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fuctifino posted:5th richest economy..... Two economists are walking in the forest when they come across a pile of poo poo. The first economist says to the other "Ill pay you £100 to eat that pile of poo poo." The second economist takes the £100 and eats the pile of poo poo. They continue walking until they come across a second pile of poo poo. The second economist turns to the first and says "l'll pay you £100 to eat that pile of poo poo." The first economist takes the £100 and eats a pile of poo poo. Walking a little more, the first economist looks at the second and says, "You know, I gave you £100 to eat poo poo, then you gave me back the same £100 to eat poo poo. can't help but feel like we both just ate poo poo for nothing." "That's not true", responded the second economist. "We increased the GDP by £200!" Brendan Rodgers fucked around with this message at 13:00 on Sep 17, 2023 |
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Reveilled posted:If the Dispatches piece was a rushed frantic work to accompany a story the Times had, why did the Times describe it as a joint investigation with Dispatches? There’s no reason for the Times to share the credit if it was just their own story. They could have scooped Dispatches by releasing it just one day earlier. It was a joint investigation. This investigation was a multi month job and any perceived idea that it was a rush job to "get ahead of the Times" is purely from someone's arse. This isn't to say channel 4 should be let off. Its not THAT long ago that Brand stopped appearing on the channel. I'm sure the suits that allowed this to happen are still there. Mega Comrade fucked around with this message at 12:57 on Sep 17, 2023 |
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Tesseraction posted:Shoulder barging a tree and your mates catch all the waiting rapists that fall out of it. Then Greville Janner got banned from visiting schools.
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It makes it really hard to learn about cryptographic nonces.
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Most of them went away when bitcoin crashed.
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Mesopotamia posted:Good, Labour should scrap the entire thing and spend the money on the other lines across the country. The connections between Manc-Brum-LDN are light years ahead of what the rest of the country has to deal with, and this entire project was just an attempt by Osborne to have some sort of infrastructure legacy, despite it not being what we need. What kind of a chump do you have to be to think that cancelling one piece of investment will lead to greater investment elsewhere?
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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/PeterStefanovi2/status/1703320514117181513 I mean, India is the 6th by that measure, soo. Uh. Not sure that's the relevant point for child poverty.
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Private Speech posted:I mean, India is the 6th by that measure, soo. Uh. Not sure that's the relevant point for child poverty. It's valid in the way that this country could easily afford to make sure people don't succumb to hunger. India could too.
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It's worth mentioning given the issue isn't the quantity of food available in a country it's income inequality that drives child poverty. See also in the USA where the child tax credit was allowed to expire and child poverty skyrocketed basically overnight.
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It's unfortunate that TV cameras constantly emit such powerful nonce rays out through the lens but it's the only way to get the professional broadcast quality image we've come to expect.
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Runcible Cat posted:Not even slightly. This is the front page of my 1965 edition: is phillip toynbee polly toynbee's dad..?
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Yes, and a prominent British communist. Part of the long line of communist thought leaders raising shithead 'centrists'
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big scary monsters posted:It's unfortunate that TV cameras constantly emit such powerful nonce rays out through the lens but it's the only way to get the professional broadcast quality image we've come to expect. Meet Russel Brand, belted by paedo-rays, turned into the Nonce. Ain’t he unglamo-rays! Wreckin' his career, with the force of a bull ain't no grifter 'round who is as loveable. As ever-lovin' Nonce! Nonce! Nonce! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj26N10Ymlg
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Mesopotamia posted:Good, Labour should scrap the entire thing and spend the money on the other lines across the country. The connections between Manc-Brum-LDN are light years ahead of what the rest of the country has to deal with, and this entire project was just an attempt by Osborne to have some sort of infrastructure legacy, despite it not being what we need.
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I feel like the point of Lolita is that he ruined her life. Like she ran from him to another paedophile and then got pregnant and died. That's bad.
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Mesopotamia posted:Good, Labour should scrap the entire thing and spend the money on the other lines across the country. The connections between Manc-Brum-LDN are light years ahead of what the rest of the country has to deal with, and this entire project was just an attempt by Osborne to have some sort of infrastructure legacy, despite it not being what we need. this isn’t Sim City, you don’t get all the money back if you cancel a project halfway through
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:I feel like the point of Lolita is that he ruined her life. Like she ran from him to another paedophile and then got pregnant and died. That's bad. That's the point of the plot. The point of the book as a whole is that Humbert is charming and eloquent enough to make you nod along with the monstrous things he's doing, but that doesn't make him any less of a monster.
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What if a school bus was being pursued by a paedo sprinter running at 25mph what then, Mark Drakeford?
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:I feel like the point of Lolita is that he ruined her life. Like she ran from him to another paedophile and then got pregnant and died. That's bad. Yep. And also it's very clear throughout that she hates him and hates what he is doing. That she is a little girl, a child and not some sexual prodigy. It's an excellent book and the only way a reader could come away from it thinking 'that Lolita is a sexy child, poor Humbert' is if they went into it with that sympathy already in place. IMO.
