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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1746844844788527613 30p for a meal, £20 million to ship one Syrian to Rwanda. If there's a worse oval office on the planet, don't point them out to me.
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Jan 15, 2024 13:08
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Microplastics posted:I quite like that visualisation which shows each constituency as an equal-size hexagon, arranged such that it still makes the shape of Britain  lol
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Jan 15, 2024 13:19
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Looks like a fat red man with a chode coughing up a cloud of COVID while doing a tiny little poop it’s perfect
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Jan 15, 2024 13:21
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What's the black hex represent?
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Jan 15, 2024 13:21
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I've read enough folklore to know that we don't talk about the Black Hex.
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Jan 15, 2024 13:23
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I assume the black hexagon is the speaker. I simply refuse to believe Labour can win a landslide that dramatically with that loving wet rag as leader. 385 is almost as many seats as Attlee picked up in '45 ffs. Imagine having a majority big enough to do that sort of change & wasting it on that loving useless turd
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Jan 15, 2024 13:24
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^^^ Starmer can't possibly win the election and he isn't trying to do so. The Tories just can't possibly not lose it, and are acting accordingly by looting as much as they can before the curtain falls. After all, they know that Keith won't prosecute them - they're rich paedophiles. DreddyMatt posted:What's the black hex represent? Speaker's seat, I think?
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Jan 15, 2024 13:24
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No northern goth party to vote for ☹️
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Jan 15, 2024 13:25
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DreddyMatt posted:What's the black hex represent? The speaker.
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Jan 15, 2024 13:25
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forkboy84 posted:I assume the black hexagon is the speaker. Yeah, I remember a wave of optimism in the 1997 election and even then, the turnout/ swing to Labour wasn't that impressive, once you dig into the numbers. The next election will depend on the Tories striking a deal with Reform more than it will people going out and voting for Starmer.
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Jan 15, 2024 13:27
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DreddyMatt posted:What's the black hex represent? that's black rod
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Jan 15, 2024 13:40
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Bobby Deluxe posted:From what I can tell reading around, you need to go to court with all of that evidence to get the dog back, you can't use it to stop the impounding in the first place. And if they run out of space in the kennels before it goes to trial, they just kill the dog anyway. This is not what happens as routine procedure. This is what happens when you sign paperwork when the police seize your dog to 'hand' them over to the Police. You are under no obligation to do this, they cannot force you but they will often pressure you to do it. As soon as the paperwork is signed you effectively give the dog to the state. I recommend you read this link: https://wheldonlaw.co.uk/my-dog-has-been-seized-by-the-police-what-should-i-do/ If you do not sign the paperwork your dog will not be destroyed (Unless it causes serious injury or shows high level of aggression to the vets/dog handlers as to be unsafe).
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Jan 15, 2024 13:40
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I thought they were asking what the black hex represented on the coughing red man, to which I simply reply: nipple.
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Jan 15, 2024 13:41
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Jedit posted:^^^ Starmer can't possibly win the election and he isn't trying to do so. The Tories just can't possibly not lose it, and are acting accordingly by looting as much as they can before the curtain falls. After all, they know that Keith won't prosecute them - they're rich paedophiles. Oh, I'm sure the Tories will lose. But Labour picking up half the seats in Scotland is loving bleak. The Nats on 20 would still be an all-time result for the party without Nicola Sturgeon as leader, where they only managed double figure MPs once, October '74, & even that was just 11. But it'll be seen as a win for the Fergus Ewing/Kate Forbes/Alex Salmond types & that's just as bleak a prospect as Kieth's Labour resurging.
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Jan 15, 2024 13:48
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Tesseraction posted:I thought they were asking what the black hex represented on the coughing red man, to which I simply reply: nipple. It's the UK in human form, so shriveled black heart
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Jan 15, 2024 13:48
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forkboy84 posted:Oh, I'm sure the Tories will lose. But Labour picking up half the seats in Scotland is loving bleak. The Nats on 20 would still be an all-time result for the party without Nicola Sturgeon as leader, where they only managed double figure MPs once, October '74, & even that was just 11. But it'll be seen as a win for the Fergus Ewing/Kate Forbes/Alex Salmond types & that's just as bleak a prospect as Kieth's Labour resurging. Is this just the fallout from the finance irregularities or has the SNP shat the bed?
