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Falklands 2: This time China wants access to the oil fields as payment for Argentinian railways Good thing our diplomatic credentials are good Good thing we've got people respected in the region Good thing we've got a competent Foreign secretary
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Guavanaut posted:Her response was to arch against him as she shuddered violently and gasped while he finished scraping the Whiskas into her bowl. This made me literally lol
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Haha, wtf? https://twitter.com/AlPinkerton/status/1490447506613932039 https://twitter.com/socialist_china/status/1490287411330527234
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Some poor shits gonna get to go on their first boat ride across the equator soon.
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Skarsnik posted:Are tax refunds still a cheque? Not had one for years but they always used to be Yup. Got one sitting upstairs from years back because I didn't have the time to drive into the loving city center to get to my nearest bank branch. I swear it's just to try and discourage you from claiming it back. If they can automatically deduct tax from my salary then they can sure as hell temporarily adjust the tax deductions from it for my rebate.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I seem to remember a bunch of people getting cheques from that, posting them online to boast, and finding someone else had cashed them before they got to the bank using the numbers. That's hilarious.
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Kin posted:Yup. Got one sitting upstairs from years back because I didn't have the time to drive into the loving city center to get to my nearest bank branch. Man, goons are weird. I get cheques every Christmas & birthday from an uncle. At some point you will have to go into the city centre, be it to go to a chemist for some pain pills or whatever, wander through CEX, I don't know. And then you just go in the bank & put it in the machine and gently caress off again within 90 seconds if it's quiet. And that's despite the fact that I rely on public transport which means the shortest time from leaving home to getting home again is 3 hours, despite town being under 15 miles away.
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I don't know how many banks do it, but Natwest's online banking app lets you pay cheques in by photographing them with your phone.
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fuctifino posted:Haha, wtf? https://twitter.com/AlPinkerton/status/1490447506613932039 The Falklands issue is a bizarre thing, the only colony that never was really a colony. As a good anti-colonial socialist type you instinctively think 'oh yeah should probably give it to the Argentinians if they want it, this is like Mexico owning the Isle of Wight', but you look into it and no, there was no indigenous populations, Europeans didn't turf anyone out or oppress a native population when they settled it, and everyone who lives there very much considers themselves British and wants to remain a British territory. So I guess really, the cool and good thing is for it to stay British. The Argentinian claim is purely based on geographical proximity, which doesn't hold much water in itself. I assume everyone involved knows that, but it's a pretty important strategic holding, and geopolitics will be geopolitics.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:She was probably sobbing because of the cramps in her back with all that arching. Fun fact, that's why the show is called The Archers
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Dabir posted:I don't know how many banks do it, but Natwest's online banking app lets you pay cheques in by photographing them with your phone.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Those names don't ring a bell. I'm sure it began with an M - they used to do fliers with all their bargains on. We're talking late 70s early 80s here. Morgan's, though I suspect I'll be efb before the end of this page. Ed knew it. More fool me for trying to compete with twisto. Runcible Cat fucked around with this message at 09:46 on Feb 7, 2022 |
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I bought my computer from Curry's/PC World when they had an offer on for a 1 in 20 chance of a full refund. Jumped through all the hoops designed to stop people from entering, then won, and they just... didn't pay me. Lots of very long phone calls with an outsourced call centre that didn't actually have the authority to do anything about it, kept being told they'd call back but they never did, then they just closed that phone line, so I sued them. Was honestly surprised they settled in full the day they got the court papers, was expecting them to drag their heels for a few more months.
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Looks like the GCs have almost independently rediscovered gender. (almost. nothing will be learned) https://twitter.com/notthatspoon/status/1490329396179357700
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On a similar theme, I reckon in a contest to find the worst tweet/reply combo of the day, this is a clear winner; https://twitter.com/DreyfusJames/status/1490392664063291392?s=20&t=IQNB-fJWUt5hBiGx0S1-Eg
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I bought an offbrand laptop from the Dixons side in 2003 that was cheap and powerful (desktop cpu/gpu chip bunged into laptop form, with the heat of 1000 suns). The point is, I wish I had actually listened to the shop guy who very pointedly told me 'you know, we've had to replace a bunch of these, and we don't have spare stock, people just happen to keep closing pens in the lid and we replace with brand models'.
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ThomasPaine posted:The Argentinian claim is purely based on geographical proximity, which doesn't hold much water in itself. I thought the Argentine claim on the Falklands was based on them getting there first but leaving because there wasn't anything worth settling them for at the time.
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Total Meatlove posted:On a similar theme, I reckon in a contest to find the worst tweet/reply combo of the day, this is a clear winner; Also lol they're all (non racistly) obsessed with Black people in TV adverts https://twitter.com/northernertweet/status/1490428473852276736 https://twitter.com/DrDavidHughes19/status/1490457051356663808 I can't say I've noticed many TV adverts other than the big ticket Christmas ones and the "old man sitting on a lounger/sunbed/catamaran tells me about my home equity life insurance pensions" ones, but if you listened to these brainmasters you'd think that they were entirely made up of African communists waving AKs while a list of reasons why white people are bad scrolls up the screen and then the McDonald's logo appears.
