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McDragon
Sep 11, 2007

I'm sure the money was just resting in his account. :v:

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Bozza
Mar 5, 2004

"I'm a really useful engine!"
25 years today chaps. Justice for the 96 may finally happen.

ACAB, never forget.

Rude Dude With Tude
Apr 19, 2007

Your President approves this text.
It was on a relaxing money holiday. He was looking after it so those meddling banana straighteners in Brussels wouldn't be all corrupt with it.

EmptyVessel
Oct 30, 2012
The unresisted gentrification of red trouser wearing by chinless wonders is yet another reason to kill the young.

When I were a lad red trews were a punk thing and I'm not getting rid of mine just cos some twats wear them now.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
It's been appropriated from communists even before that.

baka kaba
Jul 19, 2003

PLEASE ASK ME, THE SELF-PROFESSED NO #1 PAUL CATTERMOLE FAN IN THE SOMETHING AWFUL S-CLUB 7 MEGATHREAD, TO NAME A SINGLE SONG BY HIS EXCELLENT NU-METAL SIDE PROJECT, SKUA, AND IF I CAN'T PLEASE TELL ME TO
EAT SHIT

Gonzo McFee posted:

Nigel Faberge is just highlighting the problem with MP expenses in that it can be used for anything.

Nigel is merely mad about EU waste, mad about the causes of EU waste. Such as himself.

People shouldn't be allowed pens look you can stab interns with them! *stab stab* I'm merely highlighting the hypocrisy and inherent corruption in the institution that gives people pens to use *stab stab stab*

Jedit
Dec 10, 2011

Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:

thats not me this is me




wooooargh edgy

Forcing women to dress in black from head to foot and cover their faces, Mahmoud? So Muslims really do want to institute sharia law in the UK!

(In deference to Poe's Law: this is a joke. I have not suddenly started reading the Daily Mail.)

Spangly A
May 14, 2009

God help you if ever you're caught on these shores

A man's ambition must indeed be small
To write his name upon a shithouse wall

Bozza posted:

25 years today chaps. Justice for the 96 may finally happen.

ACAB, never forget.

I hope everyone involved loses their pension and any honours received at any point, but only because public executions would be debasing ourselves regardless of the comfort it would bring many.

Puntification
Nov 4, 2009

Black Orthodontromancy
The most British Magic

Fun Shoe

Spangly A posted:

I hope everyone involved loses their pension and any honours received at any point, but only because public executions would be debasing ourselves regardless of the comfort it would bring many.

I'd happily debase myself if it meant I got to see Kelvin Mackenzie swinging from a lamppost.

Bozza
Mar 5, 2004

"I'm a really useful engine!"

Puntification posted:

I'd happily debase myself if it meant I got to see Kelvin Mackenzie swinging from a lamppost.

Bloody right, that bastard should swing.

I hope we finally get an inquiry into the Miners Strike at some point, because that is same poo poo different crowd.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
If I saw Kelvin Mackenzie dragged out into a pub car park and set on fire my only reaction would be to walk up and warm my hands on the bloody flames.

There's a reference like maybe two people in this thread will get.

jynxed
Sep 30, 2013

Lysdexia FWT!
(In other words, I'm dyslexic)

Bozza posted:

25 years today chaps. Justice for the 96 may finally happen.

ACAB, never forget.

Just posted this on the football forum think it belongs here to, given the potential ramifications for our counties establishment :

I am not sure what to write here today I have shown my feelings on this issue previously on this forum but feel something should today of all days be posted.

Today I went to the memorial, I dont go every year but have on the years I was able. Whilst I am not a religious person I go to show my support to those who's lives will never be the same and to the poor familys who lost a loved one going to something as trivial as a football match and because if we are being honest it could have easily been anyone who went to a match back then. I also go because I believe it has to continue have a visible public backing until something finally gets done and by going to the service you are showing it still does matter to some.

Bill Shankly once said: 'Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that', its a quote I always liked and its how alot of us maybe feel when we watch our teams play, I get so carried away and against city at the weekend I was emotionally drained at the final whistle. Today though puts this quote in a different perspective and you realise it really is, at the end of the day no matter how much we love our respective football teams, trivial against the backdrop of the human suffering people when through.

Today I was glad I went, when Trevor Hicks and Margret Aspinall spoke there really was a sense of something begin done about the mess that was made by the authorities on that day and the days following, that there is maybe a light at the end of the tunnel for them. Although there has been false dawns before hopefully, the HiP report publication and in the wake of that the new investigations it really is the beginning of the end.

jynxed fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Apr 15, 2014

Puntification
Nov 4, 2009

Black Orthodontromancy
The most British Magic

Fun Shoe

Bozza posted:

Bloody right, that bastard should swing.

I hope we finally get an inquiry into the Miners Strike at some point, because that is same poo poo different crowd.

