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kecske posted:isn't the DWP entire expenditure like ~£180m a year? they could just hand that money out no strings to UC claimants and have it be a better investment £180 billion, not million
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kecske posted:isn't the DWP entire expenditure like ~£180m a year? they could just hand that money out no strings to UC claimants and have it be a better investment It's ~180bn, not m We have something like 14m people with disabilities using the long term/limiting definition, so if all of them claimed PiP then you'd lose half of this 500m to the Christmas bonus. It's a full quarter of the realistic/internal government benefit fraud estimate, though
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We saw everyone criticising Biden’s press secretary for scoffing at the idea of free testing and decided hey, that could be us
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Lol I found one of those “I did that!” Biden stickers stuck next to the fuel price on the petrol pump last night. In ASDA Greenhithe, Kent.
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Noxville posted:£180 billion, not million I blame monday morning
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kecske posted:isn't the DWP entire expenditure like ~£180m a year? they could just hand that money out no strings to UC claimants and have it be a better investment The Cruelty and pettiness is the point. When confronted with the fact that it's more expensive to police benefits than to just assume that everyone is telling the truth people still demand that you police benefits because Britain is a country that prides itself on just being the most petty cunts.
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Lord Ludikrous posted:Lol I found one of those “I did that!” Biden stickers stuck next to the fuel price on the petrol pump last night. Biden might not actually have the big GAS PRICES lever on his desk, but he certainly has a lot more responsibility for the price of crude oil than ASDA does
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Gonzo McFee posted:Britain is a country that prides itself on just being cunts. A few years ago I would have said PM Clarkson would be the perfect representation of this, but even he seems to have recognised the country's a bit hosed. Strange times
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Convex posted:A few years ago I would have said PM Clarkson would be the perfect representation of this, but even he seems to have recognised the country's a bit hosed. Strange times Clarkson is performatively a dumb oval office. In reality he's merely a mediocre arsehole.
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An authoritarian wedge that he is driving, in case he hadn't noticed.
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'everything I don't like is a nazi' - political discourse in 2021. I hate that all MP statements read like a search engine optimised set of buzzwords, like they're fishing by trial and error for the political konami code.
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Lord Ludikrous posted:Lol I found one of those “I did that!” Biden stickers stuck next to the fuel price on the petrol pump last night. Ah that Nazi Germany, famous for making sure that everyone had their vaccines up to date and nothing else. Anyway back to voting with the party line on banning all protest and stripping citizenship from anyone with a brown parent if they steal a pack of biscuits.
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I am staring at a "You are in a queue" screen. It isn't telling me where I am in the queue. I am itching to refresh the page in case it lagged out or something but then I will lose my place if hasn't. This doesn't seem like a good method. I am in the queue for the queue? 
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Jippa posted:I am staring at a "You are in a queue" screen. It isn't telling me where I am in the queue. I am itching to refresh the page in case it lagged out or something but then I will lose my place if hasn't. This doesn't seem like a good method. Is this for the booster? It should give you a number. Took about 10 minutes to get 10k places. It'll also auto refresh every 15 seconds. If it's not the booster page then who knows?
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Jippa posted:I am staring at a "You are in a queue" screen. It isn't telling me where I am in the queue. I am itching to refresh the page in case it lagged out or something but then I will lose my place if hasn't. This doesn't seem like a good method. I also had this where it didn't seem to load the queue properly and give me a position or anything. I finally got through after being taken to the enter your NHS number multiple times only to be told they can't find a vaccination centre matching my details (I have the stringent criteria of "no access needs"). I tried last night but the nearest centre was 16 miles away in a completely different city. I live in a major city, not in the middle of nowhere, how am I meant to get a booster if there is nowhere to get one?
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Red Oktober posted:Is this for the booster? It should give you a number. Took about 10 minutes to get 10k places. It'll also auto refresh every 15 seconds. Yeah cheers I see it refreshing now.
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But if you don't pay attention and realise you've got through it'll timeout and chuck you back into the queue. Not sure how long the timeout is though.
