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OwlFancier posted:From the river thames to the north sea? I mean at this point, Rishi's best chance of winning the next general election is probably banning millions of people from being able to vote [edit] Although if he claims there are millions of jihadists in the UK, it does make it more likely that we'll be invaded by the USA kingturnip fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Mar 1, 2024 |
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Mar 1, 2024 21:52
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Jel Shaker posted:looks more like a toilet piss monitor, making sure the right genitalia match the correct toilet stall With the bargain-basement non-slip floor tiles, it looks like a communal shower. Combined with the cheap chair, I'm assuming a secondary school somewhere.
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Mar 3, 2024 11:05
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I've been dealing with a bout of what I think is flu since Friday (headache, fever, aching, sore throat, cough and uncontrollable shivering), which has wiped out my weekend. Annoyingly, it now being Sunday afternoon, it's wearing off. The advantage of getting the flu jab, I suppose (less likely to catch it, and less severe if you do), but I always feel slightly cheated when illness robs me of a weekend/time off but leaves me capable of going to work.
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Mar 3, 2024 17:19
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Because even Rishi's own MPs hate his guts and don't want to spend another 6 years in government.
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Mar 3, 2024 20:58
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Penis Penispenis strikes again
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Mar 4, 2024 01:08
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Sadsack posted:I'm a UNISON member as it's the only one my workplace recognises and they haven't impressed me. My entire team was dissolved last year, with 30 people being told to find a new job or get made redundant. UNISON were no use whatsoever. They gave the organization a big thumbs up, and shrugged whenever we asked for help. That's just one person's experience though. Other branches may be a lot more useful.  does seem to be UNISON's default mode of late
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Mar 4, 2024 13:48
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He was probably thrilled to be selected as candidate, and then elected as MP because he'd get to be a part of a grand political movement dethroning the Tories and ushering in a new era of transformative politics. Except Big Daddy Keith has a very select list of MPs he listens to, and none of them are even as close to being as obviously tepid piss shandy as microkeir.
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Mar 5, 2024 00:25
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keep punching joe posted:Do people not just go to their local garage any more and buy an old Fiat panda for 500 quid and running it till it dies like my mum has been doing for the past 30 years. We've got Mercedes and BMW dealerships near us, so there are loads of people driving those around. And, yeah, if your options are a brand new Mercedes on an affordable monthly plan* or a second-hand car that could have had anything happen to it, it's no surprise people will choose the new car. Also, there are fewer second-hand dealers than there used to be. But yeah, the way these leases are sold or at least advertised absolutely takes advantage of the lack of skill many people have with household budgets. There may also be a bit of wariness about how good local garages are at taking care of older cars.
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Mar 5, 2024 11:40
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domhal posted:Its cool how insulated central government are from these issues at a glance. Just irresponsible councils who don't know how to balance their budgets, overspend on diversity initiatives and invested poorly. They should have been more sensible. Nothing to do the Westminster or the chancellor. Well, it's at least 95% of the reason that governments agree to give up control over these things in the first place. As with most things, a portion of the blame should be held by the journalists who uncritically report on these things, since it allows the governments' narratives of "this is to ensure that local issues can be prioritised; they don't need Whitehall making their decisions" to go unchallenged.
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Mar 5, 2024 22:32
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Jakabite posted:Don’t we all want to be able to go vroooooom on the slip road and relax into a big comfy seat that gets hot in winter Yes, but I can't afford to pay for the heated seats option in my BMW
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Mar 5, 2024 23:35
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This feels like something that'll get resolved with an apology and either a fine or some community service. I mean, she's not going to be playing football anytime soon with her ACL injury, so why not go and teach some hijabi teenagers to kick a ball around in Brent or Newham.
