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come out ye black and pontans Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 15:25 on Mar 2, 2021 |
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OwlFancier posted:I like RTS and don't want to see it switched off, they should make another supreme commander IMO. I strongly agree. Or go the whole hog and take the Total Annihilation name complete with original soundtrack.
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# ? Mar 2, 2021 15:28 |
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Latest news from hell island, holiday camp Pontins have been refusing to take bookings from anyone with an Irish surname in order to keep travellers out of their parks That is literally 9/10ths of my home town.
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# ? Mar 2, 2021 16:24 |
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Bobby Deluxe posted:come out ye black and pontans little bible times dug hehe
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# ? Mar 2, 2021 16:27 |
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Gonna be honest Pontins sounds like a place I would never want to visit so I'm glad that I am never ever going to go there due to them being Big Racists.
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# ? Mar 2, 2021 16:40 |
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The fact that the front gate looks very similar to our local barracks makes me wonder how well a chain of army resorts would do, where you and your gammon family get to pretend you are in the army, get screamed awake at 6am and then are dragged through a day of training. I am genuinely surprised this is not a thing, and no, I refuse to do even a cursory google.
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# ? Mar 2, 2021 16:45 |
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Bobby Deluxe posted:The fact that the front gate looks very similar to our local barracks makes me wonder how well a chain of army resorts would do, where you and your gammon family get to pretend you are in the army, get screamed awake at 6am and then are dragged through a day of training. I think most of the people who enjoy the idea of other people having things like that happen to them would baulk at the idea that they need to wake up early.
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Josef bugman posted:I think most of the people who enjoy the idea of other people having things like that happen to them would baulk at the idea that they need to wake up early.
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# ? Mar 2, 2021 16:48 |
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Yeah I think people would rather watch SAS: Britain's Hardest Family or whatever, and eat crisps while Danny Dyer calls someone a mug for being hospitalized with trenchfoot
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# ? Mar 2, 2021 16:51 |
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I think you're describing military school
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Failed Imagineer posted:Yeah I think people would rather watch SAS: Britain's Hardest Family or whatever, and eat crisps while Danny Dyer calls someone a mug for being hospitalized with trenchfoot channel 4 just shitcanned their SAS host for calling blm scum so he's free if pontins are keen also the articles add that the contact centre was monitering calls with the explicit purpose of banning anyone with an irish accent. It is absolutely and obviously a blanket ban against all Irish people and they've got zero chance of ducking any indirect discrimination cases coming their way.
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# ? Mar 2, 2021 17:00 |
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I suppose you're right, probably the reason flaghumpers love Are Brave Boys so much is because they want extrajudicial killings done on brown people without having to actually do anything themselves.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:The fact that the front gate looks very similar to our local barracks Aren't a number of British Holiday camps literally just barracks that were sold off in the 50s and 60s or have I made that up?
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In other news: https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1366191901196644354?s=19 Watch Kieth flail about not knowing who to copy now.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:In other news: That's a lot of mistakes for someone obviously reading off of a teleprompter. Seems odd to publish it like that.
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# ? Mar 2, 2021 17:15 |
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It's funny how ineffectual the Labour shadow government is even when "holding the government to account". This was in the story about the Brazilian covid case: quote:Labour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth [...] So, uhh, does he want to just ban people from getting tested anonymously and/or throw those tests out (in which case we'd have no idea that there was even a Brazilian case in the first place) or does he want to make spooks find the people who took them or what? e: Note that this was based on a regular test, not a border quarantine test or anything where you could reasonably enforce compliance. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Mar 2, 2021 |
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Rumda posted:Na he gave me an eviction notice at the beginning of February to be out in 6 months Doesn't matter, that's not an eviction notice as only a judge can order an eviction, it's a notice that they will begin court proceedings to evict you. There's currently a massive backlog so it's likely to take years to get to you. It might even be that eviction proceedings are currently on hold due to Covid, I can't remember if that's the case. Finally, there's a very strict set of rules the landlord must follow, and even a small error will make their notice void. E: https://england.shelter.org.uk/housing_advice/eviction/section_21_eviction/section_21_eviction_process The 6 month thing tallies but that's not when you are required to leave, that's the first date at which they can apply to a court to begin proceedings.
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TheRat posted:That's a lot of mistakes for someone obviously reading off of a teleprompter. Seems odd to publish it like that.
