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School's back again (but perhaps not food yet), so everyone please take out your AQA Poetry Anthology and turn to page 12. Also Kabul: Fallen, Alpaca: Dead, Sea: Closed, Beer: Delayed In Other News  • 75% of UK adults have now received both doses of some Covid-19 vaccine combination. • Health Secretary Sajid Javid announces a vaccine booster scheme, with adults over 50 likely to be offered a third dose, beginning in September. • Sanctions begin against Belarus, BBC journalist Sarah Rainsford is permanently expelled from Russia. • A US lawsuit is filed against Prince Andrew for being a nonce. • SNP and Scottish Greens announce a power sharing arrangement, including a commitment to hold a second independence referendum within the next five years. • The government agrees a contract for 35 million more doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, to be administered in 2022. • Demolition of Eggborough power station (where Sajid Javid comes from?) begins.  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learnincurve posted:Need something added to every OP. DWP have been told not to tell sanctioned people about this. Exciting office space opportunities to let:   Also please remember that that the pandemic and vaccine rollout are nowhere near under control everywhere even as it hopefully starts to come under control locally. 
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We’re back to monthly threads then? Summer holidays are over!
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Red Oktober posted:We’re back to monthly threads then? Summer holidays are over! This is September, so called because it is the seventh month after January, February, March, April, May and Summer. Also that OzymandiaSmashmouth poem is amazing sebzilla fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Sep 1, 2021 |
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Sep 1, 2021 00:23
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Honestly can’t argue with that logic.
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sebzilla posted:This is September, so called because it is the seventh month after January, February, March, April, May and Summer. 
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oh man, i was enjoying being warmed by the sun
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fuctifino posted:There was a summer? sorry we in north america stole all of it i think and concentrated everything into a solid month
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fuctifino posted:There was a summer? https://twitter.com/JMarnocha/status/1432845031589572618?s=20
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Guavanaut posted:School's back again (but perhaps not food yet), so everyone please take out your AQA Poetry Anthology and turn to page 12. Incredible.
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Thanks Spangly for the explanation on the last page of the previous thread. And I didn't think you were having a go Red Oktober, sometimes i find it worth clarifying when I'm asking something necause I'm confused and when I'm asking as a rhetorical thing. The main thing that continues to confuse me was why she brought it over from NZ in the first place. Do they breed them in the UK? Couldn't she have bought a UK one? Why import it from NZ if there's such a risk of it getting merced? E: forgot to mention earlier - walked to big sainsburys and found the sticker wielding opinion havers have been out and about with their spiciest takes: 
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I have no idea what these useless dipshits think vaccines are or do. It's magic, isn't it? They're magic make-disease-go-away juice?
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Bobby Deluxe posted:
This is just that classic thing of right wingers being so self obsessed that they can't comprehend that people might be taking vaccines, wearing masks, etc to protect others and not just themselves. Also on the alpaca front: when I was a kid there used to be adorable wild ponies in my village that would wander up to for scritches and try to beg bread of you if you were walking back from the bakers. When foot and mouth happened they rounded up all the cute ponies, shot them, and burned them on a big pyre. So gently caress anyone who tries to bypass quarantine and animal health regulations because it results in dead ponies and crushes my childhood innocence.
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I saw one of those white rose stickers in the car park of a very small and obscure nature reserve near my house the other day. It was more ambiguous than the one ITT, and while I immediately suspected anti vax, I nurtured some small hope that it might be something cool and / or good.
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Anti vaxxers are a form of domestic terrorism which is promoted by Russian and Chinese troll farms to weaken the west and its available manpower in the event of a war.
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I saw one on a pole that said something like “Asymptomatic? Isn’t that just another word for healthy?” - with a smug looking doctor who looked a bit like hide the pain Harold. At least I think that’s what it said, some sensible person had scratched most of it away Truly, the virus/vaccine understanders have got access to a sticker machine
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The poles are often very skewed, it's true.
