UKMT May 2021 - Change the things that need changing and that is the change we will bring about

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TACD: Oct 27, 2000

�Naked men are almost ninety times less likely to be mugged�

Gotta admit I would be curious to see how asking a buck naked dude for his wallet at knifepoint plays out

# ¿ May 2, 2021 00:36

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 10:15

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

bump_fn posted:

https://twitter.com/iresimpsonsfans/status/1389171234236162048

I'd literally never even heard of this show until a few days ago when people started going on about the finale and it turns out it's been going for something like six seasons :confused:

# ¿ May 3, 2021 15:47

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

SpaceCommie posted:

I'm really not sure I can be bothered to go out and vote at the moment.

I've not quit the party yet, mostly because I naively hope I'll get a chance to chuck a leadership vote Zarah Sultana's way. If Khan was potentially going to lose I'd vote tactically, but I don't want to just give my vote away to the party whose leadership has been telling me to gently caress off for a year and courting bigots.

Never pass up the opportunity to draw a big willy that gets officially counted imo

# ¿ May 4, 2021 08:10

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

quote:

Speaking on Tuesday morning, Starmer said he would �take full responsibility� for the results later this week.

Hope somebody has saved the audio of this for memeworthy remixes of Friday�s inevitable complete abdication of responsibility

# ¿ May 4, 2021 10:56

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

Why did the tofu cross the road?

To prove it wasn�t chicken! :dadjoke:

# ¿ May 4, 2021 23:39

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

vodkat posted:

https://twitter.com/jonnelledge/status/1389606826187051015?s=21

Are you ready for these take non stop?

I�m expecting a lot of �Labour has cast off the shackles of the woke Corbynista youth but has not yet won back all the old guard voters that took them to victory in �97, and seen in that light this crushing defeat is actually the start of a beautiful rebirth�

# ¿ May 5, 2021 08:33

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

Gats Akimbo posted:

I just voted entirely out of spite.

The good news is you passed the final exam in the British citizenship test

Gonzo McFee posted:

Still laughing at Polly Tonybee saying that the voters have no excuses but to vote for Labour because Keith is so electable.

Winning Votes isn't electability, wearing a nice suit and not being left wing is.

I honestly reckon you could just vote for whoever has been described as �electable� the least and have a reasonable heuristic for picking a left-leaning candidate

# ¿ May 6, 2021 10:33

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

Gonzo McFee posted:

https://twitter.com/joolsd/status/1390685581500366858?s=19

It's amazing how alienating your core voters makes them not vote for you.

The denial is going to breathtaking, I can't wait to hear all the wise pontifications about how voters were scared off by Keith's radical leftist policies

E:

# ¿ May 7, 2021 17:27

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

1965917 posted:

There were quite a few hot takes on what we'd like to happen to Labour now.
What do you think will ACTUALLY happen in the wake of all this?

The only specific idea I�ve seen was that they might move Labour HQ to somewhere in the north to show their ~deep commitment~ to the rest of the UK. So I think they�ll talk about that for a week or two and then dismiss it as impractical.

# ¿ May 8, 2021 10:51

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Concentrating on getting rid of him misses the point entirely, the real prize is ensuring that a socialist can never hold anything more than a token amount of power in the party ever again, and that's what we need to keep an eye out for.

This is fine IMO, the idea of a socialist Labour Party is a total mirage and one that everybody should have given up on as soon as it became clear how much of the party was trying to bring Corbyn down.

Labour�s obviously on the decline. Take over the Greens and purge the TERFy transphobes in time for the next GE.

# ¿ May 8, 2021 11:56

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

Gonzo McFee posted:

https://twitter.com/GdnPolitics/status/1390983452577599500?s=19

What a piss weak excuse

lol this is a great excuse when Boris Johnson literally nearly died of Covid

# ¿ May 8, 2021 13:09

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

Starmer�s priority will be the same thing it�s always been: learning to create a perfect spectrum of white noise when he opens his mouth

# ¿ May 9, 2021 22:13

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

Borrovan posted:

Allowing the party to die, whether by the SCG overplaying its hand or Starmer carrying on doing exactly what he is doing, basically just means becoming a one party state led by fascists.

We already are this. The Corbyn years showed what happens if a credible left-wing threat emerges: every media and political force in the country becomes absolutely psychotically focused on destroying it no matter the cost. The Labour Party as it is now is the only form in which it�s allowed to exist; supporting the government by offering watered-down versions of their policy, by failing so badly as a political party that it makes the Tories look competent, or just by explicitly stating support for the government.

Genuine political opposition will not be tolerated.

