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Post by Faceless on Jun 24, 2022 17:04:37 GMT
So the next step for America is to bring back slavery*. <edit>Obvious hyperbole but this really angers me, even though it's not my country and has no bearing on my gender, maybe because what we see happen over there feeds into what happens here and we've already seen the results with the current government with lie/deflect/blame. Aaargh *segregation would be more likely. I'm not sure I see it happening over here. I think (hope) most folk outside of America view it in the same category as their love of guns and jesus. I.e completely incomprehensible to the rest of the world |
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Post by Tuffers on Jun 24, 2022 17:32:54 GMT
Stokes for a knighthood along with YJB and Viv 'the master blaster' Overton.
Never doubted em for a minute.
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Post by Felice Landry on Jun 24, 2022 17:43:27 GMT
So the next step for America is to bring back slavery*. <edit>Obvious hyperbole but this really angers me, even though it's not my country and has no bearing on my gender, maybe because what we see happen over there feeds into what happens here and we've already seen the results with the current government with lie/deflect/blame. Aaargh *segregation would be more likely. I'm not sure I see it happening over here. I think (hope) most folk outside of America view it in the same category as their love of guns and jesus. I.e completely incomprehensible to the rest of the world Normally I'd agree but we still have up to 2 years of this government left and they really are dangerous, e.g. the new "Bill of Rights", it easy to be complacent. That said, what would I do? Vote, tell people to vote and then go to the pub feeling civic* *Whose name is Bruce. |
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Post by lazybones on Jun 24, 2022 17:50:48 GMT
I'm not sure I see it happening over here. I think (hope) most folk outside of America view it in the same category as their love of guns and jesus. I.e completely incomprehensible to the rest of the world Normally I'd agree but we still have up to 2 years of this government left and they really are dangerous, e.g. the new "Bill of Rights", it easy to be complacent. That said, what would I do? Vote, tell people to vote and then go to the pub feeling civic* *Whose name is Bruce. Telling people to vote’s like telling people to read. What if they read Mein Kampf! |
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Post by Felice Landry on Jun 24, 2022 17:52:27 GMT
Normally I'd agree but we still have up to 2 years of this government left and they really are dangerous, e.g. the new "Bill of Rights", it easy to be complacent. That said, what would I do? Vote, tell people to vote and then go to the pub feeling civic* *Whose name is Bruce. Telling people to vote’s like telling people to read. What if they read Mein Kampf! Really? |
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Post by dakylosaurus419 on Jun 24, 2022 17:54:31 GMT
Not sure if you are buying digital creamy baby but if you have that Switch Online you can get a voucher for two Nintendo games for £84, which works out a fair bit cheaper than the usual £50 each, if you were planning on buying two games anyway. The Nintendo games hardly ever go on sale digitally and if they do the discounts are paltry. Its also a great excuse to buy two games.
Although I suppose those savings are chicken feed for a high roller like baby.
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Post by Felice Landry on Jun 24, 2022 17:54:40 GMT
Telling people to vote’s like telling people to read. What if they read Mein Kampf! Really? I know you're a trolling dick but seriously, what is wrong with you? |
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Post by lazybones on Jun 24, 2022 17:56:25 GMT
I don’t think the abortion thing’s going to come here. Conservative politics here and the US are shit in different ways
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Post by lazybones on Jun 24, 2022 18:00:33 GMT
I know you're a trolling dick but seriously, what is wrong with you? Bit harsh. It wasn’t entirely serious but ‘voting’ isn’t an answer in itself. The reading thing I stand by. The idea of ‘reading more’ is sometimes vaunted as an unequivocal good, but really it depends on what’s being read. Read more of the Daily Express? Read Ayn Rand? |
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Post by dakylosaurus419 on Jun 24, 2022 18:01:07 GMT
To be fair as a country we've not got a great track record on not voting for the most idiotic option in recent years. The general public are all idiots
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Post by Tuffers on Jun 24, 2022 18:05:05 GMT
To be fair as a country we've not got a great track record on not voting for the most idiotic option in recent years. The general public are all idiots Hi! *waves* |
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Post by Sheep2 on Jun 24, 2022 18:11:53 GMT
There's a proper law here controlling abortion. It's not really an issue.
In the USA it relied on the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Right to Privacy for Federal protection. There was no specific Federal Law.
Now each state controls the law.
Plenty of states will retain liberal abortion laws. But about half won't.
What it means is anyone with spare money can just go to California or New York easily
What women won't be able to do in some states is access advice close to home or visit a local doctor before deciding. It will overwhelmingly affect younger, poorer, less well educated women who don't travel regularly, rather than the better off.
It just seems appallingly backward.
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Post by Tuffers on Jun 24, 2022 18:13:48 GMT
Watching Bob Plant & Alison Krauss.
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Post by Felice Landry on Jun 24, 2022 18:17:57 GMT
There's a proper law here controlling abortion. It's not really an issue. True, but it is a law set by the Government and there have been many attempts to change the law, just because they failed doesn't mean they won't in the future. Just wait until Priti try's to bring back the death penalty just after Boris has been filmed fucking a badger. |
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Post by Faceless on Jun 24, 2022 18:30:24 GMT
Another difference here is, as far as I'm aware, there isn't a massive anti-abortion movement
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Post by crankcaller on Jun 24, 2022 18:32:26 GMT
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Post by Felice Landry on Jun 24, 2022 18:33:50 GMT
Another difference here is, as far as I'm aware, there isn't a massive anti-abortion movement True, it's mainly a religious thing, which leads me to something I found out recently: "Interestingly from 2020 "Only a quarter of Britons (27%) say they actually believe in ‘a god’. A further one in six (16%) believe in the existence of ‘a higher spiritual power’, but not ‘a god’." |
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Post by Tuffers on Jun 24, 2022 18:34:41 GMT
Now watching the Idles. Fucking scenes!
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Post by muffrat on Jun 24, 2022 18:35:54 GMT
To be fair as a country we've not got a great track record on not voting for the most idiotic option in recent years. The general public are all idiots agree: ![]() Tiverton & Honiton parliamentary by-election result: LDEM: 52.9% (+38.1) CON: 38.5% (-21.7) LAB: 3.7% (-15.9) GRN: 2.5% (-1.3) REF: 1.1% (+1.1) UKIP: 0.6% (-1.1) Liberal Democrat GAIN from Conservative. After everything that's gone on in the past couple of years, nearly 4 people in 10 are still voting for the self evidently shambolic tories. Our main political problem seems to be fucking Stockholm syndrome amongst the electorate. |
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Post by Tuffers on Jun 24, 2022 18:36:09 GMT
I don't know any of the bands.
Won't stop me bopping along like I'm down the local discotheque though.
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Post by muffrat on Jun 24, 2022 18:38:22 GMT
Still, fucking Cricket, eh? Stimulating stuff.
(Don't be surprised to see a member of government in the pavilion if a win looks likely over the weekend. Bread and circuses etc)
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Post by muffrat on Jun 24, 2022 18:40:53 GMT
Watching the test match highlights on bbc 4, really good stuff tbf. Only thing (apart from a fire, or a sudden cardiac episode) that could keep me from Sniper Elite at the mo
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Post by MrTiddles on Jun 24, 2022 18:43:11 GMT
I don't know any of the bands. Won't stop me bopping along like I'm down the local discotheque though. Disco Tuffers don't need to advertise.
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Post by Felice Landry on Jun 24, 2022 18:46:22 GMT
Anyway, time to step off my soap box and eat a homemade Pepperoni pizza, dink* some red wine and watch Billie Eilish later.
Live long and all that shit.
*<edit>drink
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Post by crankcaller on Jun 24, 2022 18:58:34 GMT
Sigrid is on in our house. The Saint Etienne stream is gubbed.
Time for a refresher chew soon I think.
Child gone upstairs. Shoved on Greentea Peng who I've never heard of.
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