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prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band

Private Speech posted:

Far too much competition in the shithead media department

Rupert Murdoch already owns half of the UK media, doesn't he? Bringing Fox news over seems like it would be redundant.

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Stoatbringer
Sep 15, 2004

naw, you love it you little ho-bot :roboluv:

oh no not fox news oh woe is me alas and alack

Avirosb
Nov 21, 2016

Everyone makes pisstakes
https://twitter.com/Big_Headers/status/1261545435635859457

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
boris didn't get coronavirus he got small pox

https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1262067858642591744?s=20

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




“stay alert” for fuckin what

XMNN
Apr 26, 2008
I am incredibly stupid
interesting watching the cunts bounce between "I am not a man a number, I need a haircut and to go down the garden centre and to meet my awful friends in the middle of a pandemic and you're all being so UNFAIR :qq:" and "fuckin whiny snowflakes, can't deal with a bit of hardship, not like in my dad's day with the blitz and the charging up beaches to show Jerry what for"
https://twitter.com/LeaveEUOfficial/status/1262094234305380354?s=20

hemale in pain
Jun 5, 2010





didn't farmers vote for brexit? i think it was like over 50% of them in polls i read months ago. imagine voting to gently caress yourself to spite the foreigners who've been giving you tons of money for years.

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

>>=

Squizzle posted:

“stay alert” for fuckin what

Any coughing done by a minority

oliwan
Jul 20, 2005

by Nyc_Tattoo
uh, when did leave.eu go full, literal, fash?

https://twitter.com/LeaveEUOfficial/status/1261973521691021312

namesake
Jun 19, 2006

"When I was a girl, around 12 or 13, I had a fantasy that I'd grow up to marry Captain Scarlet, but he'd be busy fighting the Mysterons so I'd cuckold him with the sexiest people I could think of - Nigel Mansell, Pat Sharp and Mr. Blobby."

Day after forming I guess?

Private Speech
Mar 30, 2011

I HAVE EVEN MORE WORTHLESS BEANIE BABIES IN MY COLLECTION THAN I HAVE WORTHLESS POSTS IN THE BEANIE BABY THREAD YET I STILL HAVE THE TEMERITY TO CRITICIZE OTHERS' COLLECTIONS

IF YOU SEE ME TALKING ABOUT BEANIE BABIES, PLEASE TELL ME TO

EAT. SHIT.


oliwan posted:

uh, when did leave.eu go full, literal, fash?

They literally used a nazi poster with ME refugees instead of jews years back.

Oh and they are very concerned about Labour antisemitism of course.

pdog
May 7, 2013
https://twitter.com/bbcpolitics/status/1262429409186848770?s=21

embarrassing

Hillary 2024
Nov 13, 2016

by vyelkin

What a maverick thing to do

Hillary 2024
Nov 13, 2016

by vyelkin

XMNN posted:

interesting watching the cunts bounce between "I am not a man a number, I need a haircut and to go down the garden centre and to meet my awful friends in the middle of a pandemic and you're all being so UNFAIR :qq:" and "fuckin whiny snowflakes, can't deal with a bit of hardship, not like in my dad's day with the blitz and the charging up beaches to show Jerry what for"
https://twitter.com/LeaveEUOfficial/status/1262094234305380354?s=20

You had one job.

https://twitter.com/spikekenny/status/1262096369940082691?s=20

DeadButDelicious
Oct 11, 2012

Leave me to do my dark bidding on the internet!
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/matt-hancock-keir-starmer-pmqs-coronavirus-speaker-video-a9523851.html?amp

Think he's starting to let the cracks show, that Hancock fella...

Also anyone else having trouble seeing tweets on the browser forums? They come up as plain text for me at the computer using Chrome but properly show the tweet and link on the app.

Fried Watermelon
Dec 29, 2008


DeadButDelicious posted:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/matt-hancock-keir-starmer-pmqs-coronavirus-speaker-video-a9523851.html?amp

Think he's starting to let the cracks show, that Hancock fella...

