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Jedit
Dec 10, 2011

Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

I had to abstain for like 10 days as part of a fertility treatment and this morning i wanked so hard at the clinic i did my neck in

My neck's been hosed all day



Just thought I'd share that with the thread

You're a dickhead, aren't you?

E: 170 is the maximum checkout in darts.

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Ratjaculation
Aug 3, 2007

:parrot::parrot::parrot:



In honor of your kin forever trapped in a sports direct sock, I bid thee Godspeed goon sperm

kingturnip
Apr 18, 2008
I've been disappointed by the lack of thunder and lightning this afternoon, but it's clouding up nicely in my general area

Give me torrents, sky gods

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
Probed for asking for :filez:

NoneMoreNegative
Jul 20, 2000
GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN
MASTER




shit wizard dad

kingturnip posted:

I've been disappointed by the lack of thunder and lightning this afternoon, but it's clouding up nicely in my general area

Give me torrents, sky gods


https://www.lightningmaps.org/

It's been slowly moving up the middle of the country and I thought the east coast wasn't going to get any fun but it looks like the storm has split and we might get lucky.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
https://twitter.com/DaftLimmy/status/1276579424687853576?s=19

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.



Strong echoes of Clinton right there :v:

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.

kingturnip posted:

I've been disappointed by the lack of thunder and lightning this afternoon, but it's clouding up nicely in my general area

Give me torrents, sky gods

Clouded up here and even did a little bit of rain, but the maps don't show thunder for a hundred miles. The weather is edging me

Pistol_Pete
Sep 15, 2007

Oven Wrangler
For those of you currently leaving Labour: my thoughts after sleeping on it:

Due to the Uk's dumb first past the post electoral system, Labour is effectively (at least) two parties. There's a left-wing, socialist party and a sensible-centrist/ christian-democratic party, occupying the same organisation. In any sort of proportional representation system, these would be separate parties but the fptp system means that they've ended up occupying the same organisational space, just to maintain some hope of victory.

Now, unless and until the electoral process in the UK fundamentally changes, the Labour party will remain a perpetual conflict zone, with both factions vying for the right to direct the party. For the last few years the socialist faction has had the upper hand: now, the Christian-democratic faction has come roaring back. The socialist response to this shouldn't be to abandon the party (this is exactly what the centrists want you to do!) but to grit your teeth and dig in for yet another round in the boxing ring.

If our postion on Starmer's ideology and stance is correct, then Starmer's position has no strength and no future and we need to be there to take control back when it inevitably fails. Think about all the looming problems: Brexit, climate change, globalisation, inter-generational conflict etc etc. Do you honestly think Starmer has any sort of coherent response to these issues? This is why we need to hold our positions in the Labour party: ready to take back control after Starmer crashes and burns. So keep engaged, keep organising and stay alert for when events begin to move back in our favour.

The above is my considered response to the events of the last 48 hours :goleft:

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



Slippery Tilde
Nah, I'm not giving them £5.


Good news from the BBC!

quote:

Coronavirus: Second national lockdown not needed

A former government adviser has said he does not believe a second national lockdown would be necessary during the coronavirus pandemic.

Prof Neil Ferguson,

You may remember him as the government advisor that broke lockdown regulations so he could get his dick wet. The article fails to mention this Actually it does, but still lol

sinky fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Jun 26, 2020

Shogi
Nov 23, 2004

distant Pohjola

Jose posted:

british "centrists" are so loving bitter and spiteful its unreal

https://twitter.com/DAaronovitch/status/1276192176410673152?s=20

Who does this oval office think he is using the Pugilist at Rest as his avatar? No chance he has any emotional reaction to it or any understanding of the vulnerability and struggle it portrays. Likely just googled ‘famous bronzes’ to have a Twitter wank in public about ‘western heritage’ or something similarly incoherent. UGH

Renfield
Feb 29, 2008
For the lightning strikes people,

Rain Radar is a much better guide, as it gives you an idea when it's best to dash to Lidl...

As I'm Wales, the answer to that is generally never...


Rain, And Lightning strikes...
https://www.netweather.tv/live-weather/radar


With an anaimation of the last couple of hours so you can see which way it's heading.

