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End of Evangelion but people dissolve into Bisto
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Keith soaring in the polls thanks to his radical Green agenda apparently…
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Dec 11, 2021 12:26
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Convex posted:Love the art, not the artist, always the way Yeah basically everyone involved in that turned out to be a dickhead. Are Fry and Laurie generally ok these days?
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Dec 11, 2021 12:27
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stev posted:Yeah basically everyone involved in that turned out to be a dickhead. I can't remember why but didn't this thread declare Fry as History's Greatest Monster™?
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Stephen fry is history's greatest monster, everyone knows this e: I think it was something to do with Twitter? he's obviously a massive smug lib but I think he was just an early adopter, not a particularly egregious example cf today's centrist tweeters XMNN fucked around with this message at 12:43 on Dec 11, 2021 |
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Dec 11, 2021 12:41
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smellmycheese posted:Keith soaring in the polls thanks to his radical Green agenda apparently… I genuinely have no idea what a Labour policy is right now. Are they actually giving any out or are they still saying that policies are wrong when opposition is ongoing.
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EvilHawk posted:I genuinely have no idea what a Labour policy is right now. Are they actually giving any out or are they still saying that policies are wrong when opposition is ongoing. They’re too busy supporting Tory policies and not wanting Boris to quit to come up with their own.
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Guavanaut posted:New omicron symptom? They're finally turning away from custard in binbag?
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EvilHawk posted:I genuinely have no idea what a Labour policy is right now. Are they actually giving any out or are they still saying that policies are wrong when opposition is ongoing. Even after a cursory Google all I found was - Spend £28bn a year on "green infrastructure and jobs" - Create an Office for Value for Money (because apparently the Office of Budgetary Responsibility is too ambiguous?) - Scrap charity status from private schools, ensuring only the truly wealthy can afford them - Cut business taxes (for small businesses paid for by closing loopholes on multinational internet companies who will just find new loopholes in Ireland) - Give first time buyers first dibs on completely unaffordable homes before letting international investors outbid them - Er... - That's it?
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Dec 11, 2021 13:01
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Doccykins posted:- Scrap charity status from private schools, ensuring only the truly wealthy can afford them You could bin private schools altogether and still only the truly wealthy could afford them (they'd go abroad) Anything that bleeds private schools is good (and I say that as someone who went to one and benefited massively from it)
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Dec 11, 2021 13:04
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Lol. Rishi held a drinks party straight after the budget speech. https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1469625833237192709
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Dec 11, 2021 13:06
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EvilHawk posted:I genuinely have no idea what a Labour policy is right now. Are they actually giving any out or are they still saying that policies are wrong when opposition is ongoing. Without looking at any interviews or articles, I can tell you that Labour policy will be to throw public cash at any projects offering "green infrastructure and jobs" and that coincidentally those projects will be run by party donors. So basically: smellmycheese posted:They’re too busy supporting Tory policies
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Dec 11, 2021 13:07
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Doccykins posted:- Scrap charity status from private schools, ensuring only the truly wealthy can afford them I think it's good if Labour focuses on increasing funding for state schools, rather than giving private ones a VAT discount. Corbyn had the same policy, but would also redistribute their assets and properties to the state 
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Dec 11, 2021 13:10
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quote:For Neil Shastri-Hurst, the Conservative candidate for North Shropshire, it should have been the easiest of doorknocks. Aruum aruum arrrrrg
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sinky posted:Corbyn had the same policy, but would also redistribute their assets and properties to the state a bit tricky, that Conference 2019 passed a motion calling on the party to commit to integrating public schools, but it did not survive the Clause V meeting subsequently; it got watered down to a commitment to ask the Social Mobility Commission to advise on integrating public schools
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Dec 11, 2021 13:28
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bring back old harold wilsons he'd have just downed a big pint of bitter and a bowl of mash and HP sauce while he walked between rooms imo
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Dec 11, 2021 13:31
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I might have a mug of hot bovril on account of the lovely weather. I wonder if there was a big kerfuffle when they stopped making it out of cow parts, like there was with the greggs sausage rolls. "It's the vegans Henry, they're saying that we can't drink cows anymore because it's offensive to the Hindus. They've gone mad."
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Dec 11, 2021 13:43
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Darren Grimes drinking a teacup of hot bulls piss on GB News to own the libs.
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Guavanaut posted:I might have a mug of hot bovril on account of the lovely weather. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bovril-66570-Beef-Extract-250g/dp/B003BQFX4S/ quote:The powerful meaty flavour of Bovril's beef spread has been fuelling Brits to endure the Great British weather for decades
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Dec 11, 2021 13:49
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Always just felt like drinking gravy.
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Dec 11, 2021 13:51
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Huh, seems like they put the beef back in, or some of the beef at least. But there's also a beet based vegan version, because that's only one letter away. 
