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5 minutes ago, Soapy FFC said:
It's the last bit that worries me. Maybe I'm too paranoid.
They've turned everyone from university lecturers to landlords into border security mate I don't blame you.
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15 minutes ago, Soapy FFC said:
Not really too sure what to make of this.
It doesn't help with my understanding of what the endgame is when you read quotes like this which are full of HR speak.
As it stands atm for onboarding and DBS we have to see the original documents which is done by either having someone bring them in, send them via post, or video calling someone and having them show us the docs. On the surface it should reduce the time spent acquiring this stuff but never underestimate the ability for this govt to make things like this evil.
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On 22/11/2021 at 10:02, forameus said:
Seems these days that more often than not, big releases from big developers are releasing in absolutely terrible states. When was the last time we got a hyped AAA game releasing with no issues whatsoever?
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Oh and The Last of Us 2 released fine as well, didn't it?
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1 hour ago, Scott Steiner said:
one is painted as the next Hitler for daring to question the wholesomeness of men mutilating their bodies,
Yoooo, what's up?
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1 hour ago, oaksoft said:
Why don't you just go and live there for a year or two.
That'll tell you a lot more than all those websites you are getting your views on China from.
Have you lived there?
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I like Halo Infinite's campaign in a pick up and play for 40 minutes sorta thing but it's not right to say the linear campaign approach is necessarily stale. It's stale only if it's as stupidly on-rails and deliberately cinematic as Call of Duty's try to be. The Bungie campaigns were superb examples of linear level design that had wide and varied approaches because they were still sandboxes with loads of toys flung in to spice them up.
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10 minutes ago, ICTChris said:
If you have to snipe from somewhere then the shadows are the place to do it from. I mean, sniping from the shadows is just good sense.
It's best to snipe from a distance which is why I'll be joining Mumsnet to slag off the Main Players
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4 hours ago, welshbairn said:
I think one of the only times when the Scottish vote was crucial to Labour was in 2019
2017.
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A star studded cast of morons from the news on The Weakest Link right now. Dearie me.
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9 minutes ago, Detournement said:
I meant I don't like apps. It's a pain in the arse to order a round and if you are like me it's annoying as f**k not knowing when your drink is coming. Especially if you're sat outside and can't see the bar.
I know. The app's best for when you're wanting to sneak one but can't be arsed moving. The bar is still the best for multiple reasons but maybe that's me speaking as someone tall.
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Anyway, I saw The Matrix Resurrections and loved it. Neo is Lana Wachowski and Trinity is her love of creating held hostage by the corporate machine. The love for this will depend entirely on how much someone loves incredibly on the nose meta commentary but the targets for criticism are all deserving. It's funny that Ben Shapino hates it given Neil Patrick Harris quotes him at length.
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On 27/12/2021 at 14:05, DrewDon said:
I watched Midsommar last night.
What an utterly odd film. I definitely laughed at some parts that I probably wasn't supposed to find funny, like when the old guy didn't die from the cliff ritual so needed to be bonked on the head by the mallet. Still, it must have had something as usually a film of that length will have me zoning out towards the end but it kept me engaged throughout.
I think you're supposed to find them funny. Ari Aster has a sense of humour. The cinema I was in was laughing a lot (a bit uncomfortably I guess?) at those scenes.
23 hours ago, Genuine Hibs Fan said:Yeah, I've seen a lot of political criticisms of it as doom-laden and accepting of our inability to truly change things but, also, look at the guy's work before. Go to someone else if you want that he's very good at depicting why we are where we are now. I felt it certainly achieved that, and the ultimate message of the worthwhile things being spending good times with family and loved ones is apolitical but also probably true!
It was pretty bloated though, and dragged towards the middle. Probably the weakest of his most recent three films but he'll struggle to make anything as good as the Big Short again, peerless
This feels like it's in direct conversation with Adam Curtis's stuff. That interview from 2019 between the two where Curtis says "baby boomers [are] projecting their own fear of mortality onto the planet…trapping us in the depressed mind of a dying hippy" feels like it's a criticism that could be levelled against this.
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4 hours ago, Detournement said:
If it's an app then GTF.
Mobile barmaids are ok. Obviously ordering at the bar like a real man is the best.
I don't mind an app either. Quite a few places in Manchester's Northern Quarter do a mixture these days. I'll normally go up and order as it's still the best way to order but it's handy if you either cba, are too hammered to navigate a bar, or want to order before you finish your pint like a 4D chess game.
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For some reason we always had Sky News on quiet in the background on Christmas morning when I was a bit younger which inadvertently started one of my own fave petty Christmas traditions: watching the sad b*****ds dragging their weans to Sandringham to see the Royal Family drive past. Some dunt opening your new Xbox and Halo while another kid was standing in the pissing rain for hours miserable waiting for an auld woman to drive past briefly.
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5 minutes ago, Detournement said:
Some pubs must make a killing out of table service. I've been in a few where a barmaid is over as soon as you've took your last sip.
It also seems to take to longer to break the seal when constantly seated so that's a bonus.
Aye the good ones can make a killing. Depends on the place. Bookclub adds a service charge as well though so they're definitely on to a winner.
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Was in the Bookclub last night and they were table service which was fine actually. I wouldn't half mind that when it's good service like it was in there.
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43 minutes ago, DeeTillEhDeh said:
I'm fully aware of the difference.
Try drinking on a Scotrail train - it's not the staff who police it but the other passengers!!
It's a bizarre one because you can drink on Transpennine Express, LNER etc throughout the journey in Scotland.they're resolving it on those services by switching to a shitey trolley with bad booze options so forgetful dafties like me have nothing good to drink
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2 hours ago, Jacksgranda said:
Pretty pointless...
Oh well I guess you would've objected to a little something called "World War Two" then? Gotcha.
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1 hour ago, Empty It said:
If I owned a pub Sturgeon & Leitch would be the first people banned.
Personally I would ban Hitler first but I'm different
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1 hour ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said:
You say its childish, i see it as a mark of solidarity with pub owners in Scotland and Wales against the senseless restriction of trade and destruction of lives and livelihoods. I feel a wee bit Deakebone Roundabout here as Im not a pub goer but I have several friends in the hospitality industry and watching them worry if they can pay the mortgage or not is distressing. I think its fair enough of the guy to bring attention in UK wide news of the destructive and unreasonable measures that are being forced upon industry.
There's absolutely no chance he's doing it out of solidarity in the same way that Sacha Lord isn't banging the drum for the nightlife industry at large. They've both almost definitely decimated the competitors in the trades they operate in to turn themselves a profit.
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10 hours ago, welshbairn said:
1. SNP holding the balance of power in Westminster. Salmond thinks they should have used it by backing May or Johnson over Brexit, but I think that would have destroyed their chances of winning a second referendum. Another GE where Labour have one or zero MPs in Scotland but have a chance of power with SNP support might finally drill reality into them.
2. An unbinding referendum called at a time the SG chooses. I don't think there is any law against it as there was in Catalonia, but if successful it would put huge pressure on Westminster to allow a binding one. The tricky thing would be how to avoid a Unionist boycott to give it credibility.
It wouldn't surprise me at all if Labour tank their own chance at power to prevent number 1. Even if the SNP don't mind lining up with Tories up here to shoot down progressive legislation on occasion I don't think the vastly greater media attention on the SNP horse trading with a minority Tory Party down south would let them trade a referendum for keeping them in power at Westminster.
You've answered your own scenario with number 2. I don't see any scenario where an unbinding referendum gets any credibility attached to it from the other side.
Catalonia shows if the state needs to crack down then it will and while us being out of Europe is important to consider I still think the EU values stability over anything else and them being seen to endorse an intransigent breakaway movement makes civil disobedience tricky and that's before you consider that the SNP have virtually zero stomach for it and have done nothing to make it a valid option.
It's all asking nicely and some legalistic pursuits which given the last 5 years looks very unlikely. I'm not surprised the Alba contingent have had enough even if I think they're expressing it mostly like cranks and don't have a coherent plan either. I don't think there is one FWIW.
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22 minutes ago, Scotty Tunbridge said:
My own personal conspiracy theory is that she has been deed for a couple of months now (Oct/Nov maybe) and the powers that be didn’t want to announce it so close to Christmas because they can’t have your poor grannies crying into their Turkey. I think they’ll announce it sometime in Feb or March.
If not I’ll be taking my tinfoil hat back as I’ve kept the receipt anyway.
The Queen dying in her 69th year at the helm would be too funny to allow anaw.
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He said he understood why men had murdered their American wives because of their accents, and then was finally emptied for a disgusting post about mental health issues. Really poor take this.
He also kept posting pictures of what presumably were transgender people across threads often with tenuous or no prompting. Just a weird fucking guy. Deservedly emptied. Off vibes.3 -
That atrocity of a government website takes a bit of finding the info, but I'm pretty sure I need to LFT on Day 10 and if negative and no symptoms I can end isolation. However if my partner gets it (we live together and she's negative so far) on say, Day 9, I really hope that doesn't mean another 10 days stint as a close contact.
My cousin and his girlfriend got it and their covid passes updated to reflect they’d had it which I think had a defined date so I would assume you’re free to carry on after that.0
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That's harsh on Pravda which actually produced important works by Lenin and others. Maybe the Wee Ginger Dug has his own April Theses in the works.
Most of that current Labour bounce has come from the press putting serious pressure on the Tories for the first time in years. It'll more than likely evaporate when the tap is turned off again. I think the press and the Tories are currently waiting to see who blinks first and the key indicator is when Boris is emptied.