UKMT May 2017: Weak and Wobbly vs. Old and Knobbly

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SpaceCommie: Oct 2, 2008; I'm escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by Capitalism ...

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Ewan posted:

As much as people hate his racist remarks, he is at times rather witty

"I thought it was against the law these days for a woman to solicit." Said to a woman solicitor.

"You could do with losing a little bit of weight." To hopeful astronaut, 13-year-old Andrew Adams.

"There's a lot of your family in tonight." After glancing at business chief Atul Patel's name badge during a 2009 Buckingham Palace reception for 400 influential British Indians to meet the Royal couple.

You've provided examples of the former, you got any for the latter?

e. 1927: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland renamed to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

e2. Wait when did history sniping stop being a thing?

SpaceCommie fucked around with this message at 10:35 on May 4, 2017

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big scary monsters: Sep 2, 2011; -~Ｓｋｕｌｌｗａｖｅ~-

I expect Philip is withdrawing from public appearances so he can concentrate on his new role as Britain's goodwill ambassador to the Brexit negotiations.

# ? May 4, 2017 10:34

ThomasPaine: Feb 4, 2009; We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

mehall posted:

I can't. There's a UKIP candidate, and a Unionist party candidate in addition to the Conservative and Unionist one.

You do know that you don't have to rank every candidate? Just rank your 'good to not awful' ones then leave the others blank.

I'm an idiot and forgot I was going to be in London today so didn't apply for a postal/proxy vote. I have failed democracy.

# ? May 4, 2017 10:35

TheRat: Aug 30, 2006

Ewan posted:

As much as people hate his racist remarks, he is at times rather witty

"I thought it was against the law these days for a woman to solicit." Said to a woman solicitor.

"You could do with losing a little bit of weight." To hopeful astronaut, 13-year-old Andrew Adams.

"There's a lot of your family in tonight." After glancing at business chief Atul Patel's name badge during a 2009 Buckingham Palace reception for 400 influential British Indians to meet the Royal couple.

# ? May 4, 2017 10:38

Jedit: Dec 10, 2011; Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

SpaceCommie posted:

You've provided examples of the former, you got any for the latter?

Women and chubby people are races now?

And history snipes died about the same time fat dogs came in.

# ? May 4, 2017 10:39

Ewan: Sep 29, 2008; Ewan is tired of his reputation as a serious Simon. I'm more of a jokester than you people think. My real name isn't even Ewan, that was a joke it's actually MARTIN! LOL fooled you again, it really is Ewan! Look at that monkey with a big nose, Ewan is so random! XD

SpaceCommie posted:

You've provided examples of the former, you got any for the latter?

e. 1927: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland renamed to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

e2. Wait when did history sniping stop being a thing?

None of those are racist, really. The Patel one might be argued as such by some people but it's more related to it being a common name, rather than displaying any sort of prejudice or discrimination against Indian people.

# ? May 4, 2017 10:38

Lord of the Llamas: Jul 9, 2002; EULER'VE TO SEE IT VENN SOMEONE CALLS IT THE WRONG THING AND PROVOKES MY WRATH

Seems pretty dumb they announced this on an election day.

# ? May 4, 2017 10:40

Ewan: Sep 29, 2008; Ewan is tired of his reputation as a serious Simon. I'm more of a jokester than you people think. My real name isn't even Ewan, that was a joke it's actually MARTIN! LOL fooled you again, it really is Ewan! Look at that monkey with a big nose, Ewan is so random! XD

Lord of the Llamas posted:

Seems pretty dumb they announced this on an election day.

Gives the news something to talk about as they're not really allowed to talk politics stuff while polling is open

# ? May 4, 2017 10:42

Serotonin: Jul 14, 2001; The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of *blank*

Ewan posted:

None of those are racist, really. The Patel one might be argued as such by some people but it's more related to it being a common name, rather than displaying any sort of prejudice or discrimination against Indian people.

Yeah true, let's give the openly racist loving Prince the benefit of the doubt that his joke about being around a lot of Asian people wasn't racist.

loving hell.

