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What POSSIBLE loving justification is there for NHSE providing advice that is directly loving contradictory to the usage instructions on the product?! (also is there a page missing in that letter?) thespaceinvader fucked around with this message at 11:28 on Jan 2, 2021 |
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Jan 2, 2021 11:24
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Honestly, if I was them, I'd have a very difficult time not just... ignoring the VAT. Like... how the gently caress does the UK propose to enforce it?
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Jan 2, 2021 19:11
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The description of things getting more outlined and told rather than shown fits that so well. Pratchett's process was always EXTREMELY iterative and involved a LOT of self editing, and that's what he lost the ability to do when he lost the ability to both read and type himself. Id nevertheless recommend the Tiffany Aching series even in light of that, if you want a sense of closure. It gave a good one, for me.
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Jan 3, 2021 12:47
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crazyvanman posted:I'm a bit out of the loop for the last few pages, so apologies if this has already been posted, but in my local area many primary schools will not be opening tomorrow. Unions have advised that under Section 44 of the Employment Rights Act it is unsafe so staff have refused to go in. Secondary situation to be reviewed later in the week. Is this widespread? Let's loving hope so.
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Jan 3, 2021 20:44
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TACD posted:This sounds like a good description of ‘electability’ PM in waiting. I.e. not actually DOING anything, just patiently waiting his turn. E: 40 is roughly the percentage of the british electorate qwhich will apparently always vote for their own pain. thespaceinvader fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Jan 5, 2021 |
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Jan 5, 2021 23:14
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crazyvanman posted:So right with the last part in brackets. I stayed up too late watching various livestreams from around the US last night. Here's a fun summary of what I caught from the crowd outside the Governor's house in Olympia, WA: We don't have to imagine.
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Jan 7, 2021 17:26
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OwlFancier posted:Build the thatcher statue on top of the churchill cube. the put it in its own cube just in case the ANTEEFASS have their way with it
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Jan 7, 2021 17:36
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Failed Imagineer posted:
If only it were only them who perish as a result of this hideous idiocy. Hidiocy.
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Jan 7, 2021 21:03
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Again: a decent chunk of the rioters ARE cops, so it's highly unlikely the cops are going to come down heavily on them, OR that they will subsequently face consequences from law enforcement, since it would be them imposing consequences on themselves.
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Jan 8, 2021 12:34
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I kind of want to see how crazy glinner is going over losing his 2nd hate speech platform. sorry, you can't, he doesn't have any platforms any more and nothing of value was lost
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Jan 10, 2021 23:18
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This is a pretty telling comparison i think: https://twitter.com/rbenson73/status/1348746484636934145 Like, this is what a profit-making supermarket fits in a food parcel...
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Jan 12, 2021 10:25
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Gonzo McFee posted:I can't tell if it's gaining traction because people care about poor kids or if nobody gives a gently caress about the kids they just don't like to see their taxes spent so nakedly poorly. it's probably because unlike the other grifts this one is easily visible on youtwitface.
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Jan 12, 2021 17:07
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Blueshirt posted:Forgive my idiocy - when there's a bunch of - with no corresponding +, does that mean people have changed voting intention to "eh, gently caress 'em all I'm not voting" or something? Either they moved to a party not listed, or (IMO) more likely, all the apparent movement is margin-for error and rounding errors and the like. Individual polls make comparatively little difference, especially this far out from an election, trending data is more important. For a given value of important, anyway.
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Jan 12, 2021 17:46
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TACD posted:I honestly was having trouble believing anybody would go to the trouble of spending time / money to chop up the veg but The loving catering 3-pack of biscuits is what gets me. You can very clearly tell that this is a office and university type catering company not a company that works with families. Those 3-packs of biscuits were in every loving meeting and training I went to when I worked for the University.
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Jan 12, 2021 20:52
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Guavanaut posted:They put them on the tea and coffee tray of Novatels and Travelodges and similar too. Lol what kind of posh poo poo chain hotels are you going to where they give you free biscuits?
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Jan 12, 2021 21:00
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Pistol_Pete posted:I pretty much agree with "the cruelty is the point" in that I see it as largely about reinforcing power relationships. I think it needs explicitly mentioning, in the context of 'the cruelty is the point' that the primary stated purpose, and the point, are not always (and indeed, are rarely) the same thing. Like, the primary stated purpose of these food parcels is to feed people. But that's not the point. If the point was the same as the primary stated purpose, there are infinitely better ways to do it. But equally, in this case specifically, I'm not sure the cruelty IS the point. Because I think the profit is the point. The cruelty is just a convenient (for them) by-product. Because, if the cruelty was the point, you could make the same food packages - just for less money. These food packages cost a fiver, and the government could trivially make the same lovely food packages for a fiver. But they don't, they pay a private company owned by one of their mates to do it, and make a stupid profit in the process. The cruelty isn't the point, the theft of the profit is.
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Jan 13, 2021 12:50
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Wachter posted:But the Tories do need the cruelty because it's the political justification. Tories can't run on a platform of handing out money to the elite cadre of their mates, but they can run on a platform of punishing the perceived enemies of their infinitely spiteful base. We're four years out from an election. They're not running on anything, they can just give ridiculously large contracts to their mates. The profit is the point. Just like it was with the PPE contracts.
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Jan 13, 2021 14:04
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knox_harrington posted:Amusingly* Wakefield is back in action on COVID to reverse over his plausibility in case it wasn't already fully dead. Jesus loving christ can the "journalists" (feels like the wrong word, but it's the closest I've got) please stop talking to moronic grifters who were drummed out of the profession in disgrace longer ago than most of them have been working?!