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Drone_Fragger posted:Anti vaxxers are a form of domestic terrorism which is promoted by Russian and Chinese troll farms to weaken the west and its available manpower in the event of a war. You're telling me I have to be pro anti-vaxxers now? Dang  Bobby Deluxe posted:E: forgot to mention earlier - walked to big sainsburys and found the sticker wielding opinion havers have been out and about with their spiciest takes: Worth remembering, there've been reports that these White Rose clowns are not above the "razorblade behind the sticker" bit so if you feel inclined to rip them down be careful.
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Drone_Fragger posted:Anti vaxxers are a form of domestic terrorism which is promoted by Russian and Chinese troll farms to weaken the west and its available manpower in the event of a war. People were being loving idiots about vaccines long before the internet, with basically exactly the same arguments:  (see also anti-mask protests in the 1917-1919 flu pandemic) Blaming it on Russia and China is just liberals killing two birds with one stone by saying that the perfectly spherical frictionless voter of their dreams exists, and also lets them keep up the military-industrial-espionage complex money printer, because the SCARY FOREIGNERS are why people are screaming about mole children, rather than it being the natural outcome of the last 40 years of politics and economics.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:People were being loving idiots about vaccines long before the internet, with basically exactly the same arguments: Colour it in and that's a Ben Garrison, unhinged rant and all
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Keep America Committee. Meetings for the Meeting God, Minutes for the Minutes Throne.
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Niric posted:Colour it in and that's a Ben Garrison, unhinged rant and all Doesn't have a swole Trump.
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I'm very glad the alpaca is dead now, ok, what's the next stupid cause celebre for our media eh
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defra and the agencies they work through have a seemingly well earned reputation for largely ignoring massive agricultural firms and the litany of sins they commit in favour of going after people with little means to defend themselves, nice to see something contrary to that for once lol at the idea of publicly threatening to shoot government employees and not getting arrested, being that rich must be a real trip
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If she really cared about the animal she’s have paid a vet to put it down nice and quiet like before they turned up instead of making the animal suffer in a fit of rich peiple petulance. 100% guarantee that in her head she saw this all as them leaving her a gun with one bullet in the jail cell but deciding to have a pointless and glorious last stand instead.
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September you say? https://twitter.com/mrianleslie/status/1396073116221194242
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https://twitter.com/dril/status/568056615355740160 World Communism is when you can't say the bad things about Jews without consequences.
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smellmycheese posted:September you say? Starmer just needs to make that party conference speech, take of his mask, and teabag the elctorate with his policies (raise minimum wage by £1).
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smellmycheese posted:September you say? Hope springs eternal! Seriously, they'll be spouting this bullshit right up to the point when Starmer finishes running the party into the ground and steps down, whereupon they'll seamlessly switch to: "Of course it was always obvious that Starmer could be no more than a caretaker figure, after the damage done to the party by Corbyn."
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keep punching joe posted:Starmer just needs to make that party conference speech, take of his mask, and teabag the elctorate with his policies (raise minimum wage by £1). (*) over four years, for former Fulbright scholars who teach in primary schools for five terms and raise the OFSTED rating
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smellmycheese posted:September you say? it really is like a sport for these loving dickheads, isn't it
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smellmycheese posted:September you say? I take issue with the word 'again' in this tweet.
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Red Oktober posted:I take issue with the word 'again' in this tweet. https://twitter.com/eva_b89/status/1396390447321423874
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I wish I could get paid to be wrong about politics full time.
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OwlFancier posted:I wish I could get paid to be wrong about politics full time. I will pay you €12.34 a month for think pieces about Welsh Labour.
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OwlFancier posted:I wish I could get paid to be wrong about politics full time. You can only get paid to be certain types of wrong about politics unfortunately. Doing so also seems to drive you utterly round the bend going by what we see from the long term political commentators.
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I'm already going insane I'm just not making any money off it.
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There's a pretty good chance that the Labour conference in late September will either be cancelled or will have a picket outside of it from Unite and GMB workers so no, Starmer will not soon start looking like a PM in waiting soon after. The left refuses to back a literal anti-worker party and the right wing make jokes about how the Labour Party doesnt even have to be in power to cause industrial action these days.
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OwlFancier posted:I'm already going insane I'm just not making any money off it. https://twitter.com/dril/status/1083099660586106880
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