UKMT Spring 2022 - Beer for Keir, Beef for Keith

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josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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Gotta say, I kept a level head pretty much all the way through covid but our idiot press/politician soup going with "but what if nuclear war is good, actually?" has knocked me for six. What the gently caress is happening?

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josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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The US very successfully used it to disguise the fact that they were starting a war in Libya and apparently among the people taken in by this were about half of our politicians and commentators.

# ¿ Mar 1, 2022 17:48

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

Assuming a no-fly-zone doesn't go from 0-armageddon overnight

This is in no way a safe assumption, A no-fly zone is sending NATO planes in to blow up Russian planes. Russia will + can only fight back against that by blowing up NATO air bases. That's just a war. The idea of a no-fly zone as a precursor to war as seen in our middle eastern conflicts depends entirely on the US military being so overwhelmingly powerful in the air that they can dictate the terms of war to the defending nation.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2022 11:23

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

Speaking of NI my partner pointed out the other day that all these newscasters saying the quiet part out loud about unprecedented conflict in Europe must have been received with some bemusement in Belfast and Derry, not to mention the former Yugoslavia.

You just need to understand that for a lot of people, World War 2 extended roughly up until the Afghanistan war.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2022 13:17

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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Feel like it was fairly well known that Neighbours was only hanging on because of its UK viewing audience and was well past the cancellation threshold in its home country, so not too surprised.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2022 10:15

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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forkboy84 posted:

I've friends who had him as their MP in both Glasgow & London & they both have exactly the same thing to say about him: would only show up when there was an election to fight, & he'd turn up on an open-top double decker bus (I think that detail is right at least) with a microphone & loudspeaker so he couldn't yell at folk to vote for him without risking talking to the plebs.

He was probably a sincere socialist at one point but god that was a long time ago & the man has been on an ego trip that puts most MPs to shame

I went to a protest outside Downing Street in I think 2016, and Galloway turned up in his open-top bus and tried to address the protestors. Except it was outside Downing Street so he couldn't stop, and had to settle for a short series of slow drive-bys where he got loudly booed.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2022 23:18

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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Please stop talking about someone who isn't even posting here, good god.

# ¿ Mar 4, 2022 13:43

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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There's a lot more evidence that nutters from the US are deliberately stoking the culture war than there is that nutters from Russia are doing it.

# ¿ Mar 6, 2022 20:28

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

lol

Found out earlier Rowling spent most of yesterday telling Laurie Penny that it was actually good and funny that Julie Bindel was making fun of her cPTSD because authors need to suck it up. The extremely decent human has logged on! She's picking up fans, too:

https://twitter.com/DouglasKMurray/status/1500894640614084608

e: no need to see all that, yeah

# ¿ Mar 8, 2022 15:28

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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"anti-communism without communism" becomes a more accurate diagnosis every day

https://twitter.com/StephenMcDonell/status/1501455383273304064

# ¿ Mar 9, 2022 11:54

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

It's baffling because almost all of my Twitter follows are deranged UK lefties and I'm not seeing that at all, I can only assume to him that anyone not calling for instant thermonuclear annihilation is part of Putin's neo Stalinist cyber hordes.

I think over in centrist-land the consensus is forming that anyone who so much as mentions NATO in the chain of cause-and-effect is a Putin outrider.

# ¿ Mar 9, 2022 12:06

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

(allegedly there's still tens of thousands of ISDN lines out there being used for all kinds of weird poo poo, from alarm systems to radio production, which they still haven't got a solution for)

I've encountered two, both pretty specific. One was in the post office where I grew up and ran the machine that turned out national lottery tickets, the other was at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry and was in case a BBC Commentary team turned up for any occasion and wanted to get their feed back to London without any extra kit.

# ¿ Mar 11, 2022 00:22

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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He's a Hussein man, through and through. Also a catte.

# ¿ Mar 11, 2022 10:25

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

Also, a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan arriving in Ukraine and going "wait, they have planes?" and then immediately fleeing is indicative of a mindset that it was going to go like before, when it was them who had the air superiority and overwhelming force.

It's no-fly discourse writ small.

# ¿ Mar 11, 2022 12:12

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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Two separate of my friends have reported becoming Very Concerned at the sight of Putin's 'Z' in the dirt on white vans, is this a whole thing I've completely missed, or just pure warbrain?

# ¿ Mar 11, 2022 15:26

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

important poll time:

which bin liner is the best? (my answer spoilered below)

it's tie handles. It's OBVIOUSLY tie handles, nobody ever wants any of the other loving types, they exist purely to deceive exhausted shoppers who've already been in Tesco for 2 hours and just want to go home. If I see the drawstring picture I'm thinking "oh good it's the normal ones that tie at the top" and then NO it's the fuckers that fall to pieces if there's more than a single bit of old cheese in there; if I read "tie top" I think "oh good it's the normal ones that tie at the top and then no it's the ones with useless flappy bits that get covered in manky bin juice. gently caress off gently caress OFF with your shitey non-tie handle bin bags

(flush top doesn't even warrant a mention, I mean come on)

this has been my bin bag meltdown thank you for coming

we may have to swap as i'm always trying to get tie tops and ending up furious with a pack of tie handles that won't open wide enough to comfortably tip the dustpan and brush in, at least without a good few minutes folding the great bloody loops out of the way

# ¿ Mar 12, 2022 23:11

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

I dunno, maybe I'm having a liberal, incrementalist moment here, I agree there's a way bigger more obvious problem than Russia in terms of money in politics I just don't see the argument for not going in on that part of the solution. Surely it helps, a bit?

