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Starting to think that the people criticising us proles for killing the economy are not speaking entirely in good faith
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Sep 2, 2020 06:47
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eye-BUPP-ro-fen
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Sep 6, 2020 18:17
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Tbh if I tended bar I would give the punters whatever extremely stupid and nasty poo poo they asked for.
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Sep 6, 2020 18:41
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Fuckin trots We all know the only way we've got a chance at socialism is with the canters
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Sep 7, 2020 20:03
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Yeah but you only need to worry about that if you're trying to move away from being exploited by American capitalism, not enthusiastically toward it.
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Sep 8, 2020 22:16
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OwlFancier posted:I mean, yes, we could also fund someone to bash a random thread member's ballsack in with a mallet and that would have a greater possibility of actually increasing the sum total of human happiness. 100% if I am either the "random" thread member chosen OR the mallet wielder!
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Sep 10, 2020 18:16
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bessantj posted:You can be looking in through a window shouting "YES! YES!" I'm like an SCP but I always appear outside the windows of people doing BDSM
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Sep 10, 2020 18:42
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What's rude is voice communications.
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Sep 10, 2020 19:16
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 I'm glad you understand.Also if you don't spend time on the couch then you clearly need to be playing more console games.
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Sep 10, 2020 20:03
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If you don't have a sofa what do your cats and/or dogs sleep on when they're not sleeping on the bed?
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Sep 10, 2020 23:01
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Guavanaut posted:Just watched this, it's good and ties up a bunch of things previously covered about conspiracy mindsets. "Hold on, I'm taking a hit" Pure buckled
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Sep 12, 2020 19:11
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Camrath posted:Yay, it’s my birthday. Saw it in with a meal at my favourite restaurant in the world, a lot of Calvados and educating my mother about post-colonial atrocities in Kenya.  Hap birth Camrath!
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Sep 13, 2020 01:35
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Darth Walrus posted:Incidentally, I assume we do all understand why the EU is trying to be so decorous and courteous in the Brexit negotiations, and why it's trying to give the UK every possible concession and every possible out, yes? It's reputation-laundering for what comes next. The iron laws of international commerce require large economies to retain and secure their power by grinding smaller, weaker economies into submission, and they want to minimise the number of important people who object when they begin showing Britain - or possibly just England - its new place. Partly that but I think also, at least partly, because it would ultimately be better for everyone if the UK remained inside the tent pissing out on all the developing countries and so on. There might be some profit to be made divvying up whatever the Tories can sell, but it's still going to be a fractious and unpredictable project, and it'd be much easier for everyone involved if the UK would have done a less insane Brexit where we stayed broadly aligned with EU regulations, bodies, etc. and were able to bring our still-considerable weight to bear in A) Holding our own against other major economic powers (i.e. the US and China) and B) maintaining the exploitation of the less powerful in a steady manner. (I also suspect there's still some entrenched disbelief that the UK, who was long regarded in EU matters as somewhat standoffish but ultimately sensible and tractible by most of our peers*, is acting in such an obviously self-destructive manner with such intense zeal. Rightly or wrongly we had managed to convince a lot of other people that the British political and monied elite might be arseholes, but we were predictable arseholes who acted with circumspection and had little desire to rock any boats, let alone capsize our own.) * I just realized I described the UK as tsundere
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Sep 13, 2020 21:12
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I remember that one article from the US a year or two ago about the "Butch genocide" which was exactly the same idea, that people who were 'really' butch lesbians were being misled instead to think they were trans men. I wish us trans had 1/100th of the power they credit us with because the amount of good we could do would be immense.
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Sep 13, 2020 21:55
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I suppose long commutes where you aren't driving are probably more bearable if you remember that gives you enough time to do a decent bit of reading, or watch something, or play an hour of Factorio on the train. Like, not exactly great, but probably not a total sacrifice of all free time, either.
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Sep 14, 2020 21:11
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Covid can do one, they've changed my neurologist appointment next month to a phonecall. Which is fine I'm not like mad about getting 'worse' care or anything it'll be the same tbh it's just I loving hate the phone like no other thing. 
