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This is a link post Indie Game Review: Maybot Run I made this!
Move over Bremner, back off Culshaw, fuck off Bird, Fortune and Private Eye...

Here's some political satire to blow you away...
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This is a link post Final touches made to Coronation Street set
for one off post-brexit dystopian Christmas special
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This is a normal post What happened to it? Is it all green screen now?

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This is a normal post They've just been looping the last 12 episodes
for four years now and nobody has noticed yet.
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This is a normal post My guess is they've built another set somewhere else and this is the old one

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Moved to Salford in 2013 - www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25151472
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This is a normal post Oh lordy...
That was the site of my day job in the late 90s.

So weird to see it look like that now.

If they don't use it for at least a Children in Need zombie apocalypse sketch they are seriously missing out.
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This is a link post Seeing as we are posting nipper memories...
In the UK we had to deal with this madness. Anyone seen "nosegays" at their local gardening center?
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Without clicking, this triggered the recollection of how much I fucking hated Adrian Hedley and his travesty of mime *_*
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This is a link post Inspired by the Monkey opening theme below
I can't believe they're still doing the rounds in Japan singing the closing credits to audiences.
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This is a normal post im confused
is it popular because of monkey or because its an epic tune that people love?
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This is a normal post No idea

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The tune and monkey can also fly on a little pink cloud.
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This is a normal post It's a style of music called Enka,
essentially, Japanese Blues...a sentimental ballad style that's been very popular over there for decades and is a karaoke favourite.

I'm honoured to be working with this UK-based Enka singer next weekend for the third year in a row.
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This is a normal post Yeah, in Japan it's mostly listened to by pensioners, Yakuza and Japanese Far Right Nationalists though.

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This is a link post insightful review

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This is a normal post You wrote that review didn't you?

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This is a link post In Germany, we watched this as nippers
(don't ask me why everyone looks chromosomatically challenged)
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This is a normal post I remember this

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This is a normal post In the UK we got telly where everyone WAS chromosomatically challenged.
and it were glorious!
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This is a normal post Its no schnappi
https://vimeo.com/55039362
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This is a link post New restoration of the original Canadian version of Rock & Rule.
One of my all time favourites.
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This is a normal post I'm not familiar with this...
I'll definitely give it a watch when I get a chance.
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This is a normal post I picked this up on DVD online a few years ao for the BF as he always spoke fondly of it
Never watched it as a kid but yeah, the end music is great!
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This is a link post Nips etc
youtu.be/FHmA37crG8c?t=121
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This is a normal post Outstanding!

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This is a normal post Isn't it though?
A lot of telly thought stuff like this is ok because the screen qualities crap no-one will notice.

But notice we did, still have very fond memories of Dr Whos assistant Leela.
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This is a normal post Didn't George Lucas instruct Carrie Fisher that there was no underwear in space?

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This is a normal post I find your lack of lace disturbing

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This is a normal post what a delightful gif
i could stare at that all day - if I forgot its a dancing corpse. *cries*
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This is a normal post Wowsers!
I thought Lucas had them strapped down with gaffer tape though?
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This is a normal post Gaffer tape only on her nipples because they would have poked through that flimsy costume and had someone's eye out.

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This is a normal post 3:20
Wasn't that sampled by UNKLE at the beginning of "Drums of Death" on Psyence Fiction?

(6:30, too.)

/trainspotting
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This is a normal post They sampled Alan Hawksaw's Countdown.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMM8dCelBFw

Looks like the Blakes 7 team used it too.

Had to look that up though, thank you "who sampled" and IMDB.
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This is a normal post Well, well, well.

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This is a normal post I mean, from what little of that album there is on YouTube,
it sounds fantastic.

