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OwlFancier, crispix)
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I feel like given naanchat, this thread would enjoy a malawach. It's sort of like Partha, but from Yemen, and I have no idea where to get it in the UK. You're welcome.
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Mar 2, 2024 23:49
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Union chat - the flowchart is this: Union your job recognises > Union with the most members at your job > if all similar-ish, union with the best local branch. Local branches can vary wildly by job/location and unfortunately there's no way to know before you join them and have to deal with them. The branches should have meetings every now and then where you can go and gauge what they're like. Don't be afraid to quit and join another one if you're really disappointed by them! As long as you don't have any ongoing issues at work (since unions will not represent you on issues that started before you joined them, otherwise everyone would just join last minute), it should be fine. Unite are probably the best of the big three (unite, unison, gmb) on a national politics level and anecdotally, my branch are quite good, but as I said it varies pretty drastically.
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Mar 4, 2024 14:54
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OwlFancier posted:I feel like if you're old enough to be a goon parent you should not be in tears because your pokemon game isn't working. Pokémon is great fun for all ages 
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Mar 7, 2024 18:03
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My office only digitised during COVID. Oh sure people had computers and emailed, but files were printed out, work was written on a board and then ticked off by people when it was picked up, filing cabinets for old work, giant calendar for people to write their appointments in, etc. I tried to get them to do more stuff digitally, but the youngest person in the office was in their 50s and none of them were having it. I once had to explain to someone the difference between a single and a double click with their computer mouse. The job manual I got when I joined was a big binder that detailed helpful things such as how to mail merge and then instructing you to print out the merged file and file it away in the proper filing cabinet. Saving it on the computer just Wasn't Done. The staff were all also very uninterested in learning. I set up systems to make everything quicker and less analog, but nobody could be bothered to learn how to log in to their outlook365 account until they absolutely had to. Theres a shared digital calendar that most people refuse to use. They're also still working on digitising out actual, physical archives full of box of paper but I suspect that's just to save on storage costs. All the boxes just sit in a disused office instead now. We're now mostly digital, but the systems in place for it are mostly hodge podge nonsense I put together and our new filing cabinet is just me saving files on my computer and emailing them out to people when requested. Still better than paper. I'm glad we don't have any of the specialised machines, though there is a letter stuffer machine and a dusty fax somewhere in the mail room.
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Mar 9, 2024 10:36
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Nuclear Spoon posted:this reminds me that the water in block went off a couple weeks ago, with the building management and thames water trying to shuffle it off onto the other (it turns out it was thames water after they'd turn a valve somewhere while doing some maintenance) Jesus christ how long has it been doing that? Was the room just fully underwater??
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Mar 16, 2024 12:20
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Not So Fast posted:Not the same anecdote but a similar level of derangement This came on after the initial "he never wears a tie!!!" hysteria when Corbyn first got made LOTO. It didn't last long since he started wearing a tie, I assume at the urging of some pr team. Afaik he basically never wore a tie until shortly after becoming LOTO if he could help it.
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Mar 18, 2024 09:49
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Goatse James Bond posted:future capital of the USA: This is already the case.
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Mar 20, 2024 09:09
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Ragnar Gunvald posted:https://news.sky.com/story/un-rejects-us-resolution-calling-for-immediate-ceasefire-in-gaza-13099718 quote:Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US ambassador to the UN, said the resolution's failure was "really outrageous and below the dignity of the UN Security Council" lol lmao I haven't read this resolution, but if the US proposed it I assume it's not a ceasefire bill, but a way to send Israel more weapons or something.
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Mar 22, 2024 15:53
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Failed Imagineer posted:E: poo poo post poo poo snipe. I'm not looking up some numbers poo poo do your own research BOOOOO!! On this day in 1958 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet Premier as well as First Secretary of the Communist Party
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Mar 27, 2024 20:46
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smellmycheese posted:That’s the Daily Tekegraph lol Potato potato
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Mar 28, 2024 10:33
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The Perfect Element posted:
Wow. Just, wow.
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Apr 1, 2024 16:52
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For what it's worth, my main objection is to "all the Israelis should go back where they came" stuff. My preferred solution is one state with equal rights and separation from church and state. States having a right to exist is a very murky concept which isn't worth discussing imo, because states can't have rights - they're not people. At that level of operation it's about what you can get away with, and what other states/your population will punish you for or not.
