|
Anyway, it looks like the Government is floating the idea of making Andrew Lansley an even bigger gently caress-up than he already was by, uh, reversing a whole raft of decisions he made as Health Secretary. Meaning that he - and Pigfucker - will have spent billions on reforms only to see them undone by their own party a decade later. And, alarmingly, I'm at risk of praising something this government is doing. Although, it'll have to survive being watered down by the servants of the blood god currently sitting on the Tory backbenches. [edit] 32 Tory MPs have sacrificed a poor person, exsanguinating them into a bath in which they lie - naked except for a loin cloth made out of copies of Atlas Shrugged - for several hours. This week. I heard it was 29 last week.
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 10:54
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 28, 2024 08:24 |
|
|
Pistol_Pete posted:
Pistol_Pete posted:
knox_harrington posted:Aaah... What language do people in the American South speak at home? I don't think this is going to be any better. That's the point though. If >95% of your African descended population descends from the Congo or Niger delta region, for whatever reason, then "are they of African descent?" becomes a useful metric. If you're in Durban, where the vast majority of your population are at zero risk of sickle cell, but it is starting to become an issue with West African migrants, "are they black?" is not a useful metric at all, and may become a waste of scarce testing resources, so "what language do you speak at home?" becomes useful. It's not always wrong to make assumptions, but you should also know where they fall apart, and a lot of assumptions get imported from America wholesale just by cultural influence rather than accuracy. I guess they originally had to figure out that sickle cell is basically nonexistent south of the Zambezi somehow, but it's illustrative that skin melanation isn't always indicative of anything other than how much melanin you have in your skin (and for treatments where that matters like PUVA, but that's an entirely different story of historical racial assumptions creeping in). And, of course, asking the question "why does the African diaspora in the American South mostly come from the Congo and Niger Delta area and yet speak English at home?" is not a question you can answer without colonialism. This also reminded me of something from the maps thread, where the complete opposite of "everywhere is America" came up (and it's just as bad): Grand Fromage posted:Believing Koreans are a separate species isn't that uncommon in my experience living there. I had to go to a different doctor once when I was told he'd only studied Korean biology so couldn't help me.
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 11:18
|
|
|
quote:In Ainsley's book she sets out what she sees as the key values which would chime with not just an increasingly diverse working-class but voters more generally: "family"; "fairness"; "hard work"; "decency". You mean voters don't prefer broken homes, unfairness, skiving and indecency?!? gently caress me, give these consultants medals for these staggering insights!
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 11:19
|
|
|
Our panel, all of which have giant brains suspended above their corporeal heads, as like a zeppelin, have all declared that voters like having the bins collected over having the bins strewn across the street and shat in. Therefore we will be targeting only voters that already have their bins collected.
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 11:22
|
|
|
kingturnip posted:And, alarmingly, I'm at risk of praising something this government is doing. Although, it'll have to survive being watered down by the servants of the blood god currently sitting on the Tory backbenches. I was just saying to my other half how I was getting a bit freaked out with how competently they’d handled the pandemic so far thus year, at least since cancelling Christmas. I don’t want to pin everything on person but I feel we did see a big change when Cummings got hosed off in that Johnson is no longer chasing temporary populist boosts in favour of taking a longer view.
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 11:23
|
|
|
Missed out on the fun fudge flavours at christmas so I'm feeling a bit smug about getting my toblerone order in yesterday
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 11:32
|
|
|
Noxville posted:I was just saying to my other half how I was getting a bit freaked out with how competently they’d handled the pandemic so far thus year, at least since cancelling Christmas. I don’t want to pin everything on person but I feel we did see a big change when Cummings got hosed off in that Johnson is no longer chasing temporary populist boosts in favour of taking a longer view. The government created a situation so bad they had to try an untested vaccination schedule on the entire population because everything else is melting down. The fact that the NHS and GPs are good at putting needles into peoples arms isn't a credit to the government. Also I wonder if now that pandemic news is stale or the media can't report the governments failings over it then without Corbyn they're having a similar drought of news that USA media is having without Trump being president any more. Previously you could ring up a Labour MP, a Tory MP or a media personality of some sort and get an front page about how Corbyn anti-semitically put out the bins or something and now that's gone and Starmer is so boring and complicit with government policy that there's nothing to comment on so the press want him replaced with someone they can really villianise again.
