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learnincurve posted:Need something added to every OP. DWP have been told not to tell sanctioned people about this. Necrothatcher posted:
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DesperateDan posted:this is pretty lol given they spent yesterday attempting a character assassination on someone to try and smear the "enough is enough" campaign by association OwlFancier posted:I wish mine would get a move on, I've been going grey since I was a teenager but I have a lot of hair so it's still more dark than silver, want to look like an anime. 
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lol, the loose change tweets are still up https://twitter.com/supertanskiii/status/1086020329372295169 
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 Tweeting David Icke level bullshit is the new 'decent as gently caress'.
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forkboy84 posted:Yes & no. But as very few things posted in this thread actually have much to do with the immortal science, I'd not really worry. Yes, there's something a little Tweetman about her, she's definitely a Twitter Character of the Day, but she's also a centrist who yelled about leftist anti-semitism & it turns out that she believes in a very clear anti-semitic conspiracy theory & that's quite funny. https://twitter.com/KimSJ/status/1565020552863023111 What if we did internationalism without any class consciousness? Why is the 21st century fight just reheated 19th century appeals to fairness? Has history ended yet guys? Perhaps we can find the dialectical materialism by looking at spaces entirely devoid of it, in the same way that many of the elements were discovered. That's scientific socialism! 
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Sep 1, 2022 14:01
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Ipswich residents otoh were genuinely looking for instructions on how to jerk off.
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Strap-ons are stored in the sporran.
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Darth Walrus posted:Welsh people ... are all amoral, deranged wizard-scientists 
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WhatEvil posted:Also it's Jarombly Cbormblyn's fault: The funniest assertion from the whole thing was her claim that George Bush's brother was the maintenance guy for the two towers and that's how he closed them for 12 hours to move explosives in without anyone catching that. I've never heard that one before even in tinfoil world. It's sometimes possible to accuse Israel or Saudi Arabia of things, even nonsense things, without necessarily being antisemitic or islamophobic, but I'm not sure how you can get so far into "janitor Jeb Bush planted bombs throughout both towers over a 12 hour period" without knowing that "Israel did 9/11" always comes alongside with "and they told all the Jews to stay home on the morning of the attack" and "and it was done to erase Rothschild ZOG banking records" and all the other stuff that you shouldn't have to ask about whether it is antisemitic or not. And even if she did somehow manage to miss all that she's still a pudding brained truther idiot who goes on about 9/11 theories even dumber than the usual crop to people in public, which is a bad thing in itself Imagine thinking "I've got to watch Loose Change" in 2019 lol
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Sep 1, 2022 17:51
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Something to do with wanting to draw the US into increasing their presence in the Middle East iirc, but it's so tied up with the 'no Jews went to work'/'dancing Mossad agents'/''secret ZOG banks' idiocy in the 9/11 instance that yes it's also mostly antisemitism.
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Sep 1, 2022 17:59
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OwlFancier posted:I really need a geographical breakdown of scotland though, I want to know how the north/south east/west split goes, also specifically the islands full of church weirdos and edinburgh. Highlands is shepherdess feet.
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OwlFancier posted:Today I learned where the word originates from, never knew that. I don't... think it was used like that when I was a kid, I vaguely remember it being slightly interchangeable with "townies" and pretty associated with the rougher bits of grangetown and boro. Sort of like a weird kind of intra-class classism, cos nobody was posh but the kids from the proper rough bits of the town were still looked down on. Though being fair there were some places you wouldn't want to go cos you'd just be non-stop hassled by kids in tracksuits.
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Sep 1, 2022 20:02
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OwlFancier posted:Basically yeah, there's still plenty of anti-traveller racism but I don't know anybody who would use that word for it. There's almost certainly a bonding factor in it, bad as it is. Now if you got two different ethnic groups meeting in a public space like that, not even the pub fash would blunder straight in with "what words don't you like being called so we can call you them later?", so conversation usually settles on something they all can agree on. So you tend to get a bunch of loanwords that are derogatory not to either group but to a third group that is outsiders to both, like the kids are all lazy and scruffy and lack discipline (chav from Romani) and the girls are even worse and immodest (bint from Arabic) and the telly's all shite too (dreck from Yiddish) and dozens of others that are not against the people from which the word came but a shared target of disdain.
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Sep 1, 2022 20:43
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Jeb! dressed as a janitor going floor to floor in both towers sticking those plastic explosive blocks from Die Hard onto every pillar is the official narrative now. Wheeling them around in his mop bucket cart.
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Sep 1, 2022 21:23
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I think the peak was during New Labour and ASBOs, Cameron wanted to hug a hoodie and do a great repeal bill. Well, he actually just wanted to smash up local community centres and maybe believed he saw some shared goals there.
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lol the Mirror mocking the Express' Genius Inventor Boris Johnson series now crispix posted:it was some bloke trying to build his career
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HopperUK posted:(A momus is a Greek god of mockery. A bubo is a painful sore. 'carnificial' here means 'of the executioner'. ) It does mean that we could (and should) call farm owners who rely on work gangs who pay most of their wages back to the farm supervillains.
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Sep 2, 2022 08:39
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As an adjective 'spastic' still has medical use as relating to spasm or uncoordinated muscle movement, like in spastic colon. It was never used as a noun for a person medically though, so that was always sus behaviour, on a spectrum from "haha this person is uncoordinated" to "I am a oval office and hate people with disability", kids just made it much worse by amplification and not knowing better. As a result of that, it's now automatically suspicious even as an adjective outside of a medical context, like 'niggardly' is. Yes it's not the same at all as the bad word, but if you can spare 5 seconds thinking of a better replacement then you should.
