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OwlFancier posted:Are we all using the Republic of Ireland's benefits system now? The NI border negotiations must be going badly. ronya posted:hot take time #2: It probably would still be a bit, because people whose parents are engineers are going to have more access to engineering books as a child, help with engineering homework, and networks of existing engineers. That's true of many things though, musicians, artists, bus drivers, and I don't have the same opposition to that existing there as I do with landlords and heads of state having hereditary components/bias, the key is to make sure that engineers (or musicians, or artists, or bus drivers) don't become magic people who can dictate the whole of society, which I think is Bakunin's objection too. Necrothatcher posted:The Harmony Party is a tremendously poo poo name. Pistol_Pete posted:We had the Roman Party
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Jul 27, 2020 15:34
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The roman party involves mandatory vomiting.
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Jul 27, 2020 15:36
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parties that have nebulous ideals in their name are always poo poo. See for example 'respect'.
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Jul 27, 2020 15:38
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StarkingBarfish posted:parties that have nebulous ideals in their name are always poo poo. See for example 'respect'. That's pretty much all parties though, on both counts
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Jul 27, 2020 15:44
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OwlFancier posted:The roman party involves mandatory vomiting. Failed Imagineer posted:That's pretty much all parties though, on both counts 
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Jul 27, 2020 15:46
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Failed Imagineer posted:That's pretty much all parties though, on both counts True.
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Jul 27, 2020 15:48
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Dead Goon posted:I like Jazz am I a racist now I listen to Jazz fm and it's full of adverts about second homes and life insurance, and their morning business news is very dry discussions on how the market number must go up and how we must never hold them to account ever; ergo their target audience is a) white middle class, b) wealthy or isolated from financial worry c) probably puce.
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Jul 27, 2020 15:53
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Guess they're not playing much of this then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwQZwXAIT38 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhq36BhcHW8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtLednsovkg
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Jul 27, 2020 16:02
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StarkingBarfish posted:True. You mean... veritas?
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Jul 27, 2020 16:07
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will the Harmony Party be seeking list seats in the scottish parliament under a banner of pro and/or anti independence unity
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Jul 27, 2020 16:08
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Lowtax posted:sup byob lol
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Jul 27, 2020 16:20
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Failed Imagineer posted:That's pretty much all parties though, on both counts Lets start naming parties with nonsense terms like tech companies. I'm a proud member of the Frumpletumple Party.
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Jul 27, 2020 16:22
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lol
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Jul 27, 2020 16:30
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Oh good it's time for the weekly public mental breakdown.
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Jul 27, 2020 16:32
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Harmony Party always makes me think of that large sex shop/adult entertainment shop, Harmony, on Oxford Street. I bought something there once; behind the till there was a big display of poppers with Union Jack wrappings. The cashier laughed when I said it looked a bit Brexity
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Jul 27, 2020 16:34
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'Harmony' is far too woolly a name, it sounds like the name of a candle used by a hippie aromatherapist. It's depressing but branding is extremely important here and you're getting nowhere if your big new hope of a left-wing party immediately conjures up images of woo garbage to an extent that would make the greens blush
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Jul 27, 2020 16:43
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Harmony really does sound like the most centrist of names. I would join the Dissonance party, although if we're talking cognitive then we already have at least 3 of those
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Jul 27, 2020 16:44
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That's why I'm starting the "put the heads of everyone richer than me on pikes party".
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Jul 27, 2020 16:45
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Why is it that most other places have a bunch of parties made of acronyms/initialisms, like EFF or SWAPO or ZAPU, whereas the US and UK (south of Scotland) is usually single word broad ideas? Is it FPTP?OwlFancier posted:That's why I'm starting the "put the heads of everyone richer than me on pikes party".
