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therattle posted:I’ve already told you! It’s infantilising. I agree but I can't put my finger on why
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Labour leadership figures are dropping like flies - Jenny Chapman is being removed from her post and gets sent to the shadow cabinet with responsibility for Brexit. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jun/22/labour-leader-keir-starmer-axes-chief-aide-jenny-chapman
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Jun 22, 2021 11:59
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Is this good or bad for Starmer? If he's belatedly realised that his chief advisors have been providing really poo poo advice, then at least he's taking some initiative in sacking them. If it's more a case of rats deserting the sinking ship however, that's not so good.
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Jun 22, 2021 12:06
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u brexit ukip it posted:Labour leadership figures are dropping like flies - Jenny Chapman is being removed from her post and gets sent to the shadow cabinet with responsibility for Brexit. brexit is done so just another non-job
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Jun 22, 2021 12:08
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This is the moment the Guardian has been telling us about. Keith is about to stop being loving useless and defeat the tories.
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Jun 22, 2021 12:09
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You have to wonder at what point in the "I keep hiring these people to make the public like me and it's not working, how are they all so bad at this?" thought, self-reflection will set in.
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Jun 22, 2021 12:09
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Jel Shaker posted:brexit is done so just another non-job Yeah, how does this work - who is she shadowing? There isn't a minister for brexit. https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers Also Johnson is the only one without a picture - it's just a door?
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Jun 22, 2021 12:11
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Starmer will continue to take responsibility for Labour's fuckups until there's no-one left for him to fire
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Jun 22, 2021 12:14
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ThomasPaine posted:Jag is in Scotland I accept, but 'jab' is only used occasionally in England and very colloquially so it's weird seeing the entire mainstream press using it almost exclusively. It just feels patronising somehow, idk why. 'Jab' is used by almost everyone I know from all over the place, except the Scottish folk who use 'jag'! Maybe it's a generational thing as most of the folk on my facebook are over 40.
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Jun 22, 2021 12:17
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The Perfect Element posted:The micro USB port on my s7 is hosed (cables just fall out if I don't position the phone and cable to within a millionth of a millimetre of the right position , as the port I think has been eroded after years of sleepily trying to plug the jack in the wrong way. Micro USB sucks so much) . I've owned this phone for like... 6 years now, and other than the charging it still works perfectly. I had the same thing on my Nokia, sent it off to be repaired and it turned out it just needed a good clean with a toothpick or similar. Might be worth a try before spending out on a repair. TACD posted:Can we have an actual bag of wet eggs as Labour leader instead please Deleted already, what was it? Pistol_Pete posted:Is this good or bad for Starmer? If he's belatedly realised that his chief advisors have been providing really poo poo advice, then at least he's taking some initiative in sacking them. https://twitter.com/AaronBastani/status/1407285191673057288?s=19 Lungboy fucked around with this message at 12:23 on Jun 22, 2021 |
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Jun 22, 2021 12:19
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Isomermaid posted:You have to wonder at what point in the "I keep hiring these people to make the public like me and it's not working, how are they all so bad at this?" thought, self-reflection will set in. Back in the dim and distant, one of the senior managers (a board member) of the Health Authority I was working for went through 6 or 7 'executive secretaries' - high pay, expensive to recruit - in 2 years. It took a long time for HR to cotton on to the fact that the problem wasn't the recruitment process but the way the manager would micro-manage everything, say everything was urgent, never let them finish anything before he would throw something else at them saying it was more urgent, and generally piss them off. Expensive executive secretaries do not need a manager hanging over their shoulder while they are typing in Wordstar (yes it was that long ago) and using the ^B or ^U codes and so forth for formatting to be told 'you've made a mistake you've typed a B or a U or a P' there or asking dumb questions like 'do you have to boot up BASIC before the Wordstar (when you're using a networked computer running on some version of unix).
