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Azza Bamboo
Apr 7, 2018


THUNDERDOME LOSER 2021
is it me or has Ian Blackford taken up more time than anyone else?

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Julio Cruz
May 19, 2006

Mr.Tophat posted:

Yeah, and if you can hear the neighbors through the wall you can't be called ambitious and self interested on the world stage holy gently caress

why would either of those things be a positive trait for a politician

Haramstufe Rot
Jun 24, 2016

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Jam Man's House. It's the one with the blue front door. Ed: no I think it's the one to the left. Will have to check mother has just arrived mid post.

Daily Mail were having paroxysms a couple of years ago because it's worth about £1m therefore he must be a champagne socialist, but apparently it cost £30k when he bought it 30 years ago.



nothing in this picture is worth a million

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
And why can't ambitious people live in a terraced house? Is this some poverty of aspiration bullshit?

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.
Actually i don't quite get the logic behind all three votes failing either.

If votes 1 (deal) & 2 (no deal) fail, then vote 3 (delay) is in effect a vote on no deal, since that's what happens if 3 fails too. So if there's enough votes to fail 3, why wouldn't those same votes pass 2? And if there's enough votes to fail 2, why wouldn't those same votes pass 3?

I get that some people might vote no to 2 and no to 3, but doing so is a vote for 2, so that would be idiotic

DesperateDan
Dec 10, 2005

Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.
How can you be ambitious if you aint ever overheard your neighbors loving :colbert:

Saros
Dec 29, 2009

Its almost like we're a Bureaucracy, in space!

I set sail for the Planet of Lab Requisitions!!

Mr.Tophat posted:

If Jeremy Corbyn had any ounce of ambition he wouldn't live where he loving does, he's a jam man, not a caviar aspirant

Mr.Tophat posted:

Yeah, and if you can hear the neighbors through the wall you can't be called ambitious and self interested on the world stage holy gently caress

Guavanaut posted:

And why can't ambitious people live in a terraced house? Is this some poverty of aspiration bullshit?

Yes lol, apparently only the super-rich (with nice houses) should be allowed to run things or somesuch.

ThomasPaine
Feb 4, 2009

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

caps on caps on caps posted:

nothing in this picture is worth a million

In London all things are possible

On the apprentice they sell poo poo donuts for like a tenner a pop and people buy them.

It's a strange city, I've never experienced somewhere so efficiently tuned for the sole purpose of extracting as much money as possible from everyone who enters. There's something almost lovecraftian about it.

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

I get that some people might vote no to 2 and no to 3, but doing so is a vote for 2, so that would be idiotic

Yes which is why it will happen lol

V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

ASK ME ABOUT LUMBER

Guavanaut posted:

And why can't ambitious people live in a terraced house? Is this some poverty of aspiration bullshit?

i think the point is, given his position he could very easily choose to live someplace nicer if he was in it for the material comfort

indeed, i think much of his demeanour over the last decades places him firmly in the 'true believer' category

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

I get that some people might vote no to 2 and no to 3, but doing so is a vote for 2, so that would be idiotic
Some people in Parliament might fit that definition.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I thought the suggestion was that him not being ambitious was a good thing?

I don't trust people out for their own advancement.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Adam Vegas posted:

Do you do Reuben covers, is the important question

I did a one-off set of Reuben covers in November, it was flipping ace. Would love to do that as an ongoing thing too but don't think there's as much call for it as Biffy unfortunately.

Mr.Tophat
Apr 7, 2007

You clearly don't understand joke development :justpost:

Julio Cruz posted:

why would either of those things be a positive trait for a politician

Exactly. Someone called jam man's actions self interested and ambitious about his political actions in the house of commons. Hence why I point out his humble basketweaving enterprise's floorspace.

kustomkarkommando
Oct 22, 2012

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

Actually i don't quite get the logic behind all three votes failing either.

If votes 1 (deal) & 2 (no deal) fail, then vote 3 (delay) is in effect a vote on no deal, since that's what happens if 3 fails too. So if there's enough votes to fail 3, why wouldn't those same votes pass 2? And if there's enough votes to fail 2, why wouldn't those same votes pass 3?

I get that some people might vote no to 2 and no to 3, but doing so is a vote for 2, so that would be idiotic

Voting yes for 3 though is an indication of a desire to do something rather than an expression of not liking bad things, a terrifying propsect for those MPs hoping to float through this Brexit thing without having to support anything that someone might dislike

Hobo
Dec 12, 2007

Forum bum
If you don’t take the deal but don’t want to take no deal, and don’t want to extend for more time to make either of those viable, than the only move is to not Brexit.

