UKMT Summer 2022 - The Pipes, The Pipes Are Empty

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Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

I'm sure I remember this rumour being a thing ITT years back, but instead of PrinceOfPegging it was Up The King's Counsel

# ? Jul 28, 2022 21:57

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# ? May 25, 2024 00:23

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Failed Imagineer posted:

They also don't appear to automatically adopt the "power stance" which looks like you're aching for a kick in the bollocks

Or in George Osborne's case as if you just wet yourself.

# ? Jul 28, 2022 21:59

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

I wonder if he has shacked up with the duchess of thread lore.

# ? Jul 28, 2022 22:06

Failed Imagineer: Sep 22, 2018

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Or in George Osborne's case as if you just wet yourself.

In his case he looks like he's about to break into the Lindy Hop in the world's shittiest speakeasy

# ? Jul 28, 2022 22:10

Comrade Fakename: Feb 13, 2012

https://twitter.com/tabitasurge/status/1552598211071705090

# ? Jul 28, 2022 22:21

NotJustANumber99: Feb 15, 2012; somehow that last av was even worse than your posting

Comrade Fakename posted:

https://twitter.com/tabitasurge/status/1552598211071705090

Has anyone confronted her and had a response?

I genuinely wonder how these otherwise surely not unintelligent people can do this to themselves.

# ? Jul 28, 2022 22:23

fuctifino: Jun 11, 2001

https://twitter.com/mafudurrant/status/1552753049747292160

# ? Jul 28, 2022 22:25

a pipe smoking dog: Jan 25, 2010; "haha, dogs can't smoke!"

fuctifino posted:

https://twitter.com/TheDuchessBoom/status/1552675131851431937

My brother and me were joking about this in the family chat and I think my royalist mother might have stopped talking to us.

# ? Jul 28, 2022 22:34

Failed Imagineer: Sep 22, 2018

E:^^^ bit strong for mumchat no?

NotJustANumber99 posted:

Has anyone confronted her and had a response?

I genuinely wonder how these otherwise surely not unintelligent people can do this to themselves.

Spotted the flaw in your reasoning

# ? Jul 28, 2022 22:35

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Transphobia turns your brain into a gamete even if you were otherwise intelligent. It's basic biology.

# ? Jul 28, 2022 22:36

a pipe smoking dog: Jan 25, 2010; "haha, dogs can't smoke!"

Failed Imagineer posted:

E:^^^ bit strong for mumchat no?

My mum is normally very up for some innuendo or filthy jokes, just not about royalty apparently

# ? Jul 28, 2022 22:38

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

It's traditional though, Victoria pegged Albert up his ducal entrance. It all goes back to the imperial system and how many rods you can get in a ring.

# ? Jul 28, 2022 22:52

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

a pipe smoking dog posted:

My mum is normally very up for some innuendo or filthy jokes, just not about royalty apparently

My mum's the same.
Only realized what a royalist she is about 10 years ago. My siblings and I were being a tinsy bit rude about Brenda, and my mum got really annoyed and said "That is your Queen you are talkig about."

# ? Jul 28, 2022 23:04

biglads: Feb 21, 2007; I could've gone to Blatherwycke

Guavanaut posted:

It's traditional though, Victoria pegged Albert up his ducal entrance. It all goes back to the imperial system and how many rods you can get in a ring.

This. Heard of Edward the Confessor? What do you think he was confessing?

# ? Jul 28, 2022 23:04

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Guavanaut posted:

It's traditional though, Victoria pegged Albert up his ducal entrance. It all goes back to the imperial system and how many rods you can get in a ring.

With or without poles and chains?

# ? Jul 28, 2022 23:04

Failed Imagineer: Sep 22, 2018

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

My mum's the same.
Only realized what a royalist she is about 10 years ago. My siblings and I were being a tinsy bit rude about Brenda, and my mum got really annoyed and said "That is your Queen you are talkig about."

Some Brits really seem to think the Queen is their kindly Nan, it's really quite startling when you realise they're being serious

# ? Jul 28, 2022 23:06

fuctifino: Jun 11, 2001

I wonder if this might have sparked a bit of a sexual revolution among the patriotic class? Up and down the country, men and women will have googled the term pegging for the first time, with the constant realisation that it all comes with a royal stamp of approval from a future King.

# ? Jul 28, 2022 23:11

radmonger: Jun 6, 2011

Arsenic Lupin posted:

What does Starmer think is the point of a Labour party that snubs labour? (Apart from keeping Starmer close to power, I mean.) There must be some sort of intellectual justification.

