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I wonder if Bridgen would have been suspended from the Tories if he'd compared the vaccine to any other historical event. Like he could have gone for Unit 731 or the Tuskegee syphilis experiment or Thatcher bankrolling Pol Pot or the British use of typhus as a weapon of war in Africa and those would all have been equally appalling bullshit comparisons, but he went straight for the Holocaust. I also wonder if he ever compared his failure to potato to the Famine. Blitz good because our enemy was a foreigner, Lockdown bad because our enemy was our own self importance. e: Seven segment displays have 7 segments but they only use 3 or 4 to display the number 7. When all 7 segments are illuminated, it displays the number 8.
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I liked Henning Wehn's bit that if you were a toddler during the Blitz you were a drain on resources and essentially helping the German war effort . solid bit of wind-up there
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I learnt all I need to know about the Blitz from Cockney Wanker in Viz.
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You've just given me flashbacks to a dreadful job I had as a sales engineer in an electronics firm 40 years ago... aarrghhhhhhhhh ....
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Which is a lot like the blitz, if you think about it.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I thought it was 50 actually. Not only the right to claim you lived through WW2 & fought on the beaches, but you were also down in the trenches during WW1.
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Trin Tragula posted:Just picking up on this: a very similar culture was responsible for the wiring error during the Waterloo Area Resignalling project which was the direct cause of the Clapham Junction crash*. There have been a surprising amount of near misses. Recently I worked on a big project and it wasn't until the morning where trains were just about to be allowed to run on it that it was noticed a switch had been installed incorrectly. Had trains been allowed to run they would have derailed. The switch had been installed at the end of a 14 days blockade, checked, tested and inspected and it was only luck that one of the supervisors decided to walk the site to make sure there were no tools or other equipment left out that he spotted it. My gang was one of three hauled in immediately to fix it and the project overran by 12 hours, which is infinitely preferable to any deaths that could have occurred. There have been a few others that while wouldn't have been as sever has meant emergency works before trains could run again.
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Day 10 of searing heat here in Northern Ireland and a majority of the population have now transitioned from blue, through white, to bright pink.
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smellmycheese posted:Day 10 of searing heat here in Northern Ireland and a majority of the population have now transitioned from blue, through white, to bright pink. This is how unionism happens.
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The Red Hand, Arms, and Torso of Ulster. It's real fucken nice in Dublin. Any hotter and the dog wouldn't be having a nice time, but as it is we're chilling in the Big Park
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More diverse migration, more trade union power, racism and anti-immigrant sentiment at lowest levels since records began. Nigel Farage and Laurence Fox's Brexit has failed. Mick Lynch and Dennis Skinner's hasn't yet.
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Guavanaut posted:More diverse migration, more trade union power, racism and anti-immigrant sentiment at lowest levels since records began. It's weird isn't it. With all these folk (the twitterati, hexpress, heil) pushing anti-immigrant stuff, one might think it had increased but it hasn't. Kind of shows up twitter for being a rightwing echo chamber (I certainly get pushed loads of tweets from right farts. I've muted or blocked most but some I can't help myself from commenting. It's my entertainment on a long evening!)
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That has, I think, got significantly worse since musk took over and a lot of the leftier people exited the platform and he started using the system to push more right wing stuff. To think that he's probably the best thing to ever happen to @jack's reputation.
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this is funny to me because the ghoul in question looks just like boris if he used homer simpson's makeup gun not doing lockdowns in the name of the national character is some last days of the aztecs poo poo
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lool Diet Crack said it first
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smellmycheese posted:Day 10 of searing heat here in Northern Ireland and a majority of the population have now transitioned from blue, through white, to bright pink. Trans Rights
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crispix posted:this is funny to me because the ghoul in question looks just like boris if he used homer simpson's makeup gun It's Janet Daley, who's a horrible person, but you could probably have assumed that from the fact that she writes for the Telegraph.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:It's weird isn't it. With all these folk (the twitterati, hexpress, heil) pushing anti-immigrant stuff, one might think it had increased but it hasn't. Kind of shows up twitter for being a rightwing echo chamber (I certainly get pushed loads of tweets from right farts. I've muted or blocked most but some I can't help myself from commenting. It's my entertainment on a long evening!) Britain First getting mad at an obviously rendered rainbow on the Arc de Triomphe (but I thought LGBT rights were a sign that we were better than the Muslim world? I can't keep up.) The Telegraph mad about lockdowns that were over years ago. Bourgeois reactionaries whining that Brexit is a difficult and ongoing process that didn't instantly poo poo gold bullion into their hands like everything else in their privileged lives has.
