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I mean, have you all considered that our future saviour, Keir Starmer, is neither Boris Johnson nor Jeremy Corbyn!!! Makes you think!
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Had to cancel a work airbnb team building day out for bbqing and fun when I worked in Spain once as we had accidentally booked out a porn/orgy set.
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crispix posted:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61691816 Ah yes the old "We must give in to the bully because imagine what they might do if they lose!" *checks notes* "They might... invade another country and commit numerous horrific war crimes!" *shuffles papers* "erm..."
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Jedit posted:Putin needs to be left with a means to stop fighting, because he's also made it abundantly clear that he won't stop if he wins in Ukraine. The problem is not the west not providing an exit ramp. The problem is working out if its an ideological opposition to Ukrainian existence in Putins mind, or if its all about monopoly gas field access and development.  Those yellow areas contain 3.5x more gas than the entirety of Norway and there's already a huge pipeline right to europe... Those also cover some very familiar areas. At least that's my theory. Its all about monopoly gas and not allowing them to cut hundreds of billions of dollars into Russias biggest market.
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Jun 7, 2022 01:04
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smellmycheese posted:Just incredible stuff… Ah yes, the netflix model. Famously doing well in 2022 with a market full of bloodthirsty competitors with huge budgets. Totally not like the healthcare market at all. https://www.screendaily.com/news/ne...US%20operation. 
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On the subject of NHS privatisation. In most tech jobs it seems private healthcare is now standard here in the UK. I read somewhere that private spending in the UK was pretty much up with the US now per capita. Can't find the source though. My company gave everyone BUPA with no pre existing conditions disqualification last month. Has anyone else noticed the shift happening too? It's just not loving possible to wait for the nhs anymore and it sucks, but basically it was becoming my biggest cost per month. It's also incredibly poo poo. 1k total spending cap for all current chronic conditions. 100 quid excess. No cover for most mental health, diagnosis only not treatment.
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Quite a few private only hospitals around here. For example I've had a nerve finger numbness issue for a while. NHS had a 2 month wait for the hand clinic. 2 months for tests to come back inconclusive then a referral to the NHS spine clinic... 8 months wait so far. Paid for private physio and they went "uuuh... You should see a neurologist like... Now" had BUPA cover turn on that week and basically am seeing one in 2 weeks time. All tests covered. Loads of docs in the network nearby. Its already a shitshow. I cant get appointments with my GP anymore without getting up stupidly early, luck and an autodialler, I'm on 3 waiting lists for over a year and most i know have numerous untreated and undiagnosed conditions because of it. I got more done with private in 4 days than in 4 years. Its obscene and rage inducing because the doctors are there, and its so obviously intentional. I didn't realise after talking to a consultant friend with the NHS that when they get a referral, their dept doesn't get paid unless they see the person in an appt and they turn up. So they're disincentivised from quickly solving easy issues by replying to the gp or giving the patient a quick call and the waiting lists grow massively long. Madness.
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Jun 7, 2022 20:50
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Z the IVth posted:This is BS. That loving blows. Doesn't the fund allocation very much vary by area and even hospital? I assume its different everywhere if that sounds like bs to you as likely I'm explaining it poorly second hand. I wouldn't expect my mate to be making that up though.
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Jun 7, 2022 21:41
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The kicker is privately there's no way to get pre existing conditions cover, but with corporate private healthcare there is. The more people who sign up at your company, the better coverage everyone gets. At bupa for example a few hundred gets you and ask your colleagues that. But if you want gender reaffirming surgery to be covered you need 400+ sign ups. It's... Quite something.
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Seems FTTP cityfiber is now connected in my area, so I'm doing the joyful dance of reading shitloads about ISPs. I've narrowed it down to a choice between 40 a month and a 12 month contract with free (probably shite) router from Giganet or 66 a month for a 1 month contract with no router from IDnet. I discounted purebroadband as they have balls reviews, but in general it feels like browsing the energy market all over again. Except there are even more tiny companies I've never heard of with a tonne of smallprint. Any suggestions?
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Jun 10, 2022 12:33
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Mega Comrade posted:I'm assuming these are gigabit speeds? Cos £40 is a lot for Internet. Ya 900 up / down
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Jun 10, 2022 13:04
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I never got the whole doubling down insanity poo poo people do when their chosen idol turns out to be a moron. Like. I really wanted Corbyn to win and loved his policies but after he got completely bodied and a lot of the info of the past few years came out that he was pretty naive... I totally just shrugged and agreed that yep, he's more a nice pacifist jam grandad who wants socialism for everyone regardless of background rather than a super sharp politician. The people who stake their whole identity on supporting a thing also seem to assume everyone else does which i guess is why they keep jumping up and down on a very very dead horse.
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I'd prefer if they challenged them with something effective. Like a printout of their browser history or a gatling gun.
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Having lived in Warwickshire in Southam near Leamington Spa for a couple years in 2008 i can say that very much felt like where the divide was noticeable. Weirdly knackered town with a fancy grocery store and polo ground for toffs with silly outfits, but also two local cafes and pubs full of folks who were salt of the earth hard working northern types who were born there and would die there and would mutter angrily about £11 organic chickens from Budgens bringing misery to all. Oh, but everyone voted tory. Of course.
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Streeting is so next up to bat isn't he? The perfornative bullshit to get "sensible" types to point to him and say "see! Isn't that what you wanted? Why can't you radicals grow up and fall in line?? Get the tories out!" is really peaking.
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Does that mean Avon products, the cosmetics company is called River? Fake E: oh, apparently it was named after stratford upon avon in 1928 because the founder liked Shakespeare. The more you know...
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I assume whatever shadowy cabal/paymaster that ensures they earn millions after leaving office steps in and says "ahem" while threatening to make the money train vanish is what will cause him to leave like those before. Until then its quite funny learning about all these minister positions who definitely did things. No minister for beans up the backside though. Disappointing.
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I got covid on a work trip to london and just woke up yesterday after a week of hallucinating fever and sleeping on my couch for 30 minutes every few hours. I honestly did not expect the absolute clown show after catching up on the thread. I guess i really should have though. Hell timeline and all. If I'd woken up to May as PM i might have believed the last 3 years were some sort of fever dream. Given its going to be over 40 degrees next week. May as well have been back in Spain!
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Guavanaut posted:Will this work? Having missed out on the corbyn ones last time, man i want one of these. Also WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Did you think you were hallucinating the coup against Boris I didn't know about the coup until I got a message from my mum saying he'd resigned. Which I apparently responded with a garbled message about eggs. Thanks Crispix. She then sent me a pulse oximeter in the post. The only fever dream I had was about buying everyone at work doughnuts. Only to find my boss had bought donuts for everyone. I also joined the IWGB and bought a a £600 plumbed in water filter, heater and cooler for the kitchen on finance. So that's fun. Also bought some live ladybird larvae and two easter eggs arrived today. I don't even know. I made fajitas on the bbq and pruned the pear tree at 4am and have no memory of it, i do have a post it note here that says "Pear rust. Bastards" on it. Don't do covid folks. Not even once.
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Spotting the decorum twats on twitter is a fun game as they all signal boost this and shriek about "the children" like exposure to someone giving the middle finger will turn the same children into rabid socialists. https://mobile.twitter.com/DavidLammy/status/1545486218808492033 https://mobile.twitter.com/bphillipsonMP/status/1545476559364055041 https://mobile.twitter.com/MikeBevan_RG/status/1545486069122179072 https://mobile.twitter.com/mrjamesob/status/1545474057935765504 Just... Agggh.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:
 How I feel every time I open the news. I'd like it under my avatar please!
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Fuctifino is cool and good and helped both my wife and I get prescriptions for medicinal cannabis which has massively changed our lives for the better and reduce both our meds and anxiety. Much love. We've also in turn helped at least 5 more people also get it. Huzzah!
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Because anger and throwing the current minority de jure under the bus both distracts from any actual critique of policy (not that it seems anyone cares about that anymore) and signal boosts the candidate by increasing visibility and general engagement. Same for any advertising really. It's extremely hard not to benefit from negative publicity regarding wedge issues like that (i hate that trans rights are a loving wedge issue... gently caress people so much) Especially if you're aware what you're saying will cause people to flip out and can just keep doubling down. It'll further strengthen your base, and get it shared to way more people who may decide they like what you say. It doesn't work the other way because you have to be a oval office and know it. Which many sensible centrist types could never admit to
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2 spaces outside our house that we never use, neighbours are always knocking on our door to ask if they can park in ours. Every single house has 2 spaces in our little bit of the estate. The rest is a shitshow of people parking on curbs everywhere. I really hope we can move away from cars as a society but it's basically just poo poo to not have one, we're lucky we are boring gamer nerds who never go outside. Also cats are monsters because people let them outside. Keep your cats inside. They live longer, happier, less stressful lives and with less disease and health issues. Plus you get woken up by this: 
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I have a tattoo scheduled for monday/tues that has been 6 months in the waiting. I'm gonna loving die.
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Short hair is pro on all genders, especially since the uk is turning into a tropical hell country now. After years of long hair, endless conditioning, careful brushing, getting it caught in car doors, the horror of shower drains and hours of drying in winter I had all 4 feet of mine cut off and sent to a charity for young girl cancer recovery. That felt good enough, but then stepping out of a shower and running a towel through it ONCE and it being dry honestly made me cry.
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Dying in tattoo studio with no ac. Fml.
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Kegluneq posted:Does sweat make the ink run?? Thankfully, no. However, everything else became slick with sweat and plasma and horror and we had to stop to clean super often. Also it hurts WAY the gently caress more. Second session tomorrow. But they have a portable a/c being delivered allegedly. Here's the design:  Here's how it looks so far: 
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I loving knew it. "Mix up at HQ" my arse, I was right about this, and I was right about the bent Lib Dem tactical voting sites as well. Yeah but we're left of Ed Miliband, so don't count you see. They were justified in keeping us scary radicals out from their very important neoliberal ship. 
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The only way we're getting out of this is a general strike and a refusal to pay bills across the nation isn't it? Man, the next few years are going to suck.
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Britain continues to look at America and say "hold my beer"
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Woo, got my IWGB members card. Feels good to be a member of an organisation that might actually help change things for the better again.
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You know she's definitely a lich. I don't think they eat anything.
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You know, on the whole sweet chat thing. I've always found it baffling how most people have massive food hatreds for various things. From people saying coconut is the devil's semen, to being unable to stomach tomatoes. I honestly can't think of a single food that I hate in all its forms. Usually something I disliked has turned out to be because it was ruined and served to me as a kid. Is it just that, or is the coriander / soap gene basically a thing for most foods and pineapple does in fact taste like horse spit to a lot of folks? Did half of the UK lose their Nan in a tragic coconut accident? Or accidentally drink/eat rancid coconut? Mebh fucked around with this message at 11:48 on Jul 24, 2022 |
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I don't particularly like overly fishy fish (tbh that's just freshness isn't it?) and have yet to find a scallop that is "like gorgeous buttery butterness" that well off people seem to go on about when they discuss having their scallops brought to them by a diver and seared straight from the bay in a hot wok. Not really a fan of prawn sashimi either. However I wouldn't stake my identity on it like with chocolate oranges or pineapples on pizza. Same as my friend who can't eat mayo in any form because it's too 'moist' and it disgusts him. There's a lad at work who can't eat anything that doesn't have half a pound of cheese melted on it and looks at vegetables like they are the enemy. I also know an entire household who can't stand raw tomatoes because they're too 'gooey' like what the gently caress people.
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Oh, speaking of monster munch. If you ever get the chance to get your hands on these (or just want to buy them on ebay right now) Japanese UMAIBO They are like... tubes of monster munch, in flavours you have never ever dreamed of and they have the lovely vanishing caloric density that monster munch have. Cheese, Teriyaki Burger, Cod Roe, Salami, Corn, Takoyaki, Tonkatsu, Yakitori, Nori Salt and Cinnamon Apple pie.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Dark chocolate is the devil's work. Someone gave me a bar of 85% - it sat in my fridge for 6 months with only 2 squares taken (shows how gross it is - normally I demolish a bar of choc in a few seconds) before I threw it out. But... you could have made amazing hot chocolate with it as you literally add sugar and milk... and and...  what a waste.
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I really don't like cooked salmon to be fair, but salmon sashimi is incredible.
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OzyMandrill posted:Dark chocolate is best eaten... cooked into a nice dark chocolate fudge cake. Oh hey, that's the recipe I've been using for years. It's insanely good. Pro tip with the ganache, don't try to pour it on if you only have the cake on a dinner plate, in your newly rented apartment with a carpeted kitchen. Desperately trying to catch overflowing molten chocolate in your hands while spraying it everywhere. Cake is awesome tho.
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