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Please don't ask the interviewers why the job has become vacant or what happened to the previous postholder unless you're prepared for the answer to be "they died three weeks after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer, leaving a young family, and the person who cleared out their desk to send their personal belongings to their partner openly cried whilst doing so".
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Oct 7, 2022 21:18
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Payndz posted:Ooh, he's my (lovely, massively in bed with the oil industry) MP, who was a protege of Owen Paterson and was previously suspended from Parliament for dodgy behaviour. Anyone know what he's been accused of? This is the lad that seriously wanted the Northern Ireland job... a lifetime of poor choices continues. 
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Oct 7, 2022 21:27
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Guavanaut posted:Yeah it's boilerplate Rhetoric Of Reaction, of this type: I mean literally, I think I've said before but he was interviewed by Adam Buxton on his podcast and one of the first things he said was something like he's more exited about an idea if it's interesting than if it's correct.
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Oct 7, 2022 22:24
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Stephen Colbert may have his faults but his description of Gladwell as 'Explaino the Clown' will always bring me joy.
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Oct 7, 2022 22:35
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Guavanaut posted:Yeah it's boilerplate Rhetoric Of Reaction, of this type: Yeah, it's pure and simple "the Green Lefty Treehugging Ecopeople want to save energy therefore We Will Nevah Nevah".
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Just Another Lurker posted:This is the lad that seriously wanted the Northern Ireland job... a lifetime of poor choices continues. https://twitter.com/officialmelb/status/1578487276707143682?s=46&t=aa424-Wq98tOmKU-XoluYA We're in the full-on crazy timeline now, folks. I expect the nukes to start flying any day now.
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Had a minor brain fart and briefly wondered what government office melanie brown obe was holdin Minister of zigazig ah
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Oct 7, 2022 23:04
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Um axshully it's MBE - Mel of the British Empire Only one of the Spiciest Girls even approached a GBOL (you know the one)
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Oct 7, 2022 23:56
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Kin posted:Ah, so self assessment is where I'd do silly poo poo like claim a car as a business expense if I was set up as a contractor with my own limited company doing freelance work or something? If you are setting up as a ltd company, you need an accountant. Cost me about £50 (albeit 8 yrs ago) to painlessly register online with Companies House. You can self assess as a Sole Trader but depends on the type of work you're actually doing - I was an ST for years until they changed the rules somewhat around 2014 and no-one would employ you as a freelancer in the print/graphics trade unless you were limited. I pay £150 a month on retainer for my accountant but he's saved me untold ££££ over the years above board, and you can claim on that fee as a necessary business expense too. It's absolutely worth it for a good one who'll sort all the bits you can and can't claim on without you having to work out %'s etc. And for anyone who wants to start grieving me about shorting the tax man, I'm in that class of 1 man band companies that got precisely gently caress poo poo out of the government and had to take a loan out to stay afloat during Covid, and IR35 is a loving pain in the arse, although fairly easy to get around without even lying. We charge more because we don't get holiday/sick pay etc etc.
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Payndz posted:We're in the full-on crazy timeline now, folks. I expect the nukes to start flying any day now. What do you mean, "now"?
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Payndz posted:Apparently Burns was fired and lost the whip because... of something he said to Mel B from the Spice Girls in a lift?!? What did he say?
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Goldskull posted:If you are setting up as a ltd company, you need an accountant. Cost me about £50 (albeit 8 yrs ago) to painlessly register online with Companies House. You can self assess as a Sole Trader but depends on the type of work you're actually doing - I was an ST for years until they changed the rules somewhat around 2014 and no-one would employ you as a freelancer in the print/graphics trade unless you were limited. Thanks for all the info. It feels like self assessment is moving into Power User territory for tax, but all I wanna do is claim child benefits while earning over £50k It's all numbers, so why can't their systems just handle that.
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Guavanaut posted:Shaft bearing, it's possible it just needs lubricating but more likely that it just needs chucking. My father is a massive free marketeer and I once proposed getting him a t-shirt that said 'Good Things = Gulags' so anyone he cornered and engaged in conversation would have a heads up about the inevitable conclusion of his argument
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Oct 8, 2022 08:16
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Jippa posted:What did he say? I think you'd have to ask Mel B
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Oct 8, 2022 08:19
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I expect it was something overly sexual, and since it happened to one of their conference speakers they can't sweep it under the rug. poo poo man, hate living in his ward.
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Oct 8, 2022 08:55
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This is a good time for the regular reminder that the Spice Girls are all Tories who loved Thatcher.
