Who is your first pick in the deputy leadership race? This poll is closed. |
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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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I gave my neighbour about a 3rd of my toilet roll today because when i asked if she needed anything thing she said she was down to 4 rolls (she has 2 kids)
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# ? Mar 20, 2020 22:55 |
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A couple of months ago, my mother was mocking my brexit stash of canned veg and meat/fish. Just 3 weeks ago, my brother in law was mocking my brexit stash of various essentials. NOW who's laughing? They had to drive 20 miles today to get a chicken. But seriously, one of my friends is a divorced, single mother with 7 kids and they all have complex health needs. Some of the kids are teenage boys and we know how they hoover up food. She is in some distress over the limits the supermarkets are imposing on purchases let alone that the shops don't have stuff in them. My physio is closed for the duration and my hip and leg are in agony if I walk more than 100m else I would offer to go get stuff for her (she lives about 30 mins walk away - an hour's walking). Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Mar 20, 2020 |
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CoolCab posted:good luck with first party nintendo games. i'm very happy if i can get it for under 40 (but then you can resell after so it's kind of a wash) ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:to be fair, you could wheel out a 20 foot high pile of dogshit which just screams "YOU'RE ALL GOING TO DIE" and it would look good instead of our PM
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# ? Mar 20, 2020 22:58 |
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Only pc game I've got close to paying that for was a goon recommended disco Elysium which was so poo poo I stopped playing after about 10 mins. I paid quite a lot for the cowboy game on Xbox but also didn't hear from the lass I bought it for for ages so worth it. Absolutely the worst loving take.
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# ? Mar 20, 2020 22:59 |
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:to be fair, you could wheel out a 20 foot high pile of dogshit which just screams "YOU'RE ALL GOING TO DIE" and it would look good instead of our PM I don't recall it being that tall, op
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# ? Mar 20, 2020 23:14 |
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Ms Adequate posted:Right that's it you've gone too far, trolling or no, I'm calling for 99 to be Pissflaps'd. ...i really didn't like it either...
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# ? Mar 20, 2020 23:18 |
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Friend just said she thinks online gambling debts could be a big problem in a prolonged shutdown and maybe the government should either ban the ads for the duration or impose a maximum loss limit?
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# ? Mar 20, 2020 23:21 |
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otoh without any sports on, online gambling is reduced to this kind of tier games but less fun and they cost money. Sharing that site would probably do more to help stop people playing lovely video roulette.
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# ? Mar 20, 2020 23:24 |
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TACD posted:I think that might be the thin silver lining to all this, though; the fact that it’s the Tories instituting ‘hard-left’ policies shows that they’re necessary, they’re workable, and there’s no magic free-market capitalist alternative in times of crisis. They’re desperately building a life raft so the country doesn’t completely collapse and it makes it much easier to present the argument that we’d be more resilient and better off if these policies were just standard. Labour/the left need to really get on the ball with this, and the message that these are (broadly) their policies, their ideas and their principles. And that, however much they do or don't work out this year, they are infinitely better than the capitalist alternative. They've got a similar opportunity to what they had in WW2 - implementation of socialist-y policies in a time of crisis, showing how they're feasible and how they work, and then getting people saying "Well why can't we just have this all the time?" And it's like a lot of Labour's universal/cooperative ideas at the last GE; once people have something it's harder to take it away. When things get back to normal, the conversation needs to be "Why can't we always get 80% salary for three months after a job loss. We could afford it when the economy was crashing and thousands of people were losing their jobs in the space of a week, so why not now?"
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# ? Mar 20, 2020 23:25 |
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Well it looks like I’m a key worker. Nice to feel needed I guess.
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# ? Mar 20, 2020 23:27 |
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RLB has actually been tweeting some decent stuff, but all the replies are people telling her to not talk britane down
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# ? Mar 20, 2020 23:28 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Friend just said she thinks online gambling debts could be a big problem in a prolonged shutdown and maybe the government should either ban the ads for the duration or impose a maximum loss limit? You think they're going to restrict one of the only things stopping the Almighty Number dropping even further? In all seriousness I think your friend is right. I have in the past had some (minor) problems with gambling, and I've been consciously keeping off Betfair because between boredom and nothing scratching the (non-gambling) itch that football normally satisfies for me, I know the shiny casino games would have a pretty strong pull. (I have been playing the poo poo out of Poker Night 2, which makes a pretty good gambling replacement patch to help stave the cravings)
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# ? Mar 20, 2020 23:30 |
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Guavanaut posted:otoh without any sports on, online gambling is reduced to this kind of tier games but less fun and they cost money. When the bookies across the road from my local closed down, they got in three new fruit machines which I'm fairly sure take in more than they ever make from booze. Gambling addiction - particularly in people who have nothing to distract them - is a massively real problem. See also prisoners, professional footballers, and the entire global financial system.
