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Pochoclo posted:Boris is just terrible at geography and thought the best port for US ships to dock at in the UK would be Boston, in Lincolnshire Right now British ships are sending cargo around the EU. When we leave, that ends. Boris is trying to cover up that yet another industry has been fatally shafted by Brexit.
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Aug 25, 2019 16:42
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Darth Walrus posted:My prospective guest bedroom had a bed covered in gold leaf, the toilet had photos on the walls of Charles and Camilla joking with the house owners about shooting people, and one of the bathrooms had a giant pit in the floor next to the bathtub that was covered by a glass sheet. Are .. are you getting married on Prince Andrew's estate?
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Aug 25, 2019 16:44
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Darth Walrus posted:I'm actually interested in what the usual pubs-per-person range is. josh04 posted:Hmm.  face he's always making.Its too hot, why are you not doing anything about the heat jeremy
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Aug 25, 2019 16:45
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Its too hot, why are you not doing anything about the heat jeremy
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Aug 25, 2019 16:49
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I hosed my toe up yesterday walking up a river so I can't go out today 
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Aug 25, 2019 16:52
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Is that a face in a moon, a "Moon Face" if you will? Bit racist.
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Aug 25, 2019 16:53
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Just spent an afternoon in the heat with my mum explaining to me why climate scientists are selectively interpreting data so that world governments can put extra tax on plane tickets.
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Aug 25, 2019 16:53
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Junior G-man posted:Are .. are you getting married on Prince Andrew's estate? I rather suspect that this is just how stately homes be. I have also now learned that the interior fittings of the church were destroyed during the Eighties, and when a local sculptor carved figures to replace them, an unspecified 'controversy' resulted in them being barred from the churchyard in its entirety.
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Aug 25, 2019 16:55
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Dead Goon posted:Is that a face in a moon, a "Moon Face" if you will?
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Aug 25, 2019 16:59
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LMAO Gardiner being ace: quote:Jo Swinson was being “extremely petulant” when she dismissed Jeremy Corbyn’s call to make him prime minister to block a no-deal Brexit, according to the Labour frontbencher Barry Gardiner. He's completely right of course, so the Graun gives the rest of the article to Chucka CUKTIGLIB to explain Corbyn Bad.
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Aug 25, 2019 17:00
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Darth Walrus posted:My sister's getting married in a big blow-out wedding, and me and the family went to scout wedding venues with her and her fiancée. They'd decided on this big stately home a few miles away, and we were looking around it when we found a 'disco' that turned out to be an actual, no-poo poo sex dungeon. That was kind of awkward. On the bright side now you don't need a separate venue for the reception
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Aug 25, 2019 17:05
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Rarity posted:On the bright side now you don't need a separate venue for the reception Or the honeymoon!
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Aug 25, 2019 17:27
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https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1165663067230875648 Nonces protecting Nonces while visiting Nonces.
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Aug 25, 2019 17:41
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1165663067230875648 Well, he didn't do anything like spaff money up a wall, now did he?
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Aug 25, 2019 17:44
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Bold of Boris to claim child sex trafficking as a british business.
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Aug 25, 2019 17:50
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Party Boat posted:oh my god it's a British barge 
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Aug 25, 2019 17:54
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Ms Adequate posted:You know, I genuinely didn't know this! I just assumed we had regulations about advertising for it and that our amounts were probably more reasonable. We absolutely *do* have bail in this country, and bail conditions can and do frequently include a large cash deposit - Assange had to (have his friends) stump up 100k, for example. The reason we don't have bail bonds in this country is we have no means of enforcing them. A bail bondsman agrees to pay your bail in exchange for a portion of the value of the bail (normally around 10%) upfront. If you skip bail though that bail money is used as a reward for your capture, which is why bail bondsmen are normally also bounty hunters (and if you haven't got the Dog the Bounty Hunter theme in your head then I envy you) who will go and hunt you down and take you back to jail in return for the bounty. As bounty hunting has been illegal in this country (and almost everywhere else in the world) for a couple of hundred years, there's absolutely no way for a bondsman to make money because there's absolutely no incentive for the bailed person not to do a runner. Their role is - of course - taken up by the most predatory end of the payday loan industry. Bounty hunting is also illegal in quite a few states in the US too, for what it's worth.
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Aug 25, 2019 18:01
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Good work but you know it needs to be that loving Take your pick  
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Aug 25, 2019 18:01
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Darth Walrus posted:My sister's getting married in a big blow-out wedding, and me and the family went to scout wedding venues with her and her fiancée. They'd decided on this big stately home a few miles away, and we were looking around it when we found a 'disco' that turned out to be an actual, no-poo poo sex dungeon. That was kind of awkward. having a private orgy every couple of months is probably just as much of a money-spinner for a stately home than hosting weddings
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Aug 25, 2019 18:07
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This one just looks like Gordon Ramsey.
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Aug 25, 2019 18:10
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regarding the shipping: I know at least one ship operator who'd be happy to have at least some of the restrictions of the Jones Act lifted. E.g. shipyards in the US aren't that good and it's frequently impossible to get certain ship types (and its a oligopoly i.e prices are higher). Also measurements for ship construction plans are often in meters, which is somehow a problem in the US... Also also, finding enough (US) crew can suck.
