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Love to pay the license fee https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1367059443939225602?s=19
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Mar 3, 2021 12:36
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Could do with some quick guidance- how the gently caress do I raise gross behaviour in a workplace? I've been at this place for 3 months now, a few days away from probation. We just had an ice breaker session where we had to 'draw our life stories' Someone in their life story said they moved careers from chef to waiter and responded jokingly 'was the sex change mandatory' The head of ops/ HR (lol) then later joked following on from that that their girlfriend was from thailand, and obviously you know what they're implying by that based on the previous joke How the gently caress do I raise something like that? It's quite clearly a boys club. Thinking of telling my manager and trying to be as civil as possible, but that if things continue in this way it's not a culture I want to be part of. I know I sound like a coward but I don't want to jeopardize my job, I need the financial security.
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Mar 3, 2021 12:43
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All fudge orders will ship this afternoon So if you’ve been holding off on ordering but want to get fudged up this week, you have about two hours left to get an order in at https://www.fudjit.co.uk 
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Skeletome posted:Could do with some quick guidance- how the gently caress do I raise gross behaviour in a workplace? I'd start by asking your manager where the company's policy/guidance on diversity & inclusion is and having a read through that, you can then use it as ammo for any issue you raise
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Skeletome posted:Someone in their life story said they moved careers from chef to waiter and responded jokingly 'was the sex change mandatory' The transphobe brain is always a puzzle, but I don't understand this at all. Like, both chefs and waiters are either gender but stereotypically male... 
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Mar 3, 2021 13:10
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so budget in 20 mins.... how's everyone feeling I actually think it looks... alright... ? stamp duty holiday extension & more support for first time buyers, capital gains tax up, corporate tax up (boo on freezing personal allowance which is a regressive cheap shot). furlough extended, grants to the arts and retail / restaurant industries. Extension of UC upift. Anything else?
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Failed Imagineer posted:The transphobe brain is always a puzzle, but I don't understand this at all. Like, both chefs and waiters are either gender but stereotypically male...
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Mar 3, 2021 13:17
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What the hell is the "large immobile gamete" thing from? I keep hearing it and I have no idea what it means unless you are a big egg and parliament lost the majority of its high profile eggs in the corbyn years.
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Mar 3, 2021 13:18
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OwlFancier posted:parliament lost the majority of its high profile eggs 
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Mar 3, 2021 13:21
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What did people think koeths previous job was if not to sign off on state crimes and atrocities? That's why he was selected to kill labour to facilitate a new crime against democracy In 30 years it'll be revealed he was a plant and people will go "oh"
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I already think he is a plant, possibly some sort of bromeliad that feeds off human brain tissue. That's what the hair is.
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Mar 3, 2021 13:22
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OwlFancier posted:What the hell is the "large immobile gamete" thing from? I keep hearing it and I have no idea what it means unless you are a big egg and parliament lost the majority of its high profile eggs in the corbyn years. Requesting modchange to LARGE IMMOBILE GAMETE
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Borrovan posted:What a massive coincidence that they've got not 1 but 2 completely unrelated stories about how awful she is, just after she (again, completely unrelatedly) pointed out that they are in fact awful
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Mar 3, 2021 13:23
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Flayer posted:Everything to do with the royal family is awful. Every member of it, the fawning press, people who care about it, people who marry into it, people who profit off it by association - fire all of them into the sun and level Buckingham Palace, imo. Not to let them off the hook in anyway, but I assume the majority of this stuff happens on autopilot from the top -i.e. the various functionary ramoras that effect all the Palace business are empowered to carry out these kind of vicious PR assaults by themselves, or maybe with a vague nod from the Big 'Er Indoors. Maybe that's the real propaganda I've absorbed though, where anything good is Liz being Wise, and anything bad is some weaselly flunky doing stuff in the background. Either way, wish them all a happy 
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Communist Thoughts posted:What did people think koeths previous job was if not to sign off on state crimes and atrocities? If he’s a plant he’s loving up by being so bad. He could have avoided a lot of poo poo and still cemented labour as the party of do nothing centrism. I think he might just be bad at his job AND a piece of poo poo
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Mar 3, 2021 13:31
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MikeCrotch posted:It's also because the Tory party has way fewer members right now - the way you get influence is by being a big donor, not being in the party structure. the WI remains effectively a dormant tory paramilitary organisation imo they'd have taken to the streets if corbyn had got in Mebh posted:Wonder if I should still put jedi as my religion on the census. Seems a bit naff now. tat would be uber rAnDoM m8!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
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Mar 3, 2021 13:31
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Regarde Aduck posted:If he’s a plant he’s loving up by being so bad. He could have avoided a lot of poo poo and still cemented labour as the party of do nothing centrism. I think he might just be bad at his job AND a piece of poo poo Nah Kier actually doing a good job would be the surest possible sign that the British state and mi5 weren't involved
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Mar 3, 2021 13:34
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From the USPOL thread (it's about the BBC):Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:We've all stopped a random black guy on the street of D.C. and assumed he was Cory Booker.
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Mar 3, 2021 13:43
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Comrade Fakename posted:From the USPOL thread (it's about the BBC): Whom amongst us hasn't accidentally got a random bloke confused with a reasonably a prominent politician on our beat?
