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living the long 2016

European Union
Joined September 2017
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Got to admit, the loss of Patrick Stewart is hitting me pretty hard.
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Make the minimum wage £50 per hour
Working class Brits getting angry about increases to the minimum wage. What a bitter, resentful shithole of a country we live in.
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"My socialism is forcing poor people to queue for food"
This has been a real eye opener for me in terms of what a lot of ppl think socialism is vs what it actually is bc I thought this was a positive outcome before I even learned there’s literally already a Lidl in Bath
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We're going to need a very big ladder to get her out of this hole.
Replying to @clrjoannawright
I realise this needs more explanation
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There's a peculiar tolerance for incompetence that is extended only to the metropolitan middle class.
To the people ragging on BBC's Joe Tidy for not knowing about PHP: Guess what? Nor did 99% of the general public. It is a journalist's job to help people understand complex subjects. We're writers, not technicians - we speak to the experts. (P.S. Joe is the best in the biz.)
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I'm sure showing political weakness never backfired on anyone.
If I was Prime Minister , if I was Burnham , watching European cities ablaze . . . I’d instigate a ‘wealth tax’ at about 9.01am tomorrow morning . Just saying . Or should we just ‘eat cake’ ?
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The Yank constantly yearns to be the oppressed rather than the role they choose to adopt.
The Europeans constantly make fun of our "funny" state names and its always the ones named after Native Amercian tribes. 👀
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I will vote for whoever aims to complete this map.
We don’t talk about this enough
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Dann, they must really hate those 30 people
Update: Thousands have gathered here on the Garvaghy Road in Portadown to show support to residents who blocked an Orange Order parade almost a week ago. First Minister Michelle O'Neill was amongst those who gave speeches today @BelTel
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It's an interesting choice to fully misrepresent what happened.
Framing two black celebs as millionaires with hurt feelings to downplaying how they were called a slur by a white man (who while disabled is also a millionaire) is an interesting choice
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
John Davidson is a community centre caretaker in Scotland, not a millionaire (unlike a different US entertainer of the same name). He suggested the separate room for the Scottish BAFTAs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Davi… bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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I see the Irish republicans are threatening to blow up the Northern Ireland peace process. Is there anything they don't want to see in pieces?
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It's great that our intelligence services can intercept imported terrorist cells just before they commit atrocities. Imagine the time when they can't.
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When your personality is about getting offended at the sacrifice of WWII.
There's going to be a lot of 'keep politics out of football' comments this weekend. Meanwhile players in England will be wearing poppies next month and scrutinised if they don't, after a World Cup where the US President stood with the winners on the podium. The horse has bolted.
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If I thought that members of an opposing political party were fascists, the last thing I'd do is try to validate their world view in the eyes of the public.
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Joey Gallipoli
Find your adult film star name by mixing your favourite Friends cast member and a tragic disaster. Mine is Monica Grenfell.
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Send the HR ladies in first against the Russians
EXCLUSIVE: Special forces soldiers believe they are “untouchable” and not all of them are the heroes they think they are, according to a former female civil servant who worked alongside them. Monica Grenfell, who was employed at the Special Air Service (SAS) headquarters in Credenhill, near Hereford, for three years, said some of the elite troops were “feral” and it was “the nasty characters who really ruled the roost”. She has given evidence under oath to the Afghan Inquiry and has now been interviewed by @thetimes thetimes.com/article/5706a8a…
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Maybe I'm too autistic for this discourse but I just don't understand why I can't wear flaming nipple clamps to a job interview?????
Maybe I’m too autistic for this discourse but I just don’t understand why you can’t have an iced coffee in a job interview??? Or even a funeral?? It’s a bloody drink, not a bomb. What is the issue? I’m so confused. This is why I hate unspoken societal rules THEY MAKE ZERO SENSE
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"Nativism is what we need" says insufferable young woman to the Onal.
NEW: Sophie Rose Jenkins, from Glasgow, quit St Andrews University and spoke out against "anti-Scottish classism". Now other students are breaking their silence, saying they've had similar experiences.
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Imagine demanding to bring your emotional support coffee to an interview
People who aren't autistic are so exhausting. ten thousand people swearing that bringing your own drink to a job interview is unprofessional and zero people able to articulate any reason why. absolutely pathetic
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