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The world will shine with light in our nightmare
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« Reply #150 on: January 27, 2017, 03:09:12 AM »

I'm sorry, CC. Sad
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« Reply #151 on: January 27, 2017, 03:16:17 PM »

Yesterday I found someone's wallet in the classroom I was teaching in. I'm ashamed to admit that my first reaction was to take the "none of my business" approach and leave it there. In the end, I did take it and emailed the Department to let them know (there was, amazingly, no authority figure physically present on campus at that time), and they've contacted the guy. The fact that the class I was teaching was about ethics probably helped.
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« Reply #152 on: January 28, 2017, 12:30:55 PM »

Just cut my finger on an apple peeler. Must have lost like a liter of blood trying to clean it up.
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« Reply #153 on: January 28, 2017, 01:53:17 PM »

Just cut my finger on an apple peeler. Must have lost like a liter of blood trying to clean it up.

I get that. Last weekend I shaved off a bit of my pinky using a mandolin on a cucumber.
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« Reply #154 on: January 28, 2017, 02:01:07 PM »

Aaaand my writer's block is gone Smiley
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« Reply #155 on: January 28, 2017, 02:23:22 PM »


Is your next piece of work about muon's/Peeb's missing blood/fingers?
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« Reply #156 on: January 28, 2017, 02:24:39 PM »


Is your next piece of work about muon's/Peeb's missing blood/fingers?

You have a... peculiar mind.
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« Reply #157 on: January 28, 2017, 06:08:15 PM »

I'm booked up and paid for the USA in March. I am struggling right now as I don't think I can visit in good conscience.
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« Reply #158 on: January 28, 2017, 06:51:04 PM »

I'm booked up and paid for the USA in March. I am struggling right now as I don't think I can visit in good conscience.

Where in New York are you going?
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« Reply #159 on: January 28, 2017, 06:53:24 PM »

I'm booked up and paid for the USA in March. I am struggling right now as I don't think I can visit in good conscience.

I wouldn't.  I honestly wouldn't.
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« Reply #160 on: January 28, 2017, 06:55:24 PM »

I'm booked up and paid for the USA in March. I am struggling right now as I don't think I can visit in good conscience.

Where in New York are you going?

Not just NY. Pennsylvania, Florida and I'd planned a short trip to Boston.
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« Reply #161 on: January 28, 2017, 07:03:11 PM »

I'm booked up and paid for the USA in March. I am struggling right now as I don't think I can visit in good conscience.

Where in New York are you going?

Not just NY. Pennsylvania, Florida and I'd planned a short trip to Boston.

Yeah, but where in New York Tongue
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« Reply #162 on: January 28, 2017, 07:19:03 PM »

I'm booked up and paid for the USA in March. I am struggling right now as I don't think I can visit in good conscience.

Where in New York are you going?

Not just NY. Pennsylvania, Florida and I'd planned a short trip to Boston.

Yeah, but where in New York Tongue

Washington Heights Smiley
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« Reply #163 on: January 28, 2017, 08:04:57 PM »

I'm booked up and paid for the USA in March. I am struggling right now as I don't think I can visit in good conscience.

Where in New York are you going?

Not just NY. Pennsylvania, Florida and I'd planned a short trip to Boston.

Yeah, but where in New York Tongue

Washington Heights Smiley

Oh, not too far from me. Have fun!
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« Reply #164 on: January 29, 2017, 12:45:48 AM »

Was reading this old thing of mine (My words and description give some interesting insights into me, esp at that time. Divination's themselves don't say much but are fun) and now I'm thinking of him, among other things.

Maybe I should edit it and add new thoughts?
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« Reply #165 on: January 29, 2017, 08:12:54 AM »

Am going to a meeting with my Local MP at uni Rachael Maskell about the EU and Article 50 vote- apparently she's considering rebelling and resigning from the Shadow Cabinet over the issue, so I'm going to go and give me two cents- although she may remember me from when I heckled John Mcdonnell 
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« Reply #166 on: January 29, 2017, 08:51:12 AM »

Am going to a meeting with my Local MP at uni Rachael Maskell about the EU and Article 50 vote- apparently she's considering rebelling and resigning from the Shadow Cabinet over the issue, so I'm going to go and give me two cents- although she may remember me from when I heckled John Mcdonnell 

What is the Labour leadership's position on the Article 50 vote? I can never tell.
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« Reply #167 on: January 29, 2017, 09:21:06 AM »

Am going to a meeting with my Local MP at uni Rachael Maskell about the EU and Article 50 vote- apparently she's considering rebelling and resigning from the Shadow Cabinet over the issue, so I'm going to go and give me two cents- although she may remember me from when I heckled John Mcdonnell 

What is the Labour leadership's position on the Article 50 vote? I can never tell.

Twirling, always twirling towards socialism.
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« Reply #168 on: January 29, 2017, 09:24:29 AM »

Am going to a meeting with my Local MP at uni Rachael Maskell about the EU and Article 50 vote- apparently she's considering rebelling and resigning from the Shadow Cabinet over the issue, so I'm going to go and give me two cents- although she may remember me from when I heckled John Mcdonnell 

What is the Labour leadership's position on the Article 50 vote? I can never tell.

