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Julio Cruz posted:the govt are already going all-out to blame this rise on the young for going out and having fun which the government told them they could when they opened the pubs back up The Question IRL posted:Yeah so the Brexit stuff has been the top story on the news over here all day. I think one thing that Bojo fails to understand at all (or is willingly ignoring) is that even if reneging on your deal as part of some super high risk negotiating strategy and it does work.... Genius ideas all round. e: A .32 ACP bullet started the First World War and ended the Second in Europe. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 16:18 on Sep 7, 2020 |
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The Question IRL posted:Yeah so the Brexit stuff has been the top story on the news over here all day. I think one thing that Bojo fails to understand at all (or is willingly ignoring) is that even if reneging on your deal as part of some super high risk negotiating strategy and it does work.... In Contrast, a scroll through the Süddeutsche front page: Nawalny woken from coma Nordstream 2 Softbank Something about Le Pen Virus numbers … A Brexit story is sandwiched between stories about the Antonescu-Regime in Romania and Paul Rusesabina. I had to explicitly open the politics section. Handelsblatt: Absolutely nothing Taz: Dito Tagesschau: vdL warns UK, Bojo threatens Extinction Rebellion, drowned in a sea of other news The SZ comes to the conclusion that Bojo is primarily playing to a domestic audience, and that seems to be what others think as well. I think the UK generally over-estimates how much the EU is still paying attention.
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Sep 7, 2020 16:21
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Julio Cruz posted:the govt are already going all-out to blame this rise on the young for going out and having fun which the government told them they could when they opened the pubs back up I was supposed to be getting married today, which I guess would've been perfectly fine if we skipped the ceremony and all of the guests just went to the pub instead of the reception.
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Guavanaut posted:Normally around being bottled. Last week the administration of the university I teach at did an abrupt 180 and announced that due to the A-level fiasco, they were expecting ~25% more students than usual and were concerned that in-person teaching would not be safe. Their solution was to phase in in-person teaching, with most non-lab classes first meeting physically in early October. I reckon at this rate that by then, following the first major outbreak, they'll simply opt to keep teaching online-only for the rest of the semester.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I feel like survivor bias has a lot to do with the popular opinion that it's over and we can start getting back to normal. All the people wandering round saying they've never met anyone who got really sick with it. Yes, because they're all dead or dragging oxygen bottles round their flat, of course you haven't loving heard anything from them. I think it's partly that about 0.1% people in the country have died of it. It's a lot in absolute numbers but if you know 1000 people then you'd expect only one of them to be dead, and most people don't know 1000 people.
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StarkingBarfish posted:Dawn Foster is a national treasure: She does feel like she got steadily more left wing over the last few years. I seem to remember she used to be more melty at the guardian.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:I've seen their cars about ten minute's walk from me, so I'll have to check them out. Insurance was £700 for me regardless of what car I fed into comparison sites, and I love train travel for long distance, so hourly car usage would be great for me. They are great if you need to pick someone up from a railway station, or get loads of shopping or similar. Rates are around £5 an hour, or £40ish for 24 hours.
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OwlFancier posted:She does feel like she got steadily more left wing over the last few years. I seem to remember she used to be more melty at the guardian. IIRC she's mentioned that she was expected to write with a certain slant at the Guardian and they removed an article which wasn't melty enough.
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Qwertycoatl posted:I think it's partly that about 0.1% people in the country have died of it. It's a lot in absolute numbers but if you know 1000 people then you'd expect only one of them to be dead, and most people don't know 1000 people. and the old inability to understand exponential curves. if the number of cases is doubling every few days, and it takes two weeks for any action to have an effect, by the time the average person starts to actually see cases it's way too late to do anything. from my vague recollection the last time I looked it up I don't think we're at oh poo poo rates of doubling again yet, mind.
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OwlFancier posted:She does feel like she got steadily more left wing over the last few years. I seem to remember she used to be more melty at the guardian. Wasn't it Foster who won a Non-Traditional Journalism award...'non-traditional' literally being defined as "not privately educated, didn't go to Oxbridge and actually does journalism occasionally"??
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peanut- posted:The Lidl Islay is Caol Ila product and it's genuinely good, I would say better than Laphroiag Select as its closest branded competitor. The Speyside is perfectly drinkable too. aldi do speyside and islay as well but the cardboard tubes are always empty so either its always been stolen or you need to take the tube to the till
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stev posted:IIRC she's mentioned that she was expected to write with a certain slant at the Guardian and they removed an article which wasn't melty enough. She went absolutely buck wild on Tom Watson being poo poo: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/09/tom-watson-weaken-labour-party-centrists-jeremy-corbyn strangely, that was her last piece  Later she said as much that they hadn't asked her to contribute after that.
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Breath Ray posted:aldi do speyside and islay as well but the cardboard tubes are always empty so either its always been stolen or you need to take the tube to the till gently caress offffff you poo poo
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Miftan posted:gently caress offffff you poo poo The only people engaging with Breath Ray are telling them to gently caress off and it's actually way worse than their posting.
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An engaging, high impact poster.
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Yeah just put him on ignore (so your quotes don't expose his posts to us) and let him scream into the void.
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Or threadban, that would be an option.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Excluding fuel costs, how much do you reckon it costs to run a small car for a year? As others have said it depends on the kind of driving you want to do, as a small car with a small engine doesn’t automatically equal cheap insurance and running costs. For short urban driving they’re fine, but if you plan to do long motorway cruises you’d want something with more power. In terms of costs my BMW 320i costs £600 to insure (social domestic and pleasure, 10,000 miles a year, 6 years no claims bonus, a couple of windscreen claims, no points or convictions) and road tax is £150 a year. First MOT is due in a couple of months so that will be another £55 a year to add on top of that. This doesn’t include consumables or servicing though, so there is also that to consider.
