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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
Now, when you were thinking that fine thought, I guess you assuming there's an equivalence between building a power plant in a major earthquake and tsunami zone (and even still not that much damage), and Ireland? What really kills people in their millions every year is fumes from fossil fuels, nuclear is a gift to humanity.
Gets rid of fossil fuels entirely; how Green is that?"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostYeah. Having said that it's generally agreed that nuclear wouldn't be a good idea in Ireland for power management and cost reasons. But as long as we are connected to France, which we soon will be, we can use their nuclear and ship them our excess wind when wind is up to scale.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
Now, when you were thinking that fine thought, I guess you assuming there's an equivalence between building a power plant in a major earthquake and tsunami zone (and even still not that much damage), and Ireland? What really kills people in their millions every year is fumes from fossil fuels, nuclear is a gift to humanity.
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Pal of mine running the OptaJonny account now since the Perform/STATS integration. Lot of fun!
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Originally posted by LuckyLloyd View Post
I would never be friends with people from work on social media if I could avoid it.
But that's outrageous.
Also who would be stupid enough to do what they were asking of me. Well I guess some people would be, but if they knew me at all they'd know I'm a little more savvy haha.Last edited by Tar.Aldarion; 24-06-20, 11:06.
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Originally posted by Tar.Aldarion View Post
Yeah in general I have very few, so it's not a large list of suspects. I was on the warpath after. Being called into the office on my birthday for that shite.
Also who would be stupid enough to do what they were asking of me. Well I guess some people would be, but if they knew me at all they'd know I'm a little more savvy haha."
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostThere's so many things that Chu one has done that have annoyed me. Either being incredibly woke to the point of extremism, or constantly claiming she is subject to racism and gender oppression despite clearly being popular enough to be elected which is far more popular than the rest of us are. And soon to be elected Dublin Lord Mayor, which we'll never here the end of.
It is clearly possible to be popular enough to be elected Mayor AND be subjected to racism. Do you think the two things cancel each other out? Or do you think there is a certain amount of racism that people should suffer without complaining about?
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Does anyone know the law regarding a package holiday cancellation due to Covid? My mother had something booked and they've come back with a voucher that can be used within the next nine months. If she doesn't use it after nine months she can claim cash back. From what I can see on Citizens Information she should be due a full refund immediately. I told her to email them and they came back saying it's a government backed credit refund note and she can't claim it back for nine months. Is this true or are they just chancing their arm?
If they are chancing their arm what should her next step be?Last edited by KK82; 24-06-20, 12:19.
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Originally posted by Hectorjelly View Post
There are so many things wrong with this post I don't know where to start.
It is clearly possible to be popular enough to be elected Mayor AND be subjected to racism. Do you think the two things cancel each other out? Or do you think there is a certain amount of racism that people should suffer without complaining about?
airport, lol
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Originally posted by hotspur View Post
Photoshop yourself hanging out with Neil Armstrong on the moon this afternoon and stick it up on on Facebook with a "But shh don't tell my boss where I am"
Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
2/5 odds it was the boss himself. Just blaming someone else. I can't see how someone you actually work at the same level with would do that? Not least because of how crappy they would look to the boss. Does facebook tell you who viewed your pic?
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostMarkets seem to be very very very slowly agreeing that Biden is fav. Best odds for Biden 8/11, for Trump 13/8. I'd imagine there's a lot of residue doubt due to how 2016 turned out.
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Originally posted by KK82 View PostDoes anyone know the law regarding a package holiday cancellation due to Covid? My mother had something booked and they've come back with a voucher that can be used within the next nine months. If she doesn't use it after nine months she can claim cash back. From what I can see on Citizens Information she should be due a full refund immediately. I told her to email them and they came back saying it's a government backed credit refund note and she can't claim it back for nine months. Is this true or are they just chancing their arm?
