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feedmegin posted:Why does he only have, like, five chips Could be taking seriously the government’s advice that being a fat bastard is strongly correlated to negative outcomes from Covid infection?
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# ¿ Sep 2, 2020 22:54 |
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# ¿ May 9, 2024 23:37 |
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Qwertycoatl posted:The editor of the Independent showed up on twitter agreeing that it was right that she was sacked for liking an article is his own paper why do you think this is some great gotcha? reporting that Peake said a thing doesn't mean that the paper endorses that statement. and the editorial had already added a correction to the article anyway.
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# ¿ Sep 4, 2020 08:56 |
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Pret have taken the standard coffee shop "buy 9 get 1 free" loyalty card to the next level. Adopting the gym model of a monthly subscription that hopefully you'll keep paying for even when not using. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/sep/04/pret-offers-monthly-subscription-to-boost-post-covid-pandemic-sales
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# ¿ Sep 4, 2020 08:59 |
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Jose posted:Get fat now so you can lose it all then advocating self harm is against the forums rules no? fatties gonna die of covid
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2020 19:25 |
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XMNN posted:I agree with prioritising schools, I just meant that there are already schools with hundreds of students self isolating for a couple of weeks because of a positive test for someone at the school only a week or so into them reopening, so presumably there's going to be a significant number of students missing multiple large chunks of school this year. Still better than every pupil missing the whole year mind you. And if other activities have to be curtailed to reduce the spread enough that keeping schools open for kids is possible then so be it.
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# ¿ Sep 9, 2020 15:39 |
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e: nevermind
Cerv fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Sep 9, 2020 |
# ¿ Sep 9, 2020 20:51 |
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Necrothatcher posted:How are the FBPE types reacting to Keir "we must do Brexit now" Starmer? we've already left the EU. it's happened and can't be undone. the transition period ends on 31/12. so yes Labour's position of we should sign a trade deal before then is the only option. the alternative of not having a trade deal is strictly worse in all possible ways. better options requiring time travel aren't worth talking about.
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# ¿ Sep 13, 2020 11:23 |
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Not to get all FBPE about it but haven't Barnier et al said repeatedly that we can just retract before the transition deadline, or was that just before the exit date? could've before the exit date. we can't revoke Article 50 now as we are no longer in that process. the UK has left and would have to apply to rejoin, but that's just not going to happen without a huge shift in our domestic politics to convince them it's worthwhile even considering the application. the sensible thing would be to request an extension of the transition period while it's clear there's a risk of no deal getting done. we've passed the point the EU previously indicated that'd have to be requested by (July), but that was a practical matter of getting things approved rather than a fixed legal point so could be fudged if there was sufficient will on all sides. a big if that. quote:The sensible thing would be to retract until we work out a trade deal, but sensible has never been the real strategy here. they will only negotiate with a non-member. so if the UK had revoked Article 50 to remain in the EU (or never invoked it) there would be no progress on even an outline trade deal. that's necessary to prevent a member playing games and just sitting in negotiations forever until they find a deal they like but not having to face up to the consequences of leaving. hence the need for a transitionary period. although one year was always going to be too short really.
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# ¿ Sep 13, 2020 11:45 |
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thrashingteeth posted:I guess saying she got a cheeky nandos didn't have the "SCARY FOREIGNER CLOUT" she wanted. yeah some posters ITT are weirdly obsessed with her
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# ¿ Sep 14, 2020 08:46 |
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FT is reporting that government advisors are pushing for a national lockdown of 2 weeks, to coincide with the school half term week break in October. Aim to cut off the spread then, but with kids only losing one week of teaching. Waiting a month from now though to see if things like the rule of six, that's a big risk :/ So don't make any plans for a half term getaway that you can't cancel. https://www.ft.com/content/77a1e3b6-3864-4a24-88af-df19fd22f235 quote:Leading scientists advising the UK government have proposed a two-week national lockdown in October to try to tackle the rising number of coronavirus cases.
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# ¿ Sep 17, 2020 22:06 |
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Guavanaut posted:Government poo poo at trans rights as expected. In the middle of this Vice article there’s a point might be of interest. https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/akzpj4/conservative-party-culture-war-uk quote:Asked what the reasoning was behind the letter, one of the signatories who wished to remain anonymous said: “Its purpose was to make sure that Boris knew, on this and actually all LGBT issues, that he had the party behind him. I mean, the Sunday Times piece a few months ago that said we were going to roll back trans rights – that was bullshit. It was just people wanting us to roll back rights, thinking that if they leaked to the media that we were going to do it, that somehow we would therefore do it. And therefore it was important that the party also had voices saying we are behind GRA reform.” Referring to an earlier ST article saying much the same thing based entirely on anonymous leaks.
