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Lady Demelza posted:Am I the only person who doesn't have any form of password to get into my smartphone? It's a recent one so I must have disabled it, though I don't remember doing so. I had my wallet nicked after I was shoulder-surfed for my PIN (NB I was also pretty drunk) and HSBC helpfully and automatically extended me a £3k overdraft when my card went on a 4k spending spree in Paddy Power in Lewisham. No confirmation made at all from me. code:knox_harrington fucked around with this message at 15:12 on Sep 9, 2020 |
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Nothingtoseehere posted:Yea this isn't any proof there's something wrong with the vaccine - it might be unrelated, might only be a risk to those with certain other conditions, might be a 1/100,000 event that doesn't make the vaccine useless - and has no bearing on it's effectiveness. You just can't continue to inject people with it till you know the answers to those questions, which is why vaccine trials take time. Name/Post combo
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Nothingtoseehere posted:Yea this isn't any proof there's something wrong with the vaccine - it might be unrelated, might only be a risk to those with certain other conditions, might be a 1/100,000 event that doesn't make the vaccine useless - and has no bearing on it's effectiveness. You just can't continue to inject people with it till you know the answers to those questions, which is why vaccine trials take time. According to the news this morning this isn't even the first time the trial has been paused, and the expert (who might admittedly have been a pharma sales rep, it was fair and balanced Radio 4 after all) said this was just a thing that happens, and noted that it's almost always something completely unrelated or at least very unlikely to be related, and that the delays for this sort of thing are factored into the timetable for testing. Which, if true, makes you wonder why this got so much publicity and would (in a world where actions had consequences) might lead people to investigate any large movements in AstraZeneca's shares over the last few days (or those of their competitors, for that matter)
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knox_harrington posted:I had my wallet nicked after I was shoulder-surfed for my PIN (NB I was also pretty drunk) and HSBC helpfully and automatically extended me a £3k overdraft when my card went on a 4k spending spree in Paddy Power in Lewisham. No confirmation made at all from me. When I was young and foolish and power-dressed, one evening in Camden absolutely pissed out of my head (there was a pub used to do jugs of cocktails for about £5 a gallon), I went to the cashpoint and a young black guy pushed in front of me. "You fascist pig" I yelled at him, he turned round and glared at me and said "What did you just say?" - "I said you're a fascist pig". "Oh that's ok!" he said and walked off smiling. I imagine he thought I'd made a racist rather than classist (? politicist?) comment and I bet that was the first time a woman in a padded shoulders business suit called a black guy in jeans a fascist.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:According to the news this morning this isn't even the first time the trial has been paused, and the expert (who might admittedly have been a pharma sales rep, it was fair and balanced Radio 4 after all) said this was just a thing that happens, and noted that it's almost always something completely unrelated or at least very unlikely to be related, and that the delays for this sort of thing are factored into the timetable for testing. The New York Times broke the story last night from a source they had who knew of the event, which happened in the UK. American journalists reaching out to transnational sources? Or someone reaching out to them with the news?
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UKMT Autumn 2020 - Where we are going we don't need rules
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XMNN posted:I agree with prioritising schools, I just meant that there are already schools with hundreds of students self isolating for a couple of weeks because of a positive test for someone at the school only a week or so into them reopening, so presumably there's going to be a significant number of students missing multiple large chunks of school this year. Still better than every pupil missing the whole year mind you. And if other activities have to be curtailed to reduce the spread enough that keeping schools open for kids is possible then so be it.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Can someone give me the name of the funds that the brexiteers are invested in, banking on the total collapse of the British economy post-brexit? I dont think you need Google to figure out what avocado toast is
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Oh dear me posted:If people thought some testing would be done, you can't argue that they're wrong because some testing has been done. However often you try. "testing will be done but they'll fudge/ignore the results" is not in fact the same as "testing will be done because that's how vaccines are developed" just FYI talking about how you wouldn't take a covid vaccine because government/big pharma bad was antivaxx bullshit then and it's antivaxx bullshit now
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goddamnedtwisto posted:According to the news this morning this isn't even the first time the trial has been paused, and the expert (who might admittedly have been a pharma sales rep, it was fair and balanced Radio 4 after all) said this was just a thing that happens, and noted that it's almost always something completely unrelated or at least very unlikely to be related, and that the delays for this sort of thing are factored into the timetable for testing. It depends how the study is set up but for a study to be paused like this it usually needs the treating physician to think the event is related to the study treatment. The term is a SUSAR - Suspected Unexpected Serious Adverse Reaction. It has to be "suspected" to be related to the study therapy. Alternatively the data safety monitoring board internally within the study sponsor may have made the decision if they're being cautious. Given the people receiving the vaccine aren't ill there is going to be a pretty low acceptability for such a serious event if it is possibly related to the vaccine. I guess goes to show how reckless the approval of the vaccine candidate in Russia is after trialling it in 76 patients.
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fridge corn posted:I dont think you need Google to figure out what avocado toast is It might have been some namby pamby woke vegan anti-wheat thing with slices of avocado instead of bread though.  Why isn't there a woke snowflake smilie?
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VideoGames posted:Lady VG just got her pip assessment back from the DWP (she was on highest due to her needing zomorph (morphine) twice a day to function) and not only are they ending it, but apparently she needs to pay them back because she was given too much. Sorry to hear this VG. Are you still able to appeal at this point or has that been exhausted? It'd be well worth emailing your MP (even if they're a Tory) about this as well, to request a review of the case. There's a dedicated parliamentary hotline for pip so MP's staff can speak to DWP staff about cases quickly, although any actual review will take a few weeks. Anecdotally having MP interest in a case seems to help expedite things, even if the outcome isn't always the preferred one. If you've got specific objections to the DWP decision as written, it'd be a good idea to highlight them & give the reason why.
