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I believe that the automatic legitimisation of any opinion using "democracy" is actually called "mob rule". edit: 
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Jose posted:jesus christ Not having looked into the details about a particular case when it involves your department and it's been in the news for a sodding week, what the gently caress did you think you were going to get asked about
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Angepain posted:Not having looked into the details about a particular case when it involves your department and it's been in the news for a sodding week, what the gently caress did you think you were going to get asked about And the response basically implies that it was her fault for not correctly untangling the Home Office's beurocracy before dying.
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Sep 2, 2020 11:39
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If you see a socialist, please inform XR Police or our police liaison officer. https://twitter.com/copwatcher/status/1300714464224989184
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Sep 2, 2020 11:43
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TACD posted:
This. And also if you take someone's baggage and you get a random check from the Customs you could be for it especially if there's anything dodgy in there. "Really, officer, I don't know how all those dollars got in my suitcase sandwiched between the pages of books'", "You mean this bag of white powder, ISN'T icing sugar?" etc.
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Sep 2, 2020 11:56
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Hold on to your pants (other underwear styles are available) for the incoming flood of bile, Strictly is having a same sex couple this year.
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Sep 2, 2020 11:58
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I saw this and didn't notice the word "Scotland" at first. (From the Graun). 
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Sep 2, 2020 12:03
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This is just that Simpson meme in real life. “Now when I stamp on your foot and say “Hello Mr. Thompson” you nod.” And just like Homer Simpson, she thinks Kay Burley is talking to another politician instead.
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Sep 2, 2020 12:18
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Guavanaut posted:If you see a socialist, please inform XR Police or our police liaison officer. I assume XR is utterly co-opted at this point, or always were, and is just a way to funnel climate change protests into the most toothless controlled form they can.
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Sep 2, 2020 12:30
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I spent the entire 12 hours I was out of local lockdown in my house.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Stamp duty is suspended and there are a ton of available properties, so it's a really good time to buy. We're looking to buy our first place at the moment which is great, what is less great is that the sister in law can't afford a full half mortgagr which is limiting our search, what's even less good is that the wife has started looking at properties in Swindon. I was originally looking to become a first time buyer due to the stamp duty changes, until I actually looked up stamp duty and turns out FTB don't pay it anyway on the properties in my price range. You have my condolences on Swindon, my mum used to take me to her office there when i was sick at school so I could run messages about. The only other time I've been was to see Johnathan Pie live, so I have very negative feelings towards it. I might be moving to Enfield/Edmonton in the near future. I used to swear I'd never move to London, what has become of me (typically, I took the job here to stay close to an ex instead of moving up to Glasgow to be close to my dad's side of the family).
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LOL the interviewer is the worst part of this. That dwp lady is obviously just doing evil, that's her job, but the other woman is trying to launder evil and hilariously failing. E it is weird how the UK historically just likes to starve people as punishment. Its definitely one of our quirks
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Sep 2, 2020 12:44
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jacksbrat posted:Oh they still have these! Both the trains and the travellers who don't know wtf to do (I can personally attest). I was travelling up to Montrose to visit an ex years ago and I very nearly accidently left her standing at the station while I carried on off to Aberdeen because it took me an uncomfortably long time to work out that I had to open the bloody window and open the door using the external handle. It's the single only time before or since that I've been on a train with that kind of door and I've spent a hell of a lot of time on trains over the years.
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I wonder how many people will due to the virus discover what the DWP has meant by "helping" people this whole time
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Sep 2, 2020 12:56
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^^^ There was an article shared last thread (medium, I think) about a middle class person having to apply for welfare and repeatedly having their fears assuaged because they're 'one of the good ones.'SpaceCommie posted:You have my condolences on Swindon, my mum used to take me to her office there when i was sick at school so I could run messages about. The only other time I've been was to see Johnathan Pie live, so I have very negative feelings towards it. I really, really don't want to end up living in Swindon. Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 13:03 on Sep 2, 2020 |
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Sep 2, 2020 13:01
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Doesn't Sargon of Akkad live there too?
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Sep 2, 2020 13:04
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We certainly call him Carl of Swindon but IIRC he ran for parliament in cornwall or somewhere.
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https://twitter.com/gdimelow/status/1300901493869031425?s=21 The bins! THE BINS! The bins are too safe and practical! 
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thespaceinvader posted:We certainly call him Carl of Swindon but IIRC he ran for parliament in cornwall or somewhere. Also, grifters tend to just stand wherever, regardless of any actual connection (anyone remember that Nutall interview?)
