UKMT General Elextravaganza 2017: Lord Buckethead would have won

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What is the best flav... you all know what this question is: This poll is closed.
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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Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Miftan posted:

Actually, can we make him foreign secret since it's a nothing job and send him to Putin anyway?

I would very much like Gove to be made a foreign secret, it's bad for the country that they know about him. Domestic secret too. Nobody should know about Michael Gove.

e: 550 CE - Hindu mathematicians invent the number zero, the official number of Michael Goves in existence.

# ? Jun 18, 2017 23:07

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# ? Jun 6, 2024 04:59

Miftan: Mar 31, 2012; Terry knows what he can do with his bloody chocolate orange...

Guavanaut posted:

I would very much like Gove to be made a foreign secret, it's bad for the country that they know about him. Domestic secret too. Nobody should know about Michael Gove.

e: 550 CE - Hindu mathematicians invent the number zero, the official number of Michael Goves in existence.

Hard at work about that Gove revisionism, I see.

How many Freddos in a firefighter?

# ? Jun 18, 2017 23:09

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

A fully grown firefighter can consume a dozen Freddos on a busy lunchbreak.

Put Michael Gove in the British embassy in Ecuador.

# ? Jun 18, 2017 23:11

Miftan: Mar 31, 2012; Terry knows what he can do with his bloody chocolate orange...

That's a load of crap, if we're gonna be using them as currency I'd like a round number of Freddos in a firefighter. Possibly 100 Freddos to a firefighter, but I'm open to other ideas.

# ? Jun 18, 2017 23:12

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

Miftan posted:

How many Freddos in a firefighter?

going by the �90m = 2000FFR ratio, 1FFR = 45,000 GBP, and as a Freddo is shockingly 25 whole pence on asda we can scientifically say that the current exchange rate is 180,000FFR = 1 FDO. Hope that helps in your trading.

# ? Jun 18, 2017 23:15

EmptyVessel: Oct 30, 2012

Thanks, your FFR and FDO swap at the end there just wiped out the exchange..

# ? Jun 18, 2017 23:18

Miftan: Mar 31, 2012; Terry knows what he can do with his bloody chocolate orange...

Let's round it to 200k Freddos per firefighter, yeah? Also they should be GBF and FFR, for Great British Freddo and Firefighters, respectively.

# ? Jun 18, 2017 23:20

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

EmptyVessel posted:

Thanks, your FFR and FDO swap at the end there just wiped out the exchange..

that'll be the new proposed wage for firefighters kicking in, should have read that tory manifesto closer

# ? Jun 18, 2017 23:20

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

Thanks Ants posted:

It's all ancient stock on that line but they managed to fit air conditioners to First Great Western's Mk3 coaches so I guess you should be OK in a Mk4.

My branch line is northern which runs trains exclusively built out of old bus parts.

So the virgin trains are luxury in comparison.

# ? Jun 18, 2017 23:22

Apraxin: Feb 22, 2006; General-Admiral

From the Graun, feels like I should bold the whole thing:

quote:

The government�s response to the fire has been described as inadequate, and the Conservative-led local council has faced particularly intense criticism over the chaos and paralysis that characterised its response to the disaster.

Labour and the Liberal Democrats called for Nick Paget-Brown, the council leader, to stand down on Sunday as the government, in a tacit admission that the council had failed to cope, said it was drafting in civil servants to help.

Opposition councillors are angry at the way council leaders appeared to freeze when confronted by a disaster on the scale of the fire. They said they were kept in the dark and repeatedly given incorrect assurances that accommodation had been found for residents.

The council had failed to return calls from neighbouring councils offering to provide accommodation and other help, the councillors said.

Other criticisms included a failure to communicate with survivors and their families; a lack of visible staff on the ground providing advice; a failure to distribute any of the money being donated; and a failure to ensure surviving residents were allocated suitable accommodation nearby.

The Labour leader on the council, Robert Atkinson, said the leadership had lost all credibility. �They have lost control,� he said. �They seem mesmerised by the gravity of the situation.�

Atkinson called on Paget-Brown, his deputy and senior officials to stand down, saying they had �collapsed on the job�.

The council posted a notice on its website saying the town hall had closed for the weekend, after an angry protest on Friday, and that staff were working from other sites. It said it hoped to reopen the town hall on Monday.

