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josh04 posted:Any UKMT folk at the march in london today? Yep, literally on the train now.
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Pistol_Pete posted:Getting married today. It's that awkward time where it's still too early to put my suit on and leave the house, I don't really feel like doing anything else and I probably shouldn't start drinking just yet. Ugh, just want it to be over. Getting married owns, my man. Hope you have an absolute belter!
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I hope Jaeluni Asjil is doing well, iirc she lives somewhere even more flood prone than me, and it's getting a bit silly around here.Angepain posted:from now on i will never leave the house without at least three concealed carry sandwiches hidden on my person. much more likely than guns to be helpful in an emergency, at least smellmycheese posted:I see the discourse has moved on to “Octopii are Antisemitic”
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happyhippy posted:What march is it? https://palestinecampaign.org/events/national-march-for-palestine-stop-the-war-on-gaza/ National March For Palestine. I went to the one last Saturday too which was peaceful, emotional and felt significant. For those that care about this issue, again I strongly encourage you to come out and protest if you can, especially those who might feel scared or intimidated - you are not alone.
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Pistol_Pete posted:Getting married today. It's that awkward time where it's still too early to put my suit on and leave the house, I don't really feel like doing anything else and I probably shouldn't start drinking just yet. Ugh, just want it to be over. A wedding is a party where technically, you're the host, but you have paid people (and got a best man/MoH) to do the poo poo-giving, it's literally your day to kick back and let it roll by now. Have fun!
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frytechnician posted:Yep, literally on the train now. Same, gonna be a bit late but it looks like a big one. Can't imagine it's going to get anywhere fast. e: obligatory wedding grats, have a great day!
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Monica Bellucci posted:Make reasonably concealable sandwiches for you and the bride that you can have on your person. There can be a looong period between wedding and eats sometimes. Excellent advice. I had to dispatch one of the photographers to go get a scotch egg from the bride which I then hastily gobbled over a basin. I always make sure to arrive full at other people's weddings.
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Pistol_Pete posted:Getting married today. It's that awkward time where it's still too early to put my suit on and leave the house, I don't really feel like doing anything else and I probably shouldn't start drinking just yet. Ugh, just want it to be over. my hard earned but non-specific advice is that you will be hearing the same loving anecdotes about whatever happens today for the rest of your life
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Guavanaut posted:I hope Jaeluni Asjil is doing well, iirc she lives somewhere even more flood prone than me, and it's getting a bit silly around here. I was nearly stuck in that lovely puddle on the Ludlow bypass yesterday. People were driving into flowing water and then wondering why the car stopped working.
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Pistol_Pete posted:Getting married today. It's that awkward time where it's still too early to put my suit on and leave the house, I don't really feel like doing anything else and I probably shouldn't start drinking just yet. Ugh, just want it to be over. If you have the time, go into a nail bar and get a manicure. Today is the one day where most people will want photos of your hands. May as well make them look good.
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Pistol_Pete posted:Getting married today. It's that awkward time where it's still too early to put my suit on and leave the house, I don't really feel like doing anything else and I probably shouldn't start drinking just yet. Ugh, just want it to be over. Congratulation! No, don't start drinking! Guavanaut posted:I hope Jaeluni Asjil is doing well, iirc she lives somewhere even more flood prone than me, and it's getting a bit silly around here. I'm fine, thanks Guav, not too bad down here and there's theoretically (according to the BBC) no rain or just a bit of drizzle for the next couple of days. Our worst nail-biting time is generally February. Right now I'm 15-20m from the river. At its worst I've been about 7m from the river thundering behind the backwall of the communal garden and just a handspan below it. Stay safe all you demonstrators! Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 14:53 on Oct 21, 2023 |
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notaspy posted:Most of the people I talk to are saying stuff like "this is what you need to do to get elected" or "they will be better in power". I doubt he has any kind of plans for what to do when he does win, other than stuff he's been told will make him popular (with donors). Reeves wants to gut the welfare state and Streeting wants to dismantle the NHS and hand it over to private companies, but Starmer just wants to be The Biggest Manager and sit in the big chair and has zero loving idea what to do when he's there. It explains why his ideological bent shifts so wildly between being a student supporter of Palestine and in a band, to being a lawyer and then director of prosecutions, to sricking closely to Corbyn and talking about the 'moral case for socialism' in his pledges, and then dropping them the second he was leader. He will say whatever he needs to say to win; but the problem is that when he does 'win,' being devoid of any ideology of his own and having the moral constitution of a goldfish, he will shift to the consensus of whatever group he feels will keep him 'winning.' I doubt he even sees it as duplicitous. People are calling him a fascist, but he is so much worse than that - a mediocre fascist can be stymied by the contradictions in their ideology or exposed for the piece of poo poo they really are. Starmer has no such inner turmoil. He's a void. A blank. He's the kind of person who, if presented by push-polling from the Sun saying people wanted to bring back hanging (and was told by the Akehurst SpAd wing it would give his ratings a boost) he'd open a debate to be 'fair to the will of the people,' never for one second considering personally if he felt it was right or not. Despite constantly being accused of being a populist, Corbyn realised that politicians have an ideological duty to make the case to the public for certain ideals, to shift public opinion and debate in a healthier direction. To advocate for the things you believe are right. Starmer is 100% the kind of centrist who doesn't even understand the overton window - or worse, doesn't care about it. He just wants to win at any cost, and that makes him an incredibly dangerous person to be at the helm of a political party because of the things - like Reeves and Streeting - that he'll enable. Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 15:12 on Oct 21, 2023 |
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https://twitter.com/Lowkey0nline/status/1715699831308497273 Flagchat.
