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hey chaps just browsing RT today and imagine my shock at seeing this, everyone's favourite arbiter of truth, immortalised in film : https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bellingcat_truth_in_a_post_truth_world
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Z the IVth posted:Countdown until some bright spark tries to nuke the channel crossing. Maybe not great for the people that live there, but from a process engineering perspective it works, and 62% of people in Dover will probably be enthusiastic right up until it happens. Failed Imagineer posted:Is this... dialectics?
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Oct 25, 2020 10:07
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Failed Imagineer posted:Idk why this meme format is always so effective at dismantling right-wing insanity. American Chopper encouraged and rewarded the worst behaviour of already unpleasant people, which differs from our current political and media landscape in the following ways:
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Oct 25, 2020 10:09
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Guavanaut posted:That'd be a great way of instantly creating a shitload of quicklime. This would also help with global warming as it absorbed carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. If we were really serious about combating climate change, well there are about 10 gigatons-worth of decommissioned nuclear warheads sitting around the place with nothing to do, and nobody particularly likes the Alps do they?
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Oct 25, 2020 10:16
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goddamnedtwisto posted:This would also help with global warming as it absorbed carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. If we were really serious about combating climate change, well there are about 10 gigatons-worth of decommissioned nuclear warheads sitting around the place with nothing to do, and nobody particularly likes the Alps do they? Nuclear winter also works pretty well to cool stuff down. Maybe 1Gt per year for the next 10 years?
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Oct 25, 2020 10:25
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I was thinking massive volcanic eruption, but I don't know if we've developed the science to do that yet.
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Oct 25, 2020 10:29
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To be honest the UK is so centralised you could probably nuke Manchester and the country would just carry on as if nothing happened. Would anybody in London really notice if HS2 just ended at a massive radioactive crater
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Oct 25, 2020 10:30
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Please don't reveal the secret Tier 5 plans.
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Oct 25, 2020 10:33
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the sex ghost posted:To be honest the UK is so centralised you could probably nuke Manchester and the country would just carry on as if nothing happened. Would anybody in London really notice if HS2 just ended at a massive radioactive crater Sorry, we're not spending money on the north. Those nukes don't come cheap.
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Oct 25, 2020 10:34
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Oct 25, 2020 10:37
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the sex ghost posted:To be honest the UK is so centralised you could probably nuke Manchester and the country would just carry on as if nothing happened. Would anybody in London really notice if HS2 just ended at a massive radioactive crater You could for real nuke the Highlands and 99% of the population wouldn't GAF. The 1% being the queen.
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Oct 25, 2020 10:38
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the sex ghost posted:To be honest the UK is so centralised you could probably nuke Manchester and the country would just carry on as if nothing happened. Would anybody in London really notice if HS2 just ended at a massive radioactive crater Separating London off into it's own city state nation would make everyone happy. The place is that much of a cancer to the rest of the nation and London doesn't care about anything not London so no one would lose anything.
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Oct 25, 2020 10:39
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Mugsbaloney posted:hey chaps just browsing RT today and imagine my shock at seeing this, everyone's favourite arbiter of truth, immortalised in film : https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bellingcat_truth_in_a_post_truth_world Initially mistook/misread RT as Russian Today, which was, uh, a bit jarring.
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Oct 25, 2020 10:39
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kingturnip posted:I was thinking massive volcanic eruption, but I don't know if we've developed the science to do that yet. I reckon a gigaton or two artfully deployed around Yellowstone would do the trick.
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Oct 25, 2020 10:40
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Z the IVth posted:You could for real nuke the Highlands 
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Oct 25, 2020 10:44
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Z the IVth posted:You could for real nuke the Highlands and 99% of the population wouldn't GAF. The queen is actually 660k people? No wonder she needs such a big house
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Oct 25, 2020 10:50
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https://twitter.com/ruskin147/status/1320268409435836416 But of course.
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Oct 25, 2020 10:50
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Failed Imagineer posted:The queen is actually 660k people? No wonder she needs such a big house she's worth 660k times as much as a regular person why wouldn't she be considered to have 660k times as much importance?
