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EmptyVessel
Oct 30, 2012

Jose posted:

He could at least pull off his moustache unlike all the former Soviet country dictators these days

Waitaminute, Stalin's moustache was a stick-on?
Unexpected bombshell.

E:1275 AD - the Zohar, book of the cabala, compiled by Moses de Leon in Spain.

EmptyVessel fucked around with this message at 23:39 on May 16, 2017

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OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Don't think you need any photoshop to make Young Jeremy Corbyn a solid Would.

Skinty McEdger
Mar 9, 2008

I have NEVER received the respect I deserve as the leader and founder of The Masterflock, the internet's largest and oldest Christopher Masterpiece fan group in all of history, and I DEMAND that changes. From now on, you will respect Skinty McEdger!

All the sex appeal of a young Noel Edmonds.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Noel Edmunds has a weird lumpy head.

EmptyVessel
Oct 30, 2012

OwlFancier posted:

Noel Edmunds has a weird lumpy head.

..with weird lumpy ideas in it.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Paperhouse posted:

The Independent seems to be publishing a lot of pro Corbyn/Labour stuff at the moment, though I don't buy it so I only see the articles people link online

I'd be very surprised if a paper owned by Evgeny Lebedev is pro Corbyn. This was a paper (when it was still a paper anyway) that said the best outcome for the 2015 election was the continuation of the Tory/Liberal coalition! Which isn't to say it hasn't, I don't pay enough attention to it to say either way, but it would be a surprise.

I've also just found out that The I is no longer owned by them. And hasn't been for a year. Odd that.

LemonDrizzle
Mar 28, 2012

neoliberal shithead
https://twitter.com/MrHarryCole/status/864612248635011072

Dennis Skinner ending his parliamentary career by losing his seat to a Tory would be quite something.

namesake
Jun 19, 2006

"When I was a girl, around 12 or 13, I had a fantasy that I'd grow up to marry Captain Scarlet, but he'd be busy fighting the Mysterons so I'd cuckold him with the sexiest people I could think of - Nigel Mansell, Pat Sharp and Mr. Blobby."

Time to sit in a pub in Westminster and loudly proclaim the rise of international socialism I guess. I mean that seems to be the way to influence journalism.

Irony Be My Shield
Jul 29, 2012

My uncle works at Labour and he said that Corbyn is going to lose his seat.

Intrinsic Field Marshal
Sep 6, 2014

by SA Support Robot

Is being a female the easy mode of life?

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Intrinsic Field Marshal posted:

Is being a female the easy mode of life?

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Intrinsic Field Marshal posted:

Is being a female the easy mode of life?

You shouldn't post

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer

Intrinsic Field Marshal posted:

Is being a female the easy mode of life?

Wow.

jabby
Oct 27, 2010

LemonDrizzle posted:

https://twitter.com/MrHarryCole/status/864612248635011072

Dennis Skinner ending his parliamentary career by losing his seat to a Tory would be quite something.

The votes of the Tory, Lib Dem and UKIP candidates all added together would not have beaten Skinner at the last election. It's nonsense.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

A non-medic using "female" in tyool 2017

Pochoclo
Feb 4, 2008

No...
Clapping Larry

Intrinsic Field Marshal posted:

Is being a female the easy mode of life?

Thread has reached peak Tory, nowhere to go but down from here folks

Pochoclo fucked around with this message at 00:30 on May 17, 2017

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer
They have a vagina and men have to work to get access to it. How is it fair? How is any of it fair? It's bullshit. Females literally have vagina welfare. No wonder they all love Stalin.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Hi I work for the national vagina service

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

Namtab posted:

national vagina service

Sounds like a proper vote-winner

Lord of the Llamas
Jul 9, 2002

EULER'VE TO SEE IT VENN SOMEONE CALLS IT THE WRONG THING AND PROVOKES MY WRATH

jabby posted:

The votes of the Tory, Lib Dem and UKIP candidates all added together would not have beaten Skinner at the last election. It's nonsense.

He has literally never had below 50% of the vote (2010). Check out that 81.55% in 1966 :getin:

Pissflaps
Oct 20, 2002

by VideoGames

jabby posted:

The votes of the Tory, Lib Dem and UKIP candidates all added together would not have beaten Skinner at the last election. It's nonsense.

