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Jedit posted:Liar. We still haven't had one. I got the train up to go see john macleod's grave, which was I guess a cool design and had a lovely if quite ill-informed letter of thanks from some random american tucked behind it. Then we had a quick look round some park with an big flagpole in it before going to spoons for the rest of the day. I would rate Aberdeen a solid 5/10 nondescript UK city all in all. forkboy84 posted:Yes, sometimes I watch Youtube videos by people who seem to spend their lives flying around the world on airmiles. I also watch these and every time I resolutely claim that I will learn how to do all the sneaky credit card tricks and whatnot to get stupid numbers of airmiles so maybe I can have one single first class flight in my life, but then I look and it's... complicated. Plus you usually need to be spending quite a lot to accrue them - not insane tens of thousands a week money, but you'd definitely need to have good job and be pretty comfortably off to get close. ThomasPaine fucked around with this message at 14:55 on Nov 2, 2021 |
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Total Meatlove posted:You get an Amex and then put all your shopping through it. Yeah, but iirc the bonuses are time-limited, so if you really want to get enough miles to realistically be able to afford a first class flight with them (and a long-haul one worth the time) you have to be spending at least something like 1.5k/month on the card for a few years. So it's doable if you're already pretty well off (or I guess on London salary/expenses) but not really doable for a lot of people, me included. At least that's what I remember but it was a few years ago I was looking into it.
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ThomasPaine posted:Yeah, but iirc the bonuses are time-limited, so if you really want to get enough miles to realistically be able to afford a first class flight with them (and a long-haul one worth the time) you have to be spending at least something like 1.5k/month on the card for a few years. So it's doable if you're already pretty well off (or I guess on London salary/expenses) but not really doable for a lot of people, me included. At least that's what I remember but it was a few years ago I was looking into it. And this is why I watch the YouTube videos rather than try to replicate the lifestyle, it seems far too much effort never mind the cost.
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The ‘spend 3000 to get 20,000 bonus points’ type ones are, but after that the points don’t drop, so it’s a cumulative thing over discretionary spending. Which given every supermarket and petrol station takes them, adds up. Triple-bubbling your expenses into amex and hotel points gets you a talk from senior management, and if they’re decent, a positive one.
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I tried to do tourism in aberdeen once. After wandering around a bit i just gave up and went to the cinema. It was spy with melissa mccarthy, which was more entertaining than aberdeen
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Sometimes I park in the supermarket and then I expense the parking claim and then I buy something in the shop and redeem the ticket for the money back. I am basically the third kray brother.
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Nov 2, 2021 15:18
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Angepain posted:I tried to do tourism in aberdeen once. After wandering around a bit i just gave up and went to the cinema. It was spy with melissa mccarthy, which was more entertaining than aberdeen Aberdeen must have been loving awful then
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Angepain posted:I tried to do tourism in aberdeen once. After wandering around a bit i just gave up and went to the cinema. It was spy with melissa mccarthy, which was more entertaining than aberdeen Should have gone to the beach
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Nov 2, 2021 15:28
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Why are all the gob-shites on twitter going after David Attenborough?
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He did climate change to one up his brother and those dinosaurs.
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Is it just cause he mugged Johnson off by being a frail old man when Johnson was next to him unmasked
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I had 2 bottles of Kopparberg Pear cider & I'm pretty sure I'm half-cut. Becoming a lightweight is great.
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My work will be putting in a consultation response for the conversion therapy bill. I'd like to ensure our wonks are aware of the issues raised in the last thread. If there are any good early writeups I can direct to that would be appreciated, thanks.
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peanut- posted:Just in case you hadn't worked out that the FBPEs are bad yet
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peanut- posted:Just in case you hadn't worked out that the FBPEs are bad yet https://twitter.com/MXOFO/status/1455254299907432454 Having a complete meltdown about non-EU salt and not, say, socioeconomic injustice or the looming climate apocalypse. 
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It's kinda weird to put that on tbh. None of that filthy EU salt for me, I only consume the freshest seasalt from British poop shores.
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It'd be weirder if there weren't other chickens that mention EU originated 'erbs and spices. Just the instant over reaction and boycotting that amused me.
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Don't they have to as part of some of the existing food agreements? Like "non-EU salt and pepper" isn't a marketing thing, it's saying "this can't be sold in the EU without further checks" rather than "100% guaranteed that a Dutchman hasn't touched this salt and pepper with his disgusting Euro hands"
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peanut- posted:Just in case you hadn't worked out that the FBPEs are bad yet
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The non EU salt and pepper probably has radium or arsenic or something in it.
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Went to the office last week for one day, first time in more than 18 months. One of my coworkers wanted a "real-life meeting day" and the bosses agreed. Of course a couple days later someone else said that they've tested positive for covid-19. I'm negative according to my home test, but sheesh. Was good to see coworkers in real life, some of them for the first time ever... but it wasn't worth it. Bring back the drat lockdowns already, otherwise we will literally never get rid of this loving disease. 
