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Guavanaut posted:Yeah, I'm not opposed to a theoretical VAT on helicopters. Especially if we impose an additional 20% tax on anyone identifying as one. 
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The Perfect Element posted:People should just stop empty posting poo poo tweets. Or there should be some kind of threshold of how many retweets or likes it's had. Don't inflict lukewarm takes from anonymous no marks on us in OUR great British mega thread. For what it's worth I do usually appreciate Jose inflicting his twitter browsing on us by proxy as it is the main source of actual news I get. It's just specifically that one I didn't see the benefit of and it seems obvious that it'd just be unpleasant for a lot of people to read.
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Feb 25, 2021 22:07
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Wouldn't this be exactly the sort of opportunity for the opposition to start talking about a wealth tax? Say it'll land on the wankers that grifted the PPE supply last year.
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Feb 25, 2021 22:08
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Also if labour shoot down the corp tax hike is there any reason sunak won't just go "well we could have spent money but labour voted against it lol" and be entirely correct?
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Feb 25, 2021 22:09
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I have to admit it was the curated safari of normality elementals like Glinner and Tweetman that hooked me on this thread in the first place, and directly led to me being radicalised. But I totally understand that people don't want to see that poo poo any more
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Feb 25, 2021 22:13
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We do have a thread explicitly for that in PYF called IOSM (idiots on social media (we are the idiots but also we post other idiots on other social mediums)) https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3918745&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=662 There is even this actually thread relevant tweet:
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Feb 25, 2021 22:16
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OwlFancier posted:We do have a thread explicitly for that in PYF called IOSM (idiots on social media (we are the idiots but also we post other idiots on other social mediums)) Subbed, thanks
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Feb 25, 2021 22:19
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OwlFancier posted:For what it's worth I do usually appreciate Jose inflicting his twitter browsing on us by proxy as it is the main source of actual news I get. yeah that got retweeted by a transwoman i follow with a joke about how men will gently caress a traffic cone with lip gloss on which I agreed with because it was such an absurd take. wasn't really thinking about it being nasty to read so sorry a bout that
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Feb 25, 2021 22:35
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sinky posted:I think the opposition to shout at the government all the time imo wow, needing to call up tony, he really is in trouble.
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Feb 25, 2021 22:41
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Tony Blair: mouthpiece of public opinion.
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Feb 25, 2021 22:45
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Blair demanding to see the Headmaster: "Why are you allowing my boy Starmer to be bullied like this? He's awfully sensitive, you know!"
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Contentless posts are already probatable (USPOL clamps down on this hard) so just report them. I will concede this often doesn't work though, so we might have to resort to that old classic thread staple, the dogpile It is really weird to me that anyone finds it desirable for the D&D mods to get involved in this thread when they seem pretty awful on the whole. I dunno, I like the extremely casual nature of this thread. I like that it combines social media shitposting & news feed & impressive informed effort posts on extremely niche subjects. Like, if you asked me the single thread on this sub I want UKMT to be the least similar with it's USPOL, a humourless liberal wankrag. Not saying you're wrong, just find it funny there's thread regulars who want something 180 from this thread to me.
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Feb 25, 2021 22:49
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OwlFancier posted:Tony Blair: mouthpiece of public opinion. 
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forkboy84 posted:It is really weird to me that anyone finds it desirable for the D&D mods to get involved in this thread when they seem pretty awful on the whole. I dunno, I like the extremely casual nature of this thread. I like that it combines social media shitposting & news feed & impressive informed effort posts on extremely niche subjects. Like, if you asked me the single thread on this sub I want UKMT to be the least similar with it's USPOL, a humourless liberal wankrag. we can have a casual thread without people shoving loving contentless transphobic social media post in our faces
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Feb 25, 2021 23:02
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Guavanaut posted:Fun word fact: "mouthpiece of public opinion" is an anagram of "imbecilic fine thou poop upon" "Anthony Blair" is an anagram of "banality horn", makes you think.
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Feb 25, 2021 23:06
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Rumda posted:we can have a casual thread without people shoving loving contentless transphobic social media post in our faces Yeah, sorry, I wasn't defending that stuff, it was specifically the getting mad about contentless social media news posts or whatever that I was surprised by. Obviously there's a difference between "social media posting" & posting stuff that only serves to hurt thread regulars.
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Feb 25, 2021 23:09
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i think we're all comrades here and when someone asks us to remove something we do, and did in this instance (and apologized). i think it's reasonable to ask us all to little more careful with what we share casually without requiring an additional rule.
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Feb 25, 2021 23:11
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CoolCab posted:i think we're all comrades here and when someone asks us to remove something we do, and did in this instance (and apologized). i think it's reasonable to ask us all to little more careful with what we share casually without requiring an additional rule. You would think but this isn't the first time this discussion has come up, and it has happened twice in the last week
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Feb 25, 2021 23:27
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Josef bugman posted:Does anyone know a good place to find out more info on your local council and/or the people who run it? peanut- posted:I am really conflicted about the idea of loving up Labour at local elections. Maugrim posted:Been wondering this myself - where are all you super informed people who can reliably determine which councillors are good or bad getting your info from? namesake posted:If they're already a councillor then local press might have some articles about what they do or say but otherwise it's a total crapshoot. I'm only halfway through it and culturally it's US not UK but all of you should read Politics Is For Power. Ms Adequate posted:Bad as Labour have been for much of my life I confess I'm blindsided by them going "No, we mustn't raise corporation tax!" in response to the tories going "we might need to raise corporation tax a bit" Yeah that took me by surprise as well, my worldview was that the Labour strategy was to be inoffensive and passively win it's insane that they've lurched to the right this hard.
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big scary monsters posted:"Anthony Blair" is an anagram of "banality horn", makes you think.
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Normal Island continuing to focus on the important issues. https://twitter.com/JimMFelton/status/1365027877650132998 (The incisive commentary is that by posting this I am doing the exact same. We all float in piss down here.)
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Feb 25, 2021 23:57
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You were all complaining about Starmer not opposing the government and here he does and now you're all not like that. Make your mind up.
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Feb 25, 2021 23:59
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my mr potata head didn't come with a cock and balls piece :/
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hosed up that tories are now champions of socialosm, you hate to see it
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Guavanaut posted:I keep thinking back to this, but straight up going "scrap VAT" sounds like the sort of thing that would make popular headlines, play well with the people that understand what a regressive tax is as well as the people who see VAT as the thing the EU invented to ban big hoovers, disproportionately benefit small businesses and nations of shopkeepers, and able to be summed up in a short sentence. It'd at least move the window to make it a viable play to put pressure on the Tories to reduce VAT to 10% temporarily. people who dont like regressive taxes are going to vote labour anyway. 'lets raise taxes to pay for covid' is just more of the same 'the nation's credit card'. and its especially silly with borrowing this cheap
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forkboy84 posted:It is really weird to me that anyone finds it desirable for the D&D mods to get involved in this thread when they seem pretty awful on the whole. I dunno, I like the extremely casual nature of this thread. I like that it combines social media shitposting & news feed & impressive informed effort posts on extremely niche subjects. Like, if you asked me the single thread on this sub I want UKMT to be the least similar with it's USPOL, a humourless liberal wankrag. Speaking as someone who got probed by a D&D mod for white noise posting (I admit I got carried away but even my meltdown was, IMO, contentful) I definitely would prefer they stayed away from here.
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As the skies weep blood and the earth shatters, a battle-weary Piers Morgan clambers up the mound of twisted dead to reattach the toy's moustache
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Taxing businesses to pay for covid is actually cool and good, more of this please
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Is mr potato head even a thing I thought they made it up for the toy story movie
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Guavanaut posted:I keep thinking back to this, but straight up going "scrap VAT" sounds like the sort of thing that would make popular headlines, play well with the people that understand what a regressive tax is as well as the people who see VAT as the thing the EU invented to ban big hoovers, disproportionately benefit small businesses and nations of shopkeepers, and able to be summed up in a short sentence. It'd at least move the window to make it a viable play to put pressure on the Tories to reduce VAT to 10% temporarily. I say return it to its roots as a luxury/sin tax. Take it off all food but leave it on restaurants, take it off all clothing costing under, I dunno, a hundred quid. You could even get really cute and leave it on all mail-order/online transactions but take it off retail if you were really keen on saving the High Street (now there's lots of arguments to be had about the environmental impact of online vs. in-person shopping, but retail undoubtedly keeps a lot more money in the local economy rather than on Bezos' dragon hoard).
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I say return it to its roots as a luxury/sin tax. Strongly against this.
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Potato Head is a real toy. They're sadly not imbued with souls like in the Pixar film though
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OwlFancier posted:Is mr potato head even a thing I thought they made it up for the toy story movie It was a thing long before that, but it was just the face bits that you stuck onto an actual potato. I *think* the plastic version with the slots was launched/relaunched with the Toy Story movie so the boomer/early X-er parents of the kids watching the film would go out and buy it (there's a few other 50s/60s/70s toys in the films that had relaunched coinciding with the film for the same reason).
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Strongly against this. Oh okay then, thanks for the update.
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The only thing that ever made me question that was the fact that it shows up in a pratchett book. Also, like, this whole thing actually is annoying me. Because it's a loving potato, potatoes don't have genders, or rather they do have genders only insofar as you loving glue poo poo to them to make them loving gendered, you are literally internalizing the performance theory of gender when you glue a mustache to a loving potato, piers, the potato does not have a gender identity, you are gendering the potato, why the gently caress does it matter to you so much that people gender your loving potato correctly piers loving aaaaaarhg. People genders: not real, made up, a joke. Potato genders: extremely real, life and death, I would die for the potato gender.
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Guavanaut posted:Normal Island continuing to focus on the important issues.
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Honestly, it must be so galling to realise that all that lovely cis privilege can't protect you from a world full of cognitohazards, such as a potato without a moustache, that are definitely going to turn your kids into trans antifa
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goddamnedtwisto posted:It was a thing long before that, but it was just the face bits that you stuck onto an actual potato. I *think* the plastic version with the slots was launched/relaunched with the Toy Story movie so the boomer/early X-er parents of the kids watching the film would go out and buy it (there's a few other 50s/60s/70s toys in the films that had relaunched coinciding with the film for the same reason). I'm sure something like the slinky dog existed before toy story too, that was the main one that I can remember existing other than the green army guys. OwlFancier posted:People genders: not real, made up, a joke. Potato genders: extremely real, life and death, I would die for the potato gender.
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