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Mebh posted:Entirely. However it's always been about them getting the ultimate vox pop reaction. Even gammon mc gammerson the party clown says "ooh that's a bit much!" They have absolutely no idea how virality or mass appeal works and so they just repeat the same hits stretched out as long as possible because for every person sick to death there'll be 2 that want more. It's that "london jam festival" sketch from the day today but now it's all of news, all the time edit: clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb_-0qSCBR8
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NotJustANumber99 posted:If I ever don't post for 24 hours ... delete all evidence of me Judging by your rapsheet you're well overdue for deletion. 
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While it's annoying knowing the press have had all this party evidence for many months and didn't publish it (while roasting Corbyn alive for being at a dinner party with 6 people (allowed) that became 9 people (not allowed)), I think the drip drip drip is essential to keep it uppermost in peoples' minds. Otherwise it would be a big bang then forgotten in 2 weeks. It's only "The Bins" TM, "The Poonds"TM and "There's no money left note"TM that are allowed to be regurgitated for decades after they happened.
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Niric posted:Judging by your rapsheet you're well overdue for deletion. why?
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NotJustANumber99 posted:If I ever don't post for 24 hours consider my silence a coded message to mean I've been falsely arrested and to delete all evidence of me We all do, honey.
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I had a delightful dinner with my oldest and best mate, and he told me a truly horrifying story about some guy he knows and Una Stubbs, Apparently, the chap in question wouldn't have had the mental dexterity to make it up. I will, however, urge caution, before disclosure. Naturally, any objections will be noted.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:While it's annoying knowing the press have had all this party evidence for many months and didn't publish it (while roasting Corbyn alive for being at a dinner party with 6 people (allowed) that became 9 people (not allowed)), I think the drip drip drip is essential to keep it uppermost in peoples' minds. Like they aren't wrong - one peculiarity of the British psyche is being enraged at anyone who has it better than you; and rather than wanting the same, wanting the other to be dragged back into the bucket with everyone else. But this feels like something else. This feels like it's motivated by a genuine distaste for hypocrisy.
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Well yeah, most people mostly followed the Covid rules, 'cos it seemed like the right thing to do and harked back to that 'Blitz spirit' thing of everyone pulling together to defeat
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I don't quite mean that, although that's a component of it. I feel like people have missed out on christmas, on seeing new children, saying goodbye to elderly relatives. Stuff that profoundly matters to most people. I think that's what's different about this and that's why it seems to matter to people as opposed to anything else. Regardless, this all means nothing unless Grey's inquiry finds a technicality or a law that Boris has beoken that means he has to be booted out. Otherwise he'll refuse to resign, weather the negative ratings and cries of have you no shame*, and in a few weeks we'll start to see the gentle trickle of 'ah well, nevertheless' from his columnist mates. * He does not.
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As I got off the train yesterday on the way home, I felt the need to check with the driver that mask wearing is still supposed to be compulsory on trains. It is. Probably less than 50% of people were wearing one, though. Coverage on the Tube seems to be dropping pretty quickly, too. It's a good job that covid is all over, otherwise there might be the chance of people getting sick if they're not wearing a mask in overcrowded conditions.
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ThomasPaine posted:Christ, just imagine we had Corbyn running things new. Man, if only his and Keith's tenures were reversed If Corbyn was still in charge this party poo poo would have been swept under the rug sharply.
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Pistol_Pete posted:Well yeah, most people mostly followed the Covid rules, 'cos it seemed like the right thing to do and harked back to that 'Blitz spirit' thing of everyone pulling together to defeat Like in the before times, you would have had scandals like this. Say a politician getting some money that is being drip fed out by the media to maximise the news and slowly uncover more and more examples of the corruption in question. And when that was happening eventually the Public got tired of it because it reached a point of "yes this happened and was bad and it sort of effects me, but I'm bored now. Move on. " The Party stuff is hitting harder, as people have pointed out because they have more of a connection with "I had to stay inside for my birthdays, while that clown got a cake!" Particularly with stuff like this. https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/1485703538575609862?t=2q3wT8GYmZRCpECuZ--qlw&s=19 I think examples of public mismanagement stories would make people a lot madder, if money got taken off people's pay slips just to show how government spending has to come somewhere. Trickjaw posted:I had a delightful dinner with my oldest and best mate, and he told me a truly horrifying story about some guy he knows and Una Stubbs, Apparently, the chap in question wouldn't have had the mental dexterity to make it up. I will, however, urge caution, before disclosure. Naturally, any objections will be noted. I don't know who any of those people are so sure, let's hear it.
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Trickjaw posted:I had a delightful dinner with my oldest and best mate, and he told me a truly horrifying story about some guy he knows and Una Stubbs, Apparently, the chap in question wouldn't have had the mental dexterity to make it up. I will, however, urge caution, before disclosure. Naturally, any objections will be noted. Hot breakfast, drummer out of Dodgy? It was certainly good enough for him.
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Sanford posted:Hot breakfast, drummer out of Dodgy? It was certainly good enough for him. That's really weird, the drummer out of Dodgy popped into my head randomly last night because of a Twitter thread about 90s magazines, and I was thinking how weird it was he had six months of being on like every show on telly then completely disappeared without trace. e: And if whatever this story is, if it turns out to be him, it can't be any worse than this line from his obviously-self-written Wiki article: quote:In 2017, Mathew was part of the house band on Matt Forde's new political show, Unspun with Matt Forde.
