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GB News are frothing about Albanians this evening. Where are the Albanian women and children they wonder, it is only the strong young men who are arriving.
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They are coming over here to steal our top industrial secrets like "sell all your industry to your friends and don't bother with infrastructure" and "poo poo in river."
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Albania chat: Anyone else ITT old enough to have seen Wag the Dog? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_Dog quote:The president is caught making advances on an underage girl inside the Oval Office, less than two weeks before the election. Conrad Brean, a top spin doctor, is brought in by presidential aide Winifred Ames to take the public's attention away from the scandal. He decides to construct a fictional war in Albania, hoping the media will concentrate on this instead. Brean contacts Hollywood producer Stanley Motss to create the war, complete with a theme song and fake film footage of a fleeing orphan to arouse sympathy. The hoax is initially successful, with the president quickly gaining ground in the polls. Kirsten Dunst, Dustin Hoffman. 
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Oct 31, 2022 21:43
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At this point I would probably rather take a thousand literal serial killers than a thousand proven tories, the latter do more damage.
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Libluini posted:When I asked my local animal shelter a couple years ago what they think a single cat would need as absolute minimum space, their answer was "at least 50m²". That would be a rather big cage. This is about the same size as the ground floor of my house. I have two cats (one mine, one a foster) and under this guidance my entire house is possibly not large enough for two cats.
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OwlFancier posted:At this point I would probably rather take a thousand literal serial killers than a thousand proven tories, the latter do more damage. Based on covid and austerity deaths, the serial killers would need to kill well over 1000 people each before catching sight of a Tory MP
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Lady Demelza posted:This is about the same size as the ground floor of my house. I have two cats (one mine, one a foster) and under this guidance my entire house is possibly not large enough for two cats. What do you think your cats are, Albanian immigrants?  Solution: move out so the cats have more space to themselves.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Albania chat: 
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Lady Demelza posted:This is about the same size as the ground floor of my house. I have two cats (one mine, one a foster) and under this guidance my entire house is possibly not large enough for two cats. I think the shelter saying 50sq.m. might have meant either 50 sq.ft which is about 4.65 sq.m OR mean a whole cattery for many cats. Just no way it's 50sqm for one cat UNLESS they are including outside free-roaming space which is different territory to what we're talking about here.
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Or it's one of those big cats.
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OwlFancier posted:I was more thinking a reality TV show where they have to attempt to build a society in there and probably just eat each other. "So... cie... ty?" 
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Oct 31, 2022 21:59
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There's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are famines. Pro strat: Eat the big Polish lad first.
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Nenonen posted:What do you think your cats are, Albanian immigrants? Hmmm they are young adult males, jobless, have a poor grasp of English, and expect a hardworking taxpayer to support them.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Albania chat: The movie that came out the same year as Titanic? No were all too young to have seen that.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/31/abortion-clinic-protesters-may-want-to-comfort-people-claims-minister-maria-caulfield They'll comfort you with targeted harassment
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Runcible Cat posted:"So... cie... ty?" Brian Yuzna's Society
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Diet Crack posted:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/31/abortion-clinic-protesters-may-want-to-comfort-people-claims-minister-maria-caulfield
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Lady Demelza posted:Hmmm they are young adult males, jobless, have a poor grasp of English, and expect a hardworking taxpayer to support them. Did you cut their goolies off? Hey Suella, here's an idea for you! My boycat sent me a valentine once saying "I love you mum but why did you cut my goolies off?" Strangely, my boy cat's handwriting was remarkably similar to my dad's.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cost-of-living-payments-unclaimed-b2214424.htmlquote:People who pay their energy bills on prepayment meters are being urged to claim their cost of living help vouchers after figures revealed there has been been a low uptake so far. Bet a lot of the emails have gone into junk folders which loads of people NEVER open, and so many people do not have a printer or access to one these days.
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Considering how the government treats emails, I wouldn't be surprised to see it in the junk folder under '102893897447weeaboclanICPwhataremagnets@aol.com'
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I've had a couple of cases (the Covid map last year and a work related government gateway issue on a different computer and network this year) where the main service has been on a UK server and some other element has been on an Azure or Amazon shared server along with some dodgy sites that caused my own or the company network to kick up a fuss about the whole thing. Wouldn't surprise me if they're also sending the emails out from servers that are on the spamhaus blacklist.