It's not on Amazon, though. Darn.
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This is a normal post loads of Alan Hawkshaw was released by KPM. Tbh, everything KPM releases is amazing.
I love that Hawkshaw, wrote "The Champ". There's footage of him; gruff, white-bearded, flat-capped Yorkshireman being asked what it's like to have written one of the most sampled songs ever.
"'Appen it's alright", or somesuch self-deprecation was the response.
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This is a link post nip etc
the bear @ 3:42 - shudder
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This is a normal post That "bear"
is a jerk. I think she looked alright, even before she started beating stuff with her clogs
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This is a normal post I like this
just for its sheer strangeness
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This is a normal post Wow
Did I watch this as a kid or just dream it?
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This is a normal post
Which is where this came from - youtube.com/watch?v=7XqMF5ou7hE&t=39s
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This is a normal post Wasn't Naked Scientist reporting about 100 proof goldfish avoiding being frozen in winter?
Question is, was it schnapps or vodka? I didn't pay enough attention to the dialogue.
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This is a normal post "no one wants to be the black sheep"
racist bitch.
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This is a normal post poor James has never been to a house party in his life

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This is a normal post How do people know how they voted?
Could it be that they’ve been telling people? Repeatedly? Whether they look interested or not?

Who knows, maybe they outed themselves by being the only people to ever buy a DM from the shop in the student union.
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This is a normal post at least one of them has a barbour jacket

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Exactly, like walking onto the University of Liverpool campus with a ManU shirt...you are going to get stick. Tribalism under a new name where you have just marked your own card, as old as time. Though the threats are out of order...unless she said "I voted leave...you C**ts!"
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This is a normal post Just like walking home drunk late at night on your own wearing a strappy top.
You're simply asking for it.
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This is a normal post Being laughed at because you've done something stupid is the same as rape of course

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This is a normal post Unless knees got touched during the mocking.

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This is a normal post That one's not quite there is it
Have another go
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This is a normal post I think you'll find I responded to someone talking about football shirts.

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This is a normal post I am trés trés confused by all of this.
Please élaborate pour my éducation.
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This is a normal post Which are strictly the preserve of Jack Russells and cunts.

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This is a normal post Students having contrary opinion? *drops monocle*
Still can't blame the youth for feeling worried about brexit, poor fuckers have known nothing else but eu rule.
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Wise beyond their years.
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This is a normal post Also, virgins forever

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This is a normal post Soon they'll learn
to shut the fuck up about it. That way they have to listen less to people bristling with a terrible conviction that the EU is the promised land but who couldn't tell you any of its presidents, what it's for or how it's structured. I don't mean you. You could probably name a president or two.
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This is a link post Nipper, TV, etc.
It was fucking ace.
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This is a normal post PIGSY!!!
etc......................................
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This is a normal post First season monkey was the best

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This is a normal post I remeber being very confused about why they kept referring to the monk as "he" when it was clearly a lady type.

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This is a normal post Same here
Now I have a fetish for shy japanese women pretending to be young chinese men although when they chatter it gives me a headache.
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This is a normal post Why?
Had you not read the book?
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This is a normal post I remember feeling happy and excited when Monkey was on, back in the day when a kid.
i'm pretty sure it was all because of that damn theme tune. loved it
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This is a normal post so awesome
I'm glad I scrolled down a bit, I was going to get my gold clasped wishing staff and post exactly this. Now, out of my way demon!
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This is a normal post Used to love this and The Water Margin as a kid.
Any b3tards into Yoshihiko? It's a bit of a piss-take of Dragon Quest (and another long-running JRPG franchise in S3) and is very very silly indeed. Well worth a look if you haven't already, and I think would fit quite well in with the board culture here.
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This is a link post Is Stu writing for Harriet Harman now?

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This is a normal post Is Cerebus really getting upset on Andrew 'Brillo-Pad' Neil's behalf now?
Daily reminder that Neil worked for Murdoch, compared Tony Blair favourably to Winston Churchill, called George W Bush 'convincing and masterful', supported the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, employed David Irving...
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This is a normal post I'm getting upset on behalf of what used to be the party I supported that is becoming rife with anti-semtism.

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This is a normal post You really are a complete fucking retard.
/ac
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This is a normal post Fuck off you tedious cunt with your "oh so edgy" faux nazi shite that you spam round here.

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This is a normal post Get a bloody room!
You're both occasionally cunts and occasionally agreeable in equal measure. But it's not a fucking competition.