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Jun 22, 2021 12:21
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ThomasPaine posted:Jag is in Scotland I accept, but 'jab' is only used occasionally in England and very colloquially so it's weird seeing the entire mainstream press using it almost exclusively. It just feels patronising somehow, idk why. Jab is also used in Scotland. Parts of it anyway. It's what I call it
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Jun 22, 2021 12:22
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Lungboy posted:Deleted already, what was it? an interview with Sophy Ridge where he says he doesn't want Matt Hancock to resign
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Jun 22, 2021 12:25
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I'm losing the thread with all these Labour factions 'First' 'Progress' 'Fabians' 'Black Rose' etc. I assume First are ultra-right labourists?
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Jun 22, 2021 12:40
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Archaeoprogrammers have been trying to reverse engineer ancient screenshot technology, not sure how they're progressing. 
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Jun 22, 2021 12:42
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Aah, a few tweets last night suddenly make sense. For those not up on political and journalistic drama and the twitter metadrama around it - last month, after Hartlepool, Tim Shipman, political editor of the Sunday Times, posted that it was interesting how intensely LOTO defended Chapman, an advisor to Starmer, then intriguingly mentioned that Chapman was banned from Starmer's home. Shipman then went completely silent for almost a week before quietly deleting that tweet (but *not* the ones about how intensely Chapman was being defended) and posting: https://twitter.com/shippersunbound/status/1395045719187283971?lang=en The Shitpost Left had a field day with this, and them offering their support and love to a Murdoch political journalist was one of the stranger political sights of the year. Anyway last night someone - I *think* @wariotifo - posted that he'd heard that Shipman had had his phone confiscated for 24 hours, and a couple of other people in the RP/TF blob posted allusions to a big story. No idea how a bunch of random podcasters seemed to be on top of the story 12 hours ago (or why they've now all deleted the tweets rather than going on a lap of honour) but there we go.
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Jun 22, 2021 12:48
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Sanford posted:Is jab not a standard term for a vaccination? Flu jab, tetanus jab, TB jab? I've had lots of jabs in my time. It's what they're called. Most people I know have talked about being stabbed (No, this is not because I live in Barking, shurrup)
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Jun 22, 2021 12:59
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Lunar Suite posted:What's the deal with the UK and weirdly infantilising language? "Have your say", but also weirdly cutesy euphemism terms like "tory" or "nonce". I mean, uh, 'Tory' has been a thing since about the late 17th century and originally referred to outlaws. I'm not sure it's really 'infantilising' as such, any more than calling the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei 'Nazis' is infantilising.
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Jun 22, 2021 13:03
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I'm losing the thread with all these Labour factions 'First' 'Progress' 'Fabians' 'Black Rose' etc. I assume First are ultra-right labourists? What I don't get is the link between Chapman being sacked & them calling the shots? I mean, I've kind of assumed since the locals &c that Starmer must be in the thrall of right wing ghouls since nobody's that loving stupid and it's the most obvious answer, but why them in particular & what's Chapman got to do with it? Jaeluni Asjil posted:'Jab' is used by almost everyone I know from all over the place, except the Scottish folk who use 'jag'!  Dabir posted:I love bricks. Especially when they're old and weathered, they look great. Dirt on bricks is characterful, dirt on white concrete just looks filthy. Show me a white concrete outside wall that's gone a week without looking like it needs a wash.
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Jun 22, 2021 13:05
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ThomasPaine posted:I agree but I can't put my finger on why Because it's a casual and slightly childish way of referring to an injection, as if to make it more palatable. It's the language you'd use for a child. i have found a thread on Gransnet where people are annoyed too so we are apparently in good company. Someone on Twitter posted this, which is good: https://mobile.twitter.com/helenebedford/status/1370665601069383680 Sanford posted:Is jab not a standard term for a vaccination? Flu jab, tetanus jab, TB jab? I've had lots of jabs in my time. It's what they're called. I thought shot was also used. "Have you had your flu shot?".
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Jun 22, 2021 13:07
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I dunno, I live surrounded by old brickwork and it just looks depressing to me.
