UKMT Red October 2019: Lies, dem libs, and polling companies.

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Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

feedmegin posted:

What's a pog

A cross between a pug and a dog.

e: pog tax

Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 11:45 on Oct 5, 2019

# ? Oct 5, 2019 11:41

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# ? May 23, 2024 13:11

mehall: Aug 27, 2010

Sanitary Naptime posted:

I will not be because I missed my train like a loving oaf.

Be there closer to half past now

You must've been REALLY late in order to be late enough you were running later than Abellio.

# ? Oct 5, 2019 11:45

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When the night is calling
No matter who I become
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When the night is calling

baka kaba posted:

doesn't seem wrong, just getting "back to normal" would help his image, and being able to promise all the unicorns again while shaking the magic money tree will definitely win a lot of people over. so long as the election is quick, before all the bad stuff starts happening

Yeah but as was observed on the podcast, nobody wants the diet version. If you want mass increases in public spending you vote Labour, same as if you want to gently caress over foreigners you vote tory, no matter what the edstone says.

# ? Oct 5, 2019 11:46

RockyB: Mar 8, 2007; Dog Therapy: Shockingly Good

Vile fascist propaganda spotted at London Marylebone.

# ? Oct 5, 2019 11:50

goddamnedtwisto: Dec 31, 2004; If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you; Fun Shoe

Ms Adequate posted:

Yeah but as was observed on the podcast, nobody wants the diet version. If you want mass increases in public spending you vote Labour, same as if you want to gently caress over foreigners you vote tory, no matter what the edstone says.

The Simpsons nailed this ages ago:

fake edit: Holy poo poo, this episode is twenty five years old

# ? Oct 5, 2019 11:51

Oscar Romeo Romeo: Apr 16, 2010

Vlex posted:

Ealing off licence game is strong

I see your off licence and raise you a restaurant in Ramsgate. (Try the Zeppelin if you ever go there!)

# ? Oct 5, 2019 11:55

Grey Hunter: Oct 17, 2007; Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets

goddamnedtwisto posted:

The Simpsons nailed this ages ago:

fake edit: Holy poo poo, this episode is twenty five years old

I was watching the Futurama episode where Nixon gets elected, and the critism was that both party's were the same.

My god how things have changed....

# ? Oct 5, 2019 11:59

Sanitary Naptime: May 29, 2006; MIWK!

RockyB posted:

Vile fascist propaganda spotted at London Marylebone.

mehall posted:

You must've been REALLY late in order to be late enough you were running later than Abellio.

Message me on discord where you are, I�ll be there in less than five

# ? Oct 5, 2019 12:08

mehall: Aug 27, 2010

Sanitary Naptime posted:

Message me on discord where you are, I’ll be there in less than five

Messaged on discord.

If anyone attending today *isn't* on discord lemme know

# ? Oct 5, 2019 12:11

Samovar: Jun 4, 2011; I'm 😤 not a 🦸🏻‍♂️hero...🧜🏻

Vlex posted:

Ealing off licence game is strong

I've been there!

# ? Oct 5, 2019 12:20

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

lol if she gets deselected her cult will go mad

https://twitter.com/bengoldacre/status/1180376792164634624

# ? Oct 5, 2019 12:34

Sanitary Naptime: May 29, 2006; MIWK!

Good

# ? Oct 5, 2019 12:38

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EAT SHIT

call me pessimistic but I can see Jess Phillips pulling in a huge crowd to vote her back in and then we'll never hear the end of it

Ms Adequate posted:

Yeah but as was observed on the podcast, nobody wants the diet version. If you want mass increases in public spending you vote Labour, same as if you want to gently caress over foreigners you vote tory, no matter what the edstone says.

I didn't hear that on either of the two episodes of podcast that exist so behind :negative:

I'm not sure I buy it though, it's not so much that you go tory if you really want labour, but that it acts as a sweetener for people who'd rather vote tory anyway, and rehabilitation for Bohnson. He can sell the idea of look, I did it, everyone was sick of eternal brexit so I fixed that, now everything is going to be great thanks to us and here's some examples of our bright prosperous future :homebrew:

without brexit BXP will pretty much cease to exist, the tory party can start to unite itself again, and the lib dems will absolutely try and go into coalition with them. So long as there's calm before the brexit consequences hit I can see Johnson looking a lot better to people, plus he'll have something he can sell as a victory for once and do his excited puppy routine

# ? Oct 5, 2019 12:42

AceOfFlames: Oct 9, 2012

RockyB posted:

Vile fascist propaganda spotted at London Marylebone.

Man, these notifications are getting more and more intrusive.

(Also, idgi)

# ? Oct 5, 2019 12:45

Total Meatlove: Jan 28, 2007; Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

AceOfFlames posted:

Man, these notifications are getting more and more intrusive.

(Also, idgi)

How did Italians get their train pain to disappear?

# ? Oct 5, 2019 12:48

AceOfFlames: Oct 9, 2012

Total Meatlove posted:

How did Italians get their train pain to disappear?

