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So this flew a bit under the radar (at least for me) but apparently the Resident Labour Market Test is being abolished! That's pretty great news for job-seeking migrants, it's by far the most onerous immigration requirement for workers. There's still the cost (~8-12k for five years not counting lawyer fees and aditional dependents), sponsorship requirements (basically a lot of paperwork about employee attendence and performance that employers have to fill out) and the time it takes to apply, but it's a significant step forward.
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stev posted:If Burton and Topman close I'll have to find somewhere else to buy literally all of my clothes. Yeah I'm kinda sad, I buy some stuff from Crew Clothing/Wills/Fat Face, but it's a fair bit pricier.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:The thing I wonder about Elliott Page is that his role in the umbrella academy is female. Must be a bit hurtful to have to continue to play a female character on screen, if coming out as trans is essentially saying you've been pretending to be the opposite gender your whole life and don't want to do so any more. I feel like he's always had these male-leaning roles or the way they were performed was, I think it was part of the charm.
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Our pupils keep having to isolate because they get exposed to covid - and what's worse, this is messing up our attendance targets!  BBC News - Ofsted points to total school disruption in some areas BBC posted:Education has been "completely disrupted" by the sheer scale of Covid absences in some schools in some areas, Ofsted regional bosses have warned. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 09:22 on Dec 3, 2020 |
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The Question IRL posted:But if 50K+ Covid Deaths doesn't get the great British people out in the streets will a lack of Tescos meal deals do it? All it really seems to get you is facebook screeds how "the government's done a good job in a bad situation, actually". Though that might just be my facebook wall, anyway.
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Dec 6, 2020 10:28
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Also they could've had another extension if Boris wasn't thirsting for Brexit so much.
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Dec 6, 2020 10:43
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Vigil for Virgil posted:Didn't the EU say no more extensions? I might be wrong but I'm fairly certain it was Boris who did. And no there's nothing they can do, except maybe try to get an EEA-like deal quickly.
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Bit short for a screed, but a good demonstration. Also yes, the UK hasn't been literally the worst in the world this time around, good effort. e: In particular "worse at handling Covid than the US" is not a shining accolade. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 11:30 on Dec 6, 2020 |
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Dec 6, 2020 11:26
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The disparity between domestic and overseas BBC reporting is pretty funny sometimes. An MSP gets caught breaking lockdown: "MSP loses party whip following public furore". An eastern european MEP gets caught going to a sex party breaking lockdown rules and gets kicked out of the party for it? quote:But that icy dismissal of Mr Szajer has an echo about it of how politically troublesome or embarrassing figures in the Soviet era could suddenly become "non-persons". And indeed that may now be Mr Szajer's fate. SOVIET PURGE
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Spangly A posted:the MP is a fascist who's being expelled and ignored for having sex with men, not breaking lockdown he isn't, at least officially: quote:However, in a statement on Tuesday, the MEP said: "I regret that I broke the lockdown rules, that was irresponsible of me, and I will accept the sanctions that result." I mean certainly it's an extra factor, but that's besides the point, comparing his suspension and resignation to literal disappearances of entire families is a bit much
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Dec 6, 2020 22:17
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Borrovan posted:"90% of the judiciary went to the same 10% of schools" is a factoid I like dropping on my students that might or might not be true since I got it from a 30 year old journal article that it was only even tangentially relevant to anyway Pretty sure I saw similar figures in a recent BBC article about education discrimination, maybe a year or two back. e: It's 71% having gone to Oxbridge according to the 'Elitist Britain' survey from ~2019. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 11:19 on Dec 7, 2020 |
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Dec 7, 2020 11:10
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No because then it'd be even more nakedly obvious that £20 one-time bonus is taking the piss.
