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Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
Happy International Workers' Day!

Last month we learned that some of the cabinet may have been less than honest with their finances :monocle:, a new 'national' 'living' 'wage' was introduced, and lovely people wasted money on both sides of the EU debate, no doubt earning themselves a tidy profit in the process. The weather was all over the loving place, some people say that's because the Earth's magnetosphere collapsed, but they're lying. A former London mayor had bathroom troubles.

In The News
• Rejoice, proles! You now get £7.20 an hour, assuming you're over 25, not an apprentice glass collector, not on workfare, and haven't been encouraged into self employment by the DWP.
• After tax avoidance allegations, Tory MPs are quick to remind us that wealth is not a dirty word and Jeremy Corbyn also got paid for doing a job for several years, so who's the real bad person here, huh?
• Also did you know that some of the Labours made some dumb jokes about Israel on the social media. That's as bad as holocaust denial.
• Ken Livingstone did double down with some irl Hitler comments though, which was probably ill advised, and then hid in the toilets. It's a good circus for the media though, to distract you from things like
• The cost of immigration tribunals is set to soar massively, because the country is run by spiteful pricks.
• All microchips made after April now have to contain dogs.
• A lady had her 90th birthday. A Daily Express cartoonist came out of retirement to celebrate in some sort of style.



Come What May

Erskine
UKMT April 2016
UKMT March 2016
UKMT February 2016
UKMT January 2016 - Not The Best Month
UKMT December 2015 - Happy Xmas (War Is Over (lolno))

Clifford
Paedogeddon/Press Corruption Thread

Peter
Scotpol Thread

Theresa
EDL/Fash Thread

Johann Friedrich
Europol Thread

Frederick
Trainchat Thread

Gibbs
Political Cartoons Thread

Dan
#ukgoons on synIRC. It's mostly active during Question Time, but there's always some people around (thanks crispix).

Finally, keep the following in mind

quote:

1. It's not a person's fault if they are poor;
2. It's not their fault if they are disabled;
3. Neo-liberalism doesn't work;
4. The Daily Mail lies (maybe even about Pig Dave and charity);
5. Neo-liberalism has never worked;
6. The British Empire was not a force for good;
7. Neo-liberalism will never work;
8. Trans people are not "men in dresses";
9. Gendered insults are not okay;
10. If something is "so gay" it had better be something that is really happy;
11. Trains are awesome;
12. The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k21kOJYchnI

OwlFancier posted:

It's not really fine because it's three poor bastards getting killed because they have no idea what they're doing.

But I don't know how else to react to it.
I suppose it's better than them being competant and killing other people. If the video stops people thinking that it would be cool to go out there and play ISIS then it's a good thing.

e:

Darth Walrus posted:

First it was casings. Then it was actual bullets. Abu Hajaar just did not know how to handle that weapon. A pretty good breakdown of what exactly happened in that vid, and the surrounding context.
Adding this good summary from where we left off with ISIS.

Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 00:28 on May 1, 2016

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Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
are you still voting to leave the EU out of spite?

Extreme0
Feb 28, 2013

I dance to the sweet tune of your failure so I'm never gonna stop fucking with you.

Continue to get confused and frustrated with me as I dance to your anger.

As I expect nothing more from ya you stupid runt!


Abu Hajaar

Lived the life of a scrub, now he can be used as one.


Lighten up sour puss!!!

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

Jose posted:

are you still voting to leave the EU out of spite?
I'd like to vote whichever way makes the world as a whole better, but neither side has really made a coherent case.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


There is a good left-wing argument to leave the EU. Unfortunately it's being made by none of the half dozen campaigns that seem to exist so I'm pretty sure I'll just end up voting to Remain without any real passion or optimism that the EU won't continue to be an awful force for neo-liberalism with poo poo like TTIP. Marginally better than the alternative. I do wonder if the lack of passion from a lot of people who would probably lean Remain won't end up with Leave winning, if people just can't be hosed turning up on the day.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Guavanaut posted:

I'd like to vote whichever way makes the world as a whole better, but neither side has really made a coherent case.

