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What is the best flav... you all know what this question is:
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Labour 907 49.92%
Theresa May Team (Conservative) 48 2.64%
Liberal Democrats 31 1.71%
UKIP 13 0.72%
Plaid Cymru 25 1.38%
Green 22 1.21%
Scottish Socialist Party 12 0.66%
Scottish Conservative Party 1 0.06%
Scottish National Party 59 3.25%
Some Kind of Irish Unionist 4 0.22%
Alliance / Irish Nonsectarian 3 0.17%
Some Kind of Irish Nationalist 36 1.98%
Misc. Far Left Trots 35 1.93%
Misc. Far Right Fash 8 0.44%
Monster Raving Loony 49 2.70%
Space Navies Party 39 2.15%
Independent / Single Issue 2 0.11%
Can't Vote 188 10.35%
Won't Vote 8 0.44%
Spoiled Ballot 15 0.83%
Pissflaps 312 17.17%
Total: 1817 votes
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Lord_Adonis
Mar 2, 2015

by Smythe

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

Goddam, but yeah, there should be a list of building residents somewhere, and a corresponding list of people who have checked in requesting aid. If they are on list A but not list B . . .

I thought that PressTV were no longer permitted to operate in the UK?

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Cerv
Sep 14, 2004

This is a silly post with little news value.

JFairfax posted:

Saddiq Khan aint coming off too well in this either

Which is weird considering the refurb took place before he entered city hall, and during his previous stint in government he'd nothing to do with housing or building regulation.
One thing that does have anything to do with him, the emergency services, are looking like the only competent party. Not that he can really take much credit when he hasn't done anything to change then since taking over.

ronya
Nov 8, 2010

I'm the normal one.

You hate ridden fucks will regret your words when you eventually grow up.

Peace.

Oh dear me posted:

In the 1980s Thatcher took power from local government, cut their funding, rate-capped them, centralized business rates, introduced penalties on those which spent 'too much' and compulsory competitive tendering.

In the 1980s I was in a housing co-op, and saw the neutering of tenant power by the Housing Corporation, which demanded tenant 'participation' and removed their power to do anything but what the HC wanted.

Thatcher vacillated inconsistently between trying to neuter local authorities by fiat, and trying to neuter local authorities by competition/further devolution subject to constraints calculated to yield particular outcomes. this is only confusing without a realization that the goal was not some ideological preconception about appropriate degrees of local power, but instead about achieving mandates for particular policies, regardless of the level of said mandate

the TMO concept was a Thatcher idea, for instance - part of the quasi-privatisation of council housing stock

NLJP
Aug 26, 2004


Guavanaut posted:

Old Man Shouts at Claude

Nice.

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


Skinty McEdger
Mar 9, 2008

I have NEVER received the respect I deserve as the leader and founder of The Masterflock, the internet's largest and oldest Christopher Masterpiece fan group in all of history, and I DEMAND that changes. From now on, you will respect Skinty McEdger!

Cerv posted:

Which is weird considering the refurb took place before he entered city hall, and during his previous stint in government he'd nothing to do with housing or building regulation.
One thing that does have anything to do with him, the emergency services, are looking like the only competent party. Not that he can really take much credit when he hasn't done anything to change then since taking over.

I think the issue is that he's seen as being part of the establishment by nature of being Mayor. So people are angry at him, in part because he's in a position of power, in part because he has information that he can't or won't share.

Lord_Adonis
Mar 2, 2015

by Smythe

nopantsjack posted:

I'm 3/4 brit and 1/4 swedish, a grey scottish sky actually hurts my eyes, if global warming turns Britain into Spain I will literally not survive.

This would only be the case if Global Warming entailed an increase in one's exposure to solar electromagnetic radiation emissions, rather than just the thermal effects of a change in the composition of the atmosphere. As such, I doubt that you have anything to worry about.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


https://twitter.com/colderinthesun/status/876132412773806080

Lord_Adonis
Mar 2, 2015

by Smythe

Kurtofan posted:

are englishmen allergic to sunlight

No

sudo rm -rf
Aug 2, 2011


$ mv fullcommunism.sh
/america
$ cd /america
$ ./fullcommunism.sh



libertarians are loving sociopaths and i wish them nothing but pain and misery for eternity.

gently caress all of them.

jBrereton
May 30, 2013
Grimey Drawer

Julio Cruz posted:

And all the people who've been putting up missing posters just forgot to look there?
No, they're staying there.

