UKMT November 2019 - Andrew Can't Denounce Epstein Properly

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Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Braggart posted:

Oh hey, I have an avatar. I browse with avatars off because ADHD and distractions ooh shiny, so I didn't notice at first. Was that you BobbyDeluxe, or did my dithering allow someone to steal a march?

It was me, as was Chuka's. Yours because that last longpost was both good and resonated with me, and Chukas because I couldn't believe someone nabbed that username. I do not have anything like enough money for this though, and my wife is probably going to start ask questions if I keep doing it.

# ¿ Nov 1, 2019 22:26

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 04:33

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Pretty sure she voted in favour of all the private contracts etc while in coalition.

E: Yep.

Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 00:03 on Nov 2, 2019

# ¿ Nov 1, 2019 23:57

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Ms Adequate posted:

You’re in an ocean swimming along in the piss when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a student, floating toward you. You reach down, you tax the student 5p for a plastic bag and then implement a massive rise in tuition fees. The student floats on their back, their belly baking in the hot sun, taking an unpaid internship to try and get experience so they can start paying off their tuition debts, but they can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?

I cannot allow this good post to be lost in time, like tears in rain.

Also I got carried away listening to music on me big headphones and did an insomnia. I did however discover the only good thing to come out of the DCCU, which is Hans Zimmer's Score for the Nolan Batman films, in particular 'Why Do We Fall' from Dark Knight Rises, because it makes me feel sad, and then by the end like I want to do all of the pushups and go for a run (just probably not at 3am).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO8NVkcl2NI

EVERY NIGHT AT 3 AM I OPEN PALM SLAM YOUTUBE INTO MY HEADPHONES. ITS THE BATMAN SOUNDTRACK etc

# ¿ Nov 2, 2019 04:30

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

ronya posted:

the conclusion seems to be that land in central London is expensive and parking spaces are using that up so they should be more expensive than they are and the fact they're relatively cheap is a subsidy to people who drive a car in central London (and also that cars are bad for the environment, which is obv fair enough)

Jesus christ he is aware that places outside of London exist, isn't he? What a diseased bell-end.

ronya posted:

A leak:

https://twitter.com/SamCoatesSky/status/1190575174128689152

This is making me incredibly angry and I want to hugepost refuting it, but the wife is off and the forums are being odd, so probably won't get a chance.

Gonzo McFee posted:

https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1190580636651851777

MP's watch TV like they're on Monday Night Raw.

Tag yourself, I'm the TV on top of a TV stand on top of a table (covered of course so those naughty table legs do not radiate impure thoughts) while Boris sits on the floor, leading to an awful viewing angle where he almost certainly can't see poo poo.

Also the dog is still alive :ohdear:

Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 13:35 on Nov 2, 2019

# ¿ Nov 2, 2019 13:31

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Labour just asked me* to help write the manifesto - their email sign up to recieve the new manifesto has a bit where you can suggest what you want to see in it.

https://labour.org.uk/manifesto-2019/

Can't wait for the papers to spin this as desperate Corbyn begs members of the public for policy proposals.

* _{and everyone else on the mailing list but shut up sempai noticed me}

Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 14:32 on Nov 2, 2019

# ¿ Nov 2, 2019 14:29

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

OwlFancier posted:

I'm also not really sure that adopting the opposition's policies during an election campaign is necessarily the most effective way to sell yourself as a party.

# ¿ Nov 3, 2019 00:20

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Most of his cartoons also work with the various New Yorker cartoon formulas - replace the text with "Get a load of this rear end in a top hat" or "Ok boomer" and they're at least as funny, and normally considerably funnier, than the originals.

It reminds me of a discussion yeats ago in the Ctrl-Alt-Del thread years ago - someone posted a CAD comic with the text removed and asked if you could guess what the characters were doing, and then did the same with a few others like Penny Arcade, PvP and VGCats.

At least with VGCats and PA, the characters facial expressions and poses expressed what they were saying, but with CAD you had no idea because it was all expressionless poo poo. The same thing is happening here. There's nothing interesting or visually unique going on.

