Ne'er get thee stitched til Booris be ditched: UK General Election 2019

Are these snide little shout-outs really necessary? Whether it's Fred or lj or anvil or myself or someone else, It's a veritable constant with you and it drags the thread down tbh.

2xp

HARDER BETTER FASTER STONGER

If the Conservatives can’t even spell ‘strong’ what hope have we actually got? pic.twitter.com/4Lnaxv0TSu

— Donna Wishart - What the Redhead said (@genuineplacebo) December 9, 2019

anvil or myself or someone else

Do not worry about me. I am made of sterner stuff, usually forged or cast steel

I don't doubt it and I even think altercations with ILX nemeses are fine, I just take issue with the absentee sniping. Fred last posted to this thread yesterday and it was in praise of Ken Loach. Wait for him to get here and say something you manifestly disagree with before dissing 'Fred B types' (which is a special kind of contemptuous btw).

I don't remember being unkind toward anvil!

It's disciplinary. Only centrist melt pom types would derail this thread one day before the election with a discussion of civility. Now we know who the centrist melts are. You will get in line.

You have to remember that xyzzzz is a fascist authoritarian at heart, he just reads the tankie echo chamber instead of the alt-right.

The cruelty is the point, as they say.

Yeah anvil is grand

I think I got anvil mixed up with someone else whose name also begins with an a (I think).

Keep on keeping on, xyzzzz

The real thing you do have to remember is that words have real meanings and comrade accelerationist is actually out there canvassing & doing the hard work. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It is unnecessary to club together to chip away at my stylish and exciting post about being made of forged steel. Especially on the eve of an important election.

I personally do not identify with tanks but I have no problems with fists, which are a perfectly acceptable way to solve not just disputes, but elections

but on the other hand, the civil turn of phrase is mightier than the left hook so who knows

Are you a member of the Ukrainian parliament?

Went to BBC News homepage for the first time in a long while - pic of Johnson with Get Brexit Done slogan front and centre next to pic of Corbyn clutching a little red book. Just finding it funny at this point really.

SNP have shifted their targeted ads to central belt LAB/SNP marginals

Jeremy Corbyn is in their somewhere. It’s 8am in Govan. Something is stirring. pic.twitter.com/xmLphY38lF

— Aidan Kerr (@AFK103) December 11, 2019

my thoughts are with all of Britain at this time

Are you a member of the Ukrainian parliament?

Dnipro? I donetsk, tbh

but especially with anvil for being confused with dog latin

Remoind me how many times Fred been banned now.

No idea why Comrade Alphabet feels it necessary to keep winding him up though.

bcz i am tired and stressed and on deadline with something that could hardly be less election-relevant i shall forego my (yes irresponsible, yes shallow) impulse to translate "forged steel" as "fake stalin"

It is unnecessary to club together to chip away at my stylish and exciting post about being made of forged steel. /Especially/ on the eve of an important election.

Ah ffs mark beat me to it.

Remember last election Corbyn got a great reception in Glasgow, here’s hoping they can retain more Scottish seats. Nicking a couple more seems outrageously optimistic though.

" am made of sterner stuff, usually forged or cast steel"

I read somewhere Harold Wilson(trying to shake off his grammar school poshboy shackles), in tough as gammon Yorkshireman mode once tried some bullshit "men aren't born int north - they are forged int steelyards" type line to which their was an obv witty repartee about what a superficial pillock he was! I'm not feeling much Harold Wilson energy today, more like Neil Kinnock energy :(

Ah yes dl was the name I was looking for rather than anvil, going to book an appointment at the geriatric clinic forthwith.

This is easily the worst thing you’ve said itt, fuck’s sake pom

A terrible man in many ways but still have a lorra lorra love for Harold Wilson.

a much nicer class of bullshit merchant than our current pm

Wait, what?

xp

We don't exactly have a lot of Labour Prime Ministers to choose from :(

I'm changing my vote

This forged steel is faulty

chatting w/my sister last weekend -- hola hastings massive -- she reminded me that as a tot (born 1963) she was just an obsessive harold wilson stan, she LOOOOOOVED HIIIIIIIIM and today declares herself a pioneer and a prophet, pleased and vindicated that non-phoney wislonmania has unexpectedly spat out the dust it had bitten and re-emerged stronger than ever

i too am fond of him for similar warm&comfy 60s childhood reasons, especially his pipe (my dad also smoked a pipe back then, it was a thing).

all politics is forged: it's a term of excellent derridean ambiguity *back to work ffs*

Melts can't melt forged steel

especially his pipe (my dad also smoked a pipe back then, it was a thing).

I heard somewhere recently - I think it was on Bargain Hunt, where they had some Wilsonian memorabilia! - that Harold was actually more of a cigar smoker but adopted the pipe for image-building purposes. It worked, clearly.

Wait, what?

xp

This is covered in the thoroughly accurate TV show The Crown xp

xxp

yeah he was a secret cigar smoker. But I refuse to believe there was anything contrived about the the photo of the triple title winning Hudds Town team he kept in his wallet.

gyac, is there some cultural difference that I’m not getting here? I lost my maternal grandmother, who raised me for the first few years of my life, to Alzheimer’s after almost a decade of memory and identity loss, and my mom and I don’t view such jokes as off-limits.

Though Gyac meant you confusing anvil and dl was the worst thing you said itt. I didn't pick up on the geriatric thing either.

xp I legit mean the recent revelation that we’re the same age, lol

re: Wilson
https://i.postimg.cc/Qdjy3fJ0/9764-D752-885-E-495-C-9-AB0-E88-B4-BACC6-C3.jpg

Oh lol I see now.

I don't doubt it and I even think altercations with ILX nemeses are fine, I just take issue with the absentee sniping. Fred last posted to this thread yesterday and it was in praise of Ken Loach. Wait for him to get here and say something you manifestly disagree with before dissing 'Fred B types' (which is a special kind of contemptuous btw).

― pomenitul, Wednesday, 11 December 2019 bookmarkflaglink

Even that praise of Ken Loach was rubbish but I didn't say anything at the time! Ken made a soppyish pro-Corbyn video yesterday!! He is fighting rn to get people voting Lab!

reading the chad wilson diagram as "MARRIED TO A POST" and thinking HELL YEAH

i could never settle down with just one

I think if we’re all honest with ourselves we’ll admit that Wilson was a daddy

evidence of blobbyposting entering the collective unconscious

Why are all of Boris’s election stunts like something from Noel’s House Party?

— edgarwright (@edgarwright) December 11, 2019

Blobby Driver