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It's (some) elections time again, time to get out and https://twitter.com/jrc1921/status/1388192637585403908 We're also into the long flat of Covid now, which will hopefully last for the summer at least, although other places are not so fortunate.  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learnincurve posted:Need something added to every OP. DWP have been told not to tell sanctioned people about this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5WouIzjgqo Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 09:39 on May 4, 2021 |
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OwlFancier posted:It is international worker's day so music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f88nMWvCZSY
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May 1, 2021 00:44
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When the polls are down, these civilized people, they'll eat chips.
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May 1, 2021 11:16
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The men of cloth failed again, when the Bishops blessed the Blueshirts in Dun Laoghaire, as they sailed beneath the swastika to Spain.
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May 1, 2021 11:33
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I think the closest thing you could do based on the society we have at present is to hold policing as close as possible to the original Peelian Principles (I don't believe that police ever met all of those, in Peel's day or now, but there can at least be the idea that they ought to be aspiring to them), splitting off investigation, mental health crisis, domestic incidents, etc. to separate specifically qualified services that aren't 'hit with crime stick', and more widespread community sousveillance of policing, with community calls for action when something goes wrong. And of course do a shitload more stuff to reduce crime and disorder at the root, like better preschool, cleaner air and water, nicer community spaces, and a sense of belonging and participation at the local community level.
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May 1, 2021 14:59
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Were they also naked?
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feedmegin posted:Edwin Poots even sounds like the name of some retired Major from the 70s who is Disgusted of Tonbridge Wells
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May 1, 2021 22:46
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20 floor luxury beach sheds.
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May 2, 2021 12:43
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I'm more concerned that they tend to attract massive amounts of organised crime. 
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May 2, 2021 18:21
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:This is funny too (not the Crispix bit but the hard bin men). Back in the olden days when I were a lass, people were always complaining about the well 'ard binmen leaving rubbish strewn up the path and all over the garden, particularly in December if the Christmas Box (requested in rather menacing tones) wasn't forthcoming or wasn't big enough. The same people now worship at the feet of well 'ard binmen of far-off days.
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May 3, 2021 11:38
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I swear this all goes back loving Thatcher and her cult of individualism poo poo. They can't imagine doing anything for other people rather than themselves. Masks aren't 100% effective so might as well not bother, social distancing isn't 100% effective so might as well not bother. Never mind that cumulatively all you're really trying to do in a pandemic is stop the healthcare system from collapsing during the peaks, because if that happens then a tidal wave of poo poo gets unleashed where people end up dead of minor accidents/injuries, and that cumulatively adding things that reduce transmission by 20% here and 30% there and so on is the best shot we have at stopping that happening. That's too joined up though, and I guess in turn ties back into individualism again because it requires acknowledging that the reason you're extremely unlikely to die from a razor cut in the 21st century UK is in part because of living in a society, and having a system of healthcare with a capacity.
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May 3, 2021 14:07
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https://twitter.com/LeftistSnail/status/1389199919286784006Fred Clark posted:And if you're trying to remember the name of the architect of the Southern Baptist conservative resurgence who didn't later get revealed to be a spiritual and/or sexual abuser, that's easy: There wasn't one.
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May 3, 2021 14:54
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Comrade Fakename posted:What is spiritual abuse? It ties in with the other forms of abuse in cases in that often that's how they managed to get everyone to stay quiet for so long. To the shock of nobody, the types of people that will use lurid claims about everyone else eating babies and only the conservative Republicans don't eat babies love doing that poo poo.
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May 3, 2021 15:39
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If he was only saying that to get his wife to do the dishes that would meet the standard of controlling and manipulative behaviour in a relationship.
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May 3, 2021 15:57
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Failed Imagineer posted:It's not the Loaves and the Dishes now, is it?
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May 3, 2021 16:25
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Nobody tell them about coal thermal plants.
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May 3, 2021 23:41
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Lady Demelza posted:See also: green energy. So many people dismiss it because renewables were only providing x% of the UK's total energy requirements. Well yes, at the moment, but the percentages creep up annually despite our energy useage increasing, and it all makes a difference.  Just need to get rid of that 25% gas burning and 7% 'carbon neutral' (by logging old growth forests) biomass.
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May 4, 2021 10:12
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Mebh posted:https://twitter.com/cycleyarm/status/1389456815281381376  
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May 4, 2021 10:27
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Not really, I've thought of a great way that could sustain itself without any nonconsentual suffering.
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May 4, 2021 11:59
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The Daily Mail changed to reporting the war factually in 1939, when the Home Office said they couldn't support Hitler openly anymore so they changed to 'morally neutral' reporting. Not sure that brought them much trust after the way though.
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May 4, 2021 12:06
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Pablo Bluth posted:I think it's unusually windy today. For the last month renewables have averaged around 5GW but have just jumped to 15GW. And to stop loving about with old growth forests in North America and calling it carbon neutral. But on the good days like today, it really jumps out that wind and solar aren't trifling parts of the grid anymore. BalloonFish posted:Did anyone actually read the 2019 manifesto, or is it just an article of faith now that it just said "All toilets to be gender neutral and free broadband" on every page?
