#583

Yeah I mean pretty much the whole workforce for that job is Erasmus students

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#584

I was in a bleak prairie town on the Austria-Hungary border in February (main industry:cabbage), and the teacher at the school I was visiting was saying wistfully how she would love to get a language assistant for the school but “it wouldn’t be fair to make someone spend their Erasmus year here”

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#585

One of my things for next year was to develop a better solution for recording our outgoing Erasmus students…gonna put this one down on the old appraisal as ‘Done- there aren’t any’

#586

Oh man. I was in Rennes in Brittany. Fab city with a good music scene.

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#587

I was in the Austrian town when they had their carnival. The centrepiece was the Party Tractor that played happy hardcore and had a trailer with people handing out cans of Lidl own brand beer.

(They also have a very thick farmer accent there, so god help any Erasmus student)

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#588

iirc the official government line on this is that they will set up their own scheme to mirror its benefits, which sounds both mad and also impossible?

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#589

And far more expensive.

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#590

Not heard much from the queen lately

#591

Sitting in Buck House praying that Johnson changes the Christmas rules so she doesn’t have to have the kids over.

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#592

Yeah it looks like they want to fund British students to go abroad but not be on the hook for European students studying at UK universities, there’s no precedent of this so no idea what they think is going to happen.

Really weird to see the nationalism of the Tories basically extending its tendrils into every area of life.

#593

It possible to sign up for seven years at a time (Serbia, Turkey and other non EU countires currently do this).

The UK government want to be able to sign up for fewer than 7 years and participate only in certain areas in alignment with ‘british interests’. So being able to opt out of things like cooperation actions on diversity. EU don’t even appear to be willing to consider this (unsurprisingly)

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#594

And yeah, we’ve floated the idea of our own global student exchange scheme

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#595

Happy hardcore party tractor :joy:

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#596

I might start a petition for the Party Tractor to be adopted at all gatherings post-COVID.

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#597

A friend of mine is from a vineyard area in the Rheingau and they have a very similar tradition to this :+1:

#598

I have a video of it, but it won’t let me post it. I had just arrived in town about 30 mins before when it drove past the hotel, a man dressed as a Roman emperor gave me some haribo and another man dressed as a penguin did a piss in a bush before coming back to join a marching band that only had 5 people in. My coworker asked if we’d accidentally joined a David Thomas Broughton film.

Oh yeah there was also a confetti cannon filled with recycled newspaper to be environmentally

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#599

What’s with all the scary butchers on the Justin Casablanca trailer?

#600

They were offering a hog roast. Or “Sautanz” as they put it.

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#601

I thought it was some kind of protest!

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#602

They do look like a live export protest. I did a double take too.