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Tesseraction posted:Cuntiness of the term 'glutinous emollience' aside, does he really think Labour MPs are going to fall for it if he softens his tone once he suddenly wants something from them? No its just so he can blame them when they reject Mays deal again
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baka kaba posted:She was fine, her questions were pretty short so she didn't get a lot of time in, and it made it a bit easier for Raab (who was really rushing and stumbling sometimes) to give a quick response and then switch over to going "btw Labour bad on this other thing". She was decent at thinking on her feet responding to this random stuff, like Corbs isn't always too snappy with the comebacks, but I wish she'd used the platform a bit more. She tied all her questions together as a theme though, about how the government is failing women, so it was decent, I just wish she'd kicked his rear end more because he got off pretty lightly This sums it up pretty well, but I think does a disservice to her final point, which was not really a question, to paraphrase: "I was here in this place when the party opposite defenestrated the first woman prime minister, and I was of course here when the party pushed the most recent prime minister out of office. Would I be right to say that the party opposite is all well and good putting women into positions of power but then treat those women with nothing but disrespect and contempt?"
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broke brains keeping me from work for a while so i've been out foraging for mushrooms a lot as a constructive distraction. yesterday's harvest: From leftish: Hydnum Repandum, the pale spiny mushroom is what we call it. Next: golden glorious Cantharellus Cibarius, not many still out in the forest but if I see one in the forest and leave it there, it's gotta be a pretty miserable chanterelle. In grayish-brown: a few Craterellus Tubaeformis and in black-gray its close relative C. Cornucopioides. Particularly pleased that I've started finding some of those black beauties, sniffing out their hiding places under old gnarly oaks and other leafy trees Biggest concern right now is my freezer is literally full and I'm gonna head out picking more again today. Anyway if you're not into mushrooms feel free to skip this post it's mostly about mushrooms
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Rustybear posted:The Lib Dems will have completely hosed themselves into being the party of 'rejoin' which is like who the gently caress wants that hassle after the last three years. Seriously, what do the Lib Dems even offer apart from Remain/Rejoin? It's boosted them in the short term, but they are kidding themselves if they think those voters won't go back to their old parties once Brexit is done.
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This reminds me. What's the etymology of "get the gently caress"? Because I know Scots often say "get tae gently caress" as well, but it's not something I've experienced down here in middle England. Is it just a contraction of "get the gently caress out"?
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Grey Hunter posted:Seriously, what do the Lib Dems even offer apart from Remain/Rejoin? It's boosted them in the short term, but they are kidding themselves if they think those voters won't go back to their old parties once Brexit is done. Rejoin would keep them going for a long time if the Tories get Brexit through.
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floofyscorp posted:The chair of my union branch has been fired by his studio for the flimsiest of 'definitely not related to his union activism, honest!!' reasons. So we're making some noise about it. Nice! I'm a little mixed up with the game dev unions - is Game Workers Unite part of IWGB? I thought there was another union but can't seem to find info on it at the moment. I haven't been following much behind the scenes stuff in uk game dev though saw about Alexis Kennedy in this thread (and read various follow-ups after) - but things seem to be...slowly...getting...better?
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Hentai Jihadist posted:No its just so he can blame them when they reject Mays deal again Figured as such, but maybe first he could try apologising for that murderously enraging shittiness he performed last week.
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baka kaba posted:^^^ yeah nice, seems kinda brazen they'd do that to a prominent member so I guess you gotta show them you have teeth huh Nice, thanks for the run down!
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Oct 3, 2019 10:47
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Tarnop posted:I've emailed my CLP campaign organiser to see if there's anything else I can do, cheers all This made me realise that I *am* my CLP's campaign organiser. poo poo. I should probably start turning up to the meetings.
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:broke brains keeping me from work for a while so i've been out foraging for mushrooms a lot as a constructive distraction. yesterday's harvest: I love this super chilled out yet potentially lethal hobby.
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Good to see the union effort in games showing it has teeth. Management in the industry was a loving cesspit 10 years ago in my experience, and it certainly doesn't sound like it's got much better. I'm pleased that workers have someone fighting their corner.
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Darth Walrus posted:Since we were talking about Thangam Debbonaire, she apparently believes that A Woman's Place are feminists who need to be defended rather than TERFs who need to be booted out, so that's not great. Based on how much TERFs tend to get owned by the American right, is this group calling themselves "A Woman's Place" gonna end up like some "To Serve Man" thing or something?
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:broke brains keeping me from work for a while so i've been out foraging for mushrooms a lot as a constructive distraction. yesterday's harvest: I love a foraging post. I wish I knew more about edible mushrooms. So you can have a video of an earthstar I made at work https://i.imgur.com/YSr5Eab.mp4 It basically disperses its spores when it is disturbed, by rain drops, animals or idiots with sticks. I spent this morning look very carefully at hundreds of nuts in the woods... hazelnuts to be precise, checking chew marks to see if there is evidence of dormice about... work work work...