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Dec 7, 2020 11:25
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I've demanded to speak to the manager once, because the middle-aged woman at the till wouldn't take my EU (not-UK) passport as proof of age. The manager didn't give a gently caress and told me to leave. I was pretty pissed at the time tbf, I had to walk like a mile to get to the shop from the student halls.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:And you didn't demand to speak to the manager's manager? Guilty as charged. I did avoid the shop for a bit afterwards, half out of residual awkwardness though.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:One of the early DVD postal rental services did actually have a disposable DVD system, where the disk would stop working after a certain number of plays, worked out IIRC. The most direct-to-e-waste production I've seen. Well that and the pre-charged disposable lithium batteries which use rechargeable li-on cells inside you can get at poundland. e: And yes I know there are non-rechargable lithium batteries, these are not that, b/c the non-rechargable ones have much more lithium and are a lot more expensive (though you do get impressive energy density for that). Private Speech fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Dec 9, 2020 |
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Oh and she's from Labour. Since the tweet doesn't say.
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Dec 10, 2020 11:37
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Guavanaut posted:I'd rather live on potatoes than bow down to a union that tolerates fascists like Orban and crypto-fascists like Duda. I didn't think you were a radical scotnat. Joke, top gear, etc.
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Wachter posted:I don't know anything about finance, but is the potential for deregulation outside the EU good or bad for said money-laundering enterprise? It depends on the trade deal, it's not expected to be great but even with no deal it's not supposed to be as bad as for manufacturing. The difficulty there being a lot of the finance/law/insurance stuff was helped by the UK being an english-speaking member of the EU with open and well-established financial infrastructure. Anyway I wouldn't disregard the UK being a cultural powerhouse, ignoring the domestic market (b/c China) it's probably third in the world after US and Japan. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Dec 10, 2020 |
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BBC posted:Mr Johnson, who has been pressing for a deal similar to the one the EU finalised a deal with Canada in 2017, has said he couldn't accept the UK remaining "locked" into the EU's legal system, or being punished if it diverged from EU standards. LMBO I mean yeah that would make any trade deal difficult.
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Dec 11, 2020 13:24
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CGI Stardust posted:they are absolutely delusional. you don't get this special kind of brain without Eton, Oxford, and a steady diet of books called It's Not The Size That Matters: How Britain Dominated The Globe, And Will Again I wonder if he's ever read Much to the chagrin of Canadian fishermen: express.co.uk: EU fisheries snub: How Canada raged at bloc's trade deal - 'We will lose fish and jobs!' e: added a link to the express as a bonus, rather than a dry quote Private Speech fucked around with this message at 13:52 on Dec 11, 2020 |
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Dec 11, 2020 13:42
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blunt posted:More recently they've been targetting teenagers on Twitch with fake giveaways and recruitment streams. Of course with such a great idea the UK wouldn't want to be left out: BBC News - Call of Duty: US and British military go head to head
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OwlFancier posted:The shine comes off for me the minute I read any of it. I honestly feel like it's gotten a lot worse, it seemed almost reasonable in the Milliband era but with Corbyn and especially now Starmer they went hard on anti-socialism and terf/swerfiness. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 10:37 on Dec 14, 2020 |
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Dec 14, 2020 10:34
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Borrovan posted:It's racist because it is literally giving unfavourable treatment to people on the basis of nationality (thus, indirectly, race), OP. Also, whilst you could talk about having a system of legal controls in place to, for example, prevent making people stateless, or deportation to countries where they will be subjected to torture &c, we already have those rules & the State tries its very best to ignore them anyway. You could strengthen those rules up all you like, and the State would still try to ignore them, sometimes successfully, meaning that foreign nationals have to live under the damoclean threat of complete withdrawal of human rights protections, whatever the law says. I think one aspect that gets overlooked is that the criminal system does get things wrong in about 1 in 30 times or so, and destroying lives of those who end up falsely convicted more than it already does is not great. Also the whole windrush thing obviously, where there's undocumented people who may be either British citizens or residents without it being clear. The bigger issue is honestly barriers to entry and gaining status - even if you have long-term residence (as I and other EU migrants now do with ILR) you can get in trouble for minor transgressions like car tickets if you travel a lot, nevermind those on a visa. And you won't get citizenship if you have significant fines/cautions/bankruptcy, not to mention any serious stuff. Really it should be the 12 months for everything. This is genuinely a factor for why I won't get a car or go on demonstrations unless I become a citizen. e: Of course as with a lot of things should be doesn't mean ever will. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 12:35 on Dec 14, 2020 |
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kecske posted:just say you do celebrate it, but in your own way which to the untrained eye looks a lot like not celebrating I like this but it might be a bit short if she really cares
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Biggus Dickus posted:Good News, everyone! (except those in Kent) France expanding parking and processing facilities in Calais many months ago - those silly French, should just go with a sensible, grownup, just-in-time solution.
