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goddamnedtwisto posted:Well it *is* 2021. Just watch out for those jerks from Pod 6. Selling weapons to both (or more if there are more than 2) sides is a drat fine British Industry and I shan't have you saying otherwise. Ahem. 5 Number of points in a pentagram or pentangle. An interesting figure throughout mysticism and religion with various 'good' and 'evil' connotations which I shan't go into here. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 19:20 on May 2, 2021 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Actually that Sealab episode where they all declare independence from each other and the two English blokes sell them all nukes is probably the most likely outcome of relaxed planning restrictions, freeports, and the rest of these Tory policies. Ersatz John Galt building a giant underwater city which descends into chaos is also an option.
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OwlFancier posted:Ersatz John Galt building a giant underwater city which descends into chaos is also an option. Is a man not entitled to the sweatlessness of his brow? 
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franco posted:This is one of the most bizarre articles I've read recently (from both the interviewer and the interviewee). Apologies if the formatting is a bit messed up - my dad is a Telegraph subscriber so I bullied him into sending me it. quote:“Ah! But I don’t have any showbiz friends left,” says Fox triumphantly. “It’s supposed to be a horrible thing to say, but I think Nigel Farage is amazing. I had lunch with him. He was really supportive and kind.”
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franco posted:This is one of the most bizarre articles I've read recently (from both the interviewer and the interviewee). Apologies if the formatting is a bit messed up - my dad is a Telegraph subscriber so I bullied him into sending me it.
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So got a bit of a weird one. House in my neighbourbood that I pass when I walk had a lot of dog barking one day, sounded like puppies. Noticed a very red faced angry woman yelling into the garage "shyaaarrrDAAAAP" where the barking was coming from. She was a cop! Though ok thats a bit weird. Maybe something going down. Police canine unit car turned up later when I walked back. Was like oh wow maybe they are rescuing doggies. Hah. Car is now there every day with police canine unit on our. Its loving cold here so The garage can't be nice. Noticed yesterday when I walked past out in the driveway was a roughly 1m by 1m cage. No dogs in it but the bottom literally caked in dog poo poo. So I'm fairly sure there's some pretty lovely animal abuse going on here. If they're breeding police dogs that's quite... Something. They get no benefit of the doubt because ACAB. I looked on the rscpa site where you can report potential abuse and they basically say, look, it's covid, don't ring us unless you see someone literally mutilating an animal, everything is on fire. The gently caress should I do? Mebh fucked around with this message at 20:43 on May 2, 2021 |
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A tiny cage covered in poo poo is absolutely enough evidence to at least suspect abuse. Let the RSPCA know, imo.
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Mebh posted:So got a bit of a weird one. Are you absolutely, 100% sure it's a proper cop? There's a couple of private security firms who take the cop cosplay to a level that has to be getting close to illegal and they loving *love* having "Canine Units", and while police dogs do generally go home with their handlers their vans/cars normally do not. Either way, yes, absolutely report it but leave out any mention of police, just say you've seen the filthy cage and heard things suggesting problems - not a huge amount more you can do really.
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:A tiny cage covered in poo poo is absolutely enough evidence to at least suspect abuse. Let the RSPCA know, imo. Yeah. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/what-you-suspect-animal-being-12057309 Has a check list of what you will be asked.
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franco posted:This is one of the most bizarre articles I've read recently (from both the interviewer and the interviewee). Apologies if the formatting is a bit messed up - my dad is a Telegraph subscriber so I bullied him into sending me it. Thank you for this, I’m glad it’s not fake!
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So Line of Duty probably just ended and everyone very pissed off. After multiple seasons building up a conspiracy network of corrupt police officers and a long campaign to find the "main man", it's revealed that the orders were coming from some mediocre white bloke who'd spent his life failing upwards and wasn't particularly interested in the exciting criminal aspects and mostly saw it as a side gig. The actual corruption was systemic, mundane, slow and boring - and was immediately memory holed by the powers that be who quietly closed the anti-corruption unit (who clapped themselves on the back for a job well done and went home). Possibly the most deflating hour of TV I've seen in a while. stev fucked around with this message at 22:43 on May 2, 2021 |
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Didn't Allison Pearson try to get a scientist at GSK fired because he tweeted about her being wrong about something? Yes she did. She is the absolute epitome of the kind of vicious, entitled, self-regarding and thoroughly nasty piece of poo poo that typifies much of the commentariat quote:This week started on a truly grotesque note. Telegraph journalist Allison Pearson threatened a scientist who, choosing words he later withdrew, accused her of "consciously stoking up hatred of and aggression towards NHS workers and others”. Edit: I would also put good money on Pearson having written an article complaining about the left" or "woke totalitarians" or whatever stamping down on freedom of speech. Somehow this sort of terrible irony is never mentioned when she appears on question time etd Niric fucked around with this message at 22:50 on May 2, 2021 |
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stev posted:So Line of Duty probably just ended and everyone very pissed off. After multiple seasons building up a conspiracy network of corrupt police officers and a long campaign to find the "main man", it's revealed that the orders were coming from some mediocre white bloke who'd spent his life failing upwards and wasn't particularly interested in the exciting criminal aspects and mostly saw it as a side gig. The actual corruption was systemic, mundane, slow and boring - and was immediately memory holed by the powers that be who quietly closed the anti-corruption unit (who clapped themselves on the back for a job well done and went home). I think it being revealed that people do terrible poo poo just because they are dumb and like money was probably the only realistic thing that show has done. That said I don't think it's actually the last season. Also glad the one lady got to live in a nice cottage with a hot girlfriend and a good dog. Also the three main charcters are patting themselves on the back despite the fact the case was cracked primarily by the woman who does all the IT and the one who only joined them this season. a pipe smoking dog fucked around with this message at 23:02 on May 2, 2021 |
