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Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
where is the labour leader on this

https://twitter.com/DaveBlacklist/status/1324493011766681600?s=20

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Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


There was a request for some of the left-wing boomer memes from the old lefty I became Facebook friends with, so here's a selection:





Doctor_Fruitbat
Jun 2, 2013


Jose posted:

lol at this but also buying trumps extremely lovely products

https://twitter.com/GuidoFawkes/status/1323916677327839233?s=20

The replies are extremely cathartic.

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

Jose posted:

where is the labour leader on this


Probably coordinating with his buddies at Mi5

Private Speech
Mar 30, 2011

I HAVE EVEN MORE WORTHLESS BEANIE BABIES IN MY COLLECTION THAN I HAVE WORTHLESS POSTS IN THE BEANIE BABY THREAD YET I STILL HAVE THE TEMERITY TO CRITICIZE OTHERS' COLLECTIONS

IF YOU SEE ME TALKING ABOUT BEANIE BABIES, PLEASE TELL ME TO

EAT. SHIT.


Behold, the quintessential lib photo:



with the caption: BBC: Nick Rewcastle says the government should be helping people who are starting their own businesses in the pandemic

e: And no, the article does not have anything to do with sports or the sports industry.

And this is his main complaint:

quote:

However, like many other company directors, he normally pays himself a salary of £1,000 a month and takes the rest of his income in dividends, which are not included in his furlough.

That means the government is paying him 80% of his salary - that is, £800 a month.

Private Speech fucked around with this message at 13:55 on Nov 6, 2020

peanut-
Feb 17, 2004
Fun Shoe
Nick Rewcastle sounds instantly like a spoonerism

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

Jinkii posted:

The real problem is Beaufort's Dyke a massive undersea crevasse that is filled with unused munitions from one of the great wars, if they couldn't build a bridge over it which chinless wonder thinks a tunnel isn't going to have a similar problem?

Not to mention the fact that the ferries from Cairnryan are one of the few decently waged jobs in the depressed west of my region.

To my mind the only reason the Chunnel was completed was the fact the French wanted it too, a public work of similar scale run at both ends by the nepotistic Tories? Just send the meteor already!

The good thing about tunnels is they go under the ground.

Agreed on the main reason it's impossible though, just like Concorde we need the French to drag us over the line.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

Private Speech posted:

Behold, the quintessential lib photo:

Dead Goon
Dec 13, 2002

No Obvious Flaws



https://twitter.com/JMichaelWaller/status/1324209114055090176?s=19

Soricidus
Oct 21, 2010
freedom-hating statist shill

Private Speech posted:

Behold, the quintessential lib photo:



with the caption: BBC: Nick Rewcastle says the government should be helping people who are starting their own businesses in the pandemic

e: And no, the article does not have anything to do with sports or the sports industry.

And this is his main complaint:

£800 too much imo

Niric
Jul 23, 2008

peanut- posted:

Nick Rewcastle sounds instantly like a spoonerism

:hmmyes:

Rick Newcastle also sounds like a character from a Martin Amis novel

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

Niric posted:

Rick Newcastle also sounds like a character from a Martin Amis novel
Rick Newcastle sounds like a character from a Garry Bushell novel where he attempts to write about somewhere north of Northamptonshire.

Rick Newcastle was a proper Northerner, real working class. He finished his mug of bitter and his other mug of bitter at threw his five whippets at the Muslim terrorist and yelled "e by eck youse not welcome doon toon no more!"

knox_harrington
Feb 18, 2011

Running no point.

Private Speech posted:

Behold, the quintessential lib photo:



with the caption: BBC: Nick Rewcastle says the government should be helping people who are starting their own businesses in the pandemic

e: And no, the article does not have anything to do with sports or the sports industry.

And this is his main complaint:

Hahaha. "Why isn't the government compensating me for the income I deliberately avoided saying I have"

stev
Jan 22, 2013

Please be excited.



Owen Jones has a Patreon now, which seems like the inevitable endgame for every vaguely public figure now.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug

It's cheaper to build a tunnel to Northern Ireland than to allow NI politicians to keep claiming their traveling expenses to Westminster.

knox_harrington
Feb 18, 2011

Running no point.

stev posted:

Owen Jones has a Patreon now, which seems like the inevitable endgame for every vaguely public figure now.

Next step: Onlyfans

Firos
Apr 30, 2007

Staying abreast of the latest developments in jam communism



stev posted:

Owen Jones has a Patreon now, which seems like the inevitable endgame for every vaguely public figure now.

All the tiers give the same benefits which...ok yeah fair enough tbh.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

Die Satan!
Lol Biden has won, better make sure there's no border checks in Ireland.

Oscar Romeo Romeo
Apr 16, 2010

Guavanaut posted:

That was just me subbing it because I forgot what the vessel was, but it's got good information of everything from the Titanic to the Alexander L. Kielland to the de Havilland Comet square windows, so it's a pro read if you never want to trust anything made by mankind out of metal ever again.

If you're into engineering disasters I would also recommend the "Well there's your problem" podcast by forums user DoNotEat1.

peanut-
Feb 17, 2004
Fun Shoe
https://twitter.com/BestForBritain/status/1324699060956221440

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug
Don't mock, if an ex-leader like Abbot can join the Brexit talks, imagine what Art of the Deal maestro himself could do leading the Brexit negotiations for the UK.
Bigly Brexit.

The Question IRL
Jun 8, 2013

Only two contestants left! Here is Doom's chance for revenge...


