Coohoolin posted:

Here's a depressing map, countries with the item most searched for in terms of cost, i.e. "how much does X cost".



Switzerland: Rolexes

Britain: Life

Coohoolin posted:

Ireland's "funeral" gave me a giggle as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NndzLS7JvJY

OwlFancier posted:

What's that little country near the caspian sea which is very concerned with carpets?

OwlFancier posted:

What's that little country near the caspian sea which is very concerned with carpets?

Pissflaps posted:

I think 'Kidney' is the most depressing one.

Phoon posted:

No its the tiny lamborghini and ferraris scattered about "food" and "a loaf of bread"

Jedit posted:

What's your problem with that? Most of the people searching for information on how much something costs in a country won't be those who already live there, because they'll know. So you're getting all depressed about the number of foreigners who want to know how much it costs to live in the UK.

(Now I'm curious as to why Austria appears to have such a thriving sex tourism industry.)

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"Ed seems to think he'd be saving the union by snubbing the SNP. The funny thing is, if the election puts him in the position to do that, he really will have the fate of the union is in his hands.

What Ed clearly doesn't understand is that most people who voted Yes didn't do so for the sake of changing a flag, but because we wanted to change how we are governed. A better voting system, no more House of Lords, removal of nuclear weapons, a constitution cementing the basic reality that power starts with the people and not with the crown.

The No campaign said that we could get all the changes we want within the UK. "Don't leave the UK, lead the UK", they said. I know I'm not the only one who thought the idea of Scotland "leading" the UK was absurd, but if the SNP hold the balance of power then there's actually a chance.

The thing is though, this is the dream scenario. This is the best chance we'll ever get. Plenty of people wanted change and voted No because they believed we could get it within the UK, and if even a Labour government can't deliver that change, even when the SNP hold the balance, those voters will know for a certainty that independence is the only way forward.

It's decision time for the UK, and Ed's the one who has to make the decision. Change, or we're leaving."

tooterfish posted:

It's actually the itinerary of the greatest stag party ever.

Pissflaps posted:

I think 'Kidney' is the most depressing one.

Angepain posted:

e: I assume the 4 UKIP votes are just jokes, right? Right?

SNAKES N CAKES posted:

Voting UKIP is the correct choice in UKIP-Tory contests.

SNAKES N CAKES posted:

Voting UKIP is the correct choice in UKIP-Tory contests.

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Noel Gallagher has said he won’t be voting for Ed Miliband because “he’s a loving communist”. In an appearance on Channel 4’s Alan Carr Chatty Man tonight, the former oasis man says he will not be taking part in the election because none of the parties appeal to him.

The musician continues by dismissing Nicola Sturgeon as well: "The other unpleasant little woman from over the border. Cheap shoes... and then there’s the Greens - whatever. And the other mob..."

Ichabod Sexbeast posted:

Mauritania is worrying

e: what's the source on this?

Junkenstein posted:

I'd go with 'slaves' myself.

dispatch_async posted:

New polls:

Phoon posted:

No you should vote labour in this scenario as there is no difference between tories and ukip

bitterandtwisted posted:

Yes, get that fucker Mundell out.

SNAKES N CAKES posted:

So you think a Tory-UKIP coalition is a foregone conclusion?

The New Black posted:

While obviously there are huge numbers of people effectively in slavery all over the world, it's pretty depressing that there is still a country where slavery is completely endemic and accepted, largely on ethnic grounds. I think their government was pressured into passing a token thing to make it illegal but it's not enforced at all.

Just in case you needed the horrors of this election putting in perspective or whatever.

Pesmerga posted:

Who here is voting for the Liberal Democrats. WHO.

Carrier posted:

I am voting Lib Dem.

dispatch_async posted:

Carrier posted:

I am voting Lib Dem.

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Latest Survation poll:
LAB - 34% (+4)
CON - 33% (-)
UKIP - 16% (-2)
LDEM - 9% (-)
GRN - 3% (-1)

Coohoolin posted:

I hope you fall out your plane and drown in the channel.

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Jack Sen, UKIP’s parliamentary candidate for West Lancashire, has claimed that other governments have ignored “the ethnic cleansing” of people of European descent in South Africa.

Sen made the remarks in an interview with the Afrikaner, a publication run by South Africans who are descended from Dutch settlers.

The Afrikaner website said Sen, who describes himself on Twitter as “unapologetically politically incorrect”, is a “bloody genius”.
When asked whether the “white South African” was under attack, Sen said this group had become “an endangered species”.

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Sen also accused left-wingers of having double standards when decideding who was a victim. He also said the West was “controlled by leftists that can trace their roots back to eastern bloc nations”.

When pushed to define what he meant by “eastern bloc people”, he said: "There’s a common thread that binds so-called atheist Marxists like Joe Slovo, Nadine Gordimer, and Ed Milliband. Your audience will have to decide what that is. There are too many commonalities to go over in a 10-minute phone call. Let’s leave that for another day."

Slovo was a member of the African National Congress and a fervent opponent of the apartheid regime in South Africa. He was given a senior position in Nelson Mandela’s government.

Like the Milibands, Slovo – a South African anti-apartheid activist – came from a Jewish background, as did Gordimer, a South African author.

dispatch_async posted:

New polls: