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My least favourite class in school was chemistry.
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Cameron's pretty hosed if we get a leave result. So at least there's that.
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Feb 6, 2016 18:02
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People indulge themselves in guessing at migrant's intentions and desires in such simplistic childlike ways it's kind of ridiculous that it's passed off as fact. That people in general agree with the statement that claiming welfare is their main concern (especially when we have a refugee crisis) is quite depressing. So I'm not surprised when people hand-wring and say "but they'll find it very hard to integrate" – as if, if that was true, the immigrants hadn't thought of that. That's what the immigration debate is basically characterised by, a refusal to empathise.
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Feb 8, 2016 15:43
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Founding Fathers Gove, Osborne and Cameron.
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Feb 14, 2016 03:47
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Tbh the biggest threat to free speech in this country isn't clumsy undergraduate student politicians because they have zero effect in that region. There's more of a culture of whining about left-wing students than there is of perfidious censorhawks. So if you're on that side of decrying the failures of the young left, congrats, you're going to win that battle. How sensible. Meanwhile there are actual, powerful threats to freedom of speech and the freedom of ideas that do in fact come from this very government. But the energy everyone who moans about this one student is not expended on Prevent or such like.
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Feb 14, 2016 18:05
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This youth culture of banning things you disagree with has to stop! 
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Feb 15, 2016 11:51
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I think she personally was mistaken to no platform him, I still find it hard to particularly care. I doubt whoever leaked it knew she wasn't out to her parents, I'd have guessed she was, given her position. I also doubt this one young person doing something inadvisable is actually an important piece of evidence of the young left's disdain for civil liberties.
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Feb 16, 2016 00:13
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serious gaylord posted:a generation of coddled babies This is the kind of hysterical poo poo I'm talking about smh
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Feb 16, 2016 00:14
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Loving Africa Chaps posted:When you've got people demanding trigger warnings before lectures at university then you can't really use the word hysterical Which people, how many, what lectures? While the 'hysteria' depends on those three questions, let's assume the jury's out and they are hysterical. How much power do they actually wield? Are they winning the argument or are the cards stacked against them? e: the basic underlying question is of course why should anyone care about any of this, but in attempting to inject a more self-critical stance into the thread, I've exacerbated the problem D: Jrbg fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Feb 16, 2016 |
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Feb 16, 2016 00:23
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Loving Africa Chaps posted:Here's an article from 2014 describing how rape law is being excluded from some law curriculum "Some students have even suggested that rape law should not be taught because of its potential to cause distress." The writer says some, but that's weasel word of the worst degree. Does she mean like 40%? Of course not. Everyone agrees that that's stupid. You're deluded if you think young people in general think that's a good thing. There's a raft of articles online by people who are really concerned about youths being super-offended all the time (it's because people like to view these articles). I still see like zero evidence beyond these personal anecdotes. None of this adds up to an 'encroaching culture' or 'a generation of whiney crybabies who need to man up'. Btw students not engaging with material in the way they should is in fact the teacher's responsibility to address, even though not necessarily their fault. I think asking for trigger warnings regarding material on rape is not really such a bad idea. In fact from a pedagogical perspective it enables people to learn, which is what she wants. But that's not what she likes because: "Criminal-law teachers face a similar question with law students who are afraid to study rape law," by which she means talk about rape in general, possibly because they've been raped. At no point in this article has she asked herself why they've adopted this stance. She just thinks the stance itself is wrong. You've used the fact she's complaining as evidence the stance is widespread. I still don't see what exactly this all amounts to, especially since she hasn't mentioned rape law actually being excluded from the curriculum like you said, revealingly.
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Feb 16, 2016 00:50
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Loving Africa Chaps posted:So your argument against this actually existing is that it should exist but doesn't? What no
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Feb 16, 2016 01:12
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thespaceinvader posted:4 seem to have blocked the good/original version, but there's also Charlie Brooker's Sun Witch Hunt rant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOeygepVL8s. The lovely music overlay is annoying. So sorry. The music sounds like it's ripped off an inspirational video by a Christian youth group.
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Feb 17, 2016 01:03
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thespaceinvader posted:gently caress's sake. You know the European Working Time Directive, that thing that prevents us being worked to death by our slavedriving overlords? Why does it irk me that this is in Palatino font
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Feb 18, 2016 21:53
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This EU mess is hilarious to me, despite being a huge mess, because I can't help but imagine David Cameron as someone who actually believed he was a master statesman who would walk out of this with an easy victory Like, why is he even doing this? I really can't see what he stands to gain versus the potential risk.
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Feb 18, 2016 23:19
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Pissflaps posted:Young males don't like a tv show made by mature women for mature women? Hold the front page. Yeah, I'm sure if you're an older woman it has a lot that's relevant and interesting. Then again I've never watched it.
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Feb 18, 2016 23:52
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The referendum will apparently be June 23
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Feb 20, 2016 13:27
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TinTower posted:So during Glastonbury. Are we sure Dave wants to win this? And Euro 2016 I think
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Feb 20, 2016 13:30
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:no matches that day, last day of group games is the day before which also happens to be my 36th birthday Yes, but won't we all be incredibly excited by are boys smashing it?