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Aug 25, 2019 18:11
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With the death of David Koch, I've starting listening to an audiobook I've had sitting in my pile for a while, Jane Mayer's "Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right", as it centres a lot on the Koch family and covers what it says on the tin. I'm only a couple of chapters in, it's interesting (though from a clearly "American Liberal" POV) and has some fun history and points - Koch family got a big break doing work for Hilter? Well drat I am not shocked at all. And the family changing their minds and suddenly being all pro Government intervention and bailout because the 2008 was going to gently caress even them, things like that. The big theme probably isn't new to anyone ITT, but I'm finding it good to have some more background about it all. Even if it is adding to my general feeling of how gently caress the world is. Something doesn't get explitictly called out even those it's called about (probably because lol liberals) is that the ultra rich hated the even totally mild and neoliberal supporting reforms that happend post-WW2 that it filled them with horror and they've been throwing money and bodies at jamming the needle all to extreme hell world libertarian ideas ever since. Plus the book was published at the start of 2016 and has a little run-down about the ultra-rich in the USA. It's scary how outdated and small the numbers for their vast wealth are from only a couple of years ago. Mostly it's making me thing I need do more reading about this sort thing and I know a lot of good suggestions have been thrown around in the past, I'll have to go back and dig them up. I can use my motivation for wanting to do more learning/growth with my desire to crush the rich. Good times.
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Aug 25, 2019 18:13
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passing legislation that directly fucks over ship construction and crew sounds like a pretty good way for Senators and Representatives in coastal areas to lose their seats which is why it'll never happen
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Aug 25, 2019 18:14
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Miftan posted:This one just looks like Gordon Ramsey. He's got a very unfortunate head, Boris. I dropped another choice because the moment you changed anything about it, the photo immediately bore an uncanny resemblance to Jimmy Savile.
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Aug 25, 2019 18:19
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Samovar posted:Well, he didn't do anything like spaff money up a wall, now did he? No but he loves selling arms.
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Aug 25, 2019 18:31
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I wonder if support for the monarchy will wane after Liz pops her clogs. Even some of my family members and that who really like the royal family dislike Charles a lot. I have never really understood people's worship of basically an ancient mafia :/
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Aug 25, 2019 18:48
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But enough about Catholicism 
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Aug 25, 2019 18:50
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I've actually heard quite a few ardent monarchists argue that it won't be an issue because Wills is popular & Charles won't outlive Liz  Can't help but wonder how people simultaneously believe that and support the monarchy
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Aug 25, 2019 18:52
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crispix posted:I wonder if support for the monarchy will wane after Liz pops her clogs. Even some of my family members and that who really like the royal family dislike Charles a lot. I have never really understood people's worship of basically an ancient mafia :/ Isn't it more of a generational thing? Does anyone under 50 really give a rat's rear end about the royals? I think once the baby boomers are gone no one will care and it'll be more like Spain where the royals are still there somehow still being parasites in silence.
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Aug 25, 2019 18:52
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It will continue, unstopped, because people love Wills and Kate and Harry and Meghan.
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Aug 25, 2019 18:52
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crispix posted:I wonder if support for the monarchy will wane after Liz pops her clogs. Even some of my family members and that who really like the royal family dislike Charles a lot. I have never really understood people's worship of basically an ancient mafia :/ Some people just really, really love the idea of being ruled by someone who has theoretically infinite power over you
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Aug 25, 2019 18:52
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A Royalist revolution might stop Brexit, so you chaps better think about it pretty quickly.
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Aug 25, 2019 18:56
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Pochoclo posted:Does anyone under 50 really give a rat's rear end about the royals? Dead Goon posted:It will continue, unstopped, because people love Wills and Kate and Harry
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Aug 25, 2019 18:56
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The Bolsheviks had the right way of it regarding royalty imo.
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Aug 25, 2019 18:57
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Junior G-man posted:He's completely right of course, so the Graun gives the rest of the article to Chucka CUKTIGLIB to explain Corbyn Bad. Chuka Umunna, August 2019 posted:Umunna said of Gardiner’s comments: “By all means disagree but this is patronising tribal bluster. It doesn’t promote “unity.” Chuka Umunna, July 2015 posted:We were sent a very strong message by the electorate at this general election, and we are behaving like a petulant child who has been told you can’t have the sweeties in the sweetshop, you can’t have power. And now we’re running around stamping our feet, screaming at the electorate.
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Aug 25, 2019 18:58
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crispix posted:I wonder if support for the monarchy will wane after Liz pops her clogs. Even some of my family members and that who really like the royal family dislike Charles a lot. I have never really understood people's worship of basically an ancient mafia :/ My wild-rear end guess is Charles will reduce support for the monarchy both by existing dislike and by overtly meddling in politics, but things won't come to a head during his reign and the monarchy will end with William's abdication.
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Aug 25, 2019 18:58
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RabidWeasel posted:Some people just really, really love the idea of being ruled by someone who has theoretically infinite power over you I think it's more that people like anchoring to flag waving and grand traditions and pomp and all that poo poo, and in the absence of rich parasite families that usually ends up as nationalism or something instead. Or Lenin statues.
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Aug 25, 2019 19:01
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Aug 25, 2019 19:02
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It's hard to imagine a successful movement to get rid of the royals any time soon. Sure there are plenty who don't like them, and I can see that number growing, but I think for most republican leaning people this is pretty low down the list of things to worry about and campaign and protest about. And then on the other side, there are a bunch of lunatics who care a huge amount about the royals.
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