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Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Tesseraction posted:

tbh I want it to happen just to watch a bunch of racist old ballsacks marching on Westminster and then hopefully dying from dehydration

at least a few westminster journalists on twitter seem to understand the implications rather than it all going perfectly well with no backlash

lol

https://twitter.com/cinemashoebox/status/1159049224744505344?s=20

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Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Z the IVth posted:

SA had the right idea with hellbans. Don't outright ban them because they splinter off somewhere else, just quietly stop them communicating in a meaningful way with the rest of the population. With any luck they will continue screaming into the void and not spend their time on anything meaningful for their cause.

Prestor Jane spoke about how getting probated on SA helped her deradicalise from being raised in a death cult because she couldn't stop angrily reading D&D/LF but was unable to post to retort, and ended up realising D&D was correct.

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Tesseraction posted:

Prestor Jane spoke about how getting probated on SA helped her deradicalise from being raised in a death cult because she couldn't stop angrily reading D&D/LF but was unable to post to retort, and ended up realising D&D was correct.

And now she's one of the most strident (if a little OTT) posters in D&D. I guess our idiot system works

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

somehow that last av was even worse than your posting

Tesseraction posted:

Prestor Jane spoke about how getting probated on SA helped her deradicalise from being raised in a death cult because she couldn't stop angrily reading D&D/LF but was unable to post to retort, and ended up realising D&D was correct.

Maybe piss flaps has come round on Jeremy Corbyn?

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

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


Jose posted:

at least a few westminster journalists on twitter seem to understand the implications rather than it all going perfectly well with no backlash

lol

https://twitter.com/cinemashoebox/status/1159049224744505344?s=20

Useful for when we bring back Ship Tax

Wachter
Mar 23, 2007

You and whose knees?

Tesseraction posted:

Oh that's why Michael Buerk was trending on Twitter last night. He's the host of BBC's lauded cunts of the round table Mind Maze, which is the hip place for old shitheads being scared of the trans, poofs, blacks and jews.

The Mind Maze is where they hatch the brain spiders

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

NotJustANumber99 posted:

Maybe piss flaps has come round on Jeremy Corbyn?

If probations worked on him he'd have converted a long time ago. PJ's views were held in good faith even if she now rejects them, pissflaps' only sincerely held belief is racism.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
lol at this account making MPs salty

https://twitter.com/rightwingtwits/status/1159042812761071616?s=20
https://twitter.com/rightwingtwits/status/1159054103286308864?s=20

Zalakwe
Jun 4, 2007
Likes Cake, Hates Hamsters



OwlFancier posted:

Yeah I feel like that's akin to wandering into the lion enclosure on the rationale that the lion is better equipped than anyone to not eat you.

thespaceinvader posted:

I mean, they definitely do HAVE all those things.

They won't USE them for that purpose. Which is the problem.

I have worked extensively in low carbon energy tech and you would be surprised how much of it is funded by companies whose business model relies on fossil fuels. They aren't idiots, they realise the world is changing and they want the IP and the greenwash.

On the more virtuous end companies like Vattenfall have a history in fossil fuels and still use them to a degree but are also absolutely vital to the UK and international offshore wind industries. On the less virtuous end BP and Schlumberger fund all sorts of random stuff.

They have done, are doing and will do all sorts of bad things but they do fund low-carbon energy.

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~
Anyone who watches Mrs Brown Boys deserves the :thermidor: and I don't think there's anyone alive who would judge me for that

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I'm not sure you get points for half heartedly saying you might want to maybe think about solving the problem you caused.

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

somehow that last av was even worse than your posting

OwlFancier posted:

I'm not sure you get points for half heartedly saying you might want to maybe think about solving the problem you caused.

But isn't giving them points literally what is getting them to help fix the problem right now?

lemonadesweetheart
May 27, 2010

Rarity posted:

Anyone who watches Mrs Brown Boys deserves the :thermidor: and I don't think there's anyone alive who would judge me for that

Guillotine would be too quick.

chestnut santabag
Jul 3, 2006

His Divine Shadow posted:

I thought she did it unironically.