If they are chancing their arm what should her next step be?Jayzus, Sheila! I forgot me feckin' trousers
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostMarkets seem to be very very very slowly agreeing that Biden is fav. Best odds for Biden 8/11, for Trump 13/8."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
Well thats precisely the point. I've never followed her, yet she keeps getting retweeted into my timeline saying something right-on.
https://www.newstatesman.com/science...tter-alt-right
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Originally posted by zuutroy View PostIsn't that only for hot water? Is residential PV not a thing?
PV being limited to c.30% is “technically” efficiency. But unlike heaters there’s not input cost, so it’s not hugely important. The magic number is basically installed cost. If the tech gets cheaper, it might become viable.
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Hope this trend isn’t replicated here, please stay in your paved over hellholes nobody wants you in the country. Thks
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...e_iOSApp_Other
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Hitch its a pretty poor take to dismiss someone's experience of racism. Do you have any idea of what sort of abusive messages she receives on a daily basis? Either a) You have no idea in which case you are just being willfully ignorant - to the point of facilitating racisism or b) something worse.
It's very easy to just dismiss things with terms like "woke" and "right-on", but what do those terms actually mean? What do you mean you use them?
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Originally posted by Hectorjelly View PostHitch its a pretty poor take to dismiss someone's experience of racism. Do you have any idea of what sort of abusive messages she receives on a daily basis? Either a) You have no idea in which case you are just being willfully ignorant - to the point of facilitating racisism or b) something worse.
It's very easy to just dismiss things with terms like "woke" and "right-on", but what do those terms actually mean? What do you mean you use them?"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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It does seem that anyone who claims racism is auto believed these days, and they have no shortage of people calling anyone who dares to question it racist too.
There is always a place for healthy skepticism and simply believing someone because they say it and it’s faux pas to question is a bad path to go down.
Not commenting on Hazel Chu or anything in particular but the themes of “when someone says they have experienced racism just believe them” is nonsense and I’m seeing it a bit on social media.
I think most people when explained as to why something was racist(or sexist) will understand even if they didn’t before and that should be the goal. (HJs comments on the PPE sexism thing changed my dumb thinking).
but the current method of just wedging it in there and using the awkwardness, and so most proples reluctance to question, as a shield is BS.
This may or may not be an original thought of my own.
All efforts were made to make this thought original but with the abundance of thoughts in the world the originality of this thought cannot be guaranteed.
The author is not liable for any issue arising from the platitudinous nature of this post.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostMarkets seem to be very very very slowly agreeing that Biden is fav. Best odds for Biden 8/11, for Trump 13/8. I'd imagine there's a lot of residue doubt due to how 2016 turned out.
The Nascar noose story was a good illustration of how narrative trump's facts. Even after FBI conferred it as a non story, CNN couldn't give up on the narrative.
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Originally posted by Theresa View PostIt does seem that anyone who claims racism is auto believed these days, and they have no shortage of people calling anyone who dares to question it racist too.
There is always a place for healthy skepticism and simply believing someone because they say it and it’s faux pas to question is a bad path to go down.
Not commenting on Hazel Chu or anything in particular but the themes of “when someone says they have experienced racism just believe them” is nonsense and I’m seeing it a bit on social media.
I think most people when explained as to why something was racist(or sexist) will understand even if they didn’t before and that should be the goal. (HJs comments on the PPE sexism thing changed my dumb thinking).
but the current method of just wedging it in there and using the awkwardness, and so most proples reluctance to question, as a shield is BS.
Kids dressing up as Paul McGrath during WC94 would be “blackface shame” now, whereas there was clearly no racial intent involved but it’s revisionism now to state otherwise.
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Originally posted by Hectorjelly View PostHitch its a pretty poor take to dismiss someone's experience of racism. Do you have any idea of what sort of abusive messages she receives on a daily basis? Either a) You have no idea in which case you are just being willfully ignorant - to the point of facilitating racisism or b) something worse.
