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Bobby Deluxe posted:I am half expecting Starmer to do the needful and step aside for Wes! before the election, but it'll be interesting if the lib dems are forced to as well because of this postmaster thing. Starmer replaced by the pet shop boy, Sunak replaced by a grinning skull, Davey replaced by ???, Big Nige canters to victory as the only party leader anyone can pick out of a lineup
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Jan 12, 2024 19:18
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Trainee PornStar posted:I've not heard anything about dvbt going away. Stupid question time: do you need to plug that into a Freeview box or does it go stright into the telly?
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Jan 12, 2024 19:22
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It depends on the TV. My TV will take freeview aerial or freesat spacedish straight into the back, but some won't. This also links into the UK wanting to be loving special Alan Sugar simps and not allowing modules in the CAM slot instead of boxes, unlike the rest of Europe and North Africa and anywhere else that has developed the wheel and fire.
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Jan 12, 2024 19:29
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Tory government in crisis tries a foreign adventure in Aden? That usually goes well.
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Jan 12, 2024 19:34
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A crying shame it's not under an Aston-Martin driving playboy who does all the drugs at once #BringBackBoris
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Jan 12, 2024 19:39
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Angrymog posted:On the other hand their treatment of women is up there with the Taliban's. Let's not pretend that they're happiness and flowers. Imperialist attacks on other nations are justified in different ways to different domestic audiences. To people concerned with process and institutions, the attacks are spoken of in terms of protecting markets, and upholding International Law. For people who see the world as a dangerous place and Britain surrounded by enemies, the attacks are spun as Britain bravely asserting itself against bad actors and demonstrating that we're a country that can still defend itself. And to people whose main concern is human rights... then the attacks become all about protecting those human rights. So wiping out unruly Afghan villages will be couched in terms of allowing Afghan girls to be educated; massacring Palestinians is all about protecting gay rights (yes Israel has literally claimed this in its recent propaganda) and sure, we're bombing the Houthis... but are you aware that their feminist credentials leave much to be desired? (Writing that has got me wondering what angle would be used to get someone like me on side. Some Paul Mason style argument that I should be showing solidarity with the working class people crewing the cargo ships and Royal Navy vessels perhaps, coupled with portraying Iran as an expanding empire that by rights, I should be opposing?) Also, this isn't an attack on you, Angrymog, your post got me thinking, is all.
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Jan 12, 2024 19:47
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Runcible Cat posted:Stupid question time: do you need to plug that into a Freeview box or does it go stright into the telly? No stupid questions here.. If the tv has freeview built in, stick into the tv otherwise put it into the freeview box connected to the tv
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Jan 12, 2024 19:52
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Guavanaut posted:A crying shame it's not under an Aston-Martin driving playboy who does all the drugs at once #BringBackBoris I still laugh at how people think he jogs in the morning.
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Jan 12, 2024 19:55
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He did nearly once drown for the world's press
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Jan 12, 2024 20:15
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fuctifino posted:He did nearly once drown for the world's press He's more of an air elemental.
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Jan 12, 2024 20:25
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forkboy84 posted:That's inspiring I'm not very good at memes or whatever but; Broke: a million anti war protesters on the streets of London. Woke: more millions of pro war nutters on the streets of... I dunno where.
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Jan 12, 2024 20:38
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crispix posted:... mr teh-ah-teh-meh 
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Jan 12, 2024 20:47
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Nenonen posted:He's more of an air elemental. He couldn't sink far enough to drown if you tied an Aston Martin to his ankle. And thanks for the Freeview info!
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Jan 12, 2024 21:27
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Guavanaut posted:It doesn't seem like it is going anywhere, the only thing they suggest is wideband aerials are better than old yagi antennas, and that internet services are getting more popular. This (and various subsequent bits and pieces) is what I was reading: https://theaerialman.co.uk/freeview-channel-switch-off-is-coming-june-2022/ Checked out your link but seems to refer to Freeview Play tvs but most of the oldies don't have those. I use Freesat from Sky (not the same as Freesat) as we can only get 6 Freeview channels here because the hills get in the way. Anyway, since found this: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/...s%20for%20free. Trainee PornStar posted:I've not heard anything about dvbt going away. I'll point them at it if happens. Thanks.
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Jan 12, 2024 21:58
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Pistol_Pete posted:
Tbh I wasn’t trying to conjure some hypothetical argument, I literally work on the ships being attacked and it was our sister ship that got lit up at the end of December there. Can’t exactly sit there getting all  over the Houthis when it’s your friends and colleagues they’ve been using as target practise.
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Jan 12, 2024 22:21
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It feels like any scenario that materialises that affects all but one of a billion people, that one person will coalesce from the formless void and begin posting about how actually,
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Jan 12, 2024 22:33
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Mr Teatime posted:Tbh I wasn’t trying to conjure some hypothetical argument, I literally work on the ships being attacked and it was our sister ship that got lit up at the end of December there. Can’t exactly sit there getting all That's worse. As though the priority is your shipping company. Ships that have no ties to Israel aren't being targetted, and no, registering and flagging it in some tax haven isn't as obfuscating as you think it is.
