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Shafting is sharing e; oh for gently caress's sake In 1859 Edmond Modeste Lescarbault discovered Vulcan, a planet between the Sun and Mercury. The powers that be have since worked hard to ensure this discovery remains quashed and discredited, and to convince the world that Vulcan does not exist. Ms Adequate fucked around with this message at 02:37 on Feb 13, 2020 |
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Ms Adequate posted:Shafting is sharing You sniped with this 10 pages too early.
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Metal shafts to shaft my shaft.
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Azza Bamboo posted:Metal shafts to shaft my shaft. There was a story the other day about a lady that "rolled over in bed" and managed to get her vibrating necklace stuck horizontally in her bladder.
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I have a great idea for an SCP article that is a weird anomaly that lodges objects in compromising places in the human body via an unknown process.
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OwlFancier posted:I have a great idea for an SCP article that is a weird anomaly that lodges objects in compromising places in the human body via an unknown process. it has been described as "really fuckin horny, so horny you guys"
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Guavanaut posted:Andrew KG?
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Had more high wind last night and my power got knocked out. Luckily it must have come back on in time for my storage heaters to charge again.
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OwlFancier posted:Well I think you've got to use their methods to a degree, at least right now, but when you go on the news (or make the news) you have to think about how you speak. Corbyn when he started didn't sound like a politician, he gave pretty straight answers to questions. But over time he started acting more and more like... well a politician. You can see it in the debates, when he tries to dodge questions or looks like he is, he gets booed. People shut up and even respect simple, direct answers, or at least answers that address things that actually matter. Maybe I'm sort of projecting on his question here, but I think he's getting at: How do you get through to voters that are so badly informed and incurious they literally thought Labour was in government for the last 5 years, they think Brexit is going to massively improve their lives, and they voted Boris Johnson because they voted for "change"? Do you literally just get Momentum people to float around them like Jiminy Crickett for the better part of a decade going "No, that's bullshit, no, this guy is the prime minister, no, this is how an election works." Like look at the guy who posted in this thread less than 24 hours ago, that guy was lucky enough to pay 10 dollars, come here and ask these questions, and even he's doubling down on his lack of information. And that's literally the most favorable scenario.
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I have been fighting off a cold since last weekend and now, inevitably, I've given up and decided to take some time off to actually deal with it. It's not the worst I've had, but I think if I was to go into work today, I'd probably still be off work on Monday
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:I have been fighting off a cold since last weekend and now, inevitably, I've given up and decided to take some time off to actually deal with it. It's not the worst I've had, but I think if I was to go into work today, I'd probably still be off work on Monday Taking the time you need for your health is best! Stay warm and snug, drink plenty, relax with whatever you find fun and easy to do.
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Ms Adequate posted:Taking the time you need for your health is best! Stay warm and snug, drink plenty, relax with whatever you find fun and easy to do. Right now I'm waiting for the pharmacy to open so I can get more lemsip and lockets. But this cold has been weird because it's been hovering since last Friday, settling in for a few hours then going away and usually with colds, I can feel it start and ramp up for 24 hours before I go "gently caress this, I'm taking two days off work" so I'd rather take today off and nip it in the bud so I'm not feeling miserable for the whole weekend
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I see the question was answered pretty well already so I will just link to a youtube video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAqAqODmcj4&t=1461s EDIT: Whoops! Meant to go in DIY His Divine Shadow fucked around with this message at 10:22 on Feb 13, 2020 |
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Not content with illegal deportations to states where people may at least have a claim to live, or making people stateless in extreme circumstances (like the Sun doesn't like them), the UK is just making people on holiday stateless now.
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Boris has sacked the first NI Secretary not long after Stormont got back up & running. Because protecting British troops wot dun warcrimes is more important than getting justice for British citizens I guess.
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Bundy posted:Personally I was disappointed nothing was mentioned of the Welsh being so sick of Llewelyn's rule by the time Eddie First turned up that many surrendered immediately. And lo the Cymry guard laid down their arms, and many hearts and minds were won that day. And the good people were heard to cry "We welcome you new feudal Lords as liberators!" Ushering in a thousand year of peace
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Chucat posted:
Reaching those people is what you would need to do to get your vote share above 85% or so. Which is not the task at hand. There are two groups of people that reality-based arguments work on. One is prosperous people with the energy and capability to properly evaluate arguments. These are your middle class leftists. But the other one is people with reality-based problems. Everyone is a world-class expert in their own life. And if a world class expert is unable to see how your theory matches what they know, you need a better theory.. If instead you target prosperous people with bad solutions to imaginary problems, you don’t get that double effect, and in fact any reality based argument will only piss off one group of the other. This is called Liberalism.
