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Guavanaut posted:Did remind me of when Lord Sugar (does he have a cutesy abbreviation? LoSar maybe) believed an Onion article about them though lol Sugarlordy
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smellmycheese posted:There’s loads in his replies The guy who wrote that tweet , Ned Donovan, is Roald Dahl’s grandson lmao
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OwlFancier posted:Mostly I was rather baffled at the idea of "build a skyscraper on top of the station and cover it in the most boring city architecture imaginable but the building's still underneath so it's fine" I do think Jago misses the point with "why do we even need more offices?" Like with luxury flats, it's not about the offices, it's about the property speculation. It's just there to get sold to hedge funds and poo poo up even more of London.
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On a different note, I read that article about the "medals for MPs" thing, and it's actually funnier than it first sounds (if you think MPs are cunts, anyway). Sir Charles Walker seems to be making the point - unintentionally, I think - that MPs are so critically short of life skills that a bunch of them can't even get a job after they leave office. quote:Some MPs [...] found it difficult to explain their skills to potential employers Doesn't exactly sound as if we're sending the best and brightest to Westminster, does it? A bunch of cretins who can only get a job when it's handed to them by someone they met at a Durham University Conservative Association networking event, or by their dad. Does the Job Centre Plus still run courses on how to apply for jobs? Maybe we should start sending former MPs there to get some valuable skills. Also, get your tiny violins out for the poor 50% of former MPs who can't massage their time in Parliament into a better-paying job at the end of it. Or don't. While it's sad that there are likely some decent MPs who struggle, I can't muster any real sympathy for a group who can't plan in advance (as they always tell the public to do) or even look online for some tips. Even this dead gay comedy forum has someone who'll turn your life of failure into something worthy of applying for a job with. Fuckin' wasters, right?
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smellmycheese posted:There’s loads in his replies https://twitter.com/paul_clarke/status/1623282481750323202?s=46&t=zeSyoBCUT2uo--GBHHu9-w You can go through Mic's timeline for more. Blueticks are seething.
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The photographer did good making Rishi appear taller in all the official pics https://twitter.com/RishiSunak/status/1623408183858323457
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Darth Walrus posted:https://twitter.com/paul_clarke/status/1623282481750323202?s=46&t=zeSyoBCUT2uo--GBHHu9-w
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On that note, here's a pretty eye-popping story about Jared O'Mara, who basically lucked into being an MP through an unexpected election victory and then behaved like a particularly irresponsible 1st year university student instead of doing, well, anything at all: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/08/drink-drugs-and-defrauding-the-state-the-spectacular-fall-of-jared-omara quote:
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Perhaps MPs should lay off the starbuckses, bring their own sandwiches for lunch, cancel the netflixes, stop buying smart cellular telephones every six months (they're always on their phones, aren't they? that's why they can't get a job probably) and stop asking the public to solve their problems for them. The public's not always gonna be there to pick up the pieces, you know. Also they should print out a copy of their CV and give it to the manager. Firm handshake.
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kingturnip posted:I do think Jago misses the point with "why do we even need more offices?" I suppose I had assumed that was implied but granted it is possible some people might not make that leap 
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I miss the old clacky announcement board at Liverpool Street. You didn't have to watch the board - just look up when you heard it change.
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fuctifino posted:The photographer did good making Rishi appear taller in all the official pics They're actually both about the same height at 5' 5'', believe it or not.
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Darth Walrus posted:They're actually both roughly same height at 5' 5'', believe it or not. Yeah, but the official photographer, using angles and perspectives has made Rishi appear to be the taller one. Check the angle of the desk in the first pic for instance e: vvv yeah, 100% valid point 
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fuctifino posted:Yeah, but the official photographer, using angles and perspectives has made Rishi appear to be the taller one. Yes, but what I'm saying is that he might have had his work less cut out for him than usual when Rishi asks to be made the tallest guy in the room.
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fuctifino posted:The photographer did good making Rishi appear taller in all the official pics Christ 
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I don't think there is enough in there to merit the helmet tbh.
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Dukakis in the tank.
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he wasnt already the boss. didn't we already have liz in a tank? and boris its politicians dukakising all the way down
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Zelenskyy is actually seven foot tall (you can't teach that) and to say that hes shorter exposes you as someone that wants to have a romantic relationship with Putin.
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Zelenskyy and Sunak are both the same height as Stalin.
