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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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CrazyLoon
Aug 10, 2015

"..."

Unkempt posted:

I understand why dicks like that vote Tory. It's all the other ones I don't get.

Strong and Stable.

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Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

VideoGames posted:

The best thing about this is Industrial Zone! :D I always disliked it's removal for that underwater zone.

quote:

"Industrial's quite interesting because it's almost like a period set now," Dillon says.

"There's so few elements from the original in daily life now. So much industrial landscape has disappeared, we don't do industry so much in this country anymore."

"So its almost like a period thing now that you look back on and go, 'oh yes, that's what it used to be when you went to a factory or an industrial landscape.'"
Thatcher Nightmare Zone

WAR CRIME GIGOLO
Oct 3, 2012

The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

if corbyn becomes PM, what would HE do about the flammable biilding wraps? i mean хрущёвка were fireproof were they? maybe bulldoze the housing blocks and replace them wth a low cost solution...

WAR CRIME GIGOLO fucked around with this message at 15:31 on Jun 22, 2017

TACD
Oct 27, 2000

baka kaba posted:

I'm not saying there's some overarching Machiavellian strategy at work here, I'm saying they all seem like they've given up trying and nobody's willing to put any effort into anything. Even the appearance of competence
Well, why would they? When is the last time a single one of them faced any consequences for being incompetent or being proven to be lying? When's the last time anything bad happened to a Tory who was shown to be screwing the poor for personal gain? Everybody knows they're doing it and apparently nobody cares enough to stop them so who are they trying to impress?

Yes, this election shows that maybe people actually do care and are starting to run out of patience with Tories as a whole but politicians don't ever face significant personal consequences, either politically, in the press, or legally.

Pissflaps
Oct 20, 2002

by VideoGames
Camden Council have said that they've tested a building that they paid to have non flammable cladding installed on and instead it had the flammable sort.

MrL_JaKiri
Sep 23, 2003

A bracing glass of carrot juice!

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.

The Bee Movie?

big scary monsters posted:

There was a cool photo series by Howard Schatz where he took pictures of a bunch of Olympic athletes.

They're not Olympic athletes, they're just athletes :reject:

(Bodybuilding, for example, is not an olympic sport)

Saint Isaias Boner
Jan 17, 2007

hi how are you

LeoMarr posted:

if corbyn becomes PM, what would HE do about the flammable biilding wraps? i mean хрущёвка were fireproof were they? maybe bulldoze the housing blocks and replace them wth a low cost solution...

well Sadiq seems to have developed quite the hardon for just knocking down every tower block and replacing them with ???

jBrereton
May 30, 2013
Grimey Drawer

Guavanaut posted:

Thatcher Nightmare Zone
The crystal maze of the 2040s that has a Pop-Up Pulled Pork From Some Of The Finest Swine In Swabia Zone will be a similar nostalgia-fest, don't worry.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

sure hope no-one throws me off a bridge

baka kaba posted:

I'm not saying there's some overarching Machiavellian strategy at work here, I'm saying they all seem like they've given up trying and nobody's willing to put any effort into anything. Even the appearance of competence

Because they've realized they don't even have to keep up appearances anymore. Theresa May ran the worst campaign in recent memory, but still came out with more seats than Labour. They've realized that the sheer inertia of being the Conservative party is all that's needed. I'll give it a few weeks before Auld Tess is appearing in public sans human suit, in all her terrifying reptilian glory.

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth

Gyro Zeppeli posted:

Because they've realized they don't even have to keep up appearances anymore. Theresa May ran the worst campaign in recent memory, but still came out with more seats than Labour. They've realized that the sheer inertia of being the Conservative party is all that's needed. I'll give it a few weeks before Auld Tess is appearing in public sans human suit, in all her terrifying reptilian glory.

I don't think the past few weeks will have inspired further Tory complacency tbh.

MrL_JaKiri
Sep 23, 2003

A bracing glass of carrot juice!

Saint Isaias Boner posted:

well Sadiq seems to have developed quite the hardon for just knocking down every tower block and replacing them with ???

Replacing them with rich people

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.

