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That said, the chips from my local Chinese are really good, as is the curry sauce. Tomorrow's tea sorted.
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Government of country that voted in a referendum to leave a union objects to countries holding referenda to leave a union.
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Jose posted:they're some shameful cheesy chips in that picture The gravy also looks grim as gently caress
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I've lived in Yorkshire most of my life, and I don't know anyone barbaric enough to put milk in the teapot. Most people I know get angry if the milk goes near the tea before it's brewed.
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Bardeh posted:I also like the people screeching about how it'll make us go bankrupt, as if taxing the ultra-wealthy is just completely impossible and unacceptable. The standard (idiot) response to that is usually "then they'll all just leave the country"
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https://twitter.com/JTOpinions/status/1157705073088172033 "Her job was made harder by austerity" e: catte tax 
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Ms Adequate posted:
He's happily snoring away and occasionally rolling over to cook himself evenly on all sides.
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WhatEvil posted:So y'all are talking about dry socialist texts, and have previously been talking about podcasts. Yes please! I'll even give you money once I get a job
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Pilchenstein posted:Didn't he found RPS? He absolutely is a total loving oval office on twitter though, last time I saw him melting down he was exclusively hounding women who replied to him, like some kind of anti-glinner Jon Blyth can still be found on the fun and funny Regular Features podcast
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sebzilla posted:Hey UKMT I've been camping in Wales all weekend and now I'm 30, did I miss anything important over the past dozen or so pages? Tia Happy birthday! All Tories are liars All cops are bastards All lib dems are Tories This is bad for Jeremy Corbyn Think that covers it
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Junior G-man posted:What the gently caress are Two Child Policy and Military Covenant? They only count up to two children when assessing benefits claims (unless the children were born before a certain date). If you have more, gently caress you, they can starve.
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I'm probably missing something, but how is "we need to be fighting the Tories, not fighting for reselection" an argument when Parliament is on recess? e: and how is fighting the Tories not a way of getting reselected? Do they think that's going to be unpopular with the CLP? Tarnop fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Aug 5, 2019 |
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Well I've just thoroughly depressed myself by reading about my MP for about 4 hours straight (Holly Lynch, Halifax) Chicken coup supporter, Syria airstrike voter, introduced legislation to double sentences for people "struggling to get free" (police federation's own words about assaults on officers) while being arrested. Mandatory reselection when
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Nugs seems appropriate, since legalising weed is a liberal favourite policy to differentiate themselves from the most psychopathic Tories
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sebzilla posted:Apologies if this was posted already (it's a couple of days old) but a notably non-poo poo take from the Graun It prompted several suggestions that the editor had taken a day off
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mediadave posted:The SNP are at it again That's the headline they go with. Over half the article is about what Johnson as PM means for Scotland, and that's their loving headline
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Jose posted:was that before or after he decided to run because he's absolutely awful at public speaking now. its why they're mostly hiding him from meeting the public I know that nothing should surprise me at this point, but imagine that being your strategy. They did it with Johnson too. Imagine knowing that you're working to install a person who can't interact with normal humans into one of the most powerful positions in the world. 
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OwlFancier posted:That is sort of the point of the positions, though, to make sure that normal humans don't get anywhere near them, or your money. I know, but sometimes my brain wants to put itself in the place of people with insane jobs and bask in the madness. Like sometimes when I watch wrestling and I imagine what it would be like if my job was to catch a 6'10" racist who pretends he's dead and is flying directly at my head, and make sure we both fall over safely but also make it look like it killed us both.
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radmonger posted:Dunno about FBPE’s, but the obvious objection to that policy is that literally zero voters want to spend the next 6-12 months ignoring all other political and economic issues in order to extend Brexit in an attempt to negotiate an implausible deal. Which, if somehow achieved, would then be campaigned against by the ones who negotiated it. Source your quotes
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I fell asleep so this is 2 pages late, but just to be clear, I know what Labour's policy is. Source these quotes: radmonger posted:Dunno about FBPE’s, but the obvious objection to that policy is that literally zero voters want to spend the next 6-12 months ignoring all other political and economic issues in order to extend Brexit in an attempt to negotiate an implausible deal. You do know about FBPEs because all the evidence suggests that if you're not one then you're extremely adjacent. If we crash out on no deal then Brexit will be *the* economic issue for a gently caress of a lot longer than 6-12 months. If A50 is unilaterally revoked then Brexit will be *the* political issue for a lot longer than 6-12 months. If you genuinely want to avoid no deal, then there does not exist a way of doing so that takes Brexit off the agenda for the foreseeable future, but hey I'd love to hear an alternative if you're capable of doing anything other than pissing from the sidelines. I don't know what makes you think that a Labour negotiated deal is implausible or that it would take 6-12 months. The deal that Labour would be seeking already exists for Norway, and while it's hardly perfect it's the only thing that respects the referendum result without tipping us off the cliff.
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marktheando posted:A Norway type deal would not be seen as respecting the result of the referendum, it would be seen as a betrayal almost as bad as revoking article 50. No version of Brexit exists that wouldn't be seen as a betrayal by some loud faction. My point is that a Norway deal is not implausible, nor would it take a year to negotiate. Brexit is now part of the political landscape for at least a generation, so again, if you've got a better suggestion I'd love to hear it.
