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forkboy84 posted:https://twitter.com/josiahmortimer/status/1656962679070683138?s=20 Ok but what the gently caress does 'Thurnby Lodge will never be your promised land' mean
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Whites who fled east when Indians arrived from Kenya and Uganda have some mixed up ideas about Jews and Muslims.
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I think it's just a general statement to any and all, thurnby lodge will never be your promised land, this place is not a place of honour, nothing valued is here.
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I went into Leicester city centre for the first time in a long while and I have to say it's looking good. It seemed happier, less litter, less pollution, there's a free bus that goes around and it's green and makes frog noises, the closed down shops that got occupied by scammy "£10 mystery box, not connected with the Oadby warehouse thefts!" pop up outlets have been replaced by either community ventures or food franchises, the only religion guys were singing gospel instead of shouting about how the world is in sin and everyone is poo poo. So good work from the local community and lol at whoever is glaring out of their window at that. e: https://twitter.com/Leicester_News/status/1642784415813189635 https://twitter.com/JMarshUoL/status/1642958758421602325 Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 14:52 on May 13, 2023 |
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May 13, 2023 14:48
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kingturnip posted:You know what I'd like? (It will emerge the second they have Wes! approval ratings high enough, at which point he will be taken out back and alpaca'd)
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Guavanaut posted:the closed down shops that got occupied by scammy "£10 mystery box, not connected with the Oadby warehouse thefts!" pop up outlets Oh is that what those are? There's one that shows up each winter in middlesbrough outside the cleveland center, they have the shop door half way open and a guy stands outside with a trunk and a microphone yelling about the weird bundles they were selling. Always wondered what the deal with that was.
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Anyone else on octopus having problems submitting a reading today? I get to the 'yes that's right' button and nothing is happening. Tried different browsers, incognito, different devices. Been ongoing since last night. Update it's worked now this evening. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 20:54 on May 13, 2023 |
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May 13, 2023 15:49
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/shirleymush/status/1657351070434066434
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Guavanaut posted:I went into Leicester city centre for the first time in a long while and I have to say it's looking good. It seemed happier, less litter, less pollution, there's a free bus that goes around and it's green and makes frog noises, the closed down shops that got occupied by scammy "£10 mystery box, not connected with the Oadby warehouse thefts!" pop up outlets have been replaced by either community ventures or food franchises, the only religion guys were singing gospel instead of shouting about how the world is in sin and everyone is poo poo. Glad to hear Leicester has improved. I was there a few times about 5 years ago and after the shops shut the town was proper night of the Living dead, with people smashed out of their brains on Spice
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:Ok but what the gently caress does 'Thurnby Lodge will never be your promised land' mean No building
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https://twitter.com/500cigarettes/status/1657368548916842497?s=46&t=m_nNbkNoHG4lLitcpyHReg
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https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1657039416622284803?s=20 https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1656962793034137600?s=20 About this time in 1996, Labour were polling consistently between 45% and 55%, with the Tories between 20% and 30%.
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Trin Tragula posted:https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1657039416622284803?s=20 I genuinely foresee labour dropping from here. Their position is forged solely from dissatisfaction with the Tories. Once manifestos are published and policies required and all lab can offer is "two thirds as much misery as the Tories, with no substantial answers to the problems facing society" that lead will shorten. I predict a small majority. Enough to give the Tories the rest the want, and too narrow a margin for Kieth to do any of the radical policy changes he would never want to implement. They will then go into 28/29 with a platform of "give us a majority so we can radically do gently caress all", then lose to loving Jo Johnson or some other absolute ghoul
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Telegraph Sports having a normal one and accidentally proving how much of a non-issue their handwringing is. https://twitter.com/ClassiestBuu2/status/1657026298223394820 https://twitter.com/GastlySundae/status/1656960562633252866 Also an interesting thread on policy wonkery: https://twitter.com/joecguinan/status/1656675505062678528
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I'm not clicking any more Twitter threads and I recommend you all do the same.
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Trin Tragula posted:About this time in 1996, Labour were polling consistently between 45% and 55%, with the Tories between 20% and 30%. Was there hope in 1997? Was not old enough then to know much except that some new person was PM with a D:Ream song. Perhaps media presented it as an exciting time, and may try to do so again, but it's hard to imagine anyone popular hope about the outcome of the next election.
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1997 was the cusp of the new millenium, not "everything's been hosed for 20 years and it's only getting worse"
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domhal posted:Was there hope in 1997? Was 20 then. The 90s was a glorious time, it was the pre-millenium, a beginning of a new age. Everything was looking up, Thatcherites out, sleeze out, brand new thing called the internet and computer games beginning to get sorta realistic looking. I remember watching Blair and thinking it was an amazing time and the future was going to be excellent. Now, hah, I fully expect if I'm alive 30 years from now my best probable future is living back in my old family home and being able to use the electricity once a week.
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Dabir posted:I'm not clicking any more Twitter threads and I recommend you all do the same. 
