Emphasis on crazy.
I like the nut grinder move.
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cowcat Bituminous squeegee, Wed 10 Jul 2024, 21:11,
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I don't know anything about skateboarding
But I do know that the music in that intro is fully bumpin'
tripmastermonk.bandcamp.com/album/introspect-2
much appreciated
(, Thu 11 Jul 2024, 10:34, Reply)
One of the best sk8rs
Insane balance, ridiculous ideas. Didnt even know you could do such things on a board.
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ProjectWeasel The Bird is the Word, Fri 12 Jul 2024, 21:52,
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How would PR have changed the UK election?
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Wed 10 Jul 2024, 15:04,
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"Right, that's great love. Now look at the laptop and nod as if you're in conversation with somebody. Fantastic."
(, Wed 10 Jul 2024, 15:32, Reply)
Well there wouldn't have been as much (if any) tactical voting, certainly not manifesting in the same way,
so extrapolating PR results from this particularly unique FPTP election is fun and interesting but not much of an indicator of what would have happened.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 10 Jul 2024, 17:04,
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Yup
I for one would've have voted totally differently* if I wasn't desperately trying to game the broken system.
* Vote Bargle, for a fairer Karameikos!
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Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Wed 10 Jul 2024, 18:46,
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That’s like saying if the people at a poker match
Had done played the same cards at a bridge match the winners would have been different. No shit. The parties fundraising, organising, data, campaigning etc is For the first past posts system.
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Wed 10 Jul 2024, 18:01,
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dont support PR at constituency level
still doesn't properly represent how people vote. only full pr (like this report presented to you like you're a fucking child by channel 4 not showing somebody's cock or jimmy carr for a spare 5 minutes)
but it does allow extreme parties a seat. and IIRC when what far right party with the bloke with the wonky eye was about they polled about 10%, so 10% of the seats.
also this doesn't work with parliamentary politics, you'd get somebody decided by the party.
ohh... none of it works its all bollocks I should just be supreme leader.
(, Wed 10 Jul 2024, 22:59, Reply)
Paul Raymond? Well the photos would probably be in soft-focus for a start.
(, Thu 11 Jul 2024, 8:03, Reply)
i like having a local member and a constituency
a local you can blame or bitch too
Reckon it's a good feature of parliamentary democracy. You wouldn't get that with PR unless you decided to randomly assign winning members to seats. Why even have seats if the PR is for the whole country? Do you have 550 on the ballot card, or just vote for party and not know who you're voting for?
I think the australian lower house preferential system of voting is better than PR and first past the post for reasons I mentioned a few days ago here and won't bore you with again
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 11 Jul 2024, 9:32,
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In theory, they should be good local representatives.
In practice, the closest contact I’ve ever had with my local MP was an 18th birthday card from Ken Clarke.
(, Thu 11 Jul 2024, 22:27, Reply)
We have had PR over here in Northern Ireland for years
as well as photo ID etc and look at the shit show we have.
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TBL I posted this on, Thu 11 Jul 2024, 12:02,
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well yes I give you that
and she can have my wood anytime
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TBL I posted this on, Thu 11 Jul 2024, 18:58,
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I find there is very little I can't solve with a Per Rectum examination
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Woo Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Thu 11 Jul 2024, 15:28,
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In one of our lectures at uni
(mid 90s, so scribbles on acetates on an overhead projector) one of the slides about ear drops had directions to put them in the R ear. Our classmate from French Guyana incredulously yelled "you insert them into your REAR?!?"
(, Fri 12 Jul 2024, 11:07, Reply)
Hellmouth Finder 🔥👹🔥
I made this!
After difficult and dangerous research, I've pinpointed the UK's 746 portals to the underworld.
And made a fancy 3D map.
Find your nearest hellmouth now
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malevole, Wed 10 Jul 2024, 11:58,
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I'd be interested to know how you went about this research, and how many of these hellmouths serve sausage rolls.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 10 Jul 2024, 12:12,
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1500 more branches
all serve sausage rolls demon worship not required, may still be hell for your mouth.
(, Wed 10 Jul 2024, 12:52, Reply)
Ah, interesting. All the ones in my area and around where I work seemed to align almost perfectly with a Greggs.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 10 Jul 2024, 16:25,
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Never tried their sausage rolls. Any good?
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 10 Jul 2024, 20:59,
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does the list only show cities with hellmouths?
Because I'm surprised there's not one in harwich
(, Wed 10 Jul 2024, 15:53, Reply)
My local hellmouths appear to be in
the train station and the post office...
