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stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Grey Hunter posted:



Jezza waiting for the first post brexit day polls as much as I am.....

Bet he's actually taking a picture of a really cool looking bird.

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stev
Jan 22, 2013

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"Corbyn booted Johnson to the floor, stamped on him and pissed into his mouth, but he got back up afterwards and begged for more. It's a draw."

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Julio Cruz posted:

it's a shame zoom & enhance is bollocks so we can't see what's on his shelves

I give it eight hours before someone links one of the spines to a Hitler book.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

You're misreading it. He wants to wank all over England.

Finally a Johnson policy I can get behind.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Pochoclo posted:

Also the whole "but are you going to stifle ASPIRATION???" like gently caress you yes I am, if making one person slightly less happy because they can't have their own personal island to make a million people not miserable, wouldn't you do it? gently caress yea I would, how is this even a loving question, it's not even Trolley Problem, you just... don't let them accumulate billions of dollars, you're not killing them

I love the 'this one dude might give some of his billions away' argument. Like that justifies the whole deal and like that money shouldn't have been in public hands to begin with.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Lol just got an email begging me to donate to Dominic Grieve's campaign. I think it's because I signed some anti-Brexit petition years ago.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Borrovan posted:

I like having flexible working hours, because it means that as long as my work keeps getting done & I turn up at the office every once in a while & answer my phone & emails nobody really cares if I feel like sleeping in some days or piss off to run errands or hit the gym in the middle of the day. It's great for parents & the disabled too.

Trouble is that when people say "flexible working hours" these days they generally mean flexible demands, imposed upon the worker by the boss at their absolute discretion with no realistic way to refuse. We seriously need some more modernised workers' rights right loving now, before the notion of "flexible hours" becomes so poisoned that people are actually fighting to have to go sit in an office all day (why would you want this!) and all those that can't for whatever reason get left behind.

Also before people start insisting I have to actually go to work every day because gently caress that, frankly

My office is going to start going down the route that everyone works at home at least one day a week (which a lot of people already do). A lot of people hate the idea, because either they're just not set up to work at home, or they can't get into the mindset of working productively outside of the office environment.

Even when I work at home I have trouble keeping my mind on work and end up finding distractions for myself (like browsing UKMT at 9.05am).

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Rarity posted:

Lol if you don't do this at work as well

Yeah but at least at work I'm moderated by who can see me at any given time.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Tesseraction posted:

Man signs paper in good faith, doesn't scrutinise it for potentially nazi stunt. Epic owned, wrap it up leftailures

Just think about how easily he'll be tricked into signing away ARE SOVEREIGNTY.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Mr Phillby posted:

Feeling encouraged to post more and lurk less. You all brought this upon yourself.

I've been following UKMT for years now, altough I did bounce off the thread during the Milliband years because it seemed just pages of arguing about Zizek from my limited exposure at the time. Over time thread has has helped me crystalize my political leanings from 'uncritcally votes labour (blair was good), gently caress the tories' to 'Full socialism now, purge the hated blarites and wreckers but especially gently caress the tories'. It also opened my eyes reading other peoples experiences with gender and identity itt and I got to say 'I am a homosexual' to my parents for the first time last night and I've never been happier.

Feeling positive and optimistic despite everything rn.

This is all very good, especially the purging.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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This is adorable. Wonder why it's not tracking the days since 29 March. :confused:

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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VideoGames posted:

It was time.

VG getting poo poo done.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Eschenique posted:

Top Gear are Tories? Are there any good famous Brits left?

Top Gear were always really really bad tories and generally disgusting human beings. They see the climate crisis as more of a hobby than a threat.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Eschenique posted:

Yeah okay Clapton was on purpose because it's just so dumb for a man who made his whole career covering superior black artists music to also be a massive racist.

If I recall his excuse after that speech was that he was pretending to do a Monty Python sketch. Which is apt because Cleese is also a massive racist.

Are there no wealthy, white, liberal, landlord-adjacent entertainers with good in their hearts anymore? :(

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Jesus, how safe must Mogg's seat be for him to confidently come out with this poo poo pre-election?

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Miftan posted:

10k majority.

Doable. Hopefully local campaigners rub this in his face relentlessly. Utter scumbag.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Is there any list of goons featured on the podcast by their usernames - or is that left intentionally vague? I feel a need/compulsion to mentally link these disembodied voices to an avatar.

stev fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Nov 5, 2019

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Firos posted:

As a rule we try to keep things such that someone who doesn't read the thread could come into any episode blind and not be too overwhelmed with SA in jokes/user names

Fair enough. You certainly do a very good job of that. Have many people outside here found it as of yet?

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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BBC News seems to be going in on Mogg a bit at least.

e: Scratch that - "he's clearly apologised very sincerely"

stev fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Nov 5, 2019

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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OwlFancier posted:

I'm not really sure I buy the idea that jacob rees mogg coming out with some dogshit "well I'm smart and you paups deserve to die" bullshit is some 4d hyperchess move.

Maybe he's just a disgusting human being and the tories are running with disgusting human beings as their front line in this election because they've literally gone through everyone else since cameron left.

