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Apr 5, 2009

WELCOME

TO THE JUNE OF DOOM

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Apr 5, 2009

He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Beer Korma.

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Apr 5, 2009

Jedit posted:

That's not a three word slogan.

Spend
The
Pounds

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Apr 5, 2009

Just
Be
Rich

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Apr 5, 2009

The Jubilee is two days off because her birthday national holiday was moved to make a longer long weekend. Normally it would be next week (her actual birthday was two weeks ago)

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Apr 5, 2009

stev posted:

Isn't the second day just the May bank holiday we always have, moved a week later?

Yeah that's the other one. So I guess they moved one back a week and one forward a week.

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Apr 5, 2009

forkboy84 posted:

Because why the gently caress would you want strangers cutting about your house, sounds like a loving nightmare?

Also you're making money for AirBnB which is a lovely company that was grossly inflated the rental market in far too many places.

Anyway, Happy Jubilee.

https://twitter.com/officialcharts/status/1531644178739957761?s=20&t=x6nvTTsldvDTeXfG1l-dXg

For a moment I thought they were calling him the n word and was confused.

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Apr 5, 2009

Failed Imagineer posted:

Two Minutes Hate was a failure of Orwell's imagination, both because the British can hate for much longer than that, and also he didn't anticipate the Captain Tom-bots

The Tom Minutes 'bate

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Apr 5, 2009

what about if they sleep on their back

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Apr 5, 2009

I mostly sleep on my back.

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Apr 5, 2009

It's Britain in 2022, everywhere is the dump

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Apr 5, 2009

I support winegums striking and in fact if the doctors don't strike I will turn up to the hospital with a new illness every day that they will have to groan and treat

starting with a biologically impossibly non-stop-cavernous-fart disease

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Apr 5, 2009

drat can't believe Guavanaut lives on the UK border with Russia

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Apr 5, 2009

Antrodemus posted:

hello to the ukmt thread, I have never posted in your lands before but I have a question and don't know where else to ask it

I have to travel to london for work in the next couple of weeks and I will eventually have to take a covid test to return to the us

where and how can I do this in a manner that doesn't involve paying $120 at heathrow, thanks in advance

https://uk.usembassy.gov/covidtestingproviders/

Honestly if you were just asking for a decent test here I could be more helpful but most of my attempts to Google for your question assumed I was a Brit pretending to be American and treated me like a criminal.

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Apr 5, 2009

Which is ironic as I'm 0% Australian.

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Apr 5, 2009

If it were me I would just walk into the Kremlin and make Putin stop.

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Apr 5, 2009

Looking forward to that shower of bastards to vote to keep the top oval office in charge.

Who knows, maybe they heard the booing and the writing on the wall.

IF Labour wasn't a barrel of useless tossers they'd have plastered Brenda by her lonesome at Phil's funeral on ConservativeHome rather than an NHS doctor.

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Apr 5, 2009

Ah you're just struck with a mild case of despair.

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Apr 5, 2009

Rustybear posted:

dumbest possible outcome is always a safe bet so i'd say:

boris wins but very narrowly and both sides claim victory. boris retreats to a no.10 bunker to wait out his term until 2025; rebels claim partial victory as his mandate is shattered but lack any levers to actually move things forward. in the meantime, everything continues to fall apart.

closely followed by:

loses the vonc, calls an immediate GE to force the motion to be dropped and then pulls out of the GE somehow via process fuckery, so sorry no further vonc for another year. i think this is technically possible but would be unreal levels of quasi-legal process machinations even for this gov

Dumbest possible option is he loses the vote by 1 vote and it later transpired that Dominic Raab accidentally voted no because thought it meant "no don't fire him"

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Apr 5, 2009


Imagine if she's what pushes this over the edge https://twitter.com/ChrisMasonBBC/status/1533784720965873665?s=20&t=SfiMhZhKJHbjghWjMcyY1A

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Apr 5, 2009

Rustybear posted:

yes, you can spike a vote by having your supporters put in letters so it's called before your opponents have had time to properly lobby their peers. given that pre-jubilee everything sounded a bit lukewarm and it suddenly went to 11 over the weekend, that may have happened here.

edit: flip side to this is jubilee is a natural time for plotters as the pm and other cabinet loyalists will have their diaries block booked with events limiting the amount of time they can spend fighting the fires you're setting

The flip side is that during the Jubbly they reportedly went back to their constituencies and may have had the ear of the local tory parties pointing out that Boris Johnson is currently as popular as Prince Andrew

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Apr 5, 2009

OwlFancier posted:

So I looked up shinty and it seems to have a lot of just hitting each other in the ankles with the sticks, which I approve of.

