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Oh Jesus, that font and those little triangles, they are absolutely deliberately chasing the 40s wartime nostalgia there, making it look like a ration book or i dunno, the packaging on a box of mothballs or something. How completely cynical. More and more I feel good about having left. I didn't want to, and I might still vote for them, but I can't support them. Plenty of charities and campaigns out there helping people directly.
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Isomermaid posted:Oh Jesus, that font and those little triangles, they are absolutely deliberately chasing the 40s wartime nostalgia there, making it look like a ration book or i dunno, the packaging on a box of mothballs or something.
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These labour memes are still on an upward trajectory. One of the very first ones was a gif of kier walking into a beam of light in a dark auditorium with THEY SAID WE COULDN'T BUILD A COUNTRY FIT FOR HEROES emblazoned over it. I cba to find it right now though
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Jose posted:What a massive oval office Lol what an odious loving prick.
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I think the only thing more fruitless than following British journalism would be tweeting about them
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Jose posted:What a massive oval office Lol at the calls for unity after spending four years slagging the poo poo out of Corbyn
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The thing is Dirge has three meanings. There is the informal but common meaning of it (a slow, miserable or boring speech.) And the literal meaning which is a sad song of mourning. I suspect the first tweet about Keith's speech was using the Lieteral meaning of Dirge while the reply tweet used the informal meaning. The third meaning of Dirge is of course the best Jet based Decepticon. https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Dirge_%28G1%29
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crispix posted:tv ads for burger king The Question IRL posted:The thing is Dirge has three meanings.  heckin chonky dirge
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I can't help reading this in extreme Chandler Bing voice. Oh, that'll teach me for thinking I'm clever at 4am.
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Guavanaut posted:Fourth is an ironic misspelling of dirigible. BOVRIL
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i like old fashioned, balls out advertising GUINNESS MAKES YOU VERILE
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To be fair, this has always been business as usual under the Labour right. Conferences are stage managed. Trying to make them actually a bit democratic was something Corbyn was trying to do, so they were always going to roll it back. Same with nobbling CLPs.
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Guinness is maybe the one thing we successfully stole valour from the Brits for (Arthur Guinness may technically be Irish but he would have argued against it and he was a complete oval office and traitor) E: lmao https://twitter.com/jelly_pack/status/1362758365273800707?s=19 Failed Imagineer fucked around with this message at 15:24 on Feb 19, 2021 |
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If you're taking that road, Scottish born Presbyterian and hater of Popery John Jameson, who first successfully ran a still in Stirling before failson-in-lawing off to Dublin, is right there too.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Guinness is maybe the one thing we successfully stole valour from the Brits for you would have been good at giving the storehouse tours i love guinness original 
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Guavanaut posted:If you're taking that road, Scottish born Presbyterian and hater of Popery John Jameson, who first successfully ran a still in Stirling before failson-in-lawing off to Dublin, is right there too. A fair point, I think it's funnier with Guinness though, essential being the emblem of our nation abroad (and actually having the real emblem of our nation as its logo) - yet its founder kept busy shopping in Irish republicans to the authorities, and his descendants are nothing but generation after generation of parasitic landlord oval office. Fwiw, I've met one of the big-money Guineas scions socially a few times , and he's actually a very pleasant and deeply insane person to chat to. Nevertheless, I wish his bloodline ill
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Failed Imagineer posted:he's actually a very pleasant and deeply insane person to chat to. This is how I want to be described in my old age.
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i remember years ago i was chatting to a local radio personality here and he told me that in the old days the pubs around the ship yards in Belfast had to serve guinness from tin baths, such was the influx of patrons after knocking off time
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Spangly A posted:taxi companies absolutely dont do this fwiw, at least none round here. its always points on the fare without minimum wage, the gig contractor model absolutely did its job That's what I was wondering, is it they have to pay you minimum wage or is it they have to ensure that your average income per hour worked is not less than the minimum wage (subject to spotty enforcement)
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There hasn't even been any kind of attack campaign or smears against him. This is literally just the outcome of people see the things he's said and done. There's been editorials calling him poo poo, but those were just reactions to him actually being poo poo and mostly involved pleading for him to be less poo poo.
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OwlFancier posted:That's what I was wondering, is it they have to pay you minimum wage or is it they have to ensure that your average income per hour worked is not less than the minimum wage (subject to spotty enforcement) neither. If you have a poo poo day, you have a poo poo day.
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He really ate poo poo in november but I can't remember exactly what might have caused that. Other than maybe the general "announce the government's policy five minutes after they do and claim it was your idea" bit. Spangly A posted:neither. If you have a poo poo day, you have a poo poo day. Fair enough. I was thinking it seemed a bit surprising that there wasn't already a way for employees to be treated that way.
