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jabby posted:Yesterday they announced a single 5 day strike in September, in the last hour they announced three more in October, November and December. Oh yeah I see what you're saying - I just wanted to point out the angle they were leading with
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thespaceinvader posted:The BBC article didn't even mention the JDs point of view until the last couple of paragraphs, and basically ignored the serious safety, understaffing, underfunding concerns. It's even more concerning now that we have the ammo from the DoH civil servants themselves - that really should be a standard cut and paste into every single article about the 7 day NHS.
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Prince John posted:It's even more concerning now that we have the ammo from the DoH civil servants themselves - that really should be a standard cut and paste into every single article about the 7 day NHS. Yeah, I need to write a thing about that sometime. I've just really run out of energy on it to some extent. My anger has long since given way to resignation and disappointment.
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Sep 1, 2016 18:53
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Prince John posted:From your post, it looks like the lettings agency has actually fixed the ceiling twice and re-wired the electrics twice (aka, they've actually upheld their obligations for repairs). Yeah, I just felt like ranting to be honest because I think some of the people I share this house with have really never lived alone before and the rat woke me up at 3am this morning and I couldn't get back to sleep
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Jose posted:I dislike that people think its acceptable to vape inside and that more places don't crack down on it I used to wonder why people had a problem with vaping, since my dad had an e-cig for a bit while he was quitting, then I saw someone roller-skating down a road drenching it in smoke like a human fog machine and immediately hated it. Oberleutnant posted:There was a BBC news article about it today too. I could only skim but from the looks of it it was trying to "explain" the conflict by just pointing out that junior drs are apparently miffed only about the scale of pay, with little or no mention of the staffing issues. I thought we had a leak a while back that said that even by the government's own estimation they didn't have the staff? Did the entire world just forget that?
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Baron Corbyn posted:In the terrible new play, they go to great lengths to show that Snape, despite what you mentioned, is supposed to be a heroic character. They end up in an alternate timeline where Snape's alive and one of the characters explains to Snape everything that he obviously already knows about being a plant for Dumbledore and tells him what a hero he is for doing so. Yeah I read the play and thought they portrayed Snape as a fanfic author who didn't understand the character would. The play is a massive piece of poo poo.
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Sep 1, 2016 19:17
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jabby posted:So the BMA have announced three more 5 days strikes, one a month from now until the end of the year. i'm really glad i managed to get my shoulder fixed before these strikes happened I'm not sure what it is about my parents generation that makes going to the doctor for things that might actually need it be avoided considering how lucky we are to have it
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Sep 1, 2016 19:24
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Jedit posted:I'm more concerned that the most egregious case of "gently caress you got mine" in history is coming from a woman with millions of devoted fans. But enough about Marie Antoinette.
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Sep 1, 2016 19:29
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Cerv posted:I'd ban those. If you want to go outside out on a jumper instead of trying to heat the entire northern hemisphere I concur, you shouldn't be so northern-hemisphere centric, if you truly care for the environment and are a real socialist you should favor something more internationalist, a sort of... planetary heating scheme...
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Sep 1, 2016 19:33
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if you're not in shorts and t shirt at 12c you're doing it wrong
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Sep 1, 2016 19:34
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Guavanaut posted:Hookah pipes are supposedly 10x worse than cigarettes based on the time you spend sucking on a hose hooked up to a huge piece of smoldering sugar charcoal, and the water only cools it, it strips out none of the carbon monoxide and hardly any of the tars. I think vaping is very bad for you because whenever I see some oval office sucking on one making a noise like darth loving vader crossed with thomas the tank engine I want to loving punch them in their stupid loving head.
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Sep 1, 2016 19:38
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It's dumb because if you have time to be vaping you could be catching pokemon.
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Sep 1, 2016 19:42
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Like smoking is cool, it's objectively cool, cool people smoke and smoking is cool, but nobody on earth can possibly look cool while vaping. I would rather die of lung cancer and look cool than vape and die because my testicles crawled up so far they erupted out of the back of my head.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/kay-burley-owen-smith-interview-video-labour-leadership-election-latest-a7220311.html Owen Smith trying to deny that being 24 points behind in a poll means anything when there's a whole three weeks to play for! I can't help but feel that this position on polling isn't quite consistent with all his other statements on polling so far though.
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David Davis was in Northern Ireland today trying to make friendly noises. Indicated again that he thinks the UK can retain tariff free access to the single market and force the EU to accept restrictions on free movement, though again he reiterated the Tory line there will be no hard border in Ireland (or internal UK borders between NI and Britain) so I'm not exactly clear how he plans on imposing quotas...
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kustomkarkommando posted:David Davis was in Northern Ireland today trying to make friendly noises. Indicated again that he thinks the UK can retain tariff free access to the single market and force the EU to accept restrictions on free movement, though again he reiterated the Tory line there will be no hard border in Ireland (or internal UK borders between NI and Britain) so I'm not exactly clear how he plans on imposing quotas... Well, if we take the width of an average human to be 1 foot 6 inches, and the northern irish land border is 310 miles long, and human walking speed is 4.55 feet per second, then a maximum of three million and sixty-nine thousand migrants can enter the UK every second via an unsecured northern irish border. Meaning we could ensure that the entire non-uk population of earth could not enter the country for at least forty minutes. Can't argue with those numbers, that's a quota.
