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lol we've left the EU for lolz gotta hand it to us, we're a shithouse of a country
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Mar 6, 2021 03:10
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the anti-social child who puts his coat hood over his head like a cape, and runs at the other children with a stick with dog poo on the end of it of a country
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Mar 6, 2021 03:14
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Good rant (sound quality isn't great - rather echoey). https://twitter.com/KatyMontgomerie/status/1368020737429282817?s=20
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Mar 6, 2021 03:21
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my childhood best friend was a cantonese immigrant made friends because my P1 teacher took me to be the most accommodating boy (would in later life be identified as "gay") and sat him beside me one of the most vivid childhood memories i have is when we were play fighting near an electrical transformer that was fenced off by what looked like a boxing ring but with metal wires instad of ropes (and concrete pillars instead of... turnstiles?) and a grown man came along and goaded me on to give him a good kicking, calling him "wee chinky china man" i must have been 5 years old and he 6 but i knew something was awfully wrong and so did he we just went back to my garden and played with star wars figures in the sand pit never mentioned it again, but i do wonder if he remembers it too
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Mar 6, 2021 03:35
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i do wonder though if people are born thick or like, if i hadn't had him as such a close friend, and also had a cousin who is half black, would i have been a thick racist brexit moron too?
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Mar 6, 2021 03:43
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i should say the electrical transformer was encaged in a huge spikey fenced enclosure, at the centre of the aforementioned fenced off area it hummed like maybe 200 bees i'll maybe go there and take pictures for yous
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Mar 6, 2021 04:06
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Jose posted:lol stephen bush has gone off the deep end Stephen Bush can be quite perceptive but he has a couple of massive blind spots. One is anti-semitism in Labour, where he's completely internalised the concept of the Corbynite anti-semitic Left and reflexively believes any and all allegations made, no matter how ludicrous and tangential. The second is that he's firmly committed to the concept of Starmer being a good and effective leader and is forever banging on about how Starmers personal ratings are better than other Labour leaders at this point in their leadership, 'cos that's the single solitary metric he can find that shows any sort of positive. Actually, now I've typed all that, I'm not sure that he really is very perceptive at all.
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Mar 6, 2021 05:03
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yeah that's not perceptive, that's being a dick
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Mar 6, 2021 05:14
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Hey Crispix! You've woken up early too, then?
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Mar 6, 2021 05:20
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no poo poo the bed, did you? i didn't
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Mar 6, 2021 05:24
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Guavanaut posted:This is a great video, enjoyed watching. Also reminded me to look for James Burke's Connections again (specifically the one with medieval cams and drivetrains in) and they're back on youtube. Connections (series one) is my all-time favourite documentary series. It's just so good. He's a great presenter and in series one at least they take the time to lay stuff out well. Series one was produced by the BBC and had a runtime of 50 mins per episode, 2 and 3 sadly were produced by TLC (America, owned by Discovery) and had a runtime of 22 mins... and it just wasn't long enough for that format - everything was rushed. Was still good like, because as I said, he's a great presenter... but the entire point of that series and why it was different was that it laid out how two seemingly unconnected technological innovations or scientific discoveries etc. (often hundreds or thousands of years apart) indirectly led from one to the other, and actually going into detail about it. With a 22 min runtime it had a bit of a "and then draw the rest of the owl" effect and it just didn't feel fleshed out enough. Still, definitely watch series one.
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Mar 6, 2021 07:08
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Rumda posted:And you, a person whose knee jerk reaction to a know bad faith troll calling a transwoman aggressive was to join in on attacking the trans woman without going to check to see if the comments were even warranted, are once again going to bat for a transphobe casually stanning for a dude who thinks that tucker carlson is a legitimate "socialist"
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Mar 6, 2021 08:14
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Guavanaut posted:This is a great video, enjoyed watching. Also reminded me to look for James Burke's Connections again (specifically the one with medieval cams and drivetrains in) and they're back on youtube. Obligatory greatest shot in television clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WoDQBhJCVQ
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Mar 6, 2021 09:03
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I made the mistake of looking at Reddit where the ukploitics sub, home of weirdo centrists, is arguing their right to "regulate" "gypsys".