Oddly, May is the only one that keeps pointing this out, although she phrases it as a risk of all three failing, rather than a viable option.

Saros
Dec 29, 2009

Its almost like we're a Bureaucracy, in space!

I set sail for the Planet of Lab Requisitions!!

Mr.Tophat posted:

Exactly. Someone called jam man's actions self interested and ambitious about his political actions in the house of commons. Hence why I point out his humble basketweaving enterprise's floorspace.

My apologies I took your statement backwards.

Mr.Tophat
Apr 7, 2007

You clearly don't understand joke development :justpost:

OwlFancier posted:

I thought the suggestion was that him not being ambitious was a good thing?

I don't trust people out for their own advancement.

Hooray someone understands.

Lord Stimperor
Jun 13, 2018

I'm a lovable meme.

JFairfax posted:

Bodies of dead chimney sweep boys as young as four could still be in Parliament, expert warns

Labour MP Meg Hillier said the £6billion renovations starting in the 2020s were likely to uncover 'all sorts of things'

THE bodies of dead chimney sweep boys could still be lying in Parliament, an MP has warned.

Experts examining the crumbling Palace of Westminster told MPs there is “a possibility” that some of the ‘climbing boys’ who were deployed to go up the chimneys in the 19th century could have died up there.

Boys as young as four were deployed to go up and down the chimneys when the Grade 1 listed Palace was built in 1870.

Labour MP Meg Hillier said the joint-Parliamentary committee she sits on that oversees the multi-billion renovation of the building will investigate whether unfound bodies could still be in the building.

She said there could be “all sorts of unknown things that we will find on the way”.

The MP vowed to hold burial funerals for any skeletons found - but said it was unlikely they would be able to identify their name because of a lack of records.

Ms Hillier told Radio 4’s Westminster Hour: “I’ve recently been told that there’s a possibility that when this was of course built it was Victorian times, they used climbing boys to go up chimneys and I’ve heard - there’s a rumour - that there may be still little dead climbing boys up some of the chimneys.

Jfc

AceOfFlames
Oct 9, 2012


I know these people are scum but why on Earth do we have to judge them on their personal ideosyncracies? I don't personally think it's funny, it just makes me paranoid that everyone is doing the same to me. Shouldn't we strive for making a society free of judgement for anything that doesn't actively harm others?

Vando
Oct 26, 2007

stoats about

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

Actually i don't quite get the logic behind all three votes failing either.

If votes 1 (deal) & 2 (no deal) fail, then vote 3 (delay) is in effect a vote on no deal, since that's what happens if 3 fails too. So if there's enough votes to fail 3, why wouldn't those same votes pass 2? And if there's enough votes to fail 2, why wouldn't those same votes pass 3?

I get that some people might vote no to 2 and no to 3, but doing so is a vote for 2, so that would be idiotic

It's very important that, even if you secretly want no deal, you also have the ability to say "I never voted for no deal" in years to come.

Lord Stimperor
Jun 13, 2018

I'm a lovable meme.

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

Actually i don't quite get the logic behind all three votes failing either.

If votes 1 (deal) & 2 (no deal) fail, then vote 3 (delay) is in effect a vote on no deal, since that's what happens if 3 fails too. So if there's enough votes to fail 3, why wouldn't those same votes pass 2? And if there's enough votes to fail 2, why wouldn't those same votes pass 3?

I get that some people might vote no to 2 and no to 3, but doing so is a vote for 2, so that would be idiotic

Imo the only way these votes make sense is if May assumed that no option will find a majority, except if maybe the only other alternative is no-deal

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

OwlFancier posted:

I thought the suggestion was that him not being ambitious was a good thing?

I don't trust people out for their own advancement.
Plenty of people out for their own advancement live in terraced/semi-detatched houses though, because they're the bulk of our housing stock.

Mr.Tophat
Apr 7, 2007

You clearly don't understand joke development :justpost:

AceOfFlames posted:

I know these people are scum but why on Earth do we have to judge them on their personal ideosyncracies? I don't personally think it's funny, it just makes me paranoid that everyone is doing the same to me. Shouldn't we strive for making a society free of judgement for anything that doesn't actively harm others?

Wait until you hear about the song about Hitler's privates

Lord Stimperor
Jun 13, 2018

I'm a lovable meme.

