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serious gaylord posted:This will clearly get deleted soon Just in case it does: quote:I am utterly appalled and distraught at the dreadful miscarriage of justice that has befallen my friend and colleague Imran Ahmad Khan, MP for Wakefield since December 2019. His conviction today is nothing short of an international scandal, with dreadful wider implications for millions of LGBT+ muslims around the world. The victim was 15 years old. I almost want to hear the sequence of events he thinks makes any sexual contact of any description with a 15-year-old okay.
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The 'truly extraordinary sequence of events' presumably involving a lot of accidentally torn clothing, people accidentally tripping, and autocorrect accidentally sending a series of texts over several months.
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I absolutely do not at all believe those stupid grindset profiles are not just made up. They don't actually install a guy in your house to make sure you do that you just lie and then they film you performing the steps, which necessarily means you are not doing your grind that day. It's the capitalist version of the "and then everyone in the classroom stood up and clapped" story, a nonsense fiction that people want to believe because it sounds like their ideal vision of how the world should be. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Apr 11, 2022 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Just in case it does: https://twitter.com/StewartMcDonald/status/1513627626082078720 https://twitter.com/RhonddaBryant/status/1513627391813468160
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its odd that he felt so strongly about it that he's blown himself up over it. i guess when you have lgbt persecution issues through the prism of tory exceptionalism you can end up in some unusual places.
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I love Labour's new "climate change is good actually" policy platform. An extremely good party. https://twitter.com/SamCoatesSky/status/1513796631325466632?s=20
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"wait poo poo we're the only soc dem party is europe not getting blown up by our greens? how do we fix this?" Thankfully no one pays attention to what Labour says anyways these days.
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Labour is just the Kayfabe party now. It doesn't matter how obnoxiously fake it all is, the Labour Party is here to insist it's still 1997 until the day it dies.
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Nothingtoseehere posted:Thankfully no one pays attention to what Labour says anyways these days. But, if they did! https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/12/labour-winning-policies-party-keir-starmer-public
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peanut- posted:I love Labour's new "climate change is good actually" policy platform. An extremely good party. https://twitter.com/LegumeEnjoyer/status/1513805708768256004?t=aMpWVocSReiLhPwgTaXnuQ&s=19
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Chance to attack the government on tax avoidance, and defending a nonce? Nah that shits over Keith, we gotta take a hard stance against polar ice caps, only thing the focus group likes.
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Hating polar bears plays well in Stockton-on-Tees
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For the many (SUVs) not the few (glaciers).
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This is actually quite a good microcosm of what's gone so wrong with Labour's approach. In taking this stance (which lines up with Priti's 'lock up the protestors' stance, nice on folks) they've decided that their political messaging is going to be firmly aimed at some sort of 'common sense / common working man / don't know anything about art but I know what I like / just trying to get by' parody of humanity that doesn't exist outside of an interior shot of an east-end pub in a Guy Ritchie movie. It's total short-termism. Rather than saying 'hey, you know what, protests are disruptive, but if the government was actually tackling climate change we wouldn't need to protest' they're just attacking the optics (and their own side). It's the exact mindset of the public school headmaster who walks into a blazing row and just says 'if we could all calm down...' and then proceeds to punish the poor kid and ooze back out of the room telling everyone to 'play nice' as he goes. Systemic inequality? Nah, let's just all take a deep breath and then relax back into the status quo.
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It's because they believe that working class people are too stupid to understand that kind of nuance and can only be talked down and pandered to. It's insulting as hell and a big giveaway about where their sensibilities rest.
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Isomermaid posted:It's because they believe that working class people are too stupid to understand that kind of nuance and can only be talked down and pandered to. It's insulting as hell and a big giveaway about where their sensibilities rest. Flashbacks to Cameron and his ‘hard working families’.
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Jeherrin posted:In taking this stance (which lines up with Priti's 'lock up the protestors' stance, nice on folks) they've decided that their political messaging is going to be firmly aimed at some sort of 'common sense / common working man / don't know anything about art but I know what I like / just trying to get by' parody of humanity that doesn't exist outside of an interior shot of an east-end pub in a Guy Ritchie movie. Exactly. The whole "ordinary people are struggling to get to work!" thing is frustratingly myopic. Perhaps things shouldn't be arranged so your finances or your employment are in peril if you once fail to show up at one specific time and place. Perhaps there should be alternative ways of people getting to work other than a load of cars all trying to flow down the same stretch of tarmac. Perhaps getting to and doing work shouldn't be such an all-consuming treadmill that people get fearful and angry when they can't do it. climate change and inequality are much bigger problems than some people being delayed at getting to work. Thing is, it does suck for the individual people who genuinely do get impacted by delays, but that's the fault of broader issues, not a few protestors. And protests have to be disruptive on at least some level to have any sort of effect. It's like New New Labour's thing of the purpose of schools being to Prepare Children for Work. Just bland, servile acceptance of the status quo rather than any questioning of why things are the way they are, if that makes sense and how they might be better.
