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Dickchard Lice.
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Looks like the CBI's going under lol. These days, you can't even turn a blind eye to a culture of sexual abuse within your organisation without woke zealots (ftse 100 companies) deciding to boycott you.
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in don’t get why some companies have “paused” their membership while others have quit? come on, it’s like the end of the News if the World, everyone knows it’s a dead man walking
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As predicted: https://twitter.com/unfetteredmind1/status/1649188721307140100?s=20
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This is a story as a reminder that the NHS is full of great people when you let it work. Had stomach pain Tuesday/Wednesday, phoned up GP on Thursday morning and they had a telephone consultation for me later than morning. Describe my problems over the phone, GP asks if I can make it to her surgery by midday to check if it's appendicitis. I go in, she determines it's worth sending me to hospital and by 3pm the hospital has diagnosed me with appendicitis and puts me in for surgery. Due to other people needing surgery more urgently I get bumped to the next morning and have a painful night, but the (foreign) nurses are constantly checking my temperature and giving me pain relief overnight to try and help me cope. I go under the knife 10am next morning, have my appendix removed, and now am just waiting for the all-clear to go home. I've been very lucky with how swiftly and kindly everyone has acted, but I shouldn't have to be lucky- this should just be how things work. The NHS first and foremost needs more staff and more staff consistency - any reforms to the structure of the NHS can only happen when there isn't a manpower crisis due to low pay.
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Look dude, if you're going to make Party Political Shitposts on behalf of the Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist), you need to clearly indicate that they were paid for by Jeremy Corbyn. tia
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More seriously, happy to hear you got given the treatment needed Nothingtoseehere.
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big scary monsters posted:I used the Dartford crossing once and it was the worst three hours I've spent in Kent, which is saying something. Then as a additional slap in the face once you get across you're in Essex. Lmao, as someone from Essex who managed to escape after finishing school this just hits home. Essex and Kent are just terrible, terrible places, a blight upon an already blighted nation.
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Rabelais D posted:Lmao, as someone from Essex who managed to escape after finishing school this just hits home. Essex and Kent are just terrible, terrible places, a blight upon an already blighted nation. You went to a finishing school? Great language we have there, would be a shame if someone ambiguated it
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I don't know why I do this to myself, reading all these fascist bullies out in force defending the appalling Raab on twitter.
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Tories gonna tory Jaeluni! It's hard to not stare into the void. My mum wanted me to wheel her round M&S today as a treat. Spent 90 quid on a small bag of shopping. Most of it covered in Charles' face.
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https://twitter.com/JuliaHB1/status/1649680919421235200 There are some incredible dogshit opinions this morning, but this one really stood out. lol e: There's also this from last night https://twitter.com/AllisonPearson/status/1649381450595155968 fuctifino fucked around with this message at 10:39 on Apr 22, 2023 |
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This is going to be weird and long so apologies in advance. I'm a long time lurker, I've lurked since LF and transitioned to the UKMT thread at its demise. I find it difficult to communicate, I either come across as stiff or end up going full TMI (this is going to be TMI, probably) and that's why I haven't posted. One of my daughters has told me to start talking to people, so this is what I'm doing. It's also going to be weird because while none of you know me, I've been lurking here for years so it feels like I know all of you, lol. I've always been on the left side of politics, maybe even more left than most as I grew up in the deep south of the US as an opiniated, non-religious female and spent my youth fighting racists, misogynists, homophobes, transphobes, climate deniers and mean spirited idiots. I usually lost but I kept fighting. I moved here in the 90's and fell in love with this stupid country and I've been here ever since. I live in Northumberland and still love this stupid country. I am old (Jaeluni age, roughly) and have been a self employed plushie doll maker since leaving a toxic work environment that gave me enough of a settlement to start up the doll making venture. I've struggled, honestly, but I am happy to be out of office work and working for myself. I previously used the Solidarity Fund to help me sort out a disaster with British Gas but there are so many people who are in truly desperate circumstances, I'm not comfortable asking for more. I've recently found out that the hernia I've been carrying around for several years is, in essence, inoperable. My age, size, the size of the hernia (think 10 months pregnant), general health and the length of the operation (4+ hours) give a minimum fail rate of 30% and they sent me away with a view to re-evaluate in 2 years. I can only imagine the outlook will be similar so I am coming to terms with being like this permanently. It sucks, but that's life. It means that my safety net of going back into the work force if this fails isn't a possibility unless they can offer fully remote work. I've had a couple of interviews but as soon as they realise my age, they politely decline to move forward. I'm hoping that you all can help me the way you helped Camrath with his fudge venture. I need work. If anyone is interested in ordering a plushie of any sort, I've made a thread in the SA Mart thread and I am truly in need of orders. I can provide pics of my work, I primarily make video game characters, anime characters, OCs and small creatures (Pokemon, Digimon, Splatoon Squids, etc) but if you can describe it to me, I can make it. I would very much like to both pay my bills and eat but it's becoming increasingly difficult to do this. I've watched the way this thread cares for and supports each other for years and I'm hoping a little of that camaraderie can flow towards me. Sorry for the wall of text. If anyone has any questions, work related or not, I'm more than will to answer them. Here is the link (thanks, Sebzilla!) https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4030236 verydarkblue fucked around with this message at 11:11 on Apr 22, 2023 |
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Hello and welcome, friend. This is indeed a deeply stupid country but the fact you've actively chosen to live here speaks volumes. There's enough good bits to make the shite bearable. Very sorry to hear about your health worries, and best of luck with the plushies. I'll check out your SA Mart thread (maybe drop a link for ease?) You and all other lurkers should never feel reticent about starting to contribute to the thread. We're all gently caress ups here, so 
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Honestly, it's such a beautiful country! I grew up on the Gulf Coast, hot, humid and flat. Where most people want to live someplace like that, all I remember are the mosquitos, the palmetto bugs (large, flying roaches that just don't die), heat and sand everywhere. I love it here. When I first moved here we did a driving tour of England and Scotland and it was amazing. Just a shame about the politics, the monarchy and the overabundance of gammon.
