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

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Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Heh.

https://twitter.com/labourpress/status/869267199025872897

# ? May 29, 2017 21:08

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# ? Jun 12, 2024 03:51

Regarde Aduck: Oct 19, 2012; c l o u d k i t t e n; Grimey Drawer

A Spherical Sponge posted:

LED lights are bad cause they mess up your melatonin production and thus impact the quality of your sleep and increase your fatigue during the day, but that's more a streetlight/light pollution thing than a housing thing. I remember reading a story where in new york they were using high powered led floodlights in "high risk" (read:disadvantaged) neighbourhoods so they could surveil them better and people had to completely board up their windows because they couldn't sleep with the light pouring in. Also when I was living in university accommodation a few years ago they had led lights on all of the time in the sort of courtyard area and some trees too and you could always hear the birds tweeting like crazy at 2 in the morning because they thought it was daytime.

Really I only care because I really love sodium and incandescent lighting. Feels cosy. if they had filters for led lights that gave them the same light distribution as incandescents then I wouldn't care, though my dad tried to do that once with the led lights he installed in our kitchen and it just gave everything a sickly theatre production yellow sort of look.

Chemicals aren't real dumbass.

# ? May 29, 2017 21:10

TheRat: Aug 30, 2006

If i remember my Twitter-twats correctly, this one is very anti Corbyn:

https://twitter.com/Mendelpol/status/869283976200032256

# ? May 29, 2017 21:10

Pesmerga: Aug 1, 2005; So nice to eat you

Now it's the 'ticking time bomb' situation. This is politics in this country. This absolute loving shite.

# ? May 29, 2017 21:10

Looke: Aug 2, 2013

Regarde Aduck posted:

Chemicals aren't real dumbass.

uhh chemtrails moron

# ? May 29, 2017 21:10

kecske: Feb 28, 2011; it's round, like always

A Spherical Sponge posted:

Really I only care because I really love sodium and incandescent lighting. Feels cosy. if they had filters for led lights that gave them the same light distribution as incandescents then I wouldn't care, though my dad tried to do that once with the led lights he installed in our kitchen and it just gave everything a sickly theatre production yellow sort of look.

they make LED filament lamps now to try and replicate the old incandescent filaments, a lot of coffee bars and other places trying for the stripped-back industrial aesthetic use them.

# ? May 29, 2017 21:11

Looke: Aug 2, 2013

# ? May 29, 2017 21:12

stev: Jan 22, 2013; Please be excited.

Not able to watch this nonsense but if Paxman tones it down for May surely people will cotton onto it?

Surely?

# ? May 29, 2017 21:12

Gyro Zeppeli: Jul 19, 2012; sure hope no-one throws me off a bridge

Remember that time Paxman got high for the first time in an MRI machine and freaked the gently caress out?

Good times.

# ? May 29, 2017 21:12

Sneaks McDevious: Jul 29, 2010; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

He did alright

# ? May 29, 2017 21:13

Firos: Apr 30, 2007; Staying abreast of the latest developments in jam communism

Gyro Zeppeli posted:

Remember that time Paxman got high for the first time in an MRI machine and freaked the gently caress out?

Good times.

You can't say something like this and then not provide a link.

# ? May 29, 2017 21:13

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

Pesmerga posted:

This isn't an interview, it's a shouty idiot yelling 'when did you stop beating your wife' over any attempt to answer the previous question.

the entire UK media: "yes, that's the definition of an interview, right?"

# ? May 29, 2017 21:14

serious gaylord: Sep 16, 2007; what.

May is in full red power suit thatcher dress.

# ? May 29, 2017 21:14

Pistol_Pete: Sep 15, 2007; Oven Wrangler

The problem with all of Paxman's 'hard' questions was that none of them were new: Corbyn's had all this stuff thrown at him before and wasn't going to be disconcerted by it.

Audience didn't seem to be too keen on Paxman either.

Now lets see how Theresa May does.

# ? May 29, 2017 21:15

Gyro Zeppeli: Jul 19, 2012; sure hope no-one throws me off a bridge

Firos posted:

You can't say something like this and then not provide a link.

poo poo, I think I got it mixed up with Dan Snow.

gently caress Paxman and his "rubbery horse face of mock incredulity".

# ? May 29, 2017 21:15

Intrinsic Field Marshal: Sep 6, 2014; by SA Support Robot

serious gaylord posted:

May is in full red power suit thatcher dress.

May confirmed for Blood Angels

# ? May 29, 2017 21:16

TheRat: Aug 30, 2006

I think I found the ultimate "Corbyn did well" tweet:

https://twitter.com/DPJHodges/status/869285654089400320

# ? May 29, 2017 21:16

serious gaylord: Sep 16, 2007; what.

Corbyn really really got lucky by going first. His nice reasoned answers got the crowd on side and they didn't like Paxman shouting all over him because of it.

# ? May 29, 2017 21:16

Cerebral Bore: Apr 21, 2010; Fun Shoe

Pistol_Pete posted:

The problem with all of Paxman's 'hard' questions was that none of them were new: Corbyn's had all this stuff thrown at him before and wasn't going to be disconcerted by it.

Audience didn't seem to be too keen on Paxman either.

Now lets see how Theresa May does.

Yeah, the whole thing seemed more like the tabloids' greatest hits 2015-2017 than anything else.

