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  1. fernandopartridge

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    Average life expectancy in Russia went from around 30 pre WW1 to around 70 by 1990. It declined after the market reforms and didn't get back to 1990 levels until 2015. Meanwhile, outside of the collectivist system a few oligarchs got exceptionally rich from the previously shared resources, so...
  2. fernandopartridge

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    Labour is not a communist party, is it.
  3. fernandopartridge

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    I agree with you but it's not the official message, is it? The message is that you are entitled to a state pension subject to national insurance contributions.
  4. fernandopartridge

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    The people that voted Labour on here are not necessarily socialists
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    Gregg Wallace

    They commission the programme from the production company, they can ask as part of that agreement for Wallace to be removed (as they have now done).
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    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    Thankfully your mate Kier is doing fuck all about kids in poverty or people on the streets, as some of my previous posts demonstrate
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    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    Anyway, french government tries the sort of austerity practiced in the UK and collapses 😂
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    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    You wouldn't pay a pension at all on that basis, but given that they do, there is no real reason why they don't uprate similar to other pensioners.
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    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    Me either really, the individual is not in control of the government of the place where they live.
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    Premier League thread

    Sweden in theory should be a greater force than they are, two superb forwards
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    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    To be fair the uprating of pensions based on a reciprocal arrangement with the country that person lives in seems ok. According to an article I read Canadian pensioners living in the UK have their state pension uprated by the Canadian government so it's unclear why there isn't reciprocity for UK...
  12. fernandopartridge

    Things that annoy you

    I've had it after a few consecutive days on the piss. It's horrible. Even worse when you're in Benidorm with your mates 🤦🏻‍♀️
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    Gregg Wallace

    It's hard to understand why the BBC didn't just fuck him off years ago. I don't know anybody who watches MasterChef to be hear him go "Ooh that's laverley"
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    Gregg Wallace

    Paul Hollywood seems a bit suspect and as for Noel Fielding, he's known to be an iffy c**t
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    The Christmas 24 thread

    Anyway, work's Christmas do this Friday and it's at a fucking Roxy Ballroom. It's one of those places with loads of games to force 'fun'. Rather just get a room in a pub, get a buffet on and let everybody have the craic.
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    The Christmas 24 thread

    I love it when somebody says "I don't like the mainstream Christmas songs, my favourite one is the Pogues and Kirsty McColl"
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    Ellis Simms

    It's not happening
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    Victor Torp

    Which TBF is because of his willingness to take the ball in tight positions with his back to goal, something we desperately miss as Van Ewijk looks for a pass again......
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    Premier League thread

    West Ham really are poor aren't they
  20. fernandopartridge

    Wasps go to bottom of the pyramid

    It's hard to understand what the function of executive pay and bonuses is.
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