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The Blair comparisons shall continue until morale rises. Edit: 283. The number of seats Labour will lose in the next election. happyhippy fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Aug 6, 2021 |
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Aug 6, 2021 16:59
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keep punching joe posted:Starmer is MI5 He's too incompetent, even for MI5
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Aug 6, 2021 17:00
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Camrath posted:New Fudge Released!
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Aug 6, 2021 17:03
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I read this absolute piece of poo poo article on the BBC earlier, and it was so awful, I felt I had to share it with you. It's their bit on the August 2011 riots. It includes excerpts from This is one of the worst things I've read on the BBC for a long time. Basically every There's barely any effort made to show that the quote:One 17-year old Muslim in full-time work in Tottenham recalled being stopped by police on his way to school at the age of 13: “One of them said: ‘Mate, why don’t you ask him where Saddam is. He might be able to help out’ Even the section that summarises Mark Duggan's death barely touches the breadth of the police incompetence/malice, simply noting that the IPCC did a whoopsie about how they communicated details. It's a running theme of the actual report that people who got involved in the rioting and subsequent looting did so out of frustration or anger at the systemic issues in society, and the BBC basically characterise it all as "they wanted free stuff, innit?" Utterly rage-inducing.
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Aug 6, 2021 17:14
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learnincurve posted:I had my Tory mother blame :alarm: the last Labour government :alarm: for the removal of BTECs yesterday. It’s all Blair’s fault and my fault for voting Labour that my kid is about to get hosed over for about £12k “Um I never voted for Blair, I was too young in 1997 for a start” “oh well I don’t want to talk about this” I can't even get my head around how a government last in power 11 years ago can be remotely blamed for removing a qualification so many years later!
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I'm afraid there are no btecs Kind regards, and good luck! Ed Balls
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Barry Foster posted:I felt that way a bit at the start of the pandemic. It was all pretty exciting to be living through an actual Event! Novelty has long since worn off by now of course, and I'm bleakly amused by my younger self's naivety. I suspect living post collapse will look more like the end of Threads than Kevin Costner's Waterworld, although even that's still making the mistake of thinking life is anything like the telly I remember last Spring just sitting by my flat window listening to that coffin dance song and looking at the world outside just vibing with the feeling of being trapped along with everyone else. I'd never felt so connected to everyone while being so completely alone. Now I'm just a dull shut-in the same as I was in 2019.
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Aug 6, 2021 18:08
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https://twitter.com/TheIDSmiths/status/1423694545372553220 In other Glinner news, apparently he's now on about how Chris-chan's biggest problem is being transgender.
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Aug 6, 2021 18:27
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Awesome work. 
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Aug 6, 2021 18:32
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Camrath posted:New Fudge Released! Oh come on, don't make me order more fudge! Gotta try that mead... I'm going away next week (finally seeing family for the 1st time since Christmas '19) so I'm praying you'll still have stock when I come back. Highly recommend the bakewell tart for all you fudjites that haven't tried it Deketh fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Aug 6, 2021 |
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Aug 6, 2021 18:34
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Comrade Fakename posted:https://twitter.com/TheIDSmiths/status/1423694545372553220 So why has Chris-chan suddenly resurfaced in Internet conversation? I'd look it up myself, but pretty much all the most knowledgeable sources on the subject are absolutely vile people.
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Darth Walrus posted:So why has Chris-chan suddenly resurfaced in Internet conversation? I'd look it up myself, but pretty much all the most knowledgeable sources on the subject are absolutely vile people. I don't really know who this person is but a quick google says they just got thrown in prison for incest, so that's fun
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Shyrka posted:I remember last Spring just sitting by my flat window listening to that coffin dance song and looking at the world outside just vibing with the feeling of being trapped along with everyone else. I'd never felt so connected to everyone while being so completely alone. Exactly! There were a few fleeting months where everyone was scared enough, uncertain enough, that it actually felt, for a moment, like being part of some sort of society. Everyone was on the same page. Then the capitalists and the conspiracy theorists and the antivaxxers and the liberals and the fascists got their poo poo together and started banging the drum and now everything is as it was but even shittier. But it was a time of monsters, and for just a moment it felt like something new might be born. Bitter lols
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Aug 6, 2021 18:44
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Aug 6, 2021 18:44
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Camrath posted:New Fudge Released! Order placed! The website would not let me order more than one block of a flavour but at least this has forced me to diversify my fudge portfolio.
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Aug 6, 2021 18:49
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HopperUK posted:Order placed! The website would not let me order more than one block of a flavour but at least this has forced me to diversify my fudge portfolio. If you’re who I think you are, you took the last stock of several flavours, hence the restriction
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Aug 6, 2021 18:53
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Darth Walrus posted:So why has Chris-chan suddenly resurfaced in Internet conversation? I'd look it up myself, but pretty much all the most knowledgeable sources on the subject are absolutely vile people. I gather she was arrested for sexually assaulting her mother it's pretty hosed up. And of course being one of the only people on the planet for whom gang stalking is a literal real thing, definitely is not a contributing factor to that.