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# ¿ Sep 21, 2020 16:06 |
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Lungboy posted:Could have sworn the numbering system went in the bin when people started asking annoying questions like "why are you unshielding the vulnerable which is at level 1 of we're still on level 3?" the numbering system went in the bin at the same presentation at which the numbering system was unveiled, when the government said we were at "3.5" which is not a point of the 5 point scale.
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# ¿ Sep 21, 2020 20:42 |
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kingturnip posted:Also, did anyone else see the story about Tory mayoral candidate and massive racist Shaun Bailey suggesting that the names of London Underground stations could be 'sold' to raise money. that's something the Tories regularly trot out but it's never come to anything. TfL have looked into it, and the costs involved just don't stack up against how much anyone would be willing to actually pay for naming rights. notably it didn't happen in the 8 years that we did have a Tory mayor and he could've signed off on it.
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# ¿ Sep 21, 2020 23:11 |
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Guavanaut posted:I've not picked through the source code much, but the app doesn't request location permissions, so it can only do proximity pairing rather than where it thinks the phone actually is. but in the many months that identical bluetooth based apps have been in use in other countries, has this happened yet that anyone's aware of? you still need an official covid positive test result to trigger your ID as being a bad one that alerts the thousands in your areas that you've maliciously set up a proximity log with.
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# ¿ Sep 24, 2020 14:07 |
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Here's What Happened When I 'Outed' Myself as Tim Martin's Son What started as a laugh at British media nepotism quickly became a furious pile-on that revealed a predictability at the heart of social media. https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/v7gwd9/heres-what-happened-when-i-outed-myself-as-tim-martins-son anyone from the UKMT get quoted?
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# ¿ Sep 24, 2020 20:34 |
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Strom Cuzewon posted:It would be less shameful if he were Tim Martins' son. it's Vice magazine. the bar is low
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# ¿ Sep 24, 2020 20:42 |
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Not So Fast posted:UBI is a centrist policy at this point anyway, it sounds like a good way to give some money to the poor while solving nothing about the fundamental problems. Friedman was advocating a form of universal basis income in the 70s it's never been inherently a particularly left wing idea. there're fans from all over the spectrum. so you can probably drop "at this point" from that.
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# ¿ Sep 26, 2020 18:30 |
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Lungboy posted:I'd have thought this was the perfect opportunity to get rid of Rishi and paint him as the bad guy. "He won't do what's needed to save lives" and "cares more about money than people" etc. Not sure why he’d want to go through a third chancellor in less than a year though
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# ¿ Sep 27, 2020 17:32 |
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“Ukip for culture” what does that mean? that they want the nation to exit culture? leave that to the europeans to do and go our own way without?
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# ¿ Sep 27, 2020 22:15 |
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Doccykins posted:Andy Burnham on R4 this morning: 10pm Curfews don't work, they just spit everyone out onto the street at the same time where people gather and make people drink at home more the supermarket is not a social venue where people congregate though is it. there will be no mass of customers being pushed onto the streets / public transport at once when closing time comes. cutting off alcohol sales in off licences would be to stop people getting supplies for a house party or to hang out in the park after they've left the pub.
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# ¿ Sep 28, 2020 08:44 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:This *definitely* won't cause people to not bother getting tested, no sir. is there any good reason that checks aren't already mandatory when requested by the NHS T&T other than the chronic lack of supply & testing capacity? I expect that'll change if the capacity situation is ever sorted out (big if)
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# ¿ Sep 28, 2020 08:46 |
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Doccykins posted:Yeah, people are definitely not going to buy the supermarket booze before going to the pub it's mitigation, not elimination. if they did ban off sales entirely (like South Africa earlier the pandemic) you'd rightly complain that is draconian. taken together arguments against any minor restriction plus against any severe restriction is just arguing for nothing to be done. don't think that'll work out well in the long run.
