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marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

Oh hey there's been a new thread for a few days and 15 pages, happy new year goons. It's really loving me up that Blade Runner was last year now.

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marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

If invading Iran is such a bad idea, why did Stalin join us the last time we did it?

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

Yeah we will participate in the Iran war no matter how embarrassingly small our contribution is.

Remember in Libya when Cameron was doing his war leader statesman routine, Great Britain still striding the world like a colossus, and there were like two British planes taking part.

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

Trying to run an authoritarian state but you have cut all the spies, police and soldiers

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

How the gently caress do you get a suicide vest in prison lmao

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

Bacon Terrorist posted:

If RLB is further to the left than Rayner though and Rayner openly disagrees with RLB on policy it's another stick to beat the party with that distracts from the Tory poo poo show.

RLB and Rayner literally share a flat, I'm pretty sure they can get along.

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

OwlFancier posted:

I'm not sure what the point of having a deputy leader is if they're just going to do what the leader tells them to do.

It's just for standing in for the leader when needed and to balance the ticket, it's never been an important job. I don't know why you would want one who disagrees with the leader? We have had a few years of that and it hasn't ended well!

kustomkarkommando posted:

You know who else used to share a flat - Len McCluskey and Tom Watson

:eyepop:

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

Katt posted:

What's this royal family schism I keep hearing about?

they threw meghan under the bus to distract from william's affair and andrew raping children

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

Bardeh posted:

By the time Brenda finally snuffs it Charles will be pushing 80. Would it be some sort of constitutional problem for him to pass the crown straight to William? I mean, he won't, but is he allowed to?

He could abdicate like his great uncle did

Judge Tesla posted:

First I'd heard of this! Queenie must be having a fit.

only foreign press have reported on it because our press are scared of pissing off the queen and losing access lol

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

So Starmer is going to get rid of anti-semitism in the Labour party. Wonder what the gently caress that means 🤔

TBH the more he says the more I'm suspicious of him. I'm not really sure who I would vote for if I was in Labour.

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

Pantsmaster Bill posted:

Oh great my MP is saying Ash Sarkar should be banned from joining Labour

For what reason?

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

WhatEvil posted:

https://twitter.com/ThangamMP/status/1216029352309248006?s=20

Because she said she's "literally a communist" apparently that means she supports the communist party and therefore shouldn't be allowed as a Labour member.

Lol.


Lol this is well thought through, given the backgrounds of numerous Labour right figures, like Mandelson.

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

The twitter right is trying to cancel Owen Jones again-

https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1216336643168272386

https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1216336645814915072

I find twitter pretty annoying as a completely unknown random person, I dunno how people like him and Ash Sarkar manage it.

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

From the graun-

quote:

'Festival of Brexit' boss says £120m event will prove the cynics wrong
Martin Green vows to bring nation together with ‘a bit of joy and hope and happiness’

It has been mocked and pilloried as a “festival of Brexit”, but the newly appointed boss of the £120m nationwide celebration planned for 2022 has said he is going to embrace the cynics – and prove them wrong.

In his first interview as the director of Festival 2022, Martin Green said the aims would be to bring the nation together, showcase British creativity and on a basic level bring some “joy, hope and happiness”.

The idea of a post-Brexit festival of Britain was announced by Theresa May in May 2018 and given the go-ahead by Boris Johnson last year.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jan/12/festival-of-brexit-boss-120m-event-will-prove-cynics-wrong-martin-green?CMP=share_btn_tw

lol are they really still going to do the festival of brexit, loving christ

:suicide:

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

https://twitter.com/emmaburnell_/status/1216349429843841024?s=21

:eyepop:

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

It's just completely batshit. Owen Jones is so inoffensive.

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

endlessmonotony posted:

Borrovan's statement is the starting point of my point and they're mutually compatible (and indeed, largely the same).

You seem to be replying to the individual posts which means you're viewing the statements out of context and indeed they don't make any sense whatsoever that way but I'll be hosed if I'm rewriting all of that for every post. People barely read my posts as is.

What?

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006


I wasn't joking, I genuinely can't parse what you are trying to say.

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

I'm going to predict that, since every candidate has signed up to these guidelines, Corbyn is going to be kicked out the Labour party by the end of the year.

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

Was it her detective book that had the thinly veiled Corbyn stand-in?

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

Oh dear me posted:

Why does everyone have to be the same as you? There are lots of things to enjoy in the world that do not involve long-distance travel.

