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I feel like survivor bias has a lot to do with the popular opinion that it's over and we can start getting back to normal. All the people wandering round saying they've never met anyone who got really sick with it. Yes, because they're all dead or dragging oxygen bottles round their flat, of course you haven't loving heard anything from them. E: *extremely kratos voice* boy Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Sep 7, 2020 |
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dispatch_async posted:Important legal questions being asked on the r/LegalAdviceUK subreddit: Bit unrelated but on topic of legal issues, I've been reading about UK visa refusals on StackOverflow and it really boggles my mind how insane it is. Here's a random example - a guy gets an invitation for an interview for a tech multinational in London, the interview expenses are fully covered by the company, they wrote him a sponsorship letter, he also shows that his family is filthy rich by third-world standards, and he gets denied with the following reasoning: And no there's no right of appeal, the only thing to do is submit a new application which will be viewed with suspicion due to the previous refusal. Here's a general summary of the issues which applicants face, with some choice bit quoted: quote:Many of the UK visa refusals we see here share a common pattern and the prevailing reasons refer to V 4.2 (a) and (c). quote:Appendix V, Paragraphs V 4.2 (a) and (c) As a TL;DR, UK regularly prohibits entry to people who are coming to the UK to take a government sponsored test, which can only be taken in the UK. Among many other things. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 14:34 on Sep 7, 2020 |
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Bobby Deluxe posted:It's designed to make him look like he's in charge to the kind of people who think all interpersonal conflict has to be solved by who can stick their chin out the furthest in a pub car park. Then when it all goes wrong he can disappear and live off brexiteer money in a tax haven where they shoot anyone poor enough to be mad at him. this is worrrying news especially after bbc more or less last week found children under 10 were not at risk. but are the incident numbers not quite small? 'The team reviewed [the?] 662 MIS-C cases reported worldwide between Jan. 1 and July 25' - that includes a couple of months of schooling time its also not clear if the 'seemingly healthy' set includes obese children who are later identified as being most at risk. interesting to learn what number of dead primary school children the govt will consider permissible - and what antivaxxers will say
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goddamnedtwisto posted:This is one of the Nice Things we weren't allowed to have from the 2019 manifesto, a publicly-owned car sharing scheme....Obviously this is skewed by how good London public transport is, but of course I'd have trusted Corbyn Labour to sort that out for everyone else too. Ah yes, the misty, vanished era of late 2019 when there was a slim prospect of having a government which would actively try to make life easier for people... goddamnedtwisto posted:Yes I know I don't technically "need" a motorbike either, certainly not the one I have compared to a smaller-capacity one, but we can start casting out the moto in my eye (geddit????) after we sort out the beam of private car ownership. My gf has a 700cc Honda bike as well (because she's much cooler than me, basically) and that costs her even less. I can't say I'm doing much to coast out the beam of private car ownership when I have three of the things. But they're all old crocks (the one I still think of as boring and modern is 24 years old...!) and they're basically a hobby. While they cost me virtually nothing to run (£140 insurance for all three, one of them's tax and MoT exempt) because I can work on them myself and I don't do much non-work-related mileage*, I wouldn't really recommend that Jaeluni Asjil gets a Citroen 2CV as a practical personal transport system! * I might have told this anecdote in a previous UKMT, but when I was a staffer for a motoring publisher I lived a 15 minute walk/5 minute cycle from the office, so I only ever drove in if I was delivering/collecting something unwieldy. Two of my colleagues (on a different publication) gave me endless stick for this and began a long-term project of 'banter' about how I wasn't really a car enthusiast because I didn't drive everywhere. One of them was a complete arse with loads of bad opinions, one of which was his strange cultural/personal attachment to cars as an expression of individuality. He angrily loathed public transport because it didn't go exactly where he wanted, when he wanted and you had to share. Car culture is really bad.
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Bozza Legernd posted:We are now entering the final phase of our negotiations with the EU. https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/prime-ministers-words-on-eu-negotiations-7-september-2020 Cool so we're hosed then. Can't complain I suppose, I remember all of that being on the side of the bus.
