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| Author: | Hearthly [ Wed Jun 12, 2019 11:41 ] |
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Fucking, fucking hell. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Wed Jun 12, 2019 12:05 ] |
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*Patents rotating airports* |
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| Author: | ApplePieOfDestiny [ Wed Jun 12, 2019 12:25 ] |
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Isn't that the Airport that the UK built, for one of the UK's crown dependancies? So not foreign aid at all. |
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| Author: | ApplePieOfDestiny [ Wed Jun 12, 2019 12:26 ] |
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Zardoz wrote: *Patents rotating airports* Already done |
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| Author: | Warhead [ Wed Jun 12, 2019 12:35 ] |
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She's wrong anyway, planes take off into the wind to get more lift, as any fule kno. (Rockette Morton takes off into the wind, anyway.) |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed Jun 12, 2019 12:49 ] |
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But what if it's on a treadmill? |
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| Author: | Warhead [ Wed Jun 12, 2019 12:52 ] |
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Grim... wrote: But what if it's on a treadmill? I duuno, what if it IS on a treadmill? |
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| Author: | Trooper [ Wed Jun 12, 2019 12:54 ] |
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I don't know, what if it is ON a treadmill? |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Wed Jun 12, 2019 13:09 ] |
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Which is moving at the same speed the wheels are rotating? |
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| Author: | krazywookie [ Wed Jun 12, 2019 13:35 ] |
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That's ok, as long as it's downwind. |
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| Author: | Kern [ Thu Jun 13, 2019 7:53 ] |
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Scott Mann, MP for North Cornwall, spoke in the Commons yesterday about Cornish Wrestling (wrasslin). As you do. Quote: While it has been good to give the Minister a tour d’horizon of Cornish wrasslin this evening, I have some specific asks for her. Perhaps next time she passes through Cornwall, she would like to take me on in a bout of Cornish wrasslin. Given the current environment, perhaps the quickest way to sort out the leadership contest is to put everybody in a Cornish wrasslin ring and let them duke it out and find out who is the strongest contender. I need stuff like this. I'm feeling far too despondent at the moment to read or even think about the latest attempt to stop no-deal or the ghastly line-up for Tory leadership. |
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| Author: | Hearthly [ Thu Jun 13, 2019 10:03 ] |
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Good read. https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/inep ... bc.twitter Quote: But it gets worse. When the two nominees are decided, the actual choice of prime minister will be made by the Tory party’s 120,000 members, a tiddly 0.25 per cent of the UK electorate, often represented on vox pops by some snippy woman from the shires barking, “Just get on with it”. The 0.25 per cent’s demographics are kept deliberately vague but we can take it that the average age is 65-75 , mostly English, and acutely aware that they themselves are a minority of a minority. By the by, nearly a third of them voted for Farage’s Brexit party in the European elections. This is the group that will shape the most radical political pivot for generations, not only for England, but for Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Europe.
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Thu Jun 13, 2019 10:07 ] |
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It's the same group of people that have always been the most influential. I don't know why anyone is surprised |
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| Author: | Hearthly [ Thu Jun 13, 2019 10:09 ] |
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Yes but this is an extreme event, even by historical standards. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Thu Jun 13, 2019 10:16 ] |
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ApplePieOfDestiny wrote: That's a roundabout. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Thu Jun 13, 2019 13:27 ] |
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After Round One of the eliminator, Boris has got more votes than second, third and fourth places combined. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Thu Jun 13, 2019 13:35 ] |
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BUT HOW WILL HE FARE AGAINST SHADOW! HUNTER! AND THE WOLF MAN?! |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Thu Jun 13, 2019 13:38 ] |
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https://www.beexcellenttoeachother.com/ ... 30#p908030 Should have added Pinot |
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| Author: | TheVision [ Thu Jun 13, 2019 13:48 ] |
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I'm rooting for Javid but only because I shot some footage of him a couple of years ago that would look really good in my show reel. |
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| Author: | Hearthly [ Thu Jun 13, 2019 14:36 ] |
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https://twitter.com/joeheenan/status/11 ... 4928071680
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| Author: | Kern [ Fri Jun 14, 2019 8:38 ] |
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Whilst people are writing the obituary for The-Party-Formerly-Known-As-Change-UK-That-Was-Previously-Known-As-The-Independent-Group, I think it served a useful purpose in disrupting the major parties and providing a focus for opposition within the Commons itself, if not the country. They served as a warning to the party leaders that with a minority government, the usual ways of working wouldn't apply. That said, no doubt come the end-of-year quiz I won't be able to name more than four of the original members. |
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| Author: | myp [ Fri Jun 14, 2019 8:43 ] |
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Next week, Chuka joins the Greens |
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| Author: | Kern [ Fri Jun 14, 2019 8:44 ] |
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Wait till you see the DUP episode! |
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| Author: | Kern [ Fri Jun 14, 2019 16:32 ] |
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Shot of the week in the Friday pub is "Whose line is it anyway? (Contains nuts)". |
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| Author: | Nik [ Sun Jun 16, 2019 21:34 ] |
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| Author: | Malc [ Mon Jun 17, 2019 9:37 ] |
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| Author: | Nik [ Mon Jun 17, 2019 13:16 ] |
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| Author: | Kern [ Tue Jun 18, 2019 21:02 ] |
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I've just wasted an hour of my life watching the Tory leadership debate. I've had more intellectually stimulating conversations at 1 AM in noisy nightclubs. Seriously, the TL;DR is: we're fucked. |
