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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:Words ha conain he eers L, G, B, T, or Q are woke. And "archaeology" contains 2 of them! "Archaeologists" contain 3, so they're even more dangerously woke! Ed, balls, snipe. 44 is half the hitler number; bisect nazis every day.
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Dec 13, 2023 21:04
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Runcible Cat posted:And "archaeology" contains 2 of them! Also it's DD or Debate & Discussion
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Dec 13, 2023 21:07
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What’s half a Hitler? A Donald Trump? A Joe Biden? It’s so hard to tell these days It’s Tony Blair at Christmas from that card isn’t it you know the one NO TONY LEAVE IT
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Dec 13, 2023 21:19
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:I don't think it would, because direct questions don't get answers - it happens all the time in interviews. Direct, repeated, rephrased questions all get dodged. Good in the sense of fleetingly amusing me personally rather than actually improving things. The entire concept of accountability through public questioning - including e.g. asking questions at the end of a Ben Shapiro talk - is fail because ultimately the people being scrutinized either half another chance to talk their rubbish or just dodge like you say.
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Dec 13, 2023 21:19
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kecske posted:woke archaeology lol, loving kill me now *looks for some* "No that's woke!"
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Dec 13, 2023 21:20
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/13/growing-despair-of-asylum-seekers-on-bibby-stockholm-over-living-conditionsquote:Growing despair of asylum seekers on Bibby Stockholm over living conditions I believe this is on top of the £1.6bn paid for the 18 month rental of the barge. So that works out as £5,860 + £91 = £5,951 per bed per night. quote:Asylum seekers told the Guardian about their concerns over the security onboard which requires them to go through airport-style security and body searches even if they just want to step outside for a cigarette, a deterioration in the quality of food, and shortages for those at the end of the queue.
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Dec 13, 2023 21:21
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It should be legal to shoot people in the face with a nerf gun if they don't give straight answers. Like it doesn't hurt much, but just point blank pelted with little foam darts for being a gobshite.
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Dec 13, 2023 21:22
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fuctifino posted:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/13/growing-despair-of-asylum-seekers-on-bibby-stockholm-over-living-conditions You could put 7 asylum seekers per night up at The Ritz for that!
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Dec 13, 2023 21:24
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OwlFancier posted:It should be legal to shoot people in the face with a nerf gun if they don't give straight answers. Surely this is already legal?
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Dec 13, 2023 21:28
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if you tried shooting a politician in the face with a nerf gun you'd immediately have 5 police officers land on top of you and break all your limbs
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Dec 13, 2023 21:31
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:You could put 7 asylum seekers per night up at The Ritz for that! Cant have the 'poors' enjoying themselves..... Making the few asylum seekers who make it here suffer will clearly deter more from coming, it's worked famously for drugs/murder/violent crime/etc..
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Dec 13, 2023 21:31
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cruelty is the point but shovelling money to your contractor mates is also the point
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Dec 13, 2023 21:32
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There's some incredible levels of grifting going on. £20,828,500 per week to house 'up to' 500 asylum seekers.
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Dec 13, 2023 21:35
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You could literally buy each one a townhouse in Mayfair like the Sun used to claim happened for less than the price of some of these amounts of fraud.Jakabite posted:What’s half a Hitler? A Donald Trump? A Joe Biden? It’s so hard to tell these days
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Dec 13, 2023 22:12
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I am not saying in any way we've got to hand it to hitler, but maybe the hitler we got was actually already the 99% hitler?
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Dec 13, 2023 22:14
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The existence of the standard hitler does not preclude the existence of the 110% conceptual hitler.
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Dec 13, 2023 22:18
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/barge-australia-asylum-contract-travel-b2354578.html I did some more digging about that £1.6bn dodgy contract. This is from June: quote:An Australian travel firm previously slammed for its handling of Covid quarantine hotels has been quietly handed a £1.6bn contract covering the UK’s new asylum accommodation ships, The Independent can reveal. Any news on the other two barges?
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Dec 13, 2023 22:35
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Just lol when it's the literal Bond villain pointing out your scheme is evil.
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Dec 13, 2023 22:38
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https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1734961174968422689 just lol
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Dec 13, 2023 22:55
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the research into 14th-century london risked damaging trust in modern health services the research into 14th-century london risked damaging trust in modern health services
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Dec 13, 2023 23:01
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kecske posted:woke archaeology lol, loving kill me now Archaeology is seeking historical truth by examining material conditions, well, at least since it stopped being about British guys using dynamite to find treasure. It is a hindrance to history being whatever the powerful want it to be.
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Dec 13, 2023 23:02
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DesperateDan posted:naw it's the posh place I took my eldest to for a special treat/gender affirming haircare so the fifteen quid towards a cut isn't all that much off the total Go to the local Turkish place that will cut your hair, cream your face, wax your nose hair, burn off your ear hair AND give you a massage for £15. Jaeluni Asjil posted:You could put 7 asylum seekers per night up at The Ritz for that! £1.6bn could outright buy 3000 3 bed 2 bath new builds in an expensive part of the country though there's probably an argument to be made about whether living in a newbuild is better or worse than a prison barge.