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Apr 2, 2024 13:14
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Israeli politics is very complicated in a lot of ways. Demonstrations usually have multiple factions that want different things in them. Suffice to say that while most Israelis aren't far gone enough to rock up with popcorn to the bombings, the vast majority of Israelis are very, very right wing on most issues.
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Apr 2, 2024 13:36
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Tesseraction posted:Kinda always felt like letting one specific ethnoreligious group have complete control of Jerusalem was a patently foolish act. Should have made it the loving UN headquarters or something that would force it to be neutral ground. Probably, but it needs to be written and codified well, otherwise you get a ladder that nobody can ever move
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Apr 2, 2024 15:48
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Posting link instead of image because video: The actual voiceover is a dispassionate tallying of people voting for/against what looks like a first reading of some sort of climate bill.
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Apr 4, 2024 08:09
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So where do I get glue to fix my shoe sole, and does anyone have any recommendations?
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Apr 7, 2024 13:32
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https://uk.givergy.com/cinemaforgaza/?controller=lots&action=showLot&id=99
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Apr 8, 2024 17:13
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killerwhat posted:Thanks for the summary. It's disgusting. I love all my trans comrades.
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Apr 11, 2024 10:31
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Rarity posted:Do you love me enough to eat a chocolate orange? 100%.
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Apr 11, 2024 11:14
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OwlFancier posted:Owl: 10/10 no notes
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Apr 11, 2024 19:26
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Mebh posted:I found out today several people at my work read this thread. That's both amazing and terrifying. I shall continue to Really curious as to how this even came up! Also another vote in the pot for CrispIK
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Apr 12, 2024 07:22
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but now I can't talk too much poo poo about my company anymore 
(to be fair, for a corporation they're pretty good, but could be a lot better!)
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Pistol_Pete posted:Can we tell how many lurkers there are in this thread vs actual posters? I was wondering what the ratio is: like 10 lurkers for every poster, or something? When we used to do polls in the monthly threads, I seem to recall we got hundreds and sometimes almost a thousand responses via that.
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Apr 12, 2024 09:00
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I'm a bit sad I don't post as much these days, but I still read the thread basically daily.
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Apr 12, 2024 10:49
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I for one welcome our new northern Irish overlord.
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Apr 12, 2024 20:53
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crispix posted:i always played as baddies when i was wee In fairness the brotherhood of nod are just way cooler.
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Apr 14, 2024 08:55
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Edge is still wrestling???? e oh my god he was in the "so bad it's kinda good" flash TV show Miftan fucked around with this message at 07:37 on Apr 15, 2024 |
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Apr 15, 2024 07:33
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Has it been long enough that yoofs don't even appreciate avocado on toast anymore?
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Apr 15, 2024 10:21
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Very funny to me that dark academia is a fashion trend nowadays and not just a sub genre of fantasy books. I think probably whoever said that we're just disconnected from young people's trends because we basically live on parallel planes of existences wet media consumption is right. A friend told me yesterday that he had to use urban dictionary to understand what some kids were saying (I believe the word that tripped him up was gyatt). In the past, the uncool adults wouldn't like the way we spoke, but they at least knew what it meant. Maybe that's just because neither of us have teenagers yet.
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Apr 16, 2024 06:39
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:My friend does not stop talking about how Jake Berry used to sell him weed at university. Definitely bringing this up next time his Tory constituents keep telling me what a good local MP he is ( because they hate weed like the Tories that they are)
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Apr 17, 2024 08:33
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Rarity posted:Pfft, 40K is lame. Wake me up when they put catboys in FF14 Where have you been for the last decade?? Pistol_Pete posted:He talked an awful lot about how economists absolutely love averages, and they create this hypothetical average person in their calculations, who they forget doesn't actually exist in real life. Like, if most people are doing poo poo and a few people are doing fabulously well, on average, everyone's ticking along nicely. Personally I'm a fan of the one about the statitician who drowned in a puddle that was 2cm deep, on average.
