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quote:Yet for squashing Covid-19 flat, Ardern’s New Zealand has paid a terrible economic price. In the second quarter GDP fell by 12.2 per cent. That’s smaller than Britain’s fall, but it is a horrendous collapse considering the far lighter footprint of coronavirus in New Zealand. he's literally arguing that their response would have been better if more people had died, because then the economic damage would have been worth it
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Oct 17, 2020 18:06
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Just the minor difference of not closing the borders until months into the pandemic. From a party who has gone on and on forever about taking control of the borders. And also New Zealand has the unfair advantage of being an island.
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Oct 17, 2020 18:08
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quote:Yet for squashing Covid-19 flat, Ardern’s New Zealand has paid a terrible economic price. In the second quarter GDP fell by 12.2 per cent. That’s smaller than Britain’s fall, but it is a horrendous collapse considering the far lighter footprint of coronavirus in New Zealand. This... just... what? He's saying it's a big economic fall considering they didn't have many covid deaths, which is bad? In order to justify that economic damage, they should have had more deaths? I just don't know what the gently caress, it's word salad.
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Oct 17, 2020 18:12
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can't believe those idiots bought a rock that keeps tigers away, I chuckle to myself from inside the tiger e: also I bought a lot of rocks that didn't keep tigers away
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Oct 17, 2020 18:12
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Wish I could get £££ to feed some words into GPT-3 and call myself a journalist.
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Oct 17, 2020 18:16
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XMNN posted:can't believe those idiots bought a rock that keeps tigers away, I chuckle to myself from inside the tiger But I am a great admirer of the rock salesmen and that's what matters.
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Oct 17, 2020 18:18
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XMNN posted:can't believe those idiots bought a rock that keeps tigers away, I chuckle to myself from inside the tiger I bought several rocks, but evidently I needed them and they didn't.
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Oct 17, 2020 18:24
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I think the better analogy is they put up a fence to keep the tigers out while I bought rocks, got eaten by the tigers, and now wish to express my annoyance that they didn't also buy rocks which I still claim work better than the fence.
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Oct 17, 2020 18:39
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Payndz posted:Yep, realised that right after I went out walking the dogs, too late to correct it. D'oh! At least you're not one of the people who go "well of course they have less deaths per capita, they have less people!"
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Oct 17, 2020 18:41
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People who use less when fewer is correct are the worst, I agree 
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Oct 17, 2020 18:42
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josh04 posted:I bought several rocks, but evidently I needed them and they didn't. Oh where did you get yours? Boris handed us half a handful of gravel, cost as much as a lot of rocks too. Said it was the best anti-tiger system in the world.
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Oct 17, 2020 18:42
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Camrath posted:If things truly get that bad, ammo and bang sticks do become a factor in a way we’ve never seen them in this country, sadly. I don’t believe that’s going to happen. I /hope/ it doesn’t, as Staffordshire police aren’t processing new licence requests atm. :p Crossbows are legal iirc? 
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Oct 17, 2020 18:44
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Also smoothbore hand cranked gatling guns might be legal on a shotgun license too. There was that one someone made in the US which is like, half a dozen AKs fixed to a ring that spins and pulls the triggers as you crank it, technically counts as legal because you have to continually crank it
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Oct 17, 2020 18:47
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to be fair, if the population of New Zealand was to be scaled up to match the UK, I imagine the strain on infrastructure based on suddenly having to house 60 million new people would probably make some difference to per-capita covid deaths perhaps a slightly less extreme version of this scenario
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Oct 17, 2020 18:54
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Angepain posted:to be fair, if the population of New Zealand was to be scaled up to match the UK Actually, the start Lord of the Rings was filmed with clever camera angles and multiple versions of props.
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Oct 17, 2020 18:59
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Kiwis are actually quite a lot larger than you might think. I always used to think they were small but they're about the size of chickens.
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Oct 17, 2020 19:01
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marktheando posted:And also New Zealand has the unfair advantage of being an island. It's actually two and tbf the UK only has 1 and a bit islands due to being galactic class cunts in another century
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Oct 17, 2020 19:07
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Bet the shetlanders are feeling real loving smug right now.
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Oct 17, 2020 19:08
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crispix posted:It's actually two and tbf the UK only has 1 and a bit islands due to being galactic class cunts in another century I can feel a SMGT post about the Isle of Wight coming any minute
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Oct 17, 2020 19:11
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I obviously meant big islands you could see from the moon using a moderately priced telescope from Argos, stop being silly 
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Oct 17, 2020 19:14
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Does the moon have an argos do you think?