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domhal posted:Was there hope in 1997? Yes a bit. I was one of those who cheered the arrival of Tonty. Little did I know. I also got laid off from a job I hated (and was thinking about quitting anyway but as they kept doing more & more layoffs just waited it out til they got to me) with the equivalent of 5 months take home pay and a new job a week later. Also 'the millennium bug' was on the horizon and I was thinking about what supplies I should start getting in. I've mentioned the glorious tinned custard binge before ITT so no tinned custard in the apocalypse cupboard. Also discussions with people who would come out with idiocies such as "surely you don't believe in the Millennium" (qué?) no said I just know there will be issues but I don't know what they will be, fked up water supply may be? And who knows what idiots will start roaming about in gangs trying to rob my canned tuna. Took me 3 years to consume my supplies and I was bloody glad of them when I had flu & pneumonia. Also that was the year I got the internet at home and a new pc with a TV card (had no TV for years this was long before streaming, torrents etc). Oh yeah and Princess Diana was killed and I signed a book of condolence in the hospital chapel. And if ever there was a time to overthrow the monarchy that was it. Very anti-royal feeling at the time. Huge public anger at how QE2 etc reacted. (The Helen Mirren fil The Queen is pretty good on how it was at the time).
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I always thought Blair looked like a psychopath even before '97. Every one of his appearances sounded like either a bad salesman or someone who kept kids in their freezer. I was told that it wasn't fair to judge people on their appearance even if it sets your fight or flight alarms off. Often by people who took the piss out of Major for looking 'dull'. That aside I generally remember the time as optimistic. South Africa democratically ended apartheid and voted Mandela in, people were getting ready to sit down and talk peace in NI, the tech sector was booming, we were all going to be a global village and people would voluntarily decide to be less bigoted if you gave them enough freedom.
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Why is this even posed as a question? Humans are known bores.
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Eurovision, famous for only having English language songs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRva0YOVtcI They make a fair point though, now that there's more native German and French speakers in the EU, the lingua inglese of the EU and similar institutions should probably shift more towards one of those.
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domhal posted:Was there hope in 1997? Was not old enough then to know much except that some new person was PM with a D:Ream song. There was a huge amount of optimism about getting rid of the Tories. Michael Portillo became a meme ahead of its time - there was a saying that went round - “were you up for Portillo?” because he lost his safe seat in the middle of the night and pulled lots of amusingly sad faces. There was a genuine widespread belief that Blair was going to set the country on a new course that had largely turned to poo poo by the time 9/11 hosed up the future more broadly
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:the equivalent of 5 months take home pay and a new job a week later. I find this so hard to even imagine these days, I'd have to work with the same company for 20 years for that to be a thing.
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SpicePro posted:I find this so hard to even imagine these days, I'd have to work with the same company for 20 years for that to be a thing. That was statutory minimum at the time, based on years worked and age.
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https://twitter.com/BareLeft/status/1657460672291061765 e: I also had hope in 1997 and voted for Blair. There was a lot of hype in the media, and as most people didn't have access to the internet back then, people got sucked up in the tidal wave. I also remembered having similar hope for Claggnuts and voted for him too... The moral of the story is not to have hope. Hope can be a dangerous thing. Also have some robin tax. I've made a new friend who I try to visit daily.  fuctifino fucked around with this message at 22:32 on May 13, 2023 |
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/13/membership-of-anti-monarchy-group-republic-almost-doubles-in-wake-of-coronation-arrests Sorry phone posting so no quotes. Anyway Republic gets loads of new members and donations since the arrests last week.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:That was statutory minimum at the time, based on years worked and age. I'm interested to know how your age factored in, I imagine you couldn't do that now for discriminatory reasons. Of course it's now just 1 week per year you've worked (unless you have been at the company for less than 2 years and you get nothing lol!).
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Guavanaut posted:Eurovision, famous for only having English language songs. I doubt it, mostly because it benefits everyone who isn't France or Germany for the EU common language to not be French/German. It's the language of mutual effort, where everyone has to put in effort to become a speaker. We will probably see more of a linguistic drift towards a EU-english than is weird and picks up bits from european languages than the proper English way, but that happened to all our colonies already.
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SpicePro posted:I'm interested to know how your age factored in, I imagine you couldn't do that now for discriminatory reasons. Of course it's now just 1 week per year you've worked (unless you have been at the company for less than 2 years and you get nothing lol!). I was under 40 at the time. I think over 40 or it may have been 42 you got 2 weeks for every year over that age. I can't remember the exact calculation now. It was tax free (hence why equivalent to 5 months take home). Also I said I did not want to work notice (2 months in my job - said I'd rather sit on the sofa and paint my toenails that work another day.) so had that too (also tax free). Should have seen boss face when I got my Union rep to come in to the redundancy meeting (I was management LOL. Mind you the rep looked like a rabbit in headlights too). People who appealed against the redundancy had appeal time knocked off their redundancy time somehow I can't remember the details. Basically if you appealed you lost money week by week.
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Guavanaut posted:Euro English owes more to US cultural imperialism than most people in the UK happening to speak it. The cultural victory in Civilisation is no longer "jeans and rock music", it should be Swedish people speaking like they're on an American TV show.
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