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What is the best flav... you all know what this question is: This poll is closed. |
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| Labour |
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907 | 49.92% |
| Theresa May Team (Conservative) |
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48 | 2.64% |
| Liberal Democrats |
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31 | 1.71% |
| UKIP |
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13 | 0.72% |
| Plaid Cymru |
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25 | 1.38% |
| Green |
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22 | 1.21% |
| Scottish Socialist Party |
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12 | 0.66% |
| Scottish Conservative Party |
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1 | 0.06% |
| Scottish National Party |
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59 | 3.25% |
| Some Kind of Irish Unionist |
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4 | 0.22% |
| Alliance / Irish Nonsectarian |
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3 | 0.17% |
| Some Kind of Irish Nationalist |
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36 | 1.98% |
| Misc. Far Left Trots |
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35 | 1.93% |
| Misc. Far Right Fash |
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8 | 0.44% |
| Monster Raving Loony |
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49 | 2.70% |
| Space Navies Party |
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39 | 2.15% |
| Independent / Single Issue |
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2 | 0.11% |
| Can't Vote |
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188 | 10.35% |
| Won't Vote |
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8 | 0.44% |
| Spoiled Ballot |
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15 | 0.83% |
| Pissflaps |
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312 | 17.17% |
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learnincurve posted:They are dying in Australia, Australia does not have special poison immune honey bees. And that's just the damage to honeybees. I've read that neonicotinoids are much worse for wild solitary bees and stingless bees and bumblebees and all those cute little adorable flying things that everyone should love and protect I mean why the everloving gently caress would farmers want to kill bees? It's the stupidest thing ever
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Jun 22, 2017 10:09
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Cerv posted:what about the "have you ever had to clean up your own mother's piss" woman? As an addition, any time the public DO appear in TToI, it ends badly. See: clean up mother's piss woman, Mr Tickel.
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Jun 22, 2017 10:10
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I mean just look at this beautiful tawny mining bee I saw this spring: I've kept looking for bees around flowering plants all year and there's just too few of them, I'm honestly worried
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Jun 22, 2017 10:12
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:I mean just look at this beautiful tawny mining bee I saw this spring: Best you can do personally is to plant as many bee and butterfly friendly plants where and when you can. If you want to do a bit of guerilla gardening and sprinkle some seed mixtures in vergers or other margins outside your town, I wouldn't stop you.
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Jun 22, 2017 10:15
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Persian white and Turkish blue poppies are good for this, as they grow almost anywhere, proliferate well, have large pretty flowers that bees love, especially solitary bees, and I like to think that their existence annoys T. May on some fundamental level.
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Jun 22, 2017 10:26
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We're hosed when the bees finally evolve enough sentience to realise we're using them as slaves to grow our food. They'll have us over a barrel in negotiations.
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Jun 22, 2017 10:28
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The DPRK posted:We're hosed when the bees finally evolve enough sentience to realise we're using them as slaves to grow our food. They'll have us over a barrel in negotiations. Are you suggesting they might threaten to Beeexit?
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Jun 22, 2017 10:32
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We can forge new relationships and amicable trading deals with a Beexit that benefits all and sting free access to honey without accepting freedom of movement of bees through our homes
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Jun 22, 2017 10:34
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my bees are lethargic and really do not like being given help, one poor lil gal panicked, flew away and collapsed, rather than drink delicious sugarwater. How do I make bees less terrified of my primate form?
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Jun 22, 2017 10:36
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The DPRK posted:We're hosed when the bees finally evolve enough sentience to realise we're using them as slaves to grow our food. They'll have us over a barrel in negotiations. A Theresa May speech but every time she says the words "Strong and Stable" the entire Bee Movie film plays.
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Jun 22, 2017 10:38
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Spangly A posted:my bees are lethargic and really do not like being given help, one poor lil gal panicked, flew away and collapsed, rather than drink delicious sugarwater. How do I make bees less terrified of my primate form? Dress up as a flower.
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Jun 22, 2017 10:39
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I got nothing against bees it's those bastard wasps I don't like. They come over ere, they get in our bins, they don't work 
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Jun 22, 2017 10:39
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A ZZZtrong and ZZZtable Beeconomy.
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Jun 22, 2017 10:39
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Spangly A posted:my bees are lethargic and really do not like being given help, one poor lil gal panicked, flew away and collapsed, rather than drink delicious sugarwater. How do I make bees less terrified of my primate form? Put some clothes on. The bee isn't fooled by the yellow and black stripes you've painted on your penis.
