Taear posted:

It does feel like he's got it this time because "he just should" although the best actor crop this time isn't exactly brilliant.

I dunno if it's just a british thing but as stuff ramped up in Revenant and he kept having worse and worse things happen people in my cinema were laughing because it Went Too Far.

MrL_JaKiri posted:

Furiosa speaks a load!

Booga posted:

Didn't they ban fisting and pretty much any kind of BDSM in porn last year? And they were trying get poppers banned last month?

Someone high up has to be pretty heavily invested on advertising over some straight as gently caress porn. Maybe the BBC are planning on making a Tory based redtube as part of their new online strategy.


Edit: the complete fuckery towards female sex workers just adds to my theory

Serotonin posted:

https://twitter.com/liamfoxmp/status/705674061016387584


Wrap it up you lefty whiners

Oberleutnant posted:

Interesting that you think i'm "accusing" you of being autistic. Get back in your bunker, literally-hitler

Oberleutnant posted:

How about you just stop being autistic

Oberleutnant posted:

The word "accusation" or "accuse" implies that something is bad.

Oberleutnant posted:

It's aaaaaalmost like I'm just being a oval office to wind people up, isn't it?

Extreme0 posted:

Because Autism is bad.

- From an Autist

Extreme0 posted:

To be honest?

I don't really care.

Seaside Loafer posted:

My daughter got picked up for aspergers really young, like 5 or 6 or something and got the best special help the system and her parents could provide and is now a very functional 14 year old. Its that personal experience that informed me that its a real thing not to be mocked. If she hadnt been noticed and hadn't had that help she might still be rocking in the corner of the class and biting the other children. Instead she is a tall beautiful thoughtful young lady who reads allot, A's everything at school and is destined to outshine myself and her mother in every aspect of life.

The system did something right there which might not have happened at all 20 years ago.

And yes the aspie mocking can be a bit brutal on the internet. (must admit ive laughed at stuff though so guilty, shown daughter some of it and she gets it, though she woulndt have if she hadnt had all the help if that makes sense)

Extreme0 posted:

Good for them if they feel better with it. But it is a negative no matter how much people try to sugercoat it.

Though I am sickened with being associated with it and anyone with it. I've gotten far better in developing a thicker skin and being more adaptable to society with seperating myself from the positive pampering and the people around me during that time in general. The best thing I did was to not acknowledge it at all and throw disdain and keep away at anything relating to it including the people with it. I matured a lot more then most of the students when I was a teenager because of keeping away from that poo poo and I didn't mind because I wasn't very socialable either. I still feel disgust and anger whenever I do notice people with it when they display signs that they haven't 'adapted' to society's norms.

Gonzo McFee posted:

http://www.room151.co.uk/treasury/gla-to-move-into-mortgaged-backed-securities/

This will end well.

Guavanaut posted:

Hitler was an important postcard painter in some niche areas too. His people and vegetation were nothing to write home about, but his buildings were excellent, and provide a record of some important historical buildings of Bavaria.

Still wouldn't begrudge Ober calling him a nazi oval office though.

Phoon posted:

traditionally I think some of those super delegates would be expected to swap if bernie starts to overtake on regular delegates, still a possibility given many of hillary's strongest states are behind her, combined with the surprise result in Michigan granting him greater exposure and credibility (plus he has good ground game in the northern states)

I wouldnt be surprised if they stuck with her even if bernie ended up with a greater vote share/more delegates and she ended up winning purely as a result of them though, it's exactly the kind of thing the democratic party establishment would do

e: there's definitely been some disingenuous bernie delegate reporting from the guardian, but this could actually work in bernies favour, if the lower info/general narrative is "hillary gonna win for sure" whilst the narrative sanders supporters see (from paying more attention to his campaign than the general public) is "this is possible but only if we all work really hard" that could depress turnout for casual hillary supporters whilst increasing effort/turnout for bernie

XMNN posted:

gently caress israel

Guavanaut posted:

Wait, how is Gove a Maoist? Has he been fomenting agrarian revolution and radical anti-imperialism through a variant of Marxism-Leninism all along while I've not been paying attention?

Guavanaut posted:

Why is Boris the Pfeffel pro Brexit anyway?

I always figured that he was closer to the big business market liberal side of the Tory party than the frothing nationalist side.

thespaceinvader posted:

What the gently caress more is there to cut except MPs' salaries and expenses and the vast payments to repair the Palace of Westminster? I mean, at this point they're going to be taking stab vests from policemen and oxygen from hospitals.

13 March 1996: Dunblane School massacre. Maybe take a moment in memory.

LemonDrizzle posted:

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/mar/15/every-english-school-to-become-an-academy-ministers-to-announce

quote:

Plans to force all schools in England to become academies will be outlined in the budget on Wednesday.

The Department for Education is expected to publish draft legislation as early as Thursday, BBC Newsnight has learned.

The move would end the century-old role of local authorities as providers of education.