Is this a WWII thing? Did they blow up a train?Drawing a blank here, I'm having an off day

Edit: Is it this?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna_massacre

If it is, did Duolingo intend to make a reference or was it an accident?

AceOfFlames fucked around with this message at 12:55 on Oct 5, 2019

# ? Oct 5, 2019 12:51

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IF YOU SEE ME TALKING ABOUT BEANIE BABIES, PLEASE TELL ME TO

EAT. SHIT.

AceOfFlames posted:

Is this a WWII thing? Did they blow up a train?Drawing a blank here, I'm having an off day.

I mean it was proven untrue, but the saying goes:

The fascists may have done bad things, but at least they made the trains run on time.

(or something like that, my wording's prolly off)

e: VVVV a better informed person

Private Speech fucked around with this message at 12:58 on Oct 5, 2019

# ? Oct 5, 2019 12:56

Superterranean: May 3, 2005; after we lit this one, nothing was ever the same

The meme is that one of the common responses to the rise to power of Italian fascism was "well, at least the trains run on time"

It was a campaign promise, and they did improve some delays (by cutting services) but it's not like magically fascism=>trains on time

# ? Oct 5, 2019 12:56

AceOfFlames: Oct 9, 2012

Private Speech posted:

I mean it was proven untrue, but the saying goes:

The fascists may have done bad things, but at least they made the trains run on time.

(or something like that, my wording's prolly off)

I'm an idiot. I knew it was something obvious.

Or maybe it's because due to the times we live in, I no longer associate fascism with a specific country

# ? Oct 5, 2019 12:57

serious gaylord: Sep 16, 2007; what.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engla...ialflow_twitter

A US Ambassadors wife has killed a 19 year old lad in a car crash and despite telling the police they had no plans to leave the country they've disappeared back to the US and the US state department have just gone 'lol no' when the British government have asked for her to come back.

# ? Oct 5, 2019 13:04

Venomous: Nov 7, 2011

Obviously Boris isn't going to press this issue because if he did, we'd miss out on all of those glorious trade deals with the Yanks

# ? Oct 5, 2019 13:12

feedmegin: Jul 30, 2008

serious gaylord posted:

A US Ambassadors wife has killed a 19 year old lad in a car crash and despite telling the police they had no plans to leave the country they've disappeared back to the US and the US state department have just gone 'lol no' when the British government have asked for her to come back.

Note that the UK ambassadorship is a plum political appointment in the US (because we are lapdogs who will do whatever America wants lmao so no reason to send anyone actually good), so she, or at least her husband, is Trumpist af.

# ? Oct 5, 2019 13:22

feedmegin: Jul 30, 2008

Grey Hunter posted:

I was watching the Futurama episode where Nixon gets elected, and the critism was that both party's were the same.

My god how things have changed....

Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others!

# ? Oct 5, 2019 13:24

RockyB: Mar 8, 2007; Dog Therapy: Shockingly Good

Yup, it's a Mussolini reference. Or at least I interpreted it as one when I saw it, seems a bit edgy for an advert in a large British railway station.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/rear-window-making-italy-work-did-mussolini-really-get-the-trains-running-on-time-1367688.html

# ? Oct 5, 2019 13:25

kingturnip: Apr 18, 2008

feedmegin posted:

Note that the UK ambassadorship is a plum political appointment in the US (because we are lapdogs who will do whatever America wants lmao so no reason to send anyone actually good), so she, or at least her husband, is Trumpist af.

It doesn't specify that it's the Ambassador's wife, just that it's the wife of a diplomat.
Also, she graduated in 1985, so unless she started college at, like, 13 years old, there's no chance she the "woman in her 40s" the police refer to

kingturnip fucked around with this message at 13:30 on Oct 5, 2019

# ? Oct 5, 2019 13:27

Strom Cuzewon: Jul 1, 2010

Sanitary Naptime posted:

I was already aware but poor Pilch was very tired when we recorded and I didn�t want to do him a damage

It�s going to be full shite, and some look at political satire (and why liberalism makes it shite) as an episode has been floating about in my head since I seen it was coming back.

I get a raging hate-boner for most satire, so I will be keeping a watchful ear out!

#mixedmetaphor

# ? Oct 5, 2019 14:02

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kingturnip posted:

It doesn't specify that it's the Ambassador's wife, just that it's the wife of a diplomat.
Also, she graduated in 1985, so unless she started college at, like, 13 years old, there's no chance she the "woman in her 40s" the police refer to

Trumpites age really hard. Stephen Miller is like 34 and looks like a hard road 45.

# ? Oct 5, 2019 14:20

feedmegin: Jul 30, 2008

serious gaylord posted:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engla...ialflow_twitter

A US Ambassadors wife has killed a 19 year old lad in a car crash and despite telling the police they had no plans to leave the country they've disappeared back to the US and the US state department have just gone 'lol no' when the British government have asked for her to come back.

Huh. I didnt realise it was at RAF Croughton incidentally, I was literally on base there this time last week. They just reopened their bowling alley and were letting people bowl free to celebrate :3: