Pilchenstein posted:

Nothing so far apart from a huge rise in reported cases of dipshits wandering into UKMT to ask if we have any tragedy they can rubberneck at

Aphex- posted:

The gammons are just going to keep blaming the EU for all their problems even though we're not in it anymore aren't they?

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Finally, this year, the government shouldn’t forget the pledge it made to soldiers who served in Northern Ireland that there would be an end to their vexatious pursuit on historic cases. The reason I mention this is because now that the Stormont House Agreement is in place, the historic cases review will be activated. We cannot drag our feet on the promised legislation. Ex-soldiers fear getting caught up in legal “fishing expeditions” and I would urge ministers to act quickly to end those fears and restore the concept of natural justice as well.

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after decades of heavy migration, around 1 million extra people every three years, too many businesses now fail to train or reskill their workforce. We need to bring migration under control, for the unprecedented scale has affected those on low incomes the most. In the UK today, of those that start life at entry-level work, under 20 per cent will rise above entry level – one of the worst figures in the developed world.

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Trump has made it clear he believes we could achieve agreement on a significant number of areas before the end of the summer. It is vital we do this, not just to obtain leverage on the EU but more importantly because the US is our largest trading partner beyond the EU and is as keen as us to get something done, sector by sector if necessary.

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An official Dutch government account has shared a poll asking people if they will boycott British products and holidays after Brexit because the UK “no longer wants to belong”.

The Twitter post from the Netherlands’ Ministry of Finance suggested a boycott with the hashtags “Brexit” and “VRIJstelling” – which means “exemption” in Dutch.

“If the United Kingdom / England no longer wants to belong, I also no longer spend money on English products or holidays to England,” a translation of the post said.

The poll has since been deleted with no further comment from the account.

Pilchenstein posted:

That's not what "reported cases" means but also lol at "respecting brexit", you disingenuous prick. You know full loving well the issue is another eleven plus months of the thread being full of: "hey, have poor people started dying in droves yet? Really excited to watch that as an outside observer, just so I can tell a thread full of people who knew brexit was a bad idea that I told them so". Just gently caress off you grotesque oval office.

Guavanaut posted:

What's the actual reason that white boys on free school meals are underachieving?

Because all the charts say that they are, and like anecdotally as well I've heard from friends working in schools that there's an unaddressed issue.

Race is a myth and you don't see the same thing with white girls on free meals, so we can throw any genetic basis out the window, fun as it might be to throw back all those centuries of skull measurement.

I don't think it's feminism and teaching about the history of imperialism that's doing it either, unless kids are failing English and maths because geography class told them that a black person exists and their brains shut down.

A common one with people involved with this seems to be that there's no local support network, no equivalent of the Caribbean Community Centre or the gurdwara or the mosque to help kids and families, because until recently that was just called 'all of society' for white boys until Thatcher decided that there was no such thing.

But what does that imply we need to do? I don't think we should go around building 'white community centres', but someone's going to come up with that idea if we don't do something else.

There was that, but there was also the "teaching white boys about feminism and colonialism means they're failing maths" bit.

OwlFancier posted:

I vote for killing and eating the rich thereby eliminating the need to perform massive amounts of pointless labour just to exist.

baka kaba posted:

Novara asked her about that, and she said she believes it should happen, just not while it's ongoing and British troops are serving there. Like in the sense that, if you're calling the whole thing into question that seriously, you're effectively telling the people out there (and the rest of the world) that they're carrying out an illegal war, and undermining their legitimacy and safety. She said she came to that conclusion after talking to people in the military (including her... brother? some relation) about how they'd feel if it happened, and those were the concerns they had

That seems to be her style, she's pragmatic and likes to understand everything before she'll commit to a position, so she might back some unpopular choices but she at least has good reasons instead of being factionally defensive about Big Tone or whatever. It cuts both ways too - apparently she's under constant daily pressure to sign up to those Board of Directors pledges (she described it as "just agree to them and this will all go away") but she won't do anything until she knows exactly what they mean, and they won't meet with her to discuss it

the big one is she was asked which Democrat candidate she supports, and after being unsure for a minute she goes "I don't know, Biden maybe??"
like, how? gonna assume she's not been following it too closely

OwlFancier posted:

Maximum troll move would be ceding the falklands to spain and gibraltar to argentina.

Jose posted:

lmao

https://twitter.com/mr_random_nemo/status/1224616469155237889?s=20

sebzilla posted:

*cut to boss storming into a brothel and finding the messenger balls deep in one of Gideon's favourites*

"'Sorry boss, I thought you said 'black whores'"

"Hennimooooore"

mehall posted:

NEVER use the rates on an ATM.

