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Junior G-man posted:Have we at long last reached Peak Grauniad? e: 3 - The rule of emperor Augustus is renewed for a ten-year period. One of the better emperors by all accounts, as at least he didn't gently caress a pig.
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Fans posted:And then we'd have never known if the staunchly anti-nuclear, anti-war Corbyn would have or not. It would have left some room for doubt.
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# ? Oct 1, 2015 11:03 |
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Junior G-man posted:Have we at long last reached Peak Grauniad? If it included "and it's all Corbyn's fault" it would be, but as of now it falls short tantalizingly close to the apex. Pissflaps posted:It would have left some room for doubt. It would have left about as much doubt as the possibility that Corbyn was lying when he said he'd never push the button does right now.
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# ? Oct 1, 2015 11:04 |
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JosephWongKS posted:David Cameron seems to have be almost completely unscathed by all of
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# ? Oct 1, 2015 11:04 |
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Which one of you made this? He looks like he's on top of a Christmas tree, like a star or an angel, but even better.
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# ? Oct 1, 2015 11:05 |
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Pissflaps posted:We're allowed to have a Prime MInister with pretty much any views on any subject, if he can command the support of his party and the voters. I'm not entirely sure we're even having the same argument here.
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# ? Oct 1, 2015 11:06 |
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Forgall posted:Conservative voters don't care about pigfucking, and people who do care have never voted for him in the first place. Stottie Kyek posted:Which one of you made this?
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# ? Oct 1, 2015 11:07 |
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Pissflaps posted:We're allowed to have a Prime MInister with pretty much any views on any subject, if he can command the support of his party and the voters. Miliband said he wouldn't use them either.
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# ? Oct 1, 2015 11:08 |
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Junior G-man posted:Have we at long last reached Peak Grauniad? This one stands out to me http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/30/i-didnt-get-the-prenatal-tests-for-downs-syndrome-heres-why#comment-60532804 "Why does a shop assistant appear shocked when I tell her I have no plans to abort my baby after she asked a completely innocuous and unrelated question?" The actual point she is making could be interesting if it wasn't buried in a smug and stupid article. Also a while back there was an article about why it isn't anti feminist to teach her daughter how to cook. I was so relieved she had cleared that up - teaching my children life skills that might pigeon hole them as 'someone who needs to eat occasionally' was filling me with guilt.
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# ? Oct 1, 2015 11:09 |
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Guavanaut posted:I thought Conservative voters were supposed to be the moralists who were against all these drugs and breakdown of the family and deviant sex and foreigns (except the good ones).
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# ? Oct 1, 2015 11:09 |
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Private Speech posted:Miliband said he wouldn't use them either. ....keep going. edit: does anybody have a source for this btw? I don't remember him saying it and apparently neither does Google.
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Stottie Kyek posted:Which one of you made this? Turns out he is indeed on top of a christmas tree, and you can buy him here https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/250000101/jeremy-corbyn-alternative-xmas-tree
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# ? Oct 1, 2015 11:18 |
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Turns out the government's new Extremism Analysis Unit have been working really, really hard to monitor the UK universities they accused of supporting extremist speakers. They worked so hard, they pressed both ctrl+c AND ctrl+v on a neoconservative thinktank report. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/no-10s-extremism-report-mirrors-text-thinktank-studyTimes Higher Education posted:No 10’s extremism report mirrors text of thinktank study
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# ? Oct 1, 2015 11:19 |
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Barry Foster posted:Turns out he is indeed on top of a christmas tree, and you can buy him here Why am I not surprised.
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# ? Oct 1, 2015 11:24 |
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If you think there's any less doubt that kindly old uncle Jeremy would not decide to wipe a handful of Soviet cities off the face of the Earth in a futile gesture of revenge just because he actually said he wouldn't, you weren't paying attention and you're just looking for something to get het up about. Anyway, I don't think Trident will be a terminal issue unless certain factions want it to be, although I'm sure it will have it's difficulties. I can think of at least one major political party that has managed to hang together and even win elections despite a bitter and longstanding internal disagreement that's going to be the subject of an enormous public debate and referendum in the near future.
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# ? Oct 1, 2015 11:26 |
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Without knowing any of the content of these speeches it's difficult to really say anything constructive. My gut reaction, predictably, is that whenever you hear about governments cracking down on students, academics, and universities it's rarely a prelude to anything good in terms of civil liberties.
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# ? Oct 1, 2015 11:27 |
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Barry Foster posted:Turns out he is indeed on top of a christmas tree, and you can buy him here
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# ? Oct 1, 2015 11:29 |
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Guavanaut posted:£30.00 plus shipping from Brighton. How many hours do we think it takes to hand make one of those? Any knitting experts here?
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# ? Oct 1, 2015 11:32 |
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Cerebral Bore posted:If it included "and it's all Corbyn's fault" it would be, but as of now it falls short tantalizingly close to the apex.
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# ? Oct 1, 2015 11:37 |
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Lord of the Llamas posted:How many hours do we think it takes to hand make one of those? Any knitting experts here?
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# ? Oct 1, 2015 11:37 |
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Lord of the Llamas posted:How many hours do we think it takes to hand make one of those? Any knitting experts here? Not that long for the crochet, the putting together would be the worst part. Do we do ever do Secret Santa in this thread? Cos I could whip up a few of those I am sure.
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# ? Oct 1, 2015 11:41 |
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Guavanaut posted:I wasn't complaining about the price so much as thinking 'Brighton. Of course. Where else would hand knitted Corbyn tree toppers come from.' Fair enough. Could've been Bristol. In other news Simon Jenkins has some good news; there is no housing crisis! The poors just need to hurry up and socially cleanse themselves. I swear he's saying that all we need to do is status quo even harder. Lord of the Llamas fucked around with this message at 11:55 on Oct 1, 2015 |
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Pissflaps posted:....keep going. I thought you liked Ed? Anyway the point is that Corbyn was just repeating his "I wouldn't press the button" which came up in the pre-election debates. To be fair the question was more specific and he faffed a bit about it, but in the end it amounted to the same thing. link
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# ? Oct 1, 2015 11:44 |
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suzanne moore is the guardian columnist who is most upset by corbyn i think (except for blair)
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# ? Oct 1, 2015 11:45 |
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I reckon there's a 'real or fake Guardian article' online quiz in the making here
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# ? Oct 1, 2015 11:46 |
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Lord of the Llamas posted:In other news Simon Jenkins has some good news; there is no housing crisis! The poors just need to hurry up and socially cleanse themselves. quote:Even the poorest newcomers seem to find somewhere (usually private) to rent.
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# ? Oct 1, 2015 11:46 |
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Private Speech posted:I thought you liked Ed? Anyway the point is that Corbyn was just repeating his "I wouldn't press the button" which came up in the pre-election debates. To be fair the question was more specific and he faffed a bit about it, but in the end it amounted to the same thing. This is nothing like what Corbyn said.
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Private Speech posted:I thought you liked Ed? Anyway the point is that Corbyn was just repeating his "I wouldn't press the button" which came up in the pre-election debates. To be fair the question was more specific and he faffed a bit about it, but in the end it amounted to the same thing.
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# ? Oct 1, 2015 11:48 |
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XMNN posted:That question is absolutely ridiculous. Not if they're talking about Trident and someone starts going 'b-b-but terrorists!' Then it's a pretty good followup question
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# ? Oct 1, 2015 11:51 |
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Pissflaps posted:This is nothing like what Corbyn said. The full quote was closer but either way the pro-nuclear people were all "what if Isis nuked us first". Which might have been taking it to the extreme, but what's the difference between ISIS civilians and say Russian civilians anyway? OK yeah it was a bit ridiculous.
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# ? Oct 1, 2015 11:51 |
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Ed, would you use Trident to de-ice your car?
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# ? Oct 1, 2015 11:56 |
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baka kaba posted:Not if they're talking about Trident and someone starts going 'b-b-but terrorists!' Then it's a pretty good followup question I still don't think it makes any difference whether a lifelong anti-nuclear campaigner and pacifist explicitly confirms that he wouldn't launch a retaliatory nuclear strike or not. It's not enough of a cast-iron guarantee that it would induce the Reds to initiate a first strike even in a world where the Americans don't have thousands of warheads aimed at them and he wasn't going to use the threat of nuclear bombings as a bargaining chip anyway. It's a non-development.
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# ? Oct 1, 2015 11:57 |
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use tactical nukes on yourselves to hunt terrorists, oops hit some rich guys manor, oops did it again, oops.
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# ? Oct 1, 2015 11:58 |
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Guavanaut posted:He's right, you know. I've seen it argued that it could be a PR stunt. Not that it affects your point.
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# ? Oct 1, 2015 12:08 |
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Overminty posted:I've seen it argued that it could be a PR stunt. Not that it affects your point. Have a mattress and a microwave for 780 a month instead. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-53770109.html (I'm not being 100% fair. You get a toilet too. And a chandelier!)
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# ? Oct 1, 2015 12:23 |
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That article is just so catastrophically bad.
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# ? Oct 1, 2015 12:24 |
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Guavanaut posted:Looks like you're right. I thought it was a bit low. also it is beautiful and bright, so there's that
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# ? Oct 1, 2015 12:30 |
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Junior G-man posted:That article is just so catastrophically bad. "Did Labour's new kindness initiative cause my nose to bleed? No, it didn't but here's an article about it anyway"
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# ? Oct 1, 2015 12:31 |
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XMNN posted:Why would you use nuclear weapons on a non-nuclear pseudo-state at any point ever? It's a ludicrous proposition. Well yeah, that's why going on about IS in the context of Britain's nuclear deterrent is silly. It's pretty much a thought-terminating cliche at this point, so the natural response is to actually follow it to its absurd conclusion And the Corbyn thing is silly because we're imagining some bizarro world where the UK is about to be invaded by who knows, and the entire world-changing and possibly world-ending decision rests on the fact Corbyn said 'don't wanna'. Sounds like a right wing comic where America gets invaded because the lefty peacenik government lets the reds know they're weak and then you get tanks driving through McDonalds
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Guavanaut posted:e: 3 - The rule of emperor Augustus is renewed for a ten-year period. One of the better emperors by all accounts, as at least he didn't gently caress a pig.
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