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DesperateDan posted:Subway sandwiches are poo poo. Make your own, or frequent a local place, both cheaper, both better. Then you can go to the chippy on your lunchbreak, and stuff your moderately healthy sandwich full of hot greasy chips slathered in sauce (bonus points for dipping the resulting beast in a tub of curry sauce). When I flew American Airlines, I don't think the air steward had met a British person before because he seemed mildly shocked at the rate I could sink the complimentary booze. Eat all, sup all, pay nowt.
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Spent my bank holiday Saturday and Sunday stood in a field with a bass drum strapped to my front. Now have amusing tan lines and am possibly suffering from a little sun stroke. A good weekend. Also Miliband is totes gonna nationalise the railways guys, it's gonna happen and that's not just the dehydration talking.
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May 4, 2014 19:20
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SybilVimes posted:If you're really lucky, like me, those tan lines might be permanent - the tan I got last year at Waddington still hasn't faded, and isn't going to now, oh well. Since I've been doing drum corps, I've basically had the oddest assortment of tan lines during the summer. Obviously pasty white feet and brown legs is a standard, when I used to play brass used to also have nice white hands from my rehearsal gloves. These days it's just the twat marks from my drum harness. It's always a good anecdote at least for explaining how I'm so tanned by mid May.
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May 4, 2014 19:38
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Brovine posted:Just in case you thought Jamie Oliver was in any way a decent person: Yes, this article is nearly a year old and was what prompted Jamie Oliver to enter the list of histories greatest monsters...
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May 5, 2014 11:22
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Whip round to buy and rename Mt. Stalin?
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May 6, 2014 14:03
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:A new people's champion arises http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/the-wouldbe-next-bob-crow-who-revels-in-bringing-london-to-a-standstill-9325940.html Isn't this guy a wife beater? There's definitely one guy at the top of the RMT who is and I'm fairly sure this is him.
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May 6, 2014 21:51
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I am neither the biggest or toughest bloke around, but I would absolutely love to offer James Dellingpole out for a fight and kick seven shades of poo poo out of him.
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May 7, 2014 15:13
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Seaside Loafer posted:Im pretty much just quoting you just so anyone who missed it would read it becasue its so spot on. The most I ever made was 32k, and I was an engineer making and doing things. This moaning tosser is a financial arsehole flipping money and producing nothing. I dont know him but I hate him. I'm trying to find a way to respond to this without sounding like I'm humblebragging, so here goes: I make a total of money approximately 1/3 of this guy's income and that is quite a lot by most people's standards, and basically do what the gently caress I want. This is the first month I've been skint in ages cos I'm paying two sets of rent after getting turfed out by my (ex)girlfriend + getting a fisting in lettings fees. I do have cheap tastes though, never really grew out of Carling and £3 lasagna that will last me two nights. I have no idea how you can be struggling if you're pulling in what, £10k a month before tax. I've got no kids like, but the little theoretical bastards will be going to state school like Daddy, not posho schools, even if they did exist.
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May 7, 2014 22:09
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Lord Twisted posted:drat loving right they need to remove this lovely fees. My ex properly went to town on these fuckers when we moved in together because she works in finance and knew a drat sight more than they did about how credit checking and money laundering legalities and costs worked. It was funny watching the guy squirm as he got schooled.
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May 9, 2014 08:38
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DesperateDan posted:Ugh, I'm really trying to wean myself off any judgement of a person based on their appearance. Love this quote, reread it recently. 
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May 13, 2014 21:39
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HortonNash posted:
These days, you can get arrested for saying you're English!
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May 15, 2014 21:50
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twoot posted:Satire is dead Nobody in the world is ever going to call it this, what the gently caress is this. Hopefully this will be as sucessful as the St. James' Park renaming.
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May 16, 2014 15:58
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Fairly sure my old home town of Bedford is one of the most diverse towns in England. I remember going to uni and being shocked at all the loving white people cos 50% of my friends were Asian. The blatant racism from people was also an eye opener, you'd have got your head kicked in back home for some of the poo poo I heard. On the plus side I can drop the c-bomb (equivalent) in Punjabi and I get invited to the best weddings. I swear most people worried about multiculturalism have had no exposure to it.