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 11:40
|
|
|
Guavanaut posted:This also reminded me of something from the maps thread, where the complete opposite of "everywhere is America" came up (and it's just as bad): Interesting philosophical question - is gut flora an organ in its own right?
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 11:47
|
|
|
goddamnedtwisto posted:
Yes it is. (that was easy)
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 11:52
|
|
|
forkboy84 posted:https://twitter.com/johnestevens/status/1357826641758744576?s=20 This is just perfect.
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 11:53
|
|
|
goddamnedtwisto posted:
Yep. I mean not everyone would agree, but it's more important to your continued well-being than your gallbladder or appendix. I've heard "virtual organ" used Failed Imagineer fucked around with this message at 12:19 on Feb 6, 2021 |
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 12:15
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/telebusiness/status/1357639718620581888?s=09 Rents going down while house prices are going up? I can't see that lasting.
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 12:20
|
|
|
Pistol_Pete posted:You mean voters don't prefer broken homes, unfairness, skiving and indecency?!? gently caress me, give these consultants medals for these staggering insights!
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 12:21
|
|
|
In further government being weirdly competent news apparently they are going to roll back on the privatisation of the NHS https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/feb/06/boris-johnson-planning-nhs-england-overhaul-leaked-paper-shows?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other I literally couldn't imagine Kieth proposing this E: missed that this was already posted because I was on the wrong page. a pipe smoking dog fucked around with this message at 12:43 on Feb 6, 2021 |
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 12:26
|
|
|
What's the issue withCGI Stardust posted:[andy burnham voice] multigeneration households Not the on-paper issue, the actual one? Is it that the extended family has always been at odds with the state to some degree, and the nuclear family, being unstable without state support, works better for a managerial society?
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 12:30
|
|
|
Guavanaut posted:What's the issue with Presumably gammons don't have an issue with multigenerational families like the Windsors, it's just another way of saying immigrant
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 12:35
|
|
|
My issue with multigeneration households is that living with my parents hosed me right off and i was glad to be out of there
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 12:38
|
|
|
a pipe smoking dog posted:In further government being weirdly competent news apparently they are going to roll back on the privatisation of the NHS Are they rolling back privatisation or just giving more control over which companies get NHS contracts to the Health Secretary? I'm suspicious it'll just be used to give contracts to their mates. Getting rid of CCGs already is p funny though
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 12:42
|
|
|
Guavanaut posted:What's the issue with It’s racism. White Anglo culture is to flee your home the moment you are an adult and sink or swim.
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 12:43
|
|
|
Failed Imagineer posted:Presumably gammons don't have an issue with multigenerational families like the Windsors, it's just another way of saying immigrant There was the whole issue with alliances of multigenerational families being able to build power structures that could rival the state in certain areas that you could sum up as 'mafias vs. managerialism' as a theme in the modern era (or 'why Parliament hosed over the Highlands and Ulster so badly'), but in this case it's probably more of a very loud dogwhistle than anything else. Bloody immigrants simultaneously living off the state, destroying the family, and living in large families that can prosper without the state.  Regarde Aduck posted:White Anglo culture is to flee your home the moment you are an adult and sink or swim. 
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 12:48
|
|
|
Guavanaut posted:so I'm not sure what they actually want other than corporate servitude forever Just that yeah
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 12:56
|
|
|
Regarde Aduck posted:It’s racism. White Anglo culture is to flee your home the moment you are an adult and sink or swim. Not so much now with the amount of people complaining about an injustice, or loving something up, that use the phrase "I'm only 2x". I've literally seen "He's only 24, he's a child" before.
