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namesake posted:^^^^^Lol, these are supposed to be people with wisdom and taste? I was looking at becoming an mp but the labour party says you have to be a member for a year which is nearly £50. how far in advance of a general election do they announce the candidates?
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Jose posted:you used to be able to become a football agent for a mere £250 if you want a career change im not really into talking on phones and deadlines and that! wat about you where are you workng these days? for a long time i thought my colourful past meant that i could forget about becoming an mp. but in the post truth era you can just say oh that was a long time ago and prior to my epiphany of 2020. a friend of a friend was a candidate in 2017 so i should probably ask them. just wondered if any of you were or had been candidates or councillors or whatever...
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The Deleter posted:UberEats has finally graced Long Eaton with its presence and the choice of meals is a chippy that's closed, a pizza place and KFC. So naturally I ordered as much garbage chicken as humanely possible because I hadn't had any in months. nice, i'd go for a zinger tower burger myself. what are the milkshakes like at kfc or dont thy do them? ive found aldi frozen non-chicken burgers indistinguishable from the real thing especially in aldi's fantastic brioche buns and mayonnaise that never seems to go off even in the cupboard over summer. sod it im going to have one now!
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Sep 1, 2020 13:33
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Jose posted:on the dole currently but going back to uni for a masters in 20 days very cool, 1-2 year? what sort of thing are you studying? think my uni days were the last time i outperformed my peers sadly so i often thought abut doing an msc abroad for practically nothing but didnt get my act together / got too comfortable at work to make it before the brexit cutoff. yes, im aware i voted for it!
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Sep 1, 2020 13:35
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Most efficient (cost effective) small portable electric heater - any recommendations? search 'delonghi oil radiator'
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Comrade Fakename posted:Someone make sure to save Breath Ray's poo poo posting just in case he actually runs. youd... doxx me?
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Sep 1, 2020 16:21
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peanut- posted:You'd get charged 55% tax on anything you take out so jose could take out ~£7.5k and pay the other £4k in tax towards schools and hospitals? it's win-win!
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Angrymog posted:Given that we're not getting pay rises or bonuses for at least the next couple of years, they're going to have to work really hard to convince me to come back to the office. i joined prospect (the magazine) the other day, looking forward to my clive james biography of philip larkin with issue one! more on topic, my sister gave me a load of private eye annuals and the 2007 one is all about david cameron not criticising the labour govt, agreeing with it and wants to hug and kiss it. keir must have read it too
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people under 35 are more likely to die in a road accident than of covid, I read in private eye
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Sep 1, 2020 22:55
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Red Oktober posted:Time to repost this then I think. Some Vice stuff is pretty good. https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/z3bmk8/unemployed-art-school-graduate-job-diary good photographer too https://www.instagram.com/tom.glencross/?hl=en
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Sep 3, 2020 11:30
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Aidan_702 posted:Yeah, exactly. School was atrocious and is 95% bad memories and stress. It's the number one sign you're speaking to a Tory when they talk about how much they loved school. Not everyone who loved school is a Tory, but it's a very good metric this reminds me of that stephen spender quote - ‘Mayn’t your politics simply be the result of a sexual maladjustment?’