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Julio Cruz posted:"testing will be done but they'll fudge/ignore the results" is not in fact the same as "testing will be done because that's how vaccines are developed" just FYI Another straw man, and, for the third and last time, one thing being done right does not show all things are being done right. I apologize to the rest of the thread for not ignoring you as I should have.
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fridge corn posted:I dont think you need Google to figure out what avocado toast is You say that like foods are always named for what they are For all Jaeluni Asjil knows, this could be a Toad in the Hole situation
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Oh dear me posted:Another straw man, and, for the third and last time, one thing being done right does not show all things are being done right. I apologize to the rest of the thread for not ignoring you as I should have. Julio Cruz posted:it's antivaxx bullshit now
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:You say that like foods are always named for what they are Avocado and Toast are both known food items. Toad and Hole are not known food items. It's quite obvious that Toad in the Hole is not literally a toad in a hole
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:You say that like foods are always named for what they are Or spotted dick 
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Avocado toast could be a drink for lawyers or a Latin American dish involving testes.knox_harrington posted:I guess goes to show how reckless the approval of the vaccine candidate in Russia is after trialling it in 76 patients.
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SpicePro posted:Or spotted dick Mincemeat.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Mincemeat. It took me until I was about twenty eight before I realised mince pies did not have minced beef in them.
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Guavanaut posted:Avocado toast could be a drink for lawyers or a Latin American dish involving testes. I'll look past the gulags, we should have nuked the Soviets for what they did to Laika. At least the septics *tried*, and mostly succeeded, to get the monkeys back.
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OwlFancier posted:It took me until I was about twenty eight before I realised mince pies did not have minced beef in them. It's the fact that they specify "meat" for the thing with no meat, and omit it for the things that do. English is a very stupid language.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Mincemeat. From what I understand, mincemeat used to be actually meat centuries ago. I just googled* bird's nest soup - wow! It is made from real birds' nests. *because I have stalled on a bit of analysis where my logic systems are failing to boot up and hoping investigations into food googling will help. Which was not the case when i started this avocado toast milarkey.
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Mash avocado with a pinch of salt and lime juice, spread on sourdough toast, sprinkle with chilli flakes and olive oil, top with a poached egg. It loving rules. Might even have it for lunch tomorrow.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Mash avocado with a pinch of salt and lime juice, spread on sourdough toast, sprinkle with chilli flakes and olive oil, top with a poached egg. It loving rules. Might even have it for lunch tomorrow. There are few things better than reading about something delicious then realising you have all the ingredients
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Avocado Toast is very similar to Beans Toast, or so I've heard.
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Avocados are very tasty but they are unfortunately not the food of the painfully woke zillenial that boomer Facebook would have you believe. As you might guess of a lucrative South American cash crop, its farming tends to involve deforestation, replacing traditional varied farming with monocultures, funding narcoterrorism, horribly exploiting farmers and all that sort of good stuff. But it's not all bad news - some avocados are grown in Spain! Farm workers there have better working conditions, there are somewhat fewer druglords running the show, and the ecological effects tend towards regional droughts rather than rainforest destruction, so that's an option.
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Tarnop posted:I'm 5 months into the second year of my appeal, and have been told that there's no minimum time between a successful appeal and a reassessment
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:From what I understand, mincemeat used to be actually meat centuries ago. Yep. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUQHPO1g5Rs
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Pilchenstein posted:Every time I've won an appeal, the tribunal specifies a length of time that you have to be left alone for. Never been reassessed any sooner than two years or so after an appeal. That's actually fantastic news, I got bad info it seems. Thank you.
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OwlFancier posted:It took me until I was about twenty eight before I realised mince pies did not have minced beef in them. Going into a bakery like Greggs in Scotland and asking for a mince pie near Christmas usually results in getting asked if you want a meat or a sweet one.
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SpicePro posted:Or spotted dick Years ago when I worked at BT, they changed the name of Spotted Dick to Spotted Richard. This change lasted all of two-three months before it was changed back because apparently people couldn't order Spotted Richard without cracking up and holding up the dessert line.
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big scary monsters posted:Avocados are very tasty but they are unfortunately not the food of the painfully woke zillenial that boomer Facebook would have you believe. As you might guess of a lucrative South American cash crop, its farming tends to involve deforestation, replacing traditional varied farming with monocultures, funding narcoterrorism, horribly exploiting farmers and all that sort of good stuff. But it's not all bad news - some avocados are grown in Spain! Farm workers there have better working conditions, there are somewhat fewer druglords running the show, and the ecological effects tend towards regional droughts rather than rainforest destruction, so that's an option. interesting, thanks. spanish black grapes are a great alternative to south african ones too. what do you make of the reusable silicon alternative to clingfilm that they are advertising on my IG feed at the moment? or the recyclable plastic washing up sponge?
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I got 4 hours sleep last night, so I was looking forward to having a little nap on the train home. Except two Irish kids got on and played a 'game' that involved each of them seeing how loudly they dared shout a random word in the carriage. Then they got off and a man got on and sat opposite me with his mask nowhere near his mouth or nose and proceeded to have a shouted argument with someone on his phone - something about "the bottle" - for the remainder of the train journey home. Oh, and despite the news about curbs to daily lives yesterday, there were fewer people wearing masks than I've seen the last couple of days. gently caress this stupid loving country.
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Danger - Octopus! posted:Going into a bakery like Greggs in Scotland and asking for a mince pie near Christmas usually results in getting asked if you want a meat or a sweet one. Just don't ask for sweetmeats.
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