I rather enjoyed this piece of liquid football.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 13:49, Reply)
ps that girl down there is cuuute
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 12:43, Reply)
Sorry, I posted one last night I made myself. This is a different one, with more votes. It's got to be good for democracy, regardless of your political persuasion, right?
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 9:56, Reply)
I will only consider petitions that have appalling grammar, blocks of upper case text for no apparent reason and no punctuation. Also the creator is making it clear what they want rather than a rambling stream of gibberish.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 10:24, Reply)
Oh yeah?
*comment regarding validity of petition*
*stats and article regarding voting system*
*loads more bollocks that if you disagree with i'll just ignore or, better still, put you on ignore for disagreeing with me, because i'm always right*
And that's why this just won't work, or something.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 10:33, Reply)
*indignant tone in response*
*spurious comment relating to your point*
*possible scenarios based on nothing dressed up as FACT so as to not have to admit i might be wrong*
*ignores all future comments to this one as i'm right, i know i'm right and it's just everyone else who is too dumb enough to realise they're wrong*
*maintains lofty opinion of self*
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 11:34, Reply)
They got four million votes, which is more than the total the SNP got. PR over represents minorities and the lunatic fringe. FPTP isn't perfect but it does eliminate the nutters and the irrelevant.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 10:56, Reply)
Conservative 241 [331]
Labour 199 [232]
Scottish National 31 [56]
Liberal Democrat 51 [8]
Democratic Unionist 4 [8]
Sinn Féin 4 [4]
Plaid Cymru 4 [3]
SDLP 2 [3]
Ulster Unionist 2 [2]
UKIP 83 [1]
Green 25 [1]
Others 4 [1]
So go for PR if you want green racism.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 11:36, Reply)
they offset the carbon output by planting 5 new trees.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 11:43, Reply)
Meanwhile they still kick up a fuss, sometimes getting enough sympathy to no longer be considered an underdog, necessarily.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 17:39, Reply)
With PR, politicians are remote and unreachable. They are not accountable for their voting, as the voter does not elect a person, but a party. A voter never knows what he/she is getting when you vote for a party, as no party will ever get a majority so coalitions have to be made, deals done and manifesto's ignored. You have no person actually represent you or your area in parliament, and the politico's know it. With PR, no minister will ever lose a seat, no matter how sick the public is of him or her.
With PR, you turn all the power to a very, very small group of party leaders, any and all dissidence will result in expulsion.
I'd stick with FPtP if I were you. Even with its flaws, it is a much more democratic and direct influence for the electorate than PR can ever be.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 11:05, Reply)
FPTP seems to produce a lack of choice resulting in people feeling that no one is representing them. This disillusionment seems to result in the likes of Trump and Farage, politicians who rely on anger at the mainstream politics allowing them to deny the political and economic realities in which governments must work.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 12:01, Reply)
[Full disclosure: I used to work for this organisation www.independentnetwork.org.uk/]
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 12:39, Reply)
Therefore I am unrepresented and every vote has essentially been a wasted vote. Under FPTP if you lose you may as well have not voted.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 13:59, Reply)
I haven't voted in ages. I just draw a massive CDC on the ballot paper
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 14:13, Reply)
It would also help with tactical voting. I hate the idea that someone feels they have to vote for someone other than who they would like to win because they feel its the only way to stop someone else.
Drawing a CDC is still better than not voting at all. Spoiled ballots are at least counted.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 14:40, Reply)
You don't vote for 'someone', you don't get 'someone', you don't have an MP to call your own.
In PR, you vote for the party leaders, that's it. The rest of the MP's are merely filling seats and have no power or influence. In addition, you don't even know what the party you vote for is going to do, because they must form a coalition, and election manifesto's are worthless after the election. So, a bit like what happened with that tuition fee thing of the LibDems, only under PR it will be every time after every election on every election promise. That's why it takes weeks or even months to form a government after an election here.
Under FPTP, at least you have an MP in your area, who has surgery and you can call him or her a cunt to his/her face. You have an option to get rid of your MP at election time. No such delights for the PR voter.
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(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 16:11, Reply)
Also it makes for a very fractured govt or should I say constant power sharing with no overall majority. In some countries this works, it would never work in the UK, especially now where all the parties are ripping themselves apart from the insides. Could you imagine a Labour /UKIP-EDL-Britain First/Tory govt? Then after 6 months it collapses and everyone has to go out and vote again. NL is democracy on steroids and myself think it is a bad thing. You should see the voting booklets here they are like mini novels in the big cities. Also the same party might put up 2-3 candidates for the same seat, one might run for XXX part of the vote - the other might run on a sole issue like dog dirt in the street or protecting the trees - it is really that silly!
