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Pilchenstein posted:Has anyone actually checked what Burgon said? Not that I'm casting doubt on the factual reporting of Dan "wrong about everything ever" Hodges but it wouldn't be the first time he's wildly misrepresented someone just to score points Essentially he's just proposing that party support for military action is put to a membership vote, with a few specific exceptions such as where forces will be reacting to an imminent threat or working as part of a UN sponsored coalition. It's not a bad policy but it's easy to misrepresent to beat him with. Once upon a time in the US many years ago there was some support for a military policy that would make all offensive wars subject to a public referendum, effectively prohibiting the great majority of them. What a world we could have known! ThomasPaine fucked around with this message at 12:46 on Feb 6, 2020 |
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In practice it's not that different to open selections in that if an MP wants to maintain favor with their CLP then they'd want to go along with the wishes of the local membership on such major issues as armed intervention, but because it's war and are boys it's easy to twist it as Panzers driving up the A46 while Burgon frantically texts the membership roll to see if we're allowed to shoot back.
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frankenbeans posted:You should be able to set play order in the podcast app, it's a per-podcast setting, iirc. Oh yeah, there it is. Thanks!
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ThomasPaine posted:Once upon a time in the US many years ago there was some support for a military policy that would make all offensive wars subject to a public referendum, effectively prohibiting the great majority of them. What a world we could have known!
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Batten down the hatches. https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/1225388763486081027
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Guavanaut posted:It's an insurance company, and 'the general fund for provision of Scottish widows, orphans, and sisters in the event of death at war' was a bit of a mouthful. And they advertise with women who are far too young and happy for my liking. If I were with the fuzz I'd be asking exactly how you came to be a widow, madam.
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Well they're happy because of the insurance payment, obvs.
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She absolutely looks like she’s the kind of person when she’s told “Ma’am, we’re afraid your husband has died” responds “Poisoned? Oh how terrible!” before being told it was poison.
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Red Oktober posted:She absolutely looks like she’s the kind of person when she’s told “Ma’am, we’re afraid your husband has died” responds “Poisoned? Oh how terrible!” before being told it was poison. Pictured: definitely not a panto villain: 
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quote:Stanley Johnson, met Chinese ambassador Liu Xiaoming and emailed his worries to UK officials - accidentally copying in the BBC. God they're all such incompetent dickheads. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51394044
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*an advertising agency, Kent [but with a London mailbox]* "She should look happy that her miserable Scotch husband is dead." "I'm not sure you can say that anymore." "Righto, she should look happy that her miserable Scottish husband is dead." *laughter and biscuit games all round*
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Saros posted:God they're all such incompetent dickheads. Why is the Prime Minister's dad meeting foreign ambassadors, again?
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Feb 6, 2020 13:34
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Boris lost his Chinese homework again.
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Niric posted:Pictured: definitely not a panto villain: Still makes more sense than Lloyds: The Horse Bank for Horses and their Horse Families
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sebzilla posted:Still makes more sense than Lloyds: The Horse Bank for Horses and their Horse Families I dunno, it makes perfect sense for a British bank to be heavily involved in horse-racing, seeing as it's been a nexus of organised crime since forever. What's more surprising is that they want to advertise it.
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Kassad posted:Why is the Prime Minister's dad meeting foreign ambassadors, again? https://twitter.com/JimMFelton/status/1200127836608221184
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sebzilla posted:Still makes more sense than Lloyds: The Horse Bank for Horses and their Horse Families INT. OFFICE OF ADAM & EVE/DDB, CIRCA 2009 LLOYDS EXEC We're looking for something that conveys the stability, competence, and far-sightedness that the UK financial services industry is renowned for, something that definitely does not look at all like a horse that's only just realised its forgotten to bolt the stable door and is now panicking MARKETING EXEC: 
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https://twitter.com/rob_k_abrams/status/1225389806815006722?s=21
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sebzilla posted:Still makes more sense than Lloyds: The Horse Bank for Horses and their Horse Families Pretty sure that they artificially lengthened the tail of the foal in the recent adverts - foals tend to have stupid stubby tails for ages.
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Darth Walrus posted:I dunno, it makes perfect sense for a British bank to be heavily involved in horse-racing, seeing as it's been a nexus of organised crime since forever. What's more surprising is that they want to advertise it.
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Third Coronavirus patient in the UK, Brighton this time. Seems to have acquired it in China then traveled here before becoming symptomatic so not a worry at this point.
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The Scottish widows creator formed it to provision for the wives of Scottish ministers specifically, and it was one of the first cases of applying actuarial tables to calculate what premiums need to be.
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Feb 6, 2020 14:51
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Lloyd's horse always made me assume they were saying their investments are a dark horse.
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Feb 6, 2020 14:55
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Tesseraction posted:Lloyd's horse always made me assume they were saying their investments are a dark horse. Wikipedia says it's based on fairly obscure historical origins, being the sign of the goldsmith shop where a precursor of the bank was based for a few decades in the sixteen-hundreds. Of course that doesn't explain a) why it is still the same, and b) why would a goldsmith have a horse shop sign in the first place.
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On a related note, why do pawnbrokers have three balls?
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One less and it'd be a ballbreakers.
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Ballbrokers sounds like the inevitable evolution of all those antiques/cash in attic/pawn stars shows.
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Guavanaut posted:On a related note, why do pawnbrokers have three balls? From St Nicholas, patron saint of merchants and pawnbrokers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas#Iconography quote:In one of the earliest attested and most famous incidents from his life, he is said to have rescued three girls from being forced into prostitution by dropping a sack of gold coins through the window of their house each night for three nights so their father could pay a dowry for each of them. ... The episode with the three dowries is commemorated by showing him holding in his hand either three purses, three coins or three balls of gold
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Guavanaut posted:On a related note, why do pawnbrokers have three balls? It's from the coat of arms of the OG bankers of the early medieval era the Medici family who were bankers to about half the royal families in Europe. Over time it became the symbol of high class bankers then the symbol of bankers then the symbol of anyone lending money.
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So it's canon that Santa has three balls?
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sebzilla posted:This is the poo poo Labour need to be doing Problem: Working class Americans are not working class British. The working class British are a particular issue at the moment as their personal zeitgeist is one of racism, paranoia and insularity. There's currently nothing to energise.
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Guavanaut posted:On a related note, why do pawnbrokers have three balls? Because someone hocked one to make rent.
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Ha ha yes https://twitter.com/JohnHyphen/status/1225344849924284416?s=19
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This is incredibly petty and childish. But then again so is Brexit, so fair play.
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sebzilla posted:Still makes more sense than Lloyds: The Horse Bank for Horses and their Horse Families I'm a black horse with a black horse family and we like to dramatically gallop down stormy beaches, but I'm not happy with Lloyds' interest rates so I bank with HSBC. e: HSBC, the massively patronising fake localism advertising bank mrpwase fucked around with this message at 16:20 on Feb 6, 2020 |
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