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Who is your first pick in the deputy leadership race? This poll is closed.
R. Allin-Khan	6	1.60%
R. Burgon	80	21.33%
D. Butler	72	19.20%
A. Rayner	35	9.33%
I. Murray	5	1.33%
P. Flaps	177	47.20%
Total:	375 votes

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Gonzo McFee: Jun 19, 2010

https://twitter.com/pavanvan/status/1235935770239696901?s=19

Centrism is a loving disease.

# ? Mar 8, 2020 02:08

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# ? May 26, 2024 03:26

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

Gonzo McFee posted:

Centrism is a loving disease.

https://twitter.com/haveigotnews/status/1235904083808194563?s=19

# ? Mar 8, 2020 02:44

CoolCab: Apr 17, 2005; glem

goddamnedtwisto posted:

This is easily my worst vice as a writer. You can tell how many times I've bothered to edit any bit of writing by how many needless subjunctives there are in it.

(Actually my worst vice is to always forget to close at least one set of brackets, which makes me a bad writer and an even worse coder

mine is i repeat words - i do this all the loving time. if i use an adjective in one sentence, scan the paragraph - i have almost certainly unconsciously repeated it elsewhere.

# ? Mar 8, 2020 04:23

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

PISS FLAPS new account revealed itself in this thread

# ? Mar 8, 2020 04:38

Pistol_Pete: Sep 15, 2007; Oven Wrangler

With large areas of Italy being placed under quarantine, I'm seriously considering for the 1st time what supplies I'd need if I couldn't leave the house for 2-3 weeks. I was out in town yesterday and everyone was still carrying on much as normal but I can see a tipping point coming where people flip from complacency into panic.

# ? Mar 8, 2020 05:57

Qwertycoatl: Dec 31, 2008

Guavanaut posted:

I went tesco today and there was lots of toilet paper, but they were completely out of hand sanitizer, and also completely out of frozen mushrooms. The latter was far more annoying because I like to buy a big bag and use them in stuff across a couple of weeks.

When I went, there was plenty toilet paper left but the stock had clearly been massively depleted. The pasta was all gone except the weird expensive kinds though.

# ? Mar 8, 2020 08:37

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

https://twitter.com/jimwaterson/status/1236566917885898752?s=19

# ? Mar 8, 2020 09:22

Jedit: Dec 10, 2011; Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

Gonzo McFee posted:

https://twitter.com/pavanvan/status/1235935770239696901?s=19

Centrism is a loving disease.

Deleted. What was the Piss Coronavirus?

# ? Mar 8, 2020 10:41

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

Who could have predicted Harman would be useless

https://twitter.com/Barristerblog/status/1235632603350200320?s=19

# ? Mar 8, 2020 10:44

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

Jedit posted:

Deleted. What was the Piss Coronavirus?

https://twitter.com/fgsPolitics/status/1236395790299533312

Guessing this. The fallout from it also introduced me to Donut Twitter which I suppose is American piss diamond/spider brooch Twitter.

# ? Mar 8, 2020 10:58

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

https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1236591900720799744?s=19

# ? Mar 8, 2020 11:01

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

Lol of course

https://twitter.com/IrvineWelsh/status/1236407332692733953?s=19

# ? Mar 8, 2020 11:06

Pistol_Pete: Sep 15, 2007; Oven Wrangler

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/jimwaterson/status/1236566917885898752?s=19

Great to see that the government's focusing on the issues that matter, rather than irrelevancies like the coronavirus and Brexit.

# ? Mar 8, 2020 11:08

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

https://twitter.com/samcoatessky/status/1236574253098688512?s=21

Oh good. Glad that's all sorted.

# ? Mar 8, 2020 11:22

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

US Healthcare coming to the UK shortly if the tories get their way:

An American friend just posted on FB the total so far billed to insurance for the (trouble-free) delivery and birth of her son and postnatal care of her new baby - $50k!!!

# ? Mar 8, 2020 11:39

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

Lol cool they know he cant win and are still going to rig it in his favour

https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/status/1236501804042592258?s=19

# ? Mar 8, 2020 11:40

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

Britain, 2020: Please ignore the ongoing health and economic crisis

I still think it was caused by friction burns.

