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gradenko_2000: Oct 5, 2010; HELL SERPENT; Lipstick Apathy

jBrereton posted:

Has he made many more insane statements since the one about france being neither western nor european due to its location on every continent on the earth?

Ooof. I thought Melenchon was kinda okay given his opposition to Macron's neoliberalism.

France isn't going to have any labor laws left by next election, will they

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Fallen Hamprince: Nov 12, 2016

Melenchon is at least as much a nationalist as a leftist, his insane statements are very much representative of that

# ? Nov 24, 2017 13:08

Fallen Hamprince: Nov 12, 2016

https://twitter.com/jessicaelgot/status/934020230669570048

https://twitter.com/jessicaelgot/status/934030926086115330

May's laptop has a folder named 'Brexit Plans' and the only thing in it is an animated GIF of a cartoon monkey on a unicycle

# ? Nov 24, 2017 13:16

Kurtofan: Feb 16, 2011; hon hon hon

Fallen Hamprince posted:

https://twitter.com/jessicaelgot/status/934020230669570048

https://twitter.com/jessicaelgot/status/934030926086115330

May's laptop has a folder named 'Brexit Plans' and the only thing in it is an animated GIF of a cartoon monkey on a unicycle

THE

# ? Nov 24, 2017 13:17

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

https://twitter.com/DanielHewittITV...agenumber%3D183

# ? Nov 24, 2017 13:37

Fallen Hamprince: Nov 12, 2016

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/DanielHewittITV...agenumber%3D183

May's terror attack

# ? Nov 24, 2017 13:49

Irony Be My Shield: Jul 29, 2012

She did let Abedi go to Syria.

# ? Nov 24, 2017 13:52

UrbicaMortis: Feb 16, 2012; Hmm, how shall I post today?

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/DanielHewittITV...agenumber%3D183

Love too piss off one of the UK 's largest cities to save a tiny amount of money.

# ? Nov 24, 2017 14:24

jBrereton: May 30, 2013; Grimey Drawer

I hate her so much lol

"You have been spendthrift about this suicide bombing on little girls" is the kind of attitude that should get your government thrown out of office anywhere in the world.

# ? Nov 24, 2017 14:29

bump_fn: Apr 12, 2004; _{two of them}

Fallen Hamprince posted:

May's terror attack

new thread title

# ? Nov 24, 2017 14:42

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

UrbicaMortis posted:

Love too piss off one of the UK 's largest cities to save a tiny amount of money.

Safe Labour area, therefore as far as the tories are concerned it can sink into the sea

# ? Nov 24, 2017 14:45

Fallen Hamprince: Nov 12, 2016

manchester voted remain and therefore its inhabitants are Citizens of Nowhere who deserve to suffer for their crime of not being xenophobic morons like good and proper englishmen

# ? Nov 24, 2017 15:16

UrbicaMortis: Feb 16, 2012; Hmm, how shall I post today?

Barry Foster posted:

Safe Labour area, therefore as far as the tories are concerned it can sink into the sea

The city itself is but I'm pretty sure there are a lot of marginals in the surrounding area.

# ? Nov 24, 2017 15:25

bump_fn: Apr 12, 2004; _{two of them}

https://twitter.com/IanLaveryMP/status/934028835217055744

this wrestling promo is real weird

# ? Nov 24, 2017 15:48

Kurtofan: Feb 16, 2011; hon hon hon

they run bath in the uk?

# ? Nov 24, 2017 15:53

Fallen Hamprince: Nov 12, 2016

bump_fn posted:

https://twitter.com/IanLaveryMP/status/934028835217055744

this wrestling promo is real weird

he's not wrong

the lib dems held Bath by 17 points in the last election

# ? Nov 24, 2017 15:57

A Handed Missus: Aug 6, 2012

Fallen Hamprince posted:

he's not wrong

the lib dems held Bath by 17 points in the last election

lmao

# ? Nov 24, 2017 15:59

MikeCrotch: Nov 5, 2011; I AM UNJUSTIFIABLY PROUD OF MY SPAGHETTI BOLOGNESE RECIPE

YES, IT IS AN INCREDIBLY SIMPLE DISH

NO, IT IS NOT NORMAL TO USE A PEPPERAMI INSTEAD OF MINCED MEAT

YES, THERE IS TOO MUCH SALT IN MY RECIPE

NO, I WON'T STOP SHARING IT

more like BOLLOCKnese

I always thought Bath was Bristol for post cunts

# ? Nov 24, 2017 16:03

Gum: Mar 9, 2008; _{oho, a rapist

time to try this puppy out}

I knew farron was a religious extremist but I had no idea the lib dems were a bathist party

# ? Nov 24, 2017 16:58

Lawman 0: Aug 17, 2010

I liked Bath when I visited it.

# ? Nov 24, 2017 17:00

bump_fn: Apr 12, 2004; _{two of them}

no one buys that any goon knows anything about baths

# ? Nov 24, 2017 17:03

UrbicaMortis: Feb 16, 2012; Hmm, how shall I post today?

Lawman 0 posted:

I liked Bath when I visited it.

It's quite nice to visit but terminally boring to live there.

# ? Nov 24, 2017 17:04

Helsing: Aug 23, 2003; DON'T POST IN THE ELECTION THREAD UNLESS YOU JOE BIDEN

My most distinct memory from visiting Bath was that they inexplicably covered the interior of the Roman ruins with glowing electronic screens. Everywhere you turn there's another electronic display showing recreations of the town or giving you a top down display of cartoony little simulation Romans walking around a 3D rendered version of what they think the town / baths looked like. It completely eliminated any sense of history you might have gotten from standing in a building that is at least partially 2,000 years old when there's a display monitor next to you running the equivalent of The Sims: Ancient Rome edition.

# ? Nov 24, 2017 17:11

Frijolero: Jan 24, 2009; by Nyc_Tattoo

El Chico Absoluto

# ? Nov 24, 2017 17:46

Baloogan: Dec 5, 2004; Fun Shoe

Helsing posted:

My most distinct memory from visiting Bath was that they inexplicably covered the interior of the Roman ruins with glowing electronic screens. Everywhere you turn there's another electronic display showing recreations of the town or giving you a top down display of cartoony little simulation Romans walking around a 3D rendered version of what they think the town / baths looked like. It completely eliminated any sense of history you might have gotten from standing in a building that is at least partially 2,000 years old when there's a display monitor next to you running the equivalent of The Sims: Ancient Rome edition.

yeah id play that if they had serious roman mechanics like that tv show and like your son hides he worships jesus boom lions

# ? Nov 24, 2017 19:27

Squizzle: Apr 24, 2008

Lawman 0 posted:

I liked Bath when I visited it.

yeah its lovely, and last time i was there i ate a lot of v good food

# ? Nov 24, 2017 20:49

Nebakenezzer: Sep 13, 2005; The Mote in God's Eye

How's it goin', thread?

Cerebral Bore posted:

Set a maximum voting age of 60 and raise it with one year annually until the boomers and their garbage opinions have died off.

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

have the strength of your vote depend on how much longer on average you have to live

I endorse both of these ideas

# ? Nov 24, 2017 22:05

UrbicaMortis: Feb 16, 2012; Hmm, how shall I post today?

Squizzle posted:

yeah its lovely, and last time i was there i ate a lot of v good food

Come to Bristol if you visit the UK again, Squizzle. It's a very cool and welcoming city.

# ? Nov 24, 2017 22:06

byob historian: Nov 5, 2008; I'm an animal abusing piece of shit! I deliberately poisoned my dog to death and think it's funny! I'm an irredeemable sack of human shit!

Squizzle posted:

yeah its lovely, and last time i was there i ate a lot of v good food

yeah eastern nc style bbq is good af

# ? Nov 24, 2017 22:17

Nebakenezzer: Sep 13, 2005; The Mote in God's Eye

Baloogan posted:

god i love bojo and i don't even know why

Inventive racism?

Makes Jeremy Clarkson look like Ban Kai-Moon?

# ? Nov 24, 2017 22:37

Condiv: May 7, 2008; Sorry to undo the effort of paying a domestic abuser $10 to own this poster, but I am going to lose my dang mind if I keep seeing multiple posters who appear to be Baloogan.

With love,
a mod

jBrereton posted:

I hate her so much lol

"You have been spendthrift about this suicide bombing on little girls" is the kind of attitude that should get your government thrown out of office anywhere in the world.

instead it has people like obama calling up with insider info on your political opponents :lol:

# ? Nov 24, 2017 22:42

Helsing: Aug 23, 2003; DON'T POST IN THE ELECTION THREAD UNLESS YOU JOE BIDEN

Condiv posted:

instead it has people like obama calling up with insider info on your political opponents

Inside information which appropriately turned out to be completely wrong:

The Guardian posted:

Barack Obama 'rang with reassurance for May' on election night

Former president said Labour was expecting losses and Andrew Marr told Tories results of exit poll early, book claims

Barack Obama rang Conservative headquarters on election night with a mistaken but reassuring message for Theresa May because Labour insiders had told him the party was expecting to lose seats, according to a new book about the election.

