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I just came in to point out that The UK is currently losing people at a daily rate significantly faster than than it took military deaths during WW1 on average. It's not quite up to the daily tolls of Passchendaele or The Somme yet, so there is still something to aim for. E: gently caress, what a snipe to start the page with. ReelBigLizard fucked around with this message at 12:40 on Apr 12, 2020 |
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If any of you like good independent dive bars Bradley's is struggling in lockdown, you can help here https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-bradleys-spanish-bar-alive I loving love that place, I painted the logo on the shutter last year and did their t-shirt artwork for them.
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ReelBigLizard posted:I just came in to point out that The UK is currently losing people at a daily rate significantly faster than than it took military casualties during WW1 on average. Military deaths or casualties?
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Apr 12, 2020 11:59
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more police being stupid fash bastardsquote:A hospital trust has said it was forced intervene with Cambridgeshire police after officers stopped staff on their way to work and told them NHS ID cards were insufficient evidence of essential travel. I completely support shutting down society and non-essential travel, but it is worrying (if not very surprising) how quickly and eagerly the police seem to have seized the opportunity to turn into the Gestapo's idiot cousins not to mention the impromptu informer networks dobbing their neighbours hopefully this will all go back in the box after the lockdown ends
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Apr 12, 2020 12:02
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XMNN posted:more police being stupid fash bastards How the heck would an essential worker who is not in the NHS with an ID card prove it then? I have various friends not in 'uniformed' jobs who are deemed essential workers but have desk-based jobs in various different organisations that are keeping the UK going under lockdown! Apparently police were out in our town yesterday (we're a bit of a tourism hotspot this time of year). But I haven't been out for 3 days now (those hayfever tablets supposedly non-drowsy made me extremely sleepy so I've come off them again and hope I'll be up for a walk this afternoon or tomorrow!)
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Apr 12, 2020 12:23
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:How the heck would an essential worker who is not in the NHS with an ID card prove it then? I work in the Co-Op, they've given us a letter on headed paper signed by the shop manager.
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Apr 12, 2020 12:28
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I've got a letter from work if we need to go to the data centres or office.
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Apr 12, 2020 12:29
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https://twitter.com/searinglight2/status/1249138764867424257?s=20 (Reply to Saunders tweet says 'no truth to rumour' - guess we'll have to wait and see!)
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Apr 12, 2020 12:29
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XMNN posted:more police being stupid fash bastards I'm not doing a Coohoolie thing here but Police Scotland seem to being noticeably less Gestapo about all this than several constabularies down south.
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Apr 12, 2020 12:30
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So many melts online defending tory-led eugenics
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Apr 12, 2020 12:32
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:How the heck would an essential worker who is not in the NHS with an ID card prove it then? I have various friends not in 'uniformed' jobs who are deemed essential workers but have desk-based jobs in various different organisations that are keeping the UK going under lockdown! my work have provided me with a letter, but it looks like it's basically up to the whim of the officers involved so who knows if that would be sufficient (sort of) fortunately I went off ill just before the crisis got really real and have been pseudo-working from home so I haven't had to test it out, and my commute is on the motorway where I hope they're less likely to flag you down I went for my semi-government approved walk up to the park yesterday and a police van drove up the access road as I was going up it. I'd seen them coming out a few days ago, so I wandered towards the carpark to see what they were up to (just in case they were going to head into the woods and I'd have to keep an eye out for them  ) and they literally just turned around. I guess they were just checking if the car park was full, but they can't have even got out and had a quick look in the main bit of the park given how fast they came back, so I'm not sure what the point was. The park is emptier than normal on the weekends, but there's still the downhill bikers using it in groups (although smaller than usual) which is probably not a great idea even if they do live together, given how badly you can gently caress yourself up coming off them. Plus the cunts shouldn't be there at any time really, especially as they dig up paths to make jumps and poo poo and are a general menace to other people using the park. 
