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OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Have there been any school age deaths from it yet? I wonder if that will make news.

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blunt
Jul 7, 2005

I find it very strange(? idk I'm still processing my thoughts) seeing all the 9/11 memorial stuff on social and the news today and thinking about how so far the UK's Covid death toll is thirteen 9/11s.

ThomasPaine
Feb 4, 2009

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

communism bitch posted:

Here's something I love about being a manager. There are two girls working in my office. They loving gossip non stop and do no work when I'm out of the office.

Usually I go out for an hour at 12,30 or 1ish for lunch and I know they just do gently caress all while I'm gone even though they take their lunches at 12.

Today I'm hanging around in the office and skipping my lunch. They keep casually mentioning the time in conversation as if to remind me it's time for me to leave so they can skive off for an hour.

I'm skipping lunch just to gently caress them off lol

what happened to you

therattle
Jul 24, 2007
Soiled Meat

thespaceinvader posted:

It's way more about a million is a statistic, I think, as well as even though it's a MASSIVE death toll, relative tot he population, the numbers are quite low, so there's a decent chance that most people simply don't know anyone who died, let alone anyone who died way younger than they would have, and so it's not real for them. Big numbers are hard to comprehend at the best of times.

And much of the media is still pushing the line that the government is doing/did a decent job (or at least not an appalling, fatally bad one).

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


Jose posted:

I genuinely thought he'd have no chance with the membership even if this is from July

https://twitter.com/LeftieStats/status/1304142324201644032?s=19

In a way the tory membership is a lot less picky about who they select. The only thing you really need is to be on the side of wealth and be against Those Types.

Honestly labour seems more concerned with its leaders race and gender

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


ThomasPaine posted:

what happened to you


quote:

Here's something I love about being a manager. 

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
https://twitter.com/Jacob_Rees_Mogg/status/1301074193883295744?s=19

https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1304014520483012611?s=19

Womp womp

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.
Tbf, i probably would take the risk rather than being stuck in a house with JRM

crispix
Mar 28, 2015

Grand-Maman m'a raconté
(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)

Hello, dear
Hahaha gently caress you noncey harry potter

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

It is still bizzare to me that JRM apparently is on a one man mission to populate the entirety of the home counties with his progeny.

Lt. Danger
Dec 22, 2006

jolly good chaps we sure showed the hun

I vaguely stand with communism bitch on the basis that workers can strike or suffer together as they wish but half-arsing it so other people work harder to cover your slacking is Not Comradely

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

Die Satan!
I hope rees mogg dies.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

If everybody half arsed it we could bring capitalism to its knees. Tryhards are counterrevolutionary.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

OwlFancier posted:

It is still bizzare to me that JRM apparently is on a one man mission to populate the entirety of the home counties with his progeny.

Firm in my belief that he's only Catholic to avoid rubbers.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Gonzo McFee posted:

Firm in my belief that he's only Catholic to avoid rubbers.

It's just bizzare to imagine that he fucks. I can't figure out how. Unless his wife just leans him agains the wall and goes to town while he mutters about skull shapes.

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


Unless you like your job or its important you should half arse it, have some respect!

Lt. Danger
Dec 22, 2006

jolly good chaps we sure showed the hun

no, half-arsing on an individual basis is wrong. only collective half-arsing - full-arsing - is acceptable

Oh dear me
Aug 14, 2012

I have burned numerous saucepans, sometimes right through the metal

Lt. Danger posted:

half-arsing it so other people work harder to cover your slacking is Not Comradely

While this is true, it should be dealt with squarely, not by spiteful dog-in-the-manger stuff. I am disappointed in communism bitch and hope he will use his sofa for reflection.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Lt. Danger posted:

no, half-arsing on an individual basis is wrong. only collective half-arsing - full-arsing - is acceptable

Half arsing on an individual basis is better than no half arsing.

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.

Lt. Danger posted:

I vaguely stand with communism bitch on the basis that workers can strike or suffer together as they wish but half-arsing it so other people work harder to cover your slacking is Not Comradely

I'm not sure anyone would even notice if some dusty old books get digitised a little bit later than they otherwise would

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


OwlFancier posted:

It is still bizzare to me that JRM apparently is on a one man mission to populate the entirety of the home counties with his progeny.

Somerset is not in the Home Counties

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

OwlFancier posted:

It's just bizzare to imagine that he fucks. I can't figure out how. Unless his wife just leans him agains the wall and goes to town while he mutters about skull shapes.

JRM fucks once every nine months. His wife's life is being pregnant constantly.

