Bring cricket back, kill more Tories.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 3 July 2020 21:05 (three years ago) link
one... candle? stirring stuff
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 3 July 2020 21:05 (three years ago) link
It will be a world-beating candle
― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Friday, 3 July 2020 21:07 (three years ago) link
sorry I don't believe in gestures
― specific fry such as scampo (||||||||), Friday, 3 July 2020 21:08 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/CXFV7md.gif
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 3 July 2020 21:12 (three years ago) link
Starmer supports worthless gesture from failed UK govt and says "I admire empty gestural politics a lot and am impressed with the manner in which candles melt at a much slower rate than me"
― calzino, Friday, 3 July 2020 21:21 (three years ago) link
Literally the only good thing about cricket is the fact that after exporting it Britain is now soundly thrashed by her colonies on the regular. Long may this continue
― glumdalclitch, Friday, 3 July 2020 18:58 (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
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― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 3 July 2020 21:24 (three years ago) link
Not actually true though.
― The Fields o' Fat Henry (Tom D.), Friday, 3 July 2020 22:37 (three years ago) link
Lol Eng are *checks notes* current holders of the world cup!
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 3 July 2020 22:42 (three years ago) link
Some v interesting polling from @RedfieldWilton for @BBCNewsnight. Among other things, says that 70% of those polled think that the UK will see a second Covid wave. pic.twitter.com/If73azrMwP— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) July 3, 2020
OK I'm going to call the second wave for January.
― Matt DC, Friday, 3 July 2020 23:07 (three years ago) link
Seems very unlikely there'll be one with the polling that way unless people massively relax, and even then it's still summer and no one's moving from one part of the country to the other. If this continues - bar the occasional localised outbreak - people will feel fine by December and there'll be an explosion of social activity, people travelling round the country etc.
― Matt DC, Friday, 3 July 2020 23:09 (three years ago) link
It also means a gigantic recession between now and then so yay.
― Matt DC, Friday, 3 July 2020 23:15 (three years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EcCOb1MXgAY4RSo?format=jpg&name=900x900
― calzino, Friday, 3 July 2020 23:19 (three years ago) link
I'm too irredeemably Catholic to comment on this
― calzino, Friday, 3 July 2020 23:21 (three years ago) link
Dying that this is the line you draw.
― scampos mentis (gyac), Friday, 3 July 2020 23:24 (three years ago) link
God, imagining walking into a pub and seeing him at the bar, you'd be like, "Nah, let's go somewhere else".
― The Fields o' Fat Henry (Tom D.), Friday, 3 July 2020 23:27 (three years ago) link
I had been figuring September/Oct for the first big flare-ups, depending on weather and how many are forced back to work but if the US continues to get worse like it is that will scare people all summer. Hard to imagine us getting through Christmas safely though so yea, a Jan/Feb disaster (with added flu + Brexit) seems likely.
― stet, Friday, 3 July 2020 23:31 (three years ago) link
anyone been down the pub yet
― specific fry such as scampo (||||||||), Saturday, 4 July 2020 07:25 (three years ago) link
What pubs are actually open already? Just spoons?
― Keir’d flex (wins), Saturday, 4 July 2020 07:33 (three years ago) link
must only be spoons and some other odd outliers
Here it is, the Moon Under Water in Colindale, the pub I *believe* will serve the first pint in London for three and a half months, at 8am. Fairly sure there will be an earlier starter somewhere out there in England. If so, let me know about it. pic.twitter.com/OBKgcdBu40— Rob Davies (@ByRobDavies) July 4, 2020
Ah, the classic English pub experience. pic.twitter.com/MMg3znMkvr— Rob Davies (@ByRobDavies) July 4, 2020
Here it is...what I believe may be the first pint served in London since March. pic.twitter.com/m2PT0TXV1m— Rob Davies (@ByRobDavies) July 4, 2020
― specific fry such as scampo (||||||||), Saturday, 4 July 2020 07:35 (three years ago) link
This is all very low energy. Draft Michaelia Cash.
Employment Minister @SenatorCash rather enjoyed the idea of Australians "having a curry for the country" to help support re-opening small businesses 🍛 🇦🇺 #auspol @SBSNews pic.twitter.com/4b6hnEJQ1H— Brett Mason (@BrettMasonNews) May 15, 2020
I think Wetherspoons normally opens about seven or eight, idk.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Saturday, 4 July 2020 07:44 (three years ago) link
The Spoons in Cannon Street station was a 7am opening godsend one morning after going clubbing a few years back.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 4 July 2020 09:33 (three years ago) link
Spoons round here opened at 7 but didn't use to serve booze until 8 or 9, can't remember, fucking lightweights. queues outside one of the Spoons in town here this morning apparently, nearest open pub to me booked to capacity, no walk-ins, i've had a skeg at the rules and regs for a couple of places that are open, fuck this grim parody
(reserve the right to go and join the grim parody if anybody i know gives me a shout)
― Committee of Public Scampi (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 4 July 2020 09:53 (three years ago) link
I know you've all been hammered for four hours but this is much better from Labour and sounds like a more promising approach to welfare:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jul/04/labour-unemployment-could-go-way-beyond-anything-weve-experienced?CMP
― Matt DC, Saturday, 4 July 2020 10:01 (three years ago) link
who'd have thought going for a few scoops in the pub could rendered into such a joyless bourgeoisie kind of activity!
