go on autopilot (tbf, you've clearly been trying) and just stop caring but the rona don't mind about that Deketh fucked around with this message at 14:01 on May 14, 2020 |
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May 14, 2020 13:59
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keep punching joe posted:Are you Nadine Dorries? Doesn't look very authoritative imo
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May 14, 2020 14:00
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Guavanaut posted:Also this is my favourite diagram from the regs because it's like a cross between everything my dad said never to do with electricity and a wish dot com tea urn, but is completely legit. Is that like one of these? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EViyccc2t9w
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May 14, 2020 14:11
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my work have posted a little notice declaring us COVID secure loving lmao they've apparently taken all reasonable steps to ensure that people aren't within 2 m of each other, which apparently doesn't include making the 3 people sat within 2 m of each other in the office move to one of the ~15 vacant desks or one of the side rooms also taken all steps to reduce transmission which comprises in its entirety, as far as I can tell, propping the door to the office open so people don't have to touch it (but not any of the other doors they would have to touch to get anywhere from the corridor) and telling people to use their own mugs which everyone did any way I think this pretty much sums up my experience of health and safety in a small company: no one has any idea how to do it properly because it's not their main job, hiring someone to do it costs money, doing anything about problems costs time/money/marginal amounts of effort, and realistically no one has the resources to actually enforce anything anyway so who cares. Just do a "risk assessment" and sign a piece of paper declaring the risks to have been assessed
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May 14, 2020 14:16
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Propping open doors probably breaking a bunch of fire codes anyway. H&S Paradox
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May 14, 2020 14:18
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A nation of shopkeepers, not H&S experts!sinky posted:Is that like one of these?
Well, I suppose it meets (1) by not having earth at all 
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May 14, 2020 14:20
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Bobstar posted:You need the British Mixer Tap Oh god, having lived in Europe for the last 6 years and just moved back (don't laugh) this hits too close. What the gently caress is with there being no mixer taps in this country? Also having sinks so small that you can only fit one hand bent at an awkward angle in them, as you then sear all the skin off your bones on that hand to wash it, after dragging it around all the grime in the sink first.
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May 14, 2020 14:22
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Mebh posted:Oh god, having lived in Europe for the last 6 years and just moved back (don't laugh) this hits too close. What the gently caress is with there being no mixer taps in this country? I think it's because hot water tanks used to be not fit for drinking.
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May 14, 2020 14:27
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It used to be because of some poo poo where:
An old whizz for atoms school lark was to put a length of hose full of liquid dye between the hot and cold taps in the bathroom and turn both on, the cold would force the dye into the hot water tank and all the hot water in the school would be pink or blue or whatever. Lots of houses have combi boilers and no water tanks now, so that can't happen any more, but tl:dr; it's because British housing bad.
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May 14, 2020 14:28
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Mebh posted:Oh god, having lived in Europe for the last 6 years and just moved back (don't laugh) this hits too close. What the gently caress is with there being no mixer taps in this country? I think somebody (possibly Twisto) explained the mixer tap thing at one point, basically comes down to "lol UK is old" as with so many things. I have reminded my wife a few times that the water in the bathroom tap comes from the same pipes as the kitchen, not some bizarre secret tank, and is therefore safe to drink... E: people above answered both things better!
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May 14, 2020 14:29
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These answers are all well and good but have a video on it with a younger Tom Scott instead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfHgUu_8KgA
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May 14, 2020 14:30
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Bobstar posted:I have reminded my wife a few times that the water in the bathroom tap comes from the same pipes as the kitchen, not some bizarre secret tank, and is therefore safe to drink...  ) tap is actually closer to the main than the kitchen tap now, because of 120-odd years of renovations from the starting point of "you get a lead stick with a tap on it in the scullery and you'll like it".Not sure that either are especially safe to drink though given the age of the underground pipework. Severn Trent have a lead removal program but you have to pay for it yourself and they take half the yard up, so I'm sticking with a filter on the kitchen one.
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May 14, 2020 14:41
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Bobstar posted:I think somebody (possibly Twisto) explained the mixer tap thing at one point, basically comes down to "lol UK is old" as with so many things. Bathroom tap water always tastes a bit poo poo though compared to kitchen tap water, in my experience.
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May 14, 2020 14:43
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History Comes Inside! posted:Bathroom tap water always tastes a bit poo poo though compared to kitchen tap water, in my experience. Probably psychological, like drinking cold water from a mug instead of a glass
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May 14, 2020 14:48
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Guavanaut posted:My bathroom (mixer The Dutch are strangely proud of their tap water. Like, at least half a dozen people have informed me, unprompted, that we won't need to buy bottled water now that we live here, because they have such delicious tap water. E: To be clear, not after seeing us buy bottled water (which we don't), or while using a tap. Just out of the blue. Bobstar fucked around with this message at 15:02 on May 14, 2020 |
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May 14, 2020 14:58
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Mugsbaloney posted:Are there any good resources that look at Starmer's role in Rochdale / Saville etc? I came across some footage of him describing the rochdale victims as drunken and unreliable, surprised it didn't come up more in the leadership contest. Because it's a complete fabrication. It's an edited together clip from this interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfyTWU-Hnek
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May 14, 2020 14:59
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Bobstar posted:The Dutch are strangely proud of their tap water. Like, at least half a dozen people have informed me, unprompted, that we won't need to buy bottled water now that we live here, because they have such delicious tap water.
