UKMT December - Poorly Moderated by the 81st Most Powerful Person in the UK Media

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twoot: Oct 29, 2012

An Ebola case confirmed in Glasgow

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# ? Dec 29, 2014 20:27

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Phoon: Apr 23, 2010

Oh good they came through heathrow let the panic commence

# ? Dec 29, 2014 20:32

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

twoot posted:

An Ebola case confirmed in Glasgow

Was going to ask 'is it someone who went out there to do medical work' and the first line of the article confirms that. Astonishing.

# ? Dec 29, 2014 20:51

Disinterested: Jun 29, 2011; You look like you're still raking it in. Still killing 'em?

goddamnedtwisto posted:

To be honest a pro-Europe (in the current free movement of people and capital) anti-Euro (or more widely anti-centralised/federalist) platform would be self-contradictory for a leftist party, because it exposes the non-capitalist classes to massive exploitation while removing one of the strongest barriers to that exploitation (a centralised currency, or rather the more unified political control it represents, is one of the few ways to reverse the upward transfer of wealth the current situation causes, even if right now that control is being used for the opposite outcome).

You would think the distasteful nature of the tension you're describing would provoke reform, but alas no. The exploitation happens either way, regardless, because the small economies just borrow money on a lower than organic interest rate from EU creditors.

If the EU would show even the slightest reformist inclination, I would be much more in favour of the Euro. But at the moment the Euro is just another gold standard for Europe, with all the same lovely results.

# ? Dec 29, 2014 21:05

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Apart from the arcologies, exactly what reality are you living in where this isn't already the case?

I'm in Leicester, we don't exactly have a towering skyline of buildings onto which Japanese women are projected.

Or much neon, come to that.

# ? Dec 29, 2014 22:40

Pistol_Pete: Sep 15, 2007; Oven Wrangler

Mister Adequate posted:

I'm in Leicester, we don't exactly have a towering skyline of buildings onto which Japanese women are projected.

Or much neon, come to that.

I used to live in Leicester. It's grimy, low-rise and very definitely Victorian. It's not neo-Tokyo, for sure.

# ? Dec 29, 2014 22:46

Renaissance Robot: Oct 10, 2010; Bite my furry metal ass

Mister Adequate posted:

I'm in Leicester, we don't exactly have a towering skyline of buildings onto which Japanese women are projected.

Or much neon, come to that.

You know that yarn bombing thing?

Do that, but with EL wire.

e/ low rise grime eh? Maybe go for Tim Burton Batman style instead.

# ? Dec 29, 2014 23:25

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Mister Adequate posted:

I'm in Leicester, we don't exactly have a towering skyline of buildings onto which Japanese women are projected.

Or much neon, come to that.

There's a blue tower with bright pink and yellow windows as a result of some kind of planning dispute. Is that not good enough?

# ? Dec 29, 2014 23:30

namesake: Jun 19, 2006; "When I was a girl, around 12 or 13, I had a fantasy that I'd grow up to marry Captain Scarlet, but he'd be busy fighting the Mysterons so I'd cuckold him with the sexiest people I could think of - Nigel Mansell, Pat Sharp and Mr. Blobby."

Guavanaut posted:

There's a blue tower with bright pink and yellow windows as a result of some kind of planning dispute. Is that not good enough?

Sounds a bit anime.

# ? Dec 29, 2014 23:38

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

Guavanaut posted:

There's a blue tower with bright pink and yellow windows as a result of some kind of planning dispute. Is that not good enough?

Hold up, what kind of planning dispute produces that?

# ? Dec 30, 2014 07:11

EvilGenius: May 2, 2006; Death to the Black Eyed Peas

Planning permission granted by Mr Blobby?

# ? Dec 30, 2014 08:41

Kegluneq: Feb 18, 2011; Mr President, the physical reality of Prime Minister Corbyn is beyond your range of apprehension. If you'll just put on these PINKOVISION glasses...

The tower in question, also known as "I couldn't find all my blue legos when I was making it :saddowns:

# ? Dec 30, 2014 10:02

Disinterested: Jun 29, 2011; You look like you're still raking it in. Still killing 'em?

That building is an incitement to arson.

# ? Dec 30, 2014 10:04

Crashbee: May 15, 2007; Stupid people are great at winning arguments, because they're too stupid to realize they've lost.

I live just over the road from that thing, I'll see what I can do.

# ? Dec 30, 2014 10:09

Jippa: Feb 13, 2009

Post war architecture is about as attractive as being shat on. What the gently caress were they thinking? Grey indentakit tower blocks.

