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The Question IRL posted:So remember those two guys held in Glasgow? I really hope they're able to successfully bring an action. The Home Office gets away with far too much of this clearly unlawful bullshit.
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May 15, 2021 19:12
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How do people get rid of ants? We have ants in the kitchen and my bedroom, all the food is stored in the kitchen with nothing left out etc., but the buggers don't seem to want to quit. They especially love my herbal tea I have when it's too late for normal tea, must be the jasmine smell or something. I saw these ant poison traps on Amazon but I'm not sure if it's the right way to go. A bit scared the poison will get left around and a cat will eat it or something.
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May 15, 2021 19:13
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You can use diatomaceous earth which as far as I know is entirely safe for human and animal consumption but highly dangerous to chitinous insects because of its physical structure.
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May 15, 2021 19:14
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Ive heard that rats eat a lot of ants when they are available, might be something worth looking into.
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May 15, 2021 19:15
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Private Speech posted:How do people get rid of ants? We have ants in the kitchen and my bedroom, all the food is stored in the kitchen with nothing left out etc., but the buggers don't seem to want to quit. They especially love my herbal tea I have when it's too late for normal tea, must be the jasmine smell or something. 
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May 15, 2021 19:15
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Gonzo McFee posted:In my experience, Yes. So how much should they get paid then, based on your experience? People are always saying that job X is paid too much but never put a number on what it should be.
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May 15, 2021 19:15
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Private Speech posted:How do people get rid of ants? We have ants in the kitchen and my bedroom, all the food is stored in the kitchen with nothing left out etc., but the buggers don't seem to want to quit. They especially love my herbal tea I have when it's too late for normal tea, must be the jasmine smell or something. I've stopped bothering, mostly just keeping clean to give them less food, and after around midsummer the ants disappear for some reason, every year it happens. So I guess they'll just be around for the first half of summer. We don't have a lot of them though, and generally only see them in the kitchen. If we had more we'd probably do something about it.
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May 15, 2021 19:16
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OwlFancier posted:You can use diatomaceous earth which as far as I know is entirely safe for human and animal consumption but highly dangerous to chitinous insects because of its physical structure. This works, or if you want to kill them then ant powder with pyrethrum in it will do that, but it's also toxic so not ideal around food areas though not 'that' dangerous to humans.
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May 15, 2021 19:17
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As a heavy sleeper I was fine with the mice. It was when one of them was sat on top of my slippers and looking very sad that... well it's hard to want to see them hurt.
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May 15, 2021 19:17
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If you are going to use poison, it's a good idea to secure it so that the mice and rats don't drag it away somewhere that non-target animals such as pets can get to it. Use blocks rather than grain, as mice will drag the grain away and hoard it. The wax blocks with a hole through the middle are great, as you can nail them to a block of wood, or tie them down with wire. Also, it might be worth keeping a bait station permanently stocked and checking on it regularly, even once the obvious infestation is gone.
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May 15, 2021 19:44
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Massive protests in London today accompanied by pages of chat about humanely killing rats and mice. Never change.
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May 15, 2021 19:47
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Aramoro posted:So how much should they get paid then, based on your experience? People are always saying that job X is paid too much but never put a number on what it should be. I think this goes back to the same thing as doctor-pay-chat, except charity CEO David Miliband arouses less sympathy than future (?) consultant jabby. £80,000 a year is a lot of money relative to the (checks notes) 95% of people who earn less than that, and especially the 77% who earn less than half that. But relative to how much things cost, especially houses, it's not stupid money - it's around 1/3 of the average house price, which is a sensible multiple in a non-crazy system (which sadly we don't have). So let's ask the wider question - let's say we can arrest the ridiculous growth in nominal house prices, but not bring them down. How much should a nurse/computer toucher/tube driver/supermarket worker etc be getting paid, in order to live a comfortable life in this country, and have nice things? Maybe even to live on one income (equivalent*)? I think that would be quite a high number compared to today's reality. And if we have to operate within the current system (rather than luxury island communism), then a maximum wage (or technically maximum yearly income before the 100% tax kicks in) should probably be part of that. *equivalent, as in, not "father puts on his hat and goes to the office, mother bakes cakes and looks after the children", but maybe half-time each being enough to support a family.
