|
Isomermaid posted:"Yacht" is such a hosed up word to spell. Like, people just say "Yot" and the only way to make the proper spelling work is to kind of pronounce it in the back of your throat like a snarl of posh disdain - ok no, I get why it stuck. you whacht mate
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 11:12
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 23, 2024 03:48 |
|
|
smellmycheese posted:The yacht thing is so bizarre. Cheggers has made it quite clear he wants no part of it and even his Paedo brother might think it’s a bit gauche, but , no the daily Telegraph and those ruddy faced Tory backbenchers demand it so it’s happening regardless You can guarantee that some Tory donor has already been offered the contract and a healthy kickback from it.
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 11:14
|
|
|
What have people got against Massive Yachts
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 11:26
|
|
|
Limpet mines, hopefully.
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 11:30
|
|
|
sebzilla posted:Superyachts are old news, Global Britain needs to pioneer the world's first hyperyacht. Just attach 4000 propellers to Isle of Wight or Isle of Man.
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 11:43
|
|
|
happyhippy posted:Just attach 4000 propellers to Isle of Wight or Isle of Man. Smush them together and create WightMan Island for all your noncing needs.
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 11:49
|
|
|
Manx is the perfect size and shape for Boris' Big Bangor Bridge
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 11:52
|
|
|
bish bash blomp, simple as
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 11:55
|
|
|
Do not create a land bridge to the IoM, or their weirdass mutant cats will genetically mingle with the mainland population.
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 11:58
|
|
|
The royals don't really care that much about a new yacht - Brenda liked Britannia because it had happy memories for her from the days when air travel was still a bit too sketchy to risk the head of state on, but even she doesn't want a new one (and didn't want one when she was still actually capable of moving more than six feet from a doctor and a priest). The point is that paying off Britannia was one of the first big culture war things the Tories pinned on Blair, and so they'll *constantly* be trying to replace it along with making fox hunting legal and restore the death penalty even if they don't actually give a poo poo about those actual things, it's all part of the damnatio memoriae they're trying to carry out on everything between Thatcher and Johnson.
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 12:03
|
|
|
It's funny out of all the things banned between Thatcher and Johnson it's hunting with dogs they want back. They could ask for their tacticool rifles back and hunt five foxes, three badgers, and a nun in the time it took to saddle their horses and polish their trombones, but that's insufficiently barbarous for them. The backbench tory mind is a strange and primal thing.
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 12:12
|
|
|
I love yachts I'll have it.
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 12:19
|
|
|
Bring back yacht hunting.
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 12:22
|
|
|
Guavanaut posted:Can't they just rename one of those seized oligarch yachts? They're already designed exactly for the tastes of a kleptocrat mob boss using high church kitsch to distract from being a second rate power.
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 12:46
|
|
|
Guavanaut posted:in the time it took to saddle their horses and polish their trombones I think most of them do that after catching the fox.
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 12:47
|
|
|
What if we used the £250m to help Ukrainian refugees instead, just spit balling here
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 12:50
|
|
|
TACD posted:you'd have her royal majesty deign to board a used yacht? how absolutely barbaric! *sniffs* She's going to snuff it before it is ready. It's going to be for Chuck and Camilla.
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 12:55
|
|
|
goddamnedtwisto posted:The royals don't really care that much about a new yacht - Brenda liked Britannia because it had happy memories for her from the days when air travel was still a bit too sketchy to risk the head of state on, but even she doesn't want a new one (and didn't want one when she was still actually capable of moving more than six feet from a doctor and a priest). Apparently Britannia is an incredibly popular tourist attraction in Edinburgh. Maybe the plan is to get Britannia 2, mothball it quickly then moor it in the Thames next to HMS Belfast or wherever, so that London can get a slice of that yacht fan tourist money.
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 12:57
|
|
|
Danger - Octopus! posted:Apparently Britannia is an incredibly popular tourist attraction in Edinburgh. Maybe the plan is to get Britannia 2, mothball it quickly then moor it in the Thames next to HMS Belfast or wherever, so that London can get a slice of that yacht fan tourist money. I went on it once. It looks and smells like a semi detached from a 1972 sitcom
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 13:02
|
|
|
If the queen dies before the jubilee can we viking funeral her in the boat?
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 13:04
|
|
|
smellmycheese posted:I went on it once. It looks and smells like a semi detached from a 1972 sitcom
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 13:06
|
|
|
JeremoudCorbynejad posted:What if we used the £250m to help Ukrainian refugees instead, just spit balling here So that's £5m per UKR refugee the UK actually lets in?
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 13:09
|
|
|
Guavanaut posted:Manx is the perfect size and shape for Boris' Big Bangor Bridge Would love to Bung a Bob for Boris' Big Bangor Bridge Benefit Bonanza
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 13:10
|
|
|
keep punching joe posted:If the queen dies before the jubilee can we viking funeral her in the boat? Can this also be an option if she's not dead?
