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ronya posted:labour actually focus group'd especially intensely 1992-1997 due to internal suspicions and intraparty accusations that 1992 could happen again (recall LAB was heavily favoured to win in polling and instead Major rode to a massive unprecedented landslide A majority of 21 is a massive landslide?! Let's not forget Major had a minority government by 1997.
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OwlFancier posted:What... spirit is it that has made us the envy of the world exactly? Gin is actually Dutch originally.
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Feb 2, 2021 23:42
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OwlFancier posted:I think the point is that they don't want the people who voted in 2019, they want lovely tory dads to vote for them. Not even dads, they're mostly on our side. Granddads or nothing   
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Feb 3, 2021 14:35
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:E: I have never let my wife live down the time she said "wax lyricaling" instead of "waxing lyrical" My wife has a habit of saying 'Kanye peppers' when she means cayenne. It's frigging adorable  Edit: 16 is how many Kanye peppers I'm going to put in tomorrow's curry
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Feb 3, 2021 15:21
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big scary monsters posted:I suppose if you're going to overwinter in Antarctica you probably aren't doing it just for the money, but the flat rate £24,685 salary +10% bonus seems pretty bad for highly skilled work, spending a year entirely cut off from the world living in a metal shack in a frozen desert. Though on the upside your food and accommodation are paid and you've got plenty of time to organise an Antarctic workers' union. I mean, this is pretty big, yes. You're making 2 grand a month with literally nothing to spend it on, so you'll be coming home with all of that minus tax (which will be at the basic rate) in your bank account.
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Feb 3, 2021 15:26
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Darth Walrus posted:I really wish they'd do one of those Games Workshop hack and slash games where you get to be a champion of Chaos rather than an agent of the Empire/Imperium. C'mon, RPG customisation where you get to pick your god and become progressively more mutated would be rad as hell. Let me play as a Warrior of Slaanesh and obliterate an entire screenful of enemies in a tastefully-scented murder-orgy, or a Sorcerer of Tzeentch who turns the entire enemy army inside out and then makes them eat each other. I mean it's tabletop roleplaying but that is a thing and if it weren't for y'know *gestures at all the germs* I'd be interested in running it.
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Grey Hunter posted:Starmer has never been the person to lead Labor into the next election Well yeah, the Australian Labor Party's leader is some chap called Tony apparently (Though google suggests he's not going to be leading that party into its next election either...)
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Feb 4, 2021 12:54
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Fedule posted:(Bell himself had an interesting life following war reporting; he ran as an independent MP for Tatton, a safe Tory seat, in 1997, and somehow managed to convince Alistair Campbell to stand down Labour's candidate and get the Lib Dems to stand down theirs, leading to him winning in a landslide, after which he did not run in 2002 and was replaced with George Osborne, so, uh, whoops. Also while in office he notably voted with the Tories against the repeal of Section 28, so I guess he's actually trash.) He was running as the anti corruption candidate against Neil Hamilton who was notorious for taking bribes (and who's now in UKIP, also has a terrifying wife). Wore a white suit and stuff. It was definitely a Thing at the time. Edit: this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash-for-questions_affair All part of the late Major administration's reputation for sleaziness feedmegin fucked around with this message at 15:43 on Feb 4, 2021 |
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Mano posted:In general there's only one way to safely delete data from a harddisk /ssd when giving it away: you physically destroy it. This is uh unnecessarily paranoid even if you're worrying about the NSA, these days, And if you are worrying about them they've already blackbagged your house and installed a keylogger anyway. SSD secure erase if appropriate and overwriting with random junk will be quite sufficient. Edit: how the hell do you sharpen a balaclava
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Camrath posted:I am sad to report however that I’m currently not able to ship outside of the UK. I know there are several fudge fans on the mainland, and I’m deeply sorry that our government has hosed up your fudge supply. As soon as I find a solution, I will let you know Not that this affects me personally, but how does it work with Northern Ireland?
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Feb 5, 2021 14:00
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Wouldn't it be nice if all these shitbags who go on about Stalinism actually got sent to Gulags
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Feb 5, 2021 14:45
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Borrovan posted:Citation needed, most marking is done by fairly large teams (often including a bunch of postgrads who get roped in) so a student doesn't have any idea who's marking it. Depends on where and when and if you're talking about exams or day to day teaching. The way it worked when I read history at Oxford was you wrote your essay and read it out to the tutor, just you and him one and one in the tutorial, and then he ripped it to pieces in front of you. So, uh, yes, you know exactly who's marking it, he's telling you all the ways your argument is crap right there in front of your face. When it comes to exams, well, if he's the 17th century French history expert and your essay is on 17th century French history it is at least quite likely he is marking your paper, and if he was your tutor he's likely to know your writing style well enough to know it's you even if the paper is anonymised, so welp.
