>>12782

No problem, if I stay 2 days without taking 'prol and 'mide I am unable to walk 20 meters without gasping for air.

How long is a "month's notice"?
Is it 28 days/4 weeks or if I hand my notice in on the 5th, I'm expected to be there till the 5th the next month?

>>13283
Write the date you want to leave on your notice as 28 days from the day you hand it in. Let them argue if they want to.

>>13283

Most likely a working month, so four weeks. If they meant a calendar month everyone would just wait until February to quit.

>>64079

Sorry Redditlad, should I have ended my post with an /s?

>>64080
YOU BETTER STEP BACK OR I'LL DOWN VOTE YOU

>>64079

your mum has a stinky shredder slot.

>>64083
TOO MUCH RAPE SEED?

>>64080

no m8 you should have been funnier

Looks like there will be no more winter sport in the future.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/09/12/could-global-warming-spell-demise-winter-sports-these-athletes-told-congress-thats-their-fear/?noredirect=on

>>430512
If anything's waking the septics up it's the loss of sports.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-poll-most-americans-say-climate-change-should-be-addressed-now-2019-09-15/

>>430514

Bad news for ARE Eddie as well.

>>430469
What did they do over here? I thought Rage Against The Boomers were only big in America.

>>430516

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pinch-Boomers-Childrens-Future-Should/dp/1848872321/

http://www.if.org.uk/research/

>>63989

The poverty line has stayed the same. The cost of living has increased. Looking at one graph in isolation doesn't prove anything.

I'm not a hand wringing guardian type, I'm the type who fully understands darkies do the stabbing and eat fuckloads of fried chicken. But their problems are cultural as well as political and economic. It does nobody any good to try and blame one thing and one thing alone, because it makes them feel uncomfortable exploring the impact of other factors.

Left wingers don't want to admit black people might need a sitting down and telling how to raise their kids not to be thugs. Right wing people don't want to admit their economic policies are clearly and obviously worsening the situation. Politicians in general don't want to admit they've been steadfastly ignoring any and all opportunity to deal with issues like this at the core of our society for fucking decades.

>>63998
People like the "one neat trick that solves complex societal problem" rather than the nuanced incremental changes, or at least the media do because it's easier to get their heads around and report on a radical quick fix.

Politicians also love something that can be condensed into a sound bite. At the current time, unsurprisingly, most of the noise is about A Levels and university admissions; Labour want students to apply to university after they have their results because they claim that poorer students are most likely to have their grades predicted too low and will end up accepting an unconditional offer from a 'lesser' university than they would be admitted to based on their actual grades.

This appears to be a good thing but in isolation it is an oversimplification of a wider and more complex issue. We should also be asking why teachers in disadvantaged areas are much more likely to under-predict the grades of their students; the Sutton trust found that they tend to have the greatest misconceptions about Oxbridge and are far less likely to encourage pupils to study there. Are they more jaded and does this rub off into their teaching? Do they have much less belief and optimism for their students? Are they less engaged with their students, perhaps due to larger class sizes and more disruptive children, so they don't actually know them well enough to predict their grades with as much accuracy? If we want to emulate the likes of Finland then it's clear that we need to be almost halving class sizes. We should also be asking whether students from poorer backgrounds are given even support to understand how important where you study actually is and that a degree from the university of Manchester is far more valuable than a degree from Manchester met. We should be asking whether we have too many 'lesser' institutions and if some of these should be converted into polys. We should be asking why so many universities are making unconditional offers in the first place. We should be asking whether too many students are going to university. You get the idea, otherwise you're just papering over the cracks.

Targeting chicken shops was racist, they said.

>Man dies after Lewisham chicken shop fight

>A man has died after a fight at a chicken shop in London.
>The Met said two men suffered stab wounds and head injuries in a fight in Downham Way, Lewisham, at about 23:55 BST on Friday.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-49700338

>>64075
Wasn't someone else stabbed to death in a KFC in London the other day?

>>64075

But was this chicken shop participating in #knifefree?

It might well have saved somebody's life.

I've finally finished my first book written by a woman since starting this thread, if a collection of short stories counts.

I don't think terse gothic horror is for me. I will report back when I get around to reading something else.

>>6963
Alice Munro is a favorite of mine.

Pride and Prejudice is an easy, thoroughly enjoyable read.

>>6963

Just read books you indoctrinated wallop

>>7047
What?

Unless you can point out something the landlord does not already know, then I don't see what difference any grovelling will make.

>>7726
It's a dance. You say you want to renew, they come back with a mostly reasonable figure and you go from there - it isn't usually a hassle.

This is some CKII Zoroastrian shit ITT.

>>430408
Fair enough. I'm not even sure if I would want to meet the guy by this point.