# ¿ Nov 4, 2019 03:26

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

mehall posted:

GNU's Not UNIX

WINE Is Not an Emulator

The Hurd in GNU Hurd stands for "Hird of Unix-replacing Daemons", and the hird in that stands for "Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth"

Open source engineers are word nerds.

WINAMP Is Not A [Music/Media] Player

Most egregious is probably LAME Ain't an Mp3 Encoder (oops, me age is showing)

Ms Adequate posted:

Sorry, hold up, cancel all other discussions.

What

I still maintain that The Chain should be one of the greatest rock anthems of all time if it hadn't been for F1 ruining it by association, i.e. having to spend your sunday effectively dadless.

One of these days I'll be bored enough to overlap the mid break so it doesn't lose momentum, and then everyone will be sorry.

# ¿ Nov 4, 2019 22:23

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

The replies are currently everyone asking him to release the russia report.

# ¿ Nov 5, 2019 00:31

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

I'm sure he thinks he's being clever, but the stupid thing about this is that he's very publicly giving Corbyn a chance to write a bangin comeback which the press are kind of going to have to acknowledge.

# ¿ Nov 5, 2019 00:37

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

I started following a political shitposting group on facebook and they've gone a bit strange.

# ¿ Nov 5, 2019 02:24

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Tesseraction posted:

Well I mean, I think she wanted to out this paedo ring because of the morality of doing so and is frustrated that she could've done so three years prior but was forced not to. That must be frustrating.

A few years ago there was an interview with Sascha Baron Cohen when he was filming Who is America, and they planned a segment where he was trying to wind up this concierge with increasingly disgusting requests, and he asked something about a party with little boys, and the concierge said something like 'we can put you in touch with someone.' He was so freaked out by it they cut the segment and handed the tapes over to the FBI.

Sometimes I wonder what role that played in things, like if the investigation had already started, if it pushed it in a new direction, if it confirmed suspicions, or if it was another data point in an already massive landslide. When everything eventually gets declassified it's going to be fascinating reading.

# ¿ Nov 5, 2019 22:55

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Josef bugman posted:

I think it might be because it's pulling back the curtain a bit too much.

Kind of feel like this covers 90% of right-wing politics at the moment. Like there had once been such a thing as clever conservatism, in that they understood that you can't directly attack the poor or immigrants, or outright state support of homophobic / transphobic policy, you just have to triangulate around it and keep the curtain between the public and the real policy.

I was watching Sarah Silverman's Netflix special yesterday where she was talking about how the US political right is stealth-closing abortion clinics by legislating at a state level that (for example) their corridors have to be 8 ft wide, so because most abortion clinics can't comply with that, they are forced closed.* They know they can never overturn Roe vs Wade, they'll never win the idealogical argument, so instead they put these lovely little shunts in place.

Bullshit like this has been how the right has been hiding its evil for years, but now we seem to have both in the US and UK an absolutely naked evil laid bare - climate crisis denying, war profiteering, disaster capitalists. I know that's what they've always been underneath, but since Bush, there has been a run of high profile right wingers who have been either too stupid or too nakedly ambitious (or both) to really try to conceal it. Even Thatcher understood that you have to pretend that it's about prosperity and decency and blah blah blah.

As Ms. A was saying though, the Republicans are polling badly in the US, and in the UK Labour have one of the highest pre-purdah polling ratios ever going on, and huge crowds of activists mobilising around them. It feels like it's largely because everyone's absolutely sick of the fuckery that's been going on the last few years and how hard the right have been pushing.

Human history seems to move in cycles between left and right, and I can't help but feel like this is the endgame for the right - they have no more moves to play. They know their time is up, they know the act is not sustainable (especially once climate change ramps up and there's direct, tangible evidence of the damage capitalism is doing to the planet).

So instead, they're seeing what they can get away with in the time they have left. But the problem is that the only move left is fascism, and most people understand that democracy is important, even if they don't fully understand how or why it works.

