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that’ll help feed the 1 in 4 children going hungry
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I'm beginning to think old Rishi might not be in touch with the needs of the common man.
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Only the most calculated of our starving children will have the skills wallets to scavenge for food, chess will help them with that
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https://twitter.com/MPSLewishamCntl/status/1667126730790952960
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Aug 2, 2023 18:32
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this looks like a parody account by that simon something uk twitter guy
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Aug 2, 2023 18:40
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Microplastics posted:YES AND HO him getting fired at the end of the show is a pro watch
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Aug 2, 2023 18:41
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Oi you got a license for them sweets mate
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Aug 2, 2023 19:29
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They're called The Thirteen Colonies
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Aug 2, 2023 19:42
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Private Speech posted:I mean the UK doesn't even have food stamps, food insecurity is one of those things where the US is miles ahead. holy poo poo that is insane
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Aug 2, 2023 19:56
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Jel Shaker posted:we’re getting into real deep boomer brain here, the maths thing was just the start, now this obsession with chess, soon they’ll turn off colour television and make it black & white again telescreens George Orwell posted:A waiter, again unbidden, brought the chessboard and the current issue of 'The Times',
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Cerebral Bore posted:was britain ever that good at chess? i guess you had nigel short but that's about it Britain had many excellent chess players before the game was ruined by people "trying to win".
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Aug 2, 2023 20:16
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Really leaning into the whole rearranging deck chairs energy that the UK has been giving off since Corbyn ate poo poo.
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Aug 2, 2023 20:28
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Cerebral Bore posted:was britain ever that good at chess? i guess you had nigel short but that's about it Really, if any Commonwealth country has a claim to chess, it'd probably be India, since it has least India has produced a champion in the 21st century. On the other hand, the last British champion was in 1886, so perhaps chess is a necessary part of restoring Britain's imperial glory.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Really, if any Commonwealth country has a claim to chess, it'd probably be India, […] well, they invented it
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Aug 2, 2023 21:02
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The king of england invented chess. Thats why its called the game of kings
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i suppose they are just sort of assuming that britain was once #1 in chess without bothering to look into it.
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Aug 2, 2023 23:06
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it’s shite the man down the pub spouts but dressed as government policy, which is somehow is even more than we’re getting from labour lol
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The chess thing is just the latest iteration of those ads encouraging people to stop doing ballet and start learning2code. Only STEM-aligned hobbies and jobs allowed. Holy poo poo those numbers on Just Stop Oil. I thought there would be a bit more middle class kayfabe of "well their hearts are in the right place but their methods are misguided" but it's straight up almost half of respondents saying they're a force for bad. jacksbrat has issued a correction as of 23:46 on Aug 2, 2023 |
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Aug 2, 2023 23:44
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Wish I'd never heard of the US tbh
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Aug 2, 2023 23:48
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To be fair given the recent news around increased oil production you can’t say that their methods have been successful. Other than the usual method of creating a think tank and giving MPs large consultant fees which is how things seem to work there is not much really they can do.
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jacksbrat posted:The chess thing is just the latest iteration of those ads encouraging people to stop doing ballet and start learning2code. Only STEM-aligned hobbies and jobs allowed. We get waves if this in the US, too. People decide that they can cargo cult their way to excellence by forcing the kids to do "smart people stuff" instead of expensive things like hiring teachers or building schools.
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spacemang_spliff posted:holy poo poo that is insane https://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news/section/4/199628/HK-woman-took-her-own-life-in-UK-after-struggling-to-pay-for-food-and-rent
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Cao Ni Ma posted:https://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news/section/4/199628/HK-woman-took-her-own-life-in-UK-after-struggling-to-pay-for-food-and-rent quote:Fion completed her bachelor's degree in Hong Kong in 2017, followed by a master's degree in international affairs in Switzerland two years later. She then moved to the UK in 2022 and planned to stay there. no one told her that the only reason people get those degrees or take those positions is to make the world a worse place
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Aug 3, 2023 01:15
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willy wonka crimes in the fail country
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Jel Shaker posted:we’re getting into real deep boomer brain here, the maths thing was just the start, now this obsession with chess, soon they’ll turn off colour television and make it black & white again maths is important...
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Quotey posted:maths is important... Food moreso though The government really should look up Mazlow
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the US is a force for bad. the organisation formalising its status as military suzerain to half the world is really good though. the regional monopolies on life’s most basic requirement, currently famous for covering the country in raw sewage, are kinda mid tbh. fuckin love the royal captain sir tom war shagger brigade that sued amiga power for a cover about cannon fodder
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Aug 3, 2023 08:23
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extreme cowardice to not include “the United Kingdom” as a poll option
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Aug 3, 2023 09:04
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The United what now
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Aug 3, 2023 09:08
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Never heard of it mate
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Aug 3, 2023 09:45
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There will be adequate chess
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Aug 3, 2023 09:49
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We import two thirds of our chess. That. Is. A. Disgrace!
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Chess is going to be the land of pawns and honey
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Aug 3, 2023 10:41
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"en passant" is foreign muck
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Chas McGill posted:We import two thirds of our chess. That. Is. A. Disgrace! we used to have a white queen! now all we have a black rookie!!!!
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The whole "We can't afford to feed kids and it's wrong to anyway" doesn't even work in terms of an appeal to selfishness. At any one time, there's a cohort of pensioners, a cohort of working age people and a cohort of children. In time, the current working age group becomes the pensioners and the children move up to being wage earners. That being the case, it is absolutely, 100% in the direct personal interest of every adult that the next generation of children is as happy and healthy and well-fed and well-educated as possible, 'cos these are the people who in due course will be paying your pensions and providing your old age services. Giving them deprived, lovely childhoods isn't just spiteful behaviour, it is directly harming your own future prospects and quality of life in later years. And thusly I demonstrate that this attitude is the most British thing possible.
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Aug 3, 2023 11:12
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Honestly there is nothing the British love more than hurting kids
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Actually I think you'll find that poor kids only get lovely jobs so barely contribute to the economy, probably on the dole anyway. Only investment bankers and programmers' kids should be fed.
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