# ¿ May 10, 2021 12:39

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

lol from their point of view Starmer was a sop to the left, and now he�s poo poo the bed they�ve decided the problem is we�re all too stupid to see how ~*electable*~ he is

# ¿ May 12, 2021 08:48

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

I'm finding this whole "Boris getting a CCJ" event very funny, it seems like the sort of grotty pleb thing that would really irritate him.

Bet he ends up strong-arming the courts into dismissing it for him without legal cause.

https://twitter.com/davidallengreen/status/1392479041916215300?s=20

E: 80 looks a bit like Homer if you dress it up all fancy

~(_8^0

# ¿ May 12, 2021 17:37

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

keep punching joe posted:

she's the centrist ash sarkar, causes left twitter men to get angry/horny.

�horngry�

# ¿ May 13, 2021 16:02

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

Everybody realising he�s shite at the same time isn�t a �co-ordinated attack�

# ¿ May 13, 2021 20:30

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

Don't know if anybody was looking for a new av but

https://twitter.com/scienceshitpost/status/1392868055890464773

# ¿ May 14, 2021 12:20

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

Guavanaut posted:

Even if they only exist as social phenomena (which doesn't make them 'not real' any more or less than language, ethnicity, or religion) there's still observably good and bad ways of addressing them, and they're going with one of the observably bad ways.

It's a bit fascinating imagining the mind of these people that cannot fundamentally conceive of a solution to a problem other than violence, and then more violence when it doesn't work. If the washing machine breaks do they whack it with a stick until it either magically starts working or until it's a pile of parts, which they then berate for being lazy? When the toilet clogs do they just hammer away at the flush handle until it snaps off and the house is flooded with sewage?

It's such a comically stupid mentality that I can't help wondering how often it smashes into the daily reality of having to do constructive actions to solve problems and where the fault lines of dissonance are.

# ¿ May 14, 2021 15:30

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

Munin posted:

In Tony Blair news: https://twitter.com/PinkNews/status/1393256544251244544

Blair is just trying to smooth-talk his way into Hogwarts

# ¿ May 15, 2021 09:54

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

Guavanaut posted:

More evidence has surfaced that the 'recycling' infrastructure is a complete loving joke and we'd all be better off trying to reduce waste and doing something interesting* with whatever we would otherwise recycle rather than trusting the current government authorities to do anything worthwhile with it.

Isn�t chucking it all in an incinerator actually a better outcome than �recycling� (i.e. shipping it off to a Chinese landfill), assuming it�s at least a somewhat modern incinerator?

Recycling really has been one of the biggest scams of the last century IMO

# ¿ May 17, 2021 12:48

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

Guavanaut posted:

If it's a modern incinerator with CHP capacity and a decent baghouse and maybe even carbon capture then yes, that's good.

But if it's one of those then you don't need to lie to people about recycling and can just openly say that's what you're doing.

The current system of accidentally dropping it all in the sea or dumping it on the Global South or piling it up in waste yards that mysteriously catch fire is worse than nothing, but we really should be aiming for better.

Can you just say that's what you're doing though? My gut instinct is that the vast majority of people still aren't aware of how awful the current recycling system really is and would be appalled that it's going to an incinerator at all.

But yea, absolutely even incineration isn't good enough. IMO any manufacturing industry should be legally required to create and enforce a plan that accounts for the entire lifecycle of their products; if you create a widget, then you have to construct or pay for facilities to properly recycle or dispose of 100% of the non-biodegradable material in that widget, and also incentivise customers to actually make use of those facilities.

Jippa posted:

https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1393541248049303555

Hopefully Twitter subscribers will get some special blue tick-esque badge, it'll incentivise the Twitter true believers to pay and warn the rest of us who's terminally online

# ¿ May 17, 2021 13:34

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

sinky posted:

They will just sub-sub-sub-subcontract a company to do that for them (who then send it abroad to be burnt)

Since we're in my fantasy legislative mind palace I am also stipulating that parent industries are held liable for the environmental misconduct of all their subcontracted companies so if anybody tries any funny stuff they get shat on by every level above them all at once

# ¿ May 17, 2021 13:43

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

mediaphage posted:

after watching snackmasters i know you can buy an extruder from aliexpress for �200 and make all the munch you want out of cornmeal and whatever depraved flavours you can concoct

We already have a thread fudge provider, sounds like you've volunteered to be the resident Crispe Artiste 👍️

# ¿ May 17, 2021 19:19

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

OwlFancier posted:

I went to an ice cream shop in ediburgh once that did sage flavoured ice cream.

It tasted like eating stuffing but with the texture and temperature of ice cream.

It wasn't necessarily unpleasant either it was just extremely existentially unsettling.

In my hunt for gluten-free beers I found this interesting fellow recently:

It does indeed taste like a tomato and basil beer, which is both the best and worst thing about it.

