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Zalakwe posted:I wonder if this result will embolden the left within Labour and if so embolden them to do what exactly. I don't think there's a way to salvage the existing party brands to be honest (except tories being tories and flocking back as soon as they find the next charismatic clown). The ideal to me would be a new party that restricts application and treats the role like the job it is. So minimum levels of experience in x/y/z and such and such skills. It could be something like having lived in the area you're trying to represent for at least 5 years and having held a role within a government funded/operated organisation for x years or related field. So think, a party of former teachers, nursery staff, nurses, doctors, economists, lecturers, police (maybe), civil servants? I'm working on 3 hours of sleep here so there's probably huge holes in that, but it just feels like local things as well as all the services we need aren't actually represented in government. Instead we have power/money hungry career politicians who clearly represent whichever organisation is bribing them the most.
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quidditch it and quit it posted:Naan chat: you can cook an amazing naan in an Ooni pizza oven (amazing pizzas too obvs). I got offered a job at ooni a few years back but turned it down it because it felt like a bit of a dead end company just churning out the one (relatively expensive) niche purpose item. Are they really that popular? I see em in shops everywhere but I figured there's only so much pizza a family can eat in a week and decent weather in the UK to fire it up outside.
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Mar 3, 2024 13:24
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I wonder if the uptick in SNP isn't just down to folk realising that Labour are a shower of shits but, also that they're finally realising (in a round about way) that the way Scotland votes has minimal impact on a UK government. Essentially, the more the news bangs on about the tories nation wide crippling defeat to Labour, the lower their "tories out" platform and vote in Scotland will be.
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Mar 4, 2024 15:46
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Zalakwe posted:Edit: Can I add as well how openly sexist our system still is. The reason 75k bloke's wife doesn't work is likely because there is simply no point. She can't out earn the childcare costs. She'll have to go back to work later but the decision to have kids will likely hugely impact her career. Yeah, we worked out it was cheaper for my wife to take the full mat leave (with 3 months £0 pay) vs going back early and incurring the childcare costs for 2 kids. We were looking at £2k a month for them once my wife goes back in summer, but we're gonna try and get some compressed hours thing on the go to let us free up a day a week and bring that down to £1500. No idea how that's going to work in practice as my wife's work will only let her compress half a day, but when one day a week saves us £400 a month we're gonna try for sure. We should be OK once the kids are both in school in 2026, but that nursery cost is putting us closer to the wire than we'd like each month. Our mortgage goes up next Feb too, so gently caress knows how that's gonna work if it's something silly like an extra £500 a month that a see some folk saying they've had to start paying.
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Mar 5, 2024 20:44
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Convex posted:You could try sticking your details into a mortgage calculator to see how it's looking against today's rates I'll need to double check the figures for that. Punching stuff in from memory is taking our monthly payments from £960 to £1650 which is.... not good.
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Mar 5, 2024 21:21
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serious gaylord posted:That should only be happening if you're coming off a 1% mortgage to a 5-6%. Yeah, I'll double check because we renewed it a few years back now so it's been fixed for a while. 1.7% rings a bell.
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Mar 5, 2024 21:52
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Tesseraction posted:Cool, more money I don't want at the expense of public services I do Yeah, I mean the extra £700 a year takes a little bit of a dent out of the extra £6000 a year I might be paying for the mortgage, or the extra £1200 a year that food costs or the extra £1000 a year for energy...
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Mar 7, 2024 21:12
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happyhippy posted:Its a thing from the 60/70s. And I would say its mostly dumping of them as the normal ways to dump things are not used. Thus allows others to find them easier. On a tangent, but do kids generally still build gang hideouts and huts, etc? When I was a kid in the 80s we didn't have any materials to build anything, but my mates and I would often find sneaky little hideaways out in all of the estate plant life and poo poo (think finding a largish empty space behind big bushes on a hill), or gaps behind sheds etc to hang out. These days I imagine if presented with that as an option, kids would rather stay home and play fortnight/Minecraft or something.
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Mar 7, 2024 23:51
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Flux Wildly posted:Gotta say this is an interesting angle on The Photo Yeah I saw this yesterday. Initially thought it was silly but then it zoomed in on parts of the picture I never noticed were photoshopped, but clearly had been with bad blends and color. I think she goes a bit off on one like suggesting they photoshopped a jumper on the girl when it's more likely she just put one on, but the odds of them all wearing the same outfit combinations (albeit with player 2 colour tweaks) for more than one day seems a bit suspect.
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Mar 12, 2024 10:01
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Gonzo McFee posted:Just two members of the royal family going out by themselves with no bodyguards and no escort to do the shopping they definitely don't have servants for to be photographed like they're loving Bigfoot. Nothing to see here. Whoever that guy is, he's also looks right at the camera in the first 2 or 3 seconds before quickly averting his gaze to carry on with his "we're posh plebs too" walkabout. Has a royal ever been photographed holding a shopping bag before? At this point I'm morbidly curious about what's going on mainly due to the lengths of this perplexingly fake-looking stuntwork as a response to her "disappearance" (plus, you know the breakdown of the usual British media blackouts and the like). Kinda like when one of those superinjunctions falls apart and you discover what a horrible person [celebrity a-z] are.
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Mar 19, 2024 14:07
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Clyde Radcliffe posted:The palace PR thought they had a few years to deal with Kate to get her out of the picture for William to divorce and marry Lady Peggington before becoming king of swamp island, but Charles' imminent death from arse cancer has thrown the whole plan out of kilter. I was gonna ask how that guy who got ol Yeller'd was potentially linked to it. He was a small blip in the papers which looked like it would be something bigger to talk about but then promptly just vanished from coverage. Same deal with the old guy who got a black eye from gardening. I know all these fuckers are inbred, but are these people mentioned actually directly involved with one another or is it just the public thinking all Royals hang out together like the only way is Essex or some poo poo.
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Mar 20, 2024 10:58
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Mr. Apollo posted:I wonder if they released this video of Kate now because they received word that some tabloids were going to run stores based on leaks from the London Clinic. Maybe I'm just incredibly cynical, but it still feels like they've spun the wheel of excuses and picked the one thing (cancer) that's got so much public sympathy it would make folk forget all the weird poo poo that's happened. Who knows if she has it or not, it's not as if anyone can prove one way or another (or would dare to investigate/question it because it's cancer).
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Mar 23, 2024 11:19
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Mr Teatime posted:Please tell me how to get a routine colonoscopy out of a GP, I’m not being sarcastic please tell me the magic words. I’m fairly certain I’d need to be firing blood out of my arse and inflating like a deviant art fetish post right there in the doctors office to not just be handed a pamphlet and even then it’s 50/50. I’ve had gastrointestinal issues for decades and I’ve never received anything beyond a fobbing off. Yeah, this is the bit I've always been lost on. You get TV shows and the like banging on about getting regular tests, but that flies in the face of my typical experience with a GP which is to only go when you spot something wrong. Which, by the time the average inattentive idiot like me notices or thinks it's bad enough, is often too late. I'm a little anxious about skin cancer for example because my body has always been covered in moles, including on my back and even under my hair, etc. Each time I've mentioned this to a GP, they've just asked "have you noticed any get bigger?". All I think is no, out of the hundred+ of these things all over my body, I've never kept track of their size and have gotten so used to them being there that I'd probably never notice one getting gradually bigger. What I want is someone who knows what the gently caress bad looks like to give me a once over and let me know if they spot anything I should specifically keep an eye on.
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Mar 23, 2024 19:48
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Miftan posted:So where do I get glue to fix my shoe sole, and does anyone have any recommendations? Isn't there a Timpsons on line every high street or side street or something?