AceOfFlames posted:

I know these people are scum but why on Earth do we have to judge them on their personal ideosyncracies? I don't personally think it's funny, it just makes me paranoid that everyone is doing the same to me. Shouldn't we strive for making a society free of judgement for anything that doesn't actively harm others?

Would it cheer you up that no one cares about anything we do, like at all

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/Laura_K_Hughes/status/1105474475468951553

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Guavanaut posted:

Plenty of people out for their own advancement live in terraced/semi-detatched houses though, because they're the bulk of our housing stock.

Yes, but I would suggest that probably not that many of them do that while the house is worth a million quid while doing jeremy corbyn's job.

Sion
Oct 16, 2004

"I'm the boss of space. That's plenty."

a branch of the money tree.... cut down for this.

seizure later
Apr 18, 2007

AceOfFlames posted:

I know these people are scum but why on Earth do we have to judge them on their personal ideosyncracies? I don't personally think it's funny, it just makes me paranoid that everyone is doing the same to me. Shouldn't we strive for making a society free of judgement for anything that doesn't actively harm others?

it's because they're scum, OP

edit: for the same reason I don't feel bad about making fun of the way Theresa May looks or dresses, because she has actively caused death and misery along the path of selfish career gains, so if I can do anything that might make me feel better, even if she should somehow have a SomethingAwful forums account and read my nasty words about her, then I will do so with a clear conscience

jaete
Jun 21, 2009


Nap Ghost

Jedit posted:

If a binding vote to block a No Deal Brexit passes then that would overrule the EU Withdrawal Act. The third vote will be on whether we ask for an extension or revoke Article 50.

Wait, what? Any source for this?

I thought the vote to block no deal basically means "we promise we don't want no deal, really, trust us", i.e. means gently caress all, and then the third vote will be only on ask for delay/don't ask for delay regardless of anything

learnincurve
May 15, 2014

Smoosh

radmonger posted:

Complete list of Babylon 5 characters who would’t be an improvement on May:

1 Byron
2 Marcus
The shadows would be an improvement on May.

Midnight-
Aug 22, 2007

Pain or damage don't end the world, or despair, or fuckin' beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man - and give some back.
> cant have a second ref, its a betrayal of democracy
> repeatedly call for votes on own deal until it passes

just tory things

bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them

AceOfFlames posted:

I know these people are scum but why on Earth do we have to judge them on their personal ideosyncracies? I don't personally think it's funny, it just makes me paranoid that everyone is doing the same to me. Shouldn't we strive for making a society free of judgement for anything that doesn't actively harm others?



“My favorite meat is hot dog, by the way. That is my favorite meat,” he told a gathering of supporters as they joined him recently for a casual dinner organized by his campaign. “My second favorite meat is hamburger. And, everyone says, oh, don’t you prefer steak? It’s like, I know steaks are great, but I like hot dog best, and I like hamburger next best.”

learnincurve
May 15, 2014

Smoosh
Only a member of any parliament would take candles off a cake and blow them out one by one in order to game the wish system.

Mr.Tophat
Apr 7, 2007

You clearly don't understand joke development :justpost:

learnincurve posted:

Only a member of any parliament would take candles off a cake and blow them out one by one in order to game the wish system.

That way you still get your birthday wish, but you use all the bonus wishes to deny other wish claimants, as is the Tory tradition

Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

Bite my furry metal ass
There's a reason :mitt: exists. That boy ain't right.

Obliterati
Nov 13, 2012

Pain is inevitable.
Suffering is optional.
Thunderdome is forever.

Mr.Tophat posted:

That way you still get your birthday wish, but you use all the bonus wishes to deny other wish claimants, as is the Tory tradition

Lol if you don't think they just sell each wish to a donor

Mr.Tophat
Apr 7, 2007

You clearly don't understand joke development :justpost:

Obliterati posted:

Lol if you don't think they just sell each wish to a donor

That's a private matter!

I mean, yes, I agree

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

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

bump_fn posted:

“My favorite meat is hot dog, by the way. That is my favorite meat,” he told a gathering of supporters as they joined him recently for a casual dinner organized by his campaign. “My second favorite meat is hamburger. And, everyone says, oh, don’t you prefer steak? It’s like, I know steaks are great, but I like hot dog best, and I like hamburger next best.”

Is this real? I don't know what to believe :psyduck:

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

can hot dog really be called a meat?

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brian
Sep 11, 2001
I obtained this title through beard tax.

I honestly hadn't seen this account post but still I appreciate a good expose

https://twitter.com/wariotifo/status/1105474095242772481

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