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smellmycheese posted:Jesus loving Christ quote:Half of all Scots Guardsmen who served in the Crimea, whether having gone out at the start or arriving in reinforcements, were killed, wounded or invalided. you first ben
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Feb 23, 2022 13:21
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if you really want to get frothy with a world war analogy: it's WW1 and a group of necrotic empires bound by a web of treaties design to prevent war in europe are spiralling towards a conflict long considered impossible, with no meaningful strategic goals on any side, and that could kill millions. but also we've been here multiple times before and WW3 didn't erupt so also... simmer down. or don't and be one of those lunatics who thinks the fact that we've been here before means we just have to have WW3 now, in which case see above i guess
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Feb 23, 2022 13:27
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Newspaper headlines about war and nukes and all that are definitely pornography for a particular subset of British person aren't they E: ^^ True but this is 2022 and I genuinely do believe most gen z'ers would simply refuse to fight each other if they were conscripted in a nakedly pointless ww1 style war. The traditional authorities don't have the anything like the cultural clout they did back then, add social media into the mix and just nahh. ThomasPaine fucked around with this message at 13:36 on Feb 23, 2022 |
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Feb 23, 2022 13:29
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Far from the worst type of pornography for a particular subset of British person.
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ThomasPaine posted:Newspaper headlines about war and nukes and all that are definitely pornography for a particular subset of British person aren't they i don't for second think ww3 is imminent it's just funny that people go straight for the good war with the nice manichean narrative and skip the bad war with a lot of death for not much purpose
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Feb 23, 2022 13:42
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josh04 posted:"unguarded" definitely a euphemism there If you're gonna do "unguarded" comments at least make it snappy like "We start bombing in 5 minutes" rather than drivel about how your ancestors all caught trench foot and died of gangrene.
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Feb 23, 2022 13:43
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War? Russia: has McDonald's Ukraine: has McDonald's 
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Feb 23, 2022 13:46
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Having a McDonalds didn't help Georgia sadly.
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Feb 23, 2022 13:49
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https://twitter.com/joncstone/status/1496443329927647235?t=7bLBeyjUJ-fGfxhsQBJHOA&s=19 Lol
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Feb 23, 2022 13:54
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Only Kindness posted:War? Beginning to think this tiger-repelling rock was a waste of money.
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Feb 23, 2022 13:54
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Failed Imagineer posted:https://twitter.com/joncstone/status/1496443329927647235?t=7bLBeyjUJ-fGfxhsQBJHOA&s=19 Lol this is pure posturing, any report is obviously going to say it's a terrible idea to reintroduce a totally unintuitive system of byzantine weights and measures not used by any other country save the US and which the majority of your own citizens don't fully understand. Even the olds I know work in metric now. Who is this for? The same people wanking over maybe being nuked I guess. E: also I'm pretty sure it is legal for shops to use imperial measurements, they just also have to show metric. What are they suggesting, making metric illegal? Lmao ThomasPaine fucked around with this message at 14:05 on Feb 23, 2022 |
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Feb 23, 2022 14:03
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Failed Imagineer posted:https://twitter.com/joncstone/status/1496443329927647235?t=7bLBeyjUJ-fGfxhsQBJHOA&s=19 These people are so loving stupid. The number of things I saw sold in 454g or 568ml lots cannot be counted.
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Feb 23, 2022 14:04
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smellmycheese posted:Jesus loving Christ ThomasPaine posted:Newspaper headlines about war and nukes and all that are definitely pornography for a particular subset of British person aren't they Tale as old as time: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGw5DKX6U6w&t  
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Feb 23, 2022 14:17
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ThomasPaine posted:Newspaper headlines about war and nukes and all that are definitely pornography for a particular subset of British person aren't they WOULD YOU PRESS THE BUTTON JEREMY *goes pink*
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Feb 23, 2022 14:26
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Nuke first, ask questions later.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:WOULD YOU PRESS THE BUTTON JEREMY The socialism button, why yes
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Feb 23, 2022 14:54
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Now, without having watched pmqs, can I summarise it as "we, labour, support these sanctions, but they don't go far enough!!"?
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Feb 23, 2022 14:56
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ThomasPaine posted:Lol this is pure posturing, any report is obviously going to say it's a terrible idea to reintroduce a totally unintuitive system of byzantine weights and measures not used by any other country save the US and which the majority of your own citizens don't fully understand. Even the olds I know work in metric now. Who is this for? The same people wanking over maybe being nuked I guess. if you can remember “the metric martyrs “, the main guy behind it kept getting caught by trading standards because he kept ripping off his consumers with imperial weights which were well below the actual weight advertised essentially it’s a boon for small business owners for scamming everyone who don’t bring their own scales to the shop
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Feb 23, 2022 15:13
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The most Conservative person I know (wealthy, former army officer and stockbroker, lives in Kent, supported Brexit) just told me that they cancelled their party membership because they can no longer stand Johnson's constant lying, the government's incompetence, and the sheer shamelessness of Tory corruption, and made sure they told their MP (who they know socially) exactly why.  Unfortunately they then spoiled things by saying "Have you read the manifesto of the Reform Party? They've got a lot of good ideas!"
