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General Discussion / Re: United Kingdom Bunker Thread - Politics & Economics
« on: February 16, 2023, 11:44:46 pm »
John Swinney has ruled himself out of the leadership of the SNP.

New leader is to be announced on March 19th I think, so the emergency SNL conference thing to determine the future direction of the party has also been postponed, ‘cause having a new leader anchored to a position they may not necessarily accept is a silly idea.

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General Discussion / Re: Emotional Responses to War in Ukraine - Personal Diary & Mutual Support
« on: February 16, 2023, 11:37:42 pm »
The entire rest of the thread hasn’t decided to call Toady out on being a deficient mod, just you. RD is free to post his nonsense, just as we’re free to tell him he’s posting nonsense.

I mean, aside from the previous troll dropping in to agree with RD, all the responses have been that what he’s saying is utterly ridiculous, so him having a platform for his ridiculous views is also providing plenty of opposing viewpoints to be highlighted too.

Equally so, RD hasn’t broken any rules. As I said, Toady doesn’t jump to the banhammer, so RD’ll get a talking to, and if he doesn’t buck his ideas up, he’ll get banned eventually. This isn’t leniency because it’s how it’s always worked, so far as I’m aware.

If he keeps posting things you have issue with, keep reporting him. If that isn’t good enough… well, don’t use the forum :p

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General Discussion / Re: [MILK] There were 12 eggs here what did you do with them? (Happy thread?!)
« on: February 16, 2023, 11:22:21 pm »
Quote from: bloop_bleep on February 16, 2023, 07:33:32 pm
I gave a girl a rose and two chocolate cigars for Valentine's Day. Nothing serious, but I liked doing it.

I hope that’s not a euphemism, or reference to Clinton’s proclivities.

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General Discussion / Re: Emotional Responses to War in Ukraine - Personal Diary & Mutual Support
« on: February 16, 2023, 11:12:31 pm »
Guys he parses arguments like no other, I think we have been defeated.

Anyway, random dragon is being silly. Toady’s method of moderation is to do it privately and slowly, so even if he is unhappy with RD’s nonsense, RD will get PM’d and probably a handful of warnings before the banhammer falls. If you don’t like it, you don’t have to use the forum.

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General Discussion / Re: The friendly and polite Europe related terrible jokes thread
« on: February 15, 2023, 10:22:45 pm »
She’s alcoholic, apparently. Dealing poorly with the menopause.

The police do have the dignity of the family to consider though, which is presumably why it took them three weeks to mention it.

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General Discussion / Re: The Big Random Questions Thread
« on: February 15, 2023, 06:21:51 pm »
I was under impression it was a wee island off the coast of the Netherlands, but that’s a guess

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General Discussion / Re: United Kingdom Bunker Thread - Politics & Economics
« on: February 15, 2023, 12:59:51 pm »
The bookies favourite is apparently Angus Robertson, so we’re going for more bovine derived foodstuffs now.

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General Discussion / Re: The friendly and polite Europe related terrible jokes thread
« on: February 15, 2023, 11:58:51 am »
According to the BBC it means she’s at significant risk of harm, though they won’t say more than it’s based on “specific vulnerabilities” and information pointed out by her partner.

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General Discussion / Re: United Kingdom Bunker Thread - Politics & Economics
« on: February 15, 2023, 11:51:14 am »
John Swinney seems the most likely choice, as he’s the current deputy and is the go-to for media appearances if Sturgeon isn’t available, but I think he had a stint as leader between 2000-2004 which wasn’t great.

He has also faced two calls of no confidence in the last few years at the behest of opposition parties, once as education secretary during the exams scandal in 2020 (that the UK government failed to learn from and did the exact same thing a few weeks later) and for failing to publish legal advice given to the Scottish government in relation to the government’s legal battle with Alex Salmond.

I wouldn’t be particularly happy with him in the role, but… who else?

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General Discussion / Re: The Abusive Policing Thread: Beyond Brown, No Justice
« on: February 14, 2023, 07:27:47 pm »
Quote from: MrRoboto75 on February 14, 2023, 06:47:18 pm
Quote from: EuchreJack on February 14, 2023, 05:38:01 pm
Quote from: MrRoboto75 on February 14, 2023, 04:26:27 pm
Quote from: EuchreJack on February 14, 2023, 03:19:32 pm
What horrible, horrible laws is this going to generate?
Probably none.
I wish that I had your naivete...
No, I don't really subscribe to the usual NRA propaganda.

Especially when the last 20-30 mass shootings didn't result in any changes.  And the next 20-30 probably won't either.

Correct.

There’s a lot of bluster from both sides, gun control needs to happen and thoughts and prayers and mental health bollocks, but in the end, war gun violence never changes.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: February 14, 2023, 04:47:35 pm »
Quote from: Akura on February 14, 2023, 04:32:07 pm
Some drunk asshole tried running us off the road about half an hour ago. Did some significant damage to our vehicle's rear end too. Nobody's hurt, and insurance should cover the damage. The guy wasn't even arrested, despite being visibly drunk.

As long as there is a police report stating that he was drunk, and he has insurance, you should be alright for the fiscal part.

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Other Games / Re: How did you last die?
« on: February 13, 2023, 08:01:37 pm »
It’s well worth playing through, especially with High Chaos.

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General Discussion / Re: Emotional Responses to War in Ukraine - Personal Diary & Mutual Support
« on: February 12, 2023, 09:37:10 pm »
He can’t even parse sensible arguments so it doesn’t matter. Democratically elected positions derive their power from the people, but the people who elected the person into that power aren’t allowed to remove them from that power, even if it’s done through other democratically elected representatives with the right to do it.

Don’t even get me started on his attempts at trying to squeeze the concept of Divine Right into democracy. It’s just utter shite followed by a shower of shite with a sprinkling of shite.

We know his idea of winning an argument is to get the last word in so just let him think he’s won and he’ll go away.

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General Discussion / Re: [MILK] There were 12 eggs here what did you do with them? (Happy thread?!)
« on: February 11, 2023, 11:19:07 pm »
I personally thought he was giving a demonstration of how walls worked for a slow friend until I read the context.

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General Discussion / Re: what tv shows are you currently watching?
« on: February 11, 2023, 11:04:38 pm »
From my experience of Rhod Gilbert, angry Welshman is his “character”.

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