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OwlFancier posted:I think honestly they just can't understand. I don't know why but they just can't. Even if they might be nice people, they just can't get what it's like to be in our position. They know better, don't you know? All that life experience, we just can't appreciate because we're too young. When we're old & retired we'll understand they were right. What's that, you young'uns won't get to retire until well past the average lifespan? Oh well, that's your fault innit?
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Who would actually be worse for the North out of Sunak or whatever amorphous austerity blob Police Farter has extruded into the current shadow chancellorship? (I'd genuinely have to look this up, I think it got pushed out of my brain to make room for a fact about truck relays).
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sebzilla posted:How are you managing to post in this thread from the 1980s? The non-nice outside parts of Sheffield within a mile of the Supertram is three beds for 100k-120k
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forkboy84 posted:They know better, don't you know? All that life experience, we just can't appreciate because we're too young. When we're old & retired we'll understand they were right. Some of them are like that but in her case I think it's more just... I exist entirely outside her reference frame. I don't think she can imagine what it's like to have no hope of owning anything, no retirement, no career path, that my education means nothing, that a human being doesn't even look to judge whether I am employable, to have reasonable doubt that there will even be food and water by the time I am her age let alone any expectation of a comfortable retirement. The entire concept of having difficulty selling my house is just... absolutely bizzare to me. What house? What house will I ever have to sell? I dream of having the issue of having difficulty selling my house because that means I would be thousands upon thousands of pounds richer than I will ever realistically be. The world she has lived her life in is not the one I live in, but we both sometimes occupy the same physical space. I don't think she has a malicious bone in her body, but she doesn't need to. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 16:04 on Mar 15, 2021 |
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Guavanaut posted:Who would actually be worse for the North out of Sunak or whatever amorphous austerity blob Police Farter has extruded into the current shadow chancellorship? (I'd genuinely have to look this up, I think it got pushed out of my brain to make room for a fact about truck relays). it dosen't matter which tory is in charge, their treatment of the north would just be degrees of hatred.
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Hey let’s annex London and give it all the public transport and funding because that’s where all the media and MP’s live and work!
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# ? Mar 15, 2021 15:57 |
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Incidentally it’s utterly insufferable when some bald person then comes back with “ we have poor people too” well yes, I a poor person am aware of that, it’s just that London poor people don’t have to wait two hours for a sodding bus now do they.
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# ? Mar 15, 2021 15:59 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:- She is not allowed to make an offer on the house she wants to buy without proving that she can buy it NOW (with her own house not yet sold) Jaeluni Asjil posted:- There is another potential buyer of the house she wants - 'from London' with the cash in the bank already - who wants it as a buy-to-let. Sounds like the seller and/or estate agent is favouring the buyer without a chain so they can sell quicker. It's perfectly normal to put down an offer if your current house covers the value of the new one.
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# ? Mar 15, 2021 16:03 |
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There’s a Star-mer waiting just outside, With policies a-plenty But he thinks they’d blow our minds. There’s a Star-mer working for some spies. He’d like to help the young folks, But the red wall’s more worthwhile He told me Now the party’s used them, Let the party lose them, And all the press abuse them
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# ? Mar 15, 2021 16:03 |
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Me in 2050, glad that there are no more estate agents:
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# ? Mar 15, 2021 16:09 |
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Communist Thoughts posted:Divide and conquer. You just need to get people who would otherwise be on the same side to argue about statues instead. To a great extent, all this culture war stuff is specifically aimed at keeping the Labour party off-balance and on the defensive. Take Churchill: there's a cohort of younger, urban Labour voters who are rather ambiguous about him and a 2nd cohort of older, 'traditional' Labour voters who think he's wonderful. Make Churchill the story and straight away, you're splitting Labour down the middle and putting the leadership in the impossible position of making a coherent response without annoying any of their voters. It's completely shameless but undeniably effective politics.
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learnincurve posted:Incidentally it’s utterly insufferable when some bald person then comes back with “ we have poor people too” well yes, I a poor person am aware of that, it’s just that London poor people don’t have to wait two hours for a sodding bus now do they. Yeah, and London repeatedly overwhelmingly voted for governments that were likely to actually fix your bus problems. E: And I'm not bald... yet.