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May 14, 2020 15:02
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Guavanaut posted:It used to be because of some poo poo where: Some of the cold water tanks I saw 25 years ago in NHS staff accommodation.... (I was in the Works Dept)... dead pigeons, rats...
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May 14, 2020 15:07
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Aramoro posted:Because it's a complete fabrication. does retweeting the edited video with the implication that he's a nonce enabler count as libel?
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May 14, 2020 15:13
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dont like this guy normally but have to admit he is correct here https://twitter.com/thucydiplease/status/1260633164302565376?s=19 like furlough pay in a sense, if it was legalized we could force johns to keep paying them to stay safe gh0stpinballa fucked around with this message at 15:23 on May 14, 2020 |
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May 14, 2020 15:20
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I use a Brita filter, but that's a habit I picked up in Canada tbh
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May 14, 2020 15:22
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They're very convenient if you can't fit things to your taps where you are, but they're very expensive and the filters don't last long at all compared to a big aquarium filter that costs £15 and lasts 6 months.gh0stpinballa posted:dont like this guy normally but have to admit he is correct here Bet Sarah Ditum and the Julies won't be giving anything to SWARM though.
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May 14, 2020 15:26
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Mebh posted:Oh god, having lived in Europe for the last 6 years and just moved back (don't laugh) this hits too close. What the gently caress is with there being no mixer taps in this country? As always in this country it's a mixture of once-sane safety regs and TRADITION. There's a (perfectly reasonable) regulation that there must be no way for non-potable water to make it back into the mains. The problem is that almost all of the taps in your house (particularly any hot water taps) are non-potable, and the only way to stop that non-potable water making it back into the mains was to have a separate tap. Proper backpressure devices didn't exist until the 1950s, and weren't considered reliable enough for use in domestic settings until the 70s, so everyone's just used to having separate taps and get freaked out by mixers. (of course the devices everyone has to use to get around this then promptly break the separation - my sister used to have a problem of her kitchen tap putting out lukewarm water every time her neighbour had a shower because they had one of those rubber mixer things, and the hot water pressure just blew hot water straight down into the mains)
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May 14, 2020 15:26
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Guavanaut posted:They're very convenient if you can't fit things to your taps where you are, but they're very expensive and the filters don't last long at all compared to a big aquarium filter that costs £15 and lasts 6 months. Yeah, I know it's a little bougie but otherwise I don't drink water at home. You can pretty safely double the time listed or used capacity (ain't died yet) so it works out to about 2 quid a month?
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May 14, 2020 15:29
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goddamnedtwisto posted:As always in this country it's a mixture of once-sane safety regs and TRADITION. There's a (perfectly reasonable) regulation that there must be no way for non-potable water to make it back into the mains. The problem is that almost all of the taps in your house (particularly any hot water taps) are non-potable, and the only way to stop that non-potable water making it back into the mains was to have a separate tap. Proper backpressure devices didn't exist until the 1950s, and weren't considered reliable enough for use in domestic settings until the 70s, so everyone's just used to having separate taps and get freaked out by mixers. The kitchen tap in our flat pretty consistently has to run for 1-2 minutes while the output gets warmer and warmer before you get any cold, I'd assumed it was a terrible piping job that was doing laps around the boiler, but could it be this sort of thing?
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May 14, 2020 15:34
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goddamnedtwisto posted:(of course the devices everyone has to use to get around this then promptly break the separation - my sister used to have a problem of her kitchen tap putting out lukewarm water every time her neighbour had a shower because they had one of those rubber mixer things, and the hot water pressure just blew hot water straight down into the mains)
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May 14, 2020 15:36
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Jel Shaker posted:I like BBC 4 but there is something about it which reminds me of the famous Yes Minister sketch where he explains why they need to keep funding the opera rather than things most people enjoy There are so many channels out there, commercial channels, that cater to an audience wanting mindless entertainment. There's a case to be made that that's not the best use of the license fee. That yeah, maybe it is a bit snooty but maybe the BBC should spend more on its news output, more on its educational programmes and cultural output and less on dancing with celebrities. That ratings shouldn't actually be a major concern for a public service broadcaster like it is for a commercial broadcaster. I'm not saying cancel Eastenders but the whole point of a public service broadcaster is it can make the sort of programmes that a channel that needs high viewership to earn ad revenue can't. But it really doesn't so much any more. Even the decent sciencey stuff needs to be overly flashy and Brian Cox has to visit half a dozen different countries to film one episode about Venus. I like plenty of trash TV, don't get me wrong. But seems like that's what 5-USA or ITV or E4 are for. BBC can & should do more niche stuff because the alternative is "documentaries" that are History Channel calibre tripe about an ancient race of giants on Corsica & aliens building the pyramids.
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May 14, 2020 15:41
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BBC4 had a cool documentary/live concert with Slipknot the other week which was highly entertaining but also looked like it cost about 5 quid. So what I'm saying is maybe they should just pivot to more Slipknot-focused content
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May 14, 2020 15:49
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Failed Imagineer posted:BBC4 had a cool documentary/live concert with Slipknot the other week which was highly entertaining but also looked like it cost about 5 quid. Replace BBC 4 with the Slipknot channel and I don't think anyone will notice
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May 14, 2020 15:58
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I've been slightly paranoid about tap water ever since that stuff about the city of Flint in the US. I firmly believe that lead poisoning created a generation of perma-babies, and we like to think we sorted it all out, but we're all just a bunch of brain-poisoned idiots anyway. Perhaps just not from lead.
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May 14, 2020 16:01
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