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Pissflaps posted:Sounds like you need a payday loan. (I agree with "ask for an advance"; I did that when I first moved to London several years back and they were fine with it). edit: if HR aren't willing to give then tell them you'll have to sleep in the office until your first paycheque arrives. You're right, it's completely unreasonable to expect you to live without pay for nearly 2 months.
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What kind of job is it, if I can ask? If it's relatively senior or skilled then you actually have some power, because the company has gone to all the effort and expense of hiring you and they aren't going to want you to quit / be unable to work for the sake of fronting you one month's pay.
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Aug 4, 2014 13:50
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Olewithmilk posted:It's pretty easy to get an overdraft of ~£1500. Although I guess it depends on the bank, and how long you've had the account. It also sucks because then'll you'll have to work a bit to get out of it.
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Aug 4, 2014 13:53
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goddamnedtwisto posted:For fucks sake, how many times do I have to explain this? Communications data is not the same as tapping a phone. In any way. At all. Comms data is "Who is the owner of this phone number/IP address?" and "Which IP address accessed this mailbox?". It does not, and cannot, give any clues as to the content of the communications. They're absolutely not the same thing but you can definitely infer broad categories of content at least from comms data.
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Aug 4, 2014 16:22
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LemonDrizzle posted:I continue to find it amazing that people don't get more angry about this. I'd completely had my fill of housesharing by the time I left uni but a lot of the London-based late 20s/early 30s people I know did it for years afterwards and some of them that now own houses have lodgers to help with the mortgage despite having six figure pre-tax incomes. It's utterly mental. edit: also, as soon as you do manage to scrape together an £80,000 deposit for a rabbit-hutch in Tottenham your views do a 180-degree flip, which doesn't help.
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Aug 5, 2014 11:20
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£2k a month for a room is a lot of money even for London. Where are you living?
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Aug 5, 2014 12:56
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Serotonin posted:I've got a large 3 bedroom house with a stable block and large garden In rural South Glos for half this. Lol at living in London you mugs. unless you like flicking pebbles into cowpats there's nothing to do, and you have to drive everywhere.
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Jedit posted:It does, but the German law he used is basically an agreement to pay compensation for something you did in exchange for the trial ending without a guilty verdict. There's only two reasons to use it: because you're innocent but proving it is more trouble than it's worth, or because you're guilty and don't want to be convicted. And given that Ecclestone originally offered to pay $20m in compensation but the court demanded $100m, the whole world knows which it is.
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Aug 5, 2014 14:41
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Aliginge posted:I edited out from my post the accusation that Londoners tend to think nowhere else in the UK is worth a drat but I think that was premature of me.
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Aug 6, 2014 11:53
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KKKlean Energy posted:You can't just say something is an "hour from london" because once you get to london it could take up to an hour more just to get to your place of residence or work edit: plus my commute takes an hour to a London station even now.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Greggs tea is also loving awful. How can you gently caress up tea, for fucks sake?
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Aug 7, 2014 10:37
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Umiapik posted:Labour: No economic credibility, failing to gain support in Conservative areas, hobbled by Ed Miliband's low opinion poll ratings. I don't think it's at all clear that UKIP will split only the Tory vote.
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Aug 7, 2014 17:10
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ReV VAdAUL posted:Have Labour tried to adopt the Obama campaign's use of quants and data mining at all? The real question is how well someone whose expertise is in other countries (which goes for both Crosby and Axelrod) can map that experience onto Britain, which is a very different place. Especially now, with a coalition government and UKIP to consider. It's an interesting question how well all the internal models work when they're way outside of the domain they were developed for (ie mostly a two-horse race between Labour and the Tories leading to the formation of a single-party government).
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Aug 8, 2014 13:11
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TinTower posted:And people think the PCC is working?
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Darth Walrus posted:Hold on, just trying to work through the numbers here - isn't the £120,000 his salary plus his expenses? The income for an MP is £67,000. Do ministers get paid more, or are you including his income from Circle Healthcare in that?
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Aug 12, 2014 11:01
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goddamnedtwisto posted:True story - if you ring their main switchboard number the recorded announcement simply says "Welcome to GCHQ. Your calls will be recorded." 
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Aug 12, 2014 11:32
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Cerv posted:don't want to single you out in particular, but it's amazing how many people have just accepted the premise that a family of 5 can't live in London on their considerable means.
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Aug 12, 2014 14:16
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Yeah, it was routine from the mid-80s after the Italian airport attacks. We even had tanks patrolling Heathrow occasionally as far back as the 70s sparking all sorts of conspiracy theories.
