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fuctifino posted:her weird legs-apart pose that mimics the Tory power stance (which also mimics a Liz Truss photoshoot). They teach that dumb stuff to senior managers in big companies. At the bank I work for, all the middle management and above went on courses where some consultancy firm came in and showed them appropriate power stances, gave them actual training in how to give firm handshakes and important sounding ways to use buzzwords and say poo poo to staff in meetings, and all sorts of bullshit like that. The last batch of them to do it were during the summer and we could see them outside in the office grounds, standing in two lines facing each other and practicing handshakes and powerstancing.
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Runcible Cat posted:I've always been asked first if I'm happy to have a load of students look at the weird lump on my stoma or whatever I'm going under the knife for that time. I'm fine with that; a few more people seeing my innards isn't a problem. When I last went to a podiatry clinic, they had students doing all the initial analysis and an I assume fully qualified podiatrist going round checking how they were doing. But he was testing them on their reasoning in depth, so I sat there really awkwardly while some poor student panicked and gave apparently increasingly wrong answers about what might be the problem with my foot and why they thought it was the case. I felt really sorry for them cause they were getting super flustered and the podiatrist was pretty abrupt with them.
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Dec 11, 2023 20:24
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More great news about the state of things https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-67754983 I know that the backlog local dentists got into during covid was grim, but this just stocks up more and more for later problems and people get hosed so hard by it.
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Dec 19, 2023 10:28
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Jedit posted:Most of the stock in those "American Candy" shops is expired and not meant to be sold. The money laundering is done by opening a second business and buying all the stock from the first business at a premium before closing it down. Rinse and repeat, so to speak. All the corner shop/convenience store places around here also have a small display of american candy (together with a big sign in the doorway advertising it). I assume that's where it goes after its failed to sell in the high street american candy shops.
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Dec 26, 2023 20:12
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:I will not tolerate that poo poo anymore, you can be interesting right out the gate or you can gently caress off. I'm willing to overlook a show's problems because sometimes a concept needs room to breathe and grow, but with a lot of slow shows that's not the case and the writers are just dragging their feet. Since people brought up BSG, consider how strongly that began - the opening episode immediately starts in the middle of a crisis with a really unique premise, and even once it settles down it throws out an interesting new problem each week. Thomas Jane's dumb-rear end hat was almost enough to make me turn off the Expanse in its own right. If I wanted to see a fedora-wearing dork, I'd obviously just turn off my monitor. TBH I think event-of-the-week shows or ones with an arc interspersed with other side stuff benefit from being watched with one of those guides that tells you which episodes you can safely skip over. I love Deep Space 9 and while there are some really good early eps, there are also some incredibly terrible episodes in the early seasons. If I wasn't wallowing in nostalgia about it when I started rewatching recently, I'd have stopped watching before it gets great because there are some that are just so bad.
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Jan 2, 2024 17:32
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Is it worth getting hold of? I've downloaded a few series in the past and abandoned them eg Outlander (watched whole of series 1 but Miss Goody Two Shoes was getting on my nerves by the end - my niece implores me to persist - says she improves in the following series - but I haven't done so yet). For All Mankind is probably the best show I've watched since The Americans. The first two seasons of FAM are legit incredible and some episodes are a masterclass in how to build tension or drop a surprise twist. Not watched season 4 yet, but season 3 isn't quite as good as the first two. It's kind of getting slightly less interesting as it goes, because it's becoming more of a sci-fi show than cool alt-history but it's definitely worth it.
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Jan 3, 2024 11:11
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Tesseraction posted:Thanks *google shopping searches the price of a new phone* fffffuuuuuck me Had no problems with this site for a great condition 2nd hand phone last year https://www.backmarket.co.uk/
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Jan 4, 2024 13:18
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Guavanaut posted:I do sometimes wonder about the psychology of the anti-mask anti-vax anti-everything people, like the David Ickes and Piers Corbyns of the world. Empty nesters who retired comfortably and suddenly have endless free time and can now doomscroll to their hearts content paired with (and sometimes the same people as) those who suddenly found due to their own circumstances during the pandemic that they were able or keen to read the news (or terrible online forums, youtube channels and whatever) more than they had before and fall down those rabbit holes. And potentially due to those changes in circumstances, a change in the kind of people they interact with, and less exposure to people who are less close to them or are a more diverse group. And, obviously, the restrictions during the pandemic being absolutely horrifying to people who lived in privilege and believed they were Terribly Important so rules shouldn't apply to them.