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Guavanaut posted:How do we know Io Saturnalia is pronounced Io and not like It's not (at least not how he does, though it's not Jo either). Basically every country have their own pronunciation of Latin, the UK one being one of the relatively weirder ones. The catholic church have their own too, called ecclesiastical Latin. There is actually a reconstructed classical pronunciation of latin, but it's more of a mix of German and Italian than anything else (famously with Caesar being pronounced as Kaisar).
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Guavanaut posted:I always assumed that it would actually be pronounced 'yo', because that's the easiest one to shout. You'll be happy to hear it's somewhere in-between the two - should be same as in Italian, which is this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/It-io.ogg. There's a slight pause but it's far less than the ah-yo that you'd do in English Latin pronunciation.
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OwlFancier posted:I too, have played age of mythology. I actually have not!  I like games and everything, but that one passed me by.Somewhat humorously I do have the official Age of Mythology boardgame which I got as a teen. It's okay. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Dec 15, 2020 |
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Oh dear me posted:In legal or common Latin phrases maybe, but I don't think Latin has been taught with that pronunciation for fifty years or so. That might be, my knowledge of English Latin pronunciation is a bit patchy. I went to a fairly posh classics-oriented school in eastern europe so I never learned all the details of it (eastern european countries naturally have their own weirdo modern Latin pronunciation, but we did learn classical as well and we've also gotten to go to a classics conference in London so I've had some exposure to the English one).
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:It was quite common I think to pronounce the 'c' as 'ch' or 's' depending on the word. Ecclesiastical I think. That's interesting, in Czech schools it's still common to use the local common pronunciation, i.e. "printseps" in this case. Though obviously we did learn the one with the hard k. Does Caesar also get pronounced in the reconstructed way, with hard 'k' and 'ai'? I always found that one to sound odd. It's "tsehsarh" in Czech common pronunciation if anyone is curious. e: and no I don't know IPA properly enough Private Speech fucked around with this message at 01:27 on Dec 16, 2020 |
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MonkeyLibFront posted:Mainly anti lockdown protests. Those were rather tiny, the anti-Brexit ones were considerably bigger (not that they achieved much in the end). Anyway yeah I do think it is a bit prejudiced at least.
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feedmegin posted:Peaceful protests not riots. For the government to pay attention you gotta break stuff. (Viz: the Poll Tax) Didn't the protesters smash up the Tory HQ a bit or something? Might have been some other time. Not quite a riot though that's true. e: Apparently that was during a student protest (and also in 2010 & 2016, drat what did the Tor-, oh, huh) Private Speech fucked around with this message at 15:59 on Dec 16, 2020 |
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Gort posted:International arms company builds arms for country, read all about it Fun fact: Thales built almost all of the ISS structural modules under contract by the various governments.
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stev posted:Yeah, the supermarkets will have done really well out of this (while the already stressed shop floor staff will now have to deal with millions of people who suddenly need to buy and prepare for a Christmas dinner in the next four days). I've looked at policies and the answer is basically no, you won't get a refund unless whoever sold you the thing offers free refunds or are feeling generous.
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MonkeyLibFront posted:Glad you managed to spread a little tier 4 love around the country before you left. Bristol is tier 2, something something you prick?
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MonkeyLibFront posted:He said he escaped London, went to Bristol and then went to Scotland. Ahh okay I didn't catch the bit about London, phoneposting sorry. He's the prick then.
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LMBO: France’s ban on UK transport came as surprise, says Grant Shapps I mean yes, clearly, but it's funny they went out and said it publicly.
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Jose posted:who the gently caress is his speech writer lmao It sure is a shame there's no single name for the country, particularly one with a unifying theme. Alas.
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