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Feb 9, 2021 19:46
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Mebh posted:See, I just drink gin. Welcome, brother
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Noxville posted:Having a million to retire on at 45 essentially means saving £50,000 a year. Which even with zero outgoings through sponging of your parents still requires you to be earning at least £50,000 a year. Which I’m gonna say is not easily achievable for most. Especially since you're not counting tax there either.
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Feb 10, 2021 14:12
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Jack Monroe has been pointing out this exact thing on twitter. Economy ranges started getting rebranded or going missing towards the end of last year, and once rebranded the prices have been steadily going up. Still pissed ASDA axed their cheapest brand of boxed red wine like 2 weeks into the first lockdown.
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Feb 10, 2021 15:24
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Lol funnily enough one of the ideas for a novel I was playing with for a while was basically a sort of steampunky Discworldy thing that had almost exactly this except it was just generic "meat" being sent to restaurants through high-pressure tubes, and they just chucked in bags of flavourings and pressed it into moulds to make sausages, pies, curries, etc. Same thing with carbs being turned into chips, rice, and a sort of soda stream arrangement for bread. I abandoned the idea because I was terrified of the sort of people who would like it. Stealing this for The Goon Game should we ever get to go to the pub together again  (Soylent Ruby Murray is elves!)
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Feb 11, 2021 00:12
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Trin Tragula posted:Reputable solicitors don't exist to help people get away with crimes. If you need the other sort of solicitor, you probably know how to find them; if you don't, then you shouldn't play big boy games until you figure it out. A strip mall in Albuquerque?
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Feb 16, 2021 21:37
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Gonzo McFee posted:Three, but they can't enforce it unless the eviction ban comes off so basically so long as Covid is here it's a polite request. How're you getting 'three months' from 'For notices served between 29 August 2020 and 31 March 2021 inclusive of, the minimum notice period is six months, unless exceptions apply (see below)' ?
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Feb 17, 2021 20:00
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radmonger posted:For that question, talking about seats is, except for the careers of individual MPs, irrelevant. Mate. We live under FPTP. You are transparently talking poo poo here. Full Remain loses us those Midlands seats even more. Which seats do you think we gain over 2017 to compensate? It'll need to be quite a lot, mind.
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Feb 18, 2021 00:05
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radmonger posted:Once going above one or two percentage points, more votes is more seats, less votes is fewer seats. The only part of that sentence I am unsure of is which way round the words ‘less’ and ‘fewer’ go. Where are you getting 20% from? What percentage of voters do we lose on top of the ones we actually did in 2019 cos its not 0%. Again. Which seats do you think full Remain could have won? Let's see a list. A long list. And let's not assume even full Remain would have won over all the Lib Dems to Jeremy 'Hitler 2.0' Corbyn, yeah? feedmegin fucked around with this message at 01:11 on Feb 18, 2021 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I was surprised to discover in the last few years that some members of the Labour party do not like being referred to as 'comrade' or 'comrades'. IME it was a signifier of what side you're on. Lefties went with 'comrade', the melts running both the CLPs I was in preferred 'colleague'. Edit: 1998 was the best Windows version ever fite me
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stev posted:Yeah but they had to bury the ashes just to be sure. I too have seen that old Comic Strip Presents
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To be fair, this has always been business as usual under the Labour right. Conferences are stage managed. Trying to make them actually a bit democratic was something Corbyn was trying to do, so they were always going to roll it back. Same with nobbling CLPs.
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Jose posted:Not sure they'd accept betting on black either I mean, Italy and the blackshirts maybe or the Black Hundreds
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Failed Imagineer posted:I feel like it needs to be constantly said, but "classic" burger buns taste like absolute bland poo poo and fall apart the instant they make contact with burg. Brioche actually tastes nice and has structural integrity to survive the whole burg experience. The gently caress kind of antiBrioche are you buying that doesn't instantly fall apart. Its literally cake.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Honey is also the basis for just about every decent barbecue sauce/marinade too. South Carolina would like a word 
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Grape posted:Ok, what does the worst state on the Atlantic have to say. Mustard and vinegar, mostly. And the other word, maybe, but my in-laws have the relevant privileges.
