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Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

HopperUK posted:

It's spring on my Animal Crossing island so

My wife logged in the other day to help out one of my cousins by sending her a bunch of recipes, and it's like loving Children of Men in there when you don't log in for a while.

# ¿ Mar 1, 2023 14:59

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 08:27

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

The Question IRL posted:

I'd love for them to publish the messages when Marcus Rushford took on the Tory Party to ensure kids were fed.

Oh you know there would be some heated gamer moments in there, the problem is it would instantly reconsolidate their traditional base. "Oh thank god, they are still racist after all."

# ¿ Mar 2, 2023 05:18

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Aipsh posted:

https://twitter.com/Seoirse_/status/1631278273438142464?s=20

No loving way way Truss is a top, she is a bratty sub.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2023 15:00

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Those points are really small, you could probably fit 11 of them in your hand.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2023 15:07

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

whatever secrets the crows choose to tell you do not be snitchin to other humans

# ¿ Mar 2, 2023 16:39

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Just love reposting an unsourced rant, it's not me saying this of course, it's all of my sources who are just out of frame etc.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2023 19:31

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

I don't think there's really any good option in terms of voting.

Pointing out that Labour are poo poo isn't campaigning for the tories, it's just pointing out that both parties are bad. One might be slightly less bad in certain areas, but not to any extent that matters. But if you don't vote for someone other than the tories, their vote share is larger. And after the Lib Dems poisoned the well of tactical voting and coalitions, voting for a 3rd party isn't an option either.

We're all hosed. There are no 'good' choices. I'm going to weigh the options and vote for what I think will be the least bad one, but I don't have any illusion about things meaningfully getting better as a result.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2023 04:37

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Payndz posted:

I realised the one good thing about living in an extremely safe Tory seat is that I feel no need whatsoever to hold my nose and vote for whichever Tony Blair Institute-approved ghoul Starmer parachutes in to run here (or LD Orange Booker, for that matter).

I keep thinking about a bit from Chapo a few years ago, after Bernie got screwed in the primaries - they were asking why the gently caress should the dirtbag left 'hold our noses' and vote for Hillary to keep the bad orange man out, when none of the moderates could do that for Bernie when it was obvious he had a grass roots movement and immense public support (to the point of having to lie and misrepresent his results on TV).

I feel the same here - all the sensible centrists who couldn't bring themselves to vote for Corbyn and opened the door for Boris are now demanding we vote for their guy, and will get blamed for the tories getting in if we don't.

It's poo poo. It's a poo poo choice, but it is a choice, and just because you have options, doesn't mean it's really a choice. I hate it. It's so hosed.

Microplastics posted:

But the most annoying thing is they never got that incubator anyway

Yeah, notably not mentioning that he doesn't have a vest under the current system either.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2023 14:15

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

TACD posted:

Bring back corporal punishment in parliament

Finally, a policy Liz Truss can get ~~behind~~ in front of.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2023 16:51

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

I know it's cliche but I am always amazed when anyone mentions anything from more than 3 months ago and I think 'gently caress, that was this year?'

# ¿ Mar 3, 2023 17:45

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Sir Sidney Poitier posted:

What loving justification does anyone have to argue for incandescent light bulbs? Do they feel their energy bills are too low?

It's like automatic gearboxes; they had problems when they first came out, gammons have convinced themselves they're poo poo, and no amount of talk about how much they've improved will convince them they're ok now.

When they first came out, LEDs especially had a slight strobe effect and gave some photosensitive people headaches, but they haven't done that in years, and the savings over incandescent are huge. But a bunch of people are still convinced that they're poo poo or that halogen light looks 'purple.'

Used to work for Dalkia many years ago, some people get really hipstery about lights. Also I started typing this before 99's post, but got distracted by our group nearly wiping in our D&D game.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2023 22:07

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Alright, I think we're ready for the butlerian jihad.

# ¿ Mar 4, 2023 12:24

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Diet Crack posted:

"I need help"

Connecting to WebMD...

