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Jose posted:I learned today that he might be a pedo Again is this not the default state of everyone of note in britain?
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ronya posted:don't compare sticker prices of projects with widely different timescales especially when one of those projects is abject fantasy based entirely on a moron looking at a map and saying "put a bridge there" with no other thought given to it
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OwlFancier posted:Again is this not the default state of everyone of note in britain? True. Check out this conspiracy theory heavy post of people with connections to Epstein which is where I read it https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3893410&pagenumber=50&perpage=40#post497173421
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u brexit ukip it posted:It's not (just) a matter of incompetence, it's politicians telling consultants "we need <thing> and it needs to cost X or it'll get shot down". Then when it inevitably goes over budget billions will already have been spent and the sunk cost fallacy does its job to get it over the line. To be fair, I just call that incompetence but I suppose technically it's deeply cynical politicking. One could, if you were incredibly sceptical of the honest intentions of politicians, imagine it's done deliberately to make the public lose faith in public works projects.
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Jose posted:I learned today that he might be a pedo In a really nasty way, I hope he was and it comes out that Tony Blair knew all about it and did nothing. I'd love to see Blair sweating on tv, trying to weasel his way out of that one.
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Diet Crack posted:
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Pistol_Pete posted:In a really nasty way, I hope he was and it comes out that Tony Blair knew all about it and did nothing. I'd love to see Blair sweating on tv, trying to weasel his way out of that one. blair is also connected to epstein
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Aug 1, 2019 20:32
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I'd love to join the podcast as a vile and, even worse, Europe-based person? If that's still allowed?
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Here's a depressing (and plausible) analysis of the 30% of voters that Johnson is trying to rally for no-deal: https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/brexit/2019/08/england-s-rentier-alliance-driving-support-no-deal-brexit quote:I think we can therefore look at the new conservative coalition as an alliance of rentiers. No deal supporters are not classic rentiers, in the form of monopolists or exploiters of unproductive capital. However, they are at a point in life where they have paid off their mortgages, and are living off the assets held by pension funds. They are worth something, independently of what they do. This is the generation that enthusiastically backed Margaret Thatcher in their early working life, witnessed Blairism and the booming of metropolitan multiculturalism with growing unease, and perhaps felt a rising resentment towards the international elite that was making the serious money in London, while convincing themselves (with the help of the Express, the Daily Mail and the Telegraph) that London is now a foreign city (a fiction that Johnson cynically endorsed in his leadership campaign). Pistol_Pete fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Aug 1, 2019 |
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Junior G-man posted:I'd love to join the podcast as a vile and, even worse, Europe-based person? If that's still allowed? As long as you pay price+postage on the crisps you're mailed.
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My god i don't have access to the full article but even just that first paragraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politic...sXiJdC3l-E01XTo quote:This is tough right now, being a proud and loyal British subject who has lived in, and loved, Ireland for more than 60 years. What is tough is watching the ridiculous behaviour of the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and his foreign minister, Simon Coveney, trying to destroy, like wilful children, relations with an ancient and friendly neighbour.
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Coohoolin posted:My god That's absolutely hot take thread material
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When I think of basically the entire history of Irish relations with its eastern neighbours it's definitely "friendly".
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forkboy84 posted:To be fair, I just call that incompetence but I suppose technically it's deeply cynical politicking. One could, if you were incredibly sceptical of the honest intentions of politicians, imagine it's done deliberately to make the public lose faith in public works projects. I've always understood (since a job I had in the construction industry in the 80s) that it is normal practice to woefully underestimate the cost of major projects precisely because if the true cost were known nothing would ever get approved.
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OwlFancier posted:When I think of basically the entire history of Irish relations with its eastern neighbours it's definitely "friendly". A brexiteer once told me that relations between the UK and Ireland were always great until the EU barged in and caused the Troubles
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Jose posted:That's absolutely hot take thread material oh dear i just peeked at the comments
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I'm fairly terrible at the history of this dumb island but has there historically been any point before the last 20 years or so when the people living on Ireland and the people living on GB were not actively trying to kill each other?
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Rarity posted:
I think this is what could make it so good. I really like WDTATW, but I wish they'd get a 3rd or 4th host (partially so the show isn't on hiatus for a fortnight when someone's sick or moves house). We have a spread of people here covering various topics. As an aside, has anyone else found that reel politik has become basically unlistenable recently? Just feels kinda phoned in and lazy.