Yeah it's inconceivable that it could happen.

Jedit
Dec 10, 2011

Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

Pochoclo posted:

Thread has reached peak Tory, nowhere to go but down from here folks



It says everything you need to know about the Mail that I didn't realise IFM hadn't just quoted without attribution until I got to his name.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Alt joke was the notional vagina service

baka kaba
Jul 19, 2003

PLEASE ASK ME, THE SELF-PROFESSED NO #1 PAUL CATTERMOLE FAN IN THE SOMETHING AWFUL S-CLUB 7 MEGATHREAD, TO NAME A SINGLE SONG BY HIS EXCELLENT NU-METAL SIDE PROJECT, SKUA, AND IF I CAN'T PLEASE TELL ME TO
EAT SHIT

namesake posted:

Time to sit in a pub in Westminster and loudly proclaim the rise of international socialism I guess. I mean that seems to be the way to influence journalism.

Nandos Journalism

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
There's a good quote by a second waver (I await TinTower's shocked reaction at that) that I can't find but basically amounts to "the justice system treats violence against women as a joke and violence by women as a joke, because it treats the idea of a woman as an agent as a joke."

big scary monsters
Sep 2, 2011

-~Skullwave~-

Namtab posted:

Hi I work for the national vagina service

It's important to get regularly serviced: at least once every two years or ten thousand miles.

Kokoro Wish
Jul 23, 2007

Post? What post? Oh wow.
I had nothing to do with THAT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJGpBgWHEh8&t=9s

jabby
Oct 27, 2010

Listening to Richard Burgon on Newsnight was an exercise in frustration. First question: what would be the tax take as a percentage of GDP if Labour got into power and implemented all of it's policies? Second question: in what previous year was the ratio of tax take to GDP this high?

Is it considered hard-hitting political interviewing now to pick a figure at random from either the manifesto or economy in general and then ask a politician to regurgitate it? She could just as easily have asked about the deficit, borrowing, total debt, debt to GDP ratio, etc. etc. It's just a cheap tactic that can only either embarrass someone or provide no useful information whatsoever.

Lord of the Llamas
Jul 9, 2002

EULER'VE TO SEE IT VENN SOMEONE CALLS IT THE WRONG THING AND PROVOKES MY WRATH

jabby posted:

Listening to Richard Burgon on Newsnight was an exercise in frustration. First question: what would be the tax take as a percentage of GDP if Labour got into power and implemented all of it's policies? Second question: in what previous year was the ratio of tax take to GDP this high?

Is it considered hard-hitting political interviewing now to pick a figure at random from either the manifesto or economy in general and then ask a politician to regurgitate it? She could just as easily have asked about the deficit, borrowing, total debt, debt to GDP ratio, etc. etc. It's just a cheap tactic that can only either embarrass someone or provide no useful information whatsoever.

Was this the first time you've ever watched television?

jabby
Oct 27, 2010

Lord of the Llamas posted:

Was this the first time you've ever watched television?

I swear it's gotten a lot worse since Diane Abbott screwed up a figure she should have known. Now every interviewer is out to force a similar moment.

Take McDonnell and Nick Robinson this morning. He was asked to give the deficit. He gave the actual figure from 15/16 and was proclaimed wrong because Robinson wanted the projected figure from 16/17. Even though the question was vague it sparked a slew of headlines about him getting the answer wrong, none of which said where McDonnell's answer came from.

Robinson also accused him on-air of being passed a piece of paper, which McDonnell denied. That was widely reported in the press too. Robinson then went on to retract the accusation on Twitter after a crew member from the radio car told him McDonnell definitely wasn't passed anything. How is it reasonable to retract something on Twitter that was said on national radio and reported in national newspapers?

It's lazy journalism that panders to headline writers, and it's a real shame to see the BBC indulging in it quite so much.

Evil_Urna
Aug 16, 2004

OwlFancier posted:

Don't think you need any photoshop to make Young Jeremy Corbyn a solid Would.

Better then Tim Farron anyway.

