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Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
Glorious free market news, Capita has continued to poo poo the bed the day after the crash, falling through the floor at 190 set by yesterday's trading:


For investors to make anything back on the face price now, they'd have to have bought in at *looks*


This is (only, and even then just marginally) good for Blair's early investors?

In conclusion PFI bad Capita bad.

e: 2 is the market price of Capita shares by the end of week's trading.

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dispatch_async
Nov 28, 2014

Imagine having the time to have played through 20 generations of one family in The Sims 2. Imagine making the original two members of that family Neil Buchanan and Cat Deeley. Imagine complaining to Maxis there was no technological progression. You've successfully imagined my life
New Ware wine bar 'would lead to more graveyard sex', residents warn

quote:

One resident — who lives nearby the building — told the council about her experience with anti-social behaviour caused by customers at existing venues in the area, including Jacoby’s, The Lodge and Punch House.

She said: “In the graveyard I’ve seen people having sex, we’ve had people weeing in our doorway, we’ve seen ladies in the alleyway opposite squat weeing, falling over and rolling in their wee — and that’s just with the current bars that are there.

“If more are introduced, especially an establishment so big that could cater for so many more customers, we are really concerned that that will adversely impact what is happening outside.”

The resident, who wished to remain anonymous, told the Mercury that she estimated around 30 nearby flats — many of which were listed and therefore had limited scope for sound-proofing — and 60 residents could be impacted by the plans.

Problems in the graveyard have been ongoing for years, she said and the potential for worse behaviour as a result of the wine bar ”is just not even worth thinking about”.

TomViolence
Feb 19, 2013

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

Seeing the phrase "graveyard sex" pop up and finding it has little or nothing to do with our ruling class's predilections for once was quite the surprise there.

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.
UKMT Feb 18: squat weeing, falling over and rolling in their wee

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

TomViolence posted:

Seeing the phrase "graveyard sex" pop up and finding it has little or nothing to do with our ruling class's predilections for once was quite the surprise there.
I don't know, along with "weeing, falling over and rolling in their wee" I think it might be a Tory bar.

Aramoro
Jun 1, 2012




JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

squat weeing, falling over and rolling in their wee

I mean, it's a perfect Brexit metaphor.

BobbyThompson
Mar 23, 2001

TomViolence posted:

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.

This thread has nothing to lose but it's chains.

However, be aware that you may have to apologise to the community for your poorly thought and insensitive branding.

Comrade.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHTxzn4YL6o

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~
Oh god we went almost a day without a UKMT. I was worried the country would implode and I've have nowhere to make sarcastic comments while the looters tore my legs off :ohdear:

Doccykins
Feb 21, 2006
How has this thread made it to page 2 without mention of the Matt Hancock app

https://twitter.com/MattHancock/status/958988393748357121

https://twitter.com/PrivacyMatters/status/959016936494522369

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Look mate the DPA is complicated and I can't be arsed with that just download my app so I can GAYOL (gurn at you on line)

Pound_Coin
Feb 5, 2004
£


Lack of Marxism thread tag, a shameful buisiness

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~

Pound_Coin posted:

Lack of Marxism thread tag, a shameful buisiness

We're giving up on these dangerous policies for a radical centrist approach. The truth really is in the middle!

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

Is that app Grindr cos all I see on it is a thick cock.

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~
Immigration is... Good? :psyduck:

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

They don't give a gently caress if immigration improves their lives, they just hate foreigners.

Arguing that immigration is in fact good for the economy etc just gives credibility to their arguments. We should be arguing that boarders are loving abhorrent ways of protecting wealthy countries that rob the poorer countries.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

What happened yesterday anyway as regards getting that out in the open?

Pistol_Pete
Sep 15, 2007

Oven Wrangler
At a Labour meeting rn. Ask me anything :downs:

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/959131838219542530

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:

Gonzo McFee posted:

They don't give a gently caress if immigration improves their lives, they just hate foreigners.

Arguing that immigration is in fact good for the economy etc just gives credibility to their arguments. We should be arguing that boarders are loving abhorrent ways of protecting wealthy countries that rob the poorer countries.
Not arguing this specifically, just want to point out that "good for the economy" isn't the same as "good for the population". Conflating the two has been used to justify a whole lot of policies, on the basis that the average is what matters, even if the average rising comes from one person gaining a little more wealth than the sum of a whole lot of people getting poorer.

ThomasPaine
Feb 4, 2009

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.
I have to go to Southampton for work at some point over the next month and I'll be there on my todd for 3/4 nights. Anyone know of any fun poo poo to do there to avoid the cabin fever?

Miftan
Mar 31, 2012

Terry knows what he can do with his bloody chocolate orange...


Crazy Communist McDonnell is my favourite.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

Gonzo McFee posted:

They don't give a gently caress if immigration improves their lives, they just hate foreigners.

Arguing that immigration is in fact good for the economy etc just gives credibility to their arguments. We should be arguing that boarders are loving abhorrent ways of protecting wealthy countries that rob the poorer countries.
Plus the economic benefit of migration is largely in the form of labor value extracted into the pockets of the rentier class.

