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Zalakwe posted:Aww, was so hoping for the spill all tale on setting altogether saucier here... I guess she had to write that piece - even the BBC in its incarnation as Kuennsberg can't ignore that Johnson is a liar, but it's a very 'on the one hand, but on the other hand'. The nerve of comparing the vile specimen to Steve Jobs though! (I'm no Jobs fan, and I won't give houseroom to iStuff, but at least Jobs produced things, until Waffle Brain). This line at the end makes it clear to me where her sympathies lie - excusing his foul behaviour with this. quote:But as one of the few people who genuinely knows Boris Johnson once told me, he is a politician who above all, wants to be loved.
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Reaction to Kuennsberg's article excusing Johnson of all lying: https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/n...xamples-267415/ Ospreys: That is a sad incident. Round here, in our nice little market town, we're seeing all sorts of acts of random mindless vandalism lately (no reports of attacks on wildlife yet though) - just things dug up or broken. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 11:54 on May 2, 2021 |
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Halisnacks posted:Is there a consensus on what would constitute a good vs bad result for Labour in the local elections? And if there is a bad result, is Starmer at all vulnerable to a leadership challenge? I'd be surprised. The mega excuses: (1) Corbyn wrecked labour because of his anti-semitic, racist, terrorist loving, free broadband (despite the party now being far more anti-semitic having booted out leftwing Jewish members, kow-towing to BoD, far more racist having refused to take to task those proven in the leaked report to be racist bullies and all on the right of the party, terrorist loving Starmer - just because murder is committed by people in a state uniform doesn't mean they're not terrorists, free broadband - doesn't seem so daft now does it after over a year of WFH / school from home, many organisations moving to a more permanent use of online conferencing etc instead of carbon-burning flights etc, and lockdowns. (2) Johnson and the vaccine bounce - maybe a bit (3) Corbynistas refuse to back Starmer and insist on either voting for other parties or not voting, and it's all their fault despite the other lot refusing to back Corbyn for 5 years. <IMHO> If the Labour party is to become a party worth voting for in the next general election, it needs to be torn down now and forced to face up to the error of its ways to give it 2-3 years to rebuild </IMHO> (3) It's too cold to vote (4) It's too hot to vote (5) Pluto turned retrograde on April 28th - lasting until October: The long-term, lasting change in the starry sky is now the beginning of Pluto's retrograde, starting on April 28th, 2021 and which lasts until October 7th, 2021. Pluto represents power, abuse of power and profound transformations that we have to go through. (6) Laura Kuennsberg loves Boris Every BBC political article ever are already well and underway.
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PNGYAKUZA posted:ah sound, definetly going faster than a lot of places but how's the 2nd doses going? I know my mum still has only had her 1st despite being a keyworker. I've only had my first (61, Wales) in a mass-vaccination centre. My second is due early June I think. - Astra Zeneca My sister (<60, Wales) had her first at a GP and was given a date for her second immediately (late May I think) - she has health issues. - Astra Zeneca My niece (29, Wales) has had two now I think (she has lots of health issues). - Pfizer I think Mum (83, England) has now had both. Pfizer
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Where was it done? If through your GP, contact them, otherwise they should have booked you in for the second one at the same time as the first, so call 119 and speak to them about booking it. This isn't the case in Wales. GP jabs seem to have given the date for the second at the time you get the first, but mass vacc centres just gave an indication, not a set date. The phoning up / online booking is England only. Gyro Zeppeli posted:I'm not sure, I was just given a letter telling me my appointment. I was told when I got it that I'd hear when my next shot was, but so far nothing. Are you in England or Wales or Scotland?
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Borrovan posted:I think it varies by region. I got my first jab (Wales, 30s, healthy) this week, they did give me a fixed date & time. No letter or anything, just got an unexpected text saying I had an appointment in like 3 days. Apparently I'll get another one when it's time for the second. Same for non-vulnerable people I know locally, but vulnerable people got the GP appointments & people out of town got letters. That's what I meant. I got an appointment (at quite short notice - a few days - but it was by letter not text) for the first, but haven't had a date for the second, just a general indication that it would be 'about' 12 weeks from the first. Those who went to GP (vulnerables) instead of mass vax centre (invulnerables  ) got given the second appointment when they went for the first.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:"Jacob Rees-Mogg, leader of the House of Commons, wants the package of 25 to 30 bills in the Queen’s Speech to deliver key sections of the Tory manifesto." Thanks for this detailed analysis/rebuttal - much appreciated.
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Dead Goon posted:No one notice It's her day job apparently, communications tzar for an animal rights charity. How that squares with the huntin' shootin' fishin' brigade of old colonels and the countryside alliance who support her wretched live-in lover I don't know.