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Jedit posted:I thought the Argentine claim on the Falklands was based on them getting there first but leaving because there wasn't anything worth settling them for at the time. I mean Argentina didn't even exist as a country when the islands were first settled (by the French), and there was no native population. The subsequent history is mostly just your standard flip flopping between colonial powers. The Argentine claim was mostly derived from its status as the successor state to the Spanish empire in that particular corner of the Americas, but the Spaniards had only held it for a few years anyway and weren't the last governors. It's pretty complex and Argentina may have a legitimate claim depending on how you read the history, but the way they like to frame it as an illegally occupied part of the country and implicitly cast the issue as a anti-imperialist one feels pretty disingenuous.
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Jedit posted:I thought the Argentine claim on the Falklands was based on them getting there first but leaving because there wasn't anything worth settling them for at the time. It's about fishing and resource rights and I kinda see why you'd be pissed off having an old European colonial power just outside your coast taking a lot of your territory because there are a hundred guys on a small piece of rock. AFAIK (but I might very well be wrong) it was much later deemed by the UN commission that the islands are in Argentinian waters, so it should not be as big an issue as in the 80's. lilljonas fucked around with this message at 10:45 on Feb 7, 2022 |
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Non-racistly updating my spreadsheet of non-white adverts actors, as a non-racist activity for the whole family
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I'm so colour blind I count the black people on television with my family. It's so weird seeing people with professional careers who should be doing literally anything else just obsessed with trans people online to the point that 9/10 posts are about it. Why waste your time like that?
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Guavanaut posted:Ditto the Gender Gang sounds like a saturday morning cartoon from the 90s. loving hell David "non racial aware family has started to ask where have the whites gone." Hughes. Borrovan posted:I bought my computer from Curry's/PC World when they had an offer on for a 1 in 20 chance of a full refund. Jumped through all the hoops designed to stop people from entering, then won, and they just... didn't pay me. Lots of very long phone calls with an outsourced call centre that didn't actually have the authority to do anything about it, kept being told they'd call back but they never did, then they just closed that phone line, so I sued them. Absolutely love this. Feels like they hadn't actually got a process for if someone finished all of the tasks and I love that the just threw up their hands and went "gently caress it, we out."
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Jedit posted:I thought the Argentine claim on the Falklands was based on them getting there first but leaving because there wasn't anything worth settling them for at the time. Not really, the French and British both had whaling stations on the islands in the 18th century, the French gave up their claim to the Spanish, the British left after a while and then the Spanish did. Post-independence Argentina claim the islands on the basis of that Spanish claim which is kinda shaky at best (as the Spanish weren't in control of the islands at the time of the revolution and wars of independence), and there are disputed claims that the first actual people to land there might have been British, Spanish from Spain, Spanish from what became Argentina, Spanish from what became Chile, or Portuguese, or indigenous people from Tierra del Fuego. Besides the argument is redundant because the vast majority of nations don't accept "But we were here first" as basis for claims of sovereignty because that would open a can of worms about the size of the Americas - this is part of the reason why most South American states noped out of supporting Argentina in the 1982 war. Well that and America threatening to cut off the death squad expense accounts, but then America also had a reason deeper than Special Relationship/Cold War stuff to ensure that former Spanish colonies didn't get the idea they were entitled to Spanish-claimed territory.
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One of the ironies of the Falklands is that the UK was the first European power to recognise Argentina's independence. In BA there a monument called the English Clock tower which commemorates this once strong friendship.
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I'd quite like to go see the Falklands but they really do not make it easy to visit.
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ThomasPaine posted:I'd quite like to go see the Falklands but they really do not make it easy to visit. If you like drizzle and sheep just go to Wales
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Argentina would have had a much better chance of arranging some kind of transfer of sovereignty and economic exclusivity while promising to guarantee the language and culture rights of the inhabitants if they hadn't invaded within living memory and immediately done a bunch of nationalist signpost changing and flag waving. As is, even discussing the idea with people who live there is up there with "and then Southern Ireland will peacefully Brexit with us".
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ThomasPaine posted:I'd quite like to go see the Falklands Gonna go ahead & guess it's probably a bad time considering what every other weird insular British community is like, but I'd like to see the wildlife & stuff, plus I'd also like to see Antarctica one day & it's a pretty common stop-off. It's been on my pile of "stuff I'd like to do but probably never will" for a while now.
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Borrovan posted:Same (as amended), it just sounds kinda surreal, a rural British community on some rock on the other side of the world. Yeah I just want to share a roast with a penguin while some old fud in the corner of the bar waffles on about are Maggie socking it to the argies. Must be a nightmare for the handful of Argentines who live on the islands lol
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The Falklands are a very unique place, I was "fortunate" enough to have been deployed there for a few months once. Depending which island you are on and what the weather is like it ranges from "desolate in a grey and depressing way" or "desolate in a wild and soul-touchingly beautiful way".
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Guavanaut posted:So do business banks but they have classy waiting areas. How dare you impugn the good name of British banks who would never...oh The Guardian posted:https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/dec/13/natwest-fined-264m-after-admitting-breaching-anti-money-laundering-rules
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Argentinians are wildy nationalist about it. Its a major point of pain for them.
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Cookie Cutter posted:The Falklands are a very unique place, I was "fortunate" enough to have been deployed there for a few months once. Depending which island you are on and what the weather is like it ranges from "desolate in a grey and depressing way" or "desolate in a wild and soul-touchingly beautiful way". So it's like St Kilda or some sort of Hebridean island but upside down
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