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Sep 16, 2020 18:41
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OwlFancier posted:Because the tories don't care about lives, especially not ones that aren't working and making them money. I think it's less how can the Tories keep doing it from the perspective that Tories can/want to learn from their mistakes/consider this a mistake, and more "How is the death of tens of thousands of eldery people not causing the violent overthrow of the government who were knowingly responsible and doubly How when they're about to do it again" because, without taking a stance on whether such an event would be Good or Bad or Desirable or Undesirable, you'd think it's the kind of thing that makes people kick off. I mean, if it was criminals or refugees or other wrong'uns I'd get it, however vile that fact is, but this is everyone's lovely old nans who slipped them a tenner with a wink, and gave them sweeties and told them not to tell mum about it, and grandads who spent Christmas morning helping to put together the Scalextric and a few years later when you were getting in trouble as a teen gave you sound life advice without giving you a bollocking like dad would if you asked him. Obviously I'm being a bit facetious here but that's part of the popular image of the olds, to say nothing of the general cultural expectation that we should take care of our elderly and we "probably should give nan a call more often" and so on.
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Sep 17, 2020 20:45
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VideoGames posted:I think Hadley Freeman blocked me on Twitter because I asked her if she was so against trans people and wanted so much justice for cisgender women why did not rename herself Hadley Freewoman.  Hero tbh
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Sep 20, 2020 05:45
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Jose posted:The economy can go in the shitter and the Tories have a ready made excuse thanks to the pandemic tbh I can't really think of an example of the public caring about an excuse for the economy being in the shitter. Whether those reasons are real and valid or made up and nonsense, bad economy = deathknell for incumbents.
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Sep 20, 2020 18:47
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Sanitary Naptime posted:Working for the NHS does not preclude you from being a oval office. I have only clapped in the cinema at the end of the movie
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Sep 21, 2020 06:44
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MikeCrotch posted:I just got an email from The World Transformed about "Maintainting a Radical Horizon" Ah, that's a typo, it was meant to say A Radical Horizontal. Actually on reflection that just sounds like a combination Labour-Lib Dem campaign platform, so maybe not.
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Sep 21, 2020 18:28
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:It says fans of prepper movies not actual preppers I would suspect that whilst actual preppers are most often all about being really horny to kill democrats and minorities, if you just watch a lot of movies related to apocalyptic scenarios you more probably just end up knowing not to be the oval office that hides the bite, and that in long-term situations like hiding from the horde/virus you're going to be destroyed from the inside by rising tensions so you need to get out ahead of that and keep morale up.
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Sep 21, 2020 18:33
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OwlFancier posted:Speaking personally even if the teachers know about it they probably won't do anything because they probably don't care. Also they can't and won't do anything about non physical abuse. Yeah someone needed to get properly battered or someone needed to involve/threaten to involve a weapon before school gave a gently caress about anything.
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Sep 22, 2020 00:52
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knox_harrington posted:Sad times, had to put the cat down today. Rest easy little guy. Sorry to you and your little buddy, we're probably going to have to have Jinx put down tomorrow, so I know how poo poo it is. Condolences <3
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Sep 23, 2020 20:32
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:In view of the secession of Kent from the Union, I did a bit of googling and came across these - sorry they're Fail articles from 2006 and 2011 but they are so relevant. Sawing Ireland off from the Atlantic Region is just wild, but I'm down with a new North Sea Empire
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Sep 24, 2020 22:11
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I'm going to write to my MP to suggest the bloke what killed that copper gets a statute and a national holiday.
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Sep 25, 2020 18:51
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I can just about imagine a scenario where someone handcuffed manages to pull out a gun if it was stuffed down the back of their trousers and shoot wildly past their hip, or spin around and shoot blindly behind them, and that one of these bullets hits someone fatally. That still doesn't answer any of the other questions about why he had a gun "hidden" on him, both because he was supposedly known to the plod as of interest in terror matters and because they claim to have found ammo on him before they slapped the cuffs on, which one would generally presume means you go "Right so we'd best search him for something to use that ammo with" - but it is at least physically possible. The part that elevates this from the run-of-the-mill police incompetence and/or lies is the claim that he managed to shoot himself in the neck, because there's absolutely no way you could get that angle with your hands cuffed behind you. In the kidney, maybe, in the arse or the leg, yes, but in the neck? Not actually possible. My reckons is the dead copper or one of his mates hosed up and fired a couple of rounds off by accident. But even the absolute best-case scenario for the police is that they failed in a truly spectacular manner and let a bloke found with ammo on him to get to the cop shop with a firearm on him. Ms Adequate fucked around with this message at 06:54 on Sep 26, 2020 |
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Sep 26, 2020 06:44
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I think people should be able to live wherever they want
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Sep 28, 2020 05:34
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Tarnop posted:Losing weight is hard when food is the only thing that generates a dopamine response in the barren wasteland of my brain Same tbh
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Oct 7, 2020 07:04
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I do like Vimes having a wee Norn Iron accent...