That option had occurred to me but I thought surely she isn't that terrible...

Bobby Deluxe
May 9, 2004

AceClown posted:

r/chapotraphouse has just been quarantined and it's kicking off over there. I'm out the loop but it feels like a lovely attempt to balance out banning TD.

Of course, if there are people there being utter shitheads then action should be taken.
I check /chapo fairly regularly and it seems like mostly socialism memes, outrage at capitalism and jokes about guillotining. It's no worse than this thread with slightly different references.

I hate the whole situation because there's a false equivalence between t_d and chapo in terms of memes about killing the opposition, or running jokes which to the other side look like the spreading of fake news.

And it's got to be difficult for reddit to draw a line between the two, because yes t_d are sneering racists performatively using stupidity to edge the world into the control of awful people, but they've gotten so good at knowing where the line is and how far to push, that because the reddit admins are so desperate to be seen as 'fair' that they end up tied up this this stupid loving false equivalence poo poo.

I suspect it's also because reddit are making a shitload of money from investors who will pull out if reddit starts getting a reputation for being anticapitalist, which further complicates their ability to just say 'these guys are racist dicks, but these guys are just having a laugh about the possibility of socialism.'

Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 12:05 on Aug 7, 2019

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
That's because there aren't any.

Flipswitch posted:

https://t.co/JYCsqqVNE2

Links to the mirror but apparently we should just let fat people die.
What are the externalities on this '£6.1 billion a year'? Like it may cost £6.1 billion to do obesity related stuff, but when you factor in lifetime costs you paint a very different picture.

An actual academic study not made by some twat on the brainspider maze posted:

Until age 56 y, annual health expenditure was highest for obese people. At older ages, smokers incurred higher costs. Because of differences in life expectancy, however, lifetime health expenditure was highest among healthy-living people and lowest for smokers. Obese individuals held an intermediate position. Alternative values of epidemiologic parameters and cost definitions did not alter these conclusions.

It's the shambling corpses of the 'healthy living' that we prop up for as long as possible and give no option for a dignified death that also cost the most, but nobody wants to talk about that.

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Rarity posted:

Anyone who watches Mrs Brown Boys deserves the :thermidor: and I don't think there's anyone alive who would judge me for that

It's so bad. It's surreal how bad it is. It's so bad it's genuinely disorientating

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

somehow that last av was even worse than your posting

Barry Foster posted:

It's so bad. It's surreal how bad it is. It's so bad it's genuinely disorientating

But if it's popular we should fully support it.

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~

Bobby Deluxe posted:

And it's got to be difficult for reddit to draw a line between the two

It's actually really easy as long as you're not a 'fair points on both sides' handwringing liberal

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/GeorgeAylett/status/1159058513014005761?s=20

Zalakwe
Jun 4, 2007
Likes Cake, Hates Hamsters



OwlFancier posted:

I'm not sure you get points for half heartedly saying you might want to maybe think about solving the problem you caused.

I'm not sure you get points for switching off all of the UK's gas heating but it would be good for the climate.

It isn't as easy as "fossil fuel bad" sadly, mainly because oil companies aren't the only cause, we are a huge part of the equation. However even ignoring what a very rapid transition from fossil fuels in the UK would do to people's lives and livelihoods (think hard Brexit x 1000) and just looking at the research money we're talking 100s of millions, it isn't small beer.

By all means hammer the companies involved (no points, no science museum signs etc until they do far more) but it isn't a simple problem.

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

gently caress the police

Vlex
Aug 4, 2006
I'd rather be a climbing ape than a big titty angel.



Wait, Prester Jane isn't an elaborate act? She reads like an idiot's impression of a smart person.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Vlex posted:

Wait, Prester Jane isn't an elaborate act? She reads like an idiot's impression of a smart person.

being raised in a cult does weird things to a person. she still uses way too many words per post

crispix
Mar 28, 2015

Grand-Maman m'a raconté
(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)

Hello, dear

Firos posted:

What do we think is a more terrible/incurable ailment, brain spiders or brain worms?

