That's rising water levels sorted then.
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They tried to get the jokes in, but there's only so many times you can do the sight gag about the radiation levels being so lethally high the Geiger counter explodes.
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Give it a chance. It's quite jolly
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The little twat wasn't looking where he was going
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foiled by a fast acting rail worker
Edit: Wait, that's his mum, and she's blind?
Well one of them needs to look where they are bloody going, and it won't be her...
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the baby, not the pointsman
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AND I NEVER FEATURED ON B3TA!!
Bullshit!
I'm out.
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from wherever the bits were scattered.
best/worst story he told me was a an old lady who decided to end it all by playing chicken with an intercity 125 as it barrelled through his station.
when the train struck her, her shoes were left on the tracks exactly where she'd been standing, still laced.
the nose of the train was so badly dented it had to be replaced.
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but I had to wash the blood off the sleepers if it was at a station. If it didn't wash we had to cover it with sand.
They didn't bother if it was just us track workers who could see it.
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1/3 were old racists and the rest were rich assholes.
Put another way: A quarter of the leave vote could be categorised as “economically deprived, anti-immigration with monthly household income of less than £2,200 a month. A third of leave supporters were older working class, with an average age of 71.
However, almost half were “affluent eurosceptics”
(, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 13:29, Reply)
is just one of a number of failures on the part of the remain camp. The fact that many people are still blindly insisting that it's just racism, demonstrates that nothing has been learned, and they still have no idea why they lost.
(, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 13:46, Reply)
As it says in the article, half of the voters were rich eurosceptics, like Reese-Mogg.
My sister, when she was alive, used to say "I'm not racist because I hate the Polish as well. I'm xenophobic" like that made it any better.
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having concerns about immigration with racism.
It might not be any better, but your sister was technically correct.
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For many people it's due to things like being less able to access their local healthcare or education services, and stuff like that.
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and technically only works on racists.
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that she was also a massive racist and when driving she would shout at black people crossing the road "You'll still die whatever colour you are!".
She just claimed she was not and claimed the proof was that she had 'concerns about immigration' and hated the Polish as well. I have had decades of experience with racists (a lot of whom I am related to) who use very similar terms and arguments to hide their racism.
She would say to Big Issue sellers "You're the fucking issue mate".
One problem I have with Brexit supporters is that they want everyone to ignore that racism played a pivotal role in the victory and that if you took the racists out of the picture, they would have lost by a landslide.
According to the article above, possibly between 25-60% of the leave vote. Far far more than 2% anyway.
Personally, I am still waiting for someone who voted for Brexit to show the benefit to the country that Brexit will bring.
So far, apart from 'keeping the furriners out', there has not been any demonstrable benefits.
How about, instead of saying 'you don't understand' you plainly state the obvious reasons why Brexit will be good for the country?
(, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 14:59, Reply)
"there has not been any demonstrable benefits"
I don't know, I think the vaccination stats might disagree with you there.
(, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 15:13, Reply)
If you voted to reduce bureaucracy and red tape, it kind of is though.
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Importers/exporters, having to construct our own rules and standards for goods to trade individually with countries, visa arrangements, the Irish border problem, etc.
That's before the US push us into dropping standards so they can export their shit here. Sovereignty, don't make me laugh, this country is an outpost of the US.
(, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 16:39, Reply)
The true cost of brexit will be hidden by Bojo
eg such as -
negotiating teams that now have to operate
new custom IT + people
Standard committees #
not to mention all the fraud (and the cost investigation) that will happen with tax/ VAT
the massive holding areas in Kent
(, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 18:14, Reply)
that there is now even more red tape to go through for a large number of businesses, hauliers etc?
I see some businesses are moving their production facilities to the continent in order to avoid it, meaning job losses in the UK
(, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 17:08, Reply)
and since January my oversees sales have fallen off a cliff. Of what I sell a good 1/3 of it is returned to the courier (due to unexpected added charges) of which 0% makes its way back to me (cheaper to just destroy all trace of it than incur further costs returning the damned stuff).
There's also the small matter of there being a fucking border inside the UK now. I don't remember anyone campaigning for that.
(, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 17:42, Reply)
"I don't know, I think the vaccination stats might disagree with you there."
Wrong!!
The Oxford vaccine was pretty much funded by the government. They pinned down the distribution of the vaccine to the UK using a contract to AZ - nothing to do with being in EU or Brexit.
