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Gort posted:We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognising this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living. It might be worth considering how this accelerates concentration of power towards the few providers, though. Many of the bullshit jobs out there seem like they're at least partially born out of the neurosis of a decaying capitalist state trying to be (or pretend to be) a democracy.
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Gort posted:We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognising this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.  Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family, Choose a loving big television 
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Sep 3, 2020 11:09
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Sep 3, 2020 11:10
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Guavanaut posted:They've got a school one too and it's the drunk off of the fast show. They missed out 'making the class laugh. rude words on calculators. whoops you're in isolation for being disruptive, stare at the wall for the next 2 weeks in child jail'
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/mmtowns/status/1301449590881824769 “Getting an hour to yourself in the morning” Hahahahaha. No people want that hour in bed you poo poo fucks. Dettol don’t actually give a poo poo if you go to work though, they just want to sell cleaner. Maybe this is all a *checks notes* viral marketing stunt, those are still cool, right?, to get their name front and centre. As soon as social distancing is dropped they’ll organise a flash mob, set your watch to it. Edit : turns out I was not on the last page when I wrote that and the point has been made repeatedly. Red Oktober fucked around with this message at 11:18 on Sep 3, 2020 |
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Sep 3, 2020 11:15
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Red Oktober posted:As soon as social distancing is dropped they’ll organise a flash mob, set your watch to it. 
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Sep 3, 2020 11:23
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peanut- posted:https://twitter.com/helloalegria/status/1301290315593191426?s=20 I can't help but think that whoever wrote "seeing your second family" is talking about mistresses.
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Sep 3, 2020 11:27
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Ah, that's what Boris has been writing while he's been in hiding.
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Sep 3, 2020 11:29
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Red Oktober posted:Time to repost this then I think. Some Vice stuff is pretty good. https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/z3bmk8/unemployed-art-school-graduate-job-diary good photographer too https://www.instagram.com/tom.glencross/?hl=en
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Everyone hated school right? It was poo poo, everyone I know says it was poo poo and awful. I dunno wtf is up with all these aliens claiming its great and kids love it. Well I guess I have fond memories of primary school but secondary was just a awful cesspit. We used to bully our teachers until they cried, beat each other up in the woods and spend the rest of the time under a ton of dumb exam stress.
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peanut- posted:https://twitter.com/helloalegria/status/1301290315593191426?s=20 I believe it's Dettol that made that ad, they've been plastering the tube with similar ads. I guess ad revenue in the tube has fallen off a cliff since there's barely anyone using the tube these days, because it's pretty much the only company doing ads down there now. I don't think Dettol in particular are pushing for people to go back to the office, they're just trying to appeal to people who do like the office
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peanut- posted:https://twitter.com/helloalegria/status/1301290315593191426?s=20 beginning to black out as the man with his boot firmly on your neck screams at you "why aren't you smiling"
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the sex ghost posted:Cool to see that accidentally replying all and mixing up CC and BCC is a hilarious office jape and not something that would get me immediately fired The worst is when someone emails the entire (national!) organisation to notify of a change of job / phone / after work drinks up in Darlington or somewhere (when you work in Croydon) and people start using 'reply all' to say 'take me off the list' or 'who are you' so it just escalates out of control jamming up everyone's inboxes and slowing the national IT down. Obviously when you are on a deadline to get the monthly figures out before the Chief Executive has you on the pointy seat to explain yourself. Guavanaut posted:Why would they organize a mob for a competing product? :Groan: I see what you did there.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I had a visceral reaction to this, imagine looking forward to hearing buzzwords. That tells you everything you need to know about the wankers who wrote this. Let's put a pin in that and i'll touch base with you later. Buzzwords have a use and i think it's worth doing a deep dive on why 
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hemale in pain posted:Everyone hated school right? It was poo poo, everyone I know says it was poo poo and awful. I dunno wtf is up with all these aliens claiming its great and kids love it. I loved primary school and maybe the first year of secondary and then it became a bullying-filled shithole that i hate thinking about.
