UKMT October 2021 - It's the Great Sewage Pump, Clifton-Brown

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NotJustANumber99: Feb 15, 2012; somehow that last av was even worse than your posting

Comrade Fakename posted:

What?

The 1% refers to the super rich. The people who have private jets. That make up half of aviation emissions.

its wrong

# ? Oct 6, 2021 00:08

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# ? May 26, 2024 09:05

Microplastics: Jul 6, 2007; It's what's for dinner.

It certainly does sound wrong. I simply can't imagine there being enough learjets flying around to match all military, passenger and freight emissions.

# ? Oct 6, 2021 06:09

His Divine Shadow: Aug 7, 2000; I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest. Fascists dress up in black and tell people what to do.

Man I feel kinda bad. Three weeks ago I handed in an audio cassette and a Video tape, audio cassette has a recording from when my granddad turned 65 and the video tape is a bunch of home video shot in the 80s. Figured I should have them digitalized when I saw an ad for it.

I handed them in to the guy who did it and he was probably in his late 70s, said it'd take a week. Didn't hear from him for two weeks, sent a few mails to ask him about the status, then I also sent an old fashioned SMS and he said sorry he's been in hospital for over a week, but he was getting home this weekend and would finish the job. Last night I get another SMS from his wife who said her husband has died and his son would be finishing the job.

First of all it feels really weird to have been in communication with someone who sounded like they where getting better and going home, then hear a couple of days later they died. Then also I pestered him about work like days before he died.

# ? Oct 6, 2021 06:54

Lungboy: Aug 23, 2002; NEED SQUAT FORM HELP

Doccykins posted:

Ahahahha they're going to do it, they're going to hit Starmer from the left on increasing the national living wage (just a recommendation not bound by law)

https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1445502088461488147

Cue Starmer claiming credit for forcing the Tories to do this

# ? Oct 6, 2021 08:13

goddamnedtwisto: Dec 31, 2004; If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you; Fun Shoe

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

It certainly does sound wrong. I simply can't imagine there being enough learjets flying around to match all military, passenger and freight emissions.

Yeah this claim's come up before and nobody's ever been able to substantiate it. Small private jets *are* terrible per-passenger-mile but it's what they represent, not what they actually are, that's the problem.

# ? Oct 6, 2021 08:13

Nothingtoseehere: Nov 11, 2010

I think it was the red cross that showed on both a global and national scale, the richest 10% of people create 50% of emissions. So the 10% richest countries do 50% globally, and 10% richest people in those countries do 50%, of emissions.

# ? Oct 6, 2021 08:30

keep punching joe: Jan 22, 2006; Die Satan!

Actually surprised that to Tories aren't going bigger with the minimum wage, seems like a slam-dunker after Labour tearing itself to shreds last week.

# ? Oct 6, 2021 08:38

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

keep punching joe posted:

Actually surprised that to Tories aren't going bigger with the minimum wage, seems like a slam-dunker after Labour tearing itself to shreds last week.

They can't go too hard, or some journalists might do their job and ask why the National Living Wage isn't just tied to the actual, Living Wage, which would mean they lose control over when they dole out the pennies to an extent.

# ? Oct 6, 2021 08:39

Skarsnik: Oct 21, 2008; I...AM...RUUUDE!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-58789467

We're getting nightclub covid passes here because a tory couldn't get zoom to work

# ? Oct 6, 2021 08:54

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Total Meatlove posted:

They can't go too hard, or some journalists might do their job and ask why the National Living Wage isn't just tied to the actual, Living Wage, which would mean they lose control over when they dole out the pennies to an extent.

That would involve journalists having a picogram of curiosity tho

# ? Oct 6, 2021 08:56

Tesseraction: Apr 5, 2009

Gigabrane Activate https://twitter.com/JimMFelton/status/1445645448077725698

# ? Oct 6, 2021 09:21

Strom Cuzewon: Jul 1, 2010

Total Meatlove posted:

They can't go too hard, or some journalists might do their job and ask why the National Living Wage isn't just tied to the actual, Living Wage, which would mean they lose control over when they dole out the pennies to an extent.

Wait, what? Those are different?

# ? Oct 6, 2021 09:30

Communist Thoughts: Jan 7, 2008; Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!

Total Meatlove posted:

They can't go too hard, or some journalists might do their job and ask why the ~~National Living Wage isn't just tied to the actual, Living Wage, which would mean they lose control over when they dole out the pennies to an extent~~ government is going to bring down the country with stalinist nazism like raising wages of normal people without yachts.

