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Just now, MazzyStar said:
John Lundstram is a criminal.
Big bad John.
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Any news on Boyle?
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1 minute ago, Buckets said:
I hope Hibs or someone else is brave enough to ban them from their ground full stop until something changes within their followers. In 2024 surely we should draw a line at allowing their racist bile to be belted out at every ground in the country.
I think that’s fair.
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Hibs Heids gone.
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@tamthebam covering the desk while @TxRover in his cot
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8 minutes ago, willywastecoat said:
What Warnock said yesterday makes total sense,bring a manager in within two week will help him assess the squad,the problem is trigger happy McCormack sacking managers.
Any manager needs at least 3 transfer windows to take care of the ranch,the sheep need a farmer not a shepherd.
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@Flatulent Gannet, how you getting on with the two of them?
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1 hour ago, KnightswoodBear said:
Great result against a very good Benfica side. Regarding the pen, I thought the rule this week was that if you play the ball off your own hand then it isn't a handball?
Here's a novel idea. Dispose of "natural position" and all the rest of it and make the rule if it hits your hand then it's handball. It would do away with any dubiety.
I'd have ripped your hand off for a draw before the game, but slightly disappointed not to have won.
We are a very good Europa League side.
You seem remarkably eloquent for a chap who started on the Don Revie at half three?
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I’ve reconciled it on the basis that as a 25yo I’d pump anything from 18 to 35yo (I wished).
As you get older the lower limit remains fairly static while the upper limit (+10yo?) remains absolutely fair game.
So now that I am much older and wiser I now have a much wider spectrum of desirable females that I’d love to pump but clearly have no chance of ever doing so.
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5 hours ago, throbber said:
It’s a bit complicated because
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1 hour ago, throbber said:
I can get a fixed rate term of 4.04 % for 5 years meaning my repayments increase by 30% a month (£235 increase) or go on the variable in the hopes it will come down and initially be paying about £550 additional in the hopes of a dramatic fall coming before 24 is finished which I just can’t see happening.
Seems a bit of a wild mismatch. What are they offering you as the variable rate?
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54 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said:
" Right Mum, fanny licking scene. From the top, ACTION!
Well she wouldn't start from the bottom, would she?
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Just now, Alert Mongoose said:
Good luck with that while those in power have a vested interest in doing the exact opposite.
My stab was that those in power, 'the rich', are pricing the pesky poor people off the road under the guise of green/active travel credentials. Will we see politcians of any hue mobilise onto their bikes or on buses. No, I didn't think so.
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5 hours ago, GordonS said:
By definition the poor don't own cars, so they benefit the most as it becomes safer and easier to walk and cycle, and buses are less delayed by cars.
Should we not instead focus on giving people the opportunity to be less poor rather than making it less inconvenient to be poor?
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46 minutes ago, TxRover said:
Is that a tank?
Don’t start!
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13 minutes ago, Dons_1988 said:
nothing worse than OF patter to kill everyone’s mood.
And it could’ve been such a fine weekend for you chaps too.
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Gary Innes opens his show on BBC Radio Scotland with ‘Beautiful Sunday’.
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If that’s the best bits all edited into a 3 minute reel designed to hook me in…
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Absolute tinpot and rightly so.
PM announces a statement to the nation (probably thinks everybody will drop their schedules for him) BBC and ITV have got quiz shows on, Ch 5 cover it just be so their news is already on and after 5 minutes they decide he’s waffling a load of drivel and cut him off.
Like it or like it not, Rochdale voted for him. If Rishi doesn’t like ‘extremism’ better plan for doing a fuckton more work to win people over to your more moderate view old son.
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On 26/02/2024 at 14:14, diegomarahenry said:
Having been in the workplace for over 20 years now, all within Global organisations, there has been a big shift from companies outwardly trying to keep employees happy to almost the opposite.
There has also been a shift to personal brand being more important than the actual job. I had a 1-2-1 recently where the main focus was put on the fact my profile in the in-house social media was blank than any performance.
A job for life is very rare as well so people are less bothered about holding on to one. Terms are less agreeable.
When I started my first job I had a final salary pension, a 10% yearly bonus and a share purchase scheme. These kind of terms would make you job conscious. Within 10 years, they closed the final salary pension due to costs, they didn’t do the same to the German employees as it would be illegal there.
I started a new job over a year ago and the additional terms are pretty good but almost standard, health insurance, dental insurance etc along with a joint contribution pension. But all of the jobs I applied for at the time had much the same.
There have been societal changes as well, previously people would seek help from their parish or from family, community etc for personal problems. Most of these things don’t exist any more so they expect their workplace to give support.
In a short space of time at my last job, I had two people contact me out of hours to say they were suicidal, I had to facilitate counselling through the company. I couldn’t understand why they didn’t go to their family but some folk don’t have the option.
It is easy to blame it on folk being shut-in nerds or socially awkward but there is very little incentive to be job conscious any more.
Forgive me for not having read the full thread if this has been covered already but this is the nail on the head.
It happened after the 2008 crash when human resource (unusually in the corporate world) actually became its descriptor - something to be exploited and exhausted until needing to move on to another.
There has been a real breakdown in the historic patriarchal (corporate) employer and the (individual) employee relationship.
Turn up, do stuff, get paid as little as possible, f**k off. Middle managers clogging progression shit scared of their own position as ‘efficiencies’ rapidly wheedle their number.
If you’re any good at what you do, you now need to do it for yourself. And if you’re no good at what you do, you need to find whatever it is that you are good at and find a market that needs it.
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I much preferred this thread when it was mainly a debate about what was/was not a tank.
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Car advice
in The General Nonsense Forum
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I don’t mean to be rude but everything has its price for a reason.
If you’re into £2/3k shitboxes, you are - self evidently- buying a £2/3k shitbox that’ll need £2/3k spent on it each year to keep it on the road. If you are, or know, a friendly mechanic then I can see the merit in that approach. As a Joe punter though, I reckon the industry sets you up to be fleeced.
A £10k shitbox still has the potential to drop a big bill but the odds are better in your favour. £20k, better odds still.
tl:dr - cars cost money. Thanks for reading.