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CGI Stardust posted:
This has just reminded me that the spiders on drugs video exists and everything is a bit brighter .
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Heartening to see that marijuanas "mostly good enough, it's not like you're getting paid for quality" status is cross-species
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NotJustANumber99 posted:We had a white xmas just this most recent one. I'm not sure how that disagrees with anything twisto just said.
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Jan 16, 2022 12:27
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Jan 16, 2022 12:31
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I thought fried chicken was a Jewish diaspora cuisine. I think it's an idea invented in a number of places independently, to be honest. 'Take chicken, dust it in flour, boil it in oil and it'll probably be nice' is an easy conclusion to jump to. Wikipedia claims the Scottish were the first Europeans to try it, which, well, tracks. Wiki also claims the enslaved/Nigerian element was mostly the spice mix.
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feedmegin posted:I think it's an idea invented in a number of places independently, to be honest. 'Take chicken, dust it in flour, boil it in oil and it'll probably be nice' is an easy conclusion to jump to. When I was dating a Canadian girl and visited her family one time, we went to a local Hungarian Hall and the diaspora community gathered to have chicken and mashed potatoes, and few beers. It was great. I ate so much.
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Jan 16, 2022 12:39
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Prole posted:https://twitter.com/MirrorPolitics/status/1482671875452977154?t=ifd3rlyA5dei0KFdB8RhqQ&s=19 Wes is, of course, entirely correct on this. If we made Tory MPs stand up in defense of the Prime Minister we'd force them to say things in a public arena that could then be used to criticise them in future. This, of course, is entirely wrong, because [decorum].
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Its not that simple, as we saw with the no confidence motion in May. It is inadvisable to call for a motion of no confidence now while the knives are out for Boris because Tories don't want a chance of losing their seat, they just want Boris out. They don't need to stand up and defend him, they didn't for May. They loving roasted her for days and then still voted in confidence. Its a distraction from getting rid of Boris, and given what Nadine loving Dorries is up to we want him out asap so we can get her replaced.
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Jan 16, 2022 12:55
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Starmer needs Johnson to stay put because every indication suggests that the poll lead Labour is currently enjoying will disappear in a week once a new Tory leader stands up and says they've drawn a line under the shameful leadership of the former Prime Minister. The British public are malleable enough to fall for it. Liberal blue ticks are already talking about how once Boris is gone things can get back to competent normality.
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Jan 16, 2022 12:57
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quote:BBC licence fee to be abolished in 2027 and funding frozen Being a Tory mouthpiece really paid off 
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Jan 16, 2022 13:04
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goddamnedtwisto posted:It's an interesting example of cultural osmosis/selection bias when people (outside of Scotland and the higher parts of England and Wales) are surprised by a lack of snow in December and early January. Seasons in the British Isles are like a month or more behind those on big landmasses because of the Gulf Stream - white christmases have always been the exception rather than the rule *even in areas that see a lot of snow*. Almost all of the worst, country-shutting-down snowfall has come in January and February, sometimes even in March and April. It snowed at Christmas frequently for a brief period in the 19th century that included Charles Dicken's childhood.
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Jan 16, 2022 13:06
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is it better for a weak boris to limp along to the next election, with him being more likely to be cowed by nutcase brexiteers, or a new guy/gal in so they can go turbo austerity 2.0 but potentially start dropping poll numbers by the next election
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Jan 16, 2022 13:11
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Prole posted:Starmer needs Johnson to stay put because every indication suggests that the poll lead Labour is currently enjoying will disappear in a week once a new Tory leader stands up and says they've drawn a line under the shameful leadership of the former Prime Minister. The British public are malleable enough to fall for it. Liberal blue ticks are already talking about how once Boris is gone things can get back to competent normality. If you accept this as true then you surely need the new leader in place as soon as possible so the sheen can come off before the next election rather than let them come in, call an election immediately and sell themselves as a new approach like Boris himself did in 2019
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Much though I’d like to see Johnson go, the joy would be short lived. I was happy to see the back of Cameron and May too, but with each successor it’s been a real monkey-paw situation. A Sunak would be popular, competent(ly evil), and probably much worse on any sort of public investment. If only one party leader were to be replaced before the next GE, I’d much prefer Starmer to go over Johnson.
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So our culture secretary (lol) has just announced that she's freezing BBC funding for 2 years and is going to be scrapping the license fee altogether by 2027. The BBC is being blamed for the 'leftie attacks on Boris', despite the stories being broken by anyone other than the BBC. I won't link to the DM article, but it looks like the culture war is stepping up a gear. e: oops, I should have refreshed before posting.
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Jan 16, 2022 13:19
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Prole posted:Starmer needs Johnson to stay put because every indication suggests that the poll lead Labour is currently enjoying will disappear in a week once a new Tory leader stands up and says they've drawn a line under the shameful leadership of the former Prime Minister. The British public are malleable enough to fall for it. Liberal blue ticks are already talking about how once Boris is gone things can get back to competent normality. At the same time nearly another three years of Johnson isn't something I'm particularly keen about (despite the alternatives being potentially worse).
