Does anyone even know it past the first 4 lines? It's like Auld Lang Syne
― the fucking cunts treat us like Styx (Matt #2), Friday, 8 May 2020 12:45 (four years ago) link
a drag bar near me used to finish off the night with "We'll Meet Again" which took on a wonderfully blurry buddhist quality tbh
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 May 2020 12:46 (four years ago) link
A 'national singalong' at 9:10 apparently, just after the queen's speech!
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 8 May 2020 12:49 (four years ago) link
When I was in primary school we did a VE Day musical that ended with everyone singing We'll Meet Again while a boy dressed as Churchill & a boy dressed as Hitler came on stage from separate wings, met in the middle & shook hands. Even as a small child it seemed a bit weird— crosby stills nash & manners (@jamiemannersRIP) May 8, 2020
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 8 May 2020 12:50 (four years ago) link
My national anthem is Treat Me Like a Pirate
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 May 2020 12:51 (four years ago) link
any song can be good, apart from if it is appropriated by bovine middle england in a pervasive militarism sort of context!
― calzino, Friday, 8 May 2020 12:51 (four years ago) link
I'm not sure I entirely follow Tracer's post - asking for unemployed people to be given jobs is surely asking them to risk their lives if we're stuck with insufficient PPE, ventilators, etc.?
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 8 May 2020 13:10 (four years ago) link
he's saying that the focus of the opposition should be on reconstruction after the necessary safety precautions are no longer necessary
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 May 2020 13:12 (four years ago) link
and a reconstruction that isn't an unseemly scramble back to the pre-rona shithole
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 May 2020 13:13 (four years ago) link
Daniel, that depends with the jobs - Fruit picking is on the other end of the scale from meat packing, I understand.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 8 May 2020 15:28 (four years ago) link
We are now in that phase where the main task of the Government's morning messaging on a national crisis is to kick back against the Government's evening messaging from the previous day. https://t.co/1G7KDmj8VH— Stewart Wood (@StewartWood) May 7, 2020
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 8 May 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link
street party going on in our very middle class road, they've blocked it off with cars and there are kids playing football, social distancing be damned.
― a slice of greater pastry (ledge), Friday, 8 May 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link
and the red white and blue death held sway over all
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 May 2020 15:58 (four years ago) link
in the passage the usual suspects are out in front of their shared houses (two households of eurostudents who dont social distance from one another and last night were playing the guitar v badly before and after the clapping)
― mark s, Friday, 8 May 2020 16:04 (four years ago) link
Bad (public) guitar playing a far worse crime than refusal to social distance.
― Frank Bough: I Took Drugs with Vice Girls (Tom D.), Friday, 8 May 2020 16:08 (four years ago) link
well yes
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 May 2020 16:08 (four years ago) link
Celebrating VE Day by ensuring that anyone who still remembers the war will die a painful and suffocating death.
― Matt DC, Friday, 8 May 2020 16:10 (four years ago) link
I've seen ripped young middle class lads from the posh side of town doing what looked like a mini kickboxing tournaments in the park and a guy was coaching group of children at the tennis club in the last few days. No bbq's or fools with tribal tattoos - no five oh it seems!
― calzino, Friday, 8 May 2020 16:11 (four years ago) link
I should have added ..white ripped young middle class lads!
― calzino, Friday, 8 May 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Friday, 8 May 2020 16:25 (four years ago) link
I imagine he'll fuck it up, but getting to put the boot into Boris on the front cover of the Telegraph on the 75th anniversary of VE day is something all the same.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 8 May 2020 16:37 (four years ago) link
street parties today in front of middle class houses, beer circles on the kerb among polish dudes - literally no difference from a similar bank holiday weekend from any other year. masks only once you start approaching big shops.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 8 May 2020 16:41 (four years ago) link
The May Day Spike should ensure that Blighty puts clear air between us and the silver medal pretenders in the Coronalympics 2020. Hooray!
― the fucking cunts treat us like Styx (Matt #2), Friday, 8 May 2020 17:00 (four years ago) link
"scones were served at 1940's themed tea parties"
I'm pouring one out for the Red Army tonight, fuck Britain
― calzino, Friday, 8 May 2020 17:06 (four years ago) link
otm comrade
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 May 2020 17:19 (four years ago) link
Lol
Italy's death toll from the coronavirus passes 30,000, the highest in the EU https://t.co/kSuKiy61BA— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) May 8, 2020
― gyac, Friday, 8 May 2020 17:41 (four years ago) link
it's almost as if
ok i'll stop
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 May 2020 17:42 (four years ago) link
It’s good to know that the disdain for gaudy celebrations in the height of this pandemic is *checks notes*antisemitic?
Boom! D’Ancona out of nowhere to claim the 2020 VE Day Pretending Not To Understand Things You Do Understand Hack Challenge! This lesser known journeyman has been seen as a dull plodder but he’s feigning moronic ignorance with the very worst in the business today, sensational! pic.twitter.com/V073DeeYVB— Flying_Rodent (@flying_rodent) May 8, 2020
― gyac, Friday, 8 May 2020 17:43 (four years ago) link
scared because in a just, post-rona world what role is there for a D'Ancona?
