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Cojawfee posted:Wait, do people in the UK actually think that cars are constantly destroying the environment? Yes Russell Brand speaks for all of us. We have tea with the Queen once a month. The Australian accented chimney sweep dance is optional though.
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Russell Brand seems like a well spoken idiot.
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holocaust bloopers posted:London has a steep pollution tax, doesn't it? Only the most central zone of the city which nobody drives through unless they have no other option.
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There's also several major cities pushing for a 20mph limit (which at least one police force has said it won't bother enforcing) and the government will give you five thousand pounds if you buy a hybrid (while the NHS chokes to death on budget cuts). Realising how stupid this is only takes a second's thought, but unfortunately voting doesn't, and so our courts and our chambers are filled with reactionary idiots voted for and championed by other reactionary idiots.
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 mobby_6kl posted:Is there anywhere at BBC I can write and bitch about this? This is collective punishment and if they don't reconsider, I'll go to the loving UN if I have to. "As a former British colonialist, I must complain about your decision in regards to the host of the world's most popular factual program."
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NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:There's also several major cities pushing for a 20mph limit (which at least one police force has said it won't bother enforcing) and the government will give you five thousand pounds if you buy a hybrid (while the NHS chokes to death on budget cuts). Realising how stupid this is only takes a second's thought, but unfortunately voting doesn't, and so our courts and our chambers are filled with reactionary idiots voted for and championed by other reactionary idiots. To give people an idea of how out of touch some of these people are, Natalie Bennett, current leader of the Green Party and a walking disaster in interviews spent £350 and four days traveling across Europe by train instead of a £90 flight which would have been far quicker. Whilst she is at least sticking to her principles the expectation that the every day person will follow suit is absurd. These are the same sort of people who tell me that I could take public transport to work. Yes I could, but because of where my work is located it would take at least three times longer each way, and even taking into account the hidden costs of motoring is almost twice as expensive per journey. In fact because I do a car share with 2 other colleagues of mine, it would essentially work out six times more expensive on a weekly basis. I'll stick with my car thanks.
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Ludicro posted:To give people an idea of how out of touch some of these people are, Natalie Bennett, current leader of the Green Party and a walking disaster in interviews spent £350 and four days traveling across Europe by train instead of a £90 flight which would have been far quicker. Whilst she is at least sticking to her principles the expectation that the every day person will follow suit is absurd. Hahaha, Green Party, does anyone even take them seriously?
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She was in a lose-lose situation with that though. If she'd have taken a budget airlines she'd have been attacked for being a hypocrite.
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The Argentinians are winning, this is bullshit!
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Never get why people opt for Argentinian rather than Argentine. The latter has always felt much easier on the tongue to me.
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Measly Twerp posted:Russell Brand seems like a well spoken idiot. Russell Brand is just a very charming and well spoken version of the 20 year old middleclass socialist you will find in every university bar in Britain. Yes yes we all know the system is pretty hosed up, why don't you tell us what you would replace it with? Oh wait your not smart enough to actually come up with solutions that can't fit on a vine
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Mooseykins posted:Hahaha, Green Party, does anyone even take them seriously? There has been a rather notable surge of late with the younger side of the population because the other populist protest party sold out all their principles and hosed over their core demographic to get into power, so they are well and truly hosed and most of their demographic has switched to the Greens. However, the young are also notoriously apathetic about actually going out and voting, so it will probably all come crashing down at the general election. The Greens have however been in control of Brighton for the last few years and the general news coming out of there seems to be that they are completely loving up the city at worst, or having their idealism and populist policies fall apart in the face of the reality of the situation at best.
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NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:There's also several major cities pushing for a 20mph limit In addition to this there are also quite a lot of people pushing for the motorway speed limit to be brought down to 50 in some areas to reduce pollution... Road tax per year for a lot of fun stuff is over £1000 in the first year and over £500 every year following.
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Colonel K posted:In addition to this there are also quite a lot of people pushing for the motorway speed limit to be brought down to 50 in some areas to reduce pollution... From what I've seen they usually cite "safety" as their reasoning for this, despite motorways being the safest roads in the country already. Incidentally these are the same idiots who do 50mph on the motorway and insist they're being safer by doing so despite actually making the situation much more dangerous. Honestly, I see more idiocy and dangerous driving in one morning of my 5 minute 1.5 mile trip to meet up with my colleagues for my car share then I do in a week everywhere and anywhere else. The most common speed limit in my little morning trip? 20mph.
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Ludicro posted:However, the young are also notoriously apathetic about actually going out and voting, so it will probably all come crashing down at the general election. Nothing's going to come crashing down for them because they have nothing to lose. They've already won. cloudchamber fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Mar 13, 2015 |
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So who the gently caress do I need to pistol-whip?
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InterceptorV8 posted:So who the gently caress do I need to pistol-whip? https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=list+of+uk+celebrities+and+politicians
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apparently it was clarkson that reported the thing: from the bbc but i'm phone posting so can't link
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Has anyone started a Whitehouse.gov petition to bring back Clarkson yet?
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What would be the point of making one?
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SquadronROE posted:Has anyone started a Whitehouse.gov petition to bring back Clarkson yet? Did you know that there is a change.org one? https://www.change.org/p/bbc-reinstate-jeremy-clarkson?source_location=trending_petitions_home_page&algorithm=curated_trending http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-31835639
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cloudchamber posted:What would be the point of making one? Hilarity because people are dumb.
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Ugh, this is lame as hell. I wanted see those other challenges 
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IceAgeComing posted:apparently it was clarkson that reported the thing: from the bbc but i'm phone posting so can't link http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31869967
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Sir Tonk posted:
Only if she does all of Jeremy's bits and everyone refers to her as Jeremy.
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yaffle posted:Only if she does all of Jeremy's bits and everyone refers to her as Jeremy. We'll also accept Jennifer.
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yaffle posted:Only if she does all of Jeremy's bits and everyone refers to her as Jeremy. I say they do this with whomever they hire. Just act like nothing's different.
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Aha quote:Clarkson, and co-presenters May and Richard Hammond, are due to renegotiate their contracts next month.
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quote:Clarkson, and co-presenters May and Richard Hammond, are due to renegotiate their contracts next month. How dumb do you have to be as a network to not have them on staggered contracts? It looks like they can walk out of the BBC studios and down the road to Sky who has been after them for years. (Barring non-compete clauses. Are those a thing in the UK?)
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It's okay, they can just bring in those Chinese presenters from a few seasons ago and no one will notice.
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Why would it affect the magazine at all?
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Viper_3000 posted:How dumb do you have to be as a network to not have them on staggered contracts? It looks like they can walk out of the BBC studios and down the road to Sky who has been after them for years. (Barring non-compete clauses. Are those a thing in the UK?) Presumably the contracts were done up to have the three all on at the same time.
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