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is javid the egg guy
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 11:47 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 13:49 |
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his secretary just rolls her eyes, like, and lifts the phone "hello barry? could you send up gary, the minister is stuck to the window again" "oh okay, well could you send up harry instead? okay thanks, barry" and then harry trundles in with a step ladder under one arm and twirling a wallpaper scraper in his free hand and shaking his head going "tsktsktsktsk" at the scene before him like that hehehehehehehehe
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 11:49 |
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kingturnip posted:I'm also enjoying finding out that classified MoD documents were found in a soggy heap behind a bus stop in Kent, for the sheer incongruity of it. Depends on exactly what the docs were (and the protective marking on them) but my guess that it's actually just a printed handout or something that holds a lower classification. Then it could be anything from "Were in a laptop bag that got nicked, got dumped out on the way to Cash Converters" to "Very confused Porn Fairy". If they *are* higher-classification documents they're a) generally individually numbered so the MoD will know exactly who had them last and b) not normally allowed outside of a secure facility, so finding them at a bus stop could well mean "Attempt at a dead drop for a leak or espionage". Note that HMG abandoned the CONFIDENTIAL protective marking because a) they just couldn't stop people taking them home and even working on them on the train and b) the fact everyone loves slapping that word on poo poo and if it turns up in a government building with CONFIDENTIAL written on it they have to actually treat it as an important classified document. Everyone got told to either remove enough poo poo to get them down a level or reclassify them at a higher one so people realised not to just leave them at Starbucks.
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 11:55 |
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Oh it was a Saladin, I just don't know what size it was to make it me avatar.
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 12:04 |
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this may have been said before but I love how every single time Kim Leadbeater is in the news she is mainly referred to as "Jo Cox's sister", often in place of her actual name if not right next to it. does she actually have any other aspects to her personality or her life? does she have political positions of any kind? who knows. who can ever know. she is a sister and this is allJosef bugman posted:Heya, does anyone remember which thread had my old avatar in it? Someone gave me this one and I would like to change it back. To pre-empt questions, I don't know what I said or did. I googled 'site:forums.somethingawful.com "josef bugman"' and found a cached version of a thread: also all old avatars have a standard url once you find one of them so here is our old pal Video Shark
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 12:06 |
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https://twitter.com/bhangbhangducx/status/1407931226673934338
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 12:15 |
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bump_fn posted:is javid the egg guy Yeah me and my partner were trying to remember who he was then we both burst into gleeful smiles and said "the egg man!" at the same time
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 12:22 |
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Can't wait for the NHS to be run under the principles of The Fountainhead.
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 12:24 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Depends on exactly what the docs were (and the protective marking on them) but my guess that it's actually just a printed handout or something that holds a lower classification. Then it could be anything from "Were in a laptop bag that got nicked, got dumped out on the way to Cash Converters" to "Very confused Porn Fairy". That they specifically refer to the warship sailing around Ukraine and makes reference to what they think Russias reaction to it will be is a bit of a giveaway. Of all the pages to be left lying around its ones about a political incident a few days ago.
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 12:27 |
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Maybe it's a really lovely version of the Cambridge Five trying to do a dead drop.
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 12:32 |
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Cambridge Five trying to do a dead drop. I don't remember that Enid Blyton book. Was it CANCELLED before I was born???
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 12:37 |
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Angepain posted:also all old avatars have a standard url once you find one of them so here is our old pal Video Shark Thank you very much Angepain! Awhhh, I sometimes miss Video Shark.
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 12:39 |
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Clarence posted:Leader would like a quiet word outside. I've been fascinated by Leader since I was a kid - my Dad had loads of transport-themed cigarette cards that he'd collected when he was a kid (because it was the 50s and there was nothing wrong with tobacco firms hawking promotional products to seven-year olds) and they were framed and hung in the downstairs loo. One of them - in the steam engine collection, in amongst all the normal-looking steam locos - was Leader. The whole thing is just such a bonkers idea, from both an engineering and a project management point of view. Oliver Bulleid was clearly one of these brilliant out-of-the-box thinkers who really needed to have some sort of limit or oversight put on him otherwise he just came out with stuff that was conceptually brilliant but entirely impractical. Leader started off as the Southern Railway board saying "Huh, we need a simple, light steam loco to haul empty coaches in and out of Waterloo because the ones we're currently using are 60 years old - a tank-engine version of the Q1 would be good" and Bulleid takes that suggestion and comes back with a twin-bogie twelve-wheeled...thing...with sleeve valves (a technology that had never previously worked whenever tried on a steam loco), chain drive and that weighed 150 tons. And then - all the more extraordinary - the SR board went "Cool!" and not only agreed to build it but ordered five of them off the drawing board, and then authorised the conversion of an existing loco to trial and develop the sleeve valve technology while the Leaders were actually being built. I assume that the whole thing was either everyone at the SR thinking that, with nationalisation imminent, it would all be someone else's problem so why not let Bulleid try out his crazy scheme, or it was a deliberate gently caress-you to the lefties in Whitehall. .