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Jun 22, 2017 10:39
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From what I've been able to glean on the subject, Bees are actually doing OK right now. https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2016/07/28/beepocalypse-myth-handbook-dissecting-claims-of-pollinator-collapse/
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Jun 22, 2017 10:41
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jBrereton posted:"Ten years?" - D. Abbz. Yeah let's keep harping on the black woman suffering a diabetic moment, not even 24 hours after Fat Saville did an equally notable gently caress-up.
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Jun 22, 2017 10:41
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Tesseraction posted:Yeah let's keep harping on the black woman suffering a diabetic moment, not even 24 hours after Fat Saville did an equally notable gently caress-up. He's auditioning for a spot on Have I Got News For You.
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Jun 22, 2017 10:47
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TomViolence posted:He's auditioning for a spot on Have I Got News For You. Oh is Quentin Letts not available?
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Jun 22, 2017 10:53
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:I mean just look at this beautiful tawny mining bee I saw this spring: Well if this continues then at least in a few years we can enjoy some Soylent Green.
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Jun 22, 2017 10:53
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That Times piece is cool, I like the bit where he is concerned that young people don't understand that assistance the government gives them now will come out of taxes, taxes they will themselves have to pay  when they're older.Like yeah that's the idea, help me out now when my earning power is low and then when I can afford it I'll help out the next generation. The alternative is the government does gently caress all for me and I stay poor forever and never pay taxes worth poo poo.
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Jun 22, 2017 10:53
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Tesseraction posted:Yeah let's keep harping on the black woman suffering a diabetic moment, not even 24 hours after Fat Saville did an equally notable gently caress-up. I don't actually dislike Abbot but as someone with diabetes I cannot think of any reason why type 2 would cause you to gently caress up something like this. You don't really get hypoglycemia with t2. Seems to me an obvious attempt to give her a plausible excuse. For all May's faults, she has type 1 which should in theory put her at significantly more risk of those kinds of difficulties and yet she seems not to have.
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Jun 22, 2017 10:55
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ThomasPaine posted:I don't actually dislike Abbot but as someone with diabetes I cannot think of any reason why type 2 would cause you to gently caress up something like this. You don't really get hypoglycemia with t2. Seems to me an obvious attempt to give her a plausible excuse. For all May's faults, she has type 1 which should in theory put her at significantly more risk of those kinds of difficulties and yet she seems not to have. Bear in mind Abbott said she had been working for 12 hours straight when she had the notoriously car-crash interview. If you've not had the opportunity to eat or drink properly or rest in that time you can be pretty loving exhausted even without the sugary blood curse.
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Jun 22, 2017 10:58
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big scary monsters posted:That Times piece is cool, I like the bit where he is concerned that young people don't understand that assistance the government gives them now will come out of taxes, taxes they will themselves have to pay Also y'know the government definitely doesn't help out old people what even is pensions and retirement?
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Jun 22, 2017 10:58
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learnincurve posted:Oh god. They are actually trying to kill us. brexit cant come fast enough imo
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Jun 22, 2017 11:00
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Tesseraction posted:Bear in mind Abbott said she had been working for 12 hours straight when she had the notoriously car-crash interview. If you've not had the opportunity to eat or drink properly or rest in that time you can be pretty loving exhausted even without the sugary blood curse. True, but then she was just knackered.
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Jun 22, 2017 11:03
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Either way the obsessive glee with which she's been persistently pilloried for having a brainfart over some figures nobody watching was really paying attention to anyway looks really bad when contrasted against the similar showings by other politicians on either side of the house and how they've been largely spared such treatment.
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Jun 22, 2017 11:05
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Tesseraction posted:Bear in mind Abbott said she had been working for 12 hours straight when she had the notoriously car-crash interview. If you've not had the opportunity to eat or drink properly or rest in that time you can be pretty loving exhausted even without the sugary blood curse. This description of her working and eating habits would form the 'plausible excuse' described. I don't buy it either.
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Jun 22, 2017 11:06
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Tesseraction posted:Bear in mind Abbott said she had been working for 12 hours straight when she had the notoriously car-crash interview. If you've not had the opportunity to eat or drink properly or rest in that time you can be pretty loving exhausted even without the sugary blood curse. Sounds like she's just not cut out for this line of work, then.
