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Crankit posted:Thanks guys, do the job centre send me a P45 when I end the benefits? Be aware that if they put you on 'emergency code' it might be a few months to get your full pay (though obviously at some point you will get a tax rebate). It took 5 long wretched months for HMRC to send my new taxcode to my employer. Fortunately, I had savings. (I filled in all the necessary with my employer - no P45 as I was self-employed prior to that, after a couple of months spent 45 mins on the 'chat' with HMRC who then sent me my new tax code but NOT my employer - they forgot - so my employer couldn't do anything about it. So then after another 2 months, another 45 mins on the 'chat' where they went full circle saying sorry they forgot to send the tax code then after 45 minutes decided to ask all the questions again, made a huge cock up, then another 45 mins later came round to what it was before). Anyway, hope it works out smoothly for you! Bearre tax: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkpooUqNEu8
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Danger - Octopus! posted:There's a ton of these type of channels that started popping up last year, just folk walking around their city or getting buses and trains with ambient sound, royalty free music or noise generator fx. I guess if public transport was really quiet at some points, a lot of transport enthusiasts were out filming journeys where it'd normally be too busy. They're great for just chilling I started playing geoguessr and watching these types of vids during lockdown. I really like seeing different places from this perspective.
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Noxville posted:So that woman discussed earlier who gave back her adopted kid after nearly 8 years is, uh, the CEO of Adoption UK? No theyre different people, the lady that gave back the adopted child is Eleanor Bradford, the CEO of Adoption UK is Sue Armstrong Brown. She is a trustee though. yeah VVV NotJustANumber99 fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Nov 30, 2021 |
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NotJustANumber99 posted:No theyre different people, the lady that gave back the adopted child is Eleanor Bradford, the CEO of Adoption UK is Sue Armstrong Brown. Maybe that tweet is badly worded then but she’s still a trustee at least https://twitter.com/inthesedeserts/status/1465724553158668293?s=21
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Jippa posted:I started playing geoguessr and watching these types of vids during lockdown. I really like seeing different places from this perspective. Still blown away by that guy who streams geoguessr on super hard mode and somehow recognises a tree as being a bit ukranian looking and gets within 1km of the target
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Trip report: went to Tesco this evening and I'd say probably 80-90% of people were wearing masks, which is much more than I thought.
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Same, the Co-op went from maybe 20% masks (being generous and including the staff and pensioners) to at least 80% masks or face shields or scarves within a day.Guavanaut posted:It's interesting for all the various jurisprudential waffling about "an unenforced law may as well not be law" and other commentary about the English having a special liberty bone that means they can never be governed like East Asians and so on, a barely enforced mask mandate raised mask wearing from 20% to over 80%, comparative to places where mask wearing is more culturally common, and it only seemed to slip after lifting the mandate and through confused and deliberately contrarian messaging from government.
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There's a small group of people who will mask regardless of guidance, a small group of people who will never mask regardless of it being a law or not and then a huge group of people who understand the reasoning behind it but have no perspective about the overall impact of it, so they'll do it when they have to without any fuss and not bother when they don't have to. We should have kept it on transport at the very least because only tiny groups of people actually had a problem with it and the benefits are really drat good.
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Government should start shipping FFP3 respirators to every household, and issue proper guidance on how to use them i.e. not with your loving nose sticking out the top.
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Nov 30, 2021 21:58
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I've found myself deliberately dicknosing when not within breathing range of others. Mostly so I can see something else than fog.
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Nov 30, 2021 22:28
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Tuck your mask under your glasses properly.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Still blown away by that guy who streams geoguessr on super hard mode and somehow recognises a tree as being a bit ukranian looking and gets within 1km of the target Is that the fella who tried to walk across Wales in a straight line? I quite like him, seems fairly normal and not annoying for a man who makes a living off YouTube
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EvilHawk posted:Trip report: went to Tesco this evening and I'd say probably 80-90% of people were wearing masks, which is much more than I thought. my Tesco trip was maybe 60% masked and if anything the staff were dragging that percentage down
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endlessmonotony posted:I've found myself deliberately dicknosing when not within breathing range of others. Mostly so I can see something else than fog. Get some Aura 9205 or 9210 masks
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endlessmonotony posted:I've found myself deliberately dicknosing when not within breathing range of others. Mostly so I can see something else than fog. Yeah I'm the same, luckily I only really need glasses for reading but if I was a bit more shortsighted id be absolutely hosed. Tried several different models of mask but none of them can form an effective seal around the bridge of my enormous nose.
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Good mask use on the transpennine trains today and low crowding as well. With that and the quick contact tracing of the omicrons it almost feels like we might not gently caress it up on the... what is this now? Fourth attempt?
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Endjinneer posted:almost feels like we might not gently caress it up get a load of this guy
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Guavanaut posted:Tuck your mask under your glasses properly. It's this. I wear glasses every waking moment and a mask every time I'm outside my own house and I never huff on my glasses any more. Fold the mask over your nose and plant your glasses on top of that. Your breath shouldn't be coming out the top anyway.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Yeah I'm the same, luckily I only really need glasses for reading but if I was a bit more shortsighted id be absolutely hosed. The trick is to slightly over-bend - fit it to your nose, then look at where the bends are and tighten the one over your nose and loosen the one between your nose and cheeks - that should do the trick for at least walking around - however when talking I find the nosepiece moves enough to occasionally put a little jet up to fog up the lenses, so I also use Zeiss anti-fog treatment spray (available at most opticians or from Amazon), which works perfectly to stop fogging (although because it leaves a slightly tacky residue you have to clean your lenses (and reapply) much more frequently. (Don't use the stuff you can get from motorbike and scuba shops designed for visors and goggles - it does work, but it leaves an even stickier residue and your glasses will be filthy immediately).
