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It's been a long time since I read any Pratchett but I definitely loved them when I was a teen. I think I read up to about Carpe Jugulum, and then there were only about 2 new ones out and I don't think my library/bookshop had them yet or something? Something I've not seen people mention is that the more "standalone" stories like Moving Pictures and Pyramids were also very enjoyable IMO.
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Nuclear Spoon posted:so is this just a regular 3-line whip or is it like Hyper 3-Line Omae Wa Mou Shinderu Whip It means they are expelled from the party and no longer represent it. They keep their seat as an MP though.
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https://twitter.com/AbiWilks/status/1168266470410858497?s=20 Spicy.
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Hmm. https://twitter.com/paulwaugh/status/1168644643116015623?s=20
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Borrovan posted:I got that job I interviewed for Eyyy congrats mate! Sanitary Naptime posted:Seriously mate, we are on the cusp of finally having this country run by bastards veer off the course that hellworld has set for it and you are inexplicably here wailing into the void rather than joining in. This thread has been so patient with you and gave you the recommendations that would help you feel better and you just constantly come back and post this poo poo. Yeah honestly I know I say to ignore people a lot but at this point please ignore AoF. I'm all for being patient with people with MH issues etc. but at this point interacting is just feeding their problems and it causes a 9-page derail every time they post in the thread and it's always exactly the same poo poo. They're not British and have never lived here and whilst I know that's true for some other posters ITT at least they actually contribute meaningfully to the thread rather than just constantly catastrophising. Also, lol: https://twitter.com/AbiWilks/status/1168899655515680768?s=20
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Sep 3, 2019 15:58
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I grew up in Buckingham - lived there for 27 years then moved ~10 miles away for another 6. It's been a very safe Tory seat in the past. It's also a small town (10k) that used to be a quiet market town with cheap houses and has slowly turned into a London commuter town with everything being mega expensive.
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Sep 3, 2019 22:10
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Ratjaculation posted:Can't really call this a brilliant Labour long play superplan This is a common take but like, the government wouldn't be in such shambles without a strong opposition that they're clearly making GBS threads themselves about, and they wouldn't be anywhere near to the situation they've found themselves in unless Corbz destroyed their majority in 2017.
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Sep 4, 2019 03:10
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Hi thread, I'm back home in Canada after visiting the UK for the last 2 weeks. Can confirm the following: London is grim as gently caress. British roads are narrow and terrifying when you've gotten used to big wide North American roads. Roundabouts are still miles better than traffic-light intersections in most cases though. Cheesy chips with curry sauce are good and I miss them (but other sauces/gravy etc. are also good - don't want to start another UKMT civil war here). We actually went to Westminster while we were back, just to have a look at the craic. Was quite interesting, seeing how College Green has been set up to avoid having to show/interact with Brexit protesters (pro and anti). Saw (Whoa-oa) Thangam Debonnaire being interviewed there, then bumped into Bercow on the tube (didn't say anything though - could have justified it though cause I was his constituent for about 10 years). Also we went there the day after the Scum ran their "Jeremy Corbyn is a chicken" thing and there was some Brexit Party twat in Westminster in a chicken-suit singing "Bawk bawk bawk Jeremy Corbyn" to the tune of "Seven Nation Army", plus an actual Sun-branded chicken-suit guy posing for photos with people by College Green. Pathetic, frankly. Ironically while I was back in the UK I haven't been able to keep up with politics or the thread as much. Oh and of course, I brought back some Monster Munch (Pickled Onion, sadly - would rather have had Flamin' Hot but Pickled Onion was what I saw in the shop) and a pack of Cheese & Onion Squares which I'll have when the mood strikes me.
