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Collateral posted:What did Eddie do? Join the Labour Party, an inexcusable sin.
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Zalakwe posted:This is a real shame as despite coming from despite darkest Mordor I have always considered Raith good eggs. Seems like many of their supporters are at least. Surprises me the backlash against Clyde wasn't at a similar scale, maybe it's just because Raith are a bigger club. Anyway, I think they need to climb down from this but they won't reverse all the damage. Yeah, Raith are in a battle for the playoff spot to get in the top flight, Clyde were League 2 when he signed with them, although there was a bit of backlash at the time (poo poo SNP member John Mason declared he'd not go back to Broadwood). As for if some remorse would be legally admissible for a court case? No idea but I would hope so.
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So Rishi was a close contact & Liz later tested positive. Not bad for a photo of 4 people.
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willie_dee posted:https://twitter.com/bmay/status/1488607668013084675?s=21 Pat McFudden
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jiggerypokery posted:Can we just... not? But won't you think of the shareholder value? In depressing news, when I came back home from an afternoon walk I noticed some stickers in the bus shelter about 5 seconds walk from my front gate so had a nosey because there's someone in the village (of about 1,000 people) who is deep into conspiracy shite, so you used to get flat earth nonsense on lamp posts, & past couple of years there's been some anti-vax bollocks that I've taken down (carefully, because even here I'm cautious about cunts hiding razor blades under them). But no, these were different. "Gender critical" TERF shite. loving grim stuff, somehow you just don't expect it. I'm assuming it's the same conspiracy loon because there can't be that many people who'd bother putting up stickers but god. Entire village has dropped in my estimation. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Feb 4, 2022 |
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jiggerypokery posted:haha that parody is spot on, especially the punch line. Some of jam didn't age well, there's enough (trigger warning) rape jokes and other shock comedy fillers between the bits of genius. Some of Jam did age poorly but some of the shocking moments are still really funny. Like the baby plumbing. Because it's not really laughing at dead babies, it's about grief & how hard it can be to accept the loss of kid. I dunno though. I still think Jam is great because yeah, it definitely pushes the boundaries of good taste but it's never doing it while punching down really.
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Kin posted:Yup. Got one sitting upstairs from years back because I didn't have the time to drive into the loving city center to get to my nearest bank branch. Man, goons are weird. I get cheques every Christmas & birthday from an uncle. At some point you will have to go into the city centre, be it to go to a chemist for some pain pills or whatever, wander through CEX, I don't know. And then you just go in the bank & put it in the machine and gently caress off again within 90 seconds if it's quiet. And that's despite the fact that I rely on public transport which means the shortest time from leaving home to getting home again is 3 hours, despite town being under 15 miles away.
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Cookie Cutter posted:The Falklands are a very unique place, I was "fortunate" enough to have been deployed there for a few months once. Depending which island you are on and what the weather is like it ranges from "desolate in a grey and depressing way" or "desolate in a wild and soul-touchingly beautiful way". So it's like St Kilda or some sort of Hebridean island but upside down
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fuctifino posted:Ooops. That's embarrassing. Disturbingly like Stanley Johnson.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:What a great time to revisit this classic I forgot how good that was. Guardian has such amazing opinion writers. Artists even.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:People with tattoos are cool and awesome and also sexy Tattoos seem cool & good. I am pro-tattoo. Although I'll be honest & admit that I have a kind of visceral reaction to people with tattoos on the neck & face, (& I'm talking solely Brits doing it rather than people from a culture where it has cultural/spiritual meaning like the Maori) it's also exceedingly not my business. It's a dumb thing to even hold an opinion on & yet I do, I blame liberals. I don't have a conflict of interest because I've never actually gotten one because I've yet to come across a design I'd want permanently inked on myself. jiggerypokery posted:Just to be devil's advocate.. is it possible to have that job and not have an enormous skeleton closet packed to the brim with failings of various kinds? I agree, it's unlikely you can be a public prosecutor & a good person.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:while I'm a Yank, it is my impression that being appointed Home Secretary immediately turns moderately terrible people into authoritarian lunatics obsessed with keeping the Deep Ones from invading England's green and pleasant land In the lifetime of my parents (oldest of whom was born in '53) there's been 2 Home Secretaries who didn't have dogshit authoritarian urges, Roy Jenkins in the '60s & again in the mid '70s and Ken Clarke in the early '90s. 1 Labour, 1 Tory in 70 years. I definitely think the department civil service has something to say for that but also politicians just think authoritarian bullshit is popular. Probably right too. Everyone of the New Labour Home Secs were loving disasters.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Crossposting myself from the covid thread: OK, but what's CFR? Because without knowing that this doesn't mean much. COVID Fatality Rate?
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Good post from one of the few half-decent people in Scottish Labour https://twitter.com/Neilsocialist/status/1492188541018910729?s=20&t=k6zTl7BOmr_DIYestFgD0g
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Chubby Henparty posted:Handled the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes with dignity and grace wtf Always pleased to be murdered with dignity & grace
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jaete posted:Oh goddamnit. And you were doing so well too People can understand why Russia are deeply distrustful of NATO expansion without it actually being a defence of Putin the human being or an endorsement of his policies, domestic or international. Hope that helps.
