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keep punching joe posted:Greggs tried to pivot to healthy food, failed, and then moved on to instead creating vegan versions of its existing garbage pastries. Unrelated but I got caught up in the McDonald's analogy. A pack of hateful cunts who are damaging to the causes they claim to espouse? Sounds right.
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Some people I used to work with wanted to do Christmas drinks tomorrow. Even by Wednesday there were still about a dozen up for it. That's now down to two and it's been postponed. Seems like people are taking the new figures more seriously than they are still wanting to go out just because some idiot tories did last year.
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Dec 17, 2021 13:12
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Meanwhile my local friends are all falling ill with either confirmed covid or suspiciously covid-like symptoms and they are still wondering whether they'll be well enough to go tear it up all night on new year's eve; one is asking if anyone wants to go see Spider-Man tonight. They're nice enough people, but the last few months have me seriously questioning how attached I am to where I live and the company I keep.
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Dec 17, 2021 13:17
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Yet another of my London-based friends has come down with it today That's five out of ten of that particular group, and none of them have seen each other in weeks
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Barry Foster posted:Yet another of my London-based friends has come down with it today It feels totally mental here. I have so far managed to avoid it but I've been pinged four times and have had two people tell me they were close contacts. Basically all I do now is work, look after the kids and PCR tests. We're basically doing the bare minimum leaving the house now, pondering whether heading to my folks for Christmas is a good idea but we've burned through so much holiday through the year while the schools were closed that we need someone to take them while we work.
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It’s surprising / depressing how the cycle seems to repeat: Tories beat Labour in GE Labour tries to become more Tory because hey, Tories are winning Nobody likes Labour as off-brand Tories so anyone not inclined to vote Tory votes Lib Dem Lib Dems get more votes, splitting the non Tory vote Tories win GE You’d think that Labour would have a clear leftist identity and a standing agreement with the LDs to introduce proportional representation on the off chance there’s a hung parliament but oh well.
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Beefeater1980 posted:You’d think that Labour would have a clear leftist identity and a standing agreement with the LDs to introduce proportional representation on the off chance there’s a hung parliament but oh well.
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babies: People far stupider than you have been successfully rearing babies without killing them/each other for millenia. Don't sweat it 
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OzyMandrill posted:babies: People far stupider than you Yep that's how I view them.
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So the guy investigating Boris’s parties had his own party too…
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OzyMandrill posted:babies: People far stupider than you have been successfully rearing babies without killing them/each other for millenia. Don't sweat it Not to be a huge downer, but while true this advice is also less effective than you might think. By and large as a species we have been breeding and growing the next generation successfully constantly. On the flip side infant/child death (not to mention miscarriages and stillbirths) are something that does happen a lot. And it remains one of the last big taboos in society. People basically completely shut down when this topic ever comes up in conversation. And I get it. As a parent your brain basically gets re-wired to be constantly worried about your babies health. It's such a big, huge thing that you don't want to confront it so you stay away from the topic. While at the same time, being hugely scared about all the small issues with your baby. But if you have lost a child (l have) then it's super anxiety you always deal with. An example? Most parents will find themselves staring at their sleeping baby just to make sure they are still breathing. This is completely normal. I do this. I also will sometimes wake up in the middle of the night and try to see if my baby is still breathing. Which in a dark room with no lights, is quite difficult. This is due to padt trauma. But you get used to it.
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Borrovan posted:e: seconding infacol, worked for us infacol one end, sudocrem on' t'other almost felt broody for a bit till I remembered how bad the no regular sleep got me- got all the way to getting onto a bus to work covered in baby puke with a very vague concept of how I got there or even existing in space/time
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Beefeater1980 posted:It’s surprising / depressing how the cycle seems to repeat: well, that pattern is pretty recent. Wind back to the 1990s and there was no shortage of commenters asserting that the Tories are facing unstoppable demographic destruction traditionally the 1980s Labour left recognized that its brand of socialist politics did not actually command a majority amongst the British public and relied on 1) machining Labour as a party to browbeat the party's social democrat and liberal factions into line, and then 2) using FPTP to then obtain a Labour majority government that does not then have to compromise with social democrats and liberals outside the party to realize a socialist programme quoth the CLPD: "PR would mean no majority Labour Governments." (this was not wholly unreasonable as an outlook, even in opposition: for many, the experience of the SDP suggested that FPTP was the only thing that saved Labour from becoming a third party at Westminster) I think there really is a generational shift however - first, Labour's apparently irreversible loss of Scotland's once-safe constituencies at Westminster. It did, in the end, become the third party there. Second, the new generation of leftists no longer pessimistically thinks that its preferred programme is genuinely unsaleable at the ballot box, or that it requires united fronts or committee delegate machination for a chance to be tried, or that it cannot be incrementally achieved without compromise. Hence the bold future, I daresay... but the transition will take time.
