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I woke up at night a week or so ago, and I heard a blackbird training. I keep half an ear open for blackbird song at all times since I love it and it's how I determine that "gently caress the weather, birb sings means it's spring", but beyond that, what made me remember it is how bad his singing was. It was still recognisably blackbird song, but he sang only short phrases of a few notes, nowhere close to the length, width or expressiveness that a good songbird can pull off. So he's probably hatched this year, and grown up listening to his daddy's singing, convinced that he's gonna be every bit as good as him when he grows up. Wonder if it's stressful when you're just starting out, discovering that far from being easy, singing is tricky and laborious and hard, when it's the only hope you've got of getting a home and attracting a mate
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Payndz posted:Considering that Neil and Johnson worked together at The Spectator (Johnson was editor, Neil chairman of its parent company), and they both take large sums of money from the ultra-Brexiteer Barclay brothers (they own The Spectator and the Daily Telegraph, which paid Johnson his "chicken feed" salary of £250,000), I wouldn't imagine his Brexit strategy would get much of a grilling. (And the current deputy editor of the Spectator is Dominic Cummings' wife! It's an ouroborous of awful, awful people. Actually, merely being connected to The Spectator pretty much guarantees that someone is a vile right-wing piece of poo poo.) otoh him having known boris for long probably means he hates him
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In euro news, newly elected radical leftwing SPD leaders threaten to save europe lolquote:Among their main demands are an increase in the minimum wage from €9 an hour to €12 and a backtrack on the government’s central fiscal policy of balancing the federal budget, known as the “schwarze Null” or the “black zero”, to allow for more spending on infrastructure and welfare programmes. They are also calling for a more radical approach on the climate emergency. call in the tanks etc
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Pochoclo posted:The loving nerve of this. "You have to be careful" what the gently caress is with that implied threat? The loving state of the BBC. gently caress that wanker
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That is not dead which can eternal lie which I interpret to mean boris is going to be just fine.
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PST posted:Had someone telling me how Corbyn is going to be bad for businesses in the UK and was very satisfying (well, also kind of depressing) being able to respond that i've spent 3 years doing Brexit risk-management, which has seen billions moved out of the UK as well as over 100 jobs from my company alone, but if Corbyn is so bad, why don't we have a single working project on the subject, as opposed to the 5 or so we've had for areas of the business on Brexit. sounds like brexit's given you lots of work tho
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why are you still voting for boris jesus
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sinky posted:I'm sure this won't be a problem for plucky Britaine international law is never more than one mushbrain away from catastrophic failure
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Samovar posted:I'd post the that's capitalism smilie, but even the FT are better with Corbyn so... I thought it was because all the gods objected to Corbyn? tbf i can't speak for all of them, but at the very least the G-d of the jews and the God of the English
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jesus your country's stupid
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OwlFancier posted:Then how does that gel with the idea that we can't talk about guillotines because that's divisive? guillotines are divisive by design
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your idiot island voted tories into power n four consecutive general elections and i hope some of you get off before it sinks into a sea of poo poo
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Guavanaut posted:Didn't that coincide more with the two main sparring partners in 4 centuries of European aggression both getting nuclear arms than the EU? *studies 4 centuries of continental political-military history*  "clearly, the only lesson this teaches us is that the path to lasting peace is more and bigger weapons"but no, it really doesn't "coincide more" with that at all. what the gently caress're you on about
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serious gaylord posted:This is exactly what im talking about. People utterly exasperated that their towns have been run down and its the labour MP's 'fault' so they're trying something new. Complaining that all the funding is going to Wigan and that their market stalls are closing down as if Labour could have stopped it. you've probably already read this but here's more
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surely the lack of a bridge was key in the decision to send them there in the first place
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GordonTheDeadFish posted:I'm not entirely sure this will be straightforward. This is something we all said about the Parliamentary shenanigans over the last few months, with Boris losing all his votes and Bercow/opposition basically running things. That seems to have let Boris run as an opposition candidate, with people blaming everyone else for being obstacles. is there even one boris voter who voted for boris with the sincere expectation he's gonna deliver anything beyond bridge plans and methane
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nobody "eats" surströmming, it's just there to scare tourists
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wikipedia posted:Some people do not care for surströmming.[12] It is a food which is subject to strong passions, as is lutefisk.
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tip of the hat to whichever smug bastard who put a "quotation needed" on that one, and another to the smug bastard who delivered it
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Guavanaut posted:Ha, how wrong you are Tijuana Bibliophile. and you'll fondly think back to those days of unsavoured plenty when you're at the london sewer fatberg stage
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