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Who is your first pick in the deputy leadership race?
This poll is closed.
R. Allin-Khan 6 1.60%
R. Burgon 80 21.33%
D. Butler 72 19.20%
A. Rayner 35 9.33%
I. Murray 5 1.33%
P. Flaps 177 47.20%
Total: 375 votes
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sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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thespaceinvader posted:

Yup definitely experiencing a lot of anxiety bout going and Being Around People for money right now. Job starts tomorrow.

Yay(!)

Being an unemployed recluse has it's upsides :cool:
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sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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Corbyn :argh:

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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wow :geno:

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The British economy would be at most 0.16% larger by the middle of the next decade under a comprehensive trade deal with the US, the government has admitted

the official analysis also showed that a more limited trade deal with the US would deliver benefits to the UK economy worth just 0.07% by the middle of the 2030s, or about £1.4bn.

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sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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Kill the landlord and move into their house.

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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:same:

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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Why have the queen on your notes when you can have a space shuttle instead :cool:

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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Guavanaut posted:

Remember when the 'ra took them all and they had to do new ones.
It was >= £10 notes they replaced that time.

Didn't know this happened :lol:

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In February 2005, £50,000 of unused Northern Bank notes were found in five packages in the toilets of the PSNI's recreational club in Belfast. Police said the planting of the money in Newforge Lane was potentially "an elaborate prank aimed at directing attention away from the events elsewhere".

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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kustomkarkommando posted:

and flying through Belfast International is an exercise in slow torture

*Antrim International

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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quote:

New chancellor was part of team at aggressive hedge fund involved in US court case over a raid on rail freight firm

Sunak was a partner of The Children’s Investment (TCI) fund when it threatened to “go to war” with the board of the American rail freight operator CSX, where the tactics included pledging to topple the company’s board after the hedge fund had surprised directors by amassing a secret interest.

Following the campaign, CSX shares declined, prompting TCI to sell its stake and take its directors off the board.
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So glad he gets to do this on an entire country now.

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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Fine, we accept your right to speak.
What, of course we haven't written 'auditorium' on a toilet cubicle. In the basement. With no lights.

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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At least we have a new smiley in these difficult times :crnasickos:

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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Jose posted:

hadley freeman goes on and on about how trans women are predators all the time

https://twitter.com/MartinPengelly/status/1237104170181832706

Woody Allen can't be guilty as he never admitted it writing :qq:

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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Newsnight decided to get Farage on last night to talk about Coronovirus because ???

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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Guavanaut posted:

Maybe they're hoping that the communal pisspond is so filthy that it'll kill the virus.

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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At least there is some good news today

https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/1237756765782953985?s=20

die in prison you gently caress :getin:

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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peanut- posted:

Which, to be fair, might not be bad if it means the vast majority of cases are extremely mild. Though would beg the question of what has happened in Italy. Maybe pushing self-isolation during the early stages has had a big impact.

Just a bit of pneumonia, nbd.

https://twitter.com/slaskow/status/1238089104631443456?s=20

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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Only Britain Soldiers On

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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Oodles posted:

That’s a bit misleading. What about Netherlands, Finland, etc with their schools still open?

Yeah I think it's out of date already, since the football was cancelled this morning.

e: NICE

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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WHO urges countries to 'track and trace' every Covid-19 case

Advice comes day after UK decides to stop community tests and only do hospital cases
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So filled with confidence right now :tif:

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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The EU released their draft treaty for the negotiations

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Britain will have to guarantee “uniform implementation” of Brussels’s state subsidy rules while the European court of justice will hand down rulings to British courts, under the EU’s vision of the future relationship with the UK.

The draft treaty also insists that the UK will have to guarantee “non regression” on EU regulations on labour and social protection despite its withdrawal from the bloc.

On environmental standards, the EU insists that targets set by Brussels will also apply to the UK after it leaves the single market and customs union at the end of the year.

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So the exact opposite of ARE SOVEREIGNTY and we're getting no deal brexit in December.

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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The Division was giving good advice years ago.



Polish guy can ignore the second one.

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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bornbytheriver posted:

Is this being done anywhere in the UK?

Here's a picture of our pandemic response today:

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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oh my god just shut the gently caress up:

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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Soylent Yellow posted:


Edit: drat, beaten.

That too.

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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So is 'maybe don't go to pubs lol' the Do Nothing line on that graph?

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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I wonder what the [65+] figures are like now that they've learned they'll be gulaged isolated at home.

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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crispix posted:

Is the five week wait still in force for new Universal Credit claims? :/

Surely going to be record numbers signing on shortly

I went through process of signing up tonight, got to the last stage and it now says 'Sorry, the service is unavailable' :lol:

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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justcola posted:

In more international news, Kenya has the worst locust swarms in 70 years (swarms the size of cities) - can't imagine they'd migrate up here in summer but following the floods from February, this, potential wildfires again a locust swarm would be the icing on the death cake.


There's also a comet

https://twitter.com/FringeDoctor/status/1239670578136502272?s=20

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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My local Tesco has filled the toilet roll isle with easter eggs. It was worth a try but it's just made more of a mess.

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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Necrothatcher posted:

The badgers have moved the goalposts.

Wrong kind of coronavirus on the line.

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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Cool, our chief scientific adviser is just lying to MPs

quote:

A claim by Britain’s chief scientific advisor in testimony to MPs ( reported earlier) that Taiwan has been successful in containing coronavirus without closing schools is at best somewhat disingenuous, at worst inaccurate.

Taiwan was already on winter break for the Chinese Lunar New year holiday when the scale of the threat became evident to its leadership, which includes an epidemiologist, Vice President Chen Chien-jen.

In response, they extended the winter break. They also promised to extend the summer term, so holidays in July would start two weeks later and as a result children wouldn’t lose any of their classroom time.
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sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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'Anyone who urgently needs help should speak to the local authority. They have got emergency funds, (Sunak ) says.'

Lol no they don't you tory oval office.

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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:mason:

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In view of the latest UK government advice on the coronavirus pandemic, the Masons have suspended all lodge and chapter meetings within England and Wales for a period of four months, with immediate effect

gently caress, how are they going to control things from behind the scenes now?

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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Julio Cruz posted:

ah so rather than UBI they're continuing to not give a single gently caress about the unemployed, imagine my surprise

I'm looking forward to being made to apply for all the jobs that don't loving exist.

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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:hmmyes:

https://twitter.com/TenantsUnitedHP/status/1240009801075232770?s=20

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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So does this mean we are going to test people and find out who they may have infected after it peaks?

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Vallance says the measures in place should have an impact on the rate of growth of the epidemic.
You would expect the epidemic to come down. Then you can move to a phase where you test and trace.

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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The Guardian blog had this today:

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A scramble by the UK to produce thousands of ventilators to fight the coronavirus outbreak was achieving results as top companies have already produced a prototype and it should be ready for use in hospitals by the end of next week, according to Britain’s health secretary.

“More than half a dozen companies have already made one in prototype, to check with us that we are happy with the quality ,” Matt Hancock told BBC TV.

Apparently we need prototypes of something that already exists.

sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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Why buy them from Medical Ventilators Inc. when you can get Big Daves Aircon Supply to put one together out of spare parts.

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sinky
Feb 22, 2011



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:lmao:

https://twitter.com/IanWishart/status/1240898271855468545?s=20

Watch Boris refuse to extend the deadline.

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