Keeping on the political thread.
Are you bothering to vote on the police commissioner thing? Sometime next month.
Does voting change stuff, or is it just an excuse for the establishment to keep us in the crap?
Alt, lunch?
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:03, 175 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

I'll probably vote, I should probably find out who's standing before that happens though.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:07, Reply)

Just had a look, I'll go for the Labour one as he's a barrister who's taken an interest in human trafficing.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:11, Reply)

Our local candidate is the ex Labour MP,
So I assume he'll get it. If you put a dead chimp here that's on the Labour ticket, it'll get in.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:12, Reply)

Tell me how you were nearly a politician then Bear Pooks?

(PsychoChomp, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:14, Reply)

Long story mate.
i was offered the choice of being a councillor, and politely turned it down.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:28, Reply)

Unpaid innit?
Fuck that for a game of soldiers.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:31, Reply)

beaucoup expenses doh, bruv

(quintsy, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:03, Reply)

Perhaps this?
inspectorgadget.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/the-biggest-law-and-order-ambush-of-all-time/
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:10, Reply)

if it's not too much to ask could somebody start a thread i give a shit about today please?
thanks
(quintsy, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:14, Reply)

POTATOES

(PsychoChomp, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:15, Reply)

they're so diverse!

(quintsy, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:18, Reply)

I'm afraid that is too much to ask.
Just start a subthread that is more interesting and people will follow you.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:16, Reply)

what's your favourite type of potato?

(quintsy, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:18, Reply)

Alright

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:20, Reply)

that's not a type of potato

(quintsy, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:21, Reply)

It fuckin is.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:24, Reply)

I've had a potato that was alright before.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:26, Reply)

Many of them are. FACT.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:29, Reply)

IT'S NOT A TYPE
you can have potatoes of all types that are alright, but you can't have an alright potato that is just the type of potato that it is
(quintsy, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:59, Reply)

lol i just went to talk and came back and misread my own post as 'what's your favourite type of paedo?'

(quintsy, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:20, Reply)

Website mods

(PsychoChomp, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:21, Reply)

Battered.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:22, Reply)

i liked your post and psychochomp's

(quintsy, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:23, Reply)

if Prescott's still running I'll vote for him
otherwise doubt I'll bother
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:20, Reply)

this isn't america, why the fuck would we vote for someone looking after coppers?
just hire the best candidate, not fucking rocket science.
( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:20, Reply)

So the govt can blame them when the wheels come off.

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:22, Reply)

yeah
disassociative responsibility innit? if the person turns out to be corrupt then there's no-one above him responsible to fire
(quintsy, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:24, Reply)

what difference does it make if they get voted in or not?
broken britain :(
( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:24, Reply)

if i hired a commissioner, say his name was gordon
and it turned out this commissioner "gordon" affiliated with a known vigilante who was wanted for murder and various other public order offences

they could sack him, and me for hiring him. K?
(quintsy, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:26, Reply)

yes, as it should be.
fuck this voting nonsense.
VOTE FOR DENT!!!
( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:29, Reply)

i agree, but the fact is there will always be corrupt officials
and those that hire them want to protect themselves

unless the hirer is corrupt as well
(quintsy, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:32, Reply)

I'm torn on this
My instinct is that it is probably a bad idea, but then not voting won't change that.

Ian Blair has suggested that people should not vote, in protest. But firstly how could you tell the protesting non-voters from the larger group of apathetic non-voters; secondly Ian Blair is a prick.
Looking down the list of candidates I think I ought to vote, if only to prevent the prick tory, who is clearly only in it because he lost his council seat and the fat-faced UKIP guy, who has proven himself to be a prick by being a member of UKIP.

Voting could change things, if everyone did it.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:21, Reply)

All ours are failed local politicians. Coincidence?

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:31, Reply)

Alt: homemade Caribbean chicken stew and rice'n'peas. Well nom.
Voting is gay. YOU'RE gay.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:28, Reply)

you fucking massive ponce.
caribbean food is shit, well known fact.
( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:30, Reply)

YOU RACIST SCOTCH CUNT.
You're just like that Frankie Boyle wanker.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:31, Reply)

fuck you and all your fucking "ganja" smoking hippy friends.

( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:32, Reply)

Shut up dere mon.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:34, Reply)

sonic da hedgehawg
"him allays after dem bling an ring and tings"
( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:36, Reply)

hahaha wtf?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:42, Reply)

doctur robotnik be all ire mon, him be try kill da righteous.

( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:47, Reply)

Seen.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:54, Reply)

We're all gay, and you're a foreigner.
Afternoon Monty, how the devil are you?
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:35, Reply)

I'm pretty fucking rubbish BP, usual bizzle

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:43, Reply)

I saw an ad in Private Eye that reminded me of you

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:47, Reply)

I dunno really,
I don't really know anything about it. They really haven't done a very good job of telling us what the fuck we're voting for. I imagine it's just a way to make us feel good that someone we voted for is in the meetings, but will really do exactly fuck all.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:32, Reply)

they might get to take the minutes, or have some biccies.

( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:34, Reply)

I fucking love biccies,
i might go get a packet of biccies.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:47, Reply)

I don't know why they just don't make a shit Saturday night "reality TV" programme out of it and have done with it.

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:36, Reply)

Because people would actually vote for that.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:37, Reply)

well, the wrong people would actually vote.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:47, Reply)

Voting changes nothing
/nihilistic

Alt: Mint Muller yoghurt with dark chocolate sprinkles.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:36, Reply)

Unless you vote for me!

