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

society is on a sled!

but then a tween social media enabler kicked the sled over for views, and now society is back in the gutter

the revolution will not be twee-revised

1. Our food system is really fragile, broken, and dysfunctional on multiple levels. Some people have just realised this. We are Nine Meals from Anarchy. [http://neweconomics.org/2008/11/nine-meals-anarchy/] - sounds not unreasonable

2. People need a total immersive experience that affects everyone to come to their senses, to take a pause, to begin to notice. - broad generalization but ok

3.There are things that are more fun than your phone. - subjective taste

4. Community isn’t dead and we long for more of it. - broadly agree but subjective generalization

5. Some people are really selfish. - maybe but so waht?

6. The rural world is different from the urban world. - idiot dichotomy

7. Nature still exists. - idiot use of "nature"

8. Cities with a lot fewer cars would be much better places to live in. - yeah but so what?

9. People are quite annoying if you have to spend a lot of time with them. - maybe if YOU have to spend a lot of time with them

10. The Zombie Apocalypse smells of Almond Milk. - fuck off zombies

11. Work isn’t everything. - this will come as a newsflash to millions of people doing shitty jobs that they hate

12. Climate change isn’t something that will happen one day in the future. - no shit

13. Netflix isn’t as good as you thought. - subjective opinion

14. We’re not in control of everything. We’re not really in control of anything. - vague philosophically subjective bullshit

15. We drink too much milk. - in your opinion, pal

I smell a poll

community is shit and i want less

more milk less community

Milk is bad not good.

i'll defend to the death somebody's right to not like it but

i dodn't know if this has anything to do with the snow and or what, but i walked into the gents at work today and there were five honeybees buzzing around the light fitting on the ceiling. how the heck did they get into that horrible windowless shithole? why on earth were they there? i went back two hours later and they were all lying dead on the floor

damn these fumbling phone fingers

belongs on the 'real england' thread imo

real england is a dead moth floating over the spat chewing gum and the pube-clad pineapple chunks in a blocked pub urinal

global warming's terrifying new moth

:)

I drink too much milk for sure. It's delicious. I knew as soon as I posted that that it was a shot idea but fair play. I just needed a bit of community interaction!

*terrifying loo moth

bugger

jfc that list

Things the snow taught us

1. Wear sunscreen.

how the heck did they get into that horrible windowless shithole?
Hibernation? I remember getting stung by a wasp one December in similar circumstances. They come out when the weather warms up and crawl around sluggishly. Easy to swat - or step on, in my case.

I have not been worried about the state deficit for sometime, ever since Mr Brown found out that the UK state can literally print money to pay its bills. Mr Osborne, originally a critic of this in opposition, then discovered its charms in office as well. It turned out to have no adverse consequences on shop price inflation, though of course it caused massive price inflation in government bonds, because it was accompanied by severe pressure against bank lending to the private sector to avoid an inflationary blow off. I always adjust the outstanding debt by the £435 bn the state has bought up, as this is in no sense a debt we owe. So our government borrowing level (excluding future state pensions which some here worry about and which have always been pay as you go out of taxation) is modest by world standards at around 65% of GDP, and at current interest rates is affordable.

Most of the state debt we owe to each other anyway. The government owes it to taxpayers who own the debt in their pension funds and insurance policies. The state can always raise enough money to pay the donestic bills backed by the huge powers to tax, and as we have just seen when credit expansion and inflation are low it can also use liquidity created by the monetary authorities.