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Jan 10, 2024 16:57
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Julio Cruz posted:I’m aware it’s a bad thing, I’ve said so several times, but bad things do occasionally happen That's the failing though imo. If things are happening that impact your customers and cause them harm of some kind, then it's a choice not to establish a process. I work for a financial firm and have sat in on plenty of emergency response meetings where something happens that may not even be our organisations fault, but customers are getting left out of pocket or suddenly can't pay for things they expected to be able to pay for. Decisions get made as to whether to do things, and some of those decisions are to develop and turn around in a matter of hours processes that didn't exist previously when it's really important. Yeah it's difficult, and maybe open to abuse, or open to lovely follow-on decisions about who gets the benefit of this and who doesn't - but it's a choice not to be able to do it. The people more likely to get treated sympathetically by the papers or have journalist mates aren't the ones getting the lovely end of the stick in this situation though, so of course nothing gets done.
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Jan 22, 2024 18:22
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OwlFancier posted:I wonder if I can get that place I saw at goth weekend that does the vinyl wrapped coffins and they had a giant help for heroes branded coffin as a demo, if I could get them to do me a gothic help for heroes grit box. This place near me does that. https://www.goasyouplease.com/packages/personalised-package/ Greggs? Newcastle Brown? They got you covered. They've got a Tennents one in the window at the mo I think.
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Feb 2, 2024 22:56
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smellmycheese posted:lol indeed if we have to yet again go through all that insane bollocks of “the queue” and Prince Nonce and chums guarding the sacred coffin. Extremely lmao if the economy gets cratered by a second funeral and coronation.
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Feb 5, 2024 21:32
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Just Another Lurker posted:Wonder if they have even set up the funereal details yet for C3, Liz is only just in the ground. yeah, planning is happening, it's Operation Menai Bridge (Liz was London Bridge). Big firms that would get affected by Chuck popping his clogs are all gearing up their planning for sure.
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Feb 9, 2024 13:35
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fuctifino posted:e: Also, who put 50p in the oval office meter? According to backstage goss from the Macbeth production he's in, Fiennes is a complete oval office IRL to anyone he works with. Not the problematic sex pest kind, just a total arrogant arsehole, yelling at all the crew etc.
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Feb 11, 2024 22:25
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Tesseraction posted:The worst an "over the top" trigger warning is gonna make me do is glaze over while it shows/is read out. But that's fine, this warning wasn't meant for me, and it's not going to change the way I consume whatever media it is. The way some chain food places do allergy/ingredient information would work as a useful kind of analogy for how entertainment warnings could work - where you have the allergy information front and centre and then you can get the ingredient/detailed nutritional information on a website or leaflet as supporting info if there are very specific things you want to avoid or take into consideration. Continue/expand the kind of 'big ticket' warnings for sexual assault, graphic violence etc on listings, store pages etc but then have easily accessible far more detailed warnings elsewhere for those who have particular concerns that they want to avoid. Those Christian 'family review' type sites that slate any violent or amoral games and movies do tend to be actually good for this kind of thing. They generally give a breakdown of exactly what kind of unpleasantness happens which can be useful if there are certain kinds of thing you want to avoid.
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Feb 12, 2024 21:59
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Failed Imagineer posted:Still thinking about that Big Naan Was great going to a place where you got a nearly table-sized naan with a friend who hadn't seen one before. The staff started moving plates and glasses to the edge of the table to make space before bringing it over, and he thought they were just doing a bit as a joke until he saw the size of what they were bringing.
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Feb 29, 2024 14:31
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