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The Wicked ZOGA
Jan 27, 2022
Probation
Can't post for 5 days!
I just realized that passports allow you to pass ports

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Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
Used to at least.

History Comes Inside!
Nov 20, 2004




I was at the post office years ago when post offices were still a thing, and the postmaster was explaining to the dude in front of me how to get round the system for your first passport if you can’t supply your birth certificate.

It made doing identity fraud sound really easy.

Small Strange Bird
Sep 22, 2006

Merci, chaton!

EvilHawk posted:

A friend and I were talking about this last week (during the last constitutional crisis) and we decided it's basically because they've gone through literally anyone who might be competent after years of May, BoJo, and now Truss leadership. Anyone who wasn't vehemently pro-Brexit was cast out and treated like a traitor, then we had cabinet reshuffle after cabinet reshuffle, scandal after scandal, so now there's very very few MPs left who 1) can be trusted (by Tories) to run anything, and 2) hasn't been touched by any of the poo poo going on in the last few years. No election since 2019 means they haven't had a chance to inject new blood into the MPs and the members think they're still bound by the 2019 manifesto.

Imagine going back 3 years and saying Truss will be in charge of the country. The most common response would probably be "...who?"
Someone who used to post in the USpol thread had a great term for this: a "compaction cycle". The group decides to go more extreme, which drives out the moderates; those left then go even more extreme, shedding another load of the less committed; and so on, until you get the current Tories and GOP, where the insane wingnut true believers have taken charge because they're the only ones left active in the party.

The point at which point this actually costs them power because they're batshit crazy has yet to be determined, mind.

Mebh
May 10, 2010


Guavanaut posted:

Used to at least.



The fast and furious movies disagree. Brah.

feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

History Comes Inside! posted:

PM isn’t the head of state

Can still replace the head of state without an election though (I refer you to Charles I, and James II). And Novichok-handshaker Liz Truss, allegedly.

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

somehow that last av was even worse than your posting

Guavanaut posted:

Used to at least.



Jel Shaker
Apr 19, 2003

so glad we increased the sea level by 1 cm for this amusing epic bacon stunt

escapegoat
Aug 18, 2013

EvilHawk posted:

Imagine going back 3 years and saying Truss will be in charge of the country. The most common response would probably be "...who?"

And that she got in by beating Rishi Sunak.
"...WHO?!"

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
We knew who she was itt back then, because she wanted to use dogs to scare drones away.

Jakabite
Jul 31, 2010
She’s been quite well known in Beijing for some time



for opening up new PORK, MARKETS

Only Kindness
Oct 12, 2016
Hey, didn't covid come from a market in China? Where they'd have pork, presumably?

And then, Herself comes back and kills the queen, and then the economy.

Bit sus. Where's my red thread.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Only Kindness posted:

Where's my red thread.

You're posting in it

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~

Only Kindness posted:

Hey, didn't covid come from a market in China? Where they'd have pork, presumably?

And then, Herself comes back and kills the queen, and then the economy.

Bit sus. Where's my red thread.

Thread's dead, baby. Thread's dead

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009



sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Rarity posted:

Thread's dead, baby. Thread's dead



:thunk:

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~

:ese:

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
She's not hiding under the desk.

Only Kindness
Oct 12, 2016
Who's that blonde lady?

smellmycheese
Feb 1, 2016

Truss can relax. Looks like the nukes are about to start flying

https://twitter.com/haynesdeborah/status/1582288769369010176

Salisbury Snape
May 26, 2014
While a grain platform can be used for corn, a specialized corn head is ordinarily used instead.


She's aged ten years in 42days

crispix
Mar 28, 2015

Grand-Maman m'a raconté
(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)

Hello, dear

i bloody knew ghosts was real

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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

smellmycheese posted:

Truss can relax. Looks like the nukes are about to start flying

https://twitter.com/haynesdeborah/status/1582288769369010176

whoops, spoilers!