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Runcible Cat posted:"So... cie... ty?" https://twitter.com/MarinaPurkiss/status/1587008420175089670
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i mean quite rightly i've done my own bit and drink my own poo poo whenever i can. i dunno why more people wont do their own bit
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The United Kingdom, the World's premier Jenkem exporter
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Mark Jenkem, MP for Shitter-upon-Soakaway.
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Why doesn't he change his name to Mark Spencer-Foodhall?
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Saw this response to someone on reddit who posted that "being signed off work for depression. and then seeing firsthand how hard it is to live on benefits. 19 days until i get money and i have none left." Might be useful to someone ITT: https://www.reddit.com/r/britishproblems/comments/yih5z8/comment/iujgtar/ quote:Sorry in advance for the essay!
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Someone's bin just blew past on the road outside it's the Albanians Norman, they're nicking all the bins
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This was a pretty interesting read, at almost 6am, when I'm supposed to be asleep. https://twitter.com/StorySlug/status/1587086761150349312?t=Hygh30syAD4WjujPz4Xuwg&s=19
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Yeah the Federation only exists because the Vulcans are better than us, Trek is fundamentally pessimistic about humanity's ability to better itself without outside assistance
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HopperUK posted:Someone's bin just blew past on the road outside Yeah the storm last night was absolutely mental. Was genuinely worried that bits of my house were gonna fly off.
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Brian doesn't really like Buckingham Palace, does he? I imagine you could fit a few refugees in there before they are found proper and adequate housing.
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Albania should have got past the semi-finals at Eurovision this year. rather than. Azerbaijan. Albania has often sent underrated songs to Eurovision. Anyway, that's my opinion on Albania
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Dead Goon posted:Brian doesn't really like Buckingham Palace, does he? I dunno who Brian is. But the state of Buckingham palace, old lady been living in it for 50 years, it might be worse than the processing centre.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:You sure? they look like blackboards for writing the cats name on or something? Maybe I'm wrong. Ah, sorry. I think you're right. Honestly didn't see this yesterday. The risk of looking at things with only one working eye, I suppose. The other comments still stand, though: The cages aren't getting closed and the cats can freely roam around.
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Tesseraction posted:https://twitter.com/alexwickham/status/1587084624655777792 I'm late, and obvious, but: The political system in the UK is so infuriatingly broken and corrupt. Putting this in real job terms, my understanding as a foreigner (Canadian lol) is: being an MP is like being an untitled employee at a company. It's just, you're there to put a butt in a seat, vote the right way, and try not to rock the boat too much. You get paid a good salary from the public purse for this. If you get to be a cabinet minister, then you have a title. Your salary goes up and you get more visibility & responsibilities. There are no rules with any serious degree of enforcement, it's all "decorum" based bullshit. Things like the ministerial code seem to have no actual legal power, it's all tutting and breathless finger wagging with no consequences. And it seems like the absolute worst that can happen to you after all kinds of breaches, rule breaking and even law breaking, is you lose the job title, but remain an untitled employee, still with a salary, still deciding the direction the nation takes. Like, how are we talking about how Bravermann MIGHT be forced to CONSIDER RESIGNING, instead of, the rules mean that not only is she out as home sec, but out as an MP triggering a by-election? Like...Liz Truss is still an MP! Still influencing the direction we take as a nation, after demonstrably proving that she's a loving idiot with no grasp on reality. Again in terms of a normal job: if someone works their way up from sales rep, to regional rep, to sales director, to global sales officer, to CEO, and then in 45 days cripple the company's finances & are forced to resign: they don't go back to being sales director and work their way back, they leave in disgrace. I can't take any solace in the fact that these ministers lose that role, when all it means is they're still working to gently caress things up behind the scenes, rather than on camera.
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I mean the issue there is that they are literally the highest authority in the country, I don't know if there is a country on the planet where the government polices itself, and if you are putting people "in charge" then you are necessarily relying on them to self police. Even the US with its weird obsession with checks and balances doesn't actually have a practical means to punish people who run the country badly, or who break the supposed "rules" because the only people who can bring any of their theoretical consequences to bear are the people who are running the country, and they have no reason to want anybody in or close to their position to be held accountable for their actions. Historically, of course, the police of the government is people dragging them out and cutting off their heads, but that doesn't happen very often. And if you suggest some sort of political system where the people in charge are obligated to serve the people who put them there or else they will face real material consequences commensurate with the scale of their failures, or the idea that relying on that sort of abstraction of power away from people at large will inherently render it unable to serve the popular interest, that's loony leftism and we can't have any of that. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 09:51 on Nov 1, 2022 |
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Mourning Due posted:I'm late, and obvious, but: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b538ndRV9Do
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