UKMT May 2017: Weak and Wobbly vs. Old and Knobbly

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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

Wow it's EXACTLY like us Remainers were saying all along.

# ¿ May 1, 2017 00:32

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# ¿ May 3, 2024 22:23

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

Guavanaut posted:

The problem with Thatcherism is that you eventually run out of state assets.

e; Pissflaps which is your favorite Harry Turtledove series?

# ¿ May 1, 2017 23:53

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

Jedit posted:

This is the kind of educational experience we want to see among the rich. He's basically saying "I work at my job and make more money than I'll ever really need, but these rich-by-birth bastards make me look like a pauper and they've done nothing to earn it". Now what he needs is the realisation that his employees who also work drat hard but don't earn salaries in the mid-sixes because they lack his opportunities feel the same way about him.

That's one interpretation, but another one is what he needs is :thermidor:

# ¿ May 3, 2017 18:10

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

MikeCrotch posted:

The Democrats haven't even admitted why they were defeated yet. Hell, a bunch of Democrats are still clinging to the idea that actually Hillary won because she won the popular vote. The Republicans meanwhile are 1 state away from being able to hold a constitutional convention.

US politics is *completely hosed*.

When it was that close, the list of credible reasons Clinton lost is very long indeed. Yeah, she hosed up by not listening to people on the ground and ignoring some states, and that probably would have won it for her otherwise. But so would no Comey letter. So would less sexism. So would an awful lot of things. And the Dems actually seem to be making a good effort to revitalize themselves? New DNC leadership, the main Dems you hear from these days are Bernie and Warren, etc. etc.. Meanwhile the GOP holds all three branches of government and the last hundred days is a long litany of their hilarious defeats, failures, fuckups, and eating of poo poo.

Not that poo poo's not hosed, but at least the US has people willing and able to oppose the loving government, and a Constitution that still seems robust enough to back them up.

# ¿ May 4, 2017 17:26

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

learnincurve posted:

And then we go right back to commuters using them as free parking.

Only solution I can see is to have a manned A&E free parking area, staff parking area, and then a paid area but to do more work on encouraging people to use the existing bus services. Most people really don't need to bring the car and then bitch about how much it cost to park, when the busses cost much less and are free to a great number of hospital patients/visitors anyway.

All fairness, if there's one time I do not want to be using public transit it's when I'm sick enough to need the hospital.

e; ^lmao the gently caress

# ¿ May 9, 2017 01:14

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

kecske posted:

When Stuxnet was a thing it made its way onto secure systems by a flash drive, since the first thing a lot of people will do when they find a USB stick is to plug it into the nearest computer to see what's on it.

It's always amazing how far people will go to circumvent their protection systems on IT equipment.

The evidence of how people approach data, IT security, and frankly just about anything shows that the highest consideration, the greatest thing people want, is convenience. Everyone has the same password everywhere because remembering a bunch of bullshit numbers is bad enough, doing it for 14 different logins is out of the question. People happily give Facebook all their info because FB is a great way to stay in touch and communicate and make plans and so on. Digital piracy wasn't stopped in its tracks by DRM, it was stopped by the fact that Netflix/Hulu/Steam/Spotify make it far easier to do it legally than illegally. Convenience is above all.

# ¿ May 12, 2017 21:02

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

Party Boat posted:

Mr Biffo's still writing online

http://www.digitiser2000.com

By 'eck and he's as good as ever: http://www.digitiser2000.com/main-page/10-grossly-underrated-playstation-games

"10 Grossly Underrated PS Games" and it's a list of 10 very underrated PS games including personal favorite of mine Jumping Flash.

# ¿ May 13, 2017 17:54

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

Sounds to me a lot like the public sector has bungled it yet again :smugbird:

# ¿ May 13, 2017 20:50

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

hakimashou posted:

There was an interesting piece in the Guardian about when Australian Labour faced a similar problem to the one British Labour is facing now.

They dumped their unpopular party leader in the lead up to the election and reversed it into a landslide win.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/12/jeremy-corbyn-bob-hawke-general-election-landslide

It may not be too late!

Alright

Name our Bob Hawke and I'll think about it

# ¿ May 13, 2017 21:47

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

Pochoclo posted:

The Tories and their supporters might actually be real-life Ferengi.

The Ferengi underwent moderation and reforms though.

# ¿ May 15, 2017 20:51

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

Pochoclo posted:

I assure you plenty of the obscenely rich have asked themselves that same question more than once.

Yeah but they realized they'd have to pay someone to start the wiki so it got indefinitely postponed.

# ¿ May 15, 2017 20:52

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

Tsietisin posted:

If this was a terrorist, it's just probably helped create a government that will go after their country and countrymen with bombs.

That's often the exact plan. Nothing would be a more effective recruiting tool.

# ¿ May 23, 2017 01:14

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

SteelMentor posted:

An amusements is hardly a shop. More a of a black hole that only sucks in pensioners.

Nowt made me angrier, as a wee lad, to come across a place calling itself 'Amusements' only to find it was filled with shite one-armed bandits and not loving video games.

Honestly on reflection that's still up there as a cause of rage.

# ¿ May 23, 2017 23:29

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

Guavanaut posted:

At least the Mablethorpe amusements actually had arcade games as well as the traditional fare of one armed bandits, 'electric horse race that's probably rigged', and 'sliding drawers thing with 10ps that's now inexplicably a TV quiz show'.