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Dogatron posted:Thank you. Prince Phillip was exiled from Greece, with the rest of the Greek Royal family in 1922, like I loving said. This guy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_II_of_Greece ,your actual former reigning King of Greece (much later than 1922), is living in Greece, right now. If you're going to be an arse, at least be right.
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Ms Adequate posted:I'll never abandon the cause of the Young Pretender! Bring back King Canute imo let us reunite with our Scandinavian brethren!
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Scikar posted:It's always up to the left to make sure they appeal to the centre, but once the centrists are in power it's the duty of the left to vote blindly for them, while they chase after Tory voters because "they count double!". So, let's not, and see how they do (we know how they do, see pretty much every centre left European party rn)
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Failed Imagineer posted:Israel is criticised because it is a brutal apartheid regime, the same way that SA was criticised in the 80s. That reminds me. Therattle, aren't you South African originally? What was it like growing up under Apartheid anyway? Genuinely curious.
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MikeCrotch posted:Re. Blue Labour the original premise was basically "social democracy, but for white people". Ah, a sort of nationalist socialism. Not even joking, socialism-bur-only-for-Aryans was part of the Nazi platform, KdF, Volkswagen etc. Its what made them different from regular old Conservatives.
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Darth Walrus posted:It genuinely wasn't. The Nazis were openly and explicitly pro-capitalist from day one, and the Strasserites (who honestly weren't that socialist either) were always on the fringe. Mass privatisation, persecution of trade unions, and cuts to welfare were always the order of the day. Hitler's main sales pitch to businesses after becoming chancellor was that democracy was incompatible with capitalism, and therefore should be done away with. No, they really weren't explicit about that to the general public in 1933. I didn't mean they MEANT it about socialism, obviously, but it was how they attracted working class votes and remained a figleaf of Nazism until 1939. Again, explicitly capitalist gently caress the working class regimes don't spend money on stuff like subsidising holidays and cars for (the right kind of) workers. Meanwhile one of the reasons for the Night of the Long Knives was the SA were a bit too enthusiastic about actually breaking up big business since they actually believed the party propaganda.
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Josef bugman posted:I mean the wine drunk at the time probably had to have water added to it. I think the Romans were forever complaining that the various different Celtic groups drank their wine "neat". It didn't HAVE to have water added, it wasn't some kind of ancient superwine or anything, but yeah the Greeks thought drinking it neat was uncouth and let's not even talk about that barbarian 'beer' nonsense...
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I have a classics itch at the back of my mind telling me that greek wine, especially the wine mentioned in the Odyssey, was extremely thick and potent in the skins and would have had to have been watered down to be palatable. IIRC they make a big deal of the cyclops drinking it from the skins unwatered and their reaction is less "ugh, how uncouth" and more "sweet merciful crom this guy is hardcore." Having done home brewing myself - you can only get so far, even with specially cultured yeast, without inventing distilling. Yeast just can't live above a certain ABV. You're not going to get above about what the strongest red wine is today (14% maybe?) because biology and given that they did not in fact have the specially cultured yeast you're probably not even going to get that far. They might have thought it super strong, but turns out the ancients were lightweights  Edit: that said I think 5% was lowballing it. They were smart enough to know about different strains of yeast and to have some idea of 'this one makes better wine than the other one', same as with sourdough starters, so I can absolutely see them getting up to like the 10% range at least rather than just letting fruit get mouldy in the sun and see what happens. feedmegin fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Feb 23, 2021 |
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The Perfect Element posted:I have to take my daughter to a hospital appointment at Evelina in London tomorrow, so for the first time in my life I'm driving into central London. I thought that, with a toddler and a global pandemic, maybe that would be preferable to going in on public transport, but now I feel like I might be being stupid. The parking costs £20, the congestion charge is £15, and according to Google it's gonna take me like over 2 hours to get there. I could have got the train for £12 return, and it would have only taken ~ 1 hour. I mean, you definitely took the expensive option, but probably also the less COVID-y option?
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Comrade Fakename posted:I work full-time for Momentum. Nice. I knew you were volunteering for them. Labour is a trash fire rn obvs, but thank you for fighting the good fight.
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endlessmonotony posted:Do not give Vitamin P the benefit of the doubt. It does not end well for you. I mean its not like they don't have lots and lots of form for that particular word.
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forkboy84 posted:Out of interest, who did you vote for in the 2020 leadership election? Oh for heaven's sake. Someone still in the Labour party right now is not necessarily some raging Starmerite, back it down a little with the performative leftier-than-thou poo poo.
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