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Music and stuff. London.
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And interest rates go up to protect capital rather than to reduce inflation?
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Yes that's how it seems, think we really lucked out on the choice of town to stay in.
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True, though in the meantime private rental is just a transfer of wealth upwards and also keeps prices high, esp in a city like London where the rental market is so huge.
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Also tax private landlords out of existence
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Seem to remember last year that values didn't change for the first few races? Last year was different though anyway with both Marquez and Acosta being obv too cheap at the start of the season.
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Even oil rigs have to be designed to cope with more extreme weather as a result of climate change
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Once again I'm noting that English speakers are much better at music than anyone else.
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I've listened to a whole load of Beatles songs while on hold on the phone today. 3/10, very basic.
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Did you see the Iron Maiden pub? It's famous apparently.
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Think the main problem for English speakers learning most other languages is not being used to conjugating verbs so we just don't have the mental systems for doing that.
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Yeah I don't know if it would help or not really, because the tenses are different anyway, or similar enough to be confusing when they're used differently.
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Oh and the only difference sometimes is an accent over one letter
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Hope that's clear
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unless you're saying you did or didn't like something in which case one of the tenses does have a different meaning
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When you're talking in the past tense about something you didn't know then you can use these two different tenses and they mean the same, unless you are using a verb with a negative because then you can use three different tenses and they all mean the same
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And that's like the simplest part of the rules, all the bits where they pile in a heap on the ground are even more esoteric
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Rugby is a game where you can only pass the ball backwards except that almost every pass is actually forwards and I don't remotely understand how that works
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You just need to find a band who do a thing you like and reliably churn out near-identical albums for years
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Can't be long before advertisers realise they're paying scammers to make content that's viewed only by bots
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I'm guessing (remix) is ok? There's some annoyingly pointless brackets on some songs just to give a producer credit or whatever
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The big final group did lessen that this time though. Enough choice not to have to pick songs I wouldn't normally listen to. Not sure if that's a good thing or not.
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OTOH an ñ and an n are definitely different letters so maybe I'm wrong here :)
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Like I don't expect Tom to be carefully checking accent accuracy or figuring out non English characters in the polls normally and it would add unnecessary work for not a lot of benefit.
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This is true and I'd agree if everyone had always been accurate with them in the past. It's one tiny concession to NIE songs that probably won't do well in this challenge anyway. (Which is fine tbh, they don't all have to be about discovery).
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I'm going to assume I can get away with a difference in accents, eg Alegría vs Alegria (Spanish vs Catalan) because it's rare to see people be accurate with them anyway, and be good to have some twins in different languages.
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It was Freedom 90 that won the 1990 poll I think
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Or even "we think Murdoch appoints govts and enthusiastically agree that should continue"
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I think if you replace "voters" with "guys with yachts" then it makes more sense
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Samantha Crain
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Anyway better get back to listening to music
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Another difference: you might charitably argue that Cameron/Osborne actually thought austerity was the right idea, but these guys have the evidence laid out in front of them and are going with it anyway. It's bullshit all the way down.
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Atmos Blaq
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They saw the electoral success of that Tory era and thought yeah great let's turn it up a notch.
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The difference is they're more right wing, more authoritarian, even more anti immigrant, even more against civil rights (eg right to protest), further to the right on foreign policy.
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Really can't work out what went on with the voting in this group, extremely random