Lord_Adonis
Mar 2, 2015

by Smythe

Tesseraction posted:

You went diverse in the wrong direction. Swediness just makes heat worse!

I think that people suddenly seem to be confusing solar electromagnetic emission effects and thermal effects. Global Warming is primarily a description of the latter, not the former.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug

learnincurve posted:

Somewhere In a little room there are Tories sat around discussing how they are going to spin it that they don't know how many because "most of them were illegals innit" and try and put it out there that people are missing because they are pretending to be dead to avoid deportation.

And a phone rings every 5 minutes. One picks it up, listens for a minute and puts it down.
'The DUP have another demand, they want no TV or radio to be broadcast on the Sabbath'.

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

Besides the Grenfell Tower, what else has May/Corbyn been up to since election day?

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer

Jippa posted:

Do you think that people are starting to suffer from "disaster fatigue" (or what ever phrase is appropriate)?

I think the government *wants* people to start suffering disaster fatigue. Which is why the number is being kept artificially low and vague. But then again I do love a good conspiracy theory.

Lord_Adonis posted:

I think that people suddenly seem to be confusing solar electromagnetic emission effects and thermal effects. Global Warming is primarily a description of the latter, not the former.

Oh look a STEM lord with his fancy science words. Look mate, the sun is a big ball of fire about this wide, its really hot BECAUSE ITS FIRE DICKHEAD.

Regarde Aduck fucked around with this message at 18:53 on Jun 17, 2017

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

learnincurve posted:

Somewhere In a little room there are Tories sat around discussing how they are going to spin it that they don't know how many because "most of them were illegals innit" and try and put it out there that people are missing because they are pretending to be dead to avoid deportation.
Amber Rudd declares that death is no defense against deportation. Chaos at Westminster Abbey as George II exhumed and sent back to Hanover.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

lol

Kegluneq
Feb 18, 2011

Mr President, the physical reality of Prime Minister Corbyn is beyond your range of apprehension. If you'll just put on these PINKOVISION glasses...

Thanks Ants posted:

No we are just awful at planning DIY tasks for a time when they would be comfortable to do

I spent most of the day building furniture from flatpacks, I'm a horrible melting wreck and barely saw the sun today :cripes:

Also bbq is always fine, just don't do it with the homes of poor people.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

Please be excited.



Christ imagine if the election was this week.

Lord_Adonis
Mar 2, 2015

by Smythe

Regarde Aduck posted:

I think the government *wants* people to start suffering disaster fatigue. Which is why the number is being kept artificially low and vague. But then again I do love a good conspiracy theory.


Oh look a STEM lord with his fancy science words. Look mate, the sun is a big ball of fire about this wide, its really hot BECAUSE ITS FIRE DICKHEAD.

Well yes, of course. I am not disputing the heat of the sun. Rather, I am just pointing out that people seem to be confusing the human organism's tolerance to solar electromagnetism and simple temperature, with the implication that different ratios of melanin sub-types in the skin afford increased protection from both, as opposed to just the former.

Julio Cruz
May 19, 2006
All the numbers floating around are really vague. The only quote the BBC has for the number of people living in the building is "400-600" (no loving way the council doesn't have a much more accurate number than that" and Kensington and Chelsea LBC says it's relocated "109 households" in hotels (which could be anywhere between 200 and 400 people). It's pretty clear that they don't want people doing their own maths of "x residents - y survivors = z victims".

spectralent
Oct 1, 2014

Me and the boys poppin' down to the shops

Skinty McEdger posted:

You're seeing the opposite. People are becoming more and more angry about each incident.

I think it is a form of disaster fatigue, in that people are now getting fed up with things happening and being told days later that lessons can be learned and everything's okay.

spectralent
Oct 1, 2014

Me and the boys poppin' down to the shops

Lord_Adonis posted:

This would only be the case if Global Warming entailed an increase in one's exposure to solar electromagnetic radiation emissions, rather than just the thermal effects of a change in the composition of the atmosphere. As such, I doubt that you have anything to worry about.