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 15:06, Reply)
STV has always been a standard option of the more popular campaigns for PR, particularly because it could allow for more representation in pre-existing constituencies, an ability not to have to see a person you disagree with who's in a safe seat. The downside is this arguably leads to more MPs when up until recently government was asking for less.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 17:36, Reply)
I quite like the mixed member system we have up here. Sort of a best of both worlds situation. You elect a constituency MSP who is accountable to the local area and can campaign for local issues, and there's a PR list, so the smaller parties get more representation than in fptp.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 20:38, Reply)
not so sure
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 11:23, Reply)
We need some sanctimonious cunt with a massively inflated estimation of his own intellect to patronize us for a while and tell us we are all wrong. He seems to be on a break but I am sure he will be along soon to tell us how wrong we all are.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 14:53, Reply)
I particularly enjoyed the last election when he shielded himself with the moral high ground by saying he was a Green voter so nobody could have a go at him, whilst allowing him to have a go at EVERYONE on here.
Yet before that and since has always gone on about being a Labour supporter.
Funny that, anyone would think he was some kind of cunt.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 14:58, Reply)
Depends who we are talking about - theres a whole fucking list of sanctimonious cunts here these days.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 15:07, Reply)
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 15:15, Reply)
Burns down strawman ;) I am agreeing with you just not sure we are alluding to the same person is what I am saying.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 15:50, Reply)
Lets hope McDonald s doesn't leave the country or she will have no future.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 7:01, Reply)
Maybe the interviewer is trying to stitch her up?
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 7:10, Reply)
Journalist is as bad as the interviewee
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 7:30, Reply)
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 10:22, Reply)
it's as if she's kept on returning to a mirror and made further additions to looking like a twat
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 13:36, Reply)
She seems intelligent enough for a young gel. Sure, she's got a lot to learn (for example, NEVER pick up any Socialist Worker-branded placards at a demo), but she quickly corrects herself when she uses the NHS shibboleth as an example of the benefits of Europe.
Interviewer is a massive prick, though.
Prufrock's party was OK, actually. If you like warm Carling and bowls of hula hoops and maltesers.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 10:56, Reply)
Fair enough, she looks like an utter twat. But if dressing like that makes her happy, then nobody should attack her over it. The questions posed to her by the interviewer as patronising as fuck, but bless her. She does her best. It's certainly not the worst grasp of how the EU works that I've heard in the past week.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 11:11, Reply)
We got through several bottles of the widow, chilled I hasten to add, and a fair amount of jamón ibérico.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 12:02, Reply)
Yeah she's rambling a bit, but what do you expect when you pick an interviewee out of a crowd 'cos they look a bit silly.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 20:46, Reply)
Despairs at youth
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(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 14:53, Reply)
to organise a march against the Socialist Workers Party. They would feel duty bound to turn up and join in because it would be a protest against something. I'd love to see the confusion in their little faces.
Also, whoever makes their placards must be insanely rich and live on a yacht by now, which is ironic.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 17:20, Reply)
Jesus Christ. Give her some shiny marbles which she can play with while Mummy and Daddy find her a life
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 22:34, Reply)
www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36648131
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 5:33, Reply)
Customers who bought this item also bought this.
I can't say I'm surprised.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 9:37, Reply)
The history of this chain of sausage is longer than you might guess. SFW
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 3:50, Reply)
Scotland can get to fuck.
(, Mon 27 Jun 2016, 23:30, Reply)
Can't blame him alone, his team just didn't seem to want to win.
(, Mon 27 Jun 2016, 22:30, Reply)
We took a hell of a beating
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqZTP8-8wIs
(, Mon 27 Jun 2016, 22:45, Reply)
they weren't a bunch of completely useless fucking tossers
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 0:54, Reply)
I actually find this amusing. Contains sweary words.
(, Mon 27 Jun 2016, 22:27, Reply)
Have it recorded for tomorrow, but I'm sure it's worth a click ;o)
(, Mon 27 Jun 2016, 23:00, Reply)
It was all the usual Mary-Poppins-Benny-Hill informed yank stereotypes of Brits (teeth, bowler hats, tea, etc.) but delivered in an English accent, followed by an hilarious sweary song "We are the United Kingdom, you can eat our spotted dicks" sung in an American accent by Americans wearing Union Jack waistcoats.
