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Rustybear posted:everyone's geared up to the eyeballs in credit. I went to buy a mattress a few weeks back and the mattress place has transitioning away from the boring and less profitable business of selling mattresses and into the exciting and probably highly profitable world of mattress-related usury. i know people who've bought tattoos through credit financing recently. KPMG analysts looked at UK listed firms last year and around 8% of them were zombies who were only still going because of how cheap credit was available for them to keep rolling over debt without ever being free from it. Add in the pandemic hit and the underlying recession adding more debts everywhere and nothing would survive even mild increases. It's absolutely certain that some major part of society is going to seize up and break because of it, and it's now all trying to organise around being able to take advantage of it.
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Rustybear posted:i know people who've bought tattoos through credit financing recently. I do not want to know what the repo man does in this situation.
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namesake posted:KPMG analysts looked at UK listed firms last year and around 8% of them were zombies who were only still going because of how cheap credit was available for them to keep rolling over debt without ever being free from it. Add in the pandemic hit and the underlying recession adding more debts everywhere and nothing would survive even mild increases. Oh yeah, any Govt that lets the housing market/credit economy collapse is going to be a party of pariahs in quicktime. Until the So they're desperately digging to get other parts of the economy working so they've got something they can point to as their sandcastle crumbles: "Look, [insert barely functional sector of the economy, probably arms sales] is doing really well!"
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Even ignoring the debt laden situation the country is in, we've barely been managing meagre nominal GDP increases. The BoE hasn't increased rates because inflation is within their target levels and increasing the rates would tank any economic growth, which would mean number not go up, and we can't have that.
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Umbra Dubium posted:I do not want to know what the repo man does in this situation. the name of the firm, without a hint of irony, was 'No Regrets Financing'; the sheer brass neck of that is staggering.
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Umbra Dubium posted:I do not want to know what the repo man does in this situation. It'll cost you an arm and a leg.
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mehall posted:Even ignoring the debt laden situation the country is in, we've barely been managing meagre nominal GDP increases. One day society will get over the obsession with eternal growth & I sure hope it's in my lifetime.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-53381699 Yes! That old covids is no match for our um..  treyactors and...  big drums :/
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As a nominally republican Irishman, I love the Big Drum and the Big Men that wield it, it owns
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I have always wondered if they get the very fat neck from wielding the big drum, or if they get to wield the big drum because they have the very fat neck 
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Jul 13, 2020 19:07
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I saw a pic earlier with more Liverpool kits in it than Rangers, games gone
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Loving this surge of Amazon ads on the telly which are all saying 'look at all our lovely sweat shops, it's an honour to work here and an honour to work for Amazon!' Surely literally anyone can see that this is a case of the evil billionaire doth protest too much?
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I got a kitten. He is beautiful. He saw me on the laptop and tried to pat someone's jammy bastard tag, which I'm taking as a sign he's a comrade. ty for coming to my cat talk.
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Hang on, did we waste 10 billion on track and trace and end up with paper notes on the honour system?
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I think the spend is something like a third of a million pounds per person traced so far.
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working as intended. Aim is to pass state money to pals of the Tories.
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This was originally posted the middle of June but its the summer thread, weeeequote:Coronavirus immunity may only last a few months, study suggests After suspecting I had it in March, and now have a new job in Bradford, I get to share infection anxiety with you. Especially various people I work with complaining a lot about headaches and being unable to concentrate on anything*, I'm concerned I'm in a coronavirus bath. *I'm a little unsure if the long-lasting mental symptoms of coronavirus are due to coronavirus or just a national malaise after dicking about for 3 months and realising their jobs are pointless, though I'd err on the side of it being a real thing and my brain will turn to soup or some sort of thin paté
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Carecat posted:Hang on, did we waste 10 billion on track and trace and end up with paper notes on the honour system? What's that? What was the estimated cost of the 'crazed communist scheme' to provide free fibre broadband to the entire country up to 2030 you ask? 20 billion. Personally I'm glad we saved our pennies for a rainy day when we needed them instead of spunking it all on free broadband.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Who remembers "Dr" Gillian McKeith? She was forced to drop the Dr after some journalist in the days when they used to do investigations got his pet cat a PhD from the same 'university'. About 6 years ago I was doing a biological sciences degree and driving taxis, and got sent to pickup Gillian McKeith and her odious ratbag family. Didn't have any idea it was her I was picking up [McKeith's a common enough name in Scotland] and they all got in and were cheery enough in their gruesome manner. We got about two miles - her idiot daughter lecturing me about "natural" vs "saccharide" sugars the entire way - and suddenly they all went very frosty and quiet, and her husband asked me why I had a copy of Bad Science on the little overhead shelf. I said it was on the recommended reading list for my degree, and asked if he'd read it. He goes "No, and you shouldn't either, it's a terrible book" and I go "Uh...okay?" and we go the rest of the journey in total, stony silence. When they got out her arsehole husband, Hooooowwwiiiiiiee, told me I "got some attitude", then flounced. I drive off, totally baffled by this. Twenty later, I get a message on the pod to come in to the office. I go, and the taxi firm's owner, totally perplexed, asks me what the gently caress I'd done to upset Gillian McKeith. As soon as I'd driven off she'd left multiple vituperative voicemails on his personal mobile, and went apeshit at the daytime office girl so hard she cried. I go "Uh I dunno, she seemed fine until she saw my book, then everyone went a bit frosty". I bring it in, and we skim through it and of course lol entire chapter about Perth's very own mumbo jumbo jobby jumbler. "Ah, dinnae worry it, she's a loving bam anyway. Could dae withoot her custom, to be honest". Anyway a week or so later I got drunk and emailed Dr. Goldacre about it, and he replied as follows: quote:haha that's truly lovely. ha. i feel kind of sad that i can't share it. So yes, I very much remember "Dr" Gillian McKeith. She still glares at me if our paths cross, lol.
