intellectuals read "books" right?
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/87ac2b939073caab25c6e807bc77198f8d063d84/35_0_953_572/master/953.jpg?width=620&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=94f652335b55d15474fa275778221328
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 13:25 (four years ago) link
I mean fair play to the lad - he’s got books on his windowsill that I wouldn’t have in my toilet.
― gyac, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 13:28 (four years ago) link
raab's intellect and grasp of policy: "“I hadn’t quite understood the full extent of this,” he said. “But if you look at how we trade in goods, we are particularly reliant on the Dover-Calais crossing.”
― mark s, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 13:54 (four years ago) link
he clearly hadn't yet gotten around to reading the imposing hardback volume which explains the basics of modern british industry
― a promiscuous, flighty art student looking for love (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 13:58 (four years ago) link
and indeed ancient british marine geography
― mark s, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:01 (four years ago) link
or Arnie's autobiography
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:01 (four years ago) link
Things you were shockingly old when you learned (cos of library consisting of readers digest book club staples - which you haven't read)
― calzino, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:02 (four years ago) link
tfw you need to appear smart on tv but you don't own any bookshelves
― a promiscuous, flighty art student looking for love (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:03 (four years ago) link
having the time of my life with a bunch of bookshelves, they're all just out of frame, laughing too (at me)
― mark s, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:11 (four years ago) link
Bookshelves obviously crammed with unsold copies of "Britannia Unchained".
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:14 (four years ago) link
at home with the Raabs
a good book is a magical portal to another world pic.twitter.com/IpfxVJ17af— Alex Norris (@dorrismccomics) December 19, 2018
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:16 (four years ago) link
He’s the one with the injunctions involving two women, right?
― suzy, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:18 (four years ago) link
Really? Never heard anything about that, but hardly matters with Boris "Family Man" Johnson in the race.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:21 (four years ago) link
I am p. sure books should not be on windowsills, given how faded the books on my bookshelf in the vague proximity of a window which doesn't even get any direct sunlight are
but I guess they're only going to sit there for an hour and then the intern will be sent to take them back to the remainder bookshop they probably all came from an hour before the shoot
"the thickest books you've got in your £3 section, please. Arnie? sure, whatever, it's a hardback and has classy-looking shiny text"
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:22 (four years ago) link
look there's no reason to bring back up the allegations of 'inappropriate behaviour with a woman' which afflicted mr raab some two years ago, have never been conclusively proven and thus in no way are a cause for concerns about his character
nor indeed the ones which similarly bedeviled rory stewart, who did you know actually walked across afghanistan and speaks dari
― a promiscuous, flighty art student looking for love (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:24 (four years ago) link
i think dominic raab buys his books by the kilo
― a promiscuous, flighty art student looking for love (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:25 (four years ago) link
Pound, surely?
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:26 (four years ago) link
fuck you're right, i've exposed my soft latte-sipping underbelly
― a promiscuous, flighty art student looking for love (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:28 (four years ago) link
anyway, while we're on the subject of raab and books, here he is defending his sketchy understanding of the good friday agreement
He also admitted he hadn’t read the Good Friday Agreement – crucial to peace in Northern Ireland – start to finish.“At various points in the negotiations, when issues have been raised, it has been an important opportunity to delve into the different aspects very carefully,” he told MPs.“It’s not like a novel where you sit down and you say ‘do you know what, over the holidays, this is a cracking read’.”
“At various points in the negotiations, when issues have been raised, it has been an important opportunity to delve into the different aspects very carefully,” he told MPs.
“It’s not like a novel where you sit down and you say ‘do you know what, over the holidays, this is a cracking read’.”
harry bickling-baker schooled and owned
― mark s, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:30 (four years ago) link
Posting for posterity: That transformer textbot today, fed something about Boris, threw up "Bozzers has a face like the scene of a crime."
