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| Remain - Keep Britane Strong! |
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328 | 15.40% |
| Leave - Take Are Sovreignity Back! |
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115 | 5.40% |
| Remain - But only because Brexit are crazy |
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506 | 23.76% |
| Leave - But only because the EU is terrible |
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157 | 7.37% |
| Spoiled Ballot - This whole thing is an awful idea |
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61 | 2.86% |
| I'm not going to vote |
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19 | 0.89% |
| I'm not allowed to vote |
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411 | 19.30% |
| Pissflaps |
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533 | 25.02% |
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LemonDrizzle posted:No it doesn't, the British pronunciations are "mee-thane" and "mee-thyl". "Meth-il" with a short 'e' is an American thing. I've heard mee-thyl from southerners where it is specifically methyl, but that seems to be dying along with pronouncing ethyl as ee-thyl instead of like ethanol. JFairfax posted:I'm sorry you're an apologist for an organisation which so far probably has the all time world record for number of children abused by it's members.
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Tesseraction posted:Did we manage to go through May without anyone cool and good dying? I'm dying inside but I'm not cool or good mrpwase fucked around with this message at 09:51 on Jun 1, 2016 |
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Jun 1, 2016 09:47
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Burt Kwouk gently caress, Caaaatoooooooo
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Jun 1, 2016 09:52
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nobodyssweetheart posted:We're not all bad. We gave the world Blues music and ice cream cones. Real roots blues came out of Africa. Just because you bought it doesn't mean you made it.
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Jun 1, 2016 09:53
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Jedit posted:Real roots blues came out of Africa. Just because you bought it doesn't mean you made it. I bought this car that means I made this car. I'm a mechanic now.
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Jun 1, 2016 09:54
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Jedit posted:Real roots blues came out of Africa. Just because you bought it doesn't mean you made it.
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Jun 1, 2016 09:58
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Tesseraction posted:Did we manage to go through May without anyone cool and good dying? Carla Lane.
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Jun 1, 2016 10:03
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Guavanaut posted:I've not heard anybody, chemist or not, say mee-than-ol or mee-than-oic acid, and if I did I'd assume it came out of some spoken word archive on moonshining in the back hills of Kentucky, not British English. As someone current studying chemistry, I can say we all pronounce methyl/methane using the mee-th sound, and methanoic acid as meth-an-oic. Yes, it's not consistent, but this is the English language we're talking about here.
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Jun 1, 2016 10:06
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Jedit posted:Carla Lane. Don't recognise her but alas, that's at least two for May then. Do you think this'll be the year we lose Brenda?
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Jun 1, 2016 10:07
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JFairfax posted:I'm sorry you're an apologist for an organisation which so far probably has the all time world record for number of children abused by it's members.
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Jun 1, 2016 10:10
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nothing to seehere posted:As someone current studying chemistry, I can say we all pronounce methyl/methane using the mee-th sound, and methanoic acid as meth-an-oic. Yes, it's not consistent, but this is the English language we're talking about here.
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Jun 1, 2016 10:12
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nothing to seehere posted:As someone current studying chemistry, I can say we all pronounce methyl/methane using the mee-th sound, and methanoic acid as meth-an-oic. Yes, it's not consistent, but this is the English language we're talking about here. Do you still all belligerently say tit-anium instead of tie-tanium?
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Jun 1, 2016 10:29
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Guavanaut posted:I'll mark this as a plus for Remain. We can import two-thirds of our chemistry teachers from Germany, where they've had an actual consistent system of pronouncing chemical nomenclature since the 19th century. Except Bavaria. there is a reason english and not german became the main science language
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Jun 1, 2016 10:35
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Jose posted:there is a reason english and not german became the main science language
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Jun 1, 2016 10:38
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Guavanaut posted:Yes, two world wars and one world cup and all that. During the chemical revolution and the birth of quantenmechanik German was the international language of science though. To the extent that, in certain fields, England was considered a bit of a backwater; John Littlewood's PhD produced a result that was already well known on the continent for example. On the flip side, the UK was the centre of some important movements. Vector calculus is almost all Englishmen behind it because it was used for problems in electromagnetism, telegraphy and the like (which the UK were the world leaders in) - whereas on the continent they tried to solve the same problem with complex numbers or quarternions, which is why everything is named after Cauchy, Riemenn and other continental mathematicians.
