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kingturnip posted:Sunak isn't going to do anything about inflation because he wants to get a well-paid job when he inevitably quits a year after the next General Election. OwlFancier posted:A fun tie can be nice but I admit I haven't bought one in a decade because I got some nice ones and they don't wear out so... why would I need new ones for how often I wear them?
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History Comes Inside! posted:I’m glad men’s fashion is super limited because I cannot be hosed to have to engage with it in any meaningful way and it’s all so uncomfortable. I will genuinely never understand people who enjoy wearing suits or even just button up shirts. I have a similar philosophy, except that I just stick with jeans/cargo shorts and button-up shirts (long or short-sleeved depending on the weather) because they're both smart enough and casual enough for pretty much any social situation. T-shirts are for the gym.
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Sanford posted:Yeah cloaks are loving awesome, especially with a hood. I’ve not had the gall to wear one since I was a teen. You should... For the Greater Good
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If it weren't for graphic tee printing I'd have barely any way to express myself. Also, it was deeply gratifying that I could get a Statler and Waldorf Hawaiian print shirt and swim shorts. Until we get rid of reckless consumerism and fast fashion, at least let me wear whatever weird poo poo I like, now I finally have the confidence to not care what strangers think of what I wear.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:You should... For the Greater
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this how i imagine myself when i play Civ
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Oh dear me posted:These things are related, though. People notice more if women don't change their outfits much, and there is definite pressure to wear lots of different things. Women also come under immense pressure for dressing wrong and can easily be labelled a prude or slut for showing too much/too little skin, too masculine/feminine depending on if they’re wearing suits or dresses, criticises on the amount of make-up (too much or too little) and the need to look professional. With the additional choice comes social condemnation if one of the dozens of invisible and arbitrary social tripwires are triggered.
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Looking forward to the Corbn cadaver synod
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The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Sir Kier Starmer was an enabler of Jeremy Corbyn. Sir Kier Starmer had always been an enabler of Jeremy Corbyn.
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Jun 28, 2023 08:39
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I've got nothing but character assassination, but my opponent has no character......
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Looks like Thames Water might be going bust. 15 million customers! I used to work for them and it doesn't surprise me in the slightest: they'd built up this network of shell companies to shuffle money around (hq'd in a convenient tax haven) and loaded the company up with billions in expensive debt while spraying dividends at the shareholders and running down the infrastructure.
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Way to make me vote for Keir just to prove how much I hate him I guess? Like seriously, the boogieman of Corbyn is just comical now. Even the various never Corbyn people around here are like "he wasn't THAT bad..."
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Corbyn did a quote from a poem by Shelley (Rise up like lions) on twitter and the usual suspects are going bonkers because they think Corbyn wrote it so they're slagging it off, saying it's bad poetry, antisemitic because it has the word 'dew' in it (and we all know what rhymes with dew don't we boys and girls). (It might be bad poetry in some peoples' eyes but not because Corbyn wrote it. Looks alright to me but then I'm a "I know what I like" person when it comes to artistic endeavour.)
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He did that during his tenure as leader of the labour party, it featured in a big promo video. It's directly related to the slogan of the party under his tenure. loving goldfish brained people.
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OwlFancier posted:He did that during his tenure as leader of the labour party, it featured in a big promo video. It's directly related to the slogan of the party under his tenure. loving goldfish brained people. Awful of him to rip off Steve Coogan like that. Corbyn must condemn.
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It also upset some prominent zoological experts https://twitter.com/AllyFogg/status/1673963975954911232?t=qjyM-3knJE54-d4-3UoO8A&s=19
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Pistol_Pete posted:Looks like Thames Water might be going bust. 15 million customers! I used to work for them and it doesn't surprise me in the slightest: they'd built up this network of shell companies to shuffle money around (hq'd in a convenient tax haven) and loaded the company up with billions in expensive debt while spraying dividends at the shareholders and running down the infrastructure. Well perfect time to nationalise it while it's on discount then.
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https://twitter.com/keewa/status/1673974546162933761?t=zfkZK37kDcacZhm5_qKyiA&s=19 Sad to live in a world where this lad is allowed to believe that he's clever
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OwlFancier posted:He did that during his tenure as leader of the labour party, it featured in a big promo video. It's directly related to the slogan of the party under his tenure. loving goldfish brained people. People that got upset it read it and it ruined their day.
