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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:Charities are no less vulnerable to corruption and graft than any institution Oh I know that. Just shocked that the small St Mungos I used to know has morphed into this.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Labour welcomes its new policy director, the Transformer Cyclonus Let's face it, at this point the Decepticons couldn't be worse for the country than the Tories are.
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OwlFancier posted:I still think back to the adverts they had in the bus station in boro basically amounting to "don't give homeless people money, give it to 'real charities' instead." This always pissed me right off, because if everyone actually followed that directive, which you assume the charities want because that’s what they wrote on a bus stop in big letters, most homeless people would simply die because they no longer had any money whatsoever. Deranged stuff. Labour winds me up in a very particular way that I can’t put my finger on. It’s the person at the edge of a party who insists they’re good fun and always talk about how fun they are but as soon as someone gets on a table to dance they go ‘no come on we all like fun but no get down come on’. Like outside of their ghoulish politics, there’s something far more personally dislikable about them than someone like Boris or most of the current Tory crop. It’s like how Sauron is more evil but you definitely hate Denethor more.
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Angrymog posted:Let's face it, at this point the Decepticons couldn't be worse for the country than the Tories are. At least they have an interest in producing some loving energy
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https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1677953483973054465 She looked genuinely uncomfortable keeping to the party line. I hope she is uncomfortable and that all of this keeps her up at night. https://twitter.com/coldwarsteve/status/1677964321970585606
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Come on now CWS. The Tories wouldn't give them beds.
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A lot of these charities seem to be made up of a bunch of sincere and dedicated staff who work very hard for peanuts, and then there's a different class of people at the top of the organisations who earn 6 figure salaries, all know each other socially and who utterly despise the ordinary employees.
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Dear Keir, I'm afraid there is no money. Kind regards - and good luck! Kier
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Pistol_Pete posted:A lot of these charities seem to be made up of a bunch of sincere and dedicated staff who work very hard for peanuts, and then there's a different class of people at the top of the organisations who earn 6 figure salaries, all know each other socially and who utterly despise the ordinary employees. we have to pay them six figure salaries because if we didn’t they would work for BP or Shell or some arms manufacturer
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Pistol_Pete posted:A lot of these charities seem to be made up of a bunch of sincere and dedicated staff who work very hard for peanuts, and then there's a different class of people at the top of the organisations who earn 6 figure salaries, all know each other socially and who utterly despise the ordinary employees. This does happen (cough cough cancer research cough cough) but a lot of big charities get caught in this dragnet unfairly. I used to work for a major development charity and say what you will about international development charities but their CEO was on about 120k - it’s a lot of money but for being responsible for a globe spanning international organisation responsible for millions of lives, it’s pretty fair I think. What I’m saying is, be wary but don’t let it put you off all the bigger charities.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Probably not - they're just flinging names around & I noticed [redacted] was trending on the theme. i was just going to make a joke about it being Wario yesterday wehn you posted that perish the thought b/c i enjoy his reassuringly boring demeanour and Welsh voice Somebody fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Jul 9, 2023 |
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crispix posted:i was just going to make a joke about it being Wario yesterday wehn you posted that My old mate who is at ITV tells me the news desk says it’s definitely Wario Somebody fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Jul 9, 2023 |
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gently caress SAKE 
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crispix posted:gently caress SAKE
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Fitting for a sexual predator to announce the queen's death on the beeb.
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huw's wang is for the children
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Failed Imagineer posted:https://twitter.com/thetimes/status/1677932051792625664?t=Wu-lkGJQUa0jcjQ3kozu1A&s=19 Keith looking like someone just held up a second bag of Wet Eggs that need eating.
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Jakabite posted:It’s like how Sauron is more evil but you definitely hate Denethor more. Hold on what? Denethor is a man driven to madness by fake news and grief for his son, and is generally right about Gandalf's plans and the way things are going. Meanwhile Sauron has literal armies of slaves, tortures people to death and wants to conquer the world
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Sauron's the devil, denethor's a person, and a right bellend of one at that. Also in the movies he's just a colossal prick to faramir for no reason and then when faramir gets hosed up because of his incompetence, he completely ignores reality and continues to just make it all about him to the point of nearly killing faramir in the process.
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SixFigureSandwich posted:Hold on what? Denethor is a man driven to madness by fake news and grief for his son, and is generally right about Gandalf's plans and the way things are going. Meanwhile Sauron has literal armies of slaves, tortures people to death and wants to conquer the world They might mean Movie Denethor, where they went out of their way to make him vaguely unlikeable
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Movie Denethor is much worse than Book Denethor. In the books he's grumpy and suspicious of Gandalf and friends, but all his military decisions are strategically sound until the point where Faramir is lying there unconscious and dying, and he gives up (he doesn't know that Faramir could be cured if a True King showed up with the right kind of herbs)
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Jakabite posted:Labour winds me up in a very particular way that I can’t put my finger on. They're a prophylactic between workers and management, and the worst thing is they're dumb enough to think they're on the side of management.
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Mega Comrade posted:Jfc that's a bit much... It absolutely loving isn't at this point.
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Diet Crack posted:It absolutely loving isn't at this point. 
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Leave it to this thread to side with an elitist wizard and literal royalty over a working class steward  #gondorneedsnoking
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Lets not get into a marxist analysis of LotR because the politics are, as the Germans say, sehr gefuckt.
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Tell you who I am feeling sorry for - and that's all the people who have the same name as the Chief Suspect in the BBC scandal. I know one and I just looked on FB and there are loads of them. Probably about to have their FBs targeted by numskulls.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:They're middle management pricks. Every oval office who's ever wrung their hands and apologised for not being able to give you a pay rise or sorting out working conditions, while prostrating themselves for the management above. This is why I couldn't hack it as a manager. I couldn't spend the year telling people they were great then giving them gently caress all when it came to pay rises. Even when I would offer to forego mine to pay for it. I could never understand that, it's my money!
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Is there any kind of restriction under UK privacy laws on BBC presenters who are in the crosshairs going on record to say "Nope, not me. Please don't burn down my house"? I'm aware that some already have, but I'm pretty sure that I remember people potentially facing prosecution for doing so a few years back during the super injunction fuss. in a small pool of candidates (male high profile BBC television presenters), ruling yourself out as a culprit narrows the list for identifying the real perpetrator. I'm also 100% sure the Sun has been planning to go with a monday morning headline of "BBC suspends (insert name here), what can that possibly be about?"
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Tell you who I am feeling sorry for - and that's all the people who have the same name as the Chief Suspect in the BBC scandal. Enlighten me as to who it is... Sunday is boring... i probably won't know wtf it is any way. 
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Just Another Lurker posted:Enlighten me as to who it is... Sunday is boring... i probably won't know wtf it is any way. I've decided not to name him (I redacted my earlier posts but can't redact where I've been quoted) because it might not be him at all.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I've decided not to name him (I redacted my earlier posts but can't redact where I've been quoted) because it might not be him at all. No worries, twas requested due to boredom, not intense interest. 
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Just to re-rail a derial, many years ago (just before the millenium I think?) we got one of the really early digital set top boxes (OnDigital?), before it got killed off, and we had movies on demand (ish). I forget exactly how we paid, but you then got a message saying the movie would start in x minutes. They basically had a number of digital channels for each movie starting every 15 minutes or so, and when you paid your set got the code to let it tune in to the next one to start. It was a bit shonky but it kind of worked.
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