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mediadave posted:Interesting, I didn't know any Iranians in the UK called themselves Persians, I thought that was an American thing. Were they monarchists? Also this, although I didn't chat about the differences and they weren't serving food: Kokoro Wish posted:No no, they were actual Persians, as in a subset of the Iranian population that speak a completely different language. Chatting with them about the differences was pretty great, and they served great food. Acaila posted:Referencing Star Trek and Only Connect in the midst of political debate makes me love you guys e: 1926 - Rezā Khan was crowned Shah of Persia under the name "Pahlevi". The UK has a general strike. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Sep 7, 2015 |
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No. Pointless bad.
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# ? Sep 7, 2015 23:18 |
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I'm married to an Iranian.
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# ? Sep 7, 2015 23:20 |
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mediadave posted:I'm married to an Iranian. Do you want a medal?
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# ? Sep 7, 2015 23:23 |
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So I've still not got my voting letter. Am I too late now, or am I secret communist? UKMT decides.
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# ? Sep 7, 2015 23:26 |
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Gonzo McFee posted:No. Pointless bad. Fans posted:So I've still not got my voting letter. Am I too late now, or am I secret communist? UKMT decides.
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Fans posted:So I've still not got my voting letter. Am I too late now, or am I secret communist? UKMT decides. Also, check your spam folders and filtermajigs and whatnot; the polling letter is an email.
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# ? Sep 7, 2015 23:31 |
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Pissflaps posted:Do you want a medal? tu ra doost daram
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# ? Sep 7, 2015 23:34 |
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All is despair, so all I want from UKMT is more deets about Are Mad Queen
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# ? Sep 7, 2015 23:35 |
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Sent 'em an email. Will esculate to "Strongly worded" if they don't get back to me before the end of tomorrow.
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# ? Sep 7, 2015 23:36 |
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There's also this now: http://www.labour.org.uk/page/content/reissues-closed/ quote:Ballot re-issues
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# ? Sep 7, 2015 23:53 |
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Pointless and Only Connect were better when they were on BBC 2 and BBC 4 respectively.
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# ? Sep 7, 2015 23:56 |
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Yeah, I feel like Only Connect has lost some of it's "filmed in a post-apocalyptic bunker" vibe since the move.
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# ? Sep 7, 2015 23:59 |
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15-1 with Sandi Toksvig
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 00:04 |
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Kokoro Wish posted:Oh no, it's still very white, but it has more actual mixing of cultures than any place I've ever lived. Hell it's the first place I've met honest to god Persians. There's 3 separate Persian communities in London alone - one in the north, one in the centre, and one in the south-west.
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XMNN posted:"filmed in a post-apocalyptic bunker" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l28o6fJda1c
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 00:28 |
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There's loads of casual racism in the UK. White people are rly racist.
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 00:43 |
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I got a letter in the post and an email. Voted online but labour are still emailing me saying I haven't voted yet. Wut? Also looks like labour want a Brexit lol Man I wonder how hosed all EU residents in the UK will be once we leave. I'd assume all those who had gotten in before Brexit will be ok?
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 00:50 |
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awesome-express posted:Man I wonder how hosed all EU residents in the UK will be once we leave. I'd assume all those who had gotten in before Brexit will be ok? Pretty sure we'll be deporting them to Syria too.
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 00:55 |
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awesome-express posted:I got a letter in the post and an email. Voted online but labour are still emailing me saying I haven't voted yet. Wut? There was a Grauniad piece where EU residents have started applying for the most lenient non-EU-free-movement licences they can in preparation for an exit.
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It would be quite something that after all this hubbub corbyn ends up losing the race to cooper. Considering how bad things always get it wouldn't be surprised if fate fucks with peoples hopes the way it always does.
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 01:48 |
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Current thread sweepstakes expect Kendall to get 105% of the vote.
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 02:35 |
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Pointless is good but Alexander Armstrong is history's greatest monster.
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Pantsuit posted:There's loads of casual racism in the UK. White people are rly racist. I fuckin hate casuals as well, they need to git gud. e; been in hospital most of the last week with cluster headaches*. Again affirms my belief that the NHS is Cool & Good and most of the problems I saw seemed to stem from being shorthanded, so obviously the solution is not to hire more nurses and doctors and support the immigrants who keep it running**, but sell it off and tell johnny foreigner to gently caress off back home. * Under no circumstances develop cluster headaches. They pumped a litre of paracetamol in by IV and when the nurse was coming to remove the bag I looked up and said "Oh thank Christ, painkillers", I felt nothing at all from a direct line of painkillers into my veins. Huge doses of tetracycline, codeine, and morphine are needed; sadly one of the problems with aforementioned shortages is that nurses were often not able to give my meds right when I was due and hospitals aren't great for sleeping, so I had a couple of really bad days. Nonetheless, with the exception of one really nasty nurse, I can't fault any member of staff, most of them were run off their feet and I saw a student nurse doing way more than she was meant to because it needed to be done. No complaints, run off her feet for about 12 hours, definitely not getting paid what she deserved. Tried to thank her special, she made a big difference to me at least. Christ, the old bloke in the next bed had oesephogal cancer, couldn't eat and could barely drink, and even the dinner ladies went well out of their way to find or make things he could swallow. 98% of what I saw was, just like last time I was in hospital a couple of years ago, incredibly hardworking people who were ridiculously dedicated to their jobs. ** Healthcare worker nationalities I encountered include Ukrainian, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Kenyan, South African, Indian, Pakistani, German, Irish, Filipino, and several Middle Eastern states I didn't have the wherewithal to place. Oh I think there was a Yank as well, might have been a Canadian or an Oz/Kiwi, wasn't really with it enough to pin it down. This is not, for the record, counting people of foreign ancestry, only people who by their accents could be identified as immigrants themselves (Or I suppose dual-nationality). Basically at least in my neck of the woods, it's not like it would be a painful readjustment or even a slow collapse, the NHS would implode in the space of about 12 hours without immigrants keeping it running, assuming a day with minimal conditions for people to hurt themselves. Ms Adequate fucked around with this message at 05:43 on Sep 8, 2015 |
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Maybe you should move to East Kent, so that next time you feel the need to burden the NHS with your trifling problems, they can ship you off to France for treatment instead. I don't watch the news much these days, but I'm assuming this story was ignored?
