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Pistol_Pete posted:On this subject, there's an absolutely extraordinary story in the Sunday Times about how the housing market is now becoming gummed up because every single flat built since 1945 is made out of paper mache and petrol and banks are refusing to grant mortgages against them. The more they're inspected, the more awful stuff gets uncovered. I'm quoting the whole article, 'cos the whole thing's mental: Don't worry, I'm sure that some benevolent Crassus will offer to take these places off peoples hands at a very reasonable price.
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my wife, baby and I are in that exact situation with an unsellable flat and a decade of resolution time. Short of an insane cash buyer turning up, our only way out is to join the landlord class and let it out and rent/buy somewhere else. I am prepared. 
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Lmao https://twitter.com/JohnRentoul/status/1307425239203274753?s=19
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Are we really still on the thing of demanding Prime Ministers commit to nuclear armageddon as a policy position.
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My favourite part is including Diane Abbott in the "former leadership" picture purely to induce extra rage in the usual swarm of cunts.
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Time to check back in with our good old frieOH GOD
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But at least we're doing better than those drat frogs  case closed, no action required
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My favourite part of that Times article is this:quote:Land typically makes up more than 70% of a property’s price, up from 50% 20 years ago — raising pressure to build cheaply. Gosh, who would have thought that allowing the one natural resource necessary for the construction of literally anything and everything in the entire loving country to be subject to market conditions would be a really loving stupid thing to do. Who could have predicted it.
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Don't like Matt Hancock but I actually feel sorry for him a tiny, tiny bit, trying to explain to Marr about lockdowns. Yeah the government has hosed the dog but Marr is really pushing for a release of restrictions here and Hancock is so useless he can't muster the power to tell Marr to soundly gently caress off.
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Guavanaut posted:Specifically the ending That's the literal justification used for the massacring of Jews in the 13th and 14th centuries. How can one human being be so absolutely stupid and still draw breath.
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sebzilla posted:https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/f0b6022c-8974-4052-8b6c-595fbb9f2b89 The paywall there stopping me from reading any of the article is inconvenient, yes, but I'm not sure we can blame the Labour Party for that one
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Angepain posted:The paywall there stopping me from reading any of the article is inconvenient, yes, but I'm not sure we can blame the Labour Party for that one https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/blob/master/README.md
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serious gaylord posted:loving hell Starmer is still there on national TV saying he'd support the government. Simultaneously not taking a stance on literally any issue? This can't be their guy?
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Melissa McCarthyism posted:Simultaneously not taking a stance on literally any issue? This can't be their guy? Marr: Heres too options, which do you prefer? Starmer: I can't tell you which one i'd prefer now, in 4 years time I can. Marr: Do you want No deal? Starmer: No I don't Marr: So of those two options you'd prefer an extension? Starmer: No i'm not saying that I'm saying balaskhsiosahooijhaslk;jhask;ljaspojsa What a oval office.
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serious gaylord posted:loving hell Starmer is still there on national TV saying he'd support the government. This has consistently been his only policy except for mewling that Jeremy Corbyn bad
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sebzilla posted:https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/f0b6022c-8974-4052-8b6c-595fbb9f2b89 quote:After five years under Jeremy Corbyn’s leftwing leadership, the UK Labour party enters the “virtual” party conference season under new management and with an apparently prosaic but vital mission: to persuade voters it can be “trusted running the economy”.
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Melissa McCarthyism posted:Don't like Matt Hancock but I actually feel sorry for him a tiny, tiny bit, trying to explain to Marr about lockdowns. Yeah the government has hosed the dog but Marr is really pushing for a release of restrictions here and Hancock is so useless he can't muster the power to tell Marr to soundly gently caress off. never feel sorry for these sons of bitches ever
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I meant to link this tweet but I'll.leave that one up https://twitter.com/Jamin2g/status/1307603369780015104?s=19 https://twitter.com/KayBurley/status/1307596594200576000?s=19
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stev posted:Found the worst take: I love how the load-bearing paragraph of proof that the book is not, in fact, transphobic is based on a random amazon review and some cis guy writing for the loving Spectator Like yeah, the initial outrage was from one summary in the Telegraph and some often-mislabelled screenshots from her previous books, which could maybe have waited for some confirmation elsewhere for it to be targeted at this book, but a) it's not like she has no record at all of transphobia before and is completely innocent, though I'm sure the loving Spectator will disagree b) the screenshots were genuine ones from other books she's written so the statement "Rowling writes offensive guff" would still be valid, and c) oh would you look at that it turns out the transphobic author did in fact write a massively yikes amalgam of transphobic tropes in a character, even if Sensible Cis Guardian Journalist here thinks it's fine because JK didn't use the word "trans" to describe him Hey, maybe trans people might be worth listening to from time to time on whether something is transphobic before you decide it's all completely made up and hysterical. I'm sure this modern progressive newspaper has a few trans contacts they can get to provide expertise on this issue that haven't completely sworn off contributing
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:But at least we're doing better than those drat frogs So that graph shows this second wave flattening off to almost having peaked?
