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I'm not sure if it's a northern thing but I was on one of those trains a couple of years ago, which was weird when even the lovely pacers have been presumably refit with powered doors.
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Stopped clock etc. https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1300839704028475400?s=19
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 "If you stopped buying avocado toast you could afford a house." "People stopped buying avocado toast and it's apparently killing the economy?" E: Also related to both not buying things from restaurants and also the thread's suggestion I made fried broccoli last night and it was very nice, going to try and find more vegetables to fry tomorrow. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 02:50 on Sep 2, 2020 |
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Starting to think that the people criticising us proles for killing the economy are not speaking entirely in good faith
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Angrymog posted:Made me nostalgic for Anglia rail. And laughing infrequent travellers who couldn't work out how to get out of a slam door train. Oh they still have these! Both the trains and the travellers who don't know wtf to do (I can personally attest). I just had a pang of nostalgia for rail travel. I know train travel in Britain is objectively worse than lots of other places but there's still an air of romance to it for me, except of course for that time we were all told to switch to a new train at Manchester Piccadilly because literally all the bogs were blocked.
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OwlFancier posted:going to try and find more vegetables to fry tomorrow. You can also get them in shops
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I hadn't heard about this https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53985144 Kickstart: Firms urged to sign up to job scheme for under-24s quote:[...] 2bn to throw at giant corporations so they can get free labour.
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I mean, at least they're paying stuff that goes to workers rather than just chucking a direct bung at the corps I guess. Except the £1500 setup fees part which is obviously just a straight up bung, the employers will likely charge the employees for the uniforms anyway, and bill them 20 grand for the 1.5 grand training scheme.
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jacksbrat posted:Oh they still have these! Both the trains and the travellers who don't know wtf to do (I can personally attest). I also miss the bicycle and luggage carriage. If the main train was crowded you could just go into that and as long as you didn't mind sitting on the floor you had peace and quiet, because the conductor didn't care that you were there instead of a passenger carriage.
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I had a FJF 'job' in 2010. This new things sounds pretty much identical. I was working for the local council so it was at least not just bunging cash straight to Tesco for things that they would otherwise be hiring people to do. I was in the office but most of the people employed were doing cemetery maintenance. I've also not had a real job since so it wasn't exactly a roaring success in my case lol
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Angrymog posted:I also miss the bicycle and luggage carriage. If the main train was crowded you could just go into that and as long as you didn't mind sitting on the floor you had peace and quiet, because the conductor didn't care that you were there instead of a passenger carriage. I don't know how people could stand to leave stuff in that carriage, anyone could walk away with anything. Airport baggage claim areas are the worst too, always makes me anxious.
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dispatch_async posted:I had a FJF 'job' in 2010. This new things sounds pretty much identical. I was working for the local council so it was at least not just bunging cash straight to Tesco for things that they would otherwise be hiring people to do. They interviewed Thérèse Coffey (work and pensions minister) on TV this morning about it. They asked how was this any different from previous schemes that failed to work (their words). As you would expect, it was along the lines of "we have learnt a lot from the previous schemes" while also failing to say how it was different what so ever,. So they've basically learnt nothing. Something, something Cycle of life, except it is a Tory government, being poo poo.
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stev posted:I don't know how people could stand to leave stuff in that carriage, anyone could walk away with anything. Airport baggage collection, or "thief's buffet" as they're known Actually i guess it's more like "thief's yo sushi"
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Just been in an out of the dentist to have a tooth extracted where a filling had cracked, the root had got infected and then the tooth itself had cracked. And let me tell you, there is nothing more disconcerting than hearing a tooth cracking in your mouth when it's being pulled out
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https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/sep/02/uk-house-prices-hit-record-high-after-easing-of-covid-lockdown I'd quote the article but phone posting. How the gently caress is the housing bubble expanding in a pandemic?
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:Just been in an out of the dentist 
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forkboy84 posted:https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/sep/02/uk-house-prices-hit-record-high-after-easing-of-covid-lockdown Poshos fleeing London because they can now WFH and buying places in the country that have been vacated by olds dying of Covid. Also there was a month or two where nobody was viewing/buying houses and that's since been released so we're getting extra business done now. It's loving dumb as poo poo though.
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OwlFancier posted:
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This has nothing to do with anything, but Starmer is loving awful, isn't he
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forkboy84 posted:https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/sep/02/uk-house-prices-hit-record-high-after-easing-of-covid-lockdown Because we're not buying avacado toast? (Seriously. Not having to go into the office has made a big difference to my finances)
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By not going to an office, socialising, buying all groceries in bulk and planning meals I have saved about 5 grand this pandemic.
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Pret will have to close 3 of it's 5 stores in town if you don't start buying
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Cool that it's taken 10 weeks since it was announced DFID would merge with the foreign office until we decided that building drones counts as foreign aid now.
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forkboy84 posted:https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/sep/02/uk-house-prices-hit-record-high-after-easing-of-covid-lockdown
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Venomous posted:This has nothing to do with anything, but Starmer is loving awful, isn't he This is very true. He's the inevitable consequence of being so desperate to win that you end up creating the most bloodless, spineless non-entity, perfectly focus grouped to offend nobody, failing to notice that he also appeals to nobody. Bobby Deluxe posted:Stamp duty is suspended and there are a ton of available properties, so it's a really good time to buy. We're looking to buy our first place at the moment which is great, what is less great is that the sister in law can't afford a full half mortgagr which is limiting our search, what's even less good is that the wife has started looking at properties in Swindon. But if there's lots of available properties shouldn't prices go down? Something about supply & demand & Economics 101. Failing to pop the property bubble 20 years ago in its relatively early stages might actually be the biggest whiff of the New Labour years. Massive generational transfer of wealth from young to olds that just keeps getting worse. The only two ways I'll ever own a house is either winning the lottery or my parents dying. Now, in isolation I'm not massively fussed by this because I don't really think private home ownership is actually a positive (something about the difference between private property & personal property here), but in the society we live in, where rent takes up half or more of your monthly pay cheque? It's bad OP. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 10:28 on Sep 2, 2020 |
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I think you'll find we're actually doing quite reasonably compared to the era when you could literally indenture people and voting was restricted to five landlords and a pig.
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Inflation is gonna be high, interest rates are low and not going up, and you get fuckloads of tax breaks. Unfortunately the economic logic of buying houses isn't going away.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Stopped clock etc. The people at the Guardian think they are left wing 
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peanut- posted:Inflation is gonna be high, interest rates are low and not going up, and you get fuckloads of tax breaks. Unfortunately the economic logic of buying houses isn't going away. No more government interference! Unleash the power of the free market! No more state hand-outs! /miltonfriedman
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Guavanaut posted:I think you'll find we're actually doing quite reasonably compared to the era when you could literally indenture people and voting was restricted to five landlords and a pig. I think there's enough evidence to suggest that renters are, in fact, indentured. They pay so much in rent in many places that there's no option but to keep renting (unless they can get a heap of money from somewhere). Where the end result is that they stay poor, and their landlords get very wealthy indeed.
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kingturnip posted:I think there's enough evidence to suggest that renters are, in fact, indentured. They pay so much in rent in many places that there's no option but to keep renting (unless they can get a heap of money from somewhere). Where the end result is that they stay poor, and their landlords get very wealthy indeed. Indenture with a human face that has been outsourced to a letting agency that can't speak to you right at this moment.
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She's given so many chances. What the gently caress.
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OwlFancier posted:Having to stick your arm out the window and open it from the outside was a novel experience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z15IW8eT8U
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Stopped clock etc. stev posted:I don't know how people could stand to leave stuff in that carriage, anyone could walk away with anything.
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