TomViolence
Feb 19, 2013

PLEASE ASK ABOUT MY 80,000 WORD WALLACE AND GROMIT SLASH FICTION. PLEASE.

jabby posted:

I swear it's gotten a lot worse since Diane Abbott screwed up a figure she should have known. Now every interviewer is out to force a similar moment.

Take McDonnell and Nick Robinson this morning. He was asked to give the deficit. He gave the actual figure from 15/16 and was proclaimed wrong because Robinson wanted the projected figure from 16/17. Even though the question was vague it sparked a slew of headlines about him getting the answer wrong, none of which said where McDonnell's answer came from.

Robinson also accused him on-air of being passed a piece of paper, which McDonnell denied. That was widely reported in the press too. Robinson then went on to retract the accusation on Twitter after a crew member from the radio car told him McDonnell definitely wasn't passed anything. How is it reasonable to retract something on Twitter that was said on national radio and reported in national newspapers?

It's lazy journalism that panders to headline writers, and it's a real shame to see the BBC indulging in it quite so much.

It's clearly to serve the Labour Has No Credibility and Can't Even Be Trusted With Basic Maths narrative they're pushing and it's so blatantly obvious when they do it that it makes me want to tear my loving hair out. And then their hair, one loving strand at a time in Nick Robinson's case, the baldy, speccy bastard oval office. gently caress knows what I'd do with Evan Davis, presumably I'd use long-nosed pliers for that stubbly pate of his.

EDIT: nostril hairs, he must have nostril hairs, right?

TomViolence fucked around with this message at 05:40 on May 17, 2017

GEORGE W BUSHI
Jul 1, 2012

OwlFancier posted:

Don't think you need any photoshop to make Young Jeremy Corbyn a solid Would.

kingturnip
Apr 18, 2008
On an individual level, it's obviously beneficial for women on trial that they frequently get more lenient sentences - although I wonder whether the judge's comments would have been the same here, if the future Dr Woodward had been from an ethnic minority or not attractive.
But it is a problem, and one that (amusingly) both feminists and MRAs agree on, but probably for different reasons. I seem to remember reading that female defendants get more lenient sentences irrespective of whether the judge is a man or woman, so it is a societal/cultural issue.

MrL_JaKiri
Sep 23, 2003

A bracing glass of carrot juice!
She's on the cover of the sun today, coincidentally they found a picture of her in a tank top not wearing a bra

BigHandsVince
Mar 30, 2007
Mamma Mia, my hands are huge!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAzYn70jq8E

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

MrL_JaKiri posted:

She's on the cover of the sun today, coincidentally they found a picture of her in a tank top not wearing a bra

Of course.

Christ, the papers are mad as hell at the Labour manifesto. That's how you know it's a good manifesto.

Bacon Terrorist
May 7, 2010

to ride eternal, shiny and chrome

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2022
On the plus side, I convinced my fiancée to vote for the first time ever.

Unfortunately I see all the argument in the Furness constituency post Labour guarantee on Trident is that 'still can't vote for Corbyn, he won't use it so it's useless' :psyduck:

Pissflaps
Oct 20, 2002

by VideoGames
Another Blairite talking down Labour's chances in the run up to the election:

quote:

The union boss set his close ally Jeremy Corbyn a target of holding onto just 200 parliamentary constituencies after 8 June, a performance which would be Labour's worst since 1935.

He also said he does not expect Labour to win the election - and blamed the media for their treatment of Mr Corbyn.

Mr McCluskey said Unite’s support for the left-winger – which includes up to £4.5m funding for the general election campaign – did not depend on Labour attaining a specific number of seats.

But he added: “I believe that if Labour can hold on to 200 seats or so it will be a successful campaign.

“It will mean that Theresa May will have had an election, will have increased her majority but not dramatically.”

The extent of Labour's ambition is clearly damage limitation at this point.

Do we agree with Len that the worst Labour performance for over 80 years would be a good result?

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MrL_JaKiri
Sep 23, 2003

A bracing glass of carrot juice!
McCluskey said that Labour winning would be difficult given that it faces spectacular hostility from the media, and given that would probably doing pretty well to get ~200 MPs. I wonder which part of this statement has been focused on

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