UKMT Long March 2016 - Beware the Iain Duncan Smith of March (am I doing this right?)

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Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

StoneOfShame posted:

I really enjoyed Mad Max, I really did but not ad much as everyone else for some reason, I mean its been pushed as like the greatest action movie of recent years but for my money its nowhere near as good as Dredd was. On the subject of Dredd looks like the Snooper's charter is going to allow the police to hack phones!!! This government will implement the Judge system wont they.

Dredd didn't manage to piss off MRAs as much as Mad Max did and is therefore the inferior film.

# ¿ Mar 1, 2016 16:39

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 19:09

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

StoneOfShame posted:

Wasn't that largely because the MRAs weren't as vocally active then, they've always been about but the noise they generate has shot up over the last year. I do remember there some MRAs getting pissed off about Dredd.

I don't know, I was being tongue in cheek and couldn't be arsed finding the right emoticon to express that. I suspect that Tesseraction is correct though and Dredd came out before gamergate, IIRC.

# ¿ Mar 1, 2016 19:21

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

Mad Max was great and The Force Awakens was great. I'm a huge Star Wars geek though so if you ask me to pick one I'll have to go with my nostalgia values.

# ¿ Mar 1, 2016 19:38

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

shrike82 posted:

Who's worse - Drumpf or Cameron?

Your posting.

# ¿ Mar 1, 2016 21:03

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

Just rediscovered this wee gem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K13m3HlFwjw

quote:

Who�ll take the ball from Maggie Thatcher? Kick it in another goal!
Cause there�s plenty time for playing football, when you�re living on the dole

There�s a team in the south they call the tories,
for years they have led division 1,
in the face of heavy competition,
they haven�t lost their winning run
Although they�ve dropped some midfield men fer Scotland,
It hasnae upset their strategies
cause the punters showed a healthy rate of interest,
when they buy shares in their companies

Who�ll take the ball from Maggie Thatcher? Kick it in another goal!
Cause there�s plenty time for playing football, when you�re living on the dole

Now the tories beat the opposition,
the opposition didnae show much sense,
cause they mainly play the ball up tae the left wing,
and they can be suspect in defence
And they had a bit o trouble with their strikers,
who thought they should have a bigger fee
and they chased away a lot of their supporters,
when they showed a militant tendancy

Who�ll take the ball from Maggie Thatcher? Kick it in another goal!
Cause there�s plenty time for playing football, when you�re living on the dole

There�s a sad side facing relegation,
though the top of the league had been their dream,
they tried almost every combination
even transfers fae another team,
they even took the field and played two captains,
who thought they were really on the ball,
just to find when they heard the final whistle,
they had only gone an ballsed it all

Who�ll take the ball from Maggie thatcher? Kick it in another goal!
Cause there�s plenty time for playing football, when you�re living on the dole

They�s a cry for the terraces of Hamden,
when they show the re-run of the game,
if the Scots had played some different tactics,
the result may not have been the same
The tories say they put the great back in great Britain,
if that helps us we�ll have to wait and see
but they might have put the Scot back into Scotland,
if Scotland had supported SNP

Who�ll take the ball from Maggie Thatcher? Kick it in another goal!
Cause there�s plenty time for playing football, when you�re living on the dole

# ¿ Mar 1, 2016 21:56

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

forkboy84 posted:

I feel like this is a valid criticism of most films these days. Honestly, anything over 2 hours in length & I'm questioning whether it's worth my time because there's almost certainly going to be a lot of filler. Apparently the art of editing movies went out the window at some point, I'm not entirely sure when but I feel like I want to blame Peter Jackson & his Lord of the Ring films but I'm probably forgetting dozens of examples from the decade previous. Although they are a lesson on being concise next to The Hobbit trilogy.

But basically, I don't love the fact that every movie now feels like it needs the running time of an epic. Especially when so few actually earn that run time.

Also, I shouldn't be surprised that Coohoolin likes The Corries, of course he'd like The Corries. I despair.

We've been over this. The Corries are Cool and Good.

# ¿ Mar 1, 2016 22:32

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

The only good part of leaving the EU is that Scotland might get another chance at independence.

Otherwise please don't vote for something that would make me leave behind my friends and career.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2016 03:03

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

Tesseraction posted:

I was ambivalent on Scottish independence but I tacitly supported the Leave side. I suppose in hindsight it was lucky they didn't given their reliance on the oil price for their economy.

I suppose this is the part where I'll be met with "ah, but what if Britain leaving the EU ends up with the UK in the very situation Scotland nearly was" to which I lazily wave at the various bubbles all over the different financial markets.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/16/scotland-oil-price-slump-snp-forecasts-critics

# ¿ Mar 2, 2016 17:29

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

Lol, SDL. It's always a bunch of EDL people bussed up from Blackburn or something and get a massive hiding.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2016 21:47

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

Rakosi's red text still makes me all fuzzy inside.