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Car cost chat. So for running my green piece of crap (an 800cc Chevrolet Matiz) the costs are as follows. £145 road tax £600 insurance (i got caught speeding, and ran a red light last year....) £225 MOT and repairs £1450 in petrol, except I'm no longer commuting, so thats down to about 1/10th. I am also a member of this website. https://www.co-wheels.org.uk/ which allows for hourly rental of a better car if I need one.
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Breath Ray posted:I wonder about German 'compliance' with this sort of thing given the emissions scandal gently caress off already, nobody cares what you think
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Another great UK visa thing that is frankly shocking looking in from the outside (much shorter this time, I promise):quote:Based on the refusal notice, the ECO in fact did look at your stuff, i.e., they acknowledge this in the notice. The refusal does not appear to be a documentation shortfall. Imagine if UK citizens had to submit to anything approaching this level of bullshit when applying for JSA/UC or whatever. I mean that is bad enough already, but these visa refusals are on an entirely different level of fuckheadedry
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I mean that doesn't actually sound enormously dissimilar from what people trying to claim long term UC are dealing with, where they just flat out ignore evidence and make things up entirely.
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Yeah but at least then you can appeal, here a) there's no right of appeal whatsoever, and b) getting refused twice is all-but-certain to bar any future attempts.
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From what I remember, UK visa approvals moved from Egypt to Abu Dhabi (or other gulf state - pretty sure it was AD though) and there were suddenly heaps of refusals for business people who had been going back and forth for years without a problem! It's an expensive business too because as I recall you had to buy the plane ticket and hotels (or wherever you were staying) before applying for the (likely to be turned down) visa as well as the £00s application cost (non-refundable). How the news makes me feel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM4XTYcheCY Now I know someone's going to inform me how awful these guys are in real life or something. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 14:52 on Sep 7, 2020 |
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Private Speech posted:Bit unrelated but on topic of legal issues, I've been reading about UK visa refusals on StackOverflow and it really boggles my mind how insane it is. apparently there was a nakedly racist algorithm in use to consider medical school applications between 1979 and 1986 that accurately replicated a panel's prejudices, viz. candidates with non-european names were marked down and 60 missed out on the course as a result. but oddly, while it was used, the medical school admitted a greater proportion of non-europeans than others... this was in LRB again - what an investment that trial turned out to be!
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peanut- posted:https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/prime-ministers-words-on-eu-negotiations-7-september-2020 It really is incredible (well, not literally in-credible, because we're all well aware of how the media in this country works, but y'know) how Leave.EU and Saint Nigel himself all standing up in early 2016 and talking about how they wanted the UK to have a relationship with Europe like Norway's and how leaving the EU would be a 'process, not an event' that would take 20+ years to do properly (which is actually the truth) has been completely memory-holed. Or did I dream it?
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Private Speech posted:Imagine if UK citizens had to submit to anything approaching this level of bullshit when applying for JSA/UC or whatever. E: A friend of mine went through this with their visa application many years ago. She sent her proof of student status and US birth certificate via courier to the address she was told to, and was sent proof of receipt by the courier. She was refused on the grounds that she never sent them the paperwork. She appealed on the grounds that she had proof she did send it, and their response to the appeal was basically 'it never made it to our actual office, so it's not our problem if things go missing in this building.' Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 14:59 on Sep 7, 2020 |
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Private Speech posted:Another great UK visa thing that is frankly shocking looking in from the outside (much shorter this time, I promise): "Stop being so dramatic, of course Brits can still live and work in the EU after Brexit, you'll just need to get a visa, and if the company wants you enough it'll be easy"
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Ah, the lathe of heaven, friend to leftists everywhere. I purposely chose the most bullshit thing you average UK citizen might have to deal with, but it's still nowhere near the insanity. The impenetrable fortress Britain approach is one of the things that make me really suspicious of the promises that the government will open immigration for the non-white commonwealth once Brexit is done for.
