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Scientastic posted:Amazing how consistently people who’ve had literally everything handed to them on a plate think that everyone else needs to earn the right to Also, there's gently caress all chance that any children of spoilt shitheads would have to do any menial tasks
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3 bottles of milk this week have turned before I could finish them. Granted, 1 was in fact a day past the sell by date, but 2 of them go out on the 2nd September. Swear to god I've poured more milk down the drain since Brexit in the 30 years of my life before that.
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forkboy84 posted:3 bottles of milk this week have turned before I could finish them. Granted, 1 was in fact a day past the sell by date, but 2 of them go out on the 2nd September. Turn your fridge on
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Aug 31, 2023 09:18
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huh, it's showing a different article for me 
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Turn your fridge on I have 
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Guavanaut posted:A year of volunteering doing hospital laundry in exchange for free further education or a mortgage credit, maybe. A friend of mine said that there should be a national service, but it should be "work in the retail sector" for a year. Just so you learn to empathise and not abuse retail staff. Honestly I don't think he's wrong.
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Aug 31, 2023 09:21
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:huh, it's showing a different article for me God, if only Britain's only good columnist would cover my plight
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Aug 31, 2023 09:21
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You sure a Scottish Tory hasn't moved next door and cursed the milk in a local radius
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Aug 31, 2023 09:24
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I actually think National Service would be great if it involved a varied mix of work that would otherwise be left to charities, like park gardening work, nature preservation work, beach cleaning, doing stuff for the elderly, etc etc. Of course all this stuff, ideally, would be fully paid for work funded by the government but in the absence of that, such 'national service' might provide a lot of useful experience to young people, so long as it's genuinely useful, varied, rewarded in some way, and they're given some degree of choice in what they're involved in. Especially if they have a career in mind and some particular activity would help fast track them into that. Edit: reading the telegraph article quote:The scheme would see teenagers spend a fortnight away on a civic exploration trip and be made to complete a certain amount of volunteering hours in a year. Honestly doesn't sound that bad at all. Microplastics fucked around with this message at 09:30 on Aug 31, 2023 |
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Microplastics posted:I actually think National Service would be great if it involved a varied mix of work that would otherwise be left to charities, like park gardening work, nature preservation work, beach cleaning, doing stuff for the elderly, etc etc. Been reading Robert Caro's LBJ biographies (which own own own) and Roosevelt's New Deal National Youth Administration designed to create jobs for young people and pay school tuition seems like a pretty great idea. That said, any modern equivalent would inevitably be extracting free labour from teenagers to enrich Tory donors.
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Microplastics posted:I actually think National Service would be great if it involved a varied mix of work that would otherwise be left to charities, like park gardening work, nature preservation work, beach cleaning, doing stuff for the elderly, etc etc. There's no need for it to be limited to or mandatory for young people, though. If the government ran a "National Labour Service" that offered decent wages to anyone who wanted to sign up that did useful cleanup/gardening/preservation work and encouraged young people to sign up for it out of school to get some skills, I don't think anyone would object. Well, except for the right wing, who would call it communism.
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The Question IRL posted:A friend of mine said that there should be a national service, but it should be "work in the retail sector" for a year. Just so you learn to empathise and not abuse retail staff.
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I work with a lot of Germans, who did national service for Germany. It was scrapped there in 2011. Absolutely none of it helps get a career, unless its shouting at people or to be a soldier.
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It'll solve the fruit pickers shortage and probably not pay the kids minimum wage
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Torygraph article about avocados and I didn't know that they're the new 'blood diamonds'. Quite an interesting read for the ground it covers! https://archive.ph/zExIK Quote of last to one paragraph: quote:You might remember that this involves leaning backwards over a hostess trolley, being beaten on the bottom by a copy of Woman’s Weekly, and the following plea from Freda: “Let’s do it, let’s do it, I feel I absolutely must / I won’t exempt you, I want to tempt you, want to drive you mad with lust / No cautions, just contortions, smear an avocado on my lower portions.” original source: torygraph/food-and-drink/features/avocado-industry-history-cartels-millennials-nigella
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forkboy84 posted:God, if only Britain's only good columnist would cover my plight no joke i’m sure he would sympathetically read your email and consider it for next weeks article
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I knew I'd made it in Brexit Britain when Adrian Chiles wrote about my problem.