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Regarde Aduck posted:It's dumb because if you have time to be vaping you could be catching pokemon. Maybe you are the pokemon
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baka kaba posted:Maybe you are the pokemon Lucky Incense... You might be onto something there!
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Fans posted:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/kay-burley-owen-smith-interview-video-labour-leadership-election-latest-a7220311.html Owen Smith is nothing if not consistent.
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Sep 1, 2016 20:10
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OwlFancier posted:Like smoking is cool, it's objectively cool, cool people smoke and smoking is cool, but nobody on earth can possibly look cool while vaping.
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Sep 1, 2016 20:14
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Well yes that's why I settle for the in between option, neither smoking nor vaping, being not as cool as someone who is smoking but significantly more cool than someone who is vaping, and less likely to die than either.
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Sep 1, 2016 20:42
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tooterfish posted:Smoking might be cool, but so is being able to walk up a flight of stairs without gasping and wheezing like David Carradine on a Thai holiday. Zidane has smoke all his life and is probably fitter than any of us, I wish I had his genes and desire to exercise as I fit your description.
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Sep 1, 2016 20:45
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Jedit posted:I'm more concerned that the most egregious case of "gently caress you got mine" in history is coming from a woman with millions of devoted fans. It's not though. She's vocally in favour of the welfare state and talked often about how it helped her survive. Just doesn't believe Corbyn is going to help deliver
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StoneOfShame posted:Zidane has smoke all his life and is probably fitter than any of us, I wish I had his genes and desire to exercise as I fit your description. 
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Cerv posted:It's not though. She's vocally in favour of the welfare state and talked often about how it helped her survive. Just doesn't believe Corbyn is going to help deliver She also feels her status as renowned children's author qualifies her to make political interventions and gets genuinely angry that people don't listen to her.
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Sep 1, 2016 21:06
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Welp, voted for Corbyn. Honestly think it's not going to help too much. I mean, he'll win but I think things are just going to be a complete clusterfuck until there's a major realignment in the Labour Party.
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Many senior figures in British politics felt that their status allowed them to interfere with children, so it's fair to assume it works the other way.
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It's weird how we just internalise and accept things as time goes on. I decided to have a think about voting Corbyn just now but the PLP really have done some antics. Like proper scum of the earth games they've pulled and I almost forgot because it happened a few weeks ago.
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jabby posted:She also feels her status as renowned children's author qualifies her to make political interventions and gets genuinely angry that people don't listen to her. To be fair to her, if I was given a twitter platform tomorrow I'd certainly use it regardless of whether my profession qualified me to or not.
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Prince John posted:To be fair to her, if I was given a twitter platform tomorrow I'd certainly use it regardless of whether my profession qualified me to or not. Scream into the void as much as you want. Everyone else seems to be doing it.
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StoneOfShame posted:Yeah I have literally zero problem smoking outside and agree smoking around kids is wrong, you would be surprised how many parents collecting kids from the school playground we have to ask not to vape though. I do find the third hand smoke thing that's beginning to emerge a bit much though. How long do you think it will be before they discover vaping is actually much worse than cigarettes?
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serious gaylord posted:How long do you think it will be before they discover vaping is actually much worse than cigarettes? i mean, it would be very difficult to be worse then cigarettes, those are sort of "accidentally" maximized to be the worst thing possible for you in a bunch of simultaneous directions honestly my biggest concerns for vaping is that it probably leads to people smoking more in the longest of long runs, and also that nicotine is pretty awful for you
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Sep 1, 2016 21:48
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Give up on tobacco and smoke weed instead. It's much better when you're stresss. Hipe this helps.
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I'll just stick to alcohol thanks. If I can't just pop into the local corner shop for my drugs then it's too much effort.
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Mate i send a guy a text and 30 minutes later theres a hippy looking guy parked out front with 1/8 of weed, £20 and it lasts me a couple weeks. poo poo is frugal af
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jabby posted:She also feels her status as renowned children's author qualifies her to make political interventions and gets genuinely angry that people don't listen to her. Who's the more qualified person, Cameron or Rowling?
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I'm more qualified than either of them.
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:So, in the last year and a half the ceiling in our shared house's front room has collapsed twice due to flooding from the shower above as well as having the electrics blow and need to be re-wired twice. In the last week I'd heard scratching for the last week but assumed it was mice, and last night it sounded like something was rearranging the crap up my sink (mostly plastic bags, bin liners, kitchen roll and the like) so you can imagine my surprise when I got in from work to see a loving rat leaping off the lip of my bin to scurry away. Basically, at which point can I tell the lettings agency to go gently caress themselves with regards to rent and fix this poo poo? A piece of advice that seems to come up every other month: NEVER EVER EVER WITHHOLD RENT, you will get hosed five ways from Sunday
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Oberleutnant posted:I'm more qualified than either of them. And both of them, and you, are just as qualified as jabby to tell who should have an opinion and who shouldn't.
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