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not sure i'd be laughing if i'd moved to ireland https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1559956001226366978?s=20&t=BRUUFUPqK5-bOlo7Oys_8w https://twitter.com/TheConorFinn/status/1559629580100591616?s=20&t=BRUUFUPqK5-bOlo7Oys_8w
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that first one asks an interesting question that's relevant to me, and that's "how on earth are students supposed to handle this". the maintenance loan is not tied to inflation and as such i have no idea how most students are supposed to keep the lights on, quite literally.
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hey whats the source for the quote in the title?
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CoolCab posted:"how on earth are students supposed to handle this" pretty sure the response is "lol we don't give a poo poo, not our problem"
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Jose posted:not sure i'd be laughing if i'd moved to ireland I didn't move to dublin, I'm not insane
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Less than 1000 rental properties in the whole country was what I saw elsewhere
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Mirello posted:hey whats the source for the quote in the title? Liz Truss allegedly, according to a pop bitch rumour, likes to engage in anal sex in her office, over her desk in fact, and once demanded that one of her conquests "put it in dry". A lot of these conquests are SPADs so if you don't get on with the boss you get the boot.
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Jose posted:not sure i'd be laughing if i'd moved to ireland gonadic io has issued a correction as of 10:23 on Aug 18, 2022 |
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Barry Foster posted:pretty sure the response is "lol we don't give a poo poo, not our problem" well right it's just - okay i am pretty lucky, i could claim the full maintenance loan amount (9,250) and an opportunity scholarship through my school (2k). for sake of relative comparison as a student i also don't pay about £1500 in council tax. that means if i don't work my effective "pay", or at least the total financial adjustment i get compared to someone in work, is £12,750. that's close to sustainable? i wouldn't describe it as comfortable, i have to live very frugally, but there's enough to get by and have a takeaway a month or something. in combination with a side hustle here or there the first two years have been quite manageable - now not really, i'm burning savings for my final year even before and the pricing gets worse in october. i am insanely lucky in my position, rental situation, etc. how on earth is some 18 year old supposed to do it? good luck kid, here's not quite enough money to survive, hope you didn't plan on drinking this year.
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gonadic io posted:When I first moved here, took roughly 50 tries to find an available rental property and I ended up paying more than I did in London for an hour outside Dublin. Now I'm looking to buy, just put an offer in on a house that ended up outbid going for 70k over the asking price. It's bad yeah. yeah its fuckin brutal. I just got obscenely lucky with a great rental for half what I was paying in london.
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Don't forget masters students are now also being made to put down a non-refundable deposit to get onto courses and if the uni decide that you don't meet their cost of living evaluation you still don't get onto the course
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My BIL went to Plymouth as a mature student and his loan didn't cover his accommodation fees. He had to apply for jobs before he moved to the city and was on food banks for a while
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Marxist educationalists are to blame apparently https://twitter.com/flying_rodent/status/1560177845032419329?t=qUExwOIU2i_pYbWpPdiLOQ&s=19
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i cannot help but contrast how quickly the government moved to keep the service industry moving with that idiotic eat out to help out and the complete sleepwalking here. it's strange but i think i would rather someone drunk at the wheel as we had rather than asleep. covid has completely obliterated the broad social consensus that governments can or should do things.
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only one solution: war with europe
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CoolCab posted:i cannot help but contrast how quickly the government moved to keep the service industry moving with that idiotic eat out to help out and the complete sleepwalking here. it's strange but i think i would rather someone drunk at the wheel as we had rather than asleep. video calls to greece are too expensive sorry
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so yer doing ads for xenophobia now, i hear
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Consent manufacturing going into overdrive https://twitter.com/unherd/status/1560139428986851329?t=OrZroGxy2R-0MsYFEH2HWQ&s=19
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gonadic io posted:When I first moved here, took roughly 50 tries to find an available rental property and I ended up paying more than I did in London for an hour outside Dublin. Now I'm looking to buy out in the west, just put an offer in on a house that ended up outbid going for 70k over the asking price. It's bad yeah. In comparison we moved to Belfast about 3 years ago and got the first rental we applied for. £415 a month for a 3-bedroom terrace about a mile from the city centre and the rent hasn't gone up since. I'd been considering a move to Dublin since I'd earn considerably more in a similar role and there are a lot more opportunities, but every time I look at the housing situation it puts me off the idea.
