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Oct 5, 2019 11:50
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Yup, it's a Mussolini reference. Or at least I interpreted it as one when I saw it, seems a bit edgy for an advert in a large British railway station. https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/rear-window-making-italy-work-did-mussolini-really-get-the-trains-running-on-time-1367688.html
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Steve2911 posted:Byron is shite. GBK is far better. Reminder: Taco Bell will win the restaurant wars. Anyone who doesn't like it and doesn't agree with  will be forced underground to eat grilled rat. Truly, demolition man is the vision of the future we deserve.
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Oct 7, 2019 15:49
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That #10 bullshit rings horrifyingly true. On the plus side, my uncle came down over the weekend and through an evening of booze and jazz I think I talked him out of joining Extinction Rebellion and into voting for Labour. So  Anyway, have a guardian article about just how stupid the idea of a fantasy football government of national unity is: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/07/fantasy-national-unity-government-gift-brexiters-second-referendum "Tom Kibasi writes in a personal capacity". Because we wouldn't want to besmirch that editorial line. E: Comments are wildly entertaining, even for the guardian. RockyB fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Oct 7, 2019 |
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Oct 7, 2019 22:54
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Typical antisemitism: I like that he's linking to the Sky News story. Just thinking 'gently caress the BBC, even Sky don't rip the piss out as much these days'. E: Huh, just noticed the 'Why you can trust Sky news' link at the top of the article. Then went to the BBC and saw they had one too, except buried at the bottom of the article. Is that new, as a result of some legislation or other? Or did two mid-level managers suddenly hit on the same idea to appear non-fake-newsey. RockyB fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Oct 9, 2019 |
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Oct 9, 2019 20:53
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Three weeks remain. Where's the Boris moon when you need it. Anyway, let's jeer at some more tax dodging scum. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/oct/10/pensions-tax-relief-set-to-cost-government-almost-40bn Nothing better than load balancing income across your lifetime so you don't have to pay higher rate tax. Although sadly you can only do this to the tune of £40k a year and a lifetime total of £1.05million (down from 1.25 a few years ago!) HMRC are utter scum and I'm not entirely sold on how they're describing it as 'lost revenue', but ... "According to a review by parliament’s public accounts committee, of the 424 tax reliefs provided, the tax authority does not report a cost for 239." "HMRC’s total forecast of the costs of tax reliefs for 2017-2018 is £416.8bn, which according to its annual report is related to 105 reliefs." The flip side to this of course is that pensions are poo poo, none of us are going to retire, and even if we did well there's no saying that a worldwide crash wouldn't have wiped 40% of the value off your stock bubble 'investment' anyway. More grist to the mill of number.
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Oct 10, 2019 22:24
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bessantj posted:I got this in an e-mail from a recruiter Functional testing = make sure buy button works Non-functional testing = make sure a button works when 10 million people try to click on it, button doesn't spurt personal data across the internet randomly In this case they're most likely looking for a performance tester, because capitalism doesn't give a poo poo about externalities like 'security' or 'reliability'. Just that if they manage to trick more people than expected into clicking the buy button, they successfully take money from everyone. £375 is a shite rate for a performance tester, even outside London. Although not too surprising if you're getting emails from a bottom feeder recruiter who's spamming out based on CV keyword matches.
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Oct 10, 2019 22:31
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sebzilla posted:Ta, not worth leaving a permanent gig for though. Just FYI, JobServe is still a good clearing house for techie jobs if you're semi-actively looking. In the last seven days for performance testing you've got...  The usual caveats apply, i.e the nice salary computer touchers can potentially make after they invest ten years in training up doesn't make up for the soul sucking void of interminable bullshit meetings, management consultants, and the intense knowledge that you're working on ad-tech bullshit that will actively make the world worse. And everyone is in a race to offshore/automate all the roles so salary will be 'normalised' to be a crap as everywhere else within the next 10 years or so anyway.
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Oct 10, 2019 23:05
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Whole lot of 'Labour in crisis!!1!' stories over the last few days. Almost like the media has to get their smears in before campaigning starts. On that note, looking forward to the queen's speech being voted down and the government falling today. In the meantime, have some existential dread about 'AI' (i.e lovely decision trees) starving people with no recourse to an actual human. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/14/automating-poverty-algorithms-punish-poor Computer says no dole.