# ? Mar 8, 2020 11:43

wooger: Apr 16, 2005; YOU RESENT?

Isomermaid posted:

The amount of complaining about having to do that "now" is skeeving me out beyond all belief. I'm no germophobe but I'm wondering if I'll ever touch anything again

The one thing I�ve long thought is that it�s gross that restaurants in the UK don�t have a hand washing station the the front for you to use before you eat.

If you�ve travelled in some bits of the Far East / Muslim countries it�s nearly compulsory, and makes so much sense to wash your hands, in public view, without having to go into a bathroom and touch door handles to get out again.

This coronavirus scare raises the point that people trust the packaging of all the food they buy to be clean and sanitary. We take things out of a cupboard / fridge, and use our hands to eat without any washing at any point.

In reality they�ve been sitting around in a shelf, handled by at least two supermarket employees, and could have anything on them.

# ? Mar 8, 2020 11:56

feedmegin: Jul 30, 2008

Qwertycoatl posted:

When I went, there was plenty toilet paper left but the stock had clearly been massively depleted. The pasta was all gone except the weird expensive kinds though.

Same, but the massive bags of rice and giant tubs of ghee were fully stocked. The name brand feta had been cleared out but the ASDA Smart Price salad cheese was plentiful. I blame middle class white people.

# ? Mar 8, 2020 11:56

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

wooger posted:

The one thing I’ve long thought is that it’s gross that restaurants in the UK don’t have a hand washing station the the front for you to use before you eat.

If you’ve travelled in some bits of the Far East / Muslim countries it’s nearly compulsory, and makes so much sense to wash your hands, in public view, without having to go into a bathroom and touch door handles to get out again.

This coronavirus scare raises the point that people trust the packaging of all the food they buy to be clean and sanitary. We take things out of a cupboard / fridge, and use our hands to eat without any washing at any point.

In reality they’ve been sitting around in a shelf, handled by at least two supermarket employees, and could have anything on them.

You're supposed to eat the meal with cutlery provided

# ? Mar 8, 2020 11:58

Comrade Fakename: Feb 13, 2012

Isomermaid posted:

Some people do work like this honestly, other people just stack the decks in their favour.

Underrated post.

# ? Mar 8, 2020 12:06

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

feedmegin posted:

I blame middle class white people.

Generally works.

# ? Mar 8, 2020 12:20

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

feedmegin posted:

Same, but the massive bags of rice and giant tubs of ghee were fully stocked. The name brand feta had been cleared out but the ASDA Smart Price salad cheese was plentiful. I blame middle class white people.

https://twitter.com/johnsweeneyroar/status/1236293689758097408

Scenes.

e: loving congratulations Twitter algorithm which somehow displays the right bit in the crop on the site but not in an embed:

# ? Mar 8, 2020 12:30

Jel Shaker: Apr 19, 2003

Bury your Parmesan and wine in your garden like Samuel Pepys for extra security

# ? Mar 8, 2020 12:47

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

He's buried at St Olave's Church, not in my garden.

# ? Mar 8, 2020 12:49

wooger: Apr 16, 2005; YOU RESENT?

stev posted:

As someone with Mormons in the family, they live all over the UK and pretty much every town has a LDS church.

City maybe. I think you underestimate how many towns there are.

Jose posted:

You're supposed to eat the meal with cutlery provided

Yes, there are definitely no cases where we eat with our hands - especially not the bread which many restaurants give you, or things like sandwiches and cakes.

# ? Mar 8, 2020 13:12

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

80s anime villain Lisa Nandy:

wooger posted:

I think you underestimate how many towns there are.

# ? Mar 8, 2020 13:17

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

wooger posted:

City maybe. I think you underestimate how many towns there are.

Yes, there are definitely no cases where we eat with our hands - especially not the bread which many restaurants give you, or things like sandwiches and cakes.

List of 49000 UK towns (you have to pay to get it)

https://www.townslist.co.uk/

# ? Mar 8, 2020 13:26

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

80s chatline Lisa Nandy:

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

List of 49000 UK towns (you have to pay to get it)

# ? Mar 8, 2020 13:59

Pesky Splinter: Feb 16, 2011; A worried pug.

