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OwlFancier posted:If you take out the meaningless chatter what happens is the group no longer exists to do the non-meaningless stuff. I agree, and I like meaningless chatter anyway, if it sometimes changes topic. But otherwise it becomes like people endlessly reciting the same Monty Python sketch. However after writing that I looked up Sliding Doors and it has a 77% audience approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and my god what is wrong with people?* *a diet containing too many crisps, probably
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StarkingBarfish posted:It's this. The days when poo poo is going down it's great to be in here because there's a lot of well informed analysis. When there's not a lot going on, people still need to chat poo poo and frankly what flavour of crisps people like is pretty mild and inclusive compared to other options.
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Wait. What if. Brexit is like... a dead parrot? Give me a sec, making the next Lib Dem social media campaign. 
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Sanitary Naptime posted:Nah, they’d need to vote for it and don’t have the numbers at all. That said, I'm not sure whether the minor parties might not back it just to make life harder for labour. It's in the interest of basically every tory and probably everyone who doesn't rely on poor/minority votes to secure their majorities. A Buttery Pastry posted:Crisp chat, as it exists in this thread, is exclusionary to non-British people. It is, I'm sorry to say, the posting equivalent of Brexit. You're always welcome to bring up whatever foreign monstrosity you shovel into your face or other orifice for recreational purposes  Tomorrow I'm going to try making welsh cakes with honey subbing for the sugar. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Oct 14, 2019 |
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The difference between crispchat and chatchat is that crispchat comes to an abrupt end whenever stuff happens to be discussed (as does most of the general white noise chat itt) but chatchat gets people het up and keeps going even after other topics occur. Also yeah part of being in a community is the in-jokes and unserious chat that occurs in it. 
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I just clicked through a few things on one of the tweets in this thread, and there was a post claiming that corbyn is a massive anti-semite, the proof? another post that says that corbyn is a massive anti-semite... it's like a scaletrix track but a boring lovely circle one without a sweet loop this is why i dont use twitter
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the answer to voter ID depressing turnout is clearly to embrace compulsory voting * this is not a serious post; I just find the idea weirdly amusing
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The answer is voter ID is stupid and unneccessary and we don't have a fraud problem to begin with.
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Pesmerga posted:Wait. What if. Brexit is like... a dead parrot?
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Ms Adequate posted:The difference between crispchat and chatchat is that crispchat comes to an abrupt end whenever stuff happens to be discussed (as does most of the general white noise chat itt) but chatchat gets people het up and keeps going even after other topics occur. that's funny because it certainly didn't come to an abrupt end during the state opening of parliament that must not be as important as people's opinions on corn snacks
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Julio Cruz posted:have you considered just skipping the posts you consider negative Honestly I do skip over a lot of posts about things I don't find interesting anyway. Every time there's a new Project Binky video there's a couple of pages of chat about minis which I'm not interested in but it's really no trouble to skim past it all. It's a bit different if it's say, an extended anime derail because there's literally an entire forum for that stuff, but sharing in chat about something everybody is familiar with and non-controversial (at least, not seriously) and in-jokey is good for the "community" aspect of the thread. If you just want a stream of politics news then I'm sure there are services for that. I like being a part of this community we've got here even if it sometimes includes talking about things I don't find interesting. I basically agree with Ms. A there^^
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Julio Cruz posted:that's funny because it certainly didn't come to an abrupt end during the state opening of parliament The queen wittering a tory speech that's going to be defunct within a month most likely is, arguably, less important than crispchat. Right now parliament is spinning its wheels until the extension deadline. It's just doing it in a silly uniform.
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WhatEvil posted:Honestly I do skip over a lot of posts about things I don't find interesting anyway. Every time there's a new Project Binky video there's a couple of pages of chat about minis which I'm not interested in but it's really no trouble to skim past it all. there's an entire forum and discord for just chatting about random poo poo this is the main UK politics thread and it confuses/annoys the gently caress out of people whe there's 500 new posts but instead of something important having happened it's just the exact same crispchat that happened last month and confused people the exact same and let's not forget that we get quite a few no-Brits coming in and wanting to know what the latest on Brexit is, I can't imagine how you'd inform yourself through this thread if you don't even know what monster munch is
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Julio Cruz posted:that's funny because it certainly didn't come to an abrupt end during the state opening of parliament If there's something interesting to say about that then please, go ahead and say it.
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Tarnop posted:If there's something interesting to say about that then please, go ahead and say it. maybe you shouldn't post if you don't have a positive contribution to make if you see a post you disagree with just skip over it, it's not a big deal right
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Julio Cruz posted:there's an entire forum and discord for just chatting about random poo poo I've paid my $10 to post here, not Discord. Derails happen in pol threads because there isn't enough news to keep it going 24/7. Until a mod steps in and tells me what can and can't be posted about in this thread I'm not gonna listen to you backseat modding when the derail you caused earlier on has been 10000% worse for anyone viewing this thread than crisp chat could be.
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Julio Cruz posted:there's an entire forum and discord for just chatting about random poo poo you'd post and ask for an update
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Julio Cruz posted:maybe you shouldn't post if you don't have a positive contribution to make So you don't have a single interesting thing to say about anything that's happened today, you just want other people to entertain you.
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General consensus on this Queen’s speech was that it was a pointless waste of time, and did little more than announce when Javid’s going to be cancelling a budget speech and be the first shot in a Tory election campaign. The most interesting debate has been over the potential fallout of it being voted down.
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there is always the chat thread in byob, but its got my nudes in it
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CyberPingu posted:the derail you caused earlier on has been 10000% worse for anyone viewing this thread than crisp chat could be. Strong disagree.
