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Well, we all survived January 2017. Maybe this is the month for the sweet release of death.
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Trickjaw posted:Please don't say that, I'm in hospital right now, and happy to note the staff are better than we deserve. Two things I have learned: I) Shouting ' Get your hands off me, you black bastard' does not assure preferential service and II) Catheters are the work of the devil, and I wish them to every Tory. NHS staff are loving great, won't catch me disputing that, but not even they'll save you from the impending apocalypse. Sorry about your catheter.
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Feb 1, 2017 10:34
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Pencils R Cool posted:Apologies if this was posted in the last thread but this has really got me thinking: If there's one thing I learned from my time with the Scientology protest lot, it's that these people LOVE feeling like massive conspiracy puppet masters. Basically spectralent posted:There's a near 100% chance they already were.
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Feb 1, 2017 15:51
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John McDonnell stated on Today that the most Labour will do to oppose this bill at third reading under any circumstances is abstain.
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Feb 2, 2017 11:07
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On Corbyn and sexuality as choice: most queer theorists would agree with him. That said, that's a nuanced as gently caress position and it's pretty necessary to adopt the argument that it's nature when facing the public to defend from the poo poo we face from bigots. Ideally though yeah, the way to fight that is "it's perfectly acceptable and you're a ballbag" rather than going down the nature/nurture bit.
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Feb 3, 2017 11:32
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I mean, I feel bad for the sports centre, they're nice and host some of the local LAN parties but maybe they shouldn't host fascists too
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Feb 3, 2017 12:04
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JFairfax posted:theoretically the most likely place that health tourists would come from would be America, but most Americans have no concept of free healthcare so they don't. yeah, my friend was surprised when I mentioned to her that not only would she get the surgery she needed for free if she became an international student here, but her degree would be a fuckload cheaper too get educated and save tens of thousands on healthcare and tuition fees, seems good america sucks rear end Oberleutnant posted:Bristol antifa are tasty as hell. That insane Dover demo this time last year, they were all in the thick of the fighting the entire time. I mean it's the best city I keep telling you fuckers
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Feb 3, 2017 13:44
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Tesseraction posted:It was the Labour movement of the 1910s-1920s that fought and earned the right to leisure time. By this point you'd have hoped you'd have made it to acceptance. Denial isn't healthy dude. You voted badly and a shrinking of worker protections is the consequence.
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Feb 8, 2017 13:53
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Tesseraction posted:Okay. drat, I voted us into 7 day weeks with 16 hour shifts and likely unpaid overtime on top. Probably bringing back child labour too. Curse my short-sighted desire for bendy bananas. I'm not gonna store this post up for 3-4 years to spring it on you when we see the white paper for the Business Freedoms Act (2021), but you're a loving daftie if you think the Working Time directive survives much beyond the repeal act, a Brexit-led recession hitting businesses and the inevitable Tory victory in 2020.
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Feb 8, 2017 14:34
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On 4-day work weeks: I have absolutely no problem with Corbyn doing a 4-day week as long as he offers the same right to the rest of the people employed by Labour, else he's a oval office. If it were a real story, of course.
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Feb 8, 2017 14:35
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Zephro posted:1) there have been (some) big protests This is pretty much as well as I've seen it put. gently caress this stupid rainy fascist island.
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Feb 10, 2017 11:30
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Labour were unelectable under Miliband/New Labour, reasonably easy to vote for under Corbyn and are now back to being impossible to vote for now.
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Feb 10, 2017 12:33
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kustomkarkommando posted:We are number one but every one keeps voting for right wingers  The Mail were trying to tie this to Nicola Sturgeon as he's her nephew's sister-in-law's ex-boyfriend or some poo poo. It's all very Spaceballs.
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Feb 10, 2017 14:27
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Here's where we find out that the hack is an ex-partner or some crotchety homophobic relative or something
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Feb 14, 2017 13:17
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Guavanaut posted:There are animal rights activists who get jobs at slaughterhouses and vivisection labs to do just that, it's where most of the photos you see on the streetside animal rights booths come from. Maybe she was doing a similar thing. Quite a bit easier getting a job at a slaughterhouse than getting access to GCHQ. Not impossible, but the DV is a bit of a blocker. Also what consequences for shooting someone? Police get off every loving time.
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Feb 14, 2017 15:47
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Jedit posted:No, he's right. If a copper really needs to shoot someone the consequences have to take a back seat or he might be the one who gets shot. The problem is that coppers aren't being properly trained to know when shooting is necessary. What consequences???
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Feb 14, 2017 15:53
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Jedit posted:Everyone knows you're the murdering copper bastard. Who shot Jean Charles de Menezes? (sounds like the season finalé to some poo poo TV show)
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Feb 14, 2017 16:07
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Fangz posted:Fun fact: the word for 'Britain' and 'England' are the same in Chinese. Well yeah, they're smart enough to know that the provinces don't matter  Now excuse me, this pig head won't gently caress itself
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Feb 16, 2017 15:01
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A dog turd in a red rosette could've won the 1997 election, which is coincidentally what happened. I'm solidly confident Blair wouldn't win an election right now
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Feb 17, 2017 13:34
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I'm curious Tess, how does it feel to have completely poo poo the bed with your vote?
