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Well I sure killed this thread stone dead.
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What about airbnb Zephro? You can sometimes find entire apartments in there available to rent for short periods of time.
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Mar 10, 2015 17:37
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Zephro posted:Well I sure killed this thread stone dead. Slow news day maybe? Hell of a new page post though. Also I have to admit I found your request a bit strange. What are these landlords supposed to do with the rooms the rest of the week? You may as well just ask for B&Bs if it's only for two nights. With that said, there are mid-week renting options available - try MondaytoFriday.com for instance.
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Mar 10, 2015 17:40
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Kegluneq posted:Slow news day maybe? Hell of a new page post though. Airbnb is a good shout too.
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Mar 10, 2015 17:46
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Your best bet might be to search spareroom or mondaytofriday for 5 day lets and then see if there is anywhere willing to take you on a shorter term.
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Mar 10, 2015 17:55
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quote:@adamsherwin10: EXCLUSIVE: BBC suspends Jeremy Clarkson over fracas with producer. Top Gear will not be broadcast this Sunday - more at @Independent follows 
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Mar 10, 2015 18:04
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A fracas basically means he hit someone right? Or is that a rumpus?
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Mar 10, 2015 18:11
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I still can't believe it's pronounced fracar. e/ imo you need at least three people for a rumpus, while a fracas could just be one dude being noisily murdered by a bunch of crows or something
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Mar 10, 2015 18:13
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Renaissance Robot posted:I still can't believe it's pronounced fracar. Pretty sure it's a word only ever used in newsprint.
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Mar 10, 2015 18:15
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At least it wasn't a romp.
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Mar 10, 2015 18:16
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Renaissance Robot posted:I still can't believe it's pronounced fracar.
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Mar 10, 2015 18:24
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Official guide for this sort of thing
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Party Boat posted:A fracas basically means he hit someone right? Or is that a rumpus? In Jeremy Clarkson's case it could also simply constitute him speaking at you for an extended period. Either what he says or the voice he says it in are likely to cause bodily harm at some point.
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Mar 10, 2015 18:41
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Fracas means hes had a fight.
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Mar 10, 2015 18:47
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I'm sure it's all just flimflam and hoolala
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Mar 10, 2015 19:00
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Renaissance Robot posted:I still can't believe it's pronounced fracar. Some of us pronounce our Rs 
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Mar 10, 2015 19:19
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Renaissance Robot posted:I still can't believe it's pronounced fracar. Nigel Fracas
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gorki posted:Some of us pronounce our Rs
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Mar 10, 2015 20:21
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How was Tony Blair on social issues? I wasn't really politically aware during his government so the main thing I know about his administration was the Iraq War. I ask because on the Daily politics, I saw that a Scottish Labour MP for Dundee East was offered £1000 by him and she turned it down, presumably because it was Blair's money. When asked about this David Lammy said he stood by their record during those years IIRC, so I was curious what Blair was known for other than the Iraq invasion. e: speeleng PiCroft fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Mar 10, 2015 |
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Mar 10, 2015 20:22
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Are they just going to have the other two on it in future? That might be nice, it's not a bad show when they're all just reviewing cars and doing silly challenges and making fun of each other, it's basically Scrapheap Challenge but with more cars. The other two are pretty benign, they just go "omg Jeremy what are you LIKE you can't say that on TV, you're saying what we're all thinking" when he says his usual lazy horrible poo poo. Or are they going to get a replacement?  edit: ^^The Blair government did do some good stuff on social issues, like introducing civil partnerships, introducing a national minimum wage, making stalking and some kinds of domestic abuse a crime, having women-only shortlists for some constituencies, and the Equality Act 2010. However, there was the Iraq War and a lot of anti-terrorism legislation that was brought in after 9/11 and 7/7 that did a lot of harm to civil rights too. And PFI contracts were a big thing under Blair's government. Stottie Kyek fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Mar 10, 2015 |
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Mar 10, 2015 20:28
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Sure Start (day care centres for kids, with some outreach work, initially aimed at deprived areas) and a big increase in NHS funding are two other things that spring to mind. edit: the whole tax credit system came in under Blair/Brown too. The working bits were controversial (because they basically amount to government topping-up of poverty pay). But they were big.
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PiCroft posted:How was Tony Blair on social issues? I wasn't really politically aware during his government so the main thing I know about his administration was the Iraq War.
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Mar 10, 2015 20:40
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Wasn't the minimum wage a big deal when labour got in? Edit: Not really sure if its a social issue though.
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Mar 10, 2015 20:41
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Guavanaut posted:He seemed okayish on LGBT rights. Blair was more of a "go along with the flow" person in LGBT rights than an active supporter. His government was explicitly opposed to same-sex marriage.
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Mar 10, 2015 20:49
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The Human Rights Act considerably streamlined the legal process if your rights were being violated. So that was nice.
