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I have made two resolutions for this year. The first is to get a comic script published, ideally in 2000AD. The second is to get over my social anxiety / nonverbal tendencies and go on the podcast, especially since my wife wildly overshot with my christmas gift and got me an entry level professional quality microphone 
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No, but the Tories and right wing press will pretend they are, which is I think what he was getting at.
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Grey Hunter posted:The next Labor leader has to be able to stand up and hammer home the fact that with a massive majority, everything that goes wrong from this point on is the Tories fault. 2) Promise to reverse all of the poo poo the Tories just did. Like you say, the Tories are going to blast the 'now we have control' message and Labour needs to co-opt that to highlight every single horror and power home how they did this, they chose to do this etc - cut off the 'oh but the eu / courts / lords wouldn't let us' bullshit. Unfortunately I feel like post-brexit, the disaster capitalists who are now in charge will just invent a new disaster that they tie themselves to, and create another 'you have to vote for us otherwise we lose the nhs / the trade deal with the US / the glow cloud will kill us all.' But for either of those two initial options to work, as you say we need a Labour party screaming from the rooftops about every single gently caress up the tories make in short, easy to understand slogans. Might I recommend 'Boris screwed brexit' as a starter? It forces him into a position where it feels true, and to refute it he has to go into details which people won't understand. Kind of using the 'never play defence' alt-right tactic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmVkJvieaOA
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Jan 2, 2020 14:42
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New Crusader Kings: Modern Warfare expansion fully kickstarted then. E: bog 
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Jan 3, 2020 05:25
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forkboy84 posted:I don't know how anyone who has looked at a topographical map of Iran can think this is a good place to invade.
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^^^ A ton of which we'll end up getting, us being easy to lump in with the US as 'the english speaking rich white assholes' and us being easier to reach. Smeef posted:It's really weird to read his posts because there are references to genuinely interesting ideas and things, but then you take a step back and realize none of the interesting poo poo is relevant, and it's all an insane hodgepodge that could drat well be right off the conspiracy-theory cork board of Alex Jones. Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 12:40 on Jan 3, 2020 |
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Jan 3, 2020 12:38
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Not so much the 'roaring twenties' as the 'continuous wail of existential anguish twenties.'
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Jan 3, 2020 13:45
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Braggart posted:"You know, I was raised to hate cats, but you seem pretty alright!" said Jessflips the upwardly mobile mouse.
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Jan 3, 2020 17:09
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Pesky Splinter posted:Shocking revelations about Phillips, from a colleague of the missing hard-hitting journalist, Wurrance Telephene.
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Jan 3, 2020 23:58
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Azza Bamboo posted:Where I live they've installed a system that seizes up one of the wheels on the trolley if it goes outside of a certain boundary.
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Jan 4, 2020 13:57
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Guavanaut posted:Have they asked Jo Swinson?
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Jan 4, 2020 19:35
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Cool cool cool glad this was uncovered in time https://twitter.com/PeterStefanovi2/status/1213059714252247040?s=19
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Chuka Umana posted:https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/jess-phillips-willing-to-fight-for-britain-to-rejoin-eu-w7f86xbh0
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Jan 5, 2020 15:52
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For maximum hilarity, stupidity elemental Cum Dommies advises Boris to side with Iran.
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Jan 5, 2020 20:22
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We should move to a position whereby tweetman can only be mentioned / posted with permission of ik, and any discussion of it must be cleared by same. Anyone breaking this rule is given an avatar and name change to Francis Rossi of Status Quo, which they can't change for a month.
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Jan 6, 2020 18:20
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ThomasPaine posted:Corbyn should stand again for maximum lol value Worth it to see all the loving melts faces though.
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Jan 6, 2020 21:50
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The main thing about the Sinaga situation is that it's a great case to staple to the forehead of any twat who says things about women deserving it because they were drunk. It's horrible that you have to go that far to get these people to actually feel empathy but there it is. Also go RLB, the politics of Corbyn and the anger of Skinner, just what Labour needs.
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Jan 7, 2020 03:19
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It's a good game. The rich are centuries dead, killed in a worker uprising. In that expansion, you are fighting against new money / capitalism to free a revolutionary space union. You can build drat near everything by just grinding components and waiting a day. It has hoverboards and ship-to-ship combat and an engine capable of going from one to the other. The major drawback is that it's almost completely impenetrable for new players. They keep saying they're going to revamp the new player experience with a more cinematic intro, but at the moment it's kind of do intro > no guidance.
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Jan 7, 2020 14:01
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Miftan posted:Jess Phillips said "this isn't just about me"? Who is this doppelgänger? what does he want
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Jan 7, 2020 14:09
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jaete posted:Hilariously enough I'm not sure even that is sufficient. Johnson is planning to ask for a deal that includes goods but not services, and I don't think EU will try to impose a more comprehensive deal on him The alternative is that he's going to continue to ask the eu for the impossible and run out the clock into no-deal territory. I'm personally hoping he is lovely in the former rather than the latter sense.
