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Darth Walrus posted:Science tends to change rapidly when you actually come down with the disease you've been shrugging off. Notice how many of the Tory 'doves' caught the bug. Turns out Nadine Dorries did in fact save us all Edit: The number 47 makes frequent recurrences in dialogues and on computer screens in Star Trek. For the year 47, please see 1st century. Angepain fucked around with this message at 09:44 on May 10, 2020 |
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Since my parents retired a few years ago one of their main recurring activities is a trip to the local garden centre for overpriced coffee and two stamps on the loyalty card. They don't even have a real garden, just ~4sqm of grass and a lot of decking. My Dad would rather spend a week refitting the bathroom than spend an afternoon planting stuff.
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Cerv posted:this time of year, spring to early summer, is as important sales wise to garden centres as xmas is to high st retail. Plus wouldn't they have to dump like half their stock if it doesn't get potted in the next month or so? It's like toy shops being closed over Christmas, except at least toy products would still exist on the shelves when they finally reopened.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Is it just me or has the use of the word 'forensic' in conjunction with the word 'Starmer' reduced in the last week or so? It's Google Trends.  
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Angepain posted:It can be revealed that the Conservative frontbench has split into two warring factions. The traditionalist faction, led by a painting of Winston Churchill that began speaking in eldrich tongues one day in 1982, believes the coronavirus is caused by demons stealing pieces of human lungs to use in their occult rituals to turn children gay, and recommends a gradual program replacing all lungs by wooden bellows by 2034. The other, led by a neural net trained on bitcoin subreddits, takes the more moderate view that it is in fact caused by rats that have been shrivelled up by 3G mobile masts to the point where they can enter the bloodstream and start nibbling at one's insides, causing all kinds of mischief. They recommend diverting funds that would normally go to children's hospitals into replacing telephones with a network of ethernet sockets every 20 metres on all public roads. This paper takes the view that, while both sides have their flaws and should be subjected to respectful scrutiny, in these troubled time the Prime Minister needs the nation's support in whichever course of action he ultimately chooses to take - and we will gladly give it. Quoting for a new page, and also 
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Angepain posted:It can be revealed that the Conservative frontbench has split into two warring factions. The traditionalist faction, led by a painting of Winston Churchill that began speaking in eldrich tongues one day in 1982, believes the coronavirus is caused by demons stealing pieces of human lungs to use in their occult rituals to turn children gay, and recommends a gradual program replacing all lungs by wooden bellows by 2034. The other, led by a neural net trained on bitcoin subreddits, takes the more moderate view that it is in fact caused by rats that have been shrivelled up by 3G mobile masts to the point where they can enter the bloodstream and start nibbling at one's insides, causing all kinds of mischief. They recommend diverting funds that would normally go to children's hospitals into replacing telephones with a network of ethernet sockets every 20 metres on all public roads. This paper takes the view that, while both sides have their flaws and should be subjected to respectful scrutiny, in these troubled time the Prime Minister needs the nation's support in whichever course of action he ultimately chooses to take - and we will gladly give it. It's like China Mieville and William Gibson's minds smashed together. I'd read it.
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My first thought on seeing the new government slogan was "Stay alert! Trust no one! Keep your laser handy!" (Also note the colour change, from warning red to 'everything's good' green. Subtle, guys. Real subtle.)
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sinky posted:It's Google Trends. That's just how often is been googled, not how often is been used by the papers or whatever.
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xtothez posted:Since my parents retired a few years ago one of their main recurring activities is a trip to the local garden centre for overpriced coffee and two stamps on the loyalty card. They don't even have a real garden, just ~4sqm of grass and a lot of decking. My Dad would rather spend a week refitting the bathroom than spend an afternoon planting stuff. Garden Centres;
Which is why MP’s will have had a load of grief about opening them
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Is it just me or has the use of the word 'forensic' in conjunction with the word 'Starmer' reduced in the last week or so? It was only in the big FT fluff piece 3 times, which I thought was remarkably restrained. But I think you're probably just not noticing at much - people don't normally just stop using their chosen buzzwords.
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Vitamin P posted:Plus wouldn't they have to dump like half their stock if it doesn't get potted in the next month or so? It's like toy shops being closed over Christmas, except at least toy products would still exist on the shelves when they finally reopened. Pretty much yep. Someone posted this already but those of you who actually have space to plant and are in London or the southeast might be interested in plantsavers btw: https://plantsavers.co.uk/ They're basically buying up stock that would otherwise get thrown out and delivering it at a discount.