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Oct 17, 2020 19:15
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OwlFancier posted:Kiwis are actually quite a lot larger than you might think. I always used to think they were small but they're about the size of chickens. how do people fit so many in a bowl
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Oct 17, 2020 19:17
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OwlFancier posted:Does the moon have an argos do you think? Sainsburys have Argoses in them now, anything is possible
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crispix posted:It's actually two and tbf the UK only has 1 and a bit islands due to being galactic class cunts in another century
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Oct 17, 2020 19:23
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 This is doing the rounds on social media, its nothing we weren't expecting here tbh
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Oct 17, 2020 19:24
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namesake posted:"Who runs Fudgetown?" No, the answer is Master-beanblaster.
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Oct 17, 2020 19:24
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The idea that Argos, the most dour, grim, depressing place I ever went in my life, continues to exist in the era of t'Internet, boggles my mind more than anything else does.
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Oct 17, 2020 19:25
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Dabir posted:how do people fit so many in a bowl Those are just the eggs.
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Oct 17, 2020 19:27
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Ms Adequate posted:The idea that Argos, the most dour, grim, depressing place I ever went in my life, continues to exist in the era of t'Internet, boggles my mind more than anything else does. It actually did help me get an emergency phone charger for my hospital bound friend so I am not feeling that much antipathy. Essentially it's just a normal retail store except the front is very small and the warehouse is very large and you are not encouraged to drift around it yourself crashing into displays and giving people covid. If anything more stores should be like argos. It's also how screwfix works.
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Oct 17, 2020 19:30
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Latest praxiscast is ace
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Oct 17, 2020 19:33
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Ms Adequate posted:The idea that Argos, the most dour, grim, depressing place I ever went in my life, continues to exist in the era of t'Internet, boggles my mind more than anything else does. Its a 'poo poo I need that kettle replaced now' instead of waiting a week type place. What I don't understand is why every Argos has a a jewelry desk in the corner. Do people buy rings and stuff from Argos so much it needs its own section.
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Oct 17, 2020 19:42
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https://twitter.com/DavidLammy/status/1317528293994803205 I generally like Lammy, but to me this encapsulates why New Labour and the "soft-left" suck. They see Jacinta Ardern winning, but instead of emulating her popular policies, or asking how she grew support for them, they see her giving the exact same vacuous "I will bring people together" speech that May and BoJo made and go "THIS, THIS is how you win elections! We need someone who can deliver that speech!".
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Oct 17, 2020 19:43
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jiggerypokery posted:Latest praxiscast is ace
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Oct 17, 2020 19:49
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If only labour had pursued actually effective policy that saved tens of thousands of lives in the pandemic rather than demanding the tories send children back to school faster.
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jabby posted:https://twitter.com/DavidLammy/status/1317528293994803205 They probably want to copy her policy of never taxing capital gains, that would be a winner.
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Oct 17, 2020 19:51
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happyhippy posted:Its a 'poo poo I need that kettle replaced now' instead of waiting a week type place. high street jewellers are pretty hard to find these days so if you want to buy some it's easier to go to either Argos or Cash Converters
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Oct 17, 2020 19:54
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They probably don't want such small and high value items in the warehouse in case the staff nick them. I learned when I worked in retail that the chief concern of senior management in retail is making sure the staff don't nick anything
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Oct 17, 2020 20:10
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Jewelry is something you want to look at up close, that's the point of it. It's something you inherently distrust because it is easy to fake so you want both the trappings of quality (which is why jewelry stores look the way they do and have people to assure you of the quality, and why they're expensive) and you want to be able to see it well enough that you can trick yourself into believing it's worth it.
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Oct 17, 2020 20:13
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I refuse to get married until I find a partner who will be happy to wear his and his big multicoloured plastic rings with whistles on like you used to get from those machines outside Happy Shoppers they went whhhooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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OwlFancier posted:Jewelry is something you want to look at up close, that's the point of it. It's something you inherently distrust because it is easy to fake so you want both the trappings of quality (which is why jewelry stores look the way they do and have people to assure you of the quality, and why they're expensive) and you want to be able to see it well enough that you can trick yourself into believing it's worth it. Let me tell you about mail order diamonds...
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