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Jan 15, 2024 13:51
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Sanford posted:Edit: the “very surprising” email he sent the boss a week ago accuses the business of being unsupportive, unsympathetic and causing his anxiety, in a somewhat circular argument. It threatens further steps if further steps aren’t taken. It’s not very well written but our HR company say it needs to be taken seriously. It is by all accounts a massive escalation, also ballache. Honestly it sounds to me like the guy is spiralling, especially the 'not very well written' part. He doesn't want to be doing this job. He kind of knows he can't. But if he quits, that makes it really easy for the DWP to deny him benefits and he'll more than likely lose everything. So he has to try and hold on even though he hates it and knows its not viable long term. That really does a number on your brain's ability to function. I don't think he's even consciously trying to get fired because of the logistics of the benefits system, I think he's stuck in a loop he feels he can't get out of. I also get the vibe that he probably has a counsellor telling him what he 'deserves' and what's important to his mental health, but is not really practical in reality. When I was signed off I resisted it as long as I could because I felt like I was letting everyone else down, knowing the department was overloaded and other people would have to pick up the slack. Even though I had an occupational health doctor using words like chronic and I was having panic attacks at the thought of having to go back, knowing that none of the accommodations would have been made (or taken seriously by other members of staff, because it would have meant no longer hotdesking in a room where there were not enough workstations, for example). A lot of the things I was being told I needed were not possible because of the nature of the job, or more accurately because the management structure didn't want to accept the full recommendations of the H&S manager and occupational health. So I can see things from this guys perspective really easily because I've kind of been there. I knew I was putting extra workload on my colleagues because I was no longer capable of doing that job, and I was no longer capable of doing that job because they wouldn't change how it had to be done. Which obviously sucks for you because the owner doesn't want to have to keep this guy on the books AND pay / train someone else to take on the extra work. This guy clearly doesn't have the mental fortitude to come back and do the job as expected. And you are being put under an unreasonable strain by your boss' failure to adapt to this situation or build any resilience in his staffing. How would he cope if you needed time off, eg with a broken arm or communicable sickness? Maybe I'm just projecting, and everyone else is right and he's pulling a fast one. I'm just trying to get across that I have been stuck in that situation of slowly losing your job and panicking, I've had the kind of anxiety that makes people panic and lash out / overcompensate when their acommodations aren't being met, and I've felt absolutely wretched knowing that the time off I needed was loving over an already overloaded department. E: Sanford posted:In between those two posts I learned he was in loving Spain while I was doing his job! Let’s draw a line under it here, thanks. You clearly just want him to be the bad guy and don't want to even try to imagine what it'd be like in that situation, keep going I guess. Rappaport posted:It suddenly makes sense that the shared UK trauma isn't Hitler, or Thatcher, it's Excel. All I use excel for is automating working out my daily word count, but if anyone touches me conditional formatting I swear I'll do time. Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 14:02 on Jan 15, 2024 |
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Jan 15, 2024 13:51
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Loving the thicc red Britane
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Jan 15, 2024 13:58
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Failed Imagineer posted:Loving the thicc red Britane  You and me both, baby 
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Jan 15, 2024 14:06
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Bobby Deluxe posted:
I’m really sorry you feel that way. I read your original post and thought yes, exactly. When people ask why I’ve been sticking up for him in word and deed all this time, your post is the answer. But when he’s talking to us on WhatsApp on New Year’s Day about looking forward to getting back to work tomorrow knowing full well he’s in Spain and doesn’t have a flight booked in the next twelve hours, I have to start wondering just how much I can keep this up. Don’t you see that? Sorry Crispix I tried.