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Aug 13, 2014 09:19
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LemonDrizzle posted:No base rate increase this year: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/bank-of-england/11030408/No-interest-rate-rise-this-year-as-BoE-slashes-wage-growth-forecast.html
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Aug 13, 2014 11:25
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A fission-fusiondesign relies on radiation pressure generated by the detonation of the (fission) primary to compress and ignite the (fusion) secondary. So yes, you need the precisely-machined explosive lenses around the primary to go off simultaneously for it to work. It is quite difficult to uniformly compress a steel ball with explosives, which is basically how the first stage works. If the timing is even slightly off you just get a load of molten steel squirting out in some random direction. Which is unpleasant, especially since it's plutonium rather than steel, but many many orders of magnitude less unpleasant than what's meant to happen. Having said that I genuinely don't know what would happen if, somehow, a nuclear warhead went off on a submarine filled with dozens more. You'd probably get some induced fission in the tampers of other weapons from the radiation before the blast wave blew everything to bits. No clue what would happen to the explosive lenses. I wonder if anyone's ever tried blasting RDX with stupendously high levels of gamma radiation before? Zephro fucked around with this message at 16:23 on Aug 14, 2014 |
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ThomasPaine posted:Ha, poo poo, I just read this. Would it actually be fatal if you just ate it? Or would it just make you very, very ill? quote:The LD50 in mice is 47.2 mg/kg.[44][45]
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Aug 15, 2014 13:40
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KKKlean Energy posted:UKMT: A fountainous ebola-like bout of bloody diarrhea  This is the UK megathread, after all
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Aug 15, 2014 14:36
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twoot posted:FPTP basically, although there is always the hilarious issue of left-wing unity. Today both parties are chasing the same swing voters in a few dozen seats which can deliver them a majority. Unless you live in one of those marginal seats then neither of the two big parties cares about appealing to you. That's why both the old Labour left and the old Tory right think they've been abandoned by the modern incarnations of their parties. They have, because the party leaderships have assumed they'll keep voting for them anyway because there's no-one else.
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Aug 18, 2014 11:10
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big scary monsters posted:I love the language in that second line. It makes it sound as though Mr. Cameron is battling to have his brave and controversial view heard against hordes of rabidly anti-family commentators and MPs. I mean yes in this case the "family" is just code for "the traditional nuclear family" and if this is anything other than a contentless soundbite it'll end up being used to promote marriage. But if someone actually took real family life a bit more seriously it would be a refreshing change. Between the second-most expensive childcare in the world and the insane cost of housing this is not a very child-friendly country. Zephro fucked around with this message at 12:59 on Aug 18, 2014 |
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hookerbot 5000 posted:But nurseries cost a poo poo load too - When I was paying nursery fees for childcare when I was working full time it was over £100 a week and that was 10 years ago so I'd guess it's a lot more now. I know we get 16 hours free a week but for most places round here that's split over 5 daily sessions of 3 and a bit hours so not mucch use for working unless your work is on the doorstep of the nursery and you only work 3 hours a day. quote:At least when they are at school it's free.
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Random question: is it still possible to buy a SIM/mobile in the UK without having to fill out a form saying who you are and where you live? I was reading up on the 7/7 bombings and they used PAYG phones to avoid leaving a trace. I know this is hard/impossible to do in lots of other countries these days, but is Britain one of them? It's oddly hard to find out by Googling (or else my Google-fu is bad). edit: apparently I have plat despite having never paid a single red cent for this account Zephro fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Aug 18, 2014 |
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Aug 18, 2014 16:51
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Pork Pie Hat posted:I'm pretty sure it is possible. Loads of pound shops sell PAYG SIMs and I doubt they'd ask you to fill out a bunch of paperwork.
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Aug 19, 2014 11:43
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Mr Cuddles posted:I agree. Their website is also terrible. Still love the private eye though. They're a bit like a trade magazine in that sense. Zephro fucked around with this message at 13:10 on Aug 20, 2014 |
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Aug 20, 2014 13:07
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Late to the party, but, given that the police in some cases fathered children, is the CSA on to them for child support, I wonder? I bet it isn't, duh
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Aug 21, 2014 20:34
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If you're on PAYE it should be sorted out automatically at the end of the tax year, although that's a while away. If you want to get it changed before then you'll probably have to speak to someone at HRMC. I doubt you can do it online because tax is so amazingly complicated. I know I couldn't when I was temping and stuck on emergency tax because I had a dozen different jobs in a given year.
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Aug 22, 2014 11:25
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Zero Gravitas posted:Meaning that he was writing about the usurption of an incredibly sadistic upper class that used rape, murder and torture for its own amusement by The Culture. What if instead of being something he dreamed up, it was based rather more literally on reality?
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Aug 27, 2014 10:41
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ukle posted:To put it simply Rotherham isn't a one off its just one of possibly a dozen towns and cities. On the racism point: the report says plainly that it isn't clear why this was allowed to go on for more than fifteen years without anyone doing anything serious to stop it but it lists four possible factors: quote:The possible reasons for this are not clear but may include denial that this could occur in Rotherham, concern that the ethnic element could damage community cohesion, worry about reputational risk to the Borough if the issue was brought fully into the public domain, and the belief that if that occurred, it might compromise police operations. quote:The inquiry found that several staff described their nervousness talking about the race of the men "for fear of being thought racist". Others remembered clear direction from their managers not to do so. Zephro fucked around with this message at 10:52 on Aug 27, 2014 |
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Aug 27, 2014 10:50
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^Yeah. People were making "Jimmy Saville is a paedophile" 'jokes' when I was in secondary school (which was quite a while ago now :/ ). Everyone knew, but nobody actually knew for sure.
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Gonzo McFee posted:Plenty of people knew for sure. They just happened to be the ones with all the power and none of the interest in following it up.
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