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Happy New Year UKMT, may this decade be less dreadful than the last one. It has to be, right? Anyway, enough of that, going to go back to reading terrible fiction.
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crispix posted:It's poo poo anyway mate nothing happens. Some bellends setting off fireworks that sound like WWI artillery shells being fired at midnight is so cool.
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Jan 1, 2020 13:46
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escapegoat posted:Good idea to use a funnel to aid bean insertion. Wait, you're meant to take the beans out of the can? And there was me just putting the whole tin of beans in.
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Jan 1, 2020 13:53
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Angepain posted:this thread has broken me, I didn't even consider the interpretation of this cartoon where the guy ate the beans until looking at it twice I didn't even consider it until I read this post. Thought a card where a guy shoves tins of beans up his bum was a bit niche but it's the Internet. I was out for a walk and it's 7 degrees but with a loving nasty wind coming from the north. Anyway, walking down the beach path I see a bloke in a kilt, normal length socks, shoes and nowt else. Cutting about bare chested in that wind, he made me feel cold just looking at him.
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Jan 1, 2020 15:46
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mila kunis posted:I hate the Guardian a lot. Is there an actual good place to go for UK news? Not really.
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Jan 2, 2020 05:04
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Jose posted:Skipping a lot of posts to say Bloodborne is one of the best games ever and there is nothing wrong with this I wish I had even a tenth of the patience needed to enjoy one of those From games.
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Jan 2, 2020 13:22
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WhatEvil posted:Oh cool yeah thanks I'll check them out. Feels like the melts are really getting behind Keir.
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Jan 3, 2020 00:44
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Chuka Umana posted:I'm looking for a word or phrase that can encapsulate how I view today's politics. I see it as a constant barrage of awful things, but instead of it coming in dramatic change it's mostly become banal and too unnoticeable a at first for people to care. I need a word for both banal and awful. You got them late-capitalism blues.
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Jan 3, 2020 01:43
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Sure seems like it would've been a good time to have a pro-peace Prime Minister but never mind. I'm sure Boris won't do something staggeringly stupid like leap into helping America in Iran.
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Jan 3, 2020 04:49
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Algol Star posted:People will be imagining a repeat of the Iraq war as well. As bad as that would be, war with Iran will be awful on a whole other level. We should have no part in it but I imagine Johnson is stupid enough to believe the US right's propaganda. I don't know how anyone who has looked at a topographical map of Iran can think this is a good place to invade. It's like Afghanistan but loving huge. I swear "Alexander did it, so can I" is about the extent of it. But then I don't understand much about this world anymore
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Jan 3, 2020 05:26
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Bobby Deluxe posted:The military industrial complex wants a nice, long drawn-out conflict, not a short one. The harder it is to invade, the more toys they get to sell It's such poor politics though. The death count will make Iraq look like a cakewalk and we don't have a military that can hack casualties like that. Never mind, there's wrestling on, The Best of the Best Kento Miyahara is in the ring, Donald Trump trying to start World War 3 isn't ruining this. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 05:52 on Jan 3, 2020 |
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Jan 3, 2020 05:44
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https://twitter.com/SolHughesWriter/status/1213051616691204096?s=20 Imagine being more worthless than Jess Phillips. Imagine having a worse response to a literal act of war than her. Honestly, there's not a lot to be optimistic about in the current bout of Labour leadership candidates.
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Jan 3, 2020 11:58
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ThomasPaine posted:Weetman is currently furiously retweeting a bunch of 'actually it was good to blow up the Iranian general' takes, good to see the melts not even bothering to pretend anymore Blairite has a bloodlust for war. Whodda thunk it?
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Jan 3, 2020 13:57
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Isomermaid posted:The the state of the whole HIGNFY, Private Eye, gently caress it, even latter era Python sneering type of satire is woeful to behold, getting less funny, more dated, and a shitload less USEFUL than it used to be, and it's entirely down to loving pickled boomer-to-gen-x sensibilities that have failed to adapt to the times. If you've never seen the John Cleese advert for the Liberal/SDP Alliance, don't watch it.
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Jan 3, 2020 18:58
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I have been watching wrestling since 5am
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Jan 5, 2020 09:20
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https://twitter.com/hodakatebi/status/1213884280239087616?s=20 America is a hell of a country.
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Jan 6, 2020 14:47
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https://twitter.com/Lokinash06/status/1214190932326789120?s=20 A whole thread on Nick Cohen, sex pest.
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Jan 6, 2020 15:30
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OwlFancier posted:Never got the place tbh given I only really post here and games. Post in Rowdy Ring Sports. It's good. njsykora posted:Lavery's being smart it seems. The party left might end up actually getting behind a single candidate. Someone tell me how that Rachel Swindon character has taken this news because just today she was raving about RLB being a stooge of Jon Lansman.
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Jan 7, 2020 00:50
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HJB posted:Populous. loving Populous. I take it all back, patriotism is the devil's own anus. Populous was great.
