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Cerv posted:but nope, now it really looks like they're going all in on it. that desperate to have the cheering squad in behind Johnson when has to face off against Starmer each week. Isn't the chamber still limited to 50 people because of social distancing though? So all they've done is made it harder to vote, there won't actually be any extra people in the chamber.
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Jose posted:Even the BBC admitting it lol can't wait for the BBC to put out another apology on behalf of newsnight
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sassassin posted:The surviving mods of my usual Swansea City forum (one died of cancer the other day) are outing themselves as full-on anti-left bootlickers, which is a bit annoying. The site admin is starting individual threads for UK protesters he sees on twitter doing something he doesn't like saying "Shoot him". The most shocking thing about this is the idea that the Swans have a following outside of Swansea.
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Guavanaut posted:Apparently there was a proposal that he should be interim PM of the UK if Churchill were to be incapacitated during the war. I'm really not sure how that would work, especially as he was also PM of South Africa at the time. He was probably the person most responsible for the creation of the commonwealth so I can definitely see him being considered an empire unity candidate. He was a very convoluted man. Fought a very successful military campaign against the british empire but was in favour of a strong british empire and commonwealth. Was Churchill's best friend despite having essentially tortured him. Was a massive racist against black people but opposed apartheid at the cost of his political career. Was also a racist against indians but corresponded with Gandhi who he admired. I think the defining example of this is that he was a guiding hand behind the united nations charter then objected when South Africa was censured for blatantly not abiding by the rules he had written.
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Jun 4, 2020 15:48
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They should replace the statue with one of those socialist realist statues of a black slave tearing off his shackles.
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Junior G-man posted:https://twitter.com/siennamarla/status/1269906519539277824?s=20 This isn't even straddling the fence, this is coming down firmly on the statue nonce side of the fence.
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Jun 8, 2020 10:17
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I've been willing to give starmer a lot more leeway than most of you lot but that was loving abysmal.
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biglads posted:That's a great video, but I'm so broken by all these years of Internet pretty much my first thought was "That needs Guile Theme". I believe the music is Geese Howard's theme
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ThomasPaine posted:
It was the pub's opening night and he fired all the staff and shut the pub because a punter swore. He's an absolute mad man.
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firing neil ferguson and then rallying round cummings continuing to work out great for the government: https://twitter.com/nickeardleybbc/status/1270730651113869317
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kingturnip posted:How thick are GQ readers that the editor thinks that's likely to impress them? GQ readers are middle managers in their 40s, these are the skills they can only dream of.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:LBC have apparently terminated Farage with immediate effect. I hope they mean literally.
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Jun 11, 2020 14:34
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OwlFancier posted:The sorting hat is like centuries old isn't it? Do you think it occasionally just screams racial epithets at the students? I think it probably does. It probably puts all the ethnic minority kids in the same house.
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Jun 11, 2020 22:59
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These Nazis are totally going to smash some poo poo up aren't they? I feel like BLM staying home was a great idea because they're going to shift the narrative to hooligans smashing stuff.
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Jun 13, 2020 13:20
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XMNN posted:so about that racism commission... Was the revolutionary communist party a CIA front or something? It seems weird just how prominent Trotskyites are at all levels of right wing politics in this country.
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Jun 15, 2020 20:54
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Jose posted:going to be lots of this sort of thing right now as people who've been employed their entire lives with no trouble suddenly find out they're hosed Why would you resign if you thought you were going to be made redundant anyway?
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Lol it's opposition day debate about free school meals this afternoon so it's just going to be RLB dunking on the government and they now can't even argue back.
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Jun 16, 2020 13:15
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lol apparently the two British people who are valiantly trying to re-infect New Zealand met some friends and didn't tell anyone about it. We should be banned from leaving this terrible island.
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Prince John posted:You may have a little faith in the country back: That was yesterday, this morning (or I suppose yesterday evening in NZ) it emerged they had broken with the agreed plan and popped in on some friends on the way.
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Apparently Twitter Nazis have decided that oranges are a well known symbol for murdered white people and are going mental in Ash Sakar's replies https://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1274589693741539329?s=19
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I registered in I think 04 (possibly 05) and mostly lurked until. BYOB came around when I was 17 or so. I then migrated to LF to complete my radicalisation from the centre left until I got banned by someone *cough*Cefte posted:I've pretty much lurked the last ten years but I'll still miss it. And had to re-reg because I'd lost access to the original email my account was on. After the death of LF I've mostly gone back to lurking again but I am going to miss it.
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Blasmeister posted:The discord has way too many channels but the cat one is nice Yeah it stressed me out
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StarkingBarfish posted:Laissez-faire I think it was actually Laissez's Fair? It was made around the 2008 US election for people to post about ridiculous long shot candidates like Ron Paul and Barack Obama.
