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| Independence Day 2: Resturgeonce |
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44 | 21.36% |
| ScotPol - Unclustering this gently caress |
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19 | 9.22% |
| Trainspotting 2: Independence is my heroin |
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9 | 4.37% |
| Indyref II: Boris hosed a Dead Country |
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14 | 6.80% |
| ScotPol: Wings over Bullshit |
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8 | 3.88% |
| Independence 2: Cameron Lied, UK Died |
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24 | 11.65% |
| Scotpol IV: I Vow To Flee My Country |
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14 | 6.80% |
| ScotPol - A twice in a generation thread |
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17 | 8.25% |
| ScotPol - Where Everything's hosed Up and the Referendums Don't Matter |
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15 | 7.28% |
| ScotPol Thread: Dependence Referendum Incoming |
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2 | 0.97% |
| Indyref II: The Scottish Insturgeoncy |
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10 | 4.85% |
| ScotPol Thread: Act of European Union |
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5 | 2.43% |
| ScotPol - Like Game of Thrones only we wish we would all die |
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25 | 12.14% |
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Blurred posted:Wtf? How can someone be for national self-determination and independence from a larger union in one case and then oppose it in another? Like, what reasons do they have for believing that Scotland should remain in the UK that don't conflict with their reasons for the UK leaving the EU? Apart from them just being vicious, self-interested dumb cunts of course? They're British Nationalists, which means they're not in favor of independence as a concept, they're in favor of British Supremacy, which means 1. Britain must be preserved, and 2. Britain shouldn't be doing anyone any favors.
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Jun 27, 2016 15:49
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Lady Galaga posted:Hmm yes lets stay in this failing union because apparently Scotland wanting to have decisions about how Scotland is ran and not be dictated by England is nationalism Pot, kettle.
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Jun 30, 2016 09:35
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That may also be as a result of Scotland being 95% white.
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Jun 30, 2016 17:00
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Well, England is having hate crimes targeted at white people too, so that wouldn't be the sole explanation I don't think. As in, Scotland is overwhelmingly white british. I think about 94% While this hardly precludes the commission of hate crimes it does mean that you'll have to work about 3 times as hard to find someone to do a hate crime on than in England.
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Jun 30, 2016 17:20
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They aren't terribly good recorded either.
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Jul 1, 2016 15:05
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CommissarMega posted:Alestorm is the best thing to come out of Scotland and you know it They get full marks for effort but I've never heard anything by them that I'd actually listen to.
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Jul 1, 2016 15:31
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Yes, above even Gloryhammer.
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Jedit posted:I think Alestorm are the Scottish equivalent of the Dropkick Murphys. This is not a compliment. As twee as they are I actually do like a couple of dropkick murphys songs.
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Jul 1, 2016 17:54
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The chorus of minds within the shell of Gove are all attempting to experience the event at the same time.
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Jul 1, 2016 22:48
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Gordon Brown isn't especially evil.
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Jul 1, 2016 22:58
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She doesn't look very much like hitler. I'm disappointed, I was hoping the point of a miss hitler competition would be to see who could make you sexually attracted to the fuhrer.
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Jul 2, 2016 01:00
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Schottland ist ein
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Jul 3, 2016 23:25
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The watch automatically sets itself to
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Jul 5, 2016 15:35
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I mean it's not like British nationalists have better tat. I want a 3 foot tall nazi saluting queen in my front garden.
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Jul 5, 2016 15:47
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Regarde Aduck posted:There is a difference between being hosed under the Tories and hosed under the SNP within the EU. The Tories will make sure the poorest bare the brunt of Brexit's downsides. I mean that's sort of what the EU's doing to Greece.
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Jul 8, 2016 18:46
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Scottish notes are not legal tender in the united kingdom either, the bank of england just accepts them.
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Jul 13, 2016 21:40
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Almost as good as when Grave Digger sung about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb93QbUGcL0 Germany of course having more actual representation in the Scotland/England tiff. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Jul 18, 2016 |
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Jul 18, 2016 16:05
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Who's up for declaring
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Jul 21, 2016 18:43
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Looking forward to Coohoolin writing the relevant additional verse to the buggery on the oresund song.
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Jul 22, 2016 02:09
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Baron Corbyn posted:Owen Smith being opposed to the Barnett Formula is hardly surprising considering he's Welsh and we get hosed by it. Though considering how little Welsh politicians ever seem to speak up for Welsh interests and how little Welsh people are interested in politics to realise how much they're getting hosed and actively chose to gently caress themselves even harder in the EU referendum, I wouldn't be surprised if there were a different motivation to his opposition to it. He probably opposes it because he's centrist/red tory shite.
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Jul 25, 2016 18:22
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Statistically she's right, as far as I know.
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Jul 27, 2016 02:15
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Extreme0 posted:In terms of trading? Yes sort of...at the moment. I mean in terms of remain/leave being a particularly strong issue for yes/no voters. As far as I'm aware the EU is largely a non issue as far as yes/no goes, and does not enormously correlate with either position, thus the yes/no decision is still about as accurate as it was before; without anything approaching consensus.
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Jul 27, 2016 21:37
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Bagsy I told you so?