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are we supposed to be keeping an eye out for suspiciously foreign looking viruses and phoning the police if they start talking what we reckon might be Arabic now?
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https://twitter.com/PraxisCast/status/1259419871777087489?s=19 The latest pod is out and it's safe to say that the combination of endless lockdown and Forensic Labour has driven us completely mad by now. It's a good un! Also Comment or Commentariat is back to make Alastair lose even more sanity points.
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The choice to use the pattern of traditional hazard tape but not the default hazard colours has to be deliberate. But why - what could they be priming us for? 
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pitch a fitness posted:The choice to use the pattern of traditional hazard tape but not the default hazard colours has to be deliberate. But why - what could they be priming us for? death, presumably
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pitch a fitness posted:The choice to use the pattern of traditional hazard tape but not the default hazard colours has to be deliberate. But why - what could they be priming us for? The stripes are more West Brom away than Norwich I'd say
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https://twitter.com/mrharrycole/status/1259416232987627521?s=21 Faction war stepping up a gear.
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I know Tories are congenitally incapable of not having a faction war, but it seems a bit weird. They put him in charge and he won them a massive landslide less than 6 months ago, it can't be coming as a shock to the cabinet now that they exist to rubber stamp whatever Boris wants to do.
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Darth Walrus posted:https://twitter.com/mrharrycole/status/1259416232987627521?s=21 I am incapable of reading a Harry Cole tweet. All it reads to me is just "I let Boris Johnson steal my girlfriend & I still give him the coverage equivalent of a sloppy blowjob at every opportunity". It's so sad.
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Junior G-man posted:https://twitter.com/PraxisCast/status/1259419871777087489?s=19 Did you say you were putting these on youtube now so I can listen on my tv and do stuff instead of being wired to my computer? Ed: found the youtube channel but only 3 on there  Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 11:30 on May 10, 2020 |
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peanut- posted:I know Tories are congenitally incapable of not having a faction war, but it seems a bit weird. They put him in charge and he won them a massive landslide less than 6 months ago, it can't be coming as a shock to the cabinet now that they exist to rubber stamp whatever Boris wants to do. My thought when Boris won the leadership was always "he's there long enough to get Brexit done and take all the heat for the immediate pain, and then he's out on his ear as soon as someone thinks it's safe to go for it". I think it's most likely that the challengers will spend the rest of this year elbowing for position before going for it next year (or the year after, if it takes that long to sort out Covid), but I won't be surprised if one of the semi-outsiders pulls the trigger this year on Theresa May-style "this is the only chance I'm ever going to get to be Prime Minister so I'm just going to go for it even though it's a really difficult time to be in the job" thinking.
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peanut- posted:I know Tories are congenitally incapable of not having a faction war, but it seems a bit weird. They put him in charge and he won them a massive landslide less than 6 months ago, it can't be coming as a shock to the cabinet now that they exist to rubber stamp whatever Boris wants to do. The far right of the party have absolutely had it their own way for the last few years, mostly by screaming and wailing like a 3-year old whose toys you just took away from them. So it stands to reason that their standard strategy for all situations is to scream and wail like a 3-year old whose toys you just confiscated.
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Trin Tragula posted:My thought when Boris won the leadership was always "he's there long enough to get Brexit done and take all the heat for the immediate pain, and then he's out on his ear as soon as someone thinks it's safe to go for it". I think it's most likely that the challengers will spend the rest of this year elbowing for position before going for it next year (or the year after, if it takes that long to sort out Covid), but I won't be surprised if one of the semi-outsiders pulls the trigger this year on Theresa May-style "this is the only chance I'm ever going to get to be Prime Minister so I'm just going to go for it even though it's a really difficult time to be in the job" thinking. Even the idea that there would be challengers seems very odd. You'd think even the far right of the Tory party would have enough self-awareness to realise that the entire reason they're in the loving cabinet is to do what they're told. They did not win the election, Boris Johnson did. He is effectively Blair in 97 except there's not even an equivalent Gordon Brown figure involved.