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Cefte posted:This is correct. It was shitpost central to take pressure off D&D, started off with lots of ironyposting and ended up with a pretty strong hard left core. I miss Fish Steers a Dhow (though I've lost track of all the namechanges). I can't remember why you did it but it was definitely deserved. I was mostly sour about not being able to re-reg my old account.
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Excellent work by the forensic Starmer in making the headlines all be about anti-Semitism and labour factionalism instead of government corruption. Tories must be over the loving moon.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I can't think of anywhere *worse* in the British Isles for space launches than Cornwall, apart from maybe Heathrow. Landings maybe, but there's basically no safe corridor anywhere apart from straight down the English Channel from Lizard Point - and even them I'm fairly sure the French would be unhappy about us lobbing our junk over Calais, and I'm sure there's no possible ramifications of stage separation/orbital insertion happening over the Middle East. As someone who used to live on Ascension I can tell you that building and operating a space port on it, whole fun in principle, is an insanely terrible idea that would end up costing multiple billions of pounds and just wouldn't loving work. E: I suppose I should give some reasons: 1. You'd need to build an entirely new port facility, the current port hasn't been upgraded since before WW2 2. Its really loving windy a lot of the time 3. Regular clouds of dust and locusts get blown in from West Africa which I assume aren't great for launches 4. Its a nesting site for rare sea birds and turtles 5. You need to ship in basically all the food, fuel, etc for staff as it's is a pretty barren Rick 6. I just remembered you'd need to build a hospital as the current one was built by the Victorians and doesn't have walls 7. I'm going to stop now 8. Did I mention the hordes of wild donkeys? a pipe smoking dog fucked around with this message at 07:59 on Jun 27, 2020 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Stuff for the ESA site at Guyana comes in by boat, and I'd have thought a specialised (or even just converted) small cargo ship would actually be a much easier proposition than having to design everything to fit under road/rail bridges. The ESA earth station on Ascension is absolutely tiny though. Its a small prefab building with a single dish.  And honestly the port at Georgetown is incredibly small and I'm not sure you could expand it without demolishing one of the Napoleonic forts or building over a turtle nesting site. E: one during my time there the island ran out of milk powder for a bit because the sea was too choppy when the mail ship arrived
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Train the donkeys to haul the rockets around and perform minor surgery, sorted. My brother fell off a cliff and had to have surgery in the hospital. They ran out of anaesthetic on the island so just had him do the bite on a bit of wood trick. He passed out and when he came to a donkey has wandered into the hospital and was looming over his bed.
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Unkempt posted:Wait what? I thought walls, as a technology, predated the Victorians. You see it a lot in colonial era buildings in the tropics. I'm assuming that before the invention of mechanical fans it was the easiest way to ensure some air flow through the building.
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Flipswitch posted:https://twitter.com/wurrance/status/1276799521826062336 Lol he's literally going into women's spaces to be a sex pest. Its always a self projection with these people.
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Kate Green was my MP and I always found her solid at meetings and on campaign. E: oh poo poo new page. Here's my dog 
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XMNN posted:long thread about how awful his books are Why would she buy her lad a load of books and never read them with him? Or at least flick through them?
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I'm like 80% sure I went to uni with Calum Campbell, who wasn't super involved in student politics stuff but was very anti-war and pro-palestine. I also vaguely remember him joining in with chucking stuff at the young conservatives on election night 2010. Would be disappointed if he's now gone a bit alt-right.
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Obviously it's good if bolsanaro dies horribly, but is there a more competent fascist waiting in the wings to take over?
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Pistol_Pete posted:I've been reading Barbara Tuchman's The March of Folly, where she examines various historical periods where societies of the time stubbornly maintained certain policies and directions despite it being abundantly clear even then that they would lead to disaster and boy, can I relate to it. Barbara Tuchman rules. The Proud Tower and A Distant Mirror are also amazing books.
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20 points etc etc. Seriously I'm amazed at how poo poo he is.
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OwlFancier posted:I didn't know Priti Patel was muslim. She's not, she's a hindu, as are Sunak and Sharma. I don't think there are any muslim ministers at present.
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Yeah Sunak will be reshuffled before he can make a play for the leadership, and even if he tried it I imagine a lot of tory mps wouldn't back him because mysteriously they find him a bit "uppity" and "full of himself" for some reason.
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justcola posted:I know we only just talked about dog poo poo, but living in a rural area I'm sick of seeing people who bag up poo poo then throw it in a tree. If you're in the countryside I'd rather people just left it than put it in a plastic bag and chucked it in a hedge As a former countryside dweller I've had to explain to my city wife that there is poo poo everywhere the in the countryside anyway and the trick is just to get the dog to poo poo in a bush. The compulsion to pick up a poo poo and then tie it to a branch is the most baffling thing ever.
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