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Wed 10 Jul 2024, 18:49,
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Superdrug isn't that bad really.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Wed 10 Jul 2024, 21:34,
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Even Groucho is woke now.
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Wed 10 Jul 2024, 2:02,
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typical marxist
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 10 Jul 2024, 3:10,
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Hmmm, you should look in to Marx’s views on black people, particularly the views he expressed in his published letters to Engels.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 10 Jul 2024, 10:56,
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AND he definitely killed that girl.
Left her by the river, yeah right.
(, Wed 10 Jul 2024, 11:30, Reply)
Richard Marx reference?
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hoppitygoestotown The temporal displacement occurred exactly, Wed 10 Jul 2024, 23:24,
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Why? Have you rejected him? Did you only just find out he was Jewish?
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 10 Jul 2024, 21:26,
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I've heard he put soft plastics in the recycling bin
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 11 Jul 2024, 2:18,
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I have seen every episode of Firing Line
and this is from one of the best ones.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 10 Jul 2024, 16:11,
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Historically Interesting Dept.
The first animated film ever, from 1906.
Imagine being the person who figured out you could do this.
Watch out for the accidental shots of the animator's hand.
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Wed 10 Jul 2024, 0:59,
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Odd, when reading about earlier animation such as the flipbook or phenakistoscope it all assumes that everything really starts in the 19th century.
I can understand that there's a reliance on written evidence, patent applications and scientific papers but I'd have thought animation effects on a rotating/moving surface would have occurred before that. Thinking of things such as decoration on ceramics, clothing worn by dancers that spin, marks/decoration on wheels and so on.
(, Wed 10 Jul 2024, 8:51, Reply)
Didn't that spinny disk bird cage illusion exist pre-19th century?
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Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Wed 10 Jul 2024, 18:49,
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Apparently called a thaumatrope, again connected with the early 19th century*
*wikipedia does mention this which suggests the idea may be a lot older
flintstone media
(, Thu 11 Jul 2024, 0:16, Reply)
Let us play Pong
Say the serious goths
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Tue 9 Jul 2024, 21:46,
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What do those EBM girls know about COVID-19???
*suspicious*
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Tue 9 Jul 2024, 23:15,
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Well, considering the video is 14 years old
they were a decade ahead of their time, but then so were a lot of ravers from the 90s.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Tue 9 Jul 2024, 23:37,
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I have that somewhere
I used to DJ back then and did a few fairly mental goth gigs where that was more or less the lighter side of things music wise. See also Hocico and other Aggrotech and Electro-industrial type bands.
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TBL I posted this on, Wed 10 Jul 2024, 11:54,
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Thanks algorithm
Shame that this only has 0 views! Let's help out
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simbosan is too tired, Mon 8 Jul 2024, 6:53,
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Do views
of embedded videos count? And also
What the actual fuck?
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FridgeBadger, Mon 8 Jul 2024, 11:25,
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The singing insurance man?!
A quick glance revealed he is part of a company selling 'Wellness' tools for companies.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Mon 8 Jul 2024, 22:24,
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Thanks France.
Thance.
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Mon 8 Jul 2024, 1:24,
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Serious question.
But what makes National Rally 'Far-right'?
About the only policy I've seen that would come close to constituting 'far-right' would be their stance on preventing dual-nationality citizens from being employed in sensitive defence/military positions. But I've only done a few minutes reading on them. Can somebody summarise?
(, Mon 8 Jul 2024, 5:43, Reply)
serious reply
they're proposing to deprive babies born in France of the possibility of becoming French citizens for one you faux-ignorant fuckwit. Preserving 'the bloodline' - Marshal Pétain would be proud.
(, Mon 8 Jul 2024, 6:47, Reply)
'The National Rally has vowed to end birthright citizenship, under which children born to two foreign parents in France automatically obtain French citizenship at the age of 18. To be eligible they must also be living in the country at the time they turn 18 and have lived in the country for a minimum of five years since the age of 11'
I dunno. Seems reasonable to me. But I'm clearly not as emotionally invested in it all as you seem to be.
(, Mon 8 Jul 2024, 9:07, Reply)
Thank you for assuming I'm faux-ignorant and not just ignorant, pet.
Means a lot.
(, Mon 8 Jul 2024, 9:23, Reply)
I only assume people are being faux-ignorant
if I have seen them saying things in the past that are not ignorant.