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Sep 3, 2020 15:27
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Regarde Aduck posted:See I still don't understand why it was so easy for the right to regain control. Did the left massively gently caress up (beyond losing the election) or was this always going to happen? Starmer served Jezza loyally enough so it wasnt exactly a coup or a surprise considering RLB didnt have Jezza's credentials or plain speakingness. historically Jezza's image was more lefty than his more recent policies actually were, which caused a certain level of mistrust that could be exploited by the media. the advantage of starmer is that if anything ordinary people see him more to right than his policies suggest. going further back I suppose there was a sense that milliband proved weak and ineffectual against a polished foe, so a return to a supposed authoritarian like Starmer to take on the disheveled and chaotic boris after disheveled and chaotic jezza failed to make inroads makes sense. thats not the same as saying this was 'always going to happen' mind you thats just post rationalisation
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Sep 3, 2020 16:34
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Inter-party dissension and Brexit, in whichever order you prefer. I agree brexit is why they lost the election, but its not why long bailey lost to starmer. theres still a question mark over labour and brexit although starmer has said hes put it behind him. its also a bit of a leading question because e.g. both corbyn and starmer have stated their support for law and order - the difference is that sat uncomfortably with corbyn's historical position
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Sep 3, 2020 17:28
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thespaceinvader posted:It's a mix of both, but the mix is sharply weighted towards the press side of things. There's also tribalism to think about, too. thespaceinvader posted:So did Corbyn's. i dont think tribalism is as significant these days. e.g. the red wall has gone blue but id expect parts of it to go red again in 2024. labour used to be able to rely on scotland, has lost nearly everything there, but could recover under the right circs. more significant is that very few constituencies present a choice between two equally matched candidates, and also MPs who are active in their constituency can sometimes prevail even when their party leader takes a kicking. that seems to indicate that not everyone considers GEs to be an opportunity to pick a PM
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I think it depends to some extent on the skillset of those in the activities you want to get involved with. is the labour Organize system tricky for first timers then? maybe it's something you could do a teach-in on if thats the only thing holding people back from secretary work, unless youre not keen for the CLP to revive under starmer.
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Sep 3, 2020 21:28
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BizarroAzrael posted:Is this a first time buy? Are you using Help to Buy or Shared Ownership? I've saved quite a big deposit but found my options are still quite limited in London (where my job and family are) because of my salary. I started toward a shared ownership place in Ilford late last year but I don't know if that's still the best option, I think I'd rather take the Help to Buy loan, but the Ilford place was ideal, if it were Help to Buy the price would be in my affordability. Feeling under pressure as I need to move out before my dad does, and hes expecting an offer on this place any day now. first off, well done on saving a big deposit. i agree that shared ownership is a bit limiting so youre right to rule that out. the most important thing is not to panic and definitely dont feel the need to buy a place to move into to fit in with your dad's plans. most sales take months so youre better off renting privately and taking that opportunity to live in the neighbourhood you plan to buy in. dont worry about missing out on the stamp duty holiday as lots of sellers are pricing that in now anyway! good luck
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Camrath posted:Thanks for the kind words! speaking of sweeties I think when the time comes just do all the varieties that are in those $99 cookies the owner of this site raves about
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Sep 4, 2020 21:20
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Trip repoetb: went to wetherspoons, literally not a singleperson besides myself wearing Mark. Also, haven't been this drunk in months interesting. maybe its because when youre married you yearn for death
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peanut- posted:My company has been expanding into Germany over the last year or so and I've been shocked by how utterly closed-shop protectionist it is. Like, I'm sure it's extremely compliant with the letter of EU law, but every bureaucratic and regulatory thing has been set up to make sure absolutely nothing actually gets done outside of Germany, no business can be taken out of Germany without massive expense and headache, and German firms are advantaged in almost everything. I wonder about German 'compliance' with this sort of thing given the emissions scandal
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Sep 7, 2020 13:54
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Bobby Deluxe posted:It's designed to make him look like he's in charge to the kind of people who think all interpersonal conflict has to be solved by who can stick their chin out the furthest in a pub car park. Then when it all goes wrong he can disappear and live off brexiteer money in a tax haven where they shoot anyone poor enough to be mad at him. this is worrrying news especially after bbc more or less last week found children under 10 were not at risk. but are the incident numbers not quite small? 'The team reviewed [the?] 662 MIS-C cases reported worldwide between Jan. 1 and July 25' - that includes a couple of months of schooling time its also not clear if the 'seemingly healthy' set includes obese children who are later identified as being most at risk. interesting to learn what number of dead primary school children the govt will consider permissible - and what antivaxxers will say
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Private Speech posted:Bit unrelated but on topic of legal issues, I've been reading about UK visa refusals on StackOverflow and it really boggles my mind how insane it is. apparently there was a nakedly racist algorithm in use to consider medical school applications between 1979 and 1986 that accurately replicated a panel's prejudices, viz. candidates with non-european names were marked down and 60 missed out on the course as a result. but oddly, while it was used, the medical school admitted a greater proportion of non-europeans than others... this was in LRB again - what an investment that trial turned out to be!