# ? Dec 30, 2014 10:13

goddamnedtwisto: Dec 31, 2004; If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you; Fun Shoe

Jippa posted:

Post war architecture is about as attractive as being shat on. What the gently caress were they thinking? Grey indentakit tower blocks.

Well, the immediate post-war period (up until at least 1960) they were thinking "Holy poo poo a third of the housing stock is gone in most of the big cities what's the quickest and cheapest way of replacing it?". There's no excuse for what happened between 1970 and 1990 though.

(Not that everything built then is without merit, but loving hell there was some seriously nasty poo poo put up for no good reason)

# ? Dec 30, 2014 10:21

gorki: Aug 9, 2014

Looks like a giant Connect 4 imo

# ? Dec 30, 2014 10:22

Disinterested: Jun 29, 2011; You look like you're still raking it in. Still killing 'em?

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Well, the immediate post-war period (up until at least 1960) they were thinking "Holy poo poo a third of the housing stock is gone in most of the big cities what's the quickest and cheapest way of replacing it?". There's no excuse for what happened between 1970 and 1990 though.

(Not that everything built then is without merit, but loving hell there was some seriously nasty poo poo put up for no good reason)

And loads of that postwar poo poo was built with the intention of being temporary.

# ? Dec 30, 2014 10:24

Microplastics: Jul 6, 2007; It's what's for dinner.

Jippa posted:

Post war architecture is about as attractive as being shat on.

Hey some people will pay a lot of money for post war architecture.

# ? Dec 30, 2014 11:24

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

OwlFancier posted:

Hold up, what kind of planning dispute produces that?

Afaik, the owner was promised some development money from the council as part of their urban regeneration fund. For some reason they then completely reneged on the deal. The owner then decided to paint it dark blue with those windows as a gently caress you visible across most of the city.

It has since been painted slightly darker blue.

# ? Dec 30, 2014 11:45

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

Guavanaut posted:

Afaik, the owner was promised some development money from the council as part of their urban regeneration fund. For some reason they then completely reneged on the deal. The owner then decided to paint it dark blue with those windows as a gently caress you visible across most of the city.

It has since been painted slightly darker blue.

Ahaha, I like that.

# ? Dec 30, 2014 11:50

dispatch_async: Nov 28, 2014; Imagine having the time to have played through 20 generations of one family in The Sims 2. Imagine making the original two members of that family Neil Buchanan and Cat Deeley. Imagine complaining to Maxis there was no technological progression. You've successfully imagined my life

# ? Dec 30, 2014 12:00

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

goddamnedtwisto posted:

There's no excuse for what happened between 1970 and 1990 though.

(Not that everything built then is without merit, but loving hell there was some seriously nasty poo poo put up for no good reason)

I know...

# ? Dec 30, 2014 12:08

Disinterested: Jun 29, 2011; You look like you're still raking it in. Still killing 'em?

dispatch_async posted:

Uncanny.

# ? Dec 30, 2014 12:09

LemonDrizzle: Mar 28, 2012; neoliberal shithead

Good news, everybody - house prices rose again in December!

http://www.nationwide.co.uk/~/media/MainSite/documents/about/house-price-index/Dec_2014.pdf

Up 0.2% month on month and 7.2% year on year, following an 8.2% increase over 2013. We're all rich (for certain values of "we")!

# ? Dec 30, 2014 12:17

Brown Moses: Feb 22, 2002

Guavanaut posted:

Afaik, the owner was promised some development money from the council as part of their urban regeneration fund. For some reason they then completely reneged on the deal. The owner then decided to paint it dark blue with those windows as a gently caress you visible across most of the city.

It has since been painted slightly darker blue.

Weren't the coloured windows added when it was turned into a hotel?

# ? Dec 30, 2014 12:19

Disinterested: Jun 29, 2011; You look like you're still raking it in. Still killing 'em?

LemonDrizzle posted:

Good news, everybody - house prices rose again in December!

http://www.nationwide.co.uk/~/media/MainSite/documents/about/house-price-index/Dec_2014.pdf

Up 0.2% month on month and 7.2% year on year, following an 8.2% increase over 2013. We're all rich (for certain values of "we")!

At least Russian downturn and a probable rate rise might loving spare me from even more of this nightmare in London next year.

# ? Dec 30, 2014 12:22

awesome-express: Dec 30, 2008

lol the hospital with that ebola patient is 4.9 miles away from my house. Gonna bleed from my butt to death B)

# ? Dec 30, 2014 12:24

namesake: Jun 19, 2006; "When I was a girl, around 12 or 13, I had a fantasy that I'd grow up to marry Captain Scarlet, but he'd be busy fighting the Mysterons so I'd cuckold him with the sexiest people I could think of - Nigel Mansell, Pat Sharp and Mr. Blobby."

awesome-express posted:

lol the hospital with that ebola patient is 4.9 miles away from my house. Gonna bleed from my butt to death B)

Maybe but these two facts would be unrelated.