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Jul 27, 2020 16:50
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killerwhat posted:Harmony Party always makes me think of that large sex shop/adult entertainment shop, Harmony, on Oxford Street. Ehhh, I remember when it used to be on Charing Cross Road, next to the Astoria. They knocked it down to built an underground railway for the Queen 
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Jul 27, 2020 16:57
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Guavanaut posted:Why is it that most other places have a bunch of parties made of acronyms/initialisms, like EFF or SWAPO or ZAPU, whereas the US and UK (south of Scotland) is usually single word broad ideas? Is it FPTP? the Nordics have an even greater intolerance for characters than most, they use single-character acronyms even for the single-word parties
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Jul 27, 2020 16:58
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Tarnop posted:Harmony really does sound like the most centrist of names. I would join the Dissonance party, although if we're talking cognitive then we already have at least 3 of those join the Discord Party, we communicate our policies solely in cutesy video game references
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Jul 27, 2020 17:01
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Angepain posted:join the Discord Party, we communicate our policies solely in cutesy video game references Three words; Metal. Gear. Economy.
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Jul 27, 2020 17:29
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That could either be Armstrong's idea or it could be a game where you have to solve the recession by sneaking around and cuddling men until you get to fight the giant robot piloted by rishi sunak.
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Jul 27, 2020 17:31
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Fultoning members of the public to recruit them into my new Leftist party.
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Jul 27, 2020 17:34
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Bobstar posted:Ehhh, I remember when it used to be on Charing Cross Road, next to the Astoria. They knocked it down to built an underground railway for the Queen They started off in Soho proper, but down at the Chinatown/Theatreland end, because they always had a pretty canny business plan of being a sex shop that wasn't one of those loving terrifying Private Shop places that stink of rollups and desperation - they gave plausible deniability for someone being in the area without frightening the horses by being on the high street.
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Jul 27, 2020 17:45
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OwlFancier posted:The roman party involves mandatory vomiting. Actually 'vomitorium' doesn't mean what you think it does! 
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Jul 27, 2020 17:50
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feedmegin posted:Actually 'vomitorium' doesn't mean what you think it does! Funnily I know what a vomitorium is but I thought they did still vomit, just not in the vomitorium.
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Jul 27, 2020 17:59
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OwlFancier posted:Funnily I know what a vomitorium is but I thought they did still vomit, just not in the vomitorium. Nope. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/purging-the-myth-of-the-vomitorium/ As usual it's the Victorians fault
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Jul 27, 2020 18:10
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So all the journos today were talking about how we might loosen the quarantine restrictions for people coming back from the Spanish islands. Cut to 6pm, and the foreign office have just advised against all but essential travel. Lol.
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Jul 27, 2020 18:13
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Amazing thanks guys. Don’t sign up to political parties whilst under the influence . 
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Jul 27, 2020 18:18
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Pantsmaster Bill posted:So all the journos today were talking about how we might loosen the quarantine restrictions for people coming back from the Spanish islands. It's actually even funnier because a minister is there on hols. Can't decide if he was shameless enough to suggest it or the media are assuming he was. e: phrasing Private Speech fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Jul 27, 2020 |
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Jul 27, 2020 18:19
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Speaking of classical civilizations, I read this today. Interesting idea about rigid morality gods coming after society suddenly getting more complicated, rather than the prior idea that it went the other way around and societies with certain religious beliefs tending to become larger or more complex, but I just had Spitting Image's My God Is Bigger Than Your God in my head when reading the whole thing.
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Jul 27, 2020 18:23
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I've been looking at the corona numbers and there's some pretty fun stuff there, like Spain having about 60% of the total recorded deaths of the UK but supposedly more cases overall.
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Jul 27, 2020 18:31
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That's probably related to proactive testing. If you don't test anyone until they're about to die then you end up producing a seemingly incredibly lethal disease.
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Jul 27, 2020 18:33
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Guavanaut posted:Speaking of classical civilizations, I read this today. I always find the idea of polytheism, with gods running the same gamut of dumbness and badness as humans, to be much more satisfying than one big perfect bloke with a beard. Granny got struck by lightning despite never setting a foot wrong in her life? Monotheism has to tie itself in knots about the ineffability of God and His plan, polytheism shrugs and goes "Zeus got pissed last night".
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Jul 27, 2020 18:36
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I don't like this disparaging of meritocracy. I'm better at video games than other people and that makes me morally superior, end of story.
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Jul 27, 2020 18:45
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feedmegin posted:Nope. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/purging-the-myth-of-the-vomitorium/ It is reasonable to assume that plenty of people still vomited in the vomitorium, though, given its actual purpose.
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amazing what competent covid response can do https://twitter.com/georgeeaton/status/1287805554199601153?s=20
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