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Poll: Who Should Be Leader of HM Most Loyal Opposition? This poll is closed. |
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| Jeremy Corbyn |
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95 | 18.63% |
| Dennis Skinner |
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53 | 10.39% |
| Angus Robertson |
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20 | 3.92% |
| Tim Farron |
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9 | 1.76% |
| Paul Ukips |
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7 | 1.37% |
| Robot Lenin |
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105 | 20.59% |
| Tony Blair |
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28 | 5.49% |
| Pissflaps |
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193 | 37.84% |
| Total: | 510 votes | ||
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Lord of the Llamas posted:I actually don't get what the problem with Eaton's tweet is? Me neither. Unless people are reading US as 'us' with emphasis. Unless that is what he's actually doing? Kokoro Wish posted:Stay classy Piss Flaps. This reply doesn't make any sense.
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Lord of the Llamas posted:I actually don't get what the problem with Eaton's tweet is? I wouldn't have used magnificent in anything relating to that event.
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Mar 23, 2017 14:32
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Pissflaps posted:Me neither. Unless people are reading US as 'us' with emphasis. Unless that is what he's actually doing? Guavanaut posted:It's Stay classy Piss Flaps. Kokoro Wish fucked around with this message at 14:36 on Mar 23, 2017 |
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Mar 23, 2017 14:34
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Guavanaut posted:It's a bit tacky and comes off like "the great thing about London is that you can injure people from so many different cultures just by driving down one pavement." It takes a real effort to read it in that way.
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Mar 23, 2017 14:36
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Somebody on that twitter thread posted a picture of a woman in a hijab walking past with the caption 'Look whose not helping'. I swear to God...
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Mar 23, 2017 14:39
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for once, pissflap has the less bad opinion
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Mar 23, 2017 14:39
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Pantsuit posted:Somebody on that twitter thread posted a picture of a woman in a hijab walking past with the caption 'Look whose not helping'.
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Mar 23, 2017 14:41
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It's really the use of magnificent that makes it an uncomfortable thing to say. It does indeed reflect Londons diversity, but you don't want to accidentally imply that many different groups being injured is a good thing.
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Mar 23, 2017 14:42
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Guavanaut posted:It's a bit tacky and comes off like "the great thing about London is that you can injure people from so many different cultures just by driving down one pavement." It really doesn't read like that.
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Mar 23, 2017 14:43
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Pissflaps posted:Is the problem with this that he's said US rather than American? Lord of the Llamas posted:I actually don't get what the problem with Eaton's tweet is? Something quite weird and ghoulish in presenting the wide range of nationalities represented among the victims of an atrocity as a positive of that atrocity imho, the lives of foreigners being only worthy of our attention by being smashed into by a car, and even then their existence here is thanks to the benevolent virtue of our beloved English capital
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Mar 23, 2017 14:46
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J_RBG posted:Something quite weird and ghoulish in presenting the wide range of nationalities represented among the victims of an atrocity as a positive of that atrocity imho, the lives of foreigners being only worthy of our attention by being smashed into by a car, and even then their existence here is thanks to the benevolent virtue of our beloved English capital You're doing an awful lot of work to get this from that tweet.
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Mar 23, 2017 14:48
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I think if you are always sarcastic as a sort of defence mechanism to avoid being hurt by being emotionally available you may read sarcasm into things that weren't written sarcastically.
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Mar 23, 2017 14:47
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I'm not sure why he'd tweet something like that sarcastically. Gallows humor?
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Mar 23, 2017 14:53
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Breath Ray posted:I think if you are always sarcastic as a sort of defence mechanism to avoid being hurt by being emotionally available you may read sarcasm into things that weren't written sarcastically. Lol
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Mar 23, 2017 14:55
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Guavanaut posted:I've seen that come up a couple of times on facebook. Fortunately only because friends were replying to it calling them a dumbass and pointing out that if a medic is already attending, you're not a medic, and you haven't been asked to help, the correct thing to do is to walk on by and not stand around gawking or crowding them. Good point. You could also point out the white guy with his hands in his pockets gawking and the white woman on her phone... I just feel sorry for her really, must be terrible to have your image used by dickheads like that.
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Mar 23, 2017 14:54
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He might not really think diversity is magnificent after all. I don't think he was being sarcastic personally but others with a more slender grasp on reality might based on preconceptions about the spectator.
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Mar 23, 2017 14:57
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Guavanaut posted:I've seen that come up a couple of times on facebook. Fortunately only because friends were replying to it calling them a dumbass and pointing out that if a medic is already attending, you're not a medic, and you haven't been asked to help, the correct thing to do is to walk on by and not stand around gawking or crowding them. rubbernecking is a proud human tradition and its strange to see someone do the correct thing and walk away
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Mar 23, 2017 14:57
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Breath Ray posted:He might not really think diversity is magnificent after all. I don't think he was being sarcastic personally but others with a more slender grasp on reality might based on preconceptions about the spectator. I suspect most people who follow George Eaton know who George Eaton is. The political editor of the New Statesman. Which is a centre-left mostly progressive magazine.
