Seems like a great idea to me:
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Mon 21 Mar 2022, 14:14,
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our very own barrel bomb of bravery!
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Mon 21 Mar 2022, 14:24,
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Boris 'wants people to think he wants to visit Kyiv'
Security officials not bothered
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To provide ballistic strength clapping?
Avoid a vote in the commons?
Look busy with PM stuff when some report comes out?
Open a visa application centre?
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To divert attention at home, to look like Churchill, and because Ukranians actually seem to like him.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Mon 21 Mar 2022, 17:31,
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Only the ones who don't understand English, I assume.
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jonbob loves you, Tue 22 Mar 2022, 7:35,
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The alternative reality where Churchill said he was going to Yalta
But then sacked it off because he was scared of getting shot at
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After the visits of the PMs of Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
I actually think that this would be a really good idea. Russia might not be so keen to bomb one of their assets and the citizens of Kyiv would get a break. Or Russia goes ahead anyway and Bunter bites the big one. Both scenarios have appeal.
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I think we owe it to ourselves to encourage this idea as much as possible.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Mon 21 Mar 2022, 17:29,
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Zipline
with a cycle helmet, waving two union jacks...
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Mon 21 Mar 2022, 18:22,
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Not so great, transport plus security for that little self-promotional jolly will probably cost the taxpayer at least a billion.
Or, "1% of a Westminster Palace repair".
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Mon 21 Mar 2022, 20:59,
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Not when we give him a Eurolines ticket from Victoria coach station
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 21 Mar 2022, 21:08,
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Bundle him and his entourage onto the Brexit Bus.
Will boost the Ukrainian fighting spirit no end, seeing them arrive in the Take Back Controlmobile.
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Mon 21 Mar 2022, 21:17,
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"Ah, let me tell you about the time I overthrew REAL tyranny, what!"
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Mon 21 Mar 2022, 21:19,
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Could probably send some surface to air missiles more cheaply and they'd be more use
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... I'll strap HIM to a surface-to-air missile if he's not careful... utter bellend
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Tue 22 Mar 2022, 12:58,
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I wonder why the English press recently decided that Kyiv was more authentic than Kiev
It’s only ever an approximation of Ukrainian pronunciation (phonemes), and Kiev was fine, closer than what we use for many foreign cities. We still happily use Vienna and Munich and the like. The Ukrainians pronounce it with a “kee” longer vowel sound to kickoff, rather than a “ky” diphthong as in "backyard", so the original Kiev was likely to lead to a closer match for English speakers, which is probably why they settled on it in the first place. If they really wanted to nail it they could start using Київ, instead it’s like some brummie who visits Jamaica and comes back with blonde dreads and calling people “mon”. Nice, but there’s a bit more to it than that, son. Anyway, this is by far the most pressing issue regarding the Ukraine and one we should be focussing on
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 21 Mar 2022, 21:27,
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Kiev is a Russian derivative.
Kyiv is a Ukranian derivative.
We're more familiar with 'Kiev' than we are with 'Kyiv' (we don't eat Chicken Kyivs) and until a month ago, the general public this side of Poland didn't really give a fuck about Ukraine, or Ukraine's preferred post-Soviet pronunciation and Latin/Roman phonetic representation of Kyiv/Kiev.
Considering all the hoo-haa going on at the moment, I suppose referring to Kyiv as Kiev (particularly in the mainstream media) would be considered a huge faux-pas. The Twitterati in, in particular, seem to fucking love jumping on the pitchfork and burning torch bandwagon when [insert news corporation here] refers to something in a slightly politically incorrect/insensitive manner, so probably best that they spell it using the Post-Soviet nomentaclure.
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Could you two please just fuck and get over it?
Preferably very, very quietly.
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I do apologise. Did that reply come across as unnecessarily passive-agressive to you?
CQM asked why the switch from Kiev to Kyiv. I offered an explanation. It wasn't my intent to be any less than civil in my approach.
Perhaps I should just avoid engaging with CQM completely from now on, as it seems to be causing particular members of the board great distress. Unlike a couple of members of /links, I'm perfectly capable of putting previous disagreements behind me and not treating other members like some kind of playground nemesis based purely on how our previous discourse concluded.
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you're probably right about the ukraine push for it
still, it's not like we take johnny foreigner's preference into account when we name a lot of other cities
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 22 Mar 2022, 0:36,
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One night in Krung thep mahanakhon amon rattanakosin mahinthara ayuthaya mahadilok phop noppharat ratchathani burirom udomratchaniwet mahasathan amon piman awatan sathit sakkathattiya witsanukam prasit
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Tue 22 Mar 2022, 9:04,
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