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I welcome the Reichskanzler's commitment to attaching themselves to the fringe, and encourage them to go further and attach to the entire haircut.
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Apr 12, 2022 17:08
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NotJustANumber99 posted:If sunak hates Boris badly enough his own resignation could sink him. Boris is the unflushable turd. He could poo poo in the queens cornflakes and 40% of this cursed island would still back him. "Labour would have poo poo even more!"
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Apr 12, 2022 17:08
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Barry Foster posted:but we did find it amusing that its apparent thesis, at least in what we watched, was "the world would be much better, and scientific and social progress much swifter, if only the Soviets beat the Americans to the moon", which, uh, I'm pretty sure was not what the show was going for lol It's presented absolutely without irony and it's hilarious.
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Apr 12, 2022 17:10
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Apr 12, 2022 17:23
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1965917 posted:Boris is the unflushable turd. Boris legend shat in the queen's cornflakes, lol, he's a lad i'nt 'e?!?!
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Apr 12, 2022 17:32
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unfortunately it turns out that as the first PM to host an illegal rave at downing street Boris is now the coolest prime minister in history
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Apr 12, 2022 17:36
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"For years the ricicle revolutionaries of the woke left have whined over the lack of taste and nutrition in their cornflakes. Yet here at last comes an ubermensch, a man willing to add not only protein but a rich earthy umami to even the highest cereal bowl in the land, and all the chattering classes can do is attack and attempt to bring down the head of this once great nation." Something something 1984, lots of love Brendan O'Neil
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Apr 12, 2022 17:44
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if labour would commit to making GBS threads in the royal cornflakes I might vote for them
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Apr 12, 2022 17:59
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Apr 12, 2022 18:35
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https://twitter.com/NewStatesman/status/1513479962673786881?t=hE9cuhVtuQ3LvBgcb7ptfw&s=19 Reminds me of the 'I earn £100k a year and I am definitely not in the top one per cent of earners!' man on QT.
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Apr 12, 2022 18:36
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https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-61085282quote:A Conservative MP has said Boris Johnson behaved like teachers and nurses in the pandemic, who would go back to the staff room and drink during lockdown. LET THE ARSE LICKING APOLOGIZING BEGIN!
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Apr 12, 2022 18:54
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I assume teachers and nurses also did some loving work when they weren't drinking.
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Apr 12, 2022 18:57
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BalloonFish posted:https://twitter.com/NewStatesman/status/1513479962673786881?t=hE9cuhVtuQ3LvBgcb7ptfw&s=19 i love the fifth of people earning above 100k who don't know what class they are. or maybe they do and just refuse to say it as one simply doesn't talk about that kind of thing, my good fellow
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Apr 12, 2022 18:58
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the 0-10k upper class folks have really good accountants eh
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happyhippy posted:https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-61085282 I love the idea that teachers go back to the staff room to drink. There are pub visits after staff football but certainly no alcohol in school. Other than end of term after all the kids have gone home when there might be a single drink.
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mrs norman is in the thin sliver of 25-50k people who think they are upper-class
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Working class and getting £100k - that'll be the plumbers then. £100k. I remember paying £70ph to get a plumber in Walthamstow 20 years ago. So that would be 38 weeks (+4h) @ 37.5h. I remember his worksheet that I had to sign "isolate and reinstate supply" it said. Fancy words, eh. I wrote in big letters on it, "Paid Under Protest, I am the one who turned the stopcock off and on again." and then I complained to Trading Standards who said I had to get 3 estimates of other plumbers to prove it. This to change a tap which I simply did not own a wrench hefty enough to turn and get off the pipe.
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Apr 12, 2022 19:14
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YOUR SISTER ISN'T UPPER-CLASS LIKE US NORMAN SHE HAS PAMPAS GRASS IN THE FRONT GARDEN
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Apr 12, 2022 19:15
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Only Kindness posted:Not wishing to imageleech so I'll just link... (sorry, it's It's a funny image. But it does leave out that America not only got the first man to walk on the Moon with Neill Armstrong. They also landed another eleven. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apollo_astronauts All twelve men to have walked on the Moon (and to have returned alive aswell) have been Astronauts. No Cosmonauts have ever reached the Moon. It is a pretty significant achievement.
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Apr 12, 2022 19:15
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Barry Foster posted:We quit it after four or five episodes because it's pretty light weight and liberal and dumb and had too much 'murcan lip-quivering, but we did find it amusing that its apparent thesis, at least in what we watched, was "the world would be much better, and scientific and social progress much swifter, if only the Soviets beat the Americans to the moon", which, uh, I'm pretty sure was not what the show was going for lol I did find it quite funny the show apparently thought I was supposed to be shocked to the core at the Soviets landing on the moon first. Meanwhile i post in here so I was like 'go Korolev beat that Nazi gently caress' 
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crispix posted:the 0-10k upper class folks have really good accountants eh It's a rare moment of honesty: rich people don't earn any salary, they live on investments.
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The Question IRL posted:It's a funny image. But it does leave out that America not only got the first man to walk on the Moon with Neill Armstrong. And, in the most American end imaginable, they could have kept on sending more and more but the TV ratings were poor so they cancelled the last mission and a bunch of other programs meant to piggyback off Apollo and the Saturn platform.
