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feedmegin posted:So unlike our own dear polity ;p That's a description of, like, everywhere. I would say it's at least less obvious in the UK, in the Czech Republic you had (albeit it's some time back now) the minister for healthcare talking about "melons" with some businessman and subsequently getting caught with literal millions in cash by the police. Also a former PM had an affair with his secretary who ran a private cash-for-access scheme and had spooks spy on his wife (this did end his government and bring the opposition to power TBF). Though you do also get the less obvious kind of political corruption, especially in the last decade or so. e: added quote Private Speech fucked around with this message at 11:49 on Mar 21, 2022 |
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With our MPs they would have drilled a hole in the melon and microwaved it and burned themself trying to gently caress it. Then billed the melon and hole saw to expenses.
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Mar 21, 2022 11:58
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So much for my annual review. Boss has got COVID and not working today. Her teenage kids were in a lot of activities last week but she takes loads of precautions. I'm on leave next week so don't know when that will happen!
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Idk I think obvious corruption is at least funny in a dark way. Our pile of shits isn't even entertaining. E: the other day I offered my cat a tiny piece of Pringle because she was pestering to see what I was eating. Thought it would make her leave me alone as usual when I'm eating something she doesn't like. Nope! Ate it right up! No more Pringles for her.
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Mar 21, 2022 13:42
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There's a scene in Better Call Saul where someone is given a token consulting position 'legally' paying them tons of dirty money and the character shows up and starts doing some effective work on site that someone with his job title might be expected to do if it were an actual job. You can imagine if a Tory Minister (being paid hunnerds of thousands of bux for the access they provide) did the same thing and actually got involved, the business would be in liquidation within a week. (Fortunately strong work ethic is not a Tory high point)
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HopperUK posted:E: the other day I offered my cat a tiny piece of Pringle because she was pestering to see what I was eating. Thought it would make her leave me alone as usual when I'm eating something she doesn't like. Nope! Ate it right up! No more Pringles for her. If pringles get opened in my house the cat just loses her poo poo in the same way that she does when the Dreamies come out. Also went insane over dried kelp, so I assume it's the salt that they're craving.
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kecske posted:I had a springer who loved to drink seawater, so every time we went to the beach he'd drink loads and spend the next half hour running around while squirting it out of his arse like a disgusting bottle rocket This may or may not be normal for springers. Our previous one did it too.
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keep punching joe posted:If pringles get opened in my house the cat just loses her poo poo in the same way that she does when the Dreamies come out. Also went insane over dried kelp, so I assume it's the salt that they're craving. I once left a bag of chips (crisps to you) open on the floor as a teenager (you do that as a teenager) and when got home from school I saw the bag of chips with the rear side of a cat sticking out of it.
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Marmaduke! posted:There's a scene in Better Call Saul where someone is given a token consulting position 'legally' paying them tons of dirty money and the character shows up and starts doing some effective work on site that someone with his job title might be expected to do if it were an actual job. You can imagine if a Tory Minister (being paid hunnerds of thousands of bux for the access they provide) did the same thing and actually got involved, the business would be in liquidation within a week. IIRC the corrupt people at the company are horrified because the noses he puts out of joint could bring too much attention to the whole thing. But the show runners frame it to to support the view that he’s right and that if anyone looks into it, it’s less likely to be detected because he has actually done a real job.
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It's only offering cash for favours if it's from the Bribery Coast region, otherwise it's just a sparkling sinecure.
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Biggus Dickus posted:This may or may not be normal for springers. Our previous one did it too. Our cocker spaniel, on the other hand, is extremely scared of the sea, and often gets into shouting matches with it when she goes to the beach. It's water, but it's salty and it moves. Deeply suspicious.
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Terf swim weekend going well. https://twitter.com/gbbranstetter/status/1505678955407360001
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I would argue that it's misogyny with zero extra steps tbh
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The only extra step is that UK terf twitter decided to wedge themselves wholesale into US swim twitter without knowing anything about anyone involved, but yeah that's not much different from what MRAs do all the time so.
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Guavanaut posted:Terf swim weekend going well. I might argue that it's misandry rather than misogyny. TERFs see trans women as male invaders and trans men - when noticed at all, for who would abandon the sacred precincts of womanhood - as gender traitors. Really though, it's all gatekeeping in the name of bigotry. It doesn't matter why they're hateful scum.
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Beefeater1980 posted:IIRC the corrupt people at the company are horrified because the noses he puts out of joint could bring too much attention to the whole thing. But the show runners frame it to to support the view that he’s right and that if anyone looks into it, it’s less likely to be detected because he has actually done a real job. Yeah exactly, and it's quite a fun few scenes. You can just imagine someone like Chris Grayling rolling his sleeves up at Hutchinson Ports followed by an Evergiven-esque screwup. Like when Boris Johnson attempted to intervene in Nazanin's imprisonment and made it so much worse for her, only that wasn't funny. (I did Google who CG "works" for these days and I was not prepared for his Walking Dead zombie extra appearance. But I don't like being mean to people based on appearances - his basic ineptitude is more than enough)
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Jedit posted:I might argue that it's misandry rather than misogyny. TERFs see trans women as male invaders and trans men - when noticed at all, for who would abandon the sacred precincts of womanhood - as gender traitors. Though I would suggest the throughline there is the infantilisation of people they perceive to be women, which I also would connect to their overlap with the trad weridos.
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They're just reheating the old "big lesbian shotputter with short hair, bet she's got balls lol" brand of 70s misogyny against women athletes who don't look sufficiently feminine, just this time with the veneer of concern for fairness provided by GC rhetoric. They've definitely showed their hand on the whole "no but there is real oppression of biological sex on reproductive grounds" line now that they've spent their weekend doing this while ignoring the oppression of biological sex on reproductive grounds happening in their own back yard though, so they're pretty much on track to be one and the same as the trad weirdos just with different hats.
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Mar 21, 2022 15:47
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Lmao https://twitter.com/LeftieStats/status/1505915827807301641?t=MpAkSuCFmZsa0CoimTvzHg
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keep punching joe posted:Lmao Until it's at 50%+ for None of them it's clearly fudged numbers.
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https://twitter.com/LambethWarp/status/1505928125141729282
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I've got a week off work coming up real soon and I'm stupid so I have no idea what I'm gonna do with myself, I can get free transport to brighton and london, can anyone recommend some kinda tourist days out that are pretty cheap? Thanks!
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Marmaduke! posted:Yeah exactly, and it's quite a fun few scenes. You can just imagine someone like Chris Grayling rolling his sleeves up at Hutchinson Ports followed by an Evergiven-esque screwup. Like when Boris Johnson attempted to intervene in Nazanin's imprisonment and made it so much worse for her, only that wasn't funny. It’s Mike when he goes to work at Madrigal as security consultant, isn’t it?
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Russian spies called up Nadine and asked her if her fridge was running.
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This is grim https://twitter.com/snaprep/status/1505821297112145922?s=21
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I saw that and just assumed Dorries is too stupid to know how to answer her phone
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"Is your refrigerator running?" "No this is the phone." "..." "..."
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Crankit posted:I've got a week off work coming up real soon and I'm stupid so I have no idea what I'm gonna do with myself, I can get free transport to brighton and london, can anyone recommend some kinda tourist days out that are pretty cheap? Thanks! The big national museums are all free, though I think they are still doing the Covid check-in thing! The British Museum could be a day out just by itself.
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An except from The Moscow Encounter by Nadine Dorries:quote:He looked at me with those cold eyes of his. Yes, they were cold, but they burned with an icy light that was starting to inflame my desires. As Vlodimur spoke with increasing passion about the purity of the Caucasian Christian races, I could not help but think of him astride his horse, shirtless, baring his magnificent torso. As his voice rose in indignation so did my fevered fantasies. No doubt those hands of his had killed and tortured, but I could not help but imagine them running along my willing body. He was as devastating as a TOS-1 Buratino, and my defences were crumbling like a Ukrainian maternity hospital after a Russian artillery barrage. "Oh Vlodimir!" I moaned inadvertently, momentarily surprising him mid-speech. He paused for a second and looked at me meaningfully, and in that moment I knew I was his, as surely as the Crimea was Russia's.
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keep punching joe posted:Lmao Did Labour announce any stupid economic policies since January? The swing to “don’t know” seems too large to not be driven by anything.
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It is possible that people have forgotten the labour party exists.
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People think Labour will be bad for the economy because the tories policies are a loving disaster and Labour agree but think they don't go far enough.
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So that bit when Labour actually led the polls for a while and Boris was looking like he was hanging on by his fingernails, that just blew over?
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His Divine Shadow posted:So that bit when Labour actually led the polls for a while and Boris was looking like he was hanging on by his fingernails, that just blew over? Ah. Well, nevertheless
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His Divine Shadow posted:So that bit when Labour actually led the polls for a while and Boris was looking like he was hanging on by his fingernails, that just blew over? Ukraine has been a blessing for Johnson. Partygate has disappeared from the news.
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Crankit posted:I've got a week off work coming up real soon and I'm stupid so I have no idea what I'm gonna do with myself, I can get free transport to brighton and london, can anyone recommend some kinda tourist days out that are pretty cheap? Thanks! Don't know if David Rosenberg is doing any of his socialist walks in the East End while you're off: http://www.eastendwalks.com/?page_id=2 David is I believe a friend of Jezza and lives in his constituency. Also he's "the wrong kind of Jew" and IIRC recently quit the Labour party.
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therattle posted:Ukraine has been a blessing for Johnson. Partygate has disappeared from the news.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQPi1ll_7-k
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His Divine Shadow posted:So that bit when Labour actually led the polls for a while and Boris was looking like he was hanging on by his fingernails, that just blew over? Labour have got literally nothing to offer anyone, so the minute the papers moved on from trashing Boris the polls were inevitably going to slide right back down to where they were beforehand
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