It's very easy to just dismiss things with terms like "woke" and "right-on", but what do those terms actually mean? What do you mean you use them?
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Originally posted by Goodluck2me View Post
An example is lads who post things like #ibelieveher on twitter whilst being a regular abuser of women, that’s just trying to virtue signal how woke you are, whilst actually being exactly what it doesn’t stand for. I think most distaste from the so called woke culture comes from from an embedded hypocrisy from those talking about it.
Try squeezing "leafy" in there too next time.
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Originally posted by Tar.Aldarion View PostWas working in the office today because yesterday evening my boss sent me an email asking could I come to work to discuss my working from home - so i was like wtf is up? It was such a silly reason though. I had posted some pictures at the beach from a few weekends ago when i visited my gf, but I had posted them during work hours, so some people had said it to my boss from my friends list on facebook or sth. He wanted to see if I had been at the beach during work or not, just to see if what they said is right. Or even if I had been working other hours so that being at the beach was ok, being quite reasonable and of course understood when i said I wasn't and could see I was quite pissed off haha.
1) someone in your social circle (or whatev) "ratted" to your boss
2) your boss called you in
3) to see if you were working or changed hours, seems needless
People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View PostOne Time for it to turn out for it to be CHD or Rigger that is going around disfiguring statues of Luke Kelly as some kind of anti Woke statement and to piss off Solks"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by DeadParrot View Post
that's unbelievable.
1) someone in your social circle (or whatev) "ratted" to your boss
2) your boss called you in
3) to see if you were working or changed hours, seems needlessHappiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
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Originally posted by DeeBrown View PostAs for you SatNav,
No amount of Botox would freeze the smile on everyone's face when you planted one on a bewildered McCluskeys lips in that same Galway hotel.
I'm a very affectionate person
Her sky-ness
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Originally posted by Wombatman View Post
Your boss should't give a fook about anything other than your ability to deliver quality work to agreed deadlines. Managers who use 'presenteeism' as a metric of productivity are living in the dark ages.
If your role requires a lot of interaction. Then you need be available at set times to do that. It may not affect your deadlines, but it could affect others.
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Originally posted by Mellor View Post
I think that depends the nature of your role. If you role is completely autonomous, as long as you do the agreed hours and work per week, who cares.
If your role requires a lot of interaction. Then you need be available at set times to do that. It may not affect your deadlines, but it could affect others.
e.g I'm giving blood today so hitting city centre for noon then will arse around there for a few hours with the family (feed the ducks etc) and then work later this evening when daughter is hopefully asleep.
Expecting 9-5 at your desk in a WFH lifestyle isn't 100% viable at all times and thankfully my boss understands this.People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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I guess it will encourage the others to make sure they double-check every article they link to - Starmer obviously true to his word of stamping out ant-semitism.
It does seem a bit of an over-reaction in this case. Hopefully it's not intended to be the start of a purge of Corbynistas, and RLB will be back in the shadow cabinet at some stage.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
The Israeli's use chokeholds (pics in that twitter thread above), they also train US cops (why?!), but they deny that they train US cops to use chokeholds. I'm just struggling to see how - whether its right or wrong - that it equals anti-semitism."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by ArmaniJeans View PostI guess it will encourage the others to make sure they double-check every article they link to - Starmer obviously true to his word of stamping out ant-semitism.
It does seem a bit of an over-reaction in this case. Hopefully it's not intended to be the start of a purge of Corbynistas, and RLB will be back in the shadow cabinet at some stage.
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Originally posted by RichieM View Post
He seems like a reasonable person so can’t see him blowing this up for no reason. Purge it is I would imagine or perhaps he didn’t like a trade union stalwart sitting in education when the teachers union will be blamed for the economic troubles going forward because parents couldn’t go back to work.
Maybe 'you're sacked because you're shit and voters agree' rather than 'you're sacked for vaguely possible, maybe not really, anti-semitism' would be a more honest message though."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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