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Mar 10, 2015 20:57
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There is an argument that something broke in Tony's brain around about 9/11. You look at his first few years, where he passed a minimum wage and the HRA, and then look at a few years ago when he was advising the president of Kazakhstan how to damage-control a massacre of striking workers.
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Mar 10, 2015 21:06
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TinTower posted:Blair was more of a "go along with the flow" person in LGBT rights than an active supporter. His government was explicitly opposed to same-sex marriage. Eh, that's better than nothing. They repealed Section 28, lowered age of consent to match hetrosexual AOC, introduced civil partnerships, allowed gay couples, or single individuals (gay or otherwise) to adopt, and various other anti-discrimination acts. Stepping stones. His government might have been remembered as simply "okay", if it weren't for his loving toxic laws on civil liberties, and dragging everyone into Iraq. And then lying about it, amid all the other sleaze. He went crazy, all right.
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Mar 10, 2015 21:10
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TinTower posted:There is an argument that something broke in Tony's brain around about 9/11. You look at his first few years, where he passed a minimum wage and the HRA, and then look at a few years ago when he was advising the president of Kazakhstan how to damage-control a massacre of striking workers. He was a closet Catholic who hates Islam who had the opportunity to join a crusade and took it. I remember being at Glastonbury festival in 1997 and everyone was ridiculously optimistic about Tony Blair and the labour government. Now look at it, PFI, sold all the gold, war legacy. loving hosed it up didn't he.
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Mar 10, 2015 21:15
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TinTower posted:There is an argument that something broke in Tony's brain around about 9/11. You look at his first few years, where he passed a minimum wage and the HRA, and then look at a few years ago when he was advising the president of Kazakhstan how to damage-control a massacre of striking workers. Obviously while the world was focused on events in New York, Our Tony was kidnapped and replaced by a lizard doppelganger.
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Pesky Splinter posted:Eh, that's better than nothing. They repealed Section 28, lowered age of consent to match hetrosexual AOC, introduced civil partnerships, allowed gay couples, or single individuals (gay or otherwise) to adopt, and various other anti-discrimination acts. Stepping stones. Labour also killed off private member attempts at killing Section 28, equal AoC (in opposition), and civil partnerships. Their record on trans rights is piss-poor too. They were forced by Strasbourg to pass the Gender Recognition Act, after all.
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TinTower posted:There is an argument that something broke in Tony's brain around about 9/11. You look at his first few years, where he passed a minimum wage and the HRA, and then look at a few years ago when he was advising the president of Kazakhstan how to damage-control a massacre of striking workers. He's a good boy really!
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Mar 10, 2015 21:17
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JFairfax posted:He was a closet Catholic who hates Islam who had the opportunity to join a crusade and took it. JFairfax posted:I remember being at Glastonbury festival in 1997 and everyone was ridiculously optimistic about Tony Blair and the labour government.
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Mar 10, 2015 21:20
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Ban on foxhunting was early newLab wasn't it? I think there were also some bans on forms of cruel animal testing? Free tv for pensioners, bus passes and such. Free nursery places for 3 and 4 year olds. Dunno that devolution is really a social issue but it was kinda fabulous.
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TinTower posted:There is an argument that something broke in Tony's brain around about 9/11. You look at his first few years, where he passed a minimum wage and the HRA, and then look at a few years ago when he was advising the president of Kazakhstan how to damage-control a massacre of striking workers. It was the pressures of containing the internal contradictions in his brain that the Iraq War caused. In the end, he retained his self-image by insisting that he was right until he thoroughly believed it himself and it hardened into a permanent personality change. Now, he always reminds me of a more competent Iain Duncan Smith: they both display the same shiny-eyed indifference to mere facts in tv interviews and a strangely religious belief in their own righteousness.
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Mar 10, 2015 21:48
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Freedom of information act was also new labor, Blair later said it was hes' biggest mistake
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Mar 10, 2015 21:50
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FOI requests to councils keep the local nutters busy so I fully support the act.
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Mar 10, 2015 21:56
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Yeah the Hunting Ban was Blair, though he went to great lengths to look like he wasn't supporting it while actually supporting it. Still, seeing some Countryside Alliance types get clobbered by the filth was very funny.
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JFairfax posted:He was a closet Catholic who hates Islam who had the opportunity to join a crusade and took it. THIIIIINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTEEERRRRR  On the topic of blind optimism, what's this
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Renaissance Robot posted:THIIIIINGS Why would Labourites appealing to Tory sensibilities be a source of optimism? Edit: Wait it's Tony Blair talk, compulsory link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKSllUPbzCI Edit2: Oh no I watched it all again 
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Hey UKMT, I've just released a short documentary interviewing activists representing the occupation at Warwick back in December, thought you might want to have a look. https://vimeo.com/121814367
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