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ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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Bobby Deluxe posted:

^^^ There was an article shared last thread (medium, I think) about a middle class person having to apply for welfare and repeatedly having their fears assuaged because they're 'one of the good ones.'

I've never met a single person who has had anything good to say about Swindon. The crime rate's astronomical for it's size, it's featureless in a way only modern prefab cities can be, and yet the prices are higher than most of the lovely little towns to the east of it. It's like someone took a slice of outer london, stripped it of the weirdly territorial idolatry and replaced it with straight up white supremacy.

I really, really don't want to end up living in Swindon.

Glasses direct are in Swindon so there is 1 (one) okay thing there

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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Angepain posted:

so uh the uk government is apparently pushing for polygraph tests? i was under the impression those were kind of bollocks

https://twitter.com/MrHarryCole/status/1301257364067188738

I thought you could gently caress up a polygraph by clenching your anus? Seems like a bad test

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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TACD posted:

I feel like there's a certain breed of Job Creator who is absolutely kicking themselves that it's taken them this long to realise they can put anything and everything on a subscription service. Like imagine your entire worldview holds landlordism as the ideal end goal and it never occurred to you to just apply the rentier model to all goods and services.


Can't wait until I have to sign up for a three-month sub to get a Greggs steak bake

If there's a level that gets me 5 a day that's fine by me

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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He made 40k on gofundme from this

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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SpaceCommie posted:

Thanks for catte advice everyone. I'm waiting for the agent to call me back and say my offer was declined so let it might be a way off anyway (all my optimism has left me since the GE)


The landlord or the person that wrecked the place?

The landlord

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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DroneRiff posted:

In a move that will shock no one here, seems the only option is to scrap a planned increase in the mininum wage because covid/recession/gently caress the poors.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/09/05/planned-rise-minimum-wage-unaffordable-pandemic/

The economy is in the shitter so we can't raise the wages of people who need and will spend it, because ???

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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Maybe they should cut some taxes, that'll help

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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The best economy is one with an infinite amount of money held in an offshore account

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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Goldskull posted:

'Red wine & coke', although I've met a few people who'll drink that now, back in the 90s I thought they were taking the piss.

I will drink this all day. Beer (pilsner or something like that) and coke is good too

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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Skarsnik posted:

Its called irresponsible drinking and covers stuff like not having silly amounts in one drink, not having promotions that encourage said irresponsibility and then silly stuff like not dispensing directly into a customer's mouth

Can I just drink straight from the little metal cylinders

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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Communist Thoughts posted:

What's snakebite again?

Snakebite deez nuts

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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If you're going to have any number of socialists involved in something you're going to have trots because this is Britain and our main products in the last half of the 20th century were bad cars and trots

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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Guavanaut posted:

Well we can't be full of trots, we don't even have

oh no.

(I enjoyed the newspaper.)

Editorial: disgusting imperialists slander chocolate orange: Defend and Uphold Terrysism!

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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Miftan posted:

I resent being called an imperialist.

write in to the letters page

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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Bobstar posted:

You'll pry my numpad from my seized up hand!

I got a numpadless keyboard recently and I don't miss it. Trash the pad

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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Lady Demelza posted:

And it doesn't matter about disappointing remainers/rejoiners, it's not like there's going to be an election any time soon. Possibly a civil war/violent uprising, but not an election.

Lol as if they wouldn't just Operation Condor all the undesirables before it came to that

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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NotJustANumber99 posted:

I don't think Kier starmer would do any better.

This seems unusually lazy

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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communism bitch posted:

Here's something I love about being a manager. There are two girls working in my office. They loving gossip non stop and do no work when I'm out of the office.

Usually I go out for an hour at 12,30 or 1ish for lunch and I know they just do gently caress all while I'm gone even though they take their lunches at 12.

Today I'm hanging around in the office and skipping my lunch. They keep casually mentioning the time in conversation as if to remind me it's time for me to leave so they can skive off for an hour.

I'm skipping lunch just to gently caress them off lol

May there be a hell for you

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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OwlFancier posted:

Petition to rename communism bitch into feudalism bitch.

Petty bourgeois bitch

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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Gonzo McFee posted:

I think you're all reading too much into a dude loving with people for a laugh that causes no harm.

Managers loving with their underlings can eat a bag of dicks

ContinuityNewTimes fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Sep 11, 2020

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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New spitting image will have a hilarious musical number called "I've never met a nice European"

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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happyhippy posted:

Anyone mentioned 'Britannia waives the rules' yet?
Saw it elsewhere, thought it funny to pass on.

gently caress, that's good

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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Lt. Danger posted:

I think that people put effort into their work for other reasons, and resentment (if any) comes afterwards. bluntly, not everyone does work in an isolated do-nothing office job, or has the prospects to get another job elsewhere, or doesn't have additional social/personal ties to work, or doesn't have mental/physical difficulties complicating matters etc. etc.

personally (amongst other reasons) I bust my knuckles at my poo poo exploited minimum wage job so I have the credibility to turn around and argue against conservative myth-making from a position of authenticity

I'm in minimum wage in a cafe and I have no prospect of being anywhere else but lmao at the idea of going above and beyond so the gammon in my head likes me

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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suck my woke dick posted:

Eh. I won't begrudge people for taking the opportunity to be smug at the state of this benighted isle and point out that they will just gently caress off somewhere nice while the gammons who voted to shoot themselves in both feet bleed all over the floor.