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Guavanaut posted:Not content with illegal deportations to states where people may at least have a claim to live, or making people stateless in extreme circumstances (like the Sun doesn't like them), the UK is just making people on holiday stateless now. The Home Office is just the absolute worst.
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Fumble posted:There was a story the other day about a lady that "rolled over in bed" and managed to get her vibrating necklace stuck horizontally in her bladder. Was this in Take a Break? Also just great to see Bojo sacking the first half competent Tory NI secretary in decades. He probably told Cummings to gently caress off or something.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I used to enjoy being a chambermaid - when I left school before starting uni and again while doing weekend jobs to boost my pathetic income from my office job in my 20s.
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Johnson doing a cabinet reshuffle today. Remember when Corbyn did a Shadow Cabinet reshuffle and the headlines were all 'Corbyn and the left tighten iron grip on party by expelling all who disagree with him'? Strangely, not seeing headlines like that about Johnson.
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Chucat posted:Maybe I'm sort of projecting on his question here, but I think he's getting at: It's this, for the record. The theory is all well and good, but unless we;re ltierally in their ears and eyes every second of every day, we don't have the time to change minds. Changing minds takes years of concerted effort, not the couple of hours we're likely to actually get during an election period. We miss, as political wonk types, the fact that not everyone cares as much as we do. Not everyone THINKS as much as we do. So unless one is prepared to spend every minute of every day aggressively proselytising in marginal constituencies, and can somehow do that without just annoying people, I'm not sure how that message reaches the minds of the people it needs to reach. Because it would be nice to persuade the politically active centrists and conservatives that they're ultimately harming themselves, but the politically active centrists and conservatives aren't the ones who lost us the last four elections.
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Chucat posted:Maybe I'm sort of projecting on his question here, but I think he's getting at: We're trained to puff out ideas into 10k words of florid prose and impenetrable research to inflate our grades, whereas the pieces that make their way through to people like my dad (slipping into the wrong side of the class war day by day) are ones written in direct statements, short and concise, using emotive language. We're taught not to use things like alliteration, but the other side got everyone talking (even ironically) about Bunging a Bob to Boris for Big Ben to Bong for Brexit. This isn't about saying they're stupid, it's about saying they're normal. Their brains haven't been broken into writing explorations of the issues surrounding an idea, they just write the goddamn idea. People's attention spans tend to last about 750 words for an internet article, which makes a Rod Liddle or Richard Littlejohn column far more likely to penetrate than a 2500 word medium.com piece carefully laying out all the issues and leaving the decision to you, [bane voice] the people. Clarkson gets a huge readership not because he uses some kind of idiocy hoodoo to trick people, he does it by saying "I don't think climate change is real" where a hundred guardian columnists are writing meandering puff pieces about driving their kids to school which somehow come to absolutely no conclusion at all. And again, this goes back to Corbyn's language becoming more evasive and rhetorical towards the election, being led away from the very thing that connected him to people. People are making a huge deal about Sanders in the US answering the question of if he told Warren a woman couldn't be president by straight up saying 'No.' Towards the end of the campaign, Corbyn's responses were slipping more and more into "Look, [brain instantly turns off after years of hearing this as politician for 'I'm going to fluff my way out of this]." But I mean to directly answer your question of how? gently caress knows. It'd require a culture change in centre-left media. Start a lefty tabloid, start running guardian pieces through something like the Hemingway App, stop paying the various Corens by the word. Move Labour central office out of London and the influence of PR wankers.
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I'd honestly like to be a chambermaid or a janitor. Cleaning is already my mental coping mechanism, so getting paid to do it would just be a bonus. Plus, yeah, having a job that ends the moment your shift is done is excellent. No emails being sent home asking you to just finish this task off ASAP.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Johnson doing a cabinet reshuffle today. There has kind of been the same from less biased sources. E.g. Reuters - https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-politics-smith/johnson-sacks-minister-who-restored-northern-ireland-power-sharing-idUKKBN20713T quote:Prime Minister Boris Johnson sacks the minister who helped end three years of political stalemate in Northern Ireland, prompting criticism that Johnson is indifferent to the fate of the province. Expect the tory rags to be praising his sacking though, given he was the first good Northern Irish Secretary for a long while. ukle fucked around with this message at 12:35 on Feb 13, 2020 |
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Apparently my CLP nominated Starmer and RAK last night. Bleh.
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:I'd honestly like to be a chambermaid or a janitor. Cleaning is already my mental coping mechanism, so getting paid to do it would just be a bonus. Become an independent cleaner, my friend does it with her sister and they make a massive amount
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It will warm your heart to hear that Anglian Water have not only just lost the Scottish Local Authorities water account (which is worth an eight figure amount of money per annum) a year early, but were also told not to bother submitting a tender for the new round of procurement.
