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The cocoa was that post I am the child https://i.imgur.com/aD7lB8H.mp4
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University pension strike ballots are back in. It's a bit of a shambles, tories put a 50% turnout requirement on strike action and there's several unis that are only one or two votes shy of that with >76% in favour of strike. In total 37 uni branches have a mandate to strike. Good luck to staff and students.
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Blair cannot die. You know this
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StarkingBarfish posted:University pension strike ballots are back in. It's a bit of a shambles, tories put a 50% turnout requirement on strike action and there's several unis that are only one or two votes shy of that with >76% in favour of strike. In total 37 uni branches have a mandate to strike. Good luck to staff and students. I believe several student unions are actively against strike action.
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Nov 4, 2021 23:04
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JoylessJester posted:I believe several student unions are actively against strike action. And I don't really blame them, given they've had a poo poo couple of years of it. Personally I'd still rather the people teaching me were well motivated and had the time to do a good job of it though.
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I don't remember this making it to the thread, so just in case.....https://twitter.com/jonkay01/status/1455853727664033795
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Nov 5, 2021 00:52
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So sure enough, my Bradford Factor score was too high, and I got my wrist slapped and I'm on a six-month probationary thing where if I go sick again, they'll maybe escalate to a stage TWO formal warning, and the possible end stage of this process is being fired. It's not that I'm worried about losing my job - I'm not, really. I'm disabled, I live nearby and I'm reliable, and I'm dug in like a tick, they'd have a hard time going along without me. But man, the Bradford Factor is just utterly robotic. Why bother having a meeting if you're going to agree that all the absences were unavoidable and then issue a warning anyway? Just issue me a loving red cross on my record and let me carry on working. someone hire me to learn python on your company's money, I am tired and fed up.
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Wonder if there'll actually be any conseque... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Sorry. Caught myself there. As if the pile of barbershop hair trimmings stuffed full of overripe ham will ever face anything other than a cheese board.
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peanut- posted:You’d know pretty quickly if this applied to you as you’d currently be getting a ~£200 a month bill to power a one bedroom flat. If that is you, I don’t think you can be locked into a contract on a variable tariff so switch asap. I double checked and it looks like I am on the price cap. My direct debit hasn't changed and is still going to the old supplier. The new supplier has advised it could take a couple of months to set up an account and not to do anything in the meantime. Until this limbo endds it's unlikely I could switch suppliers even if I could find one to take me on.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Blair cannot die. You know this Just lol forever if Kissinger outlives Blair.
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FT article: https://www.ft.com/content/51c93ba3-4a59-4e88-92ed-3e152a896493 quote:
Plus, government members were told to support it or get the sack. Some tory MPs in tears as they dutifully trooped through the govt lobby. Thought to be more about Johnson wanting rid of Kathryn Stone, the standards commissioner who has investigated the bloated binbag full of custard on several occasions in the last few years. Worth reading the whole article: You can read more if you register for a free account. You might even be able to read this for free if you're not a habitué of the FT. MHO: If this doesn't give the party ammo to get shut of Slimey Johnson, I don't know what will. In Thatcher's day it would have been a visit from the men in grey but I think Johnson got shot of them all. Cynical comment under the article: He’s had the budget so he can’t reduce beer prices now. He could send Priti Patel to Dover, surrounded by “Border Force” officers, give her a pair of binoculars and declare there’s an invasion. He could come up with COVID epsilon but that’s more than two syllables and he’s lost too many otherwise reliable supporters. He could definitely find a Bulgarian in prison in Britain, leak whatever crimes were committed and announce a vote on reintroducing capital punishment. Or the ambassador to France must have been asked to call in any favours and find someone, anyone, even if they just sound French to insult Britain so that he can call an emergency cabinet meeting to deal with the French. Gibraltar could come under attack. Maybe send a few planes to the Falklands. He could give a speech and say that Britain’s economy will (has already if only Remainers stopped denying it) overtake China and the US combined as soon as Northern Ireland is freed from Brussels. Announce that a British scientist working in a red wall constituency has found a cure for cancer, he’s already approved it and everyone in the EU will die waiting for the EMA. Terrorism? Surely some Muslim has to come to the rescue. Even if he just steals a car - he must be stealing it on the orders of a Mullah in Pakistan to bring England’s way of life to an end. Maybe announce a trillion pounds for something. If all this fails - there’s fish. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 02:59 on Nov 5, 2021 |
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Nov 5, 2021 02:55
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When I bought my house in 2012 the paperwork was all about proving to my solicitor who I was and where the money was coming from. Most of it was printed copies of online bills that I could have faked up with any decent PDF editor.
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Nov 5, 2021 08:58
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JoylessJester posted:I believe several student unions are actively against strike action. The NUS as a whole are supportive of the strike action. There's another strike ballot result coming out today on pay.
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Nov 5, 2021 09:17
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goddamnedtwisto posted:FWIW the post that got the woman whose name escapes me now suspended was "I loving love the Foo Fighters", posted in a Labour FB group IIRC, and the "offence" was using naughty words in an official Labour forum while an office holder. I can't even name a foo fighter song now that I think about it.
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Nov 5, 2021 10:21
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Will the EU throw the trade agreement with the UK in the bin if they keep playing stupid games? Unlikely, but a hilarious possibility https://twitter.com/tconnellyRTE/status/1456548863167373346?t=PfXiPCA9tGHaRzFjB78ubQ&s=19
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His Divine Shadow posted:I can't even name a foo fighter song now that I think about it. You should listen to The Color And The Shape
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Failed Imagineer posted:You should listen to The Color And The Shape
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His Divine Shadow posted:I can't even name a foo fighter song now that I think about it. I guarantee there are at least 5 you know just from osmosis if you've consumed any media whatsoever in the last 2 decades. Also I've just remembered that I do actually hate the Foo Fighters through Pavlovian conditioning, because the DJ at London Stadium always plays "Learn To Fly" - a song I was at best ambivalent about even before this - as first song at half time when we've played like utter poo poo. I guess it's supposed to be uplifting or something, but instead it makes me want to throw poo poo at the pitch (fortunately it's the London Stadium and you'd need an arm like a howitzer to reach it).