Apparently the libdems are doing their own leadership race - I literally forgot about Swinson~~'s existance~~ losing her seat.

Candidates so far, are the nobody she ran against before, and the other loving nobodies still in the party.

# ? Mar 8, 2020 13:59

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

It's Chuka's time to shine, baby!

# ? Mar 8, 2020 14:02

feedmegin: Jul 30, 2008

Guavanaut posted:

It's Chuka's time to shine, baby!

He has the same problem Swinson has, viz: the electorate told him to gently caress off.

# ? Mar 8, 2020 14:04

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

Maybe if they start with someone who doesn't hold a seat they might be able to increase their seats in the next election rather than losing harder every time.

# ? Mar 8, 2020 14:05

bessantj: Jul 27, 2004

Iranian lawyer who defended women�s right to remove hijab gets 38 years, 148 lashes

quote:

After two trials described by Amnesty International as �grossly unfair,� Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been sentenced to a total of 38 years in prison and 148 lashes.

Sotoudeh, who has dedicated her life to defending Iranian women prosecuted for removing their hijabs in public, has been in the crosshairs of Iran�s theocratic government for years. In 2010, she was convicted of conspiring to harm state security and served half of a six-year sentence. Then, in June of last year, she was rearrested on an array of dubious charges. Tried in secret, details of her ordeal have often come via her husband, Reza Khandan, who wrote of her new, much harsher sentence on his Facebook page on Monday.

Sotoudeh was ultimately charged with seven crimes and given the maximum sentence for all of them. Five additional years were added from a 2016 case in which she was convicted in absentia. The total 38-year sentence was severe even by Iranian standards � a country often accused of human rights abuses, particularly involving women. Observers say it may signal a newly hardline approach to political dissent. Last week, a radical cleric linked to mass executions in the 1980s was appointed head of the Islamic Republic�s judiciary.

Critics from around the world decried the outcome of Sotoudeh�s case. Amnesty International said it was harshest sentence documented against a human rights defender in Iran in recent memory. Hadi Ghaemi, the executive director of the New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran, told CBS News it exposed �the insecurity the regime has to any peaceful challenge.�

The same day Sotoudeh was sentenced, the UN investigator on human rights in Iran held up her case as a sign of the country�s increasingly brutal oppression of those who defend the rights of women. �Worrying patterns of intimidation, arrest, prosecution, and ill-treatment of human rights defenders, lawyers, and labor rights activists signal an increasingly severe state response,� he said.

That's pretty insane.

# ? Mar 8, 2020 14:28

Regarde Aduck: Oct 19, 2012; c l o u d k i t t e n; Grimey Drawer

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

US Healthcare coming to the UK shortly if the tories get their way:

An American friend just posted on FB the total so far billed to insurance for the (trouble-free) delivery and birth of her son and postnatal care of her new baby - $50k!!!

I get confused by this. How does anyone in America make money? How does anyone have savings? If they apply a system like that here, where there is obviously much less disposable income, everyone is going to be permanently in debt. The new 'rich' will be someone that merely has 0 money.

# ? Mar 8, 2020 14:42

big scary monsters: Sep 2, 2011; -~Ｓｋｕｌｌｗａｖｅ~-

I feel like the latest email from Keir Starmer asking for donations is treading a little close to the line.

From the formatting and language you could easily be forgiven for thinking this is an official Labour Party funding drive and that the money would go to the party rather than to Starmer's campaign.

# ? Mar 8, 2020 14:51

xtothez: Jan 4, 2004; College Slice

Regarde Aduck posted:

I get confused by this. How does anyone in America make money? How does anyone have savings?

They typically have a choice of:
a) Be born rich
b) Rampant nepotism & corruption
c) Incredible luck
d) All of the above

Regarde Aduck posted:

If they apply a system like that here, where there is obviously much less disposable income, everyone is going to be permanently in debt. The new 'rich' will be someone that merely has 0 money.

That's the idea. A working population living paycheck to paycheck can't afford luxuries like industrial action or time off sick. They're also immediately replaceable by other desperate folks.

# ? Mar 8, 2020 15:07