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beginning to suspect the british ruling class are all nonces or something??quote:Coronavirus closes prep school attended by Boris Johnson  also, the bolded bit is a bit grim in the context of their rich tradition of paedophilia XMNN fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Jun 1, 2020 |
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Julio Cruz posted:has there been any progress on antibody tests for those of us who suspect we've had it but would like confirmation before relaxing lockdown? seems like that might be a good thing for a government to have plenty of right about now I think they bunged 40,000 on their test numbers so they could say they hit 200,000 a day, but they might be prioritising them for nhs staff? One of my friends mentioned that his brother (hospital pharmacist) is getting one.
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Kennel posted:Trump will most likely do the dumbest possible thing, so... yeah, even if this could be defused by the president, and even if trump were competent enough to do it, he is not capable of backing down from a confrontation not sure more police brutality is going to bring an end to the anti-police brutality protests, unless they start actually massacring people with the pandemic, economic collapse and massive unemployment I can't see people spontaneously getting any less angry any time soon
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:The comments under that! https://twitter.com/LizForCongress/status/1267609530231291906?s=20 Tory by name, Tory by nature
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yes, I'm sure burying a report into how you've been knowingly endangering ethnic minorities is a great way to avoid stoking racial tensions e: like this is such an obviously stupid move that I'm surprised even they're incompetent enough to make it. to the point that I'm wondering if they actually want to make people angry for some reason? XMNN fucked around with this message at 07:54 on Jun 2, 2020 |
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not sure going back to work has massively improved my mental health, seeing as I have to see all the people I hate face to face again as they try to murder me via their own stupidity also their response to me saying "we need to do x, y and z to reduce the risk from covid, but the most important way of reducing the overall risk is to reduce the number of people working in close proximity in the building, because even if people follow these rules, which they won't, they still don't eliminate the risk" in a big long email was to say "cool, let's do that" and then immediately say everyone needs to be back in the building, because they're stupid selfish cunts so now I'm doing as little work as possible, applying for jobs/PhDs and doing on Duolingo on company time (and posting too obv) 
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Jose posted:the mail doxxed the organisers of londons BLM rally and they're 18? I know it goes without saying but the mail are scum
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I did russian at school it was good, and the alphabet is similar enough to Latin/Greek that i found it no problem I also did german which is obviously very easy vocab wise (and imo the vocab is usually going to be enough in practice, who cares if you conjugate your verbs right or forget what gender beer is) did Arabic for a module in first year and the alphabet (or abugida or whatever it is e: abjad, according to Wikipedia) wasn't too bad, apart from the lack of vowels, vocab was mostly alien but I think I coped Ik, but I absolutely could not get my head around the right-to-left thing. also can't remember any grammar so clearly that didn't sink in at all doing Japanese on Duolingo atm and the vocab is again very unfamiliar, and the orthography is like a cruel practical joke, but from reading around I think the grammar is probably surprisingly straightforward which should hopefully help if I ever get far enough to actually get into it XMNN fucked around with this message at 13:59 on Jun 2, 2020 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Hope those lines are 2m sideways or can the virus not move sideways? glad I'm not the only one with moron bosses and coworkers who are trying to kill me e: is there anything actually stopping parliament doing away with 90% of its members and then ending elections? and don't say convention XMNN fucked around with this message at 13:53 on Jun 2, 2020 |
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https://twitter.com/dikt54/status/1267792499868925954?s=20 they've never actually said why they stopped reporting people tested, did they?