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I guarantee there are at least 5 you know just from osmosis if you've consumed any media whatsoever in the last 2 decades. Quite possibly that is so, I just can't name any. I mostly listen to radio (daily) so very likely I have heard it there,
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Nov 5, 2021 10:48
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Failed Imagineer posted:Will the EU throw the trade agreement with the UK in the bin if they keep playing stupid games? Unlikely, but a hilarious possibility I'll brexit from my brexit because my brexit is not the brexit I wanted.
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Nov 5, 2021 10:51
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I guarantee there are at least 5 you know just from osmosis if you've consumed any media whatsoever in the last 2 decades. Poor blokes trying to appeal to a crowd who happily sing 'blowing bubbles' and rate Chas as a better lyricist than Lennon. I'd cut him a bit of slack.
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Nov 5, 2021 10:59
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Guavanaut posted:exit printer go brr
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Nov 5, 2021 10:59
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Why don't people check their Junk (or Bulk in some providers) folders? In the past week both my boss and today my mother have denied receiving important emails (very important in mother's case - involving her house sale) until I insisted that they look in their junk folders. Mum found loads of emails from definitely not junk email from friends and so on. Her response was a hectoring lecture to me about how dare Outlook think it has the right to decide what is and isn't junk, how the human brain is superior and so forth.  
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Why don't people check their Junk (or Bulk in some providers) folders? I get like 300 work mails a day, sorry I'm not checking for anything extra
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Lungboy posted:The NUS as a whole are supportive of the strike action. There's another strike ballot result coming out today on pay. Good! I was concerned the increased marketization of education had started to chip away at solidarity. I know when cleaning staff went on strike during my time at uni, a surprising number of students were very lovely about it.
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Total Meatlove posted:Poor blokes trying to appeal to a crowd who happily sing 'blowing bubbles' and rate Chas as a better lyricist than Lennon. I'd cut him a bit of slack. I think you'll find Chas and Dave get pretty short shrift in the claret and blue bits of London, what with them being big Spurs fans and literally recording multiple songs about how much they love Spurs. Also what the gently caress is wrong with Bubbles? A maudlin song about how reality fucks you up at every turn should be right up this thread's alley. Although it is hilarious how they have this whole pre-match psyche-up video and music thing with portentious drums and strings that lasts like 10 minutes, reaches a massive crescendo... and then the cheesy 1975 FA Cup squad cod-reggae recording of Bubbles kicks in. Not even the Cockney Rejects one, for shame. Also while searching for an example of this transition (alas I couldn't find one because it's absolutely hilarious) I *did* find this vid which was taken literally from the row in front of mine at the LS, which is really spooky.
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Nov 5, 2021 11:33
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Failed Imagineer posted:I get like 300 work mails a day, sorry I'm not checking for anything extra Not even if they're (genuinely) offering you £1000+ as a donation and contacted you via the website contact form that always goes to junk? (that was one of the work ones). (Obviously depends on your work.) Re students: My experience at uni (ok it was a LONG time ago) was the few students who bothered to vote voted tory (Thatcher back then) because 'my mum and dad always do and they said I should'. The only time more than 10 students turned up for a students' union meeting was - given the usual lack of attendance at meetings and also noone called 'quorate' until the union had pushed through its wishes - the union president was going to push through a motion donating the entire year's funding to the RA. Someone got wind of it and called an EGM and almost the entire college (one of London Unis colleges) turned out to squash it. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 11:46 on Nov 5, 2021 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Why don't people check their Junk (or Bulk in some providers) folders? I never do because its always full of junk. But thanks for the reminder, otherwise I would have missed out on this $70,000 I'm apparently due. And quite a lot of rather raunchy dating offers.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I never do because its always full of junk. You might also have missed out on emails from friends about bereavements, important quotations regarding house moving, and so on. Yes, there is a lot of junk, but a lot of important stuff ends up in junk too.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:The only time more than 10 students turned up for a students' union meeting was - given the usual lack of attendance at meetings and also noone called 'quorate' until the union had pushed through its wishes - the union president was going to push through a motion donating the entire year's funding to the RA. The Royal Artillery?
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:My experience at uni (ok it was a LONG time ago) was the few students who bothered to vote voted tory (Thatcher back then) because 'my mum and dad always do and they said I should'. The Radcliffe Arms? (RIP). Pub deserved it imo, they did a great cooked breakfast. My secondary school was the same, whole lot of Tories because their parents were, literally bereft and in some cases weeping when Thatcher resigned. Meanwhile I'm walking around with a (carefully concealed) song in my heart (the song was the Internationale).
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Not even if they're (genuinely) offering you £1000+ as a donation and contacted you via the website contact form that always goes to junk? (that was one of the work ones). Ah well, seems like there's the problem. Surely you can put a rule in place to de-junk those submissions. Everything else is crap. I might skim it once a month, or if I'm expecting a confirmation mail and it doesn't turn up or something but otherwise I'd drive myself mad if I concerned myself with apl that digital crud
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Failed Imagineer posted:Ah well, seems like there's the problem. Surely you can put a rule in place to de-junk those submissions. Tried that it doesn't work most of the time  (Also doesn't explain mother).RA: Ira Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 12:36 on Nov 5, 2021 |
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