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Only Kindness posted:Speaking of, Bernie Drummond just passed away. Aw gently caress 
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Failed Imagineer posted:https://twitter.com/AlbertoNardelli/status/1460893292833423360?t=4WxJ-Q_wxZJ59JU4PiJ5GQ&s=19 Like it isn't even directly Brexit, it's just Visa being greedy and upping their fees in the UK because they no longer are constrained by EU legislation (or depending how you look at it Amazon being greedy because they are unwilling to just eat the additional cost). Amazing that so many people thought that things would somehow be cheaper when companies were no longer restricted by things like roaming charges, or transaction fees. Also don't get sick on holiday now because EU health insurance is no longer a thing for you. keep punching joe fucked around with this message at 12:39 on Nov 17, 2021 |
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fuctifino posted:The 9 Insulate Britain protesters have been sentenced to 3-4 months each in prison apart from this guy: [standing in court naked] your honour, if you do not slam me in the clink I will poo poo on this floor here and now and I warn you I've had nothing but chilli for four weeks
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fuctifino posted:The 9 Insulate Britain protesters have been sentenced to 3-4 months each in prison apart from this guy: Gotta say I'm loving this guy's "suck my dick you fuckman" energy
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keep punching joe posted:Like it isn't even directly Brexit, it's just Visa being greedy and upping their fees in the UK because they no longer are constrained by EU legislation (or depending how you look at it Amazon being greedy because they are unwilling to just eat the additional cost). How is that not Brexit related? Brexit meant that Britian didn't have to abide by the EU's cap on Interchange fees. As a result of not being constrained, as you correctly pointed out, Visa raised their fees and Amazon are to cheap to absorb the cost. Like it may not have been a direct consequence of Brexit and arguably the people who voted to Leave didn't vote for their Visa bills to go up. But it is a clear indirect consequence of Brexit and the UK Government not having a proper deal in place.
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Yeah honestly respect for that There's a weird mentality with prison wardens where they don't seem to understand that the deprivation of liberty is the punishment & it's not their job to punish people more, so they take it upon themselves to generally make life lovely for everyone (in particular the elderly & disabled, since it's easier). I know some people itt take issue with the phrase "the cruelty is the point", but, in this case, the cruelty is the point.
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Nov 17, 2021 12:57
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Ugh https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1460876176587698181
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Nov 17, 2021 13:04
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The picture looks like she just spotted a dinghy on the horizon
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Nov 17, 2021 13:10
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Clearly it is dysfunctional but I don’t think she has the same definition in mind as me
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Nov 17, 2021 13:14
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peanut- posted:The Tory back benches are gonna revolt over the second jobs rules. Most of them are completely safe in their seats, and I have no problem believing they would rather topple the government than lose half their income. Then again, the wording of this will 100% include some legal wording that means you can't be prosecuted for anything you did like this BEFORE it became law.
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Nov 17, 2021 13:16
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The Conservative government has been in charge of the home office for 11 years. How many more years do they need before they start taking ownership of the problems they've created?
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https://twitter.com/PoliDigitalUK/status/1460927713758253057
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Nov 17, 2021 13:19
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If you think about it, everything is banned from the EU unless the EU approves it.
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Nov 17, 2021 13:21
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Is there much appetite for UK pies outside of the UK? Like I know the British love them, but even in Ireland you'd be hard-pressed to see a British-style pie outside of M&S
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Nov 17, 2021 13:22
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Failed Imagineer posted:Is there much appetite for UK pies outside of the UK? Like I know the British love them, but even in Ireland you'd be hard-pressed to see a British-style pie outside of M&S The entirety of Australasia?
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Nov 17, 2021 13:31
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Breaking News: Thing that was known to happen has come to pass.
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Nov 17, 2021 13:32
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Total Meatlove posted:The entirety of Australasia? Fair, but do they import a bunch of pies? I thought they had their own Gregg's equivalent (Bunnings or something?). Not saying this isn't a big market, just a little surprised
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Seaside Pie
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keep punching joe posted:
Tbf you can get pretty comprehensive travel insurance for Europe for next to nothing so eh
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Grey Hunter posted:Then again, the wording of this will 100% include some legal wording that means you can't be prosecuted for anything you did like this BEFORE it became law. Isn't that how it should be though? And regarding the Amazon/Visa thing - I expect both sides will reach a new agreement, probably along the lines of the ones they currently have. My guess is that Amazon is more valuable to Visa than the other way around, but who knows.
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Nov 17, 2021 13:42
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ThomasPaine posted:Tbf you can get pretty comprehensive travel insurance for Europe for next to nothing so eh .... if you are lucky not to have a pre-existing serious medical condition, so eh.
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Nov 17, 2021 13:44
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That Bloomberg article says Amazon are offering customers £20 to switch their default payment mechanism to a debit card or non-VISA credit card, so if you have a Visa CC probably worth setting it as default payment method to see if you can get that.