# ¿ May 17, 2021 20:25

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

StarkingBarfish posted:

After clocking off in the nightclub I worked at in Edinburgh we used to occasionally go to the penny black pub round the back of the St. James' center. Opened at 5am. We'd end up going home at about 9am as everyone was commuting into work. It was a very unsettling experience to be half cut surrounded by suits.

I have a very fond memory of coming back from a rave in London with some friends at about 6�7am; early enough that the tube was not absolutely crushed but late enough to be fairly busy with early starters all in their own personal misery bubbles staring firmly at the floor (this being before smartphones). One of my friends still had a leftover thing of bubble mix and starting blowing bubbles in the carriage, and every single fucker looked up and smiled.

Bubbles are extremely powerful for awakening people�s inner child.

# ¿ May 18, 2021 12:57

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

The bit I'm enjoying most is the 3% of self-describing woke people thinking nigel farage is woke

Biden scoring 25% with both groups suggests he�s achieved a level of perfect centrist nullity that Starmer can only dream of

# ¿ May 18, 2021 23:34

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

Guavanaut posted:

Guardian has just shat itself again.

The only reason this got written is because Shrek�s become a meme and the only reason it�s a meme is because loads of people like it �ironically�, so this whole article is just �kids these days� with extra steps

# ¿ May 19, 2021 09:21

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

Jedit posted:

Other than the aforementioned Farquaad speech and Puss in Boots doing anime eyes, can anyone remember a single joke from Shrek? I can't.

the donkey fucks a dragon

# ¿ May 19, 2021 09:21

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

Pretty easy to commit to transparency when you have no policies or ideas. Just empty suits walking around with empty binders full of their best thoughts.

Labour is turning into that Iannucci bit where the whole house is just paper.

# ¿ May 19, 2021 10:34

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

ThomasPaine posted:

I am currently on the train for the first time in well over a year and this is amazing

I�m also on a train for the first time in over a year and it�s extremely average

# ¿ May 19, 2021 11:28

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

lol I�ve been in the pub all day and you guys are still on about shrek

# ¿ May 19, 2021 16:57

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

OwlFancier posted:

I will never stop arguing about shrek.

I guess arguing about shrek is better than actually watching shrek

by which I mean, BETTER OUT THAN IN I ALWAYS SAY

# ¿ May 19, 2021 17:24

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

Comrade Fakename posted:

https://twitter.com/vietdongsoldier/status/1395653639201566721

An unappealing meaty slab that isn�t as good as you�d hoped and is forever rotating around the centre?

(D)electable.

# ¿ May 21, 2021 12:33

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

EvilHawk posted:

By all means put that money in a high-interest account or whatever to get the most out of it.

lol and if you find a "high interest account" in tyool 2021 do tell the rest of us

Tesseraction posted:

The other day I was watching an Antipodean Twitch stream and learned they use the term "total weapon" to mean a solid lad and not a pranny like we do o'er here.

# ¿ May 24, 2021 20:21

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

Noxville posted:

Chandler and Christ

this would have been a better spinoff than Joey

# ¿ May 25, 2021 11:38

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

The Question IRL posted:

Spice Bags

Pretty sure you can get these mate, especially in Glasgow

# ¿ May 26, 2021 10:02

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

OwlFancier posted:

I mean that is sort of true though, absent some sort of structure to work that into a political force, people absolutely rather would focus on going to the pub than the government trying to kill them.

This rotten country is pretty far into a death spiral of compliant propaganda journalism feeding a disinterested and misinformed public, permitting outrageous government incompetence and corruption.

Maybe I�m just extra pessimistic because of the Hillsborough thing but if massive preventable pandemic deaths can�t even make a dent in the government�s bulletproof image then I really don�t think there�s anything that can change things. Even if they wanted to, the government doesn�t know how to govern and the media don�t know how to do journalism any more.

# ¿ May 27, 2021 01:02

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

NotJustANumber99 posted:

Of course I was awkward and they spelt my name wrong on the paperwork and had to redo it. It seemed important that my name was right if this was going to be a vaccine passport or whatever down the line.

When I had my second injection they were imploring everybody to get the NHS app (the regular one not the COVID tracker) so it could be used as a vaccine passport, and it�s already been set up to generate a proof-of-vaccine QR code for travel:

Has anything about vaccine passports actually been announced yet? Because this seems like a lot of infrastructure prep for something that (as far as I was aware) is far from a sure thing.

# ¿ May 27, 2021 09:19

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 10:15

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

Bobby Deluxe posted:

What I really want is something that will tell all of those cookie consent screens to gently caress right off, especially the ones that have a couple of hundred 'partners' and make you uncheck each one manually.

Noscript still does the job admirably on my PC, but you don't get the same thing on mobile.

If you're on iOS / macOS, Hush does that very well.

# ¿ May 27, 2021 16:04

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