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Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

sebzilla posted:

​John McTernan (that's Blair's former Political Secretary) is the latest addition to the guilt by association club.

https://twitter.com/johnmcternan/status/1433750987823587328?s=20

These days, if you say Novara Media are reasonable people and TWT "looks interesting" you're arrested and thrown in jail an antisemite.



Lmao the Labour right started this train rolling and now it’s running away and everyone is in it’s path, hilarious

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Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Marmaduke! posted:

He's missing a trick, a proper shameless politician would say he's just opened a brand new school

It’s actually one of the 40 new hospitals

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

endlessmonotony posted:

They're very, very small. Tiny, really. Not usable for this purpose at all.

Welcome to tiny train world

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

So the Guardian printed a great interview with Judith Butler

https://twitter.com/robin__craig/status/1435212820036128771?s=21

Then, presumably after the Terfs at the paper actually read the content of it, they excised three entire paragraphs, the reasoning being “developments which occurred after the interview took place (???)

https://twitter.com/oldnorthroad/status/1435327870742769665?s=21

Absolutely mad stuff. gently caress the Guardian

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Lmao

https://twitter.com/siennamarla/status/1435902586142474243?s=21

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Bobby Deluxe posted:

As long as I live I will never be able to empathise with the position of people who were fine with Boris cheating on a wife with cancer, the ppe corruption, (allegedly) cheating on his pregnant partner, the incompetence, the needless covid deaths and the utter destruction of any scrap of trust Britain had on the international stage; but he talks about raising taxes by 1.25 percentage points and that is the thing that gets them howling for blood.

Because none of the other stuff affects them (at least, not directly)

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

It’ll all be forgotten in a week though, Starmer’s incompetence will ensure Labour swiftly return to 5+ points behind

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Miftan posted:

Hello friends, was wondering if anyone could help. I'm trying to find out if this house has leaf pipes going out from the house main to the local area main. The pipes under the sink are copper or plastic, but unclear about the outside pipes. Is there an easy way to check or alternatively a way to check if the water has any lead in? It's an old house.

We have an old lead supply pipe, was worried about it so we contacted Yorkshire Water and they sent a guy out with a test kit (no issue with lead in the water in the end, thankfully). I imagine your water company will probably do the same if you have a poke around on their website.

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

StarkingBarfish posted:

https://twitter.com/alexnunns/status/1436388387884306443

Who do we know in lab that likes to hit the bottle and go on late nite twitter sessions?

Thank god the grown ups are back in charge

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003


Lmao at ‘lead presenter’ when he only did about two weeks there

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

fuctifino posted:

So this is our Culture Secretary....

I guess culture is dead now?



“dumbing down panto” is my favourite

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Labour are a catastrophe of a party

https://twitter.com/ronanburtenshaw/status/1438536087190872067?s=21

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Crankit posted:

The spoons to cup ratios in that image seem all hosed up

A cup is 240ml and a teaspoon is 5ml so it checks out. Unless you’re reading the 1s as 7s which I can see with that font

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Is there even a reason (beyond EU spite) to go back to imperial measurements after 30+ years on metric? Has there been some pent-up demand for it or system that desperately needs it?

Tory voters are mostly old dickheads who are nostalgic for the days when they used nonsense measurements

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

learnincurve posted:

His maths is wrong 25p a lb is not 55p a kilo

Edit: oh I see they want to make it legal to sell kilos at a higher price because hateful gammons

A kilo is 2.2lb so the maths are right there

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

goddamnedtwisto posted:

https://twitter.com/KateOsborneMP/status/1438926394701094913

Weird how all these "administrative errors" keep happening, innit?

Lol at “I was told I could not discuss the matter with anyone - except the Samaritans”

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Guavanaut posted:

And on that note, the Babylonian 24:60:60 unit system is worse than imperial.

Time to bring back Swatch Internet Time

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

arrays starting with 0 in VBA bothers me and i always redim them to start with 1 :colbert:

that's how lists work!! the first item is labelled 1, that's the number of items there are up to and including that point in the list! I will die on this hill.

0-indexing is way better than 1-indexing, sorry

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

If you want to talk about bad decisions, JavaScript trumps C# a hundred times over. JavaScript dates have 1-indexed day of month and year, but 0-indexed months, so if you created a date with 1/1/2021 it would give you the first of February 2021. Comically annoying until you get used to it

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Comrade Fakename posted:

I don't drive, so really don't have much interest in it, but I am a bit interested in green technology stuff, and I've got to say it's pretty bizarre how on SA and left Twitter Teslas are the worst cars ever made and incredibly unsafe and constantly explode, while literally everywhere else I look they're widely considered to be good cars that people like.

They’re badly built, have very questionable design decisions re: safety (there’s one model where if the car has no power it is literally impossible to open the door to get out) and their software is trash held together by duct tape. The only reason they’re not bankrupt yet because they’ve leveraged Musk’s cult of personality to make money speculating on cryptocurrency and selling carbon offsets

Latest stupidity was how they put a yoke on one new model rather than a steering wheel even though it’s impractical and makes everyday driving much more difficult BUT IT LOOKS COOL LIKE AN F1 CAR

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

https://twitter.com/ruairiwood/status/1439961476110983177?s=21

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

peanut- posted:

This guy is a twat, but it's seems notable that even he's asking wtf Labour are doing

https://twitter.com/StigAbell/status/1440199286159917056?s=20

This has to be performative stupidity

https://twitter.com/stigabell/status/1440266079587094529?s=21

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

NotJustANumber99 posted:

What is so stupid about it?

