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https://twitter.com/TiernanDouieb/status/725766294323253250
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May 1, 2016 12:25
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I was walking through Southsea (note: not Portsmouth) this afternoon when what did I come across? An open top double decker bus hired by UKIP and done up in their colours blaring the theme from Dambusters out of a loudspeaker, all in aid of, I assume, getting their candidate for police commissioner elected
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May 3, 2016 17:22
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Well I'll be out voting tomorrow after work, and still wondering quite how a city like Portsmouth keeps voting Tory. Then I look across as Southampton which seems to be more Labour biased and realise that yes, the people in this city are so petty they will never ever vote red
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May 4, 2016 22:42
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So it seems as if I have misplaced my passport, and I'm due to fly to the USA in 29 days. What are the honest chances of my actually receiving my passport back before I fly out if I can have the countersigned form and photos sent back super duper recorded delivery first thing on Monday morning?
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May 5, 2016 21:03
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LemonDrizzle posted:If you've got the cash and can make a trip to London, you can get a same-day replacement IIRC. cash yes, but no holiday and no flexibility to get into the capital. I did check though Flatscan posted:Use the post office check and send, they'll make sure there aren't any mistakes on the form that might delay things. I've never had it take more than a fortnight doing it that way. Just checked, I've applied online so this is also out of the question
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May 5, 2016 21:20
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Jose posted:look for your closest place for it. mine is durham since i'm in newcastle and did it on a weekend last time iirc It's definitely London which is a nightmare trek from Portsmouth. I've arranged to get photos and the form countersigned, but will take spares. If it looks dicey, I'll throw a sickie and try and get a same day one
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May 5, 2016 21:34
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I wasn't exited at my polling station, just a solitary Lib Dem checking numbers. Last year, obviously due to the General Election so bright beaming Tory asked me as I left if I was having a "good day". Considering that 3 hours later we turned off my Dad's life support machine and looked at the time like I'd been crying for two days straight, no I wasn't having a good day
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May 5, 2016 21:42
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:Condolences. The other thought I had was "and you smug Tory fuckers are going to have a majority in the morning"
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May 5, 2016 21:48
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LemonDrizzle posted:Burnham's transition to the Manchester mayoralty looks like a great move for someone who's expecting an extended period of violent ugliness in the PLP and would like to be able to step in at the end with clean hands. I think he's got a lot of capital stored up from Hillsborough from taking the anger in 2009, setting up the panel and following it through to its conclusion.
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May 5, 2016 22:51
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I retract my earlier statement
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May 5, 2016 22:59
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So, today is the first anniversary of my dad's death. It wasn't pleasant - kidney failure listed as the cause of death, complicated by hypertension all brought on by pneumonia, but that ain't important. My dad was though, a Metropolitan Police Officer from 1990 to 2011. Never made more than a beat cop, except when he made his last two years at Heathrow's Special Branch where he once denied Gordon Brown landing permission at RAF Northolt because he didn't have any ID (that's a true story). He made dealers drop their stash down drains rather than deal with the paper work because gently caress if someone selling eights of weed was important. He was on duty for Diana's funeral and apparently nearly wet himself at the hysterics from the crowds on the cortege route. He received precisely one complaint, and that's for calling a wife beater a "oval office". He brokered no bullshit and would not lay a hand on you unless you deserved it. He was the last of a dying breed of cops who would deal out a kicking when needed, and apply common sense when required. A throwback as it were. So when I see people kicking the police, it kind of makes me sad that the real arses in forces up and down the land make it bad for the ones who just want to do their loving job. Also, gently caress their bosses
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May 7, 2016 23:00
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I genuinely think 80% of rank and file beat cops are good guys, the rest are just awful fucksticks. I remember one time my dad grassed on a fellow cop who had used pepper spray on someone who quite clearly didn't deserve it and got shunned as a result. But the shunning seemed like "well, we've been told to so we're doing it". The cops up the food chain are shitheads, those on the ground are generally okay and just following orders. Just a shame that they all get tarred with the same brush
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May 8, 2016 00:20
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Probably old news admittedly... https://twitter.com/claremargetson/status/730356688755249153
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May 11, 2016 19:34
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Oberleutnant posted:Thames Valley just last weekend found the resources to send half a dozen riot vans full of filth and a handful of mounted officers to Portsmouth to intimidate and harass an anti-racism demonstration in Guildhall Square, so they can't be that desperate for cash. that's because Hampshire doesn't have the cash, manpower or resources to police it themselves. The TVP are here tonight to police the P-mouth League 2 derby, as they have been for every Pompey home game
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May 12, 2016 20:04
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Dead Goon posted:I find myself listening to "Gold Against The Soul" more often than not. featuring Shovel from M People on percussion
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May 12, 2016 21:59
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https://twitter.com/jamesrbuk/status/730876315100942336
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May 12, 2016 22:46
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OwlFancier posted:I mean they're not really hiding it, the ONS reports it surely, it's almost like nobody bothered looking. I brought it up because I heard on the news that immigrants pay more in income tax than they receive in benefits but now I can't find a link to it anywhere, so that'll probably not get reported
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May 12, 2016 23:01
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Ichabod Sexbeast posted:On the topic of music chat the Stone Roses brought out a new single : https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=R0XZ9qjMil8 They still haven't realised that Ian Brown cannot loving sing
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May 13, 2016 07:01
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It was the 12+ when I took it in... 1991 I think. I think we had three mock exams in school, and the rest was workbooks my mum made me do and I think I started in the last month of year 6
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May 13, 2016 17:02
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https://twitter.com/HumzaYousaf/status/731270770765254657
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May 14, 2016 15:51
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Twitter gives any idiot with a phone the chance to rant in 140 characters or less
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May 14, 2016 15:56
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https://twitter.com/dannykellywords/status/731779905076264960
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May 15, 2016 11:52
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Genuine question, because I'm probably a bit thick: why does the NHS need to be excluded for this trade deal the EU is negotiating with the US?
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May 19, 2016 22:31
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Guavanaut posted:Because otherwise it would potentially allow private health providers in the US to sue the UK/the NHS for being anti-competitive by offering their services for free. see, if someone just said that in the first place I would never have had to ask. Thanks for the explanation
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May 19, 2016 22:37
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Guavanaut posted:Even as the noun it can also mean a backwater swamp or a state of depression. An accurately named place. we locals pronounce it however we drat well please. And it's not swampy, but it is a depressed backwater
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May 23, 2016 19:03
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You all may remember that I lost my passport a few weeks back. Turns out that it's been approved and sent to print today, so I should receive it by the weekend or early next week. However, the government's web tracking service is saying that I should "contact us immediately". Turns out that that status actually applied to another form I was sent last week and have already sent back.
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May 25, 2016 20:00
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https://twitter.com/simonblackwell/status/735561755275997184
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May 25, 2016 21:12
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Passport arrived Friday morning, making it 22 days since making the initial application to receiving it back. Was a little alarmed that it wasn't send secured/signed for post, but I have my passport a week before I fly to the USA
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May 28, 2016 15:24
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kustomkarkommando posted:Remember to allow three days for ESTA approval. So basically do it now did it the second I opened up the passport this morning. It used to be so much easier when you just filled a form out on the plane
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May 28, 2016 16:47
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I think I was fingerprinted in 2011 and 2013, and yeah, the ETSA approval was pretty much immediate. I did however like this question on the form: JFairfax posted:Esta approval is p much immediate. Detroit. Gotta watch me some Tigers games
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May 28, 2016 18:21
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