Guavanaut posted:

Thatcher Nightmare Zone

They already have a medieval zone

EmptyVessel
Oct 30, 2012

James Dillon Crystal maze designer posted:

The future zone is very different to what it looked like originally,
...[ I ]...
wanted to get away from the original look, which was a slightly broken down and dystopian vision of the future. Now the vision is very clean, pristine, quite antiseptic - it's like the neighbourhood has come up a bit.

loving gentrification is everywhere these days..

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.
For the future zone they should have gone for cyberpunk as it should have been, instead of the lovely cyberpunk we ended up getting.

Miftan
Mar 31, 2012

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

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

For the future zone they should have gone for cyberpunk as it should have been, instead of the lovely cyberpunk we ended up getting.

Don't think the BBC has the budget for cyborgs and proper hover boards, not that poo poo with the wheels on that doesn't even hover.

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

Tesseraction posted:

Well that's all right then.

That's utter bollocks because (if I remember the number right) there are more than 3,000 residential buildings over 10 storeys tall in London alone and of those I'd say the majority have "some sort" of cladding.

I'd accept "there are 600 towers built or refurbished since this sort of cladding came on the market and some of them will have the kindling stuff", as those are the sort of numbers central Government might be able to get their hands on in a hurry.

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!

You really can't tell that Downing Street still hasn't appointed a new director of communications yet can you?

Wistful of Dollars
Aug 25, 2009

I wonder if Rowson has stopped grinning yet since the Mail's breakdown.

Hahahaha

Cerv
Sep 14, 2004

This is a silly post with little news value.

MrL_JaKiri posted:

Replacing them with rich people

possibly an even worse choice for building material than flammable plastic boards

Zalakwe
Jun 4, 2007
Likes Cake, Hates Hamsters



Wistful of Dollars posted:

I wonder if Rowson has stopped grinning yet since the Mail's breakdown.

Hahahaha

Missed this breakdown, could you summarise. There is nothing I hate more than the Daily Mail.

Cat Machine
Jun 18, 2008

Zalakwe posted:

Missed this breakdown, could you summarise. There is nothing I hate more than the Daily Mail.
Rowson posted this cartoon:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2017/jun/19/martin-rowson-on-the-finsbury-park-attack-cartoon

Then the Mail responded with:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/owen-jones-gleefully-brands-daily-mail-an-open-sewer_uk_594b7656e4b01cdedf0058cc

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

For the future zone they should have gone for cyberpunk as it should have been, instead of the lovely cyberpunk we ended up getting.
It's all about the good futures now that we're in the bad future of the 80s.

Zalakwe
Jun 4, 2007
Likes Cake, Hates Hamsters




That's just delightful.

Jedit
Dec 10, 2011

Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

Cerv posted:

possibly an even worse choice for building material than flammable plastic boards

They make a lovely fire, though.

Pesmerga
Aug 1, 2005

So nice to eat you

Zalakwe posted:

That's just delightful.

The Daily Hate posted:

“But this week the Guardian published a cartoon so sick and disgusting - so deranged and offensive to the four million decent, humane and responsible people who read us - that we owe it to every one to lay to rest this malicious smear.”

The Mail continued by explaining the “implication” of the cartoon, despite then saying it was as “unmistakable as it was poisonous”.

“The Guardian was telling its followers that the Daily Mail and its readers are vicious bigots with the blood of innocent, peace-loving Muslims on their hands.” :qq:

How dare they insinuate that we vicious bigots are vicious bigots?

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.
Rich people will be the first against the cheaply cladded wall

Braggart
Nov 10, 2011

always thank the rock hider

Pesmerga posted:

How dare they insinuate that we vicious bigots are vicious bigots?

That's the real fascism

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!

The "real fake news" bit is a shot at Facebook, who list the guardian as a credible source, and the Mail as a site known to promote fake news.

Doctor_Fruitbat
Jun 2, 2013


They love falling back on the Stephen Lawrence case too, so increasingly desperate to have some contemporary example of being positively socially relevant that they act as though they were the absolute lynchpin without whom the entire case would have been lost.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

They love falling back on the Stephen Lawrence case too, so increasingly desperate to have some contemporary example of being positively socially relevant that they act as though they were the absolute lynchpin without whom the entire case would have been lost.

And that only happened because Stephen Lawrence's da was one of the few plebs to have ever come into personal contact with Dacre, having painted his house.

