starmer, obv
― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 18:04 (four years ago) link
obv you have to vote for the man for goodness sake!
― calzino, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 18:23 (four years ago) link
Toby Young is always stanning for eugenics and Darwinism, such an ugly bald shortarse like him ought be careful for what he wishes for.
― calzino, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 18:35 (four years ago) link
this should fix everything
Boris Johnson’s revamped communications strategy to combat coronavirus will be run like a “political campaign” after he drafted in a new team of advisers spearheaded by his Australian former elections chief, senior sources have said.Following criticism over mixed messages and selective briefings in recent weeks, the prime minister and his key adviser Dominic Cummings recruited Isaac Levido, 36, who ran the Tory general election campaign in December.Having already a “grid” of communications centred on the daily press conference, the government is now looking to bring in more experienced campaigners to sharpen the message – with the aim of boosting both public health and the prime minister’s standing.Downing Street is pushing the simple three-part message of “Stay Home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives” to the fore, in the same way that “Get Brexit Done” worked during the election and “Take Back Control” worked for Vote Leave.
― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 19:15 (four years ago) link
One advantage of not going on public transport is that I don't have to hear that fuck-dumb "See it. Say it. Sorted!" bollocks any longer. Not looking forward to some new idiotic slogan blaring out at me in the supermarket (the only place anyone goes these days). Don't how they think “Stay Home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives” is going to work anyway, far too many syllables.
― threnody for the victims of alan shearer (Matt #2), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 19:29 (four years ago) link
Back to Toby Young:
But if the Government does end the lockdown, and it turns out that by the time I require critical care the NHS cannot accommodate me, I won’t regret writing this
Imagine this cunt gratefully choking to death for the sake of the economy, he'll change his tune right enough mark my words.
― threnody for the victims of alan shearer (Matt #2), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 19:30 (four years ago) link
> "See it. Say it. Sorted!"
the worst thing about this is the way that the sentence before ends "we'll sort it" so the whole thing sounds like "Sort It, See It, Say It, Sorted."
― koogs, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 19:36 (four years ago) link
xp
very brave and noble of Toby, but the odds are probably very much in his favour that he won't need critical care, at least not unless somebody pushes him in front of a bus or smashes him in the head with a steel lump hammer!
― calzino, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 19:40 (four years ago) link
At this difficult time I'm willing to sacrifice Toby Young for the greater good.
Also at other, less difficult times.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 19:42 (four years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/o0zG77X7DW— Andrew R (@ExcelPope) March 31, 2020
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 19:56 (four years ago) link
It’s back!
WORLD CUP OF STUPID CENTRIST HACKS - ROUND OF 16 - MATCH 1— World Cup of Stupid Centrist Hacks (@centristhacks) March 31, 2020
― extremely Dutch coughing sound (gyac), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 21:10 (four years ago) link
feel like Lauea K is overrated tbh
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 21:20 (four years ago) link
Voted Cohen because he has the audacity to pretend he's on the left, plus he hijacks some actual problems of anti-semitism in the left and makes them All About Him. Kuenssberg is terrible but also not fooling anyone, imo.
xpost
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 21:20 (four years ago) link
there's a lot of debate about stupid vs montstrous in that whole competitiom tbf
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 21:23 (four years ago) link
Voted Cohen because he’s a sad old lech. Although it did make my day/GE 2019?when he tried to fact-check me in a snotty way on a mutual’s FB thread:
Suzy: ugh I hate Andrew Neil, he gives money to Holocaust denying scum...NC: He wasn’t the editor during the Hitler Diaries, you silly girlSuzy: Idiot, these were Goebbels’ diaries and he paid David Irving six figs to translate them... how is that not enabling an antisemite? NC: Waaaaaaah! I’m not owned!
― santa clause four (suzy), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 21:39 (four years ago) link
so who did we all vote for in the labour leadership contest, then
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 bookmarkflaglink
RLB till I die.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 21:50 (four years ago) link
yeah but who after you've died?!
― calzino, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 21:52 (four years ago) link
pushing the little button i felt a weird little glimmer of hope. when will i ever fucking learn.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 22:35 (four years ago) link
This is horrible.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/mar/31/uk-care-home-staff-at-breaking-point-as-coronavirus-cases-rise
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 22:42 (four years ago) link
Boy, 13, with no underlying health conditions dies in London after testing positive for coronavirus, Kings College Hospital confirm. https://t.co/1CYJUiELHR— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) March 31, 2020
the real face of herd immunity
― calzino, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 22:43 (four years ago) link
Owen Hatherley makes an interesting point on Juliet Jacques podcast that Starmer may need to to keep some of the Labour left around as they’re the only ones coming up with ideas and that a lot of the party’s greatest successes, in terms of concrete lasting institutions like the NHS and OU, were discrete projects given to left-wingers like Bevan and Lee by leaders to the right of them, which might be overly optimistic but we’ll see.