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| Author: | Hearthly [ Tue Jun 18, 2019 21:05 ] |
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Yes it wasn't a particularly edifying experience, was it? Stewart is the least bad but they're basically all kamikazes, Stewart is just wearing a fake moustache to try and disguise the fact. |
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| Author: | Kern [ Tue Jun 18, 2019 21:06 ] |
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Stewert reminded me of a young doctoral candidate giving his first tutorial with a group of first years who couldn't be bothered to do the reading or write the essay. |
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| Author: | Malc [ Wed Jun 19, 2019 7:16 ] |
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I watched about 10 minutes, but they were just talking over each other. Emily Maitlis sounded like a frustrated school teacher. Just noise. |
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| Author: | Kern [ Wed Jun 19, 2019 7:47 ] |
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I found it interesting that without an audience Mr Johnson couldn't rely on his usual tricks to cover his ignorance. He really came across as unprepared and floundering. Repeatedly talking over the host and ignoring her questions wasn't a good look either. |
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| Author: | Hearthly [ Wed Jun 19, 2019 8:01 ] |
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'We'll just use GATT24 or something' - The fact that this level of plain wrongness is still being spouted by the man who is almost certainly going to be the next Prime Minister is appalling. Or Hunt coming out with that old line about 'You need to be able to walk away from a negotiation', when the issue here of course is that 'No Deal' doesn't mean 'No Change', it means setting a massive great bomb off under everything, and then we'd still have to go back to the EU the next day to start talking about trade and suchlike anyway, in other words, y'know, a Deal. And first thing they'll be after is £39bn and the Irish backstop and citizens' rights and so on..... |
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| Author: | Nik [ Wed Jun 19, 2019 12:37 ] |
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Exactly. Surely walking away from a negotiation would mean keeping the status quo, i.e. remain? |
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| Author: | Hearthly [ Wed Jun 19, 2019 12:48 ] |
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The numbers may have shifted now but as recently as a few months ago an opinion poll showed that about a third of the public still though that 'No Deal' means 'No Change'. |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Wed Jun 19, 2019 12:52 ] |
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Nik wrote: Exactly. Surely walking away from a negotiation would mean keeping the status quo, i.e. remain? But if you’re banking on making your reputation on being ‘the man who (finally) delivered what the people wanted’ then you want out of Europe by any means. Then of course when the whole country goes tits up, it’s ok, because it was ‘the people’ that made it that way and demanded you deliver Brexit. |
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| Author: | Warhead [ Wed Jun 19, 2019 13:54 ] |
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And many of 'the people' are fuckwits. |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Wed Jun 19, 2019 14:15 ] |
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Warhead wrote: And many of 'the people' are fuckwits. Yeah, a little over half of them. |
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| Author: | Trooper [ Wed Jun 19, 2019 18:24 ] |
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Stewart is out, not unexpected but he was our last hope of any semblance of sensibility. Maybe Boris will actually provoke some sort reaction from labour, I guess? |
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| Author: | Dr Zoidberg [ Wed Jun 19, 2019 19:09 ] |
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No chance whatsoever. Javid will be next to go. |
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| Author: | Kern [ Thu Jun 20, 2019 8:49 ] |
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Government edging porn block. |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Thu Jun 20, 2019 8:55 ] |
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Kern wrote: Government edging porn block. applause |
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| Author: | Warhead [ Thu Jun 20, 2019 14:23 ] |
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Dirty boys. |
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| Author: | Mr Dave [ Thu Jun 20, 2019 15:39 ] |
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Never before has the option at the bottom been more appealing... Attachment: bbcnews.PNG
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| Author: | Kern [ Thu Jun 20, 2019 18:23 ] |
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Johnson v Hunt. A fitting pair of euphemisms. |
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| Author: | Kern [ Fri Jun 21, 2019 8:45 ] |
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Whilst trying to go to sleep last night I found myself working through a bad scenario. Johnson, as PM, goes for an immediate election. No movement on Labour's position on Brexit, so many remainers or remain-inclined either stay home or vote for other parties. Due to the wonder of first-past-the-post (a system so perfect even the Tories don't use it for their leadership elections), this allows them to re-enter government on an absuredly low share of the vote, and claim it as an overarching endorsement of a Brexit so hard it could push the planet out of its orbital alignment. Yet even that fear would not make me consider voting Labour with their current Brexit stance. Rest assured, once I'd worked this through in my head I was able to think of happier things like fluffy bunnies and slept well. |
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| Author: | Kern [ Fri Jun 21, 2019 13:35 ] |
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The Tory Brecon MP Chris Davies has joined the Recalled Club. |
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| Author: | Warhead [ Sat Jun 22, 2019 6:25 ] |
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Police called to Boris' gaff after neighbour reports a domestic. Interesting. I wonder how this is going to sit with voting members. Could it have been a setup by Boris and his tart to try to discredit him and lose the election because he doesn’t want the poisoned chalice after all. It’d save him taking the job and then bailing out after a few weeks when he fails to deliver .... er, anything? |
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| Author: | Kern [ Tue Jun 25, 2019 8:06 ] |
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Exciting times in the House of Lords: The Senior Deputy Speaker (Lord McFall of Alcluith) wrote: My Lords, in May the House agreed the sixth report of the Procedure Committee, which included the recommendation that the clocks in the Chamber and Grand Committee should display seconds and that, when a time limit has been reached, the display should change colour and flash. Today the new clocks will be used for the first time.
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| Author: | Hearthly [ Tue Jun 25, 2019 15:34 ] |
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Goodness me. https://twitter.com/PaulBrandITV/status ... 8721452032
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