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Jun 1, 2016 11:08
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In ACAB news: Inquest into the Birmingham Pub Bombings to be re-opened after it's come to light that the police were warned about the attacks but failed to act.
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Jun 1, 2016 11:17
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MrL_JaKiri posted:To the extent that, in certain fields, England was considered a bit of a backwater; John Littlewood's PhD produced a result that was already well known on the continent for example. Journals were a mix of English, French, and German, and I won't deny that there were important contributions from the French and British chemists of the time, but if you'd asked any of them what language their descendants would be publishing in for the academic sphere by the year 2000, all but the most jingoistic would have probably guessed German. Then WWI happened and there was an organized boycott of Central Powers publications by most of the rest of the academic world, which understandably set German back quite a bit in chemistry and the new sciences like quantum physics. I would say that it's a bit unfair, because the war was the fault of monarchs and governments and alliances and imperialism, not the fault of academics, but there were certain events in the Great War that can be tied heavily to chemists on both sides, so maybe that was the source of some of the anger.
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Jun 1, 2016 11:26
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Guavanaut posted:I've not heard anybody, chemist or not, say mee-than-ol or mee-than-oic acid, and if I did I'd assume it came out of some spoken word archive on moonshining in the back hills of Kentucky, not British English.
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Jun 1, 2016 11:39
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I don't know how anybody manages to pick this stuff up. I did, and I have no idea how.
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Jun 1, 2016 11:44
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In other chemistry news, a some drug traffickers in Norn Iron hid a stash of meth (meeth?) in one of those kinder egg capsules and a child accidentally found it. This is now gone social media wild as "child finds meth in kinder egg" with all the implications of that. Ferrero libel ahead?
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Jun 1, 2016 11:45
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In other news, the OECD has lowered its growth forecasts for the year, from 2.1% in February to 1.7% now. Our balance of trade deficit is rising further. Cameron is saying that Brexit is shite for our economy: https://twitter.com/David_Cameron/status/737929209088249856 Despite the OECD saying the referendum itself is doing enough damage as-is.
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Jun 1, 2016 11:49
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Guavanaut posted:but there were certain events in the Great War that can be tied heavily to chemists on both sides The last couple plus years, for example, wouldn't have happened without the Haber process
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Jun 1, 2016 11:56
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Haber got severely punished later on though. Mostly for being a Jew rather than for the whole explosives and war gases thing though. 
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Jun 1, 2016 12:01
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Would you say he was not correctly applied djew process?  Also:  strong economy / getting on
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Jun 1, 2016 12:21
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Tesseraction posted:Would you say he was not correctly applied djew process? Quick, someone alert the media that they're missing out on a hot new hashtag: Brexiety
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Jun 1, 2016 13:06
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For all that the Tories bang on about instilling confidence in private investors, they sure are poo poo at it.
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Jun 1, 2016 13:15
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Trump is visiting the UK on 24 June.
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Jun 1, 2016 13:24
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Party Boat posted:Trump is visiting the UK on 24 June. On the same day as the referendum result is announced. This is it, isn't it. This is where Revelations starts.
