Gen. Ripper posted:

I still don't know what the gently caress was going through Clegg's head that made him decide to take that vote.

croc suit posted:

Jesus christ how can a person be this dumb

Zero Gravitas posted:

Jokes on them I'm emigrating anyway

lutefisk is a much more effective weapon of terror

learnincurve posted:

I have a hair trigger right now on this because of what's just happened to a friend of mine.

Assessment was 20 miles away and he had to reschedule it so that he could have time to get a taxi approved. If he missed that date, even if he was ill, he would automatically have been thrown off benefits.

Evil hellbitch then went and lied, I mean actually honestly lied, and said she had seen him walking 200 yards. The taxi dropped him outside the front door, it was 30 feet total to where the interview room was and he had to stop and have a rest on the way there. lying about this meant that the evil oval office could do the only thing she could do to him which is drop him one point. This drop of one point meant he lost the mobility element, which not only means money but also his free tax and insurance.

CAB are absolutely fuming and have found a tame lawyer with An Cause to deal with it for free and he says not only is thIs bullshit and illegal my friend has also been underpaid for years.

DesperateDan posted:

the graun has may as attending the scene but not talking to residents



pig fucker, drat, even thatcher would have gone and looked sad and sympathetic at the proles, not may.

Tsaedje posted:

This is literally every capability for work assessment. After years of appeals I eventually got some compensation out of them for lying and removing all my benefits and then trying to cover up the lie, including to my MP. Didn't really make up for the months I was living on £5 a week.

kustomkarkommando posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/KenReid_utv/status/875295090687737857

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

https://twitter.com/tnewtondunn/status/875292295955873794

A cunning plan, what could possibly go wrong?

Jose posted:

Verizian posted:

Autistic people are associated with extra chromosomes and some claim may be a further evolutionary step.

Zephro posted:

The pound is down ~15% since Brexit, so everyone is directly poorer already, and getting more so as inflation rises. So far the effect on exports hasn't come close to making up the difference.

Regarde Aduck posted:

I think the government *wants* people to start suffering disaster fatigue. Which is why the number is being kept artificially low and vague. But then again I do love a good conspiracy theory.


Oh look a STEM lord with his fancy science words. Look mate, the sun is a big ball of fire about this wide, its really hot BECAUSE ITS FIRE DICKHEAD.

Lord_Adonis posted:

Well yes, of course. I am not disputing the heat of the sun. Rather, I am just pointing out that people seem to be confusing the human organism's tolerance to solar electromagnetism and simple temperature, with the implication that different ratios of melanin sub-types in the skin afford increased protection from both, as opposed to just the former.

Lord_Adonis posted:

I believe that there is a case to be made that the lack of our European friends is rather pathetic, in my opinion that only has access to estimates of comprehensive identity planning in this country, the answer is ''be more like Francey, and less like the Units''.

Lord_Adonis posted:

Could you be more specific?

SteelMentor posted:

We need to seal the borders from these whites until we know what the hell is going on.

Angepain posted:

I'm glad that even in the midst of a terrible tradgedy this thread can keep on as usual and find a way to argue about semantics.

learnincurve posted:

An none of them will be the poors. If you cannot run the trains you have so people on an average wage can afford them then you absolutely should not be building trains that are more expensive. All you are doing is using the poor to subsidise the rich. That's how much they can hold, how may tickets will actually be sold.

It's like we learned nothing from concord

TACD posted:

We'd all love to use a different analogy for each occasion but there's no magic analogy tree.

communism bitch posted:

Of course there are a bunch of poshos in my office doing research on some London stuff we have, and naturally they're all chatting about Grenfell and are mates with Rock Fielding Mellen the Councillor at Kensington responsible for housing: "Oh I know him, he's lovely, really charming, nice chap".
Every now and then I hear snatches of conversation floating in from the research room like "well they're just complaining because they hope the council is going to bend over backwards" ..... "I wanted to go to the Kensington Library last week but it was closed because of the riots, bloody annoying" ..... "it's like the Gordon Riots, terrifying" ...... "I'm going to the country next week until the end of August" ....... "of course they're rioting - it's hot and they've nothing better to do after all".

Rumda posted:

Why the hell don't we have a guillotine emote?

Party Boat posted:

If the DUP abstain from the Queen's Speech vote the tories will still pass it by 317-315 by my reckoning.

Regarde Aduck posted:

It would?

learnincurve posted:

Wait did Corbyn say something like "he hopes the PM undos the mistakes made by the previous Home Secretary"?

learnincurve posted:

They are dying in Australia, Australia does not have special poison immune honey bees.

2006-2014 we lost over 81,000 hives due to bees getting sick and dying, 30% are dying over winter now. The ones that are clinging on are being dosed with antibiotics by 8.5/10 of commercial keepers and no one is saying poo poo about these antibiotics being in the human food chain.

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DesperateDan posted:

What times of day were you looking?

When it's really loving hot like this, they tend to go back and chill in the hive, being most active mid-morning and after 3.


I can only give anecdotal stuff but the active hive on the land I manage is doing great, and the apiarist who looks after it is having another good year

josh04 posted:

Ah sweet, an excuse to post all the videos of bees I filmed out of my window at the beginning of the month. Between 12 and 6pm they were just methodologically working over this one bush which leans into my back garden. Since it got really really hot I haven't seen them out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alPEGAMrLuE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0jICspCD80
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZMSfalW8AA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXfr1mkUrwY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRoiCEk40Wg

JFairfax posted:

It would barely qualify as a brexit and would be loving idiotic, we would have to be subject to all the rules without being able to be a part of forming them.

I'm coming to the opinion that soft brexit would be worse than a hard brexit.

Best of all would be staying in but a soft brexit will just be pointless.