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  Christmas Greetings from the big nonce island.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gStOeXHSwxQ The Ranters - Christmas Carol posted:They prate of God; believe it, fellow-creatures, Abdukhaliq - The Uyghur posted:Arise. Time is at hand. In The News  • British academic Matthew Hedges is jailed for life for spying in the UAE and then pardoned with immediate effect, in a surely non-corrupt series of events. • The United Nations criticises the government's "punitive, mean-spirited, and often callous approach" to the poor and vulnerable, writing that levels of child poverty are "not just a disgrace, but a social calamity and an economic disaster." • Jo Johnson, of the slang-for-penis Johnsons, resigns from the Cabinet and calls for a fresh referendum on Brexit, including an option to remain in the EU. • Theresa May secures Cabinet support for her Brexit Withdrawal Agreem... ahahah no half the cowards resign or threaten to immediately after. • Disgraced former Home Secretary Amber Rudd returns to the Cabinet as Disgraced Secretary of State for Work and Pensions • After more than 18 months of negotiations, EU leaders endorse the Brexit withdrawal agreement that Parliament is about to reject. • Thousands of protesters block the five main bridges over the Thames in central London to raise awareness of climate change and biodiversity loss, although it doesn't seem to get much coverage. • A report by the IPPR shows that Britain faces mass shortages of care workers over coming decades if current trends continue. • Johnny Mercer MP has come out in support of direct violence (including killing) in defence of the oppressed/bullied/tormented/voiceless. • Less than 120 days until Brexit, have you started your shopping? What's Another Year  UKMT November 2018: Sky Brexit Poll - 1488 people polled today UKMT October exotic bird munch 2018: They're all hungover and want to nationalise things/Everything May does right now is going to induce Labour UKMT September 2018 - Playing Chess While May's Still Playing Chequers/No, to the contrary. UKMT August 2018 - Win A #GoveIsland Water Bottle/The adult babies takeover is off UKMT July 2018 - It's Coming H...oh UKMT June 2018 - They frequent seldome any pastymes or sportes UKMT May 2018 - Slithers Off Rudd/Say no to hamophobia UKMT April 2018 - A Third World Banana Republic Kleptocracy UKMT March 2018 - Fanfare for the Gammon Man UKMT Feb 18 - Goverment Clowns DTF UKMT January 2018 - ++Knighthood for Loser Clegg++ All Previous Threads (thanks Pesky Splinter) All Kinds Of Everything Europol Thread Scotpol Thread Trainchat Thread Political Cartoons Thread BYOB: UKMT Poupée de Cire, Poupée de Son Off the Fence - Brighton based, covering UK & Global topics. Pretty chill and professional peeps. Older 'casts can be found in the PLATFORM B archive. Reel Politik - The Original Leftie Hate Trolls. Check 'em out. We Don't Talk About The Weather - Two cool guys discuss news and other stuff. The UKMT-iest of Podcasts. Desolation Radio - Socialism from a Welsh perspective. Informative hosts. Revolutionary Despatches - Two new guys starting out. Connected & Disaffected - Breezy discussions of lefty social, and historical topics, and news updates. Pretty Good. Trashfuture - Theme of the week style podcast about capitalism and how much it fucks up. Cool podcasters, sometimes working with Reel Politik Agitpod - Owen Jones & Ellie Mae O’Hagan discuss news. Reasons to Be Cheerful - Former Labour leader Ed "Red Ed" Milliband and Geoff Lloyd shoot the poo poo, and discuss general politics. Sometimes with guests. Novara Media - Numerous fluctucating commentators including Matt Zarb-Cousin, Max Shanly, and James Butler among others. Varying topics with guests. [Citations Needed] - Covers the US, focussing on the media, PR, and assorted bullshit. Also some socialist history topics. Very informative. Chapo House Media - More US focused, from a leftist perspective. Basically a US version of Reel Politik, but with better mics. Worth a listen. Ding a Dong Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, And Resistance – Peter Linebaugh Libertarian Communism – Isaac Puente Amestoy At The Café – Malatesta The Method of Freedom – Malatesta In Praise of Idleness – Russell Political Ideals – Russell Declaration – Hardt and Negri Liberalism, a Counter History – Domenico Losurdo God and the State – Bakunin The Conquest of Bread – Kropotkin Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism – V I Lenin Anarchism and Other Essays – Emma Goldman Social Reform or Revolution – Rosa Luxemburg Violence – Slavoj Zizek Jihad vs. McWorld - Benjamin Barber Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World – Adam Tooze Flat Earth News - Nick Davies Hack Attack - Nick Davies Ecology of Freedom – Murray Bookchin Anarchism, Marxism and the Future of the Left – Murray Bookchin Let's Read Das Kapital – Karl Marx and Goons UKMT CLP Commissars (thanks feedmegin) quote:I came up with the idea of a register of goons and their CLPs in case any new joiners wanted someone to go to to get the local lie of the land. The Effortpost's Graveyard (thanks goddamnedtwisto and UKMT goons) Join us on synIRC for Question Time Awfulness and Stuff #ukgoons on synIRC (thanks crispix). Lightning Knight posted:
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We almost loving made it lads. Just 31 more days to go.
