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Renaissance Robot posted:No true brit would ever speak of eck's mass. So I guess Salmond's recent diet is the latest part of the War On Eck's Mass?
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Haha! Viz, yeah? Coohoolin posted:OP is missing Salmond as Santa. I was going to add Santa Marx, but ran out of room. Loonytoad Quack posted:I must insist this is added to the OP to allow everyone to get into the appropriate spirit! Adding to OP for extra yuletide cheer.
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Dec 1, 2014 18:09
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Gonzo McFee posted:Whatever Cherie Blair is doing with her left hand I don't think Tony likes it. Edit: Seriously though, was the photographer pissing on Tony's shoes as he asked him to say cheese or something, that's a grimace for the loving ages. Pilchenstein fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Dec 1, 2014 |
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Dec 1, 2014 18:10
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Pilchenstein posted:Au contraire, he looks like he's in the vinegar strokes. Knowing Cherie she's probably trying to nick his wallet. Also I think that's just his face now.
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Dec 1, 2014 18:21
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Pesky Splinter posted:I was going to add Santa Marx, but ran out of room. 
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Dec 1, 2014 18:22
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Loonytoad Quack posted:Season's greetings! This is the actual Blair christmas card; featuring Tony Blair's warmest, most inviting smile! I must insist this is added to the OP to allow everyone to get into the appropriate spirit! That look on Blair. 
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Dec 1, 2014 18:28
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Loonytoad Quack posted:Season's greetings! This is the actual Blair christmas card; featuring Tony Blair's warmest, most inviting smile! I must insist this is added to the OP to allow everyone to get into the appropriate spirit! Poor Tony was too busy hoovering up war criminal consultancy money in the East to make the photoshoot this year, so we used his wax replica from Madame Tussauds.
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Dec 1, 2014 18:49
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It looks like they photoshopped Cherie's head onto some other woman's body.
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Dec 1, 2014 18:50
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Because she knows what happens if you directly touch Tony Blair.
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The Corporate posted:Pointless protest - you can't fight the economics behind gentrification of Hoxton, it's Zone 1 and it's going to happen whether they like it or not. The issue is a lack of affordable housing elsewhere to replace it. I don't agree with this attitude: "This is the way things are and we just have to adjust to it." The UK housing market didn't just 'happen': it's not somehow the natural order of things. The crazy UK housing market has got this way because of certain decisions made by the Powers That Be: if different choices are made, different outcomes will result. Remember that we're one of the richest countries in the world: there's absolutely no reason why there can't be plentiful, cheap, high-quality housing for everyone, except that decisions have been made that this should NOT be the case.
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Gonzo McFee posted:Knowing Cherie she's probably trying to nick his wallet. When your Christmas photo looks less appealing and loving than Charlie Manson's wedding album, you should maybe think twice before sending it to your friends.
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I'd say Tony looks like he's having an existential crisis, but those are only for people with consciences.
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While we're horrifying each other with Blair, I was wondering if someone in this thread would happen to know where I could find that ad designed to get people out to vote which ends up with Tony Blair mugging the camera? Someone posted it in a UKMT a couple years back and I can't find it anyplace.
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You rang?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmwqEg-06Ww Lyrics actually poignant and accurate in retrospect quote:You can walk my path, you can wear my shoes baka kaba fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Dec 1, 2014 |
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baka kaba posted:You rang? Ta, that's the one. Just as awful as I remembered it.
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So Ed Balls has said Labour must be "tough on the deficit and tough on the causes of the deficit"  Any other choice soundbites for Labour to co-opt in their descent into cargo cult Blairism? If they repeat enough slogans from the late 90s glory days, maybe the power will come back! My money's on "Immigration, immigration, immigration" for the follow-up.
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Turns out that Lord Ashcroft's team miscalculated when they estimated that Miliband could be unseated if Tory and UKIP voters joined forces in Doncaster; corrected polling puts him on 54% in his seat versus a combined UKIP/Con vote of 38%. http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/9084 Meanwhile, a combined English marginal seat poll has Labour up by 8 percentage points. Milibandism is... working?
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Gilganixon posted:Ta, that's the one. Just as awful as I remembered it. http://www.youdubber.com/index.php?video=dmwqEg-06Ww&video_start=0&audio=RrxePKps87k&audio_start=0 Renaissance Robot posted:No true brit would ever speak of eck's mass. Xmas, or related abbreviations, has been used in this country for a thousand years
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Cerv posted:what makes you think their medical info is any of your business? Well if a tube driver has symptoms that are similar to being drunk then maybe he shouldn't be driving a train full of commuters?
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drunk train drivers? so what? plenty of people drive pissed with no incident and the trains have all sorts of fail safe systems that cars don't have. don't even have to worry about steering. BA pilots managed to fly across the atlantic for years when they were pissed, no problem. e/ also these are train drivers in LONDON the evil place full of EVIL commuters who are feeding mammon. let their train go off the tracks.