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Lol at anyone thinking starmer wasn't going to be monsters https://twitter.com/flying_rodent/status/1302888748724744193?s=19
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Jose posted:Lol at anyone thinking starmer wasn't going to be monsters Those people were always idiots though.
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Tsietisin posted:They are great if you need to pick someone up from a railway station, or get loads of shopping or similar. Rates are around £5 an hour, or £40ish for 24 hours. I used zipcars for years and they're great for a couple of hours but their rates over a day or weekend are crazy and you're better off going to somewhere like Thrifty, though beware the excess damage charges and the like (not that zipcars are much better). Where I used to live they were almost exclusively used by residents to take stuff to Wandsworth tip so were usually filthy which was a downside.
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The Question IRL posted:Yeah so the Brexit stuff has been the top story on the news over here all day. I think one thing that Bojo fails to understand at all (or is willingly ignoring) is that even if reneging on your deal as part of some super high risk negotiating strategy and it does work.... He doesn't give a gently caress These people are nihilists, The Question IRL
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gently caress me. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.
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Miftan posted:gently caress offffff you poo poo What has my good friend breat ray done to upset to noble folk of the ukmt d&d thread?
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goddamnedtwisto posted:The only people engaging with Breath Ray are telling them to gently caress off and it's actually way worse than their posting. I feel like telling racists to get in the sea is important, but I'll tone it down. fridge corn posted:What has my good friend breat ray done to upset to noble folk of the ukmt d&d thread? Loads of racism.
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StarkingBarfish posted:Dawn Foster is a national treasure: Starmer is going to learn that chasing the press approval will massively backfire when the press suddenly pretend it was all his idea even though they were leading the charge. Lol who am I kidding the Labour right are purely reactionary marketing twats who are incapable of learning.
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fridge corn posted:What has my good friend breat ray done to upset to noble folk of the ukmt d&d thread? do you have someone talented that might take over doing this for a bit, like, for a change? do you have, i don't know, a funny loved one or something. just spitballing.
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The Question IRL posted:Yeah so the Brexit stuff has been the top story on the news over here all day. I think one thing that Bojo fails to understand at all (or is willingly ignoring) is that even if reneging on your deal as part of some super high risk negotiating strategy and it does work.... Boris plans to ratfuck the country, go work for all the people making money out of the ratfucking and then try and run for President of the US.
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CoolCab posted:do you have someone talented that might take over doing this for a bit, like, for a change? do you have, i don't know, a funny loved one or something. just spitballing. My girlfriend (soon to be fiancee as soon as the ring I designed is finished being made) is very funny although she is not very online so I don't know if she'd really get posting. For instance she calls the forums "the manblog" which shows her ignorance to the fact that there are women out there who are interested in this stuff!! Anyway, I have never known breath ray to be racist but he does perhaps word things strangely from time to time and I don't think we should hold that against him
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fridge corn posted:My girlfriend (soon to be fiancee as soon as the ring I designed is finished being made) is very funny although well, they say opposites attract. best of luck with that!
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fridge corn posted:Anyway, I have never known breath ray to be racist but he does perhaps word things strangely from time to time and I don't think we should hold that against him Using camel jockey as a description of a person isn't "wording things strangely".
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Matt Hancock is blaming 'affluent young people' for spreading the coronavirus now. Articles showing people out eating, in the time of a pandemic! Doing exactly what the government told them to do. The horror!
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Barry Foster posted:He doesn't give a gently caress Here's the thing. I don't think that is true. I know I bring it up all the time, but when my daughter died last year I learnt an important lesson. We will all accept a narrative that is awful and horrible and even completely factually wrong if it makes "sense" over a more correct but chaotic truth. Johnson being a nihilist who doesn't care what happens or him being a disaster capitalist that is going to make bank out of Brexit makes sense. It's a credible motivation for the villain to have and it means there could be a scene where we look through his office and like Marge in "Homer Vs. The Mono Rail" we'd find a damning cartoon drawing that would prove our suspicion. But I don't think that's what is happening here. I suspect (to go back to a dramatic trope example) you would get your answer if you spoke to Bojo for more than 15 minutes. (Or read an account of someone who has spoken to him for more than 15 minutes.) He's just an egotist who has never suffered any actual consequences and assumes he never will. Don't believe me? This is a man who bragged about how he would shake hands with Covid Patients. What happens? He got Covid. For a normal person that would be a road to Damascus conversion. A realization that change must occur. For BoJo all that happened was he thought he needed to lose weight and it wouldn't happen again. Bojo almost certainly has a distinct nihilist part in that he doesn't really care what happens to the UK. But for someone truly motivated by Nihilism you look at Gove or Patel. Borris almost certainly has a financial contingency plan in place so he will be fine when it goes tits up. But I think the real Distaster Capitalisits are Reese Mog and maybe your new rich boy Chancellor of the Exchequor. No with Boris this is all about his Ego (as is Cummings.) That's why he hobbled May's deal, it is why he recreated the deal and pushed it through and that is why he is trying some sabre rattling to get a better deal. It's the type of Tan move that all those other Tan's throughout history have done and Boris venerated them.
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Jose posted:Lol at anyone thinking starmer wasn't going to be monsters Found this reply - this is bad for Ceremy Jorbyn: https://twitter.com/corbyn8myhamsta/status/1302913122970341376?s=20
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Jose posted:Lol at anyone thinking starmer wasn't going to be monsters TROOOOOOOOOTS The loving trots are to blame for loving everything aren't they? I've been hanging in super-lefty circles for ages and I genuinely don't think I've ever met anyone who self-identifies as a trotskyite. What must it belike living in the mind of someone who imagines trots on every corner?
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