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a pipe smoking dog
Jan 25, 2010

"haha, dogs can't smoke!"
My partner just told me Piers Corbyn has been arrested but I thought she said Piers Morgan so I'm actually a bit disappointed.

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Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
Piers Corbyn does imply the existence of Jeremy Morgan.

Miftan
Mar 31, 2012

Terry knows what he can do with his bloody chocolate orange...

Guavanaut posted:

Piers Corbyn does imply the existence of Jeremy Morgan.

Jeremy Morgan is actually Tracy Jordan's wario

smellmycheese
Feb 1, 2016

Peter Hitchens is on particularly unhinged festive form today and the only real conclusion I can take from this article is that he clearly has dark sexual fantasies about Tony Blair

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10324663/PETER-HITCHENS-return-Tony-Blair-really-nightmare-Christmas.html

Failed Imagineer
Sep 22, 2018
My Beautiful Dark Tonty Fantasy

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
Eurocommunist populist strongman Tony Blair.

I like "Probably the least Blairite premier since Blair retired in 2007 was Gordon Brown." because (unlike Peter Hitchens) I can definitely remember that much of the criticism of Brown was along the lines of "Blair's legislative diarrhea of a new offence every week has been exceeded only by his successor, Gordon Brown" from certain quarters (like Peter Hitchens).

Also "a multicultural, Green, post-Christian, sexually liberated and egalitarian state in which only one opinion is, in reality, allowed" :allears:

Convex
Aug 19, 2010
:hmmyes:

That opinion: fascism bad

Jaeluni Asjil
Apr 18, 2018

Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!
Because the way it is being reported suggests that Germany or Big Nasty EU is picking on Plucky Britane Are Boyz Poppeez, I looked up which countries Germany have introduced travel restrictions on:

quote:

Germany Adds France, Denmark, Norway, Lebanon, & Andorra to High-Risk List, Removes 6 Others
December 18, 2021
Germany has added three more Schengen Area countries, one European microstate, and a third country to its list of high-risk areas, in a decision announced on Friday. According to the Robert Koch Institute, which is the German agency for disease prevention and control, starting from Sunday, December 19, Andorra, Denmark...

...


https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/news/tag/germany-travel-restrictions/

I did look up the France one too but it is more rambling.

Z the IVth
Jan 28, 2009

The trouble with your "expendable machines"
Fun Shoe

Beefeater1980 posted:

It’s the story of 36 celestial stars and 72 earth stars, or as my professor called it “the story of 107 men and one woman.”

Is your professor JK Rowling. It's been a while since I read it but I'm sure there's more than just two sword lady in it. To be fair though most of the rest exist to get fridged in the background.

Jaeluni Asjil
Apr 18, 2018

Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Z the IVth posted:

Is your professor JK Rowling. It's been a while since I read it but I'm sure there's more than just two sword lady in it. To be fair though most of the rest exist to get fridged in the background.

https://min.news/en/culture/3799e6b7782ef22108fd0c2cb993b867.html

(This article is obviously by someone whose first language is not English.)

quote:


[Water Margin] There are 6 most important female characters: 3 female players Jialin Niangzihe, Pan Jinlian, and Yan Poxi.

Three female generals. They are Zhangqing Hu Sanniang, Mother Yacha Sun Erniang, and Mother Da Chong Gu Dasao. These three heroines are all sturdy and brave, with wild personality.

① Hu Sanniang, the 59th hero.

She is the daughter of Hu Taigong Hu Jiazhuang, tall and beautiful as a flower. At the beginning, Hujiazhuang and Zhujiazhuang and Lijiazhuang formed alliances to protect each other and deal with the strongmen of the arena. Hu Sanniang and Zhu Biao of Zhujiazhuang still have a marriage contract. When Zhujiazhuang was hit three times, Zhu Biao was killed and Hu Sanniang became Song Taigong's goddaughter after being captured. In this regard, Li Kui has opinions. He believes that Song Jiang's move is to accept Hu Sanniang as his wife. Unexpectedly, Song Jiang released a big move, marrying her to the short-footed tiger Wang Ying as his wife. Wang Ying is lustful, short and ugly. The only beauty among heroines is Hu Sanniang. This is the bloody story of a toad eating swan meat.

