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The only thing that’s cheered me up at all this month is the thought that Johnson & Cummings might soon wish they’d died of the Covid when they’d caught it I hope this gets worse for them before it’s all over
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OwlFancier posted:What's a svengali? depends, did jeremy corbyn say it?
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May 24, 2020 22:29
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This seems on brand for the thread: https://twitter.com/Cheerio_Buffet/status/1261998499371069441 OwlFancier posted:What's a svengali?
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May 24, 2020 22:29
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Does Dominic have something on Johnson? Seems mental to keep him on after this unless he is being blackmailed. That or he`s become a Rasputin figure for Johnson: he`s formed some kind of sick emotional bond with Dominic that he can`t bring himself to break?
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May 24, 2020 22:33
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stev posted:It's odd that the right wing papers were talking about Johnson's illness/recovery like he was the loving second coming just a few weeks ago. Now they're acting like they've been waiting ages for the chance to stick the knives in. Newspapers have been bleeding money. They need something to bring in readers. This weekend, the Sharks can smell blood in the water over BoJo and DC. And the number 1 rule in the tabloid industry. If it bleeds, it leads.
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May 24, 2020 22:34
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Can't wait for Benedict Cumberbatch to put on his bald cap again for this follow up to the Brexit tv drama they made.
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May 24, 2020 22:35
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I admit my first guess for svengali was "weren't they in charge of the english footy team for a while?" but it seemed wrong.
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May 24, 2020 22:38
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OwlFancier posted:I admit my first guess for svengali was "weren't they in charge of the english footy team for a while?" but it seemed wrong. He only hosed Ulrika, not the country
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May 24, 2020 22:43
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Guavanaut posted:This seems on brand for the thread: And teaching humanities without either is how you get boris loving johnson. Shockingly enough the world doesn't have spiderman or batman villains, but it does have boris loving johnson.
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May 24, 2020 22:43
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Baudolino posted:Does Dominic have something on Johnson? Seems mental to keep him on after this unless he is being blackmailed. Cummings is heavily wrapped up Brexit winning and the 2019 GE, the two major successes of the right wing in the last few years and offers a kind of a vision for what the Tories should actually do. Johnson, being a lazy poo poo, won't want to get rid of him because he'd need to not just replace a man but also a direction for his government and there's a lot of other Tories who have a conscious ideology and don't need Johnson to deliver it.
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May 24, 2020 22:46
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Guavanaut posted:A Bangladeshi from an alternative timeline where they were colonized by Sweden. I can't let this one go unappreciated 
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May 24, 2020 22:50
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Cummings does most of the actual work and decision-making. Boris is just there for the bants and the babes.
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May 24, 2020 22:52
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:I can't let this one go unappreciated Same. Worth breaking 15 years of lurking on here.
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May 24, 2020 22:53
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https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1264673967706644480 Love this frontpage 
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May 24, 2020 22:53
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Total Meatlove posted:He only hosed Ulrika, not the country It depends if his decisions in the 2002 quarter final against Brazil count as loving or not, because it was at the very least gross incompetence
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May 24, 2020 22:59
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OwlFancier posted:What's a svengali? https://www.facebook.com/SvengaliMusic/videos/svenjollythesvengalifamily-jolly-seinfield/540743879454701/
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May 24, 2020 23:05
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stev posted:It's odd that the right wing papers were talking about Johnson's illness/recovery like he was the loving second coming just a few weeks ago. Now they're acting like they've been waiting ages for the chance to stick the knives in. You can't stab someone in the back unless you've got behind them first.
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May 24, 2020 23:05
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Starmer should start every PMQ secion he gets from now with one question. "Can the Prime Minister confirm that Dominic Cummings has to follow this law too?"
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May 24, 2020 23:06
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happyhippy posted:Starmer should start every PMQ secion he gets from now with one question. Given that one of the prime minister's first acts in office was literally breaking the law to prorogue parliament because he didn't want to do his job, what would make you think this question would matter, even if Kier was uninterested enough in  to ask something so boorish?
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May 24, 2020 23:11
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they're apparently now claiming the journey was necessary because cummy's child is austistic
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May 24, 2020 23:12
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Ash Crimson posted:they're apparently now claiming the journey was necessary because cummy's child is austistic I've seen this crop a few times but just desperate Twitter weirdos rather than anything official. The line is that the child would need to be in familiar surroundings. Because his home isn't familiar enough.
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May 24, 2020 23:16
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Modern spin is offering as many explanations as possible for something unacceptable in the hope that a critical level of the population hears an explanation that they like and so stop caring or get so confused they don't know what to think and the issue goes away. Dogged and consistent countering of this by constantly contradicting the latest excuse with previous ones and direct accusations of deliberate 'badness' rather than innocent incompetence is the only way to make anything matter.
