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Jose posted:Lol he's still mad she wanted nothing to do with him So, when will these false accusations be made?
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# ¿ Mar 1, 2021 11:03 |
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2024 21:15 |
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forkboy84 posted:I saw her on Marr over breakfast yesterday and gently caress me she's a non-entity. No charisma, no presence, no ideas, no ability to read the mood of the electorate, just nothing. Of course, she attended the same school as Michael Gove (Robert Gordon College in Aberdeen), love that meritocracy. The Irony being that the other fee paying schools in Aberdeen hold Robert Jordan's in contempt, and the University doubly so regarding the jumped up technical college.
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# ¿ Mar 1, 2021 12:00 |
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Communist Bear posted:And Sarwar begins as expected: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-56238614 Aberdeen City Council is a bit of a special case. There was corruption involved.
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# ¿ Mar 1, 2021 13:18 |
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ItohRespectArmy posted:they're keeping him on ice until we reopen again so thousands can catch covid at his funeral. Philip isn't going to have a state funeral. He's said he doesn't want one.
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# ¿ Mar 1, 2021 16:58 |
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u brexit ukip it posted:I don't know exactly what a smart meter can and can't do, but my main concern would be whether it can send live readings. When (not if) the power company gets hacked, somebody can then essentially see remotely when somebody is or isn't home, since that correlates pretty well with power usage. Monthly reads are optimal for small scale tracking like a single domestic supply. Half hourly data is only required for large scale operations which can burn a ton of power out of hours if the BMS isn't set up correctly.
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# ¿ Mar 2, 2021 12:46 |
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The answer to Cohen's very pertinent question is "not having the full support of the journalist set and thus their scandals being made relevant".
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# ¿ Mar 2, 2021 13:00 |
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Tesseraction posted:Joe Biden has aphasia and a stutter, making fun of him for misspeaking is pretty lovely TBH. Yes, he makes mistakes talking but because he's had that problem his whole life, even in the days when he ran rings around Paul Ryan a la 2012 he was still making these kind of mistakes. He also only made one mistake that I heard, where he says "would support unions organising and their right to collectively bargain" and starts to say "... organisation", and even that could have been "would support unions' organisation and collective bargaining" before someone realised it sounded a bit too much like the government would back the unions in negotiations. The other two slips were clear references to earlier drafts. One was about an act that "didn't just say that unions are allowed to exist, but that we should encourage unions" but instead he obviously goes with the (better sounding IMO) "didn't just say that unions are allowed to exist, it said unions should be encouraged to exist". The other was talking about "the deep disparities [of race] that still exist in our country" and he starts to say "in our society".
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# ¿ Mar 3, 2021 02:19 |
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VideoGames posted:I can imagine Sturgeon being forced out and the BBC cutting to a house in Scotland where Jo Swinson throws up her arms and cheers in mirror image to when Sturgeon did the same. I can imagine Swinson doing it, but I can't imagine anyone having the slightest interest in her doing it.
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# ¿ Mar 3, 2021 10:01 |
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peanut- posted:The country has absorbed this into its soul, it's a message that's constantly reinforced. The political class don't believe it at all. It's a convenient fiction to support the narrative they want. And the media, well, it's in the air as to whether the tail wags the dog. But if they're not complicit they're compliant.
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# ¿ Mar 3, 2021 15:17 |
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Angrymog posted:Is calling Starmer Keith a common thing now, because there's a guy on the local pollytics FB page who does it, and I don't know if it's now common or if I should be making sure that he doesn't like some deviant flavour of Monster Munch. Starmer isn't worthy of the name Keir.
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# ¿ Mar 4, 2021 11:29 |
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namesake posted:Why do you think it's being spent on things rather than transferred out of government accounts into private accounts and so it is 'spent'? It's literally this. You can't explain how the money is being spent because it isn't being spent. The Tories are simply looting the country and using the pandemic to cover it up. Hence their pandemic strategy, which is prolonging the crisis because the longer it goes on and the worse it gets, the more they can take.
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# ¿ Mar 5, 2021 12:25 |
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Guavanaut posted:Supporting Hitler until the day before the war didn't destroy them, I'm sure they'll find a way around this one too "Until the day before", he says. This one could hit them harder, though. Their readership would have been big fans of Hitler when the Mail supported him, but they are big fans of the Royals and this time the Mail are against them.
