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Okay somehow I'm subscribed to this thread despite not clicking the button or posting (until now) and frankly I'm terrified.
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Kin posted:Just called the hospital and the surgery went well. No complications. I know it's probably impossible advice to take, but try and get as much rest as you can tonight. Processing what's happened is going to take a lot out of you, and of course you have to be able to take the strain for your missus too.
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Oct 1, 2019 00:33
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mediadave posted:Sunny is right Let me just stop you there.
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Oct 1, 2019 15:44
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bump_fn posted:some good lightning and thunder over london right now. please o god smite us for our hubris https://www.lightningmaps.org/?lang=en is always a fun watch if you're in too built-up an area to actually look out for the strikes directly.
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Oct 1, 2019 16:02
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://www.lightningmaps.org/?lang=en is always a fun watch if you're in too built-up an area to actually look out for the strikes directly.  God hates the East End, apparently. That was pretty loving loud.
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Oct 1, 2019 16:06
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Oct 1, 2019 16:32
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Whoever was complaining about the Tube problems this afternoon - apparently a big chunk of Wembley (including the lines running through it of course) was underwater for a chunk of this afternoon after it got six inches of rain in two hours. Also Harrow School's golf course (because of course they have a loving golf course) is flooded, I assume the Army are being deployed as we speak to help with relief efforts.
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Oct 1, 2019 20:56
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https://twitter.com/sibblank/status/1179111294093451265 Genuinely think The Eric Andre Show might be one of the greatest cultural achievements of the 21st century.
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Oct 1, 2019 21:03
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https://twitter.com/OxfordDiplomat/status/1179097284358877184 Personally I'm sick of how all our borders are at best regional champions and am excited to finally be able to compete in the big border leagues.
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Oct 1, 2019 23:59
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bessantj posted:That is a genuine, heartwarming story. Probably, yes. People are always more receptive to a friendly face than to a distant media, and just giving people a chance to let off steam about what annoys them can be amazingly effective. Labour always tie it up with GOTV drives too, because for every person you can flip from voting for another party there are probably 10 people who just don't vote at all. Put it this way, I'm pretty much a stereotypical goon and even with that handicap I can normally get three of four people out of a hundred to at least *think* about voting Labour that hadn't previously (and hand out twice as many voter registration forms). When you can mobilise a membership as large as Labour have you have at least a chance of contacting every single voter in a constituency, those numbers add up really loving quickly.
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Oct 2, 2019 09:14
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Tesseraction posted:Graun just posted the backstop alternative letter Johnson sent to the EU, the key page: So it's literally the May Deal but with some handwaviness about "democracy", presumably meaning that they'll do some kind of referendum in NI?
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Oct 2, 2019 15:13
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Oct 2, 2019 18:51
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Trades posted:Very, very long term lurker here... just wanted to say thank you to those in the thread encouraging people to get out and campaign. Here's the most important question - how do you knock at the door? I've had to advise several excitable young middle-class types that a sharp rapping doesn't work well in working-class areas, who'll assume you're some sort of officialdom. I use the "Shave-and-a-haircut" myself, crucially leaving off the "two bits" payoff, knowing it's almost physically impossible not to respond to it. Now doorbells are tricky, because you don't know if they're the chime type - where a long press might leave too long a gap between notes for someone to register it - or the buzzer type, where a short press again might not be enough to register, but multiple presses are just obnoxious and just gets you an annoyed person at the door. (Seriously this is the kind of poo poo I think about when I'm canvassing, and I'm seriously beginning to wonder if anyone has ever done proper research on it and if not whether I have the time to do it myself)
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Oct 3, 2019 00:07
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Vitamin P posted:I'm extremely goony too, 100% prefer just putting lealets through doors, but at the end of 2 hours actual knocking even without having any charm or nouse it does still feel like I've helped sway the dial. The only strategy I ever do is be super polite, if they want to talk then listen to them talk about what is loving them off and then respond with a loose tying of how government actually trying to help them for a change would help with their X problem, which is almost always true and you just have three policies you've memorised that back it up, and that we cannot afford another financial crash like 2008. Basic stuff like 'the kids are alright they just need a fair chance' hits so much harder than you'd think when it's just a person talking directly to another person. Also sometimes you get to talk to friendly dogs! (and never underestimate just how much of a votewinner being good with dogs can be - if Labour get the Two Cities by one vote it'll be because I knew where the special scratchy place was on an old lady's Staff. Yes I know that sounds filthy, but this is what I'm prepared to go through for socialism)
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Oct 3, 2019 00:13
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Pesky Splinter posted:I heard Fabricant did the same, but for capitalism. And like all Tories he has absolutely no idea that the object of his affections just isn't into it and is being polite.
