The right wing press have been making much of Labour's pledge to borrow money to invest in infrastructure - the usual "tax and spend" bullshit - yet the figure is less than half what the "fiscally sound" Tories have borrowed in the last couple of years alone
That may be because Labour are planning to spend everything the Conservatives are planning to spend plus more besides and with this additional borrowing on top of all of that.
The Tories have also seen the national debt rise by a colossal amount despite this "austerity" they keep telling us is for our own good.
But you must surely see this as a good thing, given your support for Labour spending even more?
In the UK they've already taken away a number of types of porn - e.g. porn that includes face-sitting is now illegal in the UK.
Theresa May would love to ban the rest too. She's a fascist totalitarian killjoy that also wants to ban encryption because it stops the security services from monitoring everybody in the country all the time.
Hmm. Fairly sure I could move to Ireland even post-Brexit, I'd easily get into Canada or Australia and if I had to I'd gamble on getting into most of Scandinavia, Iceland and New Zealand.
So basically even without looking at the Far East, the Middle East, Central or South America or the whole of Africa, I'm replete with choices.
But just upping and moving? for normal people without millions in cash? no.
I may not be normal but I don't have millions in cash, so... yes.
I think it's less a statement of independence and more just something she's been doing since she was 22 and has turned into a pseudo-trademark. Amanda with hairy eyebrows would not be AFP.
What the fuck makes you think she's living off his money? She was a successful artist filling concert halls on international tours before she even met Neil.
I can see why google search results wouldn't necessarily convey a lot of why her fans love her, and her musical output is so broad that it's easy to find things you're not impressed by.
I've been to see her perform twice and I find her a fascinating person and artist.
A lot of the stuff she produces doesn't work for me but she's always entertaining, has stupendous audience engagement and I love her strong independence.
I'm not sure if you're open to feedback and you're obviously welcome to disregard this. It's clear you're passionate and want to share on this topic and that's great, thank you.
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It's a minor thing but one I'm sure you can understand we wouldn't want to detract from your otherwise excellent work.
If they don't manage people then what do they manage?
My current boss has frequently been remiss in her management.
What she's doing instead is working stupid hours picking up tasks that she doesn't want to drop on us because we're all already overcommitted.
Sure, there are some obvious opportunities inherent in the simplistic write-up above, and a lot that she and I have both done about it - including me giving her manager grief about the workload he's causing her - but the main point is that she's stupidly busy and bitching at her about it would be very counterproductive and also rather ignorant.
What the fuck does 'doing a good job' have to do with it?
You want to do the same job every day for the next three decades? That's ok, some people welcome that.
Many people get bored, want to do different things, have career goals. They want to improve themselves, their skills, their ability to get other jobs. They will benefit greatly from feedback, especially if it's constructive and well intentioned.
That doesn't mean they're not doing 'a good job'. Shit, you could be the world's greatest programmer, I bet I could still find developmental feedback for you.
If you're any good you should have an idea how good you are.
Most people overrate themselves. Very very few people understand their weaknesses and correctly prioritise addressing them. Most people are insecure.
"Hey, you're doing great, we really value you. Of course you can work from home half the time, your contribution is very visible anyway." makes an employee feel great. Adding, "You've said you want to take this next step in your career, and I was thinking some practice on these skills would really take you forward" makes a manager feel great too.
Some managers need helping to do either piece. So step one about improving on feedback: Learn how to ask for it!
sounds like you're dependent on being micromanaged
Or perhaps they're so pro-active and autonomous that they recognise the need to confirm they're still focusing on the right areas.
How the fuck did you read micromanagement into that? Talking to your colleagues - whether they're peers, junior or three levels senior to you - is a bloody good idea, and talking to your boss definitely helps when year end review comes around.
You shared a fucking photograph. I have no idea whether it was a lapdance or if that's just your twisted imagination.
Given the lack of sexual deviance in the articles you just linked I'm guessing it's the latter.
Shit, the entire fucking media trying to demonise Trump and that's the best you can find? Someone losing their virginity at 14? Fucking hell, I'm more deviant than that and my neighbours can confirm it.