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Apr 12, 2022 19:19
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lol @ keith party trying to make hay of big boris boozy parties and nobody giving a gently caress that's a great strategy for getting into government you have there you vapid shitheads
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Apr 12, 2022 19:20
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happyhippy posted:https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-61085282 It's funny that the best "man of the people" they could find to kiss Boris' arse is Michael loving Fabricant. I doubt there are many people in the Tories less in touch with reality than that prick.
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feedmegin posted:I did find it quite funny the show apparently thought I was supposed to be shocked to the core at the Soviets landing on the moon first. Meanwhile i post in here so I was like 'go Korolev beat that Nazi gently caress' hell yeah lol I really wished there were Soviet characters, another perspective other than the ooh-rah 'merican triumphalism. Maybe they turn up later in the series, but I didn't stick around long enough to find out, and I doubt the writers are good enough to do both sides justice.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Working class and getting £100k - that'll be the plumbers then. £100k. I remember paying £70ph to get a plumber in Walthamstow 20 years ago. So that would be 38 weeks (+4h) @ 37.5h. I'm sure you were getting ripped off but its not like a plumber just keeps all the money, they have running costs.
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kingturnip posted:It's funny that the best "man of the people" they could find to kiss Boris' arse is Michael loving Fabricant. Watch this following week on tv, on who they can get out for the news crews. Boris is going to go on his magical one week breaks again that he usually does when theres bad news out about him.
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Man of the people in that he has killed several of the people and grafted their scalps to his head.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I'm sure you were getting ripped off but its not like a plumber just keeps all the money, they have running costs. I'm aware of that, but this is 20 years ago. And I'm about 95% sure he sat in his van in the carpark for 45 minutes of that hour. I said, I'll run round to the hardware store (3 mins) and get the part (£4.95) but he said 'no no, I get trades rates, I'll get it.' Disappeared for nearly an hour, and came back with the same part and charged me £14.95 for the same bloody thing on top of the labour charge.
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crispix posted:YOUR SISTER ISN'T UPPER-CLASS LIKE US NORMAN 
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BalloonFish posted:Reminds me of the 'I earn £100k a year and I am definitely not in the top one per cent of earners!' man on QT. ACKSHUALLY it's not. It's £180k before tax to be in the top 1% (£119k after tax), as of 2019 (I think these are the most recent figures?). QT man was protesting that he was earning £80k and definitely not in the top 5% (which he was, figures for 2019 say £81k for top 5% but those figures would probably not have been out at the time since I think they typically lag somewhat). It was in response to Corbs and McD saying they'd raise taxes on the top 5% of earners. https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/question-time-salary-row-thursday-17299148
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WhatEvil posted:ACKSHUALLY it's not. Thank you  Literally just spitballed the essential premise from memory. Should have remembered that it was to do with Corbyn's 'no tax rises for anyone on less than £80k' proposalEdit: I like that MEN headline where the man was 'heavily criticised'. Makes a change from all the usual clickbait Mekon-like 'QT 5% Man DESTROYED by Social Media Mob' stuff. BalloonFish fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Apr 12, 2022 |
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Apr 12, 2022 19:56
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Since apparently adding a sentence of historical context to a museum plaque or statue or anything else is the worst wokest reverse racism, I look forward to GB News' crusade against tasty sauces (which I assume they hate as unbritish anyway).
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Apr 12, 2022 20:16
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All this middle vs upper class stuff is just fictitious capitalist mystification of class relations anyway, feel like I shouldn't have to point that out itt
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Ehh, I still don't think reality plays out that everyone who does not own factory is proletarian and shares class interest. In actuality I think everyone rich enough is quite reasonably on the side of the bourgeoisie in stamping down everyone else so they can get their amazon deliveries every day. Or at least that is the case given that I think a lot of people would rather die than not have amazon prime, given how the pandemic has demonstrated that people would also die for haircuts and gawping at things in supermarkets, or the right to eat horse paste.
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OwlFancier posted:Ehh, I still don't think reality plays out that everyone who does not own factory is proletarian and shares class interest. In actuality I think everyone rich enough is quite reasonably on the side of the bourgeoisie in stamping down everyone else so they can get their amazon deliveries every day. Or at least that is the case given that I think a lot of people would rather die than not have amazon prime, given how the pandemic has demonstrated that people would also die for haircuts and gawping at things in supermarkets, or the right to eat horse paste. Yeah but there's already a word for those people
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BalloonFish posted:Thank you Anyway, what about the REAL controversies,
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Does the strict Marxian class division work in a postindustrial society? Marx says it doesn't work properly like that in preindustry, and there's a whole frankfurter school that says that interwar and postwar consumerism was the beginning of the end of a defined proletarian interest, but some of those guys just didn't like jazz.
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WhatEvil posted:ACKSHUALLY it's not. Wasn't he another spectacular example of someone that doesn't understand tax bands? From memory he was arguing that he isn't in the top 5% of the country's earners because he's 'not that well off' and why should have his money go to tax? If you want to see how few people actually understand tax just look back on that policy and the reactions to it.
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