Guavanaut posted:

Do Not Post In This Thread:

• Pissflaps
  

Maugrim posted:

He got perma'd remember

feedmegin posted:

Read that as ronya for a sec

Saros posted:

What sort of lunatic puts money in their mouth even when there isnt a Pandemic on.

OwlFancier posted:

It's gonna be real hard for me to get out of the habit of holding things with my gob.

jabby posted:

If Corbyn didn't quit Labour through the Blair years I'm pretty sure we can hang on through Starmer.

Personally I'm reserving judgement. We need to remember he's only been an MP since 2015, and despite being an Oxford grad he wasn't exactly born with a silver spoon in his mouth. I doubt he's a proper socialist at heart but from he's at least positioning himself as further left than Blair, Brown or even Miliband.

Best case? He's the palatable face and personality the PLP need to make them get behind more left-wing policy offerings.

Worst case? He tries to take Labour back sharply to the right and the left is cast (again) into the political wilderness for decades. But we'll be back. Socialism or barbarism remains the only choice facing humanity in the long term and we need to be around to offer the 'socialism' bit.

stev posted:

Seriously did all of the Corbynites in the party actually vote for Keir? Have they just collectively given up?

ronya posted:

speaking of the 2019 election, electing the member for st pancras to replace the member for islington north does seem likely to double down on the loss of the red wall and confirm Labour as the new party of the cities and hopefully the bigger suburbs

all the more so if the party spends the next few years in the grip of constitutional struggle (which seems very likely tbqh)

Not So Fast posted:

I find it funny how suddenly this thread is concerned about Starmers skeletons while ignoring Corbyn's for 5 years.

Gonzo McFee posted:

Boris currently being attended to by Dr Hugh Bris and nurse Ira Knee.

Nurse Sha Denfreuda got deported because of Brexit.

Ataxerxes posted:

Do you folks know when the next episode of Podcasting is Praxis is coming out? It has been an absolute blast so far.

Pesky Splinter posted:

In all the excitement of another PM about to snuff it, nearly forgot what day this was;

goddamnedtwisto posted:

I'm not sure if it's the origin of it, but in England taking your hat off when you entered church was supposedly you showing that you weren't hiding from God, compared to the other Abrahammic religions (and indeed many Christian sects) that actually want you to wear a hat, presumably because God is sick of looking at bald spots.

Conversely, in the English courts, the judge would put a black cloth over the top of his head when sentencing someone to death so God couldn't see him passing the sentence (power over life and death of course being God's thing), which is a bit of theological sleight-of-hand that would have Rabbis howling.

I think the use outside of church is just a general, very visible, way of showing respect - see also hat tipping as a general hello/goodbye. I don't *think* it's a military thing because the military don't generally take their hats off to show respect - a salute or bow/nod/curtsy is more traditional, but I'm sure there's some tradition where the 9th Wessex Peculiars wear their hats on their knees on St. Swithins Day or something.

Vitamin P posted:

Absolute bullshit, there were lots of people on this very forum that correctly noticed the name Change UK was funny as gently caress stop lying, and if 'reee' is a specific reference to autistic people then it's news to me I've only known it as animalistic frustration noise reference.

Kin posted:

A couple of pages back, but could a bot be created that replies to an MPs tweet with a quote or screenshot of said tweet?

Or just posts the same tweet on its account or whatever? Just so there's a more permanent record?

I don't use twitter so haven't the foggiest on what the capabilities are.

Ash Crimson posted:

Sorry for my negative comments itt, it's been a rough year both politically and personally; to find out that the labour "elite" literally, not figuratively, sabotaged their own leader because of ideological reasons is really depressing and makes me wonder if we could have avoided the debacle that we're in now wrt Corona and it's handling by the tories

Trying to stay positive is difficult at the best of times, even more so when things go bad. Not an excuse, it doesn't excuse my behaviour, just an attempt at explaining my thought process and reaction

ThomasPaine posted:

Every day I think centrists can't get more laughable and every day I'm proven wrong.

Do they actually hear themselves?

mehall posted:

Nestle are awful, but also don't begrudge the little pleasures people can find to make life bearable.


Not sure how I'd survive the grimdark future of Tory Britain if I wasn't allowed chocolate oranges.

Tesseraction posted:

That's Nagel not Nagle!!

goddamnedtwisto posted:

So, looks like I need to find a new union - any recommendations for a grab-bag union for someone who loving despises the ones specific to their industry?

Answers Me posted:

So I think I'm gonna cancel my membership of Labour, and possibly Unison, and put the money into joining the IWW instead. A good idea? Do they do much useful stuff? They seem pretty sound, but I'm quite new to Actually Doing Stuff beyond voting in whatever ballot papers that happen come through my door.

Guavanaut posted:

I'm down for chipping in to buy the JC and make Miftan the Chief Editor.

Ms Adequate posted:

Eh he could have been raised by one of the thread necromancers.

Lambert posted:

"Riots" seems a bit much, all those protests are very tiny. You'll find 20 people willing to protest against just about anything.

I realize all protests in the US are small by comparison, but even then, it's a very select handful of people.

Aphex- posted:

Lmaooooooo

https://twitter.com/HadleyFreeman/status/1251786058825695232?s=19

The replies are great

Isomermaid posted:

While we're talking about kitchen gadgets for some reason, may as well split the room: which kind of peeler do you use.

a) Y shaped, end on
b) I shaped, side on
c) A knife
d) Big

goddamnedtwisto posted:

I'VE NOT BEEN FURTHER FROM MY HOUSE THAN THE CAT FOOD SHOP IN THREE WEEKS THIS IS ALL I HAVE NOW.

OwlFancier posted:

The only clapping I will do is my own god drat rear end cheeks and I don't know how to do that.

The Deleter posted:

Its the year 2035 and somehow through a freak series of coincidences UKMT have siezed power in the UK. Their attempts to pass a law that would require all people travelling to another country to be shot in the head are derailed because Miftan keeps sneaking an amendment banning chocolate oranges onto the bill.

Pesky Splinter posted:

Guavanaut posted:

They're called kitchen baps in the North.

Bobstar posted:

Yeah that. Not like crazy long, but where we say "PEE-zuh", they say "PITZ-ah". So if you wrote pizzas, it would be pronounces "pitzass" instead of "pitzahs".

Dutch is weird.