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Sanford posted:Canrath if you do advent calendar fudge with a different little fudgy surprise behind each door I would gnaw my own arm off to get one for my mum. I will see what I can do, but can't make any promises (the fudge isn't a problem; sourcing the calendars might be!) So glad orders are making it in and people are happy.  Edit: okay, looks like I can potentially source the empty calendars. Watch this space, I guess! Camrath fucked around with this message at 11:53 on Oct 2, 2020 |
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Guavanaut posted:
Just for clarity, this focuses on the death of millions by famine due to the UK (and others) response to el-nino caused droughts.
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Random book chat: I've been reading a lot of non-fiction in the category "specific aspects of why the world is terrible", including the Secret Barrister's latest, this one by another QC who favours prison abolition, and Laura Bates (of Everyday Sexism) on men who hate women. I'll add those Empire ones to the list too, but it's all a bit heavy and depressing at the moment. I'm now taking a break with Jasper Fforde's new book, a rabbit-based allegory of modern Britain. Fforde tightrope-walks the line between clever satire and in-your-face "get it? get it??" symbolism, but his prose is as buttery smooth as Pratchett's and his story lines are compelling. Would recommend so far.
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Camrath posted:Edit: okay, looks like I can potentially source the empty calendars. Watch this space, I guess! Oh my god. OH MY GOD!
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He's still a Tory wanker who is so blinkered he managed to act on 5 seasons of The Wire and still stay Tory and a friend of David Cameron.
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ObamaAkbar. posted:Are red wall MPs making GBS threads themselves now that brexit and Corbyn are no longer issues they can beat over constituents heads? A bit, but probably not as much as you'd think, and probably less so than Tories with similar majorities in non-"Red Wall" seats. "Corbyn" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, since his unfavourability by the end cut deep, but in terms of a new leader electoral effect it'll be interesting to see if it's more pronouced in these seats than others. I'm sceptical, personally. The long-term demographic shifts (and more than anything the aging population in these constituencies) would tend to favour the Tories even aside from Brexit/Corbyn, which is probably why we're seeing a whole bunch of culture war bollocks, since that seems to be the best way to get the grey vote. I suspect it will be the Tories in commuter belts wondering about their proportion of voters under 50 that are more nervous. By the by the red wall is basically a journalistic convention that doesn't seem to have much explanatory or analytical value beyond "long term Labour seats that went Tory" as far as I can tell, so I'm pretty wary of using it (and fed up of journos and MPs and commentators being extremely lazy and using it instead of actually saying anything), even if it feels like a good reading of the election. "Labour lost their red wall and Tories overran the country" is a neat narrative and clear visual image, even if it doesn't make a huge amount of sense besides losing seats = losing elections. Though if someone wants to argue the case for it I'm open to be convinced it's a decent label!
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Guavanaut posted:I can't think of good general ones, but specific crimes: Borrovan posted:I've still got this tab open from the last time someone asked, haven't got round to buying it yet but it sounds pretty good Awesome thanks!
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Lungboy posted:Corbyn is going to be a useful scare tactic for decades to come. He’s still living rent free in bojo’s head if PMQs is anything to go by.
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ObamaAkbar. posted:He’s still living rent free in bojo’s head if PMQs is anything to go by. yes but also lots of red faced home counties voters
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Soooo, just found out my landlord is trying to sell the house I live in, lads. He arranged a 'viewing' yesterday but was cagy when my wife asked him what sort of viewing. Well, when they came round one of them let slip they were his agent from Foxton's, so, I did a bit of sleuthing, and behold I found the ad online. Now, I live in the ground floor of this place - https://www.foxtons.co.uk/properties-for-sale/ig11/chpk2939519 (the upper two floors have all the doors locked, everything shut off, so no, I'm not enjoying a giant three floor mansion like I'm Hugh Hefner or anything). The landlord has tried and failed twice to get the council to give him planning permission to have it as a HMO with rooms for a bunch of single people, which was his original plan; he's made a third application, pending as of last month. How up front he's been with potential buyers about that I don't know, but planning applications are publicly available online so if I thought to check I assume they do too. Not that the landlord has said word one to me about any of this, of course, I had to have the sense to look it up online. My tenancy comes to an end in January or so. How does this work with giving notice of tenancy etc? I know that there's something due to Corona where right now landlords have to give six months' notice. Does that happen with a tenancy coming to it's scheduled end too, i.e. he'd have to give me notice right now if he wanted me out before April? So tired of moving house. I've had to do it each and every year to 18 months since moving back to the UK 8 years ago and about half the time it's been because of the landlord selling the place out from under me.
