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Private Speech posted:Those were rather tiny, the anti-Brexit ones were considerably bigger (not that they achieved much in the end). Not according to my younger sister who's gone full Piers Corbyn, the people have spoken and masks are for gimps etc and asymptomatic isn't a thing.
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It looks like i don't qualify for a Costco card besides the online only limited one, not really what I was after. I'm only a 15 minute drive from over so many to load up the car.
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How many Prime Ministers love a bit of pegging?
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Purple Prince posted:I am British and - just for comparison - observe the riots in Paris over neoliberal tax reform. Observe also the massive protests in many cities over the government loving murdering people in the US. Now tell me what comparable popular expression of discontent there’s been in the UK since the London riots. Don't forget that we tore down Colston's statue.
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Winston Churchill is known for a particularly notable pegging. E: I guess he's known for some other stuff as well Microplastics fucked around with this message at 13:18 on Dec 16, 2020 |
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crispix posted:i did not need a mental image of John Major lying on his back, legs akimbo, asking for his man fanny to be punished quivering man twat thorbal (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Tesla was right posted:Don't forget that we tore down Colston's statue. I mean, symbolic actions like that are great, but in a sane world the government should be barricaded inside parliament while protestors turn over police cars in parliament square. This government has murdered hundreds of thousands of its own citizens directly and indirectly in the last decade and it’s set to cause a new magnitude of suffering in the new year, even aside from the deliberately piss-poor measures taken to protect people from COVID-19. The present government is killing British people for their own profit and that of their friends. In what world is this acceptable? They could be sacrificing children Mayan-style on a giant altar to Moloch in Parliament Square and it feels like 99% of the UK would rationalise it away and do nothing. Okay, I’m being polemical, but living outside the UK for a while has made my blood boil every time I read about another insane and murderous thing the government does, while nobody reacts.
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crispix posted:i did not need a mental image of John Major lying on his back, legs akimbo, asking for his man fanny to be punished Wait so that tape they found in Bottom was real?
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New rules for Wales: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/dec/16/wales-to-impose-fresh-covid-lockdown-rules-from-christmas-eve quote:Hospitality premises, including pubs and restaurants, will close from 6pm on Christmas Day. Are you loving making GBS threads me. Why is everyone so bad at this.
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imo Paris & the US are bad examples. If comparing France & the UK internationally - within Europe at least - France is by far more of an outlier than the UK for protesting at the drop of a hat. Conversely, the US presents a perfect example of the situation when rioting is definitely going to happen - I know we've got the exact same problems, but they're less pronounced, in respect of smaller minorities, without the same domestic legacy issues, and in the US they have much more of a "gently caress u" response from the state rather than a "o no how sad we'll have the IPCC look at it [and do nothing]". I do agree that the UK is a really loving good example of a state that's unlikely to have civil unrest though. There's decades of massively individualistic politics, a very effective "stiff upper lip"/"Blitz spirit" national myth, strong protections for protesting behind the designated lines/endless e-petitions/colossal wastes of political energy, our Trade Union movement is just folded up into ineffective mainstream politics & mostly representative of middle-class professionals anyway, and our welfare state is (decreasingly) just strong enough to keep most people from wanting to stick their neck out & risk making things worse. Historically, the British State has been really loving good at giving its citizens just enough concessions to make mass civil unrest seem like too much of a risk. Thing is though, it's been so stable for so long that the establishment seem to be forgetting what it historically takes to make things stay that way. If recent trends continue, it probably won't, imo. Basically, I don't think it has anything to do with Brits being inherently servile or whatever, but we have a stability number of 5 in Twilight Struggle for a reason
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Gonzo McFee posted:How many Prime Ministers love a bit of pegging? Thatcher loved loving people up the rear end.
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gh0stpinballa posted:FAO people who do the podcast: e: After some testing it's either a local issue for you or one with castbox specifically, but castbox has worked okay for us. Miftan fucked around with this message at 14:07 on Dec 16, 2020 |
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Purple Prince posted:I mean, symbolic actions like that are great, but in a sane world the government should be barricaded inside parliament while protestors turn over police cars in parliament square. The people voted for misery. They were given a choice and they chose pain. Blitz spirit actually means getting rogered by increasingly spiky objects and demanding more despite finding it humiliating and a tad uncomfortable. (No offence to those who enjoy the process, that's not proper Blitz spirit). Also I recall you bouncing into the thread a year ago crowing about the Tory victory. Guess that went sour quickly eh.
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This is my postal parcel, leaving the UK before brexit happens https://thumbs.gfycat.com/TastyHighlevelGrassspider-mobile.mp4
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Z the IVth posted:Also I recall you bouncing into the thread a year ago crowing about the Tory victory. Guess that went sour quickly eh. You’re mistaking me with someone else, my reaction to the Tory victory was that the British people once again disappointed my natural optimism, that they should be blamed for whatever happens next, and leaving the country.
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we're so loving evil https://twitter.com/jasonhickel/status/1338901070047809538?s=20
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part 2 https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1339050969313792000?s=20
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More like https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ohhib 33 loving years and you only need to change the puppets to update it.
