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Labour sending out begging emails to members for donations lol.
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Dec 9, 2023 14:51
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Can't think whyquote:Conservatives raised three times as much as Labour in the most recent quarter
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Dec 9, 2023 15:01
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glad their triangulation is paying off
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Dec 9, 2023 15:04
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BalloonFish posted:'Everything about the period'...except the food, clothes and fuel rationing, the lack of 'exotic' fruits and out-of-season veg, the National Service, the tuberculosis, the rampant air pollution, the primitive health/dental care, the 33% Purchase Tax on luxury goods, the 50% income tax rate on anyone with an income to afford an Austin Cambridge, not having shops open on a Sunday and the boozers shutting at half ten...etc. etc. I bet. i miss winda winders
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Dec 9, 2023 15:27
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Yeah now that automatic transmissions are better in every way than manuals to the extent that the only argument that the gearstick people have is "it's more fun because you can move the thing about" the car debate should shift to manual vs. automatic window handles. Although then that just gets you another round of the "windows open vs. air conditioning" fuel efficiency debate.
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Dec 9, 2023 15:37
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if you were cross, you could give that winda winder a good, angry pumpin, for to intimidate the person you were about to have a shout at
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Dec 9, 2023 15:37
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I feel like a lot of things used to have a good solid crank on them and they're not around as much these days. Everything from bright plastic toys for young ones to mixers, coffee grinders, mince makers, generators, and so forth. I'm sure that Freud and Adorno and such would have a few takes about that, but I also think that maybe some of the Graham Linehan and Laurence Fox types would spend a lot less time making deepfake porn of people or blowing up cameras if more of their daily activities involved handles that they could give a good cranking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I1oMjNVh7U
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Dec 9, 2023 15:55
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Thanks for the vaccine stories/advice guys. I went to a different location today but saw the same guy there who intervened so I had to explain three times to three people, but I got my XBB. Oh right I forgot I have to feel lovely for a few days too, baw. 
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Dec 9, 2023 16:05
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More things should have them trigger levers off the old points boxes. Just a big bank of levers in front of you to move backwards and forwards to get things done.
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Dec 9, 2023 16:48
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BalloonFish posted:The thing about slip coaches was that even the ever-inventive Victorians never came up with a way of having the reverse - a coach that could be picked up without the train stopping. So the workings were always 'unbalanced' and tended to favour out-of-London travellers - you could board an express train in London and be dropped at your provincial destination by a slip coach, but on the return journey you usually had to take a slower, local train to the next large station to pick up the London-bound express. I bet in the modern era we could solve this issue, some kind of launching piston to get the slip carriage to speed and a fulton-like system on the main engine. Just don't have the elderly standing when that happens.
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Dec 9, 2023 16:59
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https://twitter.com/mikeysmith/status/1733519567274561709 Imagine if Corbyn had spent part of Armistice day being paid to film a reality TV show where he smoked items stored up other men's buttholes. fuctifino fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Dec 9, 2023 |
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Dec 9, 2023 17:50
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Theres a picture of him standing behind the king at the cenotaph on the day so I guess its his business what he gets up to in the evenings.
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Dec 9, 2023 18:21
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He was standing behind Charles and waiting for the cigarette to appear.
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Dec 9, 2023 19:12
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Must have been an incredibly sturdy roll up fair play
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Dec 9, 2023 19:47
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He doesn't do the standard prison roll-ups, on account of being the King  It was white before he hid it in his prison wallet
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Dec 9, 2023 19:49
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Tremendous to see we’re back to this sort of bollocks again. The Upper Class soap opera of poo poo that never ends…
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Dec 9, 2023 19:57
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Only the elite can afford to have little pasta cases full of other stuff and livers cut into slices.
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Dec 9, 2023 19:59
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Like the bit in The Godfather where he gets the gun in the toilet cistern but it's Michael Gove and he reaches into the wrong bit and walks back to the table holding a poo poo log under his jacket.
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Dec 9, 2023 20:00
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Taking a break from respecting the Troops to film pick up shots of me smoking fags from a man's arse.
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Dec 9, 2023 20:12
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Not only are they planning to oust are boat-stopping boy Rishi, they're doing it while eating foreign muck
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Dec 9, 2023 20:15
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quote:Last week's plotting moved up a gear in the hours after Home Secretary James Cleverly unveiled his Rwanda Bill in the Commons, with around three dozen rebel MPs –including Ms Braverman – drinking wine in West Dorset MP Chris Loder's office. 'The mood was jubilant after Rob Jenrick went,' one rebel said. 'All the talk was – what will our next chess move be?' 