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Ebola Dog posted:I also had this where it didn't seem to load the queue properly and give me a position or anything. Try entering your postcode both with and without a space, last time that gave me entirely different results, including "anything in the actual town I live in"
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Clarence posted:But if you don't pay attention and realise you've got through it'll timeout and chuck you back into the queue. Not sure how long the timeout is though. It's under a minute, I was looking for my NHS number and it timed me out. Then when I went to enter it I realised the autocomplete already knew it.
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Managed to order a pack of PCR tests at half past midnight last night. So it's me, I got the last pack. Fight for it, proles.
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Noxville posted:We saw everyone criticising Biden’s press secretary for scoffing at the idea of free testing and decided hey, that could be us Going to be cool when we Americanize the education system to match. https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1470141286502080519
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I'm also in a waiting area, apparently. I don't see any signs of auto refreshing either. Guess I'll continue to stare at it for a bit longer Edit: Nevermind, in a queue of 3k now. Just had to grumble about it first Deketh fucked around with this message at 13:00 on Dec 13, 2021 |
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The NHS site is not doing well, this morning. I've been in the queue (with a number) a few times, made it to the end and got trapped in endless loops of "Do you know your NHS number?" Yes. "Do you know your NHS number?" Yes "Do you..." etc. Then it errored and now I'm in a queue of unspecified length again.
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I'm glad my mum bothered me to sign up yesterday I managed to get a Friday appointment. Typical of Johnson to try and clamour some good will and end up making GBS threads up the NHS site.
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OwlFancier posted:Try entering your postcode both with and without a space, last time that gave me entirely different results, including "anything in the actual town I live in" I tried this and got the option for one 20 miles away (in a straight line). This is a load of bollocks. What's the point in telling everyone to get a booster if they can't even provide places to get one in major cities?
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I had to book in at a centre 10 miles from me despite getting my first 2 in the town I live in. I guess they're booked up or something? Also I got this "If you have booked a 3rd dose, you will not be able to get vaccinated without your referral letter." Bit confused, is this a booster or a 3rd dose? I don't have a letter, have I hosed up Deketh fucked around with this message at 13:11 on Dec 13, 2021 |
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A co-worker came into my office today without a mask on to tell me his boss has tested positive. Argghhhh c'mon dude ffs.
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Deketh posted:I had to book in at a centre 10 miles from me despite getting my first 2 in the town I live in. I guess they're booked up or something? people with immunosuppressive conditions (leukaemia, lymphoma, taking immunosuppressive drugs etc) get a three-dose primary course of immunisation for covid (and then they will also get a booster dose later).The rest of us get a 2-dose primary course and a booster. Assuming you're in the latter category then you don't need to do anything.
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oxford_town posted:people with immunosuppressive conditions (leukaemia, lymphoma, taking immunosuppressive drugs etc) get a three-dose primary course of immunisation for covid (and then they will also get a booster dose later).The rest of us get a 2-dose primary course and a booster. Assuming you're in the latter category then you don't need to do anything. Phew. Thanks mate
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Deketh posted:Just had to grumble about it first That is the British way
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My GP just phoned me up and said "do you want your COVID booster? Cool, we can do you a flu jag at the same time." The only downer was I won't get it until the 22nd, which was 2 and a half weeks from when they called. If I was willing to go through to Nairn i could have gotten it that week but instead I'm getting it from about 90 seconds walk from home so worth the wait.
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I get this message when I try and re book my booster jab. "Our records show you have already been contacted by a local vaccination centre about having a covid-19 vaccine that is not currently available through this booking service." Then.. "If you have had both doses of the vaccine, you do not need to book any appointments. If you think this is incorrect you can contact your GP surgery". On my local surgeries website they have a pinned message in the covid section saying they are doing one final booster on a specific date for over 50's. So I basically have to wait until Jan 4th for the booster I booked a while back now? Seems really silly. There are no all day walk in places any where near me. Only places doing one off clinics for a few hours which will be flooded with people.
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Deketh posted:I had to book in at a centre 10 miles from me despite getting my first 2 in the town I live in. I guess they're booked up or something? They want to give you a different booster than your main shot so that could be what’s filtering out your original vaccination centre.
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Noxville posted:They want to give you a different booster than your main shot so that could be what’s filtering out your original vaccination centre. Perhaps, although my colleague managed to get booked in at that centre. He had the same vaccines as me. I've also got to wait til the 4th Jan which is a bummer Andoman posted:That is the British way 
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