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feedmegin posted:Soooo, just found out my landlord is trying to sell the house I live in, lads. He arranged a 'viewing' yesterday but was cagy when my wife asked him what sort of viewing. Well, when they came round one of them let slip they were his agent from Foxton's, so, I did a bit of sleuthing, and behold I found the ad online. My understanding is that to force a tenant to leave (assuming there are no grounds for eviction like non-payment of rent or antisocial behaviour), a landlord must serve them with a section 21 notice: http://england.shelter.org.uk/housing_advice/eviction/section_21_eviction/section_21_eviction_process Currently the minimum notice period is 6 months, so I think they could serve notice on you now and you'd have to leave in April. Your tenancy (presumably an ASTA) coming to its scheduled end shouldn't make any difference to this, as long as you're staying in the property and paying rent then you're still a tenant and they have to go through the section 21 process. If they waited until the end of the tenancy to serve notice then you'd get another 6 months beyond that date, assuming the 6 month period is still in force by that time - it's usually 2 months.
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My initial thought is that he's selling to another investor who will give no fucks about the hmo thing and will rent it anyway. I forsee there being a lot of new people living with you soon.
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feedmegin posted:Soooo, just found out my landlord is trying to sell the house I live in, lads. He arranged a 'viewing' yesterday but was cagy when my wife asked him what sort of viewing. Well, when they came round one of them let slip they were his agent from Foxton's, so, I did a bit of sleuthing, and behold I found the ad online. Selling the house doesn't change your rental contract or remove the 6 month notice requirement for your new landlord, so you won't have to move till August at the earliest anyways.
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Whoever it was who was talking about the meat bread should try this.
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Sloth Life posted:My initial thought is that he's selling to another investor who will give no fucks about the hmo thing and will rent it anyway. I forsee there being a lot of new people living with you soon. I wonder if a landlord got someone into a unit illegally by accident on purpose, would they then have to wait 6 months to evict them as well...
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Puntification posted:Are there any interesting books on the British Empire and specifically its crimes? Like a killing hope for the UK, type of thing. Late Victorian Holocausts is what you're after. You will never read a UK newspaper the same since theyr all in it and demanding the blood gates remain open in a very familiar way. Also From the Ruins of Empire is good, its about how hosed the East got and how it began to internalise the racial inferiority rhetoric but then overcame that and threw off the colonisers.
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Sloth Life posted:My initial thought is that he's selling to another investor who will give no fucks about the hmo thing and will rent it anyway. I forsee there being a lot of new people living with you soon. I suppose it depends on the contract but, having looked at the floorplan I am confused how renting out the other rooms would work whilst you're already in the ground floor? I guess I'm replying to the wrong person really but whatever.
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feedmegin posted:Soooo, just found out my landlord is trying to sell the house I live in, lads. He arranged a 'viewing' yesterday but was cagy when my wife asked him what sort of viewing. Well, when they came round one of them let slip they were his agent from Foxton's, so, I did a bit of sleuthing, and behold I found the ad online. As said, the owner selling the house has no impact on your tenancy. Check your paperwork for details relating to viewings, you might not need to allow them, particularly during Covid, or you might be able to negotiate a rent reduction to allow them. I've only ever heard bad things about Foxtons so make sure they do everything correctly relating to your tenancy (assuming they are also the letting agent as well as the estate agent) as once your tenancy ends in January it will roll over onto a periodic tenancy. Don't let them talk you into signing a new tenancy, or paying them any fees, unless you want to of course.
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So uhhh I'm suddenly trying to explain to my wife the origin of "beans up the backside", does anyone have a handy link to the relevant image?
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Communist Thoughts posted:Late Victorian Holocausts is what you're after. You will never read a UK newspaper the same since theyr all in it and demanding the blood gates remain open in a very familiar way. Cool thanks.
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Maugrim posted:So uhhh I'm suddenly trying to explain to my wife the origin of "beans up the backside", does anyone have a handy link to the relevant image?
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Maugrim posted:So uhhh I'm suddenly trying to explain to my wife the origin of "beans up the backside", does anyone have a handy link to the relevant image?  Hello also whoever it was got to read me googling "daily express beans up backside" and sorry that I forgot it was the sunday sport.