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Private Speech posted:I purposely chose the most bullshit thing you average UK citizen might have to deal with, but it's still nowhere near the insanity. I'm sure I read somewhere that India will insist on bucket loads of visas in exchange for contracting to buy any British stuff.
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Though at this rate whether or not the government will care about selling anything to india, or anyone else, is debatable.
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You lot are hiding fudge in here?
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Excluding fuel costs, how much do you reckon it costs to run a small car for a year? Depends HEAVILY on how much you drive (and hence, the maintenance costs), how reliable the car is (same), and how cheap insurance is both for you and the vehicle. Minimum is going to be £55 per year for MOT, and probably a few hundred every few years for tyres, oil changes, screen wash, etc, plus some tax (unless you buy an exempt vehicle or are exempt for other reasons, commonly related to disability). Insurance at least a few hundred, probably a lot more as a new driver without an established no claims bonus. Maximum is ????? cars which need more maintenance and parts are gonna be more expensive, cars bought on hire purchase obviously have monthly costs attached, etc. If your driving isn't all that common, though, you might be better off comparing the prices of local car club schemes and/or rentals, depending what you're using it for. But honestly, if you're starting from the point of living in a reasonably built up area with half decent public transport and taxi services, and not having a license at all, and don't usually need to travel between cities/towns which aren't well connected by public transport, you're probably better off not bothering. thespaceinvader fucked around with this message at 15:10 on Sep 7, 2020 |
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feedmegin posted:Jesus Christ that must be like 15 quid today, what was the bar, the American Bar at the Savoy? It was a bar called Telfords in Chester. It's still there! I think they just knew we were underage and marked the hell up out of the drinks.
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The Home Office is not fit for purpose, and the government itself knows this. There's a reason the new researcher visa boris announced as part of "Global Britain" isn't actually administered by the home office, but by UKRI - because they can't trust the home office to let people in that are wanted here.
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thespaceinvader posted:Depends HEAVILY on how much you drive (and hence, the maintenance costs), how reliable the care is (same), and how cheap insurance is both for you and the vehicle. I used to live in London (zone 1 for a few years then zone 3) and that's why having a car and being a driver was something I never needed given the absolutely fantastic public transport system that London has (and which I did not fully appreciate at the time!). Now though living in the styx the bus services were poor before covid and now they're atrocious and it is becoming a big holdback to me. I can't go to Cardiff, Bristol or London without it having to involve an overnight stay!
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I would think driving to london and back from north wales would involve an overnight stay regardless, at least.
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Private Speech posted:I purposely chose the most bullshit thing you average UK citizen might have to deal with, but it's still nowhere near the insanity. "Non-EU migration highest for decades" is something that the right wing rags decided to be mad about last month (graph is from The Sun so may just be made up). It's still too much of a pain, but I think the government genuinely is opening up a bit, if only for the Bad Reasons (makes businesses and landlords money).
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I used to live in London (zone 1 for a few years then zone 3) and that's why having a car and being a driver was something I never needed given the absolutely fantastic public transport system that London has (and which I did not fully appreciate at the time!). Now though living in the styx the bus services were poor before covid and now they're atrocious and it is becoming a big holdback to me. I can't go to Cardiff, Bristol or London without it having to involve an overnight stay! If you wanna do inter-city without using public transport, you're likely to be better off finding some way to drive it, doing long distance private hire vehicles is gonna be prohibitively expensive quickly, and I doubt that it'll be cheaper than a car unless you're only doign it a few times a year.