Here's John Redwood just casually demolishing the entire case for austerity in two paragraphs on his blog.

re the bees: given the number, it's quite likely there's a small nest somewhere in the outer wall of your building -- that's not an unusual location. they choose spaces where bricks or even just bits of mortar have fallen out -- which can also give access to the gaps and spaces within

and of course bees are small (as you possibly knew already) and can easily crawl through the interstitials of the building, particularly the gaps that allow electrical cables through internal walls and ceilings. like wasps, they will crawl towards the warm and then assume they're nicely outside at a better time of year for a while

t/s bees and wasps vs John Redwood

i vote we lock john redwood in a perspex box with thousands of bees and wasps and let nature decide the victor

We would all be the winner

Turner Prize imo.

lol my dormant proofing editor instincts kicked in briefly there and i reached to correct perspex to Perspex®

perpetual lowercase = fine
failing to respect a registered trademark = NOT COOL

Knowledge is knowing that 'Frankenstein' was the name of the doctor, not the 'monster'.
Wisdom is knowing that Dr Frankenstein is the monster.
Awareness is knowing that everybody who works for The Sun is a cunt.

— Tim Ireland (@bloggerheads) March 7, 2018

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/07/ousted-ukip-leader-henry-bolton-launches-new-political-party/

One Nation Under A Groove

Maggot Brain more like.

"There is a need for a truly professional political party that believes in Britain, that preserves our national identity, culture, heritage and confidence and talks our great nation up rather than down."

yes, now more than ever what we need is a truly professional political party, one led by *checks notes* uh a guy who got kicked out of ukip for shagging someone too openly racist for the uk's most racist party to tolerate

And who was prepared to chuck her to the kerb to stay on as leader until he got chucked, at which point he went back for her aww and showed a man of principles! As in 'I think there's one over there"

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7b/Zone_Romantica.svg/1200px-Zone_Romantica.svg.png

Corbyn goes in on Saudi human rights at #PMQs. May accuses him of "mansplaining" after he says it's International Women's Day tmrw.

— Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) March 7, 2018

Sick burn

oh god it's even more cringeworthy than you'd imagine

.@jeremycorbyn: 'to mansplain - verb informal - explaining (something) to someone, typically a woman, in a manner regarded as condescending or patronising.' #PMQs #IWD2018 pic.twitter.com/dZQuPByChF

— Theresa May (@theresa_may) March 7, 2018

The Irony Lady (what with only 28% of her party's MPs being women)

Britain First jailed for nine months

You know who else was jailed for nine months

by the rate Britain First numpt is ageing, he'll be pushing a bunny-hatted Frank Field around in a pram, before he get's out/knock's out his political manifesto.

The EU has thrown down an ultimatum to Theresa May in Brexit talks, warning that it will not open discussions about trade or other issues until the Irish border question is solved.

Speaking in Dublin alongside the Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar, European Council president Donald Tusk said talks would be a case of “Ireland first” and that “the risk of destabilising the fragile peace process must be avoided at all costs”.

“We know today that the UK government rejects a customs and regulatory border down the Irish Sea, the EU single market, and the customs union,” the Council president said.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-eu-talks-irish-border-tusk-varadkar-northern-ireland-uk-solution-dup-a8246216.html

The proposed free school meal cuts to kids on UC will be forced to a Parliamentary vote now. Even the DUP are against this grotesque shit, so no majority.

"Labour’s shadow education secretary Angela Rayner has forced ministers to bring them to the floor of the Commons using an obscure parliamentary process known as “praying against” the regulations."

maybe this belongs on the bad cartoons thread but here is after all where we talked abt him already

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXyzLb-W4AA5BOD.jpg

jesus wept, talk about making fuck all talent go a very long way. Might buy a copy of Private Eye one day, now I've got my first prescription reading glasses, might just be able to read that almost microfiche sized print that usually I can only make out on links like this.

private eye is also bad not good tbh, except sometimes on gossip from within the grown-up press

also holding rich men to ransom bcz yr the only popular commodity they have to hand isn't a negligeable talent

there's lots of shit unfunny humour, but streets of shame is v good.

Yes private eye is good not bad so long as someone tapes over I think virtually all of the cartoons

worst regular comic strip appearing in Private Eye as of december 2014

the term sub-matt was coined on the bad uk cartoons thread: prviate eye has devoted years to its full realisation