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Oct 25, 2020 10:52
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Failed Imagineer posted:The queen is actually 660k people? No wonder she needs such a big house
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Oct 25, 2020 10:54
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It’s as if we’re trapped watching a reductio ad absurdum argument with the Conservative party, as someone tries ever more extreme examples to see if they can be tempted into normal human behaviour: - Ok what if the country starts dying off from a deadly disease, would you spend on the poor then? - what if the disease was highly infectious and could shut the economy down for years? - what if actual children were starving to death? And it’s all just bouncing off a wall of “the only people who actually exist are those whom I know personally.”
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Oct 25, 2020 10:58
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Ben Bradley: People exist? Just realized that he looks like a poo poo photoshop of Brendan O'Neill.
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Oct 25, 2020 11:04
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Guavanaut posted:Ben Bradley: People exist? No that's Brendan O'Neill. Bradley looks *exactly* like the young Al Murray when he was playing Harry Hill's brother Alan, except somehow with Al Murray playing the Pub Landlord - or rather the bits that stupid people laugh at in the Pub Landlord's shows - controlling things.
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Oct 25, 2020 11:11
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Failed Imagineer posted:Idk why this meme format is always so effective at dismantling right-wing insanity. It's the modern socratic method
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Oct 25, 2020 11:18
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https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/1320315486412951552 Sir Haircut also saying he'll force another vote on free school meals before the Christmas break.
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Oct 25, 2020 11:52
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Starmer seems to have revealled his new slogan of 'the country needs new leadership' and even Facebook seems to have worked out the obvious reply of 'of the opposition, yes.'
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Oct 25, 2020 11:57
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Lol Tory donors are scared that if they quarantine they might be considered resident in the UK
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Oct 25, 2020 12:24
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Paypal heads up - but some of you might know this already: if you change your Preferred Payment Method, and have "subscriptions" (eg a 3-yearly hosting plan renewal) - unless you manually change the method used to pay in that subscription (auto-payments eg annual renewals, recurring monthly payments etc), it will take the money from the account last used to pay that subscription. I changed mine to a credit card knowing that a bill for $515 was on the way, and my last couple of paypal payments have been taken from that credit card. All's well I thought. Woke up on Friday morning to a text from one of my banks (I have more than one having been locked out of an account for 6 weeks when my debit card got wiped by a magnet - don't ask) to say 'insufficient funds' to pay the Paypal DD. Thankfully, I was able to move money across quite quickly. There is absolutely NOTHING on the paypal site to inform you that if you change your preferred payment method that it doesn't automatically apply to any 'subscriptions' and you have to do this manually. Grrrrr - now I've had to pay over £400 out of savings instead of spreading them out on the credit card.  come the revolution etc.
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Oct 25, 2020 12:34
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Oct 25, 2020 12:41
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Was just looking at the lyrics of that Christmas song - some pertinent lines in there: [quote] It's Christmas time, and there's no need to be afraid At Christmas time, we let in light and banish shade And in our world of plenty, we can spread a smile of joy Throw your arms around the world At Christmas time .... Where a kiss of love can kill you, and there's death in every tear And the Christmas bells that ring there are the clanging chimes of doom Well tonight we're reaching out and touching you ... Why is to touch to be scared? [quote] How can covid know it's Christmas time at all? (I doctored that last line there so I took it out of the quote).
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Oct 25, 2020 12:45
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jabby posted:Sir Haircut also saying he'll force another vote on free school meals before the Christmas break. He's such an opportunistic twat that even when the cause is good I immediately think "oh, gently caress off Starmer". Is it just me? If I say he's virtue signaling does it mean I'm turning into a gammon?
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Oct 25, 2020 12:47
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first thought was that must just be a poo poo summary misrepresenting the article. Par for the course on Twitter. But no, he really is that stupid. quote:So, what can we do? How can we bring some semblance of normality to a country afflicted by a global pandemic? Perhaps we should consider a Christmas “circuit breaker”. A 24-hour lifting of restrictions on gatherings and celebrations, a break in the war on Covid, just like the pause in the First World War on the Western Front in 1914, when the British and German troops laid down their guns and met in no man’s land to celebrate Christmas. "just like" except actually he means "complete opposite" because in reality the virus can't be negotiated with and can't agree to cease spreading for a day. unilaterally giving up is not the same as bilateral agreement of an armistice.