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# ? Mar 20, 2020 23:32 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Friend just said she thinks online gambling debts could be a big problem in a prolonged shutdown and maybe the government should either ban the ads for the duration or impose a maximum loss limit? I've been getting literally nothing but ads for these scum on Facebook. Checked my interests and "Online Casino" and "Gambling" had been added even though I've never used a gambling site. So Facebook are almost certainly taking bungs from the digital roulette fuckers to push the adverts.
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# ? Mar 20, 2020 23:35 |
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I don't gamble for reasons that were originally religious and as such it's super foreign and strange to me. like smoking, it seems like one of those things that's only fun once you've already let your dopamine pathways be rewritten.
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# ? Mar 20, 2020 23:38 |
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BalloonFish posted:Labour/the left need to really get on the ball with this, and the message that these are (broadly) their policies, their ideas and their principles. And that, however much they do or don't work out this year, they are infinitely better than the capitalist alternative. "Because we *couldn't* afford it, but the government had no choice but to borrow in the short term to stop the whole economy from imploding. Now back in your box, Corbin lost!" or something.
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# ? Mar 20, 2020 23:40 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:When the bookies across the road from my local closed down, they got in three new fruit machines which I'm fairly sure take in more than they ever make from booze. The ones that seem to target themselves more to women, like tablet apps for loud bingo/'casino' games, will probably gain. I don't doubt that the ones that are hurting will become more predatory, you'll probably see a bunch of poker sites target marketing to men I'm not on commission or anything, I promise. cardgames dot io
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# ? Mar 20, 2020 23:42 |
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I wouldn't be too hopeful about people taking away the right lessons from what's happening at the moment. The BBC news website's comments sections always provide a reliable dip stick into the collective mind of the British general public quote:1611. Posted byNick Selbyon quote:1649. Posted bykaton https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51977802 Still, it's good for a laugh sometimes quote:1664. Posted byJakerisbackon
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# ? Mar 20, 2020 23:42 |
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Those who flagrantly hoard should have their photographs taken then have them enlarged for all the public to see & put on the money and stamps.
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# ? Mar 20, 2020 23:46 |
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It's going to be sunny as hell this weekend so I'm going to spend all of it outside in the forest on my bike practicing some excellent social distancing.
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# ? Mar 20, 2020 23:47 |
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Put some 'if anyone needs groceries or needs to talk' notes through doors today, all that's happened is an old man called me saying I need to shave and ladies like a nice smooth jaw. We talked for like half an hour and it was based, I'm not gonna shave from it but so far reaching out to help others has paid off love that mad old fucker.
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# ? Mar 20, 2020 23:58 |
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Hearing rumours that H&M, Ikea and some others are gonna shut their stores effective a few hours ago or something Dunno but wouldn't be surprised if poo poo is just now starting to hit the fan properly... too loving late but oh well
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# ? Mar 21, 2020 00:04 |
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jaete posted:Hearing rumours that H&M, Ikea and some others are gonna shut their stores effective a few hours ago or something It makes sense though, if kids of all non-essential workers are at home then every parent you employ can no longer come in to work.
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# ? Mar 21, 2020 00:11 |
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Who's the main Mod on the UKMT? I want to ask permission on selling prints (to help me) and also it donates to charity (to help my girlfriends's Mum who has motor neurone disease)
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# ? Mar 21, 2020 00:20 |
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those who built their TP forts up sensibly, over time - should be praised and encouraged those who panic buy TP, desperately assembling a groverfort while denying others the ability to wipe - they will be dragged into the town square wherein people may speak at length of their faults and hit them with shoes; their TP forts will be reclaimed by the people
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# ? Mar 21, 2020 00:22 |
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Goldskull posted:Who's the main Mod on the UKMT? I want to ask permission on selling prints (to help me) and also it donates to charity (to help my girlfriends's Mum who has motor neurone disease) I have no objection to people showcasing their own stuff within reason, especially if it helps people during this time, as long as other people in the thread don't mind.
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# ? Mar 21, 2020 00:27 |
From Private Eye, presented without comment:quote:PANDEMIC UPDATE: M.D on the best medicine...
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# ? Mar 21, 2020 00:37 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:...i really didn't like it either... All joking aside, much as I love DE and think it deserves all the praise it gets, I do recognize it may not be for everyone. I certainly had to be in the right mood for it if nothing else. But the difference is you said you didn't like it, which still leaves open the possibility that you think it's good but not to your taste (Like I am with Animal Crossing and most Zeldas) rather than thinking it's bad (Like NJAN99)! crispix posted:I wouldn't be too hopeful about people taking away the right lessons from what's happening at the moment. The BBC news website's comments sections always provide a reliable dip stick into the collective mind of the British general public Just shamelessly ruining the next Comment or Commentariat!