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# ? Mar 15, 2021 16:20 |
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Me in 2050, glad that there are no more estate agents: All my potential futures lie somewhere on the Viggo spectrum. S-tier is Viggo in Captain Fantastic, that's the dream. And The Road is probably at the bottom. Aragorn questing and Russian mobster Viggo are somewhere mid-tier
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Communist Thoughts posted:Divide and conquer. You just need to get people who would otherwise be on the same side to argue about statues instead. absolutely right - that's what makes 'cathartic' rants about gammons doubly frustrating. but there is hope, says this former editor of Marxism Today: Prospect posted:The populist delusion
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Guavanaut posted:Who would actually be worse for the North out of Sunak or whatever amorphous austerity blob Police Farter has extruded into the current shadow chancellorship? (I'd genuinely have to look this up, I think it got pushed out of my brain to make room for a fact about truck relays). They'll continue to fail to address the investment necessary just like every government red or blue since the Milk Snatcher. Absolutely no evidence that they have even the seed of an idea for reversing the decline and subsequent stagnation. Why bother when blaming everything on foreigners works so well? forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 16:33 on Mar 15, 2021 |
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Failed Imagineer posted:All my potential futures lie somewhere on the Viggo spectrum. If I was feeling really optimistic the gif of my retirement would be that tribe dancing around the fire in Cannibal Holocaust. They're warm, they have food, and friends, and music. Brendan Rodgers fucked around with this message at 16:36 on Mar 15, 2021 |
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old/young is a bit of a misdirect, possibly. leftist/sympathetic boomers were often poorer boomers, and poverty reduces life expectancy. surviving boomers are more likely to be wealthy, and wealthy people are more likely to be shitheads. but it's hardly an absolute thing the other aspect is something this thread's noted before, where, regardless of actual personal wealth, pensioners' interests align with capital because capital wealth is now also their source of income (through their pensions or homes)
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# ? Mar 15, 2021 16:38 |
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The AstraZeneca vaccine is being suspended all over the EU. I'm a bit baffled as to why.
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# ? Mar 15, 2021 16:43 |
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In most chains though with younger people, they will be able to wave mortgage 'approval in principle' letters around. I had to prove I had the money up front because (a) I wasn't selling anywhere and (b) I wasn't able to get a mortgage due to age/lack of income. I did not expect mum who has a house to sell would have to prove the entire sum ALREADY exists without the sale. And at 83 ain't no way she's going to be able to get a mortgage. Just got back from having my Astra Zeneca shot.....
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# ? Mar 15, 2021 16:44 |
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Got notice that im getting vaccinated on friday, by dwarves judging by the name of the centre, Mountainhall! Bit of a surprise because im early 40s and healthy in all the qualifying areas, i think it could be because my NHS area only has 200k people at vaccination age?
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Pistol_Pete posted:The AstraZeneca vaccine is being suspended all over the EU. I'm a bit baffled as to why. There's been a few cases of young people in Norway getting really weird symptoms of combined bleeding + clotting + low platelets, and in at least two cases dying, within 10 days of taking the vaccine. There's no link proven yet, but it's enough that we stopped the vaccine a few days ago. They were talking about checking if the vaccines were from the same batch as similar issues in Austria, but I don't know what came of that.
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Pistol_Pete posted:The AstraZeneca vaccine is being suspended all over the EU. I'm a bit baffled as to why. It's been linked to blood clotting that can induce a stroke. Global Britain, getting there first again (with yet another way to mass murder people through sheer incompetence)!
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# ? Mar 15, 2021 16:48 |
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Getting vaccinated next week, aged 31. Technically have an underlying health issue but it was signed off when I stopped being a paediatric patient so I'm impressed they still had it on record tbh. Checked the site and they wanted me to drive 25 miles, checked back half an hour later and there's a centre five minutes walk away. Pretty decent system tbh. e: Hope my blood doesn't all fall out from the bad AZ jab lol
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Jedit posted:It's been linked to blood clotting that can induce a stroke. Global Britain, getting there first again (with yet another way to mass murder people through sheer incompetence)! Why isn't the UK seeing this or is it? I asked if it's ok to take aspirin after the vaccination because they keep saying 'paracetemol' and they said it's fine. So that's my plan for the next week to keep my blood thin. An aspirin a day keeps the clots away. (Maybe.)
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# ? Mar 15, 2021 16:52 |
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It's just the tiny number of people experiencing potential side effects vs the much larger number of people who'll definitely die from Covid if a vaccine rollout's delayed seems an odd trade-off to me. Especially as the European rollout of the vaccine was pretty rubbish already.
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Jedit posted:It's been linked to blood clotting that can induce a stroke. Global Britain, getting there first again (with yet another way to mass murder people through sheer incompetence)! It really hasn't.