# ? May 4, 2017 10:43

Tijuana Bibliophile: Dec 30, 2008; Scratchmo

Hello dear Brexizens, let's make Brexit a success

# ? May 4, 2017 10:47

Tijuana Bibliophile: Dec 30, 2008; Scratchmo

No Brexit is better than a bad Brexit imo

# ? May 4, 2017 10:54

SpaceCommie: Oct 2, 2008; I'm escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by Capitalism ...

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Jedit posted:

Women and chubby people are races now?

I meant to switch it to an example of, but I am just super lazy. Apologies.

Even my Tory voting, Brexit Supporting, FYGM spouting, child support dodging "friend" thought Philip was a despicable racist.

Ewan posted:

The Patel one might be argued as such by some people but it's more related to it being a common name, rather than displaying any sort of prejudice or discrimination against Indian people.

# ? May 4, 2017 10:56

Seaside Loafer: Feb 7, 2012; Waiting for a train, I needed a shit. You won't bee-lieve what happened next

The Telegraph have a collection http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/prince-philip/9883276/Duke-of-Edinburghs-best-gaffes.html

"While touring a factory near Edinburgh he said a fuse box was so crude it "looked as though it had been put in by an Indian".

# ? May 4, 2017 10:59

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
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Will Phil be sent back to Corfu post-Brexit now he's an immigrant spouse who doesn't work?

# ? May 4, 2017 11:01

HJB: Feb 16, 2011; I can't get enough of are Dan

Seaside Loafer posted:

The Telegraph have a collection http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/prince-philip/9883276/Duke-of-Edinburghs-best-gaffes.html

"While touring a factory near Edinburgh he said a fuse box was so crude it "looked as though it had been put in by an Indian".

He has a point about Tom Jones.

# ? May 4, 2017 11:04

Cerebral Bore: Apr 21, 2010; Fun Shoe

Seaside Loafer posted:

The Telegraph have a collection http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/prince-philip/9883276/Duke-of-Edinburghs-best-gaffes.html

"While touring a factory near Edinburgh he said a fuse box was so crude it "looked as though it had been put in by an Indian".

Have they redefined what a gaffe means when some old fart going around being a serial racist prick suddenly counts?

# ? May 4, 2017 11:16

big scary monsters: Sep 2, 2011; -~Ｓｋｕｌｌｗａｖｅ~-

My council ward has 3 SNP candidates and one from each of the other main parties, I guess as a result of the boundary changes last year? Previously we had two Labour councillors but it'll probably look something like 2xSNP, 1xLab and 1xLib this time around.

# ? May 4, 2017 11:19

sassassin: Apr 3, 2010; by Azathoth

Phil was right about British women in 1966, and he's still right now.

They can't cook for poo poo.

# ? May 4, 2017 11:20

LemonDrizzle: Mar 28, 2012; neoliberal shithead

Context on "Strong and Stable Leadership" and the Tories' endless repetition thereof:

https://twitter.com/SamCoatesTimes/status/860076729552994304

https://twitter.com/SamCoatesTimes/status/860076922088419328

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Gort: Aug 18, 2003; Good day what ho cup of tea

What's the election today?

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communism bitch: Apr 24, 2009

Gort posted:

What's the election today?

local councils.

# ? May 4, 2017 11:32

Pluskut Tukker: May 20, 2012

Guavanaut posted:

Will Phil be sent back to Corfu post-Brexit now he's an immigrant spouse who doesn't work?

Nah, he probably qualifies for a right to permanent residence by now. Just has to fill in an 85-page form first, and document his whereabouts and foreign travels for the past few decades.

Pluskut Tukker fucked around with this message at 11:35 on May 4, 2017

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Kokoro Wish: Jul 23, 2007; Post? What post? Oh wow.
I had nothing to do with THAT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdcWFpZlLzA

# ? May 4, 2017 11:34

GEORGE W BUSHI: Jul 1, 2012

Lord of the Llamas posted:

Seems pretty dumb they announced this on an election day.

maybe he really did die and they needed to come up with a cover to stop it from affecting election day even more once the news of the meeting leaked

# ? May 4, 2017 11:38

big scary monsters: Sep 2, 2011; -~Ｓｋｕｌｌｗａｖｅ~-

Oberleutnant posted:

local councils.

I've been looking at my candidates and two of them don't have any online presence whatsoever. Of the remainder all but two seem to be really bad, and it's possible one of them has killed three people but I can't be sure it isn't someone else around the same age in the same neighbourhood with the same name. local councillors lol

If I want to put the Tory candidate last do I have to rank all the intermediate ones too or can I just do the top couple and the last one?