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Sep 18, 2019 15:59
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joedevola posted:Am very much enjoying the Prime Minister's new hobby of shambling around the country to be screamed at by proles. You do, in fact, love to see it. Yeah me too. Was thinking of getting some "Boris Johnson 'gently caress Off Out Of My Town' Tour 2019" T-shirts printed up. quote:Out. Get the gently caress out of the thread, pervert. I'm unsure if I'm being called a pervert for saying that I'd prefer Flamin' Hot or for having bought Pickled Onion. I actually like all 3 flavours of Monster Munch, and even liked the Vanilla Ice Cream and Spaghetti Bolognaise flavours when they were around.
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Sep 18, 2019 17:00
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Are the fascists actually saying "capitalism bad" though because these days it seems more like "capitalism would work just fine if it weren't for all these immigrants".
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Sep 18, 2019 17:42
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Coohoolin posted:Anyone have that facebook post of a guy who used to work for the BBC detailing all the important positions that have been filled with tories over the past years? https://twitter.com/WhatEvil/status/1174328695785426949?s=20
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Just catching up on the PraxisPod from when I was away, very much enjoyed the line that Rory Stewart "looks like a horse in a oval office suit". https://praxiscast.podbean.com
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Sep 19, 2019 18:25
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Rarity posted:Oh for gently caress sake we just had this debate Hmm?
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Sep 19, 2019 18:31
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brian posted:Rory Stewart looks fine too but the way he carries himself when he talks to cameras is of someone who believes they're destined for the job they're in and that nothing will ever change that, a kind of blase indifference. They're also trading off their image heavily, obvious example being Rees-Mogg and Bojo but it's an integral part of the established view of electioneering (as much as it shouldn't be) and so a lot of MPs, especially on the right are politically choosing their style of appearance/body language to appeal to different groups, as evidenced by the tory power stance. OK Yeah so I agree with the general point of "don't make fun of people for their appearances/things they can't change about themselves" (and I actually admonished somebody on twitter yesterday for making fun of Rachel Riley being boss-eyed despite the fact I can't stand the awful turd) BUT I took the podcast "horse in a oval office suit" as being about Rory Stewart's general demeanor i.e. how he acts/speaks to people, rather than his actual physical appearance (similar to how brian has described it in the bolded part above), which is a bit different.
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Sep 19, 2019 19:27
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So as I said I agree on the appearance/people things can't change thing but where do we stand on Rory Stewart (and others)' demeanor and air of superiority being criticisable?
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Sep 19, 2019 20:19
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What was the word May always used to say wrong? It was a similar thing where it was an "ss" sound becoming a soft "sh" or not. It was a multi-syllable word she said all the time.
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Sep 19, 2019 20:22
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Is it OK to say that John Rentoul looks like a vampire, given that he also acts like a complete ghoul?
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Sep 19, 2019 21:50
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Yeah sorry to have brought this stuff up, I'm tired and jetlagged and full of malaise and skipped part of the thread so hadn't seen the previous discussions.
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Sep 19, 2019 22:17
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baka kaba posted:^^^ you need to get supplying the locals with monster munch samples and report back Ah poo poo I didn't think of that. I can actually buy Monster Munch from the local British shop but they're pretty expensive. Next time I'll bring an extra carry-on bag for Monster Munch and Lucozade.
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happyhippy posted:Ok, now for the BIG talk discussion here.
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Sep 19, 2019 22:46
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Comrade Fakename posted:The Mash Report is back and pretty great again. Just skip the BBC mandated bits with Geoff Norcott. Yeah last week's one was good but they had one (piss weak) Corbyn joke and a whole segment with Professional Bellend Geoff Norcott and I can only assume both are because some Right-Wing exec at the Beeb realised that they accidentally had a left-wing TV show on the network.
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Sep 19, 2019 23:58
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I know this isn't UKPol but I figure it's appropriate because he's a thread favourite: Jorbo Pooperson is in rehab for Benzo addiction. https://www.newsweek.com/jordan-peterson-rehab-wife-cancer-scare-1460399?amp=1
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Sep 20, 2019 17:30
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What'll actually happen is there'll be an election at some point soon and THEN all the fuckers will resign from the Labour party and join the LDs or start some other wanky centrist party, regardless of the election result.