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OwlFancier posted:I'm fairly terrible at the history of this dumb island but has there historically been any point before the last 20 years or so when the people living on Ireland and the people living on GB were not actively trying to kill each other? cheddar man did nothing wrong
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OwlFancier posted:I'm fairly terrible at the history of this dumb island but has there historically been any point before the last 20 years or so when the people living on Ireland and the people living on GB were not actively trying to kill each other? Mostly it's just been the Brits killing the Irish tbh. But yeah pre-12th century
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winegums posted:I think this is what could make it so good. I really like WDTATW, but I wish they'd get a 3rd or 4th host (partially so the show isn't on hiatus for a fortnight when someone's sick or moves house). We have a spread of people here covering various topics. The RP eps with wariotifo on are good. But yeah I think Jack's been really struggling lately.
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OwlFancier posted:I'm fairly terrible at the history of this dumb island but has there historically been any point before the last 20 years or so when the people living on Ireland and the people living on GB were not actively trying to kill each other? glorious cross-island kingdom of dal riada
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Undead Hippo posted:Anglo-Irish Landlords were not just a 19th century thing. They were a 12th century thing. It's not just the Pale as the pre-Tudor area of English influence. In the areas of the Irish earldoms(large swathes of what is now the republic) the legal system was common law as opposed to native Brehon law, English was common and the lords were taking their direction from the English monarchy, down to getting involved in all the squabbles like the war of the roses and the barons revolt. Gum posted:cheddar man did nothing wrong  Cheddar Man, killed by the first 'ra man.e: ^^^ Picts might disagree.
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Junior G-man posted:I'd love to join the podcast as a vile and, even worse, Europe-based person? If that's still allowed? We're pretty much all Europe based here 
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feedmegin posted:We're pretty much all Europe based here This post will not age well Yeah I know you still "be in Europe" , kinda
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Thanks for the responses regarding the tenancy deposit, I’m planning on going back to them respectfully disagreeing that a carpet cleaning is required, and should they claim against the deposit we will be disputing it. Some other positive...and unexpected news. As I posted before, I got a job offer over a week ago and accepted. I’d made it to the second stage with another application but with moving house was mentally and physically exhausted so I withdrew my application. Got a phone call from the agent today saying they really, really liked me and was there anything they could do to make me reconsider? So I went back asking for a considerable increase in the salary on offer...and they said yes they want to see me next week. I’ve not had this happen before, but considering less than five weeks ago I was staring unemployment in the face it’s a nice change.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Yeah I know you still "be in Europe" , kinda Tomorrow, Boris will propose sawing through the channel tunnel and floating the UK down to the West Caribbean. His budget? One million pounds! (Wait, what do you mean that's nearly nothing?)
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I might consider choking back the vomit and voting Tory if Johnson had a plan to float the UK down to the West Caribbean. Sideways just west of the Turks and Caicos.
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Umbra Dubium posted:Tomorrow, Boris will propose sawing through the channel tunnel and floating the UK down to the West Caribbean. thats at least 2,000 outboard motors. doable.
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Run the wind farms backward, duh.
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it's 2000 used volvo estates from the early 90s. That'll tow us home.
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Split the difference and call it a Doggerland podcast? I'd try to listen, but I have an insanely hard time hearing UK podcasts - WDTATW is the hardest, but I've got to crank up the volume on all of them. Maybe the accent is just different enough that I need to actually pay attention to hear poo poo.
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Given the thread's geographic distribution the accents would be awful. Most of us probably wouldn't be able to understand each other never mind the listeners.
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OwlFancier posted:Given the thread's geographic distribution the accents would be awful. I speak a vaguely neo-mid-Atlantic nothing accent which nobody can place. And then I can get drunk and my >1,000 years of specifically North Cork ancestry comes rushing back. Like
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GB would nestle comfortably on its side with Scotland just west of the Turks and Caicos and Cornwall reaching down to Montserrat. Or upright to the west of all the islands with Montserrat one of the Western Isles and Trinidad and Tobago off of Cornwall. Prefer the first one but either's better than the current location.
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Umbra Dubium posted:Tomorrow, Boris will propose sawing through the channel tunnel and floating the UK down to the West Caribbean. "I say enough! Enough naysaying, enough talking down the great Great British public, enough of the "no-we-can't"s! It's time for yes-we-cans! Did Alexander not defy the sea to invade Tyre? We shall unmoor Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the continental shelf that shackles us to Europe, a shelf which I might add we had no opportunity to debate or vote on, and sail the merry seas to sunnier climes and new ports!"
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OwlFancier posted:Given the thread's geographic distribution the accents would be awful.
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