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Dec 13, 2023 23:04
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Z the IVth posted:Go to the local Turkish place that will cut your hair, cream your face, wax your nose hair, burn off your ear hair AND give you a massage for £15. Or it could be spent on high density housing? With perhaps...a 15 minute walking radius for the communal resources. The ultimate tyranny.
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Dec 13, 2023 23:06
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*bombs a ULEZ camera non-terroristly just thinking about that*Brendan Rodgers posted:Archaeology is seeking historical truth by examining material conditions, well, at least since it stopped being about British guys using dynamite to find treasure. It is a hindrance to history being whatever the powerful want it to be.
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Dec 13, 2023 23:11
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Maybe they can still get their grant if they can phrase it in a similarly bollocks way, like "the bubonic plague disproportionately affected BAME Londoners, but later Boris Johnson became mayor of London and now people only sometimes get 14th century diseases"
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Dec 13, 2023 23:27
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Around two million people died of the bubonic plague in the UK. Only 232,112 people died of Covid under Boris. The stats speak for themselves
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Dec 13, 2023 23:31
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Or it could be spent on high density housing? With perhaps...a 15 minute walking radius for the communal resources. The ultimate tyranny. Yeah the giant newbuild estate is probably the least efficient use of space. You could build a proper condo complex housing with the same number of inhabitants with integrated facilities + shopping mall in the basement like they do in Asia and take up about as much space as an out of town Tesco Extra + car park.
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Dec 13, 2023 23:47
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Z the IVth posted:Yeah the giant newbuild estate is probably the least efficient use of space. That doesn't sound very British, Steve
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Dec 14, 2023 00:01
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fuctifino posted:Around two million people died of the bubonic plague in the UK. So Boris is about 10% as bad as the plague. Nice one.
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Dec 14, 2023 00:08
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The plague historically fixed the housing crisis.
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Dec 14, 2023 00:14
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fuctifino posted:Around two million people died of the bubonic plague in the UK. Feel like you should probably adjust for population. But then Boris comes out even better. But seeing as it's "better than the handling of a deadly plague from an era before the understanding of germ theory and vaccination and all that jazz" it's not much of a win. OwlFancier posted:The plague historically fixed the housing crisis. Yeah but it also drove up wages for the peasantry because of the resultant labour supply shortage and we can't be having that
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Dec 14, 2023 00:30
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Z the IVth posted:Yeah the giant newbuild estate is probably the least efficient use of space.
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Dec 14, 2023 00:36
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So are the new build estates.
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Dec 14, 2023 00:37
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kingturnip posted:That doesn't sound very British, Steve  did I mention the condos all have live in Bobby Deluxe posted:I feel like this is like the brief overlap into reality of the ulez protestors though - you could build those things, but in the UK they'd be made of cardboard with zero insulation between units and be done to the absolute minimum quality involved. They absolutely cut corners in Asia as well and you'll be glad to know they'll also write letters to the Govt complaining about the numbers of immigrants sharing their condo block. 
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Dec 14, 2023 01:17
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I feel like this is like the brief overlap into reality of the ulez protestors though - you could build those things, but in the UK they'd be made of cardboard with zero insulation between units and be done to the absolute minimum quality involved. We couldn't even just do soviet brutalist architecture, we've regressed too far, all the concrete would be that neoliberal concrete with the air inside it that we made the schools out of and is just waiting for us to look away so it can fall down. Brendan Rodgers fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Dec 14, 2023 |
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Dec 14, 2023 01:45
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A couple years back we found out a big part of how the Romans made their millenia-lasting concrete, they were using volcanic ash. Too technologically advanced and more importantly, too expensive for us.
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Dec 14, 2023 01:50
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I think the problem with aero concrete is that it's prone to concrete cancer, which is specific to reinforced concrete which technically makes the problem that we are using advanced concrete while the romans used shitloads of unreinforced concrete. You couldn't build the things they built out of RAAC with unreinforced concrete, if you want a big span of unreinforced concrete you have to build the pantheon. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 01:59 on Dec 14, 2023 |
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Dec 14, 2023 01:57
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Private Eye on Sir Planko'Wood
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Dec 14, 2023 02:33
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OwlFancier posted:I think the problem with aero concrete is that it's prone to concrete cancer, which is specific to reinforced concrete which technically makes the problem that we are using advanced concrete while the romans used shitloads of unreinforced concrete. Augustus never would have accepted this explanation from Agrippa, they would have figured it out.
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Dec 14, 2023 02:34
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Augustus can get Agrippa deez nuts.
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Dec 14, 2023 02:39
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