In fairness human environmental impact has also affected the amount of radiation that's reached us too.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Julio Cruz
May 19, 2006

Well, bisexuals aren't evil by default.

Stalingrad
Feb 5, 2011

Just got my email from the absolute boy, thanking me for joining and giving me my membership number.

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon

i need a link

stev
Jan 22, 2013

Please be excited.



Steve2911 posted:

It's been a bit mild and cloudy in London.

I was so wrong OH GOD

Kegluneq
Feb 18, 2011

Mr President, the physical reality of Prime Minister Corbyn is beyond your range of apprehension. If you'll just put on these PINKOVISION glasses...

Kurtofan posted:

i need a link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/changing_my_vote

:sever:

Miftan
Mar 31, 2012

Terry knows what he can do with his bloody chocolate orange...

Steve2911 posted:

I was so wrong OH GOD

PSA: don't go on the tube. I might have died in someone else's armpit on my way home.

pumpinglemma
Apr 28, 2009

DD: Fondly regard abomination.

Translation: everyone I know is a good person except me.

Julio Cruz
May 19, 2006

Gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that if you willingly read Thatcher's autobiography and end up agreeing with it you were never really a Labour supporter in the first place.

Autism Sneaks
Nov 21, 2016

:laffo:

quote:

Megan’s parents had been completely fine with her sexual orientation. Her mother, Linda, sent her a text: “Your father and I would never judge you, or anything you do. Unless you become a Tory or a mass murderer. Well, even then we probably wouldn't judge you.”

The rest of that article is so :smith:

Whimsicalfuckery
Sep 6, 2011

This was the protest at whitehall today, it was modestly sized and peaceful, there were quite a few police about but they just kept back and watched.



At one point Paul Golding walked past flipping off people, a crowd of people split off, glitterbombed him, then followed him until he had to be bundled into a police van.

Vitamin P
Nov 19, 2013

Truth is game rigging is more difficult than it looks pls stay ded

In the year 2017 I should loving hope so, christ.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro



As it should be. Being bi doesn't mean loving up other peoples lives.

BobbyThompson
Mar 23, 2001
Thread hijack, but read, download and crack on, it'll give you an 1hr of background music as you discuss the upcoming revolution.

It's also because you fuckers are on the ball, so I'm wanting to make you smile.





About 4 years ago I managed to get my hands on a broken Sony Tapecorder (reel to reel) TC-355, shitloads of cleaning, WD40 and tinkering later, it was up and working. I then ended up buying some random reels from ebay/car boot sales and discovered the following.

A recording of BBC Radio 2 Ballroom from a Radio 2 FM transmission (I guess 1974-75) with Edmundo Ros.

I've encoded it at 16bit 44K 320kbps, I do have a 24bit master, please download and enjoy, there is a bit of FM stereo interference in the "theme from the Godfather" but it's minimal. Overall, It's bloody marvellous.. and 43 years old.

It's hosted by Tom Edwards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Edwards_(broadcaster) who I contacted back in 2013 but there was no reply.

I also contact the BBC, no reply, hey ho, their loss.

I have no idea if the BBC still have this recording in their archives, nor if they care or not.

I just know one thing, it's bloody marvellous. Please download and enjoy. BT

Radio_2_Ballroom_1974.mp3 (on my google drive, 133Mb, 58m 23s)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3eK5aU03K2BUGRlYXAwS00yOFk/view?usp=sharing

THERESA MAY COULDN'T EVEN loving PLAY THE TRIANGLE.

Communist Bear
Oct 7, 2008


Idiotic child.

Raeg
Jul 7, 2008

The top 1% of ducks have control of 99.9% of the bread.

WMain00 posted:

Idiotic child.

gently caress you, got mine but for rights I guess?

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Antares
Jan 13, 2006

Stalingrad posted:

Just got my email from the absolute boy, thanking me for joining and giving me my membership number.

i tried to donate 10gbp but they only took 1, is there some sort of law against international solidarity

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