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Guavanaut posted:i think there was a spoiled vote where a swastika was counted as a cross because it was neatly in the fash party box. I don't know if it was spoiled, but as an enumerator I can tell you that a swastika placed in the box for UKIP/BNP/Reform style parties does count as intent to vote. And if you don't place a cross somewhere else to spoil it, it will count as a valid vote. Re: what have the Yorkshire Party done that is racist - every Small Local Area Party is without exception a gently caress Everyone Else, Especially Foreigns party.
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Dec 3, 2023 16:04
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Dec 3, 2023 16:42
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Just seen a red kite circling around outside, gorgeous 
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Dec 3, 2023 16:44
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HopperUK posted:Just seen a red kite circling around outside, gorgeous They are an awesome bird. Where I'm from there are often dozens of them in the sky at any one time, and they swoop low over the houses, and they never get any less beautiful.
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Dec 3, 2023 16:49
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The Perfect Element posted:They are an awesome bird. Where I'm from there are often dozens of them in the sky at any one time, and they swoop low over the houses, and they never get any less beautiful. They've only been back in the area for a few years, spread here from the Chiltern re-introductions, and it's amazing to see every time. I can't really make out the markings but the shape is pretty distinctive, that forked tail. So beautiful in flight. I've gone all poetic.
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Dec 3, 2023 16:50
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FiftySeven posted:I am so loving upset, At the next election I will basically have 3 brands of Tory and 2 brands of racists choose from (You could easily argue for adding the Torys into the racist pile too)... Look on the bright side, you've been disabused of the notion that liberal democracy has anything but false choice. As the anarchists say, if voting changed anything they wouldn't let you. You can still turn up & spoil your ballot because for most people it takes a minimum of effort to vote within the time polling stations are open (what is it, 7 or 8am until 10pm? I forget exactly when it opens) but the whole system is coopted by capital & it's worth remembering that. If you threaten the economic status quo then look what happens (see Jeremy Corbyn, biggest antisemite in human history)
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Dec 3, 2023 16:52
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The forever war must continue. Although at least if they gently caress off and do it in space we don't have to put up with people on earth being displaced. Plus, we can just kessler syndrome ourselves a big spinning metal sphere of death preventing humans from inflicting ourselves on the rest of the universe.
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Dec 3, 2023 16:57
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Bobby Deluxe posted:The forever war must continue. Although at least if they gently caress off and do it in space we don't have to put up with people on earth being displaced. I’m more concerned that Grant loving Shapps, of all people, appears to have knowledge of deep space alien threats of a coming space war
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Dec 3, 2023 17:11
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HopperUK posted:They've only been back in the area for a few years, spread here from the Chiltern re-introductions, and it's amazing to see every time. I can't really make out the markings but the shape is pretty distinctive, that forked tail. So beautiful in flight. I've gone all poetic. I've seen what I think was a red kite at Stratford station in London, which isn't somewhere I'd normally expect to see one. Still, the gigantic loving sphere that some cunts want to build will presumably scare any nature away, so that's something.
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Dec 3, 2023 17:11
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Jedit posted:Re: what have the Yorkshire Party done that is racist - every Small Local Area Party is without exception a gently caress Everyone Else, Especially Foreigns party. Its basically this. They are not a prominant enough party to have anything that was news worthy, and they dont have any candidates big enough to be really singled out for it, but it attracts the gammony sort and I have never heard anything good from them. Just "Everything was better before we knew that people existed outside of Yorkshire" sorts.
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Dec 3, 2023 17:13
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Building one of those lagrange point satellites to watch for big rocks coming at the earth might be a useful thing to do but I doubt he means that.FiftySeven posted:Its basically this. They are not a prominant enough party to have anything that was news worthy, and they dont have any candidates big enough to be really singled out for it, but it attracts the gammony sort and I have never heard anything good from them. Just "Everything was better before we knew that people existed outside of Yorkshire" sorts. I imagine much of the rest of the country feels similarly about the existence of people in yorkshre tbf.
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Dec 3, 2023 17:26
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I've cracked it. Once Musk gets to Mars, he will set up fully automated space libertarianism, at which point Britain will be obligated to go to war with the Planet of the Nonces. Hence, space wars.
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Dec 3, 2023 17:35
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I do not believe the UK would go to war because someone is noncing too much.
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Dec 3, 2023 17:38
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The essex space program sending an indignant, rat faced woman up with 2 Big Lads and a facebook live uplink in a modified corsa.
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Dec 3, 2023 17:39
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I'm going to go either Green or Plaid Cymru (though they're a nationalist party), more because I think it's time the big 2 (for some reason the LibDems fail to impinge upon my consciousness) had a psephological* kick in the goolies. are plaid cymru still somewhat decent policy wise these days, last I heard they were moderately left wing but I haven't really paid much attention (sorry wales)
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Dec 3, 2023 17:43
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Angepain posted:are plaid cymru still somewhat decent policy wise these days, last I heard they were moderately left wing but I haven't really paid much attention (sorry wales) https://www.partyof.wales/policies Pretty good. I'll probably have to learn Welsh though or be sent to the Re-education Camps (joking!) (I found it harder than Arabic so far!)
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Dec 3, 2023 18:12
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Guavanaut posted:Is that the regional demonym for people from Goole? It's like the Goonies but with an L.
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Dec 3, 2023 18:14
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I've cracked it. Once Musk gets to Mars, he will set up fully automated space libertarianism, at which point Britain will be obligated to go to war with the Planet of the Nonces. Hence, space wars. Bold of you to assume that Britain won't be aligned the nonce planet
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Dec 3, 2023 18:15
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Wachter posted:Bold of you to assume that Britain won't be aligned the nonce planet I'm assuming a Highlander-style "there can only be one" showdown
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Dec 3, 2023 18:19
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/03/glenys-kinnock-former-minister-and-proud-democratic-socialist-dies-aged-79 Glenys Kinnock has died. Is it just me or have there been a heap of celebrity and semi-celebrity deaths in the last few days?