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Guavanaut posted:It had to wait for Fury Road to finish. Seems fair. Reposting my advent beer in the december thread  Also, join the UKMT discord, y'know, if you feel like it. https://discord.gg/RgUqEwk
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Is beer in cans like bad? No! Beer in cans is sometimes better, though it can depend on how it was aged/conditioned. The main thing is that light is real bad for beer. Like, really bad. That's why Lime goes in Corona - it's to cover the taste of it being sun-spoiled, and is also why beer bottles are traditionally very dark colours. There's other reasons why canned beer is as good, or sometimes better. The key thing is pouring it into a glass though, or some cans now have got tops that open fully -  as a key thing about taste is smell, especially for fermented items.
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Using discord is unforgivable though. Also any of my favourite ales I have had from tins have had that bollocky tinny taste, I don't care for it.
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mehall posted:Seems fair. mehall posted:The main thing is that light is real bad for beer. Like, really bad. That's why Lime goes in Corona - it's to cover the taste of it being sun-spoiled
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Rarity posted:We almost loving made it lads. Just 31 more days to go. Next year will be like this one but worse. We'll have the Deadwood movie, Detective Pikachu, and then just 363 awful days of increasingly confusing and scary bullshit.
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I've had a good night out in a wine bar that's recently opened up in my home town, which makes a difference with the usual fair of Weatherspoons and their weird pro-Brexit propaganda. It's vaguely nice that I've been able to explain how the Tories are loving up people's lives instead of vague generalities.
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I just checked my bank account and they've only gone and paid me my bloody PIP money they owe me. Huzzah, it's a Seriously though it was over 2 grand which is excellent to get all at once but I could have loving used it through the year. Oh well, it's sorted now I guess, until the next time.
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A bar that doesn't sell beer or spirits (except sometimes gin). A bad bar.Ms Adequate posted:I just checked my bank account and they've only gone and paid me my bloody PIP money they owe me. Huzzah, it's a 
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I actually felt my heartrate pick up at this. Did you know that Parliament is in recess for 27 of those days? That's just under a third, assuming there's anyone left in Parliament by the end of March.
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To respond to DPRK from the last thread, anything interesting in post music these days is post-black metal poo poo, like Deafheaven and Wolves in the Throne Room to name 2. But obviously the black metal elements are a lot for most folk. On the topic of ATP, yeah, it was great. The year I went I got to see J Mascis (don't think Dinosaur Jr were with him), The Breeders, The Magic Band of Captain Beefheart fame, and obviously a load of others. It's right up there for me with Supersonic in Brum for having just a nice chill atmosphere and an excitingly wide variety of bands to catch. I just love the vibe. Also having a proper bed to sleep in rather than lovely camping is such a huge deal. I need a new festival in that style, it was a ballache getting to Minehead from Glasgow (overnight bus to Taunton that took an eternity) but worth it.
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Lady Demelza posted:I actually felt my heartrate pick up at this.