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May 4, 2021 12:40
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Bobstar posted:Careful, basic economics says there's infinite demand for a free good  multijoe posted:The only ethical diet is veganism, and the only tolerably ethical diet is vegetarianism Non-meat textured protein and non-dairy milk have both come on leaps and bounds. Failed Imagineer posted:They most certainly are, that's not the seaspiracy stuff I take issue with. 
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May 4, 2021 14:09
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Hey that's not fair. It's gone from "but if meat bad then why bacon taste so good, huh" to "but if no eat meat then why make your fake foods look like bacon, huh" now.
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May 4, 2021 14:30
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A vegan wolf in electric sheep's clothing.
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May 4, 2021 14:50
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Bobby Deluxe posted:https://twitter.com/flying_rodent/status/1389507819276316672?s=19 mods rename me hamas bin contracts https://twitter.com/flying_rodent/status/1389512376555290625 "Non voters lose the right to complain" is some loving nerve from someone who spent most of 2019 trying to get everyone to vote in a manner that guaranteed a Johnson victory.
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May 4, 2021 15:12
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Failed Imagineer posted:I would eat an Epic Bacon Guy no problem, and make orphans of their children . I imagine the marbling would be exquisite. Gammons on the menu.
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May 4, 2021 15:14
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Bobstar posted:I find it funny that you can get attacked from both "sides" for this - by meat eaters who think you shouldn't be allowed the thing if you're not going to eat meat, and by a subset of vegetarians who think you shouldn't try to imitate the thing because of its association with meat.
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Gorn Myson posted:I'm looking forward to the follow up hypothetical questions where they try to get you to agree that in certain scenarios you might eat meat. Pablo Bluth posted:Eat more wild venison. It's the inferior alternative to introducing wolves, bears and lynx, but until then we need to eat them to keep their numbers in balance. It's a shame that the British conception of hunting has to go and throw a bunch of completely unnecessary pageantry and inhumanity into the mix. franco posted:There does seem to be a "manliness" element to it as well - as if you don't eat a whole cow every day and dress like a lumberjack/rancher then you might be one of them.  ).Instead, there's poo poo like this, which would have been cringeworthy during the Yorkie not for girls days https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jugdgnuqtw
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If that happens, there's probably mass slaughters and piles of burning cows on the more industrial farms, and the smaller farms where they do actually like the cows probably go bankrupt. There's a lot of cow products that do still get used industrially though, from tallow to leather, so that would all probably collapse too. That's not going to happen though, Lund University recently did a study into dairy futures, and there's a few plausible scenarios, most of which have some combination of plant based dairy and lab-grown dairy protein vastly reducing the amount of cattle over a period of decades, but still leaving some.
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peanut- posted:Do you know where you can buy it? I just checked the Waitrose website and all the venison they sell is shipped from New Zealand which seems mad.
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"The project manager shows up, dismisses the brickie and day labourer, and sets about showing them both how a brick wall should be built, with comedic effect" does sum up a lot of the Starmer era party. e: lmao just noticed that he's using sharp sand instead of builder's sand to make the mortar for that wall, no wonder it's gone to poo poo. Sharp sand is for your base. That almost feels like a deliberate joke if it weren't known hack Blower. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 09:44 on May 5, 2021 |
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They should get a team of West African experts to replace it with a nice straight line, wouldn't get in the way of his tractor then.
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OwlFancier posted:apparently the first boat they are sending carries one 20mm cannon and two machineguns, I am not entirely sure the french won't be more heavily armed between them. https://twitter.com/m_sherrington/status/945629456017879040 Naval battles are not always a matter of competence and discipline. NotJustANumber99 posted:i dunno if anyone has said this before so apologies if this has been gone over before but the radio said earlier that you should take your own pencil or pen to vote tomorrow because of covid covered pens and pencils.
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May 5, 2021 23:46
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If I had sufficient spare money I'd definitely sponsor crispix and the bottle bank party. I've not seen one of those bottle banks with the green/brown/clear holes around here for a while, they all end up in the green bin if I can't find a good alternate use.
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forkboy84 posted:Do not engage with Alex Salmond
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May 6, 2021 10:38
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Surely that should be "a blank from a musket" rather than "a blank firing musket", because there's nothing stopping that from not being an actual shot other than the decision not to put a ball in it.forkboy84 posted:Should we just give the Channel Islands back to France because do we really need another loving tax haven? Neither do Tories though, so who knows who should have them. Probably not the Telegraph Brothers.
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Art: https://twitter.com/IamHappyToast/status/1390078971098931208
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knox_harrington posted:so Boris can get it up tonight knox_harrington posted:you really, really don't want to get shot at with 30mm. 
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I dunno, the French Congo genocide must have been 2 million easily. Add Algeria, Indochina, West Africa...
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