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Rarity posted:CRJ is literally the best pop artist of the last decade the state of this place 
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I thought I knew two Carly Rae Jepsen songs but it turned out one of them was Miley Cyrus
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smellmycheese posted:Christ Fun fact- this is basically how tall jet fighter pilots all are these days. Minpins are able to bear excessive G forces more than normal height people. But unfortunately if you're too light with it, the F35 ejector seat fires you out so hard your neck snaps.
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History Comes Inside! posted:I thought I knew two Carly Rae Jepsen songs but it turned out one of them was Miley Cyrus call me maybe? actually don't.
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Endjinneer posted:Fun fact- this is basically how tall jet fighter pilots all are these days. Minpins are able to bear excessive G forces more than normal height people. But unfortunately if you're too light with it, the F35 ejector seat fires you out so hard your neck snaps. Funny that you say Minpins, cause when I think of tall fighter pilots I think of Roald Dahl in WW2 being too tall to fit into his Spitfire and then crashing and nearly severing his nose.* Always stuck with me as a kid. And then I became too tall and blind to ever be an astronaut or a pilot. Fucken poo poo sucks! *And then this made him a raging anti-Semite? Who knows
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smellmycheese posted:Christ Darth Helmet from Wish.com. 
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History Comes Inside! posted:I thought I knew two Carly Rae Jepsen songs but it turned out one of them was Miley Cyrus Listen to the Emotion album it will change your life
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Endjinneer posted:Fun fact- this is basically how tall jet fighter pilots all are these days. Minpins are able to bear excessive G forces more than normal height people. But unfortunately if you're too light with it, the F35 ejector seat fires you out so hard your neck snaps. My dad's tangentially involved in that whole business, and apparently, it's the weight of the helmets that's the problem. You can either have a helmet tough enough to protect you from being bounced around a cockpit, or you can have a helmet light enough that it won't snap your neck when you get ejected, but you can't (yet) have both unless you've got the sort of neck muscles that most fighter pilot-sized people don't.
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Darth Walrus posted:My dad's tangentially involved in that whole business, and apparently, it's the weight of the helmets that's the problem. You can either have a helmet tough enough to protect you from being bounced around a cockpit, or you can have a helmet light enough that it won't snap your neck when you get ejected, but you can't (yet) have both unless you've got the sort of neck muscles that most fighter pilot-sized people don't.
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They should have reversing cameras or something for that by now. Would also help with reversing, but that probably doesn't come up much.
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These politicians love their cosplay don't they. :rollyeyes: Just had a really weird experience. I was trying to autotranscribe a zoom recording where the recording already exists and so was holding a meeting with myself and 'sharing' it. Anyway, the transcription was some weird american cop chase instead of deployment from salesforce sandbox to salesforce production. Somewhat freaked out I closed everything down. Then I realized that it was picking up Criminal Minds dialogue playing on the tv even though I had the mic/headset on. Surprised it picked that dialogue up clearly and nothing off the vid playing on the same laptop! Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Feb 8, 2023 |
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There's a clever joke to be made comparing prawns with fighter pilots but I'm just too tired.
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fuctifino posted:Lib Dems winning here Not quite...First line of the article before the paywall kicks in: "The Conservatives would be relegated to Westminster’s third party behind the Scottish National Party..." Imagine going from a huge majority to fewer MPs than a party that runs in fewer than 60 constituencies (I can't remember how many seats Scotland has after the next boundary review, if it's 1 or 2 down from current). It'd be unbelievably funny and about as likely as the dead rising from their graves forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Feb 9, 2023 |
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Payndz posted:Seems like there should be some crossover between fighter pilots and F1 drivers here. F1 drivers usually have necks as wide as their heads from cornering at 6, 7, 8G for hours at a time. (Although I suppose a HANS device might get in a pilot's way a bit if they need to check their six.) Apparently, the problem's bad enough that the RAF aren't sure they can let female pilots into F-35s, among other things. Those helmets are seriously neck-snappy.
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https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1622954459629334528 if i hadn't heard of Lee Anderson before, i'd have assumed they just picked a guy out of the Question Time audience and made him deputy chair
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forkboy84 posted:Not quite...First line of the article before the paywall kicks in: "The Conservatives would be relegated to Westminster’s third party behind the Scottish National Party..." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Canadian_federal_election Conservatives went from a majority government (156/295 seats) to *two*.
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Apologies for posting Dunt but he is in fact correct here lol https://twitter.com/iandunt/status/1623584240603471874?s=46&t=nTtAKFBaAjNKTNdc5NULqw Edit: for non 2000AD nerds 
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