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sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


https://twitter.com/simonbhooper/status/1267432084030791680

Could be interesting

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sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


OwlFancier posted:

30% accuracy is still like multiple orders of magnitude more accurate than the army.

Main takeaway I think is that on a statistical level, in a fight, guns just aren't very accurate.

Depends if you're trying to hit anything or not

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


https://twitter.com/DarrenEuronews/status/1268210927335342081?s=19

Truly, we are exceptional and have no need of the pathetic EU

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


It's too hot and I'd love to go holiday to somewhere more chill tbh

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Lord Ludikrous posted:

A guilty pleasure of mine is reading Mumsnet and PistonHeads on my lunch break at work. It’s an often amusing and sometimes infuriating insight into a totally different mindset.

What always gets me about PistonHeads is how the prevailing attitude amongst gammons when another black person gets murdered by the police is “well if they followed the law they’d have nothing to worry about would they?!”

Curiously this attitude does not apply when they get stung with a speeding fine.

I read the football365 forum (and now their homespun lifeboat because the old one was dying) for the same reason.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


sassassin posted:

I walked into the men's room at Worcester train station and a bloke was wanking into a urinal what is the government going to do about that?

Give him an arts grant

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


goddamnedtwisto posted:

He's a drummer, so no. Also he hits things with sticks for a living, of course he identifies with cops.

This is a shameful new direction for drummer jokes and I for one won't stand for it.

(I'll sit down, obviously. Drummer.)

:rimshot:

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


https://twitter.com/OborneTweets/status/1268923726025953280?s=19

Going to lose my poo poo as articles dribble out over the next 5/10 years saying "actually that Corbyn fellow was alright you know"

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.



Hundreds of white folks protesting in Stroud for the past four days. I think they're just excited to be out of the house, honestly.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Colston statue has been pulled down in Bristol, apparently

https://twitter.com/AlAviram/status/1269625718662664193?s=19

sebzilla fucked around with this message at 14:54 on Jun 7, 2020

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


hemale in pain posted:

hell yeah, gently caress racist poo poo. rip it all down.

Currently being rolled towards the river.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Probably the only good thing to have happened so far in this gently caress-awful year. Really brightened my day.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


https://twitter.com/re_colston/status/1269694476861267979?s=19

lol

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


goddamnedtwisto posted:

The idea of the French being effete, pleasure-obsessed gadabouts is *way* older than that, and probably dates back to the Norman Conquest if not earlier. The fact these girly-men pretty consistently kicked the poo poo out of the stout yeomen of England for the better part of a millennium (to the point our national legends include the very few times we got a W on them, from Crecy to Waterloo) is conveniently ignored for the most part.

Of course the modern legend mostly comes from the capitulation against Germany, which completely ignores the material reasons why they relied so heavily on the Maginot Line and had no possible plan B once that failed, that the BEF also got wiped out in that campaign (again, an abject defeat and retreat is somehow turned into a win in our national legend) and also that a lot of French people continually fought the Germans throughout the occupation and at far higher stakes than the British faced.

Acting against that is one of the best lines from one of the very best episodes of The Simpsons:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZUKEVU-TwM

(which is from 1995, but for some reason gets caught up in Coalition Of The Willing bollocks from 2002/3)

Bringing the Normans into it is extra fun because you're also seeing the anti-Viking sentiment that often boiled down to "those tall strong handsome well-groomed bastards with their regular bathing and exciting lifestyles keep coming over here and "abducting" our young women from their tedious life of turnips, smelly husbands and boring religion. This must be stopped!"

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Has Starmer even had the balls to say Black Lives Matter? Running the risk that Karen from Rotherham might not like it, of course.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


OwlFancier posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugN2CLP6c8k

If you're particularly keen to listen.

I got about 20 seconds in and lost interest, the man sounds like the wah-wah-wah trombone noises adults make in Snoopy.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Also please continue throwing statues of slavers and other assorted imperialist jackasses into whatever river is most convenient. Except for Churchill, who despite being a bastard was responsible for tens of thousands of dead Nazis.