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May 15, 2021 19:52
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Does thread know anything about these folks? https://www.labour-in-exile.org/about/ A real-life acquaintance (communist politics but not a goon afaik) linked me to them and I hadn't seen them before and they seem pretty good for anyone who hasn't altogether given up on the Labour Party yet.
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May 15, 2021 20:02
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stev posted:Massive protests in London today accompanied by pages of chat about humanely killing rats and mice. Never change. who the gently caress cares
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May 15, 2021 20:05
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OwlFancier posted:You can use diatomaceous earth which as far as I know is entirely safe for human and animal consumption but highly dangerous to chitinous insects because of its physical structure. Make sure to get the 'food grade' type.
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May 15, 2021 20:08
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Regarde Aduck posted:who the gently caress cares I do. Don't use glue traps on living creatures you loving barbarian shites.
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May 15, 2021 20:10
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Bobstar posted:I think this goes back to the same thing as doctor-pay-chat, except charity CEO David Miliband arouses less sympathy than future (?) consultant jabby. I think this is why I find this such an interesting question, how do we value people's work within our current system. Tube drivers get base salary of £55K which puts them well up on the top percentages of earners but I don't think many folk here would argue with that salary for them. So if a tube driver is worth £55K is someone in charge or organising tube drivers worth more than £55K a year? The main problem is as you describe, the increasing cost of living means the private sector will keep driving wages up which the public and voluntary sector have to follow really. I have long argued for higher tax rates, and luckily living in Scotland we even have them, but where do we put them is pretty hard to answer I think.
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May 15, 2021 20:17
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Anteaters appear to be legal to own without a license (not the giant ones, though) Although you'd have to pick the right species that actually eats ants, rather than I dunno, termites or something kingturnip fucked around with this message at 20:23 on May 15, 2021 |
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May 15, 2021 20:20
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Aramoro posted:So if a tube driver is worth £55K is someone in charge or organising tube drivers worth more than £55K a year? Do football managers get paid more than the players? Maybe we could cut the base salary of tube drivers but allow them to retain their own image rights and cut private sponsorship deals
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May 15, 2021 20:25
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Always had a soft spot for giant anteaters. They're so bizarre, and yet so majestic.
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May 15, 2021 20:27
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This is a very cute dog.
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May 15, 2021 20:29
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Private Speech posted:How do people get rid of ants? So on the first day you get the same amount of ants, second day you probably get more because they've found a good sugar source, the third day less so, and then from the fourth day onward you get a few stragglers that get smaller and more deformed, and then they're gone because you genocided the nest.
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May 15, 2021 20:29
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Do football managers get paid more than the players? I was interested so I looked up some*, Pep Guardiola earns more than all but 2 of his players, he gets as much as the bottom 10 combines almost. Frank Lampard is about the middle of the pack at Chelsea so I'd say it varies. Not sure football is the best example here though as Man City's top player earns 25 times as much as their bottom player and I dont think any Tube Driver is earning 25 times more than any other one. *I just looked up the first 2 teams I thought of, not idea if this is representative or not. Aramoro fucked around with this message at 20:34 on May 15, 2021 |
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May 15, 2021 20:32
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Nippon ant killer liquid is very effective but also slightly messed up in terms of how it deals with the problem. It's a very sugary liquid that also has a substance in it that fucks up the entire nest, so when the scouts / workers pick it up and take it back, any new ants that feed on it grow up deformed. Hi, I'm Ender Wiggin and I'm here to tell you about NEW Nippon Ant Killer Liquid
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May 15, 2021 20:33
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Bottom three tube drivers each year get relegated to I dunno driving the Scarborough train. Top three get to do the funicular railway in the South of France on the weekends.
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May 15, 2021 20:37
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Nonsense posted:This is a very cute dog. what kind dog that is, pls?
