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LOL - one of the dirtiest men in British politics says:quote:Lord Mandelson: I feel dirty staying in the Labour Party https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/lord-mandelson-i-feel-dirty-staying-in-the-labour-party-1.486914 quote:Lord Mandelson has said he feels “dirty” staying in a Labour Party in which “no effective action” is being taken against people holding antisemitic views.
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Julio Cruz posted:I was just feeding him and started wondering about keeping open tins of cat food in the fridge If you don't keep it in the fridge in this hot weather, you might find some extra live meaty chunks in the can 
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forkboy84 posted:To be fair, I just call that incompetence but I suppose technically it's deeply cynical politicking. One could, if you were incredibly sceptical of the honest intentions of politicians, imagine it's done deliberately to make the public lose faith in public works projects. I've always understood (since a job I had in the construction industry in the 80s) that it is normal practice to woefully underestimate the cost of major projects precisely because if the true cost were known nothing would ever get approved.
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Vile scumbag Alan Sugar: I've reported this tweet for being offensive (read the comments under it to understand why) Ed: This is the only tweet I have ever reported. https://twitter.com/Lord_Sugar/status/1156897022265430018 Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Aug 2, 2019 |
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Catte tax: Gato Resistance” - Puerto Rico 7/2019 
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OwlFancier posted:I would like to see labour co-opt the actual good bits of the greens but I dunno entirely how amenable the whole party would be given that it's arguably more than a little high tory in the "wants to live in a green village forever (by keeping all the paups out)" fashion. My mother's Green and I think she's fairly typical of Greens round here. She'll go tory rather than labour. She has never voted labour in her life. I rather suspect she has voted tory on a number of occasions and lib dem a couple of times. She felt sorry for Theresa May and admires 'strong women' (as in Thatcher). She did get somewhat sparkly eyed seeing Emily Thornberry in action at PMQs one time and as I was round hers at the time, asked me who she was.
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Aug 2, 2019 23:42
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ThomasPaine posted:I'm probably being super racist but I've always wondered about this because as far as I can see she's... not black? Her mother is African American. https://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/2019072075521/meghan-markle-parents-mother-father-details-update/
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Aug 3, 2019 16:52
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WhatEvil posted:It's kind of an interesting thing because in some BAME communities there is a hierarchy of 'blackness' where (depending on the community/culture/class etc.) being light or dark skinned is seen as being more desirable. One of the most shocking things I found in the Middle East is the prevalence of tv adverts for skin bleach "Fair and Lovely" with adverts suggesting that in order to get the good jobs and handsome guys you need to use it. Ironically, it is a Unilever product as is the Dove 'natural beauty' brand. I'm given to understand it is also heavily pushed in India, Pakistan and other eastern countries. A Nigerian friend I used to share a flat with told me that dumping yourself in a bleach bath to lighten skin was common in Nigeria when she was young.
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Aug 3, 2019 17:15
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forkboy84 posted:To can read some incredibly dry history books but political theory just is more of a struggle but I did find Kropotkin's Conquest of Bread both short and simple to understand. This one is online. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-the-conquest-of-bread
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Aug 3, 2019 23:17
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XMNN posted:I've been reading a lot less than I'd like since I started walking so much but I just got the Sherlock Holmes audio book read by history's greatest monster and it's pretty good There was a lot of casual, unconscious racism in books written around that time. Early Agatha Christie novels written in the 1920s also have a casual acceptance of white British superiority evident in the dialogue and some dialogue that is unacceptable these days (especially around descriptions of Jewish people and use of the word 'dago' which also crops up quite frequently.). This is an interesting article: https://africasacountry.com/2014/03/whitehistorymonth-sherlock-holmes-a-racist Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Aug 4, 2019 |
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Aug 4, 2019 01:41
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Vaguely related to Tory student chat: when I were a lass extremely many moons ago (500+), they always had these documentaries on TV about students applying to uni (back in the glory days of grants where students were encouraged to live away from home) and without fail there was always a scene with a selection panel interviewing that rare item, a Tory supporter school student. The comments from selection panels were always along the lines of how thoughtful and mature such a student was compared to those of us going on Anti-apartheid and Rock Against Racism demos. (So much for academia being a hot bed of radicalism) and these students always got offered places with lower grade offers than others.