A key difference between the UK and USA is that a party leadership challenge requires the support of 20% of MPs. Whereas removing a sitting president is practically impossible. The last Tory leader who lost a general election was Michael Howard. Every Tory leadership change since then has been preemptive, on the basis they looked like they would lose, rather than a reaction to a defeat. That is one Tory policy Labour should adopt.

Is it really the case that over 80% of sitting Labour MPs are ok with the complete abandonment of any attempt at a sane economic policy? No one minds the lack of any coherent plan for winning an election and then governing in away that will get them re-elected?

If so, how long will that remain the case if Starmer somehow does win an election, presumably on the basis of �not being literally Truss�, but then visibly demonstrates he didn�t actually have a plan beyond that?

# ? Jul 28, 2022 23:12

Tomberforce: May 30, 2006

biglads posted:

This. Heard of Edward the Confessor? What do you think he was confessing?

Edward ii took it a bit far though...

# ? Jul 28, 2022 23:14

biglads: Feb 21, 2007; I could've gone to Blatherwycke

Tomberforce posted:

Edward ii took it a bit far though...

I don't think he owned up to it.

# ? Jul 28, 2022 23:21

RockyB: Mar 8, 2007; Dog Therapy: Shockingly Good

Tarnop posted:

But that poo poo necessarily follows. When you win with a landslide by promising to improve people's lives and then you don't, they stop voting for you. Not all at once, but the collapse is inevitable. Then, when someone comes along who might actually keep their promises of helping people, they remember that the last guy with a red rosette promised the same and gave them nothing (source: actual doorstep encounters while canvassing).

What you envisage as two separate entities battling for control is, in reality, just equally necessary components of the same system. The lever can only pull so far without the ratchet. The Tories spending a few years out of government with the pressure off and Labour taking the heat for everything continuing to get worse (while being labelled socialists or communists) is the system working as intended.

A perfect summation of my views. If you promise to improve things and then don't, well the next time around you've validated the "we need big tax cuts and less immigrants to fix the mistakes of the previous Labour government" rhetoric.

In other news, during the heatwave we paid almost �10k per megawatt at one point https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-07-25/london-s-record-9-724-54-per-megawatt-hour-to-avoid-a-blackout

quote:

Last week, unbeknown to many outside the power industry, parts of London came remarkably close to a blackout � even as it was recovering from the hottest day in British history. On July 20, surging electricity demand collided with a bottleneck in the grid, leaving the eastern part of the British capital briefly short of power. Only by paying a record high �9,724.54 (about $11,685) per megawatt hour � more than 5,000% higher than the typical price � did the UK avoid homes and businesses going dark. That was the nosebleed cost to persuade Belgium to crank up aging electricity plants to send energy across the English Channel.

...

On most days, the bottlenecks mean distorted costs. Sometimes, it results in sky-high prices where energy is in short supply when it is needed. At other occasions, prices can tumble to zero, or go negative, when producers cannot sell their power into a congested transmission system. Increasingly, it puts the whole system at risk. Talk to most industry executives and you quickly get the sense that we are sleepwalking into more blackouts. Discuss the problems with the engineers who manage the system day-in, day-out, and that danger appears even closer.

If only there was some mechanism by which a consumer could see the spot price of energy and opt to only take it when it was low. Maybe we could call this a 'smart meter'.

# ? Jul 28, 2022 23:21

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/28/labour-party-cost-of-living-keir-starmer-striking-workers

quote:

What has happened to the Labour party that it can�t stand up for labour?
John McDonnell

...

Labour MPs joining picket lines was not exceptional; it was expected of them. The trade union movement had founded the Labour party to serve as the voice of labour in parliament. To be a Labour party member in those days, you had to demonstrate that you were a trade union member and what trade union members do is support one another. There was no exemption from the basic duty to show solidarity just because party members and trade unionists had selected you to be an MP and serve the movement as a minister or shadow minister.

So how is it that we have arrived at a situation where a Labour leader is instructing shadow ministers not to attend picket lines and has sacked a shadow minister, Sam Tarry, seemingly for doing so?

etc

John McDonnell's pen is on fire this week! Wonder if he's cruisin' for a whip withdrawal for some reason? Or maybe he has finally just had enough of Stairmaster?

