I'm guessing they support the same team though.
― Kanye O'er Frae France? (Tom D.), Friday, 11 May 2018 10:02 (five years ago) link
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― Google lobster hierarchies (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 11 May 2018 10:06 (five years ago) link
we got our baby box a few weeks ago and it's fucking great - it's a nice bonus for us but for i can see it making a real difference to the quality of life of lower-income families
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 11 May 2018 10:11 (five years ago) link
we'll of course be trying not to set it down near any open flames because it comes pre-doused in gasoline iirc from the hysterical negative coverage of them over the last week or two
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 11 May 2018 10:12 (five years ago) link
Stop & Search is a completely different kettle of fish in Scotland, where the police and the people they're stopping look the same, talk the same etc.
Even in the ten plus years I've been living in Glasgow, the city has visibly become more racially and culturally diverse, so I'm guessing that the number of minorities subjected to stop and search has also increased in that time.
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 11 May 2018 10:16 (five years ago) link
Indeed, but there's no doubt about what increased stop & search powers means in London.
― Kanye O'er Frae France? (Tom D.), Friday, 11 May 2018 10:18 (five years ago) link
race obv not the only way of profiling, stop&search wld suck even in a world of identical ppl, it's the most superficial sort of policing
― ogmor, Friday, 11 May 2018 10:20 (five years ago) link
then what's the plan for sunderland? how are you not just fucking off the majority of poor ppl in the uk to protect a small slice?
this is, in a nutshell, my moral problem with independence
I understand why people support independence - Westminster is fucked and people deserve better. But I think you can create more and better change from inside a system, than from walking away and setting it up your own and hoping it will work better
― boxedjoy, Friday, 11 May 2018 13:30 (five years ago) link
an important point to note: the scottish contingent of MPs almost never determine which way the government goes at westminster. labour need to win england to beat the tories.
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 11 May 2018 16:09 (five years ago) link
also EVEL exists now
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 11 May 2018 16:10 (five years ago) link
But surely if Labour had a decent number of MPs (pre-2010) Corbyn would've been PM by now?
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 11 May 2018 16:16 (five years ago) link
Meanwhile here is a better publication than The Guardian. Click on the link below for a sample of their work:
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/who-is-karl-marx/amp?__twitter_impression=true
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 11 May 2018 16:52 (five years ago) link
― xyzzzz__, Friday, May 11, 2018 9:16 AM (fifty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the tories have 13 of scotland's 59 seats. whether the remaining, majority of teh seats are held by snp, labour, or the post-coalition lib dems they would not be voting to prop up this government.
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 11 May 2018 17:08 (five years ago) link
What I mean is if Labour had returned to more robust numbers in Scotland at the expense of Tories (and maybe some SNP) then perhaps we would not be where we are rn.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 11 May 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
they won 70 less seats than the tories in england
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 11 May 2018 17:19 (five years ago) link
The current coalition would not have been on.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 11 May 2018 17:26 (five years ago) link
the only seats that labour had any meaningful chance of winning are ones that went to the SNP.
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 11 May 2018 17:28 (five years ago) link
some of the *check wikipedia tab* 41/59 seats that went to Labour in 2010, Jim?
All I am saying is that Scotland can shape the direction of the UK government.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 11 May 2018 17:32 (five years ago) link
Gotta hear both sides:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/25/yes-irish-pro-abortion-side-politial-class-media-illiberal-view
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Friday, 25 May 2018 09:26 (five years ago) link
fucking hell
i guess the grauniad is jealous of all the hate-clicks the new york times' rightwing shithead commentators have been generating recently
― i am fast and full of teeth. i willl die in a barn fire (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 25 May 2018 09:32 (five years ago) link
celestial brain what if hate is the real love what if bad was good what then, sjws?
― stet, Friday, 25 May 2018 09:54 (five years ago) link
good work Melanie McDonagh i totally hope god doesn't kill you
― foo fronked to drick (Noodle Vague), Friday, 25 May 2018 10:08 (five years ago) link
the john grace article about his heroin addiction was bloody good earlier this week.