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Jun 22, 2017 11:07
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:I mean just look at this beautiful tawny mining bee I saw this spring: What times of day were you looking? When it's really loving hot like this, they tend to go back and chill in the hive, being most active mid-morning and after 3. I can only give anecdotal stuff but the active hive on the land I manage is doing great, and the apiarist who looks after it is having another good year
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Jun 22, 2017 11:09
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ThomasPaine posted:True, but then she was just knackered. Except type 2 can cause fatigue, thirst, blurred vision, which can exacerbate what purely being tired from a long day campaigning would do. Pissflaps posted:This description of her working and eating habits would form the 'plausible excuse' described. Shocking that you have an issue with a black person's statement. sassassin posted:Sounds like she's just not cut out for this line of work, then. She spoke to her doctor who provided her with a plan to manage her energy going forward. And really let's just round my post off on quoting this TomViolence posted:Either way the obsessive glee with which she's been persistently pilloried for having a brainfart over some figures nobody watching was really paying attention to anyway looks really bad when contrasted against the similar showings by other politicians on either side of the house and how they've been largely spared such treatment. because that's what this is. Black person fucks up, everyone who's totally not racist, honest, is really interested in her gently caress-up while a whole bunch of other people make equally dumb or worse ones and get a one-off mention.
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Jun 22, 2017 11:18
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SpaceCommie posted:From what I've been able to glean on the subject, Bees are actually doing OK right now. Because we worked out the connection between bee murder and Nicotine based pesticides and banned them. Bare in mind that there are now over 500 peer reviewed papers and reports that prove this connection, and the people with a vested interest in these pesticides keep on rolling out the same few pet scientists with their bullshit "evidence". Oddly enough iirc it was discovered by a school child who was doing a science project, it's really really not hard to prove. You could even do it at home if you own a net. You take some bees and put them in with plants sprayed with nicotine pesticides, wait a bit and then they are dead. People denying this are as cuntish as climate change deniers.
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Jun 22, 2017 11:18
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Ah sweet, an excuse to post all the videos of bees I filmed out of my window at the beginning of the month. Between 12 and 6pm they were just methodologically working over this one bush which leans into my back garden. Since it got really really hot I haven't seen them out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alPEGAMrLuE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0jICspCD80 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZMSfalW8AA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXfr1mkUrwY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRoiCEk40Wg
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Jun 22, 2017 11:19
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Jun 22, 2017 11:20
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ThomasPaine posted:I don't actually dislike Abbot but as someone with diabetes I cannot think of any reason why type 2 would cause you to gently caress up something like this. You don't really get hypoglycemia with t2. Seems to me an obvious attempt to give her a plausible excuse. For all May's faults, she has type 1 which should in theory put her at significantly more risk of those kinds of difficulties and yet she seems not to have. This isn't quite true - my dad is type 2, and he would go hypoglycaemic every so often, usually if he'd continued to take his medication but had been particularly busy and hadn't got around to eating/drinking anything. Warning signs were him being very pale and sweaty, and if left for much longer, HUGE irritability and anger over irrational things/reasons, or conversations that didn't make any sense.
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Jun 22, 2017 11:20
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Oh it's all because of racism. I see. Like when Chuka Umunna gets criticised.
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Jun 22, 2017 11:21
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learnincurve posted:People denying this are as cuntish as climate change deniers. People denying this usually are climate change deniers, or at least do their PR. Like that "Genetic Literacy Project" lot.
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Jun 22, 2017 11:22
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big scary monsters posted:That Times piece is cool, I like the bit where he is concerned that young people don't understand that assistance the government gives them now will come out of taxes, taxes they will themselves have to pay You can't pay taxes if you never have any money :thinkyguy: TomViolence posted:Either way the obsessive glee with which she's been persistently pilloried for having a brainfart over some figures nobody watching was really paying attention to anyway looks really bad when contrasted against the similar showings by other politicians on either side of the house and how they've been largely spared such treatment. She's not BOZZA LEGEND so she's not allowed.
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Jun 22, 2017 11:27
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Pissflaps posted:Oh it's all because of racism. I see. Ah yes, the "I have a black friend" method of retort. quote:Umunna said he was sure Abbott would have preferred that an LBC interview, where she stumbled over the funding of a Labour pledge on more police officers, and others had gone better.  looks like your friend has a different view
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Jun 22, 2017 11:27
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I just find her voice and personality annoying (from what I see on the telly) nowhere near Jacob Rees Mog or Boris Johnson levels but up there. But she has good politics so good luck to her.
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Jun 22, 2017 11:28
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She does have a slightly stoned guidance teacher cadence to her voice and she doesn't perform too well in the default (hostile) interview environment but these quirks seem to be amplified in coverage of her by the received wisdom flying about throughout our media that there is something inherently ridiculous about her, which has got to the point where Ruth Davidson can quip "Diane Abbott, she's a big beast" or words to that effect on HIGNFY and be showered with uproarious laughter and applause.
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Jun 22, 2017 11:34
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