XMNN
Apr 26, 2008
I am incredibly stupid
lol at the same time as getting on his high horse about how retweeting an interview where someone else makes a single comment that could be antisemitic if you squinted particularly hard at it makes you a nazi, he's going to bat for some peer that got kicked off the booker prize panel for being a transphobe

https://twitter.com/DAaronovitch/status/1276406737092911106?s=20

https://twitter.com/DAaronovitch/status/1276407345417990145?s=20

https://twitter.com/iainmartin1/status/1276194497169371138?s=20
(retweeted)

I've just had a look at her timeline and she is also Mary Whitehouse/Maggie Thatcher puritan batshit too

https://twitter.com/Baroness_Nichol/status/1276563162502959107?s=20

oh no teaching children about anal sex in sex education lessons, won't someone think of the children and not tell them anything instead, that's always worked out in the past right?

Oscar Romeo Romeo
Apr 16, 2010

Heat chat. The server room at a company I used to work for had a big rubber door seal with a massive fan in the middle that was used to cool the room down on hiot days, and that thing was good at turning the room into an ice box in a few minutes. Any computer touchers know the company that makes these? Google searching "server room door fan" isn't dinging much.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Our top scientists have spent many years working in secret, each only on a part of the overall programme, perfectly compartmentalised, only a handful of people know the truth of the project and what it hopes to achieve, but within the next decade, we believe that we will be able to put a penis inside of a butthole, and I'll be god damned if we're gonna let that technology reach the god drat ruskies because you want to teach it to schoolkids in sex ed class. They would never understand it anyway! It's highly advanced biology.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Oscar Romeo Romeo posted:

Heat chat. The server room at a company I used to work for had a big rubber door seal with a massive fan in the middle that was used to cool the room down on hiot days, and that thing was good at turning the room into an ice box in a few minutes. Any computer touchers know the company that makes these? Google searching "server room door fan" isn't dinging much.

I would imagine that would just be like a window mounted AC unit installed in the door, as a fan alone wouldn't make the room cold and server rooms need active cooling.

Presumably the company didn't want to pay for a proper AC system so they just got someone to jam an off the shelf one through the door and have it vent into the hallway.

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



XMNN posted:


I've just had a look at her timeline and she is also Mary Whitehouse/Maggie Thatcher puritan batshit too

https://twitter.com/Baroness_Nichol/status/1276563162502959107?s=20

oh no teaching children about anal sex in sex education lessons, won't someone think of the children and not tell them anything instead, that's always worked out in the past right?

Grand to see how many people replying with "Oh thank you Baroness this is an important letter!" are flagged as known transphobes by the Shinigamie Eyes extension

Jaeluni Asjil
Apr 18, 2018

Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Pistol_Pete posted:

For those of you currently leaving Labour: my thoughts after sleeping on it:
...

The above is my considered response to the events of the last 48 hours :goleft:

I quit nearly 4 months ago.

Every day, in every way, I am gladder and gladder I'm not paying that shower.

crispix
Mar 28, 2015

Grand-Maman m'a raconté
(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)

Hello, dear

XMNN posted:

oh no teaching children about anal sex in sex education lessons, won't someone think of the children and not tell them anything instead, that's always worked out in the past right?

Them childer need to know the importance of a flanged base :hai:

XMNN
Apr 26, 2008
I am incredibly stupid
nonsense, if you don't tell them about the butt hole then they will never find it

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



Slippery Tilde

crispix posted:

Them childer need to know the importance of a flanged base :hai:

The prolapse pics can show what happens if you do it wrong.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

XMNN posted:

oh no teaching children about anal sex in sex education lessons, won't someone think of the children and not tell them anything instead, that's always worked out in the past right?
Wait, how does she know that "anal sex will be particularly embarrassing for girls in puberty"?

What happens to the butt hole during puberty? :ohdear:

https://twitter.com/emmajaned0lan/status/1276573422043181057

This is what happens when you don't continue learning after school, and just oppose learning new stuff about sex because it's different.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/15/3d-model-clitoris-sexual-revolution-sex-education-womens-sexuality

e: lmao of course she's a massive terf, that explains why she's completely ignorant of sexual biology at least

Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Jun 26, 2020

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Truly they are committed to the "It's basic biology!" school of argument.

Total Meatlove
Jan 28, 2007

:japan:
Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

Oscar Romeo Romeo posted:

Heat chat. The server room at a company I used to work for had a big rubber door seal with a massive fan in the middle that was used to cool the room down on hiot days, and that thing was good at turning the room into an ice box in a few minutes. Any computer touchers know the company that makes these? Google searching "server room door fan" isn't dinging much.

You’d love the cold but hate the leccy bill.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013


I too, hate fun.

You can tell why terfs and tankies get along together.

