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Bundy posted:They're normally around the 300 notes mark I like how this is still a phrase despite the pound note ceasing to be a thing when I was sitting the entrance exam for secondary school & half the thread wasn't born yet  Edit: 30 year olds post date the pound note now.
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feedmegin posted:I like how this is still a phrase despite the pound note ceasing to be a thing when I was sitting the entrance exam for secondary school & half the thread wasn't born yet Wow that is scary! 30 years ago I was nearly 30. Now I'm fast approaching (next few weeks) 2x30. And then I'll be nearer 3x30 than 1x30 OMG.
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If it helps you can write off like the first 15 years as not really counting. Or in my case because you can't remember them.
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Feb 8, 2020 16:45
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Ouch, but perhaps not surprising in Zone 2 https://twitter.com/CLPNominations/status/1226139468073185280
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Feb 8, 2020 16:49
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Is it okay to ship politicians, because that's an otp right there.
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Junior G-man posted:It's raining so you might as well enjoy feedmegin posted:I like how this is still a phrase despite the pound note ceasing to be a thing when I was sitting the entrance exam for secondary school & half the thread wasn't born yet   about them not bringing them back when it turned out that the old pound coins were poo poo.Like it's the perfect storm, the pound note was phased out because it kept falling to bits. Then the fiver was pulled for the same reason 30 years later, but rather than a £5 coin (which do exist) they went for a polymer note. Then they discovered that half the pound coins in circulation were fake and the other half were Swazi currency and so the Bank of England used their fancy new presses to release a polymer replac... hahaha no the Royal Mint wasted millions on some dodecagonal bullshit. I'm genuinely surprised that this didn't become a Brexit thing, like blue passports, imperial measurements, lightbulbs, and the noose.
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Feb 8, 2020 17:16
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ronya posted:There has never been a political question where the left does not feel that the underlying empirical cause of all unhappiness is insufficient leftism, of course - any exception is but a brief flight of false consciousness - but if one asks Scottish independence supporters why they support independence, a great many cite sovereigntist motivations - I'm just going to go ahead and ignore the Quebec comparison because the two situations are completely different in every aspect other than "non-ethnic nationalist movement", and drawing parallels between them is as useful as talking about 3rd-century Roman politics. Is it really surprising when the decisions coming out of Westminster for four decades have been more or less "gently caress Scotland" that people agree to that first question? Without further probing it's meaningless and certainly not enough to say that particularly ex-Labour SNP voters are now all tuning into BBC Alba and drawing up plans for Darien 2.0. The SNP have done an excellent job of triangulating into a position that *feels* leftist but give no actual details of how they intend to achieve their goals - something I'd have thought you'd have been all for, to be honest - and have picked up the dissatisfied Labour voters left behind by ScotLab being the most consistently incompetent force in politics. Now I will accept that - just as with the UKIP>Tory pipeline south of the border - that a lot of those voters are now identifying more with nationalism than socialism, and so will be much harder to bring back into the fold, but just as with those English voters Labour cannot possibly gain anything by switching to a nationalist stance because the voters just won't believe them and the existing nationalist parties just sound much more convincing.
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ronya posted:Ouch, but perhaps not surprising in Zone 2 By three votes.
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Feb 8, 2020 17:21
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Fwiw our quorum requirement was... 5% of the CLP, we got 10%  And the dickhead former MP certainly didn't stack it with his mates while some of the good folk couldn't come cos the venue wasn't ramp accessible. It's going to be slightly funny in a not actually very funny way if starmer wins it and all his supporters crawl back to whatever hole they crawled out of and then whinge when he loses cos nobody wants to campaign for him lol. Not least cos most of them will probably be dead by the next election anyway. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Feb 8, 2020 |
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Just an aside, if I look at my local CLP facebook page, most of the most vocal ones on there are blairites. It puts people like me off posting there, however whenever there *are* posts/comments from Corbyn supporters, they get *loads* of likes on there. So I think all these poo poo noms could be a symptom of the same thing?
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Feb 8, 2020 17:38
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It's coming.  https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/1226167351160246276
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Feb 8, 2020 17:43
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All of England has an amber warning https://mobile.twitter.com/metoffice/status/1226092008596529152
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Feb 8, 2020 17:48
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Real shame I gotta go to work on sunday lol. Though my bit of england appears to be outside the area. England does not stop at hull.
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Feb 8, 2020 17:51
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WhatEvil posted:poo poo noms
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Feb 8, 2020 17:52
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:All of England has an amber warning Not all of it, the north-east seems not to be covered - is that just because they've already written it off given Jose's presence?
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I'm just going to go ahead and ignore the Quebec comparison because the two situations are completely different in every aspect other than "non-ethnic nationalist movement", and drawing parallels between them is as useful as talking about 3rd-century Roman politics. "gently caress Scotland" as a theory has to be taken with care; BES after BES shows that Scottish people are not and have never been substantially leftward on 'the issues' than E/W people and a great deal hinges on the perception (rightly or not) of high-handedness or lack of consultation rather than contending that outcomes in a self-governing Scotland would actually be different. As Corbyn himself vividly demonstrated, triangulating into a position that *feels* leftist but giving &c is certainly possible, but would itself be contingent on a personal style and credibility that is not available to others in the Labour left fold, even personally anointed successors. I don't think the option is open to ScotLab any longer; no matter what they do, their best hope may be to survive as a minor party and not shed seats to the dedicated minor parties in the Scottish Greens and Scottish Lib Dems. Westminster will continue to wipe them out under FPTP. Holyrood will favour tactical joint opposition with the Scottish Tories because of the SNP juggernaut in a PR system. Labour MSPs will want flexibility to tack leftward or rightward of Labour E/W on-the-fly moving forward just to remain viable; giving the impression of waiting for orders from the English party is itself going to be toxic for an MSP. This includes pitching ScotLab as 'the real socialist party ostentatiously neutral on the Scottish question because SOCIALISM IS THE REAL QUESTION, COMRADES' (which I note is very different from your earlier pitch as the return-to-national-sanity party) - there will still be many times such a party will want to deviate from... say... a Labour E/W left leadership that, for E/W reasons, decisively resolves to keep nuclear missiles and in particular to keep parking them in Faslane. Corbyn might have managed to steer ScotLab back to relevance, but he instead expended - or was obliged to expend by wider political circumstances, perhaps - his considerable political capital on instead triangulating a different dicey national question. This was a sui generis opportunity, I think; Labour has run out of grizzled 1980s veterans of the party struggle (one notable aspect of the current crop is how young all their political careers are) ronya fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Feb 8, 2020 |
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:All of England has an amber warning in before the inevitable OwlFancier rant e: it appears not
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OwlFancier posted:Real shame I gotta go to work on sunday lol. Please provide proof, BBC says otherwise.
