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oliwan
Jul 20, 2005

by Nyc_Tattoo

V. Illych L. posted:

i learned not to step on people's necks when i was learning to be a bouncer for a piece of poo poo bar, it always blows my mind that the actual police have a lower standard

what about lumber

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prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band

Is there a problem with mask snugness? :confused:

therattle
Jul 24, 2007
Soiled Meat

This is the kind of tweet one hopes to see in the Schadenfreude thread where it’s followed by “I’m now in ICU with Covid, pray for me”

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!



like qanon in the US, the right wing of the UK have won everything they ever dreamed of but their life sucks worse than ever so now is the time to go fully batshit insane

they completely won the election, killed leftism in the UK for another decade at least, massive majority, no deal brexit, all the libs are triggered
they've got a gov to the right of UKIP deporting black brits and reducing the surplus population by the tens of thousand

we all have to live in these people's lovely future, the least they can do is enjoy it

MikeCrotch
Nov 5, 2011

I AM UNJUSTIFIABLY PROUD OF MY SPAGHETTI BOLOGNESE RECIPE

YES, IT IS AN INCREDIBLY SIMPLE DISH

NO, IT IS NOT NORMAL TO USE A PEPPERAMI INSTEAD OF MINCED MEAT

YES, THERE IS TOO MUCH SALT IN MY RECIPE

NO, I WON'T STOP SHARING IT

more like BOLLOCKnese

therattle posted:

This is the kind of tweet one hopes to see in the Schadenfreude thread where it’s followed by “I’m now in ICU with Covid, pray for me”

The antivaxx ones where its "little Marcie is in heaven now, she had measles but we stayed strong and didn't give her the jab, tell us we did the right thing" are the grimmest thing

V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

ASK ME ABOUT LUMBER

oliwan posted:

what about lumber

i have never bounced lumber and i will viciously deny any charge to the contrary

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.


MikeCrotch posted:

The antivaxx ones where its "little Marcie is in heaven now, she had measles but we stayed strong and didn't give her the jab, tell us we did the right thing" are the grimmest thing

The interesting thing about vaccines is that there is an odd conflict between concrete and potential risk even among well-informed people. Which humans are notoriously bad at evaluating.

Every year a few dozen people worldwide die of adverse reactions to vaccines (as from other medicines as well), people who would otherwise not have died. Despite that vaccines lower overall death rate significantly more. But I can see how if you're a parent it's easy to go "I don't want my child to potentially die from this vaccine, however infinitesimally small is the risk, they're never going to get the disease anyway".

Private Speech has issued a correction as of 15:24 on Jul 19, 2020

therattle
Jul 24, 2007
Soiled Meat

MikeCrotch posted:

The antivaxx ones where its "little Marcie is in heaven now, she had measles but we stayed strong and didn't give her the jab, tell us we did the right thing" are the grimmest thing

Those are awful because the child paid for their idiocy.

Private Speech posted:

The interesting thing about vaccines is that there is an odd conflict between concrete and potential risk even among well-informed people. Which humans are notoriously bad at evaluating.

Every year a few dozen people worldwide die of adverse reactions to vaccines (as from other medicines as well), people who would otherwise not have died. Despite that vaccines lower overall death rate significantly more. But I can see how if you're a parent it's easy to go "I don't want my child to potentially die from this vaccine, however infinitesimally small is the risk, they're never going to get the disease anyway".

They are also tremendously selfish as they rely on the herd immunity created by other people having their kids vaccinated. anti-vaxxers absolutely incense me.

bessantj
Jul 27, 2004



What's the #KBF all about?

Party Boat
Nov 1, 2007

where did that other dog come from

who is he


"keep Britain free" apparently

Attorney at Funk
Jun 3, 2008

...the person who says honestly that he despairs is closer to being cured than all those who are not regarded as despairing by themselves or others.

bessantj posted:

What's the #KBF all about?