It's already been certified by both the Macron camp and Wikileaks to be accurate
My understanding is that the Macron camp have confirmed that a hack occurred. That's not the same as confirming the accuracy of the released materials.
Oh, nice attack on people with learning disabilities. Good that you establish your credibility so quickly
about misogyny
No, I'd be laughing about it while dismissing it as obvious bullshit. Much the same response I've had to Colbert's joke.
and you would be right
No, there'd be absolutely nothing misogynistic about Clinton giving Obama somewhere warm and wet to park. Shit, the hatred in that scenario isn't towards the woman - I wouldn't wish that on any man, what the fuck did Obama do to deserve such hatred?
It's unfortunate that you put politics ahead of what's right.
Nope, I'm keeping politics out of this.
Colbert is a homophobe but you refuse to see it
He may or may not be, I don't know enough about him to be sure. I do know that the joke being discussed isn't homophobic, no matter how much you screech on about it.
Why isn't it a comical taunt to Putin about his own homophobia? Why is making a joke so fucking bad anyway? Why do you think people think they own you?
I'm confused, the discussion was on weird sexual practices and you've replied with a bunch of random photographs that don't even qualify as sexual, let alone weird.
There has always been talk of discontent but never anything material.
No, Brexit isn't material and wasn't remotely influenced by two decades of campaigning, public awareness and politics by independence parties.
damn those Germans sharing wealth
Yeah, ask the southern European members of the Eurozone how much wealth is being shared.
The only laws trumping local laws are nationalistic laws that seek to purposefully impede other countries.
I'm not sure that sentence says what you intended it to say. But why the fuck should the EU be allowed to prevent the UK from having 0% VAT (sales tax) on tampons? I really don't understand how this benefits trans-European trade.
Culture is very much preserved.
That's a very subjective perspective. I'm not sure the ladies of Cologne would agree that their culture was preserved. I don't think the British culture of independence and self-determination was even acknowledged, let alone preserved. The European ideals of democracy were entirely fucking ignored.
As a trading bloc the EU has a lot going for it. Unfortunately that's never been enough for the political elite running it, and that's why it's going to die.
The other interesting thing will be the reaction in France over the next few days over how this leak has been handled.
Their electoral commission banning mention of anything within the leak - whether leaked or not - sounds like an attempt to influence the election; I'd expect a reaction and response to that.
Which videos? I don't recall that request ever being made.
I do recall him responding to an allegation of Russian hacking by suggesting that they may have more success finding missing emails than the incompetence malicious corrupt fucks that "lost" them, but that wasn't a request to 'hack the DNC'.
Sorry but anybody that views the formation of NATO as an aggressive act against Russia has no fucking credibility at all.
You'll be telling me next that Russia invaded Ukraine because of the Americans, not because Putin's an insecure twat that wants a nice holiday home on the Black Sea.
The US does misbehave but Russia is culturally exceedingly insecure - shit, look at the public horror of homosexuality; there's a blatant sign of people lacking confidence in themselves.
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The right wing press have been making much of Labour's pledge to borrow money to invest in infrastructure - the usual "tax and spend" bullshit - yet the figure is less than half what the "fiscally sound" Tories have borrowed in the last couple of years alone
That may be because Labour are planning to spend everything the Conservatives are planning to spend plus more besides and with this additional borrowing on top of all of that.
The Tories have also seen the national debt rise by a colossal amount despite this "austerity" they keep telling us is for our own good.
But you must surely see this as a good thing, given your support for Labour spending even more?
they aren't taking away your porn
In the UK they've already taken away a number of types of porn - e.g. porn that includes face-sitting is now illegal in the UK.
Theresa May would love to ban the rest too. She's a fascist totalitarian killjoy that also wants to ban encryption because it stops the security services from monitoring everybody in the country all the time.
Hmm. Fairly sure I could move to Ireland even post-Brexit, I'd easily get into Canada or Australia and if I had to I'd gamble on getting into most of Scandinavia, Iceland and New Zealand.
So basically even without looking at the Far East, the Middle East, Central or South America or the whole of Africa, I'm replete with choices.
But just upping and moving? for normal people without millions in cash? no.
I may not be normal but I don't have millions in cash, so... yes.
these awful cutbacks
The ones that include continually rising NHS spending, even in real terms?
https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/p...
