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goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe
As nobody else seemed willing to do it after the forums fuckery, here's the UKMT. Talk about UK stuff here. A better OP will probably be leaked to the press in the next few days.

And right on cue, here's a better OP:

Pesky Splinter posted:



Parliament finally agreed to vacate the premises before they fell/blew/burnt/exploded down to restore the cumbling edifice.
The Tories are yet to agree to vacate Theresa May - "Auntie May" (according to Chinese state television) - from the seat of "Prime Minsiter" and aren't interested in restoring that particular crumbling edifice.

Brexit continues to Brexit - thanks to some leaked documents that state it's going to be a rougher ride than previously thought. The usual suspects are now accusing the Civil Service, and Reality, of not being positive enough over it - all the while sharpening their knives as it's becoming increasingly clear that May is even more of an ineffectual shambling spectre than previously thought.

The terrorist behind the Finsbury Park Mosque attack, during which he mowed down a group of muslims exiting the mosque after praying, killing one, and injuring nine others, is currently on trial. During which he admitted that, among others, he was hoping to also kill Jeremy Corbyn for being a terrorist - clearly uninfluenced by the media who for the past three years have been labelling him as a terrorist, and terrorist sympathiser.

Love's Labours Lost
UKMT January 2018 - ++Knighthood for Loser Clegg++
UKMT December 2017 - DExEU's Midnight Runners - "Come On Arlene"
UKMT November 2017: Pee for Vendetta/Priti Little Liars
Previous UKMT Threads

French Kiss
Europol Thread

"As Fair Art Thou, My Bonnie Lass"
ScotPol Thread

"Start A Love Train, Love Train"
Trainchat Thread

Draw Me Like One of Your French Girls
Political Cartoons Thread

My Prick Is A Thorn (On A Tudor rose)
BYOB: UKMT

Pillow Talk
Some choice left-leaning podcasts:
Off the Fence - Brighton based, covering UK & Global topics. Pretty chill and professional peeps. Older 'casts can be found in the PLATFORM B archive.
Reel Politik - The Original Leftie Hate Trolls. Check 'em out.
We Don't Talk About The Weather - Two cool guys discuss news and other stuff. The UKMT-iest of Podcasts.
Desolation Radio - Socialism from a Welsh perspective. Informative hosts.
Revolutionary Despatches - Two new guys starting out.
Agitpod - Owen Jones & Ellie Mae O’Hagan discuss news.
Novara Media - Numerous fluctucating commentators including Matt Zarb-Cousin, Max Shanly, and James Butler among others. Varying topics with guests.
[Citations Needed] - Covers the US, focussing on the media, PR, and assorted bullshit. Also some socialist history topics. Very informative.



Mills & Boon Section
Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, And Resistance – Peter Linebaugh
Libertarian Communism – Isaac Puente Amestoy
At The Cafι – Malatesta
The Method of Freedom – Malatesta
In Praise of Idleness – Russell
Political Ideals – Russell
Declaration – Hardt and Negri
Liberalism, a Counter History – Domenico Losurdo
God and the State – Bakunin
The Conquest of Bread – Kropotkin
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism – V I Lenin
Anarchism and Other Essays – Emma Goldman
Social Reform or Revolution – Rosa Luxemburg
Violence – Slavoj Zizek
Jihad vs. McWorld - Benjamin Barber
Flat Earth News - Nick Davies
Hack Attack - Nick Davies
Ecology of Freedom – Murray Bookchin
Anarchism, Marxism and the Future of the Left – Murray Bookchin
Let's Read Das Kapital – Karl Marx and Goons

Little Black Book (thanks feedmegin)

quote:

I came up with the idea of a register of goons and their CLPs in case any new joiners wanted someone to go to to get the local lie of the land.