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Seems a bit more realistic than YouGov. Pesmerga posted:General consensus on this Queen’s speech was that it was a pointless waste of time, and did little more than announce when Javid’s going to be cancelling a budget speech and be the first shot in a Tory election campaign. The most interesting debate has been over the potential fallout of it being voted down. Yeah here's a summary of what happened today: Parliament opened, the Queen said "Here's a bunch of stuff the government is saying it's going to do" but it's a minority government so none of this stuff is going to happen. Jeremy Corbyn said that the Tories are bastards and their plans suck (but not verbatim sadly). Bosh. If other poo poo is going down please post about it.
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Twitter politics related, I found this account recently: https://twitter.com/VoterBritish/status/1183741858943504384 https://twitter.com/VoterBritish/status/1183726763526049794 https://twitter.com/VoterBritish/status/1183711670742458368 https://twitter.com/VoterBritish/status/1183696575278784512 See if you can guess a common theme in the responses that might also be relevant to polling average age of the last 60 responses is 62 OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 19:57 on Oct 14, 2019 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:There's a shitload of actual UK politics happening today and yet the last 10 or so pages happened. goddamnedtwisto posted:Yeah you're probably right. I don't really get anything out of this thread any more, so why bother reading it? Gonna say I agree with gdt here. I can appreciate jokey distractions but Real poo poo happened today and the crisp meme was taking over. I would rather we didn't become reddit during Big Political Happenings.
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CyberPingu posted:I've paid my $10 to post here, not Discord. Derails happen in pol threads because there isn't enough news to keep it going 24/7. Until a mod steps in and tells me what can and can't be posted about in this thread I'm not gonna listen to you backseat modding when the derail you caused earlier on has been 10000% worse for anyone viewing this thread than crisp chat could be. "massive thread derails are fine if they're the kind of derails that I personally like" e: your $10 means you can also post in CSPAM which is, you know, a forum specifically designed for low-content posting
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Tarnop posted:So you don't have a single interesting thing to say about anything that's happened today, you just want other people to entertain you. lots of people posted interesting things that were relevant to today, they just all got lost in the morass of "hurrrr monster munch"
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Julio Cruz posted:lots of people posted interesting things that were relevant to today, they just all got lost in the morass of "hurrrr monster munch" But none of your 16 posts on the matter are contributing to this problem.
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Julio Cruz posted:lots of people posted interesting things that were relevant to today, they just all got lost in the morass of "hurrrr monster munch" But instead of responding to those people, you're whining about crisps
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WhatEvil posted:But none of your 16 posts on the matter are contributing to this problem. just skip over them then
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Earlier someone posted a tweet from someone saying 'we need a british Bernie Sanders', but rejecting Corbyn as not being the same thing. Why is that? Is it because Sanders is still relatively unknown, so people can project their own image onto him, or maybe they like the idea of progressive politics as long as it's something that happens on the other side of the atlantic. Will we see the same monstering of Bernie as we got with Corbyn if he looks like he might actually win? Also pickled onion is the best flavour of monster munch AND crisps (unless chilli and lemon is available)
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Tarnop posted:But instead of responding to those people, you're whining about whining about crisps
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spiderbot posted:Earlier someone posted a tweet from someone saying 'we need a british Bernie Sanders', but rejecting Corbyn as not being the same thing. Why is that? Is it because Sanders is still relatively unknown, so people can project their own image onto him, or maybe they like the idea of progressive politics as long as it's something that happens on the other side of the atlantic. Will we see the same monstering of Bernie as we got with Corbyn if he looks like he might actually win? Because liam gallagher or whoever it was is a moron. The democrats are already leaning hard into nuking bernie as they did in 2015/16. Liberals cannot abide the left.
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spiderbot posted:Earlier someone posted a tweet from someone saying 'we need a british Bernie Sanders', but rejecting Corbyn as not being the same thing. Why is that? Is it because Sanders is still relatively unknown, so people can project their own image onto him, or maybe they like the idea of progressive politics as long as it's something that happens on the other side of the atlantic. Will we see the same monstering of Bernie as we got with Corbyn if he looks like he might actually win? The person in the tweet was an idiot
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On matters not pertaining to crispchat, where are we in the timeline of when Boris is supposed to send the letter about no-no-deal to the EU? That’s gotta be this week right?
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spiderbot posted:Earlier someone posted a tweet from someone saying 'we need a british Bernie Sanders', but rejecting Corbyn as not being the same thing. Why is that? Is it because Sanders is still relatively unknown, so people can project their own image onto him, or maybe they like the idea of progressive politics as long as it's something that happens on the other side of the atlantic. Will we see the same monstering of Bernie as we got with Corbyn if he looks like he might actually win? Noel Fielding is a huge melt, and Bernie winning won't mean he has to pay more tax on his hard-earned bake off money
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Robot Mil posted:On matters not pertaining to crispchat, where are we in the timeline of when Boris is supposed to send the letter about no-no-deal to the EU? That’s gotta be this week right? He has to send the letter if there’s no deal agreed by the Saturday sitting of parliament. That requires a deal concluded that is approved by the Commission and EU Council (Thursday and Friday this week) that is then approved by Parliament on Saturday. If it fails at either of those hurdles, he’s obliged to send it on the 19th.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:TBH the signal to noise ratio of this thread has taken a serious turn for the worse over the last few months, crispchat is just shorthand for all that noise. Derails are fine - much of the interesting stuff in this thread comes up from them - but endless in-jokes are just loving noise. i've been reading this thread since like 2008 and this is absolutely not true lol its always been like this its why its the only good thread in D&D, its informal and bolshy
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