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 13:11
|
|
|
happyhippy posted:She's going to snuff it before it is ready. Who also don't want it. Plus, given that Charles is in his 70s, there's a fair chance that William would be the first monarch to actually use it.
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 13:14
|
|
|
Just don't let Andrew sail it to Thailand...
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 13:21
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/Daily_Express/status/1501889951075549187?t=H--rOHTDNPCd0ZqRClaJ4A&s=19 Can easily happen when you're old and dead. She can get him a superyacht to make amends I suppose
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 13:23
|
|
|
First Bus have put their day rider prices up by 50p out of nowhere around my way; in previous years they advertised price rises a fair way in advance and not by that much, so I think they've crunched the numbers on fuel prices and promptly poo poo themselves.
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 13:24
|
|
|
Failed Imagineer posted:https://twitter.com/Daily_Express/status/1501889951075549187?t=H--rOHTDNPCd0ZqRClaJ4A&s=19 tbf I had forgotten he even existed On energy chat, my electricity daily standing charge has gone from zero to 50p. Love to prop up a bullshit system with the pennies of the poor
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 13:32
|
|
|
Failed Imagineer posted:https://twitter.com/Daily_Express/status/1501889951075549187?t=H--rOHTDNPCd0ZqRClaJ4A&s=19 "Double tragedy strikes for Queen as Edward suffers fatal motorcycle accident while Charles awaits liver transplant." Nothing about this news contradicts that.
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 13:54
|
|
|
When energy prices and the cost of living are getting out of hand for many, what does the government do? https://twitter.com/mmhpi/status/1501884270750674947 *sigh* I could barely afford to keep my flat warm this winter, and that's WITH the £140 discount, and before the price hikes next month.
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 13:59
|
|
|
smellmycheese posted:I went on it once. It looks and smells like a semi detached from a 1972 sitcom I imagine it smells like every posh-but-unoccupied house, equal parts linseed oil, brass polish and lavender. The first two are the base for a load of pretty evocative smells - combine them with bleach instead of lavender for an old hospital, the ghost of overboiled vegetables for a school, or (and I'm aware this is pretty fringe) with dielectric grease and shellac for an old telephone exchange. (You're probably struggling to think what linseed oil and brass polish smell like, but I *guarantee* the moment you smell them you'll instantly be catapulted back to any pre-war institutional building you had to visit as a child, even if it's just a museum or something - it's such a unique, and incredibly long-lasting, smell that it still lingers in buildings decades after the last time anyone bothered to maintain them)
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 14:09
|
|
|
fuctifino posted:I could barely afford to keep my flat warm this winter, and that's WITH the £140 discount, and before the price hikes next month. Worse, I have at least one friend who got a demand for 2 grand from the DWP last year, because they put her on ESA and she should have been claiming PIP. So instead of doing the human thing of going 'fair enough, you should have been on this and you were getting this, so we'll work out the difference,' they have instead decided to essentially zero income her for that period, start her PiP claim from now, and ask her to repay the ESA knowing full well that her PiP claim won't come through for another 6 months, if at all (her disability is one of the more complex ones that they'll likely refuse). Hell my claim has taken about 6 months just to get to the appeal stage. If we didn't have partners who work, we'd be dead.
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 14:25
|
|
|
It is unforgivable that they aren't planning to build the stupid bridge from bangor to bangor tbh.
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 15:26
|
|
|
I don’t understand what the yacht would actually do. Where does it go, does anyone go on it etc etc How would it generate trade? Surely we have cargo ships to that.
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 15:36
|
|
|
People who forgot that Britain exists will be reminded again, and then will buy products to help them forget, benefiting the spirits and pharmaceutical and solvents sectors.
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 15:39
|
|
|
fuctifino posted:When energy prices and the cost of living are getting out of hand for many, what does the government do? I'm 100% sure they hope that by next winter one (or both) of the following will happen. A) - Gas prices will have gone down, and the free market will have lowered consumer prices (LOL) B) - People will have forgotten about this over the proceeding (or preceeding?) 6 months of war and Tory interparty chaos (Very likley)
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 15:40
|
|
|
Real Cool Catfish posted:I don’t understand what the yacht would actually do. We send one our chinless oval office royals to go and do some applied waving at the savages, who will be suitably impressed and send us all their natural resources as is right and proper.
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 15:41
|
|
|
Here's I think a decent balanced analysis of the Ukraine situation which situates the whole thing as as imperialist conflict while avoiding the trap of portraying the Russians as the 'good guys'. The tldr is 'everyone's the rear end in a top hat and there will be no winners' which is bleak, but probably accurate. https://twitter.com/MountainChen4/status/1501601688544763906?s=19
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 15:43
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 23, 2024 03:48 |
|
|
Either they think they're going to do the perry expedition except with spare royalty instead of guns, or I think more likely, they don't think it's going to create any trade at all and they're just making things up to make it sound better than "I want a big boat for mummy"
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2022 15:45
|
|