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Someone from southern water is on for the last 20 seconds or so of this https://twitter.com/GMB/status/1560133199736422400?t=vvdZzMbheC0uIw7qIR6aMQ&s=19
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Jose posted:Consent manufacturing going into overdrive Can't wait to romantically walk into a door while I contract hypothermia in the Stygian darkness.
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Jose posted:Consent manufacturing going into overdrive going in the "good vibes" collection with this one https://twitter.com/TelegraphLife/status/1559582738973425664?s=20&t=2UiPWVxDXeYXjm-KPCJCJw
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Clyde Radcliffe posted:In comparison we moved to Belfast about 3 years ago and got the first rental we applied for. £415 a month for a 3-bedroom terrace about a mile from the city centre and the rent hasn't gone up since. I'd been considering a move to Dublin since I'd earn considerably more in a similar role and there are a lot more opportunities, but every time I look at the housing situation it puts me off the idea. give it 2 years or so, you won't need to any more
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CoolCab posted:going in the "good vibes" collection with this one I've heard good things about intermittent fasting and weight loss. Involuntary fasting is pretty much the same thing, right?
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Handing you a bottle of mineral water which is only 5% human piss and poo poo. You can use your own judgement if you think that it's safe or not.
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Jose posted:Marxist educationalists are to blame apparently One of the funniest British media moments in history was when Allison Pearson spent years posting about how exams were too easy these days then did a complete 180 the second her brain-dead kid got poo poo results lol
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CoolCab posted:i cannot help but contrast how quickly the government moved to keep the service industry moving with that idiotic eat out to help out and the complete sleepwalking here. it's strange but i think i would rather someone drunk at the wheel as we had rather than asleep. The similarity between launching Eat out to Help Out and not doing anything about energy prices is that both ultimately mean lots of money ending up in the hands of large corporations, there's been no change in boundaries.
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CoolCab posted:i cannot help but contrast how quickly the government moved to keep the service industry moving with that idiotic eat out to help out and the complete sleepwalking here. it's strange but i think i would rather someone drunk at the wheel as we had rather than asleep. My read on it is that the pandemic has forced the rentier/financier capitalists to play their hand at the expense of the petite bourgeois and "original recipe" capitalists. But it's pretty well fuckin muddled; who knows who'll be left to make sense of it all by the time it plays out. Amongst the human detritus otherwise known as the rest of us there remains broad social consensus that governments can and should do things; look at the level of support for re-nationalization among conservative voters, let alone labor.
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R. Mute posted:so yer doing ads for xenophobia now, i hear dead eyed widespread privatisation of public infrastructure? im gonna go punch a dutchman!!
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Jose posted:Is this good for the economy? any business with a kitchen is about to go arse up; restaurant trade is already on paper thin margins in the good times and being crushed by staff shortages and the decline in discretionary spend most independents and pubs will be gone or going by xmas, the chain places will hang on a bit longer but not for ever first sign of this is reduced trading hours, loads of places near me already on limited hours. that's a last resort move tho, the beginning of the end.
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keep punching joe posted:Handing you a bottle of mineral water which is only 5% human piss and poo poo. You can use your own judgement if you think that it's safe or not.
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limited hours is a death spiral yeah. all those little boutique sandwich shops and poo poo that we've allegedly gone back to the office to keep in business are fuckin toast, lol
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Jose posted:Consent manufacturing going into overdrive I can't help but read the sentence "anything can happen when the lights go out" as a pretty obvious threat
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Rustybear posted:any business with a kitchen is about to go arse up; restaurant trade is already on paper thin margins in the good times and being crushed by staff shortages and the decline in discretionary spend I had to pop into Boot's on Sunday in my local shithole of a shopping centre. The store was closed, along with about half the other stores in the centre. They all used to be open on Sunday.
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i assure you: small and even medium business cannot afford this. they cannot absorb 4k monthly energy bills and put what 40k per annum extra into paying for gas and electric. everyone knows this. even if we weren't heading into recession, even if we weren't in the biggest spending crunch since 2008 - they cannot possibly sustain it. the minority who could in the short term will price themselves out of business, if they haven't already.
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can we just loop this on every page itt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8zhNb8ANe8
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Jel Shaker posted:soviet style collapse but with predatory capitalism isn’t going to be fun But?
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Clyde Radcliffe posted:I had to pop into Boot's on Sunday in my local shithole of a shopping centre. The store was closed, along with about half the other stores in the centre. They all used to be open on Sunday. Blackouts, rationing, shops closed on Sunday - seems like a good time to invest in a music hall. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tjibKx8LmLM
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