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Shakespearean Beef posted:Oh come on, this is a complete non-issue, an actual case of PC gone mad. Most people these days realise that Political Correctness is more about controlling the cognitive behaviour of the masses than protecting minorities, a current example would be how UKIP is constantly spammed with racist accusations rather than well thought out policy alternatives. Clarkson is an intelligent man and I would think his politically incorrect slip ups are designed to be rebellious against this Frankfurt school style manipulation rather than be offensive to either minorities or in the case of Asian people who represent 60% of the global population majorities. Haha, oh wow. No, Racists are stupid fucks and should be shunned and ostracized because it's literally the only way to enact societal change. If there's anything the past several thousand years of human history have taught us it's that the way to get what you want is to use strongly worded letters and disapproving tuts, right? e: did I just get trolled? It's so hard to tell these days. I've got a 2 hour round trip tomorrow because someone completely hosed the locks in the jobcentre I have to go to normally so we're being forced to go to one pretty much in the next town over. Rush Limbo fucked around with this message at 15:51 on May 1, 2014 |
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Trickjaw posted:Its Shakey, and he got you Well don't I feel like a prat. Oh well, my anger is still justified if wrongly directed. Apparantly someone forced superglue into the main staff entrance for the jobcentre, then shattered the cylinders, so rather than going in through the pleb entrance, they've decided to close up shop and send everyone to a different place. Appointment times are still the same, apparantly, so if you don't find out the jobcentre is shut and you go to that one expecting to be seen, you're going to get sanctioned, son!
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May 1, 2014 15:56
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Trickjaw posted:Yes, that is a load of poo poo, document everything (in case someone else gets sanctioned, and needs it) and also so you get your travel expenses back. Its also probably been done by someone who has suffered at their hands, not much consolation, but people do lose perspective when they are really bloody angry, and getting no where. I'm not angry that it was done, the place is a shithole and probably deserves far worse. I'm loving fuming about their response, though, which explains exactly why someone thought to gently caress with them in the first place. I was lucky enough to get the info early so I know I need to go on a 2 hour round trip on the bus. I really can't wait to see what happens when they try to enforce IDS' policy of having everyone there every day.
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Regardless of the quality of Subway's food, they use workfare so you shouldn't go there regardless. poo poo food, poo poo business ethics, just a poo poo business all around.
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Umiapik posted:The Guardian's online website keeps going haywire and matching the wrong photos to it's front page headlines. I particularly like this one: Glad to see the Grauniad is keeping certain traditions alive in the digital age.
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Well I guess that makes it OK, if he's no longer a threat. I wonder if cutting your own cock off is a valid way of reducing sentencing, as you would be incapable of raping someone anymore. If he spends the rest of his life in jail I won't shed a tear. I'm somewhat surprised he didn't take down others with him. I'm pretty sure he would be privy to the sexual exploits of others, considering his career has largely been covering up other people's poo poo.
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I'm conflicted. I do agree for the most part that public protection is one of the few valid reasons to incarcerate someone, but the brazen attitude and the fact that he got away with it for so long rubs me the wrong way. It's vengeful and irrational but, gently caress, for what he did and the lives he ruined it just isn't good enough.
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May 2, 2014 20:12
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Yeah I just remembered that chemical castration is an actual legal thing. God, the world really is a loving terrible place. I think I might go read Candide again to cheer myself up.
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DPD are the most useless company ever. I literally just had a van pull up outside, not even get out of the van, then say they attempted to deliver the parcel and drove off. The only logical conclusion I can make is that Sam Beckett chose that exact moment to leap into the driver's body, assumed the only reason he could possibly be in a delivery van is to make a delivery, figured he already attempted it and decided to play along.
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May 3, 2014 11:33
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I was forced to move from an area of my city which had a huge immigrant population and it loving sucks. There were about three totally amazing supermarkets nearby where you could probably get any food from here to China. I particularly missed the Chinese supermarket as it was staffed by the filthiest mouthed woman I've ever heard who would flirt constantly with every man who came in, even though she was probably old enough to be a great grandmother. God, she was great. Now I live on a fairly white, fairly impoverished area and it loving blows. I miss being able to walk down the street and buy huge packs of frozen fish and goat meat. Right now I have to walk nearly two miles to the closest supermarket as the buses suck and it's practically a food desert here. This is a bit food centric I guess but it blows.
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May 4, 2014 13:28
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May 4, 2014 18:01
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It's kind of depressing seeing the amount of gambling services advertised on TV with smiling happy people as the face of them. Sign of the times, I guess.
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Advertising has always been rather morally bankrupt. I think the worst one I've seen that wasn't gambling related was that creepy ad where they have Audrey Hepburn advertising a chocolate bar.
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May 4, 2014 21:49
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They got Al Capone for tax evasion. Just saying.
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May 5, 2014 15:12
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Yeah as a general rule if you have to say you're not racist, you probably are. I think my favourite instance of racist weaseling was Nick Griffin on question time when he said he was strictly only involved with 'an almost entirely nonviolent chapter of the KKK'
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May 5, 2014 19:28
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We've got institutionalised, government sanctioned slavery, thousands of people with so little food they have to resort to shoplifting or relying on food banks and we have UKIP, a literal Nazi party, gaining some measure of traction. Britain is a great place, guys. Stop complaining.
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May 6, 2014 14:25
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Alternatively, learn to live in the sea. We'll all have to eventually.
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May 6, 2014 14:31
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I guess we have a large amount of structural violence. We may not get beaten across the head, unless we protest or look at a copper funny, or be black, but denying a large proportion of the population to basic human needs is an act of violence by many, many definitions.