I'm sorry. It clearly reads

"Death and that to,
The Facisim + Liberalism Enable It!"

Obviously these people are in favour of enabling Facisim and Liberalism.

Grey Hunter
Oct 17, 2007

Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets

keep punching joe posted:

Lol Biden has won, better make sure there's no border checks in Ireland.

Yeah, hes not going to be a good president, but he's not going to be a terrible one either. Plus this forces Boris to deaol with Europe or face haveing no major trade deals.

Lets hope he's been stalling hoping this won't happen, and now has to make another of his patented u turns!

Kokoro Wish
Jul 23, 2007

Post? What post? Oh wow.
I had nothing to do with THAT.
Make no mistake, the Republicans are entirely in control in the US now.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

Oscar Romeo Romeo posted:

If you're into engineering disasters I would also recommend the "Well there's your problem" podcast by forums user DoNotEat1.
I've listened to and enjoyed some of those.

The main reason why I started reading that book (other than general lockdown free time curiosity) ties into recent Soda Stream chat, I couldn't find a single good pub gas supplier that does homes in the Midlands, but I did find a dry ice supplier in Leicestershire that was significantly cheaper than cylinder refill when you account for shipping. So could I not buy a cylinder, take the valve off, fill it with a few kilos of dry ice, and torque the valve back on? This guy does:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-a3pISQLQg

At which point an alarm went off in the reptilian engineer part of my brain saying "no, do not do this, this is a dogshit idea for idiots" but I couldn't quite place exactly why, and that book turned up during a search and looked interesting.

It's because most steels (including the common types of gas cylinders) undergo a ductile-brittle transition around -40 to -60C, dry ice is -78.5C, and any microscopic crack in the steel will go off like a scratch in tempered glass, so :siren:do not do what the video guy is doing:siren: unless you know exactly what material your cylinder is made of. You could possibly do it with an aluminium tank, because aluminium can be used to store liquid helium at a few Kelvin and remain ductile, but doing it with steel tanks is a terrible idea. I think (hope for his sake anyway) the little Soda Stream ones are aluminium.

Doctor_Fruitbat
Jun 2, 2013


Grey Hunter posted:

Yeah, hes not going to be a good president, but he's not going to be a terrible one either. Plus this forces Boris to deaol with Europe or face haveing no major trade deals.

Lets hope he's been stalling hoping this won't happen, and now has to make another of his patented u turns!

He supports fracking, opposes universal healthcare, as VP he caged children, and his own VP dedicated her life to tearing apart black communities. He's going to be a loving terrible president.

crispix
Mar 28, 2015

Grand-Maman m'a raconté
(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)

Hello, dear
Boris and co are hosed without Trump imo

stev
Jan 22, 2013

Please be excited.



crispix posted:

Boris and co are hosed without Trump imo

If nothing else, Johnson doesn't even get to enjoy the positive comparisons anymore. No more "at least he's not as bad as Trump lmao" driving apathy.

Gort
Aug 18, 2003

Good day what ho cup of tea

Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

He supports fracking, opposes universal healthcare, as VP he caged children, and his own VP dedicated her life to tearing apart black communities. He's going to be a loving terrible president.

Your scale needs recalibration. What's Trump if Biden is "loving terrible"

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
At the very least I hope this means no return to British state violence in Ireland, despite all the "state violence actually good" laws the government is passing.

Don't have much further hope/wishes for a Biden presidency than that.

Doctor_Fruitbat
Jun 2, 2013


Gort posted:

Your scale needs recalibration. What's Trump if Biden is "loving terrible"

Really loving terrible.

Gort
Aug 18, 2003

Good day what ho cup of tea
When did the US have a non-terrible president, in your view

stev
Jan 22, 2013

Please be excited.



Gort posted:

When did the US have a non-terrible president, in your view

Afaik this has never happened

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

Gort posted:

When did the US have a non-terrible president, in your view

William Henry Harrison provably did the least evil poo poo of any president.

Kokoro Wish
Jul 23, 2007

Post? What post? Oh wow.
I had nothing to do with THAT.
Hey, you know how we all hate zero-hours contracts and Uber? Look at Proposition 22 in California, who voted for it, and who's behind it. US is going to have an atomised zero-hours underclass within a year with no rights enshrined in law.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
There was a transition period in the 60s-80s where they went from racist whites-only semi-socialism (but not really socialism) to all-inclusive turbo-capitalism (but still pretty racist), so there might have been a sweet spot around there were they not spending the entire time bombing countries that they'd slapped the 'commies' label on.

Kokoro Wish posted:

Hey, you know how we all hate zero-hours contracts and Uber? Look at Proposition 22 in California, who voted for it, and who's behind it. US is going to have an atomised zero-hours underclass within a year with no rights enshrined in law.
https://www.theonion.com/passed-california-ballot-measure-allows-uber-lyft-to-c-1845576241

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
yes lets learn lessons from biden who scraped a win rather than socialist MAS in bolivia who absolutely smashed everyone else

https://twitter.com/wesstreeting/status/1324717359152697347?s=20

learnincurve
May 15, 2014

Smoosh

Borrovan posted:

Was one of them Glinner's?

I get this reference and appreciate it.

*wipes away tear and salutes

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/Survation/status/1324727268715933696?s=20

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keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

Die Satan!

Kokoro Wish posted:

Make no mistake, the Republicans are entirely in control in the US now.

Yeah and my prediction is in 2024 they'll just go all out fash and run one of the kids from Starship Troopers as pres.

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