I think it was Matt on Chapo who was saying a while back that all of the stuff about Trump & Russia, Epstein's death, Boris and May's time at the head of the conservatives, the Kochs; this all kind of feels like we're seeing something happening. We'll never see behind the curtain completely but we get these glimpses of movement back there; and we'll probably never know exactly what it is, but we get these brief wormsigns that something is going wrong.

Maybe it's just stupid people failing their way to the top, or maybe it's a bunch of greedy old men created a system that benefits greedy old men and now they're old and greedy enough that they're starting to die off without having adequately prepared successors.

Whatever it is, it feels like something is changing, and that's why I love Labour's 'Real Change' message as opposed to the Libs 'fiddle with the dials on capitalism a little longer,' and the Conservatives 'Better the literal devil you know.'

Thankyou for coming to my way-too-loving-early Ted talk, brought to you today by acid reflux, birds fighting in the loft, the cunts next door and needing to pee.

* _{not sure if that's an actual thing, but it's the example she used and is definitely the kind of poo poo they would pull}

Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 10:31 on Nov 6, 2019

# ¿ Nov 6, 2019 10:17

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Doccykins posted:

Add to jumping-before-pushed

https://twitter.com/edvaizey/status/1192012923985641472

Vaizey had the whip removed voting for parliament taking control of the order paper but had it restored after voting for the Johnson Withdrawal Agreement

Oh gently caress, this might be very good. This is my area and with an unknown standing for the Tories, Labour might have a chance - there are going to be a lot of floating voters who were supporting Vaisey on autopilot who might be open to listening to a new candidate.

The local Lib candidate is of course a spod who has already sent out the usual lying graphs in his pamphlets. Can't see it doing him much good, since if there's two things South & the Vale hates, its city boys and young people.

Exciting times.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2019 11:14

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Rarity posted:

Posting on the sex number page

In the UKMT, every page is the sex page.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2019 11:32

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Qwertycoatl posted:

I don't think the libdems really are a cult of personality.

It's what people with no personality or popular appeal imagine a populist personality cult would look like.

DesperateDan posted:

tom watsons loving off

An internal Labour source has confirmed that they will soon be an external Labour source.

Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 22:43 on Nov 6, 2019

# ¿ Nov 6, 2019 22:40

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

mehall posted:

What question should I ask Barry Gardiner after question time?

You're in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down and see a tory. It's trying to leave the EU. You reach down and you nationalise its industries. The tory lays on its back, its billions draining into the public purse, kicking its legs trying to leave the EU, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?

# ¿ Nov 6, 2019 23:57

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

jabby posted:

drat what the gently caress has changed with the news?

out on the street, they call it purdah

Bundy posted:

Slurring through speeches while being a massive racist perhaps?

By doing a biologically improbable amount of crack.

# ¿ Nov 7, 2019 02:17

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Chuka Umana posted:

i've seen things you people wouldn't believe

OwlFancier posted:

Much better songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPTCq3LiZSE

The Glumslinger posted:

Yiddish is one of the best languages on earth for mildly insulting someone

A long time ago there was a thing going round the old gamespy forums that claimed there was an old Yiddish expletive zayin ba'ayin or something like that, which was supposed to mean 'a dick in your eye.' I asked a Jewish friend of mine a few* years ago but she said at best it meant 'flesh in your eye.' Never found out the deal with that but 'a dick in your eye' is an absolutely fantastic rejoinder.

* Ten

# ¿ Nov 7, 2019 23:13

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

mehall posted:

If you were watching Question Time tonight, I was the guy with the beard talking about anti-semitism.

This was astonishingly well done, but I was giggling because the YouTube autosubtitles replaced Ken Clarke with King Clark, and Keir Starmer with Car Steamer.

Gonzo McFee posted:

https://twitter.com/simonk_133/status/1192821466062086144

Amendment 1: replace all after "as a student journalist" with "met @freedland at a charity do once, he was surprisingly down to earth and VERY funny."