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marktheando posted:The least worst option is and always has been revoking article 50. Gee, I wonder if there's a political party that might do well on the back of an irrefutable betrayal narrative at the next GE. Least worst my arse.
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radmonger posted:I would consider it implausible that Labour could negotiate a deal that led to satisfying 20% of leave voters while keeping the ~2024 GDP within 20% of what it would have been otherwise. I'm just going to ignore your pile of arbitrary percentages and dates because you're pulling them out of your arse. No one will be spending a penny on infrastructure or welfare in your scenario, because a party running on a platform of revoking article 50 isn't getting anywhere near government. Unless it's the Lib Dems in another coalition, in which case they'll flush their entire manifesto down the toilet again.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:8chan chat: Hahaha yeah of course he wants to ban child porn, a real pillar of the community: quote:“I don’t give a poo poo about what any news agency has to say about me or my website,” Brennan told me. “I only care what law-enforcement agencies have to say.” https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/8chan-pedophiles-child-porn-gamergate/
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forkboy84 posted:8chan was started because 4chan started clamping down on kiddie porn right? No, it was because Gamergaters were using 4chan to organise death threat campaigns and it was escalating to planning actual violence. The owner got cold feet and banned the fuckers e: actually you might be right, it was just the Gamergater influx that made it popular Tarnop fucked around with this message at 00:29 on Aug 7, 2019 |
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GordonTheDeadFish posted:Thanks for all the kind words about my brother everyone, it's really appreciated. I also missed your first post; so sorry about your brother. I've got to agree with Ms A. It's pretty great that your first instinct is to offer your time to help other people. As far as the religious thing goes, might be worth speaking to them still, see if they have other volunteers from outside their group. I'd be surprised if they're so well off for help that they turn down willing folk.
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Barry Foster posted:Forums slow. Re-indexing for search according to the Awful app thread
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If we expand our empire to include every country we depend upon
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CGI Stardust posted:afternoon all, here's some caterpillars again, they're getting pretty big now They're cute! What's the brown stuff in the jar/bowl?
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Gonzo McFee posted:So they're refusing to go into a coalition with labour to avoid no deal which would cause economic collapse because Corbyn is a danger to the economy. Half of them have convinced themselves Corbyn would be worse. The other half are terrified of a left wing leader of any party, and just want more pressure applied to him.
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quote:Synthetic products get far more complex than synthetic convertibles or positions. Synthetic CDOs, for example, invest in credit default swaps. The synthetic CDO itself is further split into tranches that offer different risk profiles to large investors. These products can offer significant returns, but the nature of the structure can also leave high-risk, high-return tranche holders facing contractual liabilities that are not fully valued at the time of purchase. guillotines for bankers
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baka kaba posted:Like the big drive at first was to loan as much as possible to as many people as possible, just to generate that raw debt to package up into bonds and CDOs you could sell - that's why there was so much predatory lending. But what if... you just packaged up bets on existing debt? In-play betting on a global financial scale, on credit, just literally trillions of dollars why not So it's an amplification of the behaviour of the underlying debt. I sure hope no economic shocks occur. Do the no-deal forecasts take these into account, or is it just one of these financial instruments that are going to give wildly different valuations depending on who you ask? e: and that's not even considering the additional risk of adding another financial institution to the chain, which can also fail Tarnop fucked around with this message at 02:43 on Aug 9, 2019 |
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Can I bet that I won't pay off my own debt
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baka kaba posted:This is all about the 2008 crash though, I have no idea what they're up to now, probably keeping their noses clean I'm sure!! Well, an hour or so of searching and the one thing everyone seems to be worried about is volatility trading, specifically that it's starting to feed back into the underlying market whose volatility is being tracked, which sounds... bad Even if the feedback isn't happening, volatility trends down when market performance is up, and everyone is almost certainly neck deep in it because it's been free money while central bank intervention has kept volatility nice and low. So if the markets improve too quickly then everyone loses a poo poo load of money. I'm just trying to take that in for a moment. We bailed out the banks, and their response was to place bets that we'd keep doing it. The quote at the end of this article from last year could be straight from The Big Short: https://www.ft.com/content/24a421fe-0d5c-11e8-8eb7-42f857ea9f09 Also, thanks for doing a big finance effort post, this stuff is slippery and easy to forget which I guess means working as intended
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Guavanaut posted:They will continue to push and push and push until either one of two things happens; there's the death of a photogenic blonde baby at police hands and a following public outrage, or people fight back and continue fighting back past the point of "oh these violent thugs" until change happens. The government had a massive stake in HBOS but it all got sold off at a discount once the bank recovered. That absolutely should have been nationalised. As far as the rest of it goes, I'm not smart enough to know what would happen under those circumstances. For me, the absolute worst part of it is that so many people have gone back to thinking our economy works like a household budget, despite the fact that we conjured a colossal amount of money out of thin air for bail outs and fiscal stimulus. I guess people can make the connection of "the bank is where my money is" -> "can't let everyone's money disappear or the economy dies", but then when it's the NHS or welfare, paying for services that allow people to participate in the economy is equivalent to blowing a month's salary on a big telly.
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ronya posted:emergency liquidity and structural commitments are not the same thing... Yeah, with structural commitment you're less likely to see your money siphoned off into private wealth as soon as the crisis is over
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