leftback.bsky.social
Chelsea and very socially liberal politics, so basically you'll get angry at something.
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You have decided correctly. But walk up the stairs to your floor just to be on the safe side.
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Thank you. It's been since February, so don't worry, I'm neither offended nor upset. Just absorbing every single photon that the sun sends.
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I'm going to be melting as well. The all black mourning attire pledge is being put to the test...
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Not a fan?
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I, erm, don't know what that is so I'm going to plump for congratulations and hope that I've not gravely insulted you
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Bought a fan to help me work more comfortably at home.
Didn't allow for the desk-based cat colony it would create.
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If you will insist on switching the fan on.
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A few patches will sort it out <cough>
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Multi dimensional chess alert
(When Max wins after an improbable series of virtual safety cars, I still won't apologise to him or his team)
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Ah, it's his build it yourself exercise bike at fault there. He forget the thaddle.
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As a member of team normal sized torso with squat powerful legs, you have my sympathies.
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Because competition guarantees quality!!!!!
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Yeah if I had billions in cash to call upon then I would build and fund a lot of DV shelters to replace the huge number lost thanks to the 'tough decisions' of 2010-2025(ish). Because I'm me, I'd also do a lot of sport access for kids, and also buy all the local sports team.
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I'm convinced that those voice actors are locked in Larian's cellar and nothing will convince me otherwise.
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Larian confuse me - the studio's practices scream out 'nightmarish auteur-led feature creep with horrific crunch' and apparently it's none of those things. It's definitely Swen Vincke's show and somehow he manages to keep it working and a good place to work.
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Sounds awful.
Hmmn, £35 and I can be there before lunchtime. I'm just off to jump into the shower.
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Be fair, the bus to take him back home leaves on Wednesday
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He's telling an audience exactly what they want to hear
*looks directly into camera*
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Ah, so THAT'S why it appeared in my youtube recommendations.
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I got genuinely emotional about that because I had no idea it was coming and no other game I'd played would have made it permanent.
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Brilliant. Another flaw of the system. That you can pay off your 'loan' at the very start of your career when you're at your lowest earning potential, then cancels it after 30 years of work when you're likely at your peak.
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No jokes here. Rupert Lowe can go fuck himself.
When it's less serious I'll joke about that famed religious nationality 'Yorkshire'. But only after Lowe has fucked all the way off.
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Everything he did when he had power was to recreate some kind of fictional Georgian era of 'free trade' and 'true parliament'.
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Now, sadly, very much reduced. I wonder why...
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So they'd planned to keep it off the balance books but by 2018 couldn't?
Was that Phil Hammond or the courts who made that decision? To be fair to Spreadsheet Phil, as I understand him he would likely have had no truck with that sort of thing.
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These were easily identifiable flaws at the time and nobody in opposition or in the public sphere picked them up. We were at peak 'blowing smoke up the coalition's arse' then, but that's no excuse.
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TL;DR version: My greatest health risk is finding out that George Osborne drowned in a septic tank because I'd be the first recorded case of death through side splitting hysterical laughter.
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I'm sure through a fantastic treasury wheeze the amount lent out is off the balance sheets, but is somehow lurking in the background as a long term risk. But hey, by 2042 Osborne will be retired, dead or pretending to be senile to avoid court cases; he doesn't care.
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My friend asked me why it wasn't just a graduate tax, and I had two thoughts: 1) Taxes are bad and make Conservatives sad 🥺 and 2) In this format you can make changes to the terms - "On year 25 of 30, we're now changing the repayment length to 35 years. And we reduced the threshold 10 yrs ago".
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Especially when you set the interest rate to RPI+3%. When they were introduced, I saw the flaws and wondered when the loan book would start being sold off to pop the finances. IIRC it took less than three years, and I would be *fascinated* to know how many pennies in the pound the debt gets bought.
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Surrounded by people who get paid £150k to network and create pivot tables in Excel, you don't understand that a sizeable proportion of graduates will never even hit the threshold and the majority will always earn less than double it. So that loan will NEVER get paid off.
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Student loans are truly amazing: you start repaying after you reach a threshold in earnings and it's 9% of your earnings above that threshold for 30 years, at which point the outstanding loan and interest are cancelled. Brilliant. Except Georgie had no idea just how little most graduates earn.
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Gilly, just to confirm, I am very much in agreement that the 'loans' repayments are awful and you've reminded me that I haven't called George Osborne a **** for too long a time* so need to start a quick politics thread in which I do.
*three, maybe even four hours
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Yeah, I was specifically thinking post 2012. I had the SLC loans of the pre tuition fee era. I started paying it back as soon as I got my first job; if I'd deferred it I would only have needed to START paying it off in 2018 (which says a lot about the change in philosophy and how little I earn)
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Yes, it would have been. But that would have been a new tax, and taxes make Conservatives sad 🥺
And also operating it as a loan means that 25 years after the first people took it, a future government can say 'ackshewelly, the term is now 40 years' because they are scum like that.
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"People are entitled to their sexual proclivities. Let a thousand blossoms bloom, Margaret Thatcher's handbag. A scanner from Maplin. Netto. But I ain't spending any time on it because in the meantime, every three months, a ventriloquist fat-shames an intersex dog"
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I hate to be that guy but in the UK people really need to not think about 'paying off the student loan'. It's a graduate tax of 9% of your income above the threshold that you'll likely pay for 30 years before it gets cancelled.
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A 2.5 day blowout would have been a poor example of the 'World Cup Final of Test Cricket' 🙄 but this game really does look like what happens when you put the two best test teams in the world in a match and then tinker with the pitch characteristics variables as it goes on.