Comparably up in Scotland where I am, the NHS isn't even nearly as bad.
Strange, a political party in Scotland thinks the English NHS is better.
http://labourhame.com/a-long-h...
I honestly believe if I had been born in England, I wouldn't be typing this, or anything, because of sudden death from a trivial infection.
You're a fuckwit then. Come to England, be amazed how you can still stay alive.
died from a trivial throat infection when being treated for cancer
Person with cancer dies, news at 11.
That's a tax I would happily pay for! I think most of England would agree.
Most of England would love Scotland to fucking pay its taxes and stop leaching off taxpayers south of the border. You go for it.
Those aren't tattoos, they're just make-up.
I think it's less a statement of independence and more just something she's been doing since she was 22 and has turned into a pseudo-trademark. Amanda with hairy eyebrows would not be AFP.
What the fuck makes you think she's living off his money? She was a successful artist filling concert halls on international tours before she even met Neil.
Wait. No. Could it be that being married to a rich famous person means you don't have to worry shit about money, and can do stuff you like anyway?
Look, Neil was successful before he married Amanda. It's not her income that lets him experiment, he makes his own contribution.
I can see why google search results wouldn't necessarily convey a lot of why her fans love her, and her musical output is so broad that it's easy to find things you're not impressed by.
I've been to see her perform twice and I find her a fascinating person and artist.
A lot of the stuff she produces doesn't work for me but she's always entertaining, has stupendous audience engagement and I love her strong independence.
I'm not sure if you're open to feedback and you're obviously welcome to disregard this. It's clear you're passionate and want to share on this topic and that's great, thank you.
A reader has suggested though that the structure of your contribution may benefit from some small tweaks that would help with readability and increase their chances of benefiting from your input. A specific example here would be the addition of paragraphs, although the multiple nested snippets of text (inside brackets or quotation marks" can also disrupt the flow.
It's a minor thing but one I'm sure you can understand we wouldn't want to detract from your otherwise excellent work.
Yell if you have any queries on this!
If they don't manage people then what do they manage?
My current boss has frequently been remiss in her management.
What she's doing instead is working stupid hours picking up tasks that she doesn't want to drop on us because we're all already overcommitted.
Sure, there are some obvious opportunities inherent in the simplistic write-up above, and a lot that she and I have both done about it - including me giving her manager grief about the workload he's causing her - but the main point is that she's stupidly busy and bitching at her about it would be very counterproductive and also rather ignorant.
What the fuck does 'doing a good job' have to do with it?
You want to do the same job every day for the next three decades? That's ok, some people welcome that.
Many people get bored, want to do different things, have career goals. They want to improve themselves, their skills, their ability to get other jobs. They will benefit greatly from feedback, especially if it's constructive and well intentioned.
That doesn't mean they're not doing 'a good job'. Shit, you could be the world's greatest programmer, I bet I could still find developmental feedback for you.
If you're any good you should have an idea how good you are.
Most people overrate themselves. Very very few people understand their weaknesses and correctly prioritise addressing them. Most people are insecure.
"Hey, you're doing great, we really value you. Of course you can work from home half the time, your contribution is very visible anyway." makes an employee feel great. Adding, "You've said you want to take this next step in your career, and I was thinking some practice on these skills would really take you forward" makes a manager feel great too.
Some managers need helping to do either piece. So step one about improving on feedback: Learn how to ask for it!
sounds like you're dependent on being micromanaged
Or perhaps they're so pro-active and autonomous that they recognise the need to confirm they're still focusing on the right areas.
How the fuck did you read micromanagement into that? Talking to your colleagues - whether they're peers, junior or three levels senior to you - is a bloody good idea, and talking to your boss definitely helps when year end review comes around.
Tape storage is not infinitely fast.
However, why store them? Just recalculate them on the fly.
as relevant as your reply to the topic of what people think of Germany
http://fortune.com/2014/10/22/...
http://greece.greekreporter.co...
Oh look. I'm entirely on fucking topic regarding the sharing of wealth. So sorry for breaking your shitty false narrative.
By a democratically appointed parliament made of members of the nation states?