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Sep 21, 2019 01:04
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This is my favourite Miwk Gapes vid: https://twitter.com/reel_politcast/status/1097620614347673602?lang=en
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See I feel good about anarchism, I need to do more reading on theory but like instinctively it seems that resisting power structures is the way to go... but doesn't that also leave you massively open to ratfucking by a larger neoliberal country/organisation? Like I guess that's part of why the "socialism in one country" thing is somewhat doomed but then it also makes it that much more unrealistic in that you have to get a worldwide rise of the workers all at once. Also the whole "no power structures" thing means that you have to fundamentally have a populace that's willing to just outright loving kill anybody who tries to set one up because there's no other way of stopping that poo poo, and while I'm fine with that in theory (cause you know, just don't try to take advantage of people and you're good), if somebody actually called upon me to do the killing I don't think I could actually do it. Of course somebody might tell me now why I'm wrong and please do 'cause I'd like to learn more about this stuff.
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I'm not trying to say that socialism is doomed to fail, but anarchism is a few steps beyond other kinds of socialism, no? I mean I guess there are degrees of anarchism. E: Also yeah what Owl said^^
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Sep 22, 2019 15:50
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forkboy84 posted:I really recommend reading Demanding The Impossible. If you're fine with reading PDFs then I know LibCom has it. (Or just DM on Twitter if you want a mobi) You could just skip right to the first chapter on an actual anarchist (Chapter 15 on Godwin) though I think there's interesting stuff on the previous ones covering the developments that lead to anarchism, from Taoism all the way on that justify reading the entire book. Because it's more of a history of the intellectual & practical movements I feel like it breaks down a lot of the theory in ways that are very approachable, and it absolutely changed my politics from statist leftism to much more libertarian left. Cool thanks bud, will check it out.
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https://twitter.com/lalalalalauraaa/status/1175731553613307904?s=20 (That's Tom Harwood)
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Sep 22, 2019 16:27
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It's more likely that one of these blue tickers just googled Rob Zands and this thread came up in the results. I just tried "Dr Robert 'Rob' Zands" (with the quotes) and this thread came up as the 7th or 8th result.
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Sep 23, 2019 06:19
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Jippa posted:It was when they run around the country with the olympic torch (so 2012?) some goon said he was going to disrupt it I think. I can't remember more details than that. SomethingAwful has XKeyScore triggers I believe. There was a big list published ages ago.
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thespaceinvader posted:AFAIK that's not so much a 'those people' thing as a 'original definition of the word' thing, but there's been a lot of Discourse around it recently, much of which seems to have been spawned by terfs trying to make it trans-sexist which is some bullshit. Yeah so I'm bi and I came out to some of my wife's friends at dinner the other day and they're basically the first people I've ever told that other than my wife and a girl I was seeing before her. Feels good. I've told you lot but you're internet people and therefore not real. Also yeah as far as I'm concerned it means "attracted to people of all genders". I'm more attracted to women though, and heavily hetero-romantic as I can only picture myself being in a relationship with a woman. Couldn't really tell you why, just some people who aren't bi might not realise that's a thing. As for the schools thing, I went to a grammar, it was good for me because it was the first time I felt like I was being at all challenged by school. I'm a massive underachiever though so only did "ok" at my GCSEs compared to most of my peers and then hosed it off to go start working at 16 'cause nobody in my family had been to uni and most didn't do A-levels and it was never really impressed upon me as important. I went back a few years later and did a foundation year and a year of a degree before dropping out, continuing my under-achiever streak. Also weirdly for a grammar it mostly wasn't full of poshos. There were a few for sure but they were sort of their own clique for the most part (though actually many of those who had wealthier parents were surprisingly human and decent people), and most of everybody else was sound. I guess all the real poshos got sent off to private school - I grew up in Buckingham which is near Stowe (£36k/year). To be fair I hung around with a few kids from Stowe for a bit and they were sound enough too (but some of their mates were right twats) - I think this was probably a self-selecting thing because the guys I knew I met from being "bike lads" tearing around