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The climate can be a bit depressing (both weather-wise and socially) but yeah I wouldn't want to live elsewhere. Echoing and welcome.
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verydarkblue posted:This is going to be weird and long so apologies in advance. I'm a long time lurker, I've lurked since LF and transitioned to the UKMT thread at its demise. I find it difficult to communicate, I either come across as stiff or end up going full TMI (this is going to be TMI, probably) and that's why I haven't posted. One of my daughters has told me to start talking to people, so this is what I'm doing. It's also going to be weird because while none of you know me, I've been lurking here for years so it feels like I know all of you, lol. I've always been on the left side of politics, maybe even more left than most as I grew up in the deep south of the US as an opiniated, non-religious female and spent my youth fighting racists, misogynists, homophobes, transphobes, climate deniers and mean spirited idiots. I usually lost but I kept fighting. I moved here in the 90's and fell in love with this stupid country and I've been here ever since. I live in Northumberland and still love this stupid country. Greetings fellow "Golden Girl"  It is tough getting work over 55 - employers are far too ready to dismiss 'oldies' as being 'unable to learn new tricks' or 'bad with tech' or whatever load of age-discriminatory BS they can come up with. These happen to be my bug bears: In my work, the only two of us who have the faintest inkling on how computers work, able to sort out computer problems, get to grips with new software etc are a volunteer - it's a charity - who is pushing 80yo & only just beginning to go 'off the boil', and myself - 63 next week - and the only reason we can't sort out more is because 'they' won't give us the admin passwords for 365 etc to sort out some simple years-long niggles that we could fix in probably 15 mins). The youngsters in their 40s are clueless, never backup their stuff, & spend hours emailing our extremely elusive microsoft consultant which we are obliged to have because that is apparently one of the rules for getting full 365 free as a charity but who never answers emails or the phone. I hope your plushies takes off.
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verydarkblue posted:I kind of like the weather and some of people, lol. that's the spirit
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OwlFancier posted:The climate can be a bit depressing (both weather-wise and socially) but yeah I wouldn't want to live elsewhere. The climate is good. Never too hot or cold, rare to get extremely high winds. Bit of damp & grey is a price worth paying
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Greetings fellow "Golden Girl" Yeah, I get this. I was into computers, and new technology in general, from the very beginning. I've always had the tendency to tinker with something if it didn't work the way I wanted it to and ended up learning a lot that way. But people see an old person, 64 at the end of this year, and think I spend my time emailing cat memes to my fellow grannies, lol. Some folk just don't have the desire to tinker with things, it's kind of sad.
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forkboy84 posted:The climate is good. Never too hot or cold, rare to get extremely high winds. Bit of damp & grey is a price worth paying Also no big natural weather incidents, apart from some flooding, yet. No hurricanes (lived through a couple of big ones), no tornadoes, and no earthquakes.
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I am mostly just grousing because I've missed all the nice weather due to being at work and it's been pissy rain for weeks. The UK can have wonderful weather I just could do with some.
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fuctifino posted:e: There's also this from last night I love this opinion that the Civll Service - the Civil Service! Sir Humphrey and co.! Literally the Establishment! are somehow bomb-throwing revolutionaries.
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The weather can get quite grey and depressing and grousing is perfectly acceptable. When I first moved here it took me quite a while to get used to the grey and the darkness of winter. Also grousing is one of my favourite words; I never heard it before I moved here and it works in so well in so many situations.
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feedmegin posted:I love this opinion that the Civll Service - the Civil Service! Sir Humphrey and co.! Literally the Establishment! are somehow bomb-throwing revolutionaries. Well you see they all went to university at some point, so they are basically loonie left students because that's what all students are these days as the telegraph keeps telling me.
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She mostly hides under her desk in case gargantuan meat cube Gordon Brown throws 150kg 90s era photocopiers through her window.
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Guavanaut posted:https://twitter.com/AllisonPearson/status/1649409500166737920 I think she might be thinking of Geoff Capes.  Easy mistake to make (it’s the kilt).
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So normal workers are bone idle and won't work. Small boat immigrants are bone idle and won't work. Railway workers are bone idle and won't work. Junior doctors are bone idle and won't work. Now the Civil Service is bone idle and won't work.
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