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Oct 3, 2019 00:24
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Angepain posted:Are you canvassing in Toon Town gently caress off, I'm not going anywhere near Newcastle.
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Oct 3, 2019 00:35
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Pilchenstein posted:Bloody southerner Listen mate Enfield is north enough for me, I really don't want to go canvassing in IDS' constituency because I assume they all wear flat caps and have whippets in Chingford.
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Oct 3, 2019 00:56
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Oct 3, 2019 01:40
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I have a sudden feeling of dread about this rebranding of May's deal - I think all of the hype about no-deal might just be enough to make enough melts in Parliament flip to get it through, and the EU haven't immediately said "gently caress off".
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Oct 3, 2019 08:13
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OwlFancier posted:Would that necessarily be the worst outcome? It's a poo poo arrangement that everyone hates but as far as I can remember it doesn't immediately kill everyone and it takes the issue off the table while loving the tories? Like I say I don't think it does gently caress them - Johnson gets to pretend like he's "Got Brexit done" and all his mates in the press back him up. The vast majority of voters will go along with that story, IMO.
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Oct 3, 2019 08:33
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BizarroAzrael posted:https://twitter.com/OnePlus_UK/status/1179735559725555712?s=19 Piece of piss, they cost about £10k at auction (although the price fluctuates massively because most of them go abroad, so depending on where the Adis Ababa Fire Brigade are in their upgrade cycle you could end up in a hell of a bidding war). The expense is in the running costs - like all fleet vehicles they sell them on when they become too expensive to maintain for specialised mechanics with fully-equipped garages, and it can be Italian-motorbike levels of impossible to get spares for any of the bits not repurposed from existing vehicles. You'll also need off-street parking (and of course they don't fit in standard garages), fuel consumption is monstrous, insurance almost impossible to get, and you need an HGV license to drive one, so you're probably better off sticking with a second-hand Corsa for the school run. (Worst of all, depending on just how big of an arsehole the MOT inspector is, you may need to physically remove the lights and sirens to get it road-legal)
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Oct 3, 2019 16:17
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Dead Goon posted:Doesn't the Queen own all the swans and if you kill one she gets to kill you? Only on the non-tidal Thames.
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Oct 3, 2019 16:20
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ThomasPaine posted:To this day I am pissed I'm not allowed to eat swan, they look tasty as gently caress You absolutely are allowed to eat them (although most ways of hunting them are illegal), they taste like fishy turkey apparently.
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Oct 3, 2019 18:50
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Dead Goon posted:Sounds horrible. Well yes, which is why we don't eat them.
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Oct 3, 2019 19:30
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Eschenique posted:How did Boris ever win Mayor of London anyway? An extremely well-targeted campaign in the outer boroughs combined with the beginning of Ken's fall into Hitler-based dementia. Turnout in Labour areas went down, turnout in Tory areas went up - there was very little actual swing.
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Oct 4, 2019 13:15
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Private Speech posted:Bit late, but: A small point but right-to-work is a raft of anti-union measures (including no closed shops, non-members get the benefits of collective bargaining agreements, etc). For some reason (possibly the wonderfully Orwellian name) this often gets confused with "at-will employment", which is the "you can be fired at any time for any reason or no reason" thing.
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Oct 4, 2019 14:54
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Private Speech posted:Oh I didn't know that! You often hear "right-to-work state" and such even in American discussions about at-will employment, so it never occurred to me that the two are different. TBF they often go hand-in-hand, because any state with legislators dickish enough to do one is likely to do the other.
