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Who is your first pick in the deputy leadership race? This poll is closed. |
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| R. Allin-Khan |
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6 | 1.60% |
| R. Burgon |
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80 | 21.33% |
| D. Butler |
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72 | 19.20% |
| A. Rayner |
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35 | 9.33% |
| I. Murray |
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5 | 1.33% |
| P. Flaps |
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177 | 47.20% |
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Am I right in thinking that if you aren't formally given (and then sign) a zero-hours contract then you're on an 'assumed contract'? So any staff who work, say, 40 hours on average over the last 12 weeks are assumed to be entitled to those hours in future? My workplace has sprung on everyone that we're all on zero-hour contracts and I am 99% sure this is total bullshit. I'm fully expecting the workplace to close entirely, absolutely no chance of anyone being able to work from home. That's 40 people, maybe with about 25 kids, plus some looking after parents, so let's call it 70 people that this will directly impact. But hey, it's "just the flu!". edit: I mean close entirely due to lack of work due to Covid19, I give it till a week Friday myself. If the new advice which is rumoured for Sunday involves people over 65 not travelling then it'll be about six minutes after that. duckmaster fucked around with this message at 21:19 on Mar 11, 2020 |
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a girl I know from a few years ago has been posting on facebook non-stop about how this is all overblown by the media and it's all scaremongering and only 0.5% of people under 50 will die etc etc etc (I have been calling her out about the hospitalisation rate but it's fallen on deaf ears) tonights post is pics of her by the pool as she's just flown off for "two weeks self isolation" and she's gutted that she might have to put future holidays on hold. unbelievably tempted to comment, "it's just the flu lol" but whatever. grrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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OwlFancier posted:0.5% of the population of the UK is still like 300 thousand people lol. i know it's absolutely mind boggling. Another one posted "well if we're going to get it we're going to get it, it's just your time", I said "if your child trips down the stairs and splits their head open, and the hospitals are overloaded and there's no space left, are you going to tell your child it's just their time?" no answer to that one and I told a friend (in real life) two weeks ago to go and do a big shop, she went loving yesterday and put on facebook that it was a disgrace that the shelves were almost empty so loving angry
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Not-coronavirus chat: If you have a friend who has Sky they should have a Sky Go account meaning you can use their Sky package as long as you have something which can download the app (console, or stream through your phone?). The basic Sky package lets you use Sky Go on 5 devices - I let a friend of mine use my Netflix and he lets me use his Sky Go login, he lets his sister uses it too and gets her Amazon Prime in return, etc. So if you know someone with Sky then might be worth asking. Quite often they don't even know they've got Sky Go as well, and if you're not using all your Netflix slots you've got something to trade, so everyone wins (except Sky). I essentially pay £5.99 for Netflix and the Sky Sports package. It doesn't have the BBC channels but you can watch them through iPlayer instead. It's a pretty good little scam.
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XMNN posted:I live next to the cemetery, which is actually quite nice because it's effectively a bit of quiet parkland and if I have my window open I can hear owls, woodpeckers, badgers (and/or foxes?) that live in there https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/coronavirus-mass-grave-sites-requested-21732760 9000 mass graves, if that doesn't tell you the governments real plan nothing will
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Mar 24, 2020 18:23
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Loonytoad Quack posted:I've decided this is the only news about coronavirus I'm going to believe for now: If it is true then can they explain the stats? We've had 424 dead out of a population of 66 million, so if we assume that 40% of people have already been infected then the deaths should level out at about 1,000. Italys population is 60 million so if the death rate is 1000/66million, or 1/66k, then they should have about approx 909 deaths. They've had 6,820 so far, and although it seems to be slowing it doesn't seem to be tailing off....
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thespaceinvader posted:No, this wasn't the flu, it was a dry chesty cough. Influenza is a family of viruses of which there are three or four most common in each flu season and those are vaccinated against. They generally mutate slightly which is why a new vaccine needs to be developed every year (sometimes more often as the southern hemisphere has a different flu season to the northern). One of the flu viruses going about during the 2019/20 flu season was a particularly nasty little bastard called A(H3N2) - the A stands for Australia so you may have heard it called "the Australian flu". They thought they'd got a lid on it after 2017/18 but it returned last year. One of the symptoms is a dry, chesty cough. Sorry, but you had the flu. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/...fkUMxfDU3j7ggl4
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thespaceinvader posted:I wonder why the doctor didn't mention the possibility when I went back after 6 weeks of continuous coughing at the end of January. GPs don't tend to mention possibilites because people then insist on getting tested for it. There's little point in bothering to test you for whichever type of flu you've got or not got unless you're in a high-risk category. In which case you'd probably have been given (or at least offered) the vaccination in November.
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My local SPAR is out of non-dairy milk (ok, “non-dairy drink”) but the fresh dairy milk shelves are full. I can only assume people are taking it because it’s all got best before dates as opposed to use by so you can keep it in a cupboard until you want to use it. Not a huge issue for me because veganism is a choice etc etc, but I have a friend who is severely lactose intolerant and it seems a bit selfish that there are presumably now cupboards full of soya milk “for emergencies” and her and people like her have to eat their cornflakes with, I dunno, water? I wouldn’t be pissed off about it at all if there was a shortage of dairy milk, but there isn’t!! Edit: unless of course the oat milk supply line is the first to collapse, but I doubt it
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Mar 26, 2020 17:12
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I was just knocking one out and immediately after climax switched straight to the bbc news site to discover, in my warm afterglow, that Hancocks got it and that men can indeed have multiple orgasms.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Welsh vulnerables, be prepared. Well obviously it's been deleted. What did it say?
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