that's marine le pen, she's also bad
― mark s, Monday, 7 December 2020 10:49 (three years ago) link
in fairness probably slightly worse than maire le conte
― mark s, Monday, 7 December 2020 10:50 (three years ago) link
No, I'm pretty sure she's better
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 7 December 2020 10:55 (three years ago) link
only one way to find out...
― Gary Sambrook eats substantial meals (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 7 December 2020 10:56 (three years ago) link
Oh! I always get those two mixed up
― Clean-up on ILX (onimo), Monday, 7 December 2020 10:59 (three years ago) link
What's the only way to find out?
― the pinefox, Monday, 7 December 2020 11:16 (three years ago) link
elect marie le conte prime minister of england AND president of france iirc
― mark s, Monday, 7 December 2020 11:19 (three years ago) link
im assuming the union has to sunder before this is possible
― mark s, Monday, 7 December 2020 11:20 (three years ago) link
The Auld Alliance might help there though!
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 7 December 2020 11:27 (three years ago) link
its great to see everything show up to snidely defend transphobia as usual
― ufo, Monday, 7 December 2020 11:41 (three years ago) link
(xp) I think we've given up on that now, after hanging around waiting on the French to hold up their side of the deal. Unless you mean the pub in the Bastille district.
― ILXceptionalism (Tom D.), Monday, 7 December 2020 11:59 (three years ago) link
XpDespite the moniker they are clearly not all that.
― calzino, Monday, 7 December 2020 12:22 (three years ago) link
Really can’t stand transphobic liberals’ rhetoric around speaking for women, when most women support trans women as women.
― scampopo (suzy), Monday, 7 December 2020 13:50 (three years ago) link
context-free, i think everything's post is correct? we have a rightwing press that primarily concerns itself with pressing the red-button marked 'culture war' repeatedly every day and cackling. its is as futile to expect that the guardian would be critical of this high court ruling just as it would have been to hope that it would have opposed the war in iraq. it is still possible to be disappointed that we have a such a cruel and vindictive press but i doubt, too, agree that no newspaper is going to run an editorial opposing the high court ruling.
― plax (ico), Monday, 7 December 2020 13:53 (three years ago) link
i think that's true but poster everything has form for gently suggesting they agree with this state of affairs
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Monday, 7 December 2020 13:54 (three years ago) link
The context is that poster everything has clearly shown their arse on multiple occasions on this particular subject, though.
― scampostiltskin (gyac), Monday, 7 December 2020 13:55 (three years ago) link
oh i agree with both of you and im not in any way trying to charitably reinterpret their words. i just think a closer reading, in this instance, shows something useful. their post doesn't engage with the actual content of the ruling (or indeed the appalling criteria it used for hearing evidence, allowing hate groups a voice but not young trans people who will be most affected by the ruling), rather it (approvingly) nods to the various factions of power lining up against trans rights right now. the entire content of the post in fact is appealing to the vindication of being aligned with "mainstream newspapers" in this country. if this is the moral company you wish to keep i feel sorry for you.
― plax (ico), Monday, 7 December 2020 14:06 (three years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/dec/08/dominic-cummings-gag-voted-christmas-cracker-joke-of-the-year
Dessau said during one of the “strangest and most turbulent years yet, we can always rely on British humour to pull us through”.
― mirostones, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 08:37 (three years ago) link
I have an actual paper copy of a Guardian in my hands for the first time in years.
(delivered by a friend of a friend in the NHS who's been sneaking me in coffee and breakfast rolls. She got me a Herald yesterday.)
Now... is it worse than it used to be?
― Clean-up on ILX (onimo), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 08:44 (three years ago) link
honestly the paper version is not as bad as www.theguardian.com
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 09:22 (three years ago) link
I agree! It works better on paper.
Is Onimo in a hospital?
I miss breakfast rolls.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 10:41 (three years ago) link
I am in the hospital. I have the Guardian and you lot to help me pull through.
― Clean-up on ILX (onimo), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 11:02 (three years ago) link
gulp
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 11:37 (three years ago) link
Yikes, Onimo!
― Madchen, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 13:27 (three years ago) link
I like the Tree of the Week feature:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/series/tree-of-the-week
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 20:25 (three years ago) link
“These places began to fall to the Tories in 2017 before leaving Labour en masse in 2019"Really? Must have imagined Labour losing Shipley, Manchester Withington, Rochdale and Scarborough in 2005And Dewsbury, Redditch, Redcar and Bradford East in 2010https://t.co/4Yo536XzHV— Andrew Fisher (@FisherAndrew79) December 9, 2020
the Graun's northern correspondent mindlessly parroting Kieth's nakedly factional slant on the decline of Labour in the north shocker.