― mark e, Friday, 25 May 2018 10:10 (five years ago) link
Link or you made it up
― El Tomboto, Friday, 25 May 2018 10:38 (five years ago) link
for every 1 item of "high-quality journalism" in the Graun they seem to need to plumb the same depths as The Times over + over again, arseholes.
― calzino, Friday, 25 May 2018 10:50 (five years ago) link
Crace, not Grace.
― Luna Schlosser, Friday, 25 May 2018 11:11 (five years ago) link
Hilarious piece:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/23/venezuela-dictator-democracy-nicolas-maduro-venezuelans
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 25 May 2018 11:18 (five years ago) link
john crace vs heroin :
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/may/22/patrick-melrose-captures-heroin-addiction-perfectly-it-brought-my-memories-flooding-back
― mark e, Friday, 25 May 2018 11:26 (five years ago) link
Wow, never would have guessed. But then, how could I?
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Friday, 25 May 2018 11:50 (five years ago) link
Aye same here, it's at least 6 weeks since I tooted some brown :p Nah but seriously, I've known a few people over who you'd never guess used to have a raging smack habit by their demeanour and appearance etc, and others where you'd suspect they are still bang at it!
― calzino, Friday, 25 May 2018 12:03 (five years ago) link
-over the years-
― calzino, Friday, 25 May 2018 12:04 (five years ago) link
Yes, liked the Crace piece a lot. And the photo of him skating.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Saturday, 26 May 2018 04:10 (five years ago) link
https://imgur.com/a/EJcnf37
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 26 May 2018 07:40 (five years ago) link
oh shit folks:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/may/29/online-forums-musical-culture-messageboards-social-media-music-essay
― Toto Cuomo (NickB), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 15:03 (five years ago) link
Haven’t had a chance to read that properly yet, but there’s a nice symmetry to the fact that the starter of this very thread gets a namecheck
― Toto Cuomo (NickB), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 15:21 (five years ago) link
Turrican's name in lights at long last.
Also LOLz @ Is the Guardian worse than it used to be? thread being possibly the oldest thread on ILX in permanent use.
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link
He wasn't a troll he was a werewolf >:(
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 15:58 (five years ago) link
screenshotted!!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 16:11 (five years ago) link
yawn at the fucking beatles being the top thread
― Toto Cuomo (NickB), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 16:14 (five years ago) link
I think the article really needs some Alizée gifs for illustrative purposes.
― how's life, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 16:27 (five years ago) link
nice to see good ol’ barbelith namechecked there, that site used to be v important to me
― i am fast and full of teeth. i willl die in a barn fire (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:26 (five years ago) link
I had a soft spot for it too.
― stet, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:45 (five years ago) link
https://media3.giphy.com/media/NB2Wp158kieGI/giphy.gif
Tom clearly never truly crossed over to ILE, as he would've mentioned groovypanda.gif instead
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:55 (five years ago) link
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jiggly panda that is
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 18:01 (five years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/01/brexit-shrek-messy-complicated-bad-tempered
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/44d531dcd43647a92497c1264f8cfec3e05e988d/0_0_1888_1133/master/1888.jpg?w=620&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=15947e864083567cd9fdba0b17b8ebd4
― Neil S, Friday, 1 June 2018 07:42 (five years ago) link
Brexit is like Shrek: shit
― Karius whisper (Noodle Vague), Friday, 1 June 2018 07:43 (five years ago) link
hnnnnnnnnnggggghhhhhhhhhhh
― capybaras are friend shaped (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 1 June 2018 07:43 (five years ago) link
Shrek, a cartoon character known for his complexity
― Neil S, Friday, 1 June 2018 07:44 (five years ago) link
brb gonna claw every inch of my own flesh from my bones
― capybaras are friend shaped (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 1 June 2018 07:44 (five years ago) link
If you're trying not to look like an out-of-touch elitist it's probably best not to reveal that you've clearly only seen one film in the last 15 years.
― Matt DC, Friday, 1 June 2018 10:06 (five years ago) link