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May 6, 2014 14:41
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What the gently caress is going on with newsnight. It's like they wanted to do a bit about how lovely life expectancy is in poor areas, comparable to certain areas of Mexico, but figured people couldn't take it so decided to give it a football disguise.
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May 8, 2014 23:06
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Saki posted:UKIP are dumb and wrong but comparing them to Nazis is loving stupid. They take on the stance that everything is the fault of someone else and spend most of their time in beer halls. Literally the only difference between them and the burgeoning Nazi party is that UKIP don't want Europe.
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Gonzo McFee posted:I'm fairly sure someone in UKIP suggested concentration camps for forigns as they're waiting to be deported. They're called UKIP. No national socialist anywhere in the name, ergo they are not Nazis 
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There's a loving huge one near my house. I have to walk past it to pick up a parcel. I'm too poor to have the means to deface it meaningfully. Hopefully someone takes the Duty on themselves.
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May 9, 2014 11:32
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Took a picture of one of the billboards near my house.  They managed to find the one picture where he doesn't look like a frog. Also I'm sick at the blatant lie. They don't do gently caress all at the EU other than take their money.
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May 9, 2014 12:59
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The thing about being a giant octopus is that everyone prejudges you. I mean, is it any wonder he is a bit angry, being ostracised as he has?
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May 9, 2014 13:36
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notaspy posted:Who had 'total bollocks' for this trojan horse nonsense? http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-27355014 Ooh, ooh it was me, Sir! Brilliant with the other link about most people being wrong about everything.
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spikenigma posted:No trojan horse extremism links == no trojan horse? Trojan horse implies some sort of hidden agenda. What's the hidden agenda here? They're shittily managed schools, which isn't so much a hidden agenda for anyone concerned, not even Gove who wants schools to do shittily so they can hand them over to the private sector.
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Seaside Loafer posted:Cant they just do that system by default then? If I lie about my religion (not that I have any) I can save a few bucks right? I'll do it but it seems a bit silly. Technically Islamic accounts can only have ethical investments in accordance with sharia principles but as with anything Your mileage may vary as there can be many, many ways a clever investor can bend the rules so the ethics aren't always the best reason to choose them. Sharia basically forbids usury so interest and overdraft fees are a big no no.
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In principle Islamic banking is amazing and really should be the baseline for all banks but yeah most people expect interest so it probably wouldn't catch on in a huge way.
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Ah yes, the undoubtedly unbiased, fair and rigorous investigation Gove and his cronies will conduct.
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Wasn't the entire point of the trojan horse theory that MUSLIMS!! were somehow criminal masterminds that have managed to infiltrate and subjugate education, which has been described as complete bullshit by anyone with any sort of sense? Gove may not be an islamaphobe, possibly no more than your average Tory, but he does have a vested interest in making sure non Academies are painted in the shittest possible light because they want to privatise schools. That is of course assuming the DoE report even gets released, seeing as how pretty much any report they can't spin suddenly goes missing.
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These schools are not only underfunded and badly organised, they're a threat to national security. Luckily Gove knows a few sorts who can turn them into respectable Academies with nary a brown person within spitting distance of authority.
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The entire point was that they were no longer classified as having SCS in an effort to criminalise them, but weren't actually afforded the rights and privileges of either state. They didn't have a fair trial, which any criminal is entitled to, and they weren't treated with Special Category Status, they were in limbo between the two. Much like prisoners can be interred indefinitely without a trial by being classified in a special manner as they did in Gitmo. Rush Limbo fucked around with this message at 13:59 on May 13, 2014 |
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The IRA were fuckers, sure, but they still deserved proper treatment. If they were criminals, treat them as such and give them a fair trial, or if they're not and actually are political prisoners then treat them as such. The hunger strikes were entirely about human rights, and it's loving disgusting the way the entire situation was handled. For what it's worth, I was also in favour of extending the ECHR to Abu Hamza because human rights apply to everyone or they apply to nobody. This is really an all or nothing situation. One standard will work just fine.
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big scary monsters posted:I didn't know that either, but I'm hardly surprised. Why is it always homosexuals trying to destroy our families and ruin our society though? Does being gay always come with an agenda? Gays are traitors because they don't breed and therefore don't secure a future for the white race. This is literally what they believe. I did a lot of volunteer work with HNH and you hear this kind of rhetoric all the time. It would be laughable if it wasn't so toxic.
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I don't trust the DWP keeping tabs on me so I've refused consent for them to see my UJM profile and take print outs. Fucks them off no end. I know I'm flagged as a poo poo customer because there's visible discomfort whenever one is assigned to deal with me. Thankfully this has saved my rear end on two occasions, one where my account on UJM was deleted without warning and another time when my entire application history got deleted. gently caress them. I've only encountered one genuinely nice person, who happens to be my personal advisor, as she actually gives a gently caress and refers me to genuinely useful things.
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Answers Me posted:So how far along the Road to Fascism is the rise of private militias? Remember that story about BNP and EDL members being chased by women dressed as badgers? I hope these prats get humiliated in a similar manner. http://m.ibtimes.co.uk/bnp-edl-hate-fascist-badgers-473597 Lest we forget. Rush Limbo fucked around with this message at 16:04 on May 15, 2014 |
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big scary monsters posted:I know it's meant to evoke swarthy and bearded foreign paedophiles preying on good white English boys and girls, but every time he talks about handing out "Muslim grooming" leaflets I can't help but imagine they're flyering for some kind of specialist barber's. The funny thing is there is a Muslim Barber near where I used to live. Several, actually. Never bothered to find out if they specialised in Muslim grooming but they sure gave good shaves.
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