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Jan 15, 2024 14:13
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DreddyMatt posted:More circular firing squads If I'd known it was wish granting day, I would've set my sights higher
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Jan 15, 2024 14:19
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Sanford posted:I’m really sorry you feel that way. I read your original post and thought yes, exactly. When people ask why I’ve been sticking up for him in word and deed all this time, your post is the answer. But when he’s talking to us on WhatsApp on New Year’s Day about looking forward to getting back to work tomorrow knowing full well he’s in Spain and doesn’t have a flight booked in the next twelve hours, I have to start wondering just how much I can keep this up. Don’t you see that? All I can do is restate that people with anxiety can't think rationally, and it leads to a lot of mistakes and behaviours that are easy to misinterpret as malice.
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Jan 15, 2024 14:21
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Tesseraction posted:Is this just the fallout from the finance irregularities or has the SNP shat the bed? Well, it's a bunch of things. The shine is definitely off the SNP after the financial poo poo, plus the party is kind of split not just between centre left & centre left but also the TERFs & the decent humans and also the gradualists & those who seem to think we should just UDI or something, plus they've been in government here for 19 years by the time of the next Holyrood election. Even the Tories only managed 18 from '79 to '97. The most recent example I can find that long or longer with one party in charge at Westminster is before the 1802 Act of Union, to the reign of George III. either from 1768 or 1774 to 1806. And that's foggy because the party system was extremely foggy then. My point being they are probably due for a spell out of power anyway, but it just happening now, with this loving Labour Party lead by this loving empty suit is galling.
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Jan 15, 2024 14:36
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Don't suppose Sarwar could mysteriously step down due to missing knee-caps and someone decent take the reigns?
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Jan 15, 2024 14:42
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Notoriously difficult to step down without knee caps, unfortunately.
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Jan 15, 2024 14:46
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taddling on naughty old lazy-bones shirker skiver  to this thread and so many posters like loool
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Jan 15, 2024 14:46
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i hope the fucker gets 6 months off on full pay and floats back in with zero consequences 
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Jan 15, 2024 14:47
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you know... if i am to have an opinion on the matter
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Jan 15, 2024 14:48
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DreddyMatt posted:No northern goth party to vote for ☹️ be the northern goth party you wish to see in the world
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Jan 15, 2024 14:50
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I would simply not view mental illness as a character flaw.
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Jan 15, 2024 14:51
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Tesseraction posted:Don't suppose Sarwar could mysteriously step down due to missing knee-caps and someone decent take the reigns? Nobody decent in ScotLab stands the vaguest chance of getting the nod. Scottish Labour is absolutely loving rancid. Katy Clark is good. Monica Lennon & Paul Sweeney are alright. Alex Rowley is soft-left. Richard Leonard is a failed leader already. You needed to be nominated by 4 of the party's 23 MSPs & 1 MP, Lennon managed 4, Anus got 17, with Leonard & Jackie Baillie as leader & deputy not involving themselves. I think you'll sooner see the left in charge of the Tories than ScotLab.
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Jan 15, 2024 15:00
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I see it, I just don't think this is a clear cut reddit AITA post where assuming malice is correct. Hanlons razor also a reddit AITA would have a sudden final stunning twist in the tale that flips the story on its head, like the guys name is revealed to be Mr ABdP Johnson or something
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Jan 15, 2024 15:07
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Tesseraction posted:Don't suppose Sarwar could mysteriously step down due to missing knee-caps and someone decent take the reigns? Is Sarwar really that bad? Or is it just the UK press mafia turning their guns on the leader of the one significant political party that isn't already entirely in hock to them?
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Jan 15, 2024 15:11
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kecske posted:Hanlons razor The Daily Mail runs these sorts of stories so regularly that they must have a template that they just update with names and basic details each time: "Head chef speaks out after celebrity leaves note savaging his cooking skills - but does he have a point??" Some of our readers sided with the celebrity, while others pointed out his rudeness. What do you think? Have your say below!