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The tweet it's in reply to is amazing too Yes it must be mass formation hypnosis that there's one thing at a time that's the biggest news story. I was barely aware of the ET statues one, I think the papers that aren't the Star were covering Daniel Khalife or Wilko then? (Both of which seemed more likely to be conspiracies in the sense of a planned wrongdoing by a number of people.)
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With all works about a morally repellant protagonist theres always this issue with people who miss the point and see them as sympathetic. But in this case the twist is that we don't know what Brand himself thinks of Lolita, just that he encouraged the victim to read the book as a manipulation tactic. So its not neccisarrilly that he was missing the point, but that he saw it as instrumentally useful (as in what matters isn't what a 31 year old takes from it when they read it, but a 16 year old). In that respect I suspect it wasn't a "minors having sex with adults is cool" message, it was a "look how mature you are for your age that you can handle this book full of complexity and moral ambiguity" bit. He knows Humbert is bad for preying on lolita, he knows he's bad for preying on a 16 year old, he's literally telling her he's bad and is preying on her - but as a means to build more trust (and make it all feel more naughty). It's a hosed up little in-joke from a guy who thinks he's very clever. massive spider fucked around with this message at 14:59 on Sep 17, 2023 |
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HopperUK posted:Yep. And also it's very clear throughout that she hates him and hates what he is doing. That she is a little girl, a child and not some sexual prodigy. It's an excellent book and the only way a reader could come away from it thinking 'that Lolita is a sexy child, poor Humbert' is if they went into it with that sympathy already in place. IMO. It's even clear that Humbert knows this too - there's the bit where he says he gives her money to do some sexual stuff (never specified, don't wanna know) but he knows where she hides it so he's never going to let her build up enough of a stash to escape with. The only way you can perceive that as a love story... well. You said it. And it's all done through the frame of Humbert telling you how tragic his life is. It's so well done. Nabokov could write.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:E: Also, when it says "sold out wembley gig," it was iin one of the small conference rooms that's about half the size of your average cinema, not the arena. that's incredible and it explains many of the instances where i've seen that phrase and thought "really?"
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crispix posted:that's incredible and it explains many of the instances where i've seen that phrase and thought "really?" It's the same at the O2 Arena. They have their little 'Indigo' room out back that seats like 1,000 people but they'll still call it a sell out O2 gig.
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crispix posted:that's incredible and it explains many of the instances where i've seen that phrase and thought "really?" 
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Julio Cruz posted:this isn’t Sim City, you don’t get all the money back if you cancel a project halfway through No but there’s also such a thing as a throwing good money after bad. Given areas like mine continue to have unelectrified lines, forgive me for not thinking Osborne’s idea of throwing another 100 billion at another train connection for London is a good thing.
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https://twitter.com/SaulStaniforth/status/1703316574600417489 (in minecraft, maybe)e: To those who don't want to play the video, Herr Keith replied that yes, the families should be put in the bracket of terrorists.... sigh fuctifino fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Sep 17, 2023 |
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Analyzing everything the media reports on through the lens of the only important problem facing the country (20mph speed limits): the RAAC concrete story broke a just before the speed limit changes, putting children's safety in everyone's minds and making low speed limits more palatable to the general public.
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Guavanaut posted:The tweet it's in reply to is amazing too That teabag in top right looks well manky
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domhal posted:making low speed limits more palatable to the general public. Oh no it didn't
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Telegraph just openly calling for third positionism nowquote:Both the failure of the Tory Party and the non-appearance of a serious populist party have the same cause. To be successful and capture all of its possible base a populist party has to reject free market neoliberalism and lean left on economics. It is not enough to be simply nationalist, anti-supranationalism, anti-immigration and anti-woke. I think the Brexit referendum was a fault line shifting that's going to see politics more between third positionist authoritarian nationalism with socialist characteristics (for the right people) and some kind of turboliberal "free movement free markets free PS Hitsquad." I am pro-left and take no pleasure in reporting this.
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fuctifino posted:I've seen people state it has a capacity of 2000, but all the photos I've seen taken from the back seems to indicate a max of a few hundred  Pseudoedit: Oh L fuckin O L, after some brief research, it was a small theatre in Wembley, NOT 'Wembley Arena.' https://www.troubadourtheatres.com/wembley-park-theatre  Capacity is 'up to' 2,000, but it looks like possibly 1000 with capacity for 2k packed standing if it's a gig. It's in Wembley Park, which contains the OVO Arena Wembley and SSE Wembley Arena (both of which claim to be 'the' Wembley Arena), which is not the same thing at all as Wembley Stadium. Saying this was a "sold-out Wembley show" is like people saying they 'went to Oxford' when they mean Oxford Brookes Polytechnic for an NVQ. Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 17:54 on Sep 17, 2023 |
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Beefeater1980 posted:I didn’t read the thread for a few days and then I read about Camrath and now I’m feeling sad wait what the gently caress i missed this RIP man. 
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Mesopotamia posted:No but there’s also such a thing as a throwing good money after bad. Given areas like mine continue to have unelectrified lines, forgive me for not thinking Osborne’s idea of throwing another 100 billion at another train connection for London is a good thing. the Tories (and Labour too) are lying to you when they say there's not enough money to do both
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