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Camrath posted:If you’re who I think you are, you took the last stock of several flavours, hence the restriction Hahaha I'm a robber
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OwlFancier posted:I gather she was arrested for sexually assaulting her mother it's pretty hosed up. And of course being one of the only people on the planet for whom gang stalking is a literal real thing, definitely is not a contributing factor to that. I think that probably understates what’s happened, she has been regularly sexually assaulting her dementia-ridden mother and has described the acts in great detail. I was aware of Chris Chan being a thing back around 2008-2010 but didn’t realise there was a dedicated community focused on trolling the hell out of her over the years since. There’s so many ways all this could have been avoided.
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Flags! https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/aug/06/uk-government-spends-union-flags-two-years-boris-johnson quote:UK government spends more than £163,000 on union flags in two years 
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Aug 6, 2021 19:06
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Lord Ludikrous posted:There’s so many ways all this could have been avoided.
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Aug 6, 2021 19:09
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Certainly makes you wish for the big asteroid.
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Aug 6, 2021 19:14
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OwlFancier posted:Certainly makes you wish for the big asteroid. Too quick. I want us to suffer. All the SCPs in reverse order from highest to lowest.
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For Bobby or anyone else who gets the feels about gender stuff, don't worry about not being 'trans enough' to reach out to other trans people. I still don't know that I'm *really* trans as opposed to just trying to escape misogyny, I just know that I feel more comfortable in my skin now I live as a man. You are just as much a valid part of the trans community when you are still trying to work out your identity as when you've been living it for 40 years.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Flags! They could have saved so much money if they had cut the flags off of Tesco fruit & veg packets..... if we still had packets of fruit & veg. 
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Aug 6, 2021 19:33
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Guavanaut posted:I tried traveling back in time to 1954 to assassinate Edwin Armstrong and Alan Turing before they could invent the internet, but it turns out that someone else just does it a bit later. Well given Tommy Flowers is actually the person who deserves by far the majority of the credit/blame for both modern computers *and* modern telecommunications, it's no surprise. While Turing did do most of the theoretical and some of the design for Colossus, Flowers was the man who took those ideas and actually made them work, begging, borrowing and stealing many components from his day job at the GPO and even resorting to just buying components out of his own pocket because nobody - even Turing - believed that the design could be made to work before the end of the war and wanted Flowers to continue to improve Heath Robinson, the much simpler electromechanical design for attacking Lorenz cipher traffic. His reward for proving them all wrong and completing the world's first programmable computer, was a small honorarium *that didn't even cover his own out of pocket expenses* and got a bollocking from the GPO who wanted to know where all the valves at Dollis Hill had gone. Flowers then returned to Dollis Hill where he invented the automatic telephone exchange and did a huge amount of theoretical and practical work on packet switching and data compression, before moving on to STC where he actually implemented these ideas (the GPO still being reluctant to go ahead with them because of course he couldn't explain that he'd already solved all of the technical problems at Bletchley) retiring only when transistor technology had caught up with his theories and he could see them put to use (the first workable PCM compression system for voice traffic, and the first packet-switched telephone exchange were both used on TAT-2, the second transatlantic telephone cable, and both were based on his post-war work) - he also gave the go-ahead for a project that became the first workable fiber-optic cable. Now... I'm not saying that there's a degree of snobbery involved in the upper-class Cambridge academic ending up on the £50 note and the working-class boy from Poplar who did all the actual work getting a driveway in North London named after him, but it's *really* striking just how little credit Flowers gets for his contribution to both the war and the peace afterwards.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Well given Tommy Flowers is actually the person who deserves by far the majority of the credit/blame for both modern computers *and* modern telecommunications, it's no surprise. Yeah, but Turing never got a Camper Van Beethoven song* written about him, so I guess Flowers came out the winner * - It's a good song, but it isn't on Youtube, and I can't be bothered finding it elsewhere
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Azza Bamboo posted:I'm afraid there are no btecs Being honest it was a funny note that showed his heart was in the right place. That was an age of the Tories eternally banging on about DEBT remember, that and "gordon brown sold all the pounds".
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Aug 6, 2021 20:38
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Is Ed Balls related to Penis Balls?
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Aug 6, 2021 20:40
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1p is stored in the ed balls.
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Doccykins posted:ahahaahahahahahahahahahahhahahaaaa 
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Aug 6, 2021 21:00
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I'm really cynical about the media but when they tell me about other countries it's different I guess.
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Barry Foster posted:Exactly! There were a few fleeting months where everyone was scared enough, uncertain enough, that it actually felt, for a moment, like being part of some sort of society. Everyone was on the same page. Oh it wasn't a drum. https://twitter.com/willuminare/status/1256000148368474118
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Aug 6, 2021 21:18
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Aug 6, 2021 21:28
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Did they beat the bin slowly did they sell them off wholly, did they sound the death march as they Brexited out did the band perform God Save The Queen now, has the Co-Op run out of fresh greens, and how?
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Meanwhile in north London: https://twitter.com/CrimeLdn/status/1423737433875701763
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