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a pipe smoking dog posted:I think it being revealed that people do terrible poo poo just because they are dumb and like money was probably the only realistic thing that show has done. That said I don't think it's actually the last season. Oh yeah, it was brilliant in that sense but very much pulled the rug out from under me. It's also the closest a BBC production is ever going to get to criticising Boris Johnson and his government. stev fucked around with this message at 23:01 on May 2, 2021 |
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Untagged spoilers  (I'm not actually watching the show, just being a Responsible Citizen. Or a dick, one of those)
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stev posted:So Line of Duty probably just ended and everyone very pissed off. After multiple seasons building up a conspiracy network of corrupt police officers and a long campaign to find the "main man", it's revealed that the orders were coming from some mediocre white bloke who'd spent his life failing upwards and wasn't particularly interested in the exciting criminal aspects and mostly saw it as a side gig. The actual corruption was systemic, mundane, slow and boring - and was immediately memory holed by the powers that be who quietly closed the anti-corruption unit (who clapped themselves on the back for a job well done and went home). I don't have much investment because I stopped watching at some point in season 3 & never feeling the need to get back to it, but must admit that I'm not sure I get all the people being mad that the show had a point to make & made it. Perhaps that's not dramatically satisfying but it is a pretty accurate portrayal of corruption not just in the filth but in Britain at large. It almost all is incredibly mundane & boring. It's easy to get outraged at big in your face corruption, but the back room handshake deals & politicians all just moving from Westminster to lobbying for private corporations is all just low-level & frequent enough to be taken as banal normality. It's only if you step back & think about it a little that it starts to jump out to you. Or the companies like PWC who offer government departments free "advisors" as SPADs, but in exchange they get to write the tax laws so they know exactly what loopholes go in & so if anyone wants to exploit them they should really hire you. Most people don't really see why they should step back & think about it, most people only really want to think about politics once every 5 years apparently. Probably the point gets lost in all the people being mad but it is actually an important one to make even if that means sacrificing a nice, neat conclusion.
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stev posted:Oh yeah, it was brilliant in that sense but very much pulled the rug out from under me. yeah I've enjoyed that fact that someone managed to sneak a show that said that corruption is endemic in british society onto the bbc
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British people want to be told that corruption is caused by some mysterious lord of crime, and get grumpy when it's revealed that corruption is allowed to happen because people don't want to rock the boat in case it makes their life difficult
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stev posted:So Line of Duty probably just ended and everyone very pissed off. After multiple seasons building up a conspiracy network of corrupt police officers and a long campaign to find the "main man", it's revealed that the orders were coming from some mediocre white bloke who'd spent his life failing upwards and wasn't particularly interested in the exciting criminal aspects and mostly saw it as a side gig. The actual corruption was systemic, mundane, slow and boring - and was immediately memory holed by the powers that be who quietly closed the anti-corruption unit (who clapped themselves on the back for a job well done and went home). This actually makes the show sound far more interesting than I’d presumed it to be up to this point
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I've never seen it and didn't know what it was about and always imagined it as like Eastenders combined with CSI.
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Brendan Rodgers posted:I've never seen it and didn't know what it was about and always imagined it as like Eastenders combined with CSI. It is absolutely this but also the writer clearly loving hates tories and the police
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Noxville posted:This actually makes the show sound far more interesting than I’d presumed it to be up to this point Plus Vicky McClure owns. They've actually been pretty good with their casting choices from what I can tell.
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crispix posted:of all the shite that's happened in this piss country this last decade, people come out and do proper protesting over some football politics bollocks And its to demand that one set of billionaires gets replaced with another set. Would be funny to see the Glaziers get replaced by some dodgy as gently caress Russian oligarch though.
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happyhippy posted:And its to demand that one set of billionaires gets replaced with another set. Or the Saudis.
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crispix posted:of all the shite that's happened in this piss country this last decade, people come out and do proper protesting over some football politics bollocks
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Julio Cruz posted:Laurence Fox being interviewed by Allison Pearson makes me wish for an extremely localised meteor strike i too pray for the obliteration of the United Kingdom and all who live in it
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The idea everyone in the city is a metropolitan elite when a poo poo ton of the richest people literally live in the middle of loving nowhere is insane. As someone who's only ever lived in an urban area of a city the countryside has always seemed like where all the rich people live whereas normal people live in the city. Hell the most rich person in my family legit lives in a village of 500 people and has significantly more money than any of us in the city lol.
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PNGYAKUZA posted:The idea everyone in the city is a metropolitan elite when a poo poo ton of the richest people literally live in the middle of loving nowhere is insane. Kensington Palace is also not exactly in a rural location.
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