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Feb 17, 2017 15:26
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forkboy84 posted:And covering up rape. That goes for a fair number of the socialist parties, sadly
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Feb 17, 2017 17:36
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If some of the PMs I used to get from Fluo are anything to go by they're probably dull as gently caress
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Feb 20, 2017 16:02
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Jose posted:I hadn't realised only 2 US presidents in the last 50 years got a state visit and trump is getting one lol Yep, 4 in history. Nixon, Reagan, Dubya and Obama
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Feb 21, 2017 11:59
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Jeza posted:The way I read it, every President except one in 36 years has had a state visit. Interestingly, the US only considers Bush and Obama to have had state visits https://uk.usembassy.gov/our-relationship/visits-of-presidents-of-the-united-states-to-the-united-kingdom/
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Feb 21, 2017 12:13
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Darth Walrus posted:Another element of parliamentary procedure that often escapes folks - whips are traditionally a mark of respect for a bill's importance in a system built on tradition. The more important a bill is, the more required a political party is to signal its position on it by whipping. For example, the Syria vote, as a declaration of war, would traditionally be a two-line whip, which is why Corbyn was pounced upon for his weakness when he allowed a free vote. For constitutional amendments, a three-line whip is required - a party failing to have a position on something so important is a sign that they are no longer a party, but a collection of independent MPs. You can go for a lighter whip if you really want, but no whip at all is basically a resignation letter. Since Article 50 was functionally a constitutional amendment, that simply left Corbyn with a binary choice of which way to whip, and so he went for the option supported by a plurality of his voters and 70% of his constituencies. Cheers, this actually explains pretty well why they whipped when it otherwise seems daft as gently caress Jeza posted:Royal Visits are not the domain of the Prime Minister, not to mention many worse people than Donald Trump have had the red carpet laid out for them. Actually, State Visits are usually suggested by the Foreign Office rather than the Queen's staff. So yeah, it is the domain of the PM.
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Feb 21, 2017 12:54
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Tesseraction posted:But it's good news. He's been ditched by CPAC and his book deal terminated. For the first time in his dumb idiot life he's actually getting the lovely end of the stick he usually beats trans people with. He's also pretty likely to get booted out of Breitbart, because apparently massive racism/sexism/homophobia are fine, but don't you dare defend kiddy fiddlers Good riddance, hopefully he'll gently caress all the way off from here.
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Feb 21, 2017 13:03
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radmonger posted:Tanks are unnecessarily militaristic. Maybe a think train. Tankies, in MY UKMT? It's more likely than you think
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Feb 21, 2017 13:11
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Jeza posted:There's no question that state visits have become more politicised. It used to be almost every invited head of state was a monarch or Commonwealth related. Since the late 90s you can clearly see less and less small/irrelevant nations, and more and more big players. Post Clinton it is now the norm for presidents of the US to be invited for a state visit. The only mildly surprising thing this time around is how fast it is happening, and really, it is not surprising. Trump is very pro-UK, the UK is in the middle of Brexit and looking for a stronger relationship with the US. See, now this is a more sensible analysis. Yes, it's more likely a US president would get a State Visit than it used to be and yeah, no-one's saying that it's particularly surprising. With that said, Trump isn't just any president, he's wildly publicly unpopular. It's quite a lot like Bush's visit (which Blair got a lot of poo poo for, there were widespread protests etc) except it started being talked about after ~2 weeks in office as opposed to, y'know, well over 100.
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Feb 21, 2017 15:24
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jabby posted:So there's a bunch of news stories today based on 'sources' from inside the Monday PLP meeting, and Mandelson has told an audience he is 'working every day' to bring down Jeremy Corbyn. Yeah, decent effort but the wanks in the party have probably realised by now he's not going anywhere
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Feb 21, 2017 15:51
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Lord of the Llamas posted:https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/834368967644966913 This is bad for Corbyn
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Feb 22, 2017 12:55
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Pissflaps posted:One good result for labour in a council by election and suddenly they're noteworthy. We're all solidly taking the piss out of you. Council results mean the square root of gently caress all and are almost always predicated on local issues, especially for byelections.
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Feb 22, 2017 13:12
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Pissflaps posted:Why is talking about by election results taking the piss out of me? I don't understand. Thought it was you giving Corbs poo poo when they lost a couple of council seats not too long ago, though it may have been TinTower I get my tedious posters mixed up sometimes
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Feb 22, 2017 13:16
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Kurtofan posted:a mixture of nationalism and socialism It'll never catch on
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Feb 22, 2017 13:17
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Pissflaps posted:People are unlikely to start taking you seriously if you insist on pretending people have said things they didn't. I thought fake news was all the rage nowadays? Corbs trying to hit May on the NHS at PMQs again. Doesn't seem to be working particularly well.
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Feb 22, 2017 13:22
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Looke posted:I'm pretty sure the Russians interfered with the Bristol mayoral elections in 2012 as well How we ended up voting yes to elected mayors I'll never know (that's a lie, it was stupid wanks wanting a version of Boris to get the arena built)
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Feb 22, 2017 14:03
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Especially as it's meant to poo poo it down that day
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Feb 22, 2017 15:46
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Hills are the major negative about living in Bristol And yet somehow 11 years after moving here I'm still a fat out-of-shape gently caress 
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Feb 23, 2017 12:39
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forkboy84 posted:I went to Newcastle once. Well, I changed trains in Newcastle anyway. Thanks for this link, was interesting. A decent potted history of the degree and it's alumni rather than a critique, but yeah.
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Feb 23, 2017 13:21
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Baron Corbyn posted:What possible reason is there not letting you block someone? Might be that too many people have blocked her already?
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Except, y'know, it's pretty obvious that the usual suspects are gearing up for another run on the leadership. McDonnell's being a fair bit more tinfoil hat than necessary, I'd be stunned if folks are in cahoots with the Murdoch press and not just interested in the same end goal.
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