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Mar 6, 2021 09:05
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crispix posted:i do wonder though if people are born thick or like, if i hadn't had him as such a close friend, and also had a cousin who is half black, would i have been a thick racist brexit moron too? I didn't really have much exposure to people who weren't generically white Irish until my late teens and I still ended up relatively normal. Probably took a little too long to realise that the "ironic" racist posting style of the early 00s was just racism tho 
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Mar 6, 2021 09:50
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DickEmery posted:Obligatory greatest shot in television clip This guy has a very relaxing voice.
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Mar 6, 2021 10:15
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r/ukpolitics poo poo the bed pretty hard around 2016 for some mysterious reason. Come to think of it, the same goes for a lot of Subreddits.
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Mar 6, 2021 10:21
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DickEmery posted:Obligatory greatest shot in television clip Imagine the immense feeling of power when you nail that clip. I wanna see the SpaceX version of this where the rocket does a barrel-roll and then immediately detonates
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Mar 6, 2021 10:27
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a pipe smoking dog posted:I made the mistake of looking at Reddit where the ukploitics sub, home of weirdo centrists, is arguing their right to "regulate" "gypsys". There's some left wing Uk subreddits that are a lot more palatable but the main Uk politics one is very much full of: "why don't poor people just stop being poor" kind of posts.
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Mar 6, 2021 10:49
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Pistol_Pete posted:There's some left wing Uk subreddits that are a lot more palatable but the main Uk politics one is very much full of: "why don't poor people just stop being poor" kind of posts. GreenAndPleasant > Good LabourUK > oh my god the melts
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Mar 6, 2021 11:01
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Total Meatlove posted:GreenAndPleasant > Good It's funny realising that even a lot of the melts are starting to panic in the LabourUK chat.
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Mar 6, 2021 11:05
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Pistol_Pete posted:There's some left wing Uk subreddits that are a lot more palatable but the main Uk politics one is very much full of: "why don't poor people just stop being poor" kind of posts. I'm now being told that the reason being anti-semitic is bad is because Jews obey the law. Starting off my Saturday by getting into an argument with middle class racists was an intensely bad idea.
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Mar 6, 2021 11:05
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Josef bugman posted:It's funny realising that even a lot of the melts are starting to panic in the LabourUK chat. panic how? they’ve got three years to build a strong opposition to win the next GE lol
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Mar 6, 2021 11:07
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Jel Shaker posted:panic how? they’ve got three years to build a strong opposition to win the next GE I think a lot of it is performative. This is the thing so many people desperately want to be "smart" and think that being sensible tm is an easy route to that. It is the sort of thinking that a lot of people go in for even if they can't quite explain it, and then they will justify it because feeling otherwise is making them feel bad about stuff.
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Mar 6, 2021 11:10
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Yeah the melts are getting hammered in that sub for arguing that it's entirely reasonable that their "electable" leader can't possibly be expected to win an election.
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Mar 6, 2021 11:15
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Yeah the melts are getting hammered in that sub for arguing that it's entirely reasonable that their "electable" leader can't possibly be expected to win an election. Trying to do the whole "we will wipe away the stain of Histories Greatest Monster Jonmondly Cordnym" and then 1) Not being able to and 2) Not able to pull in any flag shagging voters, just leaves you looking like complete twerps, who knew.
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Mar 6, 2021 11:21
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therattle posted:BoD? That's the only BoD I know, maybe time to revoke his GOAT status. It seems to me that Labour are about as fascist as they were antisemitic. People just love a bit of hyperbole don't they.
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Mar 6, 2021 11:29
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Jose posted:the democrats have decided to one up labour on being insanely poo poo. this was her actual vote I know you love to just post twitter links but maybe try to make it somewhat relevant to UK politics? Failing that at least make some tenuous link yourself.