# ? Oct 6, 2021 09:31

Jedit: Dec 10, 2011; Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

Tesseraction posted:

Gigabrane Activate https://twitter.com/JimMFelton/status/1445645448077725698

Quick, someone laud him for defending trans men from TERFs. I want to watch his head explode.

I have to say, I did think it would be the next generation of Tories who were hopelessly incestuous rather than the current one. At least the next generation will all be related to Boris Johnson.

# ? Oct 6, 2021 09:32

Tesseraction: Apr 5, 2009

Strom Cuzewon posted:

Wait, what? Those are different?

The tories just rebranded the minimum wage as a living wage without increasing it to the living wage, because they know voters are idiots and will fall for it.

# ? Oct 6, 2021 09:33

keep punching joe: Jan 22, 2006; Die Satan!

Strom Cuzewon posted:

Wait, what? Those are different?

Yes,

Living Wage is a political campaign to highlight to employers the bare minimum a person needs to live without suffering financial hardship.

National Living Wage is a rebranding of the National Minimum Wage by George Osborne (so that they can fool people into thinking that the minimum wage is enough to live on). It is significantly lower that the 'Living Wage' recommendation.

# ? Oct 6, 2021 09:34

Bobstar: Feb 8, 2006; KartooshFace, you are not responding efficiently!

Strom Cuzewon posted:

Wait, what? Those are different?

George Osborne renamed the minimum wage as the "national living wage" without actually raising/pegging it to the levels calculated by actual living wage campaigners, in a cynical move to short-circuit their demands and create confusion. This worked well, aided of course by most of the media going "welp, guess that's the new name for the minimum wage, let us not ask any questions about this".

# ? Oct 6, 2021 09:34

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

His Divine Shadow posted:

Man I feel kinda bad. Three weeks ago I handed in an audio cassette and a Video tape, audio cassette has a recording from when my granddad turned 65 and the video tape is a bunch of home video shot in the 80s. Figured I should have them digitalized when I saw an ad for it.

I handed them in to the guy who did it and he was probably in his late 70s, said it'd take a week. Didn't hear from him for two weeks, sent a few mails to ask him about the status, then I also sent an old fashioned SMS and he said sorry he's been in hospital for over a week, but he was getting home this weekend and would finish the job. Last night I get another SMS from his wife who said her husband has died and his son would be finishing the job.

First of all it feels really weird to have been in communication with someone who sounded like they where getting better and going home, then hear a couple of days later they died. Then also I pestered him about work like days before he died.

Something along the same lines happened to me about 30 years ago except the person concerned was killed in a car crash over the relevant weekend.
There are probably a few people in the same position as you.
You weren't to know, which isn't going to help you stop feeling bad. The feelings will fade.

# ? Oct 6, 2021 09:40

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

Also the "national living wage" isn't available to under 23s. (I think it's 23 now?)

# ? Oct 6, 2021 09:44

keep punching joe: Jan 22, 2006; Die Satan!

Also the Living Wage campaign was reasonably successful at shaming employers into raising wages to match. Once the mandated minimum wage was rebranded as 'living' the pressure on employers to pay more has significantly eased off.

Another win for the Tories.

# ? Oct 6, 2021 09:48

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

His Divine Shadow posted:

Man I feel kinda bad. Three weeks ago I handed in an audio cassette and a Video tape, audio cassette has a recording from when my granddad turned 65 and the video tape is a bunch of home video shot in the 80s. Figured I should have them digitalized when I saw an ad for it.

I handed them in to the guy who did it and he was probably in his late 70s, said it'd take a week. Didn't hear from him for two weeks, sent a few mails to ask him about the status, then I also sent an old fashioned SMS and he said sorry he's been in hospital for over a week, but he was getting home this weekend and would finish the job. Last night I get another SMS from his wife who said her husband has died and his son would be finishing the job.

First of all it feels really weird to have been in communication with someone who sounded like they where getting better and going home, then hear a couple of days later they died. Then also I pestered him about work like days before he died.

You weren't to know, it's not like you hassled him once you found out. I get feeling guilty but you didn't do anything wrong.

e; f,b but yeah

# ? Oct 6, 2021 09:51

Bobstar: Feb 8, 2006; KartooshFace, you are not responding efficiently!

I remember thinking at the time, if the media are happy to say "so-called Islamic State", they should say "so-called national living wage". But I guess pointing out questionable naming only applies to the bad guys

# ? Oct 6, 2021 09:52

Pistol_Pete: Sep 15, 2007; Oven Wrangler

The Tories are totally going to rebrand themselves as the party of ordinary working people, right as Starmers running around telling everyone that Labour are now the party of big business. Just running rings around him lol.

