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Seaside Loafer posted:It looks like he was up to a bit more than getting fitted up with a dime bag of weed http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/cameron-gun-teenager-behind-bars-984726  vthat article posted:United States of Wythenshawe e: Quick googling and apparently it's the 'United Estates of Wythenshawe', which makes a lot more sense. 1927 - The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland changes its name, stops recognizing the Soviet Union. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 03:32 on Nov 5, 2015 |
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Guavanaut posted:I wonder why his guru told him to hop on board the drug reform train. It must be an encouraging sign that someone high up thought that would make for a good party leader gambit, even if it was all a fake. Every adviser and scientist involved with drugs policy has been saying the same thing for roughly 15 years. It's why David Nutt broke ranks and got dropped. Technically it's a free lunch but nobody dares do it - they just get the same message from their advisers over and over, nod and smile then continue doing exactly the same thing. Cameron's adviser in this case was Steve Hilton, by the way - although he started in the Cons (he came up with demon eyes in 1997) he was relatively hippyish, and ended up abandoning them and wrote a book about how large banks and factory farms are evil, and small scale human organisations are better. If things had gone a little differently there is a chance David Cameron might have ended up pushing through a lot of Hilton-inspired environmental legislation.
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Nov 5, 2015 04:14
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It's like that old joke - no matter who is in power you always have the Daily Mail as your drugs secretary. We'll never get a sensible drugs policy pushed through the tabloid hysteria unless it was preceded by the government coming down hard on middle class drugs use.
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Nov 5, 2015 06:33
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The nice chaps at the Resolution Foundation have found some ways for Gideon to stick to his fiscal charter without cutting tax credits: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/nov/05/george-osborne-can-find-44bn-without-cutting-tax-credits-says-thinktank?CMP=share_btn_twquote:The report says the reduction in the earnings level at which tax credit entitlements start to be tapered away – set to save £4.4bn by 2020 – should not go ahead. The foundation says pushing ahead with this change, even on a revised timetable, would be a mistake, particularly when the same savings can be made elsewhere.
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Nov 5, 2015 08:29
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I think you'll find that those wealthy tax breaks make for a STRONG ECONOMY and that's what will help poor people STRONG ECONOMY
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Nov 5, 2015 09:22
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Honestly, I'm just impressed that they were able to design a tax cut "for the poor" that is really expensive and gives no benefit to someone earning £10k per annum but pays out in full to someone earning £100k. Good moves.
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Nov 5, 2015 09:44
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quote:People were camping out in the street in the early hours of Thursday morning – some since the day before – in order to be first in line to purchase studio flats in a west London complex for £199,000.
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Nov 5, 2015 10:05
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Nov 5, 2015 10:07
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Oberleutnant posted:I'm so tired. But did you at least get a nice flat?
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LemonDrizzle posted:Honestly, I'm just impressed that they were able to design a tax cut "for the poor" that is really expensive and gives no benefit to someone earning £10k per annum but pays out in full to someone earning £100k. Good moves. Well that's always been the case with the personal allowance. Any increase to that only benefits people earning above the current limit, and benefits those earning above the new limit the most. I mean in relative terms an extra £200 or whatever will mean more to someone earning 11K than someone on 110K, but it's still the same amount going to both people That's the 'funny' thing really, tax credits are a way to boost lower incomes without giving the same unnecessary benefit to people with higher incomes. They basically solve the same problem as raising the personal allowance, except in a targetted way. The tories are using some stupid administrative argument ("it's silly to tax people and then give them the money back!" - nobody cares) to open the relief up to people who don't need it, and reducing the amount people get. And wealthier people get their own special tax breaks just for them on top of that Call me cynical but I don't see any signs of incompetence here
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baka kaba posted:Well that's always been the case with the personal allowance. Any increase to that only benefits people earning above the current limit, and benefits those earning above the new limit the most. I mean in relative terms an extra £200 or whatever will mean more to someone earning 11K than someone on 110K, but it's still the same amount going to both people How else are we going to get a STRONG ECONOMY if we don't give more money to WEALTH CREATORS. Sounds like you haven't heard of the #LongTermEconomicPlan.
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It's amazing how much you can get away with failing to do anything by just saying "oh it's a long term plan" - that's fantastic mate but can it come to fruition at some point within our lifetimes. I hope that when the inevitable economic crash comes Labour just constantly go "nice plan, Gidiot."
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Tesseraction posted:It's amazing how much you can get away with failing to do anything by just saying "oh it's a long term plan" - that's fantastic mate but can it come to fruition at some point within our lifetimes. To be honest I'd prefer if it didn't, thanks.
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Nov 5, 2015 11:04
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Oberleutnant posted:Oh i didn't camp out, I sent my man to do that.
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Nov 5, 2015 11:06
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Is this politics or do you think it's real? http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/nov/05/egypt-bomb-fears-leave-thousands-stranded-in-sharm-el-sheikh-live-updates
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Darth Walrus posted:To be honest I'd prefer if it didn't, thanks. No need to worry because there isn't actually a plan, and that's the point. By saying it's 'long term' he can literally sit on his hands while the economy recovers itself at a snail's pace. All he has to do is wait for something to solve the problem for him then take credit. Which is why the inevitable economic crash, while horrific, will at least lead to some schadenfreude against Gidiot's smug attempts at looking economically competent.
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Nov 5, 2015 11:27
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Jippa posted:Is this politics or do you think it's real? Feels like it's stating the obvious to say 'it's possible there was a bomb', and there's always something political in moves like these. The trouble with crying wolf on  TEH TEROR all the time is it makes people less inclined to believe they know anything at allFunny that they'd strand so many tourists in a TERROR HOTSPOT though, especially after that gunman on the beach
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Nov 5, 2015 11:34
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Jippa posted:Is this politics or do you think it's real? Manufacturing a terrorism crisis to distract from tax credits.
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Nov 5, 2015 11:35
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Phoon posted:Manufacturing a terrorism crisis to distract from tax credits. Maybe they should rebrand them as Terror Credits for the next push
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baka kaba posted:Feels like it's stating the obvious to say 'it's possible there was a bomb', and there's always something political in moves like these. The trouble with crying wolf on Their lives only matter once they've lost them. More seriously apparently Britain is planning on sending 'recovery mission' flights to pick them up, according to one report (which may or may not be bollocks).
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Nov 5, 2015 11:42
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I'm back from London and I'm happy to report a few coppers got pelted, the Guardian picked up on our "David Cameron hosed a pig" chant, pig loving was a big theme, and in conclusion fees, tories and coppers are all bad. Oh and in case you see the bullshit statement, they were ABSOLUTELY kettling people, mates of mine got caught in it and one was arrested. ACAB.
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lol.Walter Bartellot, 1888 posted:My Dear Duke, I cannot thank you sufficiently for your most kind letter with regard to the death of my dearest son [Edmund Barttelot]; and Lady Barttelot and I feel very much your kind sympathy. He was indeed as brave, true, honest and affectionate a son as could be found and desired humbly but determinately to do his duty. I had hoped that he might have done still greater service for his Queen and his Country. quote:Stanley received reports about Barttelot's behaviour from other officers. One, William Bonny, said that "the least thing caused the Major to behave like a fiend" and that he would repeatedly stab African workers with a steel-pointed cane.[1] Another said that the Major "had an intense hatred of anything in the shape of a black man".[1] A 13-year-old boy named Sudi had been beaten and kicked by him. Stanley nursed the injured Sudi, who died six weeks after Stanley returned. Furious, Stanley mainly blamed Barttelot for the failure of the Rear Column, though he also criticised the other officers for allowing him to "kick, strike and slay human beings".[1] quote:There have been many proposed sources for the character of the antagonist, Kurtz. Georges-Antoine Klein, an agent who became ill and later died aboard Conrad's steamer, has been identified by scholars and literary critics as one basis for Kurtz. The principal figures involved in the disastrous "rear column" of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, have also been identified as likely sources, including column leader Edmund Musgrave Barttelot, slave trader Tippu Tip and the expedition's overall leader, Welsh explorer Henry Morton Stanley.[6][7]
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Oberleutnant posted:lol.
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TheHoodedClaw posted:Good isn't it. Flightradar is well-known, and there's a similar service for ships: rogue landboats 
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:rogue landboats  e: Seaside Loafer posted:Whats this about then?
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Seaside Loafer posted:Whats this about then? I just looked up that family and from what I can tell every man for four generations served in the military and all bar one of them died in action. I always thought the family business of dying gloriously thing was a joke about the upper classes but I guess not.
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Guavanaut posted:Last I heard they stopped doing those in Liverpool after one of them nearly sank. Or parent is fully down with the psychopathic racism because Africans aren't really people doncherknow.
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Seaside Loafer posted:Whats this about then?
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feedmegin posted:Or parent is fully down with the psychopathic racism because Africans aren't really people doncherknow.
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big scary monsters posted:I just looked up that family and from what I can tell every man for four generations served in the military and all bar one of them died in action. I always thought the family business of dying gloriously thing was a joke about the upper classes but I guess not. It was very much the done thing. Got some other letters from a family in which 5 consecutive generations lost life or limb in India or Africa. I think that if you gathered up all the blown off bits you could assemble a new, complete person out of them.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34723515 binge-watch (verb): to watch a large number of television programmes (especially all the shows from one series) in succession clean eating (noun): following a diet that contains only natural foods, and is low in sugar, salt, and fat contactless (adjective): referring to payments, smart cards, etc that utilize RFID (radio-frequency identity) technology and do not require a PIN or signature from the customer Corbynomics (noun): the economic policies advocated by the UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn dadbod (noun): an untoned and slightly plump male physique, especially one considered attractive ghosting (noun): ending a relationship by ignoring all communication from the other person manspreading (noun): the act or an instance of a male passenger in a bus or train splaying his legs in a way that denies space to the passenger sitting next to him shaming (noun): attempting to embarrass a person or group by drawing attention to their perceived offence, especially on social media swipe (verb): to move a finger across a touchscreen on a mobile phone in order to approve (swipe right) or dismiss (swipe left) an image transgender (adjective): of or relating to a person whose gender identity does not fully correspond to the sex assigned to them at birth
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Oberleutnant posted:A fine example of our colonial past. Holy poo poo, I was reading that thinking uhhh this sounds like Heart of Darkness and then you follow up with that last bit I'm gonna imagine that guy shooting him in the style of Indiana Jones
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Jippa posted:clean eating (noun): following a diet that contains only natural foods, and is low in sugar, salt, and fat quote:
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Guavanaut posted:These people are the worst and should all be fed organic GMO-free amaninamide. Other-side-of, I think. Think transalpine/cisalpine for roman gaul.
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After googling I just found out that "In nature, unsaturated fatty acids generally have cis as opposed to trans configurations". That just sounds weird.
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Oberleutnant posted:Other-side-of, I think. Think transalpine/cisalpine for roman gaul. Although the technical meaning sometimes works too, the space between Transkei and Ciskei is fluid 
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Transgender wasn't already a word?? And ghosting, shaming and manspreading are verbs 
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Don't grammarshame (adj.)
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Jippa posted:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34723515 I think this one is silly because both of those words already exist. In fact I don't see it very often with a hyphen anyway. Why bother putting it in the dictionary when people understand both words in the context?
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