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happyhippy posted:That red zone in the pic above is the blood mist you get when you hit a kid. I have one of those whirly blade things that you get on combine harvesters on the front of my car, so I can plough through as many small children as I like without denting my bonnet.
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Dec 2, 2023 14:20
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Funny to think those Victorian novels where the plot revolves around a dying relative and a contested will are still relevant today. Someone should do a 21st century update, I'd read that.
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Dec 4, 2023 08:25
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keep punching joe posted:Minimum salary requirement for a skilled worker visa going up to 38k lol that should help. Another good article on Nesrine Malik on just this subject: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/04/uk-immigration-policy-record-levels-net-migration She points out that immigration is always politically presented as a vast tide of immigrants flooding in to the country that our elected politicians are valiantly fighting to stem (or fail to stem). The truth is that high immigration is a direct result of long term government policies and you can't reduce it without changing those policies: e.g. we're welcoming in huge numbers of international students in order to kick the university funding can down the road; we're recruiting huge numbers of foreign staff for the NHS 'cos we train far too few here in the UK etc etc.
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Dec 4, 2023 15:21
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Yeah, this government's degenerated into rule by press release a long time ago: unless they've made Parliamentary time to pass a new law, it's all hot air.
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Dec 4, 2023 16:00
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Darth Walrus posted:I'm not sure his thought processes are anywhere near as coherent as that. Dude's moving far, far into 'seriously unwell' territory. Yeah, I've thought for a while that it would be best all round if people just quietly ignored the guy. If there's some obviously mentally ill person shouting at the traffic, you might avoid them or you might dial 111 and ask for help; you certainly wouldn't go shouting back at them.
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Dec 7, 2023 09:27
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smellmycheese posted:The big brain technocrat smart guy has now created a situation where everyone hates him. GB News and The Mail Gammons are angry he’s not being insanely facist enough and everyone normal is repelled by the whole thing and/or wish he’d shut up about boats and fix the country. "I'll just quietly get on with my work and surely everyone will see and appreciate what a diligent job I'm doing" is the sort of attitude I'd take if I somehow became Prime Minister lol. You'd think Sunak would have some highly paid advisors warning him that life doesn't actually work like that and he's got to spend most of his day talking to and persuading people.
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Dec 7, 2023 13:23
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Yeah, back in the Cold War, you had two competing systems, which required UK politicians to actively choose which one to support, and to what extent. And having the alternative of Communism meant that our capitalist system had to be a lot more careful about ensuring that ordinary people saw at least some of the fruits of growth.
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Dec 7, 2023 14:22
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That sure is a set of flags on her Twitter bio.
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Dec 8, 2023 21:42
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I thought Patel had been eclipsed by Braverman as cackling evil witch of the hour.
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Dec 10, 2023 11:27
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I'm feeling a distinct lack of Christmas spirit in the thread today. Is everyone hungover and grumpy from their office parties? I'm playing the new Rogue Trader game and it's surprisingly great fun to play a grasping, arrogant Gilded Age-style robber baron, buccaneering across the galaxy and putting down below-decks revolts with indiscriminate slaughter.
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Dec 10, 2023 19:10
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If people are spending every penny on rent, food and energy bills, then obviously they've got nothing left to spend on anything else. I wonder how much these clever economists get paid to pretend that they don't understand this, I'd like that job.
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Dec 13, 2023 10:18
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Seems like I've been hearing about this Online Safety Act, that's definitely going to happen, for years now.
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Dec 14, 2023 21:39
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I've seen a few of those recently, where the message is: " Hey, is it ok to share all your data with literally hundreds of other firms?" Dunno if there's some new law or something.
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Dec 14, 2023 22:00
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I used to hate those automated office tests, because I would try to use a keyboard shortcut or a different way of doing it and it'd mark me down for it. Me: right-clicks on cell, selects the relevant option. Office Test: "Incorrect. You are supposed to select the action from the drop down menu in the ribbon." Aaargh, what difference does it make!?!?
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Dec 15, 2023 10:42
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Failed Imagineer posted:Funny that the burgerpeople are the ones getting worked about their bug-eating future, when it's already here for them. It's odd that people'll get all squeamish about eating crickets or whatever but show them e.g. a southern Italian seafood dish with absolutely enormous shrimp that are all legs and wriggly antennae and they'll be delighted.
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Dec 15, 2023 13:30
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Like, give me a big bag of dried, chilli-salted insects and I'll happily stuff them down like Wotsits.
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Dec 15, 2023 13:31
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On a different note, the pro-Israeli propaganda in outlets like the Telegraph has become truly eye-popping. Like someone said on Twitter, nobody's buying their horseshit any more but all they know how to do is scream, so they're just screaming louder, and louder, and louder, 'cos that's always worked in the past.
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Dec 15, 2023 13:36
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Tedsville posted:Same. It's just... moths.... how are moths getting in to the process of mixing up flour and sage and onion powder? Does the process happen outside under really bright fluorescent lights? Now I'm thinking of a Far Side cartoon, with a lab-coated employee looking quizzically at a big machine with two red buttons on it, one labelled "Stuffing mix", the other labelled "Moths".
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Dec 15, 2023 13:38
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Tesseraction posted:Likewise programming was for the womz until it suddenly became a Man Thing. Yeah, 'Coder' was on a par with 'typist' at one point, not sure when the changeover happened.
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Dec 15, 2023 14:21
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Diet Crack posted:
Me and some mates went to Berlin the other year, and we noticed quite a few people having curry for lunch: that's obviously a thing there. So we found a popular place, got settled, were warned by the waiter that we'd chosen a particularly spicy selection... and then it was like eating tomato soup. Germans do curry, but they don't do heat, apparently.
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Dec 16, 2023 20:14
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Any other leader etc. God, the language around this one. It's so obvious that the IDF thought they were Palestinian civilians (and thus could be shot on the spot with complete impunity); so much tortured English to try and obfuscate this simple point.
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Dec 17, 2023 00:22
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The BBC headline is all like: "Israeli hostages in a state of non-life after IDF bullet-related incident" and gently caress me, I'm so loving tired of the shameless bullshit.
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Dec 17, 2023 00:42
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The Question IRL posted:
I have full confidence that they'll rise to the challenge.
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Dec 17, 2023 13:44
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Already seen twits on twitter blaming Hamas for killing the three bare-chested, white-flag waving, Hebrew speaking hostages. Lol makes me think of Rik in the Young Ones: "Well, if you'd never been born, Neil, we wouldn't be in this mess, 'cos you need 4 people for a University Challenge team and there'd only be 3 of us, so this is YOUR fault!"
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Dec 17, 2023 14:32
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Water companies are using up to 28% of their income from customers to make interest payments on their enormous debts, because of course they are: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/dec/18/water-firms-use-up-to-28-percent-of-bill-payments-to-service-debt-in-areas-of-england quote:Stanley Root, a former audit partner, with 29 years’ experience at one of the Big Four accountancy firms, disagreed with the mortgage comparison: “A house is a once- or twice-in-a-lifetime purchase for most people. They take out a mortgage because the cost of a house far exceeds their salary.
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Dec 18, 2023 20:17
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bessantj posted:
Only a small subset of UK people are trans and it's only a subset of them that do competitive sports and there's only a small subset of them where anyone has any problem with it, by which time you've got down to a vanishingly tiny number of cases. I suspect it only gets the airtime in the press and on YouTube that it does because it's seen as a wedge issue that can easily be portrayed as being about 'fairness' rather than 'transphobia' which can then be exploited to draw people more deeply into gender critical craziness.
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Dec 21, 2023 19:20
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Like when Scientologists offer to give you a free mental wellness test: they know that if they start straight in on alien spaceships and spirits in volcanoes and stuff that they'll scare you off: they need to lead you into it in baby steps.
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Dec 21, 2023 19:22
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Dead Goon posted:I tried to read a Hemingway book, twice. I tried to read Farewell to Arms but he kept using 'thee' and 'thou' to try and give a sense of Spanish language in English and I found it really irritating.
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Dec 21, 2023 19:25
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The only time he ever looks remotely relaxed in photos is when he has a reassuring drink in his hand.
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Dec 22, 2023 12:29
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I popped into M&S today and it was full of posh old people, shopping extremely slowly. There was a not very big bit of Aberdeen Angus beef that they were selling for £50. £50! I felt that was a bit much, even if it did come with parsley butter. I bought some posh Yorkshires. They were less than £50.