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# ¿ Sep 28, 2020 09:02 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://twitter.com/IndieWire/status/1310914723034968064 dual roles can be challenging but Anderson's such a good actor I'm sure she'll pull it off. probably not too many scenes with both characters on screen together
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# ¿ Sep 29, 2020 19:13 |
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OwlFancier posted:Blairite prison ships definitely suggests keir will support the tories in their (hms) endeavour. credit where credit's due, you can blame the tail end of the Major government for that one
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# ¿ Oct 1, 2020 11:54 |
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bessantj posted:I wonder if BoJo's dad will apologise. quote:“I’m extremely sorry for the slip-up and I would urge absolutely everybody to do everything they can to make sure they do follow the rules about masks and social distancing,” he said.
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# ¿ Oct 1, 2020 14:04 |
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Guavanaut posted:It's strange (fortunate, but strange) that the UK didn't switch over to meth like the US (and the whole of SE Asia) did when that happened. you've never been on a weekend out in Vauxhall then
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# ¿ Oct 2, 2020 18:55 |
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OwlFancier posted:I'm not really sure he isn't just being arbitrarily contradictory occasionally. He hated lockdowns not so long ago. He was the one so keen to get the kids back to the plague factories regardless of what "the science" or "the teachers" or "his own education secretary" said. first part ain't really true. "the science" as presented by SAGE has never said to keep schools shut this term, and warned of the long term harm if we did. you can find quotes from Whitty saying when things go pear shaped schools should be the last thing to close again after pubs, etc. they presented a number of models for different re-opening scenarios. the government's gone beyond those and gotten ahead of having the effective testing & contact tracing which SAGE always said would be required. but Labour's always said "get test & trace working" not "gently caress it doesn't matter open them anyway".
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# ¿ Oct 13, 2020 20:00 |
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Borrovan posted:Am a few pages behind but in case nobody picked this up: the second reading (there's no vote on the first) passed 182 to 20, so yes, Labour alone had easily the numbers to vote it down, never mind LDs, SNP, and yes even Caroline Lucas abstaining. that's just not true though. votes don't happen in a vacuum. it was already public knowledge that the opposition were going to abstain so the bill could progress to amendments. that's why the government didn't instruct their 80+ majority to all bother. in the hypothetical that the opposition voted against, there simply would have been much more votes in favour to counter that. if you want to argue that they could've lied about abstaining and pulled a last minute surprise, well that's a trick that could only work once. and probably wouldn't even that since 200+ warm bodies aren't invisible. the only event you could make an argument that a bill could've been voted down is if there were also enough actual rebels on the government backbenches. but in this case, that didn't happen. rarely does.
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# ¿ Oct 16, 2020 08:31 |
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good for Lindsay Hoyle banning ending alcohol sales on the parliamentary estate. it's going to make him even less popular with MPs than Bercow was lol
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# ¿ Oct 16, 2020 08:38 |
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radmonger posted:That’s the charitable interpretation of the much mocked and misused phrase ‘political capital’. There are tricks you can pull that you really can only pull once every few years at most. Like those penalties where the taker just calmly nails it along the floor in the middle, relying on the goalie to dive out of the way. Once you have done that, you can’t do it again for a while. quote:I mean, the clear implications of the code name ‘007’ is that Bond was an elite and special agent. Not the guy in charge of checking the local branch of Greggs was keeping its pasties warm. cold takeaway food is VAT zero rated. hot takeaway food is VAT standard rated. but food which is freshly out the oven and only incidentally hot while it hasn't had time to cool down yet behind the counter sneeze guard is considered legally the same as cold food so zero rated. Osbourne tried to simplify that so that Greggs and similar operating just-in-time delivery from oven to customer would pay standard rate too, and now he's not an MP anymore.
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# ¿ Oct 16, 2020 16:12 |
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:What did Ardern do to achieve this? Nothing, really, much different from what Boris Johnson’s government did. Having tried a bit of social distancing advice first, she closed bars and restaurants on March 23, two days after Boris did. New Zealand went into full lockdown on March 25, the day after Britain. But he later even admits that the UK was ahead of NZ on that. quote:By the middle of March the virus was well set in Britain, or at least London. It had come here, before it was even known to exist, via skiers returning from Italy and Austria, and via hundreds of flights from China. So Arden's government did act earlier than Johnson's, not "two days after". Also, the virus was known to exist back in Dec and known to be spreading in Jan. Sure the ski season was open for a short while n Dec before "it was even known to exist" but I'm fairly certain the best estimates are still that it hadn't spread to the European ski resorts and onto the UK until much later. Just straight up lying about that isn't it?
