smellmycheese posted:

Centrist tears

Tesseraction posted:

I like how Keith apologised for not putting up a decent candidate when Galloway of all people won and his platform was "gently caress Israel" same as what got Ali cancelled.

MeinPanzer posted:

It's time for this thread's favourite kind of journalism: the "help, we make £80k a year but we're poor" article: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/04/middle-class-workers-mortgages-bills-tax.

Hmm, computer, enhance.

Right, so that's about £2,300 of his £4,400 take home accounted for, leaving £2k for everything else. Computer, zoom in again.

MeinPanzer posted:

The kicker? They bought a £400k house, an electric SUV that must be £40k, regularly take expensive vacations--and do that all with a huge dose of financial help from their parents. Meanwhile my wife and I are doing just fine living in a house that costs less than half that amount, driving a used car that cost £4k, and taking modest vacations.

Paul.Power posted:

There's like eight Waitroses in the entirety of Wales, and the only one west of Cowbridge is on Anglesey.

Jakabite posted:

The UK has the best nightlife culture of anywhere in the world, and the only people I know who disagree with that (including people not from the UK) don’t actually like going on nights out very much.

EvilHawk posted:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68526972

It's okay everyone, she's alive

Sureeee.

Kin posted:

Yeah I saw this yesterday. Initially thought it was silly

forkboy84 posted:

As much as I find this story painfully uninteresting, she married into this poo poo after growing up in this country, knowing full well what that entails. It's like joining the circus only to complain that there's some clowns around.

In a country utterly obsessed with celebrity, the Windsors are the biggest celebs we have. Again, my eyes glaze over at this poo poo & I'm dying for the thread to find something new to obsess over (or even old. Favourite Monster Munch flavour anyone? I say they are all rubbish), but the Windsors signed an unwritten pact with the media in which they get to rake in loads of taxpayers money & live in cushy buildings built by taxpayer money on estates that are a grotesque holdover of feudalism & really should be appropriated into public ownership and in exchange the papers get to fill their pages with this shite. We're not talking about Denise from number 34, this poo poo is part of the job. If she doesn't like it I'm sure William can step out of the line of succession & they can move to Chipping Norton to live around other well-to-do psychos in relative quiet.

notaspy posted:

Here is a good reason to care (if she is alive):

There is currently a woman being held against her will by the state and no-one is willing or able to investigate this. At best she is being coerced into going along with her imprisonment.

If this can happen to someone so public how on earth can we say this country is safe for women?

Microplastics posted:

Clyde Radcliffe posted:

I like the folk sitting round the bench who don't even turn and look when the Prince and Princess of Wales casually stroll past a few feet away.

I don't give a poo poo about the royals but if I was one of the first people to see Kate in public after almost 4 months I'd certainly turn and have a look.

Josef bugman posted:

Why are you objecting to them?

forkboy84 posted:

I mean sure, but developers really should have a legal responsibility to upgrade infrastructure when building a sizeable number of new houses. Subsidise bus services for X years, fund improvements to sewers and power infrastructure, bare minimum stuff, and then ideally over a certain size there should be a pharmacy, shop, a GP surgery, at some point a primary school. Not to mention a much higher proportion of actually affordable property.

Rarity posted:

Anyway, it takes ages to build 250 homes so that's plenty of time to get some extra shops and buses sorted

deletebeepbeepbeep posted:

It's not just a numbers game though is it? A lack of housing has significant real world impacts for people.

This Sky News piece is a bit of a shill for the rental market but a good representation of what struggle for housing looks like for a lot of people.

https://youtu.be/f_iq7B0trZQ?si=Ybi9WyR6thYejC_R

quote:

Also if you buy a house on the edge of a village or town with a few services and it's not in an AONB or Green Belt or National Park then you should be aware that there's a decent likelihood someone might be building houses around you.

mfcrocker posted:

He's like the world's shittest weathervane, who eventually points in the right direction but about 5 years too late

e: also worth noting he says nothing about the party's horrific transphobia issues (which it admittedly had during the Corbyn era, but have gotten so much worse since)

fuctifino posted:

This the entirety of rental properties listed on Rightmove in a county with a registered population of 570,300 people.

