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Party Boat
Nov 1, 2007

where did that other dog come from

who is he


D'Hoffryn is quite poetic too though

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RockyB
Mar 8, 2007


Dog Therapy: Shockingly Good
Halfrek? That's a powerful name to accidentally make up.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Boris the Handsome

Clyde Radcliffe
Oct 19, 2014

learnincurve posted:

Yeh it wasn’t Anya...

That's the go-to name for naming your child after a Joss Whedon vengeance demon. I kinda want to know what her name is now.

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

Is it Malice?

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?
The Mayor?

90s Cringe Rock
Nov 29, 2006
:gay:
Vengeance Damon

learnincurve
May 15, 2014

Smoosh
Halfrek Anyanka

She uses Anya. He insists to this day that “her name is irish”. She hasn’t spoken to him during lockdown and he is very sad about why she wouldn’t care about his new replacement baby Wilfred.

learnincurve
May 15, 2014

Smoosh
No he’s not him, which makes it worse.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
Door knocking to ask what policies they should have lmao

https://twitter.com/AnnelieseDodds/status/1398926378964328451?s=19

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

>>=

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Jose posted:

Door knocking to ask what policies they should have lmao

Gotta know what the people want so you won't do it.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost

Jose posted:

Door knocking to ask what policies they should have lmao

https://twitter.com/AnnelieseDodds/status/1398926378964328451?s=19

It's somehow more infuriating to realize that they'll do these patronizing stunts and then just vote for more of the same garbage anyway.

No Dignity
Oct 15, 2007

learnincurve posted:

Halfrek Anyanka

She uses Anya. He insists to this day that “her name is irish”. She hasn’t spoken to him during lockdown and he is very sad about why she wouldn’t care about his new replacement baby Wilfred.

Double lol

Also there's absolutely no way that was an accident, what a fuckin dickhead

Tincans
Dec 15, 2007

Police doing their job tackling gammons and sea shantiers

https://twitter.com/jackncallylfc/status/1399274960837873664

learnincurve
May 15, 2014

Smoosh
The hundreds of Tories in the replies defending the policeman who was clearly repeatedly punching the guy his mate had in a headlock just reminded me why I’m not on Twitter.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Darth Walrus posted:

I think that at this point it's safe to say Cole is genuinely into it.

Confirmed

https://twitter.com/brokenbottleboy/status/1399313067654225921?s=19

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost

Tincans posted:

Police doing their job tackling gammons and sea shantiers

https://twitter.com/jackncallylfc/status/1399274960837873664

Should've been punching the floor.

That carpet is a crime.

Zulily Zoetrope
Jun 1, 2011

Muldoon
I dunno anything about Carrie Symonds but if my partner dumped me to shack up with Boris Johnson I’d consider it a bullet dodged and probably be grateful that it happened.

Also if I were a British journalist my daily life would be embarrassing enough that I’m not even sure I’d register it as a point of shame.

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

>>=

drat there goes my £50. thanks liz.

Clyde Radcliffe
Oct 19, 2014

Zeroisanumber posted:

Should've been punching the floor.

That carpet is a crime.

Wetherspoons commission a unique design from a British carpet company for each pub they open. Someone signed off on that custom-made print and paid upwards of £50,000 for it.

Crankit
Feb 7, 2011

HE WATCHES
is the carpet design company headquartered where it doesn't have to declare profits or owners? only way the carpet thing makes sense to me.

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost

Clyde Radcliffe posted:

Wetherspoons commission a unique design from a British carpet company for each pub they open. Someone signed off on that custom-made print and paid upwards of £50,000 for it.

That person should be punched also. As should the designers and anyone involved with manufacturing that incredibly cursed rug.

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
https://twitter.com/AmandaBrookeAB/status/1399308719872172032?s=20

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012


"wetherspoons in scunthorpe" lol get real

Wolfsbane
Jul 29, 2009

What time is it, Eccles?

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

"wetherspoons in scunthorpe" lol get real

Scunthorpe, the town that breaks profanity filters.