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:31 (four years ago) link
i did enjoy that two of the tory boys interviewed for that piece were named harry
― a promiscuous, flighty art student looking for love (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:32 (four years ago) link
"Bozzers has a face like the scene of a crime."
o fuck it's gaining sentience
:)
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:34 (four years ago) link
― mark s, Wednesday, May 29, 2019 2:30 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark
easy targets yes, but old enough to know better and to be mocked by middle aged message board denizens
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link
tory boys are never old enough to know better
― a promiscuous, flighty art student looking for love (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
Bad news, these are all moderates now, since Esther McVey has declared that she would pursue No Deal as her first and only choice.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 15:04 (four years ago) link
― gyac, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
My boy has taken opium then.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 30 May 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
Rory Stewart’s a canny good illustration of the violence wreaked upon British masculinity by TE Lawrence, Patrick Leigh Fermor and Bruce Chatwin— Viva la Paul Crowther Brigada (@pdkmitchell) May 30, 2019
Mildly interesting thread on Rory Stewart lit
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 30 May 2019 18:51 (four years ago) link
Wait...is he genuinely your choice or are you actually in the tank for some mad accelerationist fave?
― gyac, Thursday, 30 May 2019 18:51 (four years ago) link
Choice for leader? No, I don't care I want a general election and Corbyn at 10 (and btw I'm no accelerationist either, but I know I can give that impression).
He has added some mild unexpected amusement to what is a fucking grim situation, just riding that wave rn.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 30 May 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link
Fair play.
― gyac, Thursday, 30 May 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
Malthouse or death.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 May 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
Love Gove. McVey’s the way. Raab’s fab.
― gyac, Thursday, 30 May 2019 19:02 (four years ago) link
Hunt's Not A Cunt
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 May 2019 19:05 (four years ago) link
let’s not sell ourselves short, we can have malthouse AND death
― a promiscuous, flighty art student looking for love (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 30 May 2019 19:11 (four years ago) link
hey Malthouse has a middle-classerised scouse accent, it must have been as laugh-a-minute as being in Bread growing up in his house innit Jess?
― calzino, Thursday, 30 May 2019 19:17 (four years ago) link
This is sweet:
A very moving symbol of modern Britain in Woking mosque. Thank you so much for the hospitality #greenfairunited #rorywalks pic.twitter.com/n2H218792D— Rory Stewart (@RoryStewartUK) May 31, 2019
Shane it will enrage the racists in his party
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 31 May 2019 08:35 (four years ago) link
https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2019-06/1/4/asset/buzzfeed-prod-web-05/sub-buzz-30790-1559379473-1.jpg?downsize=1040%3A%2A&output-quality=auto&output-format=auto
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 1 June 2019 16:30 (four years ago) link
curb your enthusiasm theme music is strong with this montage
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 1 June 2019 17:45 (four years ago) link
what has happened to Cleverly and Javid here? I know they are both fucking running jokes ... but no more than the rest of them!
― calzino, Saturday, 1 June 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
... Harper, Malthouse. Javid's one of the frontrunners, suppodely.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 June 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
..osedly
Re that montage
I’d like to report a murder pic.twitter.com/XxKZ1N8lYS— Leicester Legend Grace Petrie (@gracepetrie) June 1, 2019
― gyac, Sunday, 2 June 2019 09:08 (four years ago) link
god javid is such a moron
― naked rollercoaster-riding world record holder (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 2 June 2019 09:11 (four years ago) link
lads ye will have yere fun with thick paddy here but if ye for a second think i swallow an actual tory mp called penny mordaunt i mean rly
― godfellaz (darraghmac), Sunday, 2 June 2019 09:11 (four years ago) link
she’s named after a ship darragh
― gyac, Sunday, 2 June 2019 09:14 (four years ago) link
The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one... but still they come...
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/02/sam-gyimah-joins-tory-leadership-race-offering-second-referendum
― The Guts of Duran Duran (Tom D.), Sunday, 2 June 2019 09:30 (four years ago) link
Waiting for May to throw her hat in the ring at this point
― specific goats my way (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 2 June 2019 09:34 (four years ago) link