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What is the best flav... you all know what this question is:
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Labour 907 49.92%
Theresa May Team (Conservative) 48 2.64%
Liberal Democrats 31 1.71%
UKIP 13 0.72%
Plaid Cymru 25 1.38%
Green 22 1.21%
Scottish Socialist Party 12 0.66%
Scottish Conservative Party 1 0.06%
Scottish National Party 59 3.25%
Some Kind of Irish Unionist 4 0.22%
Alliance / Irish Nonsectarian 3 0.17%
Some Kind of Irish Nationalist 36 1.98%
Misc. Far Left Trots 35 1.93%
Misc. Far Right Fash 8 0.44%
Monster Raving Loony 49 2.70%
Space Navies Party 39 2.15%
Independent / Single Issue 2 0.11%
Can't Vote 188 10.35%
Won't Vote 8 0.44%
Spoiled Ballot 15 0.83%
Pissflaps 312 17.17%
Total: 1817 votes
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OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

It's good lyrical rap in a nice crisp accent with good electronica beats on the back. Like, three things I like all put together.

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OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Pochoclo posted:

It really is loving ridiculous that we can't vote for who's going to rule the country we live in.

I dunno, I worry that letting europeans be politically active is how you get europol.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

staberind posted:

It took me longer than most to twig that chunky was more of a performance artist that a screaming madman, and a genre of music that's not crap for top of the pops. Grimes good.

I can dig it, but this is what got my feet going this morning : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpVeZz0Iprs I am an old fart.

Are you GothicAngelina90.blogangelz.com?

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

feedmegin posted:

All of us in this thread (except the random yanks and what not) are politically active Europeans :colbert:

I mean mainlanders.

Also I mean strictly speaking the UK isn't very good politically either, UKMT is the exception.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Entropy238 posted:

I don't see why not. Something really tangible like an email leak showing clear ties between farage and putin could turn it in to a pretty palatable position for a lot of people.

Why?

The referendum wasn't binding, the UK is doing this because the government wants to and because it has a plurality of popular support, neither of those change if it turns out that nigel farage likes putin's polonium penis up his bum.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Entropy238 posted:

Just to be clear, I did say if tangible evidence was available - I haven't stated I believe that it actually exists.

If senior figures in the leave campaign team were actively working as agents of a hostile foreign government that seems like a pretty good reason to me to render the result null and void.

You still appear to the operating under the belief that the reason brexit is happening is because the government has to do what the referendum said.

Which is incorrect.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Entropy238 posted:

Where there's a will there's a way.

My understanding was that most of the politicians voting to trigger article 50 did so under the impression that there was a fair referendum on the issue, but they don't actually want Brexit.

Demonstrate that the referendum result was flawed/dubious and there's your out.

They're doing it because it's popular. And not because it's actually majority popular either, because it never was, it had a slightly larger plurality than the alternative. Instead it was seized upon by the tories and UKIP and, to a degree, Labour, as a means to win support. That isn't going to go away regardless of what people say about the referendum and it is far too late in the day for anyone to renege on delivering some form of brexit unless we have a lib dem government next week.

Technicalities about the referendum don't remotely change the reasons why brexit is happening which are: the UK is full of twats and: politicians are hungry to use it to win votes.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

What does the dock owner think is going to happen to the stuff that gets loaded onto his docks if there weren't any roads?

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013


Has he even played openttd?

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013


It's like if a rudimentary android had an equivalent of a printer test page.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

"How do you feel about Corbyn beating May?"

"I'm glad she's dead"

I was just thinking you don't have to change the response :v:

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Gonzo McFee posted:

Reminder that Sarah Vine, Michael Gove's wife, has publicly written articles in the Daily Mail about how she feels having sex with your husband is a horrible chore that you have to grin and bare.

I'm not complaining about your spelling but "grin and bare" takes on a whole new meaning. I like the idea that Michael Gove's missus is maniacally trying to drive him insane by telling the world how terrible he is in bed.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I have an odd relationship with the film Brazil because when I was young someone recorded a disney film or something over the tape with Brazil on it, but the way they did it, it cuts from near the end of the Disney movie to sort of half way through Brazil and I watched it and got very very confused and a bit disturbed.

For a long time I didn't actually realize that it was a separate film because it's sufficiently surreal that I thought it was part of the film I was watching.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Yvonmukluk posted:

Well, I got this in the post.

Needless to say, I knew I had to share it.






Didn't spot their name on the mail-in ballot (which I've already sent off by this point, for :newdanger: - I realise, considering the political realities, the 'smart' thing to do would be vote Lib Dem, but I think that would be pissing into the wind round this way). Whoops!

Started out anarcho syndicalist but lost me around halfway down the page. Also ancap colours are a giveaway, 2/10.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Of course strictly even seawater hydrates you, it just also fucks up your salt levels and causes your body to kill itself.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

spectralent posted:

I was pretty sure that the loss of hydrostatic balance due to salt intake lead to de-facto dehydration, but it's been a while.

It does but the seawater itself is still hydrating you if we're going for maximum pedantry.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

dex_sda posted:

More accurate to say it's hydrating you temporarily, right? To even out the balance, your body will very soon spend more water than it gets from seawater.

I'd probably describe it as hydrating you but also giving you salt poisoning. High salt intake will kill you even if you drink a lot of water with it, your body has a maximum salinity it can tolerate before the sodium just fucks up your other functions too much.

OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Jun 1, 2017

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Julio Cruz posted:

The narrative is already that she's too scared to do interviews, the more times she doesn't turn up the worse it'll get. Even if she just produces mindless soundbites (see that interview with the Plymouth Herald) the media can still talk about Strong And Stable No Deal Better Than A Bad Deal and go back to the Corbyn smear stories. They can't spin her simply not making appearances anything like as easily.

