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radmonger posted:Can we compromise and store all the nuclear waste in golf course bunkers? Post/username combo
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Feeling quite poo poo about life at the moment, folks. Recently lost my little brother to a motorbike accident, and even at this bleak time my wretched family can't shut the gently caress up about their awful politics. My mum's partner is peak gammon and has a petulant need to immediately use any lovely slurs he's been asked not to. Even at the wake, my grandad decided to hold forth about how Island Britain has survived before, so no-deal Brexit is fine, really. Thing is, I've been lurking these threads since the LF days, during Brown's tenure. I've learned a lot, but I'm completely out of step with the people around me. I feel completely alienated from most of the people that should otherwise be my support network. I've been thinking of trying to get into some local volunteering, just to feel like I'm doing something with all these opinions I've built up. Anyone know of anything around Poole/Bournemouth? I'd join the local Labour party, but everything I've heard about CLP meetings suggests that they're not really a place to go if you're already miserable.
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Aug 5, 2019 22:44
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GordonTheDeadFish posted:Feeling quite poo poo about life at the moment, folks. Recently lost my little brother to a motorbike accident, and even at this bleak time my wretched family can't shut the gently caress up about their awful politics. My mum's partner is peak gammon and has a petulant need to immediately use any lovely slurs he's been asked not to. Even at the wake, my grandad decided to hold forth about how Island Britain has survived before, so no-deal Brexit is fine, really. You've got the Labour Party World Transformed conference coming up in a few months, there's likely to be a lot of local groups hanging around in the fringe part of that - you might find something you like there. Terribly sorry to hear about your brother as well. Also Thangam Debbonaire is having a little meltdown on twitter about reselection so I withdraw my earlier defence of her.
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Aug 5, 2019 22:46
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Ahahahahahahaha https://twitter.com/francesweetman/status/1144299113024016385?s=19
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Aug 5, 2019 22:47
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Of course. Of course she did. Thank you, that was the pick me up I needed before bed.
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Aug 5, 2019 22:49
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Sanford posted:The worst thing about having a child is that my wife and I can no longer scream “gently caress YOU, YOU GOLF BASTARDS! YOU GOLF PLAYING WANKERS!” as we drive past a golf course. I really don't see why? Seems like the sort of thing you want to encourage?
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Aug 5, 2019 22:50
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Checked my microphone and recording equipment today, quality seems all good. If you want to get a podcast going where we all shoot the poo poo for an hour about the hot topics of the week, it may be worth getting on discord at some point to see how will we gel with each other.
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Aug 5, 2019 22:50
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I've got tomorrow or Wednesday for podcast nonce-sense?
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Aug 5, 2019 22:52
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Sanford posted:That’s what I thought! She was wearing green converse, had a tribal tattoo on her arm, and some ungodly red colouring in her hair - all signs of some kind of foreigner in my opinion. Tell her she can't appropriate alternative dress sense if she's going to be a oval office.
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Aug 5, 2019 22:53
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I can't wait to listen to whatever trainwreck you manage to record
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Aug 5, 2019 22:57
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Jose posted:I can't wait to listen to whatever trainwreck you manage to record The UK imports over two thirds of its trainwreck podcasts. I think that's a disgrace! *smiles and waits for applause*
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Aug 5, 2019 22:59
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 Ok it can't just be my imagination. Boris Johnson looks like he's aged about a decade in the space of a few months. Is this the psychic price of becoming PM? Is it his haircut? He just looks really pale and saggy.
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Aug 5, 2019 23:00
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namesake posted:The UK imports over two thirds of its trainwreck podcasts. I think that's a disgrace! 
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GordonTheDeadFish posted:Feeling quite poo poo about life at the moment, folks. Recently lost my little brother to a motorbike accident, and even at this bleak time my wretched family can't shut the gently caress up about their awful politics. My mum's partner is peak gammon and has a petulant need to immediately use any lovely slurs he's been asked not to. Even at the wake, my grandad decided to hold forth about how Island Britain has survived before, so no-deal Brexit is fine, really. I'm so sorry about your brother.
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Aug 5, 2019 23:04
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Junior G-man posted:Of course. Of course she did. You're welcome. Best part is that if you click through she made 2 further posts just to demonstrate how thoroughly she destroyed him.