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StoneOfShame posted:Pointless is good but Alexander Armstrong is history's greatest monster. It's all about Richard Osman. Also how can anyone prefer the new 15 to 1 over the original?! All about William G Stewart.
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Al-Saqr posted:It would be quite something that after all this hubbub corbyn ends up losing the race to cooper. Considering how bad things always get it wouldn't be surprised if fate fucks with peoples hopes the way it always does. I'm not saying I'm psychic, just inferring it, but I've got a weird feeling of dread about this whole thing, and the last time that happened was the GE. So I'm expecting the worst
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StoneOfShame posted:Pointless is good but Alexander Armstrong is history's greatest monster. Pointless is entirely based on one lame joke about how awful that kind of gameshow is (it's pointless! lollll), then drags it out across a full half hour slot when there's really only enough material for maybe ten minutes. It's a nice idea for a game, basically a reversal of the central family fortunes bit (and an actual reversal at that rather than some idiotic poo poo like Jeopardy), but the entire character of the show is Armstrong winking at the camera to check if you've gotten the joke yet. It's no Numberwang I'll tell you what.
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Mister Adequate posted:I fuckin hate casuals as well, they need to git gud. Out of interest does oxygen work for you? You can apparently get approval to keep an oxygen cylinder at home to self treat cluster headaches now. Also don't be afraid to ask the doctors to prescribe you something to help you sleep while youre in hospital, we do it all the time since pretty much everyone has their sleep ruined. Oh yeah, and I agree with everything you said. All the problems with the NHS come down to it being underfunded and mismanaged, and its basically a huge con that the people in charge of running it also have a vested interest in making it seem badly run.
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Barry Foster posted:I'm not saying I'm psychic, just inferring it, but I've got a weird feeling of dread about this whole thing, and the last time that happened was the GE. So I'm expecting the worst Yeah, I've got the same feeling. Triangulatory Cooper who can't comment on anything will get it, and the Blairites will raise their bloodied mouths to the sky to howl in favour of the sensible party of government.
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awesome-express posted:I got a letter in the post and an email. Voted online but labour are still emailing me saying I haven't voted yet. Wut? I think if you read the email again you'll find it says "Please remember that if you haven't voted..."
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 09:16 |
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Labour have finally expelled a tory from the party
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 09:58 |
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Al-Saqr posted:It would be quite something that after all this hubbub corbyn ends up losing the race to cooper. Considering how bad things always get it wouldn't be surprised if fate fucks with peoples hopes the way it always does.
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That 50% is from a week ago though. I don't think Jeremy will win tbh, I think Cooper or Burnham will scrape through with 51% after everyone else is eliminated, declare themselves the unity candidate and then go back to ignoring the left entirely, Blair will write a piece saying that leftists now must do as democracy says and fall in line, some lefties will stay in the party and try to make a difference but the rest will believe the whole thing was rigged (either underhandedly via purging or just as a result of disgustingly biased media) and leave or stick around and just stop bothering to be involved
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Phoon posted:
To be fair, a lot of you were coming out with the exact same line when the prospect of Blairite rebels was raised when Corbyn started leading in the polls - so if Cooper or Burnham do win you can't complain about stuff like this. kapparomeo fucked around with this message at 10:24 on Sep 8, 2015 |
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Diane Abbot didn't enjoy the Panorama special. @HackneyAbbott: Panorama on Corbyn a hatchet job. I did long interview. None used. Didn't fit their preconceived narrative. http://t.co/9HV6zWwufz Mega Comrade fucked around with this message at 10:34 on Sep 8, 2015 |
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Mister Adequate posted:I fuckin hate casuals as well, they need to git gud.
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kapparomeo posted:To be fair, a lot of you were coming out with the exact same line when the prospect of Blairite rebels was raised when Corbyn started leading in the polls - so if Cooper or Burnham do win you can't complain about stuff like this. Yes we can you dork.
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# ? Sep 8, 2015 10:28 |
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Seeing as we were talking about Peter Hitchens on Sunday (yeah, throwing it back 8 pages), I saw that Owen Jones interviewed him on his Youtube. It's about as bizarre as you'd expect, a proper chance for him to go into his world view, like being convinced that Blairism was a strain of Eurocommunism, and one that has now infected the Tories. I did enjoy when he mentioned he can't feel hatred towards David Cameron personally because it would be "like feeling passion against a blancmange". He's odd. But I find that level of just pure social conservative, paternalistic, reactionary absolutely fascinating on some level. At least he seems to have no hope of his world view ever gaining traction again I guess?
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forkboy84 posted:Seeing as we were talking about Peter Hitchens on Sunday (yeah, throwing it back 8 pages), I saw that Owen Jones interviewed him on his Youtube. It's about as bizarre as you'd expect, a proper chance for him to go into his world view, like being convinced that Blairism was a strain of Eurocommunism, and one that has now infected the Tories. I did enjoy when he mentioned he can't feel hatred towards David Cameron personally because it would be "like feeling passion against a blancmange". The Tories are just like the SWP.
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