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Apr 7, 2024 14:21
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Bobby Deluxe posted:In pathology alone there was the data entry system, there was the system that read the output of the biochem machines, the system that translated that into the input database's format; there was a PC at the back of the office with DO NOT TURN OFF taped to the front that translated results for the four GP surgeries that recieved results digitally; each machine in histopathology had its own pass-through translating stuff to the database and finally, we had 2 or 3 months of absolute chaos when the cerner / fujitsu 'central' system came in and our database needed a pass-through to translate everything onto that. As someone who's only ever really dealt with Microsoft products, is all that craziness down to the NHS being run like a mini privatised kingdom where different areas have different systems because such and such's mate had a "software solution" to sell. So rather than one centralised IT system letting everything talk to eachother, you've got hundreds all functionally doing the same thing but with basic incompatibilities?
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Apr 8, 2024 18:33
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Bah, it looks like we've got a woodlouse infestation, which is a bit of a problem with a 2 year old and a 9 month old rolling about on the floor. Anyone else ever dealt with them before? The only general advice I've had is to go around looking for cracks to fill with polyfiller. I'm in a new build and can't really spot anything obvious along the skirting in the room I've seen them in though, but dunno if I also need to go to the extreme of lifting (and refitting) the carpets, etc.
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Apr 13, 2024 20:45
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fuctifino posted:Woodlice are attracted by damp wood, so it sounds like you might have an underlying damp problem somewhere. Once that's sorted, the woodlice should gently caress off. They won't do any actual damage to the property, and I'm pretty certain they are harmless to humans OK, that might explain it then. We've got a utility room that has a bit of a damp woody smell to it (wife usually has a washing on/drying every day because of the kids). The woodlice have shown up roughly during the same time we've noticed the smell. The thing is my wife says she's never seen them in there and the room is kinda in the middle of the house away from the places we have found them. That's why I never made a connection. I can't see anything like damp in the kitchen/living room or anywhere where we are seeing them either. Until posting here I just thought they were coming in from the back garden or something for "reasons" because the kitchen/living room are the ones that are adjacent to it. serious gaylord posted:If you cant see any dark patches on the walls lift the carpet in the rooms you keep finding them. You'll probably find a problem in the subfloor. By subfloor, do you mean what's right under the carpet? If so, it's just concrete IIRC (ground floor in a new build). Kin fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Apr 13, 2024 |
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Apr 13, 2024 21:18
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kecske posted:you'll still have a cavity floor even on the ground level for running various services. A common sign of damp is cool or discoloured spots above your skirting boards where moisture climbs from below. You can get cheap endoscope cameras with lights that attach to your phone if you're not averse to drilling some small holes to inspect the underfloor Hmm, yeah drilling holes through the concrete is starting to sound a bit beyond me to be honest. Though the way it was explained to me by the housebuilder is that all the services utilities are in the walls rather than in the floor on ur ground floor. Like power and water or whatever come into the wall from outside then go up the wall to the ceiling/floor level. From there it runs along the 1st floor and goes up to the sockets/radiators on that floor, but down to the sockets/radiators on the ground floor, etc. But yeah, no cool spots or discolouration in the rooms I've seen them in hence my confusion. In the utility room, the skirting has come away from the wall slightly due to shrinkage (this happened long before the smell), so my hunch is that's where moisture has built up because the paint has started coming off of it.
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Apr 13, 2024 22:02
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Lady Demelza posted:I have an interior wall where the paint peels off and the plaster sounds hollow when tapped. It's definitely damp, either from the floor or maybe there's a slow leak from a pipe? Well, now I feel like I'm being trolled by them. My wife told me she'd seen 2 of them to the side of the patio door in the kitchen "recently" and sure enough there were two tiny gaps in the skirting where they join the patio door. So i popped some polyfiller in them a few hours back. I go back to check just now and there's another loving woodlouse not 2 cm above where I'd sealed the gap. Again, no signs of dampness there at all, but they must be getting in through the patio door somehow.