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serious gaylord posted:I expect it was something overly sexual He's gay so it's not impossible but it's unlikely
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Jedit posted:This is a good time for the regular reminder that the Spice Girls are all Tories who loved Thatcher. The original girl boss
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Jedit posted:This is a good time for the regular reminder that the Spice Girls are all Tories who loved Thatcher. you've naively bought into some bad journalism there I'm afraid. Only two of them were. Emma: I don't think so. I'm really not into anything like that. We had the big interview and I didn't say anything. I didn't even talk and there was a picture of me outside 10 Downing Street. I don't think I'll vote - am I allowed to say that? Do I think Margaret Thatcher is the original Spice Girl? Not particularly. My mum is. Victoria: Personally I am a Tory. I was the one who called John Major a boring pillock. It depends how much they play on it, I suppose. If I'm being totally honest I wouldn't be surprised if it did influence people, especially younger people. Apparently I got asked the other day to go round to John Major's for tea with him and Norma. But he hasn't actually asked me. Mel B: I don't believe in anything political because I'm an anarchist and I think the way the world's run is crap at the moment. That was bad journalism. It was twisted beyond belief and that's why it caused such a stir. I'm not a voter. Mel C: I shouldn't think so. We are all very young girls and half of us haven't got a clue about politics for a start. I don't vote anymore because I don't know enough about politics to vote. I think you should be taught in school about politics. When I voted, I voted Labour. I'm from working-class Liverpool. Can you imagine the stick I got when all that was in the paper? My dad really frightened me. He was: you want to watch yourself when you go back to Liverpool. Margaret Thatcher? I think Margaret Thatcher is a complete prick, after what she's done to my hometown. Geri: I really wish they'd written the whole loving drat interview. There was a real coalition government among us: an anarchist, a Labour, two Conservative and one that couldn't give a gently caress. Mel C was Labour, Victoria and I was Conservative - and even then I'm a little bit Liberal and Greenpeace - and Melanie B's an anarchist and Emma wasn't sure. It was my quote that Margaret Thatcher was a Spice Girl - she was the first advocate of Girl Power. Of course, she destroyed a lot of things. Everyone makes mistakes and she did. She hosed up big-time loads of different things, definitely, but what I give her credit for is she is the first loving woman. It said in the paper she sent me a Christmas card. It's still stuck in the post.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:you've naively bought into some bad journalism there I'm afraid. Only two of them were. This is even worse than all of them just being tories.
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stev posted:This is even worse than all of them just being tories. Why?
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Oct 8, 2022 10:41
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Always knew the 2 Mels were the good ones, this is vindicating. Also they're ageing way better than the others, which I have to believe isn't coincidental
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Oct 8, 2022 10:43
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stev posted:This is even worse than all of them just being tories. They were a manufactured band, put together to make money - it was a job not friendship. I certainly don't get on with everyone at my job.
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Oct 8, 2022 10:56
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Tories: gently caress the troops, the troops are lazy freeloaders, all my homies hate the troops
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Oct 8, 2022 10:56
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I didn't expect the gently caress Everyone party to gently caress me
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Oct 8, 2022 11:00
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No more old smelly buggers stinking up the place and constantly talking about how they stuck it up Jerry and they didn't like it. Only decent Tory Prime Ministers and parliament members shall have expenses paid to have the privilege to pretend to care in front of the cameras.
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I expect this is the beginning of the end of it, as with Trafalgar Day and Waterloo and Sebastopol and Khartoum and Rorke's Drift. There was the big centennial and now it's going to taper off, until more people remember it for the film where Michael Caine drove a mini cooper into a bunch of Black men than the actual events, so any remembrance just becomes a pantomime of itself.
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Oct 8, 2022 11:19
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NotJustANumber99 posted:you've naively bought into some bad journalism there I'm afraid. Only two of them were. somehow they perfectly mirror the english political landscape
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Oct 8, 2022 11:21
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Mel B: the B stands for "based"
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Guavanaut posted:I expect this is the beginning of the end of it, as with Trafalgar Day and Waterloo and Sebastopol and Khartoum and Rorke's Drift. Definitely a good idea for the world to forget that war led to the death of millions, yep yep yep
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Oct 8, 2022 11:35
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Rarity posted:Definitely a good idea for the world to forget that war led to the death of millions, yep yep yep Only matters if we remember the right things in the right way, though. The way it's been going, we'll soon remember WW1 as a jolly European holiday where some lads from Accrington went and dug a trench in Flanders, it got a bit muddy for a bit, they wrote some poetry and some of them died when they were ordered to charge a machine gun, but it's OK because the general had never seen a machine gun before and it was all in the name of preserving Freedom and British Values. Remembrance has increasingly been getting less about remembering the millions of dead and how horrible and futile it all was, and more about celebrating the fact that all those people died for a noble cause. Which is probably worse than forgetting it entirely.
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BalloonFish posted:Only matters if we remember the right things in the right way, though.
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BalloonFish posted:Remembrance has increasingly been getting less about remembering the millions of dead and how horrible and futile it all was, and more about celebrating the fact that all those people died for a noble cause. Which is probably worse than forgetting it entirely.
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