Since then, Wang Ying has been loyal to Song Jiang. In the end, Hu Sanniang and Wang Ying met a demon master, Zheng Mojun, when they were fighting Fangla. Wang Ying was fighting with Demon Zheng. Demon Zheng resorted to demon tricks. Wang Ying saw that there was a god man in golden armor in the cloud. Wang Ying was shocked and was accidentally slashed by the opponent's knife. Seeing that Hu Sanniang wanted to avenge her husband, she slapped her horse and rushed forward, but Zheng Mojun took out a gilded copper brick from his pocket, smashed it on the front door, and fell down to death. Hu Sanniang invites love and pity. Her marriage and her ending are really regrettable. Hu Sanniang should have married Lin Chong, but it's a pity.

Etc


I always through Lin Chung's wife was a bit of a drip though.

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

smellmycheese posted:

Peter Hitchens is on particularly unhinged festive form today and the only real conclusion I can take from this article is that he clearly has dark sexual fantasies about Tony Blair

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10324663/PETER-HITCHENS-return-Tony-Blair-really-nightmare-Christmas.html



fuctifino
Jun 11, 2001

LOL at Piers Corbyn's arrest.

Also LOL at this tweet

https://twitter.com/SuperMickyChow/status/1472506204157091841

Doctor_Fruitbat
Jun 2, 2013


US news, but in these sad times it's nice to see some people getting a timely reminder of what "unskilled labour" actually means:

https://twitter.com/RespectableLaw/status/1472257371510652930?t=cp_7PzRejm3tk4L_Z7ds5A&s=19

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

fuctifino posted:

LOL at Piers Corbyn's arrest.

Also LOL at this tweet

https://twitter.com/SuperMickyChow/status/1472506204157091841

Extremely loving true

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

Die Satan!
You either die a Jeremy or you live long enough to see yourself become a Piers.

Beefeater1980
Sep 12, 2008

My God, it's full of Horatios!






Z the IVth posted:

Is your professor JK Rowling. It's been a while since I read it but I'm sure there's more than just two sword lady in it. To be fair though most of the rest exist to get fridged in the background.

IIRC he was quoting a Taiwanese literary critic from the…60s? 70s? I am probably misremembering the numbers though.

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.

keep punching joe posted:

You either die a Jeremy or you live long enough to see yourself become a Piers.

Lmao

crispix
Mar 28, 2015

Grand-Maman m'a raconté
(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)

Hello, dear

Jel Shaker posted:

what a freaky violin

ironically due to tory austerity she could only get that much of one :mad:

feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

Darth Walrus posted:

Reusable crucifixion nails aren't really a thing. They... uhh... get kind of rusty after a few days.

I think the suggestion is more that the Roman state would buy in bulk. I mean, Jesus was part of a batch of three people, even.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

US news, but in these sad times it's nice to see some people getting a timely reminder of what "unskilled labour" actually means:
https://twitter.com/KelloggsUS/status/1471879864479367172
Our data show that consumers routinely don't want to buy things associated with our lovely brand any more so we hope they don't notice.

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.
Normally when a company does something terrible they just rebrand.

This is more of a debrand

Convex
Aug 19, 2010
Its like Ubisoft and Kelloggs looked at MyPillow and thought “get me a guy who thinks like that!”

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.
Truck Drivers are refusing to enter Colorado after a driver was jailed for like 90 years due to causing an accident after his trucks brakes failed and his company aren't facing a single charge.

They're literally all backed up on the highway. Collective action is happening more and more in the states. I think they might get a general strike in the near future.

https://twitter.com/caliborn858/status/1471688711590998018

serious gaylord fucked around with this message at 15:19 on Dec 19, 2021

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Convex posted:

Its like Ubisoft and Kelloggs looked at MyPillow and thought “get me a guy who thinks like that!”

Pretty sure most high executives look at Mike Pillow and go "pft, Amateur" about his coke usage.

Endjinneer
Aug 17, 2005
Fallen Rib

Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

US news, but in these sad times it's nice to see some people getting a timely reminder of what "unskilled labour" actually means:

https://twitter.com/RespectableLaw/status/1472257371510652930?t=cp_7PzRejm3tk4L_Z7ds5A&s=19

Reminds me of the Firestone/Bridgestone tyre failures.
Turns out that persuading rubber to stay together for millions of stress cycles in a chemically aggressive, abrasive environment with drastic temperature fluctuations is skilled work. Who'd've thunk it?