In this particular case, I don't have enough information to say either way.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Mon 8 Jul 2024, 15:07,
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these are just generalist buckets, but in le pen's case i reckon it's the right one, no pun intended
to give a few examples, she proposes a national preference policy, where french citizens born in france would get preferential access to a variety of government services over french citizens born overseas, essentially creating two classes of citizenship. Then you've got the "de-islamification" policies, the halting of all legal immigration, creating a "privileged partnership with russia", taking france out of nato, withdrawing support for renewables, bring back the death penalty, cut people off welfare, etc.
But essentially they're a party that blames all frances woes on immigrants, offering the return to white paradise vision that Farage was selling with brexit. she has cut out some of the heavy racist, super extreme positions like holocaust denialism that the party (and her dad) used to have to try to win more of the centre, though how much they've really moved away is debatable.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 8 Jul 2024, 7:03,
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A great deal of that sounds like standard right-wing fare as opposed to being 'far-right', though.
I do get the impression that people are comparing her party to the National Front when it was under her Dad's leadership and assuming 'Oh, they must still be far-right, then', and no doubt they're popular with the far-right in France.
Much of the immigration stuff they're proposing seems incredibly similar to what is already in place: www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2023/12/20/what-s-in-france-s-controversial-immigration-law_6361995_7.html
(, Mon 8 Jul 2024, 9:05, Reply)
Is that not a case of the right moving further towards the far right
as opposed to the far right moving towards the centre?
Suella Braverman providing a good example.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Mon 8 Jul 2024, 10:44,
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these things are subjective, but those changes are a long way from le pen's platform
just say the tories in england decided to enact le pen's policy and halt ALL immigration and routes to citizenship, not just posturing about boats. And just say they told all the indian and pakistani born british citizens in england that they couldnt access services. Or me for that matter. I swore allegiance to betty and paid taxes for 10 years. Or that they were supporting putin now. I reckon people would reasonably consider they'd moved a lot further to the right to a more extreme position, to the far right. That's where le pen's party sits.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 8 Jul 2024, 15:43,
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The restriction to services is for foreign nationals living in France, not to naturalised French citizens.
And there's been no mention by her party about halting ALL immigration from what I've read so far.
Not that I'm doubting you, but do you have a link that more accurately outlines their manifesto?
(, Mon 8 Jul 2024, 16:32, Reply)
www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39625509.amp
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/article/2024/06/23/le-pen-s-rn-takes-aim-at-dual-nationals-and-french-of-foreign-origin_6675497_5.html
I should add that their policies on many things arent that well articulated or clear. There's very little detail on how any would be implemented, and many would require a change in the constitution and a withdrawal from the EU. They say certain things to certain groups, or the party president will say one thing then Le Pen will play it down. They said foreign born french citizens would be treated differently, but then they say the next week they and dual citizens have nothing to fear if they don't make trouble, but they've already said dual french citizens would be restricted from public positions under them. They're certainly dog whistling to their racist nationalist base. What will they do if given power? I guess that depend on how much you think they've changed their spots from their relatively recent extremist views.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 8 Jul 2024, 23:25,
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And Labour?
Do they have delineated policies, or were they a bit vague before the election.
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An Egg ,D, Tue 9 Jul 2024, 2:00,
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This may be true too, but the question was what makes the national rally far right
Starmer might be planning to launch some secret socialist five year plan but most people's guesses are that he'll be more likely centrist and disappoint most of the corbyn brigade, and we have the fairly centrist blair years as their benchmark.
Im making the argument that le pen's party are far more to the right than the tories, and may well be quite extreme if given power over policy. Like reform, they attract their fair share of fruitcake candidates that even the tories would disown. Their bedfellows certainly are far right, they're not reaching out to the tories, its Orban and Bannon. Nationalist, xenophobic, authoritarian, great replacement theory cunts
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 9 Jul 2024, 3:15,
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But if we're going strictly by National Rally's manifesto as it stands
They're Right-wing as opposed to 'Far-right', no?
I completely agree that the party certainly has the potential to become far-right should they ever come into power, but the media labeling them as such at the moment just feels like an opportunity for extra clicks, and it goes without saying why their opposition are using that particular term.
(, Tue 9 Jul 2024, 5:46, Reply)
Do you think the Nazi's were elected on a platform of killing millions of people in death camps?
Why would you go on the manifesto as it stands when the party and it's most influential people have a history of being openly fascist? I doubt you went purely on what Corbyn said as leader and ignored what he'd said before winning leadership of Labour.
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tickle I was away, Tue 9 Jul 2024, 8:40,
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The NSDAP manifesto was significantly more Right-wing than National Rally's
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Program
(, Tue 9 Jul 2024, 9:18, Reply)
The Nazis didn't have the history of the Nazis reminding people that Nazis are bad
so it's not surprising the new Nazis are hiding their Naziness more than the OG Nazis.