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 13:08
|
|
|
Nutapii posted:Not so much now with the amount of people complaining about an injustice, or loving something up, that use the phrase "I'm only 2x". I've literally seen "He's only 24, he's a child" before. That's rhetoric used to ignore their opinion, or potentially excuse a transgression, not saying they should still be living at home.
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 13:10
|
|
|
Nutapii posted:Not so much now with the amount of people complaining about an injustice, or loving something up, that use the phrase "I'm only 2x". I've literally seen "He's only 24, he's a child" before. I'm only 2XL 
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 13:13
|
|
|
forkboy84 posted:https://twitter.com/johnestevens/status/1357826641758744576?s=20 They really do think that if you spot a Royal you will instantly know your class and start doffing caps at them.
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 13:16
|
|
|
forkboy84 posted:https://twitter.com/johnestevens/status/1357826641758744576?s=20 Honestly didn't know there was a prince Edward
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 13:23
|
|
|
JeremoudCorbynejad posted:My issue with multigeneration households is that living with my parents hosed me right off and i was glad to be out of there Yeah it was only after being out of my parents house for a few years that I was able to actually be me for the first time
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 13:25
|
|
|
bitterandtwisted posted:Honestly didn't know there was a prince Edward There's an extended royal family but since they're all off noncing or breaking international laws around arms dealing or slavery and things they're kept well out of the limelight.
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 13:26
|
|
|
Failed Imagineer posted:I'm only 2XL It could be worse, you could be 4X. Can't move into a new house until the guy next door decides if his conservatory will annexe it. 
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 13:26
|
|
|
mystic crispix predicts he's going to wear a kilt to PMQs next
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 13:29
|
|
|
bitterandtwisted posted:Honestly didn't know there was a prince Edward
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 13:31
|
|
|
Guavanaut posted:He's got an island in Canada. TBF, Canada has an absolute shitload of islands. I reckon a good number of them cost significantly less than the average London apartment.
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 13:36
|
|
|
I reckon if you have a geographical area named after you you have to live there. Prince Edward on Prince Edward Island, the Queen in Queen Elizabeth Land, and Prince Charles to be cut in three and sent to Wales, Cornwall and Rothesay respectively.
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 13:43
|
|
|
Lungboy posted:https://twitter.com/telebusiness/status/1357639718620581888?s=09 Rents may be going down on London, but they are going up everywhere else as people and businesses realise you don't actually need to sit in an office to do most jobs.
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 13:43
|
|
|
Donut cities but with no public transport are effectively a death sentence for inner city kids
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 13:46
|
|
|
big scary monsters posted:I reckon if you have a geographical area named after you you have to live there. Prince Edward on Prince Edward Island, the Queen in Queen Elizabeth Land, and Prince Charles to be cut in three and sent to Wales, Cornwall and Rothesay respectively. Total Meatlove posted:Donut cities but with no public transport are effectively a death sentence for inner city kids 
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 13:47
|
|
|
Tsietisin posted:Rents may be going down on London, but they are going up everywhere else as people and businesses realise you don't actually need to sit in an office to do most jobs. Shouldn't that make rents go down? Less demand meaning lower cost in theory
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 13:48
|
|
|
Paperhouse posted:Shouldn't that make rents go down? Less demand meaning lower cost in theory I think OP meant residential rents due to decentralisation
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 13:49
|
|
|
Lungboy posted:https://twitter.com/telebusiness/status/1357639718620581888?s=09 There's a lag, for reasons nobody's really sure about, but rent price changes lag 12-18 months behind house price changes.
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 13:54
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 28, 2024 08:24 |
|
|
Total Meatlove posted:Donut cities but with no public transport are effectively a death sentence for inner city kids Homer Simpson voice: "Mmm, donut cities..."
|
|
#
?
Feb 6, 2021 13:56
|
|