Harman's comments were inappropriate, but have been taken wildly out of context by the red top brigade. Surprise sur-fucking-prise. Nobody comes out well from this story,despire the fact the more accurate headline should have been 'Harman Knows Holocaust Joke'.
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This is a normal post Let's face it, if it was a competition, Cerebus would be too thick to post his entry.
And it would all be stuj's fault. In Cerebus' denty little brain.
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This is a normal post For someone that makes some really offensive posts round here your taking this way too hard.
Why don't you copy and paste some "team spiders" ascii art to make yourself feel better.
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This is a normal post Oh, are you playing the 'No YOU'RE the one that's upset!' game again?
Only you hardly ever get that right either.
Because you're a complete fucking retard.
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This is a normal post
www.getaroom.com
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This is a normal post Fuck off, can't you see I'm getting UPSET! ONLINE!
I think little Cerebus was comparing me to Andrew 'Brillo-Pad' Neil in his last post by implying that I've been offensive in the past and was now upset by him pointing it out. Which would make him the Harriet Harman of /links...
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This is a normal post Sorry precious, I forgot we're not supposed to be offended by what you post here.
Tell you what you go back to insulting people, playing the plastic nazi persona and get a hard on when ever a spider is mentioned.

And we'll go back to tolerating it because it's you. You're special.
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This is a normal post Don't stop yet I'm nearly there........

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This is a normal post
lol
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This is a normal post Shut up Harriet.

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This is a normal post 7 hours and that's the best you've got?
I am disapoint. :(
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This is a normal post
www.b3ta.com/links/1465366
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This is a normal post if she'd prefaced it with 'have you heard this one lads, lol' you might have a point

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This is a normal post Well I meant the party at large really but it's not a good sign that she felt comfortable telling it without any kind of hesitation.

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This is a normal post Except that she prefaced it with an explanation that it was an example of some of the hideous anti-Semitic shit endemic.
You're right though (on your other point): The labour party does have a huge historic problem of antisemitism that goes way beyond Red Ken that has never really been tackled.
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This is a normal post Well yes I pointed that out in another post here.
However it's breathtaking that she felt it would be ok to repeat it.
If I was making a point on racism I wouldn't feel comfortable telling a racist joke.Even if I had said before hand that I had read it elsewhere.
Stating that the interviewer would enjoy the joke was just stupidity.

As to labour antisemitism...
From what I can see coming out of the party conference labours getting worse.
They're well in bed with radical islam now.
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This is a normal post I wish there was a political party that treated all organised religions with the disdain they deserve.
That'd be the one for me.
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This is a normal post "Stu"?
NEVER say anything that can be taken out of context by idiots, Harriet.
Also: Played that to my office & both of us choked laughing.
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This is a normal post Out of Context?
She prefaces the joke with "So, this was a Guy’s hospital rag magazine back in the day and people like Andrew say that these things are perfectly alright"

I'd be a bit miffed too.
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This is a normal post So,just what part of 'context' do you not understand then Cerebus?
Of course Neil was going to act 'miffed' on air. But the fact that in a previous job he'd turned up at work in Nazi fancy dress and has told jokes like that in public can all be forgotten now because "OMG HARRIET HARMON MADE A JEW JOKE! Let's completely ignore the point and BURN HER! BURN THE ANTI-SEMITE WITCH!
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F*** sake. I know being an MP nowadays is a minefield but how thick do you have to be. Although I can't tell you how much the jolly, laid-back bon ami air that pervades the shit smiling, jokey turdfest that is This Week...that caught her off guard...annoys me. It is the 2nd best politics show on UK TV...yes exactly.
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This is a normal post Did you see the Metro "MORE" link?
I can't believe you went with the Harman thing as Metro article of most interest when this was right there
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This is a normal post Idiot regrets getting idiot-stamp SHOCKER! non-story.
1/10
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This is a normal post Hello new person pull up a chair and shop a kitten

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This is a normal post Kac.

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This is a normal post "Shit tats for shit tits"

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This is a normal post "Ginger woman believes it's the tattoos that are scaring the men away"

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This is a normal post PhAWWW

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This is a normal post I expected a link to her bizarrely going on and on about Gavin Williamson's tarantula.