# ? May 4, 2017 11:43

Angepain: Jul 13, 2012; what keeps happening to my clothes

big scary monsters posted:

it's possible one of them has killed three people but I can't be sure it isn't someone else around the same age in the same neighbourhood with the same name. local councillors lol

Sounds like someone's prepared to make the tough strong choices required to reduce council expenditure by reducing demand for public services. Vote #1 imo

big scary monsters posted:

If I want to put the Tory candidate last do I have to rank all the intermediate ones too or can I just do the top couple and the last one?

But yes, in Scotland you do have to vote all the ones in between if you want to vote someone last. #votetillyouboke. Maybe do your best to calculate the exact number of poors they want to kill and vote in order of least to most?

# ? May 4, 2017 11:50

Ewan: Sep 29, 2008; Ewan is tired of his reputation as a serious Simon. I'm more of a jokester than you people think. My real name isn't even Ewan, that was a joke it's actually MARTIN! LOL fooled you again, it really is Ewan! Look at that monkey with a big nose, Ewan is so random! XD

Kokoro Wish posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdcWFpZlLzA

123 views

# ? May 4, 2017 11:58

big scary monsters: Sep 2, 2011; -~Ｓｋｕｌｌｗａｖｅ~-

Angepain posted:

Sounds like someone's prepared to make the tough strong choices required to reduce council expenditure by reducing demand for public services. Vote #1 imo

But yes, in Scotland you do have to vote all the ones in between if you want to vote someone last. #votetillyouboke. Maybe do your best to calculate the exact number of poors they want to kill and vote in order of least to most?

OK, thanks. I will try to figure out how to rank the Lib Dem who left Labour for the SDP, the man who has never used the internet and the SNP candidate with the overall top K/D ratio.

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Pissflaps: Oct 20, 2002; by VideoGames

Just voted Lib Dem

# ? May 4, 2017 12:05

Ewan: Sep 29, 2008; Ewan is tired of his reputation as a serious Simon. I'm more of a jokester than you people think. My real name isn't even Ewan, that was a joke it's actually MARTIN! LOL fooled you again, it really is Ewan! Look at that monkey with a big nose, Ewan is so random! XD

https://twitter.com/RussianEmbassy/status/860078118912106496

Expert trolls

# ? May 4, 2017 12:12

hyper from Pixie Sticks: Sep 28, 2004

Big Phil's a massive racist, which is bad, but I do have a certain admiration for his unrepentant "You can't sack me, I'm married to the loving queen" approach to life.

# ? May 4, 2017 12:15

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Pissflaps posted:

Just voted Lib Dem

Good for you, finding your political home.

# ? May 4, 2017 12:17

GEORGE W BUSHI: Jul 1, 2012

Pissflaps posted:

Just voted Lib Dem

I am very disappointed and retract my statement from a few weeks back when I said you were a good lad who means well.

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Igiari: Sep 14, 2007

Pissflaps posted:

Just voted Lib Dem

I don't appreciate this.

# ? May 4, 2017 12:25

Looke: Aug 2, 2013

I have a metro mayor vote today but they're all trash

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Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Then just vote Labour and be done with it, like me, Barry Foster

# ? May 4, 2017 12:27

Pissflaps: Oct 20, 2002; by VideoGames

Weird looks like half my previous post went missing. What it should have said is

Just voted Lib Dem as my second preference in the Teesside mayor election.

# ? May 4, 2017 12:29

Pork Lift: Oct 9, 2007; Winner of the 2012
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Pissflaps posted:

Weird looks like half my previous post went missing. What it should have said is

Just voted Lib Dem as my second preference in the Teesside mayor election.

You're a card, Pissflaps

# ? May 4, 2017 12:31

GEORGE W BUSHI: Jul 1, 2012

Pissflaps posted:

Weird looks like half my previous post went missing. What it should have said is

Just voted Lib Dem as my second preference in the Teesside mayor election.

I have a sneaking suspicion that wasn't an accident and you did it on purpose for reasons unknown but I still retract my retraction

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Igiari: Sep 14, 2007

I don't appreciate tomfoolery.

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