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Lobster God posted:Definitely ring them. Some unis may have a specialist number for mature students (not always obvious on web site) so have a dig for that or phone UG admissions and ask if they have a specialist team. I had 3 attempts at the first year of uni back around the millennium, and failed all 3. The first two attempts from dropping out through anxiety, then had a year working full-time, then another attempt after being diagnosed with dyspraxia but being told the uni / LEA had no support policy for that. Cut to 2008, I'm signed off work with chronic RSI, I decide to contact the uni for advice about if it's possible to go back as a mature student. If I remember correctly, it was after talking to someone who worked at the uni, who said most mature students are accepted based on portfolios rather than qualifications. I applied, and got through basically by contacting the heads of creative writing and sending them samples of the stuff I'd written. Thankfully the LEA agreed to fund me because of what they called 'a litany of failures' on their end over disability support, but if I hadn't had the previous attempts it's very much a 'If the uni will have you we'll fund it' sort of situation. I don't really know if this would work for a STEM degree though if that's what CoolCab is more interested in. I do know that from the perspective of the LEA everyone is entitled to gently caress up a year, so if he's just looking to just doss about for 4 years as an undergrad, then that is definitely a viable route. I'll admit though the thing I took away from that article about the manc rapist guy was the fact that he was described as a "perpetual student." I'd loving love to be a perpetual student, it's the only thing i've ever been any good at. About what time of year would I need to start thinking about PHD applications? I have several ideas, and thankfully my uni's creative writing department's idea for a pitch is 'write a book.' I'm just unsure about how to even approach the funding side of it.
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RottenK posted:that's what ppj and his defenders claim but lol if you still trust anything ppj says
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Or serenity RPG but with the alt-whedonverse theory where buffy / angel / cabin in the woods & firefly are all part of the same continuity?
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Speaking of weird sexual things, the new podcast's up. https://twitter.com/PraxisCast/status/1208394261445664768?s=19
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Jan 11, 2020 01:40
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Alertrelic posted:I don't like the way he writes dialogue because its infected everything. Bioware went from BG2 to making glorified pansexual dating simulators. Whedonism was part of this rot.
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Jan 11, 2020 16:08
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Keir gives off very powerful "Hey guys, Mr Starmer's my dad, call me Keir" vibes, but at least he's vocally saying he's pro-radical and pro-trains.
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Jan 11, 2020 20:56
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OwlFancier posted:I played the original dragon age after neverwinter nights so I was just sad that they turned my cool ridiculously comprehensive dnd 3.5 simulation into a weird edgy thing with simplified mechanics and some really loving
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Jan 12, 2020 02:14
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plot points and I stopped playing it about three quarters of the way through because I just hated it.
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Jan 12, 2020 13:26
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The BoD stuff does seem like a stealth ratfuck given that their members don't have to be Jewish or Labour, so the conservatives could basically pad them out whenever a Labour MP strays left of the graun. Are their any other organisations that actually represent Labour Jewish members that we could implement instead? Not that it'd make any difference.
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Jan 12, 2020 18:47
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Private Speech posted:We better spend a couple dozen more million on the royals.
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Jan 14, 2020 17:52
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I am pretty sure I've seen exhibitionist porn filmed on that exact spot. OwlFancier posted:Headline much improved if you remove the HMS.
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Can't believe we could have a discussion about the best place to poop without including thread favourite the british train station.
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Jan 16, 2020 14:31
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Haven't caught up with the thread, but 1) Rarity, if you need a new handset I have a spare Xperia X I can send you free of charge, 2) Can someone just check podcast Rob is OK and that we keep any Polly Toynbee articles away from him? 
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KOGAHAZAN!! posted:So, having done a fair bit of door-knocking myself, the number of voters who can name a member of the shad cab is a tiny fraction. The number that could name one that isn't McDonnell or Abbott is a vanishing fraction of that. The idea that there exists out there a statistically significant portion of the electorate that a) know who Starmer is and b) like him well enough that him being in charge would flip their vote stretches credulity past breaking point. I think what people are talking about with Starmer is that if you showed an uninformed voter a photo of him, RLB and Jessflips, they'd say Starmer by a country mile. RLB is trying to connect with informed voters (who tend to be the ones who vote in things like party leadership elections), Phillips is trying to do the publicity circuit and get her name out there associated with her ey-oop shtick, but I think a lot of Starmer's appeal is coming from Guardian readers glancing at a photo of him and thinking he seems nice (because they don't want to risk actually reading anything about Labour incase they catch antisemitism). Some of the centrists and FBPEs will know his name because of his association with remain, but red wall voters (who are angry about labour issues but generally don't pay attention to politics) won't know who he is, just that he looks ministerial. I think a ton of it comes down to looks.
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Seperate issue - who do I contact about getting on the star wars episode of the podcast? So far I've not really pursued it because I haven't really felt knowledgeable enough to contribute, but this is very much in my wheelhouse and frankly if I don't do it for this episode I will probably never muster the will.
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Pilchenstein posted:We recorded that on sunday unfortunately.
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Jan 17, 2020 15:45
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Rarity posted:I got home from work and it's taken 45 mind to come out of sleep mode and it's still not usable. How is a new computer this poo poo? Leave it updating overnight, delete any bloatware, and then give it a couple of restarts, see how fast it is. If you're not happy then return it. Or Ms Adequate posted:Start guillotining people.
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Jan 18, 2020 01:05
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jess phillips is spice, a piss poor attempt to artificially mellow people out which instead enrages everyone it comes in contact with and destroys communities
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ThomasPaine posted:'My being a white man is an immutable characteristic I can't help so saying that lends me privilege is being racist, checkmate lib' is without a doubt one of the stupidest takes I have heard for a while, and it's depressing how much applause he got (though not surprising). It's essentially him going "No it isn't, Britane is grate, la la la la shut up."
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Bleedin' immigrants leaving the country. 
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