You would need an *exceptionally* lovely card for it to be in your interest to use the ATM rates.

Most banks will give you the card supplier (visa/mastercard) exchange rate, which is roughly what xe.com has at a given time, delayed by a few hours (though obviously what you get charged depends when the transaction actually processes, so you can get hosed int he following day or two sometimes) plus a charge of about Ł3 and maybe 2% of the transaction.
That's near universally better than taking the ATM rate.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Nationwide Platinum does the same thing too except it's Visa. You don't even really need it for travel, if you just happen to buy stuff online from the US semi-frequently it's handy because the exchange rate is *way* better than Paypal.

Private Speech posted:

I've actually had a better rate from paypal than visa credit card recently when buying a computer, albeit I paid with the card for potential chargeback (it was less than a 50p difference).

e:
Also gently caress me, is this website, which is the first result for googling chargebacks, whiny:

Private Speech posted:

You left out the best bit from Sunshine there:

Ms Adequate posted:

An actual lich would look less of a state.


Nah, that doesn't sound right. What happens when I'm in charge then?

Miftan posted:

Hahaha Holy poo poo that's the most lib analogy ever.

e like, it's incredibly on brand to completely conflate landlord rights and abortion rights for lib, but man is that not a take I expected at all. In fact one of the most influencial pro choice philosophy papers argues something similar except instead of tenants it's something that broke into your home, regardless of if you left the window open or got a fancy security system. The argument already exists, why modify it to be shittier??

Miftan posted:

But going back to my annoyingly pedantic joke point: there's not enough people like this to ensure there are more landlords than homeowners in the UK

Ash Crimson posted:

Philip Schofield is gay

Kin posted:

Ah right, that's peculiar then.

When i connected it to the wifi extender it only picked up a 2.5GHZ signal and when i went into Mifi settings, in the WLAN setting , for wi-fi bandwidth, there's only an option for 20MHz and (Auto).

The stick was just the 3rd device to connected to it so it cant be that.
home
The really low speed it's getting compared to the sim being in my phone is the biggest thing that's telling me something's up with it. If the sim can access 100+Mbits (in my mobile), and the mifi is supposed to be able to handle download speeds of up to 150Mbits, then the only thing left that can be limiting it is the WLAN connection type no?

edit: gently caress me, this tech support guy from three was atrocious.

I explained the situation and he just said that the description is "up to 150Mbits" and that i should enjoy the service. Apparently my mobile phone gets a better signal because mobile phones can have better technology.

No explanation for why one of my devices wasn't connecting, or a good explanation for the mifi getting half of the signal that my mobile phone gets with the same sim.

The only thing he asked me to do was switch the signal to 3G and go to BBC.co.uk to see if the page loads :/

Edit 2: Double gently caress me. Eventually i got through to the sales team who told me that they don't sell the home router version over the phone and i need to go into one of the physical stores.

feedmegin posted:

Random thought - recent bastions of leftism Ireland, Spain and Portugal. All neutral during WW2. Did they just skip the Baby Boom that's loving over everyone else?

Guavanaut posted:

Like given all the poo poo that the EU dumped into the environment either through consumer capitalism or unintended consequences of their various regulations

OwlFancier posted:

Like uber for going on water.

namesake posted:

While this is absolutely a means of giving millions of pounds of public money to consultancy firms and never building anything at all this is exactly the sort of glamourous failure that can be weaponised for years to come as all other investment spending fails to materialise.

mehall posted:

Nationalism loving sucks.


British Nationalism sucks more than most.

mfcrocker posted:

https://twitter.com/HowUpsetting/status/1227940372103430153

CoolCab posted:

i wouldn't wish benzo detox on even jordan peterson. i certainly wouldn't wish Russian pseudoscientific insulin coma detox. good lord he's lucky to be breathing.

and yeah if you're rich and particularly if you're rich and international doctors will 100% prescribe you enough xanax that cessation will straight up kill you, no bother.

Neil Tennant posted:

The sons and brothers, fighting for another cause, anything to give their lives some meaning--busy with their guns and dreaming. Far away from here, said they would act in self-defense.

And all the others, running 'round so hot and bothered, anything to give their lives some meaning in the evening. Running around with guns and said they would act in self-defense, with violence.

Violence, violence. Violence breeds violence.

bessantj posted:

I admit to knowing nothing about negotiating international trade deals but would their level of friendship actually have anything to do with it? I'd have thought it would have been handled by a load of experts and then those two would declare it an amazing deal even if it was poo poo.

Apraxin posted:

A staunch Tory voter you say, I would never have guessed.

Josef bugman posted: