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MrL_JaKiri posted:Yes people do call you a pedant People call rowing posh.
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Gonzo McFee posted:Jeremy Corbyn is a good leader. He's really been jumping on the steel issue lately and not sitting idly by making jam like  Also, Charlotte Church was great on the Last Leg last night, she is very sweary and very sure of her opinions, I like her.
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Pissflaps posted:People call rowing posh. There is a subset of the population of this country who call rowing posh, and do it on the internet
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MrL_JaKiri posted:There is a subset of the population of this country who call rowing posh, and do it on the internet There is.
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Pissflaps posted:There is. Agreed
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Apr 2, 2016 13:00
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I'm glad to see you two putting your differences aside and not rowing on the internet.
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I literally have no idea why anyone would want to sell the steel industry, even if it was running at a monumental loss. I'm no engineer, but I'm guessing the ability to create and manufacture your own steel without having to buy it elsewhere is a very, very useful ability to have particularly if you want to run an infrastructure in the modern world, what with steel being used loving everywhere.
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Ddraig posted:I literally have no idea why anyone would want to sell the steel industry, even if it was running at a monumental loss. Well they don't want to run the infrastructure so there's that.
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The tories are literal free market fundamentalists. Even though protectionism or nationalisation in this instance is indisputably the best course of action their rigid worldview loses credibility if they concede. It's going to be interesting to see their mad, unsustainable dream unravel and collapse under its own weight.
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Scotland now confirmed to be the only country in the world where a majority of political party leaders are gay.
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Darth Walrus posted:Scotland now confirmed to be the only country in the world where a majority of political party leaders are gay. I like how Kez just dropped it in like "sure, why not, idgaf" Meanwhile, in Dover… https://twitter.com/CharlieElphicke/status/716244641193058304
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Anyone watching the labour livestream conference thing? It's interesting but the twitters aren't exactly lighting up. Mostly because they're in the middle of a group discussion and haven't actually told the people watching what the questions are >.< http://www.labour.org.uk/page/content/campaigning-to-win/ Link, by the by. Slightly painful reporting from the group discussion in progress. thespaceinvader fucked around with this message at 14:52 on Apr 2, 2016 |
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TinTower posted:I like how Kez just dropped it in like "sure, why not, idgaf" Gosh, I wonder what would cause antifa to visit a shithole like Dover. Surely a mystery for the ages, drat lefties.
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Also is it possible that they're only occupying the road because they can't go anywhere else because the police are in the way?
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Zeppelin Insanity posted:Hey, guy in thread (sorry, terrible with names) who went to the Civil Service assessment centre, how did it go? Did you get the results yet? still waiting on the results, i'm not sure whether that's a good or a bad thing
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TomViolence posted:The tories are literal free market fundamentalists. Even though protectionism or nationalisation in this instance is indisputably the best course of action their rigid worldview loses credibility if they concede. It's going to be interesting to see their mad, unsustainable dream unravel and collapse under its own weight. In other news: Jeremy Corbyn mobbed by supporters during Bristol walkabout quote:Jeremy Corbyn was mobbed by supporters when he took an unplanned walk through the streets of Bristol on Friday afternoon.
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Jeremy Corbyn is just negging the press, the fiend. Meanwhile the worm continues to turn. http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/apr/01/senior-tories-brexit-vote-leave-attacks-david-cameron-letter-nhs-staff quote:The Brexit campaign group backed by the justice secretary, Michael Gove, is trying to persuade senior NHS staff to sign a letter that includes a direct attack on David Cameron, who is accused of having starved the health service of funding. Vote Leave group directly accusing Cameron and Hunt of starving the NHS of money should make a fun Monday, especially if they get the Conservative MP's like Gove and Boris in Vote Leave to sign it. Hamface's people are already running damage control similar to IDS with "You all agreed to this, you shouldn't complain" Fans fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Apr 2, 2016 |
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Corbyn speaking at this conference and its great. "We had something like fifty thousand questions in the first day - now obviously I can't pretend to have read them all. I did offer to read them all to the prime minister if he wanted, but he said no. He's not a very good listener."
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He was pretty good on Thursday evening, too, when I saw him at a local rally. I think he was kind of rehearsing this speech, actually. It seems a bit more polished this time.
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Gonzo McFee posted:GQ decided that Osborne was the politician of the year. GQ is the last place you should go for political insight. Ah, that's just Google Now being a bit too clever for itself. Unfortunately it just recommends based on the subject, without regard for whether I was reading pro or anti-articles. I now get articles supporting Trump appearing on my feed because I'd previously read some critical ones. 
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Isn't that better than the opposite case, where Google was accused of keeping people in a filter bubble based on their demographic? I remember them doing a test where people from one demographic searching for abortion were shown clinics in their area and people from another were shown Catholic Encyclopedia articles on the sanctity of life.
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Fans posted:Jeremy Corbyn is just negging the press, the fiend.  I'm Mikey Gove
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TACD posted:'Best course of action' is relative and assumes an interest in governance. The Tories are just interested in raking in short-term profits (or a guarantee of future profits), don't start thinking they actually give a poo poo about what happens to the country. Brutal.
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Fans posted:Jeremy Corbyn is just negging the press, the fiend. I already posted this. They're not accusing Cameron of starving the NHS for his own interests, though, they're blaming him for using money that could have gone to the NHS to pay the EU. Not that the money actually would have gone to the NHS in the event of an EU exit, of course.
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TACD posted:'Best course of action' is relative and assumes an interest in governance. The Tories are just interested in raking in short-term profits (or a guarantee of future profits), don't start thinking they actually give a poo poo about what happens to the country. This whole thing is lovely, especially him switching to speak Spanish to a shop worker. It reminds me of when ol' Wislon got on a soap box and even yelled back at the crowd when someone asked what he'd do about the bloody immigrants - something along the lines of "You want me to send them away? Then who will deliver your baby?"
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Jedit posted:I already posted this. They're not accusing Cameron of starving the NHS for his own interests, though, they're blaming him for using money that could have gone to the NHS to pay the EU. Not that the money actually would have gone to the NHS in the event of an EU exit, of course. Actually the letter is pretty clear. quote:David Cameron and Jeremy Hunt must accept responsibility for this – they have starved the NHS of necessary funding for too long. Which is the line that has them all in a lather. Sorry I didn't see you post it!
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IceAgeComing posted:still waiting on the results, i'm not sure whether that's a good or a bad thing Both/neither. I had to wait ages. If you've definitely failed, you get told quite quickly. If you've absolutely excelled, you get told quite quickly. If you're in the middle where they actually have to conduct a thorough review to weigh you up against the other candidates, it takes a hell of a long time.
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Yesterday at the pub some old dude had passed out, at which point his friend just got up and left, and started drooling all over himself so me and the bar staff had to call up a chain of people (starting with the man's son who the barman knew) to eventually find someone to come tell us how to get him home, as it turned out his wife is suffering from severe MS... the only person nearby who was physically able to come was a woman with a broken arm and back problems so I carried him to the taxi and rode with them to his house, where I find he sleeps in room covered in hundreds of copies of the Telegraph and an issue of the Spectator perched beside his bed. In the taxi back to the pub via the broken-armed woman's house she reveals he's a far-right 'kill the n*****s'-racist and virulent misogynist (which as it turns out, is why he only responded to the male bar staff and ignored the woman even though he clearly heard what she was saying) and that he'd already had one liver transplant due to drinking himself to near-death on the first one. Oh, and that it was his wife's birthday the day before but he'd just gone and done the same drat thing the day before, bursting in on the celebration and ruining it. The lady said she was going to do everything she could from today onwards to stage an intervention, for the wife's sake as much as anything as he's a 'women belong in the kitchen' type who doesn't feel like taking care of her as her condition degenerates. It was a fascinating insight into the lives of people that just made me really sad when I got back to the pub and took a moment to let it sink in. And even if he is basically a Nazi I'd still drag his dumb arse home for his poor wife's sake, she was lovely. The bar staff gave me a free pint for the trouble, so that helped drown the sorrow a little bit I guess.
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Tesseraction posted:Yesterday at the pub some old dude had passed out, at which point his friend just got up and left, and started drooling all over himself so me and the bar staff had to call up a chain of people (starting with the man's son who the barman knew) to eventually find someone to come tell us how to get him home, as it turned out his wife is suffering from severe MS... the only person nearby who was physically able to come was a woman with a broken arm and back problems so I carried him to the taxi and rode with them to his house, where I find he sleeps in room covered in hundreds of copies of the Telegraph and an issue of the Spectator perched beside his bed. Britain.txt
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awesome-express posted:Britain.txt Depends on what kind of pub really.
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Not quite on par, but I saw my first UKIP sticker in the wild today while visiting family near Glasgow. I wish I'd taken pictures, because it was on the worst minivan I've ever seen. It had decals and stickers on it for Campbell's Ozone Therapy Trust, theguysname.faithweb.com, electromedicine(?), and one that just said "Guysname Reborn". The guy that eventually got into it was wearing a t-shirt with the virgin Mary on the front. It was a really odd sight. edit: actually, I shouldn't have censored his name since I just googled that he's a former UKIP candidate and prophet who shills machines called things like Photon Genie. Not Operator fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Apr 2, 2016 |
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TACD posted:'Best course of action' is relative and assumes an interest in governance. The Tories are just interested in raking in short-term profits (or a guarantee of future profits), don't start thinking they actually give a poo poo about what happens to the country. I... see a bunch of mostly good things here? I mean Corbs does have a few stupid policy positions when moving beyond basic "the tories are bad at money and government" stuff but the way he acts and how he deals with voters is basically the platonic ideal of a politician.
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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I'm sure it's very nice for those people he talked to, but it hardly helps to spread Corbyn's message to the wider electorate.
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marktheando posted:I'm sure it's very nice for those people he talked to, but it hardly helps to spread Corbyn's message to the wider electorate. I dunno if it gets the news to report that he ignores them and talks to people it pretty well gives the message that he gives a poo poo about people.
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Hoops posted:This is literally what Jesus Christ would do if he was resurrected. Look at the initials. JC. You know who he really is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09vVF-Hvykg
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blowfish posted:I... see a bunch of mostly good things here? I mean Corbs does have a few stupid policy positions when moving beyond basic "the tories are bad at money and government" stuff but the way he acts and how he deals with voters is basically the platonic ideal of a politician. The "this is bad for Corbyn" is a joke that everything is spun as being bad for Corbyn.
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Hoops posted:This is literally what Jesus Christ would do if he was resurrected. Actually the first thing Jesus Christ would do on his second coming would be to be shot by a dentist from Minnesota.
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Hoops posted:This is literally what Jesus Christ would do if he was resurrected. And what do people call him? Jezza. Or should that be Iesu?
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