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Jan 12, 2024 22:50
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Like, the Houthi's are trying a similar thing to the OPEC oil embargoes of the 70s - put economic pressure on the West to "rein in" their client state of Israel. This ignores that Israel is a nuclear state of its own that holds the whip hand in its relationship with the US, and the government and people both consist of genocidal maniacs. Israel will keep genociding Gaza until someone physically stops them - diplomatic pressure or even economic sanctions will do gently caress-all. Just more cycles of death and violence, like so many others currently in the world.
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Jan 12, 2024 22:51
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Ships that have no ties to Israel aren't being targetted, and no, registering and flagging it in some tax haven isn't as obfuscating as you think it is. I don't think that's true
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Jan 12, 2024 22:54
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:This (and various subsequent bits and pieces) is what I was reading: Broadcast TV lost the rights to a bit of the spectrum that's been turned over to 5G phones, but it only affects a handful of channels and most of the big ones are being shuffled around so they won't go anywhere.
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Jan 12, 2024 23:10
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how does this affect babestation?
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Jan 12, 2024 23:21
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When I was young and living in London I had a job delivering mail in 1 Canada Square (the big Canary Wharf building) and Live TV that I think later became Babestation had an office on one of the middle floors. They had topless receptionists and even as a horny young guy it was one of the most mundane unsexy things
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Jan 12, 2024 23:28
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lol, and indeed lmao
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Jan 12, 2024 23:33
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Mr Teatime posted:Tbh I wasn’t trying to conjure some hypothetical argument, I literally work on the ships being attacked and it was our sister ship that got lit up at the end of December there. Can’t exactly sit there getting all If they were using them for target practice I'd imagine there'd be a few deaths. As opposed to, at least the last time I checked, zero? Don't get me wrong, it sucks to be stuck in the middle of that but economic embargoes often cause collateral damage, to use the bloodless terms of diplomacy. How many civilians died in Iraq in the '90s from malnutrition & preventable illness in order to not even slightly threaten Saddam's rule? Apparently that was acceptable according to international law.
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Jan 12, 2024 23:34
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I volunteer to be drone struck in protest of the UK's actions.
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Jan 12, 2024 23:37
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I don't think that's true I guess they just have a grudge against Liberia and always thought pirates were cool.
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Jan 12, 2024 23:52
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Gonzo McFee posted:Who the gently caress let Paul Mason in the thread? This thread needs dissenting voices. else it is just a echo chamber of jermiah crobblyn fans. Try to see it from someone elses pov. it will do you good.
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Jan 12, 2024 23:55
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SE Watering posted:This thread needs dissenting voices. else it is just a echo chamber of jermiah crobblyn fans. aw poo poo this is gonna be good  What's your opinion on travellers?
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Jan 12, 2024 23:59
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SE Watering posted:it will do you good. er... if I wanted something good to happen I wouldnt be posting in this thread. Or at all
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Jan 13, 2024 00:00
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I don't personally expect the UK government to have a lawful reason for engaging in military actions against another nation, and I definitely don't expect them to achieve good results against an enemy spread quite thinly across an area twice the size of the UK. However, what I'm not sure that Rishi and the group of clinical morons advising him quite understand is that, when you go "to war" against a poorly-defined enemy, with minimally-defined goals and no populist support, you're encouraging quite literally everyone to join the pile-on the first time anything goes wrong. The Thatcher cosplay is getting less convincing, less inspiring and less remarkable. At the absolute minimum, Desert Storm 2 had the media embedded in the frontlines; this is just poo poo video taken from barely-functioning equipment.
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Jan 13, 2024 00:02
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Yet again we test the boundaries between dissenting voice and contrarian wanker.
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Jan 13, 2024 00:03
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Brendan Rodgers posted:That's worse. As though the priority is your shipping company. Ships that have no ties to Israel aren't being targetted, and no, registering and flagging it in some tax haven isn't as obfuscating as you think it is. I’ll drop the boat chat after this if it’s winding people up or not thread appropriate, but it really isn’t as clear cut as simply being Israeli owned/operated or whatever. The ships I’m on are on, like the Hangzhou are being targeted because our run across the world used to include a single port call in Haifa. That’s it. We don’t go there anymore but it doesn’t matter, the ships are now considered targets. There’s been ships attacked that never called in Israel but because they carried cargo that later ended up in Israel, they are now targets. The links in a lot of cases are pretty tenuous at best.
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Jan 13, 2024 00:04
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why did biden do it?
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Jan 13, 2024 00:04
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kingturnip posted:I don't personally expect the UK government to have a lawful reason for engaging in military actions against another nation, and I definitely don't expect them to achieve good results against an enemy spread quite thinly across an area twice the size of the UK. Nice to see Baudrillard posting in the thread
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Jan 13, 2024 00:04
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smellmycheese posted:lol, and indeed lmao Clearly the private sector can't handle it and it needs to be renationalised for the common good. (This won't happen regardless of who wins the GE, but a goon can dream).
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Jan 13, 2024 00:06
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NotJustANumber99 posted:why did biden do it? 
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Jan 13, 2024 00:21
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cat botherer posted:because he’s a senile Zionist moron I thought we liked him because he preferred ireland to england?
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Jan 13, 2024 00:34
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We laughed at the comedy gold of the moment. He's still a genocidal zionist oval office
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Jan 13, 2024 00:37
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I thought we liked him because he preferred ireland to england? Where did you get that from,?
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Jan 13, 2024 00:38
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Yeah no sorry, you're right. of course we wouldn't like him. I guess its very context based.
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