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Jippa
Feb 13, 2009

forkboy84 posted:

My parents front lawn is already looking burnt like it's mid July. I've been enjoying it mostly, chilling in the garden reading old comics and just doing nothing but reading and drinking tea, think my arms are going to end up tanned for the first time in donkey years.

At least last night ruled, was 10C and felt like 5C. Great sleep

Yeah it does cool down overnight which is key. It breaks here on wed with some rain and then cooler after.

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Jippa
Feb 13, 2009

Saros posted:

Seems like overnight the US protests have escalated to people shooting at cops and ramming police lines with cars. Also Trump had riot police attack a bunch of protesters so he could go do a photo op at a church. Yikes.

I'm probably just cynical as gently caress at this point but I reckon this is all probably playing in trump's favour now.

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009
What could possibly be in that report to make them delay it?

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009
Sitting with all my windows open listening to the cool rain. :chillout:

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009
Should have used bez's voice.

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009
Getting pissed up lads to social distance sounds like fun.

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009
The rain has stopped here. I demand more rain.

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009
The wire is amazing. That was the very first of those types of american tv series I watched. Still one of the best.

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009
I watched the whole of the wire and didn't realise stringer bell was english in stark comparison to McNulty who kept slipping back into an english accent.

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009

Jose posted:

check out what the US paper of record is publishing

https://twitter.com/abrahamjoseph/status/1268263716774195200?s=20

Chapo are always talking about that guy.

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009

peanut- posted:

I'm not actually going to click on any articles to find out, but I am mildly curious as to why it's taken 13 years to hone in on a prolific German sex criminal burglar who known to be in the area in his camper van at the time.

It sounds like an anonymous tip off to some german tv show after he got imprisoned.

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009
I see the pyramids are trending on twitter in regards to the colston statue thing. I'm disappointed more people aren't pointing out they were built by aliens not slaves.

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009
How much am I going to hate a political podcast episode interviewing matt forde?

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009

Failed Imagineer posted:

Crazy to me that the French have this global reputation of being effete fancymen when in fact many of them are quite hard indeed. Both are acceptable modes of being of course and not necessarily mutually exclusive, just an interesting disparity which I suppose must be either Brit or Yank propaganda

It's definitely american. I remember when I first got on the internet I really noticed it (around 9/11 and the freedom fries bollocks).

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009
Ha I posted that here a while back. So bad.

e- the tea.

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1270333484528214018

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009

bessantj posted:

Fixed now but this was on the BBC site



For those who don't follow rugby the person in that pic is Lewis Ludlam, he does not look like Ellis Genge.


https://twitter.com/LewisLudlam/status/1270341463038140418

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009
It's not black it's turkish.

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009
How legitimate is https://www.businessinsider.com I often see it linked on reddit to stories about russia/brexit etc. I never know what to make of it though it seems quite click baity.

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009
Watching people discuss the little britain/blackface thing on my football forum reminds me of being on the internet for the very first time. The exact same thing 15 years ago.

It's very weird actually. That being said nobody has even brought up the trans element at all. We are still at if "white chicks" should be banned as well.

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009

:allbuttons:

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009

OwlFancier posted:

https://twitter.com/i/events/1271233299332005888

https://twitter.com/UKTV/status/1271217003253190662

A lot of them seem incensed at the idea that you can be racist against germans which, I mean, I never watched fawlty towers so I have no idea what the plot of the episode is.

What racial slur?

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009
I think all the versions I have seen of that episode must have already been edited. I'm guessing most people are the same because they are thinking it's the german bit.

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009
Nice pics dan. Yeah the rain was really needed. Smells so much nicer everywhere now.

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009
This statue had bleach poured on it.

https://twitter.com/redball2/status/1271326419344224256

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009
I never really even bother looking at anything the sun does. The mail is far and away the worst for me.

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009
Fawlty Towers ep put back up with a language warning.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53032895

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009

I think it's just the angle it's filmed at but I could be wrong. Looks like they are just doing the standard england chant plus hands raised thing.

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009
The pissing guy has been arrested.

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009
I only did ketamine once and it was crazy. How much do you think she takes?

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009
Obviously try and check for actual injuries like you say. If it's an indoor cat it's probably just freaked the gently caress out at being in and around all these other scary cats.

It might just need some quiet time to feel safe.

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009
I listen to a political podcast and they just had matt forde on (the comedian who left labour over corbyn). He was cooing over how amazing starmer was and how "labour were back". Also how the entire country rallied behind boris when he got sick etc.

It was all too much.

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009

Guavanaut posted:



Who are these people and where do they get their news from?



It's david runciman and helen thompson who are cambridge professors. They seem to try and keep their own opinions very neutral.

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009

Guavanaut posted:

There's parts of the US that still haven't properly moved past the "any rear end in a top hat with enough local support can declare himself sheriff and start licensing deputies" phase of policing.

No I mean the "Labour is back to normal awooo (wolf howl) and we were all rooting for Boris" people.

He (forde) was saying stuff like "twitter isn't real life" in reference to boris being ill and "corbyn supporters weren't serious about politics" in reference to how great starmer was.

He seems exactly the sort that talks about "6th form politics".

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009

Niric posted:

I really like the Talking Politics podcast usually (even if it's definitely a Liberal perspective, especially Runciman), but I was pretty irritated by them having Fforde on as a guest. Any time I've seen him he's just come across as an aggressively bland and shallow """political""" comedian, where there's no real observation or reflection going into the jokes, and it's just obvious references and milquetoast takes (tories are a bit greedy, labour are a bit woolly). Given that the podcast can be very good at being informative and giving depth to opinions, it seemed a lovely choice to have a guest come on who's whole schitck is being a superficial summary of Guardian Op Eds

[Edit: at the 1987 election Neil Kinnock's heavy defeat prompts the Labour Right to engage in some difficult reflection about what went wrong immediately declare a need to double down on their plans

They said he was booked for the live show so that's probably why it wasn't treated like a normal episode.

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009
Churchill in solitary confinement eating mini rolls.

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-53060620

https://twitter.com/BBCLBicker/status/1272814877250162688

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009

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Jippa
Feb 13, 2009

justcola posted:

I signed up to Twitter so I could follow interesting people but most of it just aggravates the gently caress out of me so I'm going to delete it. Don't know how people can go on it every day.

Is social media making us all bottoms?

I only survive twitter by curating who I follow to a tiny amount of decent people. It's really not worth it. Just let other people sift through the poo poo and post interesting stuff here.

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