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Isomermaid posted:It's because they believe that working class people are too stupid to understand that kind of nuance and can only be talked down and pandered to. It's insulting as hell and a big giveaway about where their sensibilities rest. https://twitter.com/yougov/status/1513808413037412354?s=21&t=PkUlumrMiChPCzav-S6g4w And here’s a great example: very little difference in support for the conversion therapy ban for trans people than for gay people. But their conception of ‘normal people’ is that they’re weirded out by trans people so they have to keep avoiding taking any position that could be perceived as taking their side despite that notion not actually having any basis in reality.
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Anyone had experience with small claims court? I'm almost certainly going to be filling against a horse dealer who's taken my deposit, but is refusing to show me the passport so I can't confidently book a vetting. (Also horse can't be sold or moved without a passport)
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In honesty though: how many people answering that question actually meant that they want to ban therapy aimed at turning people gay/trans.
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peanut- posted:In honesty though: how many people answering that question actually meant that they want to ban therapy aimed at turning people gay/trans. This.
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'Hard working families' is such a bullshit phrase. Anyone who uses it should be a kicked out to sea on a raft.
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people are facing misery trying to get to the offices we demanded they go back to 😠
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The biggest obstacle right now for me getting to work is all the roadworks from the new housing estates so I expect to see housing developers thrown in jail.
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Angrymog posted:Anyone had experience with small claims court? I'm almost certainly going to be filling against a horse dealer who's taken my deposit, but is refusing to show me the passport so I can't confidently book a vetting.
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A lot of people could save themselves a lot of fuel if they didn’t drive like morons. The amount of people I see every day who will continue to accelerate toward a roundabout/junction before braking hard is insane.
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Borrovan posted:Yes, lots. Will PM you. Thanks
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I cannot believe they didn't know what they were doing when they were putting together the V2 exhibit at the Royal Engineers museum which basically says '1000s of slaves died by WvB's hand but he birthed modern rocketry so it's impossible to say whether he was good or bad'
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Chubby Henparty posted:I cannot believe they didn't know what they were doing when they were putting together the V2 exhibit at the Royal Engineers museum which basically says '1000s of slaves died by WvB's hand but he birthed modern rocketry so it's impossible to say whether he was good or bad' There's that alt-history Space Race show called For All Mankind on Apple TV, which is generally very enjoyable, but WvB pops up as a recurring character and I guess the audience is meant to empathise with him because he feels bad about being a mass-murderer. It's a pretty  beat in an otherwise mostly decent show
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Boris has been fined. Lol
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Boris fined for breaking the law? CON: 5+
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A little brain teaser for you all. During the Blitz, an asphalt factory on the Isle of Dogs burned out of control for several hours as land-based firefighters were occupied fighting house fires, and the fire brigade's launches were unable to reach it at full power due to an exceptionally low tide. Over a hundred tons of asphalt (the sticky stuff they mix with aggregate to make tarmac) melted and fell onto the foreshore: It's still there now because of course it's heavy and specifically used for waterproofing. Except it's *not* actually there:  The fire was just south of the jetty at the top of the screen, and "the smoothest bit of road in London" - thank you whoever said that on Discord - starts almost 250 metres south of that, and continues for almost a kilometre:  and in fact has moved at least a hundred metres just since I first learned about it in the 90s, when it was starting to appear at Island Gardens. The thing is that it's moving *upriver* - there's no trace of it at all further downriver. How? How is a mass of basically solid tar moving at all, let alone upstream? The answer is one of those that's blatantly obvious once you know it, but a complete brainfuck if you don't. Answers on a post
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Just going to sit here and stare at the wall, fantasising about there being any actual consequences.
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Angrymog posted:Anyone had experience with small claims court? I'm almost certainly going to be filling against a horse dealer who's taken my deposit, but is refusing to show me the passport so I can't confidently book a vetting. This is going to be a breach of contract so it's a bit trickier than issuing for a debt, I would suggest taking some legal advice before you go ahead with it. The actual process of issuing small claims proceedings is very straightforward however if that is what you're asking.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:How? How is a mass of basically solid tar moving at all, let alone upstream?
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Ronnie posted:Boris fined for breaking the law? Remember this? All over the bloody news for days! https://www.itv.com/news/2020-10-01/jeremy-corbyn-should-be-fined-for-breaking-coronavirus-rule-of-six-shadow-minister-says
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Chubby Henparty posted:I cannot believe they didn't know what they were doing when they were putting together the V2 exhibit at the Royal Engineers museum which basically says '1000s of slaves died by WvB's hand but he birthed modern rocketry so it's impossible to say whether he was good or bad' https://youtu.be/QEJ9HrZq7Ro
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