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Strom Cuzewon posted:I swear he used to be a bit of a limp.guardian centrist, but it's been fun seeing him slowly get radicalised. In the 90s he set up This land is ours here, and campaigned against eg theft-masquerading-as-development in Africa - he's always been a radical, if sometimes too optimistic about what demos might achieve.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:To be honest the labour right loving things up so badly they accidentally purge all the careerists at party HQ would be a pretty loving funny outcome of all this. I got the poor people’s membership and took great delight in not voting for the career melts they put at the top of the ballet.
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Jul 20, 2021 14:05
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Strom Cuzewon posted:I swear he used to be a bit of a limp.guardian centrist, but it's been fun seeing him slowly get radicalised. People often get this imagine of him. Hes got a posh voice, he went to Oxford, his parents were conservatives and he writes for the Guardian. But besides a brief interlude of backing the lib dems in 2010, he's always been a vocal critic of capitalism and not just for its environmental impact, while its his main shtick he's done books on forced tribal displacement and the guise of 'capitalism helping the poor'.
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Jul 20, 2021 14:08
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Maybe people are mixing him up with Paul Mason? I know I do
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Jul 20, 2021 14:11
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:What's the statutory these days? Used to be 1 week for every week worked if you're under 44 and 2 weeks over IIRC. Maximum of 16k-ish. It's not open-ended. https://www.gov.uk/redundancy-your-rights/redundancy-pay
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Jul 20, 2021 14:16
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a pipe smoking dog posted:To be honest the labour right loving things up so badly they accidentally purge all the careerists at party HQ would be a pretty loving funny outcome of all this. one of them will be fine https://twitter.com/jessphillips/status/1417460188920139777
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Jul 20, 2021 14:46
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Just Another Lurker posted:He tried to do that vain latin oneupmanship thing on a previous Taoiseach or Irish President who had done Latin & Greek at Trinity College Dublin (i wish to hell i remembered who it was), Boris was put in his place at the end of it. The guy he did it with is Leo Varadkar*. https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-30949627.html It's probably why Unionists keep putting up graffiti saying they will kill Leo. *= Leopold Varadkar invented the VAR, a device designed to catch offside rules violation missed by referees, while attempting to invent a machine that would catch welfare cheats.
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Jul 20, 2021 15:04
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So I got an email a couple of days ago about voting for the Labour conference arranging committee. I'm sure it won't make a drat bit of difference but is there a left slate for this or anything?
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Jul 20, 2021 15:20
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https://twitter.com/gilescoren/status/1417458339894730770 Just Giles Coren gloating about Dawn Foster dying.
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Jul 20, 2021 15:27
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If Giles Coren is okay with laughing at someone when they died because they made fun of him and his family presumably hes laughed at everyone thats ever met him and later died.
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Jul 20, 2021 15:49
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Absolutely laugh at your enemies dying but just don't complain if everyone else liked them and takes issue with it.
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Jul 20, 2021 15:50
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Much like the story with the old man and the wooden bowl, Coren is just tacitly giving us all permission to laugh at him whenever anyone he cares about dies, and then laugh at all of his relatives when he dies. Screenshot the tweet and keep it for that day.
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Jul 20, 2021 16:00
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Can't believe Dawn Foster had Giles Coren swatted.
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Jul 20, 2021 16:00
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feedmegin posted:So I got an email a couple of days ago about voting for the Labour conference arranging committee. I'm sure it won't make a drat bit of difference but is there a left slate for this or anything? The momentum slate is as follows. We are once again backing the excellent Seema and Billy: Seema Chandwani (L1187007) Billy Hayes (A065571) We need to get Seema and Billy nominated by our CLPs before the deadline of 11th June. There will then be an OMOV ballot that opens on 5th July, where members will have the chance to vote for a CAC that will represent the grassroots.