# ¿ Mar 4, 2016 21:18

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

Rakosi posted:

How much did it cost you? And who do you still pay tax to lol

Oh that wasn't me, you managed to be irritating enough that some unknown observer decided to clarify your stance on things.

I pay income tax and council tax, do I get to have a say in the running of where I bloody live?

# ¿ Mar 4, 2016 21:47

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

Guavanaut posted:

Not according to the actual criteria laid out for the Olympic sport of pistol shooting you can't.

Coohoolin actually does have a well sourced and cited criticism of the failures of the Nordic model compared to the decrim model positioned by Germany and others. I don't know if he has it anywhere public though.

I'm chuffed you remembered! I've got it on my laptop still, can email it to anyone who's interested.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2016 02:19

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

I used to know a girl who escorted; apparently she'd only actually meet people two or three times a month and the bulk of her income was from selling stuff online (hair clumps, toenails, used underwear, etc). Made a bloody mint and all.

And yes, I'm going to upload my papers onto a dropbox or something so I don't have to keep emailing people.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2016 16:37

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/erxu30ny1v7gncp/Pornography%2C%20sex%20work%20and%20the%20feminist%20wars.docx?dl=0

There we go. This was an honours sociology essay. It's about a bit more than just sex work though, so if you can't be arsed just check the second half of it.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2016 16:49

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

Tesseraction posted:

To be honest I say that about Tories in Scotland, but there they are.

Well, there he is. The one. From Dumfries and Galloway.

# ¿ Mar 6, 2016 16:28

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

Guavanaut posted:

It is. At least if you ask me. As well as a swathe of the Midlands and Wales. Other people say that a pikelet is a little pancake, like a flapjack (the flapjack that is a little pancake, not the flapjack that is a delicious oaty cake). Those people are wrong. And probably southern.

At least it's not as bad as

Buttery is on the wrong coastline.

# ¿ Mar 7, 2016 20:27

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

Marenghi posted:

In the case of a Brexit do all the territories automatically pull out. Or could NI and Scotland remain while England exits the EU?

Sturgeon wanted a clause where UK only leaves if all four countries vote to leave. Obviously it was shot down. The question now is if Scotland votes to stay and gets dragged out anyway they'll look to trigger a second indyref.

# ¿ Mar 9, 2016 02:00

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

Lol Willie Rennie is a complete waste of space. At least they didn't get noted Dundonian and fedora wearer George Galloway, it's a step up for the beeb.

# ¿ Mar 10, 2016 20:06

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

Extreme0 posted:

I bet they don't find these people.

I bet they just get some and bring them up there or they just looked at the list and saw "Born in England/Wales" and went "Perfect".

Two of the people speaking were failed Labour parliamentary candidates for Gordon and Angus. Kathy Wiles wasn't even introduced with her real name, as if they thought people wouldn't recognise as her as the "kids at SNP events are like the Hitler youth" person.

# ¿ Mar 11, 2016 06:00

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

jabby posted:

Although I still managed to see some tool on the news claiming that banning handguns after Dunblane probably did nothing to reduce gun crime. I guess the absence of any similar massacres is just coincidence.

I really wish the BBC would give up on their idea of 'balance' sometimes. You know, the kind where you can't possibly discuss climate change without cutting away to someone who thinks the Earth rests on the back of a giant turtle. Not all opinions are worthy of merit, BBC.

Never pass up an excuse to post this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMvMb90hem8&t=60s

Marked at the relevant bit, but watch the whole thing.

# ¿ Mar 14, 2016 06:03

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

Interestingly this poll of Labour surging coincides with a Yougov poll putting Labour in Scotland behind even the Tories.

ICM are distancing themselves from their own poll though.
http://www.icmunlimited.com/media-centre/media-center/guardian-poll-march-2016

quote:

However, the headline figures are somewhat misleading, and few should be in any doubt of ICM�s view of our own survey. Firstly, both the Conservative and Labour shares are affected by rounding, with the Conservative�s 36.4% being rounded down and Labour�s 35.6% being rounded up, thus creating parity. However, if only 1 or 2 people had fallen a different way on this poll, there would have at least been a 2-point Conservative lead.

Secondly, ICM has developed a new method of turnout modelling, which, we think, much better controls for raw poll samples� often observed tendency to contain too many Labour voters/intenders. Had we applied our new model, it alone would have resulted in a 3-point Conservative lead on our headline figures. We plan on launching this new modelling in the very near future, although it will remain a work-in-progress.

# ¿ Mar 14, 2016 21:11

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

Private Speech posted:

The Danish ones are rubbish, it will cheerfully accept the French/German ones but, whoops, you won't get any ground. Thankfully you can install the E/F plugs in Denmark legally too.