i think you just hate immigrants

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

forkboy84 posted:

There is a good left-wing argument to leave the EU. Unfortunately it's being made by none of the half dozen campaigns that seem to exist so I'm pretty sure I'll just end up voting to Remain without any real passion or optimism that the EU won't continue to be an awful force for neo-liberalism with poo poo like TTIP. Marginally better than the alternative. I do wonder if the lack of passion from a lot of people who would probably lean Remain won't end up with Leave winning, if people just can't be hosed turning up on the day.
The SWP campaign has been making the Lexit argument, but it suffers the misfortune of being made by the SWP.

kustomkarkommando
Oct 22, 2012

From the last thread re:NI support to stay in the EU it's not really surprising when you remember that the border is right there and there's a hefty amount of cross-border trade and the Leave campaigns vague promise that really nothing will change seems a bit odd to people, not to mention the lack of clarity regarding the CTA with Leavers saying that it will stay intact while government ministers south of the border are saying that they cant make any commitments on it. Also worth remembering only the DUP and TUV have come out backing a Leave vote and they only get about 30% of the vote in elections.

Angepain
Jul 13, 2012

what keeps happening to my clothes
there's a referendum on Europe coming up? I know about the Who Is Better, Boris Or Cameron referendum in June but I didn't know there was another one planned

cargohills
Apr 18, 2014

Well, UKIP as well but they're not exactly major players in NI.

kustomkarkommando
Oct 22, 2012

cargohills posted:

Well, UKIP as well but they're not exactly major players in NI.

The UKIP leader in NI said he wanted to deport any foreigner that got a parking ticket recently so I've kind of scrubbed him completely from my mind for a bit

ShaneMacGowansTeeth
May 22, 2007



I think this is it... I think this is how it ends
This thread is bad for Corbyn imo

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Guavanaut posted:

I'd like to vote whichever way makes the world as a whole better, but neither side has really made a coherent case.

I don't know about better but I find it hard to see how remaining in the EU could realistically make the world more poo poo than leaving it.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

From visiting a town in eire just south of the border where my mate lives:
They don't want a leave vote because they're worried about border controls
They don't want a leave vote because it'll probably tank their economy

People in the north probably have similar concerns

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

OwlFancier posted:

I don't know about better but I find it hard to see how remaining in the EU could realistically make the world more poo poo than leaving it.
I think the worst-of-all-worlds option is Theresa May's plan to remain but scrap as many of the human rights protections as possible, not just for the UK but for the precedent that it sets.

I don't even know how she can propose that in seriousness without public outcry, but maybe that's public wrong about everything striking again.

FinalGamer
Aug 30, 2012

So the mystic script says.

Guavanaut posted:

I think the worst-of-all-worlds option is Theresa May's plan to remain but scrap as many of the human rights protections as possible, not just for the UK but for the precedent that it sets.

I don't even know how she can propose that in seriousness without public outcry, but maybe that's public wrong about everything striking again.
Nobody likes Theresa May anyway, she could offer crumpets and still get a sneer of hatred down her way.

TomViolence
Feb 19, 2013

PLEASE ASK ABOUT MY 80,000 WORD WALLACE AND GROMIT SLASH FICTION. PLEASE.

FinalGamer posted:

Nobody likes Theresa May anyway, she could offer crumpets and still get a sneer of hatred down her way.

I certainly wouldn't take any baked goods she offered me. I reckon she has a fully kitted-out gingerbread house paid for on expenses.

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



poo poo, Abu Hajaar, get it together!

e; I kind of feel sorry for the poor bastards. I wouldn't want to roll up against some hardcore motherfuckers like the Peshmerga with anything less than a full-on US Carrier Group at my back, these idiots are rolling at them across an open plain in a goddamn technical. Though fair play to whoever welded that thing together, it held up to a rocket hit and kept the crew, at least, alive and uninjured.