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Mar 6, 2024 13:18
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Tesseraction posted:FWIW the olive oil shortage is due to the climate disaster affecting the regions that grow them. It's dear for us, but other places are being denied them so it can come to our richer countries. Well maybe those other place should have thought about us before they
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Mar 6, 2024 20:10
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There also is a need for more academic research on some topics like "Does watching violent porn make you more likely to want to enact it?" (to pick a media favourite topic) but the fact that there's a real taboo around discussion of porn, probably puts a barrier in place.
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Mar 7, 2024 10:30
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It's fortunate he gave his constituency all those millions of pounds, isn't it? Presumably his local council can afford to get it cleaned
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Mar 7, 2024 11:12
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The only reason to be worried about raising taxes - even 2p on National Insurance - immediately after an election, is because you're scared that 5 years later, you'll have achieved so little that the Tories can use it against you.
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Mar 7, 2024 14:03
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That describes most countries, dude. Most 'culture' is an amalgamation of ideas brought by people from different regions. The main difference is that Britain is a country that's either invaded, or had immigration from, most parts of the world. So there's a broader range of ideas to be smooshed together into something hideous.
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Mar 8, 2024 21:37
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I'm grateful that at work, we're only a couple of years away from having had electronic records for 10 years, because that means we can free up half a storage room. I work for the NHS, and space is at a premium, so presumably some poor sod will have their exciting new office in half a storage room that can only be accessed from a toilet. Welcome to the team!
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Mar 8, 2024 23:34
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He got pegged. Possibly by a minor aristo
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Mar 9, 2024 23:26
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Mebh posted:I mean, my hands look like that because I'm a clumsy gently caress and I nervously pick my hands. If someone was abusing and bending her fingers back they'd look more like Charlie's sausage fingers surely? "Hmm, how hard can this sewing business be if all those plebs can do it?" "Well poo poo, now my fingers are bleeding. Jeeves, bring the elastoplasts!"
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Mar 10, 2024 13:58
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I reckon there are tons of places you can party all night in London and have a great time, but strangely, they're not the kind of places that advertise to 40-year old goons
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Mar 10, 2024 16:30
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Presumably, the Home Office caved in so that there isn't any official precedent for this kind of thing, and they can blame some vague mistakes in the paperwork for this happening
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Mar 13, 2024 00:30
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It is getting hard to tell who in this thread is still engaging with the 'Kate is dead' conspiracy for the ironic lols and who's genuinely invested.
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Mar 17, 2024 00:24
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NotJustANumber99 posted:and these are the posts you put effort into. lmao and these are the posts you put effort into. lmao
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Mar 17, 2024 00:53
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Dabir posted:I'm gonna have to go through years worth of UKMTs writing down everything that happened, aren't I. Man I don't have time for that Arguably, the biggest problem you face is the same problem UK voters faced in 2019: The people who should have been documenting the catalogue of lies levelled at Corbyn were mostly the people levelling those lies at him.
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Mar 17, 2024 02:39
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You might think that means they're terrible shots, but actually they're very good at it when the target is lying/kneeling on the floor in front of them, handcuffed and blindfolded.
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Mar 17, 2024 13:57
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It's also worth bearing in mind that, on any given day, somewhere between 50%-90% of parliamentary business is entirely governed by 'convention'. Modern politics - anywhere from Theresa May onwards - have shown that there are literally no barriers to the UK government throwing convention under the bus and simply doing whatever the gently caress they want. The sovereignty of Parliament is considered basically inviolable, so as long as the Prime Minister is willing to stand up in the House of Commons and say "Nah, this is what we're gonna do", there's very little - short of violent insurrection - that can stop him/the government. Violent insurrection is always on the cards with a Tory government, because they're simultaneously the most hateable bunch of fascists in the UK, and also far too worried about their own tax bill to actually bother paying for an effective police/military.
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Mar 20, 2024 01:38
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loving communist
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Mar 20, 2024 23:18
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Keith's more of an Anal oval office guy, I think
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Mar 21, 2024 20:55
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Boris Galerkin posted:My American coworker told me they interrupted his basketball game for this breaking news. They're really committing to March Madness, eh?