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Aug 5, 2019 23:06
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Aug 5, 2019 23:08
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Oh my God they're at it again. From tonight's FT, which means it's pretty reliable:quote:MPs opposed to a no-deal Brexit have suggested a cross-party government could be formed with the sole purpose of requesting an extension to the UK’s departure from the EU, if Boris Johnson’s government loses a no-confidence vote this autumn. So a government of national unity that bypasses the PM and Jeremy Corbyn in order to send a note to Brussels to ask for another extention for another election. These people's brains have been totally fried.
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Aug 5, 2019 23:11
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Lmao, Labour is against millionaires, millionaires are a minority, ergo Labour is against all minorities. Jews are also a minority, ergo Labour is antisemitic. QED.
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Aug 5, 2019 23:11
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Second part:quote:There is a particular concern among Labour MPs that Mr Corbyn and his front bench team would not participate in any government of national unity if he is unable to form his own administration. Yet some pro-Remain campaigners believe “it might be our last chance to stop no-deal”. Well if we needed a topic for the ukmt podcast, I propose we talk about fubpee brainspiders.
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Aug 5, 2019 23:19
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Junior G-man posted:Oh my God they're at it again. From tonight's FT, which means it's pretty reliable: In what way is a government of national unity different to the Lib Dems backing the Tories in exchange for ___________, which Swinson has already basically said she'd be in favour of?
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Aug 5, 2019 23:19
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Yes hello yer Maj, we've a bunch of MPs outside with an A4 printout of a group WhatsApp chat they want to send to the EU. Would you mind giving them the reins of power, which you can do because you're God's anointed head of the UK?
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Aug 5, 2019 23:22
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Junior G-man posted:Second part: The podcast is me screaming at maximum volume for an hour.
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Aug 5, 2019 23:22
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namesake posted:Also Thangam Debbonaire is having a little meltdown on twitter about reselection so I withdraw my earlier defence of her. God drat, how does she not realise that being chill about it would make her more likely to not be deselected? 
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Aug 5, 2019 23:30
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How has Jess Phillips not been deselected yet?
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Aug 5, 2019 23:48
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I'm probably missing something, but how is "we need to be fighting the Tories, not fighting for reselection" an argument when Parliament is on recess? e: and how is fighting the Tories not a way of getting reselected? Do they think that's going to be unpopular with the CLP? Tarnop fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Aug 5, 2019 |
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Aug 5, 2019 23:52
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Thangam meltdown is spicy as gently caress, sadly my own MP in Bristol NW is starting to come across as a melt
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Aug 5, 2019 23:57
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GordonTheDeadFish posted:Feeling quite poo poo about life at the moment, folks. Recently lost my little brother to a motorbike accident, and even at this bleak time my wretched family can't shut the gently caress up about their awful politics. My mum's partner is peak gammon and has a petulant need to immediately use any lovely slurs he's been asked not to. Even at the wake, my grandad decided to hold forth about how Island Britain has survived before, so no-deal Brexit is fine, really. Condolences, losing family is tough. If you're having trouble, there should be an NHS bereavement support service you can go to, and your GP might be worth seeing if you get mental health issues. I hope you pull through alright. It's not great being in a heavily-blue county from the point of view of finding people with shared values, it can really get exhausting after a while, whether you're arguing or just pretending not to have opinions. Especially if those hostile people are your family and never shut up about politics. It doesn't look like there's much on politically outside Labour, maybe the local foodbanks are accepting volunteers for something suitable? There's one I found here, another here, it looks like Shelter has a couple of vacancies in roles, and I'm guessing the people in these won't be on the hard right. It might still be worth looking at Labour in Bournemouth East; Aaron Bastani was going on about it a while back iirc, how it was seeing an increase in local turnout and activity in the CLP, and I remember the local election result being a shock shift away from Tory-controlled. The candidate looks very much pro-Corbyn. Also, post! It's normally a friendly thread and poo poo probably won't kick off too badly until parliament's back
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Aug 5, 2019 23:59
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Chuka Umana posted:How has Jess Phillips not been deselected yet? I don't think anybody has? Despite the continuous bleating from the Labour right about Momentum deselections, the only ones who have left have resigned. Unless you count Fiona Onasanya (who was never in the 'moderate' crowd AFAIK). Even if there was a challenge I don't think Jess Phillips would get deselected anyway. The ones actually in trouble are the ones like Frank Field who were parachuted into their CLP and have no real support there. For as much as everyone is tired of Jess Phillips' bullshit she does at least fight for her constituents.