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peanut- posted:The Lidl Islay is Caol Ila product and it's genuinely good, I would say better than Laphroiag Select as its closest branded competitor. The Speyside is perfectly drinkable too. aldi do speyside and islay as well but the cardboard tubes are always empty so either its always been stolen or you need to take the tube to the till
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Given the long life of most tinned stuff, just throw a few cans in whenever you shop. My golden rule for stockpiling is stuff that can be eaten straight from the can with no heating and no hydration (even if it tastes like poo poo maybe I'll keep the co-op spaghetti rings after all. No way I'll be eating those unless it's that or trying to catch a pigeon outside). Also, for me, gnothe seaton and all that, no NICE food such as canned custard or canned rice pud because that way the madness of going out in a mammoth tinned custard binge lies. (lesson learned from my Y2K stockpile. 6 months worth of canned custard lasted about 3 days). that pasta e ceci recipe someone posted is looking better and better. also i bought the aldi speyside  now to mix it with that all-important schweppes lemonade
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justcola posted:*labour voters nodding* I think he is beating the Tories with their own slogan... 'After the 2016 referendum, the rational course of action for the British left would have been to embrace Brexit as a decisive opportunity to escape the neoliberal straightjacket [sic] of the European Union, reforming the British economy in the interests of workers and the poor. Leave could potentially open the door to nationalization of key resources, public banking, a transformative industrial policy, redistribution of income and wealth, and the lifting of austerity, all of which are required radically to restructure the British economy. Leave would also offer the opportunity to renew democracy and restrengthen popular and national sovereignty, in line with the popular demands expressed in the referendum. These policies are impossible to achieve within the EU single market with the required degree of socialist radicalism. That is precisely the meaning and the promise of Lexit. Unfortunately, the bulk of the British left, including the bulk of the Labour Party, has failed to move in that direction, becoming strongly attached to “Remain and Reform.”' https://jacobinmag.com/2019/07/labour-brexit-remain-and-reform-uk e. what Lady Demelza said Breath Ray fucked around with this message at 19:42 on Sep 8, 2020 |
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big scary monsters posted:Given that editors and reviewers typically work for free, while authors pay a fee (which can be 4 figures per paper) to publish in a journal, and then the journals turn around and charge the same institutions who actually employ all that free labour tens or hundreds of thousands a year for access, I'm honestly surprised their margins aren't higher. Half the journals don't even have a print edition any more, it would seem like their main cost is hosting. It's impossible to overstate just how exploitative even well-respected and mainstream journals are, let alone the so-called predatory publishers. is it expensive because only a few people will pay before the findings become public though 
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Swindon was a husk barely dragging itself along when we went there Saturday. The entire place is covered in grafitti and all the shops in the mall were closed or having a closing down sale. I know it doesn't have a great reputation but it looked like the place was on the verge of abandonment. just to say im enjoying these. why does your partner want to live there?
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big scary monsters posted:Avocados are very tasty but they are unfortunately not the food of the painfully woke zillenial that boomer Facebook would have you believe. As you might guess of a lucrative South American cash crop, its farming tends to involve deforestation, replacing traditional varied farming with monocultures, funding narcoterrorism, horribly exploiting farmers and all that sort of good stuff. But it's not all bad news - some avocados are grown in Spain! Farm workers there have better working conditions, there are somewhat fewer druglords running the show, and the ecological effects tend towards regional droughts rather than rainforest destruction, so that's an option. interesting, thanks. spanish black grapes are a great alternative to south african ones too. what do you make of the reusable silicon alternative to clingfilm that they are advertising on my IG feed at the moment? or the recyclable plastic washing up sponge?
