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Happy International Workers' Day! Last month we learned that some of the cabinet may have been less than honest with their finances  , 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; 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. 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. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 00:28 on May 1, 2016 |
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Jose posted:are you still voting to leave the EU out of spite?
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May 1, 2016 00:38
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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.
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May 1, 2016 00:43
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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 don't even know how she can propose that in seriousness without public outcry, but maybe that's public wrong about everything striking again.
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May 1, 2016 02:07
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NewMars posted:OP is good except. This presents a certain conundrum, since he hosed a dead pig. EvilGenius posted: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.
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May 1, 2016 11:54
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Zeppelin Insanity posted:Where do you think you are, some bloody communist country? In Britain we celebrate the Early May Bank Holiday. Zeppelin Insanity posted:(we could use a :toff:) 
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May 1, 2016 16:52
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As one of the few authentically working class officers on this force...
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May 1, 2016 17:39
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Extreme0 posted:The Communist Party of Great Britian Minor Leauge?
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May 1, 2016 19:23
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I would watch a talent show where members of the public compete to be the country's best medieval shipwright and then the winner gets to conn their ship to Normandy. Like that Scrapheap Challenge/Junkyard Wars crossover where they all made WWI era aircraft. That was cool.
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May 1, 2016 22:30
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Thanks Ants posted:https://twitter.com/suttonnick/status/726872855493939201 
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May 1, 2016 22:38
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Angepain posted:all temperatures should be in Kelvin from now on, we all need a reminder of how small a difference it really is between 273 degrees and 300 in the grand scheme of things
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May 1, 2016 22:53
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That's a key tenet of Stalinism.
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May 1, 2016 23:26
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I'm convinced that a significant audience for The Sun is people who flick through the front, declare it 'all bollocks', mostly read the sport and fluff bits, and vote Labour. (source: pubs) I don't think the same is true for the Express or Mail.
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May 2, 2016 02:37
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Jippa posted:Gerry Adams running riot on twitter again. e: 1777 - The code duello is adopted as the proper form for pistol duels in Ireland. It is quickly denounced but nevertheless widely adopted throughout the English-speaking world.
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May 2, 2016 13:29
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Tips are bad in the same way that charity and foodbanks are bad. They shouldn't need to exist and act as a bandaid over the real problem. However when Sajid Javid talks about tips being optional I suspect he does not have the same end goal in mind.
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May 2, 2016 14:44
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hookerbot 5000 posted:I thought working in the kitchen was generally even worse paid and hellish than waiting tables? All the places I've worked as a waitress the kitchens were full of 14 year old kids earning £2 an hour and getting yelled at by the chef.
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May 2, 2016 15:08
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Marenghi posted:What's a tip club? It's not a pay-to-work scheme, because that would be illegal. It's a tips club, very different. e: it's okay though, because they've stopped doing the thing that they vehemently denied doing. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 16:12 on May 2, 2016 |
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May 2, 2016 16:09
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OwlFancier posted:anyone committed to defrauding the state could do so easily.
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May 2, 2016 16:47
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Stop the writing of petitions, words are purely projections of semiotic constructs that cannot actually convey 'ideas'.
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May 2, 2016 19:24
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Also the EBU has absolutely no opinion on how straight our bananas should be, whether or not we're allowed to torture people for looking a bit foreign https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu5kgSeZHfw
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May 2, 2016 19:58
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That's what happens when you put your faith in science. 
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May 2, 2016 20:10
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Taear posted:Our acts are poo poo because Wogan made the Eurovision into a joke. quote:There's no reason why Britain's Got Talent should somehow be okay  Some things are just unjustifiable.
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May 2, 2016 21:14
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thehustler posted:Draw a line from Yorkshire to Newcastle and out in to sea and there's your estimate of where it's going.
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May 2, 2016 22:58
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With a map, a ruler, and two agreed upon points.
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May 2, 2016 23:16
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Pissflaps posted:Yorkshire is a big place.
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May 2, 2016 23:19
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Well, we're talking about a line that allegedly goes from Yorkshire to Newcastle (assuming Tyne and not Lyme) without crossing Middlesbrough, so that rules out York and Hull, and then crosses over into the sea, so I'm going to say Halifax, or possibly Leeds.
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May 2, 2016 23:22
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kingturnip posted:OTOH - police helicopters; Chinooks; traffic helicopters
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May 2, 2016 23:47
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I can confirm that nothing was audible in Leicester over the car horns.
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May 3, 2016 01:24
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blowfish posted:The dumbest thing about all this is that greenpeace and news articles based on the press release keep going on and on about the bit replacing the precautionary principle by risk management (probably because it would make things like stretching GMO approval processes out to last forever harder) while barely mentioning anything else. Ditching the precautionary principle in favour of more realistic ways of dealing with risk is one of the more sane things that could be implemented so the message is "TTIP will get rid of a piece of stupid regulation" and not "TTIP will kill off loads of useful regulation, too".
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May 3, 2016 09:44
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The best thing to put on chips is a piece of buttered bread either side and some tom sauce.
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May 3, 2016 10:19
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'Non-brewed condiment', surely?
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May 3, 2016 10:31
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Tesseraction posted:I skipped to the previous page so if this is reposted then welp but http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/may/03/government-hid-fact-it-paid-for-2012-olympics-film-aimed-at-muslims I'm sure I've seen some of that Home Office funded propaganda on social media, it's pretty transparent.
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May 3, 2016 10:42
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Not having a proper day is the most British thing.
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May 3, 2016 10:59
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Not entirely sure what's going on in this map but I think it means that London is aggressively wrong.
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May 3, 2016 11:33
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Crashbee posted:Why have they decided to illustrate mayonaise with a jar of French mustard forkboy84 posted:Anyway. TTIP is pretty hosed up, isn't it? The EU is pretty bad you guys.
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May 3, 2016 12:12
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Renaissance Robot posted:Isn't American biscuit some kind of crumpet-like thing?
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May 3, 2016 13:36
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If Pissflaps is sat in a lawn chair in his new garden and the person from the takeaway delivers it to him without him having to leave his seat, do they get a tip?
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May 3, 2016 13:41
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What if Pissflaps is sat on a lawn chair in his front yard, so they're actually traveling less far than if they had to ring the doorbell?
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May 3, 2016 13:50
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-Ed8mgJ5B0 I hope this leads to an embarrassing charity single. Both because it would be funny and it might shame the government into giving a poo poo instead of farming out social services to American tweenagers. Although I'm not holding out any hope on the latter.
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Pissflaps posted:Relief for Corbyn as Hamas confirms their support for his leadership describing it as "painful hit that the Zionist enemy received". I had no idea the conspiracy went so deep. 
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