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justcola posted:This was originally posted the middle of June but its the summer thread, weeee Don't panic yet. I'm reading the study now but from an initial skim it doesn't seem to be anything too out of the ordinary/unexpected. Antibodies decline after infection this is normal and while this decline is steeper than expected in some patients (of only 65 studied) the majority exhibited strong responses three months after initial infection. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.09.20148429v1.full.pdf ^^Full text if anyone wants to read it. [e] There seems to be a suggestion in the study that some people with mild cases had minimal Ab titres after ~60 days which is mildly concerning. [e2] No evidence at all for antibody dependent enhancement thank loving god. Saros fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Jul 13, 2020 |
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Lordy, lord, they're still out there: friend posted negative article about Hancock on his fb. Someone on his friends jumped to defend "Boris and Matt are doing their best, hats off to them, how anyone has the nerve to criticize" blah blah blah.
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https://twitter.com/HunterJCullen/status/1282671962351861760?s=19 Yaaaaaaassssss qweeeeenn you sell out your fellow child abusers.
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Camrath surfaces on Twitter via the GBS cameo thread https://twitter.com/nickciarelli/status/1092529105973665793?s=19
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louder for y'all at the back 👏more 👋female 👏sex 👋 traffickers 👏
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ThomasPaine posted:Am I alone in finding people who use 'y'all' to affect some folksy authenticity some of the most irritating people on the planet? you're american it seems
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Thou is the singular, you is the plural. except jimmy savile. and that ripper bloke.
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Yeah different places have collective yous that were in use long before being a bumpkin was fashionable. In NI we have the yiz and alla yiz
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/HunterJCullen/status/1282671962351861760?s=19 I'm impressed that a take can still make me this angry. Good work Hunter.
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I know lots of dialects have contractions like this and I know some of them use 'y'all' particularly in the southern US and in AAVE, but I'm not referring to those people using them day to day. There are 100% people who use this language when posting online who would absolutely not naturally do so when speaking IRL and it's kinda obvious why they do it.
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/HunterJCullen/status/1282671962351861760?s=19 If Ghislaine goes nuclear on the network then I'm only slightly barely ironically Jon Snow in Season 8 levels of she is my queen, that would be loving incredible. ThomasPaine posted:Am I alone in finding people who use 'y'all' to affect some folksy authenticity some of the most irritating people on the planet? You're allowed to do a little bit of blackface, if you're on the left. Just a touch.
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/HunterJCullen/status/1282671962351861760?s=19 I'd rather it had happened a couple of months down the line, when it's too late for the GOP to replace Trump and it will be fresh in everyone's mind. But I'll settle.
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I'm enjoying the very pot calling the kettle black articles about the polish elections. Like fuckers did you forget who's running the country and who you're supporting as much as you can get away with. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Jul 13, 2020 |
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In international child abuse conspiracy news, https://apnews.com/dab8261c68c93f24c0bfc1876518b3f6quote:The U.S. Roman Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid, with many millions going to dioceses that have paid huge settlements or sought bankruptcy protection because of clergy sexual abuse cover-ups. So the federal government will use public money because the church lost all their own money because they were covering up noncing. 
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Jose posted:i know we've all joked that he's a tory at some point but ffs Stance, check. Glasses temporarily held away from face, check. Eugh.
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