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OwlFancier posted:I used to work in a charity shop but the "secret back space" was basically a cupboard big enough for two people to stand in very cosily, so we didn't have any secret hoards. When you put it like that I wonder how many secret knee tremblers went on, though.
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OwlFancier posted:I will, I think, always remember the guest lecture I had at uni by Richard Bartle who was very involved in the development of early text based video games and multi user dungeons, which are basically text based MMOs. Being old enough to both play and run MUDs, this is absolutely true. (Totally didn't do that myself for reasons oh no *whistles*)
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It's weird how the people who hate Corbyn the most tend to be thick is pigshit. I'm sure it's just correlation.
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I want Corbyn to tweet "there's no such thing as society" so I can watch the gammons absolutely poo poo on it, say it's wrong, say it's the most dreadful thing anyone could say and that anyone saying it should be shot and buried in a shallow ditch And then enjoy the subsequent backpedalling
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Asset stripped by Macquarie you say? Better nationalise those losses pronto so we can sell it on and start the whole process again. How dumb is it that water companies are not publicly owned? https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1673982325791522816
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https://twitter.com/owenjones84/status/1674023396730892290?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q Homeopathic opposition. Darth Walrus fucked around with this message at 13:07 on Jun 28, 2023 |
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Darth Walrus posted:https://twitter.com/owenjones84/status/1674022323379138561?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q Already gone
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"UK government and Ofwat holding discussions amid fears Thames Water cannot survive because of huge debt pile" Ofwat mate
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Darth Walrus posted:https://twitter.com/owenjones84/status/1674023396730892290?s=46&t=ARI_L-v32Oind1-d9B3a3Q I Hate Keir Starmer
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MeinPanzer posted:"UK government and Ofwat holding discussions amid fears Thames Water cannot survive because of huge debt pile" Discussions apropos Ofwat?
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So loving depressing that the country's spiralling into the gutter and Labour have a firm polling lead on the pledge that they'll do absolutely nothing about any of it. loving crazy.
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Thames Water could be sold to Updog unless they install a henway.
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I see the occasional tweet asking why Labour won’t suggest anything progressive, when their poll lead gives them a lot of buffer to do so. Hint: they’re right wing and they just don’t want to do anything progressive. They just want to get into power, keep things as they are, and enrich themselves and their buddies.
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What I don't understand is why bother announcing and retracting things. Like, the retraction isn't going to matter, just lie and say you'll do it and then don't. Nobody's going to go "ah well they said they wouldn't so that means I can't be mad" if you don't give people what they want they're still gonna loving hate you once you're in government.
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OwlFancier posted:What I don't understand is why bother announcing and retracting things. It actually seems to be a bizarre form of campaigning. The act of withdrawing pledges is itself a demonstration of how sensible, pragmatic, and untethered from ideology you are. It's like a warped, cancerous development of Obama's 'don't do stupid poo poo' philosophy, where pledges are actually introduced for the sole purpose of being removed.
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It's the mark of Serious Adults™ to make Tough Decisions™ like "Sorry, we simply cannot afford to let you have a better life that would also generate a lot of tax income for us". By creating and immediately cancelling as many policies as possible, Labour has discovered an infinite source of Tough Decisions™. The only things that matter are Seriousness and Adulting; concerns such as the content of the policies or whether there should be some non-cancelled policies are secondary.
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I would call that "showing weakness" if it were in response to criticism but given that they appear to be just retracting them unprompted it verges more into "having an argument with yourself" territory. Like you suggested the policy, if it was a bad one why did you do it? Why do you keep doing it to the point that it appears to be some kind of kink thing where you just really get off on announcing policies and then retracting them? They've been doing it non stop for years, I can't see how it doesn't just make them seem like you should assume anything they say will be retracted within a day or so.
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OwlFancier posted:I would call that "showing weakness" if it were in response to criticism but given that they appear to be just retracting them unprompted it verges more into "having an argument with yourself" territory. Exactly. They're the party of sober, serious debate and careful cost analysis, not blind ideology, which is why it is in fact cool and good for them to do gently caress-all except funnelling money to their mates. It was a thoroughly considered decision by political minds far more intelligent, informed, and far-thinking than your own.
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