Bexleyheath and Crayford - Rolled Cabbage
Bristol East - Luxury Tent Carpet
Bristol West - mfcrocker, Barry Foster, Pistol_Pete
Broxtowe - MikeCrotch
Cotswolds (yes, we do have one) - Yvonmukluk
Cunninghame North/South - mehall ('s partner)
Dulwich and West Norwood - maugrim
Edinburgh Central (s?) - Autonomous Monster
Edinburgh Central, Ipswich - Lord of the Llamas
Enfield Southgate - spiderbot
Glasgow Southside/Central - Niric
Havant - Last Emperor
Hertford and Stortford - Brovine
Hyndburn - Kegluneq
Leeds North East - Irving Washington
Loughborough - feedmegin
Manchester Central - Jakabite
Northampton - superLINUS
North-East Somerset (the long-shot campaign to unseat Jacob Rees-Mogg) - Darth Walrus
Oxford East - SpaceCommie
Salisbury (and Salisbury Momentum, which is now a thing that actually exists) - Wolfsbane
SE Cambridgeshire - Stoic Fnord
Sheffield south east - Cast_no_shadow
Southampton (Test) - waffle, Nova88
St Austell & Newquay - Oh dear me
Stockport Central - Taear
Swansea West - Borrovan

Whisperings of Sweet Nothings
#ukgoons on synIRC (thanks crispix)

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However, as the person who got in with the cheapest quote, the tender for Official UK Megathread goes to me and I will pay Pesky Splinter only 85% of what they deserve for their work, keeping the rest for myself.

Here is an even better summary of the United Kingdom in February 2018:

Katt posted:

After watching all the British political comics I saw a picture of this German parade float.



German engineering remains superior.

goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 20:10 on Feb 12, 2018

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feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

We know that pickled onion monster munch is Correct Thought.

How do we feel about actual pickled onions, possibly in a cheese sandwich?

Edison was a dick
Apr 3, 2010

direct current :roboluv: only

feedmegin posted:

We know that pickled onion monster munch is Correct Thought.

How do we feel about actual pickled onions, possibly in a cheese sandwich?

Actual pickled onions are good, except for the tiny kind that wouldn't fit in a sandwich.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Wildcat strikes and rolling forums blackouts. I blame Marxist Jeremy Corbyn.

Junior G-man
Sep 15, 2004

Wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma


David Lammy wrote a good piece on knife crime and the causes of (hint: not single mothers or being black): https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/01/arresting-kids-not-stop-knife-crime-stabbings-london

sebzilla posted:

Wildcat strikes and rolling forums blackouts. I blame Marxist Jeremy Corbyn.

When will Corbyn finally come out with an unambiguous pro-Forum stance?!? He didn't campaign hard enough to prevent the blackouts, did he? I think he secretly wants the forums to be down.

At least, this is what I've briefed the Sun.

MikeCrotch
Nov 5, 2011

I AM UNJUSTIFIABLY PROUD OF MY SPAGHETTI BOLOGNESE RECIPE

YES, IT IS AN INCREDIBLY SIMPLE DISH

NO, IT IS NOT NORMAL TO USE A PEPPERAMI INSTEAD OF MINCED MEAT

YES, THERE IS TOO MUCH SALT IN MY RECIPE

NO, I WON'T STOP SHARING IT

more like BOLLOCKnese
today is the day that the servers went on strike, this day that i was minorly inconvenienced will now inform my politics in perpetuity

Trickjaw
Jun 23, 2005
Nadie puede dar lo que no tiene



If its any comfort, B&M are doing tubs of Freddo drinking chocolate for one red white and blue British pound.

Pesky Splinter
Feb 16, 2011

A worried pug.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

As nobody else seemed willing to do it after the forums fuckery, here's the UKMT. Talk about UK stuff here. A better OP will probably be leaked to the press in the next few days.

:argh: Just as I finished one too!

Oh well, I don't mind either though. Feel free to pilfer mine as you posted first. :)

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)
SPLITTERS

Junior G-man
Sep 15, 2004

Wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma



There are at least 30 letters sent in to the UKMT 1917 committee by regular posters. We need 10 more in order to force a no-confidence vote in Goddamntwisto.

baka kaba
Jul 19, 2003

PLEASE ASK ME, THE SELF-PROFESSED NO #1 PAUL CATTERMOLE FAN IN THE SOMETHING AWFUL S-CLUB 7 MEGATHREAD, TO NAME A SINGLE SONG BY HIS EXCELLENT NU-METAL SIDE PROJECT, SKUA, AND IF I CAN'T PLEASE TELL ME TO
EAT SHIT

Is this the Remain thread?

