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I'm singing the traditional English Christmas carol "In the Bleak Midautumn". e: December 1st, 1991 - Over 92% of Ukrainian voters approved independence from
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Guavanaut posted:I'm sure you heard the urban legend about that one lad who wore his shellsuit in front of the fire and then there was nothing left of him but a pile of ash. That's the flattering way. I once shared an ambulance ride with a guy who had fallen asleep in front of a fireplace wearing trackies, that had then melted into his shins. The smell was... interesting, to put it politely. 
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Helen Highwater posted:Which is apparently in Spring. Most of June is.
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Love that "we know how to queue" is actually on there. On music, I'm disappointed there are no examples of our best export genres, ie punk and metal. Regarde Aduck posted:Looks like a Tornado to me. It is, but I can understand the confusion, the Tornado does look a bit like a Foxbat/Foxhound when you can't see the tail.
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Dec 1, 2015 12:42
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Total Meatlove posted:But absolutely no one giving a gently caress that their best player was born in Jamaica. I think you'll find that Wayne Rooney was born in Scouseland
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Dec 1, 2015 12:45
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JFairfax posted:I think you'll find that Wayne Rooney was born in Scouseland And people accuse flaps of trolling
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JFairfax posted:I think you'll find that Wayne Rooney was born in Scouseland woah this has to be the best troll in UKMT history
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Oberleutnant posted:Judging by the Arts and Music sections this is a 90 year old's opinions on what British things are, right?
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Dec 1, 2015 13:02
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Zephro posted:Also isn't Justin Fletcher Mr Tumble? Not quite sure what that's got to do with music I once worked security for Mr Tumble at a music festival and I can't lie; dude is a mad rockstar and a bona fide Good Lad. He can't be in public for ten seconds without being mobbed by children but is always lovely about it. We escorted him between stages on a golf cart we diverted from the Human League's dressing area, and we were constantly followed by dozens of screaming kids straight out of Beatlemania archive footage. Fun times.
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A SENIOR military figure has warned UK air strikes on Syria will not defeat Daesh and could be the first step towards Britain being involved into a “bloody” and protracted war. General Sir Richard Shirreff, former Nato deputy supreme allied commander Europe, said a large number of western forces would eventually be needed to fight alongside local groups in order to recapture Raqqa, the extremist movement’s self-proclaimed capital. He spoke out after David Cameron last week ruled out the deployment of British ground troops when he pressed the case for bombing missions over Syria, saying the proposed air attacks would be coordinated with ground attacks by some of the 70,000 local troops in Syria linked to “moderate” groups opposed to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s regime. But yesterday Shirreff told a national newspaper such a military strategy would not defeat Daesh or recapture Raqqa. “It’s not something you are going to achieve with 70,000 so-called Syria moderates,” he said. “To take a city of 350,000 is going to need a massive force. Any fighting in cities soaks up troops in a massive way. It’s heavily attritional, it’s bloody and it’s a grim business.” http://www.thenational.scot/news/na...time=1448866961
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Dec 1, 2015 13:10
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How did that dangerous radical infiltrate the armed forces like that?
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Dec 1, 2015 13:27
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darkwasthenight posted:I once worked security for Mr Tumble at a music festival and I can't lie; dude is a mad rockstar and a bona fide Good Lad. He can't be in public for ten seconds without being mobbed by children but is always lovely about it. We escorted him between stages on a golf cart we diverted from the Human League's dressing area, and we were constantly followed by dozens of screaming kids straight out of Beatlemania archive footage. Fun times. which these days just makes me worried 
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Dec 1, 2015 13:35
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The BBC has generously published an article (currently the most-read thing on the BBC News website) which is nothing but an infomercial for the tory Help to Buy scheme. I'm 20 and I own a £250,000 four-bed house posted:For most people in their teens and 20s buying a property is a distant and unachievable dream. It often means years of saving only to scrape enough together for a small flat. 
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Dec 1, 2015 13:43
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No it's cool there are lots of 20 year olds who can raise £12,500 for a deposit
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We could roll out everything, what jets and tanks that are serviceable, and at great financial and human cost, ISIS could be wiped out. Just in time for the next bunch to roll up. ISIS are a symptom not the disease, without dismantling the conditions for their creation another group will form. Syria and Iraq will continue to be host to this multifaction proxywar clusterfuck for the foreseeable future, and then it will just move on to the next venue until this second cold war ends.
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JFairfax posted:No it's cool there are lots of 20 year olds who can raise £12,500 for a deposit They both saved £500 a month posted:Even with Help to Buy, Ellie and Rory still needed £18,000 in savings to cover the deposit and stamp duty. So they got saving. quote:"I also see plenty of people coming into rented houses complaining to me that they can't get a deposit together and I'm thinking, 'Say no to the night out mate.'" BOOTSTRAPS 
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Dec 1, 2015 13:47
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How the gently caress do you save £500 a month on apprentice wages?
