UKMT October 2021 - It's the Great Sewage Pump, Clifton-Brown

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josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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keep punching joe posted:

I liked the Bond film where he got arrested and tortured for months in a North Korean jail. Don't remember the rest so assume it just involved him wasting away doing forced labour and the occasional anti-West propaganda video.

This is the oddly brutal opening to Die Another Day, a film otherwise about space lasers and invisible cars.

Bond is, correctly or not, perceived as one of the symbols of British cinema production, one of our pitifully few post-Brexit industries.

# ¿ Oct 1, 2021 09:31

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josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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Dug up this ancient b3ta front page which is burned into my memory:

# ¿ Oct 1, 2021 22:31

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
TO RACE TO THE THEATRES"
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the 99th of flake

# ¿ Oct 5, 2021 12:13

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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Accidentally read it as "Shadow Child Wes Streeting" and laughed my rear end off

# ¿ Oct 7, 2021 13:16

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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Qwertycoatl posted:

Winning the lottery is genuinely one of the most life-ruining things that can happen to someone

I always thought "it could be you" was vaguely threatening.

# ¿ Oct 10, 2021 21:49

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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Nothingtoseehere posted:

I studied in Singapore for a year, and I have to say I found the weather worst and the country even more small-minded than the UK.

The weather is 30-40 degrees all the time, but a stickly 80% humidity always - even the intense rainstorms are only a brief respite. Being outside air conditioning is an actively miserable and sweaty experience.

And if you poke outside the expat bubble, it's a place where the government is scared enough of evangelical Christian groups to offically legalise being gay, exploitation of immigrate labour much worst than the UK is built in - many have imported live in maids, their construction sectors prefer to work indians in near slavery than pay anyone, and a bunch of retail and hospitality is kept up by Malays crossing the border and back each day. Conscription is mandatory for men and the need for it for national defence is kept up with scaremongering around Malaysia and Indonesia, with yearly national parades praising their governments virtue.

Singapore puts on a pretty face of cosmopolitanism for multinational corporations but hides its uglyness underneath.

The beeb appears to have scrubbed it from youtube, but there was a clip from newsnight in 2012 where some tory scumbag is talking about how Britain's schools need to buck up and discipline properly like they do in Singapore, and the guy he's facing off against gets more and more frustrated until he just yells "Singapore is a fascist state!"

# ¿ Oct 11, 2021 11:26

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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Mebh posted:

Labour currently seems to be playing a long game of not being left holding the lovely stick also don't piss off capital.

I think they're banking that as long as they can say "wasn't us" the electorate will forgive them eventually. I don't think so though.

Not least because the sew-up between the current government and the media are perfectly happy to blame things on "the last labour government" indefinitely and Starmer et al will do nothing but say "we agree that it was our fault, we're really sorry"

# ¿ Oct 12, 2021 21:23

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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BBC Sounds has it's own complaints form apparently, if you want to register one: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/help/contact-sounds-help

# ¿ Oct 15, 2021 10:31

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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i say swears online posted:

this thread was the furthest left on the whole forums like ten years ago, with mccaine posting his morning star articles. it's much more conservative now hth

so's the morning star, unfortunately

# ¿ Oct 16, 2021 20:55

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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It's not really about serious crimes, what the government want is that when CorbynFan79 tweets at the Prime Minister asking why he's sold the tube to his former nanny, Laura Kuenssberg can tweet out his address for journalistic interest.

# ¿ Oct 18, 2021 16:34

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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Payndz posted:

Queen Elizadeath.

November's thread title (pending)

# ¿ Oct 20, 2021 15:47

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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The people with their hands on the big levers that get people to do one thing or the other are the government and the media, and both are in a fatal state of decline in the UK. The government has never sent a stronger message than "wear a mask if you want to", has never attempted to seriously explain to people what the mask is doing or why - the opposite in fact, spending most of the start of the pandemic cunningly telling people they don't work. The media is trimmed down right to the bone across the board and can't seriously report on anything other than court intrigue and celebrity gossip, even the parts that were traditionally free to think bigger - like TV news and journalism - have been under sustained pressure not to break from the government line for close to a decade now.

So people do what makes sense, and while the government was forced into taking actual action otherwise, mask wearing was high. Now that the government's doing nothing, mask wearing is rapidly falling off. And people who by virtue of their job spend all day somewhere where a mask is going to be a pain - like the hot tunnels of the tube - will be the first to drop off.

# ¿ Oct 21, 2021 21:32

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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Wasn't "retweets are banned" on the leaked plan?

# ¿ Oct 22, 2021 11:14

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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fuctifino posted:

Briefly back to the subject of climate change, we don't stand much of a chance when global corporations can do stuff like this. The entire playing board is rigged in their favour.

I was working with Connor at Warwick at the time, it's certainly no surprise that the university was up to this sort of poo poo. Fossil Free Warwick had a fair bit of success in pressuring the university to divest from fossil fuels, at least.

# ¿ Oct 24, 2021 16:29

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1452545467645054981

Labour is the only party that will get economy firing the on all cylinders.

# ¿ Oct 25, 2021 10:13

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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Nothing that David Davis opposes could ever become law!

# ¿ Oct 25, 2021 23:34

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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Another day another violently transphobic article in the Beeb. Worth sending in a complaint if you have five seconds.

# ¿ Oct 26, 2021 11:42

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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They have a bunch of MPs hollering about it, at least.

# ¿ Oct 26, 2021 12:32

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1453368388126797827

Okay Labour definitely hired the person who made all those poo poo meme graphics for the Tories in 2019, where we were speculating it was deliberate to get people to share them.

# ¿ Oct 27, 2021 17:56

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josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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It's working about as well as every other attempt to ape what works for the Tories, you say?

# ¿ Oct 27, 2021 18:01

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