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Isomermaid posted:I don't get the nostalgising for old timey bins. The lids were great if you were doing a water fight coz it was a cheap & easy shield, even with a handle! Or sword fights. Well, pretend swords. That's it.
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Sep 2, 2020 15:32
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Old timey binmen did have some p natty outfits tbf
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Sep 2, 2020 15:33
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Isomermaid posted:I don't get the nostalgising for old timey bins. Bins break this country's brains repeatedly, probably because it combines all of our boomer's brain poisoning at once. Unions, Health and Safety, having to be near a poor person, getting really mad that someone didn't do that thing you also didn't do and making up a scenario where that person is hurting a infirm war vet so you can get really really mad. For a more in depth look I'd suggest a look at the seminal piece on this issue "Trash of The Titans" by Ian Maxtone-Graham.
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Sep 2, 2020 15:42
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So I applied to do an MA at Leicester in June, heard nothing, finally managed to find somebody there who can answer a phone and they're like "oh we made a note to give you an offer but we forgot". And I still don't definitely know if I have a place and I'm due to start on Oct. 1st and I'm capping my jorts about it.
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Sep 2, 2020 15:49
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communism bitch posted:So I applied to do an MA at Leicester in June, heard nothing, finally managed to find somebody there who can answer a phone and they're like "oh we made a note to give you an offer but we forgot". And I still don't definitely know if I have a place and I'm due to start on Oct. 1st and I'm capping my jorts about it. 6 days after submitting my MSC application I got an unconditional offer and applied for a loan and 6 days after that I got approved for a student loan lol
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Sep 2, 2020 15:51
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Jose posted:6 days after submitting my MSC application I got an unconditional offer and applied for a loan and 6 days after that I got approved for a student loan lol Yeah well I've got a Duke paying for mine and I won't have anything to pay back so shove that up your arse lol
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Sep 2, 2020 15:52
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communism bitch posted:So I applied to do an MA at Leicester in June, heard nothing, finally managed to find somebody there who can answer a phone and they're like "oh we made a note to give you an offer but we forgot". And I still don't definitely know if I have a place and I'm due to start on Oct. 1st and I'm capping my jorts about it. lol that is amazing amateur hour poo poo
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Sep 2, 2020 15:52
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Isomermaid posted:I don't get the nostalgising for old timey bins. 2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things. I'd add to that third one "especially if it's around your home and you don't get a choice in it." Wheelie bins, energy saving lightbulbs, milk storage and delivery format, street lighting, flat screen televisions  , media formats.Streaming seems to get a pass, because it's sufficiently close to just watching television, whereas "I don't like these new DVDs, what if you put them in the CD player?" was a thing.
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Sep 2, 2020 15:52
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communism bitch posted:So I applied to do an MA at Leicester in June, heard nothing, finally managed to find somebody there who can answer a phone and they're like "oh we made a note to give you an offer but we forgot". And I still don't definitely know if I have a place and I'm due to start on Oct. 1st and I'm capping my jorts about it. i thought the point of making a note was so that you don't forget
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Sep 2, 2020 15:54
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communism bitch posted:Yeah well I've got a Duke paying for mine and I won't have anything to pay back so shove that up your arse lol Congrats on sucking up to the aristocracy
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Sep 2, 2020 15:58
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Bobby Deluxe posted:^^^ There was an article shared last thread (medium, I think) about a middle class person having to apply for welfare and repeatedly having their fears assuaged because they're 'one of the good ones.' Can confirm that the on the occasions I've been on JSA/UC their tone has completely changed when they see my education history and realise I can go through all the motions of middle class etiquette. They often then were openly rude about other claiments but implied I was somehow not like them. They barely even tried to hide their contempt for what they saw as the 'undeserving' poor. The whole system seems designed to hurt those who earnestly try to follow the rules, while perhaps more savvy (and yes, usually more middle class!) people who know what the real point of the system is can get out of most of the real work involved with lies and bluster. For example you don't have to actually apply to x number of jobs, you just need to convincingly say you did. None of this is an accident.
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Sep 2, 2020 16:01
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communism bitch posted:Yeah well I've got a Duke paying for mine and I won't have anything to pay back so shove that up your arse lol Karen them with the name of your patron until they fold and give you the place.
