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Convex
Aug 19, 2010


lol

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Automatic Slim
Jul 1, 2007


Serious question as a non-UK dweller. Does the amount of trouble/poll numbers Boris has determine if he combs his hair or not? Or some semblance of hair grooming?

Bug Squash
Mar 18, 2009


Is this a record for one day resignations? That looks like a very vertical line.

Jean-Paul Shartre
Jan 16, 2015

this sentence no verb


Automatic Slim posted:

Serious question as a non-UK dweller. Does the amount of trouble/poll numbers Boris has determine if he combs his hair or not? Or some semblance of hair grooming?

No, he's just bald. Look at how there's the ring around the top of the "tonsure" and long strands of hair from that point are all combed upwards and inwards. It's a pile-on instead of a combover but it's doing the same thing.

Automatic Slim
Jul 1, 2007

JohnCompany posted:

No, he's just bald. Look at how there's the ring around the top of the "tonsure" and long strands of hair from that point are all combed upwards and inwards. It's a pile-on instead of a combover but it's doing the same thing.

Now that you point it out it’s obvious.

Reveilled
Apr 19, 2007

Take up your rifles

Automatic Slim posted:

Serious question as a non-UK dweller. Does the amount of trouble/poll numbers Boris has determine if he combs his hair or not? Or some semblance of hair grooming?

He keeps his hair messy on purpose, as part of his image. It's supposed to make him look like a lovable scamp, and as if he's unconcerned with his personal appearance to make him look more like a genuine person rather than a plastic politician. Multiple people who've worked with him have noted that he deliberately messes up his hair before going on camera if it looks too neat.

EDIT: I also have a bit of a sneaking suspicion he believes that it makes "Eton Mess" a more ready insult to be used against him, which I expect is an insult he actually likes, since it reminds people he went to Eton.

Reveilled fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Jul 6, 2022

jiggerypokery
Feb 1, 2012

...But I could hardly wait six months with a red hot jape like that under me belt.

forkboy84 posted:

We actually do know now, he confirmed before his latest kid was born that it will be his seventh.

"Sources say..."

Just Another Lurker
May 1, 2009

keep punching joe posted:

Are we only counting official children, or including the bastards?

Going to be hard to exterminate his genetic line. :thunk:

Confusedslight
Jan 9, 2020
He's ruined having messy hair for the rest of us.

ThomasPaine
Feb 4, 2009

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.
Can this country try being not poo poo just for once, as a treat

Tsaedje
May 11, 2007

BRAWNY BUTTONS 4 LYFE

Bug Squash posted:

Is this a record for one day resignations? That looks like a very vertical line.

There's been at least one since that graph was made as well

Aipsh
Feb 17, 2006


GLUPP SHITTO FAN CLUB PRESIDENT
Too early to post this?

https://youtu.be/V6QhAZckY8w

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDqsgbtpDLk

Miftan
Mar 31, 2012

Terry knows what he can do with his bloody chocolate orange...

ThomasPaine posted:

Can this country try being not poo poo just for once, as a treat

Could be worse. Israel is on its 5th election in about 2-3 years or something and all the candidates just range from priti Patel to Boris Johnson.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Tsaedje posted:

There's been at least one since that graph was made as well

They've started having to granularise the graph to 10 minute intervals lol

Angepain
Jul 13, 2012

what keeps happening to my clothes
I had actually heard of Kemi Badenoch before so that brings up the total up to three

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Miftan posted:

Could be worse. Israel is on its 5th election in about 2-3 years or something and all the candidates just range from priti Patel to Boris Johnson.

Isn't Bibi expected to try and ascend once more?

ThomasPaine
Feb 4, 2009

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

Miftan posted:

Could be worse. Israel is on its 5th election in about 2-3 years or something and all the candidates just range from priti Patel to Boris Johnson.

I know I've talked about this before but it's wild to me that Israel just doesn't seem to meaningfully have a left at all. You'd think the context would ensure at least a few people would do some self reflection and argue convincingly enough to win over a decent number of voters.

Speaking of Israel I've noticed a whole bunch of tourist ads for the country recently. That's new. Saudi as well, weirdly. Weird to see all of these godawful places decide to funnel a bunch of money into PR campaigns all at once.

E: I remember seeing footage of a big zionist demonstration at one of the top Israeli unis and it was scary to me how vicious even the supposed intelligentsia of the country were towards arabs - not just a few radical students but a bunch of well established professors etc too.

E2: I tell a lie - there is a tiny left wing in the knesset. The Israeli communist party (running as part of the joint list) even has two whole seats!

ThomasPaine fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Jul 6, 2022

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Now granular to five minute intervals https://twitter.com/timd_IFG/status/1544701752506720256

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

ThomasPaine posted:

Saudi as well, weirdly. Weird to see all of these godawful places decide to funnel a bunch of money into PR campaigns all at once.

Probably related to Neom, MbS's batshit idea to make a Silicon Valley / Las Vegas hybrid in the middle of Saudi Arabia. There was a bit in the latest paywalled TrashFuture where the FT notes that the kingdom has "struggled" to recruit the desired talent, which, as is pointed out by the hosts, might be something to do with it being a despotic medieval fiefdom.

