UKMT April 2020 - The Betacoronavirus and the Virgin Atlantic

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crispix: Mar 28, 2015; Grand-Maman m'a raconté
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Hello, dear

ThomasPaine posted:

Kinda frustrating because we all know that, not being a de facto Brexit election, Labour will probably pick up a few marginals next time round but still lose by a heavy margin, but that tiny gain will be taken as evidence that Starmer is doing a better job than Corbyn ever was. Everyone will very conveniently forget 2017.

Everyone already has. It's as if it never happened. They don't even try to explain it away, they just pretend there wasn't a 2017 election

# ? Apr 5, 2020 21:17

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# ? May 24, 2024 22:32

Chuka Umana: Apr 30, 2019; by sebmojo

Oodles posted:

https://twitter.com/bbcbreaking/status/1246894412472483841?s=21

Oh poo poo!!!

# ? Apr 5, 2020 21:19

Jel Shaker: Apr 19, 2003

Lol boris

# ? Apr 5, 2020 21:19

ronya: Nov 8, 2010; I'm the normal one.

You hate ridden fucks will regret your words when you eventually grow up.

Peace.

remember when the left-wing narrative of Labour gains in 2017 was not because Labour was unsustainably triangulating on Brexit, or because it was running to the right of Ed Miliband on austerity and immigration when these were the top issues for voters, but because it had awoken the nation to socialist possibilities

# ? Apr 5, 2020 21:20

Drone_Fragger: May 9, 2007

Boris in hospital, lmao.

# ? Apr 5, 2020 21:20

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

Rip in piss nerd.

# ? Apr 5, 2020 21:21

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

Cytokine storm :pray:

# ? Apr 5, 2020 21:22

Prism Mirror Lens: Oct 9, 2012; ~*"The most intelligent and meaning-rich film he could think of was Shaun of the Dead, I don't think either brain is going to absorb anything you post."*~

Tarnop posted:

How do you do, fellow proles

https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1246879088951857154

Remember the good times, when Corbyn wouldn�t sing God Save? :sigh:

# ? Apr 5, 2020 21:22

Filboid Studge: Oct 1, 2010; And while they debated the matter among themselves, Conradin made himself another piece of toast.

Guavanaut posted:

A thriving free market in viruses.

I was thinking about this on my official allocated walk just now, and I think I have a solution.

One of the places I was walking was a field backing on to some housing. Kids playing in back yards, pets out, and loving gigantic hares the size of cats running through the field munching on things.

For pests that size, using a legal over the counter air rifle would be neither humane nor reliable, but using a shotgun that close to housing would be inconsiderate to say the least, so any sensible regulatory system should encourage the safest option. But it doesn't at the moment, because it's harder to get a 36 ft-lb air rifle than a 3,000 ft-lb scattergun that throws lead balls everywhere and startles cats. That's crazy.

So, a possible solution, write air guns out of the firearms act entirely. Like redefine it from 'a lethal barrelled weapon of any description from which any shot, bullet or other missile can be discharged' to 'a lethal barrelled weapon of any description from which any shot, bullet or other missile can be discharged by the action of a chemical propellant', because that's what firearms are.

Then bring in an entirely separate piece of legislation that makes it a criminal offence to buy, sell, manufacture, import, transfer, etc, etc, any air gun (above, say, 1 ft-lb, so everything except plastic airsoft guns) without a valid DBS check that's clean of any animal abuse, domestic violence, mugging, armed robbery, etc.

So that would hopefully ease some of the strain on firearms certificates, as pest controllers with FAC air rifles would no longer need them, it might also reduce the number of shotgun certificates as farmers find it more convenient to choose less dangerous guns, and it should allow Joe Farmer to easily buy a suitable gun to control hares while discouraging John Gammon from buying an air gun for his tearaway grandson by presenting a minor hurdle that's just enough to piss off the idiot crew. And it wouldn't extend to possession so dad's spring gun in the attic isn't suddenly a firearm if it's a warm day, and it's achievable with existing legal mechanisms.

Of course with any cure-all there's probably something I'm missing there, but it seems to avoid the pitfalls of the Scottish licensing experiment.

Hares were too far away to get a good picture but I also saw some hennes just chilling so here's a birb pic.

Brown hares are a protected species, and a priority species under the Biodiversity Framework, not �pests�

# ? Apr 5, 2020 21:22

Julio Cruz: May 19, 2006

Oodles posted:

https://twitter.com/bbcbreaking/status/1246894412472483841?s=21

oh please please pleeeeeeease

# ? Apr 5, 2020 21:23

Not So Fast: Dec 27, 2007

Tarnop posted:

How do you do, fellow proles

https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1246879088951857154

Now is really not the time to press the big red Republicanism button, this is a decent response.

# ? Apr 5, 2020 21:23

thrashingteeth: Dec 22, 2019; depressive hedonia
always tired
taco tuesday

Oodles posted:

https://twitter.com/bbcbreaking/status/1246894412472483841?s=21

Is a history happening fellas?

# ? Apr 5, 2020 21:24

Marmaduke!: May 19, 2009; Why would it do that!?

Queenie on telly to soften the blow for Boris' swift exit from the premiership (and life)

# ? Apr 5, 2020 21:25

ThomasPaine: Feb 4, 2009; We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

Oodles posted:

https://twitter.com/bbcbreaking/status/1246894412472483841?s=21

hahahaha

# ? Apr 5, 2020 21:25

Jel Shaker: Apr 19, 2003

He�s gone to shake a few more hands to prove herd immunity works

# ? Apr 5, 2020 21:25

Nonsense: Jan 26, 2007

BORIS

# ? Apr 5, 2020 21:25

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

Julio Cruz posted:

oh please please pleeeeeeease

I wouldn't be quite so keen to hand over to Acting PM Dominic Raab, he'll sell the country to a witch for some magic beans that cure COVID.

# ? Apr 5, 2020 21:25

Wachter: Mar 23, 2007; You and whose knees?

Bozzer's in hozzer

# ? Apr 5, 2020 21:27

Tarnop: Nov 25, 2013; Pull me out

Not So Fast posted:

Now is really not the time to press the big red Republicanism button, this is a decent response.

"The queen speaks for the whole country", says knight of the realm who allegedly represents the working class

# ? Apr 5, 2020 21:27

ContinuityNewTimes: Dec 30, 2010; Я выдуман напрочь

Not So Fast posted:

Now is really not the time to press the big red Republicanism button, this is a decent response.

Always smash the button

# ? Apr 5, 2020 21:28

keep punching joe: Jan 22, 2006; Die Satan!

Put him on a ventilator.

# ? Apr 5, 2020 21:28

keep punching joe: Jan 22, 2006; Die Satan!

Take it on the chin you oval office.

# ? Apr 5, 2020 21:29

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

Poor boris, thought of state intervention and died.

# ? Apr 5, 2020 21:31

ContinuityNewTimes: Dec 30, 2010; Я выдуман напрочь

keep punching joe posted:

Put him on a ventilator.

I reckon he can tough it out, no need to make the man uncomfortable

# ? Apr 5, 2020 21:31

Kreeblah: May 17, 2004; INSERT QUACK TO CONTINUE; Taco Defender

Oodles posted:

https://twitter.com/bbcbreaking/status/1246894412472483841?s=21

It's . . . happening?

# ? Apr 5, 2020 21:31

knox_harrington: Feb 18, 2011; Running no point.

poo poo getting extremely real

# ? Apr 5, 2020 21:32

HidaO-Win: Jun 5, 2013; "And I did it, because I was a man who had exhausted reason and thus turned to magicks"

Gove already in the hospital air ducts, pillow in webbed talon, dripping fluids, waiting for his chance to be King.

# ? Apr 5, 2020 21:33

Wachter: Mar 23, 2007; You and whose knees?

poo poo was heretofore fictional

# ? Apr 5, 2020 21:34

sassassin: Apr 3, 2010; by Azathoth

Tarnop posted:

"The queen speaks for the whole country", says knight of the realm who allegedly represents the working class

lol this is what they mean by "electable". He's a member of the club.

# ? Apr 5, 2020 21:34

ThomasPaine: Feb 4, 2009; We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

I guess he wasn't lying about catching it at least lol

# ? Apr 5, 2020 21:34

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

Boris premiership:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h31XhMki-MU

# ? Apr 5, 2020 21:34

keep punching joe: Jan 22, 2006; Die Satan!

Who was the last PM to die in office?

# ? Apr 5, 2020 21:35

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

Oodles posted:

https://twitter.com/bbcbreaking/status/1246894412472483841?s=21

This is Great for Jeremy corbyn.

# ? Apr 5, 2020 21:35

sassassin: Apr 3, 2010; by Azathoth

He's milking this for all it's worth and rallying a lot of twitter support from the "forget politics, this is important as someone we've heard of might die" brigade.

Fingers crossed, innit.

# ? Apr 5, 2020 21:36