the day after the deadline: can the union survive brexit and other deep questions

"the Health Lottery" is the most ineptly named charidee of all time

most Charities give a bad name to Charity, but this is just....

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/senior-oxfam-staff-paid-haiti-quake-survivors-take-part-orgies-some-may-have-been-underage-1660029

presumably thanks to all this gammon talk i've found myself with an inescapable earworm of "every girl crazy 'bout a ham-faced man"

Thanks for sharing that

Has there been a right wing hot take of saying 'gammon' is as offensive as the n word.

my own form of charitable contribution xp

I can always remember "Porkman" as the Afro-Caribbean slang for white people 30 odd to 40 years ago. But there weren't discussions on CB radio about it's inherent racism!

I've heard irl idiots complain about "honky" tho

They’ve tried racism but it’s been pointed out to them that it’s mostly other white people calling them gammon; they’re also trying on sizeism but the zipper broke.

There is literally nothing more gammon than claiming that calling people gammon is racist.

Idea: golliwog type dolls, but of gammon. Might set up an etsy store

it's incredible to me how the UK govt, and its media to a slightly lesser extent, act as if it's not only the EU's responsibility to come up with all the creative ideas for solving the complex problems of brexit, but to do so in a way that benefits the UK. it wasn't the EU's idea!!

i mean forgive me if that's an obvious point but it honestly seems like d davis et al are folding their arms and whining that the EU hasn't sorted this all out yet

it's an obvious point but it's surprising in a new way every single day.

That guy really liked interrupting women, whether on the panel or in the audience. But he was too thin and ginge to be proper gammon - I detected check shirt post-mod so a possible WELLEND.

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve both mod and gammon - Matthew 6:24

Here is a recent picture of the band Secret Affair:

https://www.weekendnotes.co.uk/images/secret-affair-082.JPG

I'm not saying that's gammon, I'm saying it could pass for gammon.

NickB: too brilliant for the Excelsior thread

*stands, applauds*

yeah, holy shit

(jfc I didn't notice the Spoonerism and now I wish I could delete my posts because they are not worthy, even if they are correct)

(My sister is a regular attendee at Secret Affair gigs :( She is an old mod though)

nickb that is an extraordinary achievement

*claps*

*WARNING humourless party pooper post ahoy!*

A report by the work and pensions select committee highlighted people with Down’s syndrome asked when they “caught” it, a woman reporting frequent suicidal thoughts asked why she had not yet killed herself, and someone whose assessment said she walked a dog daily, when she can barely walk and does not own a dog.

the "substantial minority" the report concludes, that have been partially or completely fucked over by these ATOS/CAPITAS assessments is Rumsfeld type bullshit speak for FUCKING SHITLOADS i.e. not a minority by any definition.

i mean forgive me if that's an obvious point but it honestly seems like d davis et al are folding their arms and whining that the EU hasn't sorted this all out yet

Three headlines from this morning that I saw in a row:

Japan warns Theresa May its giant firms will quit UK if botched Brexit makes it 'unprofitable' to stay

Ministers admit almost 65 existing trade deals with non-EU countries are ‘at risk because of Brexit’

David Davis criticises 'discourteous language' from the EU in transition period document

NickB wins today’s internet!

Ugh at healthcare professional interviews: half the time the person interviewing a person in need of disability benefits has zero qualification to do so - one example from amongst my friends was the person with MH issues whose interlocutor was a physio in a Juicy tracksuit.

the "substantial minority" the report concludes, that have been partially or completely fucked over by these ATOS/CAPITAS assessments is Rumsfeld type bullshit speak for FUCKING SHITLOADS i.e. not a minority by any definition.

OTM. National disgrace.

look, in this country we obey the rule of law and you're a scrounger until proven dead.

someone just head of me in the airport security queue the other day had a laptop with an atos sticker on it and it was all i could do not to smash it on the floor

...and then tell them it was still fit to work

(My sister is a regular attendee at Secret Affair gigs :( She is an old mod though)

"this is the time for gammon"

ATOS are an enormous company who amongst other things make laptops, mind, and ATOS healthcare is't even called ATOS (sez wikipedia), they've been OH Assist for four years.

(This is not meant in any way as an excuse, more an aid to calzino's rage - if there's ever a large fire at their head offices at Meadowcourt, 2, Hayland St, Sheffield S9 1BY, and anyone needs an alibi, hit me up)

...and then tell them it was still fit to work

The assessor who saw my partner assured her: "We aren't ATOS, we are a completely different company" or something like that. But to add to the Kafka-esque dread (or maybe just the standard corporate muddle) any mail correspondence she had with them had an ATOS letterhead on it.

mod and gammon OMG

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/09/lack-of-migrant-workers-left-food-rotting-in-uk-fields-last-year-data-reveals

at least after these pro-Bexit farmers have lost their access to cheap labour and phat EU subsidies they'll have that amazing resource The Gove-brain to fall back onto.

on gammon and migrant workers

https://www.economist.com/news/britain/21736178-harrogates-downward-migration-trend-few-years-ahead-britains-how-it-faring

Congratulations to NickB and all his fans on a tremendous achievement.

"Investing in an industrial dishwasher could eliminate the need for a kitchen porter, he says."

strong influence of Bezos-thought in Harrogate, coupled with cutting edge 1950's technology. Unless he's thinking of buying a robot to operate the dishwasher as well!

Tophill East (Weymouth & Portland) result:

CON: 47.0% (+16.8)
LAB: 46.0% (+23.1)
GRN: 7.0% (-5.6)

Labour almost took a traditional Tory seat in the by-election, just short by 9 votes. Prompting a "Vote Green, get Tory"/"Labour should support PR" spat.

my thoughts on the matter are complex but boil down to 'pipe down and get behind corbyn' tbh

Tory vote up +16.8%. They're on fire.

would love2pipe down corbyn B====D~~~

I'm thinking of a new version of Dexter, where instead of murdering other serial killers, he works through the electoral register murdering Tory voters in marginal seats.

I think antagonising Green voters is the totally wrong approach fwiw.

the bunch of f'king ninnies ;P

come on, they're not all vegofascists