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Bobby Deluxe posted:^^^ There was an article shared last thread (medium, I think) about a middle class person having to apply for welfare and repeatedly having their fears assuaged because they're 'one of the good ones.' Glasses direct are in Swindon so there is 1 (one) okay thing there
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Bobstar posted:https://twitter.com/gdimelow/status/1300901493869031425?s=21 MAMBA-PAMBY
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Bobstar posted:https://twitter.com/gdimelow/status/1300901493869031425?s=21 I still have these bins for some reason. They're poo poo. Though the mamba-pamby bin men of today just take the lids off and lift the bin bags out rather than hoisting them on their shoulder like the proper bin men of back then
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Sep 2, 2020 13:20
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bin men always smiling when they had to retire at 45 from chronic back complaints
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Julio Cruz posted:bin men always smiling when they had to retire at 45 from chronic back complaints 
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The follow up is also great. https://twitter.com/gdimelow/status/1300921891432128515?s=19
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They weren't so fond of the binmen when they went on strike (hence Thatcher) or when they dropped litter all over the garden if you didn't pay up the Christmas Box. Oh dear, I just looked up that FB page and two of my friends 'like' it. One it is undoubtedly for research purposes (she is a good person and will probably stand for AM next year). The other, that explains a lot LOL And who called it a page or 2 ago for the Strictly with the same sex couple? Top post on their page:  I shan't share anymore from that place! Reading some more (one of those dreadful posts about getting kicked from here to kingdom come did me no harm as a child) - why is appalling spelling/grammar a big hint you're dealing with fash? Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 14:00 on Sep 2, 2020 |
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Sep 2, 2020 13:52
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:why is appalling spelling/grammar a big hint you're dealing with fash? it's because they're thick as poo poo
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"When I stamp your foot and say 'You're a compassionate woman' you nod your head and say something compassionate" *to home office* "I Think she's talking to you"
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Top post on their page:  e:  first thing that came up searching for it sums the whole thing up
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Sep 2, 2020 14:28
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Guavanaut posted:Yes but at least they could carry 18 gallons of rubbish at a time, look at this waster carting 480 litres of rubbish, who knows what that means, it's probably nothing. Guy in the bottom photo isn't even smoking and looks a bit foreign, this country has gone to the dogs!
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Gonzo McFee posted:"When I stamp your foot and say 'You're a compassionate woman' you nod your head and say something compassionate"
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bessantj posted:Guy in the bottom photo isn't even smoking and looks a bit foreign, this country has gone to the dogs!
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Extinction Rebellion UK also casually retweeting a white supremacist slogan. https://twitter.com/CEEbill_NOW/status/1301133914040414208
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While not explicitly UK politics, we have a bit of experience in the Novichok arena and turns out (according to the German Government and presumably with the help of Porton Down) that Alexei Navalny was indeed Novichok'd
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Julio Cruz posted:bin men always smiling when they had to retire at 45 from chronic back complaints Funnily enough it normally wasn't back complaints that did for them - one of the very first applications of time-and-motion studies was on corporation bin men in (I *think*) Birmingham, which led to the bin sizes being substantially reduced and the handle situated so that they could be lifted to the shoulder. Previously bins were almost twice the size and were dragged or carried two-handed because the belief was that was the quickest way of getting them collected, but when it was actually examined it was discovered it was quicker for them to make multiple trips rather than trying to manhandle something they couldn't comfortably lift, especially on uneven ground - this coincidentally vastly reduced the amount of workplace injuries and (because it hadn't apparently occurred to any boss previously in the history of employment) proved that at least trying not to cripple your workers was substantially more efficient). It did however lead to a (harmless) muscular/skeletal abnormality in the elbows of dustmen, like a big pad of muscle just below the joint, that was basically a badge of honour for them. e: Oops - forgot my final paragraph - the most common injuries/post-retirement health issues were knees and hips, but they generally did better than most manual labourers goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 15:08 on Sep 2, 2020 |
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Sep 2, 2020 15:03
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I wanted to give him a fair chance but honestly I think I loving hate him
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Going to facebook to get cripplingly angry that my binman won't cripple himself dragging giant heavy cans back and forth for hours a day. No I do that job once so that he's got an easier one what's wrong with you?!
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I don't get the nostalgising for old timey bins. I mean, I sort of do, you get to an age and start to realise that the cultural ephemera that was the unquestioned background of your young years has vanished a bit at a time, and you can't pinpoint the moment the world you're living in now supplanted it. It's alienating; a part of your interior world, your memory, forever belongs to a place that no longer exists. But like, it wasn't *better*. And even if it were, for you, personally, are you going to submit people to more hardship just so you can live in it again for one more day? This sounds like I'm deliberately making a heavy handed Brexit analogy and I'm not. Be thankful you get to leave your surplus things outside and someone does the dirty work of coming and taking them away for you, and try and remember they're human beings and to treat them with respect and not make their job any harder than it needs to be. It's not difficult.
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