Also anyone else having trouble seeing tweets on the browser forums? They come up as plain text for me at the computer using Chrome but properly show the tweet and link on the app.

Yeah tweets have been bugging out this week

Ramadu
Aug 25, 2004

2015 NFL MVP


DeadButDelicious posted:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/matt-hancock-keir-starmer-pmqs-coronavirus-speaker-video-a9523851.html?amp

Think he's starting to let the cracks show, that Hancock fella...

Also anyone else having trouble seeing tweets on the browser forums? They come up as plain text for me at the computer using Chrome but properly show the tweet and link on the app.

Yup, having weird twitter issues on chrome. Mobile is fine, but I tried Firefox and it just showed a link to the tweet. It is extremely obnoxious

XMNN
Apr 26, 2008
I am incredibly stupid

lol

I listened to the trash future episodes reading through (one of?) Boris Johnson's incredibly racist book(s?) and there was a speech where a French character was talking about how grateful they were to all the American soldiers who died on gold, juno and sword beaches, so it looks like there's a bit of a pattern of being obsessed with the war/d-day but also knowing very little about it

it's possible that this was actually some sort of dig at the French, but it was not a very subtle book so I would have expected the self insert bumbling goofy looking bicycle riding mp Joris Bohnson to have made some sort of comment about how the French don't have any interest in the war because of all the losing they did in it

K9
May 6, 2007

lmao eat poo poo Boris

https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1263496241771622400

Clyde Radcliffe
Oct 19, 2014

XMNN posted:

interesting watching the cunts bounce between "I am not a man a number, I need a haircut and to go down the garden centre and to meet my awful friends in the middle of a pandemic and you're all being so UNFAIR :qq:" and "fuckin whiny snowflakes, can't deal with a bit of hardship, not like in my dad's day with the blitz and the charging up beaches to show Jerry what for"
https://twitter.com/LeaveEUOfficial/status/1262094234305380354?s=20

I've seen poo poo like "if WW2 happened today, millennials would be complaining that military uniforms were too drab and uncomfortable to wear".

No millennials are complaining about this. It's 100% boomers demanding that the poors need to get back to work so they can have their nails done.

I've been responding that it's more like we sent thousands of troops to die on the beaches of Normandy with no gas masks, helmets, or guns. But we all stayed at home and clapped to defeat the Nazis and that's how we won the war. My great-grandmother personally brought down the Third Reich by demanding the right to go for a manicure in 1944.

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

BMX Ninja posted:

I've seen poo poo like "if WW2 happened today, millennials would be complaining that military uniforms were too drab and uncomfortable to wear".


Do they know where t-shirts come from?

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
the UK makes a lot more sense once you realise that boomers think they lived through the war

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




hobbesmaster posted:

Do they know where t-shirts come from?

sweatshops??

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Jose posted:

the UK makes a lot more sense once you realise that boomers think they lived through the war

Everyone born before 9/11 survived ww2

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:

Jose posted:

the UK makes a lot more sense once you realise that boomers think they lived through the war
"I remember Churchill thanking me for my bravery on Omaha Beach", says man born in 1954.

Heavy_D
Feb 16, 2002

"rararararara" contains the meaning of everything, kept in simple rectangular structures

XMNN posted:

interesting watching the cunts bounce between "I am not a man a number, I need a haircut and to go down the garden centre and to meet my awful friends in the middle of a pandemic and you're all being so UNFAIR :qq:" and "fuckin whiny snowflakes, can't deal with a bit of hardship, not like in my dad's day with the blitz and the charging up beaches to show Jerry what for"
https://twitter.com/LeaveEUOfficial/status/1262094234305380354?s=20

a better analogy would be a person refusing to blackout during the blitz, putting themselves and those around them in danger, and insisting that it's actually very unlikely that their house will take a direct hit

Private Speech
Mar 30, 2011

I HAVE EVEN MORE WORTHLESS BEANIE BABIES IN MY COLLECTION THAN I HAVE WORTHLESS POSTS IN THE BEANIE BABY THREAD YET I STILL HAVE THE TEMERITY TO CRITICIZE OTHERS' COLLECTIONS

IF YOU SEE ME TALKING ABOUT BEANIE BABIES, PLEASE TELL ME TO

EAT. SHIT.