# ¿ Mar 4, 2023 15:15

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Yes, because when you are homeless you can instantly claim a free roof over your head and there are no waiting lists or purity tests involved in getting it.

# ¿ Mar 4, 2023 18:22

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Umbra Dubium posted:

If Anderson sees people going to McDonald's "two or three times a week" that must mean he's there all the time himself.

No, he's in the carpark round the back most evenings. Don't ask why.

# ¿ Mar 4, 2023 19:37

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Rarity posted:

Vanilla coke = best coke

Pizza hut has a machine that does vanilla pepsi max refills, and frankly i need to be kept away from it.

# ¿ Mar 4, 2023 19:52

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Private Speech posted:

Most of it is just the utterly stupid high-end secondary education system in Britain, it's so pricey that only the genuinely wealthy can afford it without impoverishing themselves.

"Instead of donating 10k a year to the local comp so everyone's kids get better resources, I'm going to pay twice that to send just my kid to the fancy school so they're safe from bullying and their fat board of governors can buy another house to rent" is about the size of it.

# ¿ Mar 6, 2023 05:22

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Guavanaut posted:

You can screenshot it and then identify content in your photo app on all newer phones, but that's a time consuming fiddle given that it's already on twitter.

And QR codes are older than twitter's built in link shortener

And barcodes are older than hyperlinks

Wait, maybe it's deliberate. Innovation means time consuming fiddles pretending to be something new.

It's far simpler than that; he uses twitter on the big computer because he's a massive nerd, so not once did it cross his mind that people wouldn't just scan the screen.

Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 15:51 on Mar 6, 2023

# ¿ Mar 6, 2023 15:49

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

The true cultured gentleman pays a tweet sommelier to bring him only the finest dunks.

# ¿ Mar 6, 2023 17:06

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

"Ah, dril, 2016. An excellent vintage."

# ¿ Mar 6, 2023 17:07

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

then what's an elon '22 in booze

Prison gin.

# ¿ Mar 6, 2023 17:39

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

It's progress. Most likely they'll still refuse you after the assessment, at which point you have to go through a 2 stage appeal process - they do a 'mandatory reconsideration' in-house which almost always fails, and after that you can appeal with a 3rd party which is when it usually succeeds.

Hang in there and remember the cruelty is the point. Rinse the bastards for everything you deserve.

# ¿ Mar 6, 2023 17:49

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

When I was at school it was the main thing they talked about because the primary problem was the holes in the ozone layer from all the loving hairspray. I suspect that even though we've all moved on to talking about rising average temperatures, there's a whole generation for whom sea level rises are the only thing they learned at school.

# ¿ Mar 6, 2023 22:17

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

happyhippy posted:

We've moved on because we solved the ozone layer hole.
We changed how we used CFCs and the hole is repairing itself.

True, but there are a lot of people who have violently resisted learning or engaging with ideas after they left school at 16. Whole bunch of people who think 'global warming' just means 'icecaps melt and the sea moves a bit closer innit.'

# ¿ Mar 7, 2023 04:18

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

OwlFancier posted:

Ah well you see the people booing at him are not serious and not ready for serious politics so they don't count.

When polls are up: Will of the people, obvious mandate etc.

When polls are down: this is all jiminbly corgle's fault

When polls specifically say they preferred Corbyn: populism gone mad, mob rule, obviously wildly antisemitic and we will not be doing that

# ¿ Mar 7, 2023 10:25

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

"look, if you opened your windows every once in a while maybe you wouldn't have a problem with splicers tearing through your living room looking for adam. Now would you kindly pay your rent?"

# ¿ Mar 7, 2023 11:05

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

forkboy84 posted:

Honestly, I just start reading it & then I can't see anything because my eyeballs fill with blood as a defence method

# ¿ Mar 8, 2023 14:06

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Noxville posted:

Look at this loving idiot

https://twitter.com/baddiel/status/1633401379912818688?s=46&t=lz1DjwUk2vgFTdWPPaLwfA

Yes, politics is just your shirt and colour palette. I am very smart.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2023 16:17

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

The quick response is usually "They arrested and executed people for being socialists [name], that doesn't make any loving sense."