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Oct 11, 2020 02:45
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DaWolfey posted:And Labour will abstain Cometh the hour, cometh the goon Ms Adequate fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Oct 15, 2020 |
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Oct 11, 2020 22:06
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Darth Walrus posted:No they aren't, and no it doesn't. The ruling class in America is firmly in charge (and appears to be presently doing a decent job of jettisoning a troublesome aberration and enthroning a more compliant and stable spokesman for capital), backed by a large, militarised police force and the best-funded military in the world (which now has a reasonable amount of counterinsurgency experience that the people in charge are champing at the bit to deploy on American soil), and material wealth can take you a long, long way if no larger, better-armed rival powers exist and are inclined to take it from you. See also, Saudi Arabia. They have a lot of depth to their defences against any meaningful threat to the state as an entity, and it's hard to see many meaningful threats that presently exist. China's the closest, and lol if you think they're seriously pursuing imperial ambitions in the North American continent. I mean I don't disagree overall but I think it may be premature to say the troublesome aberration is being booted and all, the GOP is now firmly on the course of trying to steal the election or at least muddy the waters to a degree never seen before in America, and the ruling class is largely fine with that (As evidenced by the fact they didn't at some point press the Republicans to 25th Trump). It's entirely possible that Biden wins a thumping victory and they manage to reassert control and calm things down, but it's just as likely - perhaps moreso - that things get complicated during and between election day and inauguration, and if they get sufficiently conplicated, the handle the ruling class has on things could rapidly prove to be a good bit looser than they believe.
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Communist Thoughts posted:yeah fwiw i dont think he is a spook, though i like to say he is because it makes him more interesting For sure, he doesn't need to be a secret employee of MI5, either getting kickbacks or other help later, or because they have dirt on him; he's a part of that community and they can safely expect he'll look out for them as a result.
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Oct 12, 2020 22:12
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Personally I can't wait for a bunch of recommissioned Scorpions operated by the Environment Agency to start rolling around gunning down anyone who looks like they might be planning a hunt.
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Oct 15, 2020 20:08
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OwlFancier posted:Apparently you have to be a "covert human intelligence source" as defined under the RIPA but I can't find where they actually define what one of those is or if there is anything stopping them from just declaring anyone to be one. As far as I know defining one would presumably fall to the same people though. Well, it's covert. Can't just go around telling people. Also, going to love to be shot dead by HMRC because the classic video game I imported from Canada was cheekily said to be cheaper than it really is to save me on exhorbitant import fees.
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Oct 15, 2020 20:46
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The idea that Argos, the most dour, grim, depressing place I ever went in my life, continues to exist in the era of t'Internet, boggles my mind more than anything else does.
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Oct 17, 2020 19:25
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Starting to think that we should have kept all the decent and sane people we apparently sent down to Aotearoa. Sadism is only a virtue if you're doing it in-person, if you're going to be a oval office then stick someone on a rack and rip their sinews apart, don't just vote Tory that's weak and cowardly.
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Oct 18, 2020 01:21
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The Question IRL posted:Basically Ireland was staying out of the War, but slightly more on the Allied side of the war than the Axis. Honestly just find the nearest Auld Fella and ask him, you'll have to put up with a very long exposition on $LOCALHISTORY but he'll know where everything is.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:When people sign their letters/emails with B Whatever (Hons). That always makes me laugh. 99.9%* of people get Hons. unless they were ill or did absolutely no work or were from the olden days (like when I were a lass) when some 'professional' degrees such as surveying or nursing didn't award honours unless you did an extra year's study. This is why I emphasize that I got a First and then a Master's  I'll not be outdone by preliterates from Oxbridge who only managed a Third because mumsy called up the rector and made such a fuss don't you know
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