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OwlFancier posted:Given they are normally located next to the sea, quite possibly no, for physical rather than legal reasons. Architect's design: Stromberg's underwater city. 
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Well it *is* 2021. Just watch out for those jerks from Pod 6. Selling weapons to both (or more if there are more than 2) sides is a drat fine British Industry and I shan't have you saying otherwise. Ahem. 5 Number of points in a pentagram or pentangle. An interesting figure throughout mysticism and religion with various 'good' and 'evil' connotations which I shan't go into here. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 19:20 on May 2, 2021 |
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Gonzo McFee posted:Oh she's a grade A piece of poo poo. She has articles about how she was glad her son got COVID. A few years ago she wrote about how A-levels these days weren't as good as in the old days and were a piece of piss. Then one of her kids (daughter I think) didn't do very well in her A-levels and suddenly Pearson was railing against A-levels being - erm I can't remember, but anyway 'hard' or 'tough' or something these days.
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youtube algorithm chat: It's weird. Yesterday, I watched a short video posted by a friend who has spent lockdown working on his model railway and filming it in action (ahem - yes) anyway, now my youtube suggestions are all recipes! (a) there were no recipes in friend's video (b) I have never watched recipe videos except for Vegan Black Metal Chef and that's only because I'm a saddo who gets a kick out of the Hail Seitan thing. All I can assume is that my friend and his other friends who also watched the video are keen watchers of recipe videos. I remember one time, the sidebar on my youtube suggestions being a long streak of Eminem videos punctuated by a fundamentalist islamic sheikh preaching a sermon in arabic. (Will the real Sheikh Shady please stand up!)
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MikeCrotch posted:Grandad Crispix is going to be posting REMEMBER WHEN THE BIN MEN WERE HARD?!?! on Facebook soon 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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TACD posted: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 Yeah, me too. I had vaguely heard of it in passing but until the last week had no idea so many people were glued to it. Probably because I very Very rarely watch BBC.
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Surprisingly doom-laden article in the Fail by Corbyn-hating, tory loving Alex Brummer:quote:Boom will give way to bust: The post-pandemic bounce will generate real wealth... but it could end bloodily Source: heil/money/comment/article-9538279/ALEX-BRUMMER-Boom-way-bust.html
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I hope political translators don't use google translate! Trying to translate 'angst-ridden' for my Slovenian friend which google translate uses the word for 'angry' in Slovenian. I know it screws up Arabic considerably, but I thought slovenian might be better as it uses vowels in spelling! used this in the end: filled with deep anxiety, especially about oneself or the nature of existence. which google translate says is: napolnjena z globoko tesnobo, zlasti glede samega sebe ali narave obstoja. and it I put the slovenian in, the English comes back the same as I wrote. I don't recall if anyone on here is Slovenian!
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Cashew nut harvesting: There are quite a few articles on it over the past few years, here's one in Metro: https://metro.co.uk/2019/04/04/women-india-pay-price-cashew-nut-demand-vegan-diets-rise-9110415/ Teetotal I've been teetotal for over 15 years now as I became allergic to it (or, rather, started experiencing extreme reaction - blood pressure rocketing up, tachycardia etc). Exceptions: 1 thimble-sized portion pear wine at my dad's 70th in 2015 - made me really ill, an individual pot of rum'n'raisin icecream - but I don't think there was any alcohol actually in it, a baileys-flavoured icecream, and some brandy cream (that was last year, me attempting to see whether I could cope with it). Seems I can tolerate tiny amounts of alcohol in foodstuff but NOT in liquid form (ie not a glass of wine or lager or whatever). I can also get it on my skin without a problem. I did go teetotal for a year back in the 80s as a New Year's Resolution (and to stop an old secretary at work forcing spirits down my neck every Friday lunchtime when I was a humble temp - she took not wanting to drink as a personal insult) and did get all the hassle from drinker friends. Saying you're allergic stops all that poo poo. Sustainable food: Soylent green. Bobstar posted:E: which leads to silliness like not being able to market vegetarian things as "burgers", or (as I believe the dairy industry in Europe is agitating for) not being allowed to sell milk-substitutes in milk-carton-reminiscent packaging, or in the same part of the shop, lest somebody be fooled into thinking it came from a cow. An oat cow. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 16:27 on May 4, 2021 |
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When I was about 15 I had a boyfriend who worked in the slaughterhouse of Harris pork pies in Wiltshire. He hated it but it was the only work around. He said they stunned the pigs but he could see they were still afraid and he swore the only reason they were stunned was to stop them wriggling around and upsetting the humans. I tried being a vegetarian but I am too weak of will. Every time I get a bag of mince or whatever from the shops I feel guilty.
