UKMT February 2020 - horny for shepherdess feet

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lilljonas: May 6, 2007; We got crabs? We got crabs!

Watch this lecture before sharpening your favourite boomer-shanking equipment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuXzvjBYW8A

# ? Feb 2, 2020 20:14

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# ? May 24, 2024 07:46

Mano: Jul 11, 2012

Ms Adequate posted:

It fully is, but each year's the same thing, so it's comparing like with like.

Galaxy Quest is one of the all-time greats.

Have you ever seen it in Thermian? It's so ridiculous

# ? Feb 2, 2020 21:03

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Mano posted:

Have you ever seen it in Thermian? It's so ridiculous

Oh my God I had no idea that was even a thing :swoon:

# ? Feb 2, 2020 21:43

Doctor_Fruitbat: Jun 2, 2013

Bond might suck, but you know what else is out in April and isn't going to suck?

https://twitter.com/aitaikimochi/status/1223200675422588928?s=19

# ? Feb 2, 2020 22:03

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

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/jasonhickel/status/1223931569175482368?s=20

https://www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/media/uploads/files/DemocracyReport2020.pdf

quote:

Across the globe, democracy is in a state of malaise. In the mid-1990s, a majority of citizens in countries for which we have time-series data � in North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Australasia � were satisfied with the performance of their democracies. Since then, the share of individuals who are �dissatisfied� with democracy has risen by around +10% points, from 47.9 to 57.5%.

This is the highest level of global dissatisfaction since the start of the series in 1995.

After a large increase in civic dissatisfaction in the prior decade, 2019 represents the highest level of democratic discontent on record. The rise in democratic dissatisfaction has been especially sharp since 2005. The year that marks the beginning of the so-called �global democratic recession� is also the high point for global satisfaction with democracy, with just 38.7% of citizens dissatisfied in that year. Since then, the proportion of �dissatisfied� citizens has risen by almost one-fifth of the population (+18.8%).

Many of the world�s most populous democracies � including the United States, Brazil, Nigeria, and Mexico � have led the downward trend. In the United States, levels of dissatisfaction with democracy have risen by over a third of the population in one generation. As a result, many large democracies are at their highest-ever recorded level for democratic dissatisfaction. These include the United States, Brazil, Mexico, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Colombia, and Australia. Other countries that remain close to their all-time highs include Japan, Spain, and Greece.

Citizens of developed democracies have also experienced a large increase in democratic dissatisfaction. While in the 1990s, around two-thirds of the citizens of Europe, North America, Northeast Asia and Australasia felt satisfied with democracy in their countries, today a majority feel dissatisfied. While it goes beyond the scope of this report to explain the cause of this shift, we observe that citizens� levels of dissatisfaction with democracy are largely responsive to objective circumstances and events � economic shocks, corruption scandals, and policy crises. These have an immediately observable effect upon average levels of civic dissatisfaction.

Yup, everything's hosed.

In honour of Brexit day and the Streatham attack, which was apparently done by someone who was under active loving survillence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSMffdtyOwI

# ? Feb 2, 2020 22:16

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

Perhaps the government should stop surveilling people because apparently it makes them do terror attacks.

# ? Feb 2, 2020 22:19

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

There is so much peace to be found in people's faces, so we will be establishing a database.

# ? Feb 2, 2020 22:21

ShaneMacGowansTeeth: May 22, 2007; I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

Guavanaut posted:

There is so much peace to be found in people's faces, so we will be establishing a database.

I appreciate this reference

# ? Feb 2, 2020 22:25

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

The Met don't need any more loving databases, they already just spin up a new one every time someone raises a stink about their data retention policies. But don't worry, now we're out of Europe we won't have those pesky GDPR / human rights court shitheads interfering anymore:

quote:

About a million people who have not been convicted of any offence, including about a hundred thousand children, are now on the National DNA Database. Many others have been acquitted or have been convicted of relatively minor offences (including begging, being drunk and disorderly, or taking part in an illegal demonstration) but currently remain on the Database for life. Their DNA samples are being kept permanently and may be used for controversial genetic research without their consent.

If you are on the Database, a 2001 law removed your right to have your DNA and associated records destroyed. However, this law was challenged in the European Court of Human Rights (ECthR). The ECtHR made a judgment in December 2008 in the Marper case which means that the law will now have to be changed. However, the Government has not yet implemented the Marper judgment. In the meantime, the Home Office has stated that the Chief Constable of the police force which arrested you does have the discretion to order the removal of your record and destruction of your DNA in 'exceptional circumstances'. Chief Constables are legally responsible for any information they hold about you, including your DNA.

If your DNA is not on the database but you agree that changes are needed to the policy on DNA retention on the database, it is also important that you write to your MP and the press to raise the issue.