I begrudge the absolute hell out of them, as they are cunts. I hope their cheeses are forever underripe and their wines sour

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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It's not quite a billboard but someone round my street has been defacing antifa stickers with "I <3 J K Rowling" ones and that says it all for me

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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ThomasPaine posted:

I used to know a guy who got the train from York to London every day for work, which seems insane

Two hours each way. Sounds like a life worth living

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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Bucky Fullminster posted:

Good morning UK Goons, for anyone wondering how and why the lockdowns have been such an effective 'recruiting' tool for the far-right, here is a nice long piece that puts it all in to context. It seems to have been well received so I hope you find some value in there. Conservatives have used the 'Conspiracy Narrative' in the fight against collectivism since at least the end of WW1, Trump's election tore the mask off, and now here we are:

The Greatest Trick the Devil Ever Pulled



Offering a competing narrative is going to be an important part of the journey out of this mess and this may have a chance of reaching some people, who knows, good luck.

Don't poo poo this thread up just because you got thrown out of the qanon one

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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happyhippy posted:

I wonder if I can volunteer to man the machine gun at one of the border checkpoints.
For when the UK refugees try to claim asylum in RoI.

Weird post

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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Gort posted:

Just got done watching a 1987 Channel 4 documentary called The People's Flag and I feel kinda down. Even the Labour party's prime ministers have been mostly poo poo. The best you can say for most of them is that they had a tough job to do. Ramsay Macdonald was a waste of space (but in a minority government), Clement Attlee is the best of the bunch (creating the NHS and the Welfare State is a huge deal), but the atrocities carried out under his watch in Malaya tarnish him a LOT, and Harold Wilson completely failed to make any kind of systemic change to improve people's lives.

There's also this recurring theme of a Labour PM being elected on the back of terrible relations between workers and capital, but then agreeing to make massive cuts to all help for workers because they're pursuing a loan from the US or the IMF.

It's kinda discouraging, it makes you feel like PM Starmer is just going to be another one in a very long line, should he be elected.

The atrocities in Malaya have a direct bearing on the founding of the welfare state. We were flat broke and using the resources of our remaining colonies (like Malaya's rubber) to fund Attlee's spending

The RCG published a book (Labour: a party fit for imperialism) on the rather poor record of Labour governments.

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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Angepain posted:

I remember thinking in 2008, oh this recession starting up the now seems pretty bad, it's good timing for me that i'm just in first year of university, it'll all be sorted out by the time I graduate. Everything will get better again and we'll all be fine. I would guess not many freshers nowadays will be feeling the same way about, y'know, everything

2008 was when I finally stopped dossing after crashing out of school early and I greatly enjoyed the one summer of decent work I got followed by a whole bunch of JSA

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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OwlFancier posted:

I generally just slot everyone with grey hair into the granny/granddad category.

This despite me being more grey than not at age 30.

I'll swap your greying at 30 for my hair loss at 30

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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What do people get out of acting believably lovely on twitter

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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kyojin posted:

I've long been of the opinion that we should simply put everyone from the home office in prison and to make space let everyone out of prison and they can work for the home office. I genuinely think this would be a significant step to improving the country

What if we put the home office people in the ocean and just didn't replace them

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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Oh no, the United States Supreme Court, our only hope

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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health and safety gone mad, stu, can't even make a joke about not loving

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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I'm furloughed but I'm a minimum wage food worker, how bad am I supposed to feel for not being out there

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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I believe the term is "flag nonce"

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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Gorn Myson posted:

Labour make it very easy for me not to vote for them because the people currently in charge have spent the last five years claiming that us on the left are stupid, child-like cultists/thugs and then actively sabotaged a project that we got personally invested in that might have improved this country even the tiniest of fractions in order to run on a "these Tories have some nice ideas actually" campaign.

Now they're demanding we shut the gently caress up and get in-line behind them. They can gently caress off.

Absolutely this. I'm voting big veiny cock next time

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ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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VideoGames posted:

I think I asked last time but what is the method of changing the Labour party from within? I am pretty sure with a Corbyn bench and some good people on the NEC (I am not 100% knowledgeable about how the party is setup so forgive if I am wrong) we still got sabotaged by the same party. People saying Corbyn should have purged but I thought the party was not set up in that way? Is it?

If not and we have to have these wreckers, then how do you enact change within in? Moreover how do we enact change now when the wreckers, who were very successful in 2017 and poisoned 2019, will put barriers to left entry in again? How do we make the party move left when it is controlled by someone rightwards who has the backing of the terrible parts of the party as well as the msm giving him an easier ride?

This is a genuine question, not a series of gotchas or anything, I just genuinely want to know what else I can do other than join a union.

There's no way to reform the party now, if there ever was. The wreckers are in charge

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