How come? Sorry if a stupid question, there’s so much stuff coming out atm.
― gyac, Sunday, 12 April 2020 15:59 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVai_D1XsAMocoo?format=jpg&name=900x900This thing being leaked in a million low quality JPEGs. This ones after the 2017 exit poll.
― gyac, Sunday, 12 April 2020 16:09 (four years ago) link
What a truly bizarre, carefully co-ordinated attack on Starmer this is pic.twitter.com/LyW00vnzEU— Sam ✌️ (@samisam147) April 11, 2020
Well this was predictable.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 12 April 2020 16:10 (four years ago) link
Even the most uncontroversial criticism of the government is whipped up in an attempt to generate hysteria but apparently political point scoring in a crisis is fine when the CCHQ social media team do it.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 12 April 2020 16:12 (four years ago) link
Also you've got to be pretty dumb to retweet several other posts that confirm how obviously pre-scripted it all is.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 12 April 2020 16:16 (four years ago) link
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-government-close-to-lies-over-coronavirus-deaths-warns-expert-11972083
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 12 April 2020 16:20 (four years ago) link
it's possible that their realisation of how badly they could come out of the other side of this is gonna make them hyper-aggressive but it's Steer Karma ffs, it's like savaging a dead sheep
― où sont les threads d'antan? (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 April 2020 16:20 (four years ago) link
chill the fuck out Kier for goodness sake, you impetuous angry radical firebrand you!
― calzino, Sunday, 12 April 2020 16:23 (four years ago) link
So what’s the story on how this child of a nurse and tradesman named for an ancestral Labour lion grew up into a doughy lad that calzino loathes? (I only looked at Wikipedia for about six seconds here)
― silby, Sunday, 12 April 2020 16:33 (four years ago) link
it’s a real nature-vs-nurture case study
― force ghost bg (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 12 April 2020 16:36 (four years ago) link
xp oh mate
― gyac, Sunday, 12 April 2020 16:38 (four years ago) link
Was it due to a grievous illness, didn’t mean to offend
― silby, Sunday, 12 April 2020 16:41 (four years ago) link
Kinnock had a grittier origin story and was still a complete plank!
― calzino, Sunday, 12 April 2020 16:45 (four years ago) link
he was bitten by a radioactive centrist iirc
― force ghost bg (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 12 April 2020 16:45 (four years ago) link
lol didn't Joe Biden once get into trouble for plagiarising the gritty Kinnock origin story?
― calzino, Sunday, 12 April 2020 16:46 (four years ago) link
xps it’s more to do with the fact that calz hates him & doesn’t need a reason to say this!He’s appointed some dodgy people to his shadow cabinet and hasn’t had much interesting to say on the pandemic, when Labour should be dragging the government for the hideous death figures and its failure to protect NHS staff and other key workers.
― gyac, Sunday, 12 April 2020 16:48 (four years ago) link
not nearly enough trouble if current events are any yardstick xp
― force ghost bg (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 12 April 2020 16:48 (four years ago) link
Lads I know this thread is very serious and we shame the whole site etc etc BUT
I’ve genuinely just had a telephone call from Ian Austin who is threatening to take legal action against me because I referred to him as a “sheep botherer.”— Jon Argles (@JonArgles) April 12, 2020
― gyac, Sunday, 12 April 2020 16:50 (four years ago) link
Let the man sue
― où sont les threads d'antan? (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 April 2020 16:51 (four years ago) link
My defence would be in light of Austin's character any accusation of bothering sheep couldn't possibly diminish him further in the public's opinion
― où sont les threads d'antan? (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 April 2020 16:53 (four years ago) link
His argument is that the sheep didn't seem bothered.— DB (@D_B_90) April 12, 2020
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 12 April 2020 16:54 (four years ago) link
― silby, Sunday, 12 April 2020 16:33 (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
gyac has covered the current situation well but i'll add that calz hates him more for what he isn't than what he is tbh. he isn't a lot of things. what he is exactly (beyond a capable prosecutor) is something of a political mystery, meaning that he could be all things to all people, which in practice has greatly emboldened the centre & right of the labour party
― ban laggy jazzer (imago), Sunday, 12 April 2020 16:56 (four years ago) link
Oh good
― silby, Sunday, 12 April 2020 17:00 (four years ago) link
I was saying that my neighbourhood whatsapp group was nice on here, I think yesterday? well today our alarm went off, I thought it had been disabled years ago, very odd. after I had found how to reset it, saw these messages in the group chat.
