Spooky Hyena posted:

Prove you're not a racist, then. I'd settle for not harassing me every time I post, instead.

serious gaylord posted:

So you admit you've made this up then. Just so we're clear.

Spooky Hyena posted:

Then we're at an impasse and must continue ruining the thread with five pages of bickering after every post I make. And it wasn't "Muslim Neo Nazis", I called you out on defending Labour's support for the National Front as the same thing as expecting Muslims to have responsibility for extremists. That goes both ways, and that's what "conflating support of neo nazis with being a muslim" means.

Spooky Hyena posted:

Prove you're not a racist, then. I'd settle for not harassing me every time I post, instead.

Shelf Adventure posted:

Holy poo poo, this calling out and name calling makes everyone involved look pathetic

No-one cares. You look like loving children.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Yeah Pissflaps, just break all the laws of logic and prove that you're not racist. I don't see why you're being so obstinate in not disproving the allegations of known chickenfucker Spooky Hyena.

Spooky Hyena posted:

I wasn't expecting him to really reply to it, I just said it because it's the same argument he used a few pages back to "prove" all scottish nats were anti-immigration and anti-eu and expecting everyone to prove otherwise, despite not providing any evidence to back up his claims. I'd like to see him call out that argument for what it is so he doesn't rely on it again.

Cerv posted:

i don't think you've thought this through. why would you wear facepaint and a mask? one would cover the other.

Spooky Hyena posted:

I wasn't expecting him to really reply to it, I just said it because it's the same argument he used a few pages back to "prove" all scottish nats were anti-immigration and anti-eu and expecting everyone to prove otherwise, despite not providing any evidence to back up his claims. I'd like to see him call out that argument for what it is so he doesn't rely on it again.

Pissflaps posted:

There is face paint. On my mask. Mask paint.

serious gaylord posted:

You regularly refer to things that never happened as if they did. I'm concerned for your mental state.

Pissflaps posted:

Hoping that the EU kicks the UK out of Europe isn't doing your pro euro credentials any good, is it.

Spooky Hyena posted:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?goto=post&postid=436807505#post436807505 etc etc

Spooky Hyena posted:

I don't want to leave the EU, I'm just saying the EU might benefit from telling the UK to stop playing silly buggers. There's a difference.

serious gaylord posted:

Nothing in this post says that he thinks all scottish nationalists are anti immigration and anti eu.

This is what i'm talking about. Do you really believe that post contains that?

Pissflaps posted:

That's not what you said.

marktheando posted:

Perhaps you could explain what the post means then, since Pissflaps refused to say what Scottish Nationalists he was referring to.

Spooky Hyena posted:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hyperbole

I want you to read that, carefully. Then think about how it might have related to that one post you've spent an eternity arguing against the literal meaning of.

Spooky Hyena posted:

Maybe you can prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt? At all would be a start. If not, I expect a 1500 word essay on why you are sorry for your bad posts on my desk by Monday.

Pissflaps posted:

What's more important to you: Scotland's place in the UK or England's place in the EU?

Pissflaps posted:

Spooky Hyena posted:

Yeah, boiling it down to that by no means belittles the nuances either arguments have. You answer that obviously loaded question first.

DesperateDan posted:

SO... I ate some of Lidl's posh branded salt and pepper crisps and they were pretty good and didn't involve a bunch of lovely dickwaving posts about bollocks no-one else cares about. The pepper taste built up in a pleasant way that complimented the cheap cerveza I knocked it back with, much unlike the multitude of shitposts on here.

twoot posted:

You need to try them in a crisp sandwich cut into triangles.

Top it off with some pickled onion Monster Munch and turn on the boat races.

Pissflaps posted:

The UKs place in the EU is more important to me than English or Scottish nationalism. Your turn.

Spooky Hyena posted:

define "place", define "nationalism", define "important" you're wrong on everything you're making strawman arguments, and all the other mockeries of your arguing style etc etc etc

Can't even be bothered with this, when was the last day where I posted anything without being accosted by Pissflaps anyway?

Pissflaps posted:

The ones who prioritise Scottish independence above all else.

marktheando posted:

I don't think there are very many of these people. I'm sure most pro-indy types don't want the rest of the UK to burn. So saying "Scottish Nationalists" want this is not fair at all.