― calzino, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 20:57 (three years ago) link
fictional/factional
― Clean-up on ILX (onimo), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 21:15 (three years ago) link
I used to like those scouse bastards for their stubborn anti-Tory hatred (even though they used to historically vote for them along sectarian lines and were still voting for the fucking Liberal party up to the late 80's!) But I want them to abstain on Starmer Labour and help bring about the demise of this fuckers' political career.
― calzino, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 21:29 (three years ago) link
Corbyn became Labour leader because the party had a series of massive problems that were causing terminal decline. It is a ruinous fantasy to pretend that Corbyn himself sparked a decline in a previously healthy party. Wild nonsense.— Simon Vessey (@Simon_Vessey) December 9, 2020
If Kieth isn't interested in the big picture of the decline of the labour party beyond what use it is for the current McCarthyite purging of all the left, then he will need a lot of dumb luck to ever get into power and nobody will be popping the champers apart from landlords, cops, and his right-wing banker pals from the Trilateral Commission if he does. Yes i know this isn't the Keith thread and I'm a monomaniacal ranter etc.. but lol whatever, it keeps me off the streets!
― calzino, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 21:53 (three years ago) link
xxxp TIL Redditch is in the north
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 22:03 (three years ago) link
pvmic ;p
― calzino, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 22:07 (three years ago) link
I've got a good friend from Northumberland and don't get him started on places in the Midlands being called 'the North'.
― Tizer Beyoncé (Tom D.), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 22:09 (three years ago) link
I don't even consider Chesterfield the North tbh so some serious liberties taken with Redditch there!
― calzino, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 22:16 (three years ago) link
real London heads know anywhere north of the Watford gap = The North
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 22:18 (three years ago) link
My friend will not have Derbyshire under any circumstances.
― Tizer Beyoncé (Tom D.), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 22:20 (three years ago) link
I defer to It's Grim up North, where Nantwich is the most southerly place mentioned.
― ledge, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 22:23 (three years ago) link
Redditch is level with the Watford Gap! I guess the northern suburbs of Redditch may be north of it
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 22:28 (three years ago) link
if extremely orthodox and conservative looking het-men call similar others duck or love without any homoerotic subtext or irony, then you might have left the north a bit!
― calzino, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 22:29 (three years ago) link
My North marker is Sheffield. Anything below that is not the North. (Though one of my besties is from Stoke and it feels more "Northy" than here, even though it's almost the same latitude.)
― emil.y, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 22:29 (three years ago) link
oops, the gap is a bit further north than i thought and Redditch probably a bit further south
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 22:32 (three years ago) link
Stoke feels more North because weird accent and permanent glacial temperatures caused by locals clinging to the last Ice Age
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 22:33 (three years ago) link
tbf have heard Londoners confuse Watford Gap with Watford and think St Albans is in the north
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 22:36 (three years ago) link
I saw this bungalow getting done up recently, it's in the middle of nowhere next to a farm and I've never seen such a long and expensive refurb done on one little small modest bungalow as this - it took almost a year and no expense was spared including an antique royal mail postbox mounted into the drystone wall and a lovely big wooden gate, the sandstone roofing tiles were removed cleaned of moss and a whole new roofing timber was fitted before they were put back. I bumped into an old work colleague doing the alarm system, door entry systems and sec cameras etc and said it was like fort knox. Anyway it turns out it is the new Savile Estate Office and this current Lord Savile lives in Cornwall but his family have owned most of where I live since late medieval times. Real Yorkshire!
― calzino, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 22:49 (three years ago) link
🐦[“These places began to fall to the Tories in 2017 before leaving Labour en masse in 2019"Really? Must have imagined Labour losing Shipley, Manchester Withington, Rochdale and Scarborough in 2005And Dewsbury, Redditch, Redcar and Bradford East in 2010https://t.co/4Yo536XzHV🕸— Andrew Fisher (@FisherAndrew79) December 9, 2020🕸]🐦the Graun's northern correspondent mindlessly parroting Kieth's nakedly factional slant on the decline of Labour in the north shocker.
― Fizzles, Friday, 11 December 2020 07:01 (three years ago) link
Is there a *paper* Guardian today?
― djh, Saturday, 26 December 2020 12:52 (three years ago) link
hopefully not
― Left, Saturday, 26 December 2020 12:57 (three years ago) link
last week's guide had 2 weeks of tv in it so i'm assuming not.
― koogs, Saturday, 26 December 2020 13:55 (three years ago) link
There is one (with magazine and Feast).
― djh, Saturday, 26 December 2020 14:33 (three years ago) link
it's feast or famine time
― calzino, Saturday, 26 December 2020 15:02 (three years ago) link
Oh lol Jesus Christ I thought that was in ukpol
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Saturday, 26 December 2020 15:46 (three years ago) link