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TACD posted:This sounds like a good description of ‘electability’ PM in waiting. I.e. not actually DOING anything, just patiently waiting his turn. E: 40 is roughly the percentage of the british electorate qwhich will apparently always vote for their own pain. thespaceinvader fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Jan 5, 2021 |
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Endjinneer posted:There is something in sticking to what you're good at and buying in everything that you aren't. In my specific example badger licences are handed out by the commission themselves but as they no longer want to take responsibility for things going wrong, it's now on the contractor to find any and all setts on sites on behalf of the landowner (the commission) and report it to the authorities (the commission) rather than it being part of the duties of (the commission's) supervising contract managers. This means that every contractor needs to devote man hours and expertise to a problem separately when it used to be handled by centralised expertise. What is actually happening is small contractors are falling out of the industry due to added demands and a few giants are taking over the greatest share of the market. On its own the badgers thing is pretty minor in practice, it's just a hassle drawing up maps and getting a signature from person a to authorise us to apply to person b for a licence when they might even sit across a desk from one another. But it's not on its own and its new stuff all the time being passed along.
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Jan 5, 2021 23:16
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Kieths plan is literally to wait for the tories to gently caress up real bad, like maybe boris announces that they need maybe 150k coffins for all the dead people from covid so keith can swoop go "ACTUALLY I THINK 75k IS AN ACCEPTABLE NUMBER" and get roundly clapped by the big brain centrists playing for the middle ground, because the correct acceptable answer is 0.
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Drone_Fragger posted:Ah yea, that one too. Not had that one happen to me before.
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Jan 5, 2021 23:22
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So are HMRC still going to intercept my boxes of plastic shite and send me a bill for 20%+ a massive gently caress off admin fee or are they just going to let them all go through because in theory whichever Chinese knockoff outfit I bought them from should be cutting them that 20% cheque any day now?
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Jan 5, 2021 23:29
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jiggerypokery posted:I think that's the quote shatner got from his accountant to do the paperwork for him Ah I thought it was a fee that had to be paid. Still it's a significant extra cost.
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Jan 5, 2021 23:38
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Most small internet shops seem to be using shopify or bigcommerce, then woocommerce or similar with payment gateways for the larger ones, so I imagine after a few months of complete confusion shopify will announce a seamless "sort brit vat poo poo" module and stripe etc. will follow suit.
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Jan 5, 2021 23:44
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Guavanaut posted:Most small internet shops seem to be using shopify or bigcommerce, then woocommerce or similar with payment gateways for the larger ones, so I imagine after a few months of complete confusion shopify will announce a seamless "sort brit vat poo poo" module and stripe etc. will follow suit. With how HMRC want this to work I don't think Shopify will be able to offer anything more than a data dump for you to work out your tax return on. Which they basically do already in that you can have it export the info organised by countries.
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They wouldn't be offering much different to the Pitney Bowes "figure out this poo poo for me" service that's been around for many decades, just through a payment processor or ecommerce provider rather than a liaison with the post office, so I suppose it depends what happens when "how HMRC want this to work" meets observable reality. It's going to suck rear end in the intermediate term either way.
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Buy Chris Whitty His Own Next Slide Please Clicker https://www.gofundme.com/f/buy-chris-whitty-his-own-next-slide-please-clicker quote:One of the biggest embarrassments for the United Kingdom during the Covid-19 pandemic has been the fact that our Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty has been forced to ask someone else to move his slides on for him. This is why I am raising money to send him one of those little Bluetooth clicky things you get on Amazon.
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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jan/05/bbc-educational-cbbc-uk-covid-lockdown-curriculumquote:A significant expansion of BBC educational programming for children is to be launched in response to the latest UK lockdowns and school closures that are expected to continue for the foreseeable future. This seems like a decent idea tbh
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Jan 6, 2021 00:58
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So theyre putting blackadder on bbc2 everyday and calling it a history lesson?
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Convex posted:https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jan/05/bbc-educational-cbbc-uk-covid-lockdown-curriculum Hope this means they reshow the Hollow Crown series of Shakespeare because I didn't see them when they aired but wouldn't mind giving Shakespeare another go now that the trauma of reading him in English is 20 years ago
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Jan 6, 2021 01:11
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I'm hoping for the triumphant return of El Nombre.
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Sample of the new BBC Education programs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb_dIsnDJGk
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Robert Webb was very thin wasn't he.
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sebzilla posted:I'm hoping for the triumphant return of El Nombre. Writing numbers in the desert sand!
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forkboy84 posted:Hope this means they reshow the Hollow Crown series of Shakespeare because I didn't see them when they aired but wouldn't mind giving Shakespeare another go now that the trauma of reading him in English is 20 years ago I felt like I had truly gotten in touch with my inner English teacher when I found myself laughing at Shakespeare, watching Tom Hiddleton do an impression of Jeremy Irons. I've been watching some of the coverage of the Georgia runoff elections tonight on American TV, and of course that means being subjected to their ads. Never in my life have I been more glad this poo poo doesn't fly here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONE0bMfdBi0 "Elequis has significantly less major bleeding than the standard treatment" Holy poo poo. Can't wait for those ads once they've killed the NHS.
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Reveilled posted:"Elequis has significantly less major bleeding than the standard treatment" Holy poo poo. Can't wait for those ads once they've killed the NHS. That's the same drug I was given for a heart problem I had back in June. Basically my heart was beating 140bpm all the time, so they were going to shock it. But cant shock it for 6 weeks due to a possible clot already in the heart. So they put me on that for 6 weeks to thin the blood gradually. Sounds like its a poo poo instant blood thinner, but it has it uses in some situations like mine.
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When I were a wee lassie in the 1960s, our school had a tv and they had something called Merry Go Round - it was on in the mornings and each class got to see it once or twice a week - on which was all sorts of interesting history and other documentaries aimed at kiddiewinks. One that gave me nightmares was about little boys in the Victorian era being forced to climb up chimneys to clean them and dying of suffocation up them. Doubt they'd show that to 6 year olds these days! Just did a bit of a google OMG "Time and Tune" and we used to have these pamphlets which smelled lovely to sing along with. I remember a song about a brontasaurus and another about 'donkey riding' which the teacher explained was about the railways coming to America. Seems some of that stuff still happens! Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Jan 6, 2021 |
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/gcse-a-level-exams-england-b1782870.html England follows Wales & Scotland in cancelling GCSE and A-level exams.
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happyhippy posted:That's the same drug I was given for a heart problem I had back in June. Oh, yeah, absolutely, I don't mean to suggest that it's not clinically beneficial, but I'm willing to entrust the decision on whether such a serious medication is "right for me" to the health service. It's just bizarre to hear "significantly less major bleeding" in an advert.
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Reveilled posted:Oh, yeah, absolutely, I don't mean to suggest that it's not clinically beneficial, but I'm willing to entrust the decision on whether such a serious medication is "right for me" to the health service. It's just bizarre to hear "significantly less major bleeding" in an advert. I get what you mean. I wonder if Americans know like a list of drugs for each part of their body or function. And do you think any has gone to their doctor and asked to swap over their current medication to the ad one, simply on how the ad looked.
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Honestly I'd wager that's the entire point!
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Bets on BBC educational programming becoming a new front in the culture wars?
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Tarnop posted:Bets on BBC educational programming becoming a new front in the culture wars? I won't even take your money on that bet. It'll be trending on twitter the moment a host who isn't white appears.
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Kin posted:beginning to wonder if that's Keith's long game strategy. Basically, spend 4 years sounding
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:I won't even take your money on that bet. It'll be trending on twitter the moment a host FTFY. There is absolutely no choice that won’t be controversial because the cultural divide is already real and strong and not remotely our friend. E: and because Twitter sucks.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Big if true. 
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https://twitter.com/ChrisGiles_/status/1346047029609426947?s=20 Bet it won't stop the Tories.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:When I were a wee lassie in the 1960s, our school had a tv and they had something called Merry Go Round - it was on in the mornings and each class got to see it once or twice a week - on which was all sorts of interesting history and other documentaries aimed at kiddiewinks. One that gave me nightmares was about little boys in the Victorian era being forced to climb up chimneys to clean them and dying of suffocation up them. Doubt they'd show that to 6 year olds these days! Were you ever in Quebec, stowing timbers on the deck, where there's a king in a golden crown, riding on a donkey. HEY HO away we go... Can remember singing that at school in the early 80s, can't remember if it was when they used to wheel the big tv into class though. (Although i vaguely remember some program about a peregrin falcon or something being shown on that.)
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🎵 Star of wonder, star of light Sit on a box of dynamite Light the fuse and away you go Around the world to Mexico 🎶 (Realise the conversation wasn’t exactly about hymns in school but that still came to mind for some reason)
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Drone_Fragger posted:https://www.dutchbikebits.com/shipping I did show this to my boss and we both agreed they can't actually enforce it, so gently caress 'em and sold some stuff to a UK customer with vat 0%.
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auld king bully had a six fut wully so he showed it till the wuman nixt door she thought it was a snake so she hit it wi a rake and now it's ony five fut four
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:When I were a wee lassie in the 1960s, our school had a tv and they had something called Merry Go Round - it was on in the mornings and each class got to see it once or twice a week - on which was all sorts of interesting history and other documentaries aimed at kiddiewinks. One that gave me nightmares was about little boys in the Victorian era being forced to climb up chimneys to clean them and dying of suffocation up them. Doubt they'd show that to 6 year olds these days! I am all for making kids watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hknL8dubtM It'd be considerably better for them than this poo poo that passed for kids edutainment when I was a kid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOkuiHZH4zI Obligatory Charlie Brooker take on Mr. Noseybonk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58i_zjTFNI0 (And I'm sure everyone knows this but the man behind the mask in the "and knife you" bit was king of sofa-based tat reviews Stuart Ashen, who obtained the original Mr. Noseybonk mask through means that are possibly best left unsaid)
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This is a few pages back but I'm convinced six sigma/agile etc are pretty much just middle management scams. Having seen some six sigma training its just common sense stuff?? with numbers?? and then they charge you 5k??? and they call themselves blackbelts? also I'm pretty sure in some places scrum is a euphemism for butthole.
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Butternubs posted:This is a few pages back but I'm convinced six sigma/agile etc are pretty much just middle management scams. Having seen some six sigma training its just common sense stuff?? with numbers?? and then they charge you 5k??? and they call themselves blackbelts? also I'm pretty sure in some places scrum is a euphemism for butthole. You'd be surprised how much common sense appears indistinguishable from magic to people raised on "that's how we've always done it" orthodoxy
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