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Trickjaw posted:It's a bit murky under the ftpa parliament cannot be bound by previous parliaments, but I doubt Labour can unilaterally do it. It would also certainly need the legal beagles to peruse it. That's not an FTPA thing, that's Parliamentary sovereignty which is about the only way you can run a country with an unwritten constitution.
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Dec 1, 2019 18:34
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Julio Cruz posted:is there a good explanation of the law change that Boris is blaming for Khan being let out early? the Beeb (yeah I know) are spinning it as "everyone got automatically let out halfway through their sentences" and that seems a bit, er, unlikely? AIUI - indeterminate sentences (i.e. "lock them up as long as we want") were ruled illegal, so Khan (and many others) were converted to conventional sentences. At halfway through a long sentence you're released on license more-or-less automatically if you don't commit any offences in prison. It's then up to the Probation Service to supervise you.
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Dec 1, 2019 19:41
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spiderbot posted:We use a vet called PawSquad who come to your house. We are in North London, but I think they might have people who can go to Battersea. It is more expensive, but avoids traveling with a nervous cat. I've used CTVets for home visits and they're very good, and only a tiny bit more than my normal vets.
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Dec 2, 2019 09:41
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BalloonFish posted:And, as I think we talked about in previous threads, that's exactly what the Victorian funerary industry (and it really was an industry) did. All the marketing, commercial and social pressure of a modern consumer society in a vicious feedback loop telling everyone that they needed to pay for 300ft of black crepe, a full new wardrobe of mourning clothes, a ridiculously large polished wood coffin with silver fittings and that their recently departed family member really deserved the Seraphim-level package with the Portland headstone, the six black horses on the hearse, a dozen professional mourners and a mute, didn't they? And if you can't pay for it, we can do credit! And if you're poor, we run a savings scheme you can pay into most of your life and there's only a slightly-less-than-even chance that we'll taken the money and run because by the time you need the payout, you'll be dead! The London Necropolis Railway (  ) from Waterloo to Brockwood Cemetery had 1st, 2nd and 3rd class carriages not just for the mourners but for the coffins, because you definitely wouldn't want your dead granny having to share a carriage with some scabies-ridden oik.e: The company logo is even more 
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Calico Heart posted:Would the queen dying mean a surge in Tory votes? Ugh, probably No need to reprint money (or stamps for that matter) - George VI coins were still a pretty common sight in change until very recently, and the relatively short half-life of banknotes (about a year, IIRC) means they'll not really be replaced any quicker if they're recalled.
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Dec 2, 2019 10:33
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UKIP (remember them?) leader on Sky News at the moment unable to name any of the seats they're standing in, and claiming that the Brexit Party are too new for people to vote for while UKIP have been around forever. Now she's literally reading from a printout of their manifesto, and has been completely baffled by Adam Boulton pointing out that their immigration policy is identical to current Government policy. e: Oh my god this is absolutely amazing, the "I don't know anything about politics but here are all my opinions" energy is strong. ee: On Tommy Robinson - "his association with other racist parties... erm, other parties that are racist, UKIP isn't racist" This is the greatest bit of comedy in television history. goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 10:47 on Dec 2, 2019 |
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Dec 2, 2019 10:44
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mga87IgkYMw Here's that full UKIP manifesto launch I mentioned this morning. Seriously it's worth a watch, it's genuinely loving amazing. Half your nan, half Guy Goma.
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Dec 2, 2019 15:14
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peanut- posted:I feel like we're heading inexorably towards an exact repeat of 2017 at this point. That's why my prediction is for the exact same amounto f seats as at the last election, as the maximum hellworld outcome.
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Dec 2, 2019 17:58
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Guavanaut posted:You have to call them quick shims if you want to charge that much for using them. I once managed to break into my office using my union membership card. Alas it wasn't for Ludd-inspired smashing up, the lock had just broken.
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Dec 2, 2019 18:00
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jabby posted:Why do the lines for 2017 look different on those two graphs? The quantities are the same, it's just the scale has changed a little.
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Dec 2, 2019 18:02
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Guavanaut posted:They've seemingly somehow managed to pin the increase in antisemitism leading up to 2015 (alt-right, pepes, chan culture, white nationalism, conservative bronies) on Corbyn. I've seen more than one melt claiming Corbyn's antisemitism drove David Milliband out of the party.
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Dec 2, 2019 20:01
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I thought he left in a fit of pique because Ed got the votes he expected. He did indeed, and 3 years before Corbyn was leader. The antisemitism was so powerful it reached back in time and banished him to The Phantom Zone (which is what I call the Davos circuit because it's full of loving intergalactic war criminals)
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Dec 2, 2019 20:06
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Dec 3, 2019 09:05
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Brown Moses posted:The article states the source of the documents posted by Labour appears to be the same as the documents posted by the accounts associated with the earlier Russian disinformation, The evidence for this is that it was posted on Reddit and had spelling mistakes. That's it. And based on that the entire media class (which now includes you whether you like it or not) are using it in an attempt to make it easier for billionaires to get richer at the expense of the poorest.
