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by ShockDiamonds
Wed Nov 27, 2019 1:46 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Bye Bye Boris!
Replies: 4058
Views: 424364

Re: Bye Bye Boris!

@SD What, like cleaning the floors after school? Of course it fucking doesn't. If you flunk your exams you won't progress, exactly in the same way as for the other kids. No, I meant in terms of being tied to the insitution thereafter. I've been led to believe (previously) that's it not completely f...
by ShockDiamonds
Wed Nov 27, 2019 1:40 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Bye Bye Boris!
Replies: 4058
Views: 424364

Re: Bye Bye Boris!

GG. wrote: Wed Nov 27, 2019 1:38 pm My god the ignorance is astounding. These schools are academically selective too. You just get in for free if you can't pay and are awarded a bursary.

Sadly this level of understanding of the whole system informs the (low) level of debate.
That comes with some conditions though, doesn't it?
by ShockDiamonds
Wed Nov 27, 2019 1:22 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Bye Bye Boris!
Replies: 4058
Views: 424364

Re: Bye Bye Boris!

Businesses which reduce your need for state spending and employ lots of people, yes. It's exactly the same as private healthcare - also exempt from VAT - though I'm sure of course that would probably go in the long run too in our new socialist nirvana. I'd rather the teachers work in the public sec...
by ShockDiamonds
Wed Nov 27, 2019 1:20 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Bye Bye Boris!
Replies: 4058
Views: 424364

Re: Bye Bye Boris!

Mate at work (earns a lot less than 80k) sends his daughter to private school because the state schools in his area, in his view, are shit. You never really know whether it's truth of course, and in actual fact my sister-in-law works at one of the schools in question and tries to run a good ship but...
by ShockDiamonds
Wed Nov 27, 2019 12:43 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Gary Rhodes
Replies: 18
Views: 2666

Re: Gary Rhodes

Simon wrote: Wed Nov 27, 2019 12:40 pmToo soon.
Yep should have left it in the oven until it was properly browned off.

Sorry.
by ShockDiamonds
Wed Nov 27, 2019 12:41 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Bye Bye Boris!
Replies: 4058
Views: 424364

Re: Bye Bye Boris!

Thanks, and thanks for confirming what I'd suspected. Essentially, yes, the debt is higher under the Conservatives, but in each case that's only because each Labour administration runs up a large deficit that the Conservatives then have to reduce again. I've seen McDonald and Corbyn make the same c...
by ShockDiamonds
Wed Nov 27, 2019 12:39 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Bye Bye Boris!
Replies: 4058
Views: 424364

Re: Bye Bye Boris!

So you'll vote for someone that's worse? I don't understand the logic at all of not liking the incumbent or a policy that they're for, but then voting for someone that is worse in every other measurable way. I simply see it as the lesser of two evils. Understand this - I don't like Corbyn. Matter o...
by ShockDiamonds
Wed Nov 27, 2019 12:35 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Gary Rhodes
Replies: 18
Views: 2666

Re: Gary Rhodes

Jobbo wrote: Wed Nov 27, 2019 12:23 pm "It was something he ate"
Better I guess than "It was something he cooked".
by ShockDiamonds
Wed Nov 27, 2019 12:33 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Bye Bye Boris!
Replies: 4058
Views: 424364

Re: Bye Bye Boris!

Sure, let's have a look at the data used to make your claim please? And secondly, if you take both manifestos at their word, then by Labours own volition they're gonna increase borrowing massively to pay for their 'free everything' plan. Knock yourself out: http://www.primeeconomics.org/articles/co...
by ShockDiamonds
Wed Nov 27, 2019 12:10 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Gary Rhodes
Replies: 18
Views: 2666

Re: Gary Rhodes

Far too young. Had he been ill?
by ShockDiamonds
Tue Nov 26, 2019 12:25 pm
Forum: General
Topic: For anyone wondering where JL is
Replies: 11
Views: 1777

Re: For anyone wondering where JL is

NotoriousREV wrote: Tue Nov 26, 2019 12:21 pm
ShockDiamonds wrote: Tue Nov 26, 2019 12:12 pm I'll be uploading a Panamera vid review next couple of weeks. That'll bring him out of the woodwork.
I can wait. ;)
You can spend the time between now and then welding a new chair together to then smash apart in frustation 30 seconds in...
by ShockDiamonds
Tue Nov 26, 2019 12:14 pm
Forum: Gaming + Tech
Topic: Red Dead Redemption 2
Replies: 0
Views: 1856

Red Dead Redemption 2

Anybody got this? Wife is getting me it on Steam for Christmas - just hope it runs ok on Steam (provided it does launch in December) given the evident problems it had at overall launch. Seem fixed now but does anybody have any actual experience of these probs?
by ShockDiamonds
Tue Nov 26, 2019 12:12 pm
Forum: General
Topic: For anyone wondering where JL is
Replies: 11
Views: 1777

Re: For anyone wondering where JL is

I'll be uploading a Panamera vid review next couple of weeks. That'll bring him out of the woodwork.
by ShockDiamonds
Sat Nov 23, 2019 10:13 pm
Forum: Cars
Topic: Tesla Cyberpuke
Replies: 149
Views: 51295

Re: Tesla Cyberpuke

Fucking ridiculous. But it’s getting talked about, which is all Elon probably wants. I don’t get the Tesla love at all. They look dull, their interiors are thin, cold and devoid of any kind of atmosphere. Then they unveil something like this, which looks to take the piss out of those who rave about ...
by ShockDiamonds
Sat Nov 23, 2019 9:59 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Grand Tour Series 3
Replies: 334
Views: 45922

Re: Grand Tour Series 3

Richard wrote: Fri Nov 22, 2019 7:09 pmThat looks good
It’d look a lot better if Hammond would stop dropping tar into his hair.
by ShockDiamonds
Thu Nov 21, 2019 12:36 pm
Forum: Gaming + Tech
Topic: Google: Project Stadia
Replies: 51
Views: 12434

Re: Google: Project Stadia

Mate in the office was saying that his other mate has received his controller through the post, but with no activation code. So he's ever so slightly :evil:
by ShockDiamonds
Thu Nov 21, 2019 12:25 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Vitamin D
Replies: 63
Views: 10709

Re: Vitamin D

Dave, wife asking whether you had any form of prescription for the chemists or whether you ‘just’ bought a pot from the supermarket or whatever and followed the daily dosage instructions? Cheers See link above, I just bought them off Amazon. The NHS recommends we all take 10 micro grams per day in ...
by ShockDiamonds
Tue Nov 19, 2019 6:16 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Vitamin D
Replies: 63
Views: 10709

Re: Vitamin D

Dave, wife asking whether you had any form of prescription for the chemists or whether you ‘just’ bought a pot from the supermarket or whatever and followed the daily dosage instructions? Cheers
by ShockDiamonds
Tue Nov 19, 2019 12:48 pm
Forum: Gaming + Tech
Topic: New iPhones
Replies: 453
Views: 63990

Re: New iPhones

XS Max here, only ever charge it when it's at 1% or dead, and at 13 months old battery health is 100%. Seems to still easily go 2 days with a bit of music use, a little surfing, the odd call, texts and plenty of Facebook/Facebook Messenger across those 48 hours.
by ShockDiamonds
Tue Nov 19, 2019 12:45 pm
Forum: Gaming + Tech
Topic: Lego
Replies: 1216
Views: 189400

Re: Lego

Not ringing my bell, either.