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Mebh posted:To go back to Discworld chat. As a lad I read Colour of Magic, Light fantastic, Mort, Pyramids and Equal Rites but never any more. I think I got sucked into the endlessly terrible star wars extended universe and it all gets a bit fuzzy after that. start the watch series, you want Guards Guards. reading in publishing order is for suckers.
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carrots magic charisma solves like four books in a row, vimes was never the problem
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Mebh posted:So uh. Was the scumm engine discworld point and click based off elements of "Guards! Guards!"? Because this is kind of uncanny. yes, actually! i believe it was the model/inspiration for that game.
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OwlFancier posted:Wait did they actually not gently caress it??? playoff beard rules state you now must sleep through every important vote in parliament. FizFashizzle posted:i was randomly watching parliament stuff and corbyn straight up called may's vote it always feels like someone is finally going to notice the graveyard of ruined political ambition that corbyn seems to mysteriously leave in his wake and treat him like a savvy operator and no one ever loving does. everyone buys the paper's hype and gets blindsided by competency, over and over and over.
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Sep 4, 2019 01:28
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UnlimitedSpessmans posted:He's probably gona win his seat as an independent lol I’m astonished he’s still kicked out
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sean10mm posted:Unlike in the USA, its conservatives will relentlessly ratfuck each other, which is at least entertaining. we have sat through a LOT of the tories bending over backwards to prevent so called blue on blue (blue as in the tory color) - pigfucker refused negative campaigning during the brexit referendum for that reason. this public ratfucking started super late in may's tenure and has only gotten worse, it's great.
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Sep 5, 2019 12:08
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the "we never take our seats" party may be taking their seats! update: they didn't
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also while it's a fun propoganda exercise to say boris's majority is negative forty odd, the tories he kicked out will vote with him for the foreseeable on the extremely solid basis they'll be let back in next regime change or sooner. and even if they aren't getting let back in they still don't want an election.
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Sep 6, 2019 13:20
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:did i miss something possibly? they are currently faux-conservatives - they have an incentive to keep voting with the party to remain popular with their parliamentary colleagues, which is their base of support. the second there's an election this ambiguity goes away and they are definitely Not Conservatives, and they'll likely have a hell of a struggle to keep their seats anyway.
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Sep 6, 2019 13:46
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i also think it was a calculated thing - if you needed to both mass purge your party and have an election you want to do it in that order and ideally as close together as is practically possible. finding a candidate at the last minute sucks but boy howdy does needing to arrange independent financing for an election suck more. big, swingy and stupid - can't clear parliament? fire a bunch of them against your own interest and tell them to bring it on. strongman 101.
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Sep 6, 2019 14:03
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Junior G-man posted:But ... WHY is this being delivered to the House of Commons? A place where nobody will change their mind and probably won't even find this poo poo funny. What a waste of time and effort. "some journalist will take a picture and put it on twitter and then it will go viral! social media manager is so a real job,"
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bessantj posted:
when you brexit but he still leaving
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The_Doctor posted:So is that it? Brexit now held off till Jan 31st? boris needs to actually ask for the extension, and the eu has to give it.
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Sep 6, 2019 16:31
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:There's like three Taco Bells in Britain and one of the them is (was?) in the Manchester Arndale food court. Unfortunately they don't serve the insane sorts of things you get from American Taco Bells which are IMO the entire reason to eat at a Taco Bell and not at a hole-in-the-wall Mexican food place run by undocumented immigrants. it's adorable - in the north they pronounce "jalapeno" like "jalopy" - i seriously thought someone was loving with me the first time i heard it.
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marktheando posted:I thought Tim Horton was a Canadian thing. it was, i want to say it got bought out by an american company? tims doesn't penetrate far into dunkin territory in the northern US anyway.
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Sep 6, 2019 17:37
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Sloth Life posted:I know I'm a lurker and don't have any right to make demands, nevertheless AOF is not going to be swayed by anyone outside of themselves. It's pointless and just feeds into their worldview. they don't even live here, i honestly think they're just attracted to the thread that's currently most catastrophizing, i'm not sure why AoF hung about. not that i'm complaining mind, none of our brains work right.
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Sep 7, 2019 15:17
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Ms Adequate posted:Owen Jones rting reports that John Mann's jumped ship to sabotage Labour in the runup to the election: yeah that dude jumping before he's pushed.
