Lament 3: Cry Hard With A Vengeance

[RyanThunder]

we could always ask ryanthunder he had that sort of thing figured out years ago

what're you talking about i had that shit figured out before i was born

[RogueIce]

We had to reset the Drama Counter only four times

Five. Or need I remind you of the Pinkie Pie incident?

[Oxymoron]

We had agreed not to speak of it again, Rogue.

[The Spartan]

That doesn't mean that it doesn't count!

[Infinity Biscuit]

omg omg the photographer is super interested in doing a shoot yessssssss

[timmy]

I've always figured facebook would be my collection of photos from when I was young and beautiful

Actually I have a blown up picture of me from the end of my teens behind a bookshelf that everyone signed at my 21st, so maybe that's it

I applaud the notion, Biscuit. Have fun.

[evilsoup]

uch
fucking tory vermin
I'm starting to see the appeal of re-education camps
now they're talking about making people on Jobseeker's allowance come in every fucking day, so all the money they're getting will go on fucking bus tickets
plus it will swamp the offices -- right now people have to sign on once a fortnight, so we're looking at a 1400% rise in footfall if they go through with this (aww shit maybe I'll be able to get a job at the jobcentre -- lol probably not, the existing guys will just have to do more work)
all to target the vulnerable people who will be put off by this runaround and the extra stress
using nudge theory for evil, it's so diabolical it's almost beautiful

[Crazedwraith]

Technically it won't be 1400% increase. Because its not everyone on jsa. But people who have been on it for over two years.

But its still fucking stupid and wrong headed, taking the veiw that people on jsa are just lazy and its not because there just isn't enough jobs.

[evilsoup]

yeah you're right
it's still rather obviously targeted at the more vulnerable people on the JSA -- people who haven't got organisational skills for whatever reasons
also they're bringing in more unpaid work uch
I did eight weeks of that, working at the reception of a charity. I didn't mind that because it did give me useful experience, but also because it was a charity. That was fine. Another option the jobcentre gave me was working at a taxi firm as a dispatches caller; but fuck that, if I'm going to be doing work for a commercial operation I want to get paid, I don't want to be undermining their actual employees by working for free. Which is, of course, the real point of that scheme.

[Phantasee]

Successfully held a youth wing summit in the heart of an opposition riding this weekend. Premier and some ministers came out. We made sure everybody knew. It was awesome.

[Oxymoron]

Attention:

I bought myself three albums today, and they are the fucking dope.

French Touch all the way


(C2C - Tetra ; Woodkid - The Golden Age ; Wax Tailor - In The Mood For Life)

[Infinity Biscuit]

job interviiiiiieeeeewwwwww

[evilsoup]

good luck

[Gands]

Teaching is hard. I've been marking tests, and while it's less demanding than teaching kindergarten, it's more gruelling.

Successfully held a youth wing summit in the heart of an opposition riding this weekend. Premier and some ministers came out. We made sure everybody knew. It was awesome.

Fantastic! I love reading your updates on these things. I like seeing people be both energetic about politics and also not nuts.

[RyanThunder]

But he's with the Conservative party. They're pretty nuts.

[Gands]

But are they "exterminate the government" nuts?

[evilsoup]

look just because your country is broken doesn't mean that you get to inflict your low standards on the rest of us

[Oxymoron]

Damn : now that my mobile phone has a 4G plan, I kid you not it can download data more than 10 times faster than my landline internet access (I just saw it download 6MB in the span of a second, while my landline goes at 500KB/s TOPS, and usually hover around 240KB/s).

That's just batshit insane.

[Oxymoron]

I was curious to see with hard numbers how bad / good it was. I wasn't disappointed :

Using Ookla speedtest app for the phone and the desktop website for the landline :

[my phone]
Ping : 49ms
Download : 31.81 Mbps (3.95 MB/s)
Upload : 17.5 Mbps (2.19 MB/s)

[my landline]
Ping : 61ms
Download : 2.19 Mbps (0.273 MB/s)
Upload : 0.48 Mps (0.06 MB/s)

[Phone/Landline]

Ping : 80% (20% reduction of ping time)
Download : 14.5x
Upload : 36.5x


It is to be noted that during that test my phone had only 2 of 4 bars of network, indicating a mediocre connectivity to the 4G network.

Test conducted with a Samsung Galaxy 4S smartphone.

[Crazedwraith]

Hey Soup, have you heard the latest from cameron? No benefits for the under 25, you should be 'earning or learning'.

Cos you know young jobless people are just slackers that could easily find work. And higher education is totally free and available to all.

[RogueIce]

Teaching is hard. I've been marking tests, and while it's less demanding than teaching kindergarten, it's more grueling.

Scantrons are your friend.

look just because your country is broken doesn't mean that you get to inflict your low standards on the rest of us

Canada is broken now?

Hey Soup, have you heard the latest from cameron? No benefits for the under 25, you should be 'earning or learning'.

Cos you know young jobless people are just slackers that could easily find work. And higher education is totally free and available to all.

I thought the UK was the place where you "had" to pay back student loans but if you didn't nobody would actually do anything about it? Did that change?

[Oxymoron]

I suppose not paying the loans back have a negative influence on their credit rating, hurting their chances to ever being able to buy a car or a house ?

As for Canada, I suppose it's a question of perspective, depending on which side of the Atlantic you look it from ?

[Crazedwraith]

I thought the UK was the place where you "had" to pay back student loans but if you didn't nobody would actually do anything about it? Did that change?

You have to pay back loans. In fact its automatically taken from a pay check. But only if you're above a certain annual salary. £15,000 in my case. More for people who are more recent because charges trippled.

And that;s only for undergraduate loans. To stay in education until you were twenty-five you'd been doing post graduate studies. Which you have to pay for yourself. You can get loans for it but they'd be from a bank and of the really-real, pay back at once whatever your situation type of loan.

[timmy]

In Australia that's called the Higher Education Loan Plan(HELP), previously known as the Higher Education Contribution Scheme(HECS). The change was probably because 'loan' actually sounds like something you have to pay back Or Else, where 'Contribution' sounds like you're doing them a favour if you can chip in a bit.

My dad, on the other hand, got his medical degree for free.

And nowdays Australian Universities are being paid for by full-fee upfront students from all across Asia. I drunkenly apologised to one of them for this as he drove me home in his cab a few months ago. He said it was no biggie.

[evilsoup]

I'm actually more concerned that the tories have gone full-on comic book supervillain and declared that they're going to get rid of the Human Rights Act
and reduce the number of appeals for immigrants trying not to get kicked out, with inane shit like 'oh they can appeal after they've been deported'. All because the Home Secretary got butthurt over the Abu Hamzer case (well OK the actual reason is that their entire ideology is based on hatred and fear)
even though that case brought about positive changes in Jordanian law to bring it more into line with human rights concerns, which I would consider a massive success

anyway, what with all the tories attacking my generation specifically, I'm starting to see the appeal of all those whiny little fucks talking shit about intergenerational conflicts (lol why don't we get all those lazy pensioners into full time employment or education?). It's still bollocks, but I'm getting it.
EDIT: it's pretty funny that the party that complains about the 'nanny state' so much is trying to act as some kind of surrogate parent

also I've been greatly amused by the paper that supported Hitler attacking a dead Jewish intellectual this week. Classy.