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goddamnedtwisto posted:Inverness Caledonian Thistle once beat Celtic in a cup game, and...
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Guavanaut posted:Or 258 years before, either's good. The Register loves to do riffs on that line as well, but they're generally not as good.
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Oct 25, 2019 22:11
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Guavanaut posted:I'm glad the East Midlands has creative place names like Breedon on the Hill. I mentioned it in the first social housing post (second one is still in production - I've just cut almost a thousand words about Brutalism out of it) that the East End has the dullest place names in the country. Shoreditch is at least a little bit more interesting, being Saxon, but it means "sewer ditch" because the Saxons used to poo poo in the Walbrook, originally the source of fresh water for the City, but by that time it was so polluted and full of dead animals that stray dogs gathered there, which is why a little south of Shoreditch you have the wonderfully-named street Houndsditch. Also the street St. Mary Matefon was on is called White Church Lane. There was another street behind it. It's called Back Church Lane. Also at different times different groups of merchants got together to build new roads starting in Whitechapel, one heading north to meet up with the old Roman road up to East Anglia, one heading east to the new docks. They were both built for commercial reasons, which is why (until the construction of the Aldgate one-way system) there used to be a junction between Commercial Street and Commercial Road. I genuinely love the East End but gently caress me at least *try* with the placenames, lads.
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Oct 25, 2019 22:17
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Inverness Caledonian Thistle once beat Celtic in a cup game, and... It actually came from a Liverpool vs QPR game in the 70s - the original was "Super Cally Goes Ballistic, QPR Atrocious" (referring to Liverpools Ian Callaghan). Sorry 
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Oct 25, 2019 22:23
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Guavanaut posted:I'm glad the East Midlands has creative place names like Breedon on the Hill. Barton-in-the-beans is a great one too
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Oct 25, 2019 22:30
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Blasmeister posted:Barton-in-the-beans is a great one too Beans-in-the-backside too
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Oct 25, 2019 22:35
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I am a fan of Nether Wallop in Hampshire.
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Oct 25, 2019 22:37
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I am a fan of Nether Wallop in Hampshire. Near Middle Wallop, Over Wallop & Red Rice,and just south of Palestine
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Oct 25, 2019 22:40
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duckmaster posted:It actually came from a Liverpool vs QPR game in the 70s - the original was "Super Cally Goes Ballistic, QPR Atrocious" (referring to Liverpools Ian Callaghan). Sorry Hmm... a cursory Google can't find me a picture of this headline, just lots of people remembering it, and the biggest win Liverpool had over QPR in the 70s was 3-1, hardly a thrashing worthy of that headline. I'll keep digging because I'd like to be able to drop this one on my mate who insists that headline shows the superiority of Scotland over England.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Hmm... a cursory Google can't find me a picture of this headline, just lots of people remembering it, and the biggest win Liverpool had over QPR in the 70s was 3-1, hardly a thrashing worthy of that headline. I'll keep digging because I'd like to be able to drop this one on my mate who insists that headline shows the superiority of Scotland over England. He could pick many loving things to show Scotland superiority (Christ free prescriptions or University is enough) and that's the hill he chose to die on?
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Oct 25, 2019 22:45
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CyberPingu posted:He could pick many loving things to show Scotland superiority (Christ free prescriptions or University is enough) and that's the hill he chose to die on? It's.. maybe not an absolutely 100% serious claim on his part.
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Oct 25, 2019 22:48
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Alan G posted:As shite as DC Thomson are they are great at headlines, the evening paper once had ‘Petrified Parrot Plucked From Peril’ What makes DC Thomson shite? They write local papers and the Beano ffs. Sure it's hardly heavy hitting but what is in Dundee? They have a slight NAT preference but so does the entire North East so...