I believe in this context it's short for Keep Britain Free, sort of like a dark mirror of the ol #FBPE

therattle
Jul 24, 2007
Soiled Meat
Clearly not “keep Britain free of coronavirus”.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

I'm 😤 not a 🦸🏻‍♂️hero...🧜🏻



Keep Britain Free (of life).

bessantj
Jul 27, 2004


So these people think Britain is free apart from the whole lockdown thing? loving hell, they don't expect much do they or they're very well off.

therattle
Jul 24, 2007
Soiled Meat

quote:

The father-of-two is also accused of groping a woman in her 30s before chasing her around his central London home chanting “I’m a naughty Tory” in 2007.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jul/20/ex-mp-charlie-elphicke-admits-lying-police-sexual-assault-case?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
yeah rip

https://twitter.com/HouseofCommons/status/1285314836386242565?s=20

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Thank you for your sacrifice to keep the DJIA strong

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

just came across this story again. the coverage of Corbyn's Labour party was wild

quote:

WORLD NEWSNOVEMBER 23, 2018 / 5:48 AM / 2 YEARS AGO
Britain's opposition Labour Party plots overthrow of capitalism
Andrew MacAskill, William James

LONDON (Reuters) - The British Labour Party’s would-be finance minister, John McDonnell, has a message for the world: he is deadly serious about overthrowing capitalism and building a socialist society.

McDonnell, 67, who describes Karl Marx as one of his main influences, has been at the vanguard of a left-wing revival in Britain’s main opposition party under fellow socialist Jeremy Corbyn. He has promised sweeping nationalization, higher public spending and an overhaul of the banking system.

Asked about his entry in the Who’s Who directory of influential people which lists his passion for “generally fermenting the overthrow of capitalism”, McDonnell said it was a joke about beer-making, but he agrees with the principle.

“I believe it. I am serious in my intent. I want to transform this economy,” McDonnell told Reuters in an interview. “That means evolving into a system which can achieve that equality, that democracy, that fairness, and tackles the major challenges that we are facing.”

With Prime Minister Theresa May’s grip on power looking ever more vulnerable as she faces the most perilous crisis of her premiership struggling to win backing for her Brexit deal, Labour are increasingly confident that they will be the next guardians of the world’s fifth-largest economy.

McDonnell’s gambit is that the social discontent in Britain which fueled the shock 2016 Brexit vote runs much deeper, and that voters who feel left behind by decades of unchecked capitalism and wounded by years of public spending cuts will rally to his call.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-labour-mcdonnell/britains-opposition-labour-party-plots-overthrow-of-capitalism-idUSKCN1NS189

The Unnamed One
Jan 13, 2012

"BOOM!"
Dude didn’t even overthrow capitalism in his own party

Jarf
Jun 25, 2006

PLATINUM




This makes me so sad.

The next few years are gonna be loving gross.

Jarf
Jun 25, 2006

PLATINUM



So here's your Russia Report:
https://docs.google.com/a/independent.gov.uk/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=aW5kZXBlbmRlbnQuZ292LnVrfGlzY3xneDo1Y2RhMGEyN2Y3NjM0OWFl

Consensus seems to be that Russia has influenced pretty much everything but we're not sure about Brexit because for some reason we decided not to look into that :v:

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Jarf posted:

So here's your Russia Report:
https://docs.google.com/a/independent.gov.uk/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=aW5kZXBlbmRlbnQuZ292LnVrfGlzY3xneDo1Y2RhMGEyN2Y3NjM0OWFl

Consensus seems to be that Russia has influenced pretty much everything but we're not sure about Brexit because for some reason we decided not to look into that :v:

The reason is, of course, that Russia was able to influence the intelligence community's investigative process as well.

Doc Hawkins
Jun 15, 2010

Dashing? But I'm not even moving!


Darth Walrus posted:

The reason is, of course, that Russia was able to influence the intelligence community's investigative process as well.

I don't see how you could have any evidence of that, they made sure not to investigate it.

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


i like the bits where it points out that london is known as the "laundromat" for global dirty money and theres a whole industry of people and politicians who are essentially agents for various russian oligarchs.

i saw a british journo reposting a summary of the report. its in the very first 2 bullet points. EVEN a UK journalist can read this and understand it.



he completely ignores it, can't even process it.
his takeaway is:

quote:

[this is] disturbing and mildly damning of politicians and officials. Suggests government may have “taken its eye off the ball on Russia” and are “still playing catch up”

one of the conclusions of the report is even worse imo, and is sorta referenced in that 3rd bullet point. they basically have determined that the UK is so corrupt, and the legal networks of money laundering and crime are so entrenched in high society you can't rip it out without tearing up everything, so they have to mitigate the worst effects of the corruption.