Millisle in Norn Iron was the best because it had about five different amusements in a village of like a thousand people, and of them one was entire video games, one was entirely gambling, and the other three were mixes. So my granny would take me with a huge pile of coins she'd saved through the year and she'd play the slots and I'd play the real games and then we'd go to the best chippy on the planet.

Even better was when we were at my Uncle Bobby's caravan because it was just down the road. I saw the biggest feckin' crab of my life when we were all playing on the beach and ran away like a wee girl.

Anyway that's enough nostalgia.

# ¿ May 23, 2017 23:45

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

Gonzo McFee posted:

https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/867866670852960256

Blues under the bed.

https://twitter.com/election_data/status/867868013839515648

https://twitter.com/Samfr/status/867854253901180928

I know better than to Hope.

But I would not mind being pleasantly surprised on June 9th.

# ¿ May 25, 2017 23:58

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

Gorn Myson posted:

I know that everyone says that hope is a lie and so on, but I implore you to remember the joy and optimism you felt on the day you woke up and found out that David Cameron hosed a dead pig.

Remember when that was by far the most insane thing in politics?

# ¿ May 26, 2017 00:05

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

Julio Cruz posted:

You think that after Gaddafi's death all the anti-Gaddafi militias gave up their weapons and settled down to become peaceful farmers?

Well yeah that's how it works isn't it? We get rid of the regime and everything is fine. Just like in Afghanistan and Iraq!

# ¿ May 26, 2017 18:01

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

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

A while back so sorry if this has been addressed, but ISIS is absolutely hosed. They're in their death throes now. There's absolutely no need to reason with them, because they're a spent force. Turns out arming secular socialists and protecting them against our own allies in the region was the answer to defeating ISIS.

Can the Kurds have a loving country yet

# ¿ May 26, 2017 20:15

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

Oberleutnant posted:

Well I wonder what the DWP have been up to this week

https://twitter.com/SiobhanONeill/status/868196386059284482

.....oh

lmaooo gently caress the disabled

# ¿ May 27, 2017 01:00

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

Ratjaculation posted:

Live music venues are a prime target atm

Jesus

# ¿ May 27, 2017 03:44

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

33% Lab
34% Con

and hung parliament. resolved by Timmy doing a Clegg.

# ¿ May 28, 2017 02:16

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

Barry Foster posted:

I admire your optimism, man.

Ah but you see the country coming so close to salvation before having it snatched away by a Second Liberal Betrayal would be the ultimate repudiation of optimism.

e;

kustomkarkommando posted:

This is helpful and very interesting. Will the GE results have any/much effect on the ballix in Stormont? Or is that all down to the Assembly and, thus, currently undertaking a wee pre-Brexit preview of oncoming doom?

Ms Adequate fucked around with this message at 04:50 on May 28, 2017

# ¿ May 28, 2017 04:36

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

I hear Jezza did alright.

Also :lol:

a specific 'Flaps rule. Imagine being such a good troll you get a rule made about banning other people for arguing with you. Masterful.

# ¿ May 30, 2017 06:11

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

Noriega's dead. Eager to see the first articles suggesting Corbyn would be worse.

# ¿ May 30, 2017 06:26

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

Christ, Paxo's awful these days. I actually felt bad for May because he's constantly asking "Have you changed your mind [on Brexit]?" as though it matters. I don't like Brexit and I don't like her or the Tories. But what the hell does it matter whether she, personally likes the idea of Brexit or not? Unless you're going to argue she's going to pull the rug out and cancel Art 50, it's utterly immaterial. All he wanted was a gotcha where she says something daft. Well, I don't mind that against the Tories because I want them to get a hammering next month, I admit, but it's hardly good for substantive political discussion, is it? Not really doing anything to allow more room for nuance. And sure I don't expect your average wankstain reporter to do that in a three minute bit with a shadow cabinet member or whatever, but when it's ostensibly a long and serious interview, it's a little bit poo poo.

I reckon he made his mark with "Did you threaten to overrule him" and thinks that's all anyone wants now.

# ¿ May 30, 2017 21:26

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

Steve2911 posted:

https://twitter.com/psflaps/status/868535909754572800
Why don't we see this side of him in UKMT? I like it.

Everything is forgiven. Pissflaps is a modern-day da Vinci. Flaps for PM! No forget that, Flaps for Queen!

# ¿ May 30, 2017 21:47

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

Gonzo McFee posted:

https://twitter.com/SocialistVoice/status/869565478053834756

Probably not the sort of bloke Corbs is looking to prioritize, as we guessed from his question. Glad Jezza handled that pile of nonsense so well!

# ¿ May 31, 2017 01:16

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

Pochoclo posted:

I'm honestly very surprised that a selfish rich gently caress like this would actually deign to appear in public, his kind is usually more akin to ghosts.

I'd bet a grand that he's just started the game of donating his way into political power.

If he's nouveau riche he might not have learned the ropes yet.

# ¿ May 31, 2017 01:38

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

lmaoooo Tim just tried to hammer Jezza on Article 50 and you could tell he thought he was about to get a standing ovation and there was dead silence.

Also shut the gently caress up Amber Rudd and Paul Nuttall. loving disgraceful.

e; :laffo:

both of UKIP's people in the audience not able to get much going there.

# ¿ May 31, 2017 19:56

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

That was beautiful

# ¿ May 31, 2017 20:11

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# ¿ May 3, 2024 22:23

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

Bahahah had to pause and I'm just catching up, Leanne Wood smashing Nuttall on wanting a 'free divorce' is goddamn amazing.

# ¿ May 31, 2017 21:06

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