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Skarsnik posted:This is what I use gotta love the German approach to naming things no loving around, just call it what it is or what it does
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Pistol_Pete posted:I can't get over that muslim anti-semitism briefing to the Mail. It's just such a stunningly stupid thing to do, even by the standards of the current leadership. I live in Hodge's constituency. Having walked down the street of a Friday round here it would indeed be astoundingly stupid of her to accuse half of her own seat's voters of being anti-Semitic racists, so yeah, probably it was her. feedmegin fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Jun 20, 2021 |
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Jun 20, 2021 16:44
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Lady Demelza posted:Not just nursing students. The waiting times in the NHS are increasingly caused by a lack of physiotherapists, counsellors, cardiac physiologists, respiratory therapists, play therapists, pharmacists, hospital social workers and 101 other health carejobs that people forget about. If people can't get the preventative or follow-up treatment they need, they end up back at the GP or in hospital and the whole cycle starts again. That's actually a good point, because the real backbone of any health system is that whole panoply of jobs that are between Actual Doctors and admin/cleaning/other non-clinical roles, but which tend to get lumped in (as I was doing there) in the general umbrella of "nursing", especially now a lot of that work is stuff that previously would have been done by doctors, or is even just stuff that didn't even exist when the NHS was set up and we all settled into the mental picture of the Stern Doctor Giving Orders and the pretty, well-starched nurses being ministering angels who raise the spirits with their smiles. Maybe we need to adopt the military way of having everyone from the dude charging the machine gun nest with a bayonet between his teeth to the bloke scratching his arse in the Q Stores flogging blankets down the market as The Troops, and just call anyone who's not an MD a Health Soldier or Wellness Warrior or something. Probably the only way of getting any money spent on it, although they'd probably just cut everyone's wages to buy 500 MRI machines that don't actually work and wait a second...
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Jun 20, 2021 17:08
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The NHS corps of engineers would be fun in that they can divert rivers and build as many hospitals as they like.
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Jun 20, 2021 17:11
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I ripped my entire collection using Media Player only to find that it's left a bunch of errors, so occasionally parts of the song will be replaced by digital noise for a ¼ of a second. Very annoying. That noise thing is actually an artifact of copy protection that turned up on quite a few CDs in the late 90s/early 00s (I don't think it's so common nowadays but who's actually buying and ripping CDs to notice?). It is in fact actually a factor *of* error correction - basically the CD has random bursts of noise which is subaudible in the normal bitstream but completely hosed with the most common MP3 rippers of the time. CDEx used to be able to get around it, but that's gone all malware-infested - no idea what the current hotness in rippers is.
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Jun 20, 2021 17:13
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OwlFancier posted:The NHS corps of engineers would be fun in that they can divert rivers and build as many hospitals as they like. In all seriousness there's literally no reason at all why we couldn't have the Ministry of Works back for large-scale projects like that because there's always *something* needing building or maintaining (and if they absolutely had to they could of course still outsource particularly large/specialised one-off works).
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Jun 20, 2021 17:15
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If they build everthing in PWA moderne style it has my unconditional support.
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Jun 20, 2021 17:37
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My next door neighbour ask me to help him rip his Very Legit CD collection recently and at this point it's been a decade+ since I've last used a CD but I found Foobar the easiest option for everything, I used to use EAC but it seems to be not quite so user friendly or up to date (I just called Foobar user friendly, I guess).
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Jun 20, 2021 17:59
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Labour is so loving annoying now. 1.6% of the vote in a by election. Literally quit the loving party because it's over. JC was ousted and now these pro capitalist fucks are using the party as no show jobs to keep the govt checks flowing.
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Jun 20, 2021 18:01
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goddamnedtwisto posted:In all seriousness there's literally no reason at all why we couldn't have the Ministry of Works back for large-scale projects like that because there's always *something* needing building or maintaining (and if they absolutely had to they could of course still outsource particularly large/specialised one-off works). They could also do digital infrastructure so stop all the awful IT projects which either fail, overrun by billions paid to the same 4 companies or don't communicate with other government systems.
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Jun 20, 2021 18:33
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This might be a super dumb question, do the machines that check your tickets care about the time and whether a ticket is for off peak or not or is that the sole domain of actual human inspectors? Asking cause my work wants people to start coming into the office 3 days a week next month, they have flexitime but I don't want to start work at 10 and finish at 6:30 every day. I'd read that flexible season tickets (for people like me who'd be working from home half the time) were going to be introduced at some point this year when I took the job so thought I'd be alright but they seem to not be happening now. If get off peak tickets daily for the days I need to go in, it's around £128 per month, if I get peak time ones then it'd go up £180-190 and a monthly ticket is £294 so would definitely prefer to just buy an off peak one each day even if queueing is a hassle.