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Does this count as de Pfeffel cuckooing the Queen? Can we get social services involved for this poor pensioner.
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Oct 14, 2019 11:53
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Came here to post this
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Oct 14, 2019 12:21
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Just walked past the XR guys at Bank on the way back from donating blood. Absolutely pissing it down, but they still seem cheerful. Not sure they're really accomplishing much blocking though, other than bus routes.
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Gonzo McFee posted:Snack chat is boring as gently caress and consists almost entirely of the exact same people stating their exact same preference for the exact same snacks every time it comes up for pages at a time. Mexican Fiery Sweet Chipotle sensations. Taken from us too soon by the cruelty of capitalism.
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Oct 14, 2019 17:35
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Bacon Terrorist posted:Not sure what's better about Grant Shapps announcing 'Northern Rail' (or Northern, as they have actually been called for years now) could be nationalised: the old Tory trick of sticking a blue ribbon on a Labour manifesto promise they previously attacked (see Miliband energy caps) or the complete failure to understand that nationalising that particular TOC won't resolve any of the issues they are having But it is nationalised. Deutsche Bahn owns Arriva who own Northern. Although I can see some good potential spin there to convince gammons that we're really reclaiming out railways from those nasty Krauts.
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Oct 16, 2019 13:32
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There is not a 'gently caress ooooooooofffff' big enough in the world for that Blairite. George Monbiot posted a Guardian column earlier about intending to get himself arrested today. Wonder how that worked out for him. I would love to see a bunch of actual MPs protest (even if we only have a single green one) and get arrested, the complete shut down of peaceful protest is such an over reach that it needs to be challenged in court. Guess that would get in the way of another meaningless vote about Brexit though.
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Oct 16, 2019 22:45
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/16/labour-snp-closeness-opens-rift-in-alliance-against-no-deal-brexit Politicians shouldn't be playing politics I screech as I slowly shrink and transform into a Lib Dem.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Ah but you see socialists is politics whereas landlords is not politics because Centerists in not realising prevailing socioeconomic system is also a political ideology shocker. End of history! 
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Oct 17, 2019 10:22
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So it's meaningful vote number four, this time on a worse deal but hoping MPs are bored enough to just vote the loving thing through already. And potentially a smidgeon of no deal is better than a bad deal  if it doesn't pass.Luckily tesco has knocked a fiver off a bottle of Buffalo Trace, taking it back to the pre-Trump trade war price of £18. Two of those should be enough to get me through Saturday. (Yes, the EU tariff on bourbon is pretty much the only Trump related issue that has had a noticeable direct impact on me. Roll on leaving the perfidious euros so we can have a free trade agreement and replace all that horrible 'scotch' with proper booze.) [Actually, last year I picked up a bottle in Spain for loving €13 screw British alcohol duty.]
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CoolCab posted:i prefer bulleit to buffalo trace but the latter is fine. i'm sad, my local mini asda tried and failed to develop a burbon section and as such there were a bunch that got slashed down in price. i consulted a Kentuckian friend of mine and on his advice bought their entire supply (6 bottles at £10 a pop) of old forester. i've been drinking it for months and am finally down to my last bottle Between Asda and Tesco you can generally get a pretty reasonable selection of bourbons. Far more than 'specialist' shops like majestic wines for some reason. And they almost always seem to have a couple of quid off either Bulleit, Makers Mark, Buffalo Trace or Woodford Reserve. Old forester is good too but doesn't seem to have any staying power, I remember finding some marked down from £30 to £20 in Tesco because they were trying to get rid of it. Crispchat has now been replaced by boozechat. No gin allowed. Fake Edit: Rye whiskey has started to be a thing in the last couple of years too. Bulleit Rye is gold tier. Actual Edit: E.164 is an ITU-T recommendation which defines the public telecommunication numbering plan used in the PSTN and data networks. This seems vaguely relevant given all our phones are going to die in a (surprisingly not Brexit related) apocalypse caused by the Ofcom Yahoo Group shutting down. No, that's not a joke. RockyB fucked around with this message at 22:27 on Oct 17, 2019 |
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Generally the cheapest non trash tier bourbon whiskey available in the UK. Personally I would strongly recommend 80+ proof to get you through the next couple of weeks, yes. https://buffalotracedistillery.com/brands/buffalo-trace Kentucky Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qivepBVYZsw
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CoolCab posted:you’ve seen this right? I learnt something today. Thanks! The problem with gin is that the last couple of years have spawned so many lovely gimmick varieties. I remember walking into my local 'specialist' spirits store and seeing an entire shelf filled with 60+ different types of gin and yet only two bottles of the obviously superior bourbon. Haven't been back since (except to buy bulk boxes of Aspalls for parties. Well, 'parties'.). kingturnip posted:Also good to get clinical psychologists and speech and language therapists in the scheme, although I'd be interested to see how much time's allocated for each. Again, though, good stuff. gently caress the tories so much for killing SureStart. My mother took a job at our local centre doing speech and language development, it's amazing how some of these kids opened up after a couple of sessions. Now she's trying to do it freelance and getting completely screwed over by the bureaucracy of getting registered as a supplier to the council.