Cos the ‘why’ should be patently obvious to anyone paying any attention and is capable of being honest with themselves, the Labour leadership don’t give a poo poo unless it’s useful for considering power over the party

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003


Lmao I assume she means because they go out campaigning or whatever but does she think they do that by themselves? Walk the entire constituency talking to voters and delivering leaflets?

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

NotJustANumber99 posted:

^^^ yeah what these guys say

I've tried some more and actually I think its just weird and only ever suggests 10 addresses and is a bit weird about how it chooses them. I won't burn wickes to the ground on this one yet. But I'm watching them.

It’s probably just taking the first 10 from the database without sorting, in whatever order the database decides to return them.

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

OwlFancier posted:

I find it difficult to interpret it very charitably:

At the very least it suggests that he thinks people should be excluded unless they have jumped through whatever stupid loving hoops they plan to write up for "official" recognition.

Starmer is refusing to take a position because he doesn’t want to piss off the TERF faction, but still that is a very unrepresentative headline and framing

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Bobby Deluxe posted:

Anyone know anything about this?

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/dog-owners-using-harness-instead-25030451

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/901/note/made

Apparently it's insisting it has to be a collar, not a harness. It worries me because the boy is too strong for a collar, and his harness has a tag attached with his name and address on it.

Is this just panicmongering, or have their been actual cases where a harnessed dog owner has been prosecuted?

The law is that you have to have an id tag attached to a collar but I dunno who’s ever take you to court over it anyway tbh, we didn’t know the law until we’d had our dog for 12 months already and nobody ever said anything. We have both anyway because we our Twin Peaks fandom wouldn’t let us pass up a black and white chevron collar with red trim, she always has the collar on and the harness is for walks

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

From what I understand it's only (currently) BP stations with a fuel shortage, the queues are all idiots panic buying? Pain for my wife because she needs to fill up ready to drive down to Enfield this evening.

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

serious gaylord posted:

Theres plenty of fuel, just no drivers to get it to the pumps.

https://twitter.com/Gabriel_Pogrund/status/1441448110069256196

This however makes me feel better. Useless prick.

++ Humiliation for loser Starmer

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Lord Ludikrous posted:

Drove past Asda at 05:50 this morning after picking my partner up from work, queues for the petrol station were spilling out onto the main carriageway already.

Unfortunately this blocks access for anyone who actually just wants to get into the supermarket. It’s going to get ugly.

Apparently the Asda petrol station near us had small queues but nothing too impactful. Different story for the Shell garage just outside Bradford centre though, traffic was queueing all the way back onto the road so literally everyone using that road was stuck in the queue even if they didn’t want any petrol, took 20 minutes to travel 0.1 miles past it

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Making sure public funds are well spent by publicly funding a completely pointless new department

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Poor performance or no, Labour still got over 10m votes in 2019 so telling them all they’re cunts is a weird strategy imho

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Absolute refusal to learn a single thing

https://twitter.com/bbcpolitics/status/1442164127703646208?s=21

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Comrade Fakename posted:

I can tell you from direct experience that the reason we had fewer left delegates this year is that many CLPs moved to the right in their AGMs this year, and so selected more right wing delegates for conference. The reason so many CLPs moved to the right is because so many left-wing members had left, a story we saw time and again.

150,000 left members left the party, and this is the result. This is also exactly what the Labour right wanted to happen.

Good, let them rule over their burning trash fire of a party

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

As the last few years have shown Labour cannot be changed or fixed, the sooner everyone accepts this and directs efforts elsewhere the better for the left of this country

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

I mean it’s pretty simple, if you consider trans men to be men then yes men can have a cervix. It shouldn’t be a struggle to put it in plain terms like that.

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Miftan posted:

Wouldn't the obvious comeback by TERFs be that they're not men, just confused lesbians or some other stupid nonsense like that?

We’ll yeah, but putting it in explicit terms makes the transphobia explicit

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Miftan posted:

I think you're being very optimistic about them caring that the transphobia is explicit.

I guess I’m thinking not of the TERFs but if anyone listening to the interview who hasn’t really thought about it much. Most people are broadly supportive of trans right but probably aren't deeply enough into the discourse to know why a statement of ‘not everyone with a cervix is a woman’ is reasonable, or the viewpoints of the people arguing it. Helps to clearly point out the angle that people arguing against it are coming from

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003


I mean we all knew she’d be terrible but man

https://twitter.com/bbcbreakfast/status/1442378722561114114?s=21

And awful political instincts too like much of the Labour right. What dipshit could pretend right now that spiralling energy costs and collapsing energy providers isn’t an important issue for voters?

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Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

EvilHawk posted:

There are two separate "Labour" + "row" headlines on the BBC news website.

Normal party, normal conference.

edit: also lmao

The grown ups are back in charge!

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