Anyway, quoting the actual anglo-centric part of that democracy is deaaaaaaaaaaad document:

quote:

In recent years, there has been an especially acute crisis of democratic faith in the �AngloSaxon� democracies � the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Overall, the proportion of citizens who are �dissatisfied� with the performance of democracy in these countries has doubled since the 1990s, from a quarter, to half of all individuals.

Though much of this increase is accounted for by the United States, public levels of confidence have also slipped in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada. While the proportion of Americans who are dissatisfied with democracy has increased by over one-third of the population (+34 percentage points) since the mid-1990s, this amount has also risen by one-fifth of the population in Australia (+19 percentage points) and Britain (+18 percentage points), and by almost a tenth of Canadians.

What can explain this synchronised downturn in public sentiment across high-income, English-speaking democracies? First, given the concurrence of the shift with the timing of the global financial crisis, economic factors may play an important role. Yet this explanation, while a part of the story, would struggle to explain why Australia, which largely avoided an economic downturn after 2008, appears as negatively affected as Britain and the United States. An alternative though related view is that the financialisation of the U.S., British, Canadian, and Australian economies has led to this outcome by exacerbating spatial inequality between a handful of successful, globally-integrated cosmopolitan cities � New York, London, Toronto, or Sydney � and the rest of their societies. Evidence suggests that rising income inequality also decreases satisfaction with democracy, and [b]the effect may be especially strong where entire regions of a country feel left behind � and whose needs have been ignored by political parties due to the prevalence of either gerrymandered or �safe� seats. This sense of exclusion and frustration with political elites is only made stronger when the other effect of income inequality is to skew influence over the political system, providing increased resources for lobbyists and rendering politicians more dependent upon securing donor campaign contributions.

A second literature that is pertinent to explaining the trajectory of the Anglo-Saxon democracies suggests that satisfaction with democracy is lower in majoritarian �winnertakes-all� systems than in consensus-based, proportionally representative democracies, and this could explain why New Zealand � the lone member of this group with elections by proportional representation � appears to have avoided a trajectory of soaring public discontent

RockyB fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Feb 2, 2020

# ? Feb 2, 2020 22:30

stev: Jan 22, 2013; Please be excited.

Guavanaut posted:

There is so much peace to be found in people's faces, so we will be establishing a database.

Nice.

# ? Feb 2, 2020 22:31

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Does that survey reflect a dissatisfaction with democracy, or rather with massively corrupt big-money oligarchic liberal democracy?

# ? Feb 2, 2020 22:44

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

Sadly the sort of people who publish reports generally do not conceive of any other form of democracy.

Or at the very least they don't have a control group to make that deduction.

# ? Feb 2, 2020 22:46

Camrath: Mar 19, 2004; The UKMT Fudge Baron

Well, just completed the first production run of my new vegan fudge, and though I may be biased, you guys are totally missing out if you don�t get in on this!

Same flavour and texture (with a slight hint of coconut), zero animal products of any form. It�s delicious and probably the one I�m most proud of so far.

# ? Feb 2, 2020 22:47

WAR CRIME GIGOLO: Oct 3, 2012; The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

Boris will do a brexit diet and lose 40 lbs in a month ans go "see mates its great for public health. Not a fattie in the ol union"

# ? Feb 2, 2020 22:50

Brendan Rodgers: Jun 11, 2014

happyhippy posted:

It's a problem in the way they can't just do stupid campy poo poo again.
Bond can't do stupid poo poo today like dress up as a clown to get to a nuclear bomb, or have two space armies firing lasers on a moonbase.
It would be laughed out of the place.
And a major facet of Bond's uniqueness is hosed too, the gadgets. Once upon a time we were amazed that they could fit a radio, or small bomb into a shoe heel.
The best today is an app to drive a car from your phone. Mission Impossible beats Bond with its gadgets too.

JAM TROUSERS! loving useless Q.

Sure but in the latest film Spectre, Dr Evil arrives, puts his little finger to his mouth, and explains that the reason he created Spectre as an international organisation with the means and resources to terrorise the whole planet, and has hosed with Bond for all these years, is because their father loved him more.

# ? Feb 2, 2020 23:02

Vitamin P: Nov 19, 2013; Truth is game rigging is more difficult than it looks pls stay ded

OwlFancier posted:

Perhaps the government should stop surveilling people because apparently it makes them do terror attacks.

Way more people do terrorist attacks because of islamism than surveillance that seems a dumb take.

# ? Feb 3, 2020 00:01

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

Ms Adequate posted:

Does that survey reflect a dissatisfaction with democracy, or rather with massively corrupt big-money oligarchic liberal democracy?

Tomato, tomato. When we're living in little colonies of a thousand or so, eking out a living from the asteroid belt after we gently caress the planet, we might get back to 'proper' democracy.