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The Telegraph has some very puzzling obsessions. They're really down on the concept of heat pumps for some reason and keep publishing pieces about how they're going to be the downfall of Western Civilisation etc etc. I dunno how this stuff gets picked, could just be down to the top staff moaning and complaining about it over drinks I guess.
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There was some kind of internal spat at the Telegraph a couple of years back, between "genius inventor Boris Johnson is going to save us thousands on our bills with this" and "eco nutters are coming for your traditional wood burner", I guess representing the industrialist and pastoralist factions of Telegraph Tories. Nobody won, but heat pumps lost.
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The Telegraph is still under the ownership of those wierdo replicant brothers right? Easy to assume the billionaires don't care about saving money on energy bills.
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Heat pumps are just a useful technology though, and a technology we already use in things like fridges, it's like Ug writing screeds against Og for inventing the round wheel when there's nothing loving wrong with our square ones.
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Since when have the political right cared about whether something already existed prior to them freaking out about it?
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Tesseraction posted:The Telegraph is still under the ownership of those wierdo replicant brothers right? Easy to assume the billionaires don't care about saving money on energy bills. It is but one of them died.
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I think the underlying element, other than "it's new and different" of all reaction (and they're not really) is that they look American. Which then makes it a debate between thatcherite Atlanticists who view Central Air as aspirational and one nation traditionalists who are still suspicious of natural gas, let alone big boxes on the outside of your house that make you look like a Yank or a corner shop.
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:Trans Rights It's only transi-Tory.
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smellmycheese posted:Day 10 of searing heat here in Northern Ireland and a majority of the population have now transitioned from blue, through white, to bright pink. If it continues until the 12th, the Orangemen will be neon red.
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Nigel Farage football stickers. Featuring Nigel Farage dressed as all your favourite footballers. The Bukayo Saka and Raheem Sterling ones have been specifically condemned by the SPLC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fwSO0IGyX8
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smellmycheese posted:https://twitter.com/nigel_farage/status/1665390840892538885?s=46&t=m_nNbkNoHG4lLitcpyHReg I hope it's pancreatic cancer
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MAUREEN FETCH ME MY HEART PILLS! FARAGE IS GOING TO ANNOUNCE SOMETHING OH I FEEL SO LIGHT HEADED, CALM DOWN CALM DOWN MAUREEN GET THE MINI UNION JACK FLAGS OUT OF THE CUPBOARD WE MAY NEED THEM
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happyhippy posted:If it continues until the 12th, the Orangemen will be neon red. With a lot of sunscreen on them i'm sure they'll be orange all over.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:It's weird isn't it. With all these folk (the twitterati, hexpress, heil) pushing anti-immigrant stuff, one might think it had increased but it hasn't. Kind of shows up twitter for being a rightwing echo chamber (I certainly get pushed loads of tweets from right farts. I've muted or blocked most but some I can't help myself from commenting. It's my entertainment on a long evening!) Plenty liberal Remainers living in urban centres (sufh as the entire Guardian) are still convinced every Leave voter was either a open or closet racist (as Farage was). That was only a small fraction of leave voters. Leave won by tapping into nostalgia - Boris Johnsons idea of Great Britaine going it's own way and not being controlled by bonkers EU rules. It's how things were when they were kids, and things were better then than all the grim stuff in the news these days (please don't question why the news is pushing more and more negativity in their face). And the Brexit establishment were right that the Brexit referendum was the last chance to tear the UK away from the EU - there's been a significant amount of centralisation since we left, and while the UK could have delayed that longer we'd not be able to stop integration forever, not while the four freedoms remained the core of the EU.
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Nothingtoseehere posted:Plenty liberal Remainers living in urban centres (sufh as the entire Guardian) are still convinced every Leave voter was either a open or closet racist (as Farage was). That was only a small fraction of leave voters. Leave won by tapping into nostalgia - Boris Johnsons idea of Great Britaine going it's own way and not being controlled by bonkers EU rules. It's how things were when they were kids, and things were better then than all the grim stuff in the news these days (please don't question why the news is pushing more and more negativity in their face). I'm sure some voted out of nostalgia, but at least a part of that nostalgia was just "not having to hear about the forrigns and how they can stroll in freely into the country":  I think a lot of it has to do with insufficient suffering - the actual numbers of migrants are irrelevant, what matters is that we really put them under the boot, no freedom of movement so that any rando can stroll about like they own the place. Lots of leave voters love the idea of putting migrants through the wringer - charge them loads for their visa, education and healthcare, deny them access to benefits, make it hard for them to find employment and make their landlord and employer submit reports about them, jail them for years if they break immigration laws, that sort of thing. It's similar to Tory views on benefit scroungers really, they are not opposed to having a "social safety net" in the abstract but they absolutely can't stand people getting something for nothing. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Jun 4, 2023 |
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