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one of the few things I remember how to say in Russian off the top of my head is "мне шестнадцать лет" which is unfortunately no longer particularly useful for me e: "I'm 16 years old" XMNN fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Jun 2, 2020 |
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keep punching joe posted:What the loving gently caress is this white nonsense must be boiling out there in a suit hopefully enough Tories die of heat exhaustion wandering around the grounds of parliament that they lose the vote e: Maltese is imho probably one of the weirdest languages, e.g. the lord's prayer posted:Missierna, li inti fis-smewwiet, like I can't even begin to guess how some of those words are pronounced, but maybe it just looks bizarre because it's written in the Latin alphabet, if it was still written in Arabic script I'd still not know how to make the sounds but it might not bother my brain so much XMNN fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Jun 2, 2020 |
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Jun 2, 2020 16:58
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wow our MPs are morons, who knew? https://twitter.com/tnewtondunn/status/1267847620367695878?s=20 e: maybe they could vote online and then those that think it's their civic duty to pointlessly stand in a queue can do that on their own time
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e: I always used to wonder how people got quote and edit confused and now I've done it twice in like two days
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I don't remember insects (except midges in swarms on walks along the river) ever being this bad years ago. I never saw a mosquito anywhere I lived in the UK until I think it was 2012! like I can easily* kill a dozen or so in the act of trying to steal my blood on a relatively short walk sometimes. it's a little bit gross when you explode one and end up smearing your own blood all over your legs rumour has it that the ones round here are a species that can host west nile fever * they are surprisingly dopy and slow, you can sometimes crush them with your fingers
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I went looking for a picture of Desmond swayne to illustrate why that's awful but not surprising (which I found) just the headline of the article makes it even less surprising, but more awful Tory MP Sir Desmond Swayne admits 'blacking up' at fancy dress party and says he has 'no intention' of apologising and the article is somehow worse still Torygraph posted:ir Desmond Swayne, the Conservative MP, has admitted 'blacking up' as soul singer James Brown for a fancy dress party. reckon the ehrc will be investigating endemic racism in the Tory party any time soon?
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OwlFancier posted:Crane flies might not be dangerous but they're extremely uncooperative when you try to deport them out the back door. Like mate, there's nobody to gently caress and nothing to eat in here, go home. yeah I'm very live and let live when it comes to creepy crawlies (apart from mosquitoes, the little bastards) but if you aren't cooperating and keep flying around my head or loudly banging into a window or something then the gloves are off (unless you're a bee, but they're usually pretty docile IME) although I did have to repeatedly evict a bunch of mason(?) bees when they kept trying to build a nest between my window frame and the bit that opens, mostly because almost all of their very convenient tunnel would suddenly disappear the moment I opened the window
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I'm really looking forward to the only good pubs around here being told they can reopen but immediately going under due to not actually being able to fit enough people inside to make money, that's really my dream scenario as a lover of our grate British pubs thanks Boris, making Britain great again
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quote:Starmer says Johnson did not put a number on those being contacted. He says the number of people testing positive every day is only a fraction of the people being infected. The system probably should be contacting 45,000 people a day. lol he must be genetically incapable of feeling any sort of shame e quote:Starmer says he has tried to support the government. He thought the schools issued needed consensus. That is why he offered to help. E2: https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1268140864234283008?s=20 doesn't even remember how months work or remember which targets he's supposed to lie about achieving when XMNN fucked around with this message at 12:29 on Jun 3, 2020 |
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it's actually a good thing that they're not doing anything because that means the pandemic is over
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Certainly seems to be over round here! Just myself and 2 others in the street wearing masks. Non-essential shops reopening (and I thought Wales weren't reopening non-essential yet), lots of people out and about. it's apparently very over around here our CEO has been in the office for the last few days to ermm do conference calls with a bunch of people in other countries? also him and a guy who keeps "just popping out" to visit customers went in the same car together to the shops to buy ice cream for the office because it was sunny yesterday, although tbf if they both come down with coronavirus you won't be able to blame that trip specifically, as they also did that to get lunch for the office on Friday they've also invited two separate groups of customers to the lab for tenuous reasons on Thursday, but it's ok because there's apparently plenty of room for me to do work (that I could do from home) in the office! at my desk, surrounded by the desks of at least three other morons I do not trust these people's judgement one tiny bit
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season 5 has the journalism storyline and I guess the main journalist could be a Simon analogue/wish fulfilment thing? although either way it would be far from the biggest problem with season 5 efb XMNN fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Jun 3, 2020 |