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Jel Shaker posted:it’s a shame that corbyn didn’t win because i am curious which colour they would have used for our own little colour revolution (probably blue lol) Beige revolution
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Bacon Terrorist posted:Given the direction of ASLEF's strategy recently I wouldn't be surprised if they throw their lot in with the Tories. Let's be clear here, any trade union that isn't at least discussing pulling funding from this version of the Labour Party is eminently suss. That other bit you'll have to source because I'd like to read more. Because I had a look around & the most recent ballot was on London Underground where "Last year Aslef members voted 98.8 per cent in favour of walkouts if TfL introduced changes to their work benefits without consultation". "Work benefits" doesn't mean work from home, it means their pensions, working conditions & safety. If it's not that that one then please do fill me in. Before that the most recent talk of even considering a strike I can find was with ScotRail in March 2021. My initial reaction to any utterly absurd sounding claims about unions is suspicion. Deep suspicious. Because there's 200 years of history of workers demands being misrepresented by government & the media.
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feedmegin posted:I mean, the neolib 'economists' the US sent over there in the early 90s sure had a go. But ultimately, Russia had nukes in 1991 too, there's a limit to how far anyone could have done to 'reduce' them. Remember the time the US supported Yeltsin when he overthrew the legisture & constitution of Russia because people were upset at the massive human cost of his liberalisation of the economy, most notably with life expectancy falling dramatically. Good Times.
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Dabir posted:In this case, not arming the neo Nazis would mean not arming everyone else too. Like NATO troops aren't going into the country and personally handing the guns out, they're not in a position to check their arms for swastika tattoos. "It's actually unavoidable to give arms to Nazis" is a heck of a take. Liberal brain rot rules
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Ended up reading the Wikipedia article about the Azov Battallion. It's fun. "In 2014, a spokesman for the regiment said around 10–20% of the unit were neo-Nazis." There's also a good line that in September '14 they were merged into the National Guard & "worked to de-politicise itself", followed by multiple examples of it being less than apolitical. "took part in a march...organised by the Right Sector", "Beginning in 2015, Azov has organised summer camps where children and teenagers receive combat training mixed with lectures on Ukrainian nationalism". And seemingly they have quite a few fash from across Europe among their number, including at least 1 Englishmen. And sure, their logo looks an awful lot like the Wolfsangel used by, among other divisions, the notorious SS 2nd Panzer Division Das Reich, who massacred civilians pretty much wherever they went from France to Russia, but just a coincidence, it means Ідея Нації, because you see, in Old Ukrainian, before Peter The Great, N was replaced by Н for the n sound. And the less said about the founder Biletsky's attitudes to minorities in Ukraine the better (Jews, Romanians in Bukovina & Bessarbia, presumably Russians throughout the country, Bulgarians mainly in Budjak, Slovaks & Hungarians in the Carpathians). We sure know how to pick allies.
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Gonzo McFee posted:I don't think there are any good sides on this. It's not the Soviet Union Vs The Fascists, it's two different tribes of fascists trying to wrest control of Ukraine from each other with Neo-Nazis on both sides. I mean yeah. It kind of goes without saying that Putin's Russia is bad. I remember when the conflict in Don-Bas was going on more actively there was an MMA company that would put on fights for free on Youtube (IIRC) & it was at about 5pm UK time so it was just great low level violence to watch, Oplot Challenge. And then it came out that they were full on fighting for the Don-Bas separatists & the UFC fighter Oleksy Oleinik got banned from entering Ukraine because he had links to them, the promoter was offering to square go anyone at the Maidan protests, just ultra-nationalist cunts all the way down.
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Guavanaut posted:It's fine, we just have to go harder on being a white supremacist heteropatriarchal fertility cult, otherwise 'the authoritarian regimes' win. It gives succour to Russia for us to...oppose homophobic & racist policies that Russia agrees with? Love to manufacture consent
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ThomasPaine posted:Christ, I get winding down some restrictions, but scrapping free tests is an insane move. Haven't you heard? Covid is over baby
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Mebh posted:I always thought people used ellipses for "dramatic pause" or for trailing off mid thought, leaving oneself open to interjection in conversation when writing casually online. They're absolutely rife in most persistent online chat rooms like MMOs (plug for irc!) I certainly use them far too often on here as a result... My first probation was for a low effort post. Pretty sure I essentially told Lemon Drizzle to shut up lib after he wrote a million words about some New Labour neoliberal bollocks. It should never be a sin to tell libs to wheesht
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Tsietisin posted:Is that better or worse? Because the numbers at the centre are lower than the isobar around it, that means the storm being lower than expected is bad, as it's a low pressure system. So the lower the pressure the more ominous the storm. Also the closer the isobars are on the map the stronger the windows, that's the other thing to look at. Yes, somehow I remember Standard Grade Geography despite it being 22 years ago.
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Mebh posted:So is the entire UK going to get turned into sand by a hyperstorm by tomorrow afternoon? Nah, probably just the south. And by South I mean England & Wales. Just going to snow up here & tbh it snowed this morning anyway so that's just February poo poo
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endlessmonotony posted:Where's the flared base? Where's the fun without some risk?
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OwlFancier posted:Everyone looks like their avatar unless they say they go to the gym in which case they look mega hench, and possibly also still sort of like their avatar, that's how it works, sorry. I am not a dog.
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Scotland's dumbest oval office is at it again https://twitter.com/thecoastguy/status/1494600487022305282?t=AGsmnpMvYM0Q1r5eXW7YVA&s=19
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Emirates A380 pilots > Qatar A380 pilots Qatar boy is swinging back into the queue, 2 planes in front of him.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Good god the A380 is an ugly, ugly plane. I believe the technical term is "it's a big unit"
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