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(Thread IKs: OwlFancier, crispix)
 
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OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

lol, lmao, even.

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OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I mean yeah that's how elections work...

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Also happy birthday to you! The universe got you gorgeous george as a birthday gift.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Make him and Tim Pool swap hats.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

fuctifino posted:

He's now implying that the message "From the Rivers to the Sea" being beamed on Parliament was a call for violent jihad.

From the river thames to the north sea?

Depending on which way you go that could be either quite easy or quite hard. I could probably jihad part of southend beach myself.

OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Mar 1, 2024

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Just imagining you getting an entire naan, unpackaged, through the letterbox, via royal mail.

There's gotta be a market for that right? Just an app where you press a button and it sends someone to shove a naan through your letterbox?

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Obviously if you were doing this professionally you would invent the naan-franker.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Lefties eating dangerous houthi bread, when will starmer act to stop this???

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013


It is impressive when they fail to achieve anything so hard that loving george galloway wins in a landslide.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Bobstar posted:

The FTPA (First Toast Post Aaah!) set the minimum to 5 years, so the coalition partners couldn't (threaten to) explode the coalition for political gain, but there's always been a maximum. Though it's probably written on a stone in Wiltshire and also made up, but thankfully the government can't just go on forever.

E: a brief wiki-looki while cooking my dinner says that the 2022 bill that repealed the FTPA also re-affirmed the 5-year maximum, which was in force before since the Parliament Act 1911

Technically parliament could pass a law that says we don't need to have elections, as they did during the second world war. They voted each year to extend the maximum another year.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

You can do that if you want but mostly you're just offloading the work of deboning them to the eating phase. It's not hard but it does interrupt the eating IMO.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Guavanaut posted:

The man who used to sing Hitler Youth songs? Who believes in the Great Replacement conspiracy theory and calls things he doesn't like "cultural marxism"? He's accusing people of subscribing to an antisemitic conspiracy theory?

Man made entirely of poo poo: "Wow there sure are a lot of people around here with poo poo on them!"

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

The royal rear end en't working very well at the moment.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Do we know that? I've never had the impression that he was anything other than an extremely racist and unpleasant man in every respect.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Opposes puppy smuggling and yet supports criminalizing certain types of dogs, creating a black market, smh.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

NotJustANumber99 posted:

the rooms not empty. its a normal room full of normal people



If rooms made entirely out of curtains are normal I can see why you're struggling with the house.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I admit I'd never really considered the possibility of MPs doing photo ops actually having any material effect on anything, I've always just viewed it like having a royal visit or something. It doesn't do anything it's just apparently an elaborate form of social care for those afflicted with aristocracy or political leanings. They show up at some daft event or something and everyone goes around chuntering nonsense at each other and then nothing happens.

It's like when you read old victorian stories about how the high society types spend all their time at "the club" which is an endless series of drawing rooms and wood paneling with the terminally affluent milling about in them because that's just what they do.

OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 01:37 on Mar 5, 2024

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Ms Adequate posted:

Oh, no, the photo op is whatever it's just to show their constituents "I care about this" and I don't care if we take the piss about that, it's the going after the actual issue that seems a bit off to me.

I don't really see it as much distinct from culture war stuff, personally. It might not necessarily do anything actually bad (although I am frankly rather skeptical of any legislative attempt to ban anything that is actually going to be effective at reducing the thing and not just getting people arrested for stupid poo poo, I just don't have that kind of faith in the government.) But it's comparable in being a kind of... vacuous thing that really only exists to give politicians something to point at that doesn't require them to actually engage with anything difficult.

Like the puff pieces they put on at the end of the news or whatever. Just meaningless crap to stop you thinking too hard about the real problems.

If the best a politician can muster is "I support puppies and kittens not being sad" then what are they even for? Do I need politicians to tell me they don't like puppies and kittens being sad? Can we get labour to support bringing israel to the ICC if we point out they're bombing puppies and kittens as well?

I can't help but think of Marx's position on it which afaik is that while animal rights aren't a bad thing, the predominant strain in animal rights activism, to his mind, was people who pursued it like a hobby, and to the exclusion of being willing to think about either the humans they mistreat or capitalism itself's effect on animals. It isn't a coherent, consistent critique of the world that would look to draw common ground between the way society treats people and the way it treats animals, it's just touchy feely bollocks about not making the "good" types of animals cry.

And if that's the best someone can muster in the state of the world as it exists then it's hard not to see it as infantile, to think less of them for it. It's not a bad position in isolation, it's something you might commend a five year old for thinking. But for a politician to be so otherwise worthless that it's the best thing you can say for them, that they feel it's worth advertising, that's just pathetic.

OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 02:10 on Mar 5, 2024

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Actually..... this is a ton more likely to work with those who either don't want to think about Israel/Palestine or who just respond with 'they're all the same why are we even bothered about a foreign land 3000 miles away none of our business etc' or are in the 'can't we all just get along' crowd.

Given the rainbow washing approach establishing the pattern I suspect the response would be "oh you don't like us bombing the puppies well hamas personally invented XL bullies to eat western children yet you support them????"

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Guavanaut posted:

Those are sweater puppies, I've never heard it the other way around. Although in the theme of the above, it's possible that we're both some kind of deviated prevert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud9zBKJJQe4

I feel like if budgie smuggling is doing it with your willy then there should be other options available.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I feel like that is scraping the bottom of the barrel of what constitutes "celebrity"

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Yeah I would say if you don't think you can live comfortably on £70k then the issue isn't the economy it's that you have an utterly warped notion of "comfortable".