Party Boat
Nov 1, 2007

where did that other dog come from

who is he


When Tom Scott did a video on profanity filters he filmed it in the village of Penistone because he refused to go to Scunthorpe.

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

>>=
https://twitter.com/twcuddleston/status/1399418368264921102

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

I dunno anything about Carrie Symonds but if my partner dumped me to shack up with Boris Johnson I’d consider it a bullet dodged and probably be grateful that it happened.

Also if I were a British journalist my daily life would be embarrassing enough that I’m not even sure I’d register it as a point of shame.

If you were a British journalist you'd have no shame.

CoolCab
Apr 17, 2005

glem
you would be living out your wildest sexual fantasy while the entire nation looks on slack jawed. motherfucker is getting off on this.

Clyde Radcliffe
Oct 19, 2014

Zeroisanumber posted:

That person should be punched also. As should the designers and anyone involved with manufacturing that incredibly cursed rug.

There are several blogs, at least one of which spawned a book deal, documenting the atrocities that are Wetherspoons carpets.

https://wetherspoonscarpets.tumblr.com

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost

I've had barfights going on around me and just carried on eating my sandwich and drinking my drink. Not my loving business if a couple of idiots want to slap each other in the face.

Valko
Sep 18, 2015

learnincurve posted:

Halfrek Anyanka

She uses Anya. He insists to this day that “her name is irish”. She hasn’t spoken to him during lockdown and he is very sad about why she wouldn’t care about his new replacement baby Wilfred.

Ainé (pronounced Awnya) is not an uncommon Irish name.

Somewhat related, found an interesting video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOxHWP4FYYY

quote:

Edwin Poots, along with David Frost and Boris Johnson, continue to argue for the suspension of the brexit Northern Ireland Protocol. But the EU made an offer some time ago to reduce the need for 80% of checks that the UK government have refused to accept. It doesn't even need us to agree to anything we aren't doing right now either. You can only imagine that Johnson must want political tensions in Northern Ireland.

I don't know what to make of this. I don't think it's entirely unreasonable that Bojo would use a restarted troubles as a distraction.

Clyde Radcliffe
Oct 19, 2014

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/Wiijimmy/status/1399486987103617027?s=20

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
Lol kieths interview with him airs tonight

https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1399352009388658691?s=19

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
Lmao

https://twitter.com/flying_rodent/status/1399669606155964416?s=19

Jel Shaker
Apr 19, 2003


every election for the next 20 years will be fixated on what >55 yr olds want

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy
I see Blair in New Statesman basically advanced that Labour should become a party dictatorship with as little input from the masses as possible and should abandon it’s actual commitment to workers and instead merely advance progressivism. Man really thinks that most Brits want to be lib Dems.

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V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

ASK ME ABOUT LUMBER

blairism's trick was:

1) firmly distance yourself from the stink of old labour failure. embrace the new common sense and convention

2) centralise decision-making authority to a handful of reliable people and run everything through this clique, radiating outwards through a morass of people vying for your favour to be let closer to power. this gets you the party; hold-outs are effectively frozen out completely.

3) maintain broad popularity by careful and very adroit polling. find the hot button issues and effective slogans and shape yourself around those things

4) always try to shift your core constituency - the old organised working class is dead as an entity which can win elections by itself, so an appeal must be made to new sections of society

in post-thatcher britain, this meant a firm swing away from socialism, alliance with murdoch at all costs (historically an incredibly successful strategy in britain), a massive realignment to attack the tories' hold on low/middle-income homeowners without offending the rest of the people involved, then entrenching deeply into the halls of government. it also meant abandoning any serious reformist ambition other than that which polling expected from labour to repent for past sins, i.e. strict fiscal rules and vociferously embracing public order as a value. it also meant giving an australian archlich veto over government policy.

this cocktail worked very well until 2003 and the general bleeding started in earnest. by the time brown lost, the labour brand was as toxic as ever, and point 2) meant that a lot of the people in the rest of the party were complete nitwits selected for political loyalty who had any sort of actual political skill basically purposefully bred out of them. blairite revivalism is the dumbest poo poo unless you can somehow bring murdoch back on board, which i sincerely doubt is possible

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