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LemonDrizzle posted:AFAICT, it wasn't a council estate - it was owned by a private company ("First LBS Holdings Ltd.") before Benyon bought it. Not sure why the previous owners were charging such astonishingly low rents for the area. Shoreditch and environs are home to the original social housing projects, established by private charity (and with policies that really aren't too different from modern "affordable" housing policy - they wanted exactly the right kind of poor people and were careful only to rent to artisans, not to labourers). This estate was originally one of those but wasn't either swallowed up by the council after WW2 like the Boundary Estate nearby (the best-known of these projects) or had very strong covenants applied to it like the Peabody and Toynbee estates. e: today in 1853 Haussmann began his gentrification of Paris to make sure no horrible poor people blocked views of the nice areas.
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Lord Twisted posted:Did you read my post? He doesn't want to solve the problem, he just wants the poors a rung further down then him as the tide rises.
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Coohoolin posted:But nah, you probably think the IRA and the RAF and the ETA and anyone not in your glorious loving post-imperial army who actually took a stand against real oppressors is poo poo and are boys are doing a fine job keeping evil at bay by murdering third world civilians. The loving IRA, though? Seriously? Or is this a gotcha where you wait til someone says that and then go "OH ACTUALLY I was talking about the first IRA who splintered after the treaty/civil war, not the one that's been going ever since!"
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Crane Fist posted:The loving IRA, though? Seriously? Or is this a gotcha where you wait til someone says that and then go "OH ACTUALLY I was talking about the first IRA who splintered after the treaty/civil war, not the one that's been going ever since!" Not really a gotcha since as far as i'm aware the term IRA only applies to the early one, if you're talking about the modern day gun runners and drug dealers it's RIRA.
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Coohoolin posted:Not really a gotcha since as far as i'm aware the term IRA only applies to the early one, if you're talking about the modern day gun runners and drug dealers it's RIRA. Yeah, not very
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New thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3647011
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Coohoolin posted:Not really a gotcha since as far as i'm aware the term IRA only applies to the early one, if you're talking about the modern day gun runners and drug dealers it's RIRA. Well almost, the RIRA are the ones who reject Good Friday agreement, the IRA is the name used by the ones in the War of Independence as well the anti-treatyites in the civil war. These then split into the Official IRA and the Provisional IRA, the former being an oft-forgotten faction who participated in The Troubles until 1972 the latter are the ones from The Troubles who most people think of when they hear IRA. Which are you referring to?
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Whichever one causes Coohoolin the least embarrassment.
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Coohoolin posted:in case anyone takes this assclown seriously, i have previously and repeatedly expressed my disappointment with stuart campbell for his comments misgendering chelsea manning and am of the opinion he was very wrong to do so. pissflaps and anyone else following the last scotpol thread knows this, and pissflaps is merely trying to wind me up or stir up some poo poo about stuart campbell, who despite being a pretty big rear end in a top hat about chelsea manning and hillsborough runs a pretty loving good blog about media bias and mistruths RE the scottish independence referendum. Wait Stuart Campbell's a transphobe? As in, used-to-edit-Amiga-Power Stuart Campbell?
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LemonDrizzle posted:In principle it's not the worst idea in the world - it's certainly inefficient to have what amounts to two parallel income taxes. In practice, it's hard to disagree with John Mann's assessment that it would make it a lot easier for the Tories to argue for income tax cuts, and far harder for future governments to do what Brown did in 2002 when he increased NI contributions specifically to raise funds for the NHS.
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thehustler posted:Wait Stuart Campbell's a transphobe? Yes. His opinions on Hillsborough are lovely too.
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Working from home in the 21st century: Log in to corporate gmail account. Oops! This email address requires 2-factor authentication. Look out the window. It's a sunny day! That means you don't get any mobile signal. Walk up the lane for five minutes hunting for a signal. Finally find one. Stand around for ten minutes. No SMS arrives. Send yourself an SMS just to check it works. Works fine. Hang around ten more minutes. Still no SMS from Gmail. Sigh. Leave phone under hedge. Drive back to house, try to log in to Gmail again. Drive back to phone, retrieve, notice that it's lost signal while you were gone, ergo still no 2fa SMS. Resist urge to smash phone with hammer. Drive back to house. Get laptop. Drive until you get mobile signal. Enable portable wi-fi hotspot on phone. Connect laptop to phone. Log in to gmail. Finally get the loving SMS and be able to do some loving work. Welp that's my rant thanks for listening
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cool story bro
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Couldn't you just use the code generator thing? That works of any data connection.
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I enjoyed the rant. All the moreso because my working from home experience involves never leaving my bed  Why isn't this
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Coohoolin posted:Not really a gotcha since as far as i'm aware the term IRA only applies to the early one, if you're talking about the modern day gun runners and drug dealers it's RIRA.
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