Utter cock.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 20:05, Reply)
His show is like That's Life!, easy going like a Sunday evening TV show
(, Mon 27 Jun 2016, 23:02, Reply)
My wife thinks Game of Thrones is also good, but she knows fuck all.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 0:11, Reply)
Yes, there's tons of shite on American television, mostly due to there being so many god-awful channels/broadcasters. But to say that John Oliver's show is literally the only good thing on American television is a bit short sighted. There's some f*cking fantastic stuff coming from the US.
Archer
Preacher
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
The Wire
Breaking Bad
The Leftovers
Mr. Robot
Oz
The Americans
The Sopranos
Fargo
True Detective
Transparent
Obviously it's all down to personal taste. But if you think John Oliver is the only good thing on American TV then I'd guess you're not looking hard enough.
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 11:08, Reply)
It doesn't seem strange to you the man left England behind for something he felt was better and now presumes to speak for all England.
He really needs to recluse his opinion and STFU, but that's not what American Democrats do. He is American Democrat now.
Believe me, England is a lot better, a lot stronger, and much better off without that useless and very thick layer of superseding governance. Your system is better than all the rest of Europe combined. Your system is best of all. Better than their system. Their system is for pissants who need to be told what shape their bananas, need to be told their tea kettles and their toasters are wasteful of electricity and are not right for Climate Change™, your toilet basins hold too much water and must be changed, your shower heads all need to be low flow. You need to be less of yourself, do less, and think properly. And all this out of Belgium, that glimmering bright spot on the planet.
The real question, the real anomaly is having joined EU in the first place.
The television show's American viewers are the absolute thickest of all American voters. That's who you think is interesting. Haven't you noticed the audience claps like trained seals?
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 13:28, Reply)
WE CAN HAVE PROPER FUCKING LIGHT BULBS AGAIN!
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 14:41, Reply)
"Believe me, England is a lot better, a lot stronger, and much better off without that useless and very thick layer of superseding governance."
And what's your opinion about the situation for those of us in the UK who don't live in England?
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 23:37, Reply)
"Limey & The Yanks"
(, Mon 27 Jun 2016, 22:05, Reply)
May I recommend the Texas Flashbacks series of compilations for some great garage bands. who almost certainly had great drum kit logos.
(, Mon 27 Jun 2016, 22:21, Reply)
inconclusive
(, Mon 27 Jun 2016, 22:02, Reply)
What a strange wonderful creature.
(, Mon 27 Jun 2016, 22:24, Reply)
Im meant to be working FFS!!!!
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 15:22, Reply)
I hardly think this is the appropriate place for something frivolous and funny.
*waves hand*
Can we have a political section yet? Realise a lot of the posts here could be quite tedious for those coming here for a laugh.
(, Mon 27 Jun 2016, 21:22, Reply)
*whistles nonchalantly*
(, Mon 27 Jun 2016, 21:26, Reply)
refusing to integrate with /talk whilst spouting egalitarian equality acceptance bollocks
(, Mon 27 Jun 2016, 23:44, Reply)
If BJ gets in power, I'd seriously consider emigrating there.
(, Mon 27 Jun 2016, 23:15, Reply)
I do like Icelands immigration policy, which basically seems to be if you turn up and stay for long enough, you are in!
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 9:15, Reply)
www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?country=Iceland&displayCurrency=GBP
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 12:54, Reply)
For a country where the inhabitants LOVE their alcohol, it comes as a surprise that beer was banned in the whole country up until the 1st of March 1989. As a consequence, people still 'celebrate' the 1st of March each year by drinking a few pints of this liquid gold.
As a sidenote, alcohol can still only be purchased in ÁTVR or more commonly known as 'Ríkið' - a state-owned liquor store. Beware, the only traffic jam you will find in Iceland nowadays is in front of Ríkið on late Friday afternoons. (The only real traffic jam that has ever happened in the country was on the 17th of June 1994 when Independence Day celebrations took place at Þingvellir and people were stuck in traffic for hours).
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 15:23, Reply)
Insane 1/2.5 odds
137.50 thanks very much!
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 5:09, Reply)
but then thought it would be a bit shit at getting around corners.
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(, Mon 27 Jun 2016, 21:17, Reply)
Do the front wheel then you will have a spider bike go team spiders
(, Tue 28 Jun 2016, 1:42, Reply)
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