As for how I believe there are some slender man pictures on deviant art that go a long way to explain this.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

If it was that important that they were digitized then it would have happened already, obviously nobody is suffering from not knowing how many hogshead of hundredweights our Aethfricfart stuffed up his arse in 935.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Also Birmingham is locked down (from Tuesday(apart from schools/work/etc.))

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-54117532

Oh dear me
Aug 14, 2012

I have burned numerous saucepans, sometimes right through the metal

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

I'm not sure anyone would even notice if some dusty old books get digitised a little bit later than they otherwise would

Depends what they are. I was assuming communism bitch's colleagues were doing useful historical work, but if it's just aristo-serving then if course they should slack off.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

sebzilla posted:

Somerset is not in the Home Counties

1. It's South, all South is the same to me.

2. I don't actually know where the blighted nest of the mogg clan is located.

Oh dear me
Aug 14, 2012

I have burned numerous saucepans, sometimes right through the metal

OwlFancier posted:

If it was that important that they were digitized then it would have happened already

That's bollocks Owl, the stuff that gets done first is what gets paid for, and the free market doesn't produce the best result in historical research.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

The Home Counties is bahhth South, Somerset is Arab Socialist Ba'ath South.

Bristol is in the North for some reason.

kecske
Feb 28, 2011

it's round, like always


Only the healing power of punk rock can save these children now

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Guavanaut posted:


The Home Counties is bahhth South, Somerset is Arab Socialist Ba'ath South.

Bristol is in the North for some reason.

I'm trying to figure out how to pronounce "baath" distinctly from "bath" and "bahth" and I'm just coming out bostonian.

The Question IRL
Jun 8, 2013

Only two contestants left! Here is Doom's chance for revenge...

kecske posted:

Only the healing power of punk rock can save these children now

Those kids need for Jack Black to show up and teach them how to rock.

Lt. Danger
Dec 22, 2006

jolly good chaps we sure showed the hun

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

I'm not sure anyone would even notice if some dusty old books get digitised a little bit later than they otherwise would

more thinking about the workers here - if one worker is left out of the social loop and doesn't slack off with everyone else then they end up unwittingly working harder picking up others' workload, which is unfair

it's not a serious issue but I wonder if more generally this sort of dynamic isn't at the root of the skiver/striver myth: I find one of the common threads of workplace gossip across workplaces always seems to be who pulls their weight and who doesn't do their fair share, and I think people extrapolate from that (shallow) dynamic into a ginned-up nationwide Benefits Cheats vs Hardworking Quiet Bat People

e: like, it's got to come from somewhere - I don't think many of the people who are extremely mad about people on jobseekers actually know all that many people on jobseekers or whatever

Lt. Danger fucked around with this message at 16:31 on Sep 11, 2020

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

And the ones at fault there are the tryhards who feel like they're better than everyone else for being too dumb to skive.

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.
I'm willing to bet that if it's office work there's a good chance workload isn't being shifted to whoever's actually making an effort (because if it was, the slacking would be Noticed)

For example I'm slacking right now but none of the work I would be doing is going to go to anyone else, it's just sitting their waiting for me to get back

If forced I would make my 2 hours' work last the whole day, but when I'm working from home I just do it in 2 hours and doss the rest of the time

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

OwlFancier posted:

I'm trying to figure out how to pronounce "baath" distinctly from "bath" and "bahth" and I'm just coming out bostonian.
Halfway between flat bath and broad bath, the ah is longer than the aa, but yeah they're hard to distinguish from a flat bath perspective.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLtgT4gsS64

kecske
Feb 28, 2011

it's round, like always

how does the water stay in a flat bath?

Angepain
Jul 13, 2012

what keeps happening to my clothes

OwlFancier posted:

I'm trying to figure out how to pronounce "baath" distinctly from "bath" and "bahth" and I'm just coming out bostonian.

the a sound lasts for a solid 10 seconds

Angrymog
Jan 30, 2012

Really Madcats

crispix posted:

People are dying because we have a government that prioritised Wetherspoons pub lunches and supermarket meal deals over human lives

As Leonard Cohen sang,

"As he died to make men holy,
Let us die to make things cheap"

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Yeah I think I get it now, length of the vowel.

Baaaarrrrtth.

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moostaffa
Apr 2, 2008

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Lt. Danger posted:

I vaguely stand with communism bitch on the basis that workers can strike or suffer together as they wish but half-arsing it so other people work harder to cover your slacking is Not Comradely

Passive-aggressive behaviour like not going to lunch just to gently caress with people with in your team is not the appropriate actions of any manager. If their behaviour is an issue, then it should be brought up in a professional manner in order to improve the situation for everyone involved.

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