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It's a reference to an early 80s TV show called Auf Wiedersehen Pet about a bunch of northern English working class blokes moving to Germany for work after Thatcher shut down all industry. Nobody under the age of 50 should get that reference, but I guess the over-50s are Labour's key demographic now that they've killed off the youth vote they had. I only know of the show because I watched a Youtuber review the officially licensed videogame.
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Absolutely unthinkable that the British arent superior to neighboring countries
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Mar 1, 2023 21:45
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it's not even neighbouring, if it was we might let poles be white
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Mar 1, 2023 22:00
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Clyde Radcliffe posted:I only know of the show because I watched a Youtuber review the officially licensed videogame. Link please
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Mar 1, 2023 22:04
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the deeper joke is that the polish are renowned for their workmanship and relative cheapness, a bunch of brits going over there and charging €1500 for a bit of bathroom siliconing and blank stares if you ask them to tidy up / tiny extra jobs just isn’t going to happen
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Mar 1, 2023 22:05
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notaspy posted:Link please https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf8bWEflOow
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Mar 1, 2023 22:10
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90s Cringe Rock posted:it's not even neighbouring, if it was we might let poles be white *Looks at Ireland and Wales.* I mean, might is the operative word there.
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Mar 1, 2023 22:25
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lol ok so UK followed the US lead and imposed sanctions on xinjiang which grows 35% of the world's tomatoes and now there's such a shortage that they're being rationed at supermarkets?!
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Mar 2, 2023 07:15
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I'm imagining la tomatina in Buñol but with turnips
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Microplastics posted:Kerr Startler Der Starmer
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Mar 2, 2023 08:14
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crepeface posted:lol ok so UK followed the US lead and imposed sanctions on xinjiang which grows 35% of the world's tomatoes and now there's such a shortage that they're being rationed at supermarkets?! I don't think we ever got many of our tomatoes from Xinjiang, they were mostly from Spain. the official line is that this is all due to cold weather affecting the tomato crop and
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Mar 2, 2023 09:00
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When I look out the window at night I see the massive glow from vast swathes of greenhouses, growing tomatoes and peppers and other vegetables, and the ferry to Harwich is right next to it. The channel is only like 100 miles wide there. It might as well be a thousand.
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Mar 2, 2023 09:04
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This was my first guess!
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Mar 2, 2023 09:17
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrwSDX95wCs
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Gato posted:I don't think we ever got many of our tomatoes from Xinjiang, they were mostly from Spain. the official line is that this is all due to cold weather affecting the tomato crop and makes sense but... if you're having a shortage you could buy them from xinjiang
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Mar 2, 2023 10:09
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Clyde Radcliffe posted:It's a reference to an early 80s TV show called Auf Wiedersehen Pet about a bunch of northern English working class blokes moving to Germany for work after Thatcher shut down all industry. i have heard of it and i am 30 but thats mostly from the dire straits song also this whole leaking all of matt hancocks texts thing seems quite promising, might turn the tories into a circular firing squad yet again and usher in a glorious era of keith. seems like they will drip feed the whole cabinet saying mask off things for the next couple of weeks
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Mar 2, 2023 11:39
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zRCGB9-H3A
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Clyde Radcliffe posted:It's a reference to an early 80s TV show called Auf Wiedersehen Pet about a bunch of northern English working class blokes moving to Germany for work after Thatcher shut down all industry. auf wiedersehen, pet was great.
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Mar 2, 2023 11:58
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Series one of auf wiedersehen pet was one of about 5 things my dad successfully taped off the telly (that, guns of navarone, you only live twice, simpsons series 3, the jolly boys outing) so I have watched it approx 800 times. It's decent
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Clyde Radcliffe posted:It's a reference to an early 80s TV show called Auf Wiedersehen Pet about a bunch of northern English working class blokes moving to Germany for work after Thatcher shut down all industry. It must have been repeated in the '90s because I definitely saw it & would've been -1 years old when the show originally aired. An extremely working class show is my memory of it. Kieth must've hated it.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-64820618quote:Aboriginal spears taken by British explorer Captain James Cook and his landing party when they first arrived in Australia in 1770 will be returned to the local Sydney clan. Simply no way to know which party was firing muskets or at what.
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Mar 2, 2023 12:28
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the sex ghost posted:Series one of auf wiedersehen pet was one of about 5 things my dad successfully taped off the telly (that, guns of navarone, you only live twice, simpsons series 3, the jolly boys outing) so I have watched it approx 800 times. It's decent My dad loved it, as he went off to the US to do the same as there was no jobs at the time. He also did lovely construction work as the show, treated like poo poo, but the pay was worth it.
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mossyfisk posted:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-64820618 lol passive cop talk for colonialism
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mossyfisk posted:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-64820618 Good to know that passive cop voice extends to literally colonising parties
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Even Bing Chat knows what's up:A play of what happened when cook took aboriginal spears as reported on BBC news posted:The scene is a beach on Botany Bay, where Cook's ship Endeavour is anchored. A group of Gweagal people are watching from a distance as Cook and his men approach their camp. They are armed with wooden shields and long spears.
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Mar 2, 2023 14:44
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Cook getting owned on Hawaii is still remembered quite fondly by the locals there.
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Mar 2, 2023 14:49
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i might have a job that makes me employable in a nicer country in a couple of years
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Mar 2, 2023 16:07
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You'd think maybe the "Journalist of the Year" might be asking if this "career break" might have had some ulterior motives: https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1631319308658700289?s=20
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Zeroisanumber posted:Cook getting owned on Hawaii is still remembered quite fondly by the locals there. Good for them!
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Jose posted:i might have a job that makes me employable in a nicer country in a couple of years Coward
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Jose posted:i might have a job that makes me employable in a nicer country in a couple of years do not come do not come
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Mar 3, 2023 12:10
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Ziggy Tzardust posted:You'd think maybe the "Journalist of the Year" might be asking if this "career break" might have had some ulterior motives: bit like saying the manchester bomber had a gap year to libya
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Mar 3, 2023 12:15
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Career break lol. Just taking some time off from my high profile job in the British civil service to go run a pub on the Irish border at the height of the troubles. No I'm not a spy why would you even suggest that.
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Mar 3, 2023 12:27
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I love to have favourite stories about all the top civil servants
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Mar 3, 2023 12:30
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it’s such a stupid cover story that the only reason i can imagine they did that was just signpost how much of an undercover agent she was
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Mar 3, 2023 13:10
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Keef appointing a burnt MI:6 operative as his chief of staff is oddly fitting tbh.
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Mar 3, 2023 13:39
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I mean a lot of SAS guys are taking a break in Eastern Europe at the moment, it happens.
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Ardennes posted:I mean a lot of SAS guys are taking a break in Eastern Europe at the moment, it happens. Hope they get their citizenship removed
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keep punching joe posted:Hope they get their citizenship removed
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