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Aug 4, 2019 14:03
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Long but worth a read. Survey of different countries' media views on the UK following the brexit fiasco. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/04/how-does-the-rest-of-the-world-currently-view-the-uk-brexit-boris-johnson
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Jose posted:Very interesting article for all the smelly goons itt who don't wash Hm. Well my experience of people who don't wash is that they stink and just think they don't because they got used to their smell. I had to tell someone in our open plan office once that he needed to take care of personal hygiene (I was quite senior) as he was stinking the place out - I didn't put it as bluntly as that - and others in the office were leaving cans of deodorant on his desk every day as a big hint (which he never got! What his thought processes around people putting deodorant on his desk were, I cannot imagine!) My dad was from an era when real men didn't use smellies and 'soap and water is good enough' and no it wasn't. Renaissance Robot posted:Gonna go ahead and interpret "I don't smell" as "I stink so bad my nose stopped working and people around me are too polite to mention it" Exactly. GordonTheDeadFish posted:Feeling quite poo poo about life at the moment, folks. Recently lost my little brother to a motorbike accident, and even at this bleak time my wretched family can't shut the gently caress up about their awful politics. My mum's partner is peak gammon and has a petulant need to immediately use any lovely slurs he's been asked not to. Even at the wake, my grandad decided to hold forth about how Island Britain has survived before, so no-deal Brexit is fine, really. Very sorry about your brother. Labour party meetings can be very turgid so unless someone knows different, might not be best place to go in your current mood. They might have some socials on though maybe a summer BBQ or similar or stalls you could help out at if you can face the public! (I knew we're always scraping around for people willing to stand in the main shopping thoroughfare for an hour or so on a Saturday morning!)
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Absolutely nothing to indicate that the perpetrator was anything to do with the Labour party, yet they manage to make it sound like the Labour party are running death camps. Getting sick of this. Especially as they haven't opened comments under this article (which is rare for the Independent). https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/antisemitic-jews-dirty-st-albans-police-video-assault-labour-jeremy-corbyn-a9040191.html Found the twitter feed. More than a few calling him out on smearing labour in this. https://twitter.com/tswyatt/status/1158475056361680896 Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Aug 6, 2019 |
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HopperUK posted:Ugh loving hell I hate to see this poo poo in my city. Some oval office spat on a homeless guy when I was there a couple of weeks ago. People being vile to each other has increased exponentially since the EU referendum unleashed hell upon the nation.
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radmonger posted:Except that I don’t believe Labour have actually stated they would campaign against their own deal, only against a Tory one, right? Yes that's what they have said. Reporters just deliberately muddle it to confuse the populace.
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Aug 6, 2019 15:16
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Email sent to all LP members by Corbyn on 9th July this year: (my bolds/underlines) - obviously I have changed my name to protect the innocent-ish. quote:Dear Jaeluni
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Aug 6, 2019 15:41
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notaspy posted:I'm a labour member and I never get those emails. Our CLP secretary who uses the new Organise system to send out emails (which is supposed to be GDPR compliant) told me that there is an issue with some members not receiving emails via that system. He has been trying to find out why. Suggest you "contact labourmembership@labour.org.uk or call us on 0345 092 2299 (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm)." I have seen some of the inner workings of the system and there seems to be a range of tick boxes for whether people want to receive texts, emails or phone calls but one of the people who is NOT receiving the emails has them all ticked. I think some ISPs have 'aggressive' spam filters and maybe Labour organise mails are falling foul of that. Our sec'y did say there had been a bit issue with one of them ISPs (can't remember which) which Labour HQ had had to sort out. Ed: two of the people I know aren't getting them in our CLP aren't jewish so there's that theory blown :P
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/brexitparty_uk/status/1158377052342562819?s=19 Good comment under: https://twitter.com/rodmckie/status/1158521333506027520
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Sulphagnist posted:STEM graduates, particularly engineers, are much more likely to become right-wing extremists, fundamentalists and terrorists than liberal art, social sciences and humanities graduates. Something about seeing human society as a machine or a mechanism with rules, causes and effects instead of the chaotic mess it actually is. Or possibly it's reversed and having a tendency to view things as mechanical is what puts you on both the engineering and terrorism paths. Shoves PhD in STEM subject behind back of sofa....