>>430440
>>430418
Well, this has been a whole thing. My parents never explicitly told me I was the child of a donor, but I figured it out eventually. I am a bit of a spergic cunt with no idea how to act normally, and it was somewhat exaggerated during my teen years; it really shit my dad up that I went ahead and requested the info without consulting him, but I felt like it was my right to know. Family has never been even remotely important to me, but I feel it could be catastrophic in families with a strong bond.

>>430451
As I said yesterday, you don't have to look that similar to look similar enough.



Genetics is a complex thing, though. I don't really think I look like anyone on my mum's side, but my grandfather died in 1985, and both my grandmother and grandfather's individual parents (I'm not sure how to word this without it sounding like they shared parents; they did not) died when they were young, so there are few, if any pictures of any of my direct male lineage.

>>430490

>I am a bit of a spergic cunt with no idea how to act normally


With future designer babies, that shouldn't happen anymore.

>>430493
Thank fuck. The world doesn't need any more wastes of resources like me.

>>430494

That's the spirit.

Posting like that directly affects all other readers, and breeds further disease.

Personally they should be banned for as long as it takes a person to learn how to write. Two years?

>>20172
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/60/contents

>>20166

So if a bird sodomises someone with a strap-on, it's not rape? If a bloke bum fucks you, it's not rape?

Blimey, you learn something new every day. I think we need a hashtag to sort this injustice out.

>>20174
Reading comprehension not your strong point, is it?

>>20174

>Blimey, you learn something new every day


With the exception of the lads who make all those bold claims in the first place.

>>20175

It should be noted that my post was intended to express shock and surprise, not disagreement or smart-arsery.

>>20176

Not sure what claims you're on about.

THAT'S SAMUEL L JACKSON U BERK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dxD2n91s1k

Is there something I'm doing wrong, here?

Nothing I can see, the first story is just the fact of life these people have no prior relationship with you, I'm sure you are lovely but then I'm sure the other 50+ people who applied are lovely too. That's just life you are as mundane as the rest of us

The second is just bullshit nepotism, the last job I interview for it got into a farce by the end because they didn't want to admit I was the better candidate on paper but they wanted to hire someone else because they were the mate of the guy he'd be closely working with presumably because the likes of their bosses boss would be wholly unamused.

For my career break I came second in a job interview. I later learnt that the admin head only wanted to hire women, something I've mentioned on /job/ before, so I lost out to someone who turned out to be useless but possessed a vagina. However, I impressed other people at the interview so that when someone went off on long-term sick I was hired on a temporary contract, which was eventually made permanent.

I'm now in a managerial position so I'm responsible for recruitment in my department. There's been occasions where there's been a dearth of suitable candidates. There's been other occasions where I've had to choose one from a number of strong candidates when any one of them would have absolutely walked it at on a different occasion, some of whom I've contacted when we've had a vacancy at a later date. You can try your absolute best but you can't control who you are up against. That's life.

There's no guarantee that an employer has a decent hiring process. For some reason the recruitment for the graduate scheme at work is done by the admin head and she is as thick as pig shit, which most likely explains why four out of the last five graduates recruited have turned out to be a mistake.

>>430474
Why are you so obsessed with this? It's like the super dinosaur from Jurassic World 2, just a less efficient way of killing someone than shooting them. You're trying to reinvent the wheel.

>>430480
Think about it, lad. If you shoot someone then people will know about it. If you create biological weapons from the guts of people with autism and release them undetected in say, Finland, then you could turn it into a country of barely communicative stunted spergs without anyone being any the wiser.

>>430481
And what are you going to do with it after, turn it into a zombie apocalypse theme park?

>>430481

>people with autism and release them undetected in say, Finland

I was going to post a picture of Pertti Pasanen, but I fear the mods' wrath.

>>430482
Take over the world.

>>15031
Kurskmerk sits unfinished and you think you’re getting a new banner? I envy your optimism.

Define Kurskmerk

>>15033
It's part of the prophecy that came to one of the (now) mods in a dream.

>>15033
It's coming soon

http://britfa.gs/6/

>>64062

It's not a meme, it's a website.

>>64064
Shouting the name of the website when there's a bit of argy-bargy going on is a meme. A dead one.

>>64065

Whenever people argue about politics or race or the right spanner to use, I scream BRIIIITFAAAAGGSS at them.

>>64066
I would kill to be in an environment where people routinely argue about hand tools.
>No no no, lad. That's not Phillips, that's a Pozi, you'll strip it if you keep doing that.

>>64064

Wasn't this Bebo's slogan for a while?

>>12900

Do some voluntary work or ask at the Jobcentre about work placements. It'll help build your confidence, get you back into the habit of working and you'll get a reference. It shouldn't affect your benefits.

There are loads of local organisations who offer back-to-work support programmes for the long term unemployed. You could do a bit of Googling, or ask at the Jobcentre or Citizens Advice.

You might want to consider your education options. If you don't have many qualifications, taking a vocational course at your local FE college might be a good route back into work. A recent qualification on your CV shows employers that you're actually motivated to get back into work, rather than just applying for stuff because the Jobcentre told you to.