Verizian
Dec 18, 2004
The spiky one.
Lot of conflicting information about the Tory/DUP deal today. The guardian and BBC have both published stories claiming a final deal is imminent with May caving in to every demand including the £2billion and expanding the military covenant. Meanwhile they've also published stories claiming Tory MP's are backing away from the deal after legal threats relating to the GFA.


Also with rich people cladding are we talking like that episode of Rick and Morty where the giant dome is covered in Mortys and they're all being tortured constantly? That would be hardly fair on the occupants, think of the poor person who has Boris Johnson's bare arse plastered across their window.

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)

Verizian posted:

Lot of conflicting information about the Tory/DUP deal today. The guardian and BBC have both published stories claiming a final deal is imminent with May caving in to every demand including the £2billion and expanding the military covenant. Meanwhile they've also published stories claiming Tory MP's are backing away from the deal after legal threats relating to the GFA.


Also with rich people cladding are we talking like that episode of Rick and Morty where the giant dome is covered in Mortys and they're all being tortured constantly? That would be hardly fair on the occupants, think of the poor person who has Boris Johnson's bare arse plastered across their window.

What about rich-people-hide cladding instead?

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!

It's funny how theres no magical money tree for doctors and nurses, but there's a huge one when it comes to holding on to power at all costs.

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

forkboy84 posted:

And that only happened because Stephen Lawrence's da was one of the few plebs to have ever come into personal contact with Dacre, having painted his house.

Is that true? I always wondered why the Mail - who would normally be fairly square on the "Blah blah bah Police have a difficult job blah blah blah" path - went quite so all-in on the Lawrence case, and the idea they were doing it out of conscience was frankly laughable.

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!

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Is that true? I always wondered why the Mail - who would normally be fairly square on the "Blah blah bah Police have a difficult job blah blah blah" path - went quite so all-in on the Lawrence case, and the idea they were doing it out of conscience was frankly laughable.

It get's better/worse. The original piece was intended to be an attack piece on the campaigners who were pushing for justice, but when the journo who was doing it realised that Stephen's dad had been working on Dacre's house as a plasterer he reported back to the office and was told by the news desk to do something sympathetic.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Skinty McEdger posted:

It's funny how theres no magical money tree for doctors and nurses, but there's a huge one when it comes to holding on to power at all costs.

Something something pot of gold

something something rainbow flags

Josef bugman
Nov 17, 2011

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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

They already have a medieval zone

How dare you insult the medieval period in this way!

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

They love falling back on the Stephen Lawrence case too, so increasingly desperate to have some contemporary example of being positively socially relevant that they act as though they were the absolute lynchpin without whom the entire case would have been lost.
If someone asked you "name one good thing you've done in the last 25 years?" and you're such a profoundly lovely person that you can only think of one example then maybe you need a long look in the mirror. Its as if throwing money and attention behind it just absolves them of every other viciously bigoted poo poo that they've published before and since they got involved in that case. Liverpool fans spend less time banging on about past achievements than the Daily Mail do about this one single story.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


goddamnedtwisto posted:

Is that true? I always wondered why the Mail - who would normally be fairly square on the "Blah blah bah Police have a difficult job blah blah blah" path - went quite so all-in on the Lawrence case, and the idea they were doing it out of conscience was frankly laughable.

Yup. According to this Guardian article which quotes Doreen Lawrence's book

Though I did get one thing wrong, Neville Lawrence was a builder, not a painter.

The problem is that Paul Dacre leads a massively sheltered life, gets a chauffeur driven car from his front door to the Mail office where he apparently puts in extremely long days, then heads straight home. The only plebs he has contact with are presumably the cleaners of his building and the sort of tradesman who might be doing up his home. He's completely tucked away from the real world, free to spout his xenophobic fear mongering, homophobic bile without the risk of many real people who could challenge his world view. I mean this is a oval office who fell out with Tony Blair because of Blair's progressive views on gay rights & Cherie's public breastfeeding. No one person has done so much harm to this country since Thatcher was punted out of office by her own party.

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Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

Josef bugman posted:

How dare you insult the medieval period in this way!
If you think about it though, Thatcher's ancestors in the medieval period would have probably been responsible for covering houses in flammable insulation.

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