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Sep 7, 2019 20:20
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now that's interesting - i don't think farage wants any of this poo poo, he wants to be able to say he's tried and more unlimited meal ticket. i don't think this is enough to hold labour back.
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Sep 7, 2019 21:42
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it's come up a few times - i mean the problem is it's like running a poll with the question "if corbyn gets in and immediately sells the NHS to american healthcare interests, how would you vote?". right now the johnson administration has hitched it's entire wagon to that date, it might shift come closer if they manage to play it right,
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Sep 7, 2019 22:09
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suck my woke dick posted:the point of lockpicking isn't getting through doors you can't destroy (there are very few doors you can't destroy), it's to get through doors without making enough noise to attract witnesses or leaving a conspicuous pile of door debris you could probably get away with one hammer swing under the guise of pretending to knock if you were canny
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Sep 8, 2019 20:03
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Ms Fuchi posted:Would the LibDems really go into a coalition with the Tories? It seems like a weird look to join a coalition with the people you just rebelled against going into coalition with the tories is their entire raison d'être
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Sep 9, 2019 08:34
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Barry Foster posted:Is GHB/GBL more addictive than alcohol? I've always understood it to be something like a fairly plausible GABAergic replacement for booze. So long as you're very careful with dosage and use it responsibly. it is waaaaay more euphoric and short lasting than booze, users call it liquid e for a reason.
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Sep 9, 2019 08:39
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OwlFancier posted:Right side of the house looking a lot fuller than the left. twas ever thus
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Sep 9, 2019 19:27
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tower's gonna be pretty full up at this rate
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Sep 9, 2019 19:35
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Gasmask posted:She’s alright. Thread doesn’t like her because she criticises the dear leader. lmao
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Sep 10, 2019 19:59
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gwarsh! it's my first day of uk politics, having been born yesterday, and boy howdy do i think this "jess phillips" is a firecracker.
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gee it's harder to do my insightful political analysis since that donkey kicked me in the head all those times. basically all i can do is poo poo myself, as demonstrated by my posting - but never mind that, here's why jess phillips is great 1) she makes the good words. working class? tea and builders. b) lefty loons!
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Sep 10, 2019 20:06
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Gasmask posted:haha calm down haha make a single good post
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Sep 10, 2019 20:12
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Gasmask posted:you seem really cross about jess phillips, mate you seem really bad at posting, bud!
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Gasmask posted:'seem'??? you seem to be struggling to construct a joke, may I suggest asking your parents for advice?
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Sep 10, 2019 20:25
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Gasmask posted:ok you guys have convinced me what did it? a particularly well jangled set of keys?
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Gasmask posted:no it was your wit and charm mainly well, thank you! i work very hard on my great posts and it's nice to be appreciated. i don't think people say it enough, you know? Failed Imagineer posted:This is embarrassing lads, please just look at Amy Adams and shut up absolument pas
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Sep 10, 2019 20:54
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the Lindsey Elliot hobbit eps are some of my personal faves
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happyhippy posted:Why? I thought they were brilliant. Steve2911 posted:Yeah anyone with a passing interest should watch them, if just for the examination on how badly Peter Jackson hosed New Zealand's film industry workers over. hell yeah I haven’t watched her entire back catalog - I think she used to be the nostalgia chick? but the hobbit vids are where she gets the most political. good stuff.
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Tsaedje posted:Meanwhile No 10 has rejected the idea of an electoral pact with Farage, which is nice of them. Pretty much guarantees they'll be eaten from both sides when the election comes.
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Rarity posted:August thread, innit I’m the greatest, I think?
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Sep 11, 2019 17:29
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Rarity posted:This is a Guardian-level misrepresentation of facts 
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Sep 11, 2019 18:25
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Guavanaut posted:I always thought the joke was that it was just a rock. nah, this comes up in the fifth elephant, it's definitely some sort of bread. probably a fair bit of rocks in, but still fundamentally bread.
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i'll say it again - i think a bxp con electoral alliance is basically a lock. if they can't do it in public, it will be a backroom thing - weaker candidates instead of straight up not standing eg.
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Paperhouse posted:For a real post though, does the Scottish court ruling that the prorogation is unlawful have any effect whatsoever? Forgive me I have not read the 700 posts since I last read the thread who the gently caress knows. it looks like the establishment is pushing for the Supreme Court to call it, probably to kill time. some mps and people have said parliament is technically open but it’s more protest than reality, at least right this second.
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