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bump_fn posted:libs are so loving desperate to will it into being 2008 again It's as though they don't know what hardship others suffer is outside the Events, and that the Events have ended once they aren't in the news anymore. Like you ask anyone in the commentariat 'hey if the Grenfell fire had happened 10 days earlier would that have hurt the Tories electorally' and they'll absolutely understand that oh yes it would have done, that event would highlight X issues and Y perceptions and voters would certainly respond. But now they aren't talking about Grenfell anymore and never legitimately felt anything deeply about it anyway so they think the Grenfell event has just ended. But it hasn't, people are still angry about it but the libs aren't listening because its not news anymore, just like people are angry about their rent and their childrens futures looking poo poo and their waiting times for healthcare and the transport being late and kowtowing to their boss and just the daily lovely grind austerity forces upon the poor that is never news because it's never Event. The media libs so value the highbrow chatter stuff that they are legitimately unaware of the anger so yeah they got surprised when we said gently caress the EU, they got surprised when Corbyn won the biggest swing to Labour in 60 years, and they'll be surprised by the imminent next thing that anger does too, which btw is democratic socialism or loving barbarism those are the only ways it can go. I think the 2008 fixation is because that's the last moment you could still maybe argue that a rising tide benefits all, it's before the status quo neolib started really bleeding people and it's when their lovely worldview sort of made sense. Since then the driving forces have been things they systemically don't understand but gently caress it Freedlands still getting paid for Corbyn Bad and a local Malik said something semi-engaging about race in movies and oh look Farage got milkshake slopped over him so let's just keep rearranging the deck chairs it's worked for us so far. Vitamin P fucked around with this message at 22:54 on Oct 25, 2019 |
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Oct 25, 2019 22:49
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Blasmeister posted:Barton-in-the-beans is a great one too CyberPingu posted:Christ free prescriptions
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Zalakwe posted:What makes DC Thomson shite? That their employees for decades had to hide if they were NUJ members and they still don’t recognise the union would be the iggest and most obvious one. If you check wikipedia for the quick run down quote:Thomson was notable for his conservatism, vigorously opposing the introduction of trade unions into his workforce, and for refusing to employ Catholics. Among historians of popular culture, the firm has "excited a good deal of interest precisely because it has always shrouded its activities in secrecy ... [it] has never allowed scholars access to its archives, and has declined to participate in exhibitions of juvenile literature."
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Oct 25, 2019 23:01
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Guavanaut posted:I'm glad the East Midlands has creative place names like Breedon on the Hill. Breedon is great tho, good pubs, some of the oldest known Saxon church art in the chapel, and I could see it from my old house.
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Oct 25, 2019 23:05
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God loving dammit the Lib Dems are slime. I was out having a drink with some friends and they asked me for some voting advice. They'd been visited by a Lib Dem canvasser who'd told them that voting for Labour was a waste of time in their constituency and that the only competitor to the Tories are the Lib Dems. I thought I'd better check the 2017 results out to see if this was right and... Conservative Mark Field 18,005 46.6 Decrease 7.5 Labour İbrahim Doğuş 14,857 38.4 Increase 11.0 Liberal Democrat Bridget Fox 4,270 11.1 Increase 4.1 That lying yellow son of a bitch!
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Hmm... a cursory Google can't find me a picture of this headline, just lots of people remembering it, and the biggest win Liverpool had over QPR in the 70s was 3-1, hardly a thrashing worthy of that headline. I'll keep digging because I'd like to be able to drop this one on my mate who insists that headline shows the superiority of Scotland over England. Coz I'm sad and done a bit more googling, I think 'Cally' refers to Ian Callaghan and you might find the relevant bit in one of these Liverpool Echo papers if you want to sign up to British Newspaper Archives: (you get 3 free views I used one and it wasn't one of these). https://www.britishnewspaperarchive...iverpool%2becho Of course, I've realized that it is Caley not Cally so I might be entirely wrong LOL (But even more googling thinks it might be right after all.. ho hum - an exercise for the reader - not me). Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Oct 25, 2019 |
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Necrothatcher posted:God loving dammit the Lib Dems are slime. I was out having a drink with some friends and they asked me for some voting advice. They'd been visited by a Lib Dem canvasser who'd told them that voting for Labour was a waste of time in their constituency and that the only competitor to the Tories are the Lib Dems. I thought I'd better check the 2017 results out to see if this was right and... I was told the same in Portsmouth South in 2015 and a quick google told me it was true, no Labour MP had ever been returned from the constituency in history. And then came the UNELECTABLE JEREMY CORBYN in 2017 and... 
