UK is Fucked
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- shapesalad0
"Not another stupid Hunt."
- grafician-1
- lmaoOBBTKN
- im guessing they knew it's behind glass, shamekingsteven
- In what kind of cartoon world does gluing one’s hand to a wall work?scarabin
- Those are NOT behind glass like the Monalisa!
I really hope they displayed fakes and real artworks are safely stored somewhere elsegrafician - also:
https://twitter.com/…grafician - ^ "This was funded by a group started by three rich Americans who became concerned about climate change after their houses in Malibu were threatened by wildfiregrafician
- here's the funding: https://www.nytimes.…grafician
- "every time i see this stuff i feel so bad for the 18yrolds getting manipulated into thinking this is how you change the world"grafician
- It’s behind glass and they’re not Marxistskingsteven
- LameGnash
- When I saw this painting and others like it, at several locations over the years it was not behind any glass.monospaced
- https://vm.tiktok.co…prophetone
- of course it's glazed i saw this at the van gogh museum about 8 years ago and it glazed. i was there for the Félix Vallotton exhibition tho because van gogh iskingsteven
- GASHkingsteven
- the idea of thinking it's better that people see a copy of the artwork vs displaying the original behind glass. look at yourselves... it's a stunt, they knew.kingsteven
- "The gallery in Trafalgar Square said the protesters caused "minor damage to the frame but the painting is unharmed". The painting went back on display a few hografician
- it's all bullshit, ask yourself why the fuck is a report about idiot eco activists damaging a frame and fucking attempting to glue themselves to a wall newskingsteven
- I will simply ignore this kind of reports from now on then, unless they burn the fucking museum downgrafician
- Marxists? Ha!OBBTKN
- bit did they use Campbell‘s Tomato Soup?uan
- hah, aye pablo calling them eco-marxists in the other thread :D it's just some kids in a stunt to bring attention to fossil fuel dependance if it wasnt for thekingsteven
- ridiculous situation of the Tories accepting 1.3m from Russian oil barrons and then the 'climate minister' Graham Stuart encouraging domestic drillingkingsteven
- i doubt these protests would be as media orchestrated, it's very painful for anyone with a brain to live in the UK these days tbhkingsteven
- I think van Gogh would have loved this, he'd be grinning from earGardener
- I didn't call them ex-Marxists, but victims of this ideology.pablo28
- *eco-Marxistspablo28
- that's a very american concept. neo-marxism being synonymous with post-marxism. these kids i'd imagine have a better overview than mostkingsteven
- ... and fear the thunderdome and read sartre. perfectly normal IMOkingsteven
- PhanLo1
‘Difficult decisions’
- yuekit0
Jeremy Hunt insists Liz Truss is in charge
https://www.theguardian.com/poli…
Jeremy Hunt has insisted that Liz Truss is in charge despite her premiership looking increasingly in peril, as he warned of further public spending cuts and failed to rule out more U-turns on her disastrous mini-budget.
Q. Who is in charge? You or her?
Hunt replies that the prime minister is in charge and that the biggest element of the mini-budget – the energy price cap – is still happening.
Q. How can people TRUST what is being said?
Because she has listened. She has changed. She has been willing to do that most difficult thing in politics, which is to change tack.
- She will resign in days, Hunt will replace her purely for damage limitation. The tory party has accepted it is going to lose the next general election, it willfadein11
- just try to hold onto as many seats as possible. A landslide for labour even greater than 1997 is predicted.fadein11
- Cue "Starmer's a red tory" "they are all the same" BS.
This party has destroyed itself and the last debacle has just shown how dangerous they can be.fadein11 - https://imgur.com/zm…kingsteven
- Is there no one who can run UK properly?grafician
- I can.shapesalad
- grafician0
"TORY MP'S WILL TRY TO OUST UK PM TRUSS THIS WEEK: DAILYMAIL'
- PhanLo6
- deepNBQ00
- People are too stupid to vote. They believe the shit the newspapers vomit out.Chimp
- The tory thing is a weird fetish certain english people have. BDSM levels.PhanLo
- Don't nearly 30% of Scots vote Tory?Nairn
- Certain scots too.PhanLo
- sectarianism is a hell of a drugkingsteven
- I suppose that maybe plays into it, but I really don't get why poor people vote for them.PhanLo
- Poor people shouldn't be allowed to vote.palimpsest
- LoLPhanLo
- Middle Class/Working Class vote 50/50 for Cons. Labour: slightly (2-3%) more working class. LibDem: Twice as many Middle Class.Morning_star
- yeah maybe more 'anti-independence' vote. scots are wild for conspiracy. mad fenian scots over here always on about sturgeon's swastika tattoo :Dkingsteven
- Lol, Sturgeon has plenty problems at home without the need for tattoos :-)PhanLo
- @MS, it's 50% SNP in scotland and lab and cons have 50% of the restkingsteven
- i was happy with the common market but not the union. they shouldnt have signed us up to mastrichttrooperbill
- David Shrigley?garbage
- people round the world don't vote for right-wing governments, it's an english thingNonEntity
- I think it's because people don't want to think of themselves as poor - or have the label applied to them, so vote 'aspirationally'Fax_Benson
- You're being sardonic, right NonEntity?Nairn
- Too many people vote for political parties like they support football teams. They have blind faith in their blue or red team.Chimp
- The problem is that people don't know how to vote.palimpsest
- PhanLo1
- walk past kincora boys home most days and makes me sick. was set for demolition a couple of years backkingsteven
- Yep, total horror show. Fairly bold of Mountbatten to keep going even though he was at major risk.PhanLo
- It's likely a young chap he picked up planted the bomb what killed him.zardoz
- the coverup of the ring that supplied him is shocking. this being the first time anyone has taken the accusation to court after countless exposeskingsteven
- kingsteven2
- ... and one of them seems to be Liz Truss
https://twitter.com/…Bluejam
- ... and one of them seems to be Liz Truss
- Ianbolton1
conservatism
/kənˈsəːvətɪz(ə)m/noun
1. commitment to traditional values and ideas with opposition to change or innovation.2. the holding of political views that favour free enterprise, private ownership, and socially traditional ideas.