I don't think I've seen a more incompetent and universally reviled response to a crisis/disaster as Paget-Brown and Fielding-Mellen have managed. I'd almost believe it's deliberate at this point, if I could think of a single possible benefit they'd get from it.

# ? Jun 18, 2017 23:23

communism bitch: Apr 24, 2009

https://twitter.com/danhancox/statu...ber%3D23%23pti7

guillotine

# ? Jun 18, 2017 23:25

notaspy: Mar 22, 2009

Apraxin posted:

From the Graun, feels like I should bold the whole thing:

I don't think I've seen a more incompetent and universally reviled response to a crisis/disaster as Paget-Brown and Fielding-Mellen have managed. I'd almost believe it's deliberate at this point, if I could think of a single possible benefit they'd get from it.

Dead poors

# ? Jun 18, 2017 23:25

EmptyVessel: Oct 30, 2012

Angepain posted:

that'll be the new proposed wage for firefighters kicking in, should have read that tory manifesto closer

1/180000 Freddo each? Fiscal madness I tell you! (Or have you just invented Quantum Economics?)

# ? Jun 18, 2017 23:26

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

communism bitch posted:

guillotine

First the lockpick, then the guillotine.

# ? Jun 18, 2017 23:27

Thanks Ants: May 21, 2004; #essereFerrari

OwlFancier posted:

My branch line is northern which runs trains exclusively built out of old bus parts.

So the virgin trains are luxury in comparison.

I have a class 387 in the morning and when a 365 shows up in the evening I sigh as though I've been hard done by. I'll show myself to the guillotine.

# ? Jun 18, 2017 23:32

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

slightly disappointed that the celebrity charity song for Grenfell isn't "Guns of Brixton".

# ? Jun 18, 2017 23:33

Thanks Ants: May 21, 2004; #essereFerrari

Well now I have to go and listen to Beats International

# ? Jun 18, 2017 23:34

Tesseraction: Apr 5, 2009

So is anyone else ITT cosplaying a waterfall this evening. gently caress me that tomorrow's going to be hotter.

# ? Jun 18, 2017 23:37

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

communism bitch posted:

https://twitter.com/danhancox/statu...ber%3D23%23pti7

guillotine

I'm disapointed that the public anger has seemingly dropped while the bullshit coming out the government and local council is increasing.

# ? Jun 18, 2017 23:40

The Belgian: Oct 28, 2008

They found footage of the architect showing his design for Grenfell tower from the 70s:
https://youtu.be/t1bHBthJN9w?t=4m7s

# ? Jun 18, 2017 23:43

Miftan: Mar 31, 2012; Terry knows what he can do with his bloody chocolate orange...

Tesseraction posted:

So is anyone else ITT cosplaying a waterfall this evening. gently caress me that tomorrow's going to be hotter.

I'm from the middle east, I only cosplay waterfalls when it's time to renew my visa.

# ? Jun 18, 2017 23:43

Trickjaw: Jun 23, 2005; Nadie puede dar lo que no tiene

I've just found a Kensington council worker under the bed. They were scared, confused, and lost. As soon as I disturbed, he skitterers off into the night. I doubt I will see him again...

# ? Jun 18, 2017 23:50

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

The Belgian posted:

They found footage of the architect showing his design for Grenfell tower from the 70s:
https://youtu.be/t1bHBthJN9w?t=4m7s

Like a solid punch to the face, that's near the knuckle and on the nose.

# ? Jun 18, 2017 23:50

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!

Regarde Aduck posted:

I'm disapointed that the public anger has seemingly dropped while the bullshit coming out the government and local council is increasing.

Sunday's are the second worst day for public engagement with the news and politics behind Saturday. People's attention goes elsewhere. The anger will spike up again when this gets reported tomorrow or when they're paying more attention again.

# ? Jun 18, 2017 23:54

GlyphGryph: Jun 23, 2013; Down came the glitches and burned us in ditches and we slept after eating our dead.

vodkat posted:

300 votes is well within the margin of error for humans counting thousands of bits of paper by hand. When its tight you ask for a recount and everyone counts again to make sure everything is super correct and that made a few simple mistakes. This is how things should be done. Don't be a dumb idiot about this.

