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namesake posted:I'm sure Farage will be happy to step in as kingmaker for whatever campaign he fancies. I admire your optimism about the Great British Public :/
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Cerv posted:Sorry I wasn't clear. I meant have you ever tried to *not* opt out when your employer wanted you to. Yeah. Employer and employee is not, for most people, an alliance of equals.
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The Saurus posted:I tried. Which were you again?
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Feb 3, 2016 18:46
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TinTower posted:So two scientists walk into a pub, and the first one says to the barman, "I'll have some H2O", and the barman obligingly gives him a glass of water. The second one says "I'll have some H2O too", and the barman serves him a glass of water as well, as he has the ability to discern homophones from context and seriously, who keeps hydrogen peroxide behind the bar in any case? I dunno, most bars probably have some sort of disinfectant available.
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Feb 5, 2016 11:25
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ThomasPaine posted:In the first term of my final year in my history undergrad I had a grand total contact time of 2hrs/week. Good times. This describes every term of every year for my history degree. Tutorials once a week, lectures were theoretically a thing but no-one really went to them ever, you were just supposed to kind of read lots of books the rest of the week then write your essay (or, in my case, spend most of my time MUDding in the computer room). Made for some weird sleeping habits, though. I was getting up at 8pm or so for a while.
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Darth Walrus posted:Jeremy 'The Sexpot Trot' Corbyn. I'm surprised they didn't bring up the fact that one of the women is Asian (or possibly black?)
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Feb 8, 2016 11:48
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Prince John posted:Is it actually controversial to make a statement like "on average, a French person moving to the UK will integrate more easily and with less likelihood of cultural misunderstanding than a person from Namibia"? As mentioned, but I want to particularly flag this up - if they're from a part of the world where English is spoken natively (so the US, Australia, etc, but also large chunks of Africa and some Indians) - yes, very much so, if that French person doesn't happen to be very fluent in English. It's very very hard to integrate if you don't understand the people you're trying to integrate with.
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Feb 8, 2016 14:58
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NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:Speaking the language doesn't necessarily mean you're culturally compatible. Plenty of sub-Saharan Africa is English-speaking and has an atrocious record on LGBT rights, etc. Sure. But if they don't speak English, and thus read British papers, websites, government flyers, posters, television, etc, etc, etc, they're not going to absorb British culture, whereas if they do then with a bit of luck and over time they will.
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Helen Highwater posted:Again, I had no Spanish when I landed so I had to pick it up from a very basic level - however already being relatively fluent in French helped a lot, also in Madrid, English isn't as common as it is in the resort towns on the Mediterranean coast.. I found I could understand a reasonable amount of written Spanish between GCSE French and knowing some Latin. It was really rather cool actually, thanks Romans  Edit: I expect it's mostly guardian.txt but the explanation in that article is that 'Afro' makes people think of 70s hairstyles so it should be African-Caribbean instead. Though that makes it a question what you would call a Nigerian who moves to Barbados or whatever.
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Feb 8, 2016 16:30
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Fans posted:It's hard to believe they'd even lose Kent. It's overwhelmingly Tory. It might go UKIP! Assuming that post-Leave they go full Norsefire and 'send them back where they came from'.
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Metrication posted:'Transport tsar’s sell-off plan will break up Network Rail' Paging Bozza to the thread...
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Feb 10, 2016 22:08
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Random Integer posted:Good luck getting in if you aren't married to a Yank There are worse things. I'm going to be proposing to my second one in a row soon!
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Feb 11, 2016 11:01
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Angepain posted:Tread carefully, two you might get away with but by the time you get to the third they're going to cotton on that you're just in it for the citizenship. Ehhh, I had a green card and I'd been in the US long enough I could have applied for US citizenship already if I'd wanted to. I didn't end up doing that because of the tax implications but, welp, guess I should probably have done it after all.
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Fans posted:Corbyn is destroying Labour. Just had four by-elections and look what happened to the three labour seats. Interesting how the Ukip loss is v close to the Labour gain in the first two. feedmegin fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Feb 13, 2016 |
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TinTower posted:UKIP, and the BNP before them, mastered the art of appealing to white working class Old Labour voters, by sheer force of saturating the local (and national) media putting the blame on immigrants rather than the rich. Im aware, just happy to see they seem to be coming back 
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Feb 13, 2016 16:24
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Extreme0 posted:Say his name three times. Pissflaps pissflaps pissflaps
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Feb 13, 2016 17:01
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It worked! I am the Piss Whisperer.
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Feb 13, 2016 23:42
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Talk of the British Bill of Rights enrages me because we already have one, its where the yanks got the idea: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_Rights_1689 Call it something else you historical illiterates.
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Guavanaut posted:That would be the English Bill of Rights though, Britain not existing as a political entity until 1707. As an English bill, it doesn't apply to Scotland either, the closest equivalent in Scots Law is the Claim of Right Act. I get that. We still have this thing in our history, its dumb to introduce a new document that applies to England, named after a document that is named after this document, like it never existed. Its like having a Supreme Court, its a fetishisation of US politics.
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Cerv posted:Push for other countries, especially the English speaking ones, to adopt comparable measures. Won't end porn by any means but aim to reduce how much kids are exposed to. And then the porn sites set up their hosts in, like, Kazakhstan. The internet is global. If we can't stop people DDoS'ing and hacking we certainly can't stop them hosting pictures of naked ladies.