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Feb 20, 2016 13:34
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Tesseraction posted:We're the place where Marx died, and having buried him in the ground his tree grows here. Didn't the Red Army throw his ashes into the sewage system or the river or something
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Feb 22, 2016 01:07
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LemonDrizzle posted:Chocolate covered raisins are strictly inferior to chocolate coated coffee beans. Choccie raisins are God's food and if you want to fight about it you're welcome friend I have them with cheap Aldi wine when I have time to game of an evening. e: they honestly pair well a nice (by nice I mean cheap poo poo plonk) red
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Feb 22, 2016 22:37
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StoneOfShame posted:Aldi wine can be pretty decent and price wise is astounding value for money I recommend their Venturer Costières de Nîmes, I rqrepy buy cheap wine as I dont see the point in drinking poo poo, but that bottle for about a fiver is pretty nice and really good value. For £5 you can get plonk in Sainsbury's or whatever or good wine in Aldi. Problem is I'm such a skinflint I'll plump for the £3 wine. The chocolate raisins are a luxury.
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Feb 22, 2016 23:12
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I like bell hooks' definition of feminism: freedom from sexist oppression. It means you don't have to specify genders and gets you away from debating with the likes of "equality of opportunity or equality of outcome huh?!" types. The whole 'equality' thing is specious in my view since it downplays the value that difference can bring to a positive movement for change (note I'm not saying structural inequalities are good but that differences in background are OK and not necessarily divisive).
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Feb 23, 2016 08:51
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Re: a UKMT recommended reading list I was recommended Economics: A User's Guide by Ha-Joon Chang from this thread which I think would be a good one as it aims to explain things at babby level to the reader. Which I liked.
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Feb 24, 2016 00:12
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He won if you know absolutely nothing about the current junior doctor's issue, but you somehow care enough to watch PMQs anyway
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Feb 24, 2016 13:35
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Regarde Aduck posted:What does won mean in this case? Literally getting in sick burns about your mum and lying through your teeth into looking statesmanlike. Meanwhile your mates laugh for about a minute because you called Corbyn scruffy
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Feb 24, 2016 13:38
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Cameron to be fair did answer Corbyn this PMQs, just by doubling down (almost literally) on the allegations that the NHS doesn't provide sufficient 7-day care, saying that 11000 patients, not 6000 die because of it. For this alone people are willing to give up all critical thinking and declare him the winner of the great political debates of our time. There need not be an election in 2020, because we know Corbyn will have lost everything, with his scruffy suit. Now, for we are in the Church of the Holy Tory Backbench, let us bray:
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Feb 25, 2016 01:32
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Jerusalem Post makes up poo poo rumour, possibly to make entire world vomit simultaneously: There is no light in the void: quote:So while Israeli radio listeners hear speculation about London Mayor Boris Johnson and the prime minister’s wife, Samantha Cameron, people in London are denied that pleasure. Apart from the fact that these rumours almost certainly have no basis, it seems odd that the British media seems to have been stricken dumb. What is muzzling the British media? I for one am happy that if this even is a rumour our media our cowards, because the less time I spend thinking about Boris' Johnson the better
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Feb 25, 2016 16:35
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Trickjaw posted:This article is from June 2013. That'll learn me, oops
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Feb 25, 2016 17:11
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Not to get all USPol on my beloved UKMT, but my understanding is one of the big draws for Trump is that despite being Trump he is attractive to working class union voters. He talks about businesses offshoring jobs to cheaper labour markets and leaving people out of jobs back home, and offers a very different Republican platform (apart from the slightly ramped-up racism) to more conservative-minded precarious workers, who for 30 years of voting R and being told that the free market is inherently supportive of conservative values have had nothing to show for free-market lovin' but Chinese dominance and 2 poo poo wars. Clinton reiterating her neoliberal schtick would be vulnerable to Trump whose voters simply see her as part of a venal, patrician elite who poo poo on them constantly. That said I still simply don't see the situation that affirms Trump sweeping the nation and becoming president. People will turn out to vote against Trump, nobody hates Hillary that much. But please US, really don't gently caress it up.
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Feb 26, 2016 23:42
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I think we should get Theresa May to deport non-jam-likers The potential for them to say something mean to a nice old lady who makes crabapple jam or something is too high. e: also I remember having this discussion about greatest Britons before; the attitude to history that sees it as Great People doing Great Things is Not Correct, yous lot
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Feb 27, 2016 23:43
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Miftan posted:I would also never say anything mean to a nice old lady. Yeah but how do you know????????????????? jabby posted:So on the junior doctors front, this is a thing now: Don't get ill, UKMT friends. 
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Feb 28, 2016 00:07
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I go to the Sam Smith pub nearby and that's lovely. There's the occasional racist clientele muttering about 'our coloured friends' who can gently caress off though
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Feb 29, 2016 23:47
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