Ms Adequate fucked around with this message at 03:48 on May 1, 2016

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Mister Adequate posted:

poo poo, Abu Hajaar, get it together!

e; I kind of feel sorry for the poor bastards. I wouldn't want to roll up against some hardcore motherfuckers like the Peshmerga with anything less than a full-on US Carrier Group at my back, these idiots are rolling at them across an open plain in a goddamn technical. Though fair play to whoever welded that thing together, it held up to a rocket hit and kept the crew, at least, alive and uninjured.

It's not a technical. ISIS laughs at such a lack of imagination. It's a Humvee with its front up-armoured into a giant loving ram and its rear half replaced with an open metal box lined with foam. A bunch of peshmerga take a look at it starting at 4:20 in this video.

Marenghi
Oct 16, 2008

Don't trust the liberals,
they will betray you

Namtab posted:

From visiting a town in eire just south of the border where my mate lives:
They don't want a leave vote because they're worried about border controls
They don't want a leave vote because it'll probably tank their economy

People in the north probably have similar concerns

I don't see a Brexit tanking our economy. We receive a lot of our FDI from America. The areas where we trade heavily with Britain are so intertwined that I don't see it coming undone.
If anything it may boost our economy with London firms relocating to Dublin to take keep their offices within the EU.

The only Irish I can see losing out from a Brexit are those in the North if border controls are re-introduced and tourists from the south don't bother visiting anymore.

Marenghi fucked around with this message at 04:24 on May 1, 2016

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Darth Walrus posted:

It's not a technical. ISIS laughs at such a lack of imagination. It's a Humvee with its front up-armoured into a giant loving ram and its rear half replaced with an open metal box lined with foam. A bunch of peshmerga take a look at it starting at 4:20 in this video.

:420:

Also you're right, though it wouldn't strictly be one anyway because there's no gun mounted in the cargo bed, but I didn't realize it was actually a Hummer. Also hahaha holy poo poo that thing is incredible. I guess if you're a scratch militia of goony kids you make do.

Relatedly it's incredibly surreal to be able to watch some of the fight from one side and then watch the aftermath from the other like this.

Ichabod Sexbeast
Dec 5, 2011

Giving 'em the old razzle-dazzle
Happy worker's day comrades!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JmFa2Q40lg

NewMars
Mar 10, 2013
OP is good except.

quote:

1. It's not a person's fault if they are poor;
2. It's not their fault if they are disabled;
3. Neo-liberalism doesn't work;
4. The Daily Mail lies (maybe even about Pig Dave and charity);
5. Neo-liberalism has never worked;
6. The British Empire was not a force for good;
7. Neo-liberalism will never work;
8. Trans people are not "men in dresses";
9. Gendered insults are not okay;
10. If something is "so gay" it had better be something that is really happy;
11. Trains are awesome;
12. The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle.
13. Dave Cameron hosed a Dead Pig.

We must never forget. :colbert:

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

Grimey Drawer

Mister Adequate posted:

poo poo, Abu Hajaar, get it together!

e; I kind of feel sorry for the poor bastards. I wouldn't want to roll up against some hardcore motherfuckers like the Peshmerga with anything less than a full-on US Carrier Group at my back, these idiots are rolling at them across an open plain in a goddamn technical. Though fair play to whoever welded that thing together, it held up to a rocket hit and kept the crew, at least, alive and uninjured.

If it was a shaped charge warhead and not a frag then being in an open topped mostly empty space frame like that would be beneficial. As long as you're not standing in the way of the jet of copper plasma.

SSJ2 Goku Wilders
Mar 24, 2010
Leaving the eu is the 'Two steps back' part, the other side of the 'one step forward' coin . You can leave the eu and cover no beneficial socialist ground but merely annoy and hamstring your capitalist class and force them to build the same agreements about the goods/services/capital trifecta (not to mention the order that the abundance of legal remedies eu law provides) otherwise or under a different name, likely being only a fraction as democratic as it is now

I hope this new thread will have a stronger strasserite presence than the last.

ThomasPaine
Feb 4, 2009

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.
Wow that was basically four lions

Pistol_Pete
Sep 15, 2007

Oven Wrangler
I've said it before but when you watch these sort of videos from the Middle East, you're left with the impression that the participants think they're in a computer game where they can just respawn if they get killed.