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OwlFancier posted:That's what I was wondering, is it they have to pay you minimum wage or is it they have to ensure that your average income per hour worked is not less than the minimum wage (subject to spotty enforcement) IIRC it's the latter, averaged over 4 weeks (or some other period of time), minus your actual fare earnings (i.e. if you're on-shift for 120 hours over that period and earn less than £1046 in that time from fares they have to top you up to £1046, not give you £1046 plus fares)
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OwlFancier posted:Fair enough. I was thinking it seemed a bit surprising that there wasn't already a way for employees to be treated that way. I think there are differences between Uber-style gig economy and actual cab jobs, mostly relating to employment protections, but I'll be hosed if I can remember them. It's been a while. the app on/working time parts of the judgement will have major consequences for a few local companies if they're pressed. I know a guy working for one company that sets regular hours for shifts, requires their own app be on during work hours (to route journeys and moniter drivers), and still pays points on the trip. I've nudged them to consider getting a union involved before because I couldn't see how the operation aligned with UK law, this seems to confirm that. They're in deep poo poo if they end up owing backpay on top of the employer contributions and working through tax changes. goddamnedtwisto posted:IIRC it's the latter, averaged over 4 weeks (or some other period of time), minus your actual fare earnings (i.e. if you're on-shift for 120 hours over that period and earn less than £1046 in that time from fares they have to top you up to £1046, not give you £1046 plus fares) people working with the company I mentioned got their averages (for the self-employment fund last year) from the office so they seem to track them, so this fits. I'll ask the guy later if he's ever had a wage topup/fallen below minimum wage. Spangly A fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Feb 19, 2021 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:IIRC it's the latter, averaged over 4 weeks (or some other period of time), minus your actual fare earnings (i.e. if you're on-shift for 120 hours over that period and earn less than £1046 in that time from fares they have to top you up to £1046, not give you £1046 plus fares) I did think this was how minwage rules were supposed to work but fortunately my company is pretty clear and not actually too bad on paying me while I am at work, so I never had to check. The fixed rate jobs have always worked out better than minwage by a decent margin. So it's never come up. That said I also would not be remotely surprised if companies were regularly getting away with not doing that for whatever reason.
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crispix posted:i remember years ago i was chatting to a local radio personality here and he told me that in the old days the pubs around the ship yards in Belfast had to serve guinness from tin baths, such was the influx of patrons after knocking off time drink enough of 'em and you can help refill the bath
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namesake posted:^^^^Uber doesn't make money anyway, it was burning investor cash to undermine workers rights while establishing a service monopoly. When I last looked Uber was making money on its core ride-hailing business, but was ploughing such vast sums into marketing, compensation, weird poo poo like flying taxis and chasing the white elephant that is autonomous driving that it was overall lossmaking despite that. I wonder what this means for the drivers themselves. Uber doesn’t really have a good way of preventing drivers from driving with Ola or Bolt or whoever. It’s also a bit premature to celebrate: first because Uber will I suspect say that the case turned on their old business model and now they are more careful not to exert the kind of control over drivers that would make them into workers. That would need to be litigated again. But second because If there’s any real risk that the ruling would extend to the entire gig industry, I think we will see legislation to protect Uber, Deliveroo etc. Partly because we have a Tory government and partly because inadequate though it often is, gig economy income is still income and if companies like Uber scale back right now, that means immediate job losses in a horrible economy, and even the Tories don’t actually want that (unless the jobs being lost are organised labour).
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Aidan_702 posted:Hi everyone yesterday I got my first dose of the vaccine (not sure why so early but I’m assuming because I have/had asthma?). Anyway some advice: Lol I read this like an hour after getting the Oxford/AZ vaccine myself and you have me bricking it a bit. 5 hours in and just a slowly ramping up headache atm...
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I had the Oxford/Az jab and had a sore arm and felt a bit hungover for a day or so. I've heard if you've had covid previously, then you'll have much more pronounced side effects
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My nan had covid and got the AZ jab a few days ago. Don't think she got symptoms but then her with-covid blood oxy/pulse rate are healthier than mine so she's just got magic blood or something.
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Guavanaut posted:] Pay for your covid bonds with dirgecoin
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TreeTrunks posted:I had the Oxford/Az jab and had a sore arm and felt a bit hungover for a day or so. I've heard if you've had covid previously, then you'll have much more pronounced side effects This is reassuring. Tesseraction posted:My nan had covid and got the AZ jab a few days ago. Don't think she got symptoms but then her with-covid blood oxy/pulse rate are healthier than mine so she's just got magic blood or something. This is good too, hooray for bulletproof nans 
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She's ridiculous. She once broke her arm on a fall and only found out the next day saying it was still sore and got told to ask the GP who was like "I'm pretty sure that's broken" and the x-ray confirmed it was broken in like 2 places.
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