XMNN
Apr 26, 2008
I am incredibly stupid
doing some actual reading rather than just scrolling through twitter, looks like she was the/an "honorary vice-president" but not on the panel, and she's also a homophobe

Authors call for removal of Booker prize vice-president over ‘homophobic’ views

and not a very bright one

quote:

But Nicholson, who now sits in the Lords as a Conservative peer, told the Guardian she would “very much regret any move to remove me from an organisation I have been associated with for so many years” and rejected the accusation of homophobia.

“I did indeed vote against same-sex marriage in 2013,” she said. “I have not yet learned from my critics how I am offending by perceived homophobia. In other words, they have offered no evidence.”

wonder when Boris will act on the endemic homophobia/transphobia in the conservative party? probably just working too drat hard getting all the racism and islamophobia out to deal with it just yet, but I'm sure he will get to it soon or the papers will make a huge deal out of it

Oscar Romeo Romeo
Apr 16, 2010

OwlFancier posted:

I would imagine that would just be like a window mounted AC unit installed in the door, as a fan alone wouldn't make the room cold and server rooms need active cooling.

Presumably the company didn't want to pay for a proper AC system so they just got someone to jam an off the shelf one through the door and have it vent into the hallway.
It was absolutely something cobbled together (in batch) out of someone's garage as the company never invested where it mattered but these things were very effective. It was a big red mat which sealed the door and had a fan at the base which blasted air into the room and was surprisingly effective.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I genuinely think that's a standard AC unit mounted in a door then, presumably the server room had no windows (which it shouldn't for security and insulation reasons) and therefore the only place to put an AC unit without paying for a proper duct to be put in, would be through the wall or through the door and the door isn't a structural element and wouldn't get them in trouble with the building owner.

Oh dear me
Aug 14, 2012

I have burned numerous saucepans, sometimes right through the metal

Pistol_Pete posted:

The socialist response to this shouldn't be to abandon the party (this is exactly what the centrists want you to do!) but to grit your teeth and dig in for yet another round in the boxing ring.

Well, I agree, as long as being a member confers significant power to change things and there is no rival organization that offers a better chance at power. It's important to keep assessing the situation though and not just take it for granted that Labour's winnable. If member powers are significantly reduced by the new regime it might not be. And in some places one might think fighting for the left within another party might be more effective (eg Brighton).

But I'm afraid we're also going to have to grit our teeth when people who have left the party say 'look how ineffectual the Labour left is', as if they themselves had not helped bring this about.

StarkingBarfish
Jun 25, 2006

Novus Ordo Seclorum
In celebration at the forums stay of execution for now, have some birbs. These were taken in the sunset, and I was pleasantly surprised by how they came out. It's a mix of adolescent and adult long-tailed tits. The young'ns have a red ring around their eyes, the adults have yellow:




The mirror lens I used for these makes some interesting circular patterns in the background:


OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

When are the NEC elections supposed to be?

Tarnop
Nov 25, 2013

Pull me out

OwlFancier posted:

When are the NEC elections supposed to be?

The last email I got about them said "as early as this summer"

Oscar Romeo Romeo
Apr 16, 2010

OwlFancier posted:

I genuinely think that's a standard AC unit mounted in a door then, presumably the server room had no windows (which it shouldn't for security and insulation reasons) and therefore the only place to put an AC unit without paying for a proper duct to be put in, would be through the wall or through the door and the door isn't a structural element and wouldn't get them in trouble with the building owner.

Yes there were no windows. To be honest I'm just looking for possibly cheaper ways to get a kinda AC running but as Total Meatlove pointed out, the leccy bill won't be so friendly.

E: stupid stupid stupid iPad autocorrect shennanigans

Oscar Romeo Romeo fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Jun 26, 2020

Oh dear me
Aug 14, 2012

I have burned numerous saucepans, sometimes right through the metal
Everything's unknown because of COVID but there does seem to be some movement on enabling remote voting in local party meetings, so I hope they're looking at solutions for Conference etc as well.

Oscar Romeo Romeo
Apr 16, 2010

If I could go back in time and visit historic me pushing tablets on people when I worked retail I would murder that guy these things are utter dog poo poo.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

OwlFancier posted:

I too, hate fun.

You can tell why terfs and tankies get along together.
It's amazing really.

The discovery of the internal clitoris was hailed as a key feminist moment, because it was a woman urologist who made the first studies and the team was informed by the lived experiences of cis women, and it fed directly into this idea of sex positivity, and yet the terves want none of it.