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# ¿ Mar 5, 2021 16:22 |
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Darth Walrus posted:Why on earth do you think Daily Mail royalists like Meghan Markle? Oh, she's the Duchess of Sussex? Then I don't know why Guava even thought that the Mail would need to slither out of it.
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# ¿ Mar 5, 2021 16:49 |
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Guavanaut posted:You can do a lot of fun and useful stuff with fridge compressors. A post that requires no context whatsoever, and indeed may be lessened if such were to be provided.
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# ¿ Mar 6, 2021 22:38 |
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big scary monsters posted:"You cunts" is gender neutral and appropriate to any situation. I didn't think I was going to come in here tonight and see someone say "oval office is gender neutral, akshully".
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# ¿ Mar 7, 2021 22:37 |
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IllusionistTrixie posted:I have to say, hoodie, mask, headphones for podcasts, and a written shopping list, I have literally never been happier to take a trip to Asda for the weekly shop. The fact that the shelves are often half bare, and various options just flat missing is only a minor complaint. We have our own British ham, and as it voted for Brexit it's scarcely about to complain now.
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2021 00:00 |
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You need to up your game. Change it to a picture of Starmer, change your handle to Shakespearean Keef, job's a good 'un.
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2021 02:56 |
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MikeCrotch posted:I think Charles understands that without the goodwill of Brenda the monarchy needs to be less expensive and less of a scandal magnet, which is why he wants to make the whole thing more boring and professional. He's the last royal who has been raised as the heir to the throne. Imagine being taught from being a kid that one day you will lead the country and then it never happens.
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2021 11:23 |
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TheRat posted:Considering how hard he defended the queen, it has to be either Charles or William It's absolutely William. He's that kind of shithead and if the monarchy persists he'll likely be king a decade or so from now.
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2021 11:38 |
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Aramoro posted:In the group they don't say white. It's either 'wheat', 'whyte', '6f' or just 2 wheat ear emojis. That's because they want to avoid being grepped. Now think about the contexts in which you might get into trouble for saying "White".
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2021 14:47 |
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Private Speech posted:It's about the grep command a.k.a. the linux regular expressions parser, presumably found using wrong phrases on some sort of communication log or whatever. This. "Grep" fell into parlance on IRC as a generic term for searching through the chat log and extended to all Internet searches. I tend to use it because it's shorter than "search the Web" and more generic than "Google".
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2021 15:54 |
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josh04 posted:"grokked" is the made-up cyberpunk term. No, "grok" is taken from Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land and means to understand something. Entirely different.
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2021 16:12 |
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Unkempt posted:Dredd has 'Drokk' and 'Grudd', which as I recall are official Justice Department swearwords to allow Judges to express themselves without offending the citizens. Grud is what they call God in the 22nd century. The other JD sanctioned swear word is "stomm".
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2021 16:49 |
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OwlFancier posted:People who complain about others being too sensitive are often extremely sensitive about their own ideas and I don't think that hypocrisy is really a problem for them, because the people who like them are much the same way, the point is merely the dominance of their ideas, and if throwing a big flounce is a useful tactic they will do it. For all that they might claim to be above that, in reality the thing that really matters is dominating the situation, the pretense of seriousness and factuality is only as a method of dominating, and refusing to participate when they find it unpleasant is just another form of it. You could have saved a lot of words by saying "The right project".
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# ¿ Mar 9, 2021 09:46 |
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Necrothatcher posted:They've arrested a met officer over the Sarah Everard disappearance. Yeesh. "While we understand that the public believe that nobody is truly safe if the Metropolitan Police have begun raping and murdering white women with no criminal record, we must stress that the incident occurred when the officer in question was off duty."
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# ¿ Mar 10, 2021 08:56 |
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Borrovan posted:My assumption would be because of triage, people don't get seen in a linear order for most things. idk though. Pure speculation here, but the two who jumped the queue could have been intersex. Regardless, the FOI doesn't include enough data to interpret the figures. As a bare minimum I'd need to know how many people were on the list when the oldest case on it joined and how many people were taken off the list each year without being referred.
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# ¿ Mar 10, 2021 11:47 |
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kyojin posted:Is it relevant that he was off duty because if he were on duty the rape and murder would be legally allowable under the new bill? Or is that not yet passed? No, this is me being cynical about it being normal for the Met to murder black people while on duty.
