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keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Are you really a journalist if most of your career is at the NME during its absolute lowest period?

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keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Always get the first round, more people come as the evening goes on and you can gently caress off before it's your turn again. Unless the night is going well in which case go to the nearest cashy and withdraw 300 to spend on another round and a couple of bags of gear.

And also start smoking again

And get chips

And forget to tell your girlfriend where you are.

I miss pre Covid land.

keep punching joe fucked around with this message at 13:42 on Jun 3, 2021

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Alba party now (checks notes)... in favour of the Union

https://twitter.com/thetimesscot/status/1400493855678554112

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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I'd happily leave my cushy bullshit office job to go work in a coffee shop. Just not comfortable with the pay, conditions, and overall precariousness

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Willie Rennie should lead the UK lib dems, far superior to whatever anonymous melt they currently have. At least there would be more photoshoots of him doing weird poo poo.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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There are areas of Glasgow that you'd be afraid to go, but it's not because of the Muslims.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Govanhill is pretty chill and safe because the majority of people don't drink. Worst places in Glasgow are where groups of middle aged white men congregate while drunk.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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bessantj posted:

Did she have many arguments? I must admit I don't know much about her and what she's done/doing beyond saying 1) Climate change is really, really bad and scientists have the evidence 2) You're doing nothing to stop climate change and that is bad. 3) Please listen to the scientists before we all die! I do know she made people angry and that was hilarious

Well...

Climate change is really really bad.
Nothing is being done to stop it
It's really bad, a lot of people will die. Like a lot.

What other arguments do you need?

Then again, Covid will kill a few million and no one gives a poo poo so I get why they are also cool with tens/hundreds millions of dead or displaced peeps.

keep punching joe fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Jun 6, 2021

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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You love to see it

https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1401809290445443079

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Imagine the American president being further to the left than the leadership of the British Labour Party.

Like Biden is a totally poo poo creepy old hair sniffing rear end in a top hat and yet...

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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I though Maxwell's demon hung himself in jail?

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Wow the HR manager at my partner's work just sent her a calendar invite titled Exit Interview. That sure is one way to break the news to your staff.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Love it when TBEU leaks into reality

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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This is pretty hilarious. Our crack trade negotiators have signed up to another deal they did not read first.

https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/1402140834938732550

quote:

The prime minister last month announced that he hoped a domestic shipbuilder would create the £200m vessel, a successor to the Royal Yacht Britannia, to promote British trade and industry around the world.

But while Number 10 has announced its “intention” to build the as yet unnamed ship in the UK, this would breach an agreement that Britain signed up to only eight months ago

Ministers failed to exclude the construction of civilian ships from the list of contracts that must be opened to global competition when it signed the WTO “government procurement agreement” (GPA) covering 48 countries last October.

The government has set up a national flagship taskforce, hosted in the defence ministry, to oversee the creation of the trade yacht, which will be manned with Royal Navy personnel. However, its purpose is entirely for business rather than security.

Liz Truss, trade secretary, boasted in October that the GPA would allow British companies to keep bidding for public sector contracts around the world worth £1.3tr a year. Likewise, she said, overseas groups would be able to continue to bid for UK public sector contracts, “delivering better value for UK taxpayers”.

But that could frustrate the government’s attempts to use a “Buy British” approach to building the new yacht. Item 47 of annex 4 of the UK schedule of the GPA explicitly says the procurement of “ships, boats and floating structures, except warships” must be advertised internationally and awarded without discrimination.

Other countries, including the US, Canada, Japan and Australia, have, by contrast, ensured that their GPA agreements exclude civil shipbuilding.

Out of the largest 50 motor-powered superyachts currently at sea, only one (el Mahrousa) was built in the UK — in 1865.

However, Cammell Laird, which has a shipyard in Merseyside, north-west England, says it is ready and willing to manufacture the new trade yacht.

Aline Doussin, head of the international trade team at law firm Hogan Lovells, said it would be hard for the UK to avoid allowing international competition to build the ship unless it was an actual military vessel.

“It is likely that the GPA will be engaged, which means that open, fair and transparent conditions of competition will have to be met, and GPA country suppliers would have to be treated in the same manner as domestic ones,” she said.

Emily Thornberry, shadow trade secretary, said the government had failed to take “the most basic and simple steps” to guarantee the boat could be built in Britain.

“It is yet more copper-bottomed, ocean-going incompetence from Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, and they need to get themselves on solid legal ground before spending any more public funds on this project,” she said.

