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[QUOTE=Tami;5736970]A raise? That's good news.
I had a job interview on Thursday, now comes the sit and wait. Not that I don't have things to keep me busy.[/QUOTE]
Thanks. It kinda takes the recent sting of being robbed and watching a guy commit public indecency out just a tad as being short staffed for months now is well, an all around bummer and it's happening to everyone so far.
And much good luck on how it goes! Hope it goes well!
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[URL="https://twitter.com/justasisterfro2/status/1439017120008974339?s=20"]Get down![/URL] But seriously
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[QUOTE=Beadle;5737114]Credit where credit’s due. It was Cthulhu who did that little piece of research.
My insight is matched only by my laziness.
Sorry, it’s actually BETTERED by my laziness.[/QUOTE]
Fair point! Credit to CoR! :). My bad.
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[QUOTE=Beadle;5737057]Latest news on 18/09/21: UK politics is a shambles. Everyone in Britain hates everyone else in Britain for any one of a number of reasons.
Tomorrow: Same news, change the date.
We’re now, as a nation, simultaneously both xenophobic and oikophobic. We hate foreigners and our own countrymen. So everyone, pretty much.[/QUOTE]
You're turning into the Scots.
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[QUOTE=Cthulhu_of_R'lyeh;5737169]You're turning into the Scots.[/QUOTE]
Or the Republicans
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Bernie Sanders apparent endorsed Jagmeet Singh, leader of our left-of-centre party, the New Democrat Party (NDP) the other day.
People have been making a bit of an online row about it, all foreign interference this, there outta be a law that.
Yet when Obama endorsed Trudeau for the second time, crickets. Funny how accepted hegemony and the media machine works.
...man I can't wait for Monday to pass. There'll be a few parliamentary seats switched around, but I predict we'll all be in pretty much the same place we were before this election was called :/
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[QUOTE=Cthulhu_of_R'lyeh;5737169]You're turning into the Scots.[/QUOTE]
The Scots are actually much more welcoming to foreigners than the English. In turn though they do, by and large, really dislike the English.
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[QUOTE=Nik Hasta;5737203]The Scots are actually much more welcoming to foreigners than the English. In turn though they do, by and large, really dislike the English.[/QUOTE]
Was angling for [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2q0T7QXETs"]this[/URL] Simpson's reference, but alas I didn't think to link it at the time, lol.
Considering the damage the British Empire did back in the day (not like other empires haven't done damage but they're one of the more recent/impactful) not surprising there's still a lot of lingering ill will, though.
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[QUOTE=Cthulhu_of_R'lyeh;5737222]Was angling for [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2q0T7QXETs"]this[/URL] Simpson's reference, but alas I didn't think to link it at the time, lol.
Considering the damage the British Empire did back in the day (not like other empires haven't done damage but they're one of the more recent/impactful) not surprising there's still a lot of lingering ill will, though.[/QUOTE]
The British Empire? What a thoroughly contemporary reference.
The various counties of the British Isles and Ireland have deep enmity towards one another (though mostly everyone else hating the English) that goes back literally about 900 years haha.
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[QUOTE=Sharpandpointies;5737103]Colonies of the British Empire basically stopped using Imperial years ago. Basically, as Beadle says, it's three countries (US, Liberia, Myanmar) which accounts for about 5% of the world population.[/QUOTE]
Well yes, but my point was how proud America is of not being part of the British Empire that we went and made our own systems of measurements. That are TOTALLY better than Imperial Units.
Like how we took all the unnecessary "u"s out of all the British words. :p
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[QUOTE=Cthulhu_of_R'lyeh;5736834]'one of the freedoms of post-Brexit'.
It's pretty sad when one of the victories claimed by the Brexiteers, is a worse system of measurement only used by Myanmar, Liberia, and the US.[/QUOTE]
They tried teaching me that meter kilometer stuff in elementary school, it didn't take. The reason US uses the measurements it does is because switching to a new one is a pain.
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[QUOTE=The MunchKING;5737262]Well yes, but my point was how proud America is of not being part of the British Empire that we went and made our own systems of measurements. That are TOTALLY better than Imperial Units.
Like how we took all the unnecessary "u"s out of all the British words. :p[/QUOTE]
To be fair, I never understood what the British fascination with unnecessary "u"s about. Why write colour or honour when literally color and honor is simpler and pronounced the same. Useless use of the letter u.
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[QUOTE=Vakanai;5737291]They tried teaching me that meter kilometer stuff in elementary school, it didn't take. The reason US uses the measurements it does is because switching to a new one is a pain.[/QUOTE]
And because all the science people already use it, they just don't bother forcing the rest of us.
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[QUOTE=Vakanai;5737291]They tried teaching me that meter kilometer stuff in elementary school, it didn't take. The reason US uses the measurements it does is because switching to a new one is a pain.[/QUOTE]
Can't even be arsed to really learn/maintain more than one language most of the time. :B