Yeah I think this was a case of the mask slipping rather than being taken off theatrically. He could've just outright said what he thought but he made his point in a roundabout way, and it didn't seem like he actually expected people to join the dots and realise what a reprehensible thing he was saying.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Trickjaw posted:

We are going on homelessness and austerity, but Chelmsford is a commuter town and full of old, so I doubt that's going to resonate much.

I don't think Chelmsford has a very 'visible' homeless problem either. The affluent areas and town centre are pretty insulated from it - compared to larger towns and cities at least (unless it's gotten a shitload worse recently, I've not been there in a couple of years).

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Necrothatcher posted:

The only thing I'd disagree with what I've seen on here is when someone said posting in this thread is a valid form of campaigning. I love this place, but posting here isn't effective political action pretty much anything else you could do is more likely to help Labour.

I wouldn't underestimate how many people have been educated/radicalised in this thread though. Yeah it's obviously no where near as impactful as a lot of other things but positive, inviting, informative spaces like this do make a difference.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Failed Imagineer posted:

Why are multiple people unable to distinguish between LAB and LDM

This is how they plan to win 650 seats.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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VideoGames posted:

I just noticed it says "Jo Swinson's Liberal Democracts" like she owns the party or something. She really is making everything about her. Even Jonhson is not doing that with the tories.

Decades after she's gone it'll still be Jo Swinson's Liberal Democrats. She'll be the Tom Clancy of politics.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Can't wait for the hot "remainer speaker deliberately blocked Brexit" takes to come back now...

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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CGI Stardust posted:

it's how south park draws canadians :v:

I prefer the other version. Straight line. Yep.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Shakespearean Beef posted:

stadium full of football hooligans chanting jeremy corbyn's name: good
lib dems putting their most personable and dynamic leader they've had in decades at the forefront of their campaign: bad

:rolleyes:

Which football hooligans are you referring to?

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Z the IVth posted:

Counting down until screenshots of UKMT posts start appearing.

"Leftist thugs HOUND moderate voice of reason Pissflaps from their SICK message board"

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Pochoclo posted:

Not gonna lie I'm feeling a bit of hope seeing how the media's getting so nervous about the Brexit Party vote splitting

It'll be near impossible to undo too, given all the poo poo Farage spouted about a Tory deal being worse for leavers than remaining in the EU.

stev fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Nov 9, 2019

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Josef bugman posted:

So, why do we think the whole "sang offensive song (possibly) on a bus" didn't take off to the same extent as other smears?

The bus part makes it a real stretch to believe.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Josie Long seems like a good'un. Retweeted Jam King a few times. Has she done/said anything awful?

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Doccykins posted:

Looks like the theme today is Jeremy Corbyn Won't Murder Millions Of People And That Is A Disgrace

Thornberry not really helping on the R4 circuit though, sounds like she wasn't briefed enough or is just letting Nick Robinson of all people run rings around her

#Rememberthefallen though.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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poo poo to gently caress.

Would sure be nice if our sensible centrist friends could do the same and only contest Tory seats.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Extend the vote to 16 and disenfranchise anyone with more than £1 million on the grounds that they already have far more power to influence an election than a single vote could possibly afford.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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I do hope one day we reach the point where everyone can safely and securely vote via an app or phone service. I know it'd open the floodgates to hackers etc but the process as it is now is, for a lot of people, onerous and out of line with how people interact with the world.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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feedmegin posted:

I mean it's racist as gently caress and makes me think you're about to break out the Pepe frogs.

Wait, it's racist?

It's scummy as gently caress and a huge red flag but I'm not seeing the race connection.

e: oh right

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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OwlFancier posted:

Cuckoldry imo is like the skull thing, something the alt right thought made them cool and incisive and actually just made them look like big dorks and got way more traction with people making fun of them for it than it did with them actually using it sincerely.

I find it even more irritating when used knowingly or ironically, especially in popular culture. I'm really not a fan of characters saying 'betacuck' to communicate to the viewer that they're a shitbag.

Actual alt right fucks still use it all the time though.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Pistol_Pete posted:

She saw the Pink Floyd video and decided to make a real-life version of the school. "Poetry?!? Absolute rubbish, laddie. Now get on with yer work."

"If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?"

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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goddamnedtwisto posted:

Britain's one-time lead in home computers - which led to our massive tech sector and particularly video games industry - is almost entirely thanks to massive direct public investment in microcomputer firms by the NEB and a national push for tech literacy among children through the schools system, led by noted pinko <checks notes> Margaret Thatcher.

It's so glaring that the alleged sensible, non-ideological centrists are actually considerably more Tory than loving Thatcher.

If we'd kept it up Peter Molyneux might never have gone down his dark path. :(

The coalition government is to blame for Curiosity.

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stev
Jan 22, 2013

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deletebeepbeepbeep posted:

Johnson is a mess on BBC honestly Labour's best chance is that oaf getting as much screen time as possible.

Hey he managed to shoot down the 'you weren't squeezing the mop' argument pretty effectively.

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