One recount, sure. Multiple recounts seems a lot less justifiable. Are your vote counters simultaneously so bad that they gently caress up the first recount and yet so good they arent just as likely to gently caress up a second?

Two is definitely a lot better than the mistreported seven I had originally heard though. Especially if its one per candidate which would make sense if that was the case.

GlyphGryph fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Jun 18, 2017

# ? Jun 18, 2017 23:56

30 TO 50 FERAL HOG: Mar 2, 2005

jabby posted:

https://twitter.com/labourpress/status/876553315492007937

Ouch, McDonnell counts the cost of a concession to the DUP by calling it the equivalent 'of another 2000 firefighters'.

holy poo poo this is savage

# ? Jun 18, 2017 23:59

pumpinglemma: Apr 28, 2009; DD: Fondly regard abomination.

Tesseraction posted:

So is anyone else ITT cosplaying a waterfall this evening. gently caress me that tomorrow's going to be hotter.

oh god why

It's already twenty-eight degrees in my room with the windows open. And that's at midnight, when there's no sun loving things up.

# ? Jun 19, 2017 00:06

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

It's not always darkest just before dawn, but it is always coldest. You've got a heatsink the size of a chunk of the country and surrounding sea that's been warmed up all day, even though you're no longer getting any radiant heat from the sun.

# ? Jun 19, 2017 00:08

Lovely Joe Stalin: Jun 12, 2007; Our Lovely Wang

Yeah, this would suck if it weren't for air conditioning.

# ? Jun 19, 2017 00:13

Party Plane Jones: Jul 1, 2007; by Reene; Fun Shoe

https://twitter.com/RupertMyers/status/876328654510444545

I'm not sure the second poll has been posted but dang.

# ? Jun 19, 2017 00:20

Fans: Jun 27, 2013; A reptile dysfunction

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/876579094288371717

# ? Jun 19, 2017 00:20

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

Guavanaut posted:

It's not always darkest just before dawn, but it is always coldest. You've got a heatsink the size of a chunk of the country and surrounding sea that's been warmed up all day, even though you're no longer getting any radiant heat from the sun.

I didn't realise at first that this was literally about literal dawn and thought it was some kind of elaborate metaphor about hope. Is the heatsink class consciousness?

# ? Jun 19, 2017 00:21

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

Angepain posted:

I didn't realise at first that this was literally about literal dawn and thought it was some kind of elaborate metaphor about hope. Is the heatsink class consciousness?

Let's pretend it is. Shortly after the the light begins to dawn, class consciousness is still low, but due continued enlightenment the workers warm up, such that they can even survive the darkness of something something late capitalism.

# ? Jun 19, 2017 00:25

Miftan: Mar 31, 2012; Terry knows what he can do with his bloody chocolate orange...

This is why STEM people shouldn't try their hand at poetry.

# ? Jun 19, 2017 00:28

ContinuityNewTimes: Dec 30, 2010; Я выдуман напрочь

Lovely Joe Stalin posted:

Yeah, this would suck if it weren't for air conditioning.

*Updates guillotine.txt*

# ? Jun 19, 2017 00:31

Tesseraction: Apr 5, 2009

Miftan posted:

I'm from the middle east, I only cosplay waterfalls when it's time to renew my visa.

This is the only time I've wanted to discriminate against you based on your heritage. :argh:

# ? Jun 19, 2017 00:33

VileLL: Oct 3, 2015

Angepain posted:

as a Freddo is shockingly 25 whole pence on asda

christ

# ? Jun 19, 2017 00:36

Lovely Joe Stalin: Jun 12, 2007; Our Lovely Wang

Comrade, I too must toil. I have no servants to empty the bucket of water the AC produces. Not to mention the intolerable heat I must endure to carry it down the hall before I can return to my cool santuary.

# ? Jun 19, 2017 00:37

Pesky Splinter: Feb 16, 2011; A worried pug.

You knows those apps which tell you which petrol stations are cheapest? We need that, but for Freddos.

# ? Jun 19, 2017 00:41

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# ? Jun 6, 2024 04:59

jabby: Oct 27, 2010

Fans posted:

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/876579094288371717

While I'm glad Labour are ahead, how the gently caress have the Tories gained two points since the fire?

# ? Jun 19, 2017 00:42

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