Free as a Dodo: UK Politics Welcomes 2021

the bottom of the range 110 volt hammer drill by Bosch is good for chasing out walls tbf, no point getting expensive brands when you burn the motor out in 9 months. Will that do plax?

it was more about Kieth looking like a normie chump!

When you see stupid melty pols doing photo ops with power tools you never see them sweating like fuck and covered in plaster dust, black lime and asbestos. it really triggers me.

don't who that was that they trotted out for the 8:40 interview on radio 4 but it wasn't pretty. young kid parroting the tory party line, trying to talk about the good things the government are doing but having to answer the corruption allegations re johnson's redecortation, mostly with 'i don't have that information'.

but when asked about cummings and whether what he was believable he mentioned that rose garden speech and said that people could make their minds up based on that. y'know, the one the government was 100% behind at the time but which they are now suggesting was bullshit.

(don't know who that was)

xp to Plax

we all know why Kieth suffers from "white finger" and it ain't from pulling pints or using power tools for long periods

Thérèse Coffey seems to have turned into Benny Hill since her tenure in the Butthole Surfers, still politics will do that to a person I guess

can i blame the cheap radio and bathroom acoustics? because it did sound to me (both the voice and the content) like a very junior minister that had been pushed forward as cannon fodder.

Junior not in terms of age though.

maybe Robert Jenrick is on holiday. I heard about 10 minutes of it this morning and wasn't taking anything in.

it seems there is a court of appeal hearing at 10.30 am, a libel case with some twitterbloke vs Rachel Riley

When I was a lad I used to get confused about what is known as Junior Football in Scotland, which is (sort of) the equivalent of non-league football in England. I imagined it was all young lads until I saw a Junior Football Cup Final - these used to get shown live every year - and found it was all bruisers from Ayrshire, aged from 16 to 40, kicking lumps out of each other.

"If that's Junior Baiano I wouldn't like to meet Senior Baiano!"

plenty of old seasoned sex-offenders like Charlie Elphicke and Mark Francois were junior ministers in recent years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tgYKdcwmzQ

this livestream of the Riley vs Sivier hearing is riveting stuff, a courtroom in complete silence but the tension is palpable!

the bottom of the range 110 volt hammer drill by Bosch is good for chasing out walls tbf, no point getting expensive brands when you burn the motor out in 9 months. Will that do plax?

― calzino, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 08:03 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol this is my most recent acquisition and i wish i had bought one years ago. hammer drill necessary bc i live in a solid block building after spending years living in crumbly victorian flats where the issue was usually trying to find a piece of wall that wouldn't fall apart when you look at it rather than something that laughs at my drill

I still have my Makita 24 volt rechargeable, lol the batteries are practically dysfunctional from a decade of barely using them. I need to spend about three days charging and discharging them before they will good enough for one simple job!

uh

What is the name of this aesthetic? pic.twitter.com/Mw9GgotMAt

— Hannah Rose Woods (@hannahrosewoods) April 27, 2021

looks like a freaking nazi Gaswagen!

who is funding this clown campaign now?

I still have my Makita 24 volt rechargeable, lol the batteries are practically dysfunctional from a decade of barely using them. I need to spend about three days charging and discharging them before they will good enough for one simple job!

― calzino, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 09:50 (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

tbf there is also something deeply annoying about amateurs buying professional tools when they don't need them. its like people who cycle to work but have to buy the most expensive bike and get up in the most ridiculous gear to cycle a couple of miles when its not too rainy. I get really annoyed by craft people being fussy about gear rather than being inventive. im making a lamp out of bits of offcuts leftover from something i built on my balcony and i don't need all the top stuff and anyway i have to figure out how to make it work. i think that's fun! its very different from being a professional and i hate that pose of needing all the best stuff. to be honest i find that buying a DeWalt cordless to put together ikea furniture is exactly the kind of thing i would expect off posh melty men. that said i do enjoy that thing where you decide to use something better quality than what you're used to and you really appreciate the difference. for instance i've recently realised what a difference really good quality wood screws make or after years of only having sewing machines that were ready for the bin i was bought a refurbished semi industrial a few years ago and its so satisfying just running a straight line of stitches still!

When I was an apprentice one of the brutes I worked with wouldn't let me use a pistol drill and insisted I used a screwdriver because my "scrawny arms needed building up"!

oh i hate that

when i met my bf he was like 'no i think you need a special kind of drill for that' and insisted on using screwdrivers and i was like what is going on?

allow labour saving devices to save you labour!

you can do the same tasks with a trusty irozola posi-driver and some elbow action - but why bother if you don't need to!

irazola even

I don't know why they bother doing livestreams from court of appeal hearings with absolutely no audio

tried to watch the Rachel Riley trial livestream but gave up after 5 minutes of impenetrable nervous umming from a lawyer, so if you have no audio you aren't missing anything

lol there is audio after all, my speakers were turned off.

I notice that "Boris defending" consists of saying "I believe the Prime Minister and the way he is concentrating on the vaccination programme" or such like, in a way that the recording can't be shortened to exclude the push without it sounding like a half sentence?

Looks like Arlene Foster could be on her way out in NI. Unfortunately she'll just be replaced by some other headbanger in a sash and a bowler hat.

I need to check in with one of my Nordie pals but she’s a pretty savvy operator. Not sure they have anyone knocking around capable of same.

Huge “...and then of course punk came along and that was it for bands like us....” energy pic.twitter.com/akUB8Hg0zP

— Ben Machell (@ben_machell) April 27, 2021

lol check out shaved Catweazle

Or, Paul Weller, um, that’s it

more like one of them bad but amusingly good fan-art drawings of Paul Weller rendered as a photo

Yes. That.

NEW:

Several candidates announce their intention to stand for leadership of the DUP pic.twitter.com/t9KWfObzNA

— Michael Fry (@BigDirtyFry) April 27, 2021

No sense of a clear candidate, theyre sick of her liberal bent tho is the word

I heard this too. Ian Óg might walk it if he goes for it though.

https://i1.sndcdn.com/avatars-000330667683-b4kd7g-t500x500.jpg

Van to take them in a cranky anti-vax cuntish new oh wait

I think even Sir George Ivan Morrison the Man might be a bit too liberal for them as well tbh

Well they are isolationists, maybe they are working towards a "vote ivan to be alone" slogan

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/media/media-releases/2021/digital-divide-narrowed-but-around-1.5m-homes-offline

1 in 5 kids didn't have consistent access to a device for home learning during lockdown, much less actually engaged with anything

i'm sure this will be addressed with the seriousness it deserves

Ian Óg might walk it if he goes for it though.

I'm more of an Angus Óg man tbh.

https://i.imgur.com/gXLXRMe.jpg

I like that cartoon!

Imagine having this kind of blithe confident ignorance

Starmer looks like a man who feels he's done his job. pic.twitter.com/zu1jhFU2Gw

— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) April 28, 2021

Why’s this guy the fucking worst lol

Keir Starmer's spokesperson says he thinks the Labour leader's wedding list was with John Lewis. "Unlike the Prime Minister, he doesn't turn his nose up at John Lewis, thinking it's too downmarket."

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) April 28, 2021