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Jan 7, 2020 12:17
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The Question IRL posted:Meanwhile over in Ireland, the Government has just announced that the commemoration planned for the Royal Irish Constabulary/Dublin Metropolitan Police service has been cancelled due to public backlash. I'm really grateful to the Irish government for giving us some fun, light news at this time. Like being Irish politicians and apparently not knowing what the Black & Tans were.
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Jan 7, 2020 21:02
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CyberPingu posted:The NY Times Daily podcast did a good summary of him yesterday, tldr, he was seen as "the guy" to a lot of what we consider terrorist organisations. When his mother died a couple of years ago. The leaders of Hezbollah, ISIS and a couple of others all turned up to show their gratification towards him and pay respects, which is pretty odd according to the journalist who was reporting on this. No, the "leaders" of ISIS did not turn up at his mum's funeral, what the gently caress are you talking about? 1) ISIS hate the Shia barely less than they hate Yazidi, Christians, Jews or anyone else that isn't a loving maniacal Wahhabist. 2) Soleimani was the point man for the Iranian operations AGAINST ISIS in Iraq & Syria. If this actually came from the New York Time Daily podcast then that's a spectacular reason to not listen to what must be some seriously misinformed trash. I'd not bother listening to it, you'd get more accurate information from an episode of Cumtown. He's a military leader. Specifically the leader of a special operations group that does clandestine ops & military intelligence gathering in other countries (one which US General McChrystal described as a combination of the CIA & Joint Special Operations Command). He'd have ordered a lot of poo poo that is bad. But he's no different to military leaders in this country or the States. Generally speaking armies do bad poo poo, but unless you're at war brazenly assassinating a leading general is not done. It's kind of an act of war. Also lol at the idea they didn't know what they were doing. He was a high ranking army official.
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Jan 8, 2020 13:05
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Miftan posted:I am Mike Pence and you claim my £5? Just assume the worst at every turn, you won't go wrong. Why Morris dancing? Probably something to do with a genocide in India.
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Jan 8, 2020 13:32
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CoolCab posted:kinda wanna gently caress around and go to uni. if I apply for Scotland I can't do a foundation year, is that right? this stuff is very confusing and I don't know if it's worth trying and its anxiety provoking Been a bit since I looked but I know Strathclyde & Aberdeen did straight up foundation years. Your other option is doing a SWAP course for a year (Scottish Wider Access Programme) at a college & then going to uni. Plus I know that Glasgow Uni & Edinburgh Uni both had their own Access courses aimed at mature students wanting to get into those unis. Theoretically they could be used for a different uni but you'd need to speak to admissions departments etc, they are designed to get you into that university. CyberPingu posted:Ok i got that slightly wrong, the people who attended were: " the who’s who event of every militant group in the Middle East" *proceeds to name 3 groups that we already know are closely aligned* Yes, Iran funds groups who support Iran's geopolitical goals. Shock horror, Shia theocracy is very supportive of Shia groups around the Middle East. Much like neoliberal America funds groups who support its geopolitical goals.
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Jan 8, 2020 14:41
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Miftan posted:What big union leadership isn't these days? I mean yeah but my mam was in Unison until retirement and she loving hated them. They were a useless shower of melts.
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Jan 8, 2020 16:31
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Josef bugman posted:Has anyone else been reading some new books in the new year? I have gone back to terrible Tom Clancy books which are empty dumb page turners that should probably have everyone who buys them put on a watchlist for lunatic right-wingers.
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Jan 8, 2020 23:49
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Josef bugman posted:See I have never found Tom Clancy fun to read, it might turn pages but it also puts you to sleep. There are definitely segments that put me to sleep, the parts you can assume Clancy enjoyed writing the most, coz you can tell he got a rip-roaring hard on every time he lovingly describes so piece of military hardware. That was a man whose copies of Jane regularly had the pages stuck together. But the pew-pew-pew action just puts me in mind of some of the absolute dreck I watch on TV like NCIS and because it's so far outside of my own world I just find it amusingly dumb. I think part of it is that a lot of the time I read books that are quite dry histories so taking a break to gorge on absolutely shameless trash is a nice change of pace. There's also something about the Cold War which I really love as a background for fiction, especially poo poo written during the period, there's a whole lot of mythologising the big bad Soviet Bear that just tickles me. I would never recommend someone read them though. If I'm going to recommend fiction I'm going to recommend poo poo that makes me sound cool & smart, like Crash. Because what's cooler & smarter than people getting off on car accidents I ask you?
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Jan 9, 2020 01:24
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I don't think Clancy writes a lot of the books that come out in his name. He gets the big shiny writing on the front cover but often isn't the author. Well yeah, he's pan bread. But I've only read his early stuff that was actually written by him.
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Jan 9, 2020 01:33
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OwlFancier posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USu8vT_tfdw I really really really really want to live in a house that gets to watch this. Coz it seems like someone is ploughing through in an ill-fitting vehicle every couple of weeks at least. This is good. Crash makes a lot more sense to me now. Just laughing at how anyone in the Durham, NC area would even bother having vans or lorries at their car rental place, seems like a disaster waiting to happen. I'm assuming the bridge was built in an era where tall automobiles weren't much of a thing. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Jan 9, 2020 |
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Jan 9, 2020 01:42
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BobbyThompson posted:Honest question.. asking as a disillusioned Labour voter That's a good one.
