gh0stpinballa posted:

in all honesty the podcast you guys do is far better than trashfuture

Necrothatcher posted:

The latest Marina Hyde about Boris links to one of his Spectator articles and uh...

quote:

I awoke to find a sweet-faced Chinese air stewardess standing over me in my aisle seat. ‘Prease, sir,’ said the BA girl. ‘Prease come with me. I have found a better seat for you in row 52.’ Well, I began to say, wondering whether this was just a beautiful dream; well, that is really very thoughtful of you. It crossed my mind, in my groggy state, that this must be one of the world’s favourite airline’s popularity-building measures – to send gentle oriental girls, shortly before take-off, to separate fathers from their unruly children. As I unbuckled my belt and rose to go, the rest of the family started to protest. Why was I deserting them? I dunno, I said, but she wants me to move. ‘It is the rule,’ said the BA girl. ‘We have a very strict rule that adult men are not allowed to sit next to young children. There have been incidents,’ said the BA girl darkly. I was going to reassure her, and say how much I agreed with the policy, and that as far as I was concerned adult men should at all costs be protected from young children. But one of them gave the game away. ‘He’s our father!’ said someone. ‘Oh,’ said the stewardess, flummoxed. ‘Velly solly.’

.... right

Necrothatcher posted:

What's the significance of 4th January 2003?

gh0stpinballa posted:

in all honesty the podcast you guys do is far better than trashfuture

Necrothatcher posted:

The latest Marina Hyde about Boris links to one of his Spectator articles and uh...


.... right

quote:

It is the most disgusting thing any democratic government can do: to find an issue of culture or conscience that divides society, and to play it up, in the hope of exciting the prejudices of your core constituency. Hitler did it. The BJP does it. Labour does it, of course, with fox-hunting.

quote:

Looking at the diverse wedding crowd, and thinking of this planet’s multicultural future, I have been brooding about carrots. It is a fact that the British carrot used to be white. It was a pale, delicate, Anglo-Saxon root. As anyone who has eaten Indian carrot halva will know, Indian carrots are red, the colour of blood oranges. It probably follows that at some stage the dark red carrots of the subcontinent cross-fertilised with our indigenous carrots, to produce the modern orange cross. Yes, folks, the next time you chomp on a carrot, reflect that it is a half-caste. It is the result of rampant miscegenation. Look at the modern British carrot, and you behold the future of the human race.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

It's not 1973, where it's considerably better suited.

mrpwase posted:

It's a new role I've just been promoted into and am currently negotiating a wage increase for, I don't really want to be seen to be doing nothing. So I'm in the absurd position of pretending to work when there isn't even any.

Edit: am definitely gonna buy a ukulele though!

sebzilla posted:

Jo Swinson opens her speeck by paying tribute to ~Anita Roddick, one of her "heroes."

Hmmmm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Body_Shop#Controversies


Seem extremely on-brand for Jo;

Tesseraction posted:

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh the R/L convergence doesn't work this way you racist loving oval office.

CGI Stardust posted:

ronya posted:

Does anybody know what is in Labour's proposed Charter of Digital Rights?

quote:

The party will also announce plans for a new Charter of Digital Rights – the strongest protection of data and online rights ever enacted. We will consult on its contents, which could include:

• Powers for individuals and collectives to challenge algorithmic injustice (where online algorithms cause disproportionate harms to particular groups);
  
• Powers for individuals and collectives to prevent the use of digital infrastructure for surveillance;
  
• Rights for individuals to protect access to and ownership of their data.
  

ronya posted:

Does anybody know what is in Labour's proposed Charter of Digital Rights?

Tesseraction posted:

interesting, if true

ronya posted:

screenshots of alleged tweets is a low bar to clear for bots - is that an actual embedded reply tweet or just an image?

Barry Foster posted:

With conservatives it is always, always projection

Tesseraction posted:

The accounts involved have all been deleted now but this tweet was in my browser cache



interesting, if true

Tesseraction posted:

The accounts involved have all been deleted now but this tweet was in my browser cache



interesting, if true

Tesseraction posted:

it was a picture of the tweet - but shortly after the tweet I screengrabbed was posted, SadJamieRoss deleted its account, and shortly afterwards the other account appears to have deleted

by no means conclusive but would be interesting, especially given they apparently share a particular method of insulting other peoples' prose: https://twitter.com/joncstone/status/1196442923262500864

ronya posted:

thiccastley

Bundy posted:

Weird, Ash Sarkar tweeted about that account and her tweet has been deleted too

TTerrible posted:

That is where I first saw it. She's asked him if it is his.

https://twitter.com/toadmeister/status/1196440835178545160?s=20

EDIT: It's a thread with back and forth between them. Ash explains her deletion.