Junior G-man
Sep 15, 2004

Wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma


baka kaba posted:

Is this the Remain thread?

This is the thread of Proud Britannia bestriding the waves. Your pessimism has no place here. This thread will be glorious, free-market, buccaneering thread that will strike trade deals all over the world without the oversight of gay judges in Brussels.

Aramoro
Jun 1, 2012




Junior G-man posted:

This is the thread of Proud Britannia bestriding the waves. Your pessimism has no place here. This thread will be glorious, free-market, buccaneering thread that will strike trade deals all over the world without the oversight of gay judges in Brussels.

How much do we have to pay the other thread to maintain such freedoms?

Pesky Splinter
Feb 16, 2011

A worried pug.

Aramoro posted:

How much do we have to pay the other thread to maintain such freedoms?

£350 million a week - for the privilege of becoming a vassal thread.

Junior G-man
Sep 15, 2004

Wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma


Aramoro posted:

How much do we have to pay the other thread to maintain such freedoms?

Nothing. In fact they should be paying us for the privilege to be able to post in the same subforum. Without the intelligence assets of this thread, the others would be taken over by 4chan so we hold all the cards.

We will come to a bespoke agreement between this thread and the other, but it will be based on a cake-and-eat-it model.

Aramoro
Jun 1, 2012




Junior G-man posted:

Nothing. In fact they should be paying us for the privilege to be able to post in the same subforum. Without the intelligence assets of this thread, the others would be taken over by 4chan so we hold all the cards.

We will come to a bespoke agreement between this thread and the other, but it will be based on a cake-and-eat-it model.

I didn't know David Davis was a goon.

Pissflaps
Oct 20, 2002

by VideoGames
Lol sorry everybody wrong thread.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Pissflaps posted:

Maybe I will!!

Wrong thread, 'flaps

Junior G-man
Sep 15, 2004

Wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma


Aramoro posted:

I didn't know David Davis was a goon.

This thread represents the democratically chosen will of the posters, and any attempt to disrupt it is an attempt to overthrow democracy in favour of the London liberal classes who have lost touch with real working people.

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

Junior G-man posted:

This thread represents the democratically chosen will of the posters, and any attempt to disrupt it is an attempt to overthrow democracy in favour of the London liberal classes who have lost touch with real working people.

As a London liberal class, with enough spare time in the middle of the working day to do this, I am happy to confirm that this is the case.

mehall
Aug 27, 2010


baka kaba posted:

Is this the Remain thread?

In which case, the other thread should have 52% of the posts out of the combined total between both threads this month.

Aramoro
Jun 1, 2012




goddamnedtwisto posted:

As a London liberal class, with enough spare time in the middle of the working day to do this, I am happy to confirm that this is the case.

As a Scot I think this mean I now get to blame you for all my poo poo posts. Sorry I don't make the rules.

Junior G-man
Sep 15, 2004

Wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma


goddamnedtwisto posted:

As a London liberal class, with enough spare time in the middle of the working day to do this, I am happy to confirm that this is the case.

You just can't handle the voice of the real, hard-working UKMT community that no longer accepts being dictated to by undemocratic elites from Brussels who want to prevent this thread from having all the bendy bananas it can eat.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Can we get an ever closer union with the other thread by which I mean can someone merge the two so all the posts are jumbled up into a chronologically nonsensical cultural melting pot?

Junior G-man
Sep 15, 2004

Wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma


I demand to see the impact assessments that show that this thread will be fine outside D&D. GoddamnTwisto's mandarins are poisoning the well of our great experiment!

TomViolence
Feb 19, 2013

PLEASE ASK ABOUT MY 80,000 WORD WALLACE AND GROMIT SLASH FICTION. PLEASE.

The OP might blast and ruin their own thread before they leave the stage of history. We carry a new thread here, in our hearts. That thread is growing in this minute.