If you saw me writing 'How sad!' whenever people express a lack of interest in bel canto opera, you'd recognize I was being an arse, I think.

It's pretty depressing to see people limiting their horizons like that. The world is full of exciting and interesting places.

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006


Context?

Oh dear me posted:

Our own localities are full of exciting and interesting things to do, including things that are a lot more useful than lying on a beach or taking 'I was here!' photographs, and our lives are not long enough to do all of them. Travel might easily be something people do because they're unimaginative, or do not stretch themselves enough to achieve anything more difficult.

Nah it's really cool to go somewhere new, rather than to some shithole in the UK. Im glad I went to Germany last year rather than Middlesborough.

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

Oh dear me posted:

I'm incredibly glad I went to see L'assedio di Calais, but I don't loving sneer at people who'd rather not.

I'm not sneering at anyone for fucks sake.

Well maybe rolling my eyes at you a bit for making me look up what L'assedio di Calais is.

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

I was bitten by a tick once and I was convinced I was going to die of Lyme disease for about six months afterwards

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

The space poors were also space Irish

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

I also used to get all old man about no headphone jacks but I got some bluetooth earbuds for £20 a while back and would not go back to wired ones.

Also probably works out cheaper since wired ones always die on me after a couple months.

Saros posted:

If the yanks get their own socialist grandpa after we binned ours so thoroughly I don't know how i'll feel.

:unsmith:

They will a million percent re-elect Trump.

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

forkboy84 posted:

Yes, having to waste phone battery on having Bluetooth on & having to remember to charge up my headphones which don't have a nice long cable to keep them attached to my device so they don't get lost, great thing.

Never mind the cost of the things relative to the decent enough earbuds you can get which you won't lose instantly.

I once had these exact opinions, and then I actually used some bluetooth ones and realised I was totally wrong. Also bluetooth uses less phone battery than wired headphones do.

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

Chuff McNothing posted:



My cats about to be put down and I'm too far away and can't be there to give him a hug and a goodbye and tell him he's my favourite person.

I'm sorry about your cat :smith:

My mum's cat and my sister's cats are all very old now and I worry about them.

Venomous posted:

Only if (a) they run anyone other than Bernie (b) enough libs hold their nose and vote for Trump, because liberals hate socialists more than fascists

I can't see any Dem beating him. I remember 2004, I was so convinced there was no way the American public were dumb enough to re-elect this fucker. Now I realise I was the one being dumb, to think that.

Also surely the Libs would just stay home, they aren't going to vote Trump.

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

I'm surprised that nominating Owen Smith doesn't seem to a dealbreaker for many posters ITT (iirc RLB and Thornberry are the only candidates who remained loyal to Corbyn)

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

Jippa posted:

I got about 10 mins in and gave up. Was he really hungover or something I couldn't even figure out what point he was trying to make?

Limmy doesn't drink and he is perfectly coherent in that video? I don't know where you get hungover from.

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

Look I know people itt don't like it when people say gently caress the english, but i'm going to say it on brexit day of all days. gently caress the english

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

At least 53% of them anyway

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

Does anyone itt have actual brexit celebrations going on near them?

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

Josef bugman posted:

In London so technically? But I do not think so.

it feels weird that there is so little visible celebration for the thing that so many have been obsessively pushing for these past few years. we hit the point of no return and all I have seen is a few smug tweets

Strom Cuzewon posted:

I'm watching QT

don't do this to yourself. nothing good can come from this

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

ThomasPaine posted:

Oh poo poo is the brexit bong happening in London because if so I'm going on safari

i don't think the crowdfunding for that met its target

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

It raised £272k, but the idea was nixed anyway because it would f*k up the works going on (New Year's eve had been scheduled in).
The money raised is being donated to Help for Heroes.

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/big-ben-brexit-bong-crowdfunding-gofundme-money-raised-help-for-heroes-1377041

lol of course it goes to help for heroes, jesus christ

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

help for heroes don't give our cowardly troops the help they need

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

i was going to condemn help for heroes for selling childrens clothes with "future soldier" on them, but that was actually the poppy people

marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

Ratjaculation posted:

can you still become a ghost if you are cremated?

yes, you only need your body intact if you want to get into heaven

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marktheando
Nov 4, 2006

Gort posted:

The hell? So like, if you got blown to bits or eaten by a pack of wolves or something then it's bad luck, off to Limbo for you?

look if god wanted us to donate organs he would have made them detachable

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