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 12:42 |
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jiggerypokery posted:The whole cocaine situation is damning enough of Gove and his ilk. Verifying citation. I know people who know Gove and the general opinion is that he’s a incredibly competent department head, the policies he may be enacting may be evil but he’s the one you want to work with as a boss. His issue is that he’s a “Machiavellian little bugger” who wants to be PM, the general opinion is if he dropped that ambition and just concentrated on a single civil service department then you would at the very least see decent interdepartmental reforms and the right people promoted like he did at the department of education and department of environment and that’s the kind of unnoticed boring graft that does matter and has been neglected by shitheals like Hancock. Anyway this is going to show my age but the Tory old guard think he’s the 2021 Norman Tebbit.
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 12:54 |
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Some interesting, clever and I think pretty persuasive campaigning by the greens for the upcoming local elections:
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 12:59 |
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If the nomination date for something is passed, something I would be interested in getting involved with but didn't think I stood a chance, and then there's an email comes round saying nomination dates extended.... is it safe to assume no one put themselves forward? (You can self-nominate. Noone in this organisation knows I exist!) (Not a political organisation - though they do like to put a bit of pressure on govt.) ed: VVV I'm a cowardy custard. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 13:13 on Jun 27, 2021 |
# ? Jun 27, 2021 13:06 |
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Just give it a go! What's the worst that could happen.
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 13:11 |
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Guavanaut posted:Can't wait for the NHS to be run under the principles of The Fountainhead. For eleven years you have asked: when can I get a GP appointment?
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 13:15 |
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Bobstar posted:I don't remember that Enid Blyton book. Was it CANCELLED before I was born??? I bet she had the kids mess up a dead drop at least once, she used to write a book a week. 762 published books in total. All the racism and stuff about girls not being meant to have short hair or boys not being meant to wear dresses should probably be cancelled instead of read to children though. So the answer is, yes. Brendan Rodgers fucked around with this message at 13:36 on Jun 27, 2021 |
# ? Jun 27, 2021 13:16 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:If the nomination date for something is passed, something I would be interested in getting involved with but didn't think I stood a chance, and then there's an email comes round saying nomination dates extended.... is it safe to assume no one put themselves forward? (You can self-nominate. Noone in this organisation knows I exist!) If a nomination date has been extended there's three possibilities: a) Like you say, nobody has put themselves forward b) They've had some nominations and they're all poo poo so they want new people c) They're waiting for the person they REALLY want to be nominated You don't lose anything by putting yourself forward in any case!
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 13:16 |
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Tory minister in not telling the truth shock, probe, riddle, scandal, resigning matter - erm, not. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brandon-lewis-irish-sea-border-tweet-b1873511.html quote:Brandon Lewis has once again acknowledged that a tweet he sent out in January, in which he claimed “there is no Irish Sea border”, is not entirely true. Goes on to blame the EU for being 'purist'. The tweet: https://twitter.com/BrandonLewis/status/1345057483887411200?s=20
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 13:48 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Goes on to blame the EU for being 'purist'. How dare the EU want to follow mutually agreed to contracts to the letter.
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 13:56 |
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57627708.ampquote:Mr Javid, who has had several key government roles, said his predecessor had worked "incredibly hard".
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 14:00 |
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learnincurve posted:Verifying citation. I'm not sure I want my terrifying right wingers to be competent idk
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 14:25 |
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PawParole posted:if you know how hellworld works, you’d know that Gorgeous Georgie will be the next pm after Brexit Day. It’s already written in the stars. OwlFancier posted:It doesn't matter how much you keep posting it, george galloway is not the next big thing in UK politics.
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 14:59 |
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https://twitter.com/thesundaytimes/status/1409106390073946112?s=19 Andrew Adonis is cutting diamonds right now
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 15:22 |
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sebzilla posted:https://twitter.com/thesundaytimes/status/1409106390073946112?s=19 Blair would have to win a by-election first and lol good luck with that.
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 15:25 |
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 15:29 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Blair would have to win a by-election first and lol good luck with that. I'm sure 'they' would waive the rule book like they did to get Leadbetter to stand if it came to it. Rules are for other people, not the Labour far right.
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 15:30 |
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Why do they object to being called Blairites if their only idea ever is to bring back Tony Blair? And then they accuse everyone else of preferring personality over policy.
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 15:36 |
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Guavanaut posted:Why do they object to being called Blairites if their only idea ever is to bring back Tony Blair? And then they accuse everyone else of preferring personality over policy. Centrists hate being described accurately more than anything
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 15:40 |
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Centrists hate being
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 15:42 |
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jun/27/boy-11-referred-to-prevent-for-wanting-to-give-alms-to-the-oppressedquote:Boy, 11, referred to Prevent for wanting to give ‘alms to the oppressed’ ed: I missed a bit that does say he goes to mosque.
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 15:48 |
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We should also arm the oppressed though
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 15:52 |
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I'd give arms to the oppressed. Charity entrenches the power disparity, the mass line challenges it.
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 15:53 |
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I actually would unironically love to see Blair come back and then totally eat poo poo. He doesn't even have to be in the Commons, we've had PMs who weren't let alone leaders of the opposition.
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 15:54 |
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Don't most people still hate blair?
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 15:55 |
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Not most people who count to the Labour right!
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 15:57 |
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https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/explore/public_figure/Tony_Blair "Other things in politics liked by Tony Blair fans"
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 15:58 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 13:49 |
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LMAO that 12% of people haven't ever heard of keith.
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# ? Jun 27, 2021 16:01 |