Not mine, saw it on twitter ages ago, probably wouldn't be able to find it again.

# ¿ Mar 9, 2023 15:43

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

keep punching joe posted:

Why do they need to ban WhatsApp again? I thought all 5 eyes intel basically had backdoor access to everything anyway?

The ministers pushing for it are dumb as poo poo and believed the data harvesting companies who presented the issue to them as "the police won't be able to see these messages" but actually want data harvesting laws loosened and encryption got rid of. Is what I suspect.

# ¿ Mar 10, 2023 11:11

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Mega Comrade posted:

That any solution would be completely unworkable doesn't seem to register.

The biggest issue to them is not workability, or how internet transactions would work. The biggest issue is trying to work out how they get complete unaccountability and privacy for themselves, and absolute transparency for everyone else.

# ¿ Mar 10, 2023 11:25

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

smellmycheese posted:

https://twitter.com/wesstreeting/status/1634132044211953664?s=46&t=m_nNbkNoHG4lLitcpyHReg

Going back a page or 2, but there's something especially insidious about the way he says 'escaping poverty.'

Reminds me of a half-remembered bit in the Adrian Mole books where his dad finds out he's been reading about communism and chucks the books in the bin because "I worked my arse off for years to get out of the working class" or something like that.

For some people the desire to escape poverty is less about survival, and more about getting out of the bucket so you can point and laugh at the other crabs.

Everything that comes out of that oval office's mouth just makes me hate him more, he's going to be unbearable when he finally backstabs Starmer.

# ¿ Mar 10, 2023 16:35

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

"I'm a class traitor and so can you!" by Wesley Streeting.

# ¿ Mar 10, 2023 16:41

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

I mean they went after football, that's sacred.

# ¿ Mar 11, 2023 00:20

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

It's a testament to how loving dumb this country is that the second the tories aren't actively and excessively pushing nightmarish poo poo, their support starts to creep back up again.

# ¿ Mar 11, 2023 04:40

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Noxville posted:

Was actually surprised that they’d suspended him rather than just quietly let it pass, seemed at the time a poor decision and looks plain stupid right now.

The way the right normally deals with this is for the press to criticise him and print a few attack lines, and then get baying knobheads to harrass him out of public life or at the very least off twitter.

Where they hosed up was by not respecting the chain of command and letting the papers get him killed.

# ¿ Mar 11, 2023 12:39

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Angepain posted:

One guy in the gbnews studio frantically adjusting an old Subbuteo set to the approximate last reported locations of each player

"It's chaos out there Alan, Rashford's been trod on and all bent over at the ankles, and it looks like Fernandez has been substituted for a janitor off of the Train set."

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Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 12:46 on Mar 11, 2023

# ¿ Mar 11, 2023 12:44

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Mega Comrade posted:

Delicious

Sounds familiar.

Guavanaut posted:

Powerful brain moments from Bad Eel.

Maybe my brain is just dying but I couldn't even work out what he was trying to say. "You haven't made this all about Jews so maybe you're the real nazi" is as close as I could get?

# ¿ Mar 11, 2023 13:45

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Answers Me posted:

It boggles the mind that in the eyes of a lot of melts he’s widely seen as one of this country’s foremost public intellectuals. What a damning indictment of our cultural sphere

There's a 100% overlap of the kinds of melts that demanded Trump resign in shame for mocking that disabled reporter, but when Baddiel did it (multiple times) in his shows that was a long time ago and besides its different because we like him.

# ¿ Mar 11, 2023 18:46

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 08:27

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Guavanaut posted:

Peter Hitchens complaining about the service in Center Parcs

"You know who else built giant holiday camps?"

"The Nazis?"

"How dare you bring up the Nazis for cheap political points."

# ¿ Mar 11, 2023 19:03

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