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Jun 20, 2021 19:27
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thebardyspoon posted:This might be a super dumb question, do the machines that check your tickets care about the time and whether a ticket is for off peak or not or is that the sole domain of actual human inspectors? On mainline stations and TfL? Absolutely. For individual metro lines? Almost certainly yes, too. For mainline stations, if the station is unmanned (or even if it has an individual unmanned gateline, say towards a car park on the opposite side of the tracks from the ticket office) then the barriers *may* open regardless, as long as something vaguely ticket-shaped is put in them, to avoid people being trapped behind the gateline. In all cases though you're definitely breaking the law and all you need is one jobsworth deciding to check CCTV to find the person going through with an invalid ticket on the reg and you're hosed.
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Jun 20, 2021 19:33
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thebardyspoon posted:This might be a super dumb question, do the machines that check your tickets care about the time and whether a ticket is for off peak or not or is that the sole domain of actual human inspectors? Asking cause my work wants people to start coming into the office 3 days a week next month, they have flexitime but I don't want to start work at 10 and finish at 6:30 every day. I'd read that flexible season tickets (for people like me who'd be working from home half the time) were going to be introduced at some point this year when I took the job so thought I'd be alright but they seem to not be happening now. If get off peak tickets daily for the days I need to go in, it's around £128 per month, if I get peak time ones then it'd go up £180-190 and a monthly ticket is £294 so would definitely prefer to just buy an off peak one each day even if queueing is a hassle. I don't know about the machines, but I know my brother-in-law has to go up to London quite a lot in 'normal' times and I know if he catches a train in Newport he has to pay peak, but if he drives to Bristol (an extra 20 mins) and catches THE SAME TRAIN he only has to buy off-peak saving £10s. I don't think you can buy an off-peak ticket from a machine until it is close to the relevant time (as in after the last peak train has gone through), the machines physically won't sell you one.
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Jun 20, 2021 19:38
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Ah gently caress it then, will swallow the extra 60 quid. Stupid expensive trains and stupid places not letting me work fully remote. Cheers though.
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Jun 20, 2021 19:44
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From memory the ticket just errors at most ticket gates if you're travelling during peak times and you'll get slapped for a whole new ticket by the guard.
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Jun 20, 2021 19:51
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thebardyspoon posted:Ah gently caress it then, will swallow the extra 60 quid. Stupid expensive trains and stupid places not letting me work fully remote. Cheers though. Depending on where you live and whether you can buy return tickets which allow you to return on a different day (I know not all the commuter stations do), and use the *return* portion on a peak train, the relative costs, maybe you could: Buy an off-peak return to get into town where you can use the return portion on a different day When you're coming home, don't use that return portion but buy an off-peak return (Town -> home -> town) which might possibly allow you to use the return portion on any train not just off-peak ones? Do like that and then eventually, before it expires, use the return portion of the original ticket. At one point when I thought I was going to have to commute from Newport to London (which I never ended up doing), I worked out this system was both doable and would have saved me £00s a month assuming 5 days a week. That was a lot of years ago though.
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Jun 20, 2021 20:01
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goddamnedtwisto posted:That's actually a good point, because the real backbone of any health system is that whole panoply of jobs that are between Actual Doctors and admin/cleaning/other non-clinical roles, but which tend to get lumped in (as I was doing there) in the general umbrella of "nursing", especially now a lot of that work is stuff that previously would have been done by doctors, or is even just stuff that didn't even exist when the NHS was set up and we all settled into the mental picture of the Stern Doctor Giving Orders and the pretty, well-starched nurses being ministering angels who raise the spirits with their smiles. Unfortunately you can't poach physiotherapists/play therapists/assorted paramedical staff from the Phillipines and India as I have a suspicion those roles don't really exist there in a way that's transferable to the UK. Certainly all the "foreign born" NHS staff I've met have either been doctors, nurses or cleaners. You do have quite a lot of Europeans in the various paramedical roles but I doubt they're who Dildo Harddick is referring to.
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Jun 20, 2021 20:29
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Z the IVth posted:Unfortunately you can't poach physiotherapists/play therapists/assorted paramedical staff from the Phillipines and India as I have a suspicion those roles don't really exist there in a way that's transferable to the UK. Certainly all the "foreign born" NHS staff I've met have either been doctors, nurses or cleaners. I've met physios from (going purely on accent, no DNA testing or calipers were involved) eastern Europe, southern and eastern Africa, and (most shockingly of all) Scotland. In any case increasing wages and easing training is still going to help improve the pool of talent that can be drawn on.