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Honestly the whole idea of meeting people in real life is just odd to me, I almost never see anybody else I work with. Everything is managed remotely and always has been. Computer gives instructions, I follow instructions, computer gives me money at the end of month.
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jaete posted:Bring back the drat lockdowns already, otherwise we will literally never get rid of this loving disease. We're never getting rid of this, we just have to wait until it's just like the flu - killing thousands a year, but at a steady rate. Good news though, we're speed running that bit!
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It's optional to go back to the office for my company. Nobody wants to. Especially as the company is incredibly strict about it. Max 5 people per floor. Say bathroom rotations no catering, set hours, no meeting rooms. In person meetings absolutely forbidden. Basically it's only any use for new starters who haven't got Internet at their home yet. Kinda makes the whole thing of office work being entirely pointless very obvious. Since the vast majority who wanted to go back just said some handwavey bullshit about ad hoc small meetings to get stuff done and solve problems.
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Guavanaut posted:Don't they have to as part of some of the existing food agreements? Yeah the news story I read earlier that that is mandatory for minced meat but not whole chickens and Morrison’s had just been a bit overzealous in adding it
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OwlFancier posted:Honestly the whole idea of meeting people in real life is just odd to me, goons.txt
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Grey Hunter posted:We're never getting rid of this, we just have to wait until it's just like the flu - killing thousands a year, but at a steady rate. Yeah I know my takes on the pandemic have been pretty heavily criticised itt, but this is the important thing to acknowledge. The initial lockdowns were not there to protect individual people, they were there to prevent hospitals being any more overwhelmed than they already were. Unless hospitalisations start shooting back up to where they were last year there will be no more lockdowns because as far as the government is concerned there is no need for them, outside of a few local ones maybe if things start to get strained. And tbh, there is probably an element of truth in the idea that the virus itself is not going to just go away whatever we do, so the end-goal does need to be accepting that covid is a thing now and will be endemic in the population and we need to focus on mitigating its impact rather than eradicating it wholesale. Yes, it is horrible that people are dying at all, but it is increasingly looking like the best-case long-term scenario is turning covid into another moderate-severity seasonal respiratory disease which can be planned for and protected against with some degree of effectiveness (for example with annual booster vaccines).
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I've got an on-site critical role at my company but 80%+ people are WFH. This means the office is totally free from overhearing shite chat and the gym upstairs is empty at all times. Also it's a 20 minute bus ride/15min cycle from my house... it aint so bad!
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ThomasPaine posted:Yeah, but iirc the bonuses are time-limited, so if you really want to get enough miles to realistically be able to afford a first class flight with them (and a long-haul one worth the time) you have to be spending at least something like 1.5k/month on the card for a few years. So it's doable if you're already pretty well off (or I guess on London salary/expenses) but not really doable for a lot of people, me included. At least that's what I remember but it was a few years ago I was looking into it. I am on a quite high London salary and I'm still not putting 1500 quid a month on my credit card even if I put my entire monthly discretionary spending on it - I mean it's not like you can pay rent with it.
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feedmegin posted:I am on a quite high London salary I found a rich! Gettim!
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Jakabite posted:That is mental but I’d absolutely be ordering something loving ridiculous if I was in that position. Only for long haul flights and only with some companies. Some companies like, I believe Etihad have ridiculous bullshit like full standing showers and private rooms, but for a lot of companies it's just Business+ (the plus stands for 'costs triple)
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Miftan posted:Only for long haul flights and only with some companies. Some companies like, I believe Etihad have ridiculous bullshit like full standing showers and private rooms, but for a lot of companies it's just Business+ (the plus stands for 'costs triple) Etihad's 'residence' cabin is insane, it's basically a small apartment with seperate shower room/bedroom/living room and you get your own dedicated butler for the flight. You know, if you happen to have like 20k burning a hole in your pocket.
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keep punching joe posted:Does Aberdeen still have the guy in pseudo military dress who would stand down on John Street with a big pinboard connecting the dots between the queen and the nazis? I remember that guy from uni, although be damned if I can remember his name now. Sad story - he went off the deep end after his Masters thesis was rejected and spent all his time hanging out on the High Street with a giant placard protesting the bias of Maxwell Irvine (who was chancellor at the time). Of course a year or so of that and you become completely unemployable. That was when he hit the Army Surplus stores and went full conspirasphere. Last I know of him was about 15 years ago; he was living in a tiny bedsit with army camo curtains and a giant board about Scottish nationalism in the window.
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Jedit posted:Of course a year or so of that and you become completely unemployable. I want to know why the thesis got rejected.
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