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# ¿ Mar 10, 2021 13:32 |
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Borrovan posted:I haven't seen the show & don't have an opinion, but this is how the best propaganda works. Look at the BBC, half of the population genuinely seem to believe that it has a left wing bias, the gammons won't stfu about it, and most of the other half just go "oh everyone thinks the BBC is biased against them so it must be balanced" - despite it literally being a matter of public record that all of their politics reporters are lifelong Tory shills and the higher-ups direct political appointments by the Tory party. Now that's good propaganda. These things are not mutually exclusive. The BBC are both unashamedly pro-Tory and have a left wing bias from the perspective of the gammon half of the population, because the gammons are far enough right to make Hitler look like a liberal.
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# ¿ Mar 10, 2021 16:30 |
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Marmaduke! posted:Yeah there are at least certain people at the beeb who would find it most distasteful to fire all the artsy people (not enough to fight it, mind you, but they'd feel bad about it) That's confusing the issue. Artists tend to be left wing, their patrons tend to be right wing. The people at the BBC who wouldn't want to fire the artists are the patrons.
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# ¿ Mar 10, 2021 19:29 |
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The Donut posted:I am starting to wonder if this government is just trying to squeeze as much money out of the country as possible before it implodes, and becomes a failed state. Welcome to, oh, nine or ten years ago? Everything the Tories have done over the last decade has been the act of a party that was sure it would never be elected again. They just managed to push exactly the right buttons in exactly the right way to ensure that the stupid and the bigoted keep voting for them in large enough numbers.
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# ¿ Mar 11, 2021 00:05 |
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suck my woke dick posted:if i were a tory minister that's what i would've been doing from the day of the brexit vote at the very least You're understating the case. Causing the state to fail is the precise reason why many of the Tory ministers wanted the Brexit vote to begin with.
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# ¿ Mar 11, 2021 09:53 |
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Darth Walrus posted:I dunno, he could manage the comedy option of dropping Labour below the Lib Dems or Greens if he really puts his back into it. If you believe that Starmer is in place to permanently wreck the Labour Party, then it logically follows that he's not acting like the leader of the opposition because before Labour, under a Tory government the LOTO would have been a Liberal.
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# ¿ Mar 11, 2021 12:59 |
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Angepain posted:The comedy value of 650 MPs trying to squeeze into a chamber with 129 individual separate seats might be worth it though. everyone pretend you would find it really convincing It still wouldn't exceed the comedy value of Mogg demonstrating that he knows literally nothing about Britain's government outside Westminster. Most notably that if the Tories went to Stormont to govern, an incident would be almost inevitable.
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# ¿ Mar 12, 2021 00:35 |
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Weasling Weasel posted:There's definitely a fair argument that once the most vulnerable have been vaccinated, we should be thinking about how to supply countries with active spread and large vulnerable populations left to cover, before we work on vaccinating every single 20 and 30 year old though, right? We are the country the with large vulnerable population and the active spread.
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# ¿ Mar 13, 2021 09:46 |
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Miftan posted:Don't do this unless you have space for mongeese!! "Dear Sir, Please send me two mongooses." "Dear Sir, Please send me two mongeese." "Dear Sir, Please send me a mongoose. Actually, make it two."
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# ¿ Mar 14, 2021 09:59 |
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Total Meatlove posted:As a group they consistently vote for cutting public transport and accessibility and meaningful community and public spaces. And they do so because "they don't use them" . It's the same as Brexit - they never wanted to travel, live and work in the EU, so why should anyone have the right? So utterly self-centred.
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# ¿ Mar 15, 2021 15:36 |
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Mechanical mandible posted:I have the exact same thoughts about Skegness; going there enough as a kid kinda makes it hard to let the grimness bother me to much But it's so bracing!
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# ¿ Mar 15, 2021 15:44 |
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Pistol_Pete posted:The AstraZeneca vaccine is being suspended all over the EU. I'm a bit baffled as to why. It's been linked to blood clotting that can induce a stroke. Global Britain, getting there first again (with yet another way to mass murder people through sheer incompetence)!
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# ¿ Mar 15, 2021 16:48 |
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peanut- posted:Ah yes good, this sounds like what people want Coming right after a cop murders a woman on her way home? I guess it's true, cops really never do take off the uniform.
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# ¿ Mar 16, 2021 11:03 |
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2024 21:15 |
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Stormgale posted:https://twitter.com/cj_bellwether/status/1371355734407966730 This is the context needed to interpret Owl's numbers from earlier. It could have been the case that people were exiting and leaving the GIC referral lists at roughly the same rate, meaning that 5 years and change was just how long the process takes. But knowing that they are not, the numbers become indicative of a system that is either starved of support or being purposefully obstructive (if not both).
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