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OwlFancier posted:It really does feel sometimes like the last five years have just been an attempt to make that tweet the funniest thing in the universe. The funny thing is, if you injected the knowledge of what the last 5 years have been like into every voter's brain pre 2015 election, I'm still not sure Miliband would have won... Jaeluni Asjil posted:Oh imagine this: I just remembered someone I know was meant to be moving their family to Germany before the WA music stops. And I have no idea if they've done it yet. CGI Stardust posted:it's going to be extremely funny watching them try and ride the impossibly thin line between "bad enough to cancel Christmas" and "not so bad as to need us to be isolated from the rest of the world"  Bobstar fucked around with this message at 09:42 on Dec 21, 2020 |
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Bobstar posted:The funny thing is, if you injected the knowledge of what the last 5 years have been like into every voter's brain pre 2015 election, I'm still not sure Miliband would have won... I'm afraid those voters' brains only accept information via the dataport that plugs directly into their brainstem owned by Rupert Murdoch. And Red Ed ate the sandwich too Jewishly
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gh0stpinballa posted:this has been happening all year tho There's a big qualitative difference, even among the most supine media, between "Granny died because they hosed up and dumped plague victims in her care home" and "Granny died because Matt Hancock signed an order saying nobody over 75 would be admitted to hospital" (which would be only the first of care rationing levels).
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goddamnedtwisto posted:There's a big qualitative difference, even among the most supine media, between "Granny died because they hosed up and dumped plague victims in her care home" and "Granny died because Matt Hancock signed an order saying nobody over 75 would be admitted to hospital" (which would be only the first of care rationing levels). Has this actually had much political repercussions in countries where it's happened tho? I'm thinking Lombardy. Though at least they had the fig-leaf of being caught "unaware"
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Dec 21, 2020 10:02
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Britain 2020. It'd be funny if it wasn't so loving awful and causing so much damage.
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I had a funny weekend as on Saturday I took some acid with my pal, totally missed all the news, the morning after I hear my partner is coming back from her parents in case that area goes into Tier 4 so now I won't be spending Christmas alone. There were also 300 odd extra posts ITT that was strangely comforting to read yesterday as I put my head back together and wonder how hosed we are. I know a few others have had a poo poo time this year and Christmas was a break and now thats been yanked away; sorry to hear and hope you're alright. I've had a couple of Christmas' alone - bit different from the usual sort, but you can do what you want and it can be a fun, weird day
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Dec 21, 2020 10:16
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hey to everyone itt who isn’t travelling for xmas and poo poo, stuck at home possibly alone etc a very very sincere thank you from nhs workers, don’t think it’s not appreciated
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Dec 21, 2020 10:21
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So, we got our stockpile done. Got a few kg of chicken and mince coming from musclefoods and then picked up like 10 of everything we usually get, like packs of bacon, salmon, fresh fish, jars of sauces, tins of soup etc. I was trying to think of anything we've missed, but we've got big bags of stuff like pasta and whatnot already. It felt weird buying so much stuff, but we got a chest freezer so i suppose it's a bit more like doing a quarterly shop. I'm finding that i'm just learning for the first time how long a shelf life something has, as well as how long something can be frozen for, which i think is from conditioning due to living in tiny rented flats for the better part of the last 20 years. Any other things that you all think are likely to become short in supply or a bit more expensive with the Brexit clusterfuck?
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goddamnedtwisto posted:There's a big qualitative difference, even among the most supine media, between "Granny died because they hosed up and dumped plague victims in her care home" and "Granny died because Matt Hancock signed an order saying nobody over 75 would be admitted to hospital" (which would be only the first of care rationing levels). I feel like we keep waiting for the other shoe to drop but it might just never come. In other cheery news my zero hours work just basically told me to do one when asking for sick pay, so I guess at least i can entertain myself through self isolation shouting down the phone at them.
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Kin posted:So, we got our stockpile done. It depends how much you use them, but I stocked up on a bunch of herbs and spices just in case they are difficult to get hold of or shoot up in price. May as well have something to go with 50kg of beef.
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Dec 21, 2020 10:33
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Since we all need cheering up https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1340835705568804865?s=19 https://twitter.com/BeijingPalmer/status/1340881693293633538?s=19
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My own feeling is there's no point stocking more than a few week's worth of emergency supplies - in any situation where the food supply chain breaks down for longer than that, we'd be into Mad Max territory anyway and you'd be better off putting the energy into designing your bondage leather Raider outfit.
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DesperateDan posted:But we’re here, chained to a same vibes quote:Turning and turning in the widening gyre
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Stockpiling just makes you a target for renegade raider gangs.