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Zac Goldsmith's classy campaign continues

https://twitter.com/alicharlo/status/726677447714955264

Pissflaps
Oct 20, 2002

by VideoGames

Pistol_Pete posted:

I've said it before but when you watch these sort of videos from the Middle East, you're left with the impression that the participants think they're in a computer game where they can just respawn if they get killed.

No that's Buddhists.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

Please be excited.




a) "Thinks terrorists is its friends"...
b) "Nominated Jeremy Corbyn and admitted he would do it again"...

I know it's The Mail and I probably don't need to ask, but is that real?

LemonDrizzle
Mar 28, 2012

neoliberal shithead
Judging by her Marr appearance, Diane Abbott has been taking media handling lessons from Ken Livingstone.

LemonDrizzle fucked around with this message at 10:16 on May 1, 2016

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.

LemonDrizzle posted:

Judging by her Marr appearance, Diane Abbott has been taking media handling lessons from Ken Livingstone.

Hello fire, why dont you have some petrol.

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Steve2911 posted:

a) "Thinks terrorists is its friends"...
b) "Nominated Jeremy Corbyn and admitted he would do it again"...

I know it's The Mail and I probably don't need to ask, but is that real?

Sure, the 7/7 connection gets made even more explicit in the print version.

https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/726694970615287808

stev
Jan 22, 2013

Please be excited.



Well at least they kind of fixed that sentence...

Pissflaps
Oct 20, 2002

by VideoGames

LemonDrizzle posted:

Judging by her Marr appearance, Diane Abbott has been taking media handling lessons from Ken Livingstone.

The Labour Party is run by morons.

suck my woke dick
Oct 10, 2012

:siren:I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!:siren:

Put this cum-loving slave on ignore immediately!

Pissflaps posted:

No that's Buddhists.

This is bad for Corbyn.

namesake
Jun 19, 2006

"When I was a girl, around 12 or 13, I had a fantasy that I'd grow up to marry Captain Scarlet, but he'd be busy fighting the Mysterons so I'd cuckold him with the sexiest people I could think of - Nigel Mansell, Pat Sharp and Mr. Blobby."

I wonder what the security services think about politicians branding everyone to the left of them as terrorists? With all the inane discussion on and offline it must increase their false lead workload by thousands.

EvilGenius
May 2, 2006
Death to the Black Eyed Peas

Mister Adequate posted:

poo poo, Abu Hajaar, get it together!

e; I kind of feel sorry for the poor bastards. I wouldn't want to roll up against some hardcore motherfuckers like the Peshmerga with anything less than a full-on US Carrier Group at my back, these idiots are rolling at them across an open plain in a goddamn technical. Though fair play to whoever welded that thing together, it held up to a rocket hit and kept the crew, at least, alive and uninjured.

I do feel for them, clearly not for their cause, but stripped back to raw human experience they've either wilfully or naively entered into this hopeless situation, because their path through life lead them into the hands of ISIS. I don't believe in inherent evil. If these people were born anywhere else, their lives wouldn't have ended in a mobile shed full of incompetence, nor would they be out trying to kill people.

suck my woke dick
Oct 10, 2012

:siren:I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!:siren:

Put this cum-loving slave on ignore immediately!

namesake posted:

I wonder what the security services think about politicians branding everyone to the left of them as terrorists? With all the inane discussion on and offline it must increase their false lead workload by thousands.

I imagine they're pretty happy about it, given that thousands of Daily Heil readers reporting their neighbours as the Kaiser's spies got them a lot of funding early on :thumbsup:

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Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Marenghi posted:

I don't see a Brexit tanking our economy. We receive a lot of our FDI from America. The areas where we trade heavily with Britain are so intertwined that I don't see it coming undone.
If anything it may boost our economy with London firms relocating to Dublin to take keep their offices within the EU.

The only Irish I can see losing out from a Brexit are those in the North if border controls are re-introduced and tourists from the south don't bother visiting anymore.

This was quite a small place near the border. Definitely not a tourist town.

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