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Dec 3, 2019 09:54
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Junior G-man posted:I think I've found the purest expression of LibDemmery and Brexit hivemind: Her greatest Christmas wish is that her own party is still in opposition, lol. Even piss diamonds recognise that a Jo; is as electable as a dead squirrel.
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Dec 3, 2019 10:23
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Necrothatcher posted:I love Twitter sometimes. I made fun of John Rentou, he got all shirty about it and has now been dogpiled by people calling him an irrelevant arsehole. I got massive numbers (I mean, by my standards - a hundred or so likes) for this: https://twitter.com/CouncilCulture/status/1201565738500276227 I think I finally understand how people get addicted to that place now.
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Dec 3, 2019 16:59
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Holy moly. Labour have been carpet-bombing this seat - and admittedly there's been a huge glut of volunteers (myself included) because of the Chuka Factor - but this is impressive and bodes pretty nicely for Chingford (IDS' seat) where they've been pushing similarly hard.
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Dec 3, 2019 17:10
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Barry Foster posted:Get a hit of that sweet, sweet internet dopamine, didja? Yeah, it's the worldwide nature of it - slapping someone around here (or even on Facebook) doesn't end up with a hundred people, most of whom I've never met/interacted with, hitting a little Skinner Box button for me. Or possibly it does and this is just the first time in my two decades of posting that I've actually done something people like.
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Dec 3, 2019 17:17
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xtothez posted:Is that survey for one seat or an average for all of London? I got the impression it's the latter. Oh yeah, you're probably right - confusingly Chuka is standing in a seat called Cities of London and Westminster, I just saw those two words and had a schadengasm.
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Dec 3, 2019 17:21
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Tesseraction posted:Nah I think you're getting wires crossed. It's the London-wide voting intention (they poll this separately sometimes) for the Westminster election. That's different from the Cities of London and Westminster which is staunchly Tory. Not that staunchly, Labour were only 3k votes back at the last election and it's mahoosively Remain.
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Dec 3, 2019 17:24
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Azza Bamboo posted:I wonder if Chukka is done, though. I just think he might try to suck Lib Dem dick for the next 5 years and throw himself into an LD marginal somewhere come 2024 with a media fanfare about the radical centrist who wouldn't quit. Nah he'll be in Davos before they've taken the Polling Station signs down. He'll pop up in the spring like a daffodil in charge of a dark-money think tank with a name like The Institute For Societal Progress, explaining how actually fossil fuels companies are the only ones who can save us from global warming.
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Dec 3, 2019 17:30
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Lord of the Llamas posted:If I want to register a domain name just for email which I can preferably manage through gmail what's the best option goons? Godaddy work for me.
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Dec 3, 2019 19:55
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Barry Foster posted:I don't speak cat very well, when they do that (rubbin' up all on your leg or hand or whatever) does that mean that they like you, or that they're claiming you, or both? Both. They're trying to make you smell like them as a way of bringing you into their gang. Also they want to make sure you have to interact with them because otherwise you'll just trip over them.
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Dec 4, 2019 18:17
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Jose posted:they're also being cunts because they always pick me over everyone else near them to do it since they know i'm allergic to them i'm sure I can't remember the exact details but there's something in the body language of people who are nervous about cats that, in cat body language, says "Hey man, you seem cool, come over and talk". It's also possible that they are in fact just cunts.
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Dec 4, 2019 18:19
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Tesseraction posted:Who was it? They deleted the tweet already Nancy Astor.  Here's my cat being a oval office. Looked away for a second before dusting that table and he's up there giving me the "Excuse me, if you didn't want me sitting here then why is it in the sun?" look. Cats are definitely Tories. goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 18:25 on Dec 4, 2019 |
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feedmegin posted:Soooo my wife just got a job at the University of East London, Dockland campus. Which means I'm going to be looking for a job and we're going to be moving to that sort of area (I'm a senior level embedded Linux snuggler, so not too worried about finding something, hopefully) Don't we have a goon that lives there? what's the low down? gently caress off we're full.