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Friday, 8 May 2020 17:45 (four years ago) link
Good thing we left the eu or we’d have got a real showing up there
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Friday, 8 May 2020 17:45 (four years ago) link
"scones were served at 1940's themed tea parties"I'm pouring one out for the Red Army tonight, fuck Britain
― Fizzles, Friday, 8 May 2020 17:48 (four years ago) link
That Matthew D'Ancona tweet reminded me of this, which I'm sure wasn't the intention.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f_DPrSEOEo
― Frank Bough: I Took Drugs with Vice Girls (Tom D.), Friday, 8 May 2020 17:57 (four years ago) link
Is the disdain for gaudy VE Day celebrations more antisemitic than... Winston Churchill?
― santa clause four (suzy), Friday, 8 May 2020 18:27 (four years ago) link
Yep Tooze and Egerton have been a good antidote to the widespread manure getting sprayed everywhere today
― calzino, Friday, 8 May 2020 18:29 (four years ago) link
Tooze is the grandson of soviet spy Arthur Wynn after all!
― calzino, Friday, 8 May 2020 18:32 (four years ago) link
real england update: someone on the street whatsapp group was 'shocked and horrified at the disregard for social distancing, it's like living on a sink estate', and an ambulance couldn't get through. someone said this was ridiculous, 'the local mp and the police said it was ok to block the road and the ambulance driver said it was ok', someone else said 'the hysteria for every living person to stay at home is ridiculous'.
― a slice of greater pastry (ledge), Friday, 8 May 2020 22:02 (four years ago) link
you'd think Starmer with his oh so w/c factory boss dad who was obv a bit of a labour party history geek might have an inkling that it traditionally wasn't a party that protected the interests of minority groups like wealthy landlords. That was the job of the other party.
― calzino, Saturday, 9 May 2020 08:38 (four years ago) link
Looking after the interests of all those millions of exploited worker ants might not win you plaudits from the UK media but that is supposed to be your job, cunt!
― calzino, Saturday, 9 May 2020 08:41 (four years ago) link
absolutely pathetic policy, protecting landlords from sustaining even the briefest hits to the income, at a time when almost every other industry is in freefall, at the expense of the rentier class, who are expect to pick up the debt or bankrupt themselves https://t.co/nAKQJEG1Ww pic.twitter.com/gaPz51rh9H— tristandross (@tristandross) May 9, 2020
― calzino, Saturday, 9 May 2020 08:42 (four years ago) link
radical landlord policies are needed during a crisis like this, not as radical as I'd like but protecting their wealth like nothing is happening here and putting the financial burden of c-19 on renters is a right wing tory policy.
― calzino, Saturday, 9 May 2020 08:46 (four years ago) link
*some* people get stopped and arrested by covid-ridden cops for sitting alone in parks or on train platformswhile *others* are celebrated as a heartening puff piece by the state broadcaster (yes) while helping to guarantee a second peak of infectionthis country is wildddddd pic.twitter.com/CjVmDcGM2Q— michael (@Sisyphusa) May 9, 2020
god damn it that pic makes me want to commit a mass shooting
― calzino, Saturday, 9 May 2020 08:51 (four years ago) link
whatthefuck
― Millennials are using this app to speak in just 3 weeks. (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 9 May 2020 08:54 (four years ago) link
exterminate all the brutes
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 9 May 2020 08:56 (four years ago) link
meanwhile
All travellers coming to Britain will be quarantined for a fortnight in an effort to avoid a second peak of the coronavirus pandemic, Boris Johnson will announce tomorrow.The prime minister will say in an address to the nation that passengers arriving at airports and ports, including Britons returning from abroad, will have to self-isolate for 14 days.Under the measures, which are likely to come into force in early June, travellers will have to provide the address at which they will self-isolate on arrival.The authorities will conduct spot checks and those found to be breaking the rules face fines of up to £1,000 or even being deported. However, the aviation and holiday industry has warned that the move could be catastrophic for business. It is likely to end any lingering hopes that Britons could take their summer holidays abroad this year.
― Millennials are using this app to speak in just 3 weeks. (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 9 May 2020 09:07 (four years ago) link
yes timing-wise this seems like a weird flex
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 9 May 2020 09:09 (four years ago) link
maybe a bit of misdirection while he lets flash mobs of union jack draped cunts run amok round carphone warehouse
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 9 May 2020 09:10 (four years ago) link
give an address and be ready for a "spot check", ie "oh please don't go out"
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 9 May 2020 09:10 (four years ago) link
Amazed UK hadn't already done this, and even so it's weak piss. In Sydney where I am, travellers are taken to hotels in the city centre and unable to leave for 14 days
― Zelda Zonk, Saturday, 9 May 2020 09:14 (four years ago) link
yeah but they did that before the rona
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 9 May 2020 09:15 (four years ago) link
TBH I'm amazed there's anyone other than repatriated Brits entering the country at all right now. Then again I saw two planes going over within about ten minutes of one another yesterday and that felt like the most in weeks.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 9 May 2020 09:17 (four years ago) link