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PMQ's cancelled for 10 and half hour long talk on Syria which started an hour ago. Finishes up with a vote at 10:30pm where we assuredly will have fixed all the massive problems with relying on nebulous rebel forces that the Joint Intelligence Committee are swearing will totally help out and be at war in Syria. If you want to ease this shitshow a bit, drink every time someone doesn't give an actual explanation of how bombing helps the situation and you'll be in A&E before that happens. Don't worry, the Doctor's didn't strike after all. You're already needing one drink as Mary Creagh just said it'd be "one part of a full, political, diplomatic framework" without explaining what the rest of it was. Also about those 70,000 troops on which this all hinges. quote:But he acknowledges they are "spread through Syria", while Lieutenant General Gordon Messenger, deputy chief of the defence staff (operations), adds that they're not a "coherent force". Oh this is going to go just great. They're not a rag-tag army, just an incoherent force spread around the entire of Syria. It'll be fine, vote Yes, it'll be fine.
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Dec 1, 2015 13:50
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serious gaylord posted:How the gently caress do you save £500 a month on apprentice wages? if you live with your parents you don't have to spend £500 a month on rent and can save that, it's fairly simple.
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Dec 1, 2015 13:50
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JFairfax posted:if you live with your parents you don't have to spend £500 a month on rent and can save that, it's fairly simple.
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Dec 1, 2015 13:52
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JFairfax posted:if you live with your parents you don't have to spend £500 a month on rent and can save that, it's fairly simple. Not just rent, but presumably things like food, council tax, tv licence, broadband e.t.c as well.
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Dec 1, 2015 13:54
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1) Bomb ISIS 2) ... 3) Victory! Seems to literally be the pitch
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Dec 1, 2015 13:56
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Those two 20 year olds and the people like them are going to be the cause of the next financial crash.
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Dec 1, 2015 13:58
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Fans posted:PMQ's cancelled for 10 and half hour long talk on Syria which started an hour ago. Finishes up with a vote at 10:30pm where we assuredly will have fixed all the massive problems with relying on nebulous rebel forces that the Joint Intelligence Committee are swearing will totally help out and be at war in Syria. I think the vote and debate are tomorrow (as PMQs would normally be) aren't they? They've only just released the text of the motion.
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I had to pay my parents £500 a month just to live at home, even while unemployed. Joke's on them though, I stayed with my uncle instead.
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Party Boat posted:I think the vote and debate are tomorrow (as PMQs would normally be) aren't they? They've only just released the text of the motion. Indeed yes sorry! I got messed up there as they were doing a briefing in the Commons and was amazed at how poo poo Mary Creagh was being. Edward Leigh at least came out and said the Conservative vote isn't a fix and suggested if they weren't under a whip Cameron could expect to see a lot of them vote No. It's a bit bleak when you're hoping the Conservative back bench have a conscience. Fans fucked around with this message at 14:11 on Dec 1, 2015 |
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Dec 1, 2015 14:09
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H2Omelon posted:I had to pay my parents £500 a month just to live at home, even while unemployed. Joke's on them though, I stayed with my uncle instead. Parents more like pwned rents
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Dec 1, 2015 14:13
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Zephro posted:1) Bomb ISIS
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Dec 1, 2015 14:15
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Oberleutnant posted:You'e just not striving enough, you feckless, extravagant, grasping scrounger: i dont think saving some extra cash by not going out as much is bootstrapping. its just good budgeting.
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Dec 1, 2015 14:26
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Malcolm XML posted:i dont think saving some extra cash by not going out as much is bootstrapping. its just good budgeting. quote:"I also see plenty of people coming into rented houses complaining to me that they can't get a deposit together and I'm thinking, 'Say no to the night out mate.'"
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serious gaylord posted:How the gently caress do you save £500 a month on apprentice wages? LemonDrizzle fucked around with this message at 14:34 on Dec 1, 2015 |
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Oberleutnant posted:It is definitely a bootstraps article that suggests that the couple simply tightened their belts and showed some financial discipline and good sense and that's how they got where they are: oh yeah the article as a whole is very much an advertisement for the bank of mom and dad but the act of budgeting well is something thats worth picking up
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Dec 1, 2015 14:35
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LemonDrizzle posted:It says they lived at their parents' houses while they were saving; maybe they just didn't go out much and didn't make any contribution towards bills or food costs. The more surprising thing is that they're sufficiently committed to one-another to take out a joint mortgage despite being only 20/22. Yes their parents paid the deposit for them but in goods and services rather than in cash.
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Dec 1, 2015 14:36
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LemonDrizzle posted:It says they lived at their parents' houses while they were saving; maybe they just didn't go out much and didn't make any contribution towards bills or food costs. The more surprising thing is that they're sufficiently committed to one-another to take out a joint mortgage despite being only 20/22. I suspect they will soon be made very familiar with the concept of joint and several liability
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Why do people complain about low wages when you can just have your parents pay for everything?? Jeez.
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Dec 1, 2015 14:42
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JFairfax posted:“To take a city of 350,000 is going to need a massive force. Any fighting in cities soaks up troops in a massive way. It’s heavily attritional, it’s bloody and it’s a grim business.” I thought Isis took it in the first place with only a couple of thousand dudes. I mean I can see his point but it rather depends on how hard Isis fight against an actual competent opponent as opposed to like the Iraqi army.
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More to the point, the guy was earning the national average wage in his early 20's! This means he can only be over average for the entire rest of his life. He's hardly the sort that was ever going to struggle to afford a house. This scheme just let him afford a house he would have in 10 years time. AKA, the government saved the couple from OH NO moving house once or twice in the next decade.
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Absolutely nothing has gone wrong with getting morgages that suddnly become very difficult to repay through no fault of your own.
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Kegluneq posted:Currently in the same room as Liz Kendall, should I say anything? I'm not saying anything
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