If anything the government could have got the whole EU output of the oxford vaccine if was not for the fact the UK is classed as a 3rd country.
So again brexit people being misled and lied to on the real benefits of brexit (which I've still not heard of single one!!)
(, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 18:04, Reply)
This is demonstrably untrue. In early/mid 2020, *every single* remainer in politics demanded the UK sign up to the EU's vaccine scheme, they melodramatically made out it was a national disaster if we didn't. If we hadn't have left the EU, they'd still be in charge and we would unequivocally have signed up to it like every other EU country did. Our lucky escape from the EU's vaccine calamity was entirely because of Brexit.
(, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 20:50, Reply)
It was to sign up *as well as* doing our own thing.
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"*every single* remainer in politics demanded the UK sign up to the EU's vaccine scheme"
smoke screen!! nothing to do with brexit tho is it??
the same contract could have been signed with AZ whether the uk was in the EU or not. Just like we had the option to join the EU with other PPE options - brexit or not. we didn't on that and failed to get any reasonable amount of PPE! that's one of many many many failures of Bojo, the vaccine roll out and procurement was one of the very few successes
Brexit in my opinion has not produce one single benefit, except if you want a united Ireland and an independent Scotland
if I'm wrong please let me know
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I voted remain, and I still think Brexit is a bad idea.
I just don't automatically dismiss other people's opinions on the topic out of hand, or automatically assume that because they disagree with me that they must do so because of some extremist belief.
If the remain side had had more people prepared to actually listen to the other side, rather than simply casting the opposition as vicious racists, and complacently assuming that there was no chance of the leavers winning because they're all stupid, we might have actually won.
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is that if there is less immigration, we won't be able to generate as much tax revenue or find enough people to work in the NHS.
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We know why we lost. Decades of anti-EU propaganda from right wing British exceptionalists, jingoists, racists and lazy populists, a population worn down by austerity, and a half arsed remain campaign fronted by a bunch of cunts.
(, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 14:20, Reply)
just to add + a massive con job and expert targeted marketing using social media and illegal data gathering.
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funded by some illegal Russian money via Aaron Banks (with the enquiry being swept under the carpet) and money from a one or more ultra right wing American billionaire(s)
(, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 20:53, Reply)
it was greed too. Fuckers didn't want any of that £350m a week spent on some beach in Magaluf. Even though we're talking minuscule amounts of tax and income tax at that - 0.87 of one per cent of income tax and national issuance contributions or £59 per year for the average earner. Well more fool for them for thinking the Tories would spend it on anything else other than themselves or that they'd still have a job and any income to pay tax on after the UK pulled out of the largest trading block in the fucking world.

Still there's always Asia-Pac, maybe we could get back into the opium trade?
(, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 14:49, Reply)
some people were idiots, some were self-centred, and some as far as I can tell were malicious and 'stigginit'.
Obviously there are all combinations of those characteristics.
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Not all brexiteers were racists but all racists were brexiteers. Is that a bit plainer to avoid confusion. I do admit that some racists might not have voted and some might have accidently voted remain or some were remainers and confusingly racist as well.
(, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 15:20, Reply)
brexit played on. fear of europe (foreigners) taking over. fear of loss of identity. Fear that peoples lives were getting demonstrably shittier with poundlands and william hills replacing greengrocers and butchers. fears of people talking forrin when you walk down the high street, and asian newsreaders, and brown people at the post office and polish builders and whatever happened to the good life and open all hours?. Fear that life was changing for the worse.
It sold the impossible fantasy that somehow by a vote britain could return to some imagined past of a white empire, of a homogeneous society and cricket on the village green. It's claims of economic independence and strength appeared so laughably preposterous that remainers could scarcely credit that people could believe them, but perhaps some brexiters allowed themselves to buy into that as well. Brexit would never have succeeded if peoples weren't living lives of increasing shittiness and anxiety. That's when bullshitters with simple lies have the most success, like Trump and every populist before him. Of course it probably still wouldn't have got up without that doughfaced cunt cameron leading the remain camp, Corbyn's weak as shit fence-sitting throughout (for all the good it did him), and a certain sneery misapprehension by remainers that some intellectual economic arguments would carry the day, when it was really about dealing with scared disenfranchised people. Now it just means that britain is going to get shittier at a slightly faster rate than it was before. that's my 2p
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Nostalgia is bullshit for people who can't take reality. Half reconstructed fragments of what seemed good.
(, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 18:48, Reply)
But it's not without some truth. I don't think the political/media class really appreciate just how disillusioned and detached some people in some areas outside London are.
They're not necessarily left or right, but distrust and despise mainstream politics.
So yeah, when all the major parties get together and say "vote remain", people said "fuck you". I see it round here with the attitude to lockdowns/masks too. They absolutely refuse to believe politicians have their best interests at heart. Sure they're wrong about COVID, but I can see why their instinct is cynicism.
Genuinely I believe some of these people are (or were) apolitical rather than ingrained right-wing, but they're a gift to populists as you say.
(, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 22:03, Reply)
there was a strong element of "fuck the establishment, they're responsible for this shittiness" in the trump vote too, (though as with brexit I though they were backing the wrong pony if they wanted to rebel, but it was certainly sold to them as a way to do this). But if they weren't rightwingers to begin with they embraced those arguments as you do when you join a tribe. I saw it in Brazil, when people I knew who were centrists or centre right voted for the neo-facist bolsonaro, as they were fed up with 16 years of an increasingly corrupt left wing government and thought he would be tough on corruption. But fast forward a year and they'd taken on those extremist views by the mere act of joining that tribe. Attacks entrench views. And Bolso was having one of his ministers literally caught shoving bribe cash up his ass as the police raided his home
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only one did it out of just not believing the EU was any good at anything, the rest were racists.
(, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 17:37, Reply)
One voted leave to 'stick it to the tories'. I did try to explain that it was the tories who were most in favour of it, but they just couldn't understand that.
Another thought that leaving would 'usher in a left wing revolution under Jeremy Corbyn'. I did try to explain that they were just playing into the hands of some of the most tory tories in the party who would use Brexit to gain personal wealth at the expense of the country, but they couldn't understand that.
My favourite was 'Jupiter is trine with Pluto' which to be honest made as much sense as any other reason I heard. I was not able to counter that reason because it was so totally bonkers.
All of the rest were racists though who just wanted less brown people on the streets and 'less of them over here' even though Brexit would not change that in the slightest.
My favourites were living out in Spain who wanted to keep britain for the british and were unable to see the irony.
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Every time I think of them my heart sinks a little, but then its buoyancy is stabilised by the schadenfreude.
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she was about 65, leathery, and a 'singer'.
She was still under the impression that a 65 year old woman singing the songs she used to sing in the early 80's would still 'bring them in like nobodies business and these young Spanish bar owners don't know what they are doing' and that 'things were so much better when the English used to run the bars'.
She was very vocal about how dirty she thought all the Spanish were and how they 'just pump raw sewage straight into the sea'.
I feel certain Spain for one is glad we left the EU.
(, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 21:39, Reply)
Partly because of defensiveness from remainder attacks entrenching their view, but I thought the "project fear" counterargument was brilliantly and horrifyingly effective, and since copied by other right wing campaigns in one form or another. It was essentially a religious "don't listen to them, whatever they say that's the devil talking" like dogma of faith
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You'll have to excuse Dr Malcolm. He suffers from a deplorable excess of personality.
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Well something amazing has been achieved, but thank God you're here to remind us we should all feel bad about it.
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I’m on the waiting list for an emotional support alpaca. God bless the NHS. I do hope I’ll be allowed to take him into Waitrose with me.
(, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 19:07, Reply)
but before I do, could you try to explain what you mean by your stupid comment? Cheers.
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I don't think the scientific benefit outweighed the negative optics.
But comparing that cringing moment of history to the first flying of an aircraft on an alien world is a stretch. This copter proves the concept and expands our capability to explore and learn. It's not a rich astro on a jolly. It's a human achievement that should fill your heart with pride.
(, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 19:10, Reply)
No air to keep it up, no air resistance to slow it. Would it go further?
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Probably, but mostly because of the reduced gravity.
Also you'd probably fall over throwing it.
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That is, the horizon is nearer, the ground would curve away faster from a frisbee launched at 90 degrees than it would on Earth. I don't think I'm making myself clear, I'll draw a diagram:
(not to scale)Interesting to consider how much the lack of lift is offset by the lack of drag and lower gravity. I bet there's a velocity threshold below which the frisbee travels shorter than it would in atmosphere (all other factors being equal).
(, Tue 20 Apr 2021, 16:42, Reply)
I don't think anyone's going to be throwing a frisbee a significant way around the Moon.