To me there is an important distinction between the conditions. Brain worms are present in the terminally hard of thinking; they generally feast on the brains of those who long ago gave up reasoning because slogans and platitudes are so much easier to produce and what more do you need when you are convinced that you are right because you are you. I see brain spiders as a much more dangerous and malignant condition because they energetically weave in the infected brain complex webs of utter nonsense that defy reason but that the afflicted person takes to be sage wisdom that must be shared with lesser beings.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/joncstone/status/1159060705749929984?s=20
https://twitter.com/seatsixtyone/status/1159029659478188032?s=20

Jose fucked around with this message at 12:20 on Aug 7, 2019

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

Zalakwe posted:

I'm not sure you get points for switching off all of the UK's gas heating but it would be good for the climate.
They're making a move to ban new gas installs in UK housing. The good competent way to do this would be mass subsidies for heatpumps but it'll probably just mean more houses with storage heaters.

However you could do mass subsidies for heatpumps and also nationalize the gas infrastructure and move towards more biogas and waste pyrolysis.

Scikar
Nov 20, 2005

5? Seriously?

Jose posted:

So how do people think a whole load of MP's deciding to form a "national unity government" without a general election would go down considering we already haven't brexited

The proposal is just straight up "we will vote for any new PM who promises to block no deal, as long as his name isn't Jeremy Corbyn". Priorities!

Sanitary Naptime
May 29, 2006

MIWK!


Firos posted:

What do we think is a more terrible/incurable ailment, brain spiders or brain worms?

Brain spiders. The worms just cause an incessant wriggling but the spiders scratch and bite and lay eggs and hatch forth to infect new people.

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~

Love 2 piss away good tourism money in the name of keeping Britane strong

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
Good letter this

https://twitter.com/How_Upsetting/status/1159060894036484098?s=20

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Jose posted:

being raised in a cult does weird things to a person. she still uses way too many words per post

And she has a way of making her every post about how much smarter she is than everyone else. And her theoretical system is not the paradigm-shifting revelation she thinks it is.

BUT she's really good at slapping down the many pathetic liberals that inhabit the USPOL thread, and that covers a multitude of sins

Ratjaculation
Aug 3, 2007

:parrot::parrot::parrot:




If you look at who owns UK TOCs technically most of our trains are EuRail anyway.

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Don't see this rules-lawyering making a lick of difference myself

kustomkarkommando
Oct 22, 2012

Barry Foster posted:

It's so bad. It's surreal how bad it is. It's so bad it's genuinely disorientating

Ms Browns Boys is bad even by the incredibly bad standard of Irish sitcoms.

Sanitary Naptime
May 29, 2006

MIWK!


Podcast dry run tonight for anyone wanting to participate, 8pm on the discord. Mostly just a chance to tweak your setups and give me some raw audio to gently caress around with and de-crust my editing skills, but if there’s any topics you want to discuss then get them posted in the discord (please not Scotpol)

Failed Imagineer
Sep 22, 2018

kustomkarkommando posted:

Ms Browns Boys is bad even by the incredibly bad standard of Irish sitcoms.

gently caress that. If the Brits claim Father Ted they can claim that shite as well

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

Barry Foster posted:

Don't see this rules-lawyering making a lick of difference myself
October 31st comes and goes, trade continues as normal, budget payments continue to be made, and nobody actually knows whether we're in the EU or not save for some conspiratorial Freeman On The Land grade "well actually we left on March 31st" nonsense.

Sanitary Naptime
May 29, 2006

MIWK!


Failed Imagineer posted:

gently caress that. If the Brits claim Father Ted they can claim that shite as well

You can have father ted back if you take linehan with it

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kustomkarkommando
Oct 22, 2012

Failed Imagineer posted:

gently caress that. If the Brits claim Father Ted they can claim that shite as well

That just leaves ye with the amazing comedy output of RTE2...

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