An alarm going off somewhere?It's come from the Chinese House. 🤬
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 12 April 2020 17:02 (four years ago) link
Having no obvious political convictions is a real bonus in a party leader
― où sont les threads d'antan? (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 April 2020 17:02 (four years ago) link
and what the fuck does he mean by "the chinese house"? racist cunt.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 12 April 2020 17:03 (four years ago) link
Ffs cam some people are just moronic scumbags
― où sont les threads d'antan? (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 April 2020 17:03 (four years ago) link
xp absolute cuntery, I’m sorry 😞
― gyac, Sunday, 12 April 2020 17:04 (four years ago) link
pretty staggering fact here pic.twitter.com/hrXyVhrWq9— Hadley Freeman-on-the-land (@wariotifo) April 12, 2020
― calzino, Sunday, 12 April 2020 17:15 (four years ago) link
xp I have just called him out in the group chat, I don't like conflict at all, so almost shaking now, but it's got to be done.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 12 April 2020 17:18 (four years ago) link
what a cunt
― calzino, Sunday, 12 April 2020 17:19 (four years ago) link
don't do whatsapp groups with the British public folks.
― calzino, Sunday, 12 April 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link
10 minutes since I posted that in the whatsapp group, 82 participants in there, not a peep since. Hm.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 12 April 2020 17:23 (four years ago) link
they're all building the wicker bojo
― ban laggy jazzer (imago), Sunday, 12 April 2020 17:26 (four years ago) link
*wicker covid-19 cell
in all seriousness though, that is grim
― ban laggy jazzer (imago), Sunday, 12 April 2020 17:28 (four years ago) link
My neighbourhood groups, in descending order of goodness, let me show you them:
Covid Mutual Aid slack group - good at getting stuff done, no nonsense organizing, no chatCovid Mutial Aid FB group - mostly sound, mods delete stupid "waaaah there's people in the parks!" postsBuilding whatsapp group - cool, got to pawn off some veggies I didn't want on neighbours and got a potted tomato plant from one. Occasional frisson caused by the lad downstairs who posts in reddit snark mode, apparently oblivious that that's not the right tone for the place, bless 'imCovid Mutual Aid whatsapp group - mostly abandoned for slackRegular neighbourhood group - Absolutley abysmal, quarantine stasi out in full force, endless handwringing about civility when someone disses Boris. You wouldn't think there's too many tories in Stoke Newington but every last one of them is in this group.
xposts
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 12 April 2020 17:32 (four years ago) link
(that last one's FB too)
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 12 April 2020 17:33 (four years ago) link
Notice how the highest paid jobs in society (banking, hedge funds) have been proven utterly useless and unjustifiable when there’s been a global pandemic, and the lowest paid (nursing, cleaning, teaching) jobs have proven the most useful and essential for a society to function?— Mangal 2 Restaurant (@Mangal2) April 12, 2020
Mangal 2 kebab shop OTM.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 12 April 2020 17:38 (four years ago) link
mangal 2 kebab shop go on trashfuture
― force ghost bg (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 12 April 2020 17:46 (four years ago) link
Presumably Mangal 1 is silent on this because it doesn't think we should be talking down wealth creators at a time of crisis.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 12 April 2020 17:49 (four years ago) link
There absolutely are Tories in N16 ime Daniel, I was once trapped behind a drunk one in a queue at our corner shop who was trying to banter with the man behind the counter (“What part of Turkey are you from?” “Kurdistan” “Never heard of it”). Ofc they were the ones screaming for the army to be sent in during the riots/praising the Turkish & Kurdish shopkeepers turning out in the street when they’d never normally pass air with them otherwise.
― gyac, Sunday, 12 April 2020 17:49 (four years ago) link
The Mangal2 guy is otm about politics more than 98% of the nation’s columnists put together.
― gyac, Sunday, 12 April 2020 17:51 (four years ago) link
those riots really brought the tories and the racists out of their hidey holes
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 12 April 2020 17:52 (four years ago) link
i'll add that calz hates him more for what he isn't than what he is tbh. he isn't a lot of things. what he is exactly (beyond a capable prosecutor) is something of a political mystery
Who the hell doesn't know what Starmer stands for lol.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 12 April 2020 17:53 (four years ago) link
forensic niceness
― où sont les threads d'antan? (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 April 2020 17:54 (four years ago) link
starmer
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 12 April 2020 17:54 (four years ago) link
SensibleThe Grown Up In ChargeArsenal Season Ticket HolderReluctant LeaderModerateEU saviourRespects The Ladies
― gyac, Sunday, 12 April 2020 18:07 (four years ago) link
lol
― ban laggy jazzer (imago), Sunday, 12 April 2020 18:12 (four years ago) link
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 12 April 2020 17:53 (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
granted, 'square-jawed white man' is about the limit of what he truly represents in the minds of most, and it's appalling how this is ample qualification
― ban laggy jazzer (imago), Sunday, 12 April 2020 18:14 (four years ago) link