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Jun 22, 2021 13:07
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Lunar Suite posted:Germany is probably just as bad, This is usually true
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Jun 22, 2021 13:11
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therattle posted:Because it's a casual and slightly childish way of referring to an injection, as if to make it more palatable. It's the language you'd use for a child. Why is shot acceptable and jab isnae? Away to gently caress policing my language.
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Jun 22, 2021 13:12
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Anything to keep the conversation on the vaccination program and away from the massacre.
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Jun 22, 2021 13:16
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Azza Bamboo posted:Anything to keep the conversation on the vaccination program and away from the massacre.
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Jun 22, 2021 13:19
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What sort of stupid dipshit gets mad about being using the word jab? Honestly this loving country.
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Jun 22, 2021 13:28
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right inuff ma language is disgraceful ma maw tellt mi ma teacher tellt mi thi doactir tellt mi the priest tellt mi ma boss tellt mi ma landlady in carrington street tellt mi thi lassie ah tried tay get aff way in 1969 tellt mi sum wee smout thi thoat ah hudny read chomsky tellt mi a calvinistic communist thit thoat ah wuz revisionist tellt mi po-faced literati grimly kerryin thi burden a thi past tellt mi po-faced literati grimly kerryin thi burden a thi future tellt mi ma wife tellt mi just-tay-get-inty-this poem tellt mie jist aboot ivry book ah oapend tellt mi even thi introduction tay thi Scottish National Dictionary tellt mi ach well all livin language is sacred gently caress thi lohta thim Venomous fucked around with this message at 13:31 on Jun 22, 2021 |
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Jun 22, 2021 13:29
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Jab's a good word because it doesn't sound like a big deal. The last thing we need is more people opting out of injections because they're afraid of needles.
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Jun 22, 2021 13:32
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therattle posted:Because it's a casual and slightly childish way of referring to an injection, as if to make it more palatable. It's the language you'd use for a child. It is absolutely not, because it focuses on the pain.
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Jun 22, 2021 13:32
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Brickchat, someone told me a thing about brick sizes, apparently at one point in the long-agos there was a tax on building that was calculated per-brick, so builders in the industrial north and midlands, (where just like now there was a wealth disparity), started using bricks made on bigger brick-making machines to get around this. The tax got repealed or at least started being calculated a different way but the brick-making machines were built by then so a lot of particularly industrial buildings in that era kept using the larger brick size. What I love about that is that it's a detail that if you even knew to look for it, you might pass off as just a regional difference but it turns out there's a reason for it that builds politics of the time into the actual skin of these buildings that by now are either falling down or converted to yuppie flats.
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Jun 22, 2021 13:33
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New flu jab linked to Tory noncing hour say eggheads.
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Jun 22, 2021 13:39
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Tory Noncing Hour linked to successful new Flu Jab rollout say heads of wet eggs
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Jun 22, 2021 13:42
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forkboy84 posted:Why is shot acceptable and jab isnae? I never endorsed shot, just said it was used.  That said, I do actually use it and prefer it to jab
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Jun 22, 2021 13:44
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Jab is a good word cause it can mean an injection or a tit. Big Jabs for All
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Jun 22, 2021 13:45
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ThomasPaine posted:Jag is in Scotland I accept, but 'jab' is only used occasionally in England and very colloquially The NHS use "jab" so that probably counts as formally.
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Jun 22, 2021 13:46
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MrL_JaKiri posted:The NHS use "jab" so that probably counts as formally. Exactly its weird keep punching joe posted:What sort of stupid dipshit gets mad about being using the word jab? Mad is the wrong word, I just find it personally irritating, idk
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Jun 22, 2021 13:53
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Oh dear me posted:It is absolutely not, because it focuses on the pain. Trent fucken Reznor over here
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Jun 22, 2021 13:53
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Borrovan posted:The second one I;ve told them what it means and now I think they're doing it just to wind me up.
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Jun 22, 2021 13:55
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"Jab" isn't near as infantilising as when a doctor refers to your "tummy" when you're over 40. Maybe my doctor's just odd
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I wondered if that was because "stomach" implies a more specific location and "abdomen" is likely to get you confused looks from most of the population.
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