Poison Jam posted:

I'll never listen to the podcast because I don't want to hear your real voices instead of the ones I have in my head when I read your posts.

My real voice is the Judge from Who Framed Roger Rabbit after he takes the mask off, just for reference.

Part of me wants to go on ~~chapo~~ praxis, but I really don't have any specialist skills in my wallet, apart from missing any and all pop culture references, constantly needing political theory explained like i'm five, and abusing oxford commas. Although I do have the pedigree, since I'm fairly certain I used to be IRC friends with Felix off of Chapo.

Ratjaculation posted:

does anyone have the LDs quoting themselves in the media as press quotes to hand?

# ¿ Nov 9, 2019 01:42

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

The Deleter posted:

Bullfrog and X-Com I'll agree with. I miss Dungeon Keeper. My cousin got it for me when I was a kid and way too young to be viewing all of the cartoon blood everywhere, and it owned.

Do not play the mobile Dungeon Keeper, it's a hollowed out shell of its former self. I know it's an EA mobile game but I don't think I've ever seen every aspect of a game so cynically twisted by greed as DK mobile.

Ursine Catastrophe posted:

poo poo would get worse for longer before getting better, because people will have shown their collective tolerance for poo poo is even higher than the current level of poo poo and things need to be worse to motivate them to action. Things would still have a chance to be better...eventually. That will be cold comfort for the additional people dying under the tories that wouldn't under labor, but it also wouldn't be cause to throw your hands up and say "well, we're all hosed then" and give up entirely, either.

I don't think this is fully acknowledging how bad things could (and likely would) get though. There are a huge number of protections afforded by the EU to workers, minorities, even the blanket term human rights is under threat. The right to fair elections.

We've seen what Cummings and dePfeffel are willing to do under the promise of leaving the EU, and the only reason there's any splashback is because it's all concentrated in such a short timeframe. If they pulled these brain genius tricks at a rate of once a month during parliamentary normality, they'd probably get away with it because there'd be no Letwin, no Maugham et al to launch quick legal challenges, fewer members of the public scrutinising everything for loopholes.

I get what you're saying; that it's not over, but I don't think you're really acknowledging how bad things will get post brexit. If Labour doesn't win this specific election, the rules are going to change so much that it's not just a case of 'vote Tory for more of the same;' I genuinely think that things will get much, much worse if the Tories get a majority. Not just in terms of quality of life for anyone less than 500 places away from the throne, but also in terms of the mechanisms keeping political opposition and electoral fairness intact.

# ¿ Nov 9, 2019 12:01

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

jabby posted:

If we lose the election we still have the most left-wing Labour opposition in my lifetime, with a PLP gradually being stripped of its worst members and no more Watson. Corbyn will step down, nullifying all the media attacks on him as a person, and we elect a new left-wing leader.

Who will face exactly the same McCarthyist poo poo as Corbyn, you absolute numpty. Do you honestly think that a different person with the exact same policies is going to be left alone by the hostile press and right wing?

Corbyn isn't antisemitic, never has been, and yet you're saying that he should go because (whether he is or not) his image has been marred. So you've fallen for it prefectly. Every leftist leader that follows will suffer the same fate, especially if it works on Corbyn.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/general-election-labour-theresa-may-gunpoint-kate-osborne-jarrow-a9196236.html

If you read the comments under the article you can find a link to the image which is I think Samuel Jackson in 70s look pointing gun.

I thought it would be that bit. The point of that scene was that Jackson's character drew the gun as an overreaction to the character saying 'what' instead of answering him over and over. It's a good similie. But then I would not expect the print media to understand memes, it's like Kuenssberg and shitposting all over again.

Guavanaut posted:

I heard Jeremy Corbyn was on the bus too and started a chant of Oh Jewremy Corbyn and the bus was racist.

I'm also confused about how 'Hey Jews' is antisemitic. Jews isn't a slur in and of itself, is it? I mean this genuinely, I don't understand in this situation how it would be antisemitic, if it did happen.