― calzino, Saturday, 4 July 2020 10:04 (three years ago) link
there's a bit of me that looks round at the UK in July 2020 and contemplates the future and is glad/sad i don't keep a loaded revolver in the house
― Committee of Public Scampi (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 4 July 2020 10:08 (three years ago) link
oh well, there's always pretend football to look forward to
― Committee of Public Scampi (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 4 July 2020 10:09 (three years ago) link
Thinking about that Lewis Goodall thread - 7% of the UK population is still enough to keep socially distanced pubs at capacity I'd guess?
― Matt DC, Saturday, 4 July 2020 10:16 (three years ago) link
and then some, bearing in mind there were fewer and fewer pubs before lockdown and a chunk of them will have shut forever in the last 3 months
― Committee of Public Scampi (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 4 July 2020 10:25 (three years ago) link
But is “socially distanced capacity” enough to keep smaller places going
― Keir’d flex (wins), Saturday, 4 July 2020 10:28 (three years ago) link
as always happens in moments of capitalist crisis only the strongest biggest chains will survive. and we know that's because they're the best, right?
― Committee of Public Scampi (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 4 July 2020 10:30 (three years ago) link
Labour need to sort out their message discipline, the leader doesn't support an indefinite furlough, the shadow employment sec says it needs extending. They are all over the place and every time Starmer is putting his Tory fucking bat signal up it's undermining anything good coming from the shadow cabinet.
― calzino, Saturday, 4 July 2020 10:31 (three years ago) link
I am just concern trolling really. I couldn't gaf about message discipline, put the whole fucking party on a bonfire with Starmer on the top!
― calzino, Saturday, 4 July 2020 10:36 (three years ago) link
Imagine going to a pub and seeing this. Safest never to go again. pic.twitter.com/ZSZXNiIlr5— Dawn “Join A Union” Foster (@DawnHFoster) July 4, 2020
Christ.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 4 July 2020 10:46 (three years ago) link
I saw a different one of the same ghastly quartet from hell last night and just assumed it was photoshopped, the humanity!
― calzino, Saturday, 4 July 2020 10:49 (three years ago) link
reading the mood of the nation by hanging out with everybody's favourite Tim Wetherspoon while Gove nervously clutches his milk stout and wonders which end you drink out of
― Committee of Public Scampi (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 4 July 2020 10:50 (three years ago) link
even more so than Theresa May, Gove is very bad weird and I say this as a confirmed weirdo myself! He always looks like he's just hatched out of an egg and using a drinking receptacle for the first time in his life.
― calzino, Saturday, 4 July 2020 10:59 (three years ago) link
timmy spoons rubbing his hands together there looks like a composite of all the sheriffs of nottingham from cinema history
― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Saturday, 4 July 2020 11:04 (three years ago) link
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/comedy/2015-08/28aug/comedy%20duos/burke-enfield.jpg?imwidth=450
L-R: Gove, Martin
― Committee of Public Scampi (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 4 July 2020 11:09 (three years ago) link
Well well
Why Rebecca Long-Bailey had to go, by Paul Masonhttps://t.co/8xsx2yTycG— The Spectator (@spectator) July 4, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 4 July 2020 11:17 (three years ago) link
Sorry I meant to the revive the British right-wing pundits thread
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 4 July 2020 11:18 (three years ago) link
I think to encourage social distancing in pubs they should place a sat down model of Mason at every second table! It's hilarious looking at some of his old posts on Starmer from back in February/March, he is such sad old bullshit merchant I almost feel sorry for him and then you see him writing in The Spectator.
― calzino, Saturday, 4 July 2020 11:28 (three years ago) link
stoya come to Spoons
― Committee of Public Scampi (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 4 July 2020 11:34 (three years ago) link
imagine if you bumped into him irl and he pulled out a bag of spice and said get some of this snorted up and we'll talk some politics!
― calzino, Saturday, 4 July 2020 11:38 (three years ago) link
also he thinks Homeland is the greatest tv series ever, fuck me that is most dismal US centist bullshit propaganda since the West Wing.
― calzino, Saturday, 4 July 2020 11:41 (three years ago) link
lol whut
― mark s, Saturday, 4 July 2020 11:44 (three years ago) link
Claire Danes performance in Homeland has to stand as a landmark in 21st century acting / dramatising a thing most ppl don't even know exists, via a vulnerability that is all too familiar. Homeland is over but the reality it portrays sadly not... pic.twitter.com/iW9QNfVlHw— Paul Mason (@paulmasonnews) May 3, 2020
― calzino, Saturday, 4 July 2020 11:46 (three years ago) link
Claire Danes come to Spoons looking confused and annoyed
― Committee of Public Scampi (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 4 July 2020 11:47 (three years ago) link
first two series of WW at least have some p funny sit-com-style ensemble work abt how wonks who consider themselves super-smart and in certain specific (wonkish) ways *are* super-smart, are also often p dumb
― mark s, Saturday, 4 July 2020 11:47 (three years ago) link