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josh04 posted:So do we think labour just couldn't afford to contest a byelection? They took out a bunch of ads but its activists knocking doors and getting the vote out that win elections and they've already purged the people that do the actual legwork.
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The new Labour strategy is for Lib Dems to win enough seats to make Starmer deputy prime-minister.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Did not know this: Few pages back but I had no idea Britain elects was founded by Lily! I went to Uni with her and we were in the same LGBT society. Her passing was a real sudden shock.
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You would think they would double down on the twerp, god knows he's not helping Labour.
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The Question IRL posted:An example? Most parents will find themselves staring at their sleeping baby just to make sure they are still breathing. This is completely normal. My wife used to do this. If you're really worried there are also baby monitors with an attached motion sensor pad so you get full feedback from the cot. I was cheap so I just left multiple CCTV cameras pointed at the little guy Re: white noise - if you have a spare phone you can use an app which will cost a fiver for a lifetime subscription and be a lot handier than a cuddly toy. There's all sorts of weird stuff out there that  tries to convince you to buy for the baby. I can't believe the array of auto-rocking cots that's for sale.
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I love how him ‘taking responsibility’ is just blaming everyone and everything else
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This longer video is better, as it also includes the question and the followup. He can't mask his arrogance https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson_MP/status/1471840201144209414
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Z the IVth posted:If you're really worried there are also baby monitors with an attached motion sensor pad so you get full feedback from the cot. Note that this can be a fantastic way to give yourself a heart attack in the middle of the night. My daughter had a habit of shuffling to the edge of the cot where the sensor pad didn't quite detect her breathing. Genuinely the fastest my wife & I have moved since turning thirty. On another occasion there was a powercut, and we awoke to similar panic from the sound of the battery-powered handset bleeping because the base unit was no longer sending signals. Of course both of those situations are much better than the alternative.
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I dunno if gin chat is still going but before I catch up I need to recommend Martin Miller’s. Best gin I ever drank.
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Lol Sturgeon just shredded some Daily Mail reporter on TV. https://twitter.com/JamesAithie/status/1471831463599431684
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I mean, he's fundamentally correct. This happened not because of anything the Tories have done, or the results of those actions (which are all very bad), it's happened because the press decided to start pushing those actions and results for their own reasons. Can't really blame him for being frustrated that the press who would happily boost them for over a decade now suddenly changed their tune. I can just blame him for everything else.
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keep punching joe posted:Lol Sturgeon just shredded some Daily Mail reporter on TV. Enjoyed that.
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Congrats to all the child havers but honestly I personally can't imagine a worse hell and I don't understand at all how parents do it much less seem to enjoy it
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Looks like the deradicalization of my dad is going well, last big argument we had I had to explain that he was arguing with 14 year olds on twitter, and that none of anything he read on facebook was trustworthy because it was all twisting the narrative to fit an agenda. So mum convinced him to stop going on facebook and twitter, and we found him some heavily moderated football and cricket forums and would you look at that, he's now having to form his own opinions based on his Thatcherite past and is OUTRAGED about the Christmas parties instead of defending the government in the face of all logic.
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So, uh, if you're trying to get the booster, get an appointment no matter how much of a pain the website is. I just tried for a walk-in. The NHS guys turned up half an hour late and after taking account of those who had appointments they had enough shots left for 4 (four) people - there's a shortage, not surprisingly. I was not that far in the front of the queue. So, the risk of half an hour of hanging around with a bunch of possibly-Omicron'd strangers, none of the benefit. Also my feet hurt.
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Beefeater1980 posted:You’d think that Labour would have a clear leftist identity and a standing agreement with the LDs to introduce proportional representation on the off chance there’s a hung parliament but oh well. You'd have to have the Lib Dems go for it too, which remember they couldn't stand to have Corbyn in office for one single day even in order to get their second referendum. They're all about the 'progressive alliance' when and only when it means Labour people voting for them.
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Covid numbers have been updated for today and guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhh https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ "Daily 93,045, increase of 132,836(38.6%)"
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Number go up Population go down.
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ThomasPaine posted:Congrats to all the child havers but honestly I personally can't imagine a worse hell and I don't understand at all how parents do it much less seem to enjoy it I left all the genetic spread to my sister, she had eight. 
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1965917 posted:Covid numbers have been updated for today and guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhh Look on the bright side, at least it'll peak quickly 
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