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Dec 23, 2023 16:07
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Lord Ludikrous posted:Anyone else just not really feeling it with Christmas this year? I've never been one of those "OMG the magic of Christmas!" people but this year just feels off. Everyone's broke, and they know it. If the UK economy's a ladder, everyone's slipped down a couple of rungs: people who were previously 'comfortable' are now 'coping'; the copers have become 'strugglers'; the 'strugglers' have become 'destitute' and god knows what's happened to the people who were already destitute before all this kicked off. My household is lucky enough to be reasonably secure and even for us, there's all sorts of stuff we've looked at this Xmas and gone: "How much?? gently caress it, we won't bother this year."
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Dec 23, 2023 16:53
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1965917 posted:Oh good, I'm glad I'm not the only masochist here. For a long time, I've seen Hislop and his like as a type of 'controlled opposition': superficially irreverent and daring, but ultimately reinforcing the existing power structure. They make out that they're mavericks, bravely telling truth to power but really they're just court jesters.
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Dec 24, 2023 10:10
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Jedit posted:
Yeah, the Eye in 2023 has much the same contributers as they did in 2003... and quite possibly 1993. I think they've all grown old together and can't be doing with the prospect of brash new writers coming in and doing things differently.
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Dec 24, 2023 18:14
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Kin posted:I'm not sure why she bought it to be honest. My wife's currently sitting on the sofa, getting into a mopey huff 'cos my 12yr old stepson would rather play his new ps games up in his room than sit watching films with us. I'm torn between trying to resolve the situation and just drinking until I don't care any more Christmas: not even once.
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Dec 25, 2023 18:44
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stev posted:Half the fun of being a kid on Christmas is playing with all your presents while the adults do boring adult poo poo. Yeah, she just wants to spend the day with him but he's getting older now and wants some space but sadly, can only communicate this in grunts and silences. Oh well, soon be bedtime 
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Dec 25, 2023 22:12
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Gorn Myson posted:I get why you'd clamp down on those stores, and I get why Labour have announced that they intend to, but I want to know what their actually watered down policy will be by the time the election rolls around. Something like "we promise to look into the possibility of having an inquiry at some point in the future on this issue" or something nothing like that. Or something means tested. They love means testing. FT investigation into what these candy stores are all about (non-paywall) https://archive.is/LkLXn quote:
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Dec 26, 2023 10:48
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serious gaylord posted:You say that but theres been a shop on Poole High Street called Toast 2 Roast which has been empty for at least 12 years. Still got all the chairs and stuff inside, its like they locked the place up and just never came back. Commercial premises are valued based on a multiple of the rents that can be extracted from them i.e. if the rent that you can get from a property drops from £30,000 a month to £20,000 a month, your property becomes devalued in the same proportion. This is why commercial landlords do that (on the face of it) baffling thing where they'll leave a perfectly good property sitting empty, rather than drop the rents and get somebody in there: the long term damage to their balance sheet would outweigh the short term income from the rent.
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Dec 26, 2023 12:14
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But yes, listed buildings can also be a factor: you can have a property in a prime commercial location that's effectively un-lettable because you're simply not allowed to make the alterations that would make it energy efficient and viable for contemporary use, so it sits there and decays instead.
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Dec 26, 2023 12:18
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Private Speech posted:Having lived in both I actually feel Oxford is more barren - not terrible by any means, but still. The Templar Square, Cowley, etc. high streets are full-on urban decay and the city centre is full of chain stores with a few tourist traps. The centre and the north of Oxford are very wealthy, then there's very impoverished areas round the periphery like Blackbird Leys etc. For a small city, it has a surprising number of invisible glass walls cutting different social groups off from each other. I used to live there, and always thought of there being a Student Oxford, a Workers Oxford and a Tourist Oxford, with no overlap between the groups and each group experiencing an entirely different city. I used to drink in the Bullnose Morris, where the BMW and Unipart workers would go and imagine an intrepid backpacking couple somehow finding their way there and being blown away by realising that they'd done the impossible, and found somewhere in Oxford that no other tourist had ever been before.
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Dec 26, 2023 17:49
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*musing tipsily* "Aah, the Bullnose Morris! They used to chill their Stella (the old, strong stuff) to ridiculously low temperatures, so the Stella pump would always be covered in a thick layer of frost. (So sophisticated!) Finishing work at 4 on a Friday; being at the bar by quarter past; watching the fights in the carpark with a good buzz on; those were the days!" *Heads back to the bar again*
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Dec 26, 2023 17:56
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