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Jose posted:The new York times has really outdone itself https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/aug/06/new-york-times-front-page-headline-changed The New York Times was forced to change its front-page headline for Tuesday’s newspaper amid an intense backlash over its portrayal of Donald Trump’s statement on the twin mass shootings that left 31 people dead. https://twitter.com/TomJolly/status/1158561438602027009
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8chan chat: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-texas-shooting-website-idUSKCN1UW1JF quote:Founder of site linked to mass shootings says he created 'a monster'
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This is exactly my suspicion. I was suspicious when more didn't leave with the TIGs. They want the energy of local party members to get them reelected and then do the dirty. This is why it is essential re-selections happen now. Ed: yes I see this tweet is a year old. But nonetheless I remain very suspicious. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Aug 7, 2019 |
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Paul.Power posted:
Late to the Mae Hhen Wlad Fy Nhadau party: I learned it in primary school in the Valleys in the 1960s. All I can remember though is that bit, this bit "enwogion o fri " and this bit "Gwlad, Gwlad, pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad,". We also learned Ar Hyd a Nos. And thanks to whoever recommended these Cities Skylines videos on youtube (sometime this year, can't remember exactly when). I'm finally watching my 'Watch later' collection on youtube since I realized I can watch them on TV when I'm having 'no computer' days. The two I watched yesterday are these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQzfa4iXxZ4 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rseaKBPkRPU
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It has, admittedly, been 18 years since I was in comprehensive school and 23 years since I was in primary. Which is a depressing thought!
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Klepsie posted:All right, all right, it's taken over 15 years of Camrath nagging me but drops of water wear away a stone. Here I am. I am his friend who's been having issues with the mental health system. There have been some developments (also a few of Cam's original details are, innocently, a bit inaccurate). If there is interest, I can expand. Welcome to the forum. I've been here just over a year. It's a good place. Sorry about your experience with your therapist and hope your developments are good. I'm interested in the developments if you are ok posting them (which you might have done already, I'm catching up after 2 days offline).
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Also smh. Having had a 'heated discussion' with a friend a few weeks ago who told me that nazism was socialism because they had 'socialist' in the name and when I challenged her said what do I know, she has a GCSE in History from over 25 years ago. And that, dear reader, is when her reading of history stopped.
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StarkingBarfish posted:People who think this aren't either hiking or drinking themselves to exhaustion enough to appreciate just passing the gently caress out under the stars. Or the sound of rain on a tarp, or the sound of whatever that animal was rooting through your backpack at 3am. Party Boat posted:We camped near Kielder observatory a couple of years back for the height of the Perseids. Got a really clear night for it and saw loads of meteors as well as satellites whizzing past. Unfortunately our small elderly dog hated that we'd dragged her out camping and got revenge by being sick on the air bed. Camping in the White Desert (Western Egypt) we had little fennec foxes rooting through our stuff. We saw so many meteors too - hundreds of miles from anywhere except a couple of small oasis towns. Even out there though we were able to get a mobile phone signal - not strong, just enough to text people to say we were ok or make short, factual calls.
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OwlFancier posted:Didn't they do the rounds in his constituency after he won the leadership and he was really popular there? Not only that, but he is a very good constituency MP. Persistant, dogged, determined... in one of my working capacities I (or rather my boss) was on the receiving end of Corbyn doing his 'dog with a bone' stuff! He was on the case constantly. To say more would be to doxx myself.
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Suitable news item for this thread. No beans were harmed in this making of this news item. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/ian-watkins-lostprophets-phone-prison-16727554 quote:
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bump_fn posted:lmao wtf is number 11 Chancellor of the Exchequer's place. Minister for the Poonds. Ed: beaten by several others.
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Klepsie posted:Catching up too. Oddly enough yesterday's events stole pretty much every spoon in the cutlery drawer. But if I don't bring things up to date now I never shall (and will probably never even post again) SO. Thanks for sharing. I do understand your 'gaslight' attitude, I have an overdeveloped 'control freak' detector for similar reasons. Worldcon? Were you at Ytterbium per chance? I did think about Dublin but am rather skint at the moment.
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Julio Cruz posted:being that Epstein was (allegedly) a purveyor of underage girls to the world's elite there are quite literally hundreds of people who would rather see him dead than alive and testifying Hadn't really read much about him only headlines before but just done a bit more reading here: https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a28352055/jeffrey-epstein-criminal-case-facts/ quote:Epstein himself apparently had several scientific theories, including eugenics. The New York Times has uncovered that one ambition he discussed was to impregnate multiple women, thereby spreading his DNA. One account claimed his plan was for 20 women to bear his children, and that his ranch in New Mexico would be a base for this operation. This may have been part of his interest in transhumanism, the study of how to improve the human population through technologies like genetic engineering and artificial intelligence. Don't know how reliable this source is though.
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Black metal cat says Hail Satan  More pix of this devil worshipping cat here: https://www.purrworld.com/this-cat-keeps-putting-its-paws-in-the-air-and-nobody-knows-why/
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Comrade Fakename posted:The arrogance of minting coins to celebrate something they know full well half the country doesn’t want to happen is infuriating. Wasn't there some grand plan for national street parties too? 
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OwlFancier posted:East of lake poo poo? Cheese and onion cakes  ed: my favourite cheese is gjetost - caramelized goat cheese, lovely with a good, seeded / multigrain bread.  Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 12:13 on Aug 11, 2019 |
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Classical music chat: You're reminding me of a boyfriend I once had. He was always trying to impress me (god knows why because he was entirely gorgeous and I just liked looking at him but I digress). He was plucking out a tune on his guitar which he said he was composing for me. Then he said "Of course, I was classically trained." Now, I'm from one of those 'impoverished intellectual' backgrounds where we were all forced to do violin and piano lessons as kids. (I enjoyed piano and loathed violin). So instead of being suitably impressed, my youthful, ignorant, response was "isn't everyone?" (At that time in my young, innocent life I had never come across people who hadn't been forced through this process). Oh dear. Tsietisin posted:I would join you but the wife's father has had a heart attack so we are with him at hospital. Hopefully be there for the next one. Sorry to hear this, I hope he will be ok.
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Junior G-man posted:Offa's Dyke trip report, day one: Not far from me - it piled it down today. I managed to get to the shops and buy some snacks in between rain storms. My mum's house is 100 yards from Offa's Dyke (on the England side). AceOfFlames posted:Is there any exercise routine that is like the equivalent of what you would give to a person recovering from a decades long coma? Depending how comatose: I endeavour to walk a couple of miles every day (and quite often do 6 miles). Anyway, today I decided to start mixing in a little running - and I mean a little. I used to enjoy running until my knee decided to complain (old injury). I thought today about mixing in a bit of scout's pace: there's a bit of my routine walk that is a 5 min stretch of straight path so I did a 10 paces on/off scout's pace for that. I think I'll do that for a week and see if my knee complains and if it doesn't, I'll add a second 5 min stretch (I have a convenient park nearby with straight sides approx 5 mins each). Etc. It's all bodyweight and no gym. And as long as you have decent trainers on, no need for any special clothes. Page Snipe: '83 is an upcoming Indian Hindi-language sports drama film, Catte taxe: I know I've shared this link before, but no harm doing it again: this sanctuary in Gloucestershire looks after a number of cats with various disabilities. They're not a charity and rely on donations (they also have an Amazon wishlist https://www.amazon.co.uk/registry/wishlist/2V1KHLYQY0Z8M). http://www.complicatedcats.com/home.html quote:This is the website for our small independent cat sanctuary. We care for a mix of felines. Some with special needs and some that just couldn't cope in regular homes.  Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 20:04 on Aug 11, 2019 |
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Ms Adequate posted:I bought some food for the cattes Thanks  I follow them on facebook and buy their calendar every year.
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£v $ went down to 1.20182 this evening for a short while, lower than the previous post EU referendum rate which was 1.20390 of 16th Jan 2017. Late 1984/85 it got lower than this because the dollar was very strong. Now, the dollar isn't that strong and the £ is very weak. Euro briefly went down to 1.06439 this evening just before far east markets opened and that is the lowest for at least 10 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gACCCmFKP80
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