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Sep 2, 2020 16:02
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Jose posted:Congrats on sucking up to the aristocracy *sucking off
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Sep 2, 2020 16:11
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Z the IVth posted:Karen them with the name of your patron until they fold and give you the place. He very kindly wrote me a reference. That and the cheque are the only way I'm getting admitted to any university, and I am totally not above taking advantage of nepotism and bribery. My principles basically don't survive any contact with any conflict of interests lol.
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Sep 2, 2020 16:13
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Jose posted:Congrats on sucking up to the aristocracy He's actually taking advantage of the aristocracy which is both Cool and Good. Good job on redistributing wealth, ober.
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Sep 2, 2020 16:13
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Goongrats masters-to-be. Having someone else pay for your education is really the way to go and while ober's tactic is exemplary, Jose you can still do alright by just never paying the loan back.
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Sep 2, 2020 16:16
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communism bitch posted:*sucking off You're surely too old for that
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Sep 2, 2020 16:18
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Ug not think cart should have wheel, what wrong with sled? When ug small, men of ugs cave lug rocks around with bare hands, now use wheel, make weak men, be eaten by wolf. Ug say, old ways best.
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Sep 2, 2020 16:20
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Isomermaid posted:I don't get the nostalgising for old timey bins. There's a term for it I can't remember, but this is a well known thing throughout history. Everyone thinks the past was better than the present. We're not immune to it - and heck from a purely personal perspective, my life is probably better than almost anyone's in history, up to and including nobility from any decade earlier than like... 1900. Just because the world is on fire doesn't mean I can't play D&D with people I've never met via the internet.
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Sep 2, 2020 16:23
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Seems the galaxy brain data scientist types Cummings hires still aren't smart enough to stop tweeting https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1301173948894281730?s=20
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Sep 2, 2020 16:27
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Borrovan posted:Old timey binmen did have some p natty outfits tbf The world needs more gorblimey trousers.
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Sep 2, 2020 16:29
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Rule, Britannia! Back on the Menu! Makes you proud to be British that such a non story can get so much column inches. 
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Sep 2, 2020 16:37
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thespaceinvader posted:There's a term for it I can't remember, but this is a well known thing throughout history. Everyone thinks the past was better than the present. We're not immune to it - and heck from a purely personal perspective, my life is probably better than almost anyone's in history, up to and including nobility from any decade earlier than like... 1900. Just because the world is on fire doesn't mean I can't play D&D with people I've never met via the internet.
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Sep 2, 2020 16:39
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thespaceinvader posted:There's a term for it I can't remember, but this is a well known thing throughout history. Everyone thinks the past was better than the present. We're not immune to it - and heck from a purely personal perspective, my life is probably better than almost anyone's in history, up to and including nobility from any decade earlier than like... 1900. Just because the world is on fire doesn't mean I can't play D&D with people I've never met via the internet. Socrates posted:The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
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Sep 2, 2020 16:43
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forkboy84 posted:lol that is amazing amateur hour poo poo When I went to submit my PhD, my uni had forgotten to move me off the MPhil to PhD track - I nearly had a meltdown! (Everyone was registered onto the MPhil initially and as I started in a January not a Sept/Oct I got overlooked). Luckily it was easily sorted! Dustbins: Do you remember when urban steel bands used proper old dustbins (and of which I can't find a single example on youtube - they always used to be on Blue Peter or whatever back in the olden days) not these new fangled specially made steel drums?
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Sep 2, 2020 16:44
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communism bitch posted:Even old Socrates was at the "back in my day" bollocks. Kids these days, crossing their legs, we need a war.
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Sep 2, 2020 16:50
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I dunno, I think the Socrates quote is more "kids these days..." which is intergenerational snark. The modern equivalent of that is complaining about smashed avocado snowflakes. This is more getting misty eyed about smokeless fuels and pining for the coal fires you knew as a girl, back when you could send children up chimneys. And it's not the fires specifically, it's wanting to live forever in the safe bubble of your youth, and being prepared to put other people at risk and increased hardship to get it. And if you ever did get it, it would be everything else, and you'd just keep sacrificing people to try and rebuild the past one brick at a time.