If I was on 70k I would be putting half of it in the bank and quitting my job as soon as I had enough to run me the rest of my life, and still have every material possession I could want.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

There is something incredibly perverse about paying through the nose to have led headlamps for the sole purpose of making everyone else on the road worse off.

The most Tory invention.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

The Question IRL posted:

Okay, so this is something that has come up twice now from people talking about the Guardian Article.

Saying "just downsize your car or get a cheap second hand car" is a justifiable position, when you are just a singleton who looks after yourself and maybe a pet.

When you have kids, literally everything terrifies you on some level that it will in some way kill your kids.
That sliced chicken that is one day past it's best before date? I'll be fine to eat that.
But give it to your kid? Hell no, they could get sick.

This also applies to cars. When you have kids, you want a safe car. That means you are reluctant to get a car that's too cheap, for fear it's a death trap. Then you have to look at a larger car that can hold you kids. And you want a car that is safer for the kids to be in.

It's one of the reasons there are so many SUV's out there.

Just saying "just downsize in cars" isn't necessary helpful as you are probably comparing your personal situation to his. Much like what the elderly are doing when they say stuff like "just save and get a house. That's what I did in the 70's! Why can't you?"

I would suggest this is a combination argument 1: against having kids and 2: that it's better to flatten other people's kids with your commuter tank than accept risk to your own.

There is nothing stopping you from driving a normal car with 2 children except that unspoken assumption, which I think is a bad one?

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

He would have been such a good poster

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

sinky posted:

Labour suspending a councillor for not voting in favour of "responsible and legal" cuts to social care and flood defences :thumbsup:

My "flood defence and social care cuts are responsible and legal" t shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by the shirt.

Jakabite posted:

I hope that young man earning 75k is spending it on the best thing to have NOT been hit by cozzy livs - good old drugs

Seriously it’s wild how the only common drug that’s increased in price in about 20 years is LSD

On cars, I drive a 2012 Sportage because I regularly need to haul a load of stuff around and it’s good for going places with your pals, but tbh I would like a nicer and more fun car at some point. It makes overtaking national express coaches a long, drawn out affair. A couple of grand a month is loving nuts obviously but skewering people on the basis of wanting nicer things is a bit odd. Don’t we all want to be able to go vroooooom on the slip road and relax into a big comfy seat that gets hot in winter, and sing the chorus of Kiss from a Rose dead loud with actually good speakers accompanying us? YES WE DO and if we don’t we should imo

Cowards rely on the speakers, the courageous belt it out at maximum volume unaccompanied.

My car doesn't have anything except an aux jack and I don't use my phone while driving so if I want to hear something I don't have playing already I just turn the music off and scream it myself.

OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Mar 5, 2024

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

One of my friends is a firm believer that if a Labour council goes bankrupt it is their entire fault because it is up to them how to apportion their budget - nothing to do with budget cuts from Westminster, no accounting for those services councils are legally obliged to provide. I haven't asked her how that tallies with the tory councils also on the verge of - if not already - bankruptcy. (Just avoiding all political discussions with her these days).

Chop a leg off, if she has issues walking tell her it's up to her how to apportion her leg so it's her own fault.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I drove past a waitrose in jesmond a while back, meant to go in as it's the first time I've ever seen one.

Turns out there's like a 50 mile exclusion zone around middlesbrough where there aren't any lol. I like to imagine that they're held at bay by the presence of boyes.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Tesseraction posted:

That lib dem lust for brown death, hot drat.

The tories hate him because he's starmer, labour hates him because he's a genocide fan, the lib dems recognize his inability to take a firm stance and see it as statesmanlike.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Lard is great for cooking with. As is beef fat.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Could be Buggery.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

We have machines now you can type "big bobbs huge mega honker gazonga boomboom jugggggggzzz" into and it will show you more variations on the concept of boobs than human ingenuity can conjure. Like somes sort of robotic cenobite.

And I think that's the best use of AI is trapping people who write for the spectator in a conceptual wank prison.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

National broadband but only installed in woodlands and only gives porn access.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I suppose that also correlates with being mad at the existence of forrin food.

You don't have to eat it, but suggesting it is edible is the problem.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Keith comes up to the mic "I'm keir starmer and I'm here to say, fiscal responsibility is important, hey! My dad was a tool maker didn't raise a fool, we'll reform the NHS to make it really cool!" and then gets drop kicked off the stage.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Does mid sussex imply the existence of cap sussex and bussin sussex (bussex)?

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

It does suggest the existence of a once-stable population of forest dwelling perverts who nonetheless infiltrate human society in order to acquire copies of Razzle.

Perhaps this is what the unseelie court are up to these days. Or possibly the seelie court, not sure.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I feel like if you're old enough to be a goon parent you should not be in tears because your pokemon game isn't working.

To be honest if you are old enough to be a goon child you are probably too old for that as well.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I'm sure it is, I play an enormous amount of videogames myself. But I don't call my family crying because the game isn't working.

I swear profusely at the computer instead, like an adult.

(NG++ final boss in AC6 is bullshit do not @ me)

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OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

When I had my old RF wireless headphones, every now and then I would pick up an errant signal from somewhere. I assume it must have been a neighbour because they're not exactly powerful things, but somebody was absolutely blasting porno with an RF transmitter and it would be audible in the background when I was using the headphones.

All of my neighbours were old farts so god knows which of them it was. Godspeed to them though.

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