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

Die Satan!
How do you not have a passport? (Americans please ignore this question)

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

This is not at all surprising from the DWP, but honestly surprised they’d speak to an MSP calling on behalf of a constituent in the same way they would to us ordinary plebs. What a horrible culture that department breeds

https://twitter.com/karenadammsp/status/1582292130482962432?s=46&t=es3zYaptHS5-XLsRKOe6iw

https://twitter.com/karenadammsp/status/1582292136958996480?s=46&t=es3zYaptHS5-XLsRKOe6iw

https://twitter.com/karenadammsp/status/1582292143174914049?s=46&t=es3zYaptHS5-XLsRKOe6iw

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


keep punching joe posted:

How do you not have a passport? (Americans please ignore this question)

I haven't been out of the country in eight years at this point, and didn't bother to renew it when it expired because money

learnincurve
May 15, 2014

Smoosh
You need to call the passport office who will then call the police as a bag of passports is going to = human trafficking
Or just call the police.

Do it now you have a bag of passports belonging to a human trafficking ring and at some point someone is going to come and find them, don't dither and hand wring you absolute (putting yourself in) danger

Mega Comrade
Apr 22, 2004

Listen buddy, we all got problems!

Comedian known for tongue in cheek articles, writes tongue in cheek article. People get mad.

Only Kindness
Oct 12, 2016

Noxville posted:

This is not at all surprising from the DWP, but honestly surprised they’d speak to an MSP calling on behalf of a constituent in the same way they would to us ordinary plebs.
Inhumane policies + martinet culture + insect authority = the desired result

Christe Eleison
Feb 1, 2010

how do you not see that as satire lol

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Being fair I did lament how Charles would probably be less poo poo than Truss, without actually endorsing us returning to absolute monarchy.

Anyway



hmmm

https://twitter.com/jrc1921/status/1582275589355937792

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm


https://twitter.com/hannahrosewoods/status/1582269870007529472

hhhhhhhhhhrrrrmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmhhhhhhh

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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

Noxville posted:

This is not at all surprising from the DWP, but honestly surprised they’d speak to an MSP calling on behalf of a constituent in the same way they would to us ordinary plebs. What a horrible culture that department breeds

Looks like I'm going to need some new nanoangstroms to write HATE on

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

And yes she's an anti-Corbyn freak https://twitter.com/TweetForTheMany/status/1582297918379200512

Spangly A
May 14, 2009

God help you if ever you're caught on these shores

A man's ambition must indeed be small
To write his name upon a shithouse wall

Noxville posted:

This is not at all surprising from the DWP, but honestly surprised they’d speak to an MSP calling on behalf of a constituent in the same way they would to us ordinary plebs. What a horrible culture that department breeds

https://twitter.com/karenadammsp/status/1582292130482962432?s=46&t=es3zYaptHS5-XLsRKOe6iw

https://twitter.com/karenadammsp/status/1582292136958996480?s=46&t=es3zYaptHS5-XLsRKOe6iw

https://twitter.com/karenadammsp/status/1582292143174914049?s=46&t=es3zYaptHS5-XLsRKOe6iw

The MSP absolutely hosed that and very clearly didn't even read the citizens advice site on how pip is scored before deciding to do the claim by the only method that allows the dwp to lie without getting caught.

crispix
Mar 28, 2015

Grand-Maman m'a raconté
(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)

Hello, dear
looks like mrs norman's got a job on the phones

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

crispix posted:

i bloody knew ghosts was real


Noxville posted:

This is not at all surprising from the DWP, but honestly surprised they’d speak to an MSP calling on behalf of a constituent in the same way they would to us ordinary plebs. What a horrible culture that department breeds
The above is also true of the DWP.

Tesseraction posted:

hhhhhhhhhhrrrrmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmhhhhhhh
And of Telegraph lifestyle/opinion journalists.

smellmycheese
Feb 1, 2016

So , erm, Central heating then

ukle
Nov 28, 2005
https://twitter.com/ByDonkeys/status/1582303415576715265

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
Willows are fast growing and a good source of winter fuel if you have riverside land and limited growing time and funds, like maybe a dozen people in the country.

Beloved old willow like it's a 600 year old oak lol

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A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:

smellmycheese posted:

Truss can relax. Looks like the nukes are about to start flying

https://twitter.com/haynesdeborah/status/1582288769369010176
I think this means Britain is gonna join as the 51st state, as the Americans have decided that the state has become too unstable to be worth the trouble as a client state (see the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth getting partitioned).

Guavanaut posted:

Willows are fast growing and a good source of winter fuel if you have riverside land and limited growing time and funds, like maybe a dozen people in the country.

Beloved old willow like it's a 600 year old oak lol
With a bit of foresight, all the turds being deposited directly into the ocean could've been funneled through a willow wastewater cleaning facility, cleaning up the water while producing fuel for the winter.

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