I would very much like it if we dug up Thatcher's corpse and put her on trial like Pope Formosus.

XMNN
Apr 26, 2008
I am incredibly stupid
I'd be worried about the possibility of her escaping to feast on the souls of northerners.

Coohoolin
Aug 5, 2012

Oor Coohoolie.
Bozier's social media thing is really just Snapchat, isn't it? Can't even be original and pathetic, just pathetic.

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

Puntification posted:

I would very much like it if we dug up Thatcher's corpse and put her on trial like Pope Formosus.

She was burned, and her ashes scattered at the Royal Hospital in Chelsea, presumably to prevent this sort of thing.

tentish klown
Apr 3, 2011

Coohoolin posted:

Bozier's social media thing is really just Snapchat, isn't it? Can't even be original and pathetic, just pathetic.

Yeah, without the image deletion. Oh, and until two days ago all the images were stored on a publicly accessible web server with no security and directory listing enabled.

Phoon
Apr 23, 2010

Snapchat without the time limit - thus removing what seems to me like snapchat's primary purpose of sending naked pics to people

baka kaba
Jul 19, 2003

PLEASE ASK ME, THE SELF-PROFESSED NO #1 PAUL CATTERMOLE FAN IN THE SOMETHING AWFUL S-CLUB 7 MEGATHREAD, TO NAME A SINGLE SONG BY HIS EXCELLENT NU-METAL SIDE PROJECT, SKUA, AND IF I CAN'T PLEASE TELL ME TO
EAT SHIT

goddamnedtwisto posted:

She was burned, and her ashes scattered at the Royal Hospital in Chelsea, presumably to prevent this sort of thing.

If you don't think she's tearing through the flesh of the earth right now, like some hellish reconstituted lich mole, headed for the next pit and all the souls buried with it, I really don't know what to tell you


Coohoolin posted:

Bozier's social media thing is really just Snapchat, isn't it? Can't even be original and pathetic, just pathetic.

That article called him out on that, and he said no, because Snapchat looks not as good! And has more letters. Also apparently Twitter is where people go to write essays with all those characters, and his thing isn't like that, his thing is where you can just post some poo poo that's on your mind.

His next project will be called Gruntr, where you make guttural noises into your phone to express your true feelings. His password will be UNF

Puntification
Nov 4, 2009

Black Orthodontromancy
The most British Magic

Fun Shoe

goddamnedtwisto posted:

She was burned, and her ashes scattered at the Royal Hospital in Chelsea, presumably to prevent this sort of thing.

That's another dream dead.

Tortuga
Aug 27, 2011


Runner-up, TRP Sack Race 2021/22

Puntification posted:

That's another dream dead.

You could probably have sex with the Royal Hospital in Chelsea if you tried.

Rush Limbo
Sep 5, 2005

its with a full house
gently caress me. Thatcher is eventually going to find her way into the ecosystem.

We could be eating and/or breathing in parts of her as we speak!

Maybe this is why there's so many young tories.

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

Ddraig posted:

gently caress me. Thatcher is eventually going to find her way into the ecosystem.

We could be eating and/or breathing in parts of her as we speak!

Maybe this is why there's so many young tories.

Thanks to the wet summer last year and the terrible drainage along the Embankment she's almost certainly been washed into the Thames. Strictly of course to prevent regeneration she should have been thrown directly into a running river, but that's close enough.

CountButtula
Jan 5, 2014

Ddraig posted:

gently caress me. Thatcher is eventually going to find her way into the ecosystem.

We could be eating and/or breathing in parts of her as we speak!

Maybe this is why there's so many young tories.

Look on the bright side, she's now buried under every cross-roads in the country.

(Commences ten-minute feminist self-examination about finding Maggie witch/vampire jokes hilarious)

Puntification
Nov 4, 2009

Black Orthodontromancy
The most British Magic

Fun Shoe

Tortuga posted:

You could probably have sex with the Royal Hospital in Chelsea if you tried.

What? I'm not sure how that helps. Also please tell me you're not speaking from experience.

namesake
Jun 19, 2006

"When I was a girl, around 12 or 13, I had a fantasy that I'd grow up to marry Captain Scarlet, but he'd be busy fighting the Mysterons so I'd cuckold him with the sexiest people I could think of - Nigel Mansell, Pat Sharp and Mr. Blobby."

Puntification posted:

What? I'm not sure how that helps. Also please tell me you're not speaking from experience.

For a building with a fixed foundation it really gets around!

Trickjaw
Jun 23, 2005
Nadie puede dar lo que no tiene



I know Owen Jones is a bit of a rah-rah socialist, but if you ever needed any illustration Tories are... um 'Not warm and deep enough'

http://order-order.com/2014/04/15/twitter-bitch-fight-of-the-week-andrew-pierce-v-owen-jones/

Doc Neutral
Jan 31, 2014
I get why some people might consider Dawkins and Fry to be dipshits in regards to their comments and tweets about muslims and such but why Jamie Oliver, why is he considered to be an rear end in a top hat(I'm not form the UK so it would be cool if someone where to explain why)?