(i.e. only adult male landowners over the age of 40 who have completed military training can vote)

# ? Feb 3, 2020 00:48

baka kaba: Jul 19, 2003; PLEASE ASK ME, THE SELF-PROFESSED NO #1 PAUL CATTERMOLE FAN IN THE SOMETHING AWFUL S-CLUB 7 MEGATHREAD, TO NAME A SINGLE SONG BY HIS EXCELLENT NU-METAL SIDE PROJECT, SKUA, AND IF I CAN'T PLEASE TELL ME TO
EAT SHIT

Vitamin P posted:

Way more people do terrorist attacks because of islamism than surveillance that seems a dumb take.

do they fill out a survey of what first got them interested in terrorism?

# ? Feb 3, 2020 00:50

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

awesome

https://twitter.com/CLPNominations/status/1224057594861453313?s=20

# ? Feb 3, 2020 00:56

Red Oktober: May 24, 2006; wiggly eyes!

RockyB posted:

Tomato, tomato. When we're living in little colonies of a thousand or so, eking out a living from the asteroid belt after we gently caress the planet, we might get back to 'proper' democracy.

(i.e. only adult male landowners over the age of 40 who have completed military training can vote)

Service Guarantees Citizenship!

# ? Feb 3, 2020 01:03

baka kaba: Jul 19, 2003; PLEASE ASK ME, THE SELF-PROFESSED NO #1 PAUL CATTERMOLE FAN IN THE SOMETHING AWFUL S-CLUB 7 MEGATHREAD, TO NAME A SINGLE SONG BY HIS EXCELLENT NU-METAL SIDE PROJECT, SKUA, AND IF I CAN'T PLEASE TELL ME TO
EAT SHIT

Jose posted:

awesome

https://twitter.com/CLPNominations/status/1224057594861453313?s=20

hell yes

# ? Feb 3, 2020 01:09

crispix: Mar 28, 2015; Grand-Maman m'a raconté
_{(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)}

Hello, dear

happyhippy posted:

It's a problem in the way they can't just do stupid campy poo poo again.
Bond can't do stupid poo poo today like dress up as a clown to get to a nuclear bomb, or have two space armies firing lasers on a moonbase.
It would be laughed out of the place.
And a major facet of Bond's uniqueness is hosed too, the gadgets. Once upon a time we were amazed that they could fit a radio, or small bomb into a shoe heel.
The best today is an app to drive a car from your phone. Mission Impossible beats Bond with its gadgets too.

JAM TROUSERS! loving useless Q.

Feel obliged to post this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1rMALinMxs.

# ? Feb 3, 2020 01:35

duckmaster: Sep 13, 2004; Mr and Mrs Duck go and stay in a nice hotel.

One night they call room service for some condoms as things are heating up.

The guy arrives and says "do you want me to put it on your bill"

Mr Duck says "what kind of pervert do you think I am?!

QUACK QUACK

RockyB posted:

The Met don't need any more loving databases, they already just spin up a new one every time someone raises a stink about their data retention policies. But don't worry, now we're out of Europe we won't have those pesky GDPR / human rights court shitheads interfering anymore:

Important to note, and important to tell every Brexiteer you meet, and over and over again as loudly as possible, that the ECHR (and the human rights convention) are Council of Europe things and literally nothing has changed with respect to them.

# ? Feb 3, 2020 02:02

Honj Steak: May 31, 2013; Hi there.

Camrath posted:

Well, just completed the first production run of my new vegan fudge, and though I may be biased, you guys are totally missing out if you don�t get in on this!

Same flavour and texture (with a slight hint of coconut), zero animal products of any form. It�s delicious and probably the one I�m most proud of so far.

Do you have a recipe to share? Sounds intriguing!

# ? Feb 3, 2020 02:08

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

duckmaster posted:

Important to note, and important to tell every Brexiteer you meet, and over and over again as loudly as possible, that the ECHR (and the human rights convention) are Council of Europe things and literally nothing has changed with respect to them.

Right, but you cannot be a member of the EU without being signed up to the ECHR so that's not quite the gotcha you think it is. The sequence of events that leads to STRING EM ALL UP has to start with leaving the EU.

# ? Feb 3, 2020 02:09

Comrade Fakename: Feb 13, 2012

Austin Powers isn�t really a parody of Bond films, it�s really more of a parody of the legions of sub-Bond ripoffs that floated around in the sixties, like Man from UNCLE and In Like Flynn.

# ? Feb 3, 2020 02:09

ThomasPaine: Feb 4, 2009; We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

Should I vote for butler or burgon or rayner for deputy, I genuinely don't know.

I'm going RLB for leader.