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Aug 6, 2019 00:02
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I checked the spreadsheet earlier today and it seems like only a handful of people currently have local recording options. Shall we pick a date and time and have a preliminary chat to see how it works?
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Aug 6, 2019 00:11
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GordonTheDeadFish posted:I'd join the local Labour party, but everything I've heard about CLP meetings suggests that they're not really a place to go if you're already miserable. They're not, but the local party should organize other things, campaigning activities, street stalls and so on, and the cameraderie at those can be good. Really sorry about your brother.
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Aug 6, 2019 00:26
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Jose posted:He got cucked by boris I remind him every time I see his tweets.
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Aug 6, 2019 00:31
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Jose posted:Very interesting article for all the smelly goons itt who don't wash Hm. Well my experience of people who don't wash is that they stink and just think they don't because they got used to their smell. I had to tell someone in our open plan office once that he needed to take care of personal hygiene (I was quite senior) as he was stinking the place out - I didn't put it as bluntly as that - and others in the office were leaving cans of deodorant on his desk every day as a big hint (which he never got! What his thought processes around people putting deodorant on his desk were, I cannot imagine!) My dad was from an era when real men didn't use smellies and 'soap and water is good enough' and no it wasn't. Renaissance Robot posted:Gonna go ahead and interpret "I don't smell" as "I stink so bad my nose stopped working and people around me are too polite to mention it" Exactly. GordonTheDeadFish posted:Feeling quite poo poo about life at the moment, folks. Recently lost my little brother to a motorbike accident, and even at this bleak time my wretched family can't shut the gently caress up about their awful politics. My mum's partner is peak gammon and has a petulant need to immediately use any lovely slurs he's been asked not to. Even at the wake, my grandad decided to hold forth about how Island Britain has survived before, so no-deal Brexit is fine, really. Very sorry about your brother. Labour party meetings can be very turgid so unless someone knows different, might not be best place to go in your current mood. They might have some socials on though maybe a summer BBQ or similar or stalls you could help out at if you can face the public! (I knew we're always scraping around for people willing to stand in the main shopping thoroughfare for an hour or so on a Saturday morning!)
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Are those the ones who don't require their members to be either Jewish or members of the Labour Party? e: no, that's JLM. This poo poo is complicated.
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Wolfsbane posted:Are those the ones who don't require their members to be either Jewish or members of the Labour Party? JVL are basically saying "We're Jewish and we don't believe that Labour is institutionally antisemitic - in fact we think they're doing a good job in making efforts to stamp this stuff out. Also the other parties are way worse for antisemitism and racism in general". So yeah, JVL are not the JLM - which is the group Ruth Smeeth is involved with. E: JVL say that they are not "anti-Zionist" but that they seek to provide a voice for those who do not support JLM's "profoundly Zionist orientation". WhatEvil fucked around with this message at 01:01 on Aug 6, 2019 |
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Wolfsbane posted:Are those the ones who don't require their members to be either Jewish or members of the Labour Party? I keep forgetting which one is the psychotic war freaks club and which is the jewish labour org.
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Absolutely nothing to indicate that the perpetrator was anything to do with the Labour party, yet they manage to make it sound like the Labour party are running death camps. Getting sick of this. Especially as they haven't opened comments under this article (which is rare for the Independent). https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/antisemitic-jews-dirty-st-albans-police-video-assault-labour-jeremy-corbyn-a9040191.html Found the twitter feed. More than a few calling him out on smearing labour in this. https://twitter.com/tswyatt/status/1158475056361680896 Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Aug 6, 2019 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Absolutely nothing to indicate that the perpetrator was anything to do with the Labour party, yet they manage to make it sound like the Labour party are running death camps. Getting sick of this. Especially as they haven't opened comments under this article (which is rare for the Independent). Ugh loving hell I hate to see this poo poo in my city. Some oval office spat on a homeless guy when I was there a couple of weeks ago.
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HopperUK posted:Ugh loving hell I hate to see this poo poo in my city. Some oval office spat on a homeless guy when I was there a couple of weeks ago. People being vile to each other has increased exponentially since the EU referendum unleashed hell upon the nation.
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