There are currently more than 800 families living in emergency B&B accommodation in Cornwall

I'm of the opinion that the argument "But landlords might profit!" is not a valid excuse to deny anybody housing. Of course we need housing reform and greater protections for tenants, but we also desperately need homes for rent. We also need greater investment in infrastructure, as transport networks, schools, surgeries and other public amenities become saturated due to new builds, but that's also a separate parallel battle.

Angrymog posted:

Question - our workplace started enforcing two days a week in the office, and I gave it an honest go, including doing everything I could to make it stress free for me - picking the quiet days, picking the quiet desks, having someone else put the horse out so I don't have to worry about being dragged through the mud before I go in, etc.

I started to get massively anxious about going in, then fortunately got sick, so I haven't been in for a couple of weeks, which has been much better for my mental health.

I told my line manager that I was happy to come in for special days or if there's a genuine operational need, but not just for the sake of it.

They're now telling me that regular days in the office are part of the contract (which is true).

Do I have a leg to stand on? Is it worth trying to get a note from my GP or contract my union?

happyhippy posted:

It's the perfect week for the media to do their job of distracting the peons.
Instead of the news showing polls of the impending Tory collapse, and the country soon after, its all about football (HOW DARE THEY!), royals (in an awww way and not what did they do now way), and flag shagging (HOW DARE TEHY ARE FLEG!).
Just need a WW2 reference for the gammon bingo.

WhatEvil posted:

Honestly it's really hard to say what the "right" amount is but you do definitely sometimes need to make a pain in the arse of yourself and be your own advocate.

I had about 3 years of loving about with a wrist injury I *knew* needed some kind of surgery or something. Nobody would listen to me. Got seen by a bunch of doctors and bounced around to occupational health who immediately said they couldn't do anything for me. Had docs recommending accupuncture and all kinds of poo poo.

Ultimately went to see a private wrist surgeon who told me how to book to see him directly on the NHS, where he referred me for an MRI, and wouldn't you know it, clear as day on the MRI was a ganglion cyst on a tendon that was pressing on a nerve, and I got surgery and it was fixed.

So I would say that if something is actually affecting your life, then yeah keep going until somebody takes you seriously. Go private if you have the means - even for just an initial consultation, as you may be able to then work the system like I did and still get most of the stuff done on the NHS.

Jel Shaker posted:

i did chuckle when i saw this but most of the North Korean “news” is nonsense that isn’t actually true because you get $$$ as a defector if you make up the most sensational stuff, so i sadly doubt this is real

forkboy84 posted:

Yeah, I can easily imagine DPRK TV stealing wildlife docs and poo poo because it's politically safe and you can't expect people to be willing to watch propaganda all the time. So you show Blue Planet and they might keep the telly on after for the news

Sad Panda posted:

because of course £1100 for a chair is nonsense and it was not that comfortable.

Pistol_Pete posted:

I get the concept that some chairs are nicer than others but I'm struggling to see how a £1000 office chair can (presumably) be 10 times nicer than a £100 office chair. We've had chair technology for millennia, what does the posh chair 'do' that makes it worth £1000?

DreddyMatt posted:

but if not then it's worth taking a look at reyooz, they specialise in used office goods and often have crazy expensive chairs for a couple of hundo

https://www.reyooz.com/shop

sebzilla posted:

I work on an old machinist chair, it's probably not the most ergonomic but it looks pretty rad

Like this one but less hosed up

forkboy84 posted:

Well I mean you look at the article on the BBC news & the first line is "Scotland's new hate crime law has come into force, with JK Rowling and Elon Musk among its critics." and you kind of have your answer I assume. It's a bit of that & a bit of Unionist rage at the Scottish Parliament having the audacity to do things.

OwlFancier posted:

I mean the British Raj didn't have a right to exist either, nor did Britain as an empire generally, nor necessarily does the UK at the moment depending on who you ask (it's me i don't think the state is legitimate) And in all those cases the solution is a fundamental reconstruction (or abolition) of the nature of the state and probably changes to territorial control.

I don't think it's an enormously surprising left wing position to say that states are often bad ideas and don't have an intrinsic right to exist, and people probably don't mean that the alternative should be scouring all life off the face of the landmass. Giant asteroid 2024 excepting.