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Feb 16, 2016 20:27
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Guavanaut posted:Really the same thing goes for most media, from action movies giving an unrealistic depiction of violence and conflict resolution to tabloids giving an unrealistic depiction of immigrants and the national credit card. You can get a debit card as an under-18-year-old, I had one. I suspect you can't with a credit card because, well, it's credit and you need to be able to legally enter into a contract saying they break your thumbs if you don't pay them back? Something like that anyway.
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Feb 16, 2016 20:29
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Oberleutnant posted:The big wide-ranging newspaper (and even online news) format is dead. I won't sub to the guardian online for the same reason I wouldn't buy the paper: 80% of the content (media, sport, celebrity gossip, human interest) is of little or no interest to me. It doesn't feel like value for money. Something something Brown Moses.
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Feb 17, 2016 15:57
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StoneOfShame posted:The older generation are insanely deluded and think we have it much better than they ever did. My old man said to my brother the other day that we we lucky to have help to buy buy and help to save for a deposit ISAs, yeah they could get council houses and then loving buy them at a pittance, they could leave school at 15 get a good job and work their way up. They think we have all they did plus cool technology, they dont look at the poo poo that's gone because it doesn't touch them. Yeah I've noticed that. Sure, you can't afford houses and you don't have pensions but look how much better life is now because iPads! Turns out you can't eat or live in iPads.
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Feb 18, 2016 12:03
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Paxman posted:
Well, by 'a country' you mean 'Egypt', which was no more black then than it is now as far as we can tell. That said you might want to point him at these guys - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Israel
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Prince John posted:PS Are you secretly an MP? Or, indeed, are you secretly David Cameron? 
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El Scotch posted:What kind of beer is that, it looks pretty good. It claims to be Greene King IPA, which is a) not an IPA and b) poo poo.
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Feb 20, 2016 14:45
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StoneOfShame posted:So where's everyone leave Britain for when we leave the EU and go full fash then? Well Im getting married to a foreigner so theres my escape route. Shes an American, so its to America soon to be renamed Trumpistan 
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Feb 21, 2016 12:55
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Guavanaut posted:No England either. That'd be like having all the little EU balls and no Germany. I think England is implied to be part of/the entirety of the big UK ball. Unless you think English separatism is a thing that is likely to happen. (Amusing though the idea of the United Celtic Kingdom of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is)
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Tesseraction posted:The English think of the rest of the UK as their loving peons. We'd rather you change your name to North England, West England and Guinness England and stop trying to pretend you're not Are Property. Guinness is brewed in Dublin? More like Bushmills England.
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Apparently there is now official Labour Jeremy Corbyn merch  https://shop.labour.org.uk/products/jeremy-corbyn/
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XMNN posted:It's depressing how many people don't realise this is intended to be a parody including at least one contributor to this thread. It's a parody of Three Lions, but is unironically a UKIP video. The Three Lions creators took a look at it - http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/24/the-ukip-reworking-of-three-lions-had-me-and-frank-skinner-laughing-like-drains
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MrL_JaKiri posted:There's nothing in that quote or the description that mentions Three Lions. Where have you seen it? I...what? 'The Ukip reworking of Three Lions had me and Frank Skinner laughing like drains'
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hookerbot 5000 posted:A cup by the bed filled with water for washing your penis after sex - a mum posted a thread asking if that was normal because she'd mentioned it to someone and they'd given her a funny look. Personally I just use the sink rather than have a cum and ladycum filled cup by my bedside, but maybe I'm weird?
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Puntification posted:You're a poor-man's pissflaps mate. A Pound Shop Pissflaps, if you will. We should watch him.
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The Saurus posted:Were you at Dover? I think I found a post about you and your comrades: So youre literally a Nazi now?
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OwlFancier posted:No waitrose near me and I've never been in a john lewis. Both seem pretty thin on the ground up north. How are Booths? That's basically Waitrose with a flat 'at and a whippet, after all.
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Feb 29, 2016 11:57
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Praseodymi posted:poo poo AFAIAC. £4 for a cheese and ham toastie. I meant in terms of how well they pay/treat their workers rather than the prices. Like I said, northern Waitrose.
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Guavanaut posted:Red or white? Wikipedia strongly suggests red  (funny how the same colours got used in 1918  )
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Tempo 119 posted:Did they figure it out from some subtle change in her habits or is it just like every other rubbish recommendation engine "you bought a baby thing PLEASE BUY MORE BABY THINGS" Just searching for a bunch of baby stuff (as a pregnant girl might do) would presumably be enough, no need to buy stuff.
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Serotonin posted:That's how it reads to me. Deflect the blame on the parents. Typical political smear tactic. Yeah, me too. '"It’s not my intention to go out and upset and offend people. But we’ve got to discuss this issue, we’ve got to discuss the issue of homophobia and we’ve got to discuss why people, even as close to him as me weren’t told about the mental health problems.' I mean, if he was bullying the poor kid, this makes him even more of a Grade A turbodouchebag. And even if not, that's a 38 year old dating a 21 year old who works for him, isn't it? Which sounds squicky enough in itself because of the power differential.
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