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# ¿ Oct 17, 2020 17:45 |
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JustaDamnFool posted:This entire Free School Meals controversy feels like a clearly marked open manhole that the tories continue to stoicly march into. and it's not like they haven't been willing on state hand outs to the catering trade this year. between massively overpaying for catering surpluses to be delivered as food parcels to shielding people, and eat out to help out that's surely more already than paying for school meals over the xmas break would be. but those two were one offs and they're that scared of setting a precedent for future school holidays that they can't back out of.
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# ¿ Oct 21, 2020 18:01 |
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Spangly A posted:
you are jumping to conclusions massively there you don't have to be suspicious of any ill intent to ask that. "what is the meaning behind your many tattoos" is just kind of thing you ask just out of curiosity, or just to make conversation. like if you'd just met, and were asking about the kind of background info that you'll write into the presenters script about the guests. Spangly A posted:this was spotted instantly and his answers were disproven instantly, I'm not suggesting familiarity with deep nazi lore, I'm suggesting the media should be able to write things that pass an internet bullshit detector long enough to air the show they all just signed off on thousands of people saw the clip when Sky tweeted it and some of them noticed immediately. you can bet a lot more never noticed the particular tattoo or didn't realise the significance of two fat ladies. but only a handful of people met him and decided to put him on the great British woodworking off. several orders of magnitude more eyes are more likely to spot something just by weight of numbers. it's a simple unfortunate mistake. not some big conspiracy to get nazis on the telly Jakabite posted:88 being a Nazi thing is not that arcane a piece of knowledge to have. You don’t have to be terminally online to know one of the single most famous Nazi symbols in modern history. stev posted:Why is a show about woodworking on the history channel anyway?
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# ¿ Oct 21, 2020 18:02 |
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do C4 still make that shoreditch tattoo fixers show? there could be a way they can salvage this 🤣
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# ¿ Oct 21, 2020 18:13 |
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Guavanaut posted:But if I donated what I spent on food to a food charity during lockdown, I wouldn't be able to eat. He understands that, right? He understands that most of the country can't just double their food budget overnight? he says "if they could" right there a statement that they cannot in fact do that. he's not really offering up anything in way of a useful suggestion though is he. just a statement that it sucks that the only people who care about feeding kids (their parents, the outraged public) can't actually do that. no alternatives proposed. Cerv fucked around with this message at 10:58 on Oct 22, 2020 |
# ¿ Oct 22, 2020 10:54 |
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first thought was that must just be a poo poo summary misrepresenting the article. Par for the course on Twitter. But no, he really is that stupid. quote:So, what can we do? How can we bring some semblance of normality to a country afflicted by a global pandemic? Perhaps we should consider a Christmas “circuit breaker”. A 24-hour lifting of restrictions on gatherings and celebrations, a break in the war on Covid, just like the pause in the First World War on the Western Front in 1914, when the British and German troops laid down their guns and met in no man’s land to celebrate Christmas. "just like" except actually he means "complete opposite" because in reality the virus can't be negotiated with and can't agree to cease spreading for a day. unilaterally giving up is not the same as bilateral agreement of an armistice.
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# ¿ Oct 25, 2020 12:48 |
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now we are getting a Downing St press conference at 4pm today. can only guess this is Monday's announcement being brought forward due to the leaks to this morning's papers. itshappening.gif
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# ¿ Oct 31, 2020 13:45 |
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Vigil for Virgil posted:Also had the gall to tell Scottish people that "Scotland going independent would be bad for people living in Scotland". you sure about that? he was an SNP member and regular donor until 2001 when overseas funding became illegal. it was said the only reason he wasn't a big name appearance at pro independence rallies in the run up to the referendum was that it would have meant breaching the maximum numbers of days he could spend in the UK while remaining a tax exile.
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# ¿ Oct 31, 2020 14:59 |
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Jedit posted:Given that he's busy turning the White House into Führerbunker 2, I'd say not. you think he's going to shoot himself in the head
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# ¿ Nov 3, 2020 10:56 |
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# ¿ May 9, 2024 23:37 |
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It only took a couple of hours from Thursday’s announcement for HR to send an all staff email that they would be continuing with all redundancies planned for December and not delaying to use furlough instead. Happy Xmas everyone!
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# ¿ Nov 6, 2020 20:53 |