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SpaceCommie posted:I'm partial to the cinnamon flavoured Jack Daniels as it just tastes like biscuits to me and I can drink a litre under an hour if I'm not really paying attention. I said non trash tier. JD is definitely trash tier. If you want honey in your booze do what a not so clever mate of mine once did, get a squeezy bottle and chase every shot. Apropos of nothing did you know that there's a massively under-reported cirrhosis/fibrosis epidemic among millennials, the true impact of which will likely not make itself fully known for another 15-30 years? They estimate that with the obesity crisis and NAFLD about 1 in 4 people in that age range are now affected, me included. That's why I try for two 3+ month periods of sobriety a year these days. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/apr/12/experts-warn-of-fatty-liver-disease-epidemic-in-young-people https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/nov/13/britain-liver-disease-epidemic-alcohol-cirrhosis-young-people
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Non alcoholic fatty liver disease, i.e. your liver is hosed because you're too fat. The especially fun part is that the studies explicitly exclude people who drink heavily, which is obviously another strong factor towards developing liver disease. So goons are fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked. Note those two articles I posted are six years apart. Nothing has changed. Very few people not already visibly affected are aware. If it wasn't for an ultimately unrelated neutrophillic vasculitis outbreak (the cause of which is still undiagnosed three years later) I would never have had a FibroScan at age 28 and been told I was soon to die of Cirrhosis. p.s. to the NHS nurse who did the initial FibroScan and gave me that diagnosis, that left me physically shaking in my car wondering how to drive home; gently caress you, and the system, and the complete lack of pastoral care provided for confronting my own mortality. Fortunately when I went back after six months of not drinking it changed from 'sudden death' to 'mild fibrosis'. p.p.s Not really gently caress you, she was a nice lady and compassion fatigue is a real thing. But goddamn am I fortunate I was able to afford to pay for a private GP to break down in tears to rather than having to wait three weeks for an appointment with my NHS GP. p.p.p.s Okay much oversharing at 1am in the UK politics thread, but on the plus side at least it's pushed me towards donating blood as often as possible which I wouldn't have even thought about five years back. Turns out semi-frequent jabbing with needles makes you less frightened of them.
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IrvingWashington posted:that's a little hostile for a snipe 
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HauntedRobot posted:Just don't use thiscatdoesnotextist.com to post your cat pictures because, wow http://thiscatdoesnotexist.com (speeling!) I see nothing wrong here.    E: Every goon has the exact same idea and the thread is flooding with cthulian horrors for the next ten pages. A finger curls and the 'dear god no more crispchat' wish is completed. RockyB fucked around with this message at 14:56 on Oct 18, 2019 |
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This looks shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels and seeing quite a few shops in my time. Strom Cuzewon posted:Maybe it's just aged badly, because it comes off like a low-effort Twilight Zone. This is true of pretty much any 'naive' media looked at again from a modern perspective. Stuff has been chopped and rehashed and analysed so many times in the last hundred years that nothing ever feels fresh without at least seven layers of meta-ironic decomposition. There's probably entire reams of self published erotica on amazon spun off from the most basic short story from the 1900s, just look at what Lord of the Rings caused. Anyway, so parliament isn't sitting and nothing is happening until Saturday? Got to keep the thread ticking over until tomorrow somehow I guess.
