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Lol, RMT having another tube strike because an employee was sacked for failing an alcohol test. So glad I don't have to deal with that poo poo anymore. Any connected goons know if there is some unreported reason that makes their going on strike justified this time? Edit: 1919 – Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Prince John fucked around with this message at 07:04 on Dec 1, 2014 |
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Prince John posted:Lol, RMT having another tube strike because an employee was sacked for failing an alcohol test. So glad I don't have to deal with that poo poo anymore. 9/10 there's more than the media like to report, because hurr strikes are bad and only ever dun by greedy people. I used to work for LU. They have a very strict drinking policy that applies to everyone, even if they have never even set foot on an underground carriage. You could easily use that policy to get rid of someone you don't like. For anyone other than a driver or an engineer, it's pretty much BS (it might be though, don't know the details). Edit: http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-30270305 Driver has medical condition that annoys management, they use the alcohol test to get rid of him. I can't remember exactly what the drink policy was, except that it limited you to small amount of drink, a large number of hours before the start of your shift. Enough that you could be stone sober and still be breaking it. EvilGenius fucked around with this message at 08:07 on Dec 1, 2014 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Have you ever actually ever been to another town? Portsmouth is the worst place on Earth with the exception of Slough, and for much the same reasons. Portsmouth only gets to be better than Slough because there's more ways out of it. I can only go by what I saw and it honestly seemed quite nice. Then again the few times I've been to Manchester I quite liked it as well, despite everyone basically saying I'd probably get shot. If you would like to see a real decaying poo poo hole, visit Margate some time.
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No one has mentioned East Anglia yet as a potential capital - gently caress you all, we invented this country.
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haakman posted:No one has mentioned East Anglia yet as a potential capital - gently caress you all, we invented this country. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_the_Great http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester 
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Prince John posted:Lol, RMT having another tube strike because an employee was sacked for failing an alcohol test. So glad I don't have to deal with that poo poo anymore. Medical conditions makes the accusation invalid. Procedures not followed by management. Part of a pattern of harassment & bullying of drivers. On the other hand, a guy who really did turn up drunk from the night before at the Oxford circus control room a while back was in court a couple of weeks ago. No strikes over him getting sacked.
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Ludicro posted:I can only go by what I saw and it honestly seemed quite nice. Then again the few times I've been to Manchester I quite liked it as well, despite everyone basically saying I'd probably get shot. Re: Portsmouth they've done up the town centre a fair bit since I was there, it is what some would call nice I guess. There are dodgy areas, but there are far worse places. A mate of mine saw someone get stabbed down Bailey's Road, plus someone got raped there. Oh and down Telephone road we got up one morning to find every single car window smashed in. But apart from that, it's alright. Moral of this story: every town has a nice town centre.
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Counterpoint: St Albans e. Watford, Stevenage, Hemel, Luton, Dunstable
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haakman posted:No one has mentioned East Anglia yet as a potential capital - gently caress you all, we invented this country. Looks like someone took "non Angli sed Angeli" a bit literally. UKMT December: "Noel" is short for "neoliberal hell"
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haakman posted:No one has mentioned East Anglia yet as a potential capital - gently caress you all, we invented this country. East Anglia is dire.
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It takes a million years to drive to anywhere in East Anglia.
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ronya posted:The reason why everything is packed into London is the same reason there is less sprawl, namely the green belts and the highway revolts see also: HS2
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Pissflaps posted:It takes a million years to drive to anywhere in East Anglia. Also the south west. Did you hear Nick Clegg at Stonehenge this morning? He's lovely isn't he
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Muhammad is the most popular baby boys name in the UK, be prepared for panic on facebook that the country has officially been taken over. http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/dec/01/britain-most-popular-baby-name-muhammad Edit: Also possibly suggestions from UKIP that Britain needs an official name list for parents to choose from where all children must be named after British Royalty (if that is suggested I want a prize).
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hookerbot 5000 posted:Edit: Also possibly suggestions from UKIP that Britain needs an official name list for parents to choose from where all children must be named after British Royalty (if that is suggested I want a prize). (Although technically neither of those are British Royalty, occurring before the Act of Union. They're still more local than post-Norman Royalty though.)
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A list of names you choose from is an actual thing in Iceland.quote:The committee refused to accept the names of Duncan and Harriet Cardew—Icelandic-born children of a British father and an Icelandic mother—because their names did not meet the criteria for being added to the registry of approved names. The children had originally used passports with the substitute names Drengur (boy) and Stúlka (girl); however, in 2014, Icelandic authorities refused to renew Harriet's passport at all without a legally acceptable name. Since the Cardews were about to travel to France, they obtained emergency British passports for Duncan and Harriet; the parents are also filing a formal complaint objecting to the naming committee's rejection of their children's names and the passport office's refusal to renew their Icelandic passports.
