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Foul Ole Ron posted:Just curious, is the "Tories being on the back foot" line potentially astro turfing to stop people feeling the need to vote? They're not on the back foot, they've fallen on their arse. Fortunately that involved a soft landing  Edit: The Tories' collective pants contain a number 1, a number 3 and a number 9 large.
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Tesseraction posted:Mmm. Both sides have been said to have been on the back foot this election. To be honest until you start seeing papers screaming LABOUR 1 POINT AHEAD IN NEWEST POLL GET OUT AND VOTE BEFORE HE STEALS YOUR JEWS then I wouldn't worry about framing of day to day headlines. Tesseraction posted:Norway has massive alcohol duties to persuade people to not drink themselves to death. And probably home distilling too if the tractors in ditches with farmers clutching flasks of supposed brandy are anything to go by.
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Foul Ole Ron posted:Just curious, is the "Tories being on the back foot" line potentially astro turfing to stop people feeling the need to vote? If the government is on the back foot you'd think that it would motivate people to vote under the current circumstances.
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lol the Politico questioner was great, litany of questions including "Yesterday in an interview you said you have never lied in your political life but is it not true that Michael Howard fired you for lying about an extramarital affair? And to be clear this is not a question about Brexit or your deal, this is a question about your personal conduct."
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Tesseraction posted:lol the Politico questioner was great, litany of questions including "Yesterday in an interview you said you have never lied in your political life but is it not true that Michael Howard fired you for lying about an extramarital affair? And to be clear this is not a question about Brexit or your deal, this is a question about your personal conduct."  ...Get ...Brexit ... done? 
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Foul Ole Ron posted:Just curious, is the "Tories being on the back foot" line potentially astro turfing to stop people feeling the need to vote? I doubt it because it comes from Labour supporters along with encouragement to keep on working hard
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Overminty posted:Yeah but I paid £10 for a pint at a norwegian apres ski once so gently caress that Im guessing half the price went into the pretentiousness of the name "apres ski"
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Overminty posted:Yeah but I paid £10 for a pint at a norwegian apres ski once so gently caress that Yeah but the average wage is over 30% higher in Norway as well so we can afford that. But seriously you paid more than double what you pay outside of restaurants and pubs, we don' t have pub culture and pubs and bars are ripoffs.
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Nov 29, 2019 13:12
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Nice piece of fish posted:Yeah but the average wage is over 30% higher in Norway as well so we can afford that. Yeah whenever the Norwegian clients are over for meetings they will not leave without going on a pub crawl because they get the proper experience here.
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Braggart posted:Boris looking really strong and stable rn It was Very Normal for him to start to walk away but then twitch back to shout GET BREXIT DONE like someone waking up from a nightmare shouting the last thing they saw
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Braggart posted:They're not on the back foot, they've fallen on their arse. 
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Guavanaut posted:He's After Your Secret Extra Bones! True. Though due to the way the duties work, expensive stuff (fine wines, whiskies) is actually cheaper than in many countries. It's very bougie. Tesseraction posted:Yeah whenever the Norwegian clients are over for meetings they will not leave without going on a pub crawl because they get the proper experience here. gently caress yes, it's so much fun having a pint like it's normal. In Norway if you go out and drink beer in the middle of the week you will be considered an alcoholic. Then again, in the weekend when you drink, you DRINK. So there's that.
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I like mountains and nature and wilderness so Norway seems like a good fit for me. I've been wanting to visit Lofoten for a while, it looks stunning.
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Tesseraction posted:It was Very Normal for him to start to walk away but then twitch back to shout GET BREXIT DONE like someone waking up from a nightmare shouting the last thing they saw Oh, he can't wake up...  Daddy! Daddy please save me! 
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Nice piece of fish posted:gently caress yes, it's so much fun having a pint like it's normal. In Norway if you go out and drink beer in the middle of the week you will be considered an alcoholic. Then again, in the weekend when you drink, you DRINK. So there's that. Last time I was out drinking in England the locals had no problem pouring down every bit of alcohol they could get their hands on during weekends. They were god drat lightweights though.
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Aphex- posted:I like mountains and nature and wilderness so Norway seems like a good fit for me. I've been wanting to visit Lofoten for a while, it looks stunning. It looks fantastic but it's full of icky nordlendinger 
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Despite being firmly in old school Labour territory, the local radio station that plays in my office has been shilling hard for the Tories lately. Today they lead with the Tories complaining to Ofcom, making it sound like Channel 4 had done something wrong. Earlier in the week they were hammering the Corbyn antisemitism lines every hour, even during the trade leak story. John Oliver did a bit a while back about US local TV news & Radio stations all across the country using identical scripts with Republican talking points. I'm starting to wonder if we have the same issue.
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Aphex- posted:I like mountains and nature and wilderness so Norway seems like a good fit for me. I've been wanting to visit Lofoten for a while, it looks stunning. Lofoten isn't bad and blessedly free of loving søringkuker. But the inland parts are good too, take my word for it: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3867255 TheRat posted:Last time I was out drinking in England the locals had no problem pouring down every bit of alcohol they could get their hands on during weekends. They were god drat lightweights though. Yeah, and they really can't stand is akevitt. But really, these days I get put down by a half litre of whisky so who am I to diss. Guess I'm getting older.