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Jan 15, 2024 15:15
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Pistol_Pete posted:Is Sarwar really that bad? Or is it just the UK press mafia turning their guns on the leader of the one significant political party that isn't already entirely in hock to them? Scottish posters have very much given me the impression that Sarwar is Starmer but more boring / less infuriating but equally worthless.
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Jan 15, 2024 15:35
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I would simply not view mental illness as a character flaw. I would simply not excuse every lovely action because the perpetrator has anxiety
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Jan 15, 2024 15:45
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Sanford's definitely getting hosed over but as a mega ultra anxiety haver I can fully sympathize with the colleague, and the fault for the loving lies with the bosses who have failed to build resilience in the system and be able to handle something like this (it's literally their primary role! They're there to ensure things run smoothly!). He's totally correct that they're failing to accommodate him. He's not right to take aim at Sanford AFAICT though I do understand how his brain took the original statement Sanford made and turned it into something much worse than light joshing. I have received similar comments in life and my brain has told me "He's saying he hates you, like he's truly viscerally repelled by you, and he's right to - you should die. You should kill yourself so you stop being a burden on everyone else you know. They'll be better off, even the people who think they'd be sad won't take long to realize how much they wanted you gone." We all know that Sanford meant no such thing. Anxiety just doesn't care, the colleague absolutely has a logical part of his brain trying to say "No, hang on, at worst he's just a bit frustrated" but the anxiety will overpower that and either convince you it's actually far worse, or just convince you that someone being frustrated with you is a tremendous problem that demonstrates how irredeemable you are. I can easily see him thinking that a few days away from everything would be good for him/might actually feel necessary to prevent him doing something drastic. He might be being a chancer, but he also might be holding on by his fingernails. Of course from my online perspective I can also see that your frustrations are completely reasonable and that regardless of the cause, your work situation is currently extremely difficult as a result of what he's doing and not doing. It's just that it's not his fault, it's his hosed up brain and, ultimately, living in a system where he's got a hell of a mountain to climb to get even part of the support he actually needs from the state while having a condition specifically designed to prevent him climbing said mountain.
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Jan 15, 2024 16:11
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Pistol_Pete posted:Is Sarwar really that bad? Or is it just the UK press mafia turning their guns on the leader of the one significant political party that isn't already entirely in hock to them? He's nothing to get excited about imo, when Scottish Labour voted in favour of Holyrood's gender recognition reforms which were subsequently overruled by Westminster with Keith's full support he didn't make much of a noise about it iirc, and fell back in line quite quickly Then again the crop of major party leaders up here is a stale nightmare all around, Humza Yousaf didn't excite me to begin with as he's a product of private education. it's been nice to have a FM who's been making the right noises on IP, pretty inevitable since he has Palestinian family, but on every other count I'm finding fewer and fewer reasons to vote SNP Douglas Ross is a contemptible little fart-sniffer, and I don't know who's leading our flavour of Lib Dems these days. Patrick Harvie is alright I suppose, I know the Greens have a co-leader but as someone whose interest in party politics grows weaker by the day I can't remember who they are
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Jan 15, 2024 16:21
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Too much nuance Could you reduce that down to a gif or something please?
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Jan 15, 2024 16:22
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dadrips posted:Patrick Harvie is alright I suppose, I know the Greens have a co-leader but as someone whose interest in party politics grows weaker by the day I can't remember who they are Lorna Slater, she's canadian and seems like a good egg (and was my local MSP before I moved out of Edinburgh). Sarwar seems like the most pointless weathervane - he frequently makes all the noises that he thinks will get you elected in Scotland (ie, same noises as SNP and Greens) but then immediately goes all quiet as soon as daddy Starmer reverses all of that in order to vote how he thinks will get you elected in England (ie, same noises as Tories). Douglas Ross can get his thumbhead chucked down the bottom of a well, smug faced little turd. I've been enjoying how Yousaf hasn't at all been polite to tories or shy about saying they're shitebags, I wasn't expecting that from his pre-election campaign which had painted him as the Steady Hand, Hands Across The Aisle type.
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