A government spokesperson said the ship would definitely be built in UK shipyards. She said the programme would be “compliant with our obligations under the WTO GPA” but did not say how that could be the case given Item 47 of annex 4.

One Whitehall figure said the government was planning to claim that the new trade yacht is indispensable for national security in an attempt to bypass those rules.

But the government announcement of the launch said it would be used “to host high level trade negotiations and trade shows and will sail all over the world promoting British interests”.

As a result the UK faces potential legal challenges from overseas governments or shipbuilders against the government’s protectionist stance.

Dmitry Grozoubinski, a trade expert who is visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde, said the government might try to structure the deal to avoid the letter of the GPA rules.

“Ringfencing this procurement is demonstratively contrary to their spirit. The arguments cited for keeping the procurement local — jobs, upskilling, patriotism — apply equally to any purchase made by the government and are precisely what the GPA was negotiated to set aside,” he said.

“The government can’t simultaneously present itself as a champion of the rules-based trading system and retain the freedom to ignore those rules whenever politically expedient,” he added.

keep punching joe fucked around with this message at 08:30 on Jun 8, 2021

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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everything works fine for me if i set my vpn to outside of normal isle (well specifically switzerland haven't experimented further).

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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imagine being such a massive oval office that you get sacked by the telegraph.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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So George Galloway is a socialist friend of the Muslims again, just a few weeks ago he said a man of Pakistani origin was less of a scot than him because he wasn't a celt.

This while hanging out with Tory landowners dressed like he was going to shoot Grouse.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Increasingly seeing people online arguing that retailers/hospitality cant counter the labour shortage (that they would usually fill with EU workers) by raising wages, as that would just impact on higher costs to the consumer (and make number go down). Instinctively this just sounds like liberal bullshit to me, but what are some good solid arguments for hiking wages to fill empoyment gaps in the 'low skilled' sectors?

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Bring in beer rationing IMHO.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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In solidarity with my Jewish followers I'll be going around dressed as that mural that Jeremy Corbyn once failed to condem.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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As terrible as brewdog are, their Nanny State and Punk AF (alcohol free) beers are almost indistinguishable from the real thing.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Siri how can we poo poo the bed worse than England?

https://twitter.com/ScotlandNT/status/1402968428143648772

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Surprised at Spain and Italy, that pool has subverted my expectations of both countries.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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On one hand Karate kicking a pensioner into the river is bad, on the other hand pensioners largely suck.

Maybe both sides share some blame here?

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Thanks Labour for taking the heat off the SNP *mops brow*

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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That's definitely asking to be fined for a data protection breach. Is there any sort of risk manager you could mention this to?

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Good to see that Scotland can still be relied on to choke comically in international football tournaments.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Uh how were you not in paranoid survivalist mode in February 2020. I remember I was getting weird looks when disinfecting my desk and laptop at least 3 times a day and wearing a mask on the train.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Guavanaut posted:

I'm trying to clear the image of Andrew Neil ASMR

Andrew Neil WikiFeet
Andrew Neil Cancelled by Woke Mob While Stuck In Dryer

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Snowflake Conservatives embrace woke cancel culture.

https://twitter.com/paulhutcheon/status/1405099365610442755

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Guavanaut posted:

Ah, the real n-word.



Tories with a hard R

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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ThomasPaine posted:

Maybe I'm having a pessimistic day but afaict our options are:

1. Nothing changes till climate catastrophe kills us all

2. People actually develop solidarity and violently resist to the point that the state as we know it is overthrown and we can do cool things in our new people's republic

Neither are very fun processes but we're a nation of selfish coward dumbasses and 1 is the default, so maybe move to high ground and learn to croft, lol

Number 2 wont happen until number 1 kills a decent chunk of people.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Failed Imagineer posted:

Here's hoping the climate holdouts/capitalists are somehow inherently more susceptible to dying off, seems improbable tho

The capitalists will survive the heatwaves/floods.

They won't survive the mob.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Tarnop posted:

Can anyone recommend a good online coffee seller? It's for my parents and they're looking to buy roasted beans. Ta

https://www.deargreencoffee.com/collections/coffee-beans

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Jedit posted:

Apparently she didn't say it.

It's made up, or as more and more people are calling it, fake news.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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Being more racist strategy working well for Labour

https://twitter.com/itvpeston/status/1405208052719030274

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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How much passive income can you generate by building a website advising people to generate passive income by (checks notes) writing ebooks and dropshipping on amazon?

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keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

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I love the theory that GB News is being deliberately poo poo to facilitate shares outwith their core gammon viewership.

Some things just suck guys.

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