# ¿ Nov 9, 2019 15:39

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Pilchenstein posted:

If you're a racist dipshit then just mentioning the jewish people is a hilarious bit because reasons.

I get that it can be a combination slur, like "He sucks because he's a Jew" is racist, as is screaming "loving Jew" at someone. I think because of that there's an alarm goes off in my head whenever anyone words something like 'he's a Jew,' and I'm not sure why the wording sounds worse than 'he's Jewish.'

But to me, Jew isn't inherently racist in the same way Indian or Muslim aren't racist unless they're preceeded by the word 'fackin' in a taxi driver's rant.

I struggle with this because it's one of the few 'literal brain' parts of autism I have trouble with, I need to understand what the rules are and why they are how they are. But I suspect that most allistic prople don't really know either, which is where you get this arbitrary terror when someone changes the word in a song without any apparent or implied malice.

Exactly how twitter goes from someone saying the word Jew as a homonym in a song, or disagreeing with the illegal occupation in the west bank to Jewish people fearing for their lives under Corbyn is just a baffling leap of logic.

I think it's because with anything to do with racial identity, the consequences of getting it wrong are awful (and I don't mean being shouted at, I mean the sinking realisation that I punched down and someone somewhere is probably feeling like poo poo). It's complex and not always 100% linguistically rational.

I also worry that I had a lovely upbringing, parents and friends normalising racial / gender / sexuality stereotypes and if I don't double check myself, they still sometimes end up underpinning jokes, and when they do I feel loving awful. I know a lot of zero empathy edgelords use that as an excuse for why they're going to say it anyway, but in my case I feel really bad about it and hate that it's floating around in my subconscious loving poo poo up in there.

When I was listening to the podcast I got a great laugh out of Rarity saying her handle was @francesweetman, but the problem was my brain followed that with the joke "being a trans woman does not mean you can choose a specific woman to transition into" and I'm really not sure if that's OK or not. Like it feels like it's a funny connection, but it also feels like pointing out someone's trans nature is as bad as misgendering them, at least according to tumblr.

Anyway. I think my original point was that while I don't see how using a word with no attached malice is bad, I am also aware that those kinds of thoughts are used by the alt-right to drop n-bombs because acshully it originally meant patsy so it's fine for them to scream it at the starbucks guy.

jabby posted:

Because having a big laugh with your mates about 'the Jews' is basically mocking them. They're an ethnic group, not a punchline.

I'm not sure that Jewish people were being cast in a negative light here so much as an MP was just using a homonym in a well known song? Although the practical reality is that he should have known better than to use that particular homonym while the antisemitism row was going on, like 'Hey Jews, look at us, a bus full of Labour supporters, the people you worry about hating you' (even though it transpires it probably didn't happen).

(Also apologies for misreading your post about Corbyn stepping down, I think I'm just tetchy because a thread or so ago a bunch of new posters appeared and started saying maybe Corbyn should step down along with all of the 'unelectable' poo poo.)

Guavanaut posted:

... "let's stalk this woman for evidence of bagels to see if she's Jewish" are not things I foresaw coming out of the British centre 5 years ago, and if they carry on down this path they'll literally be saying "ah, this one wrote a song, they can't be a real Jew because Jews are an arrhythmic people" while still thinking that they're the good guys.

I desperately want to reply to the No True Jewish People melts that perhaps there should be some kind of badge they could wear, except irony is dead and I'd probably end up as the main character for the day.

Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Nov 9, 2019

# ¿ Nov 9, 2019 18:30

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Maugrim posted:

It's because in calling someone a Jew you subtly imply that that encapsulates all that they are, whilst saying they are Jewish is just naming a singular trait.

Like you don't call someone with Down's syndrome a Downie, you say they have Down's.

E: I am not in any way equating being Jewish with having DS btw, just being involved in the DS community is how I learnt to be careful about this subtlety of phrasing

Just wanted to say this is a really interesting point.