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Sep 2, 2020 16:53
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The 'kids these days' thing is also universal, as is the '$new communication method will make people uncommunicative and antisocial unlike in MY day', but I was more getting at the like... veneration of certain historical things. Current society venerates the second world war and the founding of the NHS, (but not the socialism bit), the Nazis venerated the Romans, the Romans venerated the Greeks, etc etc etc
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Sep 2, 2020 16:58
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I feel like that's an interesting timescale that goes now > second world war > romans > greeks.
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Sep 2, 2020 16:59
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The place I found out about it had a lot more examples, with interstitial examples, but I can't fukken remember any of them, I was hoping someone would prompt me. Like I think it mentioned the Victorians and something, possibly the renaissance? It was a youtube video I've consumed a lot of them over the last 6 months.
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Sep 2, 2020 17:01
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bessantj posted:Rule, Britannia! Back on the Menu! Amol was being interviewed on BBC lunchtime news and was saying that common sense has prevailed. Thanks BBC for such balanced reporting. I'm definitely reassessing my view on the licence fee, from "the BBC is a great institution with some poo poo people in and can be fixed" to "gently caress the BBC they deserve what they get".
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Sep 2, 2020 17:02
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loving U turn it was never a turn at all. It was a vague allusion to going straight on not being as good without an audience to sing along. Does it count as a U turn if they were going in a direction, never stopped going in that direction, and kept going in that direction? loving hell if they can redefine 'u-turn' in common parlance as 'going straight on' I may just lose it.
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Sep 2, 2020 17:06
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The only thing that's kept me paying the licence fee is BBC 4 because if they stop getting public money I'll never get my fix of obtuse documentaries. I'll miss 'historian in nice shirt and beige pants looks at statues for an hour' and 'history of motorway signs'
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Sep 2, 2020 17:06
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The Bin peoples, also known as the Dustmen[archaic], are members of various indigenous nomadic groups that are the first nations of the Mamba-Pambe region. Their large wheeled containers became famous for causing English colonists to fly into an inexplicable rage.
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Sep 2, 2020 17:09
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don't pay flat taxes you're allowed out of on principle, gently caress the bbc
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Sep 2, 2020 17:10
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Lungboy posted:Amol was being interviewed on BBC lunchtime news and was saying that common sense has prevailed. Thanks BBC for such balanced reporting. I'm definitely reassessing my view on the licence fee, from "the BBC is a great institution with some poo poo people in and can be fixed" to "gently caress the BBC they deserve what they get". I saw that as well, and all I could think was "what's 'common sense' about it?" I'm not sure either answer to 'whether or not to have a choir sing a patriotic song in a big venue in London during a pandemic' falls under common sense since it's a rather unusual situation. It's just...whatever the acceptable right-wing version of the dreaded virtue signalling is. They're obsessed with common sense, which just means a combination of 'stuff I agree with' and 'kneejerk emotional response'. So saying that common sense has prevailed because Rule, Britannia! is going to be performed live at The Proms is just dressing it up in populist bullshit to imply it's what all the good, hearty, roast-beef-eating yeomenfolk obviously want, as opposed to the devious, remote elites. So much of what this government says is peppered with these little phrases and once you notice it it becomes infuriating!
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Sep 2, 2020 17:13
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the sex ghost posted:The only thing that's kept me paying the licence fee is BBC 4 because if they stop getting public money I'll never get my fix of obtuse documentaries. I'll miss 'historian in nice shirt and beige pants looks at statues for an hour' and 'history of motorway signs' I think once Attenborough finally succumbs to age, I'll probably try in vain to persuade my wife to stop bothering. We mostly only watch repeats of quiz shows and occasional dramas any more, and I'm honestly not convinced we wouldn't get more out of spending the same amount per year on renting stuff off google play or whatever.
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Guavanaut posted:The Bin peoples, also known as the Dustmen[archaic], are members of various indigenous nomadic groups that are the first nations of the Mamba-Pambe region. Their large wheeled containers became famous for causing English colonists to fly into an inexplicable rage. We know much of the Bin Peoples' culture because of what we've found in their middens.
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