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Mebh posted:Where's "wanker" or "arsehole"? You know those star/planet animations where they show how big Earth is compared side by side to the next biggest thing, then the Sun, then bigger and bigger stars. Wanker and arsehole are the size of UY Scuti (largest star known) compared to these.
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May 11, 2024 09:29
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Mebh posted:All this tells me is how utterly incredibly drab the British population is when coming up with descriptive one word terms. To be fair if they didn't exclude 'wanker', most of those would just be a big 'Wanker' with a handful of tiny unreadable dots around it.
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May 11, 2024 09:30
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Worth getting the big one up for Big Tone: When you're doing so well that "lier" registers on the chart
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May 11, 2024 09:38
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“30”? 
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May 11, 2024 09:58
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I'm trying to remember what John Major was like as a prime minister and all I can remember is the Spitting Image sketches and the fact he hosed Edwina Currie.
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May 11, 2024 09:59
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bessantj posted:I'm trying to remember what John Major was like as a prime minister and all I can remember is the Spitting Image sketches and the fact he hosed Edwina Currie. cone hotline and cash for questions? that’s it
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May 11, 2024 10:01
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He was probably the least offensive Tory PM possible but still chose deliberately to be a Tory under Thatcher so was a complete monster. Just a quiet, accountant-like one.
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May 11, 2024 10:06
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Jel Shaker posted:cone hotline and cash for questions? that’s it I don't remember the cone hotline but the cash for questions, didn't it happen in Blair's government as well?
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May 11, 2024 10:07
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bessantj posted:I'm trying to remember what John Major was like as a prime minister and all I can remember is the Spitting Image sketches and the fact he hosed Edwina Currie. Last gasp of the actual one nation tories. Pro European. Spent his entire term feuding with the far right wing; Widdecombe, Michael Howard, the pre-Bojo generation. Did a lot of the actual work and getting the British state and UUs to make concessions on the NI peace process just in time for Blair to actually get it across the line. Mostly remembered for the media caricature, but that’s every politician ever.
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May 11, 2024 10:08
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You did used to see a lot more cones. I assume this government has fixed the issue by ceasing infrastructure work.
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May 11, 2024 10:08
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You say that but the M27 has had cones on it for about 15 years at this point.
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May 11, 2024 10:14
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Considering how widely mocked and disliked he was at the time it’s an excellent demonstration of just how poo poo our governance is that Major is now generally accepted as a fairly decent prime minister / elder statesman And also still the last Tory to be elected and run a full term in office, without being propped up by some cranks
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May 11, 2024 10:40
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Also fascinating that the same right wing lunatics that destroyed his premiership went on to wreck several others and many are still lurking in the House of Commons
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May 11, 2024 10:43
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HopperUK posted:He was probably the least offensive Tory PM possible but still chose deliberately to be a Tory under Thatcher so was a complete monster. Just a quiet, accountant-like one. To his credit, he acted pretty quickly on hand gun laws after Dunblane, introducing the 97 Firearms Amendment Act (though this could have gone further imo). Apart from that, Tory as usual as far as I remember.
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May 11, 2024 11:05
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edit: looked up and was wrong
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May 11, 2024 11:11
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Let’s not forget his circus origins Although we’ve had a few Tories descended from clowns since tho!!!1!1!1! Ahahahaha
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May 11, 2024 11:17
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Is John Major arguably the only working class prime-minister?
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May 11, 2024 11:33
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What does "yh" mean anyway?
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May 11, 2024 11:42
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it means they've done zero actual cleaning of the data, given other entries like "ndheye" and "lier". also wondering if "na" is "n/a" that they've failed to exclude
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May 11, 2024 11:54
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So a professional survey of Tonty then. Good good. Still shocked it's got twat but not wanker.
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May 11, 2024 11:55
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So the cool Dutch Gabba tune has now been banned from Eurovision. Now look at the state of this bellend… https://twitter.com/carlrmorrell/status/1789222425533505807?s=46
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May 11, 2024 12:02
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Is John Major arguably the only working class prime-minister? Ramsay Macdonald was the son of a farmhand and a maid, and as an adult worked jobs as a farmhand, teaching assistant and clerk. James Callaghan was the son of a sailor, he worked as a civil servant and a trade union officer.
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May 11, 2024 12:17
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actually all the prime ministers are working class because they have all worked very hard for the country and the nation
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May 11, 2024 12:27
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Lmao Tonty's one does say 'oval office' in the top left corner, but not nearly big enough Also there's 'wate' and 'ndheye', so presumably the words of that size only one person said? The visualisation is nice but I just want the ordered list now with number of instances for each
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May 11, 2024 12:30
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Israel’s insane genocide is genuinely causing the commentariat to lose their minds. What the gently caress kind of point is this???
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May 11, 2024 12:44
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You know what else China has made that the UK can't? A ceasefire in Burma.