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Kin posted:I mean, does that one off cost come with what's essentially 6TB of cloud storage? Fair enough, your use case is valid. I personally just refuse to support the SAAS model and to keep paying when I can buy once, properly. My backups are on two separate external hard drives, each synchronised with my main drive once a quarter using rsync. Game saves are on steam cloud anyway so all I'm backing up is my documents and photos, some of which are also in a free Dropbox.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Torygraph article about avocados and I didn't know that they're the new 'blood diamonds'. Quite an interesting read for the ground it covers! Erm, I take it that you deliberately excluded the fact that it's from a comedy song by the late and much missed Victoria Wood?
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:huh, it's showing a different article for me Lmao. The best bit is you kept the "death and dying" category tag 
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Software is a service now. Really the forums should be a dollar a month
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Jedit posted:Erm, I take it that you deliberately excluded the fact that it's from a comedy song by the late and much missed Victoria Wood? I didn't know that. (If it said in the article, it passed me by!)
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Software is a service now. Really the forums should be a dollar a month I'll never like & subscribe to your posts
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I didn't know that. (If it said in the article, it passed me by!) It did, in the first sentence of the paragraph you quoted.
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Jedit posted:It did, in the first sentence of the paragraph you quoted. Don't be rude  maybe she hasn't got her reading glasses on 
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The Question IRL posted:A friend of mine said that there should be a national service, but it should be "work in the retail sector" for a year. Just so you learn to empathise and not abuse retail staff. A year in hospitality would do wonders.
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:huh, it's showing a different article for me lmao
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Jedit posted:It did, in the first sentence of the paragraph you quoted. Microplastics posted:Don't be rude  I had forgotten by the time I copied and pasted the quote from my incognito browser window to this. Or some such excuse. This is what comes of multi-tasking.Just went back & checked the article. Victoria Wood's name is underlined hence why I probably skimmed over it as I normally skip over links (and poems) when reading. Can't stand poems in novels. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 10:32 on Aug 31, 2023 |
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The Question IRL posted:A friend of mine said that there should be a national service, but it should be "work in the retail sector" for a year. Just so you learn to empathise and not abuse retail staff.
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okay so we just did zombie knives again, nice bit of the ol' tabloid fear campaign bringing back a recent popular hit now it's some gritted teeth and pronounced vein nostalgia-wanking over national service by folk largely born a decade+ after it ended what's next on the hatescreen- air gun/crossbow armed teens? "thugs" on skunk? Romanians eating swans? I swear they just have a loving roulette wheel somewhere
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Albanian drug gangs using crossbows to hunt swans. Armed robbers converting £600 antique revolvers to rob a bookies that holds £200 in cash. Teens inhaling barbecue gas directly from barbecue grills. Shell suits in gang colours. Strawberry jenkem.
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Guavanaut posted:Albanian drug gangs using crossbows to hunt swans. Albanian drug barbecues converting £600 grills to shells in strawberry colours. Crossbow jenkem. Teens inhaling antique revolvers directly from swan bookies. It’s political correctness gone mad is what it is.
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smellmycheese posted:I’d imagine it would be a bit upsetting for the kids but I can definitely see the positive side too I believe, being a member of the nobility and all, we actually beheaded him. Edit: outside of his own Banqueting House, where there is now a big ol' statue of Oliver Cromwell, which I kind of like as a reminder to our monarchy along the lines of 'gently caress around and find out'. feedmegin fucked around with this message at 11:05 on Aug 31, 2023 |
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DesperateDan posted:okay so we just did zombie knives again, nice bit of the ol' tabloid fear campaign bringing back a recent popular hit A lot of the children round here wear balaklavas when walking around the streets. I think it might be something to do with "drill" music.
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:A lot of the children round here wear balaklavas when walking around the streets. I think it might be something to do with "drill" music. Misread this as the kids wearing baklava and got confused. May be normal if you live on a mountain though
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:I think it might be something to do with "drill" music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spJoRLpDLLM
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Guavanaut posted:Albanian drug gangs using crossbows to hunt swans. Education, Education, Education
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crispix posted:you can still find beds made up in the houses of elder folk who never bought into duvets and it's a very elaborate layering of sheets and quilts and blankets and frilly anomalies Americans still do this, as I understand it, 'duvets' never quite made it across the Atlantic.
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The that they can apparently make it across the Channel terrifies Braverman.Beefeater1980 posted:Crossbow jenkem.  forkboy84 posted:Misread this as the kids wearing baklava and got confused.  Ban this sick filth.
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