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Gonzo McFee posted:Sorry about having to come into contact with our dogshit welfare system. Have you gotten in touch with any welfare rights teams? If you're a member of a housing association then they should be able to get you in touch with a team to help you. Sometimes the DWP will back off just at the sight of a welfare rights team getting near a case. I have a benefits adviser at the CAB handling my appeal for me. She did the evidence gathering and submission for the appeal.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Let's put a pin in that and i'll touch base with you later. Buzzwords have a use and i think it's worth doing a deep dive on why We are where we are and we need some out of the box thinking on how we can improve performance Primary school chat: We did the hokey cokey as a class (we were Year 2 I think in the new money) and everyone (except me obviously) missed a bit out. I got into a super grump and refused to continue and sat in the corner with a major frowny face and folded arms. That was 55 years ago. I still remember it like it was yesterday. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 11:51 on Sep 3, 2020 |
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I'm on holiday at the moment but all I am thinking of is getting back to the office and taking part in scrums and telling people "let's take it offline" then feeling smug that they've made the tea and coffee free ~*during these challenging times*~ while I stay late cos half the staff have just come back from European holidays but management can't decide if you need to quarantine after filling your car up at a petrol station in France
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https://twitter.com/IrvineWelsh/status/1301451442599989249 Gladly. e: GMB institutionally sexist. Lungboy fucked around with this message at 12:19 on Sep 3, 2020 |
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Oh gently caress, it absolutely is, isn't it? Is what?
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Jedit posted:Is what? A good set of alternative lyrics for Fitter, Happier
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Guavanaut posted:Why would they organize a mob for a competing product? Boooooo! You're not a good person, you know that, right?
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Payndz posted:I walked the Thames Path with my wife and then two-year-old son a few years ago. Took a photo of the MI6 building in Vauxhall just to go "Look, it's where James Bond works!" Thirty seconds later, we were stopped by two armed coppers "for a chat". How much do you and your family look like terrorists? Fell free to use either RGB or Pantone numbers. I have a couple of anecdotes like that, that I'm going to put into the post. It's really surprising (except not really) just how variable the level of paranoia and response is about certain places even for constant levels of pastiness.
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Jedit posted:Is what? The second embedded tweet was parodying this. Radiohead piece mocking vacuous self-improvement ideology that exists purely within a consumer capitalist framework. Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 13:13 on Sep 3, 2020 |
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Bobby Deluxe posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4SzvsMFaek Ah, the famous British self deprecation.
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Gort posted:unless you wankers tweet about them, I guess
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Lungboy posted:Anyone laughing out loud on the tube is a serial killer. IDK the people who were laughing when that racist poo poo got lamped last week seemed all right.
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Marmaduke! posted:I'm on holiday at the moment but all I am thinking of is getting back to the office and taking part in scrums and telling people "let's take it offline" then feeling smug that they've made the tea and coffee free ~*during these challenging times*~ while I stay late cos half the staff have just come back from European holidays but management can't decide if you need to quarantine after filling your car up at a petrol station in France What kind of hellhole doesn't provide free coffee even in normal times? At least in the tech world, the one place I've worked which stopped doing that, also stopped paying people on time a couple of weeks later. Then, eventually, at all.
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CGI Stardust posted:Marketing departments have cottoned on to the Tory trick of making adverts so poo poo that people share them widely for mockery You mean shitposting?
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hemale in pain posted:Everyone hated school right? It was poo poo, everyone I know says it was poo poo and awful. I dunno wtf is up with all these aliens claiming its great and kids love it. Yeah, exactly. School was atrocious and is 95% bad memories and stress. It's the number one sign you're speaking to a Tory when they talk about how much they loved school. Not everyone who loved school is a Tory, but it's a very good metric
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Sucks to hear about Graeber.  Twitter's obscenity filter putting the work in there.
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Jose posted:This is horrible news Crazy. I met him at Momentum's Christmas party last year. Seemed very nice.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Primary school chat: I still remember clearly when our class played Blockbusters, we were divided up boys/girls, and it was obvious the teacher wanted the girls to win. All the questions were so easy, upto mine. I selected 'P'. And was asked 'What P is a hunting bird'. Peregrine Falcon! How the gently caress is a 10 year old meant to know that.
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