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May 15, 2021 20:40
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crispix posted:what kind dog that is, pls? a borzoi
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May 15, 2021 21:05
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Aramoro posted:Are most Charity CEO's unsuited to the task? Gonzo McFee posted:In my experience, Yes. didn't know you were a charity CEO 
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May 15, 2021 21:39
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stev posted:Massive protests in London today accompanied by pages of chat about humanely killing rats and mice. Never change. If you want the thread to talk about something you could just start posting about it, rather than passively aggressively bemoan that everyone else isn't talking about it. Aramoro posted:So if a tube driver is worth £55K is someone in charge or organising tube drivers worth more than £55K a year? No, a tube driver is a skilled position while a manager is doing a job a monkey like me could do.
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May 15, 2021 21:47
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i reckon i could drive a tube
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May 15, 2021 21:58
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Ants: Sprinkle ant powder (should be available in any supermarket) all around the outside walls of your house. It both poisons and repels them, and if they're particularly persistent, it will show you where they're getting into your house and you can plug it up. If it's a vent brick or similar don't worry - plug it up for the summer and they'll forget it's there and go find somewhere else, just remember to unplug it come autumn. Gaza protests: Had a peculiar interaction with some people coming away from there. I was volunteering at the Science Museum vaccination centre (quick review - somehow the slowest centre I've worked at despite being the most stupidly overstaffed, also forced people to queue in the pissing rain for literally no reason). Anyway while having a crafty fag I was pretty much accused of organising the engineering works that closed South Kensington station just to inconvenience people who had been at the Gaza march. Now as members of this thread know, I have a great deal of arcane knowledge, but even I wouldn't pretend to have known that all this was going to kick off six months ago when the signal works on the crossover at Earls Court and the escalator replacement on the Piccadilly Line was due. (One thing my arcane knowledge *does* know is that South Ken isn't the closest station to any point of the march, and the woman who made this accusation had in fact gone in exactly the opposite direction from the march than she should have to get the Central Line, but it would have been churlish of me to point this out as she was actually quite grateful for me giving her directions to Gloucester Road)
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May 15, 2021 22:13
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The Question IRL posted:So remember those two guys held in Glasgow? I don't really get that from the article: quote:Director Robina Qureshi said: “The Home Office have referred to these men as illegal. Well they are wrong, and we are now investigating legal action against the Home Office for casting such aspersions. That strikes me as more of a defamation or human rights claim along the notion that referring to people as "illegal immigrants" is inherently dehumanising and alienating. Which I agree with, but otherwise that would be a really circuitous way to say that they're legally entitled to be in the country vs just saying exactly that. Legal or not, of course, the home office should get hosed.
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May 15, 2021 22:15
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I'm gonna enjoy watching as the home office blender starts to run afoul of sympathetic middle class Europeans with the resources to do things like sue them for being malicious and incompetent instead of their usual victims who don't have that capacity.
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May 15, 2021 22:27
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Saros posted:I'm gonna enjoy watching as the home office blender starts to run afoul of sympathetic middle class Europeans with the resources to do things like sue them for being malicious and incompetent instead of their usual victims who don't have that capacity. They're still handling them with kids gloves (excepting criminals but they've always been getting locked up in immigration detention), which in this case means a couple nights in extra bad prison as opposed to couple months in the same. Which is still very much "gently caress this and gently caress everyone who ever suggested I try and move to the UK" but it doesn't quite have the life-destroying effects of the former. Even so there's apparently been a constant procession of European diplomats in the detention centres, which is something that wasn't the case before.
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May 15, 2021 22:45
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https://twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1393686216474861569 greens just tripled their vote share. time for labour to move right.
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May 15, 2021 23:21
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Aramoro posted:So how much should they get paid then, based on your experience? People are always saying that job X is paid too much but never put a number on what it should be. Less
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May 15, 2021 23:29
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stop being so obsessed with money you big capitalist bastard
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May 15, 2021 23:36
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Darth Walrus posted:https://twitter.com/trillingual/status/1392746894372265984?s=21 Lot of “working toward the Fuhrer” in that article. The HO is so loving weird and horrible.
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https://twitter.com/PerthshireMags/status/1393315286225391616
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