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# ? Mar 15, 2021 16:56 |
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I've seen a lot of people (including Owen Jones) suggest this is just nonsense and/or political, which is a pretty absurd take. Norway doesn't give a poo poo about Britan vs EU slapfights. There's been a cluster of really serious cases shortly after taking the vaccine, it would be completely irresponsible to not check it out properly.
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Jedit posted:It's been linked to blood clotting that can induce a stroke. Global Britain, getting there first again (with yet another way to mass murder people through sheer incompetence)! It doesn't sound like it has though? Without further investigation it sounds like it could well be case of correlation /= causation and governments overreacting to a handful of incidents that would have occurred anyway, same as the moral panic over the MMR jab
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Both are true. It's unlikely to be a major issue, but it would be negligent not to investigate. Would be interesting if it turned out to be batch-specific. Aseptic transfer failure could conceivably have led to bacterial contamination which could cause clotting issues. But I don't really have any info about localisation, severity or presentation of the reported events so I guess just wait and see and hope they resolve these concerns quickly
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Why isn't the UK seeing this or is it? I asked if it's ok to take aspirin after the vaccination because they keep saying 'paracetemol' and they said it's fine. So that's my plan for the next week to keep my blood thin. An aspirin a day keeps the clots away. (Maybe.) It honestly looks like a lot of countries are overreacting and panicking over no good data on this one. I'd personally go ahead and get the AZ. With the house - it does sound like they're just favouring a 'proceedable' buyer who has the cash ready rather than one who would have to sell to free up the money. It's pretty normal, and while you're right that an agreement in principle for a mortgage letter is often used, most sellers will still favour a cash buyer because while the mortgage is agreed 'in principle', it's not actually agreed yet. There are still searches, valuations all to be done to satisfy the bank, and those don't always come back favourably.
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# ? Mar 15, 2021 17:01 |
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The AZ vaccine was already the least trusted in the EU so waiting a few days cant hurt its image problem while I imagine ignoring things definitely would. Plus AZ have already decided to gently caress over the EU so it's not like waiting a bit is going to delay things much more than AZ already have.
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Meanwhile in Labour party news: I was really very pleasantly surprised today to find out that a former Labour MP (still a party member) I know, of the Blairite tendency, was one of the signatories to a letter prepared by another definitely non-Corbynista local Labour Party member of very long standing , which is being sent to labour hq in support of suspended local CLP members. (I think there were about 30 signatories altogether - maybe even more).
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Random Integer posted:The AZ vaccine was already the least trusted in the EU so waiting a few days cant hurt its image problem while I imagine ignoring things definitely would. A mass suspension of administration it with all the accompanying headlines and news stories that do not cover any of the this-is-just-a-routine-precaution nuance is absolutely going to hurt it's image problem, probably beyond recovery. It's going to be dead in the water in much of the EU at this point.
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# ? Mar 15, 2021 17:04 |
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What's happening with your brewery btw, I thought about that the other day but couldn't quite remember which goon was concerned.
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peanut- posted:A mass suspension of administration it with all the accompanying headlines and news stories that do not cover any of the this-is-just-a-routine-precaution nuance is absolutely going to hurt it's image problem, probably beyond recovery. Our media/government is very much saying "this is unlikely and just a precaution", and the same is the case from Denmark as far as I have seen. E: It seems like british journalists take any scrutiny as a personal attack on their british pride.
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peanut- posted:A mass suspension of administration it with all the accompanying headlines and news stories that do not cover any of the this-is-just-a-routine-precaution nuance is absolutely going to hurt it's image problem, probably beyond recovery. And not investigating while the "AZ vaccine causes fatal blood clots" story does the rounds would lead to resistance to the entire vaccination program.
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The EU going on tilt because of their own crappy deal they signed with AstraZeneca and then making up reasons to explain why its good they don't have it and didn't want it anyway was not one of the plot twists I predicted for 2021
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multijoe posted:The EU going on tilt because of their own crappy deal they signed with AstraZeneca and then making up reasons to explain why its good they don't have it and didn't want it anyway was not one of the plot twists I predicted for 2021 See this is the kind of absolute nonsese I was referring to in my earlier post.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:In most chains though with younger people, they will be able to wave mortgage 'approval in principle' letters around. If there was another buyer ready to go chain free then I'm pretty sure they were bullshitting you so they had an excuse to get the easy sale while dressing it up in a way that sounds like it wasn't their choice.
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TheRat posted:Our media/government is very much saying "this is unlikely and just a precaution", and the same is the case from Denmark as far as I have seen. Jingoism is in our blood (as are increasing clotting factors*) *potentially
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