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Endjinneer posted:

Reminds me of the Firestone/Bridgestone tyre failures.
Turns out that persuading rubber to stay together for millions of stress cycles in a chemically aggressive, abrasive environment with drastic temperature fluctuations is skilled work. Who'd've thunk it?

drat you're telling me all these people we called dumb slackjaws and paid a pittance are actually human beings with specific skillsets?

Brendan Rodgers
Jun 11, 2014




Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

US news, but in these sad times it's nice to see some people getting a timely reminder of what "unskilled labour" actually means:

https://twitter.com/RespectableLaw/status/1472257371510652930?t=cp_7PzRejm3tk4L_Z7ds5A&s=19

But that is absurd satisfaction?

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



Slippery Tilde

Tesseraction posted:

drat you're telling me all these people we called dumb slackjaws and paid a pittance are actually human beings with specific skillsets?

How can they be smart if they are not a C-level and/or techlord :confused:

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

sinky posted:

How can they be smart if they are not a C-level and/or techlord :confused:

What's that? You don't have £100k in savings? P. low IQ of you buddy

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum
Got my borcester shot yesterday at a walk in. No queue and took 5 minutes, felt pretty great.

BizarroAzrael
Apr 6, 2006

"That must weigh heavily on your soul. Let me purge it for you."

Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

US news, but in these sad times it's nice to see some people getting a timely reminder of what "unskilled labour" actually means:

https://twitter.com/RespectableLaw/status/1472257371510652930?t=cp_7PzRejm3tk4L_Z7ds5A&s=19




Or if you prefer:

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug
Dear Boris,
I have been a good boy this year.
So what I want for Christmas is Jacob Rees Mogg as new Brexit Minister.
And a Transformer. Not Bumble Bee though.
Thanks,
happyhippy

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
Dear Boris,
I have been a poo poo boy this year.
I have ignored all the lockdown rules and done at least five adulteries.
Please give me twenty billion and make me ambassador to somewhere hot.

fuctifino
Jun 11, 2001

https://twitter.com/alisonnonum/status/1472556944909033472

e: A reminder: https://twitter.com/Iancoll94354676/status/1472508550803075078

nurmie
Dec 8, 2019

Aphex- posted:

borcester shot

lmao

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

somehow that last av was even worse than your posting
Is driving whilst unfit what they just always call drunk driving or does it mean hes been a (n even more) naughty boy?

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug

NotJustANumber99 posted:

Is driving whilst unfit what they just always call drunk driving or does it mean hes been a (n even more) naughty boy?

https://www.drinkdriving.org/drink_driving_laws.php

Seems to be 'an even more naughty boy'.
Can't prove he was speeding, so those laws don't count.
And the lesser charge is 'be in charge while drunk/drugs' which is just a fine and 10 points max.
This charge gives him upto a year in jail.

But he's Tory, so gently caress all apart from a warning.

Just Another Lurker
May 1, 2009


Oh, it's that sleezy gobshite, he couldn't even remove himself from the living when he crashed. :rolleyes:



Dear Santa, it's been several decades since we last talked... but if you could see too it that Lord Frost is deposited in a freezer for the remainder of his life on the 25th it would make me soo happy (a little bit of anger can go a long way). :pray:

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
The other particularly memorable female Star in the Water Margin is Gu the Tigress, who runs the bandits' recruitment agency - an inn bordering the marsh where capable warriors who stay as guests get kidnapped and forcibly recruited, while everyone else gets killed and ground down into dumpling meat.

So, ancient Chinese Priti Patel, basically.

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Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

serious gaylord posted:

Truck Drivers are refusing to enter Colorado after a driver was jailed for like 90 years due to causing an accident after his trucks brakes failed and his company aren't facing a single charge.

They're literally all backed up on the highway. Collective action is happening more and more in the states. I think they might get a general strike in the near future.

https://twitter.com/caliborn858/status/1471688711590998018

This makes me feel warm inside, thanks for posting it

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