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Sanford posted:What on earth is K*******D? Knighted
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Surprise T Rex posted:insane nonsense where you're not allowed to own anything and you have to line up in the rain for your weekly ration of bread and cheese, then go home to your cold featureless-concrete-cube apartment and eat it in silence.
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Sep 2, 2022 12:46
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I'm 'weak cheese bitch'
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OwlFancier posted:If I wanted to fall down a hill at high speed we have those at home. Obviously function and safety has to come before aesthetics in that use case, but they did some actual architecture with Battersea, and the construction methods are so much cheaper now that you could make a nuclear Taj Mahal or something. They do it with the oil wells in California, and people will go out of their way to say "hey did you know there's an oil well in there, how cool is that?" even though living next to an oil well isn't great for VOC, but a little style goes a long way.  About the closest new thing to that we have here is Shoreham Power Station, where the chimney is far taller than it needs to be to act as a coastal landmark (and even then the owners piss and moan about the increased maintenance cost of tall pipe).  The only thing that has to do with your post is that Copenhagen has a combination waste incinerator/power plant/district heater/ski slope and people love it and fight to keep it open, it seems to work.  Giant gothic BWR and zipline adventure park when?
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No pets allowed up there, so you'd have to try for yourself I think.
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That's why Copenhagen put the fire inside first.
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Sep 2, 2022 23:36
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OwlFancier posted:You would think it would be quite hard to set fire to a large pile of frozen water but seemingly not. That one at Potters got hot enough to melt the steel beams, so I hope someone checked where Jeb Bush was.
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The most amusing thing about the Potters fire (which was apparently started deliberately, but caused no human casualties) is that the collapsed parts of the factory/warehouse complex got fairly quickly turned into brownfield social housing, with the formerly private access road named as Ned Ludd Close. Mebh posted:Also i think parliament should be chosen by mandatory cheese rolling competition on that steep loving hill. The lords too.
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The Question IRL posted:"This would be like if the Irish soccer team was owned organized and administered by the British ministry of the interior." Irish hedge wizards play different sports where they find quidditch lads and hit them in the flying balls with a big flat stick.
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OwlFancier posted:I never stopped using firefox  Z the IVth posted:The only decent ISP I have available is Sky and their router doesn't like a Pi-hole
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Are the Mail pro or anti this particular fascist warlord?
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https://twitter.com/Mr_Considerate/status/1317156327379116040fuctifino posted:If you are trying to insinuate that he didn't do a victory tour of Donbas, Eddie Dempsey wrote a eulogy about Alexei Mozgovoi, a Moscow backed genocidal leader. I'm sure that the ethnic militia commander was also a problematic figure, but it's not the same as showing up during 2022 to pull the same thing. And it's not like the guy is now a genocide man, on account of him being dead for a few years, so it doesn't even hit the "in retrospect..." standards of  I don't even really rate it on the same level as the McShitter above in terms of misguided stanning.
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Is anyone getting all heart eyes about him? I just see a bunch of people who thought Jews did 9/11 and a bunch of rags who've praised everyone from Mussolini to Pinochet in their time trying to use it as a reason that we shouldn't trust anything he says about Britain in 2022.
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Jeherrin posted:You mean... apart from the whole 'Lynch and Dempsey should run the country' thing that happened after they were on the television when the first wave of strikes kicked off? I saw plenty of people praise Lynch's uncompromising interview style, and lots of back and forth on Dempsey's speech about how if communities feel they've been ignored they'll follow the first charismatic bigot to pay attention to them (is the speech racist, or is it just describing an unfortunate fact about how racists play people?) but not that they should be running the country. Even if so I don't think either has said anything exceptionally bad by the standards of the people who are currently running the country, but yeah giving two people we don't know much about the reigns of power based on a couple of strong speeches probably isn't the best idea, going by history. They're probably better as union leaders, until such a point that their members decide that they're not. The Question IRL posted:Like why? Why not just have an Irish wizard or something leading them?
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The whole thing reminds me a lot of Erica Lagalisse's idea of Good Politics. Good Politics is like Good Taste or Good Housekeeping, it's not 'good' in the sense of being right or even useful, it's Good in the sense that if you were Keeping Up Appearances you'd be comfortable leaving it out in the front room while your middle class neighbours were round talking about wallpaper patterns. It's the standard that gets you xtothez posted:occasionally some centrists are allowed to put all the cunts they want on a platform while the media are paid to run interference for them. Because he has the Good Politics. Boris Johnson inherited some Good Politics by class and connection despite being a oval office's idea of a oval office. Jacob Rees-Mogg is the husband sleeping in the corner of a Country Living Magazine spread so gets some Good Politics by default. Eddie Dempsey is a worse Tommeh Robinson even when he writes an essay showing otherwise because he doesn't do the Good Politics. He may definitely be wrong for other reasons, but that's the reason why the press have decided he's wrong. The Question IRL posted:But I'd have found it hilarious if she went with "Gerry Adams: But with magic!"
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Just like how the real racists were the ones pointing out that Asian Witch Cho Chang is a bollocks name that could only be thought up by someone who has never spoken to anyone East of the Urals about anything.
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The Corbyn Bros, Peas and Jerome, made the goblins racist by looking at them.
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Sep 4, 2022 10:19
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Ah but they'll spend it in the economy that isn't working so that will go to the small businesses that had to close and everyone* will end up better off. *tory donors
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Nothingtoseehere posted:Contrary to popular belief, being English in Scotland is not a death sentence, and I doubt many here want that to change.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:its wanky lever pulling Are there... instructions? 
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In defence of the character of Coldheart Fairman from the novel It Is Not Sufficient To Be Fair, One Must Also Be Charitable, he is very fair, what more should you ask for?
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Who need they Trussy hate??
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