― ShariVari, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 22:46 (four years ago) link
i'd err towards overly optimistic in this case, not trying be rude but just have zero faith in Starmer keeping any Labour left about who actually give a fuck about humanity rather his mysterious sponsors.
― calzino, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 22:52 (four years ago) link
The Tory immigration system: "Go Back Home" - after you've risked your lives to save 'ours' https://t.co/da1WoOXqA6— Maya Goodfellow (@MayaGoodfellow) March 31, 2020
literally not a joke and a joke at the same time.
― calzino, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 23:22 (four years ago) link
why do Jacob Reese-Mogg and his nanny look like they're about to drop the finest synth-pop banger of 1982? pic.twitter.com/l3aHv1N1Vg— elevator muzhik (@elevator_muzhik) March 31, 2020
― calzino, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 23:40 (four years ago) link
Trump doing more opposition than the Lab party:
Trump is now also talking about the UK and herd immunity: “If you remember they were looking at that in the UK and all of a sudden they went hard the other way because they started seeing things that weren’t good. They put themselves in a little bit of a problem.”— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) March 31, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 11:03 (four years ago) link
I absolutely hate agreeing with Trump, not that the fucker has a leg up stand on.
― extremely Dutch coughing sound (gyac), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 11:04 (four years ago) link
even a fascist crank like Trump sees that Herd Immunity is just callous inaction dressed up as a strategy that won't work out well for anybody, not that he's done much better himself tbf!
― calzino, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 11:07 (four years ago) link
i was gonna say "the cunt doesn't even know what day it is" but then i realised i don't know what day it is
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 11:08 (four years ago) link
at the time we were on the herd immunity track trump was allowing flights from the uk to the us but not the rest of the eu because he thought boris was doing a great job
― bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 11:10 (four years ago) link
Trump doing more opposition than the Lab party
I know this is tongue in cheek but otherwise its such a classic Dan Hodges move.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 11:12 (four years ago) link
Estimates from @cmmid_lshtm suggest #UKlockdown could be driving #COVID19 reproduction number below one.But John Edmunds says they're not to be read as ‘job done’. "They should be used as motivation to keep following UK government instructions."More 👉 https://t.co/ntBNhte1ZS pic.twitter.com/QAETWzt0pg— London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (@LSHTM) April 1, 2020
This seems good? I don't even know any more.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 11:13 (four years ago) link
not entirely convinced by the self-reporting nature of that study tbh but yeah huge if true
― bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 11:16 (four years ago) link
Nothing is good any more just more Tories staying alive
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 11:16 (four years ago) link
BREAKING: Edinburgh's August festivals confirm they're postponed, for the first time in over 70 years #coronavirusuk— Severin Carrell (@severincarrell) April 1, 2020
best news I heard since Corden's anxiety attacks!
― calzino, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 11:42 (four years ago) link
Bingo
Didn't know Corden had panic attacks, thank you based psychology
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 11:43 (four years ago) link
he said he's suffering from da rona induced anxiety spikes yesterday. I take much succour from any pain or suffering he has inflicted on himself for once!
― calzino, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 11:49 (four years ago) link
The Prince of Wales has made his first appearance since coming out of self-isolation, following his coronavirus diagnosis, to record a video message in support of Age UK in response to the health crisis.Charles, who is patron of Age UK, said in the footage posted on royal social media accounts: “Having recently gone through the process of contracting this coronavirus - luckily with relatively mild symptoms - I now find myself on the other side of the illness, but still in no less a state of social distance and general isolation.”In the message, recorded on Tuesday morning by staff at Birkhall, the prince’s home in Scotland
― bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 11:57 (four years ago) link
anything's better than posh isolation...
― koogs, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 12:07 (four years ago) link
Somebody released the wallabies from East Park in Hull last night and they're running around a council estate apparently 😅
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 12:30 (four years ago) link
it would feel pretty good to bellow RELEASE THE WALLABIES! into the night you have to admit
― ogmor, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 12:33 (four years ago) link
I wish I'd thought of it. On the other hand, I don't really remember most of yesterday evening.
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 12:42 (four years ago) link
563 addtional uk deaths in the last 24 hrs if i'm reading the numbers correctly
― ymo sumac (NickB), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 13:15 (four years ago) link
Among hospitalised patients - that won't cover the care homes, presumably?
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 13:20 (four years ago) link
Slightly amazed earlier on to find out it's Wednesday tbf.
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 13:21 (four years ago) link
are we still on the italy trajectory?
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 13:27 (four years ago) link
Think the corona traffic controller's shifted us to France
― threnody for the victims of alan shearer (Matt #2), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 13:30 (four years ago) link
No we are growing more slowly than both, only a bit slower than France though.
Idly wondering how that Smurf festival worked out for the participants now.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 13:34 (four years ago) link
Never seen the Stereophonics called that before
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 13:38 (four years ago) link
reckless smurfs gather in defiance (regret at leisure)
:(
― mark s, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 13:38 (four years ago) link
the stereophonics’ singer is smurf-sized iirc
― bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 13:40 (four years ago) link