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If cucumbers are so undetectable then why are there so many cucumber-scented products and sandwiches then??Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/MichaelLCrick/status/1288555515321233409?s=19 I dunno, I think maybe the editor deserves it, must take a lot of effort and skill to polish turds to a mirror sheen so consistently https://thumbs.gfycat.com/FlimsyFearlessIbadanmalimbe-mobile.mp4 baka kaba fucked around with this message at 01:27 on Jul 30, 2020 |
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This BBC article about that laughable attempted coup on Venezuela earlier this year is a fun read but rather carefully steers clear of actually blaming anyone.quote:So much still does not add up about Operation Gideon. Perhaps - like the Bay of Pigs 60 years ago - it will remain the subject of endless speculation. And what happened to Jordan Goudreau? His whereabouts are unknown. The FBI will not confirm or deny whether he is under investigation. Still, like I say, it's a fun read.
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kingturnip posted:This BBC article about that laughable attempted coup on Venezuela earlier this year is a fun read but rather carefully steers clear of actually blaming anyone. Is there speculation about the Bay of Pigs? I thought it was commonly accepted that the CIA hired a bunch of displaced Cuban Slavers and landlords to try and launch an invasion of Cuba and leverage JFK into an American invasion to which JFK went "lol nope" and left them high and dry.
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Nope I'm not accepting this gaslighting. I'll never believe that people dislike cucumbers. They are passive and harmless vegetables. e; ^ Yeah I missed that but the Bay of Pigs is pretty fully known I thought? Ms Adequate fucked around with this message at 02:58 on Jul 30, 2020 |
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Said it in the other thread but face nappies bad, actual nappies, cool and good!
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Darth Walrus posted:Not to defend it, because that's the sort of salary that could definitely use a trim to save jobs, but it's worth noting that that's genuinely on the low end for a British newspaper editor. Slight sidenote, but I'm always surprised how low the pay of our PM is, both on the absolute scale given the level of responsibility and relative to other countries. I think it's convention that they don't take £50k of it too, so it's less than it appears on this table. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_salaries_of_heads_of_state_and_government If you don't have familial wealth to fall back on, it's not really enough to make up for becoming a public hate figure IMO and giving up the rest of your life as a private citizen.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:If we're doing uspol: Incredible
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Prince John posted:If you don't have familial wealth to fall back on, it's not really enough to make up for becoming a public hate figure IMO and giving up the rest of your life as a private citizen. It's a job lots of people would pay to do if they could afford it. Meanwhile other people get low pay that doesn't make up for having to waste half their lives doing boring poo poo.
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The fix your bike scheme is open for registrations again.
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PM also gets two houses, a chaffeur driven limo, a plane and no opportunity to spend any of their money, which'll add up if youre PM for a decade. Apparently they also get 150k a year for the rest of their lives. The salary is small potatoes compared to the rest of the benefits and thats just the official ones.
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I know the libdems are like that Doctor Who alien that you instantly lose all memory of the second they're not in your vision, but it looks like they might be getting um...*checks notes* Dead Aviary as leader. https://twitter.com/EdwardJDavey/status/1288737045221969920 He's literally been acting leader since Swinson left, and is yet another of the piss diamonds who were in the coalition cabinet.
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Could get Moran and do something interesting or bow to the neoliberal orthodoxy of ‘electability’ over substance. Go piss diamonds.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:If we're doing uspol: Well, on the subject of Nazi comparisons...
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BizarroAzrael posted:I think I need some time off, but I'm desperate to get away. What are reasonable options now? Should I only go somewhere I can drive to? it sounds like youd be travelling alone. what about a spot of wild camping?
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seriously gently caress the labour party https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1288740905327964160?s=20
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https://twitter.com/CatharineHoey/status/1288535321748164608?s=20 Kate Hoey having a normal one
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When I think normal and respectful security measures and human rights I always think of Northern Ireland. Maybe we can have our passport control replaced with "you look like a man on the list, no we can't tell you which man or show you the list" too. Oh wait that's the hostile environment now 
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Prince John posted:Slight sidenote, but I'm always surprised how low the pay of our PM is, both on the absolute scale given the level of responsibility and relative to other countries. I think it's convention that they don't take £50k of it too, so it's less than it appears on this table. The plot of the UK House of Cards' final series was based on Uruquat realising while he'd met his goal of out-PMing Thatcher, he'd entirely failed to feather his nest throughout and had better get some of that sweet corruption money fast.
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BizarroAzrael posted:I think I need some time off, but I'm desperate to get away. What are reasonable options now? Should I only go somewhere I can drive to? It is the perfect time to tour your local beauty spots and not do international travel because there is a very pooorly controlled pandemic.
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Ms Adequate posted:Nope I'm not accepting this gaslighting. 
