Written after you lashed out, calling me an idiot for writing about where I'm from without knowing enough about the uk
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 11:48 (four years ago) link
Is this about Louis Cachet?
4xp
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 11:48 (four years ago) link
actually i meant to phrase that as a question not a double-edged hint Fred do you think we shouldn't be beastly to the melts y/n?
― Dunty Reggae party π (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 11:48 (four years ago) link
That was to Tom of course
And yes, Fred has the right to defend himself when under gratuitous attack. Them's the playground rules.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 11:49 (four years ago) link
is the is the guardian worse than it used to be thread worse than it used to be
― Generous Grant for Stepladder Creamery (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 11:49 (four years ago) link
I don't know much about Denmark, you don't know much about the UK, we're even expect you can't keep your trap shut.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 11:49 (four years ago) link
I think you should have proportional representation. Makes it much easier to be beaatly to the melts
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 11:50 (four years ago) link
anyway lads i'm off to the pub keep it civil will ye i'll be back in oh 20 minutes or so
― Dunty Reggae party π (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 11:50 (four years ago) link
This is a clear step up from that horrid Polly Toynbee piece.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 11:50 (four years ago) link
Always try to play the ball, not the man
― imago, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 11:51 (four years ago) link
i am pro PR but also pro gulaging melts so i think we could make this work
― Dunty Reggae party π (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 11:51 (four years ago) link
xp what if youβd prefer to kick the man
― hyds (gyac), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 11:54 (four years ago) link
The shoulder charge has not been entirely outlawed from the modern game I believe?
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 11:55 (four years ago) link
What on earth is this? You play both, leave a reducer early doors
― anvil, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 11:55 (four years ago) link
Little bit of jersey tugging never did anyone any harm.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 11:56 (four years ago) link
Typical Trots, always trying to take us back to the 1970s
― imago, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 11:56 (four years ago) link
I mean I do regard Roy Keane as something of a demigod so
― hyds (gyac), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 11:57 (four years ago) link
Roy knew how to treat a Scandinavian!
― hyds (gyac), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 11:58 (four years ago) link
And guess whose son is back to presumably score a zillion goals against both Manchester United and Ireland over the next 15 years
― imago, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 11:59 (four years ago) link
Kasper Schmeichel?
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 12:00 (four years ago) link
OK go away Fred lol
― imago, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 12:00 (four years ago) link
Son isn't going to be playing til he's 42, come on now
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 12:02 (four years ago) link
His injury isn't that bad, he'll back in the Spurs team before the end of the season.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 12:04 (four years ago) link
okay i'm calling it: the is the guardian worse than it used to be thread is worse than it used to be
― Generous Grant for Stepladder Creamery (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 12:18 (four years ago) link
I dunno I think this has been constructive we should pick another thread and do it again tomorrow
― Dunty Reggae party π (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 12:19 (four years ago) link
Anyway, interesting, but surely completely coincidental, that The Guardian's running a stream of negative comment pieces and sketches about Priti Patel a few days after she was briefing against MI5.
― ShariVari, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 12:19 (four years ago) link
Galaxy brain: Priti Patel has ordered MI5 to force The Guardian to run a stream of negative comment pieces and sketches about her so as to instill fear amongst the populace.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 12:22 (four years ago) link
[l-r] organ grinder, monkey.
― calzino, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 12:27 (four years ago) link
Christ, I just saw that Toynbee piece says RLB and Nandy βfell in the trans thorn bushesβ, absolutely get fucked forever, Polly
― median punt (gyac), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 14:19 (four years ago) link
I missed remarking on the really obvious thing in PT's column -- namely that she presented it as bizarre that a majority of Labour members prefer JC to Blair.
You don't need to be as much of an admirer of JC as I am to see why it's daft to find this odd. Many of us like JC because we trust him and share his values on the basis of virtually everything he has ever said and done. Many of us have doubts about TB because he launched destructive, destabilizing illegal wars.
It would be odd if the membership of a party of the left didn't think this way. It's disingenuous at best if PT can't see this.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:45 (four years ago) link
PT is a strange and not entirely hateful observer imo but yeah of course the Corbyn "bafflement" speaks volumes, as does any defence of Blair tbh
― Dunty Reggae party π (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:47 (four years ago) link
It's disingenuous at best if PT can't see this.
Its not disingenuous, she is simply out of touch. Its the same thing with MSNBC's meltdown/bafflement over the rise of Bernard. Its alien to them because they're cut off and as media people their job is to create realities. Thats why there's almost no reflection, no curiosity, no anything - and why 'cultishness' is the only answer they have
Her position was set however many years ago and her job is just to roll it out every week, regardless of whats happening. Its a form of brainworms more than disingeneousness.
― anvil, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 16:11 (four years ago) link
Her dad was shit-hot at predicting the direction of traffic as well, he declared the fad for JRR Tolkien was over just before paperback LOTR was published in the US in the 60's! He did the transition from tankie to grumpy old conservative reactionary - more of the latter obv rubbed off on Polly.
― calzino, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 16:12 (four years ago) link
got to hand it to her though - she's very accomplished at being Polly Toynbee, must be a charmed life when you get quite handsomely remunerated for just being yourself!
― calzino, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 16:22 (four years ago) link
Lol imagine calling people xenophobic because your idiotic opinion was called out.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 16:27 (four years ago) link
I can imagine it.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 16:45 (four years ago) link
Feel like I've seen it in the wild.
― Dunty Reggae party π (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 17:28 (four years ago) link
How many threads must a man scroll throughUntil he finds one without Fred
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 18:40 (four years ago) link
Politics, prog rock or pollAll you've gotta do is scrollAnd I'll be thereYou've got a Fred
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 18:47 (four years ago) link
Remove Bookmark from this Threaaaaaaad
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 18:48 (four years ago) link
I know it's advertorial but the fucking state of this
https://www.theguardian.com/taking-care-of-business/2019/dec/11/set-goals-switch-off-social-and-snack-well-how-to-be-more-productive-at-work?utm_source=pdscl&utm_medium=sfbk&utm_camp
― Dunty Reggae party π (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 20:57 (four years ago) link
Theyβre just fucking with us now
Strange as it may seem, Keir Starmer could be the British Bernie Sanders | Patrick Maguire https://t.co/8e70kkiUkq— The Guardian (@guardian) February 27, 2020
Cultivating new support across class and ethnic divides has put Sanders on the road to the Democratic nomination, and Starmer believes that the same approach can put Labour back on the path to power: keep left, rebuild a diverse coalition of voters, and look beyond the red wall.
― median punt (gyac), Thursday, 27 February 2020 18:10 (four years ago) link
no i think a lot of them really are capable of this level of doublethink
― Dunty Reggae party π (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 27 February 2020 18:23 (four years ago) link
Patrick Maguire is a political correspondent at the New Statesman
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Thursday, 27 February 2020 18:24 (four years ago) link
the vested interests arraigned behind RLB
― Dunty Reggae party π (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 27 February 2020 18:31 (four years ago) link
well yes the left of the party's base and the Unite union are obstacles to be overcome, never mind that Starmer still hasn't revealed whose pocket he is in the shady cunt.
― calzino, Thursday, 27 February 2020 18:35 (four years ago) link
isn't party politics about self-interest groups or is it somehow shady and "populist" if the self-interest groups aren't corporations and billionaires?
― calzino, Thursday, 27 February 2020 18:42 (four years ago) link
This is how these cunts talk when they've got no concept of a Labour Party that can anything else but a reconstructed version of the tories.
― calzino, Thursday, 27 February 2020 18:56 (four years ago) link