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Jun 20, 2021 20:40
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The Health and Care Professions Council are pretty strict on which countries they'll recognise as training professionals to the same standard as the UK, so there are a lot of countries where you can train as a Physio and not be able to work in the UK. It's also a problem with some foreign-trained medical doctors - which is why the BMA have recently started offering training posts where doctors who trained in countries with non-recognised Medicine degrees can basically get signed off as competent clinicians. A similar thing does not, sadly, exist for other professions. Which is why there are lots of African nurses working in Healthcare Assistant posts, often in adult mental health/learning disabilities settings.
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Jun 20, 2021 21:15
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https://twitter.com/TommyCorbyn/status/1406724732699938827?s=19 The absolute Dad
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Jun 20, 2021 22:31
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I don't know about the machines, but I know my brother-in-law has to go up to London quite a lot in 'normal' times and I know if he catches a train in Newport he has to pay peak, but if he drives to Bristol (an extra 20 mins) and catches THE SAME TRAIN he only has to buy off-peak saving £10s. Couldnt they buy a peak ticket to Bristol and then an off-peak one from there? Split ticketing is definitely allowed and can save decent money. Not done it for a couple of years but assuming it's not been cleaned up.
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Jun 20, 2021 22:36
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Jeremy Corbyn was far too good for this lovely country.
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Jun 20, 2021 22:38
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Rayner's PR person must be on the floor hugging a bottle of chablis and wailing uncontrollably rn.
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Jun 20, 2021 22:42
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It is quarter to 10 at night, so let he that is without sin cast the first stone in this lovely 18 months imo
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Jun 20, 2021 22:44
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Lmfao they're just incomprehensibly bad at this.
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Jun 20, 2021 22:45
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I didn't know he had three kids honestly.
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Jun 20, 2021 22:47
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also is that Ethiopian they've gone out for? I've never seen injeera rolled like that but A+ choice.
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Jun 20, 2021 22:49
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StarkingBarfish posted:also is that Ethiopian they've gone out for? I've never seen injeera rolled like that but A+ choice.
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Jun 20, 2021 22:59
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Sad Panda posted:Couldnt they buy a peak ticket to Bristol and then an off-peak one from there? Split ticketing is definitely allowed and can save decent money. Not done it for a couple of years but assuming it's not been cleaned up. He could, but as it's a 45 mins drive to get to Newport anyway, an extra 20 mins to Bristol is cheaper apparently. (My sister drives him and brings the car back so parking cost isn't an issue).
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Jun 20, 2021 23:01
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StarkingBarfish posted:also is that Ethiopian they've gone out for? I've never seen injeera rolled like that but A+ choice. I've had it rolled in addition to it basically being the plate. poo poo I want Ethiopian food now its been years
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Jun 20, 2021 23:37
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Beyond weird: https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/angela-rayner-claims-she-was-photobombed-by-jeremy-corbyn/ quote:One Jewish Labour figure said: 'That photo of Angela Rayner and Barry Gardiner with Jeremy Corbyn - it actually looked like they were trolling Luciana Berger. What a farce.' (article by Lee Harpin - quelle surprise)
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Jun 20, 2021 23:38
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goddamnedtwisto posted:In all cases though you're definitely breaking the law and all you need is one jobsworth deciding to check CCTV to find the person going through with an invalid ticket on the reg and you're hosed. I have literally seen TV shows about this happening. Smile and wave for the camera!
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Jun 20, 2021 23:42
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Beyond weird: If I could reach that far, I'd do my work from the comfort of my bed, but each to their own I suppose.
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Jun 21, 2021 00:06
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Lozza 'Loser' Fox returns his one and only acting award to Specsavers because they are amongst the companies who have decided to withdraw ads from GB News. I expect they are relieved! https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/laurence-fox-returns-his-only-ever-acting-award-to-specsavers-online-hilarity-ensues-276897/
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Jun 21, 2021 00:13
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Lozza 'Loser' Fox returns his one and only acting award to Specsavers because they are amongst the companies who have decided to withdraw ads from GB News. Him and Kristy Gallagher used to be a couple. Only found that out when I was looking up why she was there, not an out front Gammon celeb.
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Jun 21, 2021 00:17
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For some reason I am made to think of:
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Jun 21, 2021 00:36
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Beyond weird: Got to wonder who this is for at this point.
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Jun 21, 2021 01:30
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OwlFancier posted:I didn't know he had three kids honestly. He has younger kids with his second wife but because he’s a good person he never used them for publicity.
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Jun 21, 2021 07:36
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Bercow sounds like what the labour right deserves.
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happyhippy posted:Him and Kristy Gallagher used to be a couple.
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