Also: Good video about purdah things. Apparently the print media are not bound by it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egeMAIXYIvI

# ¿ Nov 9, 2019 20:00

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Joe.co.uk doing good work here (also thanks to a quick attempt to search for this on twitter, i find out joe apparently also stands for Jerk Off Encouragement and now my sexual orientation is dirty northern girls)

https://twitter.com/PoliticsJOE_UK/status/1190300848309624834?s=19

# ¿ Nov 10, 2019 00:12

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:

tbh, it's usually joi or jerk off instruction

I know how, i just need help with why.

# ¿ Nov 10, 2019 00:30

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

ThomasPaine posted:

I love to wank and I would recommend all of you penis havers get a fleshlight and some poppers for a seriously excellent night in alone

Commentariat.

# ¿ Nov 10, 2019 00:39

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

OwlFancier posted:

I don't think you should drink the fleshlight no.

*from

# ¿ Nov 10, 2019 00:47

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

crispix posted:

Having an orgasm from just bum stuff is imo several times more intense and lasts much longer than one caused by touching ones willy. You can even multiple orgasm that way

In the spirit of comradeship, i will remind you one and all that the prostate can be stimulated from outside of the boom boom, by massaging the back of the taint with your other hand as you approach the vinegar strokes. This does however leave you with no free hands to turn the pages of razzle, so make sure you choose a good readers wives pic.

I miss dpph :smith:

Guavanaut posted:

Actually that's a great point, I do know a tram engineer.

A truly modern interpretation of the trolley problem.

Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Nov 10, 2019

# ¿ Nov 10, 2019 02:45

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

forkboy84 posted:

https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/1193497316398895105?s=20

I'm on me phone and it won't let me save, anyone able to extract the gif?

E: The InterCity 125 (originally Inter-City 125, or High Speed Train) is a diesel-powered passenger train built by British Rail Engineering Limited between 1975 and 1982. Each trainset is made up of two Class 43 power cars, one at each end and six to nine Mark 3 carriages. The name is derived from its top operational speed of 125 mph (201 km/h). Initially the sets were classified as Classes 253 and 254.

# ¿ Nov 10, 2019 13:57

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

xtothez posted:

https://video.twimg.com/tweet_video/EJAhYIyXsAIzQP0.mp4

Fantastic, any chance of either

1) converting it to .gif

2) adding a banging dubstep internationale in the background to justify using mp4?

# ¿ Nov 10, 2019 15:03

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Bardeh posted:

I could only speculate as to how many respects this giant poppy on the Costa near my house is, but it's got to be at least 69

The bar looks to be at about 80% of the maximum respects, which is 420

Also, walked the dog past the memorial park, where someone was trying to battle the pokemon gym during the service. -10 respects to slytherin (team valor)

Kassad posted:

Bangin, thanks.

# ¿ Nov 10, 2019 16:37

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Also, what the gently caress is this doing on QTs social media, I loving love purdah:

https://twitter.com/bbcquestiontime/status/1192577135929638912?s=09

# ¿ Nov 10, 2019 16:52

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

bleep bloop i am a bag of thai chicken mccoys

# ¿ Nov 10, 2019 19:05

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

I watched a Tom Scott video where he said he misses RSS and I now realise I miss RSS as well now. Something very nice about a feed that doesn't bollocks you about and try to push you what it thinks is the most relevant content.

Like YouTube music. The free app is surprisingly good, but I wish there was a way of convincing it that when I'm having a movie / video game soundtracks day, I don't want it putting 70s dad rock on the list.

# ¿ Nov 10, 2019 20:52

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Patrick Stewart is a good 'un:

https://comicbook.com/startrek/2019...ynD38NEygwG_BpI

quote:

English actor Patrick Stewart admitted he was “embarrassed” to appear before a French audience when promoting new series Star Trek: Picard at Comic Con Paris, where Stewart called efforts to separate Britain from the European Union a “disgrace.” Appearing alongside Picard co-stars Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, Isa Briones and Evan Evagora, Stewart ended the panel by cordially telling his co-stars, “You can participate in this or not, depending on how you feel.” Standing and addressing the audience, Stewart said his trip to the Paris convention was a “very, very bitter experience in many respects.”