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In China you can't even call your child Cancer any more, what a country
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could always combine both patronymic and Muslim names and have a lot of Muhammad bin Muhammads.
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Burqa King posted:In China you can't even call your child Cancer any more, what a country e: ronya posted:could always combine both patronymic and Muslim names and have a lot of Muhammad bin Muhammads. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 11:25 on Dec 1, 2014 |
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Dec 1, 2014 11:23
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you can definitely call your kid some homophone of "six four", it's too common to block.
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Jack the Lad posted:A list of names you choose from is an actual thing in Iceland. Isn't it also a thing in France?
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Picking names these days is easy, you throw a dart at a dart board with all letter of the alphabet on it and add the letter you hit onto the front of -ayden
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Andre Le Fuckface posted:Picking names these days is easy, you throw a dart at a dart board with all letter of the alphabet on it and add the letter you hit onto the front of -ayden There are only 5 names allowed. Harry, Zayn, Neil, Louis and Liam.
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Pissflaps posted:Isn't it also a thing in France? Dunno about France but it definitely is in Hobbit-land
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tentish klown posted:There are only 5 names allowed. Harry, Zayn, Neil, Louis and Liam. But what if you have a boy?
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goddamnedtwisto posted:But what if you have a boy? Your choice of Dave or David.
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There's a charity appeal at my local One-Stop for a 7 or 8 year old boy with a chromosome disorder and his name is "Neo-Kai". Poor lil fucker.
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hookerbot 5000 posted:Muhammad is the most popular baby boys name in the UK, be prepared for panic on facebook that the country has officially been taken over. http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/say-my-name-say-my-name-when-no-one-is-around-you quote:Muhammad Isn’t Actually The Most Popular Boy’s Name In Britain
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Zephro posted:Turns out Buzzfeed is better at checking its facts than the Guardian is: On that note, this is an excellent little book that goes into the various way in which you can abuse statistics. It's an academic text, and a bit old at this point, but for those of you interested in quantitative data analysis, it's worth picking up.
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Also: UKMT December: We'll ban you for saying "Christmas"
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A Festivus for the rest of us.
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Pesmerga posted:On that note, this is an excellent little book that goes into the various way in which you can abuse statistics. It's an academic text, and a bit old at this point, but for those of you interested in quantitative data analysis, it's worth picking up.
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tentish klown posted:There are only 5 names allowed. Harry, Zayn, Neil, Louis and Liam. Every single day I take the register I'm left wondering "what the gently caress were this kid's parents thinking?". Latest wtf? name: Exploit - apparently a good name for a girl.
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Pesmerga posted:On that note, this is an excellent little book that goes into the various way in which you can abuse statistics. It's an academic text, and a bit old at this point, but for those of you interested in quantitative data analysis, it's worth picking up. The fun thing is that despite being written 60 years ago it's still completely relevant (edit: except for the occasional round of 1950s race/gender roles, yes). You'd think people would at least have to come up with new tricks, but you can still see people doing the old let's-screw-around-with-the-axes-of-the-graph trick, and people falling for it. For a more modern book in the same sort of area, The Tiger That Isn't by Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot is worth looking at as well. Angepain fucked around with this message at 13:08 on Dec 1, 2014 |
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Zephro posted:Turns out Buzzfeed is better at checking its facts than the Guardian is: The guardian also fact check their own article: http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/dec/01/muhammad-not-most-popular-boys-name-in-britain
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HortonNash posted:Every single day I take the register I'm left wondering "what the gently caress were this kid's parents thinking?". That sounds like their parents might be some of those Cultural Marxists I hear so much about.
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tentish klown posted:The guardian also fact check their own article:
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Zephro posted:They fact-check it in another article. The usual idea is to make sure before you publish. aint nobody got time for that in the heady new age of the 3 minute news cycle. Gotta get the hysteria inducing stories out asap before somebody beats you to the scoop!
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Pesmerga posted:On that note, this is an excellent little book that goes into the various way in which you can abuse statistics. It's an academic text, and a bit old at this point, but for those of you interested in quantitative data analysis, it's worth picking up. I've always been quite fond of The Tiger that Isn't. Remember to always ask yourself 'but is it a big number?'. Like with the government's two billion pound injection into the NHS. Sounds impressive, right? Now remember that NHS England had a budget of £109bn in 2012/13, and only £95bn in 2013/14. That's s drop of £14bn, if you don't want to do the mental arithmetic. Then observe that only £1.3bn is new money - the rest is being transferred to 'front-line services' from unspecified other parts of the NHS budget. Doesn't seem so big any more, does it?
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Happy Winterval, whatever you do dont say Christmas we cant cope with all those filthy foreigns attacking us
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