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Dec 9, 2023 20:16
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Roll on Keith and his grownups
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Dec 9, 2023 20:18
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Apraxin posted:All the talk was – what will our next chess move be?
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Dec 9, 2023 20:21
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"A strong woman like Suella" lol she's not strong she's legitimately a loving idiot and freak who only had "strength" because she had the weight of the civil service behind her to do her crimes against humanity.
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Dec 9, 2023 20:33
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smellmycheese posted:Tremendous to see we’re back to this sort of bollocks again. The Upper Class soap opera of poo poo that never ends…
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Dec 9, 2023 20:33
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British politics is so small time. 100k war chest lol
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Dec 9, 2023 20:52
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I was just thinking the same. That’s a decent loving lunch to real powerbrokers.
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Dec 9, 2023 20:53
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It's quite funny that the relative poverty of English political parties is directly related to how hateable the public seems to find them. You'd think there'd be a lesson there, but I guess Gove forgot to add that to the curriculum.
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Dec 9, 2023 21:18
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kingturnip posted:It's quite funny that the relative poverty of English political parties is directly related to how hateable the public seems to find them. Nah there's just this twee smalltimey nature to it all because of our campaign finance laws. In the US Obama had billions of dollars of corporate donations to play with when he got elected, that's a lot of grift going into certain pockets in a kind of incestuous feedback loop. It makes it funny when a British politician can be put in place for like £50k and some Deliveroo Champagne.
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Dec 9, 2023 21:23
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I reckon you could buy yourself a backbencher for a couple grand. Crowdfund ourselves a tame Tory
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Dec 9, 2023 21:24
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OwlFancier posted:To be honest I didn't know the pantographs were like, controllable. I thought they were just kinda... the way they are. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PomijVymWiY If you trigger that when you're not in the clearly signposted "put pantograph up right here" bit, then it would go up to full height and then rip down anything in the way. Train drivers are meant to have route knowledge to allow them to drive safely and it covers stuff like this. A driver shouldn't be on a route they've not been trained on. Pan up/pan down is becoming more of a thing because we want to cut carbon emissions but can't be arsed to do a proper job with electrification, so we use diesel bi-mode trains. Sort of like towing a toyota behind your tesla for when you can't charge up. GWR has a lot of this. I think they might also have some that switch between third rail and OLE. Pantographs are actually mad complicated. The force has to be juuust right, and remain juuust right over the whole range of height travel of the pantograph. Too little and it bounces down off the wires, it arcs and things burn. Too much and it becomes one with the wires.
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Dec 9, 2023 21:28
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Going to write a suggestion to Elon to make Teslas with pantographs for use in Nottingham and Manchester.
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Dec 9, 2023 21:32
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Not necessary. With the cybertruck you can literally just tow an ice vehicle round, but a Porsche not a lovely Toyota, and still outperform the Porsche.
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Dec 9, 2023 21:43
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Wachter posted:I reckon you could buy yourself a backbencher for a couple grand. Crowdfund ourselves a tame Tory Waiting for the first MP to start a Patreon with patron-only polls to determine how they vote at each division. Edit: £1 Constituent only Tier and £10 anyone goes Tier. Z the IVth fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Dec 9, 2023 |
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Dec 9, 2023 22:02
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One free Commons vote each week, plus one subscriber-only bonus
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Dec 9, 2023 22:08
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I'd do quite a lot for £50k and a decent scotch. Sedition, war crimes, you name it
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Dec 9, 2023 22:30
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Russia give me £50k
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Dec 9, 2023 22:31
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The localest of local news but laffo at Sunderland's new station and T&M Metro trying to bravely post through it: https://twitter.com/My_Metro/status/1733122123755876727 Two ticket machines, 24 seats and some vending machines. At least the old had a Burger King in it.
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Dec 9, 2023 22:34
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Not necessary. With the cybertruck you can literally just tow an ice vehicle round, but a Porsche not a lovely Toyota, and still outperform the Porsche. did a Toyota kill your parents or something
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Dec 9, 2023 22:35
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Pierson posted:The localest of local news but laffo at Sunderland's new station and T&M Metro trying to bravely post through it: "im not owned! im not owned!!", i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a bus stop
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Dec 9, 2023 22:48
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