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OwlFancier posted:I would think driving to london and back from north wales would involve an overnight stay regardless, at least. I'm in South wales and I used to be able to get from where I lived (2 miles out of town - same town I now live in) into town, a bus connection to Newport and a train to London and be there by around 10am AND come back again in a day entirely by public transport. Impossible these days. thespaceinvader posted:If you wanna do inter-city without using public transport, you're likely to be better off finding some way to drive it, doing long distance private hire vehicles is gonna be prohibitively expensive quickly, and I doubt that it'll be cheaper than a car unless you're only doign it a few times a year. I have no driving licence. I failed my test 4x in the 1990s and decided there were better things to waste my money on - living in London made driving unnecessary. So I couldn't drive intercity even if I wanted to! Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 15:16 on Sep 7, 2020 |
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Guavanaut posted:"Non-EU migration highest for decades" is something that the right wing rags decided to be mad about last month (graph is from The Sun so may just be made up). right wingers: "too many europeans migrating here!" *the racist monkey's paw curls, and white european migrants are replaced by black migrants* right wingers (sobbing): n..no!!
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Guavanaut posted:
Like, the government announced opening up to 2.7 million Hong Kong residents recently. While I don't think the details have been announced yet and how many will actually leave isn't yet clear, it's still going to be big bump in numbers next year if even 50,000 decide to leave.
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Whatever you think of assange this is hosed https://twitter.com/kgosztola/status/1302901406450372609?s=19
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:right wingers: "too many europeans migrating here!" I'm convinced that the big reason Blair was so keen to expand the EU east was to get access to pools of cheap workers, but white ones so that the racists wouldn't be as mad. Massively underestimating the racism powers of British hams to get upset about a shop with a flag on.
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Quelle surprise! And we're only on the 2nd day back here! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/07/teachers-at-suffolk-school-test-positive-for-coronavirus quote:Coronavirus: dozens of schools in England and Wales report outbreaks
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"But I thought kids were immune!!!!!!"
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Tsietisin posted:I am also a member of this website. I've seen their cars about ten minute's walk from me, so I'll have to check them out. Insurance was £700 for me regardless of what car I fed into comparison sites, and I love train travel for long distance, so hourly car usage would be great for me. I don't really like driving anyway, cruising on empty roads at night is wonderful, but dealing with traffic crushes my soul.
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peanut- posted:https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/prime-ministers-words-on-eu-negotiations-7-september-2020 Extremely normal to have the same relationship with your next door neighbours and largest trade partners as a country on the complete opposite side of the planet. Entirely standard state of affairs between friendly, allied nations.
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Guavanaut posted:
the govt are already going all-out to blame this rise on the young for going out and having fun which the government told them they could when they opened the pubs back up 20 people drinking together in a single building is bad, unless they're paying for their drinks in which case it's fine and good, actually
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forkboy84 posted:Yeah, but then it's an effort question. I have a Morrisons & Tesco on the way home, I have to go walk 30 minutes from the town centre to get to Lidl. Does Lidl do just the one malt or do they have a Speyside, Highland, Islay etc? Coz I like them all but sometimes you're in the mood for something that tastes like an ashtray & sometimes you want something almost like water (hyperbole but Dalwhinnie is really smooth). Yeah, fair, the flat I'm buying has a Lidl about ten minutes walk away, across a level crossing (I am super stocked about living near a level crossing) so my liver is going to hate me. I've had their Speyside and their Islay. I think they're both excellent, and probably taste better than a lot of mid range single malts. They also do pretty good 500ml bottles of beer for £1.09. My Dad stopped drinking a while back but people keep buying him bottles so he's gonna offload them all on me next time I'm in Oxford.
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Yeah so the Brexit stuff has been the top story on the news over here all day. I think one thing that Bojo fails to understand at all (or is willingly ignoring) is that even if reneging on your deal as part of some super high risk negotiating strategy and it does work.... You've completely killed your credibility. Like why should anyone trust you with future trade deals, when you have shown that you are willing to break deals to try and get what you want. Whenever I have to give lectures on Ethics, I go to the Tony Montoya school of thought. "All I have in this world is my balls and my word, and I don't break them for no one."
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Julio Cruz posted:
Getting on a plane with 200 other people is also good, unlike being in a field with 200 dancing people.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I have no driving licence. I failed my test 4x in the 1990s and decided there were better things to waste my money on - living in London made driving unnecessary. So I couldn't drive intercity even if I wanted to! I know, you said. Finding a friend with a license or learning yourself was implied.
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