stev posted:

tube fairs

goddamnedtwisto posted:

The world needs more gorblimey trousers.

OwlFancier posted:

The problem is if it's from the westminster cafe it's probably not very fresh.

Jakabite posted:

That’s the reaction I tend to get with the Mars thing but honestly I’m surprised I’ve never found anyone who made the same mistake. I guess I’ve just never had sufficient nougat in my life to realise the stuff in mars bars isn’t unique to mars bars.

Private Speech posted:

I'm using about half of those, if not so insanely exaggerated. Err. I'm a foreign though? I hope that absolves me a bit?

In fact I'm not sure how you pronounce faux-pas, strudel, conquistador or linguini anglicised tbh. And come on, croissant (whith croi instead of cross), tapas (instead of tapass) and bruschetta (with -sket- instead of -shet-) isn't that weird surely.

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

Guavanaut posted:

You can still get bags of tartrazine and use it as a salt circle to keep out Karens.

Speaking of caring about tartrazine in tyool 2020 and slightly alien units:


'Sprite' is mostly a sign of undue influence from The Coca-Cola Company.

Private Speech posted:

Another great UK visa thing that is frankly shocking looking in from the outside (much shorter this time, I promise):


Imagine if UK citizens had to submit to anything approaching this level of bullshit when applying for JSA/UC or whatever. I mean that is bad enough already, but these visa refusals are on an entirely different level of fuckheadedry

Ms Adequate posted:

Fuckin trots

We all know the only way we've got a chance at socialism is with the canters

justcola posted:

https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com/
https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/
https://thisartworkdoesnotexist.com/
https://thisrentaldoesnotexist.com/

CancerCakes posted:

If you are right handed and use a keyboard with a numpad trash it, the size of it will be forcing your mouse arm too far out and will cause shoulder issues.

quote:

Sky News has just broadcast a fascinating interview with Sir Keir Starmer in which Starmer effectively started criticising Boris Johnson for failing to deliver the Brexit deal he promised. He also made it clear (not for the first time, but nevertheless quite definitively) that he is not interested in trying to rejoin the EU. Labour remainers may hate it, but probably not as much as CCHQ. As an exercise in nimble political repositioning, it was extremely accomplished.

Sky’s political editor, Beth Rigby, repeatedly asked him if he was worried about the government breaking the law, and if Labour would be aligned with Tory rebels to defeat it over its plans to legislate to give it the power to overrule the withdrawal agreement. But Starmer did not want to engage with this issue at all, and instead he kept stressing how important it was for the government to actually get a trade deal with the EU. He said:

Getting a deal is in the national interest. That is what the public want. That is what they were promised. The outstanding issues are not difficult. They can be resolved. Let’s get the deal, let’s move on and focus on the job in hand, which is dealing with this pandemic ...

What the nation wants is a deal that is in the national interest and everything should be focused on that. Let’s not reopen old arguments that the public think are long settled, and that’s what the government is doing.

When asked what his position was on Brexit, and if he now thought it was a good idea, Starmer replied:

We have left the EU, the divide between leave and remain is over. We need a deal ... I don’t think there’s a case for reopening the issue of membership of the EU. We have left ...

The prime minister won the election. It was a devastating election for the Labour party. [Boris Johnson] won by promising he would get a good deal. So what I’ve said is, here’s the space, get that good deal, deliver on your promise.

As Sky’s Sam Coates later said, it was almost as if Starmer were saying “get Brexit done” (Johnson’s successful 2019 general election slogan). Normally Starmer, a former head of the Crown Prosecution Service, would be the first to speak up for the importance of upholding the rule of law. But he has a good eye for a political elephant trap, and the Tories would like nothing more than being able to depict him as someone siding with Brussels on this issue (the withdrawal agreement) against what they would claim as the national interest.

Rather than getting sucked back into a remain/leave argument (which Labour lost badly in 2019), Starmer is instead seeking to frame this as a deal/no deal argument, with Johnson failing on competence and delivery if the UK-EU trade talks falter.

Convex posted:

Fucks sake just realised they stopped making Ricicles back in 2017. I hate 2020

yes I know I can just add sugar to rice Krispies but it's not the same

Guavanaut posted:

There are people that believe that space isn't a thing.

bessantj posted:

I have a free audible credit, is there a political/science/history audiobook that people enjoyed?

Guavanaut posted:

A big problem is that the people who are really outraged aren't going to be taking to the streets to call it out, because there's a pandemic on.

Also there's a bunch of people outraged that the government is doing anything at all, which is more dispiriting.

namesake posted:

Corruption basically. The first contracts winning proposal was technically impossible and illegal under data laws which was known when it was awarded but the Tories wanted to give a few million to the person 'running' the company so they did it anyway, got legally challenged over it, then they admitted it was impossible and went with the Apple/Google method under a new contract.

Unkempt posted:

It occurs to me that there should be some sort of licensing system for landlords; only after passing a series of tests on the legality and ethics of property letting would someone be given a licence to do so and then have their head neatly snipped off

SpaceCommie posted:

I had a quick think about other UK figures they could add and they absolutely are going to have an Owen Jones and or an Ash Sarkar puppet and they're going to be loving dreadful.

