tooterfish posted:

Are you sure you're not just being exceptionally rude to the waiters?

Does your name mean "go gently caress your mother" in Punjabi?

shrike82 posted:

Is there any reason why there're so many muzzies in Birmingham?

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Private Speech posted:

I've got this thing but with some herb or spice that's in curry. As in it makes me physically sick, I don't mind the taste at all. It's really bad and a lot of people don't believe me, school meals were a torture.

As a result I always feel left out when people talk about Indian food, I'll never know what's so good about it

Private Speech posted:

I've got this thing but with some herb or spice that's in curry. As in it makes me physically sick, I don't mind the taste at all. It's really bad and a lot of people don't believe me, school meals were a torture.

As a result I always feel left out when people talk about Indian food, I'll never know what's so good about it

NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:

I remember an amazing cheese flavour popcorn that existed for a fleeting moment of my childhood.

I ate bags and bags of the stuff and now whenever I mention it everyone thinks I'm mental.

Office of the Speaker posted:

Dear Mr Saurus,

Mr Speaker has asked me to thank you for your email of 28 October and for your kind and encouraging words.

Kind regards,

Jade

Jade Knight | Secretary to the Speaker’s Secretary

House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA

forkboy84 posted:

I bought some McCoys today because there was a multipack of 6 for £1. Unfortunately 2 of them are Ready Salted & Ready Salted McCoy's are the blandest crisp outside of those dumb "shake some salt into the bag because we are too lazy to do it ourselves" crisps.

Extreme0 posted:

My favourite Monster munch was the 90s-2000 Cheese Flavor.

XMNN posted:

I think the last few weeks have shaken the weird sense of absolute power the Tories had after winning a stunning victory (i.e. a slim majority instead of an arsekicking) in May. Maybe they forgot how parliamentary democracy works.

quote:

British defence officials are under pressure to resolve the status of Syrian and Palestinian refugees in Cyprus after the release of video showing chaotic scenes at a UK military base on the island.

Among the incidents in pictures, videos and audio recordings obtained by the Guardian is an apparent threat by a man to kill himself before British police officers rush in. Separately, a man is seen with his face covered in blood after cutting himself.

In other videos, members of the group of 114 who landed on the island last month, among them 28 children, plead for their release from Dhekelia, one of two British sovereign base areas (SBAs) in Cyprus.

quote:

Cyprus has agreed to process the asylum claims of all the refugees and migrants who arrived at the base, despite the UN’s view that they are Britain’s responsibility.

Under a 2003 agreement between the UK and Cyprus, asylum seekers arriving directly on to the SBAs on the island are the responsibility of the UK, to be granted access to services in Cyprus at Britain’s cost.

The Ministry of Defence would not comment on any of the specific incidents, but insisted that the refugees were being treated well.

“We are aware of a small number of incidents at the temporary accommodation facility,” an MoD spokesman said. “Those staying there have access to food, shelter, privacy and communications, which United Nations staff have visited and say exceeds the standard of comparable setups.

“We continue to work closely with the Cypriot authorities to resolve this situation as quickly as possible. The UK government will not allow a new migrant route to open up to the UK.”

quote:

This is only the second time boats of refugees have come ashore at the SBA. In 1998, a boat carrying mostly Iraqi and Syrian Kurds was brought ashore with the aid of British forces. However, due to the legal and political status of the base, the group of 67 asylum seekers remain stuck on the base almost 17 years later.

The Saurus posted:

Sorry Extreme0 but those tasted like someone had eaten a load of individually wrapped burger cheese slices and then been sick and then someone baked the sick into monster munch shapes.

Brown Moses posted:

Well gently caress, Tom Barry, the guy behind Boris Watch, has died.

Brown Moses posted:

Well gently caress, Tom Barry, the guy behind Boris Watch, has died.

Renaissance Robot posted:

Probably grass?

That's what gin is right, vodka steeped in various plant junk?

feedmegin posted:

Bison grass vodka is a (weird, manky) thing.

quote:

The actor Sean Bean has lent his backing to Jeremy Corbyn, saying the Labour leader talks sense.

The Game of Thrones and Sharpe star described himself as an old Labour supporter and lauded Corbyn as a leader who stands up for working-class people and whose voice needed to be heard in Britain.

Bean was careful, however, to point out that that did not mean he supported a return to the widespread industrial conflict that marked much of UK politics in the 1980s.

Speaking to reporters, he described his upbringing in Sheffield, which he called a firmly socialist city. And he said modern British cultural output was ignoring working-class stories.

He said American viewers have driven demand for a picture of Britain that was “rosy (and) upper-class”, adding that “real stories about working people aren’t getting told”.

“This Is England was great – and you remember Gary Oldman doing The Firm? Magnificent. Jimmy McGovern – I love his writing, and I’m a big fan of him and Alan Clarke. That’s my personal choice, and that’s what I’m good at. But it’s a make-believe view of England that our friends across the pond seem to prefer.”

He made the comments, which were reported by the Radio Times, at a press conference for his new series, the Frankenstein Chronicles. “There’s a lot about this story that resonates today. From the social issues to the cover-ups. It all sounds familiar and nothing’s changed,” he said.

Bean says his character in Frankenstein Chronicles, Inspector John Marlott, is “an ordinary man who has been thrown into that elite world and who challenges these people”.

And, in the real world, he says, Corbyn is “sticking up for the working-class man and it’s time we heard that voice again”.

In the six-part ITV drama, Bean plays a Peeler – the forerunner to today’s police force – in 19th-century London. He discovers a body washed up from the Thames that he finds is, similar to Frankenstein’s monster, stitched together from human body parts.

Echoing the BBC’s Penny Dreadful, it tinkers with gothic literary themes and storylines. The first episode is due to air on 11 November.

XMNN posted:

If the NHS goes down in flames there is no way the Tories win the next election.

nothing to seehere posted:

HA, I wish. All we'll get is the NHS collapsing from a full-on junior doctors strike over the winter, which will fail and lead to hordes of doctors leaving the profession in the UK, causing the NHS to fail even further and get replaced by a private service.

XMNN posted:

If the NHS goes down in flames there is no way the Tories win the next election.

NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:

and good luck getting 20-30 years of Tory Rule when every election Labour can just wheel out the ever-increasing number of dying grannies that you're responsible for.

Guavanaut posted:

Sicko Corbyn used the tragic death of a grandma to score points today, The Sun can exclusively report.

Oberleutnant posted:

I get so angry every time Cameron trots out the cadaver of his own son to score points why does no fucker ever call him on it.
I know why, but loving

NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:

I remember an amazing cheese flavour popcorn that existed for a fleeting moment of my childhood.

I ate bags and bags of the stuff and now whenever I mention it everyone thinks I'm mental.

jabby posted:

I think the only consolation regarding the NHS is that pretty much regardless of what the Tories do to it if Jeremy Corbyn or someone like him got into power they would immediately start to rebuild it.

As opposed to the Blair/Brown/Miliband ilk who would shrug and say 'well, it was nice while it lasted, Tories fault nothing we can do' then proceed to reap the profits of private healthcare.

Oberleutnant posted: