Skippy McPants posted:So basically what you're saying is that Hot Fuzz was a documentary. Hot Fuzz was so popular because it was such an excellent satire.
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Outrail posted:My impression of England was that over the years the empire had control of a staggering amount of the globe. And had to send it's best and brightest out to run this empire. Then they got married and had kids and realised they didn't want to live on a small damp island and stayed in the nicer, larger places they were sent to/went to. The people who benefit from the EU and globalism in general forgot that the poor, the old, the sad, still get a vote. It wasn't really a vote against what the EU actually is, but rather a "do you wanna say gently caress you to the government and the rich".
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# ? Jan 15, 2017 19:15 |
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Baron von Eevl posted:In case the stories of Nauru weren't bad enough, their president is also basically a Captain America villain.
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# ? Jan 15, 2017 19:19 |
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doverhog posted:the poor, the old, the sad Hmm. Seems to me like you're missing a couple key groups in this assessment.
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# ? Jan 15, 2017 19:37 |
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Axeman Jim posted:Because the planning system in England is ruled by Daily Mail reading NIMBY Nazis like the Campaign to Protect Rural England who think that the peasantry shouldn't be blocking their views of fields with their jumped-up mud huts, and that's more important than the UK's appalling housing shortage and subsequent insane property prices (from which these people benefit, fygm) and sky-high levels of homelessness. Besides, if we build enough houses, brown-skinned people might live in them and that would be so frightful our monocles might fall out. Sounds a lot like California.txt
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# ? Jan 15, 2017 19:44 |
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Outrail posted:My impression of England was that over the years the empire had control of a staggering amount of the globe. And had to send it's best and brightest out to run this empire. Then they got married and had kids and realised they didn't want to live on a small damp island and stayed in the nicer, larger places they were sent to/went to. Boy do you have an overinflated view of the empire. It did not get the best and brightest, it got bastard sons, aristocratic by-blows and other people who wanted to feel important by "ruling" none white people whilst maintaining a level of casual corruption that would make a Trump presidency look like it was run by Jesus Christ.
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# ? Jan 15, 2017 19:48 |
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Somfin posted:Hmm. That's because it's not intended to be a literal list of the groups, but rather a rhetorical device.
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# ? Jan 15, 2017 19:55 |
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Axeman Jim posted:Because the planning system in England is ruled by Daily Mail reading NIMBY Nazis like the Campaign to Protect Rural England who think that the peasantry shouldn't be blocking their views of fields with their jumped-up mud huts, and that's more important than the UK's appalling housing shortage and subsequent insane property prices (from which these people benefit, fygm) and sky-high levels of homelessness. Besides, if we build enough houses, brown-skinned people might live in them and that would be so frightful our monocles might fall out. If you let this one guy build a house however he wants and without planning permission, some other guy is going to look at that and do the same. Why bother applying for planning permission if they'll let you build whatever if you just whine hard enough. Sucks for the guy and it looks like a neat house, but building regs are a thing for a reason.
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# ? Jan 15, 2017 19:55 |
Im on the side that the house is gaudy and ugly. It belongs on that one tumblr that shows the ugly mcmansions
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# ? Jan 15, 2017 19:59 |
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Mr. Flunchy posted:If you let this one guy build a house however he wants and without planning permission, some other guy is going to look at that and do the same. Why bother applying for planning permission if they'll let you build whatever if you just whine hard enough. Sorry it blocked your view.
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# ? Jan 15, 2017 20:00 |
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Uncultured American swine weighing in: the house was ugly as gently caress and it's cool and good that they made him tear it down.Malachite_Dragon posted:All the money he spent on that, he could've just moved to a less lovely neighborhood.
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# ? Jan 15, 2017 20:11 |
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Motherfucker built a castle in secret. He deserved to keep it.
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# ? Jan 15, 2017 20:13 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS0MBaTEZ_Y
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# ? Jan 15, 2017 20:37 |
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hanales posted:This is a weird story. Can someone explain what the actual problem is with the house? It looks like he made the whole area a bit nicer. I also find it hard to believe he had no permission, how would he get water and electric to the place? Imagine 1/5 th of the population of the US living in a country 1/2 the landmass of california.
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# ? Jan 15, 2017 21:02 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaHcJfol9nU
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http://i.imgur.com/K6MR8Jf.gifv
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# ? Jan 15, 2017 21:26 |
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Outrail posted:My impression of England was that over the years the empire had control of a staggering amount of the globe. And had to send it's best and brightest out to run this empire. Then they got married and had kids and realised they didn't want to live on a small damp island and stayed in the nicer, larger places they were sent to/went to. Nice to see that bizarre neo-colonialist racism aimed at whitey for once.
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Novum posted:Motherfucker built a castle in secret. He deserved to keep it. He was going to defend the castle using the crenelations on the roof but they caught him because the only way up was a ladder from outside.
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# ? Jan 15, 2017 22:31 |
Thank God that modern building codes require slow-collapse roofs.
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# ? Jan 15, 2017 22:35 |
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Moon Slayer posted:The schadenfreude was on me for believing and loudly insisting up until the very end that normal rules and historical precedent applied to the 2016 election. They did, idiot
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# ? Jan 16, 2017 00:05 |
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In today's edition of "What the gently caress did you think was gonna happen?" We find a kid who showers with fireworks:
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# ? Jan 16, 2017 00:12 |
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Josef bugman posted:Boy do you have an overinflated view of the empire. It did not get the best and brightest, it got bastard sons, aristocratic by-blows and other people who wanted to feel important by "ruling" none white people whilst maintaining a level of casual corruption that would make a Trump presidency look like it was run by Jesus Christ. My view is probably wrong. I just don't like England. So did they ever have anything but chavs and inbred bluebloods?
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# ? Jan 16, 2017 00:32 |
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your friend a dog posted:They did, idiot I think media gaffes were somewhat of a thing during previous elections. Lots of Howard Dean schadenfreude was revisited in 2016. I think previous US elections might also have had less hacking, maybe.
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# ? Jan 16, 2017 00:35 |
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Outrail posted:My view is probably wrong. I just don't like England. Well yes, young people from disadvantaged backgrounds also often went to empire, pretended to be higher up the totem pole and got jobs in the lower levels of colonial administration whilst engaging in light corruption. Unfortunately a lot of people in the countryside are the kind of bourgoise that even the Francoists would turn there noses up at. The sort of whingeing toddlers who are stuck in a post imperial malaise of "our greatest times have passed" whilst not realising that we got a health service out of it and are now bumbling around doing what they have always done, blame everyone else and act entitled.
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Zipperelli. posted:In today's edition of "What the gently caress did you think was gonna happen?" We find a kid who showers with fireworks: He thought he would get internet fame, and it seems like that's working out pretty well
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Mierenneuker posted:I think media gaffes were somewhat of a thing during previous elections. Lots of Howard Dean schadenfreude was revisited in 2016. while hacking is unfortunate, theres some bizarre point of view how it's not fair that the leaks turned people away from the democratic party, as if voters should be forced to ignore blatant corruption simply because it came from a biased source
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# ? Jan 16, 2017 01:48 |
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Moon Slayer posted:The schadenfreude was on me for believing and loudly insisting up until the very end that normal rules and historical precedent applied to the 2016 election. They did in the sense that if one person actually campaigns in swing states and the other ignores the poo poo out of them and throws more celebrity galas and spends all the money on ads in their absolute safest regions, the first person will probably win.
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# ? Jan 16, 2017 03:10 |
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your friend a dog posted:while hacking is unfortunate, theres some bizarre point of view how it's not fair that the leaks turned people away from the democratic party, as if voters should be forced to ignore blatant corruption simply because it came from a biased source Your friend a dog, in the Nixon era: We should probably just let the whole watergate thing slide after all who cares how or where the information comes form.
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Jmcrofts posted:He thought he would get internet fame, and it seems like that's working out pretty well Yeah good old that guy. I wish I had his autograph
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# ? Jan 16, 2017 03:29 |
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# ? Jan 16, 2017 03:56 |
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I think his clever idea was to snatch the purse then jump across the train to mask his escape. Timing was a bit off though...
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Takes No Damage posted:I think his clever idea was to snatch the purse then jump across the train to mask his escape. Timing was a bit off though... That's the transmilenio bus service in Bogota. Bunch of busses that get their own lanes and act like trains. Still gently caress you up though.
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# ? Jan 16, 2017 05:59 |
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Skarsnik posted:It is a bloody awful looking thing to be fair That’s no way to talk about a foreign head of state. Jippa posted:Imagine 1/5 th of the population of the US living in a country 1/2 the landmass of california. So… BosWash.
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# ? Jan 16, 2017 06:13 |
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Platystemon posted:
The Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis?
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# ? Jan 16, 2017 06:15 |
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this girl is hardcore and a reminder that I still have much to learn about self-defense
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# ? Jan 16, 2017 06:37 |
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Outrail posted:My view is probably wrong. I just don't like England. I don't like it either. It's why I left. However, re. brexit. I'd like to know how the USA is any better seeing as now I'm stuck in a country that voted in Trump, which I don't see as any different of an outcome. Both results were due to xenophobia. Nothing could make me return to the UK but this is just swapping poo poo for more poo poo really. People suck everywhere. For schadenfraude: consider this. A UK/US couple decide where they will live based on the outcomes of two elections. Once brings in the first black president, the second brings back a party that hosed everything over for everyone in the 80s - largely thanks to promises to make immigration harder. Those promises mean we can't ever go back unless I personally get a UK job with a $35K salary then work at it for 6 months before even bringing my husband in. Which is literally impossible for me, a lifelong freelancer and small business owner. I knew this before leaving, and the changes to immigration rules would have hosed me over anyway if I stayed. However - I trusted the USA and Christ knows why.
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Quantum Cat posted:Your friend a dog, in the Nixon era: We should probably just let the whole watergate thing slide after all who cares how or where the information comes form. I'm not sure you read what I wrote, but it'd be more like a hypothetical 'We should let this Watergate thing slide, it came from the Cubans'
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Retro Access posted:I don't like it either. It's why I left. Our aristocrats don't call themselves "lords" and we don't have a loving monarch.
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