Puntification
Nov 4, 2009

Black Orthodontromancy
The most British Magic

Fun Shoe

Doc Neutral posted:

I get why some people might consider Dawkins and Fry to be dipshits in regards to their comments and tweets about muslims and such but why Jamie Oliver, why is he considered to be an rear end in a top hat(I'm not form the UK so it would be cool if someone where to explain why)?

He made some comments about poor people all being fat and lazy who just eat chips in front of their massive-wide screen tvs or something along those lines.

Pilchenstein
May 17, 2012

So your plan is for half of us to die?

Hot Rope Guy

Puntification posted:

He made some comments about poor people all being fat and lazy who just eat chips in front of their massive-wide screen tvs or something along those lines.
Hence our new emote: :wankah:

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Doc Neutral posted:

I get why some people might consider Dawkins and Fry to be dipshits in regards to their comments and tweets about muslims and such but why Jamie Oliver, why is he considered to be an rear end in a top hat(I'm not form the UK so it would be cool if someone where to explain why)?

Dunno about anyone else but he just annoys me. Rubs me the wrong way. Always has. Little fat-tongued prick.

Fluo
May 25, 2007

Mister Adequate posted:

Dunno about anyone else but he just annoys me. Rubs me the wrong way. Always has. Little fat-tongued prick.

It was pretty great when his "bringing back traditional british food that vanished" like fish and chips, bangers and mash, shepherds pies....[pretty sure I had those in the last month] shut down.


quote:

Jamie Oliver's attempt to revive traditional British grub in his unashamedly nationalistic and nostalgic Union Jacks restaurants appears to have foundered with the closure of three of the four outlets.

The TV chef's company cited the "challenging climate" for the decision to close Union Jacks branches in Holborn and Chiswick in London and Winchester in Hampshire with immediate effect.

The restaurants were aimed at "bringing back nostalgic British classics" such as fish and chips, and bangers and mash.[...]

"proud British flavours", including fish and chips with mushy peas at £14.95; pork belly, banger and mash for £14.50, and sticky toffee pudding with clotted cream at £6. Punters can wash it down with a range of "spectacular British wines". [...]

Fluo fucked around with this message at 05:57 on Apr 16, 2014

Kegluneq
Feb 18, 2011

Mr President, the physical reality of Prime Minister Corbyn is beyond your range of apprehension. If you'll just put on these PINKOVISION glasses...

Jack Monroe on Jamie Oliver.

Mister Adequate posted:

Dunno about anyone else but he just annoys me. Rubs me the wrong way. Always has. Little fat-tongued prick.
He's a condescending bellend. I think my favourite moment was when he toured the American South, making 'healthier' versions of traditional foods by cutting fat, salt etc. To much :qq: he was uniformly told that his food now tasted like poo poo and they'd stick with their own, thanks.

Seaside Loafer
Feb 7, 2012

Waiting for a train, I needed a shit. You won't bee-lieve what happened next

Isnt it all that faux cockney poo poo as well? The man is solidly middle class at this point; and I grew up in Essex and I can assure you that 'pukka' and 'lovely jubbly' etc were not phrases that were used by ... anyone. Its a transparent and deliberate attempt at an image ... innit

e: childrens names, oh alright i wont post them its not thier fault but have a look up, you couldnt get more snobby if you tried.

Seaside Loafer fucked around with this message at 06:49 on Apr 16, 2014

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling




Hell I've had these in the past two weeks, and we mostly eat pasta or rice dishes for dinner. Pleased by his failure, hope he suffers more until he disappears from public life and memory.

Speaking of food, guess which country has seen the use of food banks absolutely loving skyrocket?

BBC posted:

Food banks see 'shocking' rise in number of users

A food bank charity says it has handed out 913,000 food parcels in the last year, up from 347,000 the year before.

The Trussell Trust said a third were given to repeat visitors but that there was a "shocking" 51% rise in clients to established food banks. It said benefit payment delays were the main cause.

In a letter to ministers, more than 500 clergy say the increase is "terrible".

The government said there was no evidence of a link between welfare reforms and the use of food banks.

However, the Trussell Trust, the largest food bank provider in the UK, said benefits payments had been a particular problem since welfare changes were introduced just over a year ago.

Some 83% of food banks reported that benefits sanctions - when payments are temporarily stopped - had resulted in more people being referred for emergency food.

And more than 30% of visits were put down to a delay in welfare payments.

The second biggest reason, given by 20% of food bank users, was low income.

"In the last year, we've seen things get worse, rather than better, for many people on low incomes," said Chris Mould, chairman of the Trussell Trust.