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Jan 10, 2020 00:19
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WhatEvil posted:IIRC they said that the movie (Serenity) completed the whole of the planned story line for the however many seasons they were going to originally make... so I don't get why they'd be bringing it back. Capitalism is bad for the creative arts, as showcased by the sheer homogeneity of Hollywood films at this point. Better to revive something from 15 years ago than take a risk on something new.
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Jan 11, 2020 05:46
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Barry Shitpeas posted:I'm finding it difficult to muster much enthusiasm about any of the leadership candidates. I don't want to see the party lurch back to the centre but I feel we have to acknowledge that there are people who need to be won back over and the "continuity Corbyn" tag is already hurting RLB with those people. Maybe in 5 years she can move out of Corbyn's shadow, but if it's going to be 5 more years of sniping and rebellions, it's exhausting. If Starmer can stick to the leftist principles he's been touting then maybe he could do a "reverse Blair" and get the centrists on side with a progressive agenda, but it's difficult to tell where he's really going to land and I don't think he has the right image. So right now I'm just ABP If socialism was the right path 5 years ago, 4 years ago, 6 months ago, it's still the right thing today and will still be the right thing in 5 years time.
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Jan 11, 2020 15:05
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Niric posted:That was me- I think some people in this thread are getting too caught up in pre-emptively disliking Starmer for betraying the left by not being exactly like Corbyn. Which seems....a reasonable thing to signal in light of the election result? I have to say I've not been hugely impressed by RLB so far, which is a real shame I'm not going to support anyone letting Labour First lunatics anywhere near a position of importance in their campaign. Just nope. I get Labour is a broad church but I draw my line at neoliberals. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Jan 11, 2020 |
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Jan 11, 2020 17:22
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gh0stpinballa posted:honest q, do you think the british state would allow people to elect socialism I think that if Jeremy Corbyn-lead Labour Party had won the 2019 general election then Jeremy Corbyn would now be Prime Minister. I think if we had a popular uprising outwith a general election the state apparatus would absolutely fight it tooth & nail. I'll worry about if the state apparatus will let us in after we've proven that we can actually win over the public. But what's the alternative? Despair isn't helpful and ultimately is a self-fulfilling prophecy of failure. I continue to advocate for working outwith as well as within the Labour Party, and abandoning the Labour Party when it's no longer useful to the goal of establishing socialism is entirely valid, at least in the sense of stopping wasting energy on internal battles that can't be won even if you still keep your membership active just in case. Right now we're at a rare moment in time when the membership have a large say in the direction of the Labour Party so until that's changed by the Labour right there's still some value in it as a vehicle for pushing socialist narratives in the mainstream in away that just did not occur before 2015.
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Jan 11, 2020 20:32
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Android Blues posted:Who do people like for the leadership (out of who's actually running)? Long-Bailey person with the best socialist bona fides running. Barry the Sprout posted:I had a quick look at the potential Liberal Democrat leadership nominees and lol. Should they even bother with one? They've barely enough MPs for it to be worthwhile.
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Jan 11, 2020 20:47
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WhatEvil posted:So it's pretty obvious that RLB is the best choice of those running for leader. What do we think of Rayner? There's resentment that she isn't releasing some of her endorsement to ensure Butler gets enough nominations but she'd still be a big step up from the last Deputy Leader we had.
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Jan 11, 2020 21:38
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Darth Walrus posted:Are there any really bad Deputy Leaders on the list who we should be worried about coming close to Rayner if the left-wing vote gets split? Because if not, pushing Butler sounds like a perfectly fine idea. Rayner has plenty of nominations so no on that front, & the vote itself is done by preferential voting so just put Rayner 1, Butler 2 or Butler 1 & Rayner 2 and then it doesn't matter at all.
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Jan 11, 2020 21:45
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Jan 12, 2020 12:54
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ronya posted:it would not shock me if the next leader does whip the party to stay within the dotted lines on I/P and A/S - if the leader can grit his teeth and say that Israel has a right to exist, 1967 borders, &c, then so can the membership; people who just cannot endure going without denouncing Israel as a racist endeavour &c. might well be considered acceptable losses. There is no obvious reason why a left-wing movement that could (and did) demand compromise on core issues like austerity, immigration, nuclear disarmament, &c cannot also survive doing so on I/P... single-issuers are gonna single-issue but conversely that's how big tents work I'm not willing to compromise on the right for Palestinians to be allowed to exist. It must be wild not believing in anything, everything being some sort of abstract concept ripe for horsetrading.
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Jan 13, 2020 09:14
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I love to do philosophy
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radmonger posted:Pratchett’s Discworld started out as a literal D&D parody, with jokes that only land if you have read Pern, CS Lewis, Asimov, Conan, Leiber, etc. As someone whose fantasy experience when first read The Colour of Magic was one Michael Moorcock book my dad insisted I read as a kid I still got plenty out of Discworld despite no more than a loose cultural awareness of Conan.
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