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Jul 30, 2016 01:39
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Statistically the poll would suggest that there's broadly very little change on the subject.
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Jul 30, 2016 18:01
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I wasn't aware that marrying late caused birth defects? Like is it retroactive? If your parents have unmarried and then get married do you get birth defects when you're a teenager? Does it have to be marrying each other? If your parents split and remarry individually do you suddenly collapse at work? OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 20:44 on Aug 2, 2016 |
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Aug 2, 2016 20:41
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keep punching joe posted:Reporting Scotland struggles for content because all it reports on are murders, and some rather shallow coverage of Holyrood. I'd hope that with a wider scope and much higher budget they could do something more comprehensive. The BBC in London would still exist and the hypothetical Scottish Six would have access to correspondents and video features that they can slot in amongst their own content. They could perhaps ease that difficulty by inserting extra Rs into the word "murder". Make each one go a little bit further.
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Aug 3, 2016 22:43
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Extreme0 posted:You might think he's doing a forced smile but that flag is really loving heavy and he is using every bit of his strength to keep it up. He always looks like that when he smiles, he's a good tennisman but he doesn't photograph well.
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Aug 4, 2016 14:14
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Extreme0 posted:It just wouldn't work. Like Labour saying they are socialist and saying Jeremy Corbyn is bad because he's a socialist Unusually Correct for Kez, that.
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Aug 15, 2016 16:10
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Extreme0 posted:The Blairite that wants Corbyn gone is a socialist? loving hardly. I did say it was unusual.
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Aug 21, 2016 18:26
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I kind of want to see an English version of the National. Like, not the English equivalent, which would be something the EDL would put out, but specifically that sort of front page but about people rolling cheeses down hills and the dangers of excessive crumpet eating.
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Aug 26, 2016 22:11
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I'm reminded of this. Though I personally would much rather eat oats than haggis.
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Sep 3, 2016 01:55
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I like sausage and black pudding, as well as liver, I've just not found a haggis that tasted very good, usually crappy meat and too much pepper.
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Sep 3, 2016 12:03
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Coohoolin posted:Unfortunately the barrage of baseless SNP BAD stories will help poo poo like this slink away under the radar. Criticising the SNP is no longer effectively possible in a wider context because the onslaught of bullshit accusations have inured people to accurate critique. I'm... not sure the best takeaway from SNP affiliates being shitters is "well the real problem is that people criticize the SNP too much and that means people can't take criticism seriously!"
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Sep 28, 2016 18:30
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Sep 30, 2016 03:26
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If you pulled down the rigs and scrapped the boats you could temporarily restart Scottish Steelmaking.
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Oct 12, 2016 20:01
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At the rate we're going a free cardboard box for every baby might be enough to destabilize the housing market, that box might be worth £300/mo in rent by the time they're 18.
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Oct 17, 2016 19:38
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Leggsy posted:God forbid we do anything that might actually reduce consumption, lest it affect middle-class student drinkers. Minimum pricing sounds like a roundabout way of saying "poor people can't be trusted with alcohol"
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Oct 26, 2016 00:36
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If you just ban all the bad things people will bootstrap themselves into being upstanding middle class citizens I'm sure.
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Oct 26, 2016 01:18
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The NHS exists because the alternative is that the poor do not get healthcare, it has absolutely nothing to do with choice. And the proposal hinges on removing access to alcohol, it is prohibitionist, it is merely not universally prohibitionist, much like most drug laws are not, because the wealthy can in practice, simply ignore them. You are correct in that a government has a duty to provide for the welfare of its population but I require it to come up with a better policy than "large amounts of alcohol can only be entrusted to those of sufficient means" in which I see no significant distinction from gin laws.
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Oct 26, 2016 01:36
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Because I'm sure they needed a price hike to start considering that, I'm sure that their life is an ideal vacuum in which nothing but beer and beer money exists and there are no other contributing factors. People drink, as they do many unhealthy things, because they extract a perceived benefit from it. People who do unhealthy things compulsively probably do not have a great deal of agency in the matter, and beating them with a stick for their actions will not be educational, beneficial, or humane. If your society drives people to self harm, the championed response should not be "well just make razor blades expensive." OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 01:56 on Oct 26, 2016 |
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Oct 26, 2016 01:53
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baronvonsabre posted:I know ideological purity is very important to you, but just look for a moment at what you're arguing for. Cutting the price of alcohol and cigarettes not only increases the number of people who die due to them, that increase comes disproportionately from the less privileged. I mean if we're suggesting that our respective policies are but one part of a wider change i would be 100% in favour of dropping all consumption duties and just instituting a massive wealth tax and then doing whatever you need to do to reduce consumption-based health complaints without banning or restricting access to any of the causes. Because again, none of these taxes make any difference to the wealthy, and yet we are not, presumably, concerned about the enormous early mortality rate among people who have access to infinite drink and drugs. I really cannot find a rebuttal to the idea that pricing or banning people out of access to substances is anything but moralizing, or in the very very best case, a miserably stopgap employed by a pathetic excuse for a government until they can find something better.
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Oct 26, 2016 20:28
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