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May 17, 2014 10:27
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CancerCakes posted:Surprising number of people who come from Bedfordshire here! When Italy won the world cup they drove a parade of flatbed trucks down the high street and had a huge party, it was awesome. Me and some non-italian friends just joined in, it was really fun. MK42 crew brap brap. Hastingsbury big up.
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May 17, 2014 20:13
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I like Andrews and Arnold's philosophy but Plusnet are a shitload cheaper if you want fiber to cabinet and unlimited down/up. Plus if it all goes Pete Tong, a nice person in Sheffield sorts it for you. They've been nothing but great with me customer service wise.
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May 20, 2014 22:20
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Pissflaps posted:Somebody on YouTube just described Thatcher as a 'great lady'. Quite. Reddit is poo poo - mostly because I don't understand it, but also because whenever it is mentioned it's some fedora wearing MRA getting super mad and basically gently caress those idiots.
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May 21, 2014 16:22
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Having just looked at the loving candidate list for the South East, Cerv, you're probably nearly right  Voting Green or maybe Socialist Party of Great Britain (even though they're anti-Leninist shitters) cos lol
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May 22, 2014 08:11
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Seb, when's your band back in Reading again dude? Will be the beer bitch again, it was fun.
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May 22, 2014 21:37
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haakman posted:Casts 'Summon Bozza'... ronya posted:load of old shite This is quite a funny post because this time yesterday morning I was in the Western Route Strategic Planning Technical Working Group (snappy title) working out the constraints which need to be overcome to deliver the 2040 railway. To say you can't have long term vision and strategy when delivering rail projects is both massively wrong and not feasible - as I point out in the post Mahmoud Ahmadinejad pasted the planning and design phases of these works can take years. Before moving onto my new job in March I was the signalling responsible design engineer for Liverpool Lime Street and we had just completed a years worth of work to completely remodel and resignal the station, and that year was to get from concept to Approval in Principle. Detailed design hasn't started yet, and the thing is getting built in 2016 or 17 I think. This was also an interesting project because the design was delivered totally internally in terms of major railway disciplines (p-way, ole, signalling). Network Rail currently recieves funding in 5 year blocks, the control periods. We've just entered CP5 running from 2014 to 2019. You can see the plan here about the work we are delivering http://www.networkrail.co.uk/publications/delivery-plans/control-period-5/ in this block. As part of the broader funding strategy, there's also money included in that block grant from government to pay for minor renewals and maintenance works and for the design works to start looking at things that get built in CP6. I recently secured funding for a major (£104m) resignalling from the ORR, which is being accelerated from CP6 into CP5 using private finance. Network Rail is taking on the debt and a private party is servicing that debt until the CP6 determination can pay it off. The benefit of running the entire industry on this sort of model is that it makes long term workbanks more manageable, particularly where there is a skills deficit (signalling installers / testers usually, but also rolling stock construction in the wider industry) and also allows for you to refresh stuff like rolling stock etc at a reasonable rate which creates stable jobs. The major benefit of nationalistation would be the elimination of Schedule 8/16 delay minutes which creates an antagonistic relationship between TOC and infrastructure manager. This could be eliminated in the private sector but it would be virtually impossible in the current industry structure - though there a couple of good examples where this is being done on the sly. Firstly, with Directly Operated Railways on East Coast handing back their profits to the DfT, which then goes back into NR usually, so while inefficient, it's not getting creamed off by shareholders, and secondly in Wessex where Network Rail are in a deep corporate alliance with South West Trains as this allows the day to day operations to be more joined up. The natural expansion of both of these relationships is to make it one railway again - under government control. Reasons for not doing this: fear of union power I think, the RMT becomes the most powerful trade union in the country. Then again, we broadly have better industrial relations on the main line railway compared to the tube, particularly in Network Rail. I know the TOCs suffer a bit, but that's cos ASLEF are king and don't take any poo poo. The RMT is already supremely powerful in terms of industrial muscles within the industry, so the concept of a joined up industry with militant and well supported union probably makes a Tory (of blue, red or yellow sort) wet himself.
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Renaissance Robot posted:WestRo SPlaTWoG (don't pretend you don't love those 20th century style abbreviations) My entire Outlook calendar looks like this 
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May 28, 2014 11:33
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Nearly time for a new OP. Wasn't someone going to do a parody one? That sounded fun.
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May 29, 2014 11:00
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Been reading Hellblazer lately and holy moly does that tear Thatcher to pieces, it's magical.
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