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Necrothatcher posted:God loving dammit the Lib Dems are slime. I was out having a drink with some friends and they asked me for some voting advice. They'd been visited by a Lib Dem canvasser who'd told them that voting for Labour was a waste of time in their constituency and that the only competitor to the Tories are the Lib Dems. I thought I'd better check the 2017 results out to see if this was right and... Lmao that is particularly brazen. But let's look at the real story, they were visited by a canvasser and it made a strong impression. Your friends could easily have checked and realised that canvasser was lying straight to their faces but they weren't inclined to because peoples brains appreciate and value that face-to-face interaction, it reminds them that they matter. The Lib Dems are lying slime but they got your mates, think how well we could do if a few more of us put in the odd hour on the pavements? And we wouldn't even have to be lying to people to be compelling either!
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Necrothatcher posted:God loving dammit the Lib Dems are slime. I was out having a drink with some friends and they asked me for some voting advice. They'd been visited by a Lib Dem canvasser who'd told them that voting for Labour was a waste of time in their constituency and that the only competitor to the Tories are the Lib Dems. I thought I'd better check the 2017 results out to see if this was right and... My mum heard the same in her constituency and was asking me if she should vote lib dem as having the best chance to beat the Tories. So I checked wikipedia and lo and behold Conservative Jeremy Quin 36,906 59.5 Increase 2.2 Labour Susannah Brady 13,422 21.7 Increase 10.3 Liberal Democrat Morwen Millson 7,644 12.3 Increase 0.6 So she's gonna be voting Labour for possibly the first time ever (normally votes Green, but happened to catch Jez speech and found she really liked what he was saying). It seems they're trying this all over the country. Absolutely maddening.
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My favourite DC Thomson story is when they threatened to sue the Viz for doing a Jocks & Geordies parody, so Viz did a strip called "DC Thompson, the humourless Scottish git" 
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Ratjaculation posted:Sort of similar situation that may or may not help. Yeah so my wife did building sustainability stuff in the UK, trying to make new buildings greener, because she cares about the environment. Now she works for what is essentially a company which lobbies the government to make life easier for builders in Canada, which sounds bad, HOWEVER it does still allow her to have a positive impact on the way things are done because she has a seat at the table on all sorts of committees and things due to her position. Also the company will quite often see that a change (e.g. one designed to make homes more efficient re: energy use) is actually a good thing, they just then argue for stuff to be legislated for in a way which is actually achievable by builders. So yeah, I agree with this basically. Sometimes it's better to be involved in an organisation and steering it the right way, even if you don't fully agree with the ethos of the organisation or it's raison d'etre (pretend I put some accents and poo poo on some of those letters).
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Maugrim posted:So she's gonna be voting Labour for possibly the first time ever (normally votes Green, but happened to catch Jez speech and found she really liked what he was saying). It seems they're trying this all over the country. Absolutely maddening. That owns but most people that have a Lib Dem knock on the door and lie to them don't have an offspring that will actively correct that lie.
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quote:DC Thompson stuff God loving dammit is nothing from my childhood free of wrong? I'm a Treguard did stuff to the kids in Knightmare away from a breakdown. My nan used to put little horns made from broken bits of pasta onto my steak and kidney pies so they'd look like a Cow Pie from Desperate Dan 
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I'm honestly surprised that there hasn't been a bunch of Beano refusing to employ Catholics puns, although Billy Whizz is an obvious Prod.
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Guavanaut posted:I'm honestly surprised that there hasn't been a bunch of Beano refusing to employ Catholics puns, although Billy Whizz is an obvious Prod. Seamus the menace.
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Messing around in the British Newspaper Archive and came across this in the Irish Independent of 27/9/96. Might prove useful if you get the 'terrorist supporter' types on your case: Corbyn says: quote:"I deplore the bombing campaign, the bombing of Canary Wharf, Manchester and any potential bombs in London"  Surrounding article is about Gerry Adams pulling out of meeting at Westminster where Corbyn and Benn were threatened with withdrawal of the whip.
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Guavanaut posted:I see the Pope has decided to weigh in on the plan to make emergency contraception available over the counter. lol
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DC Thomson's bigotry is kinda legendary in Scotland, truly an organisation that rivalled Glasgow Rangers for sheer anti-Catholic bile.
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Guavanaut posted:I see the Pope has decided to weigh in on the plan to make emergency contraception available over the counter. Here I though that the only Pope-approved birth control was abstinence and raping children below reproductive age.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Inverness Caledonian Thistle once beat Celtic in a cup game, and... This isn't about politics. Please keep it out of this thread. I know you think you're doing a good thing but actually you've basically murdered 15 children. OK thx bye.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:This isn't about politics. Please keep it out of this thread. I know you think you're doing a good thing but actually you've basically murdered 15 children. OK thx bye. Are you having a stroke
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bit weird were allowed to joke about medical emergencies like this. lol. no it isnt it should be fine. I am goping massive weird depression mental though lol.
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Necrothatcher posted:God loving dammit the Lib Dems are slime. I was out having a drink with some friends and they asked me for some voting advice. They'd been visited by a Lib Dem canvasser who'd told them that voting for Labour was a waste of time in their constituency and that the only competitor to the Tories are the Lib Dems. I thought I'd better check the 2017 results out to see if this was right and...  They ain't winning poo poo. I mean ideally Vaisey's move will drag some away from CON to LIB, with enough drifters to get LAB some gains. I mean there has to be some kind of rule against this kind of bare faced lying, right? It's different when it's hearsay or a recruiter spinning poo poo, but when its a national campaign with multiple, in-print examples of the lying, that's got to be some kind of offence, right?
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Oct 26, 2019 01:15
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Political party in lying to win votes SHOCKER
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Because liberal politicians just see themselves as managers, all they would see this as is padding their cv, or more likely, making a killer sales pitch. They’re cunts and this is one of the many reasons you can’t trust the liberals. They’ll betray you
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Oct 26, 2019 01:45
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Since I don't want to read the papers how despondent should I be at the state of Brexit or Brexit related elections and processes?
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Munin posted:Since I don't want to read the papers how despondent should I be at the state of Brexit or Brexit related elections and processes? How despondent do you want to be? Personally I don't recommend it if you can avoid it.
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Breedon hill chat, my (life long communist) grandfather read this at his own funeral, along with a number of jokes. The vicar looked so horrified when we suggested putting the tape recorder in the coffin that we didn't. In summertime on Bredon IN summertime on Bredon The bells they sound so clear; Round both the shires they ring them In steeples far and near, A happy noise to hear. Here of a Sunday morning My love and I would lie, And see the coloured counties, And hear the larks so high About us in the sky. The bells would ring to call her In valleys miles away: ‘Come all to church, good people; Good people, come and pray.’ But here my love would stay. And I would turn and answer Among the springing thyme, ‘Oh, peal upon our wedding, And we will hear the chime, And come to church in time.’ But when the snows at Christmas On Bredon top were strown, My love rose up so early And stole out unbeknown And went to church alone. They tolled the one bell only, Groom there was none to see, The mourners followed after, And so to church went she, And would not wait for me. The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. ‘Come all to church, good people,’— Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come. (My grandmother died before I was born).
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