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https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/1200387100568412161 tfw you blew too hard on the dogwhistle and want it back
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1l1XGiXgo0CoolCab posted:only in the UK will someone go "I can only manage 10 shots of whiskey, I must be getting old" e: ^^ 
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Rarity posted:Please can we not do the thing where we all catastrophise into a mass panic? I know the Tories winning would be poo poo and I know that many of us struggle with mental health because of the poo poo that capitalism puts us through. The signs are good, everything we're seeing in this election indicates that the Tories are on the back foot and that Labour are gaining ground. There is no way that the Tories will win more seats than they did in 2017. As much as I am doing my best to remain upbeat on Labour's prospects until the election count is over, a) IF there's a Tory majority and/or a reduction in Labour seats you drat well better accept that I'm going to catastrophise then b) as much as remaining upbeat is good, don't really think delusion is all that useful either. There is absolutely a way the Tories win more seats than they did in 2019. It is a possibility. They could well return a majority Tory government. Not necessarily a big one, but one but big enough to get Brexit done and all the awful poo poo that follows. The media are being far less reserved in their contempt for Labour this time out and it adds up. I don't put much faith in the polling but this is the sort of election where 3 weeks out I'm not sure if Labour will get 200 seats or 300 seats.
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TheRat posted:Last time I was out drinking in England the locals had no problem pouring down every bit of alcohol they could get their hands on during weekends. They were god drat lightweights though. It’s the drugs they’re all taking in the bathroom that does that
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xtothez posted:Despite being firmly in old school Labour territory, the local radio station that plays in my office has been shilling hard for the Tories lately. Today they lead with the Tories complaining to Ofcom, making it sound like Channel 4 had done something wrong. Earlier in the week they were hammering the Corbyn antisemitism lines every hour, even during the trade leak story. This is basically the case over here already, local (commercial, certainly) radio basically doesn't exist any more. Global got rid of their local shows to be replaced by gurning oval office Roman Kemp, and almost all the news on most stations is provided by Sky News Radio.
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forkboy84 posted:As much as I am doing my best to remain upbeat on Labour's prospects until the election count is over, a) IF there's a Tory majority and/or a reduction in Labour seats you drat well better accept that I'm going to catastrophise then b) as much as remaining upbeat is good, don't really think delusion is all that useful either. There is absolutely a way the Tories win more seats than they did in 2019. It is a possibility. They could well return a majority Tory government. Not necessarily a big one, but one but big enough to get Brexit done and all the awful poo poo that follows. The media are being far less reserved in their contempt for Labour this time out and it adds up. I don't put much faith in the polling but this is the sort of election where 3 weeks out I'm not sure if Labour will get 200 seats or 300 seats. I don't think we're being delusional, I think the Tories are. Also the Lib Dems. They'll never beat the squirrels. Edit: Not trying to make fun of you here. I get the worry, and the feelings of despair. Hold on, comrade. This is going to turn out better than anyone in the establishment says, and they're loving terrified 
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Excellent number for when the tweet was made too. As an autistic person I approve  (Seriously whenever I look at a clock at 12:34 I sit up and pay attention, then chuckle at myself  )
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Lol, people bought the i specifically because it wasn’t owned by murdoch or the daily mail
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I'm pessimistic but is there value in dwelling on it? if youre going down might as well go down swinging
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https://twitter.com/AllyFogg/status/1200365860084428800 what the gently caress https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2019-11-28/train-named-after-plymouths-first-female-mp-nancy-astor/ quote:The first female MP to take her seat in Parliament has had a train named after her ahead of a statue unveiling in Plymouth.
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Jel Shaker posted:Lol, people bought the i specifically because it wasn’t owned by murdoch or the daily mail Don't worry, it will be rebranded to the 'me', which should dramatically boost sales among Viscounts Rothermere.
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forkboy84 posted:I don't put much faith in the polling but this is the sort of election where 3 weeks out I'm not sure if Labour will get 200 seats or 300 seats.
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dispatch_async posted:https://twitter.com/AllyFogg/status/1200365860084428800 Only the front carriage has seats and windows, doncherknow.
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dispatch_async posted:https://twitter.com/AllyFogg/status/1200365860084428800 Kinda reminds me of when Siemens, who supplied the Nazis, brought out an oven called the Zyklon, and at no point had someone say "hmmm, might want to rethink this one, boss."
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This is by far the most human Gove has ever appeared. That's not even a joke. It's funny when people I don't like fall on their arse, but he handles it pretty well.
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Tesseraction posted:Kinda reminds me of when Siemens, who supplied the Nazis, brought out an oven called the Zyklon, and at no point had someone say "hmmm, might want to rethink this one, boss." (Also have they apologized for using concentration camp slave labor yet?)
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