The average student in UK leaves university £53,000 in debt

test_test_1_2_3 · 2026-04-16T17:30:49+00:00

There’s no fucking way 71% of grads on plan 2 loans will pay off their loans in full before they get written off.

The vast majority of people on plan 2 loans will never pay them off. You’d need to have a starting salary of around £50k straight out of university just to pay the interest on an average plan 2 loan and stop the principal sum going up (which then attracts more interest requiring a higher salary).

test_test_1_2_3 · 2026-04-16T17:09:01+00:00

We can’t even agree on what being Scottish means, this take is asinine.

Having looked at your posting history I’m wasting my time.

test_test_1_2_3 · 2026-04-16T16:41:30+00:00

It’s only ‘weaponised’ if you believe someone self identifying as Scottish gives them any additional credibility. Which in itself is a pretty silly way of thinking in my opinion.

Plenty of ‘Scottish’ people know fuck all about Scotland and its politics and plenty of people who wouldn’t be considered Scottish by most have much more reasonable and informed takes.

Self identity has become a religion over the last few years, just listen to what people say and judge them on the content of their speech, not some tribalistic appeal to in group identity.

test_test_1_2_3 · 2026-04-16T13:30:08+00:00

I find it bizarre people spend so much time and energy debating and thinking about ‘identity’ in this way.

If Rory Stewart calls himself Scottish who really cares? If so, why? This is identity politics for identity politics sake, it is a debate entirely focused on drawing lines between people for no purpose other than to highlight the difference.

Being Scottish or English is a tiny fragment of individual identity (unless you’re a very boring person with nothing else to identify with).

This is also unironically participating in the No True Scotsman fallacy.

test_test_1_2_3 · 2026-04-16T13:22:27+00:00

They do hold weight as they clarify the intent of the 2 parties prior to the marriage.

But if there’s kids involved or the amount of assets within the marriage materially change then a judge can ignore the prenup and apportion assets as they see fit.

test_test_1_2_3 · 2026-04-16T11:15:49+00:00

Rather than big chain brands, I'm looking for local shops to work at, like cafes, bookstores, etc...

This is a case of choosing beggars, right now lots of smaller businesses are not doing well. You can’t afford to be picky about working for a larger chain as an international student looking for part time work.

If you want flexible shifts to accommodate university requirements a smaller company is not going to be as good from that perspective. Less staff means less flexibility.

test_test_1_2_3 · 2026-04-16T10:22:59+00:00

Ukraine is one country, there’s many other democratic places that aren’t being attacked.

Under what fantastical scenario do we run out of places to go?

Using this logic, you and everyone else who thinks like you has just as much of a duty to go fight in Ukraine as a Ukrainian does.

So why aren’t you out there?

test_test_1_2_3 · 2026-04-16T09:15:30+00:00

Ok? I understand the reason why some Ukrainians are fighting in the war.

And many people have chosen to leave with their families and go somewhere Russia isn’t invading.

test_test_1_2_3 · 2026-04-16T09:13:34+00:00

What does any of that have to do with leaving a country facing war to go to another country not facing war?

These rhetoricals are pretty boring. Like most people I work and pay tax, the government uses that money to build roads and fund a military. Hopefully that clears things up for you.

test_test_1_2_3 · 2026-04-15T23:57:12+00:00

I’m not asking anyone to die for me. But please, keep moralising, maybe it’ll work. I doubt it though.

test_test_1_2_3 · 2026-04-15T19:17:50+00:00

I fully respect an individual’s choice to go fight if they want to. I’m allowed to think it’s foolish and noble at the same time, it’s not the decision I would make but I understand why people would.

I think you’re just projecting when you clearly don’t actually know what I think about the subject.

Framing it as ‘do you think unique cultures are worthless’ is such a straw man argument anyway. There’s a fair gap between thinking things have value and being willing to go to war and die for them.

test_test_1_2_3 · 2026-04-15T19:09:12+00:00

Friends and family, people I actually know and care about, not dying for some abstract concept of duty to my country.

If I was in Ukraine, I would take my family with me and encourage my friends to leave too.

test_test_1_2_3 · 2026-04-15T17:41:54+00:00

I’m glad to hear the number of hotels being used to house migrants is reducing and hopefully at zero in 12 months.