# ? Feb 3, 2020 02:31

WhatEvil: Jun 6, 2004; Can't get no luck.

ThomasPaine posted:

Should I vote for butler or burgon or rayner for deputy, I genuinely don't know.

I'm going RLB for leader.

Butler then Burgon then Rayner IMO.

I'm debating whether to actually put Rayner on there. Not that keen on her.

WhatEvil fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Feb 3, 2020

# ? Feb 3, 2020 02:44

ThomasPaine: Feb 4, 2009; We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

WhatEvil posted:

Butler then Burgon then Rayner IMO.

I'm debating whether to actually put Rayner on there. Not that keen on her.

Genuine question, why don't you like rayner? She seems alright? Have I missed something?

# ? Feb 3, 2020 03:16

happyhippy: Feb 21, 2005; Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup; Pillbug

Comrade Fakename posted:

Austin Powers isn�t really a parody of Bond films, it�s really more of a parody of the legions of sub-Bond ripoffs that floated around in the sixties, like Man from UNCLE and In Like Flynn.

The best Bond rip off is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O.K._Connery

MST3K did an episode on it, so easy to youtube search and watch. Funny as hell.

# ? Feb 3, 2020 03:37

WhatEvil: Jun 6, 2004; Can't get no luck.

ThomasPaine posted:

Genuine question, why don't you like rayner? She seems alright? Have I missed something?

Can't find it now but she's been pretty sneery and lovely towards Butler for one thing.

She also #MeToo'd a post on twitter about racism in the House of Commons which was dodgy.

Also this:

https://twitter.com/nehashah_/status/1219285616711602176?s=20

# ? Feb 3, 2020 03:53

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

WhatEvil posted:

Can't find it now but she's been pretty sneery and lovely towards Butler for one thing.

She also #MeToo'd a post on twitter about racism in the House of Commons which was dodgy.

Also this:

https://twitter.com/nehashah_/status/1219285616711602176?s=20

Running up the score on PLP nominations (and blocking people on Twitter who politely asked why she wouldn't lend nominations to Dawn Butler) is a bit of a worry. Plus that she was even able to run up the score with the PLP, you pretty much have to assume anyone that popular with them has to be at least a bit poo poo.

# ? Feb 3, 2020 04:05

Chuka Umana: Apr 30, 2019; by sebmojo

http://web.archive.org/web/19981201052808/http://www.news.bbc.co.uk/

Just spent all night pretending I was in 1998 the dream of new labour is alive in my heart

# ? Feb 3, 2020 07:50

Miftan: Mar 31, 2012; Terry knows what he can do with his bloody chocolate orange...

ThomasPaine posted:

Genuine question, why don't you like rayner? She seems alright? Have I missed something?

She was shadow education secretary for ages and I personally know a lot of people in education who were not happy with her. She said she was fine with academies if they can provide a good service to the community, for example. I'm not happy with anyone who is ambivalent about the privatisation of schools.

# ? Feb 3, 2020 08:23

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

Vitamin P posted:

Way more people do terrorist attacks because of islamism than surveillance that seems a dumb take.

I might have been being facetious based on the fact that several of the recent ones have been people under surveillance.

WhatEvil posted:

Butler then Burgon then Rayner IMO.

I'm debating whether to actually put Rayner on there. Not that keen on her.

What's burgon like? Don't know much about him either way.

OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 10:00 on Feb 3, 2020

# ? Feb 3, 2020 09:56

Pistol_Pete: Sep 15, 2007; Oven Wrangler

Yeah, from the reports, the reason he was stopped so quickly was that there were armed surveillance officers lurking in the vicinity and they confronted him as soon as he kicked off.

Given he'd been released from prison, there wasn't much more they could do.

# ? Feb 3, 2020 10:07

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

Looking forward to the perfectly spherical brain association saying that the ones that will reoffend shouldn't be released from prison.

# ? Feb 3, 2020 10:10

Tesla was right: Apr 3, 2009; Whats with all the robot sex avatars?

OwlFancier posted:

What's burgon like? Don't know much about him either way.

He's a good egg, successfully sued the Sun for libel, and has announced some decent policies, but he's had some pretty underwhelming media appearances.

There are better candidates for deputy, but he's definitely not a bad candidate.

# ? Feb 3, 2020 10:17

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

I'm putting butler first but wondering about second preferences.

# ? Feb 3, 2020 10:22

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# ? May 24, 2024 07:46

crispix: Mar 28, 2015; Grand-Maman m'a raconté
_{(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)}

Hello, dear

duckmaster posted:

Important to note, and important to tell every Brexiteer you meet, and over and over again as loudly as possible, that the ECHR (and the human rights convention) are Council of Europe things and literally nothing has changed with respect to them.

Please don't do this :cripes:

# ? Feb 3, 2020 10:30

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