You clearly underestimate how hard she's thinking about brexit.

On June 9th she will emerge from her chrysalis a transcendent being, the embodiment of brexit, and all of britain will be liberated from this unelected reality.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Pissflaps posted:

Anybody who tells you this is fibbing. I've seen various opinions today in this thread from people claiming that Labour in power could undertake some sleight of hand in order to remain in the EU. They're wrong.

Labour is committed to leaving the EU. It's in the manifesto. Labour is a part of Brexit.

I don't often do this but I agree with pissflaps. Labour is going to do brexit as well.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Pissflaps vote labour ya bastard.

I live near enough that that should count.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I know, I'm just fulfilling your fantasies of having a labour party member ask you to vote from a reasonable proximity.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Lord_Adonis posted:

If sense does not return to the House of Commons, then I can see no alternative but for the Armed Forces to step in and allow for a government of national unity to be formed, which can put an end to this Brexit madness.

Hahahahaha.

Military dictatorship: the sane option.

Go outside mate.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

NotJustANumber99 posted:

It wasn't a boat was it? Just a boring science torpedo.

How the gently caress is a science torpedo boring?

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013


THINKING ABOUT BREXIT CAN'T SIGN PAPER.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

The only boring torpedo is a liquorice one.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

TheRat posted:

You may or may not find this torpedo boring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysUjYAi0WcQ

I have no idea what I'm watching but I like it better than the original.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

TheRat posted:

In that case you may enjoy this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9evhR-iJSE

Already watching it. It is reinforcing my belief that Norway is an ideal society.

E: help I'm stuck in weird Norwegian land

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diCdDIgoOwQ

OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 23:12 on Jun 1, 2017

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Josef bugman posted:

Are we going to be having end of last series of Game of Thrones "everyone gathered in the big church" moment.

Because if we are I would like to be prewarned.

Oh and I prefer the folkier stuff from Norway

Moddi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX5FpPP4TSA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6Hndsyfn6M

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Tigey posted:

Getting bombarded with huge numbers of Tory political ads on Youtube: almost getting no other type of ads

Most of which look really terrible and low effort, with a bland uninspiring speech from May to bland uninspiring music

Got a long way to go to beat: https://twitter.com/tristandross/status/870234555697029120

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

God I can't imagine trying to wear any leather in this weather.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

As if socialism is not an integral component of social justice.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

namesake posted:

Okay I laughed as soon as the video started and closed it after 1 second.

There's some funny videos out there but if you watch them it plays hell with your youtube recs.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Tesseraction posted:

Being fair it's a parody of RockingMrE, a Welsh MRA who thinks Karl Marx is trying to steal mens rights beyond the grave. He copies all the bizarre mannerisms that MrE has including the habit of really obviously reading from an off-screen script while pretending to talk naturally, randomly having his video cut to black and white, and explaining simple things he doesn't need to and failing to clarify his leaps of logic.

He hasn't quite go the soul gazing stare right.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Tesseraction posted:

:eyepop:

I knew his son was but hot drat.

I was hoping we'd get a couple of articles like that, shame we won't get more of them.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

goddamnedtwisto posted:

True, I just realised I hadn't got round to weatherproofing my new leather jacket when I got caught in a thunderstorm on the way home tonight. Oh right, the heat? Not a problem compared to the waves of ~80 degree air coming off the engine of a motorbike, the rain was actually fairly welcome. Some may mock bikers but when climate change really hits and all of Britain is a Mad Max hellscape we're the only ones who aren't going to be dying of heatstroke.

I own one leather jacket and while it is quite waterproof even wearing it open I sweat like a tory in a primary school even in winter.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Like father like son (we both support corbyn) but son is more enthusiastic about it.

So Alastair is still a grumpy gently caress about it.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Oberleutnant posted:

In the last year I've seen a few stories addressing the trend of living in environments of constant surveillance like "dazzle camo" makeup and hair styles, and "anti surveillance clothing". Obviously these are designed to highlight the debate, rather than to be functional, everyday solutions, but it's a really interesting issue, and it feels like we're on the cusp of it becoming a major factor in society.
I don't think people are now, or will ever be, ready to give up on the notion of personal privacy.

If the cyberpunk future actually happens because everyone starts dressing like a lunatic to evade face recognition I will consider that a substantial improvement over the alternative tbh.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Oberleutnant posted:

I say this every time anybody mentions it, but the grim cyberpunk future already happened. We're living in it.
State hackers are rigging elections, robots are stealing everybody's jobs, I'm jacked into the metaverse poo poo-talking about politics right now, and within a few clicks you can buy NSA-made malware with buttcoins, and browse wikis full of of state secrets stolen by teenage hackers.
William Gibson gave an interview a few years ago and he was like "cyberpunk ahaha oh man what was I thinking??" and I was utterly bemused because the cyberpunk future happened, it's here, it's just a crap, boring, grey one with none of the style.

I mean the good cyberpunk future, with the style, not the 1984 cyberpunk future which yes we do live in already.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Fashion leather jackets are often just top-grain backed or even coated with PU, so they're much easier to take care of, lighter, and waterproof.

A proper bike jacket will be full-hide and uncoated (and usually vented) so even though they're much heavier they're much more comfortable in warm weather, but need careful care taken of them especially if you get them wet.

If they make jackets any heavier than mine I can't see how they'd be wearable, it weighs a bloody tonne, almost as much as my ankle length greatcoat.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

This forum isn't even remotely as gay as advertised tbh.

It's less camp than carry on.

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OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Is that an actual tory party account?

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