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Jun 3, 2020 15:39
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Lid posted:Season 5 fails on many levels but the biggest actually is Gus wish fulfillment as every other season the characters are all complex, meanwhile in the news room there are three people who are literally perfect and three others who are evil with no redeeming features. There is literally no nuance it is a screed against "these assholes ruined my perfect world". Everything else beyond that from the poor plotting is also bad, but its that lack of being able to develop nuance at its base that makes the storylines fail. fair and on reflection mcnulty inventing a serial killer in order to manipulate the city into giving him the budget for his pet project isn't actually that outlandish in the context of American policing corruption
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yeah it's probably not ideal in terms of stopping the virus, but the government and a huge chunk of the population have already given up on that voluntarily and a bunch more are being forced back to unsafe work places on unsafe public transport (if they even left them in the first place) it's much more justifiable to be there than down the beach at any rate
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dunno if this is representative but this is a picture from Hyde park on the guardian live blog People observing social distancing today at a Black Lives Matter protest rally in Hyde Park, London.Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA Updated at 11:39 EDT looks like there's a lot of masks too
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sebzilla posted:https://twitter.com/DarrenEuronews/status/1268210927335342081?s=19 now I can see why Johnson is so proud of the way he's dealt with this, if we can't have a world-beating epidemic at least we'll have a europe-beating one
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Boris Johnson: a liar and a racist? https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1268224411947143171?s=20 Jel Shaker posted:lol all this media guff about being still able to travel abroad this summer for beach holidays through “air corridors” if countries have low covid levels -absolutely not what the U.K. is or is going to be I don't understand why this is such a preoccupation, like yeah the UK is poo poo and we all wish we weren't here but there's a pandemic on? maybe focus on staying alive in the here and now by staying out of the big metal plague tubes and go on holiday next year?
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ukmt sickos  e: hopefully none of the good MPs were in there tho
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yeah they voted to abolish the remote voting although I think they may have u turned slightly on completely disenfranchising shielding MPs by giving them a proxy vote
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Cerv posted:they can conference call to for debates but no proxy votes AFAIK. that's still for maternity cover only. looks like this changed at pmqs (assuming Johnson wasn't just making things up on the fly that he had no intention of doing again obv), although the article says proxy voting and Johnson said remote voting, so no idea what the actual arrangements are https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jun/03/mps-shielding-from-covid-19-allowed-proxy-vote-in-johnson-u-turn quote:Boris Johnson has announced a government U-turn to allow MPs who are shielding to vote by proxy following an outcry over the treatment of parliamentarians with medical conditions or those who are looking after vulnerable loved ones during the coronavirus pandemic. I'm lolling at the people in the replies to that tweet asking why he came in when he was symptomatic, when unless he had a cough or knew he had a high temperature (and maybe anosmia is also in there now?) then that he wouldn't have needed to under the government guidelines, and it's not like we don't have a ridiculous culture of presenteeism generally and his bosses haven't been saying that if you're not at work then you're not working for the last few days e:f;b XMNN fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Jun 3, 2020 |
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quote:During the debate, after Sharma was seen wiping his face with a handkerchief several times, his Labour shadow, Ed Miliband, passed him a glass of water. Sharma also appeared sweaty and sounded hoarse on Tuesday, according to one fellow MP, when he voted to abolish hybrid parliamentary measures. I wonder if the entire cabinet will be doing their civic duty and self isolating if he does turn out to be positive, or if that's still just for the little people e: also dragging yourself into parliament when there's a pandemic on and you're feeling ill, specifically to vote against remote voting, is an interesting move
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also lol at the whole air bridges thing where the breathless articles about how are summer hols might be on after all do occasionally mention that experts say it only makes sense for countries with "similar epidemiological profiles" or whatever* but fail to mention the corollary which is that you better be planning on going on holiday to Russia, Brazil or whatever is left of the USA *which I'm not sure is true, as sticking a bunch of people in the big metal plague tube to go drink and be sick on each other in swimming pools seems like a bad idea even if both countries have roughly the same rate of infection
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crispix posted:Jimmy Saville will be Keir's Gerry Adams and grooming gangs will be his IRA so glad we finally have a leader without a load of baggage for the tabloids and chudosphere to endlessly harp on about until it filters into the open sewer that passes for mainstream political discourse in this country
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