Getting kicked off the boat after calls for a song ended with me beating them with sticks

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Apr 5, 2009

Oh I hadn't realised that the tories repealed the Fixed Term Parliaments Act.

Go on BloJo, really gently caress your cunty party.

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Apr 5, 2009

lol https://twitter.com/joolsd/status/1533451757833048065

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Apr 5, 2009

The number of beds occupied in hospitals has to keep going up and if they ever go down all the shareholders will pull out.

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Apr 5, 2009

Gonzo McFee posted:

The level of transphobia will remain essentially the same.

3.6 rontgen

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Apr 5, 2009

BUPA definitely has private GPs. They're not as easily accessible and will probably require some travelling.

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Apr 5, 2009

https://twitter.com/regionalusfood/status/1527326900229529602?s=21&t=Mb_919x8RpQJdkvD_2GoHg

Sir Keith Steamer

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Apr 5, 2009

Lungboy posted:

I once went for a colonoscopy and the consultant looked up whether I could have gas&air due to my CF while I was lying on the bed with my arse out. Maybe do that first?

Maybe you were still a bit farty and he was waiting for you to clear out.

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Apr 5, 2009

I'm assuming there's an element of the general defunding of the NHS that overseas data might not get into their database as quickly as someone can add it to Wikipedia. I'd also hope that articles on medicines are stringently monitored to prevent the Ivermectin brigade from doing that poo poo.

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Apr 5, 2009

Always barbarism, never socialism.

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Apr 5, 2009

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

It was also extremely useful when I started getting a dodgy heartbeat because by the time I visited my local GP it wouldn't be doing it, but it was doing it at work when I was temping one time and my boss sent me over to the private GP just a couple of minutes walk away immediately and I was strapped to the ECG and the dodgy heartbeat was picked up straight away.
(Egyptian docs also picked it up because they would take my pulse for whole minute instead of 10seconds like UK ones).

Friend of mine's sister aged 39 at the time had chest pain for several months, visited her GP several times, he obviously wrote her off as a 'bored neurotic housewife' and on her final visit sent her away with a couple of aspirin. She died of a massive heart attack in his carpark.

Jesus. I get that the GP is probably overworked but that's just malpractice.

I have an ECG on Friday to tell if my faint last week is serious.

Kinda wild that I fainted on the Monday, called the doctor on Monday, got a phone appointment Tuesday afternoon, which led to me booked for the next available ECG which is the Friday of the week after.

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Apr 5, 2009

I'm more optimistic. The NHS isn't dead forever, it's just dead under Tory malevolence.

I've seen enough of Starmer's actions since taking leadership and read enough of the Starmer Project to know that were he to take power he would not return to his socialist roots, the best we can hope for is he stops the deliberate poisoning of the NHS, not because of ideological reasons but for political expedience.

Hopefully also maybe press regulation? Or will he be like every other dickhead and think that he's either immune to the press or that they'll back him uncritically.

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Apr 5, 2009

forkboy84 posted:

The fact Wes Streeting is Shadow Health Secretary should tell you all you need to know about the priority of the NHS under Kieth

Reminds me of my mentor at my last job when I asked if he was voting Labour in 2015 (I was wavering between Greens and Labour because I'm a swing constituency) and he said he's not voting Labour because "they've got loving Ed Balls as chancellor"

Wes Streeting is the Ed Balls of Starmer

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Apr 5, 2009

France is stored in the Bacon

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Apr 5, 2009

I mean you saw this with how the Labour Right responded to poo poo like "nationalised energy companies" with "what next, free oxygen?!!?!"

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Apr 5, 2009

I mean pointing out that the French government partially owns and thus profits from our privatised energy system kinda highlights how nationally cucked we are by Tory policy.

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Apr 5, 2009

Darth Walrus posted:

I'm not sure this applies because Starmer's actual chancellor is, if anything, worse than Streeting. Rachel Reeves should be one of the strongest arguments against letting Labour anywhere near power.

Oh she's a piece of poo poo for sure, but Wes Streeting is glowing nuclear dogshit.

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Apr 5, 2009

Virgin Media would be joint-run by the Spanish government if they hadn't privatised Telefonica.

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Apr 5, 2009

TACD posted:

https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1534507008937930758

Here comes the wave of “nevertheless…”

Fine. Let him continue being the albatross. The feathered oval office.

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