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fuctifino posted:The 9 Insulate Britain protesters have been sentenced to 3-4 months each in prison apart from this guy: what a oval office of a judge IMO
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a pipe smoking dog posted:It might actually be good if we kessler ourselves because then rich idiots like musk and bezos will be forced to spend money on making the planet liveable instead of trying to escape to mars. nah what will happen is things like weather satellites get shot down by debris within weeks or months but Elong and Bozo can still blast through the debris cloud to reach the mars base with only a minimal increase in risk since they won't be in the danger zone for more than like an hour
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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fuctifino posted:.... if you are lucky not to have a pre-existing serious medical condition, so eh. I have type 1 diabetes and it was like 10-15 quid iirc, but I concede if you're being wheeled around in an iron lung with stage 4 cancer it may be slightly pricier
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Applying for a free card that tells the hospital to send the bill to the NHS seems a lot better than paying for insurance but eh.
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keep punching joe posted:Applying for a free card that tells the hospital to send the bill to the NHS seems a lot better than paying for insurance but eh. I thought the whole point was that the EHIC wasn't going to be valid any more (or not for much longer) Also I have heard horror stories about EHIC, in that they'll pay for basic stuff but it doesn't cover everything (e.g. emergency evac etc) so you can still be hit with an insane bill
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ThomasPaine posted:I have type 1 diabetes and it was like 10-15 quid iirc, but I concede if you're being wheeled around in an iron lung with stage 4 cancer it may be slightly pricier I didn't mean that to come across as a snap to you, but to the situation in general. I have a few severely disabled friends who are really struggling to cope with the thought that they are probably going to be trapped on this island for the rest of their lives. The mental therapy of being able to leave this poo poo hole for 1-2 weeks is immeasurable, as will be the effects of that door being closed. I'm probably priced out myself too, but as I don't have the health to travel, I'm already resigned to going down with the Titanic. I guess if I ever leave this country, it'll be as a fleeing refugee.
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lol PMQs was pretty spicy today Starms pressed back on the government corruption and when Johnson tried to be like WELL WHAT ABOUT YOU the speaker stopped him, multiple times, before finally saying he was bringing the house into disrepute. BBC News afterwards was shocked at how unusual it was for Hoyle to interject himself into house business and this implied that Johnson was being a right oval office. also johnson accidentally it seems said he'd release all documents related to the Raddox(?) contract, having presumably just meant to say those documents cleared them of wrongdoing
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fuctifino posted:I didn't mean that to come across as a snap to you, but to the situation in general. I have a few severely disabled friends who are really struggling to cope with the thought that they are probably going to be trapped on this island for the rest of their lives. The mental therapy of being able to leave this poo poo hole for 1-2 weeks is immeasurable, as will be the effects of that door being closed. Yeah obviously for very severely disabled people it's going to be a lot more. Maybe Gibraltar will develop a flourishing new tourist industry from the UK to take advantage of the new barriers to the EU.
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fuctifino posted:.... if you are lucky not to have a pre-existing serious medical condition, so eh. or be over 60 or to have smoked (without inhaling) about 10 cigs between the ages of 10-30 (so over 30 years ago) and for the insurance cos to write you off as an 'ex-smoker'.
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Breaking news: photo of the Queen released How long can this charade continue
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Flayer posted:Breaking news: photo of the Queen released loving lol. Said pic: 
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loving die already.
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Flayer posted:Breaking news: photo of the Queen released Yeah I'm gonna need to see a today's-date newspaper and some pixel analysis
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loving hell... https://twitter.com/IsabelOakeshott/status/1460925253832646661
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Red Oktober posted:Isn't that how it should be though? I don't think Visa will be worried about losing Amazon sales per se - while they're obviously a major customer I'm willing to bet it's still less than 1%, and probably not even 0.1%, of the payments they process, while probably over 50% of Amazon sales are through Visa just based on market share so on paper it seems like a pretty lop-sided fight, but the wider game is that Amazon are starting to work on being a payment processor in their own right and Visa would really rather Amazon didn't come barreling into that market, especially in partnership with either Mastercard or Amex who they have close ties with. Doing so would let them get into card issuing and merchant services, and I'm certain the idea of shaving a couple of percent off a retail sale on the other side of the world completely unconnected to Amazon gives Bezos a semi.
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fuctifino posted:I didn't mean that to come across as a snap to you, but to the situation in general. I have a few severely disabled friends who are really struggling to cope with the thought that they are probably going to be trapped on this island for the rest of their lives. The mental therapy of being able to leave this poo poo hole for 1-2 weeks is immeasurable, as will be the effects of that door being closed. Looking forward to worried reports from Sangatte of a solar-powered refugee raft somehow making a smokescreen like the HMS King George V.
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