Sure. Remind me, who democratically elected Juncker?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
Shit, if you want to list good things the EU has achieved then by all means do that. But at least try including some basic checkable fucking facts.
You shared a fucking photograph. I have no idea whether it was a lapdance or if that's just your twisted imagination.
Given the lack of sexual deviance in the articles you just linked I'm guessing it's the latter.
Shit, the entire fucking media trying to demonise Trump and that's the best you can find? Someone losing their virginity at 14? Fucking hell, I'm more deviant than that and my neighbours can confirm it.
It's already been certified by both the Macron camp and Wikileaks to be accurate
My understanding is that the Macron camp have confirmed that a hack occurred. That's not the same as confirming the accuracy of the released materials.
you'd be autistic screeching
Oh, nice attack on people with learning disabilities. Good that you establish your credibility so quickly
about misogyny
No, I'd be laughing about it while dismissing it as obvious bullshit. Much the same response I've had to Colbert's joke.
and you would be right
No, there'd be absolutely nothing misogynistic about Clinton giving Obama somewhere warm and wet to park. Shit, the hatred in that scenario isn't towards the woman - I wouldn't wish that on any man, what the fuck did Obama do to deserve such hatred?
It's unfortunate that you put politics ahead of what's right.
Nope, I'm keeping politics out of this.
Colbert is a homophobe but you refuse to see it
He may or may not be, I don't know enough about him to be sure. I do know that the joke being discussed isn't homophobic, no matter how much you screech on about it.
only because he's on your side.
I'm fairly sure he isn't on my side.
Why is it homophobic?
Why isn't it a comical taunt to Putin about his own homophobia?
Why is making a joke so fucking bad anyway?
Why do you think people think they own you?
You seem to need professional assistance.
For decades calling (or suggesting) someone was a faggot has been an insult
Not any more though, unless you combine insecurity with ignorance, in which case it's really your stupidity that's being insulted.
Indeed, anybody using the term 'faggot' perjoratively is basically revealing their own stupidity and opening themselves up to mockery or sympathy.
I'm confused, the discussion was on weird sexual practices and you've replied with a bunch of random photographs that don't even qualify as sexual, let alone weird.
If I were to check a random sampling of this material - which I can't, because the news article doesn't link to the $!%* leak
Oh ffs. Take your pick of references:
https://www.google.co.uk/?gfe_...
Could I also suggest http://www.livinginternet.com/...
There has always been talk of discontent but never anything material.
No, Brexit isn't material and wasn't remotely influenced by two decades of campaigning, public awareness and politics by independence parties.
damn those Germans sharing wealth
Yeah, ask the southern European members of the Eurozone how much wealth is being shared.
The only laws trumping local laws are nationalistic laws that seek to purposefully impede other countries.
I'm not sure that sentence says what you intended it to say. But why the fuck should the EU be allowed to prevent the UK from having 0% VAT (sales tax) on tampons? I really don't understand how this benefits trans-European trade.
Culture is very much preserved.
That's a very subjective perspective. I'm not sure the ladies of Cologne would agree that their culture was preserved. I don't think the British culture of independence and self-determination was even acknowledged, let alone preserved. The European ideals of democracy were entirely fucking ignored.
As a trading bloc the EU has a lot going for it. Unfortunately that's never been enough for the political elite running it, and that's why it's going to die.
The other interesting thing will be the reaction in France over the next few days over how this leak has been handled.
Their electoral commission banning mention of anything within the leak - whether leaked or not - sounds like an attempt to influence the election; I'd expect a reaction and response to that.
Which videos? I don't recall that request ever being made.
I do recall him responding to an allegation of Russian hacking by suggesting that they may have more success finding missing emails than the incompetence malicious corrupt fucks that "lost" them, but that wasn't a request to 'hack the DNC'.
Sorry but anybody that views the formation of NATO as an aggressive act against Russia has no fucking credibility at all.
You'll be telling me next that Russia invaded Ukraine because of the Americans, not because Putin's an insecure twat that wants a nice holiday home on the Black Sea.
The US does misbehave but Russia is culturally exceedingly insecure - shit, look at the public horror of homosexuality; there's a blatant sign of people lacking confidence in themselves.