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According to the BBC guide, everywhere north of Harrogate is just
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It's genuinely been really nice up here for the past week apart from a bit breezy yesterday. I'll believe this storm when I see it.
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Weather can amber all it wants I don't stop until the met office says the safeword.
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Feb 8, 2020 18:38
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Whenever something like this comes along, I have to balance my desire to go out in the super strong winds just to marvel at the power of it, with the desire not to be killed by a flying sign or tree branch. Maybe if I just go out in the garden and put a hard hat on...
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I, meanwhile, am going to have to figure out when it's OK to take a small and energetic dog for a walk.
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The dog is probably low enough it won't get hit by any flying debris.
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Darth Walrus posted:I, meanwhile, am going to have to figure out when it's OK to take a small and energetic dog for a walk. I've got one of them too. Well, he's not that energetic these days at 12, but he still likes his walks. He has gotten more fussy about the weather in his old age though, and I get the feeling that if I try and take him out in gale force winds he's just gonna nope out and settle for a poo poo in the garden tbh.
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If you're lucky the dog may decide that it doesn't like the storm and spend the duration expressing its displeasure at god by screaming constantly.
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OwlFancier posted:The dog is probably low enough it won't get hit by any flying debris.
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Bardeh posted:Whenever something like this comes along, I have to balance my desire to go out in the super strong winds just to marvel at the power of it, with the desire not to be killed by a flying sign or tree branch. Maybe if I just go out in the garden and put a hard hat on... I too would like to experience storm Ciara but I fear I'd get fallen on by a tree and break my neck, my back
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:All of England has an amber warning  going to sleep through it almost entirely and wake up like:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCdRFMp8Xwo
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Julio Cruz posted:I too would like to experience storm Ciara but I fear I'd get fallen on by a tree and break my neck, my back Your pussy and your crack?
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Kin posted:Ah right, that's peculiar then. The 20MHz bandwidth is a compatibility setting for old stuff that don't understand new(ish) protocol stuff. Using a wifi extender usually effectively halves your connection speed, since half the width is used for extender/router traffic. This isn't simple to fix without replacing one of the wifi links with a wired connection--even if you get a wank router with dozens of antennae, that could mean it picks up more of other people's wifi, which would restrict the bandwidth it can use. 5G wifi has much shorter range, since the higher frequency stuff can't dodge walls and stuff as well as 2.4g. This is actually a plus in most urban settings, since that means it doesn't have to negotiate bandwidth with as many neighbors. Also it's got a lot more channels than 2.4g since higher frequency enables denser traffic. Your phone's very probably got a better antenna than a usb 3g router--also, it could support phone traffic frequency bands which your router can't. This is a bigger issue with LTE, but there are lots of 3g variants as well. I'm reasonably certain the above's correct, but it was a long time ago I had to bother with any of this stuff
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Lisa Nandy in "only being 99% poo poo" incident: https://twitter.com/lisanandy/status/1226186843475128322?s=20
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OwlFancier posted:England does not stop at hull. All light, all mercy, all sanity stops at Hull.
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From Hell, Hull, and Halifax, good Lord deliver us.
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ronya posted:Corbyn might have managed to steer ScotLab back to relevance Im not sure an English bloke from North Islington doing that would be a good look tbh. Scottish Labour kind of has to fix itself but this is a bit of a tricky chicken and egg problem...
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Hull's not too far from me. Place is getting gentrified to gently caress. No toll for motorcycles on the humber bridge but the wind is crazy most days.
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feedmegin posted:Im not sure an English bloke from North Islington doing that would be a good look tbh. Scottish Labour kind of has to fix itself but this is a bit of a tricky chicken and egg problem... Glasgow is pretty darned Remainy, and the swing away from 2017 gains is noticeable It turns out that there are some former Labour heartlands that matter and some that don't
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OwlFancier posted:Surely if she was anti british she would remove the B, not the E? Saying we don't have an empire is about the most anti-British thing the likes of Turdboy Young can think of.
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ronya posted:Glasgow is pretty darned Remainy, and the swing away from 2017 gains is noticeable I dont see what that has to do with my statement. Scottish Labour cannot be revivified by fiat from the UK leader's office in London. Scottish Labour has to have a Scottish leader and Scottish members who can appeal to Scots, because it is a political party operating in Scotland where the voters are Scottish. The whole 'branch office' thing gets trotted out enough as it is. Edit: unless you mean UK Labour going hard remain right from the get go? Given that the SNP were already hard remain, I'm just not convinced that would suddenly produce a bunch of Scottish Labour seats. There are deeper problems than Brexit there and they long predate 2016. feedmegin fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Feb 8, 2020 |
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