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# ? Mar 21, 2020 00:45 |
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I'm one week into isolation and, my symptoms are mostly gone, gf has a lot more severe symptoms than me though but she's starting to recover. Been playing a ton of video games in between caring for her.
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# ? Mar 21, 2020 00:46 |
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Ms Adequate posted:None of these are enough and none of them are dyed-in-the-wool blood red policies that Lenin would take no issue with. Most of the help comes either with strings attached or still isn't enough. And there's a lot of other stuff going on as well that's not so great, for sure. But ultimately a lot of these, backed up with things like actual rent strikes, homeless siezure of unoccupied properties, and solidarity efforts to do everything from making sure nan isn't too lonely to getting groceries for people on lockdown, all add up to both a shift left and evidence that leftism has a great deal to commend it, as well as being proof positive of unrestrained capitalism's failure/inability to deal with things and the caprice of a system that would otherwise readily turf people out into the streets in a pandemic or bankrupt them for getting treatment or what have you, as well as the more mundane stuff like showing the insistence on not implementing WFH was bollocks. And sure, we'll probably swing back at least some amount the other way once the crisis has passed, but it's going to prime things for the future even if we can't hold all the gains, both in subsequent elections and the next time a big crisis hits us. This is what needs to be pushed right now or this will all be for nought. It's not enough to sit back and hope. The left needs to organise and get radical and aggressive. We've reached the endgame of late capitalism faster than anyone thought and poo poo is going to get real ugly. They're not just going to let the left take power and they'll have five years to undermine us if we keep at the failed route of electoralism in an owned democracy.
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# ? Mar 21, 2020 00:57 |
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https://twitter.com/goddersbloom/status/1241095750613905408?s=19
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# ? Mar 21, 2020 01:09 |
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gonna fight the coronavirus on the beaches of our 80 year olds lungs
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# ? Mar 21, 2020 01:10 |
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Thanks to learnincurve for the Morrissons intel! It came good, and sorry you got the roni - hope it's a mild one
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# ? Mar 21, 2020 01:13 |
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keep punching joe posted:Buckle up Just for context I used to live near that hospital and it's one of the worst-performing in London and the country in any case. It's also next to a university campus. It doesn't surprise me that it's one of the first to be overwhelmed.
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# ? Mar 21, 2020 01:16 |
So my friend works for Starbucks. What this tweet from them below means is "we've shut 120 partner owned stores, but franchisees are welcome to stay open" ("her: They closed company owned 120 stores. 760 is still open under franchises ") And hey, if she gets sick and has to take time off, she gets statutory sick pay, not the 80% salary. https://twitter.com/StarbucksUK/status/1241108762062204930 They should be loving ashamed of themselves. https://twitter.com/kirrus/status/1241131956752060417 On top of that, she's not allowed to tweet them herself, as that's a breech of her contract!
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# ? Mar 21, 2020 01:18 |
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Saving myself the effort of retyping my reply: https://twitter.com/CouncilCulture/status/1241152595521044482
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# ? Mar 21, 2020 01:22 |
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Hey forkboy thanks for the Bandcamp recommendations, I've been having a loud night in as a result. I think your tastes are a bit crustier than what I'd usually listen to but there's some good stuff there!
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# ? Mar 21, 2020 01:23 |
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Guavanaut posted:Hi. Not a mod but I do have thread mod privileges. What are the prints of? This essentially. I want to to help me , and my girlfriends Mum who has PLS and it donates to the carers who help her https://twitter.com/Endless_PaulyT/status/1240629058121187332 If everyone's cool with it, no worries, if not I'll edit Another edit: I have no money coming myselfbecause my trade in artworking is hosed and Rishi Sinak thinks I can manage on UC somehow. I've sold 4 of of these prints and I'll put the shot of my donation tp MNDA up soon Goldskull fucked around with this message at 01:41 on Mar 21, 2020 |
# ? Mar 21, 2020 01:32 |
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I know a bloke who really likes skulls, I'll make sure he sees these
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# ? Mar 21, 2020 02:14 |
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big scary monsters posted:Hey forkboy thanks for the Bandcamp recommendations, I've been having a loud night in as a result. I think your tastes are a bit crustier than what I'd usually listen to but there's some good stuff there! Check out the Leaf Library while you're there. They nurdle a lot, but you can get their entire catalogue for about £20 right now if you like it.
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