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Feb 23, 2022 15:17
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ThomasPaine posted:Lol this is pure posturing, any report is obviously going to say it's a terrible idea to reintroduce a totally unintuitive system of byzantine weights and measures not used by any other country save the US and which the majority of your own citizens don't fully understand. Even the olds I know work in metric now. Who is this for? The same people wanking over maybe being nuked I guess. I’m sure food manufacturers are looking forward to having to redo all their labelling.
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Feb 23, 2022 15:18
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Feb 23, 2022 16:17
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https://twitter.com/BudrykZack/status/1496186052570136578Rustybear posted:Having a McDonalds didn't help Georgia sadly.
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Feb 23, 2022 17:12
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Guavanaut posted:"Horror map shows EXACT effect on house prices if Russia nukes people you're ambivalent about on any other day." Still occasionally think back to that one they did about best placed to buy a house in the event of nuclear war that somehow listed whitby, despite RAF fylingdales, the main US early warning radar for the entirety of europe, being like 10 miles away. Literally the first thing you would nuke so they can't see the rest of the nukes coming. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 17:35 on Feb 23, 2022 |
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Feb 23, 2022 17:31
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Idk but maybe the people who write these breathless, one-hand written articles about fantasy nuclear wars don't actually know what they're talking about
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Feb 23, 2022 17:41
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I suppose whitby itself would probably be OK cos it's in a valley, or if you lived outside it at least you'd die first which would be nice.
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Feb 23, 2022 17:45
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https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1496490640787529738
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Feb 23, 2022 18:39
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ThomasPaine posted:Idk but maybe the people who write these breathless, one-hand written articles about fantasy nuclear wars don't actually know what they're talking about I think when it comes to nuclear war nobody knows what they're talking about. (Offer valid for the next 2 minutes only)
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Feb 23, 2022 18:42
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Master tactician at work
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Feb 23, 2022 18:47
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God, I’m just so bored of him, he’s just such a sad, petty little man. Poundland Trump.
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Feb 23, 2022 19:16
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ThomasPaine posted:I played a game of HoI4 as Czechoslovakia and successfully obliterated the invading Germans so I don't really see what the fuss was about, maybe those idiots should have just pulled their fingers out and researched anti-tank artillery early like I did It's worth noting that the Czechs had been preparing for the war for decades and built a lot of forts and had a considerably more modernised military than the Poles, but still chose not to fight. Being Czech and quite liking quaker views that's one thing that I've always struggled with. On one hand it saved a lot of lives, but on the other if it weren't for the other allies fighting all Czechs were slated to be genocided eventually (well non-German ones, also with an exemption for for attractive women with part-German ancestry because reasons reasons men are pigs and Goebbels had a Czech mistress). e: I'm sure there were also some who were hoping things wouldn't be quite so bad because the Germans were historical friends and allies against Austria and all that. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Feb 23, 2022 |
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Feb 23, 2022 19:58
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OwlFancier posted:Still occasionally think back to that one they did about best placed to buy a house in the event of nuclear war that somehow listed whitby, despite RAF fylingdales, the main US early warning radar for the entirety of europe, being like 10 miles away. Literally the first thing you would nuke so they can't see the rest of the nukes coming. I'm definitely of the opinion that if there's going to be a nuclear war you want to live as close as possible to the biggest, fattest target you can find because look how badly a bit of a delay at the ports and a virus almost obliterated society as we know it, now imagine what a couple of dozen MIRVs will do.
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Feb 23, 2022 20:22
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On the one hand yes but I also just wish for death on a daily basis so that's not saying much. On the other hand covid didn't really do much to change the structure of society and most other people exploding might actually make life better in some ways. I wouldn't have to pay rent for one thing. Yes I would probably be killed and eaten but that would at least be honest.
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Feb 23, 2022 20:32
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Think of all the poor sheeps that would be hurt though.
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Feb 23, 2022 20:43
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If all the sheep are annihilated by nukes then they cannot be unhappy, and neither can any future hypothetical sheep.
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Feb 23, 2022 20:47
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I've got quite a lot on at the moment, a nuclear war would be incredibly inconvenient. I hope they can wait at least a year to when I think I'll be a little less busy.
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Feb 23, 2022 20:58
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I've got quite a lot on at the moment, a nuclear war would be incredibly inconvenient. I hope they can wait at least a year to when I think I'll be a little less busy. I think we're expecting Russia to complete the Chronosphere by 2024 so you might be able to get around to a few things then
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Feb 23, 2022 21:01
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Convex posted:I think we're expecting Russia to complete the Chronosphere by 2024 so you might be able to get around to a few things then just make sure you’re inside a vehicle when you try to use it
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Feb 23, 2022 21:05
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And please try to stay away from Tesla coils
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I'm definitely of the opinion that if there's going to be a nuclear war you want to live as close as possible to the biggest, fattest target you can find because look how badly a bit of a delay at the ports and a virus almost obliterated society as we know it, now imagine what a couple of dozen MIRVs will do. Hoping that a combination of Bristol, Cheltenham and Fairford means enough going on close enough to me that I either die quickly or become an awesome Fallout ghoul.
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