Can anyone tell me why the UK is doing a quarantine for foreigners now when the UK is the second hardest hit place in the world. And even compared with the US it's not faring particularly well on a per capita basis considering the population difference.

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018

Private Speech posted:

Can anyone tell me why the UK is doing a quarantine for foreigners now when the UK is the second hardest hit place in the world. And even compared with the US it's not faring particularly well on a per capita basis considering the population difference.

racism, probably

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

>>=
Lmao at it originally not applying to France.

IMO it's quite a good policy...three months ago... not so sure it does too much now.

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:

Private Speech posted:

Can anyone tell me why the UK is doing a quarantine for foreigners now when the UK is the second hardest hit place in the world.
Obviously it'd have been smart to do it early, but just because the UK is pretty bad on a country-to-country basis doesn't mean certain groups from other countries can't be far more likely to have the virus than any given citizen of the UK. People deciding to travel the world during a pandemic are exactly the types you'd classify as exhibiting risky behavior that makes it far more likely that they're infected compared to their countrymen.

Private Speech posted:

And even compared with the US it's not faring particularly well on a per capita basis considering the population difference.
The UK probably is too to some degree, but the US is really cooking the numbers now, so it's kinda hard to compare them with anyone.

Stoatbringer
Sep 15, 2004

naw, you love it you little ho-bot :roboluv:

Private Speech posted:

Can anyone tell me why the UK is doing a quarantine for foreigners now when the UK is the second hardest hit place in the world. And even compared with the US it's not faring particularly well on a per capita basis considering the population difference.

Yeah, isn't that one of the first things that Australia and New Zealand did, back when it could make a huge difference?

V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

ASK ME ABOUT LUMBER

the tories seem to think that managing the pandemic means managing PR during the pandemic, and so measures don't need to *be* effective so long as they seem as though they should be. they get away with this sort of thing due to having what amounts to a soviet-grade loyal press

V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

ASK ME ABOUT LUMBER

basically the british conservative party is just loving evil and i have no idea how ordinary people keep voting for them

No Dignity
Oct 15, 2007

V. Illych L. posted:

basically the british conservative party is just loving evil and i have no idea how ordinary people keep voting for them

It's difficult to overstate how much the press informs public perception of politics in this country and how commited many people are to believing the Tories are still One Nation social democrats who'll do (responsible, sensibly budgeted) socialism for deserving white people despite any amount of evidence to the contrary

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

I'm 😤 not a 🦸🏻‍♂️hero...🧜🏻



V. Illych L. posted:

basically the british conservative party is just loving evil and i have no idea how ordinary people keep voting for them

The press.

K9
May 6, 2007

:lmao:https://pickforbritain.org.uk/:lmao:

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

namesake
Jun 19, 2006

"When I was a girl, around 12 or 13, I had a fantasy that I'd grow up to marry Captain Scarlet, but he'd be busy fighting the Mysterons so I'd cuckold him with the sexiest people I could think of - Nigel Mansell, Pat Sharp and Mr. Blobby."

multijoe posted:

It's difficult to overstate how much the press informs public perception of politics in this country and how commited many people are to believing the Tories are still One Nation social democrats who'll do (responsible, sensibly budgeted) socialism for deserving white people despite any amount of evidence to the contrary

Yeah the Tory party is a horrible warring coalition of the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie supported by the petit bourgeois and the nationalist working class who think they're getting representation by them. Honest reporting on their policies, backgrounds, attitudes would immediately destroy them as an electoral force so their electoral existence relies entirely on controlling the press.

If the newspapers die and whatever replacement is just a bit more adequate in reporting reality then Democracy will no longer be a core British Value.

oliwan
Jul 20, 2005

by Nyc_Tattoo

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RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:

not even Britain deserves Pick's posting

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