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https://twitter.com/piscisvir/status/1366748479452815362 yikes
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TheRat posted:That's a lot of mistakes for someone obviously reading off of a teleprompter. Seems odd to publish it like that. (Video credits may contain Henson studios employees)
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JoylessJester posted:Aren't a number of British Holiday camps literally just barracks that were sold off in the 50s and 60s or have I made that up? It's even better than that, they're WW2 POW camps. Billy Butlin had his camps commandeered at the start of the war to use as training and mustering centres (the not-camp at Bognor was allowed to stay open as an amusement park because even in war people need the occasional knobbly knees contest). Being a smart guy, he offered to build the War Office a load more camps if they let him buy them back at a discount after the war was over, but they said they didn't need any more - but they did (or rather would) need some POW camps, which he gladly built for them. This why most Butlins are in traditional seaside resorts but 2 of them are in the arse-end of nowhere (Pwllheli in Wales and Ayr in Scotland - Filey was also built and used this way but the plan was always to build an actual proper resort around it, but at the time it was just a tiny fishing village). e: Huh, the story I was told as a kid staying at Pwllheli was in fact slightly inaccurate, it was also used as a training camp, but by the Navy rather than the Army. How many lies are still waiting in my memory to be exposed? goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Mar 2, 2021 |
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Ayr is next to a major international airport and the major air corridor for transatlantic flights so it wasn’t in the arse end of the arse end of nowhere.
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Private Speech posted:It's funny how ineffectual the Labour shadow government is even when "holding the government to account". Poor Jon has bigger worries, what with his wife owing ~£120,000 in legal fees now
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forkboy84 posted:Poor Jon has bigger worries, what with his wife owing ~£120,000 in legal fees now She has to pay Unite's fees too so it's more like 200k
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Total Meatlove posted:Ayr is next to a major international airport and the major air corridor for transatlantic flights so it wasn’t in the arse end of the arse end of nowhere. The amount of people taking transatlantic flights to Ayr in 1940 was pretty minimal, though.
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# ? Mar 2, 2021 18:13 |
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Well obviously, the butlins wasn't well enough established yet, why would you bother?
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# ? Mar 2, 2021 18:28 |
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The only time I've been in a Pontins was back when ATP used to rent out the Camber Sands site for their festivals
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# ? Mar 2, 2021 18:35 |
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https://twitter.com/DavidPaisley/status/1366739606125899784 what an a-grade oval office
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# ? Mar 2, 2021 19:03 |
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WW2 holiday camp chat: My dad, his brothers and my nan on dad's side were evacuated at some point from Coventry to Bude and IIRC it was to a 'repurposed' holiday camp for families of serving soldiers. My nan spoke and dressed well so the officers' wives accepted her as one of them until the day my grandad came home on leave in his sergeant's stripes and they blanked her after that.
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kustomkarkommando posted:The only time I've been in a Pontins was back when ATP used to rent out the Camber Sands site for their festivals Don't think there are any Pontins in Ireland here, but we had a Butlins that turned into 'Mosney' https://www.worldabandoned.com/mosney It used to host the finals of Ireland's Community Games, been to it once. It was loving amazing there as a kid. But it now looks like this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ5MlHg5y2s Doesn't look as magical as it was.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:WW2 holiday camp chat: Military wives never change
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# ? Mar 2, 2021 19:41 |
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Skeletome posted:https://twitter.com/DavidPaisley/status/1366739606125899784 Just bring someone on to tell bigoted lies? Seriously though I hope this blows up more than anything like this has any likelihood of doing. Spread it wide.
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happyhippy posted:Don't think there are any Pontins in Ireland here, but we had a Butlins that turned into 'Mosney' I thought they were housing refugees at Mosney. I suppose that's not incompatible with it being a wreck given the state of lodgings given to people in "direct provision" in general. Mosney was fun though, I remember they had a yellow spinny ride that only kept you in via centrifugal force. Was great craic with early 00s stupid baggy jeans.
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Oh no my names on the Pontins List whatever will I do Spangly A posted:also the articles add that the contact centre was monitering calls with the explicit purpose of banning anyone with an irish accent. It is absolutely and obviously a blanket ban against all Irish people and they've got zero chance of ducking any indirect discrimination cases coming their way. quote:So if a person had an Irish accent and was calling from Ireland, then strangely that was ok Not everyone with an Irish accent, everyone with an Irish accent who lives in the UK. I don't know if that's better or worse.
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Ah speeding up that reunification drive.
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happyhippy posted:Don't think there are any Pontins in Ireland here, but we had a Butlins that turned into 'Mosney' I was on a nostalgia trip recently watching old Mosney tv ads. I grew up a few stops away on the train so my early teenage years were about saving up enough for a day at Mosney with my mates and late teenage years it seemed like everyone I knew got a summer job there (except me). Then it closed and turned into an asylum centre just after I finished secondary. Now an entire generation has grown up and probably wouldn't know what Mosney was if I mentioned it. An important cultural touchstone lost like tears in an overcrowded and not terribly clean holiday park swimming pool.
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https://twitter.com/PeterAdamSmith/status/1366819265224048642?s=19 Lmao
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# ? Mar 2, 2021 20:04 |
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Trust the Tories to gently caress up a sure thing. Now the story goes from "Sturgeon almost certainly misled parliament" to "idiot Tories try to collapse government 2 months before election during a pandemic". Literally all they had to do was nothing and there would have been better chance of her resigning outright (there's still a non-zero chance she does).
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The Westminster SNPs should submit a motion of no confidence in Matt Hancock, just really drag everyone into the mud.
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Tories ahead outside the margin of error on all the polls at the moment it seems. https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1366825587214589953?s=21
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