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Back in the internets early days it was a haven for abusive trolls, conspiracy theorists, religious nutters and exam plagiarists, but i've heard since then it's gone downhill
(, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 11:02, Reply)
But 'e make oi fuhkin LAAAAAAaarrff
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to be fair the contestants do have boxes with them
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blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/once-upon-a-time-the-catholic-church-decided-that-beavers-were-fish/
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Cheerful guy's wife attacked by bobcat, he rides in like true White Knight, grabs the offending feline, throws it across the lawn, draws pistol (cos Murika) and chases it a bit more, threatening to kill it.
(, Sun 18 Apr 2021, 22:42, Reply)
I would have offered it a teacup of bouillabaisse and asked if it wanted its coat brushed.
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I wonder if the pet carrier she was carrying had something to do with it.
(, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 2:42, Reply)
if domestic cats are any guide I reckon that bloke would have got his arms scratched to fuck in his brief struggle with it
(, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 8:24, Reply)
you'd know a fair bit more about cat stuff than me, FCM
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Scottish political stuff for you, och aye ken etc
full show in youtube link
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haha the funny thing about projection is that the self-own occurs at the point of sending.
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Snazzy jacket, btw.
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It's a take, I'll grant you that.
Got a lot to get on with, so sincerely hope you get your hole soon.
best
BPB
(, Sun 18 Apr 2021, 18:57, Reply)
Alright literally all of the Alba Party.
(, Sun 18 Apr 2021, 20:34, Reply)
Or he's actually convinced by the right's framing of things.
I'm not sure if I prefer his spiel to the kind of politicobafflegab I usually criticise you for. I guess I'm suspicious of deliberately opaque ideological motivations.
Still, up the workers and best of British luck to you old bean.
(, Sun 18 Apr 2021, 17:33, Reply)
But I appreciate your effort to make the world a better place.
Having seen your earlier video as well (where you announce that you run against another guy), I have a comment to the overall approach and tone:
They message indignation and frustration. Not solutions.
That’s clearly a path you have chosen. But visions, concrete solutions and hopefulness tends to lay a more long-term direction + leaves people with an alternative that offers actual solutions (you).
Haven’t seen the full vid, but this short one appears mostly negative.
(, Sun 18 Apr 2021, 21:47, Reply)
though if an independent candidate does win its generally because of some grievance with the major party candidate, rather than looking to them for a comprehensive policy on construction procurement or trade or the like
(, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 7:34, Reply)
If he manages to combine both, he may become king of Scots.
(, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 23:10, Reply)
Because ultimately if all the Scottish working class care about are themselves then that's all it can ever be. I doubt independence will do the Scottish poor any favours, and by removing 59 parliamentary seats which are overwhelmingly anti Tory from the UK parliament, they are also condemning the rest of the British poor to many more decades of austerity and cronyism.
I'd also challenge what you even define as the Left, because it's a very broad brush indeed, and the interviewee is extremely subjective on this issue...
(, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 12:23, Reply)
and for the healthcare, social safety net, EU membership, a denuclearised navy, etc.
I think Scottish independence would benefit everyone in Scotland fairly rapidly. It would fuck England, but it would be our fault.
(, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 14:38, Reply)
Scottish independence is not condemning the "rest of the British poor" to anything. The rest of the UK has freely chosen Brexit, Johnson and his right wing populist nonsense itself.
What's driving the independence movement is the realisation that the political majority in the rest of the UK wants to go in a fundamentally different direction from the majority in Scotland (and I'm talking about the broader approach to social policy and how you do politics, not specific narrow party allegiances here). Eventually you come to the conclusion that's not changing any time soon, and it's better to let cohesive national groups make their own, different choices about how they organise themselves.
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and give her tits a tasteful, dignified burial.
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I ain't taking credit for that one.
(, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 20:35, Reply)
which explains the fantastic tits - they've never been used
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had to turn it off immediately
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...to actually clicking on a Toyah video here.
Still not happening though.
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Please provide examples for the following -
1 microToyah
0.5 Toyahs
2 Toyahs
1 megaToyah
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Mildly nsfw due to language and one picture.
No English version of the page so additional link
translation via google translate
(, Sun 18 Apr 2021, 8:57, Reply)
*Warning* May contain traces of Noel Edmunds.
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Brexit would never have happened with Whiteley in charge.
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I've seen birds with skin conditions that make them look like that, and there are lots of videos of birds dancing to music.
Joyful.
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