# ? Oct 6, 2021 10:02

keep punching joe: Jan 22, 2006; Die Satan!

Pistol_Pete posted:

The Tories are totally going to rebrand themselves as the party of ordinary working people, right as Starmers running around telling everyone that Labour are now the party of big business. Just running rings around him lol.

Some sort of National ~~Socialist~~ British Workers Party

# ? Oct 6, 2021 10:06

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Just a repeat of the US Dems playbook of the 90s, where they end up the party of big business and tough on crime and some of the melt unions, while the Republicans overture as the party of small/medium businesses that mostly sell flags and lovely employment conditions (while also being the party of big business).

# ? Oct 6, 2021 10:13

the sex ghost: Sep 6, 2009

Bobstar posted:

I remember thinking at the time, if the media are happy to say "so-called Islamic State", they should say "so-called national living wage". But I guess pointing out questionable naming only applies to the bad guys

Lol this just reminded me of the week when the news and government couldn't decide what to call ISIS. We had ISIS, ISIL, so-called Islamic state, Daesh and so-called Daesh

# ? Oct 6, 2021 10:16

Brendan Rodgers: Jun 11, 2014

I still see Starmer get described as "electable", I hate that stupid word.

# ? Oct 6, 2021 10:17

Pistol_Pete: Sep 15, 2007; Oven Wrangler

"Why oh why can't the stupid voters see just how electable Starmer is??"

My column in the Guardian.

# ? Oct 6, 2021 10:22

jiggerypokery: Feb 1, 2012; ...But I could hardly wait six months with a red hot jape like that under me belt.

Comrade Fakename posted:

What?

The 1% refers to the super rich. The people who have private jets. That make up half of aviation emissions.

79 million people aren't flying around in private jets. 79 million people do cause 50% of aviation emissions.

# ? Oct 6, 2021 10:24

feedmegin: Jul 30, 2008

Nothingtoseehere posted:

I think it was the red cross that showed on both a global and national scale, the richest 10% of people create 50% of emissions. So the 10% richest countries do 50% globally, and 10% richest people in those countries do 50%, of emissions.

Thing is though, the 10% richest people of the 10% richest countries aren't, actually, Learjet-havers. There's a massive difference between the 10% (of the First World) and the 1%.

# ? Oct 6, 2021 10:55

Gort: Aug 18, 2003; Good day what ho cup of tea

Brendan Rodgers posted:

I still see Starmer get described as "electable", I hate that stupid word.

Maybe it's a question of usage. "Electable" doesn't mean "people will vote for him", it means "we, the media, will try to get him elected".

# ? Oct 6, 2021 10:58

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

'nother liberal sex pest

https://twitter.com/lucysiegle/status/1445669192246566920

# ? Oct 6, 2021 11:05

fuctifino: Jun 11, 2001

Lots of these have been going up in strategic places in London

# ? Oct 6, 2021 11:18

Jedit: Dec 10, 2011; Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

fuctifino posted:

Lots of these have been going up in strategic places in London

A sticker I can condone putting a razor blade behind.

# ? Oct 6, 2021 11:26

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Or at least a second sticker saying "and so are you"

# ? Oct 6, 2021 11:27

Red Oktober: May 24, 2006; wiggly eyes!

Guavanaut posted:

Or at least a second sticker saying "and so are you"

Go full on early 2000s internet and put a sticker of Chris Hansen behind it looking at you suspiciously.

# ? Oct 6, 2021 11:36

keep punching joe: Jan 22, 2006; Die Satan!

Barry Foster posted:

'nother liberal sex pest

https://twitter.com/lucysiegle/status/1445669192246566920

When I see fellow columnists defending a groper, usually just assume that they are the same.

https://twitter.com/alexmassie/status/1444740045852786690

# ? Oct 6, 2021 11:45

fuctifino: Jun 11, 2001

https://twitter.com/Coldwar_Steve/status/1445677064829358080

# ? Oct 6, 2021 11:46

Jedit: Dec 10, 2011; Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

I thought he normally altered the pictures?

# ? Oct 6, 2021 11:53

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Strom Cuzewon: Jul 1, 2010

keep punching joe posted:

Yes,

Living Wage is a political campaign to highlight to employers the bare minimum a person needs to live without suffering financial hardship.

National Living Wage is a rebranding of the National Minimum Wage by George Osborne (so that they can fool people into thinking that the minimum wage is enough to live on). It is significantly lower that the 'Living Wage' recommendation.

I know this shouldnt be a surprise, but the tories are absolute fuckers.

# ? Oct 6, 2021 11:55

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