Guavanaut posted:

The US also has a history of edgelord assholes using words like niggardly, which is etymologically unrelated to the slur, on purpose to get a reaction.

That doesn't sound anything like what was happening here, but it might explain why people were quicker to take offense. It could have been a valid cultural exchange moment rather than a big incident though, especially in an academic setting.

Grey Hunter posted:

Now, do the Journailists realize this, or do they think they are doing important work.

jaete posted:

lol what the gently caress. i wish i had a cool far eastern name like that so i could call people who are "offended" by it to get in the loving bin

like, aren't all of: wang, fuk, dong for example valid transliterations of completely normal chinese names

suck my woke dick posted:

this is true, but at the same time, it shows how utterly loving stupid and incompetent the authorities are dealing with protestors who don't literally walk themselves into a cell.

stev posted:

One day they'll discover massive caches of untested swabs in the sewers, like the fatbergs.

Guavanaut posted:

Why would you even need tunnels when we have powerful nonces walking around in the open and nothing gets done?

CGI Stardust posted:

Is there a full recording of this anywhere? Most of this makes sense from the point of supporting businesses during a demand crisis, but I'm not sure why retraining comes into it. The level of worker training doesn't really reflect what the problems are, increasing worker skill doesn't stimulate the economy if those skilled jobs don't exist due to a lack of demand, and having more skilled workers at a time when the economy's tanked would probably just lead to a decrease in wages for those skills.

(Although if I was a business owner, I would absolutely tell any political party about how there just weren't enough skilled workers, oh no! in the hope of reducing my costs and risk by getting government to pay for everything)

quote:

Families whose relatives died from Covid-19 in the early period of the pandemic are calling for an inquiry into the NHS 111 service, arguing that many critically ill people were given inadequate advice and told to stay at home.

...

Lena Vincent, whose partner, Patrick McManus, 60, an NHS staff member for 40 years, died on 19 April, has pursued a complaint about the advice he was given in three 111 calls. She has been told that the calls, handled by two private companies contracted by the NHS to provide the service, were not recorded, so her complaint cannot be investigated further.

...

NHS England, when asked about the issues raised by bereaved families, including the involvement of the private companies, initially replied with a statement that did not address those questions.

“GPs, nurses, paramedics and other health service staff working in the 111 phone and online service have played a key role in helping millions of people get the right care and advice – whether for coronavirus or any other urgent medical needs,” it said.

Pressed for further information, a spokesman said a separate operation to the general 111 service was set up, called the Coronavirus Response Service (CRS), and it was “run on behalf of NHS 111 by private providers”.

Guavanaut posted:

They are unreasonable when they take the form of "kick out all the Coloureds who come here from Poland" and "bring back hanging" because they've been sold a return to a world that never existed where they get to do what they like and nobody else has rights.

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

Kier Starmer (file photo)

Guavanaut posted:

Harry Potter and the Bathroom Bill

knox_harrington posted:

Sad times, had to put the cat down today. Rest easy little guy.



He was 19 and had a great last few months up in the mountains. Sad to see him go though.

sebzilla posted:

If other people want to stay in the Labour Party then good luck to them. I just didn't want to keep reading about the poo poo things they were doing while seeing the monthly fee dribbling out of my account and feeling it was all somehow done in my name. It's clear enough the party as an entity doesn't want members with opinions like mine, despite there still being some notable good eggs in it. Fine by me. I'll *probably* still vote for them because I'm in a swing seat and gently caress voting Green and letting the Tories in. But honestly if the current standard of policy-free bum emissions from the leadership continues for four years, I might not even do that. The crushing of leftist hope over the past few years has successfully broken my spirit for the fight; life is hard enough right now without trying to take on the shambling corpse of the Labour Party as well. A year ago I was hoping to make use of my incredibly limited free time to get more involved in the local party and help push things further left. Now I really don't see the point. People with more time, energy and zeal can carry on if they want, I wish them every success, but I'm just loving done with it.

happyhippy posted:

When the UK were part of the EU Galileo system they obviously had worked on it and had a lot of data and resources to it.
These were handed over to the EU over the last year or so.
Now the UK will have to rent back the systems it owned originally from the EU.
BREXIT

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Lol I wish, Tom Scott has what would pretty much my dream job. Besides he doesn't talk about trains or London nearly enough, I'm probably somewhere in the middle of a triangle formed by him, Jay Foreman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T_0FYHn0I0&t=316s

(Video cued up on one of the buildings I used in my council house history post, conspiracy fans!)

and Geoff Marshall:

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

e: With a bit of Techmoan and Big Clive mixed in but I don't really talk about that stuff here because it never really comes up

ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:

They have our printers. I went in to one of their distribution warehouses in the south because "smoke was coming out of it". Turn up and a load of bits of the machine are missing, and very much turn around and say "I am not touching this". Plus they put printers in the chilled sections of the warehouses and that's just loving dumb

Sloth Life posted:

On toast, mixed with couscous and hot water, mixed with microwave rice would be my go tos.