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peanut- posted:I know Tories are congenitally incapable of not having a faction war, but it seems a bit weird. They put him in charge and he won them a massive landslide less than 6 months ago, it can't be coming as a shock to the cabinet now that they exist to rubber stamp whatever Boris wants to do. They're ideologues, chief, and the necessary measures to keep COVID-19 from killing millions are anathema to their ideology. To them, Johnson going for a government lockdown is like how we'd feel about Starmer getting into office and privatising the NHS.
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Some people are putting a lot of effort into reframing Boris and his pals in the top positions as the friendly Tories looking out for us, with some unnamed venomous snakes trying desperately to take him down every Saturday morning on CITV. The "changed man" narrative has spun off into this new thing where every decision is now being contextualised as for/against/influenced by supposed men behind a curtain.
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sassassin posted:Some people are putting a lot of effort into reframing Boris and his pals in the top positions as the friendly Tories looking out for us, with some unnamed venomous snakes trying desperately to take him down every Saturday morning on CITV. Johnson not wanting to lift lockdown doesn't mean he's suddenly a good person - he lacks the intellectual or ideological capacity to make that lockdown long-term sustainable, for one thing. Besides, we know who the venomous snakes are, because they're putting their names on Telegraph opinion columns. It's Gove, Javid, Duncan Smith, and Sunak.
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sebzilla posted:Problem is you have a load of people questioning why they should go back to wage labouring for their shelter and food as the state has proven itself capable of covering it. I'm not sure this is the case. This can be easily framed within the familiar context of household spending. "Well, I was able to put food on the table by using a payday loan company for a couple of months, but of course that's not sustainable and I need to go back to work now." The government has borrowed the money to cover the furlough payments and the usual people will have zero problems declaring that it's Common Sense it can't be done forever.
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Prince John posted:I'm not sure this is the case. This can be easily framed within the familiar context of household spending. "Well, I was able to put food on the table by using a payday loan company for a couple of months, but of course that's not sustainable and I need to go back to work now." The government has borrowed the money to cover the furlough payments and the usual people will have zero problems declaring that it's Common Sense it can't be done forever. If only we had a press capable of pointing out that this would be the equivalent of taking a payday loan from yourself with a negative APR
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I was talking to my neighbour yesterday and think he's totally gone off the deep end. Usually he's pretty lefty and reasonable, but within 5 minutes he was ranting about watching a documentary that was saying the Rothchilds had funded every major war last century and now they're moving onto generating pandemics to replace us all with robots or something. He also wanted to hug me because the government doesn't want us to touch each other as a way of making us more divided and coronavirus didn't exist. He started talking about Q but I couldn't be arsed by that point.
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justcola posted:He started talking about Q but I couldn't be arsed by that point. Huh, apparently I am a sweet summer child, only aware of the Q entity from Star Trek or Q from James Bond. It's a bit concerning when 4chan nuttery starts getting traction over here. I always
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These wasps keep trying to build a nest right above front door just above head height. I keep taking it down. I am in a war of attrition. They really want this spot for some reason.
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Jippa posted:These wasps keep trying to build a nest right above front door just above head height. I keep taking it down. I am in a war of attrition. They really want this spot for some reason. No lie, you need a fake wasp nest or maybe an old one and hang it there They very often won't go near an existing one.
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flawless comms strategy https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1259446479183392768
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Prince John posted:Huh, apparently I am a sweet summer child, only aware of the Q entity from Star Trek or Q from James Bond. Tbf Epstein has proven that the ruling classes are major nonces It's just odd they think trump is freeing kids considering how good friends he was with epstein
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Qanon is just serialised tv storytelling for boomer memes. You get hooked on individual ways in which the youth of today have ruined the world you grew up in, but now there's a background plot to keep you invested.
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Q was a very good book I read (which can be downloaded for free legit) by a quartet of Italian writers under the collective name Luther Blisset.quote:
Not sure what the OP meant by it, obviously something to do with conspiracy theories. Mind you in this novel there are plenty of conspiracies going on albeit 16th century!
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Jippa posted:These wasps keep trying to build a nest right above front door just above head height. I keep taking it down. I am in a war of attrition. They really want this spot for some reason. Douse the area in WD40? Would stop the nest from adhering.
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josh04 posted:Qanon is just serialised tv storytelling for boomer memes. You get hooked on individual ways in which the youth of today have ruined the world you grew up in, but now there's a background plot to keep you invested.  Jippa posted:These wasps keep trying to build a nest right above front door just above head height. I keep taking it down. I am in a war of attrition. They really want this spot for some reason.
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