Tesseraction posted:

Why's that? Not that I don't like PiP.

gh0stpinballa posted:

better chat mostly, better takes and longform discussion imo. also PiP don't try too hard with Extremely Online references. feel like TF is a bit of a chapo knock off sometimes.

Bardeh posted:

what the gently caress

is [Johnson's article history] real?

E: Yes, yes it is.

quote:

Looking at the diverse wedding crowd, and thinking of this planet’s multicultural future, I have been brooding about carrots. It is a fact that the British carrot used to be white. It was a pale, delicate, Anglo-Saxon root. As anyone who has eaten Indian carrot halva will know, Indian carrots are red, the colour of blood oranges. It probably follows that at some stage the dark red carrots of the subcontinent cross-fertilised with our indigenous carrots, to produce the modern orange cross. Yes, folks, the next time you chomp on a carrot, reflect that it is a half-caste. It is the result of rampant miscegenation. Look at the modern British carrot, and you behold the future of the human race.

an_mutt posted:

It is absolutely unreal to me that the current political discourse on racism is positioned around Corbyn, when this kind of distressingly and openly white supremacy poo poo is out there for anyone to read from Johnson. It loving kills me.

quote:

When I was last here, five years ago, intelligent Sikhs were in two minds about the new Hindu nationalist government, and its aggressive saffron-hued extolling of Hindu culture. Now they have made up their minds. The BJP is a bad thing. ‘First they go for the Muslims, next they could go for us,’ is the line. It is the most disgusting thing any democratic government can do: to find an issue of culture or conscience that divides society, and to play it up, in the hope of exciting the prejudices of your core constituency. Hitler did it. The BJP does it. Labour does it, of course, with fox-hunting.

Guavanaut posted:

Pochoclo shot off my sweat glands in the war.

Ratjaculation posted:

Hello thread!

A few days ago I asked for some more info in regards to a friend (born in 1990) saying that Corbyn would to take us back to the 1970s, a typical gammon outcry sadly. I've been reading up on the 70s to try and understand it and this is what I've got;

Early in the decade during the Heath Tory government, we were having coal power issues as we were still heavily reliant on coal for energy back then, and unfortunately supply was failing to meet demand.

Nationalised Miners were being forced to work longer hours, in more dangerous conditions to increase supply, in a system that had reduced resources stemming from the Tories.

There were blackouts regularly as the supply/demand line was crossed.

Heath brought in the three day working week as a way to reduce the demand, basically meaning commercial properties would only be allocated energy for 3 days of a working week. Obviously, the economy suffered massively from this and employment began to rise sharply.

The Miners went on strike ✊✊✊ due to pay demands not being met, and concerns about their wellbeing under the increased workload and more dangerous mining. Heath said no.

In 1974 there were two elections, the first resulting in the minority Wilson Labour government (Libs were still moaning fucks back then), they immediately increased Miners pay and improved conditions, the strikes wound down. The second election won Labour a slim majority.

The weak Labour govenrment made some strides, like the 1975 referendum on joining the European common market, Labour had no official position but most of the cabinet supported joining it. The economy stabilised somewhat, but Labour largely failed to reduce unemployment, instead it floated around 5-6%.

The 1979 election aka The Witch Rises was won by the Tories, largely attacking Labour on their failures to control unemployment. Thatcher almost immediately destroyed most of the nationalised basic utilities, plunging the country into a spiral.and resulting in unemployment doubling.

But everyone instantly forgot how poo poo the Tories were when are boys went to war.




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My understanding could be completely wrong so feel free to point out any mistakes

But to me the argument that Corbyn wants to take us back to the 70's is obviously the usual bullshit. Comparing a business wide forced 3-day-working week, to a 4-day staff working week is shite, especially when the latter shows increased overall productivity.

Comparing blackouts to green energy? Fart noise.

tl;dr tories are unts

quote:

"Victoria Beckham is minute. She was standing in a circle of gofers and parents and children, and sort of glaring at the world. Her eyes were invisible behind enormous Dior shades, but her lips were thrust out in her trademark snarl, like some rainforest chief. She was wearing a furry waistcoat and odd, low-slung baggy trousers, but the most interesting thing was her bottom. It was either the top of her bottom or the bottom of her back. It was plainly visible, and appeared to be tattooed with some inscription or device. I scrambled after her up the stairs to the ski lift, in an undignified attempt to read the message. What was it? ‘Open other end’? ‘If you can read this, you are too close’? It turned out to be four stars, signifying, apparently, the birth of her two children."