“For the last 35 years, I have been so proud to belong to a country that was part of the European Union,” Stewart said to applause. “And I am embarrassed to stand here in front of you, representing a country that is seeking to break that invaluable connection.”

Citing his participation in London’s “million-person” Let Us Be Heard march in October, Stewart continued, “I want you to know that well more than half of the population of the United Kingdom wants to stay in the European Union.”

“The Berlin Wall came down. The Soviet Union ended its dominance and control over so many nations. Apartheid was ended in South Africa. The Good Friday Agreement brought together — although there are still problems — Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland,” Stewart said. “The European Union is all part of that movement, and it is a disgrace that individuals in my country are attempting to separate it.”

In February, Stewart told the Press Association he was “alarmed, concerned and scared” about Brexit’s impact on Britain’s future.

“I have reflected a great deal on it because I’m very involved in the remain campaign and have been for a couple of years. It would be dishonest not to in a story like this, where people are trying to not only improve society, they also save society, and, oh Lord, do we need it saving now,” he said. “I am very alarmed, concerned, not to say actually scared of what is actually going to come out of this. I am an optimist and always have been by nature, things will get better — but before they do it could get very very much worse and it concerns me that so many people seem not to be factoring that into this vote.”

# ¿ Nov 10, 2019 22:19

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Gonzo McFee posted:

https://twitter.com/thetimes/status/1161672182554124290?s=19

Just asked the missus, about this. From the police's perspective the operators have been told it would be transferred to the action centre (because they barely have enough staff to handle the calls), and that the action centre would log it for investigation, then it gets passed back to the police investigation teams. This is not entirely a police thing, this is yet another private sector contractor turning out to be worse than loving useless.

The thing to remember is that when prosecutions aren't pursued, 99% of the time it's the CPS refusing to act unless they have absolute certainty the conviction is guaranteed. This feeds back to officers developing a culture of not investigating things because they already know it's pointless.

I know it's tempting to ascribe malice to every action the police take, and they absolutely have a meathead boot-boy problem with their rank and file, but in this case it's more down to the cuts to funding and numbers that has driven the police to shunting a fairly important chunk of their reporting off to a private firm who are doing gently caress all with it.

# ¿ Nov 11, 2019 00:38

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Tenebrais posted:

Implying Johnson didn't outright bribe Farage for this. I wonder what he offered.

If the whole "8 billion cartel betting on brexit" thing is true, Farage almost certainly has a shoe in the game as well.

The big question is, if it honestly looks like remaining PM is going to cost the conservatives the opportunity to deliver brexit, would Boris step down and take the money, or cling on to power?

HauntedRobot posted:

BRB, registering the Aaaa Party.

New local candidate A Aaron Aaronson announces they are standing in every constituency.

# ¿ Nov 11, 2019 14:40

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

biglads posted:

Boris in Nigel's pocket poster when?

https://twitter.com/PeoplesMomentum/status/1193885801286979585?s=19

lol

# ¿ Nov 11, 2019 14:57

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 04:33

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Jedit posted:

Screenshot that tweet. It's a direct violation of purdah and grounds for Kuensberg's immediate acrimonious dismissal.

Archive.org it. Screenshots are easily faked and would require a court injunction from the prosecution for twitter to prove the deleted tweet had existed. Archive.org can be viewed by anyone and is notedly impartial - Kuenssberg would need a court order to prove that the archive.org snap was not accurate.

https://web.archive.org/web/20191111134230/https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1193876766571585542

Nothing will ever come of this of course, because hell world. The absolute most we'll get is a slap on the wrist fine, most likely output is that it's pointed out that Kuenssberg once criticised a senior tory (who just so happened to oppose whatever Boris was in favour of).

E: Some fuckery over the mobile app parsing it as a tweet, corrected it now.

Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Nov 11, 2019

# ¿ Nov 11, 2019 16:45

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