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The party thing is sticking around for longer than it seems like it should because we, the general public, are not really the primary audience any more. This is now the establishment media having a conversation with their friends in the Conservative party to let them know they've had enough as well now, this is the time for any more juicy gossip, for sticking knives in, and that in general The Narrative is no longer in support of Johnson and there's potential support for somebody new who can play their cards right.
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TACD posted:The party thing is sticking around for longer than it seems like it should because we, the general public, are not really the primary audience any more. This is now the establishment media having a conversation with their friends in the Conservative party to let them know they've had enough as well now, this is the time for any more juicy gossip, for sticking knives in, and that in general The Narrative is no longer in support of Johnson and there's potential support for somebody new who can play their cards right. looking forward to watching an increasingly haggard bojo gripping a podium so firmly his knuckles turn white as he semi-consciously repeats the official country motto, Keep Calm and Carry On, while the new national anthem plays to cheer on are brave boys keeping the immigrant hordes at bay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYdsNeRoShA
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Failed Imagineer posted:Ah well nevertheless Cressida is doing a lot to earn that spot in the Lords she's clearly going for
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TACD posted:The party thing is sticking around for longer than it seems like it should because we, the general public, are not really the primary audience any more. This is now the establishment media having a conversation with their friends in the Conservative party to let them know they've had enough as well now, this is the time for any more juicy gossip, for sticking knives in, and that in general The Narrative is no longer in support of Johnson and there's potential support for somebody new who can play their cards right. This is it exactly
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Mentioned a bit ago about reading a book on the miners strike and just copy and pasting a couple of paragraphs as an example of how self-defeating Scargill was.quote:On the NUM side, the industrial correspondents were ‘demonized’ by Scargill, as the BBC’s Nicholas Jones puts it. Jones was following Scargill around and, despite Scargill’s view that the industrial correspondents were the enemy’s front-line troops, was continually getting calls from the miners’ leader at home, but the trouble was this: ‘He played up the intrigue, and he did get useful tipoffs from people, but he would tell me about a document and never show it to me. So it was always his version. I had no way of knowing whether it was genuine.’ That is why his tipoffs to Jones seldom resulted in useful coverage for the miners. Also a fine example of the Beeb being garbo
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ThomasPaine posted:I'm glad you had a good experience, I guess, but I've read plenty of stories from people who've had the opposite and there's even footage from the states of cops withholding medication from people they've detained. We are not the States, though, thank god. I mean they have black sites in e.g. Chicago where they literally kidnap and torture black people. Not to say our cops are, like, nice, but I would be wary of looking at the US and saying ours are exactly as bad.
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Hmph. Boris said covid was over. But my colleague's teenage son's year group at school have all been sent home this afternoon until at least Monday. Bloody teachers, making it up just to spite Boris... (sarcasm).
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feedmegin posted:We are not the States, though, thank god. I mean they have black sites in e.g. Chicago where they literally kidnap and torture black people. Not to say our cops are, like, nice, but I would be wary of looking at the US and saying ours are exactly as bad. I never said we were and my original point wasn't about any particular country. Nonetheless there are plenty of horror stories from here too. Here's an article from 2015 I found with a ten second Google search: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.scotsman.com/regions/diabetic-denied-medication-police-custody-1495286%3famp
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Failed Imagineer posted:Ah well nevertheless The timing of this is just so shameless. Wait for the report! It's due this week? Wait for the police investigation!
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serious gaylord posted:The timing of this is just so shameless. Wait for the report! It's due this week? Wait for the police investigation! I bet it ends up being pushed out past the May local council elections.
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Tsietisin posted:I don't think you have a right to a telephone call. All you have the right is to have someone informed that you are there and the police will make the call. They don't want people sending a coded message to get rid of whatever evidence. If you think that was the reason why they denied me the call, then you are totally wrong. They knew exactly what time my friend left for work, and they kept me waiting until after that time before I was allowed to call them. At no point did they offer to let them know on my behalf. I don't think you appreciate how spiteful police can be.
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serious gaylord posted:The timing of this is just so shameless. Wait for the report! It's due this week? Wait for the police investigation! https://twitter.com/KayBurley/status/1485945562168012801
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Downing Street spokesman has said that the parts that are not under investigation by the police can be released early, so we will absolutely have "PROBE CLEARS BORIS JOHNSON OF HAVING PARTIES" within a week or two, and then very quietly "Boris Johnson was wrong to hold parties" in a year after everyone has moved on.
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How many of the others who've been fined 3 to 4 figures by the filth got multiple month long investigations into their case? I'm telling you, Dick is going into the Lords before the next election
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Honestly have to say even following this thread I have completely lost track of all the investigations and reports going on around this. Which of course is, if not deliberately the point, at least a happy little accident for all involved. If the investigation is going to take a year then it’ll be an amusing thing to come back to amidst the unknown horrors of 2023 when Boris will presumably be long gone. “Remember the hysteria in 2022 over the party they had in 2020? If only the insectoid slavers had shown up a bit earlier!”
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TACD posted:“Remember the hysteria in 2022 over the party they had in 2020? If only the insectoid slavers had shown up a bit earlier!” Will these be different insectoid slavers from the ones in Buckingham Palace then?
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