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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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Cerv
Sep 14, 2004

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communism bitch posted:

:biotruths: but I heard somewhere once that since (on average) men have a higher muscle to fat ratio than women we men get hotter quicker, and women feel the cold more. So cranking the aircon on can leave lady officemates feeling uncomfortably cold even if it's perfect for the guys.

And while I sympathise with the plight of my sisters, I gotta say ladies that you need to take one for the team and wear a sweater so we can get the cold air blowing. The alternative is me working in my underwear and aint none of y'all wanna see that.

they have aircon in your castle?

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Cerv
Sep 14, 2004

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it sounds like something Chris Morris made up

Cerv
Sep 14, 2004

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learnincurve posted:

3. gently caress off gently caress off and gently caress off again. Don't gently caress up the countryside for trains that will get you and a few of your friends from Sheffield to London half an hour quicker, when people on average wages can't afford the regular fares let alone whatever the extortionate fares on this thing will be. Sort the problems caused by the beeching report first you absolute cunts.
What problems do you mean? Like the miles of track being torn up? Cos building new track solves that.
HS2 is required to free up capacity on the WCML for exactly the sort of services you're asking for. Think before you parrot nonsensical NIMBY taking points.

Cerv
Sep 14, 2004

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learnincurve posted:

Oh now. You have literally no idea what beeching did to everywhere outside the Home Counties if you throw that argument back at me. What we need is all the little towns and villages connected to each other and to major cities, if not by train then the bus service must be improved to compensate. I would complain about Derbyshire being split into two and it taking 4 hours to travel 20 miles by train, but then I look at wales and think "poor bastards".

Building new tracks between major cities does not solve that problem. It does however solve a major problem for people who have expense accounts. Now they can get to London from Birmingham 20 mins quicker and all of the plebs will be on the other slow train so they won't have to worry about encountering them. Huzzah, three cheers for the Tory party.

how do you expect to connect the little towns and villages to major cities when the rail lines into the cities are at maximum capacity already?

what you raged against - "Build next stage of HS2 from Midlands to the North West" - has nothing to do with the Home Counties? the whole HS2 line when completed will run the entire length of the country, barely even touching the Home Counties except to cross Buckinghamshire and clip a corner of Middlesex.

there are already differently priced fast (Virgin) and slow (Midland) trains from Euston to Birmingham.
but again you are repeating without thinking a NIMBY slogan - that the HS2 is for people to get between London & Birmingam a bit faster - but that's obviously stupid as soon as you realise the line doesn't terminate there.

Cerv
Sep 14, 2004

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Vitamin P posted:

"Tickets are affordable if you book in advance at off-peak times" is the she-shouldn't-have-been-dressed-like-that of train chat. It's a poxy little victim-blaming deflection that doesn't relate to the actual issue.

comparing train ticket prices to rape is in poor taste

Cerv
Sep 14, 2004

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Ocrassus posted:

I know a surprising number of people doing this.
people who wear fancy dress to festivals are the worst. I hope they all get the shits and fall into a long drop

Cerv
Sep 14, 2004

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Serotonin posted:

Only if you are aroused by the smell​ of chlorine

I know a guy who is :keke:

Cerv
Sep 14, 2004

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Gorn Myson posted:

The most damning thing you can take away from TTOI on a re-watch is that the public barely feature in it. The entire show is about pointless politicians being bullied for not dancing properly in front of the press because they don't know how to properly sell their poo poo policies. No one accomplishes anything meaningful in TTOI.

what about the "have you ever had to clean up your own mother's piss" woman?

Cerv
Sep 14, 2004

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MrL_JaKiri posted:

Replacing them with rich people

possibly an even worse choice for building material than flammable plastic boards

Cerv
Sep 14, 2004

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Pissflaps posted:

Jeremy Corbyn is doing a set there isn't he?

he promised the same last year, then pulled out on the day.
I don't trust him to turn up tbh

Cerv
Sep 14, 2004

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feedmegin posted:

I mean, technically accurate? But what kind of Brexit is rather the more important question.

Edit: pretty sure leaving the customs union (as opposed to the general notion of Brexit) wasn't in the Labour manifesto?
technically correct how? 52% not 80% backed Brexit in the vote

Cerv
Sep 14, 2004

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forkboy84 posted:

I like Twitter. It's good as a breaking news feed,
Only if you discount "being at all accurate" as a metric for news quality I guess

Cerv
Sep 14, 2004

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jabby posted:

More likely he didn't expect his answers to end up in the national media. The unfortunate truth is that he's already had to filter himself somewhat during interviews, I hope this isn't the start of him having to do the same in private conversations with friends.