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It's this thinking that being transphobic (or racist, or misogynist etc) is something that you ARE rather than something that you DO. Everywhere there are people not listening, you find it, and it just leaves people writing smug op eds or shouting past each other, confident that they can't possibly be the problem because they have a trans friend, or a black friend while participating in structural oppression and ignoring people's criticisms of what they're still getting wrong. That's not to say that there aren't racist or sexist or transphobic people, of course there are. But like I've lost family members to the brain worms who've been swearing up and down they're not a racist but... and not transphobic but... and out come the "legitimate concerns". It's like, look at yourself
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:But at least we're doing better than those drat frogs Is there one of these that splits Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales out?
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kecske posted:
You're also gonna drown the next time it rains. Our political class is obsessed with the idea that being willing to incinerate hundreds of thousands of people is the mark of a true leader, but under the logic of MAD isn't this kind of the right answer? You can't say you'll never use them because then whats the point in having them, but if you say "oh yeah I'll totally use em, and i'll strike first" like May did just encoruages your hypothetical enemies to nuke you first. The only appropriate response is "maaaaaaaybe" and to wiggle your eyebrows.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:You're also gonna drown the next time it rains. my lmao was because it'll piss off the gammons
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The Oxford trial has hosed someone else's spine up. Waiting for the completely independent and expert regulators to say its fine
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Isomermaid posted:It's this thinking that being transphobic (or racist, or misogynist etc) is something that you ARE rather than something that you DO. This is a good way of putting it. I sort of think the same is true of "bad" and "good". Good people do good things sometimes and vice versa (see the worst person you know made a valid point dot jpg) and this shorthand of good/bad/racist people is making it more difficult to deal with.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:So that graph shows this second wave flattening off to almost having peaked? Or it shows that testing capacity isn't keeping up with cases, that seems more likely to me.
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Miftan posted:This is a good way of putting it. I sort of think the same is true of "bad" and "good". Good people do good things sometimes and vice versa (see the worst person you know made a valid point dot jpg) and this shorthand of good/bad/racist people is making it more difficult to deal with. Strom Cuzewon posted:Our political class is obsessed with the idea that being willing to incinerate hundreds of thousands of people is the mark of a true leader, but under the logic of MAD isn't this kind of the right answer? You can't say you'll never use them because then whats the point in having them, but if you say "oh yeah I'll totally use em, and i'll strike first" like May did just encoruages your hypothetical enemies to nuke you first. The only appropriate response is "maaaaaaaybe" and to wiggle your eyebrows.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:You're also gonna drown the next time it rains. Working as intended, that's a surefire way to avoid the COVID Guavanaut posted:OTOH if you're obsessed with a certain group, whether it's 'the Jews' or 'the trans' or whatever being behind every single one of societies ills to the point that it warps your worldview, that does kinda become a 'who you are' issue. This checks out, I'm a capitalistphobe
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Kin posted:Is there one of these that splits Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales out? The FT's interactive graphs have a whole bunch of options, this link should work (though of course usual caveats about smaller areas likely to show more variation): Linear scale:  Log scale:  NotJustANumber99 posted:So that graph shows this second wave flattening off to almost having peaked? I think that's an overly optimistic interpretation of what could just be a slight hiccup in the graph. Isomermaid posted:It's this thinking that being transphobic (or racist, or misogynist etc) is something that you ARE rather than something that you DO. I keep coming back to this video from 2008 about how this applies to conversations about race and drat if it isn't still massively relevant to every conversation about any kind of prejudice ever Angepain fucked around with this message at 11:28 on Sep 20, 2020 |
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Hallucinogenic Toreador posted:Or it shows that testing capacity isn't keeping up with cases, that seems more likely to me. But its lower than our previous peak whilst our testing capability since that point has increased? Also way lower than France and Spain but I thought I read we were testing more than them? Might be wrong on that though. Angepain posted:I think that's an overly optimistic interpretation of what could just be a slight hiccup in the graph. This is true though, Spain's graph had several similar points before loving off up into the stratosphere again.
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forkboy84 posted:This checks out, I'm a capitalistphobe  I would invite the richest industrialists and landowners to an exclusive event on Pitcairn and then decommission Trident over it, but I'm scared that a new kind of super-nonce would survive it.
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