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Boris is launching 'Operation Red Meat' to help boost 'Operation Save Big Dog' This is the plan to win back the hearts and minds of the people: 
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Halisnacks posted:Much though I’d like to see Johnson go, the joy would be short lived. I was happy to see the back of Cameron and May too, but with each successor it’s been a real monkey-paw situation. A Sunak would be popular, competent(ly evil), and probably much worse on any sort of public investment. I reckon Sunak will be caught up in this xmas party business as soon as he floats himself as a replacement. The line will be "He lives next door to the PM, are we seriously meant to believe he knew nothing of these parties?! Clearly he kept this info from the public for the benefit of his own career." No. The headbangers will win this round too and the new PM will be Priti Patel. She's removed enough from all this to be a fresh face, plus her law and order rhetoric will fly with the base. If this is the case, expect a referendum on the death penalty to be one of her pledges for a 2023 GE.
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Jan 16, 2022 13:27
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Absolutely mental poo poo with lifting covid restrictions, but I guess the tories are content that we're all ready to die and not care
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Jan 16, 2022 13:28
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'Send military to torpedo refugees' and 'let corona take the wheel yolo' are sure to go down a storm, to be fair Because this island craves death, positively thirsts for it
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Jan 16, 2022 13:29
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Do you ever get the feeling that we're living through the last days of a dying system? It's insane. Nobody seems to have any kind of care for life - it's all about preservation of careers. Short term victory. Like they don't *expect* much in the long term. Exciting and worrisome.
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Jan 16, 2022 13:34
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It's the same mental virus that crows about Australia stopping the boats through concentration camps until a bread touching millionaire manbaby gets caught up in it in which case he's a freedom hero. https://twitter.com/WabziS/status/1481996000407560192
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Prole posted:Do you ever get the feeling that we're living through the last days of a dying system? It's insane. Nobody seems to have any kind of care for life - it's all about preservation of careers. Short term victory. Like they don't *expect* much in the long term.
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Prole posted:Do you ever get the feeling that we're living through the last days of a dying system? It's insane. Nobody seems to have any kind of care for life - it's all about preservation of careers. Short term victory. Like they don't *expect* much in the long term. Every waking hour, and many non waking ones too
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Prole posted:Do you ever get the feeling that we're living through the last days of a dying system? It's insane. Nobody seems to have any kind of care for life - it's all about preservation of careers. Short term victory. Like they don't *expect* much in the long term. Mate we live in a Fromsoft game and are governed by the NPC's that steal humanity.
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Jan 16, 2022 13:45
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https://twitter.com/guardiannews/status/1482679208795344901?s=19 Looks like all that coping for Boris didn't work out like they thought.
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Jan 16, 2022 13:46
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Prole posted:Do you ever get the feeling that we're living through the last days of a dying system? It's insane. Nobody seems to have any kind of care for life - it's all about preservation of careers. Short term victory. Like they don't *expect* much in the long term. The political/media system is completely dysfunctional broken and has been since at least 2010 (probably since... Iraq? Diana? Depending on how historical materialist you want to be ofc but just tracking this particular degradation that produced our journalist-pm who does nothing and says anything) and it will continue to get worse until it's so bad it collapses or gets reformed, whichever comes first.
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Frogs eternally shocked - shocked, I tell you - at scorpions
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josh04 posted:The political/media system is completely dysfunctional broken and has been since at least 2010 (probably since... Iraq? Diana? Depending on how historical materialist you want to be ofc but just tracking this particular degradation that produced our journalist-pm who does nothing and says anything) and it will continue to get worse until it's so bad it collapses or gets reformed, whichever comes first. It's been poo poo forever, we just have the technology to watch it be poo poo in real time rather than a decade after the fact.
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Jan 16, 2022 13:51
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josh04 posted:The political/media system is completely dysfunctional broken and has been since at least 2010 (probably since... Iraq? Diana? We warned y'all back in the 18th century. Of course clearly we didn't listen to our own advice and decided a Baron Harkonnen is even better than a King George.
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i'm still hopeful that nice jeremy corbyn man will get in and we'll have good working conditions and public investment and proper schemes for the young people to go to
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Barry Foster posted:'Send military to torpedo refugees' and 'let corona take the wheel yolo' are sure to go down a storm, to be fair Prole posted:Do you ever get the feeling that we're living through the last days of a dying system? It's insane. Nobody seems to have any kind of care for life - it's all about preservation of careers. Short term victory. Like they don't *expect* much in the long term. 
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Prole posted:https://twitter.com/MirrorPolitics/status/1482671875452977154?t=ifd3rlyA5dei0KFdB8RhqQ&s=19 2) Watch all of the Labour melts abstain because 'now is not the time.'
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CGI Stardust posted:Only Trust Your Respirator! The State Will Never Help You! 
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sinky posted:x
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TACD posted:already extremely excited to see how Keith "wet eggs" Smithers flubs his response to "if Labour win the next election, will you save the BBC?" It's a loving good play from the Tories because now nobody likes the BBC, so they're going to make Keith not only defend something so widely hated from both sides, but now has to pledge to make people pay more money to keep it.
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Jan 16, 2022 14:46
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The TV licence does feel outdated and a regressive tax, like the radio licence and dog licence and so on, it ought to have been managed from general taxation long ago. Is there a case for "we will rebuilt a world class national broadcaster without the licence fee"? Yeah. Can kieth make it?
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Hard to find sympathy for the BBC thing tbh. I believe every democratic society should have a public service broadcaster but Britain isn't really a democratic society anymore and the BBC sure as poo poo isn't broadcasting in the public interest. As usual, my assertion that things will have to degrade to a greater extent before anything of worth can replace the systems we have now remains intact.
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