Taxing a percentage of that (if it gets paid) and handing an artificially constricted percentage of that in turn down while the press blame said immigrants constantly for the failings of false austerity is not going to win many followers to the idea.

Also as above.

haakman
May 5, 2011
Btw for Josef Bugman, I'd also recommend Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers by Lechte - it'll give you an overview of some key ideas since 1945 and might point you the way you want.

bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them

jabby
Oct 27, 2010

Miftan posted:

Crazy Communist McDonnell is my favourite.

McDonnell continues to be an amazing choice for chancellor, given that he absolutely will just take stuff for the state and tell the previous owners to gently caress off.

bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them

mcdonnell owns so much

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

Every single one of these pieces is exactly the loving same. "New Labour did good things! What about tax credits and extra funds for the NHS? Also here's my next article about how it's time to privatise the NHS and how we have to embrace the destruction of the welfare state. "

Everything they bring up in defence of New Labour are the things they react to as if Stalin had risen from the grave when Ed Miliband proposed them. What they really want to write is "Yeah PFI has been a colossal failure that's cost us massively, but my mate Reginald made a killing out of it so it's impossible to say if it's bad or good."

feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

Miftan posted:

Crazy Communist McDonnell is my favourite.

Holy poo poo, a proposal to solve the housing crisis by having the State build more houses since apparently private industry is fine with not doing that. Finally.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
*in extremely neoliberal voice* But who makes money out of it?

Josef bugman
Nov 17, 2011

Pictured: Poster prepares to celebrate Holy Communion (probablY)

This avatar made possible by a gift from the Religionthread Posters Relief Fund

haakman posted:

Btw for Josef Bugman, I'd also recommend Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers by Lechte - it'll give you an overview of some key ideas since 1945 and might point you the way you want.

Thank you!

Been checking out some of the other recommendations from back in the other thread and will keep looking into it!

Miftan
Mar 31, 2012

Terry knows what he can do with his bloody chocolate orange...

Old McDonald had a farm, but then McDonnell confiscated it and built council houses to help combat homelessness. Now old McDonnell has the farm :unsmigghh:

Pesky Splinter
Feb 16, 2011

A worried pug.

The article in question.

quote:

No one should forget the catastrophic mess that was the Iraq war, which will always be a stain on Blair’s legacy. But to remember him simply for that and forget, for example, the humanitarian intervention in Kosovo is absurd. It shouldn’t become an excuse to write Blair off as some sort of neoliberal puppet.

Oh, right. That absolves him them. Oh, wait, no it loving doesn't.

quote:

The cuts to public services and welfare that we angrily criticise the Tories for today are usually cuts to New Labour’s achievements, to their legacy. Arguments could be made that New Labour did not challenge Margaret Thatcher’s economic consensus, but then no government is without its mistakes.

It ends on a literal "Well, at least they're not as bad as the Tories" argument.

There's so much wrong with that article. Holy poo poo.



This on the other hand


Pistol_Pete posted:

At a Labour meeting rn. Ask me anything :downs:

When will Jeremy push the button? <:reject:>

bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them
blairites running scared fuels my cold heart

feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

So, we're balloting to select our next prospective parliamentary candidate for Loughborough on Saturday. The Momentum candidate is a guy called Sachin Patel; there are four other candidates, two definitely Not Correct, one who sounds a decent lefty, and a woman who barely shows up on Google but joined the party in 2008. Loughborough's a Tory marginal and a bellwether seat, so it matters who we pick. Anyone local got any insider knowledge or opinions here? since otherwise I'll probably vote for Sachin, he seems a decent chap.

jabby
Oct 27, 2010

feedmegin posted:

So, we're balloting to select our next prospective parliamentary candidate for Loughborough on Saturday. The Momentum candidate is a guy called Sachin Patel; there are four other candidates, two definitely Not Correct, one who sounds a decent lefty, and a woman who barely shows up on Google but joined the party in 2008. Loughborough's a Tory marginal and a bellwether seat, so it matters who we pick. Anyone local got any insider knowledge or opinions here? since otherwise I'll probably vote for Sachin, he seems a decent chap.

If in doubt/can't be arsed to do research just vote the Momentum slate. They haven't been doing that well in the selection contests, and the last thing we need is a Corbyn government unable to pass anything because his own backbenchers are neoliberal pricks.

UnlimitedSpessmans
Jul 31, 2015
https://twitter.com/Paul_Gascoigne8/status/958986853465673729

gazza is too good for this hosed up world imo.

Not Operator
Jan 1, 2009

Not A doctor, THE Doctor!
Did he majorly sober up? He was a notoriously abusive prick for a long time.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

If this whole corbyn thing falls through I wouldn't mind making Gazza and Big Nev into consuls.

bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them

OwlFancier posted:

If this whole corbyn thing falls through

:getout:

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OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Definite second choice mind, would rather jam socialism than football dictatorship.

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