ReV VAdAUL posted:

I wish I liked fancy crisp flavours, clearly a lot of effort has been made to synthesise posh flavours but none of them ever taste as good as Frazzles.

kustomkarkommando posted:

The Northern Ireland Executive has till the end of the week to agree on a draft budget for 2015/16, if they fail to reach an agreement they lose access to an emergency loan of £100m from the Treasury needed to plug a shortfall that's current squeezing the Executive's finances. With the outstanding fines from the Treasury for failing to implement welfare reform it's not looking pretty, worryingly the Northern Ireland Office has made it clear that if an agreement can not be reached by April they will set the Budget for the Executive - a threat that might raise a few eyebrows what with the current talk of further devolution in the UK.

The Finance minister has floated a draft budget with cuts of over £800m (about 8% give or take) that's currently doing the rounds. As expected Education is facing cuts (something that SF have long fought tooth and nail to oppose). Health is getting a modest bump but so, controversially, is the Department of Enterprise.

Guess which party has Health, Enterprise and the Finance It's the DUP dummy

Now guess which ones has Education...

Spooky Hyena posted:

Can't even be bothered with this, when was the last day where I posted anything without being accosted by Pissflaps anyway?

DesperateDan posted:

Cutting a sandwich?

Git.

Tae.

gently caress.

nothing to seehere posted:

Quoting the last post about actual politics in this thread. I though 50 replies meant something interesting had happened...

ReV VAdAUL posted:

I wish I liked fancy crisp flavours, clearly a lot of effort has been made to synthesise posh flavours but none of them ever taste as good as Frazzles.

twoot posted:

You must define your class identifying sandwich geometry immediately, or will suffer 50 lashings of Stephen Fry.

Pissflaps posted:

I think it would be unfair if I had said 'all' Scottish nationalists, but I was very careful not to.

quote:

Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs select committee, had invited Natacha Bouchart [the Mayor of Calais] to enlighten Parliament about Calais’ troubles. It was a sound idea, with only one drawback. Madame Bouchart, it transpired, couldn’t speak English. And the MPs couldn’t speak French.

The outcome was every bit as successful as you’d imagine.

Since both parties were entirely reliant on a translator, exchanges followed a slow and laborious pattern: an MP would ask a question in English, the translator would translate it into French, the Mayor would answer it in French, and finally the translator would translate the answer into English.

Some MPs took time to get to grips with this procedure, in particular Michael Ellis (Con, Northampton North), who barked out his first question, and then, the instant the translator had finished translating it into French, barked out his second question. “Can she just answer the first question,” suggested Mr Vaz helpfully.

The language barrier made effective interrogation impossible, and not only because the process of simply asking a question was so arduous. The translations themselves were at times puzzling. Mr Vaz began by asking why border control at Calais was in such a mess. According to the translator, the Mayor’s answer, in full, was: “Thank you for this invitation. I would like to describe it as historic.”

“Madame Mayor, you should look after your own borders in France, should you not?” barked Mr Ellis. His tone was not only imperious but suspicious, as if he wouldn’t have been surprised to learn that she’d sneaked into Dover under a tarpaulin herself.

Eventually he received an answer, which was that illegal immigration is all Britain’s fault because we have “such an attractive regime”. Having an attractive regime was made to sound a very bad thing indeed.
This insult seemed to stir Mr Vaz’s patriotism. He’d interviewed migrants in Calais, he said, and they’d told him they wanted to come to Britain “because – and I quote – ‘We love Mr Cameron.’”

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Yeah Pissflaps, just break all the laws of logic and prove that you're not racist. I don't see why you're being so obstinate in not disproving the allegations of known chickenfucker Spooky Hyena.

Pissflaps posted:

I believe there have been no new crips flavours for decades. Any 'new' ones now are purely marketing.

HortonNash posted:

There is only one type of crisp and all the others are done using the placebo effect. Try it by putting Walkers' ready salted crisps into an empty Monster Munch pickled onion bag and then eating them, you won't be able to tell the difference! I don't know how big crisp keeps getting away with fooling everyone!