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J_RBG posted:you already have to know how to answer them to answer them. It's absolutely possible to learn how to do them, as can be seen by the existence of people who know how to do them. e: Request to be bussed from scene of battle (4,2,5) (well nearly) Julio Cruz fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Sep 30, 2018 |
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Oh are we doing things newspapers are going to regret publishing?A mostly predictable list of people posted:
Not seeing Labour or Momentum push this yet but it'd be nice if they got on it, shouldn't allow the media to pull the same bullshit they pulled when LSE came out a few years back and demonstrated a coordinated propaganda campaign against a left-wing Labour party. I'll throw in the non academic post signatories, they're outnumbered by uni bods: Prof Noam Chomsky Brian Eno Francesca Martinez Yanis Varoufakis Ken Loach Raoul Martinez Jenny Manson Jewish Voice for Labour Leah Levane Jewish Voice for Labour Lindsey German Stop the War Coalition Mike Cushman Free Speech on Israel Glyn Secker Jewish Voice for Labour
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Julio Cruz posted:"Transsexual attention-seeker appearing in market". Is this the part that if I were an attention seeking nobody on twitter, I would say Yikes? Firos posted:https://twitter.com/mattzarb/status/1046498960947466240?s=20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W9rJTjZnRo
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Cryptic crosswords are stupid because why would you spend time learning to darmok and jalad at tanagra with the loving crossword writer? What kind of loving skill is that?
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Julio Cruz posted:e: Request to be bussed from scene of battle (4,2,5) (well nearly) Kiss me Hardy? Crosswords are fun and also social. Did great things to restore my relationship with my mother after a rocky patch when I was young. Oh dear me fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Sep 30, 2018 |
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Sep 30, 2018 22:58
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Julio Cruz posted:"Transsexual attention-seeker appearing in market". What the christ?
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https://twitter.com/alexwickham/status/1046515366757900288 tl:dr: Tories have quietly slipped out billions in stealth cuts to public services by announcing that from 2020 public employers like the NHS and the police will have to contribute more towards employee pensions. Meaning that money goes straight out of their budget and back to the treasury. Excellent timing for this story to drop though.
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Oh dear me posted:Kiss me Hardy?
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OwlFancier posted:Cryptic crosswords are stupid because why would you spend time learning to darmok and jalad at tanagra with the loving crossword writer? That episode of Inside No. 9 was great though.
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Julio Cruz posted:"Transsexual attention-seeker appearing in market". Are you able to provide a photo of it? Just for the sake of proof. Catboy Autonomist fucked around with this message at 00:35 on Oct 1, 2018 |
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Sep 30, 2018 23:09
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Oh dear me posted:Kiss me Hardy? That's what I got, though I'm not 100% happy with it, unless there's a Battle of Hardy I'm not familiar with. OwlFancier posted:Cryptic crosswords are stupid because why would you spend time learning to darmok and jalad at tanagra with the loving crossword writer? Why bother spending time learning to do anything? Because some people find it fun.
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e: it's 3 down (forgive my truly awful handwriting) Julio Cruz fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Sep 30, 2018 |
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Sep 30, 2018 23:14
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OwlFancier posted:Cryptic crosswords are stupid because why would you spend time learning to darmok and jalad at tanagra with the loving crossword writer? That kind of lateral thinking is actually useful in lots of fields, to the point that the Telegraph ran a special competition crossword that was actually a screening test - people who successfully completed it and sent it in were considered for employment at Bletchley Park. This makes it a considerably more useful skill than those granted by any of my hobbies (video games, drinking heavily, and crywanking, although my ability to combine the three is at least impressive if not useful).
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goddamnedtwisto posted:That kind of lateral thinking is actually useful in lots of fields, to the point that the Telegraph ran a special competition crossword that was actually a screening test - people who successfully completed it and sent it in were considered for employment at Bletchley Park. are you sure that wasnt just a sneaky way of ensuring that they only hired tories?
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Got into a welfare debate with my fashdad recently. He doesn’t believe he should pay for public education. Also thinks it’s wrong that our next door neighbour’s daughter has 2 young kids and lives in a semi detached house paid for by welfare. Also believes he is entitled to his pension because he’s paid in his whole life, although my mum hasn’t but she should still receive hers in full. I dunno...
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Julio Cruz posted:e: it's 3 down As a trans gal  It's so blatantly out of touch it's barely even offensive, I just can't muster it up, it's like my nan ranting about how gollywogs definitely aren't racist they're just dolls. Yes nan, I know, just dolls, blah blah. The DPRK posted:Got into a welfare debate with my fashdad recently. He doesn’t believe he should pay for public education. Also thinks it’s wrong that our next door neighbour’s daughter has 2 young kids and lives in a semi detached house paid for by welfare. Just hammer him on what exactly he thinks the world would look like if we didn't have loving schools. Like, yeah m8, real galaxy brain work there, even if you "shouldn't" have to pay for it, there's a very good pragmatic reason to pay for it.
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lmao https://twitter.com/theJeremyVine/status/1046458734841655296
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RabidWeasel posted:It's enfuriating that the idea that the Tories are more responsible with public funds still exists when they loving love stupid meaningless vanity projects. The Garden Bridge and the Emirates whateveritscalled again which were both giant boondoggles push for by the Tory Legernd.
