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    Self-important cock. Does he think they're all getting in for free?

    https://www.joe.ie/music/irish-3aren...s-phone-600325

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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-41167296

    Crisis. Response. Further crisis.

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    Outstanding

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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41181269

    Absolute state of the nation piece there, capped by the head referring to pupils as 'learners'.

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    "If you have different types of trousers it leads on to different types of shoes, different types of shirts, etc."

    The horror.

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    Saw something about similar stuff on twitter and someone was saying some of it's down to schools making you buy their stuff to make money rather than you just being able to go to Asda or wherever for some fucking grey trousers. Who gives a shit what shade they are.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    Saw something about similar stuff on twitter and someone was saying some of it's down to schools making you buy their stuff to make money rather than you just being able to go to Asda or wherever for some fucking grey trousers. Who gives a shit what shade they are.
    Precisely, the story has everything that sums us up these days:

    - corporate stitch-up
    - professional lying
    - bullshit language
    - overpaid jobsworths

    I wonder what the first person pictured in the story thinks of the second person pictured.

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    Sounds about right.

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    I'd probably do both

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    Median weekly wage of £669.70, somebody pass me a gun.

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    Sent home from school compo faces are the best part of September.

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    I still don't know how the English survive. You make 670 pound a week on average, ok, fair enough, there are some US states where that's the median. But then your public transportation passes cost 10 million pound and your pints cost more than a full dinner in the States, so I'm not exactly sure what's being neglected. Do you go shopping once a year?

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    Not to forget petrol prices, which are mind boggling.

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    We have the unholy combination of rampant capitalism and a massive government, making everything stupidly expensive. Most countries tend to pick one or the other.

    For a short while I had a job in London (so had to commute) on a very low wage, literally made a £100 profit for a couple of months.

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    God save the Queen

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    Quote Originally Posted by mokbull View Post
    Not to forget petrol prices, which are mind boggling.
    Something like seventy per cent of that is tax (depending on prices), which would probably kick another revolution off in America.

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    670 a week on average.

    Spend some time up North, mok. (It's a lot less.)
    I'm a twit

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    So is everything else. Apart from the benefits.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    Something like seventy per cent of that is tax (depending on prices), which would probably kick another revolution off in America.
    For green energy? Is it put towards anything in particular? That's crazy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Baz View Post
    670 a week on average.

    Spend some time up North, mok. (It's a lot less.)
    Does it start to reverse around the Scottish border?

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    Quote Originally Posted by mokbull View Post
    For green energy? Is it put towards anything in particular? That's crazy.
    It just goes into general taxation, and until very recently was effectively locked into above-inflation rises every year. Then when oil prices go up the government starts blaming petrol stations for ripping people off.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mokbull View Post
    I still don't know how the English survive. You make 670 pound a week on average, ok, fair enough, there are some US states where that's the median. But then your public transportation passes cost 10 million pound and your pints cost more than a full dinner in the States, so I'm not exactly sure what's being neglected. Do you go shopping once a year?
    Is this dollars or before tax? WTF. The average UK wage is about £27,000 isn't it?

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    Wait, is everything counted after tax in the UK? Like the 670, is that before or after?

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    I'd love a £4.40 pint. My shithouse local half an hour from the city centre is €5.50. That said the last time I was drinking in the UK a couple of months ago it was £2.30, and it's only 75 minutes away.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mokbull View Post
    Wait, is everything counted after tax in the UK? Like the 670, is that before or after?
    Just to make it nice and simple - wage will be before tax, prices after tax.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    Just to make it nice and simple - wage will be before tax, prices after tax.
    Alright, so it's the same then. Fucking impoverished country you've got

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    You say that but at least everyone here has safe drinking water.

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    You don't need "safe drinking water" when you've got affordable Mountain Dew

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    Then when that Mountain Dew gives you a heart attack (you could do with a tastebud transplant first you wrong'en) you get saddled (OI OI sports) with a crippling bill.

    Meanwhile, we can Greggs and Dr Pepper ourselves into as many ailments as we please.

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    Mountain Dew is about a quid for a big bottle here. If that's not affordable you must be getting no more than pocket money.

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    Everything seems cheaper in America because it's labelled with the wrong price. The practice of not applying sales tax until you take the thing to the cash register is fucking mental and is a good enough reason to ignore every bit of progress that country has ever made.

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    I was a bit taken aback by Mert's claims a while back about the various average incomes in the US versus the UK and elsewhere, and it seemed to check out too. Now, I figured the variable exchange rate was a big factor (in 10 years it must have nigh on halved), and the fact that they have no holiday entitlements whatsoever, but still it seemed to me that average wages in the US shouldn't be almost double what they are in Europe and elsewhere. Then I realised I was perhaps being duped by the metric. Median household income? What the fuck is that? Is that 2 people working? Then there's the idea that you work it out by dividing the country's GDP by its working population. Erm. So actually, digging a bit deeper, it seems there isn't such a massive disparity, if there is one at all. Everything in the US does cost buttons though so you could probably earn $5 a week and buy a 7 bedroom mansion (soon to be eradicated by some sort of freak weather, natch) and still have change to eat out in Chipotle every night.

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    Cheaper stuff, lower taxes and more land/bigger cars vs zero social security, the requirement to work yourself into an early grave, and THAT SIR IS A FEDERAL OFFENCE. I'm happy not to be there.

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    Everybody's happier where they are

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    Still, median household income in the UK is 23,000 pound (30,000 dollars) and in the US the median household income is over $50,000, so it's a pretty objective truth that incomes are higher in the US while most fixed expenses are lower. And we still elected who we elected.

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    I too am surprised that a country with 7x the GDP, on a land area 39x the size with vast amounts more natural resources, earns less than double the UK's median salary.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mokbull View Post
    Everybody's happier where they are
    Not me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mokbull View Post
    Still, median household income in the UK is 23,000 pound (30,000 dollars) and in the US the median household income is over $50,000, so it's a pretty objective truth that incomes are higher in the US while most fixed expenses are lower. And we still elected who we elected.
    Ah, but what you really need to do whilst over here is fall over and hurt yourself, or maybe pass out through excess hedonism on one of these 'nights out' I'm told people do, and you will experience the magic of Our NHS. You can sit in a waiting room for ten hours, contract a superbug and be treated like shit by a lazy nurse, and it's all FREE.

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    Speaking of which (again), is this the best sub-heading you have ever seen?

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    I've had my fair share of run-ins with nurses both as a patient and a med student, but you can really fuck off with 'lazy'.

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    She's some hideous looking beast of a thing.

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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-41224146

    Firstly, lol at this school. How many Transgender pre-teens can you have running around.

    Secondly, lol at this family. Why do you even care? I'm not having that their kid was upset by a boy in asking either. £100 on the dad being a closet case.

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    How can you remove two children over two seperate transgender based arguments? Like after the first one happens don't you pull the other one out or do you just let him go to Tranny High until another one pops up?

    PS. They both look like they either murder or bugger children.

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    Transgender 6 year olds, Christ.

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    The parents can do what they want, but why go on the news about it?

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    http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41188560

    Row over AI that 'identifies gay faces'


    I'm not sure where I stand on this. I mean, if it's accurate, then surely it's fine? But I'm fairly surprised that it's even possible.

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    98% accuracy apparently, fascinating. AI are going to definitely kill us all.

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    Isn't the story more about how clever AI things can be/learn to be, rather than forced outing of people by traffic camera? Not that such outrage is at all surprising in the modern age.

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