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Just left the solidarity march here in Dublin (speeches still going but I had to bail cause my leg is hosed after a long run this morning). Probably the biggest march I've been to here since the Iraq War times, but idk I'm not great at estimating crowds when they're all moving in a line. Good vibes, lots of good dogs and kiddos
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loving hell. Sending a thick as dogshit copper to your door to debate global politics lol. Great country
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Failed Imagineer posted:Just left the solidarity march here in Dublin (speeches still going but I had to bail cause my leg is hosed after a long run this morning). I got here about 1:30 and the march had reached Downing Street, people have been coming through Trafalgur Square for two hours now.
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Pistol_Pete posted:Getting married today. It's that awkward time where it's still too early to put my suit on and leave the house, I don't really feel like doing anything else and I probably shouldn't start drinking just yet. Ugh, just want it to be over. Just remember, 90 percent of marriage is yelling "What???" at each other from separate rooms. This is why we built a second gaming pc in our living room so we can happily couch game and cuddle. Hope your day goes swell!
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Mebh posted:Just remember, 90 percent of marriage is yelling "What???" at each other from separate rooms. Those are rookie numbers. Once you accumulate enough hearing damage you'll just yell WHAT at each other from opposite ends of the couch
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Pistol_Pete posted:Getting married today. It's that awkward time where it's still too early to put my suit on and leave the house, I don't really feel like doing anything else and I probably shouldn't start drinking just yet. Ugh, just want it to be over. Congratulations! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFiHVTFmKbo
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Failed Imagineer posted:Those are rookie numbers. Once you accumulate enough hearing damage you'll just yell WHAT at each other from opposite ends of the couch Can confirm
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I've worked with a few people who day labour on building sites and: quote:“Visit an average housebuilding site in this country,” he says, “and you’ll find no one is taking responsibility for the end outcome. Almost half the workforce is made up of hired guns who turn up, do stuff for a day rate, then disappear. That’s not conducive to having pride in your work, or a joined-up approach to producing a quality result. There’s a culture of: ‘If the other guy damages my work, it’s not my problem.’” Is a big attitude with them. They say they're there to "get paid" and that's it. Also they say the same when they are on rail sites and they do a loving awful job so I can only imagine how bad they are on civil sites.
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Just got home after two days attempting to travel north on public transport up the the east coast of northern england/scotland after being abroad for a week. Didn't have internet access the whole time so didn't know there was apparently a storm until we landed very bumpily in Newcastle. Has been quite an experience and RIP to the good people of Aberdeen who are apparently still basically cut off completely.
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happyhippy posted:What march is it? Went to the local one in Birmingham. Good turnout though I’m sure the local news will focus on the 5 teens who climbed on top of a Primark and an Odeon rather than the hundreds/thousands of other protestors.
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bessantj posted:I've worked with a few people who day labour on building sites and: Any large contracting organisation is really just an investment bank with a handful of quantity surveyors attached. You have enough people on staff to submit tenders and that's it. When the railway, hospital or housing estate lands, then you sub absolutely everything out. Plant, trades, site management, materials, the works. The risk/reward is that you have enough creditors lined up to cashflow the subbie costs until the project completes and the client pays. It's also why outfits like Carillion would have outrageous things like 180 day payment terms (90 days if you accept a 10% cut on the invoice). Seen in that light, it's sort of understandable why that mentality has flourished. Nobody meaningfully involved in the construction process has any guarantee they'll be back tomorrow, let alone there until completion.
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Endjinneer posted:Any large contracting organisation is really just an investment bank with a handful of quantity surveyors attached. You have enough people on staff to submit tenders and that's it. It always amused me that Network Rail have got some really cool machines when it comes to the building and maintenance of a piece of track but they prefer to, as you say, sub it out. So they give a job to Colas, who go and get their plant form A.P Webb or Quattro or someone, tools and small plant from Sunbelt and workers from a bunch of different agencies. The problem I have is that if you're a trackman then you'll be guaranteed the work for at least the length of the core job. So say a whole job will be 16 weeks but the actual ripping out and putting in of new track is 7 days. Well if you're assigned to that job then you'll be there for those 7 days. Once those 7 days are gone they there's probably another core job for another 7 days or a weekend or something and you're back at it for another guaranteed set of days. There's a real lack of workers out there at the minute. So when you get people with the "just here to get paid" attitude it makes the work that is already hard that much harder, it's frustrating.
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Just remembered wasn't there supposed to be some Sunday paper exclusive exposing Jeremy Corbyn couple of weeks ago? What was it?
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keep punching joe posted:Just remembered wasn't there supposed to be some Sunday paper exclusive exposing Jeremy Corbyn couple of weeks ago? What was it? He never actually liked Freddos.
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He went to the Sea Life aquarium in Bray and trained all the octopodes to be antisemitic and then they did a march. Every four people you see together at the march in Dublin was actually one octopus disguised as four people.Jaeluni Asjil posted:I'm fine, thanks Guav, not too bad down here and there's theoretically (according to the BBC) no rain or just a bit of drizzle for the next couple of days. Our worst nail-biting time is generally February. Right now I'm 15-20m from the river. At its worst I've been about 7m from the river thundering behind the backwall of the communal garden and just a handspan below it.  The river got within a couple of inches of the concrete bit of the road bridge that doesn't give, and the last time we had thousands of tons of incompressible fluid hitting a gap too small for it everyone had a very bad day, but fortunately it went back down after just flooding a lot of fields and a pedestrian walkway rather than actively destroying its banks.
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