The left should broadly support running oligarchs of all stripes out of town, but there's no clear route from "Putin's doing a bad war therefore" to "Leveson 2 needs to happen" or whatever and the people administering the running oligarchs out of town, however reluctantly, will not permit one to emerge. At the same time, stoking nationalist sentiment against a foreign aggressor is a right-wing wet dream that will inevitably be used to purge the left as we saw in the opening days of the war.

Imo a big problem the left in the UK has post-Corbyn is the loss of that platform to introduce left-wing positions into the national media, even if it was as a target of constant ridicule. As with Skripal, a Corbyn-like figure could at least voice a moderate opinion which made sense that would get published in a hundred "look at this idiot" stories. In that absence, we're stuck with either crank opinions that get promoted to hurt the left, or endorsing someone like Cadwalladr who is superficially aligned with some of the goals of the left but is not and will not be a friend of the left.

# ¿ Mar 14, 2022 16:13

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

I think it is highly likely that Starmer will be petitioning to send troops to Ukraine asap

https://twitter.com/TheDeadDistrict/status/1506118381681926144

From that pic it looks like he's already been there.

# ¿ Mar 23, 2022 02:54

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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Edinburgh can be Escher-like, such as in its appearance in Fast & Furious 9.

# ¿ Mar 27, 2022 08:38

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

Hear hear. As my 6 year old said this morning: "In a world full of Will Smiths, be a Zelensky" 🙏🇺🇦.

Even knowing it's a joke this is still raising my blood pressure to read.

# ¿ Mar 28, 2022 12:24

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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https://twitter.com/mrevgenylebedev/status/1508804181557190662

lol

# ¿ Mar 29, 2022 15:04

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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Keith having fully distanced himself from what was once his only idea, "we'll fix our trade relationship with the EU back to something sensible" might be a decent policy by the next election.

# ¿ Mar 30, 2022 10:18

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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Big Waffle are hiding the truth that you can make and eat pancakes any day of the year. Withdraw your consent from this nonce's holiday.

# ¿ Apr 1, 2022 13:16

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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Forum IDs should be uuids :colbert:

# ¿ Apr 2, 2022 00:36

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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That's a real hagiography. Love how his wife leaves him for mysterious unstated reasons that he can only speculate about, possibly related to him being just too heroic for her.

# ¿ Apr 2, 2022 14:38

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

What is everyone's opinion on the fact that quite a lot of people now know hallelujah from Shrek?

Hallelujah is a hammy delight imo, on par with "I would do anything for love" or "Total eclipse of the heart", and both Buckley and Shrek bring that out beautifully.

# ¿ Apr 3, 2022 14:44

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

A single, super clear piano note is the new IN A WORRRLLLDDD

Is this Kanye's fault or did they all get it from somewhere else?

# ¿ Apr 3, 2022 19:36

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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The moment where Shatner Common People goes from good to great is when they have to introduce a second vocalist because Shatner's gotten so wildly out of time that it can't be fixed in editing.

# ¿ Apr 4, 2022 12:08

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

judging from their current performance, russia is a rotting shack and we would only need to kick the door in for the whole thing to come tumbling down

- Emperor Napoleon, June 1812

# ¿ Apr 4, 2022 12:51

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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Fantastic news, everyone!

https://twitter.com/hmtreasury/status/1510971092072079360?t=I5462kOVyfJObLtqmmE7fQ&s=19

# ¿ Apr 4, 2022 14:47

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

Why's it going to take them so long? The queen's already generated a nonce.

empty quote

# ¿ Apr 4, 2022 15:05

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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The infinite lifts will have to move infinitely fast to get you to your infinite floor, which is good, but unfortunately they're going to have to stop at every floor while all the occupants move one lift car to the right, otherwise you'll never get a free one.

# ¿ Apr 5, 2022 13:53

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

I'm going to steal an uncountable set of towels.

I think you'll have to settle for an uncountable set of towel.

# ¿ Apr 5, 2022 15:05

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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There aren't usually stairs in a Lidl car park though?

# ¿ Apr 6, 2022 21:12

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

Why call it soyfacing when you can call it what it is, MrBeastfacing.

Oh the burger guy?

# ¿ Apr 7, 2022 14:54

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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Love Christianity, love my traditional Christian fertility festival, simple as.

# ¿ Apr 7, 2022 15:39

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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Escape ain't so bad. The villain's Rupert Murdoch!

# ¿ Apr 8, 2022 18:59

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

https://twitter.com/SamCoatesSky/status/1512522619735711747

If you click through its largely the journalist soapboxing and the press secretary saying "lol who cares"

# ¿ Apr 8, 2022 22:49

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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It's internecine bickering between the Tories but a talented opposition could surely use the chancellor of the exchequer himself being implemented in several tax avoidance schemes to parade a broad range of policy proposals to fix all this poo poo. Instead Keir is tweeting about a "one-off windfall tax" ho hum.

# ¿ Apr 9, 2022 06:57

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josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
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Tbf the treasury's refusal to spend money on anything ever for any reason is Not Good even if it's frustrating BoJo in this instance.

# ¿ Apr 9, 2022 11:15

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