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tickle I was away, Sat 20 Jul 2024, 11:19,
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no Macron's party is the centre right party, the national rally is the far right, as is their current manifesto such as it is
I've explained it as concisely as I can. this categorisation, though not precise, is not something that is disputed in France, the originator of the terms. National Rally are a far right nativist, anti-islam, authoritarian party.. they share similar platforms with other far right parties like the German AFD, Geert's freedom party, Meloni's Fratelli party, orbans fidesz. all these countries also have centre right wing parties, these are the far right alternatives.
And they're all shit. Hungary's economy is tanking, 25% inflation, but he's fucking the press and the judiciary to stay in power. Meloni in italy is trying to get powers to broadcast nothing but party propaganda in the lead up to the election. Like brexit, it's s simple bullshit fantasy of returning to an idealised white past, designed to appeal to the simple, racists, and growing army of incels, but what they deliver is to make things shitter and nastier for everyone while consolidating undemocratic, unaccountable power
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 9 Jul 2024, 11:33,
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Maybe do a few more minutes of research then.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Mon 8 Jul 2024, 7:54,
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It's okay.
A couple of people who actually knew how to answer the question helped out :)
(, Mon 8 Jul 2024, 9:22, Reply)
But is she a pen?
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 8 Jul 2024, 12:19,
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Ceci n'est pas une stilo
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Mon 8 Jul 2024, 13:37,
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"I'm just asking questions"
timjwise.medium.com/im-just-asking-questions-is-the-rhetoric-of-assholes-and-grifters-5cd0825daac
(, Tue 9 Jul 2024, 11:11, Reply)
hostage situations?
I try to avoid them unless there's discount flights
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 8 Jul 2024, 0:00,
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I'm sure we'll all be singing this for the next five years
By the mad cunt who lost his deposit.
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fred zeppelin II: Electric Boogaloo, Sun 7 Jul 2024, 19:19,
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Scum.
The paranoid conspiracy theory racist MP, that is. Not you.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sun 7 Jul 2024, 19:38,
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Mmmmmm....
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/andrew-bridgen-covid-vaccine-general-election-vote-378396/
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Sun 7 Jul 2024, 22:07,
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The proper way to end your film
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Sun 7 Jul 2024, 16:37,
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to be uncharitable
I have a hard time telling if she's happy or sad these days with the botox face
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 7 Jul 2024, 23:50,
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All the sweeter knowing that Dorries is right there in the room.
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jonbob loves you, Sun 7 Jul 2024, 19:03,
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Hmmm, bit of a Damascene conversion…
She fails to mention how cosy (plenty of photos out there) she was with Cameron when she was his maths czar. Nor does she talk about her former BFF Baroness Michelle Mone much. She’s been angling for a seat in the House of Lords herself for years. After all, regular work and income has been in short supply since she lost the Countdown gig. She did do fucking loads of equity release adverts though, nice little earner, if morally dubious. Perhaps the inevitable change of administration helped the scales to fall from her eyes.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Mon 8 Jul 2024, 0:18,
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I heard she once put soft plastics in the recycling bin
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 8 Jul 2024, 0:37,
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The truth is I’ve never forgiven her for what she said on Celebrity Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
She said, wait for it, “Shakespeare is dull as ditch water.” I’ve been grinding my axe for years over that.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Mon 8 Jul 2024, 1:00,
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"To be, or not to be. Let's ask dictionary corner"
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 8 Jul 2024, 4:47,
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Her cheeks look like ball sacks.
And also.. she's a bit of a cunt.
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mr null One mad man in a world gone sane, Mon 8 Jul 2024, 21:43,
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why? seems a decent sort to me
don't you like mouthy wimmin?
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simbosan is too tired, Wed 10 Jul 2024, 8:44,
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Talks balls anywhere for cash...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTCkdvQBUyc
(, Wed 10 Jul 2024, 9:49, Reply)
Suck my balls
Is that better?
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Sun 7 Jul 2024, 18:21,
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*does a peacock spider dance*
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Mon 8 Jul 2024, 14:02,
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Someone once brought me a stuffed haggis back from a trip to Scotland.
Imagine my disappointment when I found out it was only a stuffed tribble.
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jonbob loves you, Mon 8 Jul 2024, 1:08,
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Ive a tattoo of the mythical wild haggis.
ibb.co/sJck2JV
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jakedamusss I understand, and dont care., Thu 11 Jul 2024, 3:46,
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For added tension, use a land mine.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sat 6 Jul 2024, 23:01,
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