# ? Jul 28, 2022 23:21

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

fuctifino posted:

I wonder if this might have sparked a bit of a sexual revolution among the patriotic class? Up and down the country, men and women will have googled the term pegging for the first time, with the constant realisation that it all comes with a royal stamp of approval from a future King.

i hate it when my hobbies go mainstream :mad:

# ? Jul 28, 2022 23:26

Angepain: Jul 13, 2012; what keeps happening to my clothes

NotJustANumber99 posted:

Has anyone confronted her and had a response?

https://twitter.com/HadleyFreeman/status/1552665976205967364

translation: she got radicalised by her terf friends to be scared of the queers more. also not sure what the Cass report on the Tavistock has to do about drag queen story time but ok

# ? Jul 28, 2022 23:36

NotJustANumber99: Feb 15, 2012; somehow that last av was even worse than your posting

https://twitter.com/HadleyFreeman/status/1552697185065734144

lmao

# ? Jul 28, 2022 23:44

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Angepain posted:

also not sure what the Cass report on the Tavistock has to do about drag queen story time but ok

According to evangelical terf hands across the aisle thought it's because drag queen story hour teaches children gender fluidity, which is what turns them trans, so they want transition, and immediately get the Tavistock sex drugs, also please ignore the massive sex abuse scandal in the Southern Baptist Convention, we're not touching kids you're touching kids because man dress is gender now which means sex drug.

# ? Jul 28, 2022 23:48

crispix: Mar 28, 2015; Grand-Maman m'a raconté
_{(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)}

Hello, dear

Tesseraction posted:

As an aside have any of you also seen these lil' guys popping up locally?

My parents rescued one stuck in a cycle barrier and I've seen them pottering up one of the local main roads. My cousin apparently gets them frequently in MK as well.

what kind dog this?

# ? Jul 29, 2022 00:44

endlessmonotony: Nov 4, 2009; by Fritz the Horse

Failed Imagineer posted:

Some Brits really seem to think the Queen is their kindly Nan, it's really quite startling when you realise they're being serious

As someone who grew up in a republic it was really unsettling at first, and became sickening after a bit more thought.

They're landlords in silly hats.

# ? Jul 29, 2022 01:14

feedmegin: Jul 30, 2008

radmonger posted:

A key difference between the UK and USA is that a party leadership challenge requires the support of 20% of MPs. Whereas removing a sitting president is practically impossible. The last Tory leader who lost a general election was Michael Howard. Every Tory leadership change since then has been preemptive, on the basis they looked like they would lose, rather than a reaction to a defeat. That is one Tory policy Labour should adopt.

Is it really the case that over 80% of sitting Labour MPs are ok with the complete abandonment of any attempt at a sane economic policy? No one minds the lack of any coherent plan for winning an election and then governing in away that will get them re-elected?

The shitheads are mostly in safe seats.

# ? Jul 29, 2022 02:37

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

Also literally yes we had a clear demonstration that they will do everything in their power to force a severe loss rather than see any left wing policy happen.

# ? Jul 29, 2022 02:45

Just Another Lurker: May 1, 2009

crispix posted:

what kind dog this?

A K-9... obviously. :rolleyes:

# ? Jul 29, 2022 02:54

Jakabite: Jul 31, 2010

If you sit there moaning and don�t do owt then you�re complicit. I�d say make exceptions for those who can�t but I know loads of vulnerable people who do. Do something about it other than a tick in the box or shut the gently caress up.

# ? Jul 29, 2022 03:04

HopperUK: Apr 29, 2007; Why would an ambulance be leaving the hospital?

Jakabite posted:

If you sit there moaning and don�t do owt then you�re complicit. I�d say make exceptions for those who can�t but I know loads of vulnerable people who do. Do something about it other than a tick in the box or shut the gently caress up.

Taking a swing at anyone in particular?

# ? Jul 29, 2022 03:41

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

I think it was £78k or £73k. Plus various pension etc made it 'package worth' something like £85k.

Good for him though! I was trying to explain this in the other thread, but I hate the 'champagne socialists' attack line. The point of socialism isn't that people can't have nice things, the point is that everyone should have nice things, surely?

# ? Jul 29, 2022 05:43

The Perfect Element: Dec 5, 2005; "This is a bit of a... a poof song"

Bobby Deluxe posted:

Good for him though! I was trying to explain this in the other thread, but I hate the 'champagne socialists' attack line. The point of socialism isn't that people can't have nice things, the point is that everyone should have nice things, surely?

It's just one of the flimsiest attack lines around. It's the same as, 'you protest against globalisation but also drink coffee! Checkmate.'

# ? Jul 29, 2022 07:00

ijyt: Apr 10, 2012

Jakabite posted:

If you sit there moaning and don�t do owt then you�re complicit. I�d say make exceptions for those who can�t but I know loads of vulnerable people who do. Do something about it other than a tick in the box or shut the gently caress up.