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Communist Thoughts posted:Late Victorian Holocausts is what you're after. You will never read a UK newspaper the same since theyr all in it and demanding the blood gates remain open in a very familiar way. in mildly amusing trivia: Pankaj Mishra (From the Ruins of Empire) is David Cameron's cousin-in-law a point of caution when reading theoretically anti-imperialist material today - a great amount of the writing coming out of China and India (especially India) is emerging from the nationalist right-wing. Mishra predates that trend however.
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OwlFancier posted:
I was googling that EXACT term too, no wonder it didn't work. Thanks you both!
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Sloth Life posted:My initial thought is that he's selling to another investor who will give no fucks about the hmo thing and will rent it anyway. I forsee there being a lot of new people living with you soon. Oh, I'll definitely be moving out before allowing that to happen. Council's already on to this one though, so I assume I could have a little word in their ear if they tried that.
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Lungboy posted:As said, the owner selling the house has no impact on your tenancy. Check your paperwork for details relating to viewings, you might not need to allow them, particularly during Covid, or you might be able to negotiate a rent reduction to allow them. I've only ever heard bad things about Foxtons so make sure they do everything correctly relating to your tenancy (assuming they are also the letting agent as well as the estate agent) as once your tenancy ends in January it will roll over onto a periodic tenancy. Don't let them talk you into signing a new tenancy, or paying them any fees, unless you want to of course. Nope, completely different people as the letting agent (Dimension Estates).
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ronya posted:in mildly amusing trivia: Pankaj Mishra (From the Ruins of Empire) is David Cameron's cousin-in-law Inglorious Empire is interesting for that, though its a more centrist generic state nationalism. The authour is an indian MP and I think its an interesting book since its more restrained and pretty much talking about how the indian middle and upper-middle class suffered The indian establishment has this odd affair with the UK where the UK massacred and starved them and left them with a version of our own corrupt parliamentary system but the establishment obviously draws its authority from these exact systems so can't say the systems they left were shite. its a good peice of the picture but almost funny some parts of the book were basically talking about colonial racism preventing rich indians from accessing the nepotism they expected. i think about this interview a fair amount though, where jon snow is interviewing shashi tharoor the author and this is AS sympathetic a guy you could get talking about the empire but Jon seems legit terrified the whole time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cbLpsxocV0 shashi is saying in his plummy oxbridge accent "oh no you don't need to feel bad and you dont even need to take down the statues i just want both indians and brits to know what happened," but jon's body language and questions make it seem like the book is a photo album of flayed women
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Lol imagine if Trump died of Rona. The conspiracy theories alone would be amazing.
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OwlFancier posted:daily express beans 
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https://twitter.com/healthdpt/status/1312015021120028673 Double the highest figure for Northern Ireland so far, with Belfast, Derry and Down reporting around 200 new cases in 24 hrs.
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feedmegin posted:Soooo, just found out my landlord is trying to sell the house I live in, lads. He arranged a 'viewing' yesterday but was cagy when my wife asked him what sort of viewing. Well, when they came round one of them let slip they were his agent from Foxton's, so, I did a bit of sleuthing, and behold I found the ad online. I feel like there was another poster ITT with pretty much the same problem. Have a mate view the property and see what they're saying? The ol' double (estate) agent trick, a classic. Unless they submit the proper form to you in terms of notice (which is currently 6 months) you don't need to worry too much or tell them how to evict you properly. Go over your contract again, but the rolling period usually means you have the same rights as before, it just means you can give a months notice and move out without breaking the contract/finding a new tenant. Good luck
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Those NCL vessels have some funky liveries. Not the worst on a cruise ship, but very close
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Gonzo McFee posted:Lol imagine if Trump died of Rona. The conspiracy theories alone would be amazing. QAnon are already pretty happy to jump from theory to practice with Republican encouragement. CDC gonna get truck-bombed.
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This will get him dragged https://twitter.com/SteveBakerHW/status/1311706891349905410
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_centrism is the new punk.
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I've never heard of this "punk" but given everything that it gets described as cthr new punk" I imagine it means blandly rude.
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Melissa McCarthyism posted:https://twitter.com/healthdpt/status/1312015021120028673 Considering how NI had 450ish cases on Wednesday them doubling almost overnight is alarming. We could be looking at a situation where Northern Ireland has more new cases than the entire Republic of Ireland.
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