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Sep 30, 2018 23:38
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Sep 30, 2018 23:47
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Catboy Autonomist posted:is this how it feels to find out "poofter" was once used on a crossword in a major newspaper in 1976 or some poo poo I always have to remind myself that Section 28 wasn't repealed until 2003 ad how much controversy there was about it at the time. Yeah, things are still messed up in so many ways but at least some things have progressed. I'd be more surprised at the 80's example than the 70's one.
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Julio Cruz posted:e: it's 3 down It's been said that the height of arrogance is doing the Sunday Times crossword in pen. Regarde Aduck posted:Imagine how vile this dork is with the mask off. What mask? 
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Jedit posted:It's been said that the height of arrogance is doing the Sunday Times crossword in pen. Pencils don't work properly in the sauna.
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Ms Adequate posted:Just hammer him on what exactly he thinks the world would look like if we didn't have loving schools. Like, yeah m8, real galaxy brain work there, even if you "shouldn't" have to pay for it, there's a very good pragmatic reason to pay for it. I’m caught in a cycle of trying to save his stupid racist soul and just accepting that he’ll never change.
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Munin posted:I always have to remind myself that Section 28 wasn't repealed until 2003 ad how much controversy there was about it at the time. Yeah, things are still messed up in so many ways but at least some things have progressed. I mean, I said as much in a subsequent post The thing I said isn't actually something that happened to my knowledge, its just more of a hypothetical thing that I could see happening at the time that I'd compare to this Ofc, the other example seems to be an actual anecdote....
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Suddenly gained respect for Marr, because not hauling off and smacking her one is better than I'd manage with someone trying this shite. The DPRK posted:I’m caught in a cycle of trying to save his stupid racist soul and just accepting that he’ll never change. I hear the best way to do that is get rid of his access to shite fash media and introduce better stuff.
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loving the choice of boris photo by i https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/1046534195315724290
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Ms Adequate posted:I hear the best way to do that is get rid of his access to shite fash media and introduce better stuff. Hmm, that could work actually. He shares a lot of “the browns should go back share if you agree” Facebook posts, and reads the Daily Express. Not sure how I’d prize those from his fingers but open to suggestions. I try sending him articles but I know he doesn’t read them cos he says he hasn’t when I ask him.
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ookiimarukochan posted:Top rate of tax kicks in at 150k and even then it's only 45%. Lot of benefits that weren't means tested when the boomers got them go away from the top of the basic rate which is far more irritating than it is fiscally damaging (by the time you earn enough to not get any child benefit, for instance, you're at the point where you don't notice it) Yes but you see when you factor in NI, Council tax, VAT etc they worked out they had less than half left. First percent first world problems.
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Jose posted:loving the choice of boris photo by i should have used his conference photo
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If you earn more than £100k and complain about tax you go straight to the loving wall made of guillotines NOTE: except in the case where we crash out of the EU with no deal, in which case £100k will be the price of a packet of monster munch
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Pochoclo posted:If you earn more than £100k you go straight to the loving wall made of guillotines
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Julio Cruz posted:"Transsexual attention-seeker appearing in market". Holy gently caress that's appalling Edit: also, if I'm being generous, a classic example of someone misunderstanding the many reasons people have to somewhat dehumanize themselves and submit to classification by a bigoted wider culture to make a life for themselves. NLJP fucked around with this message at 00:10 on Oct 1, 2018 |
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Oh I have my spot reserved but first I want to see the top fuckers get it
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Regarde Aduck posted:Imagine how vile this dork is with the mask off. I feel like while he’s undoubtedly racist, in the way all highborn Tories are, the core of his unpleasantness is rather more widely advertised, in that his company literally advertises it on their website: quote:Indeed we are proud that our culture of investment analysis goes beyond the narrow definition of non-financial factors found in ESG; it extends the categories of non-standard, non-financial analysis to legal, accounting, political, psychological and anthropological factors. However, although we will use environmental, social and governance factors as categories of analysis, with the exception of the legal boundaries, we make no claim to using environmental, social and governance concerns as tenets of ethics in the fashioning of investment returns. Dude’s a pure, ice-cold disaster capitalist who would like nothing better than to add the U.K. to the list of third-world countries his ‘Emerging Markets Fund’ makes silly amounts of money from, and if that means that he has to move to a colonial fortress in New Zealand as the street fash burn his home country to the ground, then so be it. I mean, c’mon, he’s a rural MP propped up by farmers who rhapsodises about all the cheap foreign food the U.K. will be flooded with after Brexit. He’s not being subtle about this poo poo.
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Marmaduke! posted:Yes but you see when you factor in NI, Council tax, VAT etc they worked out they had less than half left. First percent first world problems. Imagine having the total lack of self-awareness to be "I don't get to keep all of my 4-times-the-national-median salary  "
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I'd love to know if our media is really this dumb and bad at their jobs or if they know exactly what they're doing. Maybe it's a mix and the bad ones don't realise that the the rest are just pretending to be idiots in order to push a narrative.
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