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May 11, 2024 12:48
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"Ha ha, you care about things and I don't, so I win". Or even more simply, "I used your magic words on you so I win"
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May 11, 2024 12:48
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Guavanaut posted:You know what else China has made that the UK can't? Checkmate Brillo
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May 11, 2024 12:48
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Guavanaut posted:You know what else China has made that the UK can't? I mean it didn't last but that's because it seems as if there may end up with a new communist state in Burma before the end of the next 10 years.
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May 11, 2024 12:51
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Is John Major arguably the only working class prime-minister? Depends how you define working class. Is it your parents, your education, your own occupation? Going backwards from now Rishi Sunak is definitely middle class, father a GP, mother owned a pharmacy, went to an expensive private school, went to work for Goldman Sachs & hedge funds. Liz Truss dad is famously a professor, they travelled around so went to a variety of schools but all seem to have been state schools. After leaving uni went on to become an accountant for Shell. Boris Johnson obviously isn't, Eton educated, descended from some Ottoman noble. Theresa May was the daughter of an Anglican clergyman, went to a grammar school that became a comp. Pigfucker was obviously upper middle class. Etonian, grandparent was a Baronet, father a stockbroker Gordon Brown was the son of a Minister, which sounds middle class but today a Minister earns £26,119, albeit with the benefit of being provided with a house. He went to a state school. Tony Blair was a war criminal. Also his da was a lawyer & he went to Fettes. John Major is a weird one. His father owned his own business, but after John went to Grammar School his dad lost their house after a business loan couldn't be repaid. Most recent PM not to go to uni anyway, & he was an unemployed carer for his mum at some point in the '60s. Thatcher was born to Satan, grammar school, father owned a local shop. Also almost killed herself while cleaning, clearly mixing bleach with an acid which makes you wonder about how she ended up in chemistry. Jim Callaghan was the son of a guy who ran away to join the Navy, his paternal grandparents had come over from Ireland during the Famine. Couldn't afford to go to university so took the civil service entrance exam instead. I think he counts? Harold Wilson went to state school, his father was an industrial chemist who lose his gig during the Depression & spent 2 years unable to find employment. If Major is working class then I think Wilson would be too? Ted Heath's dad was a carpenter who ended up owning a building firm Alec Douglas-Home was the Earl of Home & so a straight up aristocrat Harold Macmillan was another Etonian Anthony Eden was a son of a Baronet, & his materal grandfather was Earl Grey Clement Attlee was the son of a barrister & went to a private school. Winston Churchill...his grandfather was the 7th Duke of Marlborough Neville Chamberlain was the son of Joseph Chamberlain, a businessman & later Mayor of Birmingham & prominent MP, went to Rugby School Stanley Baldwin went to Harrow, was the son of a wealthy family, with his father being an MP & Chairman of Great Western Railway Ramsay MacDonald, the Great Betrayer, the disastrous PM during the Great Depression. He was the illegitimate son of a farm labourer & a housemaid, got free education from the Free Church of Scotland (Kate Forbes is jealous) & then became an apprentice teacher & moved to Bristol. So I'd say that probably Callaghan & definitely MacDonald were of a working class background. But honestly, you can't be a working class MP, working in Parliament you stop being working class because you are no longer producing anything, except perhaps some hot air
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May 11, 2024 12:54
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Just lol if anyone interacts with Andrew Neil other than just posting the picture of his name and multiple phone numbers in Epstein's black book
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May 11, 2024 12:54
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Failed Imagineer posted:Just lol if anyone interacts with Andrew Neil other than just posting the picture of his name and multiple phone numbers in Epstein's black book I just asked him where his hairpieces are made these days lol
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May 11, 2024 12:57
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smellmycheese posted:So the cool Dutch Gabba tune has now been banned from Eurovision. https://twitter.com/postoctobrist/status/1789258550604128525?t=0RFUgoN4xhmc4ngvc9DN6g&s=19
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May 11, 2024 13:05
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I imagine being bombed out of your homes makes it really hard to manufacture things
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May 11, 2024 13:13
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This came up on my FB feed, may be of interest: The bitly link is to here: https://www.sfomuseum.org/exhibitions/dugan-fabbre-survive-shore/gallery/#3 Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 13:28 on May 11, 2024 |
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May 11, 2024 13:25
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Failed Imagineer posted:https://twitter.com/postoctobrist/status/1789258550604128525?t=0RFUgoN4xhmc4ngvc9DN6g&s=19 Whatever it was no longer exists. 
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May 11, 2024 13:36
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Just Another Lurker posted:Whatever it was no longer exists. I can still see it for some reason despite it not embedding 
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May 11, 2024 13:40
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How is Dutch a real language lol
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May 11, 2024 13:43
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forkboy84 posted:Tony Blair was a war criminal. Also his da was a lawyer & he went to Fettes. Bit uncalled for, there's plenty to criticise Tonty for, and lots of people put on weight as they get older 
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May 11, 2024 13:47
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King Billy stole all the vowels from Wales and shoved them in the middle of his words.
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May 11, 2024 13:47
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