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Dead Goon posted:This must be an incredibly silly question and one that has been asked and answered a million times before but, say the world wakes up tomorrow and no one eats beef or diary. What happens to all the cows? The farmers certainly aren't going to feed and care for them out of the kindness of their hearts, are they? Suspicious extensive outbreak of foot and mouth disease resulting in huge funeral pyres of cows. Wasn't there some suspicion that farmers were claiming infections of foot & mouth disease and killing their herds so they could get the payouts? eg https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/apr/11/footandmouth.paulbrown
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/may/04/internal-polling-suggests-labour-heading-for-defeat-in-hartlepool-byelectionquote:
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Lady Demelza posted:I find Quorn gives me awful tummy ache if I eat it on consecutive days. This is unfortunate as I live alone and often have the same evening meal for 3 days in a row. It took a couple of times to make the connection that Quorn was the cause of the misery. I know that other meat-free stuff isn't fungi-based and isn't likely to cause the same problem, but it makes me wary all the same. I'm very allergic to Quorn. It can cause anaphylaxis. If you start googling it's scary. I ate it a couple of times without a problem, the third time I ate it (at an interval of some months so not like I ate it 3 days on the tro), I woke up in the night covered from head to toe in what looked like mosquito bites (hives? I missed the lesson at school when we learned these kind of words) and felt really unwell. A couple of years ago, my brother brought a quorn shepherd's pie over that he had prepared for a 'dinner party' that was abandoned because someone's kid was rushed to hospital, and mum thought it was meat and piled a load on my plate and fortunately my brother remembered I can't eat it before I did! A simple article on it. More scientific articles are available if you consult Professor Google. https://cspinet.org/eating-healthy/ingredients-concern/quorn I also feel sick after pot noodles otherwise they would be almost my idea of perfect food - no cooking beyond boiling the kettle, portion controlled, long-life, no fuss (I hate food fuss), can live in the cupboards without calling my name all night until they get eaten. Not sure what they have in them that causes that. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 23:43 on May 4, 2021 |
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Just come across this guy: Tadhg Hickey. Seems to have done some good 'allegory' videos on various political situations involving Britain. This one is "The British Empire, but it's a school reunion in Cork" I think you can watch it without a facebook account. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=825234614818764 I don't know anything else about him so if the Grey Beards ITT advise me he's a good guy or a melt or something, I shan't be at all surprised. The couple of vids i watched seem good though.
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Failed Imagineer posted:https://twitter.com/cruising_utopia/status/1389586774276587524?s=19 A bit late to the party, and someone might have beaten me to it, I'm 5 pages behind, but there's another one just a bit further East (300m or so). I wonder if it's the ancient course of the river? Though a couple of the 'edges' look a bit too sykes picot. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place...152!4d-3.231504
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Voted: Local Senedd rep: Welsh labour - I know her, she's a very good egg Police Commissioner (2 votes): (1) Labour (2) Plaid - I know nothing about any of the candidates (chucking all the election leaflets in the recycling unread probably didn't help but I don't recall any coming through for that. All the rest of the parties on the list were tory or fasc-adjacent variations on 'independent' and 'shoot brown people'. Regional Senedd rep: Britain's Communist Party - don't @ me I have no idea who they are or what they stand for. Did for bantz. (No idea who any of the others are either.) Polling station report: No queue, 3 people came in and out while I was there. The 'used pencil' box (covid precautions - everyone got a new pencil) had just 5 pencils in it. Now either there was a huge rush this morning and they already filled one used pencil box, or there wasn't and hardly anyone has voted. 16-18 can vote in Senedd: My polling station is right by the local comprehensive school so I was just wondering how many of the 16-18s will bother to vote for senedd and what impact that might have. No excuse of time/distance for them not voting* - the polling station is just a minute away from the comp and on the direct route between the comp and the pedestrian underpass where all the kids gather to smoke their cancer sticks (why do kids still think smoking makes them look 'big'? rhetorical question.) *I mean they may have other good reasons for not voting, but time/distance can't be one of them round here except for those that live further afield than the local town centre. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 17:25 on May 6, 2021 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I've still yet to see a single leaflet from Labour for either GLA or Mayoral elections. Two from the Tories, one novella from the piss-drinker, one from the weirdo Rahman Rump telling me that I need to vote to keep a directly elected Tower Hamlets mayor (there's a referendum going on for that as well as the election). What's noticeable (as I'm at home to see it) is that all of the leaflets that have been delivered have been by the same guys who do the pizza leaflets and estate agent PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD TELL US YOU HAVE ROOMS TO RENT solicitations. It's almost as though they local Labour party lack either the cash to pay a fiver per hundred leaflets or the volunteers to deliver them for free. Round our way, I gather from a sly read of a closed local LP group which I'm a silent member of, there was some sort of dispute between whoever was being paid to deliver leaflets and their actual delivery. So it seems to me that CLPs have not had sufficient volunteers to distribute leaflets. I know a couple of corbynistas I have spoken to and who are still hanging on by a thread to labour party membership and who have previously done literally hundreds of hours of leafleting, stall staffing, canvassing etc, are not lifting a finger to help this time round - particularly as two very active local members were suspended for 'anti-semitism' for drawing up a motion supported by MANY in the local party inquiring as to why that Israeli guy was appointed social media monitor when surely in order to get work permits etc it has to be proven that there is no UK citizen capable of doing the job. (One of the suspendees quit in disgust at being suspended for anti-semitism when she is blatantly NOT, the other is still fighting it. A letter of support for the two persons signed by many long-standing members of the local party including anti-corbyns and a former MP of the blairite tendency was sent to HQ and no response as far as I know) Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 17:08 on May 6, 2021 |
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Soylent Yellow posted:Voted Plaid in the local, Communist in the regional. If you're giving the middle finger to the establishment, you may as well go big or go home. Plus, it was childishly funny. Gonna be funny if the Communist gets in to the regional with the votes of us pissed off lefties - that's what I voted (and why) for the regional   ed: I thought Jayda Fransen was in jail? (I mean obviously she's not if she's yelling at Stugeron). Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 20:01 on May 6, 2021 |
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For those of you who did (or didn't) take your canine companions to the polling station, here's a twitter hashtag for you: https://twitter.com/hashtag/DogsAtPollingStations (NB it's a hashtag, not a tweet (lots of tweets with that tag) so it's not a 'disappeared' tweet.)
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OwlFancier posted:I have a distant relative called shona, I think, so that one isn't odd to me. It's mostly Scottish isn't it? But this is a bit Bollywood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9lqbhVVTck
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https://twitter.com/BeckettUnite/status/1390415318636535809?s=20 which is odd because: https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1386777301661143045?s=20 Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 22:52 on May 6, 2021 |
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I wonder what the turnout was? My non-deeply analysed reflection on previous elections at all levels is when UKIP or KIPalikes fail to stand, their support goes approx 2/3 to tories and 1/3 to Labour.
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forkboy84 posted:Sometimes you have to sit back and really revel in the idea of Labour losing a by-election to an incumbent government of 11 years. That takes skill Are WE the Steven Kinnocks? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isr0F3bLA-M 2 mins in to that vid when the exit poll comes in - hadn't registered the angry face of the woman in the blue shirt in front of Kinnock before. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 00:42 on May 7, 2021 |
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Gonzo McFee posted:Lmao Rosie Duffield has locked her account after spending all day posting poo poo about how people kept coming up to her to say how glad they were Corbyn was gone. She really pissed me off. She only scraped in as an MP because of the hard work Corbyn supporters. (Let alone what she has revealed about her views since.)
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https://twitter.com/Ips_cali/status/1390449714789687298?s=20 https://twitter.com/Marnerbanana/status/1390450846228520965?s=20 https://twitter.com/ushistorytutor/status/1390449822440755202?s=20
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Meanwhile in other news: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/fire-east-london-tower-block-poplar-b1843684.html quote:Poplar fire: Blaze breaks out at 19-storey tower block ‘covered in Grenfell-type cladding’
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I don't get why 'they' (rightists) keep banging on about Keefy getting rid of Momentum. Momentum did bugger all during these campaigns from what I've seen and can't possibly be blamed for flag-shagging by labour going down like a lead balloon? Or am I wrong?
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happyhippy posted:As long as we are not swamped by Death Metal bands. BlankSystemDaemon posted:
Ode to Kieth using a Finnish metal band (a bit much keyboard for death) - just change Winter to May I do own the album from which this is taken  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8o3oAt9Db8 cover version (slightly more death vocals) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua0gnihutZ0 Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 18:20 on May 7, 2021 |
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WhatEvil posted:As disheartening as it is to see Labour reduced to this from what it could have been under Corbyn, at least today we're getting some confirmation that we're not all collectively in some insane echo chamber huffing our own farts, and that we can actually see things at least somewhat as they really are. Yep. The Labour Right need to be roundly crushed underfoot by the sandalled feet of the colossus .. erm... so Labour can be reborn. I'm not sorry. And now is the time to do it, 2-3 years before a general election. Though I think you're right, they won't learn any lessons. Hear these words villifiers and pretenders. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZjuzPU9UE4 Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 18:36 on May 7, 2021 |
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