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Mar 6, 2021 11:30
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WhatEvil posted:Still, definitely watch series one. Kinda want to decode that card now though, but I can make a big dipper/plough/ursa major and a Star of David out of it with no effort at all, so I think I know what the Q result would be.  a pipe smoking dog posted:I'm now being told that the reason being anti-semitic is bad is because Jews obey the law. Almost all Jews living in England in 1650 were breaking the law. Almost all gay men living in Britain in the 1950s were breaking the law. All legalists are cunts.
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Mar 6, 2021 11:34
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Aramoro posted:I know you love to just post twitter links but maybe try to make it somewhat relevant to UK politics? Failing that at least make some tenuous link yourself. Especially for something as business as usual as this. Which is also being reported everywhere in the real world anyway. Melts gonna melt
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Mar 6, 2021 11:34
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Failed Imagineer posted:Melts gonna melt
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Mar 6, 2021 11:38
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therattle posted:BoD? Board of Deputies.
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Mar 6, 2021 11:38
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Lungboy posted:Board of Deputies. I know. I was joking. An Irish rugby player taking a seat on the Labour AS panel is absurd and thus humorous.
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Mar 6, 2021 11:44
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a pipe smoking dog posted:I'm now being told that the reason being anti-semitic is bad is because Jews obey the law. Ah yes, the "Asians are good at maths, black people are good at sports" argument, totally good and not at all racist.
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Mar 6, 2021 11:50
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This story is a great example of "someone somewhere is getting away with something". BBC News - Covid: Helicopter flew from Salford to Preston for sandwich Like yes, I'm not exactly sad about the poor put-upon heli owner or anything, but a) how is it different from takeway in a car or on a bike, and b), if anything it's far less likely to have you come in contact with anyone than either of those.
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Mar 6, 2021 11:51
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therattle posted:I know. I was joking. An Irish rugby player taking a seat on the Labour AS panel is absurd and thus humorous. I don't know about that really. Some sporting figures are better at showing political nuance than politicians and commentators. Maybe the fourth estate should be a sports pitch?
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Mar 6, 2021 11:51
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Private Speech posted:a) how is it different from takeway in a car or on a bike, and b), if anything it's far less likely to have you come in contact with anyone than either of those. Brushless motors and lithium battery packs are getting crazy now, so who knows. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdOrqqWZvLY
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Mar 6, 2021 12:00
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Jippa posted:This guy has a very relaxing voice. Connections is honestly my favourite documentary series of all time, and is right up there for me in terms of the greatest show ever made - it's what I always turn to when I'm feeling a bit low, basically comfort food for the brain. It's a direct reply to the two big prestige documentaries David Attenbrough commissioned to show off colour television when he was controller of BBC2 (he also televised snooker because it was cheap and relied on colour) - Civilisation and The Ascent of Man, which were grandiose histories of art and science respectively. Both are excellent documentaries in their own right (although the former in particular suffers from a massively eurocentric view of the world which is a bit clanging to modern ears). James Burke, who presented Tomorrows World and had fronted the BBC coverage of the moon landings, disliked both shows for their Great Man view of progress - he was of the view that progress was a matter of collaboration and the right person happening to be in the right place at the right time, not a singular genius changing the world, so he successfully lobbied to make a series based on this idea, where he does stuff like trace the invention of the pike square, credit cards and canned food to the moon landings (which is what gives you that amazing shot, gently caress the one-take in Goodfellas, *that's* ballsy). Like I say it's well worth watching them all because it's (for me) the absolute acme of what a documentary should be - someone who is enthusiastic and knowledgeable telling you things that he thinks are important with passion and humour, with absolutely amazing illustrations of it. I don't understand why documentary makers still insist on the bullshit "I'm on a journey..." format where the presenter is basically fronting the most elaborate and expensive reaction video of all time. I still vividly remember the moment I crack-pinged on that modern format, it was Brian Cox standing at the top of Mauna Kea next to the big observatories talking about... some star bullshit, I can't even remember because instead of being say in the observatory showing us the output from it, or just pointing at the sky, *he was looking at a star chart on an iPad and talking about how it made him feel* in his poo poo britpop Iraq-war enabling voice.
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