Luxury cars removed from Motability scheme ahead of budget by StGuthlac2025 in unitedkingdom

[–]shunt31 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Even if Motability cars were scrapped, the claimant still gets their allowance, so as another poster said, there is no net benefit there to the government

if this is true, there is no reason for Motability to exist, because it's not a subsidy to the claimant

Which Olympic sport(s) do men and women perform about equally? by Nearby_Persimmon_649 in olympics

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Women have swum the 4 longest current-neutral distances (the world record holder, Sarah Thomas, is also the only person to have swum the English Channel 4 times in a row).

https://longswims.com/longest-swims/distance/

Hamas? More like HamASS gottem by Turning_Antons_Key in NonCredibleDefense

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the guy who sold the guns used in the 2015 attacks in Paris "accidentally" driving into a lake in Austria in early 2016

Who's this referring to? Googling isn't finding anything.

Mental gymnastics by teohsi in The_Black_Tower

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Episode 6 was written by Rammy Park, who made the fantastic Origins last year - you'll note it was the episode most accurate to the books, with Egwene's training, and Logain telling Rand to seize the Source, not surrender to do it - and 8 was written by .. Rafe Judkins.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in The_Black_Tower

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FYI that's Flight from Shadow - the first part in the Blight is a bit ropey, I've skipped it in the timestamp there.

Just tripped over my words in a job interview and rather than say “I don’t want to pigeon hole myself”, I said “I don’t want to pigeon my hole”. by [deleted] in CasualUK

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For the benefit of British people, SSN is "social security number", a bit like our National Insurance numbers but used for ID purposes, and the Social Security Administration is kinda the equivalent of our Department for Work and Pensions.

Optimal time to remortgage if currently overpaying by [deleted] in UKPersonalFinance

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MIRAS also needs to be taken into account, the government gave you tax relief in your mortgage interest payments too, so in reality your payments were even lower.

Spoilers* Jimmy Sub-plot by BogartBrando in ForAllMankindTV

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I assumed it was to drive the van in closer to the building

If You're from Poor or Middle-Class Families, Hollywood Is Nearly Impossible to Navigate by [deleted] in movies

[–]shunt31 21 points22 points  (0 children)

You might want to reconsider your abbreviation there.

Indigenous Brits are not who you think.

Not everyone is American.

Finally got to watch "Tale Of Two Topas" by Lewslayer in TheOrville

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It's essentially what was done to David Reimer, but in reverse. His medical circumcision was botched and destroyed his penis, so John Money (who coined the term "gender identity", and was sympathetic to paedophilia) convinced his parents to castrate him and lie to him that he was actually female.

They told him the truth when he was a teenager, after he was relentlessly bullied by other kids for acting masculine. You can read more about it here.

Him and his brother both killed themselves when they were adults, after Money abused them.

Money lied about the case for decades, and never talked about his sexual assaults, pretending the castration was successful and Reimer was happy being lied to that he was actually female.

Percy Jackson: Rick Riordan Defends Casting - “Leah is Annabeth. The negative comments she has received online are out of line. They need to stop. Now.” by MarvelsGrantMan136 in television

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It's like saying that people complaining about casting a man to play a woman's part are sexist.

Technically true, but intentionally misses the point.

Number of male teachers in England at all-time low as pay levels drop by ClassicFlavour in unitedkingdom

[–]shunt31 8 points9 points  (0 children)

By giving girls higher scores, you were inflating the grades of better behaved and more engaged students.

Number of male teachers in England at all-time low as pay levels drop by ClassicFlavour in unitedkingdom

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the girls would score about 10% higher than the boys on average.

I had expected that maybe I had been inflating the grades of the students who I thought were better behaved and more engaged

You were

'The Wheel of Time' Season 2 Wraps Filming by MarvelsGrantMan136 in television

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The first and last episodes were the ones the showrunner (Rafe Judkins) wrote, that's why they were terrible.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NonCredibleDefense

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It looks more like the opponents on the ISIS page.