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here's something fun to watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro5Q_8ZHS-Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBCWD3sxDKs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhwGQ6XPS6E all of these people, children included, were in the blitz and personally won the war against the enemy.
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happyhippy posted:I want all of you on my 10 mile high funeral pyre. Let me guess, you plan on having your funeral around the 12th of July? Bloody Northern Irish & their palette funeral pyres.
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Apparently fixed tariffs are coming back in: though the recommendation is not to fix right now. source: heil/money/bills/article-12263249/Should-fixed-rate-energy-tariff-theyre-widely-available.html quote:The fixed rate energy deals on offer I wish they would stop with this 'average household' BS though. I'm not an average household nor, I suspect, are many others. I want to know the price per kWh for electricity on Economy 7 (and I actually think I'd be better off on single tariff as I have little opportunity to use energy between midnight & 7am except a bit of heating on the coldest winter nights. (We have communal washing machines and I only used my oven twice in almost 4 years because the microwave went kaput).
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I want my remains scattered within the Palace of Westminster. I don't want to be cremated, as that would be bad for the environment. A woodchipper will suffice.
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kingturnip posted:Am I remembering that the govt made burials at sea a bit easier to arrange in the last few years? https://radiolab.org/podcast/corpse-demon Radiolab had a really good episode recently to do with sky burials. Worth a listen
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imagining a future where sea burials become much more popular, which in turn fucks up sea ecology and results in a high frequency of human corpses washing up on beaches
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Nuclear Spoon posted:imagining a future where sea burials become much more popular, which in turn fucks up sea ecology and results in a high frequency of human corpses washing up on beaches The Great North Sea Body Patch
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Remarkable turnaround really from the big bold clever newspapers that, just 4 years ago were yelling about sunlit uplands and Grate Britane unshackled from Europe and astride the globe wearing Union Jack underpants. They’re now all knocking out stuff that’s even more doomerist about our prospects than this thread lol 
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Let us just rest in the satisfaction that absolutely no one saw this coming. There were zero critics of austerity or Brexit. Had there been I believe the British media taken its typical responsible approach and would listen to them considered their opinions valid. They would certainly never attack them as stupid or politically motivated or "doing student politics".
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Gorn Myson posted:Let us just rest in the satisfaction that absolutely no one saw this coming. There were zero critics of austerity or Brexit. Had there been I believe the British media taken its typical responsible approach and would listen to them considered their opinions valid. They would certainly never attack them as stupid or politically motivated or "doing student politics". I wish to partake of your perception altering medicinals. 
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smellmycheese posted:Remarkable turnaround really from the big bold clever newspapers that, just 4 years ago were yelling about sunlit uplands and Grate Britane unshackled from Europe and astride the globe wearing Union Jack underpants. They’re now all knocking out stuff that’s even more doomerist about our prospects than this thread lol Just read the article: she's gastly in general, but I do find it very interesting when mouthpieces of the ruling class admit that things are looking hosed. Reading this paragraph: "But the UK’s fate is not merely to become steadily poorer, crankier and rougher round the edges – a place where, year by year, you become slightly more likely to spend your life renting, be accosted by mentally unstable beggars on the street or die of curable cancer. The risk however is that such a scenario – one of slow-burning misery rather than a full-blown emergency – may in fact be too optimistic. The country is not so much slumping along a downward slope as hurtling towards a cliff edge." I imagine what the Tory solutions here are: - Destroy environmentally sensitive areas for more lovely-quality new-builds, while artificially inflating the housing market - ...hoping they die of exposure? - Privatise NHS Of course, Labour's fully costed 2019 manifesto would cover these by introducing some measure of appropriate taxation, but they won't want to talk about that. It's interesting to see a Tory mouthpiece admit that "massively lower taxes" didn't work as an approach. And raising interest rates isn't working. What will fix the economy is higher wages & investing in infrastructure. Higher wages encourage people to work, and infrastructure projects provide the things to work on. The problem as I see it is, Britain is a country on the cheap. We're not a Waitrose, a Tesco or even an Iceland. We're a Poundstretcher. Do everything the absolute cheapest, meanest, crappiest way possible, so long as it costs as little as possible first, and earns as much as possible second. Build a crappy public toilet and charge 50p to use it. Destroy the NHS & make you pay for prescriptions. So long as the coffers of the few remain bulging beyond belief.
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It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks, and to become one with all the people. — Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Ethics for Tomorrow"
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Archive version of the article: https://archive.li/ZO9w6Mourning Due posted:
'Twas ever thus. When I worked in NHS in the 90s, the number of times they accepted the lowest tender, the contractor went bust on the job (not helped by the NHS being one of the slowest payers in the history of the universe) and another firm had to come in and complete the work at 'day rates' (much higher than fixed price for the job) was astonishing.