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Dec 3, 2023 18:26
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/03/glenys-kinnock-former-minister-and-proud-democratic-socialist-dies-aged-79 There's a name for the phenomenon, but basically once something happens a few times in succession you're more likely to notice it happening even if the rate isn't on average any faster than normal.
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Dec 3, 2023 18:36
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Went for an evening walk along the fells and heard a bunch of bone clacking and irate ungulate sounds in the distance. Two red hinds going at it antler to antler And several does watching intently from the other side of the stream 
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Dec 3, 2023 18:37
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"Leave 'im Gary, it's not worth it!"
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Dec 3, 2023 18:40
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kingturnip posted:I've seen what I think was a red kite at Stratford station in London, which isn't somewhere I'd normally expect to see one. Red Kites were a frequent site in the big city in Elizabethan times. They'd probably have enjoyed a rise in urban numbers alongside foxes if we hadn't nearly completely wiped them out with DDT.
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Dec 3, 2023 18:41
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Jedit posted:There's a name for the phenomenon, but basically once something happens a few times in succession you're more likely to notice it happening even if the rate isn't on average any faster than normal. Could be the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon or The Law of Attraction* depending. I guess when you get a piece of news, journalists look for other similar pieces of news to it might get reported more often. *I think law of attraction is this essentially, just noticing more elephants or whatever it is, or ways to do something for example.
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Dec 3, 2023 18:46
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Also it's flu season and a lot of these folk are old or physically weak, so it's a dangerous time of year.
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Dec 3, 2023 18:48
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I think there's just a lot more famous people now, or at least vaguely-recognisable people. And every single one of their deaths is disseminated on social media and the MSM. If you know of a few thousand people and many of them are Olds then yeah there's gonna be a steady stream of dying in your feed
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Dec 3, 2023 18:49
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Bird chat: there's loads of moorhens, a flock of dabbling bills (old Suffolk name for ducks) and a grey heron that live about where my horse now lives. Also some magpies and crows who keep dropping wierd stuff in her water buckets. Can't wait to see the moorhen chicks in spring. Vote chat: Greens or spoilt ballot
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Dec 3, 2023 18:52
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Applied for my GRC today. What a loving nightmare. Prove you are a woman by sending us your paper trails!! All in all this has cost me £410 quid. £200 each for the 2 doctors letters, £5 for the statutory declaration and another fiver for the actual application.
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Dec 3, 2023 18:53
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With so many more famous people dying than being born you'd think we'd start to run out.
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Dec 3, 2023 18:54
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Bobby Deluxe posted:"Leave 'im Gary, it's not worth it!" Thanks man, that got a genuine laugh out of me. 
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Dec 3, 2023 18:59
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DiscoWitch posted:Applied for my GRC today. What a loving nightmare. loving hell mate.
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Dec 3, 2023 19:27
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Bobby Deluxe posted:"Leave 'im Gary, it's not worth it!" 
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Dec 3, 2023 19:41
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The bright side of Starmer revealing himself as a Thatcherite is that it was the last straw that convinced my parents that he’s not going to fix anything. They self-describe as centrists ffs, can he really afford to lose the liberal boomer demographic on top of everyone on the left?
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Dec 3, 2023 19:46
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I think honestly he could lose just about everyone as long as he's still perceived as less bad than the tories in whatever way people want to define "bad" There is no alternative through the electoral system, you get him or you get the tories. One of them has to win even if everyone stays home.
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Dec 3, 2023 19:57
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Soricidus posted:can he really afford to lose the liberal boomer demographic on top of everyone on the left? *checks notes* yes
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Dec 3, 2023 20:01
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My sentence is up!  A few things happened during my month of penance: 1. The twitter troll group that I helped formed turned out to be filled with a load of tankies, so I instantly killed it with fire and deactivated my twitter account. My faith in society diminished somewhat, as I can't understand how people can be so pro-Gaza and anti genocide, yet be pro-Russia and pro their genocide against Ukraine. 2. Mum died a suitably horrible and painful death, and I found out I'm mostly disinherited - going from a 50/50 split with my brother to what I thought was a 33/33/33 split to include the nephew to a 41/41/8 split with me getting the ~8%. Yay . She was a oval office, and the world became a kinder place when she died. Her death meant my brother briefly spoke to me for the first time in 13 years which ended with him making a death threat. The funeral will be interesting if I do attend.... 3. I became a pilot. I impulse purchased an emotional support DJI Mini 2 SE drone in the black friday sales when it dropped to £259, and it's really nice being able to see the world from up high. I didn't realise the rules around <249g drones were so relaxed, so when good healthy days coincide with good weather days, I take it to the park and fly to clear the head. It can also do cool 360 shots like this - https://maps.app.goo.gl/AGD2h3PNRRWEUxbs5  4. Thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people were murdered in an ongoing genocide fuctifino fucked around with this message at 01:15 on Dec 4, 2023 |
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Dec 3, 2023 20:04
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The list of boondoggles England chooses to fund rather than feeding the poors continues to grow.
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Dec 3, 2023 20:08
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Nilbop posted:The list of boondoggles England chooses to fund rather than feeding the poors continues to grow. Has anyone checked to see if Michael Green, Corinne Stockheath or Sebastian Fox are on the boards of any of the companies getting this lovely government money?
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Dec 3, 2023 20:13
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I'm glad to have you back, fuctifino, I was wondering if you'd just given up on the forum in disgust.
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