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Apr 13, 2024 23:11
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smellmycheese posted:lol no. Those kind of horse racing events are basically a football derby with the cunts dressed up in suits for the day and their girlfriends along. They are awful. Yeah, I've been dragged to one of two for work events, and it's not as refined as it's made it to be on TV. It's full of the type of folk you'd expect to habitually see pissed in a bookies, except they've (mostly) got nice looking clothes instead of polo shirts. Kin fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Apr 17, 2024 |
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Apr 17, 2024 08:29
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Peanut Butter posted:Not really surprised by this- I still haven't actually spoken to a single person who has expressed any intention to vote Labour in the next GE. I'm sure they're out there, but a groundswell this is not. It's anecdotal, but I could swear any polls showing bumps for labour up here only appear after heavy negative press for the SNP. I figure it's folks short/long term memory playing up and a bit of media manipulation. "ooh SNP bad, can't vote for them! Boo hiss... Labour are the only alternative" Starmer opens mouth, labour commit a war crime etc "oh yeah, that's right we forgot they're Tories. Get hosed"
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Apr 18, 2024 07:27
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Zalakwe posted:I generally think the SNP get far too easy a ride on here but without a proper alternative I reckon there will be swing back during an election campaign. Yeah, like they're not perfect by any stretch, but they're the only ones who seem to actually give a poo poo about Scotland and the people in it as a whole. Unlike the vacuous lot of the other parties who are so transparently in it for themselves, the power, and their turn on the cushy money siphoning systems in place for them and their mates.
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Apr 18, 2024 17:30
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serious gaylord posted:There was a pretty good study released in either Feb or March I think which shows that almost uniformly everyone says the decade when they were in their 20's to 30's is the 'best' decade. Maybe it's because I'm a solid Millennial, but while I'm fond of the 00s for when I went to Uni and started living my life independently, etc, I kinda feel like the 80s or 90s were the best decade. When I think back on it, it's because there always seemed like there was something new coming out, either in music trends, media or technology, etc but things were also a bit simpler so those changes felt all the more wonderful. When I think of the 00s, I just think of smart phones, the start of samey music, post 9/11 global bleakness and the rise of social media. The Internet and globalism also got massive and suddenly the wonder of new stuff just began to evaporate because everything felt just as iteratively advanced as the last thing. Like, I struggle to remember many specific highlights from about 2005 to 2024, other than things like the tories getting into power, referendums on brexit/independence, the Xbox and shite like strictly taking over TV.
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Apr 28, 2024 21:02
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Bobstar posted:I always say the roundness of the year 2000 broke my brain, so now I'm stuck thinking it's "about the year 2000", which is true in millennium terms, decreasingly so for centuries, and definitely not for decades. But if someone was born in 1942 my brain immediately goes "ah, they're about 60 then" That's weird, I do the same thing for people's ages. Post 2000 just feels like this numerical void and I have to actively add 20 to whatever thing I think back on. It's like anything after 2000 has just been a blur. Like, poo poo, I've been lurking/posting on these forums pretty much daily for over 20 years now... Maybe that's why I feel like everything's been a blur. If I wasn't on here every day I'd probably be part of the drooling masses, buying into whatever bullshit I'm being told on TV with a Netflix subscription and thinking fondly of poo poo like Facebook or Michael McIntyre.
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Apr 28, 2024 22:50
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Jakabite posted:What's the advantage of Plex when I can just put stuff in my windows library and my telly detects it and lets me stream it over wifi? You can load up the plex app on your tv and browse through your media Netflix style. Well that and synch up across any device with the app installed. So you can start something in the living room, continue watching part of it upstairs from where you left off and then watch the rest of it on the train to work or whatever. I'm not that much of an a TV addict but having access to your content when you want it is kinda handy. Kin fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Apr 29, 2024 |
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Had a slight panic when I realised I haven't had a letter from the slc for years, but checked my payslip and they are still leaching money off me so it's all fine. There's probably some super tory doner at the top of the SLC or something that would make this impossible for them to do. I don't know if it's because of the passive nature of the loan repayments (tied to income), or the tying interest to inflation makes it a "free" loan or whatever that was said when I was at uni, or whether it's just a lot of naivety of young folk who've never had a loan before; but the general impression I got from others at uni was that it was a chunk of money to spend with no consequences so they should try and take as much as possible. The SLC are a loan company like any other though. You took their money, they'll do anything short of breaking your legs to get it back.
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May 6, 2024 09:29
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