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London is bloody horrible and should be, as I have often said in this thread, nuked from orbit just to be sure.
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haakman posted:London is bloody horrible and should be, as I have often said in this thread, nuked from orbit just to be sure. Closet UKIP voter spotted.
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Aug 5, 2014 17:23
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EmptyVessel posted:The obscenely rich don't live in the property they own in London. They just have it for bragging rights or something equally dumb. Yeah the well and truly rich use London property as a parking lot for funds. I_Socom posted:Tell me more? Generally recruiters will badger you on linkedin if your CV fits.
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Aug 5, 2014 17:24
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coffeetable posted:You're right that Living in London's a lot more expensive than the rest of the country, but if you've got juuust the right intersection of software dev skills, the pay is obscene and beats the increased costs by e: enough to get this thread in a tizzy. Well yes you can live wherever the gently caress you want on several hundred a day, I don't understand what this has to do with anything. The point is that living in London is entirely optional in most jobs.
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I live in a rural location as well, whilst commuting to urbanised Essex. All the signs are pointing one way...!
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Aug 5, 2014 17:27
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I_Socom posted:Tell me more? e: There's other stuff like "some programming experience" and "an interest in the kinds of math that can be monetized" and "can function in a research environment", but the barrier to entry is the degree. coffeetable fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Aug 5, 2014 |
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Aug 5, 2014 17:52
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Alecto posted:I agree with you that the 'permanent Tory majority' line that is thrown around is annoying and wrong, but, what you've said is also quite wrong. Without Scotland, there would've been no Labour majority and they'd have lost ground on the Conservatives in October 1974, 1964, 1950 and would've fallen behind the Tories in February 1974. Perhaps in all these cases there still would've been a Labour PM, but a majority vs a minority/coalition hugely changes what a government goes on to do, and at least in February '64 it's 50/50 that the Conservatives would've retained power. Your whole line is also a little misleading in that before Thatcher Scotland didn't vote how it does now. In those elections there was a ~19 seat lead of Labour over the Tories in Scotland, whereas now it's consistently 40+. The absence of that sort of margin would've changed a whole lot of results, including most probably of the upcoming election. I'm sorry, he should have said, Scotland's had no significant impact in the chosen government for the UK except for those rare occasions where England couldn't quite make it's mind up about which bastards should rule us all. The fact that if the majority of England want something in Westminster, then Scotland has to put up with it is totally ridiculous.
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Kin posted:I'm sorry, he should have said, Scotland's had no significant impact in the chosen government for the UK except for those rare occasions where England couldn't quite make it's mind up about which bastards should rule us all. That sounds more like an argument against democracy to me. Which is fine, but not what the referendum's on. Merely pointing out that often the hugely factually incorrect argument pushed around by the English 'left' that Scotland has some sort of duty to protect the North, Midlands and Wales from eternal Tory rule is often responded with the slightly factually incorrect argument that Scotland is always entirely electorally irrelevant. Given that the independence side is right on this issue, it might be a better tactic to avoid the territory of factually incorrect altogether. But I'm just an annoying dick from Yorkshire so I'll stfu now.
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Aug 5, 2014 18:32
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mfcrocker posted:Well yes you can live wherever the gently caress you want on several hundred a day, I don't understand what this has to do with anything. The point is that living in London is entirely optional in most jobs. No the point is that it's not; there aren't many jobs outside of London that are worth taking. This is a problem solved by government incentives to have companies move out of London, and is slowly happening due to the fact that inner London is crazy expensive to be in.
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Aug 5, 2014 18:39
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Malcolm XML posted:No the point is that it's not; there aren't many jobs outside of London that are worth taking. This is a problem solved by government incentives to have companies move out of London, and is slowly happening due to the fact that inner London is crazy expensive to be in. Define "worth taking".
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Aug 5, 2014 18:58
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Malcolm XML posted:No the point is that it's not; there aren't many jobs outside of London that are worth taking. Well this is quite a statement.
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Aug 5, 2014 19:08
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Malcolm XML posted:No the point is that it's not; there aren't many jobs outside of London that are worth taking. Well okay then. e: beaten horrendously
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Aug 5, 2014 19:12
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Why yes flaps, it is. I should probably get on with telling everyone in Suffolk (apart from dogfucker) that their jobs aren't worth doing.
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Aug 5, 2014 19:14
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mfcrocker posted:Define "worth taking". Something to do with being paid vast sums of money, and nothing else.
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Aug 5, 2014 19:14
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neck face posted:Here's a little online 'game' that some of you might find interesting — http://playspent.org Pfft, I made it through the month. All you have to do is refuse to join a union, avoid paying your bills, deny your child any treats, and skip your grandad's funeral. Really it's peoples own fault they're in poverty 
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Aug 5, 2014 19:22
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To be fair, a funeral is an unnecessary luxury. It's basically a party for someone who doesn't even make the effort to enjoy it.
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Aug 5, 2014 19:52
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winegums posted:Pfft, I made it through the month. All you have to do is refuse to join a union, avoid paying your bills, deny your child any treats, and skip your grandad's funeral. Really it's peoples own fault they're in poverty I didn't say I didn't make it though the month after getting fired, it's remarkably easy to make a virtual person live like total crap to see them to the end of the month!
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Aug 5, 2014 19:53
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KKKlean Energy posted:To be fair, a funeral is an unnecessary luxury. It's basically a party for someone who doesn't even make the effort to enjoy it. I realise you're making a joke but... It's all entirely too expensive and basically a massive scam from coffins to gravestones. My mum's funeral, way back in 1986, cost thousands, and that was just with a really basic coffin, cemetery plot, RC church service, hearse plus one car and gravestone. My dad was paying it back for ages.