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Failed Imagineer posted:Always just felt like drinking gravy. You must make poo poo gravy (or really good Bovril, I dunno).
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Dec 11, 2021 13:56
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I make it with oxo cubes rather than bovril.
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EvilHawk posted:I genuinely have no idea what a Labour policy is right now. Are they actually giving any out or are they still saying that policies are wrong when opposition is ongoing. 'All leftists should be put into camps' is a policy.
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EvilHawk posted:I genuinely have no idea what a Labour policy is right now. Are they actually giving any out or are they still saying that policies are wrong when opposition is ongoing. Official UK Labour Party Policy: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE posted:Keir Starmer: Good
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Dec 11, 2021 14:09
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Guavanaut posted:I might have a mug of hot bovril on account of the lovely weather. 'In 2004, Unilever removed beef ingredients from the Bovril formula, rendering it vegetarian. This was mainly due to concerns about decreasing sales, particularly from exports due to an export ban on British beef, as a result of the growing popularity of vegetarianism, religious dietary requirements, and public concerns about bovine spongiform encephalopathy.[14] In 2006, Unilever reversed that decision and reintroduced beef ingredients to their Bovril formula once sales increased and the beef export bans were lifted.' It is now back to being BEEFY
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It seems strange that they'd take the animal products out, sales went up, so they put them back in again. It seems even stranger (from 2021) that all of this happened without a massive sausage roll style culture war. Maybe there was a letter writing campaign in the Sun that I missed.
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 but the smell of Bovril is one of those Proustian reverie things for me. Just a whiff of it and I'm a kid wandering around the market with my dad in the early 80s when a) there were stalls that *just* sold hot drinks, nothing else and b) they all sold Bovril. Mix in another smell and it's even more powerful - Bovril and flowers was Columbia Road, Brick Lane Market smelled of Bovril and bread at the north end with the biegel shops running flat out but at the other end Bovril and hot fat from the doughnut and fritter stalls on Cheshire Street, Petticoat Lane was Bovril and the sickly-sweet smell of the blokes selling knockoff perfume on the corner with Middlesex Street.Mind you the most powerful one is Bovril mixed with the Vimto-gone-wrong smell of sarsaparilla, which can locate me to an individual *stall* at East Street Market (yes, we did even cross the river to the badlands once in a while for exotic contraband). There's a few stalls selling the stuff on that market (even in one-gallon containers that looked suspiciously like they were originally used for industrial cleaning products) but only one sicko, about a third of the way down, that sold it *hot*, along with tea and of course Bovril. That, and the exotic sulphrous pong of the chemical factory that once stood where the Big Tent does next to the Blackwall Tunnel, will always be the smell of South London to me.
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Dec 11, 2021 14:18
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I think there's some Asian root beers that can only be sold as industrial cleaning products now due to the safrole content.
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Think i will try making paneer next week, fancy a change.
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Guavanaut posted:I might have a mug of hot bovril on account of the lovely weather. Good stuff in these cold months. Of course when Summer rolls around 
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goddamnedtwisto posted:the Vimto-gone-wrong smell of sarsaparilla You know I never thought of it that way but that explains why I like it. We have an app based milkman round here that delivers sarsaparilla (and eggs and stuff! it's ace!). The wife jumped on the opportunity to try it and said "oh, it's sassafras" which apparently they used to drink a tea made out of a lot of the time in Florida.
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Famous one time good lad, now brainworm connoisseur Shaun Lawson has jumped on the terf bandwagon, because of course. Maybe he and Weeters have more in common than they think https://twitter.com/shaunjlawson/status/1469612152600334340?s=19
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ThomasPaine posted:Famous one time good lad, now brainworm connoisseur Shaun Lawson has jumped on the terf bandwagon, because of course. Maybe he and Weeters have more in common than they think   "liberal leftie" indeed.
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Mebh posted:You know I never thought of it that way but that explains why I like it. We have an app based milkman round here that delivers sarsaparilla (and eggs and stuff! it's ace!). The wife jumped on the opportunity to try it and said "oh, it's sassafras" which apparently they used to drink a tea made out of a lot of the time in Florida. It's arguably the first commercially-produced soft drink as we now recognise it - there was a big factory run by one of the Methodist churches down in south London to make it for their temperance clubs (basically pubs without booze) in the 1800s, apparently because the leader of the church had got a taste for the stuff on a trip to the US. The point was that in those days non-fermented fruit juices went off very quickly (and of course often fermented when they did so, which was really the opposite of what they were after), root beers like sarsaparilla were boiled so stored for much longer and had lower sugar content so didn't ferment as easily. The Americans still have loads of different types of root beer but we just have ginger beer, and the tiny holdout of sarsaparilla - as well as East Street, you can still pick it up in a couple of pie and mash shops and apparently in a couple of little enclaves around Manchester - but I can feel another rant about the Cockney Diaspora coming on so I'll stop now.
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