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Purple Prince posted:You’re mistaking me with someone else, my reaction to the Tory victory was that the British people once again disappointed my natural optimism, that they should be blamed for whatever happens next, and leaving the country. Hmm maybe it was another goon with prince in their name. Did you ever have an avatar of a hideous blonde witch?
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Z the IVth posted:Hmm maybe it was another goon with prince in their name. Did you ever have an avatar of a hideous blonde witch? No, I just had a stupid newbie one before I finally found the right Katamari Damacy gif for the username.
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notaspy posted:Going to go a little TV IV for a moment. I think the actors did a great job and the characters are supposed to be completely unlikeable because that's exactly what a cesspit the financial industry is.
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namesake posted:More like Christ can you imagine if that sketch aired today about the current administration. MI5 would be in the production offices within minutes smashing up hard drives with hammers
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Purple Prince posted:I am British and - just for comparison - observe the riots in Paris over neoliberal tax reform. Observe also the massive protests in many cities over the government loving murdering people in the US. Now tell me what comparable popular expression of discontent there’s been in the UK since the London riots. I don't blame you for forgetting since it led nowhere, but there were some of the biggest protests in our history over Brexit.
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Number 34,817 on the list of 'Things That Would Have Toppled A Government 20 Years Ago But Get Handwaved Away Instantly'. The moment when I realised how things had changed for the worst in that regard was a few years back when the UN published that report into the UK's welfare system, how much suffering and death it was causing and how government policy was locking people in poverty against the UN's human rights declarations that the UK was party to...and it sank out of the media cycle in about 48hrs after the government just called the UN a bunch of do-gooding foreigners sticking their noses in where it doesn't concern them, supported in lockstep by the press lambasting the report for Talking Down Britain (for the tabloids) and writing long think-pieces about how there is no real poverty in Britain because I once saw someone queuing outside the Job Centre who had a smartphone (for the broadsheets), then *poof* no one ever mentioned it again. (I feel this was before Jo Cox was killed...but that was another moment where I ended up doubting my sanity - "A sitting MP was just assassinated by an extremist and now it's been three days and we're never going to mention it again? Did it actually happen?") Of course, social democracy can never be tried again because We Had To Go Cap In Hand To The IMF* (always the same phrase, always) but being censured by the UN for human rights abuses and UNICEF handing out food parcels...keep ploughing right on, chaps! *Taking out half the agreed loan to prop up the pound's exchange rate, all paid back with interest within the same government's term.
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Comrade Fakename posted:I don't blame you for forgetting since it led nowhere, but there were some of the biggest protests in our history over Brexit. Peaceful protests not riots. For the government to pay attention you gotta break stuff. (Viz: the Poll Tax)
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feedmegin posted:Peaceful protests not riots. For the government to pay attention you gotta break stuff. (Viz: the Poll Tax) Didn't the protesters smash up the Tory HQ a bit or something? Might have been some other time. Not quite a riot though that's true. e: Apparently that was during a student protest (and also in 2010 & 2016, drat what did the Tor-, oh, huh) Private Speech fucked around with this message at 15:59 on Dec 16, 2020 |
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Yeah a British version of a "huge protest" is something that barely makes the local news.
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BalloonFish posted:"A sitting MP was just assassinated by an extremist and now it's been three days and we're never going to mention it again? Did it actually happen?" I suppose some wheels moved behind the scenes because far right groups did start getting proscribed after far too long, but even then it was kind of a "huh, we've spent decades spying on the left to foil their plots to put a banner somewhere and now someone in a select committee is shouting at us" feeling.
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feedmegin posted:Peaceful protests not riots. For the government to pay attention you gotta break stuff. (Viz: the Poll Tax) Well, they mentioned the BLM protests in the US too, which were also largely peaceful when the police or nazis (but I repeat myself) weren't beating them up or trying to murder them.
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Julie Burchill is an open white supremacist & a war criminal?!?!? pass it on
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Vigil for Virgil posted:Thatcher loved loving people up the rear end.
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crispix posted:i did not need a mental image of John Major lying on his back, legs akimbo, asking for his man fanny to be punished 
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BizarroAzrael posted:It looks like i don't qualify for a Costco card besides the online only limited one, not really what I was after. I'm only a 15 minute drive from over so many to load up the car.
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TACD posted:If you know anybody that has one see if they’ll bring you along as a guest Costco aren't letting people in as guests right now.
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Emergency Rations chat: I just ordered some dried veg from this place: https://www.buywholefoodsonline.co.uk/ Apparently 1kg of dried veg inflates to 2kg or so when rehydrated. I'm given to understand that - unopened - dried veg lasts for eternity and also retains much of the vitamins etc (except Vit C). I would have bought a 10kg bag but (a) I only have a tiny storage space and (b) as I figure a 1kg bag will last up to 2 weeks (if that is the only veg available), I don't really want to be compelled to use 10kg of dried veg once the bag is opened if the supply chains are restored within a month or two. (Obviously if you have a few in your family, a 10kg bag might be good). I decided to go 'dried' rather than 'canned' for reasons of storage space and my experience with canned veg to date has not been pleasant - esp Co-Op brand. While this might seem expensive way of getting veg, I do also have a freezer full of frozen cheapo Iceland veg but I'm thinking of when perhaps power cuts might affect frozen food.
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