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Apr 17, 2024 15:41
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Rarity posted:I haven't even beaten A Realm Reborn yet cause I'm levelling every class at the same time I have no words. Just.. Progress the main story quest already! The story gets so good! Stop dicking around in Limsa leveling a monk and MAKE PROGRESS!! (also dm me your ign so we can be friends once Dawntrail comes out and I re-sub :3 )
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Apr 17, 2024 16:19
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Mano posted:I would suggest for VitP to post a thread where the whole forum can vote if they should be unbanned from this thread. That was an all time classic, thank you for that incredible memory.
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Apr 18, 2024 08:26
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Microplastics posted:Had anyone in this thread had experience of engaging a solicitor to purchase a property and then that solicitor being really loving slow at doing anything? In my experience, and everyone I've talked to, there's no conveyancing solicitors that aren't slower than an elephant walking through a tar pit. I had a friend in the soliciters firm that handled my sale who I could nudge to go yell at our solicitor and it still took a while, they vanished occasionally, and once the sale was done basically evaporated.
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Apr 18, 2024 19:08
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ThomasPaine posted:Oh yeah 100%, it's just crazy how many people seem to buy it. It's more expensive for the country than a well planned publicly run service would be. Like, it fails, and nakedly so, unless you out and out claim the goal is to funnel public money to capitalists. It's grim how this is constantly framed as a 'debate' when there is absolutely no ambiguity that it is poo poo and everyone bar the people profiting think so. But the answer is apparently more of the same will make things better? How long have they been saying that, and it never is. It's so ridiculous as well. Even under the most basic analysis and no effort from the government, it doesn't stand up to any argument other than 'uuhhh government bad private business good??' Like, if the government buys out a company running a business, they can keep the entire structure as-is, make zero changes so nothing will get worse, the same people will be making the decisions, but there's no need to pay shareholders. Even in that very pared down case, it'll be cheaper and run the same.
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Apr 19, 2024 15:20
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Soricidus posted:I have bad news for you about what’s happening to millennials right now Ow, my lower back!
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Apr 25, 2024 08:31
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I was conscripted and it destroyed my physical and mental health. 0/10 would not recommend.
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Apr 26, 2024 20:18
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kecske posted:you can just refuse to do it? for a couple of months in jail everyone should do that imo The jail time varies by quite a lot of variables, but as others stated there's also a lot of societal issues with getting jobs down the line (and while legally jobs aren't allowed to ask you what you did in the army or if you served, applying for jobs at 20 would raise some eyebrows for example). There's jobs like security work etc that require a military service. I'm pretty sure I would have also lost my entire social circle if I didn't join up. In hindsight that would have been a good thing, but at the time it's pretty daunting. His Divine Shadow posted:Guess it affects people differently. I was conscripted and it basically rescued my physical and mental health. It probably helps we're purely defensive and not engaged in a war of conquest. I suspect the Finnish and Israeli army are quite different, yeah. On the conscription thing, even if you think every Ukrainian should be fighting the Russians, surely that's a decision for them to make individually? If a Ukrainian lad decides he doesn't want to, he should be allowed to leave? Which conscription doesn't really allow for. And like Owly said, if you're for conscription, because the threat is that big, why aren't you over there fighting? Conscription is bollocks and everyone should be able to choose for themselves if they want to fight to the death. Aiming a gun at another human being is just as scary as them aiming one at you. Miftan fucked around with this message at 08:32 on Apr 27, 2024 |
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Apr 27, 2024 08:27
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OwlFancier posted:Yeah it's not helping here either. I think I'm getting more sensitive to winter as I get older. Get a HEPA filter. You can get one for like £60-100ish and it's changed my life. I put it on for an hour or two in my bedroom before I go to bed and suddenly I can breathe during hayfever season. You walk into the room and the air just feels significantly fresher, like on a mountain top. I cannot overstate how big a difference it made for my hayfever.
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Apr 27, 2024 20:31
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OwlFancier posted:Do you have an example link for the kind of thing I should be looking for? Mostly just getting replacement filters for presumably other devices. I believe this is what I have.
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Apr 28, 2024 07:18
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Glad someone can afford to pay for the amount of gas needed to gaslight us with this lot! Are we sure they don't mean "supported by PPE"?
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