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This is her solution lol. Dear god we are in desperate times 
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The British Disease is Thatcherism, hth
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smellmycheese posted:This is her solution lol. Dear god we are in desperate times In my CSI lab at 4 am, I shakily hold up a vial of blue elixir labelled "Racism Antidote"
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List some of these brilliant, unorthodox, eccentric free-thinkers, and explain why they’re all GB News presenters or banned from Twitter
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smellmycheese posted:This is her solution lol. Dear god we are in desperate times The historian is David Starkey, who explains the British disease is just not having enough television programmes about the Tudors (And also that Hitler did nothing wrong)
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Mourning Due posted:Reading this paragraph: Sums up the daily mail's view nicely. The problem isn't that people end up having to live on the street, having to survive via begging, and lacking support for their mental health... it's that they get personally inconvenienced by such a thing.
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Jedit posted:Mohammed Adil is the guy who was struck off for saying COVID was a hoax. few pages back but he was suspended for six months for loving up a surgery, various professional malpractice things in the following days, and lying to his responsible officer about how he'd definitely taken down all his covid-is-a-hoax videos. he then appealed the suspension saying that he's just a little guy and didn't know he'd done anything wrong, and that all the witness statements were from anonymous trolls, which failed. he can get back to sewing the wrong end of the colon to things in early october
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smellmycheese posted:This is her solution lol. Dear god we are in desperate times We already have this it's called the government you smooth brained dipshit. The disease is that they're all evil idiots
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Failed Imagineer posted:In my CSI lab at 4 am, I shakily hold up a vial of blue elixir labelled "Racism Antidote" 
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smellmycheese posted:This is her solution lol. Dear god we are in desperate times Enigma, eh? So the solution is to do whatever the Poles are doing, but with more funding?
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Soricidus posted:Enigma, eh? So the solution is to do whatever the Poles are doing, but with more funding? And then use that directly against far-right nationalism and fascism. Sounds surprisingly left-wing for the Telegraph.
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The British disease is stubbornly refusing to accept the fact that you no longer rule 1/4 of the world, and can now barely even rule the imperial core.
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We know what the country's most significant problems are already: putting a team of nerds together to look really thoroughly into the issues is just displacement activity.
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Me to my stepson: "Tidy your room, it's like a tip in here!" My stepson: "I must first investigate in depth the complex relationship between neatness and untidyness. What even IS untidyness? In this dissertation I shall... "
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Pistol_Pete posted:Me to my stepson: "Tidy your room, it's like a tip in here!" And then he invoices you for an exploratory committee made up of 10 of his most annoying mates
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"Do whatever the Poles are doing, but with more funding and then use that directly against far-right nationalism and fascism." would be an interesting challenge given modern Polish politics. Unless we're going to get NASA to polish an enormous mirror and then headbutt it.
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Pistol_Pete posted:We know what the country's most significant problems are already: putting a team of nerds together to look really thoroughly into the issues Yeah, I'll stop you right there.
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Looks like arson https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...obox=1691485452
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What part of the building mysteriously catching fire, fire access roads being blocked by piles of gravel, and the remains of the property being bulldozed hours after the police announced an investigation tipped you off?
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Yeah it's remarkable how many listed buildings get bought by private companies and then immediately burn down in the UK.
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Gonzo McFee posted:Yeah it's remarkable how many listed buildings get bought by private companies and then immediately burn down in the UK. I'm surprised any building in central Glasgow is older than 40 years at this point, they seem to accidentally burn down with such frequency. Still loving mad that the cunts gutted a building nextdoor to the Barfly which also took that out. Was a great wee venue.
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Nicholas van Hoogstraten is at it again
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Local government making noises about making it be rebuilt brick by brick using the same materials and not allowing a change of use for the site. But lol if you think that's going to be enforced
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josh04 posted:What part of the building mysteriously catching fire, fire access roads being blocked by piles of gravel, and the remains of the property being bulldozed hours after the police announced an investigation tipped you off? Real head scratcher for the cops. I’m sure it will need a lengthy investigation to even begin to work out who did it
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forkboy84 posted:I'm surprised any building in central Glasgow is older than 40 years at this point, they seem to accidentally burn down with such frequency. Still loving mad that the cunts gutted a building nextdoor to the Barfly which also took that out. Was a great wee venue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=282qnqL08iY
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Meanwhile, in Ireland… https://twitter.com/bbcnewsni/status/1688789759022313473?s=46&t=m_nNbkNoHG4lLitcpyHReg
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DreddyMatt posted:Local government making noises about making it be rebuilt brick by brick using the same materials and not allowing a change of use for the site. It was enforced with another pub a few years ago.
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