(PsychoChomp, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:36, Reply)

i'd totaly do a wank if battered wrote a rape fantasy about amberl
i'm just saying
(quintsy, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:37, Reply)

I hope you only sniffed the lid of that yoghurt and threw the rest away?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:39, Reply)

Naturally!
What do you take me for, a glutton or something?

only 80 calories a pot I swear
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:40, Reply)

I'm sure it's 80,000 calories.
everyone ignores the K, don't they.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:47, Reply)

Well that's my year sorted then

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 14:48, Reply)

I hate these 1000 day years

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:05, Reply)

Fuckin Pluto prick

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:10, Reply)

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:11, Reply)

Needs MOAR magenta

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:12, Reply)

Burt Bacharach's later efforts lacked the grace of his earlier work

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:14, Reply)

I won a free twix!
After my free pack of McCoys last week I can only assume Im on some sort of snack winning streak.

Who's pleased for me?
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:02, Reply)

I sure am!

(PsychoChomp, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:02, Reply)

roll out the fucking barrel!

(quintsy, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:03, Reply)

\o/
I had free Special K Red Berries AND some breakfast bars delivered to my door free yesterday
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:05, Reply)

WOO HOO!!!!!!!!!
I think I speak for us all when I say


'shut up Nakers you bent spastic'
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:09, Reply)

I've been shutted up all day though

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:12, Reply)

I know.
That's why I'm back on here. I thought you'd died :o(
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:39, Reply)

Don't give up on voting, ever.
We live in an age of career politicians, but don't let apathy get to you.
(Jimbojames Wishing every day could be like today, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:04, Reply)

Apathy couldn't be arsed to get to me.

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:08, Reply)

I voted for MK1 but they still got the boot
How can I ever believe in democracy again?!
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:08, Reply)

They let you vote for your postcode?
We just had ours forced on us
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:11, Reply)

Free the MK1!

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:12, Reply)

Are we talking some X Factor thing here?
If so, Localboy's response was very good!
(Jimbojames Wishing every day could be like today, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:26, Reply)

I don't really like voting,
it's always organised by dull old people, and I don't trust those arthritis riddled, dementia cunts not to fuck it up.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:14, Reply)

I know it's rubbish and all that,
but if you don't keep at least a bit of an eye on it, then things can build up and laws might get through that make it all worse.
(Jimbojames Wishing every day could be like today, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:25, Reply)

I really want to give a shit Jimbo,
i really do. But politicians are all such pricks.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:29, Reply)

Yes they are - I totally agree.
But you need to let them know that and the best way is by being active in voting - they fear losing votes more than anything.
(Jimbojames Wishing every day could be like today, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:35, Reply)

they faer loosing votes
so we should vote????
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:36, Reply)

Vote for someone else.
The main problem with all politics is that the "swing" as in the people that change their minds from one election to the next is so tiny that politicians can pretty much get away with anything unless they're in a marginal seat.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:38, Reply)

Yeah, well we blew our chance to change the voting system.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:39, Reply)

we?

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:40, Reply)

Proportional representation still has the same problem.
It's the people that go my parents voted con/lab/lib as did their parents before them that fuck everything up.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:41, Reply)

It's con/lab/lib/ukip/green that fuck everything up by being WTN

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:44, Reply)

don't forget the BNP!

(PsychoChomp, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:44, Reply)

but still BTD

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:47, Reply)

I have voted for several someone elses
they never got in. my seat is far from marginal.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:40, Reply)

Well good for you, but there is a problem with voters as the whole not individuals.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:42, Reply)

not really it was a waste of my time and effort
I don't think i'll waste any more of it.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:43, Reply)

Whoever you voted for may have lost their deposit if you didn't vote for them.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:45, Reply)

Oh well, sucks to be them then.

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:46, Reply)

what was the turnout at the last general election?
can someone google it for me please.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:42, Reply)

65.1%
www.ukpolitical.info/Turnout45.htm
(PsychoChomp, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:43, Reply)

Right, see, that's most people.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:46, Reply)

Thanks - that was my point: vote for someone else.
The thing is, you have to try and at least give them a hard time.
(Jimbojames Wishing every day could be like today, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:42, Reply)

yeah, it's done sweet FA so far.
safe labour seat = voted for 3-4 people over the years who weren't labour, still got labour.

cheers this thread has decided me no point wasting the time any more
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:45, Reply)

Don't bother then - it's easier not to worry about it.
Where I lived during the last general election went from Lib Dem to Tory, but there were only about 200 votes in it.
(Jimbojames Wishing every day could be like today, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:52, Reply)

This^

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:35, Reply)

I'm behind this statement 100%

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:36, Reply)

Fair enough,
but what would you like to do to your bank when it charges you for something and you think that's unfair? At least in politics you can try to make a change?
(Jimbojames Wishing every day could be like today, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:46, Reply)

at least with myu bank I don't have the futile illusion that I can change things
and I can change banks
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:47, Reply)

Fair enough,
see above.
(Jimbojames Wishing every day could be like today, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:53, Reply)

I just read this lol "joke" on the daily mail
"A driver was stuck in a traffic jam on the M25. Nothing was moving. Suddenly, a man knocks on the window. The driver rolls down the window and asks, "What's going on?" "English nationalists have kidnapped all of our MP's during a sitting of parliament, and they're asking for a £100 billion ransom. Otherwise, they are going to douse them all in petrol and set them on fire. So we are going from car to car collecting donations." "How much is everyone giving, on average?" the driver asks. The man replies, "Roughly a gallon."
(PsychoChomp, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:24, Reply)

i'm glad my fictionalised version of you isn't this dull

(quintsy, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:25, Reply)

I'm glad your girlfriend can't cook you a baked potato

(PsychoChomp, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:27, Reply)

:(
burn
(quintsy, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:41, Reply)

I'd vote for a new thread.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:38, Reply)

Done.

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:42, Reply)

except it's shit, sorry

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:53, Reply)

Is it too late to vote for a different thread?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 22 Oct 2012, 15:54, Reply)