# ? Dec 30, 2014 12:27

Kegluneq: Feb 18, 2011; Mr President, the physical reality of Prime Minister Corbyn is beyond your range of apprehension. If you'll just put on these PINKOVISION glasses...

awesome-express posted:

lol the hospital with that ebola patient is 4.9 miles away from my house. Gonna bleed from my butt to death B)

This will totally happen if the patient suddenly and unexpectedly explodes and turns into a fine Scotch mist. :science:

# ? Dec 30, 2014 12:28

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Brown Moses posted:

Weren't the coloured windows added when it was turned into a hotel?

I'm not sure, it used to be the GPO building, then it went to BT, with the bit across the road going to Royal Mail, then it stood empty for about a decade while there was talk of turning it into a hotel and the windows got graffiti'd. The Irish government bought it at some point post bluing, and sold it on earlier this year. I thought the windows came shortly after the bluing though, under the same owner.

# ? Dec 30, 2014 12:30

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

Kegluneq posted:

This will totally happen if the patient suddenly and unexpectedly explodes and turns into a fine Scotch mist.

Isn't that part of the natural reproductive cycle of Scots?

# ? Dec 30, 2014 12:33

Sentinel Red: Nov 13, 2007; Style > Content.

Aw man, why bring them down south? They just missed a glorious opportunity to ensure Doomsday comes to pass and in 30 years Scotland could be a glorious pseudo-medieval utopia with roaming bands of party loving Mad Max-style nutters.

# ? Dec 30, 2014 13:03

goddamnedtwisto: Dec 31, 2004; If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you; Fun Shoe

Sentinel Red posted:

Aw man, why bring them down south? They just missed a glorious opportunity to ensure Doomsday comes to pass and in 30 years Scotland could be a glorious pseudo-medieval utopia with roaming bands of party loving Mad Max-style nutters.

In 30 years or 36 hours?

# ? Dec 30, 2014 13:16

Mega Comrade: Apr 22, 2004; Listen buddy, we all got problems!

Kegluneq posted:

The tower in question, also known as "I couldn't find all my blue legos when I was making it "

I've always wondered what that thing is each time I walk past it. It seems to be half empty.

# ? Dec 30, 2014 13:29

mfcrocker: Jan 31, 2004; Hot Rope Guy

goddamnedtwisto posted:

In 30 years or 36 hours?

30 years (ago)

# ? Dec 30, 2014 13:48

Gonzo McFee: Jun 19, 2010

Thatcher Thatcher Buttplug Snatcher.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2014/12/30/thatcher-considered-banning-dildos-to-protect-public-decency/

quote:

The late Baroness Thatcher considered banning sex toys when she was Prime Minster, to protect �public decency�.

Thatcher, who died last April, planned to use an anti-pornography law to ban the sex toys.

According to documents from the National Archives released today, Thatcher met at least twice with anti-obscenity campaigner Mary Whitehouse.

One memo to Thatcher from then Home Secretary Leon Brittan, he said there was a �strong case� to legislate to ban sex toys under the law.

�Some of the items in circulation are most objectionable, including some which can cause physical injury,� the note, from 1986, read.

�There is a strong case for bringing sex aids fully within the scope of the �deprave and corrupt� test in the 1959 [Obscene Publications] Act. However, certain conceptual difficulties in extending an act designed only to deal with pornography would need to be overcome.�

The Act was used to ban Lady Chatterley�s Lover in 1960. It banned the DH Lawrence novel through defining �obscene� items as those which were �such as to tend to deprave and corrupt.�

Thatcher was one of only a handful of Tory MPs who voted to decriminalise homosexuality in the 1960s, but it was also under her government that Section 28 was introduced.

# ? Dec 30, 2014 13:57

communism bitch: Apr 24, 2009

Maggie died on my birthday - 8th April. It was the best present I've ever got.

# ? Dec 30, 2014 14:02

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Gonzo McFee posted:

Thatcher Thatcher Buttplug Snatcher.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2014/12/30/thatcher-considered-banning-dildos-to-protect-public-decency/

Surely that's the wrong hole for a buttplug?

# ? Dec 30, 2014 14:03

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Gonzo McFee: Jun 19, 2010

Darth Walrus posted:

Surely that's the wrong hole for a buttplug?

There's also the story about how Thatcher had to be sat down for an hour and have it explained to her how anal sex works, but she refused to believe it was real.

Can't remember where I saw it, but it was there.

# ? Dec 30, 2014 14:13

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