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Jul 20, 2021 16:02
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TheRat posted:https://twitter.com/gilescoren/status/1417458339894730770 Genuinely hope Giles Coren gets the same bowel obstruction Bolsonaro had where they had to extract his poo poo through his nose
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Jul 20, 2021 16:05
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TheRat posted:https://twitter.com/gilescoren/status/1417458339894730770 What an absolute oval office https://twitter.com/jameskhansen/status/1417494598436507662?s=21
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Jul 20, 2021 16:08
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forkboy84 posted:Genuinely hope Giles Coren gets the same bowel obstruction Bolsonaro had where they had to extract his poo poo through his nose
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Jul 20, 2021 16:17
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Sooo random question/problem kinda. I rent a house. The landlord has made a 'parking space' in front of the house when he remodelled it. This parking space isn't legal, according to a letter the council sent me a few weeks ago, because there's no dropped curb on the pavement in front of it (so anyone parking there is damaging the pavement). I have no car, so fine, but they have threatened to take me to court if I let anyone park there, and this rear end in a top hat in a giant white SUV has been doing so every other day or so for months now right in front of my front window (hence the letter the council sent me). I have no idea who he is. He's out of/into the car before I've ever seen him. I put a note in my window pointing out it's illegal to park here. I've put up cones in the front yard - he just moves them out of the way and parks there anyway. I've put several notes on his windshield, the most recent of which points out a) he's trespassing and b) I can have his poo poo towed. I can't just let it be given the whole council lawsuit possibility thing, so, um, what do? I don't actually want to escalate to calling a tow truck (and paying for it myself presumably, I'm already out 50 quid for the cones). As a tenant I can't put a proper fence in or anything. Or, y'know, my preferred alternatives of severe tire damage strips or caltrops. Can the council do anything given this is private property he's parking on? feedmegin fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Jul 20, 2021 |
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Jul 20, 2021 16:29
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Nothingtoseehere posted:We are once again backing the excellent Seema and Billy: Thanks, done.
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Jul 20, 2021 16:33
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feedmegin posted:Sooo random question/problem kinda. Sounds like the landlord's problem. It's his parking space.
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Jul 20, 2021 16:37
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Mega Comrade posted:People often get this imagine of him. Hes got a posh voice, he went to Oxford, his parents were conservatives and he writes for the Guardian. But besides a brief interlude of backing the lib dems in 2010, he's always been a vocal critic of capitalism and not just for its environmental impact, while its his main shtick he's done books on forced tribal displacement and the guise of 'capitalism helping the poor'. I think the bolded bit is where I got that impressin, but drat, the rest of that owns.
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Jul 20, 2021 16:39
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> use caltrops on landlord_
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Jul 20, 2021 16:42
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feedmegin posted:Sooo random question/problem kinda.
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Jul 20, 2021 16:42
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sassassin posted:Sounds like the landlord's problem. It's his parking space. I'm the one living here, and as the tenant I'm the one with the legal right/responsibility to decide who's allowed on premises, and again, very specifically, I'm the one the Council will take to court not him. Edit: by 'parking space' I merely mean my front yard is just, like, paving slabs and there is no fence between it and the street. So that one can physically park a car there.
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Jul 20, 2021 16:42
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Guavanaut posted:Clamp it, put a fake penalty notice on the windscreen, put the landlord's details on the penalty notice, deny any knowledge of any part of it. Like watching a wasp land on a stinging nettle. Have you seen how much a clamp costs? looks like 500 quid ish. Yes I have been researching. Also 'severe tyre damage strip' ;p
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Jul 20, 2021 16:42
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This sounds like it could be a job for the Citizens Advice Bureau
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Jul 20, 2021 16:44
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I've seen some cheap lovely ones for about £30 if the intent is to annoy rather than seriously impound the vehicle.