Answers Me
Apr 24, 2012
He’s totally going to try and request and election. Assuming he’s not going to resign, it’s going to be his only option quite soon.

His bluster the wriggle room he’s leaving himself in this hearing certainly suggests this too.

E: I’ll tell you what though, this debate club-honed avoiding of questions is totally infuriating. It’s like the privately educated speak a totally different language, with different laws of conversation, to normal people.

Answers Me fucked around with this message at 16:35 on Jul 6, 2022

a pipe smoking dog
Jan 25, 2010

"haha, dogs can't smoke!"
https://twitter.com/ionewells/status/1544703938506772481?t=JHRG_qiDm4WI6KWzTLtYPQ&s=19

I think if the chief whip tells him to resign it's all over.

No chief whip means he can't recruit replacements for one thing.

Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

a pipe smoking dog posted:

https://twitter.com/ionewells/status/1544703938506772481?t=JHRG_qiDm4WI6KWzTLtYPQ&s=19

I think if the chief whip tells him to resign it's all over.

No chief whip means he can't recruit replacements for one thing.

https://twitter.com/hzeffman/status/1544705556262313984

MEGA UNO REVERSE CARD

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

Die Satan!
Activate the queen

https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1544705382609817600?t=6Y7-p1bqiBd0Tr4ECmF-NA

a pipe smoking dog
Jan 25, 2010

"haha, dogs can't smoke!"

Lol what a loving career as chancellor.

the sex ghost
Sep 6, 2009
Him and dorries will run the government by themselves

Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

a pipe smoking dog posted:

Lol what a loving career as chancellor.

https://twitter.com/eadingas/status/1544647286927626240

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


a pipe smoking dog posted:

https://twitter.com/ionewells/status/1544703938506772481?t=JHRG_qiDm4WI6KWzTLtYPQ&s=19

I think if the chief whip tells him to resign it's all over.

No chief whip means he can't recruit replacements for one thing.

It's worth noting that the chief whip telling him to resign means nothing if the chief whip doesn't accompany it with a threat of resignation.

Now, in the past this would be enough but we're in the post-decorum world where unwritten rules matter not a jot if you're just willing to bluster through them. And Boris sure knows how to bluster.

(Not to say he won't go, but it'd be equally unsurprising if he doesn't, or if he decides to throw the toys out of the pram & sink the Tories for trying to remove him, because Boris cares for nothing but Boris)

Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.
help i cant stop laughing help

dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001

a pipe smoking dog posted:

I think if the chief whip tells him to resign it's all over.

No chief whip means he can't recruit replacements for one thing.

Oh god I hope he at least for a week or so, tries to go for the stupidest option of no whip and no election, so an ever dwindling amount of ministers remaining need to just daily justify why they're staying on.

dr_rat fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Jul 6, 2022

the sex ghost
Sep 6, 2009
Boris to declare war on Russia and invoke emergency government powers

mfcrocker
Jan 31, 2004



Hot Rope Guy

Good luck with that one mate, Queen will tell you to gently caress off and just tell someone from the Tories to be interim PM during the leadership contest

(in context, they were discussing the Lascelles Principles and they're absolutely met right now)

I'm gonna call it: Boris goes tonight

Flayer
Sep 13, 2003

by Fluffdaddy
Buglord

the sex ghost posted:

Boris to declare war on Russia and invoke emergency government powers
You know he's considered it

Kernel Monsoon
Jul 18, 2006
I'm living right now for the liason committee taking turns to dunk on Boris over and over.

Convex
Aug 19, 2010

Lid posted:

help i cant stop laughing help



loving hell :master:

Flayer
Sep 13, 2003

by Fluffdaddy
Buglord

mfcrocker posted:

Good luck with that one mate, Queen will tell you to gently caress off and just tell someone from the Tories to be interim PM during the leadership contest

(in context, they were discussing the Lascelles Principles and they're absolutely met right now)

I'm gonna call it: Boris goes tonight

No bloody way, not unless he's physically removed and barred by a mob of Tory MPs.

Tsaedje
May 11, 2007

BRAWNY BUTTONS 4 LYFE
I tell you what, it's not going to make life any better, but I'll take humiliation for loser Johnson as an early birthday present

superliminal
Jun 2, 2010

the sex ghost posted:

Him and dorries will run the government by themselves

kecske
Feb 28, 2011

it's round, like always

a pipe smoking dog posted:

Lol what a loving career as chancer.

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Bobby Deluxe
May 9, 2004

ThomasPaine posted:

E2: I tell a lie - there is a tiny left wing in the knesset. The Israeli communist party (running as part of the joint list) even has two whole seats!
Meanwhile, in other countries:

https://twitter.com/M_Star_Online/status/1544385636303605761?t=BsSg17Z3OrUdIjGPejKp5A&s=19

quote:

The KPU is the latest opposition party to be banned by the Ukrainian authorities.

A list of others including the Opposition Platform – For Life party, Left Opposition, Union of Left Forces, Socialist Party of Ukraine and other left-wing organisations have also been prohibited.

This followed a decree signed by Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky outlawing all political parties deemed to be “pro-Russian” on May 14.

No far-right or neonazi organisations have been placed under similar restrictions despite responsibility for a string of atrocities and alleged war crimes in eastern Ukraine.
Beloved of centrists indeed.

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