Now if they really want to troll everyone then Britain should be forced to use the intentionally just-barely-non-compatible Swiss ones

Looks so innnocent, but the holes are a tiny little bit too small.

I'm pretty sure I grew up using European plugs in Swiss sockets every day?

# ¿ Mar 14, 2016 21:47

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

Private Speech posted:

Ehh sorry I think I was misinformed a bit. I suppose they are compatible? I know I had problems when I was in Switzerland though.

The grounding pin is still dickish. Not sure if better or worse than the Danish one though.

Yeah we bought stuff from Italy all the time and it worked fine. The bitch of it is when you bring your Swiss poo poo to Europe and forget about the missing third hole in the sockets, because a lot of Swiss plugs don't bother with three prongs anyway so you get used to just thinking like that.

# ¿ Mar 14, 2016 23:23

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

JFairfax posted:

Okay, that still doesn't really enlighten us.

And why doesn't Fran like Peter?

Fran likes no-platforming transphobes and Peter thinks they should be debated.

# ¿ Mar 17, 2016 21:10

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

I got into a wee scuffle with some shithead libertarian last night. Upon overhearing I was a communist the jackass kept snatching at my hat going "why are you upset? You don't believe in property!"

Some people, man.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2016 18:57

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

I wish I'd thought of something clever like that but it was six in the morning outside the casino and I was off my face. I just grabbed his jacket and yelled in his face until my mate pulled me away.

Very anticlimactic, I'm sorry. All solid suggestions I should have done.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2016 19:12

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

Hey I walked in with a fiver and came out with 65 two nights in a row.

Actually I go there because it serves drinks after 3am.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2016 19:18

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

jabby posted:

How did a random stranger find out you are a communist?

Because one of my friends thinks it's hilarious and likes to loudly announce it to anyone within earshot.

Edit: anyway if any dundee goons are interested I'm playing for the SSP Mary Brooksbank social in the Redd Suite tonight.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2016 20:13

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

This is quite lovely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YhwSXxzAKk

# ¿ Mar 20, 2016 05:29

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

Jedit posted:

It took you this long to figure that out? Coohoolin's commitment to any cause extends as far as is required to irritate his Tory-voting parents, with a minor extension for creating opportunities to meet girls. Inherently laudable goals in and of themselves, of course, but politically he's less reliable than a private rail franchise.

Ehm. My dad ran as a candidate for the local elections in the Swiss socialist party and my mother is a registered Democrat in the US voting for Bernie in the primaries. And lol if you think my two main activities (folk music and communism) are good ways to meet girls when the average age at any event related to those things is like 50.

Is this just because I don't see joining a political party as some sort of lifelong commitment?

# ¿ Mar 20, 2016 17:46

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

The Saurus posted:

Today I had the first interview I've had for a while despite applying for jobs constantly over the past few weeks.

I find SO MANY jobs that are perfect for me, they match up almost entirely with my resume and my chosen career path but then there's that little thing at the bottom:

"Must speak Spanish."
"Must be fluent in English and Spanish."
"Must be fluent in Spanish"

These aren't translator positions, these are ordinary jobs. Office jobs, bookkeeping, pharmacy technician positions, whatever.

gently caress Mexicans, gently caress Them. Too loving lazy and arrogant to learn the language of the country they came to live in. Either learn english, or move to a country where spanish is the majority language - because right now the amount of privilege spanish-speakers have in the job market is loving unreal.

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# ¿ Mar 20, 2016 19:44

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

I've never been happier about having installed the Drumpfinator extension on Chrome.

# ¿ Mar 20, 2016 19:47

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

So this is fairly terrifying. Probably effective as a cheeky wee share though.

https://www.facebook.com/trasion/videos/10205695138039728/

# ¿ Mar 21, 2016 14:51

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

I dunno ronya, a free Irish state and the obliteration of non islamist entities seem like pretty different goals in terms of feasibility.

# ¿ Mar 23, 2016 04:15

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

forkboy84 posted:

I adore the fact that no political leaders have positive satisfaction ratings. People view stepping in dogshit more positively than our elected officials.

*coughsturgeoncough*

# ¿ Mar 25, 2016 02:18

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

Wait a minute, why Goku? Sure, he can come back from the dead, but he actually dies. Superman is immortal.

# ¿ Mar 28, 2016 23:38

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 19:09

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

thespaceinvader posted:

Superman has died loving dozens of times. Basically every superhero has died at least once at this point because they really like killing them off dramatically and then dramatically resurrecting them or revealing they didn't actually die.

How many British citizens have done a murder? Maybe we should exclude British citizens instead take that Leaveailures

(gently caress that is the most inane argument. FIFTY EU CITIZENS have committed crimes in a nation of seventy loving million. Ugh)

Superman doesn't die, he goes into Kryptonian healing comas that are simply indistinguishable from human death.

# ¿ Mar 29, 2016 00:11

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