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Oct 25, 2020 12:48
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Hellooooo I am Lord Richie Bankerton I require exemption from your rules for to go on important "business trips" for to make lots and lots and lots of "great deals"  
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Oct 25, 2020 12:53
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the kirke within this kingdome is now purged of all superstitious observatione of dayes... thairfor the saidis estatis have dischairged and simply dischairges the foirsaid Yule vacance and all observation thairof in tymecomeing, and rescindis and annullis all acts, statutis and warrandis and ordinances whatsoevir granted at any tyme heirtofoir for keiping of the said Yule vacance, with all custome of observatione thairof, and findis and declaires the samene to be extinct, voyd and of no force nor effect in tymecomeing.
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Oct 25, 2020 12:57
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ObamaAkbar. posted:https://twitter.com/ajenglish/status/1320262570134114304?s=21 Somewhere a gammon becomes redder, angry that the UN cowards won't vapourise children. The ball starts rolling on UNxit 2025
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Oct 25, 2020 13:02
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It's 2030 and Britain begins drilling to dislodge itself from mainland Earth to become an orbital platform. UN ambassadors have been expelled from the country for their repeated and negative pleas. James Dyson admonishes the naysayers doubting the cyclonic engines being fitted to rural Berkshire, from the safety of his australian residence. It's 2040 and parts of Britain are still raining down over Scotland. Europe is under the effects of a nuclear winter, which has gone largely un-noticed in Scotland. A Cthonic palace of non-euclidean design has been unearthed as Britain splits itself down the middle. The British diaspora annexes the Spanish coast. It's 2050 and god emperor Biden declares war on Atlantis... Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 13:17 on Oct 25, 2020 |
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Oct 25, 2020 13:14
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Cerv posted:Jesus wept Just like the Christmas Armistice, except if one side stayed in the trenches and kept firing while the other lot got massacred.
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Oct 25, 2020 13:31
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Christmas day, all prepared for another day of lockdown, when suddenly a sound came from outside. Some idiot singing carols in their garden, we thought, until we realised where it was coming from. One of the roaming coronavirus clouds we normally saw lurking around the high street had gathered in the middle of the road, but instead of sticking to our doorknobs each little virus was just floating there, singing its heart out in a message of christmas cheer. A few of us opened our windows a smidgen and sung back, and they stayed there, just singing louder. We shouted a few christmas greetings back and forth, and then Percy from no. 36 ventured out into his garden and left a little glass of sherry at the gate. A couple of the viruses floated over and thanked him. Soon entire households were venturing out, exchanging presents and swapping stories. The most infectious particles shook hands with our top germaphobe, Suzie from no.20, going maskless for the first time since February. I don't know which side started the football match, but soon everyone was joining in. We lost track of the score before long. We had all gotten tired of keeping track of numbers. We had all gotten tired of fighting. We did not know why we had to kill and infect each other. We all just wanted to return back to normal. Still, it couldn't last forever. As we bid our goodbyes and retired home, word came in from Mean Grinchy Nicola that anyone caught fraternising with coronaviruses from tomorrow onward would be shot. We later learned that similar orders came down from the Chief Coronavirus himself, forbidding all non-infectious contact with human persons. It was inevitable. Society could never allow humankind and deadly viral infections to coexist peacefully. It was not to be. But each Christmas, I think about that day, and what could have been. Angepain fucked around with this message at 13:38 on Oct 25, 2020 |
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Oct 25, 2020 13:35
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He's going to set up the Smallpox Liberation Front next.
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Oct 25, 2020 13:36
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A couple of covid virions were just on New 24 announcing that they would respect any truce and would agree to stand down for Christmas day
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I was just looking up the Free Presbyterians (I have some idea they are one of the Scottish Christian denominations that does not do Christmas) and found that their website 'closes' for the Sabbath (today). So every link in the menu that you click takes you back to the 'closed' message. I wonder if they've configured the site to do that automatically or whether they have doctored a 'down for maintenance' page or whether an actual human sits there at 23:55 on a Saturday night changing it all? Just a curiosity!
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