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forkboy84 posted:To respond to DPRK from the last thread, anything interesting in post music these days is post-black metal poo poo, like Deafheaven and Wolves in the Throne Room to name 2. But obviously the black metal elements are a lot for most folk. ATP was a transcendent experience. Loved all the ones I went to. It wasn't just about the beds, the setting and the shared apartments added so much to the experience on a practical and a social level. ATP TV wired at 5AM after watching some of the most exciting sad-bloke-wearing-all-black music imaginable. Highlights: 1) Caribou playing all the old stuff in the afternoon then doing the euphoric Caribou Vibration Ensemble at night. 2) Boredoms. 3) Three hours of Joanna Newsom in a weekend. 4) Edwyn Collins with members of Belle & Sebastian, The Cribs and Franz Ferdinand as his backing band. 5) Weird Al Yankovic as relief in the middle of the bitter, cold wasteland of the GY!BE one.
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Killed By Death posted:A quarter, surely? Yes, you're right. I don't know why I decided that was a third. Clearly the Brexitdumb is spreading. Lady Demelza fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Dec 1, 2018 |
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Angepain posted:Is Michael Gove Prime Minister yet? Who the gently caress is this Michael Gove man and why are you cheating on Corbyn with him? 
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I miss ATP but the latter ones were a bit shite. Still nothing like them though and the sense of community.
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Lightning Knight posted:Who the gently caress is this Michael Gove man I see you have not heard of the raw sexual magnetism made flesh that is Michael Gove. 
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Fans posted:I see you have not heard of the raw sexual magnetism made flesh that is Michael Gove. The gently caress? This man looks like he should be permanently in someone's locker.
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Fans posted:I see you have not heard of the raw sexual magnetism made flesh that is Michael Gove.   And in this one, he kinda looks like Chris Evans  Those were not the only pics of Gove drinking:   
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Lightning Knight posted:The gently caress? This man looks like he should be permanently in someone's locker. Someone posted a series of tweets earlier detailing a look behind Mays cabinet that depicted Gove as a creature beyond mortal ken, a howling abyss of a monster that takes human form reluctantly to help impoverish the population of Britain and feed off their despair. While it was funny I think we should take pains to not humanize Gove.
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Lightning Knight posted:The gently caress? This man looks like he should be permanently in someone's locker. If only it was that simple, but something this weird cannot be contained so easily https://imgur.com/gallery/5GIyWp4
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mehall posted:Seems fair. Why is your beer sporting what is dangerously close to an SS rune?
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MrFlibble posted:While it was funny I think we should take pains to not humanize Gove. No danger of that... https://twitter.com/politicsjoe_uk/status/1047455919024558080 look at the guy just behind him... "is he clapping like a oval office again?" "Yep, figures" *rolls eyes* FiftySeven fucked around with this message at 03:41 on Dec 1, 2018 |
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Fans posted:If only it was that simple, but something this weird cannot be contained so easily Was just coming to post this. How do they not teach you how to clap like a human at independent schools?
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forkboy84 posted:Was just coming to post this. It's hard to teach someone to overcome their nature. You can force a left-handed person to write with their right hand, and you can teach a colony of anfractious star-slugs to clap, but you can only take these things so far.
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Fans posted:If only it was that simple, but something this weird cannot be contained so easily Ok seriously who the gently caress is this guy and why did you guys let him be in your government? 
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Lightning Knight posted:Ok seriously who the gently caress is this guy and why did you guys let him be in your government? Because most of our politicians come from the same two universities. Its very fair. As ever, I want to point out his wife writes for the paper and once published a column for the entire country to see about how sex with your husband is basically another household chore, like doing the laundry. I take this to mean he fucks like he claps.
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Lightning Knight posted:Ok seriously who the gently caress is this guy and why did you guys let him be in your government? We in the old country have taken inbreeding to unfathomable depths.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Is beer in cans like bad? This used to be the case, but the availability of canning lines had made it more accessible to the craft industry and as above- the great for storage. Now, this is the first year I've ever had one of those gin advent calendars. I presume it's bad form to jump out of bed and bang one before breakfast ooohhh err missus like I would with a chocolate one?
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