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:No, the baggage loops forever. very good
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Grey Hunter posted:Yeah, NOW I notice the bit of blue. I learn from being confronted and challenged, and I accept that I have made some significant errors in my public life. If someone then said I should not be read or listened to as a result of those errors, well, I would object internally, since I don't think any mistake a person made can, or should, summarise that person. We live in time; we err, sometimes seriously; and if we are lucky, we change precisely because of interactions that let us see things differently.
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escapegoat posted:Random question: I dont know but I feel persuaded by this plea to release scotland from the union by neal ascherson https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n18/neal-ascherson/bye-bye-britain The union’s superstructure of Britishness also seems to maintain the myth. The elite, or upper crust, or ruling classes – whatever we call them – have a powerful interest in preserving this long-constructed British identity, using it to block the advance of political Englishness. They see English nationalism in class terms: as an angry and envious form of vulgar populism which potentially threatens the whole social order. For two centuries, the Ukanian middle class, in Tom Nairn’s coinage, in striking contrast to the role taken by bourgeois parties on the Continent, denied English popular nationalism a chance to mature into a radical, modernising force. Instead, it has been deliberately defined – by Farage-loathing Conservatives as much as anybody – as the politics of a xenophobic rabble which must at all costs be kept on the fringes
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Comrade Fakename posted:There is an interesting phenomenon of people who appear to have got everything they wanted, be it Boris winning, Brexit happening, or Corbyn leaving, but are still angry and upset. It's because what they really actually wanted was for people to stop telling that they are idiots on the internet. the left's victory in the culture war happened when david cameron beat david davis
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Isomermaid posted:Thank you to everyone who explained Victorian bridge specification techniques they dont call the station ashford international for nothing
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A long time wondering resolved.
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VideoGames posted:Hah, this kind of thing is great. I have no idea why spoonerising names makes me giggle so much but heck, it is nice to have some simple things thats why we let you post here 
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WhatEvil posted:This is what I'm doing. Voting in the NECs then I'm off. who are you voting for? I read this but unclear who the candidates are https://skwawkbox.org/2020/09/19/un...comment-page-1/
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interesting. id imagine the achievements of the union movement compare favourably with the NHS and the welfare state because they took place earlier and against more resistance
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:I've a simple rule of thumb for when I'll leave labour: I'll do it when corbyn does I hadnt thought about it that way before 
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the sex ghost posted:I make fun of conspiracy people but I can empathise due to the absolute clarity with which I understand the fact that they sedated her so they could sneak out for a couple of beers and then came back and they'd accidentally OD'd her and panicked and hid the body and blamed the nearest swarthy person, and the fact that no person in authority can see this i dont find that explanation any more compelling than the official story. you're saying they oversedated her and rather thansay she got hold of the pills thinking they were sweets, they carried her dead body out of the complex, hid it somewhere and kept it in the news for a decade? grow up 007
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Zalakwe posted:Generally if you look at the evidence base the world actually tends to be quite a bit better than people think it is. Education, equality, health etc. That doesn't mean the various events that people mention aren't big challenges, more that we do have the capacity to change the world. think i agree with this. its what makes posting tweets so senseless
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ronya posted:Gotta say, at the beginning of this year I did not expect that by the end of the year there would be not one but two culture-war-aligned battles dividing both LAB and CON once again. wonder what loto's thoughts are on the football league bailout
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gh0stpinballa posted:i'm anticipating i will have settled in a pretty true blue forever tory area by 2024, so i'm curious what this means for my vote. like, does it even matter? it's weird to contemplate not voting but what's the point you know? hey dude welcome back. i think for your own peace of mind you should continue voting tory
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