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

close one of these threads, i don't care which

Junior G-man
Sep 15, 2004

Wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma


R. Guyovich posted:

close one of these threads, i don't care which

UKMT has voted 52-48 to close the other thread, but I'm sure there will be a lot of thremoaners who still believe that the other thread was better.

Why can't they accept the will of the posters?

Pesky Splinter
Feb 16, 2011

A worried pug.
I think we should have another threadarendum. Just to be doubley sure.

[e]:

goddamnedtwisto posted:

However, as the person who got in with the cheapest quote, the tender for Official UK Megathread goes to me and I will pay Pesky Splinter only 85% of what they deserve for their work, keeping the rest for myself.

Free market, why hast thou forsaken me!? :negative:

Pesky Splinter fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Feb 1, 2018

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

Pesky Splinter posted:

I think we should have another threadarendum. Just to be doubley sure.

If I appoint you Deputy OP and promise* to consult** you on important policy matters will you prop up my unpopular decisions, thereby pissing away all of your popularity and eventually end up banished to C-SPAM with a meaningless title?

* promise does not constitute an actual promise.
** your input will be ignored

Killed By Death
Jun 29, 2013


OwlFancier posted:

Can we get an ever closer union with the other thread by which I mean can someone merge the two so all the posts are jumbled up into a chronologically nonsensical cultural melting pot?
With how the forums having being acting recently, that might happen without anyone doing it :v:

Not Operator
Jan 1, 2009

Not A doctor, THE Doctor!
Well, the forums sure collapsed, but how about the government?

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

feedmegin posted:

We know that pickled onion monster munch is Correct Thought.

How do we feel about actual pickled onions, possibly in a cheese sandwich?

i like to slice and quick pickle carrots

Pesky Splinter
Feb 16, 2011

A worried pug.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

If I appoint you Deputy OP and promise* to consult** you on important policy matters will you prop up my unpopular decisions, thereby pissing away all of your popularity and eventually end up banished to C-SPAM with a meaningless title?

* promise does not constitute an actual promise.
** your input will be ignored

Why. Yes. This is a good idea where nothing could conceivably go wrong for my posting career. Now...where's that referendum on Alternative Posting? How much should I brown nose? And do you think it would be a good idea for me to half-heartedly apologise to the other posters for lying about getting rid of the $10 posting fee, but then actually increasing it? :clegg:

[e]: Might have to fix the Goon CLP register in the OP, OP.

Renaissance Robot
Oct 10, 2010

Bite my furry metal ass
Did the forums fall into a chrono-synclastic infundibulum or something

loving space robots, coming here, interfering with our shitposting to influence world history for the sake of their lame and boring space robot agenda :bahgawd:

Mu.
Sep 15, 2003

The thing about Forevereal Modding Mu is that he loves editing files and wants others to download his permanent mods. Fully editing, rich text, altering files and loving it. Download his mods and enjoy it.
Some or perhaps none of you might be interested to know that the woman who shouted at Amber Rudd on Question Time a few years for threatening to take away her tax credits is now hoping to become a Labour parliamentary candidate after being inspired by Jeremy Corbyn.

https://twitter.com/Michelle4Labour/status/959047835021869056

Junior G-man
Sep 15, 2004

Wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma


On 00.00 30 March 2019 at the latest, this thread will leave D&D.

I will be in charge of negotiating free posting agreements with other subforums.

McDragon
Sep 11, 2007

white rabbit

Rumda
Nov 4, 2009

Moth Lesbian Comrade

R. Guyovich posted:

close one of these threads, i don't care which

If you hadn't called a snap thread close then the threadxit would be working.

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goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

Pesky Splinter posted:

Why. Yes. This is a good idea where nothing could conceivably go wrong for my posting career. Now...where's that referendum on Alternative Posting? How much should I brown nose? And do you think it would be a good idea for me to half-heartedly apologise to the other posters for lying about getting rid of the $10 posting fee, but then actually increasing it? :clegg:

[e]: Might have to fix the Goon CLP register in the OP, OP.

lol how did I manage to not gently caress up the nested quote but get the positioning wrong? I think we have to abandon all of the brexit and tory metaphors, it's obviously rubbing off on my already threadbare levels of competence.

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