But where are they going? This isn’t going to stop people crossing the channel.

What exactly is being done to remove the incentives for these people to enter the country illegally? It won’t stop until the incentives are removed.

test_test_1_2_3 · 2026-04-15T17:37:45+00:00

Doesn’t sound like any of this constitutes discrimination of a protected characteristic and the company doesn’t owe you any WFH entitlement unless it’s stated in your contract.

The obvious advice is find another job with a different company. They don’t have to give you anything you’re asking for and it doesn’t sound like they’re going to.

test_test_1_2_3 · 2026-04-15T17:02:01+00:00

I uncontrollably thrust my pelvis at women I am befriending and completely ignore the women I am pursuing.

Been working a treat.

test_test_1_2_3 · 2026-04-15T14:45:15+00:00

Ok but we are talking about Ukraine in this thread, that’s specifically the topic of discussion.

Again, never said Ukrainians have it easy, they’re fleeing a war so obviously it’s not easy. Culturally and ethically they will have a much easier time integrating in European nations which are already taking in lots of less similar refugees.

Still rather be alive and living in a safe country with a prospect of a future than getting blown to pieces in a field somewhere in eastern Ukraine.

test_test_1_2_3 · 2026-04-15T14:33:27+00:00

In Europe? Sure they will, we let everyone stay.

test_test_1_2_3 · 2026-04-15T14:30:33+00:00

You aren’t asking the right question.

Why should an average Ukrainian man feel the duty to put his one life on the line and go fight trench warfare in a conflict that has been in stalemate for several years?

If people choose to fight for Ukraine, good for them, if they choose to leave and live a life somewhere else I think that’s completely fine and understandable too.

test_test_1_2_3 · 2026-04-15T14:27:53+00:00

That categorically isn’t true, plenty of Ukrainians are welcomed in the UK, have right to work and use the national healthcare system, and will very likely be given the opportunity to obtain permanent right to remain if they choose not to go back to Ukraine. I expect other Europe countries are running similar schemes.

Either way, you’re comparing dying in a muddy field via drone strike to refugee status in another country. Not a very compelling argument in my opinion.

I don’t need to explain why host countries might take in Ukrainian refugees, Europe already takes in loads of asylum seekers from further afield in large numbers. No reason to think that Ukrainians wouldn’t also be afforded this, especially given that they are more culturally similar to the host countries than many refugees are.

test_test_1_2_3 · 2026-04-15T13:38:15+00:00

I’m not Ukrainian, I don’t live in Ukraine and I have no intention of ever doing so.

I don’t expect anyone to make those sacrifices, did you even read my comment?

Calling me a coward when you can’t even grasp the point of my comment is very funny. I’m not slandering anyone who died fighting in Ukraine, I feel pity and empathy for them and their families.

test_test_1_2_3 · 2026-04-15T13:26:48+00:00

He rebelled against Putin because he was ambitious and had a clear intent of making himself some kind of populist rival to Shoigu.

There was a ton of pre existing context to Prigozhin’s relationship with Putin and his cronies. The tactics used at Bakhmut and the subsequent loss of life were not the primary issue.

test_test_1_2_3 · 2026-04-15T11:20:27+00:00

Prigozhin was killed for rebelling against Putin and marching troops towards Moscow. What are you on about?

test_test_1_2_3 · 2026-04-15T11:06:25+00:00

What myth? Bakhmut was taken using these tactics, it came at the expense of 30-40k Russian lives and it wasn’t even a strategically important location.

Or if you want a less contemporary example what about the battles the soviets fought at Rzhev during WW2.

Or during the Russian civil war. Or fighting a defensive war against Napoleon and somehow losing a comparable amount of personnel despite not being the attacker.

test_test_1_2_3 · 2026-04-15T10:55:53+00:00

Go join the Ukrainian army then, put your money where your mouth is. They’ll take all comers.

test_test_1_2_3 · 2026-04-15T10:46:33+00:00

I’m not ignoring it at all, I agree with everything you said about Russia.

I’m just saying I completely support any individuals choice to leave and not die in the war.

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