In all, 913,000 people received three days of emergency food supplies in the past 12 months.

But more than a third of those cases represented repeat visits. Some of the increase was also down to extra food banks opening.

Andy, a 47 year-old unemployed electrician, applied for jobseeker's allowance (JSA) a week ago, but has not heard when the money will come through.

In the meantime, he has been referred to a food bank near his home in Hackney in north London.

"If I didn't come here, there wouldn't be any food for me tonight. It's the system. But I don't understand why there's a gap," he told the BBC.

Andy was sent away with two shopping bags of pasta, rice, vegetables, biscuits and juice.

The clergy from all major dominations, who include Archbishop of Wales Barry Morgan and several senior Church of England bishops, describe the increase in the use of Trussell Trust food banks as "terrible", in a letter to the government.

They insist it does not give a full picture of hunger in the UK because it does not include people who are too ashamed to use food banks and others who are cutting the size of meals.

They called on ministers to co-operate with an inquiry into the causes of hunger, led by the Bishop of Truro Tim Thornton.

A public vigil will be held on Wednesday night in Westminster to highlight the issue.

The government denies that welfare payments are a problem.

"There is no robust evidence that welfare reforms or benefit administration are linked to increased use of food banks," said a spokeswoman for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

She also maintained that the amount of time taken to process payments had improved.

Some 92% of payments were now made within the target time of 16 days, a 6% improvement on the time taken five years ago, she told the BBC.

But an additional problem since April 2013 has been the abolition of DWP-funded crisis loans, designed to cover short-term emergencies.

Responsibility for these loans has been devolved to local authorities, which can make them harder to access.

Short-term advances, as they are known, are still available through job centres for people awaiting benefit payments. But many claimants - including Andy - are not always made aware of them.

Other people have their payments stopped, sometimes because they have missed an appointment, or have lost paperwork.

"We're often surprised by the length of sanctions people get," said Liza Cucco, the manager of the Hackney food bank.

"If someone is late for an appointment, I'm not sure it's reasonable to block their payments for four to six weeks," she told the BBC.

It's all over the front pages too, except a couple of low-grade toilet paper rags that have "BENEFITS BRITAIN :byodood:" bollix instead. Not that anything will happen of course, but this shower of bastards don't even have the decency to promise a perfunctory and useless investigation. What they never expected with the Fourth Estate is that the government of the day would just flatly deny reality. Hide things, yes, spin things, of course, but it's kind of hard to press them on things when they insist the opposite of reality is true. You could ask a Cleggeron minister to describe the shape of a cloud and be told there's "no robust evidence" for the existence of the loving sky.

Lord Twisted
Apr 3, 2010

In the Emperor's name, let none survive.

Mister Adequate posted:

Hell I've had these in the past two weeks, and we mostly eat pasta or rice dishes for dinner. Pleased by his failure, hope he suffers more until he disappears from public life and memory.

Speaking of food, guess which country has seen the use of food banks absolutely loving skyrocket?


It's all over the front pages too, except a couple of low-grade toilet paper rags that have "BENEFITS BRITAIN :byodood:" bollix instead. Not that anything will happen of course, but this shower of bastards don't even have the decency to promise a perfunctory and useless investigation. What they never expected with the Fourth Estate is that the government of the day would just flatly deny reality. Hide things, yes, spin things, of course, but it's kind of hard to press them on things when they insist the opposite of reality is true. You could ask a Cleggeron minister to describe the shape of a cloud and be told there's "no robust evidence" for the existence of the loving sky.

Fairly sure there were reports but they were suppressed.

Lady Gaza
Nov 20, 2008

Didn't Jamie Oliver also say that he liked that UKIP were 'mixing it up' or something?

Kegluneq
Feb 18, 2011

Mr President, the physical reality of Prime Minister Corbyn is beyond your range of apprehension. If you'll just put on these PINKOVISION glasses...

Lady Gaza posted:

Didn't Jamie Oliver also say that he liked that UKIP were 'mixing it up' or something?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMeftdr5Lss

Serotonin
Jul 14, 2001

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of *blank*


Metrication posted:

When I did the count at the last general election you could tell who the young tories were immediately because all the guys dress like 40 year old men.

As a 40yr old man who has never dressed like a Young Tory, I loving resent that.

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Dec 21, 2009

Puntification posted:

He made some comments about poor people all being fat and lazy who just eat chips in front of their massive-wide screen tvs or something along those lines.

Didn't he also say something along the lines of "kids today don't know how to work, I was happy working 16 hour shifts without breaks blah blah blah"

He just pisses me off. I find him much more annoying than Dawkins or Fry. His healthy cooking on a budget recipe book was apparently full of directions to use his bespoke kitchen range because obviously if you are cooking on a budget the first priority should be to buy a £26 book and a £40 grater.

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