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Dec 21, 2020 10:41
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I've pretty much had The Second Coming on repeat as an intrusive constant narration since 2016
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Dec 21, 2020 10:50
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justcola posted:It depends how much you use them, but I stocked up on a bunch of herbs and spices just in case they are difficult to get hold of or shoot up in price. May as well have something to go with 50kg of beef. Hah, 50? Now I feel under prepared. We just picked up about 3kg given we only really have mince once a week. I did make a mistake with my protein supplements though. I forgot I usually go through a 2.5kg bag over six months but bought two 5kg bags in my last order. Hope that has a long shelf life as I'll be using it until 2023.
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Dec 21, 2020 10:56
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Hahahaha I have a few bits of prep done but probably nowhere near enough and I did all my shopping until after xmas last week. We'll see how hosed everything is this time next week. Probably very. Excuse me whilst I devolve into panicked wibbling.
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Dec 21, 2020 10:58
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Jose posted:Since we all need cheering up I read the Elle story and loving hell she has been taken for such a ride. To the extent that despite the stupidity of it all you feel sorry for her. Meanwhile all you feel about Shkreli is "he'd kill without remorse just to see what it feels like if he thought he'd get away with it", absolute sociopath.
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Dec 21, 2020 11:01
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Would? He charged how much for lifesaving medicine? He DID kill without remorse.
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forkboy84 posted:I read the Elle story and loving hell she has been taken for such a ride. To the extent that despite the stupidity of it all you feel sorry for her. Meanwhile all you feel about Shkreli is "he'd kill without remorse just to see what it feels like if he thought he'd get away with it", absolute sociopath. https://twitter.com/drea_carmen/status/1340835522177101824
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Dec 21, 2020 11:04
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At this point looking forward to being in lockdown next Christmas as well. Astonishing levels of competence on display.
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Dec 21, 2020 11:14
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I'm a big fan of Juror 10.
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idk how the hell you lot are talking about Brexit stockpiling right now of all times, it's only 2 days since Christmas was cancelled, I've only got the turkey, ham and cheeses so far & my fridge & freezer are already full I've been saying all month how much happier I'd have been if they'd just cancelled Christmas from the get-go, but jfc I already had a bunch of poo poo to do this week
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Dec 21, 2020 11:19
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Holy poo poo https://twitter.com/DPJHodges/status/1340961789828337670?s=19
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I am really incredibly impressed with the British government. Not only did they push No Deal out, they delivered it two weeks early. He started all of this. Get him! cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 11:26 on Dec 21, 2020 |
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The followup to that is glorious btw https://twitter.com/flying_rodent/status/1340965965413150725
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The disarmament of the working class was entirely by Tories and Blair, sometimes over incidents that killed a fraction of a fraction of the people that austerity and Covid have been allowed to kill, other times just because they could like the MARS ban last year. The last attempted change to firearms law by an actual Labour government was when Callaghan tried scrapping the licence fee, and was defeated by Tories. Maybe post-Covid we should be arming ourselves against people like Hodges.
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Dec 21, 2020 11:29
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bump_fn posted:shouting that marx quote about never surrendering arms and ammunition in my dumbest loudest american accent Hodges: shouting that dril quote about never logging off in his dumbest loudest English accent
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Guavanaut posted:The disarmament of the working class was entirely by Tories and Blair, sometimes over incidents that killed a fraction of a fraction of the people that austerity and Covid have been allowed to kill, other times just because they could like the MARS ban last year. The last attempted change to firearms law by an actual Labour government was when Callaghan tried scrapping the licence fee, and was defeated by Tories. Even an armed populace doesn't rise up against its oppressors. To wit, the single most-armed populace in the world has the highest COVID death toll and a fascist president who spent four years golfing and somehow didn't get assassinated. No matter how many small arms the poopulation has, when the government has tanks and planes and you have a pistol, you still lose.
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Dec 21, 2020 11:42
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Failed Imagineer posted:I've pretty much had The Second Coming on repeat as an intrusive constant narration since 2016 Been a fan of Yeats ever since i heard a bit of it in Babylon 5.  Shopping done, prescriptions collected & drawbridge pulled up..... flying solo till Feb. Everyone stay safe. 
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Stockpiling is almost complete. Just have to buy herbs now. Stay safe everyone. Let's hope it isn't a Mad Max situation soon. But if it does, I have my costume ready for when people start raiding. Keep calm and keep up appearances.
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thespaceinvader posted:Even an armed populace doesn't rise up against its oppressors. - Has many guns to defend against government tyranny - Loves the police, defends them against meanies who have a problem with them killing innocent Americans
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