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Mar 23, 2017 14:58
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You'd be surprised to hear some of the opinions ppl hold on the centre left.
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Mar 23, 2017 15:12
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Breath Ray posted:You'd be surprised to hear some of the opinions ppl hold on the centre left. There's a lot of people who self describe as centre-left but clearly aren't. It's like how lots of racists deny being racist.
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Mar 23, 2017 15:18
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Back to pensions for a minute: I wonder if their gradually removal combined with social care collapsing and houseprices not will force 50 year olds to move back to their 80 year old parents house because neither will be able to live otherwise. Not the end of the world but that'd be a hell of a psychological blow and collapse of the Thatcherite dream.
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Mar 23, 2017 15:49
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Pissflaps posted:You're doing an awful lot of work to get this from that tweet. Stay classy piss flaps
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Mar 23, 2017 15:51
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Them bloody pensioners should get out the house and get a job.
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Mar 23, 2017 15:54
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namesake posted:Back to pensions for a minute: I wonder if their gradually removal combined with social care collapsing and houseprices not will force 50 year olds to move back to their 80 year old parents house because neither will be able to live otherwise. I think at some we will need an honest discussion about liberalising suicide tbh.
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namesake posted:Back to pensions for a minute: I wonder if their gradually removal combined with social care collapsing and houseprices not will force 50 year olds to move back to their 80 year old parents house because neither will be able to live otherwise. Has already happened (not that I ever had a Thatcherite dream). No bloody way will I meekly commit suicide rather than cost the state anything, though.
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Mar 23, 2017 15:59
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crispix posted:I think at some we will need an honest discussion about liberalising suicide tbh. Lets not go there.
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Mar 23, 2017 16:01
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crispix posted:I think at some we will need an honest discussion about liberalising suicide tbh. i want to go one of the cool north korean ways like being strapped to the end o f an artillery cannon and having it be fired
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Mar 23, 2017 16:02
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Regarde Aduck posted:Lets not go there. Sorry but I have already started my political movement.  We will be known by history as the Exitbaggers.
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Mar 23, 2017 16:04
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Breath Ray posted:Why wouldn't there be? Have you paid even the slightest attention to the trajectory of every single thing every Government has done since 1979?
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Mar 23, 2017 16:04
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So I'm seriously considering using my savings to buy a bunch of gold in anticipation of Brexit, because I think the pound it going to spiral. I have no experience doing this. Good/bad idea?
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Mar 23, 2017 16:08
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Oh dear me posted:No bloody way will I meekly commit suicide rather than cost the state anything, though.  (Don't kill other people though because that's bad.) Jose posted:i want to go one of the cool north korean ways like being strapped to the end o f an artillery cannon and having it be fired
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Mar 23, 2017 16:13
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lol american healthcare https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/...2698%23lastpost
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Mar 23, 2017 16:13
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ThomasPaine posted:So I'm seriously considering using my savings to buy a bunch of gold in anticipation of Brexit, because I think the pound it going to spiral. I have no experience doing this. Good/bad idea? lol
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Jose posted:lol american healthcare I am the intravenous hangover piss.
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Mar 23, 2017 16:17
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I won't mind liberalising suicide. Kind of want to decide when I go out with a bang or whimper.
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There's that man on T.V. and his bald man servant selling gold coins and sovereigns if you are interested? [edit] http://www.rosland.co.uk/ Such a poo poo advert. Dead Goon fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Mar 23, 2017 |
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Mar 23, 2017 16:24
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Suicide is kinda liberalised, but in the worst kind of way. It's legal unless you're so ill that you need someone to help. Unless you're royalty.
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Cerv posted:lol would you like to elaborate. I don't want to be left holding pounds when the currency collapses. Gold so far as I can tell holds its value reasonably well and I can afford to put a few ounces away in a secure storage unit. I'm utterly disinterested in treating it as an investment or making money and I realise with the storage/fees I might actually lose a bit, but I think I'll lose far less than I would with a savings account. Dead Goon posted:There's that man on T.V. and his bald man servant selling gold coins and sovereigns if you are interested? lol no I mean buying certified stuff from the royal mint not some fuckwit off the telly. An ounce costs like 1k and I've got say 5k in savings. Just seems sensible to have at least some of that in the form of something slightly less fickle than currency given ongoing events. ThomasPaine fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Mar 23, 2017 |
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If you want to store a few ounces of something that there's always a demand for in bad times then  And in response to the obvious retort, they'll make private gold stockpiles illegal again too if sterling shits the bed that badly.
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