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Man I don't know what I'd do if I got on a train with a driver who had a slurred voice due to a disability
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I got on a bus with a drunk bus driver once. The 376 Wells to bristol, at night 22 miles through the countryside. The fucker kept talking about how this was the bus of death (a bus killed someone at the old Bristol Bus station not so long before, if any of you remember that, before the re-design). Was actually a little scary.
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serious gaylord posted:Well if a tube driver has symptoms that are similar to being drunk then maybe he shouldn't be driving a train full of commuters? Luckily the people involved can work out a definitive answer to this instead of requiring input and approval from the peanut gallery It's a good source of reckons though!! loving unions
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LemonDrizzle posted:
You'd never know it from reading the papers but... Yes, it's being quietly successful. For the Conservatives to win the key marginals they need for a majority, they'd need a swing on average of 8-10% in each seat and for the life of me I can't see circumstances where that'd happen. Something ELSE you'd never know from reading the papers: https://yougov.co.uk/news/2014/11/27/voters-back-redistribution-wealth/
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baka kaba posted:Luckily the people involved can work out a definitive answer to this instead of requiring input and approval from the peanut gallery If it was a slam dunk unfair dismissal, shouldn't the definitive answer be arrived at via an employment tribunal and a doctor rather than a strike? ReV VAdAUL posted:Should underfunded schools or schools in deprived areas similarly get a pass for not having access to top of the line facilities? Is trying one's best enough? It seemed to me as if they had done everything that was sensibly required, including some of the vaunted "first-hand experience". Not so much "they did their best" as "what they did should have been enough". I wouldn't penalise a school for not having top of the line facilities - I would penalise them if the facilities led to them not covering parts of the curriculum.
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Umiapik posted:Something ELSE you'd never know from reading the papers: It's only a step in the right direction if you're also allowed to step on people lower than you to get up there.
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baka kaba posted:Luckily the people involved can work out a definitive answer to this instead of requiring input and approval from the peanut gallery Trade unions are the greatest contribution our lovely, awful country has added to humanity. I will fight anybody to the death, choice of their weapons, who thinks otherwise.
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Prince John posted:If it was a slam dunk unfair dismissal, shouldn't the definitive answer be arrived at via an employment tribunal and a doctor rather than a strike? This is the root of it for me. If it was so obviously a massive loving over by TfL then why are they striking when the employment tribunal would sort it out? Its just all a bit shady.
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Yeah I know nothing about the details, but I sure have an opinion on it! Unions strike for lots of reasons, like to effect changes in company policy and management. Here's the RMT statement: http://www.rmt.org.uk/news/mondays-tube-strike-on-as-lu-management-wreck-acas-talks/ quote:“RMT has been pointing out for some time now that a new culture of harassment and misuse of procedures is rife on London Underground at the moment and the union will not stand back while individuals are fitted-up and picked off as has happened in this particular case on the Northern Line. Why would a workers' union want to take collective action instead of letting this individual case pass, and rely on the courts to maybe slap a wrist a few months down the line? Sure is a mystery, obviously devilishly nefarious things are going on here
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serious gaylord posted:Well if a tube driver has symptoms that are similar to being drunk then maybe he shouldn't be driving a train full of commuters? You quoted me, but I don't know why.
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serious gaylord posted:This is the root of it for me. If it was so obviously a massive loving over by TfL then why are they striking when the employment tribunal would sort it out? So what do you think they are striking about then?
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Future PM.
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I often wonder what the legacy of the dead of WW1 would be. Why exactly they gave their lives to fight a pointless war that did nothing but create another world war, and was merely a political dickwaving contest. We know for certain it wasn't to end war, to secure freedom, to protect the country or even bring peace to the world, but we've finally found it out was ultimately to flog cheap poo poo on behalf of Sainsbury's. I never thought I'd say this, but gently caress the British Legion. Between this and the 'future soldier' poo poo they're really making GBS threads on everything they've traditionally stood for.
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"failure... to recognize that condition" is what jumps out at me self-medicating with something that would trigger a breathalyzer for one of those tricky hard-to-prove illnesses? Acas would do the obvious thing and abide by the standard that agreed-upon doctors get to say whether or not a condition exists, the union would obviously disagree. And agreed-upon procedures would probably not detail what to do in the scenario of a persistently disputed diagnosis, leading to accusations of failure to adhere to procedure plus accusing Acas of rigidity. This would fit the details released thus far. Insofar as the purpose of a non-disruptive strike is to appeal to wider support, however, I think medical confidentiality principles have doomed such an intention from the get-go.
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Ddraig posted:I often wonder what the legacy of the dead of WW1 would be. Why exactly they gave their lives to fight a pointless war that did nothing but create another world war, and was merely a political dickwaving contest. It did go part of the way to changing the political landscape so war on that scale could never happen again, even if WW2 finished the job. I think someone mentioned in a previous UKMT how the original management (or whatever you want to call it) died off and were replaced with people who didn't fight in WW1, weren't subject to the recruitment propaganda, etc, and everything sort of went off message, not because of that alone, but because of their allowing the media to take hold of the message. That future soldier bullshit could not be any more offensive to someone who signed up for the trenches based on essentially the same narrative.
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