Self-employment is also an option worth considering. You can get free mentoring, a loan to cover your start-up costs and claim the New Enterprise Allowance for the first six months.

If you're disabled/mentally ill there are a lot of services which give advice to people with these conditions looking for work. I used a couple last year, and while they were a bit basic for me (I already had a half decent CV with a fair amount of work experience) I can see it would be useful for those who have less experience.

>>12904
The whole point of work is looking busy rather than actually doing work. Everyone in the finance team at Patisserie Valerie was so good at looking busy rather doing their jobs that they didn't notice there wasn't any money for them to shuffle around and those lovely people at Grant Thornton were so good at pretending to audit that they didn't notice it either.

Offer to do people's gardening, go door to door.

If you can cycle consider deliveroo.

Look on fiverr for things like dog sitting, cat sitting.

Can you play any instruments or know any foreign languages? People are always looking to learn.

These jobs aren't ideal but they're a start.

>>12905
>ask at the Jobcentre about work placement

fucking don't lad, its slave labour under a different name. volunteer at a charity. alternatively alot of places don't give two shits about employment.

best advice get on the train if you live somewhere that has one. blah blah blah ticket prices its bullshit. any cunt can find a job in london or brighton or birmingham. so do that and commute.

What was it? I forgot.

The over compensating is cringe inducing.

>>64058
Well, the Tweet was over seven years ago so don't worry too much.

>>64059

Can't believe it's been over seven years since that slag posted his ridiculous tweet still tickles my nut to this day /iq/ .gs 9.00

>>64059

I'm not but it is like staring at a car accident where someone is looking the wrong way walking into traffic.

>>21324
This again.
These AI cunts seem to be somewhat more intelligent than I would've expected.
They do a lot of daft bot things, like wandering away from a 1hp ez kill stuck in a dead end. And then I didn't really expect having a C-4 package tossed right into my face. Nor did I pay attention to the cannon tower at the bunker side of crossfire. Kaboom, beep-beep-beeeeep.
It's oddly satisfying.

Despite swearing it off about a year ago as an unforgivable time sink I've been dabbling in Hearts of Iron 3 again. I've been building the USA up to enter to the war, which isn't massively involved, so when I was playing last night I drifted off and managed to sleep through most of 1940. I don't think I missed much and I can't be bothered redoing all the pre-war admin so I'm just carrying on regardless.

>>23048
How is HoI different from Victoria II?

>>23049
It's just a WW2 simulation, it's far more military focused, indeed the politics is almost non-existent, there are no populations and playing as a minor nation is basically pointless, rather than being a challange like it is in most Paradox games. I think I've already given up on it though. I was playing with a mod, but it does something I can't stand where it makes the AI harder by just giving them a shite load of artificial buffs and gimping your own progress, I can stand that in some contexts, but not a WW2 game.

It's fun enough, but everything I just mentioned has soured this current playthrough. It's easier enough to torrent the regular game too thanks GOG!, and given that the base game can feel like a beta and the DLC is mandatory I wouldn't pay for it if I had another chance.

Alright, I started playing HoI3 again; can't quit this shit, man.

>>12147

We were well into the home studio boom by 2000. We'd had reasonably affordable studio gear for about a decade prior (ADAT decks, Mackie desks, the new wave of Chinese condensers) but Cubase VST came out in 1996, which really marked the beginning of the end. At about the same time, we got the first wave of digital portastudios, which killed the demo studio pretty much overnight - for the price of a week in a cheap studio, you could buy a little box with 8 tracks of digital recording and some basic effects.

I suppose it's essentially a good thing that recording was democratised, but it coincided with a lot of shitty and undemocratic changes in music. John Peel died in 2004, which was a great loss to music and marked the end of an era. Myspace and Napster were supposed to democratise the distribution of music, but the opposite really happened - unless you've got a trust fund, it's very hard to break through the noise and find an audience. A&R men started trusting follower counts more than their own judgement. Development deals died and the majors started expecting new acts to bring their own fan base. Small venues started going pay-to-play, pricing a lot of artists out of the opportunity to build an audience by playing live. The old system was unfair and arbitrary, but at least you had a chance.

>>12146
>I ran my own studio in the early '10s.
You post pictures of it here back in the day? Tidy looking place, that was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZiHb6PH1dA
Close your eyes and imagine you're floating over a lush, green, friendly grassland on a sunny day, the occasional copse of trees offering inviting shade to rest a while.

I posted ISAN in the other thread just to see what the recommendation would be but it's got me back to what an absolute gem Lucky Cat was. I guess I've gone back to synth now that the weather is turning.

>>8321

You are being over sensitive

>>8323

He is but what does the acronym mean?

>>8324
This MMTI.

>>8325
YABOS.

If he smokes he pokes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A81IwlDeV6c

the mum

2019 Charlie Dimmock.

>>40853
Nice dimmocks.