NONE of this is mentioned in the papers, all the headlines are just "Russia report reveals UK government failed to investigate Kremlin interference into Brexit"

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Pompeo visited you all to celebrate the imminent looting of the NHS

https://twitter.com/SecPompeo/status/1285549703925563394?s=20
https://twitter.com/DCKennard/status/1285507720460881926?s=20

Also too say thanks for banning Huawei
https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1285602255966806025?s=20

Heavy_D
Feb 16, 2002

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

NGC773 posted:

TOP KEK m8. Check out how much bribery happens in the rest of the world before saying the UK is so corrupt.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Heavy_D posted:

Flashback!

lmao

Doktor Avalanche
Dec 30, 2008

Heavy_D posted:

Flashback!

not just kek, but the grandest of them all - a top kek

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

top o' th'kek t'ye

Jarf
Jun 25, 2006

PLATINUM



We're so hosed. Anybody else getting real down about this?

I feel like the future for my kids in this country is gonna be a dystopian capitalist nightmare where we have inherited the worst parts of America.

Can we stop this? Is the damage already done? Do we have to just hope that come the next GE we swing to the left?

Who am I kidding. When the next GE comes along and the country has been ravished by no-deal brexit, privatised healthcare and shady trade deals the majority of the population will still blame Corbyn...

Dravs
Mar 8, 2011

You've done well, kiddo.
4 non UK billionaires and the remaining Barclay brother decide who runs the country and that's the way we like it!

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


Jarf posted:

We're so hosed. Anybody else getting real down about this?

I feel like the future for my kids in this country is gonna be a dystopian capitalist nightmare where we have inherited the worst parts of America.

Can we stop this? Is the damage already done? Do we have to just hope that come the next GE we swing to the left?

Who am I kidding. When the next GE comes along and the country has been ravished by no-deal brexit, privatised healthcare and shady trade deals the majority of the population will still blame Corbyn...

anyone with any sense should be leaving the country tbh. the economy is gonna die a nasty death over the next 10-20 years

... *doesn't take own advice*

Jarf
Jun 25, 2006

PLATINUM



I'm clapping for NHS staff, bankers and Boris.

Honestly if you're not clapping how can you call yourself a patriot? :smug:

e:

Communist Thoughts posted:

anyone with any sense should be leaving the country tbh. the economy is gonna die a nasty death over the next 10-20 years

... *doesn't take own advice*

If it wasn't for my children (whom I love dearly) then I would.

MikeCrotch
Nov 5, 2011

I AM UNJUSTIFIABLY PROUD OF MY SPAGHETTI BOLOGNESE RECIPE

YES, IT IS AN INCREDIBLY SIMPLE DISH

NO, IT IS NOT NORMAL TO USE A PEPPERAMI INSTEAD OF MINCED MEAT

YES, THERE IS TOO MUCH SALT IN MY RECIPE

NO, I WON'T STOP SHARING IT

more like BOLLOCKnese

Communist Thoughts posted:

anyone with any sense should be leaving the country tbh. the economy is gonna die a nasty death over the next 10-20 years

... *doesn't take own advice*

Yes let's move to a country with better long term prospects like

90s Cringe Rock
Nov 29, 2006
:gay:
plenty of prospects here, if you can nab an eu passport and start doing border runs on the less poo poo british isle

pdog
May 7, 2013
I wish I could go live in the Netherlands, so at least smoking weed would be easy (everything else would still be neoliberal hell tho)

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


MikeCrotch posted:

Yes let's move to a country with better long term prospects like

the UK is in a particularly poo poo situation. theres nothing special about us that stops the UK going completely arse up and plenty of countries have "better" long term prospects

don't get me wrong, i'm not moving cause im a dumbass too. but its pretty clear the future of the UK is extremely dire.
we've cut ourselves to the bone, elected a far-right government, replaced the opposition with an mi5 asset and we're gonna crash out into a full disaster capitalism feast

e: wait why do i have a no-joe tag?

Communist Thoughts has issued a correction as of 10:35 on Jul 22, 2020

Rustybear
Nov 16, 2006
what the thunder said

MikeCrotch posted:

Yes let's move to a country with better long term prospects like

iceland
NZ
norway
denmark (->greenland)


someones gonna post something that estimates they'll all be 45deg C and underwater by 2050 but those are my fantasy picks

V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

ASK ME ABOUT LUMBER

going to be fun times in norway if the gulf stream starts behaving erratically, though admittedly that's also the case for britain

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Sep 20, 2003



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