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Mar 22, 2024 20:33
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xtothez posted:Firstly, anything would obviously be administered by the professionals with the most possible experience which may vary a lot compared to anyone using the NHS normally. Remember that the vast majority of consultants working in private healthcare have a 'day' job in the NHS. I'd also expect in a situation like this that if it's something the consultant in charge isn't fully confident on, they'd just bring in whoever they thought needed to be brought in. Pay the local NHS Hospital a few thousand quid to borrow the relevant oncologist for the time they need.
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Mar 23, 2024 11:52
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Sadly, but inevitably, there is a group of GPs who only seem interested in the health of their patients as it relates to the kind of monitoring that makes the GP practice money (blood pressure, BMI, smoking/drinking status, etc). The kind of thing where you go in concerned that your foot is oozing pus and the first thing they do is put the cuff around your arm. Like I say: inevitable (when those are the targets set), but not very helpful for the patient. I go to the GP maybe every 4-5 years, and when I went recently, this is what they did, despite me complaining of a bad cough. Then after telling me it was likely viral, they offered me antibiotics, which got on my nerves to the point I briefly considered the possibility of reporting them. There is a lot to say for GPs being massively pushed for time, though. I look at referrals from GPs every day and most of them are bad, but I think 75% of that is because the GP can bash something bad out in 5 minutes that technically is what they said they'd do, whereas doing a good job can take a lot of time. I saw a referral this week from a GP who'd done a very good job of the referral (the first outright good referral I've seen in several months), but it had absolutely taken a lot more time than the 8 minutes most GPs have for a consultation.
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Mar 24, 2024 10:20
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Democracy is being able to hold the governing party to account when you're in opposition, but not being held to account by the opposition when you're in government Also, yes, being able to give your friends hundreds of millions of pounds for doing nothing useful
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Mar 24, 2024 14:44
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fuctifino posted:https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/24/thousands-of-london-homes-at-risk-from-holiday-lets-plan 
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Mar 24, 2024 19:52
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I ordered some food 45 minutes ago, and 30 minutes ago the driver was 2 minutes from my place, but I'm now stuck "Waiting for an update..." Yeah, me too. Except I'm hungry.
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Mar 26, 2024 21:16
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Yeah, I've just spoken to Martin McGuinness and Rev. Ian Paisley and they stopped playing Go long enough to tell me they agree with, erm, Alfred Tait.
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Mar 28, 2024 00:15
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I think you'll find that a chocolate digestive is too indulgent to properly represent Jesus' sacrifice. It should be a Rich Tea biscuit, but not just any Rich Tea biscuit; it should be a stale one, way past the Best Before date, preferably with weevils. Also, there weren't enough Rich Tea biscuits to go around, so we had to give the chocolate digestives to the priest.
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Mar 28, 2024 01:32
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Fumble posted:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hole_(2001_film) I remember watching The Hole when I was a student, but other than it having Thora Birch and Keira Knightley in (who somewhat notoriously had to get parental consent for a topless scene since she was only 15) I couldn't tell you anything else about it. It wasn't very good?
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Mar 28, 2024 18:21
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Is the problem that Farage would command a higher fee to be bought, thereby embarrassing every Tory who sold out for much less?
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Mar 28, 2024 21:42
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It's a bit mean-spirited, but I'm thoroughly enjoying the stories of people who looked at their expired passport and thought "It'll be fine to go on holiday with this", only to find out [shock] that it wasn't fine.
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Mar 30, 2024 10:13
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Scientastic posted:These people aren’t trying to travel on expired passports, the passports are valid, but the UK rule is that passports are valid for ten years, plus any leftover validity you had on your old passport at time of renewal, up to nine months. The European rule is that your passport can only be used up to the tenth anniversary of issue. If you're spending hundreds of pounds at least on a holiday abroad, I feel like a bit of extra money to renew your passport is the bare minimum you should. It has reminded me that I need to renew mine, though. Not that I have any holiday plans.
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Mar 30, 2024 19:19
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