Even the Puritans believed that (straight married) sex was good because God invented it and it brought pleasure, not just reproduction. These people have managed to be worse.

justcola
May 22, 2004

La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo

Stellar stupidity in small satelitte shocker as slipshod strategy sinks space saps

quote:

The UK government’s plan to invest hundreds of millions of pounds in a satellite broadband company has been described as “nonsensical” by experts, who say the company doesn’t even make the right type of satellite the country needs after Brexit.

The investment in OneWeb, first reported on Thursday night, is intended to mitigate against the UK losing access to the EU’s Galileo satellite navigation system.

But OneWeb – in which the UK will own a 20% stake following the investment – currently operates a completely different type of satellite network from that typically used to run such navigation systems.

...

On Friday evening a government spokesperson said: “We have made clear our ambitions for space and are developing a new national space strategy to bring long-term strategic and commercial benefits to the UK. We are in regular discussions with the space industry as part of this work.”

OneWeb filed for bankruptcy in March in the US, where most of its operations are located, after failing to secure new funding.

Previously, the UK aimed to build its own global navigation satellite system, which independent experts estimatedwould cost £3bn-£4bn.

In December 2018, Theresa May, the then prime minister, said the UK expected to work with the US and other “Five Eyes” partners – a term for the multilateral intelligence agreement – to do so. But in May this year that project was put on hold, just weeks before a feasibility study into the scheme was due to be published, as its estimated cost ballooned to £5bn.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC41vbQKfck

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."

Pistol_Pete posted:

For those of you currently leaving Labour: my thoughts after sleeping on it:

Due to the Uk's dumb first past the post electoral system, Labour is effectively (at least) two parties. There's a left-wing, socialist party and a sensible-centrist/ christian-democratic party, occupying the same organisation. In any sort of proportional representation system, these would be separate parties but the fptp system means that they've ended up occupying the same organisational space, just to maintain some hope of victory.

Now, unless and until the electoral process in the UK fundamentally changes, the Labour party will remain a perpetual conflict zone, with both factions vying for the right to direct the party. For the last few years the socialist faction has had the upper hand: now, the Christian-democratic faction has come roaring back. The socialist response to this shouldn't be to abandon the party (this is exactly what the centrists want you to do!) but to grit your teeth and dig in for yet another round in the boxing ring.

If our postion on Starmer's ideology and stance is correct, then Starmer's position has no strength and no future and we need to be there to take control back when it inevitably fails. Think about all the looming problems: Brexit, climate change, globalisation, inter-generational conflict etc etc. Do you honestly think Starmer has any sort of coherent response to these issues? This is why we need to hold our positions in the Labour party: ready to take back control after Starmer crashes and burns. So keep engaged, keep organising and stay alert for when events begin to move back in our favour.

The above is my considered response to the events of the last 48 hours :goleft:

Alternatively:

Parties have collapsed under FPTP and been kicked out of the two party system by them losing their base of support and being replaced by a party with an established connection to a voting base and at total liberty to expose the old party as incapable of dealing with current issues. Labour is already heavily alienated from vast swathes of the country because of its abandonment of supporting working class struggle, New Labours racist and economic right wing policies etc and is bouyed up by inertia and institutional support in the form of the union bureaucracy. Is it better to try and organise anew on the basis of offering real solutions to those problems and putting in the hard work of connecting that group to the working class and its sources of power or will you once again wait around to see a New Labour or Miliband form of Labour collapse in on itself and then go to the masses and say 'Hey we've got the same name and a lot of the same people who have hosed up a lot and you've hated for over a decade but we're different now so we're good again'?

I mean it's a matter of historical record that the Labour Party replaced the Liberal Party in the UK under FPTP. They had millions of union members supporting them as a major difference but still, if you're committing to a decades long campaign, why do it inside an organisation that hates you?

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

That's an airport.

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XMNN
Apr 26, 2008
I am incredibly stupid

e;f,b
[/quote]
is there any actual reason to do it other than so that we can unilaterally bomb somewhere that the US or EU aren't happy with us bombing?

looking at [url="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/satellites-and-space-programmes-if-theres-no-brexit-deal/satellites-and-space-programmes-if-theres-no-brexit-deal"]this
the government have said they don't want to use Galileo for "critical national infrastructure" either, although I'm not sure what needs really accurate positioning that we can't trust the EU for?

also it doesn't mention GPS access for those things. although it is specifically about how incredibly hosed overwhelmed with exciting new opportunities the British space sector is going to be when we no deal Brexit, which is why it might not mention it tbf

E2: I loving mangled this post

XMNN fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Jun 26, 2020

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