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Ratjaculation posted:Become an independent cleaner, my friend does it with her sister and they make a massive amount I expect you can make even more if you do that Nude Cleaning Definitely Not A Sex Thing stuff
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Trust me, if I were to do it, the more lucrative business would be Pay Me To Keep My Clothes On Cleaning.
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Jedit posted:It will warm your heart to hear that Anglian Water have not only just lost the Scottish Local Authorities water account (which is worth an eight figure amount of money per annum) a year early, but were also told not to bother submitting a tender for the new round of procurement. PM Nandy will send in the troops to crush the rebellious Scots stopping good honest companies.
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sebzilla posted:Apparently my CLP nominated Starmer and RAK last night. Bleh. Same as mine a few days ago. I had quite honestly totally forgotten about RAK and the other chap. Murray?
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Bobby Deluxe posted:But I mean to directly answer your question of how? gently caress knows. It'd require a culture change in centre-left media. Start a lefty tabloid, start running guardian pieces through something like the Hemingway App, stop paying the various Corens by the word. Move Labour central office out of London and the influence of PR wankers. There is a lefty tabloid, the morning star, no one loving buys it (and that's independent of it being a terf rag). The entire point is you can't make people just read this stuff, they're incurious, that's the point. You're trying to break constant bombardment on a subliminal (glancing at tabloids) and a blatant (watching BBC News, watching This Morning) level by going "Yeah hope they read a lefty tabloid where we use the small words and they have a Damascene conversion"
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:I'd honestly like to be a chambermaid or a janitor. Cleaning is already my mental coping mechanism, so getting paid to do it would just be a bonus. There are times i miss having a job like this, like when i worked retail or managed a warehouse, and just did routine work. The job i have now is very much of the "creative thinking" kind, which is great when I'm in the mood for it, but if I'm not (and I'm not at the moment), i find myself unable to do the work and it fills me with anxiety. I get paid a *lot* for my current role so i can't complain too much, but if there was a routine job going in my company and it paid less I'd be very very tempted. The thought of switching companies though is terrifying, so I feel a bit limited by what becomes available here
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Bobby Deluxe posted:People's attention spans tend to last about 750 words for an internet article, which makes a Rod Liddle or Richard Littlejohn column far more likely to penetrate than a 2500 word medium.com piece carefully laying out all the issues and leaving the decision to you, [bane voice] the people. I like the lefty tabloid idea, but I think there's two big problems: First, where the money comes from, but social media kinda helps that for folks like Another Angry Voice and Anniversary of the Miners' Strike. Second, like that 10k words of florid prose and impenetrable research I linked earlier says, low effort thinking tends conservative. That's not "conservatives are all stupid" but that it's a lot lot easier to get a regressive idea like "shouldn't have done the crime then if you didn't want deporting" into a simple article than to prove that systemic racism exists to someone who doesn't want to see it. The only way I can think to shortcut that is outrage from the voices of the oppressed. Outrage is low effort thinking too. Which often happens by pure chance, like the Daily Mail editor's Black plasterer's cousin getting murdered. That tends to be highly individualistic in nature though, Stephen Lawrence was an individual tragedy by the Bad Racists but Mark Duggan was a thug. The only thing we can do is keep amplifying these individuals as simplistic 'bad thing happen' and hope people see the right pattern.
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ukle posted:There has kind of been the same from less biased sources. E.g. Reuters - https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-politics-smith/johnson-sacks-minister-who-restored-northern-ireland-power-sharing-idUKKBN20713T Seems fairly clear cut. Smith managed to help broker a deal to restore Stormont but because he wouldn't go down Borris preferred line that soldiers aren't prosecuted for historic offences* he gets fired. I fully expect No. 10 will appoint someone who is most likely English and will say horribly offensive stuff about Ireland and Northern Ireland like many of the previous Tory NI ministers. * = Boris seems to hate the idea of any people being prosecuted for any historic offenses of any sort. I wonder why? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2019/mar/13/boris-johnson-says-investigating-historic-child-abuse-a-waste-of-money-video
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Apparently Javid's gone. This is good for Corbyn.
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Lefty tabloid: There's this http://www.thewordmedia.co.uk/ which some folk in a pro-Corbyn FB group I used to be on started. I've never read it. There was a print version but seems like they've struggled with that so I'm not too sure if that's still available. I just had a look a the content on the Media tab and two videos with Piers Corbyn on Climate Change (which I haven't watched, but I know he's a 'denier'). This is an 'about' http://www.thewordmedia.co.uk/news-of-the-word/4594584184
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RIP eggman
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I mean yeah you could go the Evangelical Christian route and run shelters and stuff and just preach a left-wing message to captive audiences, but then the odds of them just switching off and tuning out and then voting Tory again anyway is probably there, that and I'm 99% sure this is verging on criminal activity (in a boring way).
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