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Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

i say swears online posted:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/30/boris-johnson-deal-betrayal-brexiters-no-deal

lmao rip

The self-contradiction of this made my head spin. At the start: "There will be a Brexit deal with the EU! It is inevitable! Even Boris Johnson will see that!" At the end: "This deal will be atrocious! Pro-Brexit Tories will oppose it, and Labour shouldn't vote for it because it will damage Haircut Leader!"

Also, lol at the inevitable "forensic" reference to Starmer. It is so not the word I would use to describe him as Opposition leader. "Supine", maybe.

# ¿ Dec 1, 2020 09:10

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 05:09

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

Lungboy posted:

If you're not anti Amazon you can buy multipacks of compatible cartridges for the same price as a single standard ink.

I got a multipack of laser printer toner carts (I think five) for less than half the price of a single official HP cart. They�re not as good... but they�re good enough. And when one craps out I�ve got more in the box.

(That said, I once took a new unofficial cart from its pack only to have it literally fall to bits in my hand. You get what you pay for.)

# ¿ Dec 10, 2020 00:08

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

CSM posted:

Are people in this thread (and the UK in general) just resigned to brexit? Because there seems to be almost no discussion here, with you guys only days/weeks away from going off a cliff.

Are there any protests in the UK, is there any political opposition left? Because even Labour would now vote for brexit?

The government is clearly aiming for No Deal/Hard Brexit, as a large number of senior (and very rich) Tories wanted right from the start. All the arguments about fishing rights, etc, are just a sideshow that can be used as an excuse to 'explain' that the nasty EU simply refused to compromise on these very reasonable demands and therefore with great regret we must take the hardest of hard Brexits and it's all their fault.

Result: the pound plunges, the short-sellers make a fortune, then the disaster capitalist vultures swoop in to buy up economically battered businesses on the cheap. Now, who literally wrote the book on disaster capitalism again? Oh yes, the father of the current Leader of the House of Commons, �100 million fortune-holder, offshore hedge fund founder and ultra-Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg. :thunk:

# ¿ Dec 10, 2020 12:46

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

Regarde Aduck posted:

Yeah whatever the UK is now it won't be soon.

But whatever we're going to become won't be good.

Put it this way. Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.

# ¿ Dec 10, 2020 21:21

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

EvilHawk posted:

Absolutely love how Keith has been in power for nearly a year and we still don't know what he stands for.

Sure we do. Expelling left-wingers for "antisemitism".

# ¿ Dec 11, 2020 12:57

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

Gonzo McFee posted:

https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1337537017408720896

Getting into a war with the EU because a French boat got near a British cod.

Yep, this will work out well. Cod War 1 was against a country with literally no armed forces. This time France alone has a bigger navy than us, with nukes, and if you add in the rest of the EU, it's something like a 4:1 advantage (Spain has almost as many ships as the RN - and what's that, Skippy? They've been itching for an excuse to blockade Gibraltar?) I hope this is just the usual-suspect tabloids spouting chest-beating horseshit, because getting into a fight with our allies over fish - most of which we sell to the EU! - would complete this stupid country's spiral down the toilet.

# ¿ Dec 12, 2020 00:54

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

goddamnedtwisto posted:

However I do now want to see a French cowboy movie with Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef in a 30 minute dialogue about the bleakness of existence and the ennui of the cactus before the big shootout.

[haunting harmonica music intensifies]

# ¿ Dec 12, 2020 17:11

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

CGI Stardust posted:

probably launching this https://thecorbynproject.com/

Colossus: The Corbyn Project. An AI the size of a mountain used to plan the growth of the perfect marrow.

Starmer expels the marrow for alleged antisemitism.

# ¿ Dec 13, 2020 16:44

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

Anyone come up with a Brexit gently caress-Up Apologist Bingo card yet? I can already imagine "Teething troubles", "We're in this for the long term", "If the EU had..." and "If the EU hadn't...", " But the pandemic!", "Nobody could have predicted..." and the centre square, "At least we have ARE SOVRINTY".

Also "It's Corbyn's fault" on there for some reason.

# ¿ Dec 15, 2020 13:21

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

Blueshirt posted:

A friend of mine is a super left wing, guillotine-them-all type. Lived in a commune, works endlessly for various charities, has been arrested umpteen times at various demos and has strong opinions on Monster Munch.

A few years before Bojo got the big seat she was working at a charity that, for whatever reason, Boris was visiting every now and again. One day she was asked to show him something, and she went into the meeting pre-quaking with rage and ready to destroy him...and found him supremely charming. Incredibly friendly and charismatic, to the point that she likened speaking to him to being drunk. And then, every subsequent time she met him, he would ask about her extended family and take seemingly genuine interest.

So the wiffle-haired flint eyed sociopath obviously has something going for him.

It's the Steve Jobs "reality distortion field" in effect. People who met Jobs, even if going in they were totally opposed to whatever he wanted, would come out feeling wowed and dazed and realising they'd not just agreed to all his demands, but enthusiastically supported them.

# ¿ Dec 22, 2020 09:12

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

Blair says we should only use one dose of a vaccine its creators specify needs two doses? But he also said Iraq had WMDs, so he should gently caress off back to the dustbin of discredited irrelevancy.

Was irked yesterday to go through the rigmarole of signing up with Epic, only to find the version of Tropico 5 they were giving away was Windows only. I wanted to create my socialist island paradise, dammit!

# ¿ Dec 24, 2020 09:13

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

Last time I spoke to my dad was on my 18th birthday (30+ years ago), when he took me out for a meal and my first (legal) pint - in hindsight, he was celebrating not having to pay maintenance for me any more. Last time I dealt with him was to send him an email via my uncle a few years ago to tell him he was dead to me after he told my mum he didn't want any of us at my grandma's funeral because he hadn't told his kids by his second wife that I or my sister existed, and it would be uncomfortable for him.

I cut off contact with said uncle, who's lived in the States since the late 70s, after he responded to my criticism of Trump last year with an out-of-nowhere 70s-style racist rant that concluded with him saying Enoch Powell was right. (I'd already cut off my cousin after she went Tea Party in a big way and decided that fat Midwestern dentists have every right to hunt endangered species because don't you know that lions and elephants are a major danger to those people over there in Africa?) Must be something on that side of the family that I hope to gently caress I haven't inherited.

# ¿ Dec 26, 2020 19:40

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 05:09

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

josh04 posted:

They're going to 'accidentally' run over the kids because they're too focussed on evil, the heroes fire the cruise missile so Wonder Woman can catch a tow.

I know Gal Gadot isn't exactly a heavyweight, but lol at her being yanked into the air and hauled along by something that weighs about the same as a two-litre bottle of Coke. "Rockets send stuff into space, and an RPG-7 is a rocket, so..."

# ¿ Dec 29, 2020 13:49

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