This one dude Adolf got loads of Nazis killed and even managed to kill Hitler, definitely statue that guy immediately.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


I've discovered peak radical centrism. Apparently Starmer can't possibly support tearing down a bad statue because it would then leave him in a position of having to support any and all statue-tearing down to avoid being a hypocrite.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


TACD posted:

Sorry for more USPOL but I think some people here will get a kick out of this and I didn't see it posted yet:




https://twitter.com/BRRN_Fed/status/1270345660617891842

https://twitter.com/MinusPeach/status/1270194409095655425

:getin:

Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone is my favourite Sonic level

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Red Oktober posted:

Thinks she’s Hermionie, actually Umbridge.

Brb, performing a memory charm on myself so I can forget reading a Harry Potter Analogy itt

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Colston is back out of the harbour, but the ropes and spray paint are staying on (for now at least) before it goes to a museum. Hopefully with looping videos of it being pulled down and chucked in as well. That's history.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.



The replies to that tweet reminded me that Louise Mensch exists. What a blast from the past.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1271057897196306433?s=19

Polls for the poll throne

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Bardeh posted:

I want to know what #frazzledrip is

For when you need your bacon snacks intravenously

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Gonzo McFee posted:

https://twitter.com/thetimes/status/1272462537062318080

Kier's Labour will throw every single person under the bus purely to get one sympathetic headline from the sun.

loving pathological avoidance of anything resembling a stance.

It's only inertia keeping me in the party at this point.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Zoomers are great and honestly I'm just excited to see how loving wild my kid's generation grow up to be (Generation Alpha or whatever the gently caress term they'll use)

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


OwlFancier posted:

Oh yeah not meant disparagingly I definitely think they're cooler than millenials by a wide margin.

Oh for sure, we suck and I wasn't at all reading your post negatively.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


The red line just bombing off the bottom of the preview image is Extremely Good

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.



Old Danny will have a good laugh with his friend Mike Smalling about this.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


https://twitter.com/DPJHodges/status/1273215882957852673

worstpersongreatpoint.png

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.



I saw a screenshot earlier and was 100% certain it was a loving photoshop.

Christ.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Angepain posted:

i love the implication of an exchange of similar confectionery that goes both ways. why the gently caress would the australians want our Penguin biscuits when they have tim tams

They're so exotic!

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Jippa posted:

I can't take anyone seriously who is called "tucker". What sort of name is that?

A nickname for a fat kid at boarding school

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Mebh posted:

In other, more heartwarming news Chuck Tingle continues to be amazing.



Well, that's just solved the question of what to get my friend for her birthday next month

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


https://twitter.com/Gabriel_Pogrund/status/1273648894556213253?s=19

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


https://twitter.com/paulwaugh/status/1273686048170745856?s=19

Full report is in the thread as well if anyone fancies a big read

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Cerv posted:

anyone got a link to the report as a PDF? don't fancy reading a thousand screenshots via twitter

https://www.scribd.com/document/466134414/Final-Labour-Together-Report

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


https://www.itv.com/news/2020-06-19/lib-dem-leadership-contender-layla-moran-behind-book-backing-universal-income/

quote:

Suggestions in the book edited by Ms Moran include creating a universal basic income – a salary-style payment from the Government to all citizens – and providing universal basic services, which would see the provision of free broadband, water and energy, potentially saving a single adult in the UK £1,360 per year.

Let's all join the Lib Dems

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


What will actually happen is Ed Davey will win and change nothing.

e: lmao I was just reminded that a) Wera Hobhouse is a thing and b) this is her campaign logo



Someone send her that thread on branding.

sebzilla fucked around with this message at 11:00 on Jun 19, 2020

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sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Lol the National Debt is over 100% of GDP

I'm looking forward to hearing how the last Labour Government really hosed it on this one

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