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Oct 4, 2019 15:31
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willie_dee posted:You are assuming the charges are fair and the landlords aren't millionaires wanting more profit for themselves which is a far more likely prospect than them giving a poo poo about their minimum wage security guards. Specifically big commercial leases will tend to have rent increases heavily capped, so commercial landlords will jack the service charges up instead because they think they deserve the same profit margins as residential landlords. This, and not the internet, is what's killing high streets.
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Oct 4, 2019 15:49
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Guavanaut posted:The Anti-Authoritarian Right: The anti-authoritarian right: Why does my girlfriend have to sit in a child seat? (Apologies to whoever I stole that line from)
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Oct 4, 2019 19:12
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Rarity posted:I'm not even sure what point it's trying to make Trust me when I say you're much better off if you see the words (everything about it) and don't have a particular post instantly produced by your terminally internet-poisoned brain.
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Oct 4, 2019 23:53
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Ms Adequate posted:Yeah but as was observed on the podcast, nobody wants the diet version. If you want mass increases in public spending you vote Labour, same as if you want to gently caress over foreigners you vote tory, no matter what the edstone says. The Simpsons nailed this ages ago:  fake edit: Holy poo poo, this episode is twenty five years old
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Oct 5, 2019 11:51
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Rust Martialis posted:So exactly what level of wrist-slap can BSJ expect if he was engaging in Ugandan discussions with her? Exactly loving zero, because the entire system is completely incapable of dealing with people who don't feel any shame whatsoever.
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Oct 5, 2019 22:36
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Failed Imagineer posted:Heinz already have the snack pots, they should fit Possibly, but they won't dissolve once they're up there unless you're a xenomorph or had a particularly good night along Brick Lane.
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Oct 6, 2019 09:37
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Renaissance Robot posted:Why is the UK's big "summer" music festival always scheduled for a time it is 100% guaranteed to be pissing it down, as opposed to, for example, May, when we reliably get some decent hot weather? Same reason we've invented at least two sports that can't be played when it's raining, because British people are irredeemably loving stupid.
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Oct 6, 2019 15:25
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Is everyone forgetting this guy, the vicious nobleman who's the actual inspiration for most of the Western vampire canon up to and including two of the more common names?
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Oct 6, 2019 16:58
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I know this is unfortunately topical for this thread lately, Big Nev has given his Twitter account over to https://twitter.com/Cradle_EPL, a charity to help support people effected by early pregnancy loss. https://twitter.com/NevilleSouthall/status/1180943075801219072
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Oct 6, 2019 21:37
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Pochoclo posted:What drives a Tory MP to switch over to the Lib Dems? I mean if they were just able to keep grifting as they are, then I assume they'd stick with the Tories because it'd be easier to keep getting re-elected, so it must be either a) they think the Tories won't get elected again at their constituency, or perhaps b) their campaign donors are mostly pro-Remain, and it's getting hard to keep a pro-Remain view while in the Tories? Dorrell's not even an MP, he "stood aside" in 2015 to spend more time with his
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Oct 6, 2019 21:39
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alphabettitouretti posted:https://twitter.com/langtoncapital/status/1181096056525934592 Each of which are packed out every lunch and dinner time (despite the fact their pizza is low-effort poo poo but whatever) with people paying massively inflated prices. So once again - which hedge fund owns them?
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Oct 7, 2019 10:19
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Vitamin P posted:I disagree that Jess Phillips has done good work around that particular issue, she's been textbook adequate. Literally the only people bringing religion into the Rotherham cases is Tommy Robinson, get the gently caress out of this thread you neo-nazi oval office.
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Oct 7, 2019 10:22
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Rarity posted:This isn't the first time I've seen someone call Vitamin P a Nazi. Have we got anything concrete to base that on? Other than the use of far-right talking points? Like I say, literally the only people bringing religion and race into the Rotherham case are Tommy Robinson and his band of merry fuckwits.
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