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Jun 1, 2016 13:28
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Party Boat posted:Trump is visiting the UK on 24 June. Yep. As I waited for my counter-revolutionary midday commodity to be prepared I leafed through today's Daily Mail which was conveniently placed to offend me, and it is basically spewing jizz at the idea of Boris's pledge to bring in the Australian-style points system for immigration. Further in it talks about Elliott Johnson (AKA the activist bullied to death) and pours scorn on Clarke (the accused) while taking a hilarious tangent to imply that he's been cheating on his NHS nurse wife with a Tory activist, with no relation to the case other than "she was in the court room" which would make sense as she was involved in the campaign and knew the deceased. And a little further in it reaches an interesting bit about the election expenses, interesting in that it actually brings it up despite this being bad for the Tories, but also because it refers to the Tory chairman as "Lord Crony"  Speaking of those expenses, Michael White has done another good piece about it. The highlight, AKA "why isn't this front page news?" is measured, specifically talking about how the other papers are letting C4 and the Mirror do the heavy lifting so that they don't accidentally step on each others feet with the investigations, nor bias the police investigation. The Mail, he points out, is happy to dig at Cameron because they hate his wing of the party. But the most interesting thing is what has been alleged: that the Tories used Push Polling in the General Election. A horrifically dirty trick.
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Jun 1, 2016 13:34
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Jeremy Corbyn: The Outsider is out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94ptAcbfKP0 What do people think?
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Jun 1, 2016 13:41
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Heisenberg1276 posted:Jeremy Corbyn: The Outsider is out You're a people - what do you think?
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Jun 1, 2016 14:01
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Tesseraction posted:As I waited for my counter-revolutionary midday commodity to be prepared I leafed through today's Daily Mail which was conveniently placed to offend me, and it is basically spewing jizz at the idea of Boris's pledge to bring in the Australian-style points system for immigration. Ah yes, the system that has literal offshore detention camps like something from 2000AD. The closer we get, the more I've accepted we're going to vote to leave the EU because the British electorate are just that hateful.
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Jun 1, 2016 14:02
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Apparently someone is leaking Corbyn's PMQs to Cameron before he answers them. So Cameron's complete non-answers and unrelated personal attacks are with time to prepare for them.
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Jun 1, 2016 14:03
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:Ah yes, the system that has literal offshore detention camps like something from 2000AD. The points bit is interesting, because it could mean an end to national quotas or European preferential treatment, wherever in the world you're from, whether you're Black or White, Buddhist or Muslim, whatever, you will (theoretically) be admitted based on your merits. This comes with all the problems of meritocracy, but is arguably better than doing it based on nationality/Europeaness.
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Jun 1, 2016 14:07
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Baron Corbyn posted:Apparently someone is leaking Corbyn's PMQs to Cameron before he answers them. So Cameron's complete non-answers and unrelated personal attacks are with time to prepare for them. Jesus loving Christ.
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Jun 1, 2016 14:09
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Baron Corbyn posted:Apparently someone is leaking Corbyn's PMQs to Cameron before he answers them. So Cameron's complete non-answers and unrelated personal attacks are with time to prepare for them. That's seriously pitiful. But then I am talking about a man who would gently caress a dead pig's mouth for the approval of his peers.
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Jun 1, 2016 14:10
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Baron Corbyn posted:Apparently someone is leaking Corbyn's PMQs to Cameron before he answers them. So Cameron's complete non-answers and unrelated personal attacks are with time to prepare for them. I did wonder how he ever managed to come up with such a devastating zinger as "your mum" off the cuff.
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Jun 1, 2016 14:22
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Guavanaut posted:The camps bit is terrible, but Britain would have those anyway if there were any offshore territories that weren't more profitable as tax havens or feudal fiefdoms. Instead there's just a bit less horrible onshore detention camps. Being white +10 points.
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Jun 1, 2016 14:31
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:Being white +10 points. Being Eastern European -30 points
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Jun 1, 2016 14:34
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i wonder what happens if the result of the referendum is a very close vote for leave, eg 51 v 49. will cameron attempt to engineer remaining (we will go back to the negotiating table for a better deal)? it would certainly be the end of him but it's not a clear mandate to go. and similarly if it was the reverse then you can probably guarantee another referendum in the near future (and the total implosion of the tories)
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