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Aug 5, 2014 20:07
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When I'm dead, just throw me in the trash. Is the STV site being useless for anyone else? E: loving finally, only 25 minutes in. Grats ITV. Car Stranger fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Aug 5, 2014 |
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Aug 5, 2014 20:15
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neck face posted:Here's a little online 'game' that some of you might find interesting — http://playspent.org Over the space of one month in the game, my granddad died, I had an unforeseen car inspection, 2 unforeseen bills, some kid broke my window, my pay got halved, and I needed a root canal. Presumably I spent the entirety of the preceding month walking under ladders and kicking black cats out of my way. I get the point they're making and it's a good one, but ridiculous hyperbole doesn't help their cause.
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LemonDrizzle posted:Over the space of one month in the game, my granddad died, I had an unforeseen car inspection, 2 unforeseen bills, some kid broke my window, my pay got halved, and I needed a root canal. Presumably I spent the entirety of the preceding month walking under ladders and kicking black cats out of my way. I get the point they're making and it's a good one, but ridiculous hyperbole doesn't help their cause. Is this game a UKMT post generator?
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Aug 5, 2014 20:26
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You're traveling home from work when you suffer a sudden bout of stomach pains. You notice the toilet costs 1 dollar to use. >Pay $1 for public toilet >Find nearest train station
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Aug 5, 2014 20:29
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Car Stranger posted:When I'm dead, just throw me in the trash. Just die in such a way as to make your corpse either valuable (mummify yourself as part of your Turner Prize winning art installation), dangerous (spend your final days licking corpses in Liberia/seriously pissing off Putin), evidence in a serious crime (it's almost conference season), unrecoverable (take up cross Atlantic windsurfing, climb Everest nude without oxygen, free dive Loch Ness handcuffed to an Austin Allegro) or non-existent (it's almost conference season). Or donate your body to science.
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Fingerless Gloves posted:You're traveling home from work when you suffer a sudden bout of stomach pains. You notice the toilet costs 1 dollar to use. Like you'd find either in america
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Aug 5, 2014 21:10
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freebooter posted:It's a media monkey job. Requires a few months training and I do have a few years experience, so if I really made a fuss I doubt they'd let me go rather than not pay me an advance, but I don't really want to get off on the wrong foot when I've just moved here and really need this job security. Anyway my manager is talking to HR so hopefully I can get something. I'm a media jerk too, having worked in a fair few places in London, in pre/post-prod and broadcast, you are being hosed with. Every company I've worked for has paid monthly via bacs transfer, even to the runners.
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HortonNash posted:Or donate your body to science. Unfortunately this also requires you to die in certain ways. My mother wanted to do it, but cancer in the bones makes you an undesirable corpse, it seems.
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Aug 5, 2014 21:46
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neck face posted:Here's a little online 'game' that some of you might find interesting — http://playspent.org Went bust on the last day after the landlord randomly jacked up the rent and I didn't get the option to beat the poo poo out of him.
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Aug 5, 2014 22:03
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Pissflaps posted:Well this is quite a statement. Cool I totally want to take a 75% paycut to do a job with worse career prospects so that I can live in the sticks with a lower cost of living! (Yes I've been offered these) The good jobs outside London are few and far between, and pay nonlinearly less.
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Aug 5, 2014 22:49
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london's pretty cool i have 3 nandos within <10 mins of my flat
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Aug 5, 2014 23:02
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Beyond the M25 we just run naked into the bushes and catch our own chickens, then eat them raw (with peri-peri sauce of course)
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Aug 5, 2014 23:08
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you can't get unlimited coke zero refills with that. must be awful.
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Aug 5, 2014 23:11
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baka kaba posted:Beyond the M25 we just run naked into the bushes and catch our own chickens, then eat them raw (with peri-peri sauce of course) But then they're not Halalislamic, so what do the white people complain about?
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Aug 5, 2014 23:19
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Southerners.
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I was in London for a day before I headed off on my holiday to Japan and London is nice in the sense that there is poo poo to do and plenty of entertainment and such, but the underground is hell on earth, London prices for just about everything can get to gently caress and just walking around London you feel like you're holding everyone else up from the place everyone needs to be at immediately. London people need to slow down a little. I am now back in Dundee and loving the Nandos 30 seconds from my door, my job which is ten minutes stress free* walk away and the fact that you can walk through a reasonably crowded place without everyone being arms and elbows barging past you. I'm no fan of the countryside but I thought I liked big cities until I went to london. *mind the seagulls. GeeCee fucked around with this message at 00:18 on Aug 6, 2014 |
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Interesting. Watched two BBC documentaries tonight, different channels, 2 and 4, but both have focused on James I uniting the isles, and creating GRATED BRAITAIN. Makes you think.
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KayTee posted:HuffPo Sounds like this has actually rattled the tories actually. gently caress you Warsi for everything else but this
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nuzak posted:Sounds like this has actually rattled the tories actually. gently caress you Warsi for everything else but this Yeah, it's basically the only good thing she's ever done (hilarious that it's quitting)
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Aug 6, 2014 09:11
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UKMT August '14 - Life Choice Wars
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I don't really know who Warsi is or what she's done. Can the thread give me a summary in 15 words and an emoticon?
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London is fun if you are a tourist or rich. If I wanted to live in a theme park however I would chose Legoland.
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