An aide to the education secretary has declined to comment.

Back in October, David Cameron said he wanted "every school an academy… and yes - Local Authorities running schools a thing of the past". At the autumn statement, the official document stated that the government wanted: "The next step towards the government's goal of ending local authorities' role in running schools and all schools becoming an academy".

The proposals under consideration by Education Secretary Nicky Morgan owe much to a pamphlet by Policy Exchange, the Conservative-aligned think-tank, which proposes mass-converting the remaining local authority schools into academies. That document proposed the change for mainstream schools, but did not deal with the future of special schools.

Local authorities, in truth, have not "run" any mainstream schools since the early 1990s. They, instead, supervise them and offer them back-office services. The principal advantages to school leaders of academy status are that they are exempt from the national curriculum and the national pay regulations for teachers.

This report, in short, would mean the end of the national curriculum and national pay scales. By forcing the local authorities out of mainstream education, it would also finally unpick the local authority system of schools put in place in England by Arthur Balfour's Conservative government in 1902.

The changing academy programme

This would mark a third phase in the academy programme.

Before 2010, around 200 schools were opened as academies or converted into them. These were struggling schools that required fast turnaround or were opening in areas of educational weakness. These "sponsor academies" were given exemptions from the national curriculum and on teachers' pay to help them adapt to tougher-than-usual circumstances.

From 2010 to the present, however, schools have been allowed to become academies if they wish to do so. These are known as "converter academies" - and were Michael Gove's big change to the system. This was a popular programme (partly because academies got extra cash for converting). So at the last count, there were 3,381 state secondaries, of which 2,075 were academies.

Former education secretary Michael Gove set out his new vision for schools in 2010

There remains, however, a big rump of schools which remain conventional local authority schools - particularly in the primary phase of education, where the cash incentives to convert were much weaker. At the last full count, a year ago, there were 16,766 primary schools, of which 2,440 were academies. The remainder remain attached to the local authorities.

The think-tank report, Primary Focus, proposes that the government "convert all primary schools into academies, and then ask each school to join an academy 'chain' by 2020". The remaining LA secondaries, it proposes, should be encouraged along the same tracks (although there should be less pressure to join an academy chain).

The Policy Exchange piece proposes an end to the local authority as we know it, with its reduction to a rump provider of specialist services. It continues: "Any Local Authority that wishes to maintain a school provision service and run a chain or offer support to schools within a chain must spin out as a mutual or social enterprise and become a legally separate entity."

Finally, "in order for academies receive the most suitable support they require on an ongoing basis, academies should be able to switch between chains if certain criteria are met". The idea is that chains should be kept under pressure to be well run.

Practical problems

There are a few implementation issues here. The biggest of these is very simple - we do not have enough good academy chains as it is. There is plenty of demand for school support services at the moment and some existing school chains are extremely weak; Ofsted has recently started to worry more about them.

This proposal would also create a lot of work for the Department for Education which has struggled with its existing workload. Since 2010, its role has gone from being a strategic body to deciding on rules for individual schools. The skills of its employees have not kept up.

Indeed, even the two most important things a Whitehall department must do, keeping to its budget and being accountable for spending, have proved beyond it. The free school programme showed that even the simple task of opening new schools was extremely trying for them.

Furthermore, this sort of proposal would require the DfE to fix a number of funding problems - for example, at what level it ought to fund small schools or schools with expensive private finance deals, for example. At the moment, local authorities absorb those problems. "Academisation" would remove that buffer.

TinTower posted:

Only two Labour MPs voted against the bill: Dennis Skinner and David Winnick.

twoot posted:

Academisation sounds like the dead cat they want to use to distract Labour and the media from the budget. There is no real reason to announce it at the same time because its not a budget dependent measure.

Oberleutnant posted:

You're reasoning with a Nazi.

Gonzo McFee posted:

Your av is an anime Bum.

Gonzo McFee posted:

My hope is that being on the losing side of the EU referendum will damage his chances, although there's every chance it does the opposite. He's been a loving awful Mayor of London by most accounts whenever he wasn't being a lazy prick.

Noxville posted:

Seaside Loafer posted:

Interesting beard option.

Gonzo McFee posted:

I wonder how the Labour right wing would have been able to capitalise if they were in charge today.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/oct/12/labour-benefits-tories-labour-rachel-reeves-welfare


Oh.

winegums posted:

He's not a bad politician either. But in a post-Blair era he got talked into playing Blairite politics when the country was sick of them and that hosed him. He was most successful when he was confident enough to push his own ideas rather than be (Tories-1).

Spangly A posted:

from personal experience the police aren't well informed as to what they can and cannot apply jurisdiction over, and I've encountered multiple stations that are set in the belief that the internet does not count.

I haven't had this be a positive before but it could be v v v funny if they told fuctifinos MP that they won't involve themselves

Spangly A posted:

well for a start, those disability cuts are him