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crispix posted:the WI remains effectively a dormant tory paramilitary organisation imo There was a short-lived black comedy series called Suburban Shootout back in the mid 2000s. It was set in a rural village and all the posh women (who definitely had a tory look about most of them) were in one of two armed gangs while the menfolk were completely oblivious to what was going on under their noses. I thought it was really funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6gEfUh1-lU
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forkboy84 posted:Whom amongst us hasn't accidentally got a random bloke confused with a reasonably a prominent politician on our beat? Apparently happens more than you think
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Mar 3, 2021 13:51
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Ewan posted:(boo on freezing personal allowance which is a regressive cheap shot) It's not regressive, whether or not it's good. Tax thresholds apply to all people above them. The very poorest do not benefit from tax threshold rises at all, which is why those are the Tory/LD preferred tax changes.
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Mar 3, 2021 13:52
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feedmegin posted:Also most Americans aren't formally members of a party and don't carry cards. Communists doing that is Weird and Different to them in a way it isn't to the many people in this thread who do now or have formerly had a little red card of their own in their wallet. Still do: 
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Mar 3, 2021 13:53
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peanut- posted:I have some sympathy for Labour in that even if Sunak is trying to raise taxes, he’s not doing it to drive public spending and investment. Problem is Labour are also talking about being "fiscally responsible" while not raising taxes, which is even closer to Osborne style austerity than Sunak I reckon Dodds get canned after the May elections assuming the results are bad (and maybe even if they aren't) and I wouldn't be surprised to see a shift in Labour rhetoric on the economy. OTOH it seems like Labour have proper backed themselves into a corner and would officially be flailing if they try another "reset" so soon.
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Oh dear me posted:It's not regressive, whether or not it's good. Tax thresholds apply to all people above them. The very poorest do not benefit from tax threshold rises at all, which is why those are the Tory/LD preferred tax changes.
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He just announced that the corporation tax rises are limited to large companies only so Labour are gonna look like even bigger twats if they argue against it.
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Mar 3, 2021 14:06
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Labour going down the tubes is just fine, what are people gonna do? Build another party? Obviously the main goal is control of the labour party since we had a brief excess of democracy that got quickly dealt with but not without coming close to upsetting the status quo and making them get out of bed. The ideal is that nobody can even try to vote for someone who isn't aligned with the ruling class. But destruction of labour as a political force is okay too, it would just result in a few splinter parties that can't oppose the tories and the remaining parties are under control already.
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peanut- posted:He just announced that the corporation tax rises are limited to large companies only so Labour are gonna look like even bigger twats if they argue against it. Set aside political alignment, this budget is pretty much what most progressives would be after (within the limits of what is realistic). Fund a big package of stimulus spending through capital gains, corporation tax, pensions, inheritance tax etc and done in a way designed not to hit small or struggling businesses, and freeze most of the regressive taxes like VAT, duties, etc.
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Speaking of the royals, there's a massive scrum of reporters outside Barts today. I saw sat vans for CNN, NBC and RT and lost count at 20 photographers/videographers, and there are satellite vans from three continents news channels parked all over the loving place. I assumed something must have happened as at least three live OBs seemed to be happening, but I guess it was just live reports on Big Phil still not being officially dead for the midday news? Utter insanity, it must be costing tens of thousands of pounds a day to keep people stationed outside a hospital where they will *definitely* not be the first to hear if he dies or gets better, just weird cargo-cult journalism, so they can say "we now go live to..." someone who just reads out the email that the press office sent the news room. (I know this is the case for almost all television news - it was just particularly odd to see them all and realise they've been there for at least 3 days and most of them had probably been hanging around the other hospital for a week - even odder that for some reason they're all outside the KGV Building which is... probably not where he is (it's where the specialist cardiac wards are, but I bet he's in one of the older buildings for security reasons because there's no way they can partition off a room/ward for him in the modern building without loving everything up) completely blocking both pavements on a pretty busy road, rather than being outside the much more telegenic and roomy Smithfield entrance (where Benedict Cumberbatch jumped off in Sherlock; the phone box there has more tearful memorials than the William Wallace monument around the corner). I assume they think it's a more dramatic shot or something because there's always red buses and black taxis driving past)
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MikeCrotch posted:which is even closer to Osborne style austerity than Sunak We can probably expect more of this imo
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MikeCrotch posted:Problem is Labour are also talking about being "fiscally responsible" while not raising taxes, which is even closer to Osborne style austerity than Sunak its going to be rachel "we'll be tougher than the tories on those who get benefits" reeves taking over
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Borrovan posted:The most brutal peacetime cuts in UK history possibly have since been retrofitted as sensible centrism, it's what people want, not like those awful populists like Johnson and Corbyn which are definitely the same thing It's so galling because it's just ***obviously not true*** There's so much polling that shows that the majority of people are fine with tax rises to rebuild public services, that fiscal austerity was never popular and that people right now do not give a gently caress about balancing the books Just maddening how the current leadership has managed to pin themselves to economic policy that is both morally wrong and unpopular at the same time
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Oh dear me posted:It's not regressive, whether or not it's good. Tax thresholds apply to all people above them. The very poorest do not benefit from tax threshold rises at all, which is why those are the Tory/LD preferred tax changes. The personal allowance is going to be frozen at £12,570, unless you think that anyone earning over £13k is living the high life then it is absolutely and definitely regressive, because it affects the poor in a way that richer people won't notice.
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Jose posted:its going to be rachel "we'll be tougher than the tories on those who get benefits" reeves taking over Nandy has equal odds I reckon There's also the possibility Keith gets another nobody in who he can safely can if his policies turn out to be unpopular
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MikeCrotch posted:Just maddening how the current leadership has managed to pin themselves to economic policy that is both morally wrong and unpopular at the same time It's also ineffective and counterproductive (e:^  )
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