What's wrong with filtering yourself? Everyone should think before they speak imho

Cerv
Sep 14, 2004

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Intrinsic Field Marshal posted:

The Daily Mail and 4chan are going apeshit over Corbyn at Glasto

>playing 100 quid to stand in a muddy field listening to bands you cant really hear that you could listen to at home in CD quality

lmao

that seems to be a common opinion here too

Cerv
Sep 14, 2004

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Coohoolin posted:

Only if the fuckers kick me out.

I can't apply for a residency or naturalisation thing, because despite having been here for 7 years, I have not had either private health insurance or full time employment for five consecutive years. No one told me when I arrived that as a student I'd need a private health provider in order to be eligible for citizenship, and I've been happily using the NHS since I arrived.

Immigration in this country is a bollocks.

the Comprehensive Sickness Insurance thing is actually an EU, not UK rule. blame them.
do you think the court case that NHS cover should count will be resolved before it's too late?

Coohoolin posted:

At least Switzerland isn't going to be leaving the travel area any time soon.
because the swiss government have waved away a majority referendum voting to do just that. laffo

Cerv
Sep 14, 2004

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Weembles posted:

It's just a tick in old fashioned English where people sometimes put "the" in front of country names that don't sound like country names. Nobody subtly trying to ice-burn Ukraine or Yemen via definite articles.

like the united kingdom

Cerv
Sep 14, 2004

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Coohoolin posted:

Only if the fuckers kick me out.

I can't apply for a residency or naturalisation thing, because despite having been here for 7 years, I have not had either private health insurance or full time employment for five consecutive years. No one told me when I arrived that as a student I'd need a private health provider in order to be eligible for citizenship, and I've been happily using the NHS since I arrived.

Immigration in this country is a bollocks.

Congratulations! the government are now proposing to drop their harsh interpretation of the Comprehensive Sickness Insurance requirement so you can probably forget about that private health cover you're looking for

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/26/eu-citizens-living-in-uk-must-apply-for-special-id-card-after-brexit

Cerv
Sep 14, 2004

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Cerebral Bore posted:

Why not? Every other country under the US nuclear umbrella seems to do fine WRT not being nuked out of the blue,

it always comes back to that in this thread's circular nuclear arguments. it's immoral for us to have a weapons programme but just great to be protected under someone else's.
I don't know how to square that circle.

Cerv
Sep 14, 2004

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forkboy84 posted:

On top of that, it's quite likely that either our next Prime Minister or next but one will be someone who has said he will never countenance using nuclear weapons. Therefore, MAD doesn't work & there's no point of having them.
that's a very short sighted view. the operational lifespan of Trident or it's replacement far exceed even the longest serving prime ministerial terms.

Cerv
Sep 14, 2004

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OwlFancier posted:

It is possible for something to be both immoral and useful.
i'm not talking about whether it's useful. whether it's moral.
how is maintaining our own weapons morally any different than letting the US do it for us?

Cerv
Sep 14, 2004

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Night10194 posted:

So, is it going to turn out like, every building in London with cladding has the very slightly cheaper kill everyone in a massive inferno type? The uniformity of it in the testing so far is kind of staggering.

probably not every one. if your testing lab doesn't have infinite capacity you're going to prioritise the samples you already have suspicions about.

Cerv
Sep 14, 2004

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Cerebral Bore posted:

I don't see any moral problem here. Nukes are bad, and the less of them that there are in the world the better. And since the US isn't going to disarm any time soon then the UK might as well do what good it can in the meantime.
you really don't see a moral problem? I don't believe you.
an obvious implication of "we're protected by the Americans anyway" is that if we ever weren't (say Trump abandoned us) then the UK would have to rearm. it completely undercuts any supposed moral high-ground in the anti nuke stance. it's for people who want the supposed benefits of nukes but also to pretend they're not getting the (metaphorical) blood on their hands.

I agree though that the UK "might as well do what good it can in the meantime". by participating in multi-lateral arms reduction / disarmament talks. that'd be more fruitful than unilateral disarmament.

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Cerv
Sep 14, 2004

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Cerebral Bore posted:

Being anti-nuke isn't about chasing the Liberal Moral High Ground, it's about trying to minimize the risk of armageddon. You're looking at this from a completely wrong angle, mate.
plenty of people are posing it as the moral position though.

Cerebral Bore posted:

Why not both?
if you've unilaterally disarmed, you don't have a seat at multilateral disarmament talks. you no longer have anything to bring to the table.

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