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namesake posted:Where's the rum? Up the backside, for efficiency.
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Oct 3, 2019 10:57
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XR still suck but that result pic is metal as hell https://twitter.com/DavidSamFrancis/status/1179688013426827265
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Oct 3, 2019 10:58
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Would have been better if they'd got it on the actual building rather than just the pavement.
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Oct 3, 2019 11:00
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OwlFancier posted:Would have been better if they'd got it on the actual building rather than just the pavement. falling short of success is basically their MO tbf
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justcola posted:Nice! I'm a little mixed up with the game dev unions - is Game Workers Unite part of IWGB? I thought there was another union but can't seem to find info on it at the moment. We are a branch of IWGB, yeah. BECTU also offer membership to games industry people so maybe it was them you heard about? We're better, obviously :p
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Tesseraction posted:This reminds me. What's the etymology of "get the gently caress"? Because I know Scots often say "get tae gently caress" as well, but it's not something I've experienced down here in middle England. Is it just a contraction of "get the gently caress out"? It's more "get to gently caress" in Ireland, just like the Scots. The English, as is well known, never "get to gently caress"
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endlessmonotony posted:Up the backside, for efficiency. Failed Imagineer posted:It's more "get to gently caress" in Ireland, just like the Scots.
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Oct 3, 2019 11:06
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Ratjaculation posted:I love a foraging post. I wish I knew more about edible mushrooms. So you can have a video of an earthstar I made at work Just wanted to say Earthstar is a really lovely name. In Denmark they're just called "dustballs".
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Oct 3, 2019 11:06
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Solidarity with all the XR lot who are going to get their heads kicked in next week though. I feel the next week is going to really cause a shift in the organisation because they're already understanding that they need to focus their actions and next they're going to learn the police can never be trusted.
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Oct 3, 2019 11:07
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Guavanaut posted:Up the rum. Lol, stealing this. E: Jòris Bønsson E2: Jahaerys Bonestorm
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Failed Imagineer posted:It's more "get to gently caress" in Ireland, just like the Scots. But then what does it mean to tell someone to "get to gently caress"? Just a rephrasing of "gently caress off"?
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Oct 3, 2019 11:09
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Tesseraction posted:But then what does it mean to tell someone to "get to gently caress"? Just a rephrasing of "gently caress off"? Yes
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namesake posted:Solidarity with all the XR lot who are going to get their heads kicked in next week though. Do they still have that XR landlords group on facebook?
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Tesseraction posted:But then what does it mean to tell someone to "get to gently caress"? Just a rephrasing of "gently caress off"? Go gently caress yourself would probably be the closer expression.
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Tesseraction posted:But then what does it mean to tell someone to "get to gently caress"? Just a rephrasing of "gently caress off"? Yes. "gently caress" is a destination point equivalent to Hell, Connaught, Slough, or The Sea "Ah will ye g'way outta that" is a milder Irish equivalent for telling someone to quit their bullshit without necessarily having to get in the bin
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Oct 3, 2019 11:11
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I wonder how the phrase came to be that way round.
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OwlFancier posted:What are they doing next week? Attempting a 2 week occupation of London targeting government infrastructure. Police are expected to roll into them hard and the weather will be much shitter than earlier in the year so this will be really tough. The 12th is proposed as a trade union action day if anyone is getting involved at that level. Overminty posted:Do they still have that XR landlords group on facebook? I thought that specific pic was a fake? Regardless their closeness to all the lovely elements of capitalism are well known.
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Whats happening next week? E:fb
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Maybe there's hope for them yet.
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Thanks for reminding me about the union stuff btw. I put it off for too long but I've signed up to IWGB now 
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In Scotland its Get Tae gently caress
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Jose posted:The high court just hosed a lot of women over but as they're boomers I'm sure they won't vote against the tories for making the change Speaking as someone with more than a few boomer female friends myself (as a borderline boomer Xer) most of them are labour or green voters.
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Graun Livequote:Last week in the Commons Geoffrey Cox, the attorney general, said that MPs might need to “reflect” in future on the case for having judicial appointments confirmed by parliament, although he also said he was not personally keen on the idea. Hmm. Not sure I like the idea of the Tories doing any reforming of the judiciary.
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namesake posted:I thought that specific pic was a fake? Regardless their closeness to all the lovely elements of capitalism are well known. That's fair I should have checked before mentioning that. As you say, will be interesting to see if they've learned their lesson about the police.
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A constitutional convention with the current Parliamentary makeup would be an interesting thing to see. Completely unrelated, this is your brain on trolley problem memes 
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