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goddamnedtwisto posted:They'll have to reopen at least some of the big centres again - capacity is only about 200k/week doing them through pharmacists and surgeries, and there's over 30 million to do. Guess I'll get to dust off the hi-viz and practice my Sandhurst Point. Smaller centres are popping up all the time, and they're pretty efficient. Some offer walk-ins and you might even convince a few people who aren't yet vaccinated through inertia to get it if they're already walking passed somewhere offering it. There are still a few of the larger centres around but the problem is that a lot of the venues have reverted to their proper functions and the volunteers have gone back to work. Plus, only the NHS staff can vaccinate the under-18s, and now they are all getting a second dose that means diverting them for longer than the NHS had originally intended.
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Barry Foster posted:I watched a lot of those in lockdown, and I still do sometimes when I'm high and listening to music. I find it really really soothing. It's fun to look at different places in the world - there's pretty much one for almost anywhere you can think of I like this guy's vids for that same reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0VjPHPQH0U He cycles places. He cycled from Alaska to Mexico and further into Central and South America. He didn't do it in one go because he goes back to work in Canada planting trees each summer to make money which he then spends on his cycling trips. Nice chill dude.
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I rarely read The Canary, but just saw this article: https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2021/11/25/lord-mann-tried-to-take-down-the-canary-and-skwawkbox-and-failed/ quote:Earlier, we shared the results of an investigation into allegations of antisemitism at The Canary and Skwawkbox. This confirmed that we have always upheld the IMPRESS Standards Code and have neither discriminated against Jewish people, nor incited hatred against this group, of which I am personally a part. The government report that sparked the investigation was just another tactic employed in a clumsy attempt to harm our reputation, destroy our business, and silence the socialist Left. It failed. Impress investigation: https://www.impress.press/page/impress-initiated-investigations/impress-initiated-investigation-364-2021.html
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WhatEvil posted:I like this guy's vids for that same reason: I'm fond of WatchedWalker on youtube for this kind of 'slow TV'. Just walks around cities. Sometimes London, sometimes other places.
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Also lol, I'm a frontline healthcare worker and my GP surgery keeps pestering me to book my booster jab, but every time I check, they're only available during my working hours. I cannot take time off work to do this and they're all at the other end of a bus ride, because I can't drive, because I'm loving blind as poo poo. Uggghhhhh.
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Rambalac is my go-to YouTube channel for peaceful walking around ambience; guy with a 4K HDR steadycam rig on his back walks around different areas of Japan, sometimes in the city, sometimes in the countryside. No talking or music or anything other than the noise of wherever he is, it’s very nice.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I rarely read The Canary, but just saw this article: Where did the whole 'the left is actually anti-Semitic' thing come from, it's happening a bit over here in Canada and the US as well (noticeably with bernie but that failed pretty spectacularly for obvious reasons)
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HopperUK posted:Also lol, I'm a frontline healthcare worker and my GP surgery keeps pestering me to book my booster jab, but every time I check, they're only available during my working hours. I cannot take time off work to do this and they're all at the other end of a bus ride, because I can't drive, because I'm loving blind as poo poo. Any chance of persuading your work to give you paid time off and arrange a taxi for you? Seems like as a frontline healthcare worker with a disability that would be the least they could do!
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Any chance of persuading your work to give you paid time off and arrange a taxi for you? Seems like as a frontline healthcare worker with a disability that would be the least they could do! Oh my god, no. No. Not even slightly. We are treated exactly like baseline retail workers in terms of 'fucks the company gives about us'. And in terms of pay! I'm trying to learn Python or something to get into computer touching instead because gently caress this industry
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Alctel posted:Where did the whole 'the left is actually anti-Semitic' thing come from, it's happening a bit over here in Canada and the US as well (noticeably with bernie but that failed pretty spectacularly for obvious reasons) Support for Palestinian existence has always been strong on the left & as that is now taken as evidence of anti-semitism now it's an easy stick to hit us with. And it works because hey, there are some anti-semites on the left like Ken Livingstone who couldn't go 5 minutes without talking about Israel despite being Mayor of London. Never-ending that it's proportionally a tiny problem for the left, especially compared to the right, it's a bludgeon & they are going to use it
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Germolene Crumble wanted to build Auschwitz on his allotment.
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I became addicted to Solo Travel Japan youtube channel. It's a guy who travels on ferries and trains in Japan. It's weird what the youtube algorithm throws at me sometimes, but in more cases than not, it seems to know me better than I do.
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fuctifino posted:I became addicted to Solo Travel Japan youtube channel. It's a guy who travels on ferries and trains in Japan. It's weird what the youtube algorithm throws at me sometimes, but in more cases than not, it seems to know me better than I do. same.
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Alctel posted:Where did the whole 'the left is actually anti-Semitic' thing come from, it's happening a bit over here in Canada and the US as well (noticeably with bernie but that failed pretty spectacularly for obvious reasons) You may think that (re Bernie) but the current incarnation of the Labour party is busily kicking out many left-wing Jews for 'anti-semitism' aka 'pro basic human rights for Palestinians', especially members of Jewish Voice for Labour (https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/_ - who are actually Jewish and actually party members, unlike Jewish Labour Movement (defunct until 2015 when strangely Jumbly Crobyns got elected LOTO) who claim to speak for Jews in Labour who do not have to be Jewish nor members of the party. Can't find it right now but saw something a few days ago that if you are a leftwing Jew you are 31x (IIRC) more likely to be kicked out of the party for anti-semitism (aka not worshipping at the feet of the actions of the government of the state of Israel) than anyone else.
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