the place on our bikes at some of the local spots, and I think it's a somewhat universal thing that "bike lads" are sound. Anyway my view is abolish private schools and at least the existing structure of grammar schools too. It's tricky for me with the grammar thing because my wife grew up in an area where grammar schools weren't a thing and said she'd have loved to have had the chance to go to one because she went to a really lovely comprehensive and got badly bullied for being a "nerd" and stuff, because she actually wanted to learn. She got into Cambridge by working her arse off anyway (her parents are a postie and a teaching assistant so no familial wealth there) - again the friends she made there are sound but there's definitely more of a slant to the middle class - one is the child of two doctors, for example - again he's a really lovely guy and somehow not a Tory but still. Part of this is solved by just making all schools better but it could still be a beneficial thing to split kids who actually want to learn off from those who can't be bothered IMO (but not separating by wealth) - this is not a strongly held belief and I am willing to be convinced that this is a bad idea. E: Yeah I guess I'm "Pansexual", which means I'm attracted to half-man half-goat gods of the wild. WhatEvil fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Sep 23, 2019 |
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Oh what I originally came here to post before getting distracted was this: https://twitter.com/docrussjackson/status/1176180112909328384?s=20 Laura K just outright lying about how things went down at conference, with a video showing how things actually went. Mindblowing.
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Sep 23, 2019 18:41
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You know, I'm a remainer, I voted remain and I wish the vote had never happened in the first place, but if Labour get the deal I think they can, I'm gonna be sorely loving tempted to vote for it over remain, partially because I think it's the only way to heal some of the divisions we've been seeing between leavers and the rest of us, and partly because I loving hate Fubpee-brainworm-Remain-At-All-Cost-ers.
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notaspy posted:Referendums are fine as long as they are "we want to move from a to explicitly well defined b". They are awful when you say "lets from from an A to an undefined B that is everything you've ever wanted (but won't)". Yeah referenda are fine if it's something like the recent abortion thing in Ireland: "Here is how things currently are with this clearly defined single issue, should we replace the current legislation [x] with this other already completely written and finalised, clear and simple legislation [y], Yes/No?". Or even "Here's how things are at the moment with this trade deal, should we negotiate a change to this trade deal and then have a second vote after negotiations to confirm if we want to go ahead and make the change, Yes/No?". But "Hey guys do you want to do this very very vaguely defined thing which has the potentially to royally gently caress everything and kill a load of people Yes/No?" is bad.
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sebzilla posted:Gone already, what was it? Mike Gapes "correcting" Diane Abbott (but getting it wrong, she had it right).
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Sep 23, 2019 23:13
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Noxville posted:Lmao WhatEvil is the quoted Tweet in this article about Mike Gapes trying correct Diane Abbott so congrats on being indirectly retweeted by her loving lol I wondered why I was getting so many likes/retweets.
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Sep 24, 2019 15:06
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Rarity posted:All reporting is currently focused on Untitled Goose Game. There are no other video games until it has been fully mined for memes. Is there a way to play this on PC yet or is it mobile only for now?
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Sep 24, 2019 17:25
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mehall posted:Pretty sure it's on the Epic store Ah yeah you're right. https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/untitled-goose-game/home
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Sep 24, 2019 17:29
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Tarnop posted:Very much the same, and at several points mid-speech too. Yeah same. Wasn't expecting it but the Red Flag got me slightly emotional. Good poo poo. They're the only ones offering any actual hope. I know I'm not in the UK anymore but I still feel very passionately about the state of the UK and more socialism is good internationally too.
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Ms Adequate posted:I was wondering if we could do that as well, doesn't seem to be a reason we can't Nah that's literally what tariffs are for - to protect industry from foreign, subsidised versions. Like I think Canada subsidises its dairy industry and the US whack import tarriffs on any dairy being imported to make it fair for American farmers. I might have that the wrong way round 'cause I'm just going by memory but yeah, principle applies.
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