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Jul 20, 2021 16:44
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Stick a big rock in the middle of the space
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Jul 20, 2021 16:45
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Guavanaut posted:I've seen some cheap lovely ones for about £30 if the intent is to annoy rather than seriously impound the vehicle. Not sure I'm quite ready for that level of aggro yet, but, links?
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Jul 20, 2021 16:46
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Strom Cuzewon posted:I think the bolded bit is where I got that impressin, but drat, the rest of that owns. https://twitter.com/GeorgeMonbiot/status/1318936981536210944?s=19
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Jul 20, 2021 16:46
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feedmegin posted:Not sure I'm quite ready for that level of aggro yet, but, links? It's unlawful to clamp on private land, so if one were to do something like that it's important that somebody else appeared to do it. In roblox or whatever.
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Jul 20, 2021 16:49
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feedmegin posted:Sooo random question/problem kinda. I’m not a solicitor but the driver of the car is the one committing the offence of driving a vehicle over the pavement - not you. I expect the council has contacted you on the assumption of it being your car. Are there any neighbours you’re on good terms with who can park their car on the road and block access?
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Jul 20, 2021 16:49
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Pantsmaster Bill posted:Stick a big rock in the middle of the space This. Or just a bunch of small sharp rocks, either way.
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Jul 20, 2021 16:51
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Lord Ludikrous posted:I’m not a solicitor but the driver of the car is the one committing the offence of driving a vehicle over the pavement - not you. I expect the council has contacted you on the assumption of it being your car. The letter I got from them wasn't 'your car' it was 'permitting someone to park there', though. I mean, between the note in the window pointing out the council says dont park here and the cones and the photographs of the notes I've left on his windshield, I would hope I could prove I'm not permitting a drat thing, but I would really like this guy to just loving stop it so I don't have to worry about it, y'know? I guess the other alternative is to move house, which given my landlord keeps trying to turn this place into an HMO so he can pack 10 eastern european dudes into it may happen at some point anyway.
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Jul 20, 2021 16:52
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Have you told the council that you rent the house, it's not your car, and you don't know who owns it? Edit: Double check that the landlord hasn't listed the space on JustPark as well.
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Jul 20, 2021 16:55
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The Question IRL posted:The guy he did it with is Leo Varadkar*. I don't think that's it, that example is just Leo being equally smarmy and Classics-y, not calling him out. There was definitely another example where he was called out for butchering the quote he was trying to deliver. Couldn't find it on a quick search, butndid find a great Guardian headline https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/2010/mar/15/boris-johnson-ed-balls-head-butt-latin
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Jul 20, 2021 16:55
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I feel like from a strict legal standpoint, there's an interesting argument to be had about the chain of responsibility between an SUV dickhead parking illegally in a parking bay the landlord put up without permission, and how any of that could possibly be the responsibility of the tenant. From the standpoint of a bored magistrate who just wants to clock off and go to lunch vs a tenant who can't afford legal representation, I suspect it would go very differently. Is the area not supposed to be parked in at all? It sounds like it if they're talking about damaging the kerb.
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Jul 20, 2021 16:56
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Definitely curious about the caltrops idea, if it's your house and someone parks on it presumably it's their dumbass fault.
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Jul 20, 2021 16:59
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Is the area not supposed to be parked in at all? It sounds like it if they're talking about damaging the kerb. That is what the letter said, yes. My landlord is pretty shady and remodelled this whole house without bothering to ask the council first, which is why they've repeatedly told him to gently caress off when he's applied for permission to rent it out as an HMO - he's allowed single family only (that's us, occupying the ground floor of a currently otherwise unoccupied 3 storey house). As part of that I assume he created the paved open front yard as a place to park as part of that without bothering to check with the council that that was actually legal, which turns out it isn't when they did a general 'let's clean up this street' inspection thing a few weeks ago (so another house apparently got the same letter, various abandoned cars got towed, other people got ticketed for illegal parking, yada yada).
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wait for him to gently caress off then just total his car with a tire iron and poo poo in the glove compartment, op
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