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Jose posted:seriously gently caress the labour party
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I have a similar thing to the Cucumber Repulsion where I am convinced that peas are the devil's food that taste horrible and everyone around me is convinced they taste of nothing and I'm weird. doesn't help that every pub heaps peas with everything as standard. don't get me started on the prevalence of peas in every Mixed Frozen Vegetables bag. end the pea supremacy ahh yes, your normal student organisation of students for students, co-founded by an 80 year old, as is normal for a grassroots student concern Total Meatlove posted:Go piss diamonds. the new upmarket brand name for kidney stones
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Bobby Deluxe posted:In an abstract sense she's not wrong - given that Covid survives on surfaces for up to 24 hours and kids touch loving everything with their grubby little hands, masks are barely going to touch the sides in terms of infection control. They shouldn't be back at school at all. Eh, evidence from the last few months shows covid doesn't really spread through object fomites - it spreads through unmasked people in close proximity indoors. Guess what schools consist of...
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Guavanaut posted:When I think normal and respectful security measures and human rights I always think of Northern Ireland. I didn't realise how desensitised I am until I lived in Scotland. I can only remember the tail end of the troubles but I noticed so many little things that were permanent marks of the environment I grew up in. It took me a while to get used to seeing police in Edinburgh going about in smart cars and on scooters without looking around to see who was going to lift them and hoy them off a bridge. I remember there was a big hooha because some scottish police had gone into a supermarket to get their lunch or something with pistols on their belts and it was hard for me to see fathom why this was a big deal because I'm used to seeing them going about carrying semi automatics. I wouldn't notice heavily armed police at airports or harbours unless there were people suddenly acting sheepish around them to make me wonder what was up. I also still carry my driving licence everywhere and think nothing of giving it to someone in a uniform who asks, but in Edinburgh people generally took incredible umbrage at being asked who they were :/
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Jezza fund has gone over £320k now so I expect it will peak at around £325-£330k as definitely slowing down. I haven't actually donated yet so I might switch what I was going to do (once August hits!) to the JVL who are being sued.crispix posted:I didn't realise how desensitised I am until I lived in Scotland. I can only remember the tail end of the troubles but I noticed so many little things that were permanent marks of the environment I grew up in. It took me a while to get used to seeing police in Edinburgh going about in smart cars and on scooters without looking around to see who was going to lift them and hoy them off a bridge. I remember there was a big hooha because some scottish police had gone into a supermarket to get their lunch or something with pistols on their belts and it was hard for me to see fathom why this was a big deal because I'm used to seeing them going about carrying semi automatics. I wouldn't notice heavily armed police at airports or harbours unless there were people suddenly acting sheepish around them to make me wonder what was up. I also still carry my driving licence everywhere and think nothing of giving it to someone in a uniform who asks, but in Edinburgh people generally took incredible umbrage at being asked who they were :/ Same but from a different country. I got so used to having to pass all bags through metal detectors and hand searches on entering any public building or mall, seeing armed police outside any embassy or bank, cars entering car parks having a bomb detector run under them and the boots opened and inspected, having to leave your passport or other id with security on entering some premises and picking it up on the way out. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 11:40 on Jul 30, 2020 |
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lmao at Bercow's peerage being denied this is what happens when Tories piss off other Tories I guess
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Nothingtoseehere posted:fomites Venomous posted:lmao at Bercow's peerage being denied
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Venomous posted:lmao at Bercow's peerage being denied It's funnier - in a way - that they gave a peerage to those two ex-Labour MPs, in exchange for leaving Labour and shittalking them in the run-up to the election. Funnier because there were plenty of Labour MPs willing to do it without leaving the party.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:PM also gets two houses, a chaffeur driven limo, a plane and no opportunity to spend any of their money, which'll add up if youre PM for a decade. Apparently they also get 150k a year for the rest of their lives. The salary is small potatoes compared to the rest of the benefits and thats just the official ones.
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Flipswitch posted:What's the basis for having 150k for the rest of your life? That's pretty nuts. Though I don't know about the sum... The Members of Parliament (Remuneration and Services) Act 2013 provides for: - an annuity to be paid to a former Prime Minister, in office for not less than two years, and for an annuity for the surviving spouse of a former Prime Minister - the Remuneration Authority to set these annuities.
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You try and find work when the most recent entry on your CV is "Killed 60,000 people".
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Flipswitch posted:What's the basis for having 150k for the rest of your life? That's pretty nuts. You need a fair amount to pay for security, I expect.
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Jedit posted:You need a fair amount to pay for security, I expect. I would assume that the state pays for that separately?? At least in Israel the Shin Bet have details for all former PMs, for example. It's not a private thing.
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stev posted:You try and find work when the most recent entry on your CV is "Killed 60,000 people". That seems like it would open up plenty of job offers, though? Near as I can tell, the generous retirement package is precisely to discourage you from treating your time in office like a job application - not that it necessarily works, of course, but it does slightly reduce the incentive.
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stev posted:You try and find work when the most recent entry on your CV is "Killed 60,000 people".
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