# ? May 29, 2017 21:16

Gyro Zeppeli: Jul 19, 2012; sure hope no-one throws me off a bridge

Intrinsic Field Marshal posted:

May confirmed for Blood Angels

More like World Eaters.

# ? May 29, 2017 21:17

namesake: Jun 19, 2006; "When I was a girl, around 12 or 13, I had a fantasy that I'd grow up to marry Captain Scarlet, but he'd be busy fighting the Mysterons so I'd cuckold him with the sexiest people I could think of - Nigel Mansell, Pat Sharp and Mr. Blobby."

Paxman has generally prided himself on being a tough interviewer even to those on the right; let's see if that holds up.

Edit: May just needs to gently caress up once and that's all that people will remember.

# ? May 29, 2017 21:17

TheRat: Aug 30, 2006

serious gaylord posted:

Corbyn really really got lucky by going first. His nice reasoned answers got the crowd on side and they didn't like Paxman shouting all over him because of it.

I think we've deserved a little luck at this point to be honest.

# ? May 29, 2017 21:17

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Cerebral Bore posted:

The gently caress would an actual small business owner care about corporation tax? Are even a significant amount small businesses in the UK incorporated?

Quite a lot of them are. It's a small investment in time that protects small traders from being personally bankrupt if something happens to the business. The price for that protection is that you have to make some account details public and pay an amount of the total profits (after all expenses and salaries) to the government as tax. Some of that you would be paying as income tax anyway if you were a sole trader.

The two problems with corporation tax are that there isn't any banding, so a small coffee shop pays the same rate as a regional cafe chain, and loopholes, so an international coffee chain pays gently caress all.

Really though, most small businesses would benefit a lot more from an increase in the amount of money that ordinary folks had to buy stuff with than they would a reduction in corporation tax.

# ? May 29, 2017 21:17

communism bitch: Apr 24, 2009

Got my pot noodle and i'm ready to see May have a meltdown

# ? May 29, 2017 21:17

CyberPingu: Sep 15, 2013; If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

TheRat posted:

I think I found the ultimate "Corbyn did well" tweet:

https://twitter.com/DPJHodges/status/869285654089400320

When he was allowed to speak he did do well though

# ? May 29, 2017 21:18

Bobstar: Feb 8, 2006; KartooshFace, you are not responding efficiently!

A Spherical Sponge posted:

LED lights are bad cause they mess up your melatonin production and thus impact the quality of your sleep and increase your fatigue during the day, but that's more a streetlight/light pollution thing than a housing thing. I remember reading a story where in new york they were using high powered led floodlights in "high risk" (read:disadvantaged) neighbourhoods so they could surveil them better and people had to completely board up their windows because they couldn't sleep with the light pouring in. Also when I was living in university accommodation a few years ago they had led lights on all of the time in the sort of courtyard area and some trees too and you could always hear the birds tweeting like crazy at 2 in the morning because they thought it was daytime.

Really I only care because I really love sodium and incandescent lighting. Feels cosy. if they had filters for led lights that gave them the same light distribution as incandescents then I wouldn't care, though my dad tried to do that once with the led lights he installed in our kitchen and it just gave everything a sickly theatre production yellow sort of look.

Lee Filters make some specific gels for LED that take into account their different spectral composition when compared to tungsten. But they're more designed for cold white sources.

But if you're buying "warm white" LED bulbs, especially the filament-esque ones, they should still provide that "cosy" feel. The spectrum is slightly lacking so your red items might not look as red but it's fine for the general feel.

# ? May 29, 2017 21:19

Mugsbaloney: Jul 11, 2012; We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job

Can anyone link me a good paxo interview? Maybe he was never good?!

# ? May 29, 2017 21:19

namesake: Jun 19, 2006; "When I was a girl, around 12 or 13, I had a fantasy that I'd grow up to marry Captain Scarlet, but he'd be busy fighting the Mysterons so I'd cuckold him with the sexiest people I could think of - Nigel Mansell, Pat Sharp and Mr. Blobby."

May is talking a lot about the past here, if she's hoping to ride on the past I don't think that'll go down well.

# ? May 29, 2017 21:20

TheRat: Aug 30, 2006

May is already panicking

# ? May 29, 2017 21:20

Gyro Zeppeli: Jul 19, 2012; sure hope no-one throws me off a bridge

Mugsbaloney posted:

Can anyone link me a good paxo interview? Maybe he was never good?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyqnu6ywhR4

The peak time that Paxo's gimmick actually worked.

# ? May 29, 2017 21:20

communism bitch: Apr 24, 2009

Oh my loving god lol sh'es propping up the desiccated corpse of "living within out means"

# ? May 29, 2017 21:20

Vlex: Aug 4, 2006; I'd rather be a climbing ape than a big titty angel.

Gyro Zeppeli posted:

More like World Eaters.

"KILL! MAIM! BURN!" was found to poll well with the over 65s.

# ? May 29, 2017 21:20

serious gaylord: Sep 16, 2007; what.

Lmao shes already falling apart on the basic fact checking of her poo poo.

# ? May 29, 2017 21:21

namesake: Jun 19, 2006; "When I was a girl, around 12 or 13, I had a fantasy that I'd grow up to marry Captain Scarlet, but he'd be busy fighting the Mysterons so I'd cuckold him with the sexiest people I could think of - Nigel Mansell, Pat Sharp and Mr. Blobby."

Oh here comes dementia tax.

# ? May 29, 2017 21:21