Shortly before the exit poll, which sent shockwaves through both party headquarters, the former US president contacted a friend in Tory central office with the soothing news that Labour was expecting to see the Conservatives increase their majority.

The revelation is contained in extracts from a new book, Betting the House, by the journalists Tom McTague and Tim Ross, published in the Mail on Sunday, that the prime minister appeared to be a germaphobe and reluctant to visit party HQ as a result - and that the results of the election night exit poll leaked early.

They write that Fiona Hill, one of May�s joint chiefs of staff, was tipped off a few minutes in advance about the result of the exit poll, which is usually tightly guarded by broadcasters.

The BBC presenter Andrew Marr admits to having contacted Tory HQ with details of the exit poll that contradicted Obama�s message before the results were announced but told the authors it was only seconds before 10pm. Details of the poll are kept to a very small team of senior staff.

The initial reaction to the exit poll, which is a large-scale survey of thousands of voters as they leave their polling stations, was disbelief. May�s other chief of staff, Nick Timothy, reportedly winked and told a colleague: �Don�t worry about that, it�s all fine. Nothing we�ve seen says anything like it.�

But as results from constituencies up and down the country confirmed the accuracy of the exit poll, Timothy apparently wondered aloud whether May should consider stepping down rather than endure the wave of criticism that would follow. The book claims that May�s husband, Philip, thought that his tearful wife might have to resign for the sake of her �wellbeing�.

But the authors claim May became determined to stay on after the Brexit secretary, David Davis, said he would support her, and she received a text message from Boris Johnson in the early hours of the morning urging her to keep her �chin up�, and promising: �We are with you and behind you.�

The pair were considered the most likely leadership contenders in the aftermath of the catastrophic election result.

The authors also reveal that May rarely visited party workers, fearing that Conservative HQ was �a pit of germs�. �There were quite a lot of germs flying around,� one Conservative source said.

When the prime minister did finally arrive to give a morale-boosting speech to staff, it was a rehash of her already wearily familiar stump speech. �It was all �strong and stable� and the risks of Corbyn�s �coalition of chaos�. I couldn�t believe it,� one eyewitness said.

Some party workers began visibly checking their phones for Twitter updates. �This was the prime minister of the United Kingdom talking in the middle of an election to her own campaign staff and she couldn�t even hold the room,� the source told McTague and Ross.

The extracts suggest May�s advisers were bitterly divided between presenting her as a radical reformer, or the �strong and stable� face of continuity.

At an �away day� in February in her country retreat, Chequers, May�s political strategist Chris Wilkins and Timothy set out a series of social and economic reforms, and said the prime minister must be presented as �the person who always fought for relentless change�.

But Crosby, the Australian elections expert, dismissed their approach as �classic populist woolly bullshit�, according to the book.

Crosby told the senior advisers, who had gathered to discuss the party�s strategy over a meal of chicken lasagne and potatoes: �By the way, mate, it�s not about being the change candidate, it�s about doing what people want.�

Crosby, regarded as one of the masterminds of David Cameron�s unexpected victory in 2015, was sceptical about the idea of an early election, which May had repeatedly said was not necessary. But he and colleague Mark Textor nevertheless took on the job of advising the Conservatives.

When the election campaign kicked off, the stripped down message of strong and stable leadership became the central thrust of the Tory campaign � and allowed Labour to present Jeremy Corbyn as offering a radical alternative for voters disgruntled with the status quo.

Wilkins told Ross and McTague: �In the campaign, we basically just screwed the brand completely, hers and the party�s. We suddenly became the establishment candidate and Corbyn the candidate for change.�

Timothy was determined to press ahead with some policies for change � including the controversial changes to social care funding that were included in the manifesto.

And May reportedly backed his determination to include detailed policy in the closely guarded document, despite Crosby�s argument that: �I hate policy, it only causes problems.�

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A Handed Missus: Aug 6, 2012

Barry is a sad man lol

# ? Nov 24, 2017 23:10

Baloogan: Dec 5, 2004; Fun Shoe

booooooooooooooojooooooooooooooooo

# ? Nov 24, 2017 23:11

Communist Thoughts: Jan 7, 2008; Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!

A Handed Missus posted:

https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/933818286353080321

We taught the Saudis how best to use bombs to cause famine and genocide the people of Yemen.

So A) We didn't think they'd actually try to fully wipe out Yemen
Or
B) We did think so but have got cold feet at the horror
Or
C) it's all meaningless rhetoric to make us look good while we continue to make the bombs and point them at targets for the saudis

# ? Nov 24, 2017 23:12