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Jan 15, 2021 23:39
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ah yes, noted labour politican, margaret thatcher. My loving lord these people are awful
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Jan 16, 2021 19:18
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Is... this quote accurate? E: I thought it was Starmer. And the fact that I thought it was is telling in itself.
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Jan 19, 2021 10:44
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Damp, drizzly, and mostly stuck inside? Seems about right. Guavanaut posted:the Daily Mail getting Jörg Sprave's channel pulled and his home raided just to sell papers warranted barely any pushback Wait what slingshot channel guy? Or to put it another way, youtubers' union guy? thespaceinvader fucked around with this message at 11:19 on Jan 19, 2021 |
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Jan 19, 2021 11:12
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ThomasPaine posted:I don't think I'm at all alone in saying this, but really fear of the virus itself is only a very small part of the trauma of this pandemic. Every death is a tragedy for those impacted and all that, but I know I'm not really very likely to be one of those as a 31 year old (though it is possible). What is really getting to me is the way it has exposed our whole country for the selfish, stupid, lazily arrogant and entitled place we've always known it to be, deep down. Not just the usual suspects either. It's the government mismanagement (who could have guessed putting a load of Eton chancers in charge of a country might lead to you being led by a bunch of lazy grifters?), it's the media silence/spin, it's the well to do blue tick liberals doing their performative outrage despite their direct complicity, yes it's dumbasses refusing to wear masks. I've never liked Britain, and there's always been that current of bile under the surface that I've been aware of, but I always kind of believed in this alienated but generally well-meaning majority. I'm not sure I do now. The mask has been ripped off and I've seen how the sausages are made and it's worse than I ever thought. I've lost more respect for this country in the last year than I thought possible, and that really is a hell of a bar. That's going to be the big thing. When all is said and done I will not be able to see people in the same way again. I hope that I'm not the only one, and this might radicalise people somewhat, but lol Anecdotal for sure, but this is a huge thing for me. Between Britain loving everything up as much as possible due to not ever wanting to actually show any leadership whilst still and at the same time funneling tremendous wodges of money to their mates, and the only slight chance we had to stop it being burned by the world's most feckless client media, and the US undergoing the world's stupidest fascist coup (currently paused, sure, but I'm very dubious the Dems have the will, let alone the means, to make enough change to stop it restarting in 4 years), I'm really really struggling for motivation to do like... data entry. Or really anything except instant gratification escapism like vidja and D&D.
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Jan 19, 2021 20:13
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Gort posted:I see we're breaking records again with 1200 dead a day on average for the last seven days Imagine if we'd had a proper lockdown in sept/oct, how different it might have been. Like, you can see a tiny drop in the numbers then. God how has this been handled in literally the worst way possible whilst still appearing to actually make the attempt?
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Jan 21, 2021 12:37
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sebzilla posted:2010, 2015, EU Referendum, 2017, 2019 I think I did... '05 and '08 as well. 05: Lib Dem, loss locally and nationally 08: Lib Dem, win over tory locally, loss nationally 10: Lib Dem... well, history will judge me 12: AV ref, loss 15: Labour, loss nationally, win locally Eu ref: loss 17: Labour, loss nationally, win locally 19, labour, loss nationally, win locally I was a dumb, dumb student. But to be fair, there realy WASN'T much to choose between Blair and Clegg. Between Milliband and Clegg a little more, but I was very poorly informed then.
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Jan 21, 2021 21:18
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Guavanaut posted:Between Milliband and Clegg would be 2015, 2010 was between Brown and Clegg immediately after Brown's cabinet had just made complete clowns of themselves. Which one was Cleggmania? That was '15? Maybe I didn't do '05 then, thoguh I was just old enough.
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Jan 21, 2021 21:33
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Then yeah, right the first time. My loving lord it's been a long decade and a half. 10 might actually have been the Lib Dem win locally, now I think about it. That was by either two or three figures of votes. I was so pleased to have unseated the tory, but apparently he was an OK local MP and a mostly ignored backbencher and the lib dem was poo poo, but it was my parents' constituency in Hampshire, so i don't care.
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Jan 21, 2021 21:36
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notaspy posted:Contrapoints once had a video called "what is gender" which she has now made private. IIRC this one is a pretty good primer on 'what the gently caress, gender' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N35D1jko6wA from a relatively little known enby youtuber. Philosophytube also has a couple of good ones, particularly 'transphobia in the UK' iirc.
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Jan 21, 2021 21:48
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Meanwhile in other news: Biden... good?!
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Jan 21, 2021 21:59
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Was... there not an election in '08? That might eb what I'm getting confused about, I thought Brown won one in '08 after Blair resigned, then lost the next one. I've never lived in a swing seat, apart from the one that turned out to be a lib/con swing seat that one time. E: 129 years ago in 1892, JRR Tolkein was born.
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Jan 21, 2021 23:57
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WhatEvil posted:Kelloggs Start His name is Keith Armrest you bully.
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Jan 22, 2021 11:04
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TACD posted:She’d do great on Just A Minute Um on the 11th word and repetition on the 13th she'd be terrible.
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Jan 23, 2021 16:17
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Bobstar posted:definitely high double figures who want precisely the kind of Brexit we're now getting. There's high doubel figures who THOUGHT they did, but didn't understand what it meant. I'd be stunned if there's double figures at all who both understood what it meant and still wanted it regardless.
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Jan 23, 2021 18:27
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