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This is a normal post (^(^;;^)^) WHY WOULD THAT BE BIZZARE?

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This is a normal post fucking hell, even Bernard Manning would think twice before telling that one

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This is a normal post ah, he wouldn't though, would he?
All about the N-word and the P-word was that one. And poofs; don't forget the poofs.
Simpler, kinder times.
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This is a normal post I thought his excuse was he was offensive to everyone

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This is a normal post Just like YOUR FACE
#boom
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This is a normal post lol

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This is a normal post You seem to be confusing use and mention.
She was quoting the joke, not telling it. It's a hugely important distinction.
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This is a normal post Which was my point (though more succinctly expressed).
Sadly, in this twitter-led age of comments shorn of context and left for the loudest idiots to decry in electronic lynch mobs, MPs should show more caution.
Not to mention lobbying groups sniffing out free publicity, as is happening here, predictably.
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This is a normal post So if she was making a point on racism would she be justified in repeating on air a racist joke she once heard?
Doubt she would get away with that.
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This is a normal post "Justified", probably, depends.
Stupid, definitely.
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This is a normal post ^This^
It might be foolhardy, given the chance of wilful misinterpretation; but there're times when it'd be wholly justified. It rather depends on the nature of the (merely hypothetical) conversation in which it (merely hypothetically) happens.
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This is a normal post Well it would be if the ends justified the means.
If as a public servant you're repeating a holocaust joke on live tv which is going to offend / hurt a lot of people you better make sure the payoff is worth it.

True story, I once had a director that let slip to the board he had never heard of the holocaust. Because of that the whole lot of us were flown to Poland to visit Auschwitz for education. Fucking grim, the smell of human hair that had been cut from the prisoners still haunts me.

Krakow is lovely though, if you've never been your should.
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This is a normal post not really (confusing)
I wouldn't tell or quote the joke on tv, especially if I was in a position of public authority like she is. She only needed to say that there were offensive jokes about Jewish people in the publication.
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This is a normal post Harriet Harman was a paid advocate of the Paedophile Information Exchange under the auspices of the NCCL, the forerunner of Liberty.
Trufax.
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This is a normal post You seem to know a lot about the paedophile information exchange

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This is a normal post I realise you turn a blind eye to it when it's one of your own.
It does somewhat undermine your indignation when a Tory is exposed as a nonce, but hey ho.
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This is a normal post I forgot about that, but she did admit she got it wrong and apologised though.
...30 years later after the mail decided to run with it.
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This is a normal post So did Kevin Spacey.

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This is a normal post I don't know what these things are
or what the joke alluded to was.

I predict a twitter storm based around my ignorance.
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This is a normal post Funny! Very determined.

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This is a normal post Well, it was OK. I suppose....

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This is a link post This is what passed for TV when I was a nipper.

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This is a link post Slav Friends - Blyats
Two in a row, apols.
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This is a normal post Yep. That delivered.

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This is a normal post Superb
Russians are Scots minus shit given and plus even more ultra-violence. Hence their success in war, I suppose.
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This is a link post Send Bobs & Vegana Music Video NSFW

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This is a normal post Unexpected gold

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This is a normal post These Tory backbencher sex texts are truly shocking!
I mean, the spelling is atrocious.
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This is a link post standard ozzy man stuff
quite a good one this time. i like the glass smashing episode at 7.30
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This is a normal post His voice is really high. Like a kid's.

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This is a normal post Don't knock it. He's voicing phone adverts these days.

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This is a normal post I managed 30 seconds.

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This is a normal post Story of your life.

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This is a normal post I rather enjoyed that.
But the first one was the best.
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This is a normal post his voice is now on an advert in the UK
fair d'income
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This is a normal post You'd think that
the second time, he could have moved to a better spot and got a much better photo. Especially as it all happened in slow motion.
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This is a normal post He clearly expected the driver not to fuck it up a second time.
Especially since he was going so much slower.
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This is a normal post
A most peculiar pastime.
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