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May 24, 2020 23:21
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If anyone went to Durham Uni, and remembers the terrible, terrible nightclub Klute, then do I have an interesting tidbit for you! https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/07472305/officers Christ. on. a. bike.
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May 24, 2020 23:25
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:It depends if his decisions in the 2002 quarter final against Brazil count as loving or not, because it was at the very least gross incompetence More than a few people in the country cheered that lob.
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Total Meatlove posted:More than a few people in the country cheered that lob. ah, twas a great goal, but that Brazil team played with 10 men for the last half hour and it took until 10 minutes til the end for Sven to make an attacking sub, which was to replace Ashley Cole with Teddy Sheringham. It was absolutely gutless
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May 24, 2020 23:28
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Red Oktober posted:If anyone went to Durham Uni, and remembers the terrible, terrible nightclub Klute, then do I have an interesting tidbit for you! Jesus loving Christ
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May 24, 2020 23:28
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has boris just never had a media scandal that actually stopped him from getting re-elected so far and doesn't understand that it is in fact possible for his actions to have consequences
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May 24, 2020 23:29
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thespaceinvader posted:And teaching humanities without either is how you get boris loving johnson.
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May 24, 2020 23:33
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Scenes on the football forum I post on. The "moderates" turning against the govt.
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May 24, 2020 23:34
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sebzilla posted:Pretty pleased with my thread title contribution, think it's only my second or third in a loving decade of posting in this cess pit. It's a good title and I am graceful in handing my own position as originator of the thread title over 
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May 24, 2020 23:34
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thespaceinvader posted:And teaching humanities without either is how you get boris loving johnson. boris johnson has never done a sociology course in his life do UK universities distinguish between "classics" and "humanities"?
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May 24, 2020 23:35
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The ones he went to do.
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Red Oktober posted:If anyone went to Durham Uni, and remembers the terrible, terrible nightclub Klute, then do I have an interesting tidbit for you! Other than it's weird for a rational genius turbonerd to own a nightclub what's the significance?
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May 24, 2020 23:36
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it's a fittingly notoriously shite nightclub
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May 24, 2020 23:41
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OwlFancier posted:Other than it's weird for a rational genius turbonerd to own a nightclub what's the significance? It's really just an interesting piece of information for anyone who's been there. It's awful, not awful in the 'terrible nightclub' awful way but awful. It was allegedly awarded the title of the second worst nightclub in Europe by FHM, back when that was still a thing. (The worst one supposedly burnt down). Subject of many an article https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/8qbzzg/i-went-to-klute-the-worst-night-club-in-europe
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namesake posted:Cummings is heavily wrapped up Brexit winning and the 2019 GE, the two major successes of the right wing in the last few years and offers a kind of a vision for what the Tories should actually do. Johnson, being a lazy poo poo, won't want to get rid of him because he'd need to not just replace a man but also a direction for his government and there's a lot of other Tories who have a conscious ideology and don't need Johnson to deliver it. He is also one of those people that thinks he can run everything and is believed to be more or less running the cabinet. If he goes ministers will take advantage and try to grab that control back while Boris is weak and can't do much to stop them. Then Boris really is going to have to work to run the government.
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Red Oktober posted:It's really just an interesting piece of information for anyone who's been there. It's awful, not awful in the 'terrible nightclub' awful way but awful. It was allegedly awarded the title of the second worst nightclub in Europe by FHM, back when that was still a thing. (The worst one supposedly burnt down). Durham in general is a shite night out, the place is far too cramped, there's only around 5 bars and every one of them is ridiculously overpriced. The Library has a nice selection of world beers at least. Don't know how the uni students manage unless they're loving off to Sunderland/Newcastle once a week. Despite hailing from Co. Durham I only found out that Durham is a city earlier this year thanks to Tenable off the ITV, and Boro is only a town. Political Correctness gone mad if you ask me 
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Boro didn't exist 180 years ago so yeah, not a city. Also I don't think it has a cathederal unless they buried it somewhere. Cities in the UK are political appointments, not based on actual size.
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May 24, 2020 23:57
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Red Oktober posted:It's really just an interesting piece of information for anyone who's been there. It's awful, not awful in the 'terrible nightclub' awful way but awful. It was allegedly awarded the title of the second worst nightclub in Europe by FHM, back when that was still a thing. (The worst one supposedly burnt down). i disagree walkabouts is the worst club. all of them
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I got an alert from the Twitter app, but forgot to share. Was reminded by the podcast: https://twitter.com/2010leehurst Twitter is a bit less profoundly bald.
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