The leadership is going to offer amendments to the bill, and then vote for Article 50 regardless. There's about 80 or so MP's who may vote against (either because they're from the big remain backing seats in London, or because they''re convinced it's awful)

On a side note the Labour Party Conference in 2016 passed a motion saying that Brexit should be stopped if certain concerns aren't met- so you could argue that official policy is to vote against.

TL;DR: It's complicated, and messy.

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« Reply #169 on: January 29, 2017, 09:26:23 AM »


On a side note the Labour Party Conference in 2016 passed a motion saying that Brexit should be stopped if certain concerns aren't met- so you could argue that official policy is to vote against.


Wasn't part of Corbyn's big spiel going to be that he was going to listen to the membership?
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« Reply #170 on: January 29, 2017, 09:30:12 AM »
« Edited: January 29, 2017, 09:33:25 AM by Intell »

Am going to a meeting with my Local MP at uni Rachael Maskell about the EU and Article 50 vote- apparently she's considering rebelling and resigning from the Shadow Cabinet over the issue, so I'm going to go and give me two cents- although she may remember me from when I heckled John Mcdonnell  

What is the Labour leadership's position on the Article 50 vote? I can never tell.

Twirling, always twirling towards socialism.

Scream socialism, while having wholly different ideas of the EU. Hell two hard left MP's have a different opinion on this issue, and even on their priorities (Abbot and McDonnel). Whole heartedly support McDonnel on this issue but that's me.

They are in a tough position on brexit, as many of labour's base oppose the EU and immigration. The people who oppose the EU, tend to be on the hard left of the party, and they oppose immigration, while those who in the party anyways support any form of restricted immigration are on the soft-right or very few in the soft-left of the party, while generally supportive of the EU.

I believe (could be wrong), that labour's white working class base would lie some where in with the soft left, (not the Owen Smith liberal left and europhille like) and the soft-right of the party, with some militant types being on the hard-left.
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« Reply #171 on: January 29, 2017, 09:31:14 AM »


On a side note the Labour Party Conference in 2016 passed a motion saying that Brexit should be stopped if certain concerns aren't met- so you could argue that official policy is to vote against.


Wasn't part of Corbyn's big spiel going to be that he was going to listen to the membership?

A lot of labour's base oppose the EU, though, that's the problem.
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« Reply #172 on: January 29, 2017, 09:50:32 AM »


On a side note the Labour Party Conference in 2016 passed a motion saying that Brexit should be stopped if certain concerns aren't met- so you could argue that official policy is to vote against.


Wasn't part of Corbyn's big spiel going to be that he was going to listen to the membership?

A lot of labour's base oppose the EU, though, that's the problem.

Key difference between Labours base and membership- Corbyn appealed very strongly to the 600k members, rather than the 9.5 million Labour voters.

63% of Labour voters backed remain, but 7/10 Labour constituencies voted Leave. Combined with 90% of Labour members voting Remain- it's the perfect storm for choas.
 
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« Reply #173 on: January 29, 2017, 09:59:11 AM »

Am going to a meeting with my Local MP at uni Rachael Maskell about the EU and Article 50 vote- apparently she's considering rebelling and resigning from the Shadow Cabinet over the issue, so I'm going to go and give me two cents- although she may remember me from when I heckled John Mcdonnell  

What is the Labour leadership's position on the Article 50 vote? I can never tell.

Twirling, always twirling towards socialism.

Scream socialism, while having wholly different ideas of the EU. Hell two hard left MP's have a different opinion on this issue, and even on their priorities (Abbot and McDonnel). Whole heartedly support McDonnel on this issue but that's me.

They are in a tough position on brexit, as many of labour's base oppose the EU and immigration. The people who oppose the EU, tend to be on the hard left of the party, and they oppose immigration, while those who in the party anyways support any form of restricted immigration are on the soft-right or very few in the soft-left of the party, while generally supportive of the EU.

I believe (could be wrong), that labour's white working class base would lie some where in with the soft left, (not the Owen Smith liberal left and europhille like) and the soft-right of the party, with some militant types being on the hard-left.

I think Labour's White Working Class base aren't really political in that sense of the word; they vote Labour because they see it as the party that stands up for them; while the Tories stand up for the rich and the powerful.

At the same time, they voted Brexit to a large degree; and Labour's recent position on the EU (as well as a whole load of other things) has driven their alienation from the party.

I'm not sure we can split the issue as hard v soft left that easily. I mean, Corbyn is hard left, but working class voters tend to see him as both ineffectual, and just another London Metropolitan liberal (although of another type than the Ed Milliband or the Tony Blair types).

Of course, most labour members are also "London Liberals" ideologically speaking. So the "hard" left the "soft" left, the Labour right and all in between, at the end of the day, aren't very representative of the voter base.

Basically, Labour's problems go a lot deeper than how it reacts to Brexit.
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« Reply #174 on: January 29, 2017, 10:23:59 AM »

I'm booked up and paid for the USA in March. I am struggling right now as I don't think I can visit in good conscience.
Maybe your visa will be cancelled for being a Scottish terrorist seeking to dismember the UK. It would make as much sense as anything else Trump's done so far with immigration.
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