Does every Conservative leader just double down on their opposition to change, or is change part of their new ideology? They've made so many U-turns it makes no sense on what they're trying to achieve, but 'strong and stable' the Tory party is most certainly not.
I flip between thinking Keir Starmer is just happy to watch them implode and destroy themselves, or he's so incapable of saying anything inspiring enough to actually take them down.
- That's what they say they are but they are really just here to rob the people of their money and give it to massive corporations.Chimp
- I see nothing admirable in the UK political landscape.Nairn
- When was the last time you felt there was Nairn? It's grim!Ianbolton
- Touché :(Nairn
- I fucked off out of the country a long time ago so I don't have to think about it.Chimp
- Nairn5
File under 'UK is not entirely fucked':
https://www.theguardian.com/poli…
BRING THESE TO LONDON PLEASE. It drives me nuts that ignorant fucks with modified IC Engines can negatively impact the lives of literally tens of thousands of people as they fartblart around the place like the tiny-dicked cretins they are.
- haha, so if one were so inclined, could they sit near these "cameras" out of shot with a very loud speaker device getting every car that drives by ticketed? ?dee-dubs
- I like your thinking!
#FuckCarsNairn - Are they going to silence ambulance sirens ? that used to grind on me, living at a junction on a main road 1/4 a km away from an ambulance station.shapesalad
- Archway, by any chance?Nairn
- nope, more posh area. but glad i'm out of LDN, longer you live there, worse your health gets.shapesalad
- Aha.
Now, just to be clear, because perhaps I might've missed something - you didn't like living in London?Nairn - about time. Going after dickheads with clown-car exhausts is a vote winner.Fax_Benson
- I remember living near Highbury Corner and having to sleep with ear plugs.Chimp
- Haha. Exhaust fucked up last month on my 2008 Vauxhall Corsa. I had 3 days of sounding like my exhaust was fucked, yet my 18 yo nephew reckoned it sounds coolIanbolton
- Where do you live now brother Shape?Ianbolton
- I think he moved to 1963Fax_Benson
- NOOOOOOOOO! As a biker (and car driver) this depresses me. Sitting on a hot bike while trying to wobbling around at 20mph while cyclist fly by... mehnecromation
- Sorry dude, but if you've got an overly- noisy machine, then you're in the shit-seat for affecting all the people around you in a city.
*shrug*Nairn - I've noticed that insulating foam applied to said exhaust fixes the noise problem ;)rzu-rzu
- *SIGNS YOU're GETting OLD*robthelad
- Two things to know about me. I hate pot and London. Both at the same time = hell.shapesalad
- When a vehicle is make noise, same as when it's making heat = engine is not being efficient, power is not going to torque but to sound/heat.shapesalad
- @rob'the lad' - I doubt it - I hated noisy twats when I was playing the role of a somewhat cool 20-something.Nairn
- Boy racers? Like these guys?
https://youtu.be/K5U…Palindrome - Stealth ambulances is a million dollah idea!palimpsest
- grafician2
- Basically who is behind the failures of this govgrafician
- These Guys Fuck.Nairn
- Where's Guy Fawkes when you need him?Chimp
- Well, Guy Fawkes failed, so....Nairn
- I don't think I've seen a more cohesive protest movement than the Led by Donkeys movementIanbolton
- wow.shapesalad
- the more i think about this, the more utterly subversive - and instructive - a format it appears.Nairn
- PhanLo0
Everything might be falling apart, but our plugs are really good.
-- Not shocking at all.Chimp
- People keep commenting about stepping on them. Quite a strange complaint. Euro plugs always seem close to falling out all the timePhanLo
- the one thing we did right.shapesalad
- We're all in the same YT bubble, aren't we? or do YT just promote the same shit to Everyone? (I watched this after YT recc'd it a couple of days back)Nairn
- Your plugs are too big. Europlug, baby.jagara
- A) No. I lived in Spain for years and Europlugs are.. a bit shit, And stick out, taking space. b) WHICH 'Europlug'? There are dozens!Nairn
- UK ones are 'a bit' over-engineered, but they really are good. Also, you only ever step on one once. Just like Lego. You learn. You adapt. You survive.Nairn
- I must confess to having stepped on Lego more than just one in my life. A lesson I, apparently, simply never learnt.Continuity
- And Europlugs (Types C and F) are just fine. Never once thought that they seemed close to falling out.Continuity
- I do, however, appreciate NA plugs for their small, compact form factor.Continuity
- The plug thing was the hardest to get used to. If you come from usa u need that adapter asap to run electronics in the UK. It's your lifeline lol.cherub
- drgs3
- rapeseed oil... just buy normal butter for £1.60.shapesalad
- The hell is rapeseed? horrible sounding namedrgs
- The seed from rapes. Rape flowers. The seed from rape flowers. https://en.wikipedia…shapesalad
- https://images.openf…Chimp
- i reckon drgs would love to be raped of his seed.Ianbolton
- Don't be thinking this is a 250g. This pack is huge. FACT.Morning_star
- That’s why they call rapeseed canolascarabin
- ^ This. Also don't mix up your rapeseed with grapeseed.garbage
- And savory crackers are getting dear. £2 for those hovis ones.zardoz