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Just don't start talking about cryptographic nonces. To add some actual content, someone at the guardian has run the 'new' withdrawal act through a diff tool: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2019/oct/18/how-much-johnson-great-new-deal-actually-new Graundiad posted:As MPs prepare to vote on Boris Johnson’s EU withdrawal agreement, Guardian analysis shows that less than 5% of the original deal has been renegotiated, despite it being rejected by parliament three times. So yes, this really is meaningful vote number four. De Pfeffel has to be trying to get this voted down so he can declare an instant no deal.
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jabby posted:One wonders why he took his son with him to work and then decided to walk home through the huge remain protest. It's an attempt to scar the kid so he develops an instinctive hatred of the proletariat who screamed nasty things at his daddy. So, 'Super Saturday' turned into De Pfeffel arsing around for five minutes then crying and taking his ball home after the other neighbourhood kids scored the first goal then.
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Won't somebody think of the !!1! https://twitter.com/andrealeadsom/status/1185572672538849281
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Oct 19, 2019 16:47
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Reposting for the new page because what the gently caress. Also there are currently at least six countries on fire including Ethiopia, Syria, Mexico and Spain. But gently caress that BREXIT FOREVER.
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kingturnip posted:Basically, XR demonstrate again that peaceful protest is the brittle-boned stepchild of the only successful form of protest - violence against the state and the rich. Reminder: At this very moment there is violent protest going on in Ethopia, Spain (Catalonia), Hong Kong, Ecuador and gently caress are the gilet jaunes still going? We have loving extinction rebellion sending love letters to police stations.
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Let's be honest the perfect media distraction is something between a new royal baby and  Yeah I'm hotlinking biatch, what of it. Anyway the extent of violent protest in the UK these days seems to be a couple of white XR protestors climbing on to a tube train and kicking a black guy. I'm very much looking forward to the children of men eco-fascist future.
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RE: Children of menMichael fuckin' Caine posted:Jasper: Yeah, there you go! Julian and Theo met among a million protesters in a rally by chance. But they were there because of what they believed in in the first place, their faith. They wanted to change the world. And their faith kept them together. But by chance, Dylan was born.
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If anyone is feeling a burning need for escapism, the alcoholic communist amnesiac detective game is extremely good and I recommend it everyone. The writing has actually got some genuine laughs from me in places, which is extraordinarily rare for a video game.
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Just type 'alcoholic communist amnesiac detective game' into google. Seriously, you'll get this game. Yeah, it's Disco Elysium. E: Julio 
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I'm looking forward to a Scottish Lexit being just as derided a few years after a successful independence vote as a British one is now. I just can't see it working economically without going full bore petrostate, and jesus the border situation and trying to split everything 'fairly'. Pretend I said something insulting about the Barnett formula too. On another topic, middle class white women discover existential dread: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-49836830 Crying Mum posted:I was asking one of the (nursery) staff members if I could speak to some of the other mums about coming to an Extinction Rebellion strike," says Heather, from Beeston in Nottinghamshire. "She said they wouldn't be able to get involved in anything political and I got really, really upset. She said, 'I think you need to go and see someone'. Oh no, eco-anxiety. This is completely unprecedented and distinct from anxieties such as not being able to feed ourselves or the inevitability of the world ending in a conflagration of nuclear hell fire. What we need is some kind of organisation to join that tells us our lives have meaning and that by howling into the void we will be judged worthy and saved. Thus begins the cult of EXTINCTION REBELLION.
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Guavanaut posted:a kind of federalism where most powers are devolved and the upper house is a Council of Provinces. Also for splitting up England. Sincerely, I think federalisation of smaller units of population is definitely the way to go. Our monkey brain mindset just isn't equipped for caring about populations in blocks of 50 million at a time, and modern telecommunication systems allowing ever more centralised and rapid control really don't help. Independence for Cornwall. London becomes a city state. The northern powerhouse actually builds a proper loving railway across the Pennines. RockyB fucked around with this message at 12:45 on Oct 22, 2019 |
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That explains why I reacted to the previous entries in this series by trying to violently stab out my eyes. You can just feel the smug "I'm a sensible and respected civil servant who knows the REAL truth" vibes greasily wafting off it.
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