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Apr 12, 2020 12:39
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Just had to check what Derbyshire police are up to and it looks like they stopped flying drones over the moors and now portable BBQs have set them on fire, twice. Which is nice.
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Apr 12, 2020 12:40
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Failed Imagineer posted:Military deaths or casualties? I mistyped, it is deaths. I haven't compared known infected rates vs. WW1 daily casualties, I imagine it's a lot worse.
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Apr 12, 2020 12:41
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OwlFancier posted:how the gently caress does leftism work at all? Jaeluni Asjil posted:How the heck would an essential worker who is not in the NHS with an ID card prove it then? I have various friends not in 'uniformed' jobs who are deemed essential workers but have desk-based jobs in various different organisations that are keeping the UK going under lockdown! Perhaps more relevantly, how are people supopsed to go loving shopping?
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Apr 12, 2020 12:42
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Failed Imagineer posted:"Cucked" has spread pretty far. Wouldn't be surprised if there was reference to what a cucked year it's been in the Queen's Speech One of the few things I argue with a close friend about is that word. It gives me such a gross feeling all over, the awful racial element, etc, he insists it's funny and a great way to describe weak people doing lovely things.
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Apr 12, 2020 12:53
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Vitamin P posted:Absolute bullshit, there were lots of people on this very forum that correctly noticed the name Change UK was funny as gently caress stop lying, and if 'reee' is a specific reference to autistic people then it's news to me I've only known it as animalistic frustration noise reference. I don't believe you don't know what you're doing you blueshirt nazi gently caress
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Apr 12, 2020 12:54
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thespaceinvader posted:A question I've been asking myself and other leftists for a decade. If you have an answer I'd be glad to hear it. I'd start by being white and middle class I was going to say this would be easier if they made us sign our own permission form like they are in Italy, at the moment it's just "you can only leave for certain reasons" and then it seems to be just up to the police deciding what that means and how they're going to enforce it. There's literally no mention of having to prove what you're up to on the government website or my local police one and they also don't say what constitutes sufficient evidence that your journey is essential (or even that you need evidence) but in reality they would still use it as an opportunity to harass people they don't like the look of because that's the scorpion nature of the policeman
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XMNN posted:I'd start by being white and middle class Well yeah, that's how I do it. Equally, I don't think I've even seen a police car between here and either of the shops I go to routinely.
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Apr 12, 2020 12:57
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Coohoolin posted:One of the few things I argue with a close friend about is that word. It gives me such a gross feeling all over, the awful racial element, etc, he insists it's funny and a great way to describe weak people doing lovely things. I hate it because it’s exclusively used by cishet misogynist morons. Everything about that word In every context treats women as property.
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Apr 12, 2020 13:00
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Guavanaut posted:
I don't see any reason to believe that. The people who want to use meme magic to usher in a global fascist hegemony are also perfectly capable of using their frog story as a cover for the latter.
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it rules that a thousand people die a day and the press is so busy championing wartime pm boris johnson that they forget to report it lol
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Vitamin P posted:Absolute bullshit, there were lots of people on this very forum that correctly noticed the name Change UK was funny as gently caress stop lying, and if 'reee' is a specific reference to autistic people then it's news to me I've only known it as animalistic frustration noise reference. It is 100% a thing making fun of autistic people and had been for years and years pm the chan boards, so consider yourself better informed now.
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learnincurve posted:I hate it because it’s exclusively used by cishet misogynist morons. Everything about that word In every context treats women as property. Also with the added flavour of racist overtones. It's a garbage term for garbage people.
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Apr 12, 2020 13:14
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forkboy84 posted:I'm not doing a Coohoolie thing here but Police Scotland seem to being noticeably less Gestapo about all this than several constabularies down south. Something about the water in the East Midlands (and Cambridge), apparently. The Met have been surprisingly chill afaik.
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Apr 12, 2020 13:18
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Very sad news, which I have chosen to deliver in a way that would upset Pissflaps, I hope it helps: https://twitter.com/realrossnoble/status/1249310691439177730?s=19
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Apr 12, 2020 13:19
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Munin posted:I thought some UKMT people might get a kick out of this article about the cool charts that were create to illustrate the impact of the 5 year plan: Thanks!
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Apr 12, 2020 13:22
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That main pic with the boxing gloves is meant to make him look virile and powerful, right? I'm not gonna get into what it actually conveys to me for fear of doing an ableism, but it's not "competent adult who should be running a country". It's pretty much of a piece with the picture of Trump in the cab of a truck screaming. 
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Apr 12, 2020 13:26
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It's pretty cool that they are calling both their PM and the 78 thousand other Britons who've gotten COVID, wimps. Especially the 10k who've croaked. WIMPS!
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Apr 12, 2020 13:27
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Nenonen posted:It's pretty cool that they are calling both their PM and the 78 thousand other Britons who've gotten COVID, wimps. Especially the 10k who've croaked. WIMPS! Even the most charitable interpretation is that this is merely the personal opinion of the man running the country, in which case... 
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Tesla was right posted:I don't see any reason to believe that. The people who want to use meme magic to usher in a global fascist hegemony are also perfectly capable of using their frog story as a cover for the latter. Every other time they've tried to be 'clever', like using clovergender to conflate trans/NB people with pedophiles or setting up fake woke twitters to screenshot themselves and say "this is what the left actually believe" or spreading #EndFathersDay as a thing feminists believe they've left so many tells in that it's been obvious and/or they've been caught talking about it on publicly visible forums. Reee started entirely as a frog thing, not even chan-specific, there was some of it in these very forums.  Then the alt-right started using it as a version of the rebel yell for 21st century nazi dipshits, and any later conflation with the *autistic screeching* chan meme was just a social shift, not a deliberate cover up. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 13:44 on Apr 12, 2020 |
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Guavanaut posted:To be honest I don't think they are. It's literally this frog: https://twitter.com/AAAAAAGGHHHH/status/1246870912126853121 (Which doesn't really add anything to the discussion but it's absolutely hilarious)
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Apr 12, 2020 13:45
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https://twitter.com/bdmcclay/status/1249246445527535617?s=20 The all time great tweet
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Bardeh posted:BJ been let out of hospital and taken to Chequers to He that was ventilated, was raised on the third day, according to the Scriptures of the Daily Mail.
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Apr 12, 2020 14:01
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forkboy84 posted:The all time great tweet Some people got sick because of additives like diacetyl, or because of black market THC vape juices that contained lung damaging ingredients. Some other people got sick because of nicotine free vape juice, nicotine is toxic as poo poo to all life* and so even low nicotine vape juice is basically bacteriostatic, whereas nicotine free juice (especially if you make your own and reuse containers) can become a petri dish that you inhale. The US solution was to go after flavored vape juice, not the ones that were actually causing the problems.  *Except plants in the nightshade family for obvious reasons, and the bacteria that causes Lyme disease for non-obvious reasons  
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Cambridgeshire represent! A.C.A.B.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:(those hayfever tablets supposedly non-drowsy made me extremely sleepy so I've come off them again and hope I'll be up for a walk this afternoon or tomorrow!) For future reference, "non-drowsy" usually just means "we added caffeine".
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Guavanaut posted:That's pretty lol, but the US government reaction to vaping has been amazingly stupid. I've always wondered whether something like legionella would make it through a vape, or whether it would be denatured. Sigh, if I had the time, funding, and access to a class 2 laboratory.
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feedmegin posted:Something about the water in the East Midlands (and Cambridge), apparently. The Met have been surprisingly chill afaik. Even though there's a lockdown there's still stabbings and poo poo going on so they might have better things to do. Haven't seen much police around our neighbourhood at all. They must be so glad there's a long weekend and for once there's not hordes of people outside getting drunk all day lmao
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