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feedmegin posted:Soooo my wife just got a job at the University of East London, Dockland campus. Which means I'm going to be looking for a job and we're going to be moving to that sort of area (I'm a senior level embedded Linux snuggler, so not too worried about finding something, hopefully) Don't we have a goon that lives there? what's the low down? Slightly more helpfully, assuming the campus you mean is the one down by Cyprus, you're not short of places to live around there - personally though I'd try for somewhere a little further away to save yourself a shitload of money and have a half-decent chance of having decent local amenities (all the stuff in that area is new-build and soulless as hell), and also to get out of the flight path of City Airport (and the smell path of the Beckton Sewage Works - there's some seriously cheap housing around Gallion's Reach which they won't let you view at certain times of day because the whole area reeks of poo poo just before high tide). Look for stuff in Silvertown/North Woolwich (other side of the dock, 10-15 minute walk to UEL, good DLR links to the centre of town) or up in Beckton proper (nicer area, less well-connected unless you're right by the DLR). Failing that, if you're going to be working around the City and your missus doesn't mind a bus journey, Plaistow, Upton Park and Forest Gate are still cheap as balls (by local standards) with nice local shops and parks, 20 minutes by bus to UEL and half an hour tube to the centre of town. e: Now I think of it, I'm fairly sure UEL are moving a load of stuff out to Stratford fairly soon (there's big hoardings saying so just by the stadium at least) so Forest Gate or Plaistow would be excellent hedges in case they suddenly decide to move her there. goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 19:03 on Dec 4, 2019 |
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Azza Bamboo posted:I can't cry and it sucks. Even when no one's around I just get an ache in my jaw and a cramp in my neck when I know I could be crying. It's not healthy or useful, it's probably more distracting and time consuming than crying would be. There's times where the only range in my expression is in just how wide and strained my military esque flat smile is. For various reasons I've always been the one who keeps it together when stuff's really bad, maybe because most of the rest of my family are loving drama queens. Then I let it out when I feel like it's "safe" to do so, but of course by that point I've made it impossible to actually react to The Thing, whatever it is, because I've clamped right down on it. Instead I have a collection of triggers ready to open the gates - certain songs will do it, not because they're sad in themselves but because they can do an end-run around the defences I've put up in my head. For example I barely feel a flicker thinking about my parents funerals, but "When You Were Sweet Sixteen" turns me into a blubbering wreck immediately because my mum and dad both loved that song and it was a fixture in my dad's car stereo, and hearing it puts me right back in the back seat of that lovely old Lada cringing with embarrassment at the pair of them singing along to it at the top of their lungs. I'm aware this probably isn't the healthiest way of dealing with things but at the same time I feel almost like it's a safety valve for my emotions, and the consequences when I've not been able to release them have been pretty unpleasant for me and those around me.
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OwlFancier posted:That actually sounds like a perfectly good way to do it, as long as you know when you need to do it there's nothing at all wrong with that. The bugger is when you know you need to do it, you want to do it, but you don't have the ability. It took me far too long to find this way of dealing with it, and to be honest I'm annoyed that I spent so long *not* being able to reset my demons (to nick TFTM's phrase), and it just makes me feel all the more empathy for people who, for whatever reason, just can't.
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OwlFancier posted:Islamic golden age didn't happen lol. Islam never invented anything, allow me to prove it with algebra.
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Dec 4, 2019 21:09
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Braggart posted:Nah, salt was expensive. Wasn't it actually something like they knocked down some flood defences/brine ponds which did gently caress up a couple of fields, which is where the legend came from?
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Dec 4, 2019 23:41
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Barry Foster posted:So many people will die between now and 2024 though. The tories are probably doomed, but it's going to be catastrophic in the meantime We will be well on the way to, if not already at, full fascism by that point. We're giving the people the choice between socialism and barbarism and they're loving hurling themselves at barbarism because otherwise they might have to pay a little bit more tax.
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I think the reason I feel so much lower than I did this time in 2017 is I'm much more invested in it. There seemed no hope at all in 2017 and I could just ride the wave of gallows humour and lol nothing matters. This time round - thanks to 2017 - I've reason to hope, and as such have put a lot more of myself both physically and mentally into it, which means that the attacks against Labour feel much more like an attack against me personally, so they sap the spirit in a way they couldn't before. There's also - as a white, middle aged, middle class cishet male - that tiny little voice that says "Hey, don't worry, you're coming out ahead no matter what". That was a feeling I could drown in macho irony* when I was detached from things, but with a personal investment it's a lot loving louder this time round, and I absolutely hate myself for it. Don't mind me, just venting some stuff - I always find actually writing it down makes me able to realise how silly this poo poo actually sounds. Vote Labour, gently caress the Tories of all stripes, and solidarity to all. * I loving love that phrase and reading it was worth the 30 bucks I paid the SubGenius alone, even without the guarantee of personal salvation or TRIPLE YOUR MONEY BACK.
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Laura K's face when she was reading out the results of the exit poll will be my happy place for a long, long time.
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Dec 5, 2019 11:31
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Jel Shaker posted:She could prerecord the next ten years of the things with just variations of the same banality. She never names names or outs perverts  Maybe that's what she's already done
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Link? I'm not sure I've seen this and i must https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuA4gi8_SFc&t=323s
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Dec 5, 2019 12:30
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forkboy84 posted:Same but that oval office Kinnock's face. Oh god yeah. I've said it before but the tableau of his wife (who presumably is a rather more skilled political operator than him, having been PM of Denmark rather than a loving Welsh Hapsburg) glaring at him as his perfectly smooth brain attempts to process what has happened is *exactly* like a man who's just driven his car into a river looking for a shortcut to Ikea, despite his wife telling him for 10 miles that he was heading in the wrong direction: 
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Hmm I'd watched that one but she didn't look particularly upset (though she certainly wasn't beaming) - do you have a timestamp perchance? It's cued up to it - maybe I'm projecting a bit but she look to me like someone has just taken a poo poo on the desk in front of her and she's having to pretend it's not there.
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