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This is a link post New York Times comments elevates to surreal high art

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This is a normal post I take it that "icing my knee" is one of the correct bits?

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This is a normal post that's a lazy birthday cake
with or without a candle
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This is a normal post This is going to make one hell of a Found Poem 

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This is a link post Wiki vandalism at its finest

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This is a normal post Haha!

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Not in any revisions in the last few years and that articles been locked against vandalism for ages, I like it but I'm not convinced it was ever real, could try harder.
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This is a link post Soccer moms chat group trolling
Fun read (fake or not)
(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 21:18, , Reply)
This is a normal post That was pretty funny
But a bit short. They could have trolled for weeks on that chat group. I want to know what happens next!
(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 23:25, , Reply)
This is a normal post That seemed pointless and dull
And obvious
(, Thu 9 Nov 2017, 8:31, , Reply)
This is a link post Priti’s Gone
Apologies for Metro link but the news is out that Priti Patel has “resigned”.

Edit: for my own 2p worth this just makes May look even weaker. If she couldn’t rustle up the backbone to sack Patel for a gaffe like this and she continues to let Boris do his thing without consequence she’ll be resigning herself before too long. Add in the Brexit papers embarrassment and one can be forgiven for wondering if anyone in government is doing much in the way of governing. At least on the bright side I’ve learnt more about one of the few Tory MPs I have any respect for, in the form of Anna Soubry.
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This is a normal post Off to the back benches where she is no longer held back by cabinet collective responsibility.
Should be fun to watch.
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This is a normal post Bye!
Don't let the door hit your arse on the way out!
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She had an impossible job: to find people willing to accept vast amounts of money but who wouldn't spunk it on Rolls-Royces, wristwatches and London property.
(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 20:15, , Reply)
This is a normal post She could have sent it to me to spend on cider and scratch cards

(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 20:24, , Reply)
This is a normal post I don't really think it makes May look weaker.
If you're about to sack someone and they resign in front of you then you simply accept their resignation as convenient. You certainly don't look any stronger by indignantly refusing the resignation then immediately declaring they're fired.
(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 21:00, , Reply)
This is a normal post There's a big difference between being sacked and being asked/told to resign.
One's a badly-needed show of leadership qualities and the other is a face-saving gesture, which in this case means Patel saves face and May loses face.

I don't believe for one minute that Patel resigned voluntarily but I suppose we'll never know, which is rather the point. That said if this were any normal job she'd have been sacked on the spot and this is another example of the double-standards we see applied to politics vs. everyday life.

Let's not forget that the final straw was Patel not disclosing meetings with Israeli political figures after just being chewed out for the exact same thing. She had her chance to come clean and, frankly, was just taking the piss. There should be consequences for her actions, not just a free pass to go back to her old job.
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This is a normal post It depends what you mean by resigned voluntarily though.
If you're definitely going to be sacked (everyone knows it), then it's just politeness to resign. It's voluntary in the sense that you are volunteering to be polite about it, but you are not going to be doing the job any more either way so the resignation is forced.

Ultimately there is no difference. She would be just as free to get another job in government later if she was sacked, although perhaps marginally less likely to be offered it by a colleague due to a possible perceived risk of being a boat rocker if things don't go your way.
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This is a normal post It's the disparity between normal life and Westminster that I find most galling.
If you meet an old friend who works for a competitor and let slip a few trade secrets you expect to be called in front of the management and if you're very, very lucky you'll be given the chance to come clean and apologise rather than be dismissed on the spot.

If you then squander that chance for contrition and it's later found out that you gave them the special sauce recipe as well then any other employer would have you out of the door faster than you can say P45. I don't think I'm being especially harsh in thinking that being shown clemency and essentially throwing it in their face should have real consequences, like having the whip withdrawn. We see the same sort of thing happening in board rooms the world over where executives, having royally fucked up, get a nice pay-off and a friendly handshake.

We can agree to disagree about sacking vs. compulsory resignation, but surely you can see why many people are annoyed when politicians do things like this and seem to get off scot-free.
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This is a normal post Yeah it's pretty galling.
But there's been a long history of this sort of thing, and what can really be done about it? People forget about stuff after a while and you can come back to the table... that's human nature.
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This is a normal post If I remember correctly
The resignation often comes after a sacking and legally it is the resignation that is used as the reason. Something to do with the fact that a sacking has to be in writing whereas a resignation is verbal. Therefore it is possible that May sacked her and she saved face by resigning.
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This is a normal post Bring back Liz Truss!
Image result for liz truss justice minister

No reason other than teh sexeh
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This is a normal post More pork market action
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRhlRM6rYck
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This is a normal post FAP FAP
FAP FAP FAP FAP

FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP

FAP FAP

FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP

*oink*
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This is a normal post

I'd like to pork her, you know, market.
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This is a normal post I bet she has tenderloins

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This is a normal post Oh mate

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This is a normal post Why is it always the Priti ones....

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This is a link post The very weird world of algrothmically generated kids youtube content
some batshit mental-some very dark
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This is a normal post Yup
I cracked once and berated my kid for watching this inane shit. It must be easy to grab some assets and set the thing in motion again, but it's depressing stuff
(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 20:09, , Reply)
This is a normal post The way I see it
Is that the writer comes across like someone who had no idea there was anything dark on the net. Really naive? Hmmm

Also, I watched the prettily-titled BURIED ALIVE and I think that most kids would more likely get bored and switch iff than watch it hypnotised. Bots have no creativity, wit or understanding of storytelling.

He says he doesn't have kids so doesn't really get these points I guess. So, yet another person getting offended on behalf of other people.
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This is a normal post Have you met any young children?
And did you look at the black squiggles between the pictures - the things we call words?
Tl;dr for you?
Trump bullet points:
Some people are deliberately creating deeply disturbing content - while at first glance innocent- for kids which is getting past any and all child friendly filters
Bots are churning out really weird variants on themes - and some of this could also cause harm to children
There is absolutely no way to stop it happening without banning YouTube and anything like it.
(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 21:54, , Reply)
This is a normal post How are these tedious songs about fingers doing harm to children?
The headswap thing, I can imagine teaches your kid to make a fucking awful crying noise when something isn't correct. I have heard it immitated.

I was actually impressed at the work the author did on it.
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This is a normal post Yes, I dont see how the majority of these examples damage kids
Any more than people were saying video games were before, etc. Trying to patronise me isn't exactly a great defence TACFC. They are mind-numbing rubbish and kids just wouldn't fall for this when they could watch decent animations on another channel. As for the early years videos, parents should be keeping an eye on what they're watching anyway. Final point, kids aren't dumb.

People have different opinions so we should discuss this rather than, oh I don't know randomly choosing something...putting them on ignore. Oh, you didn't do that did you?
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This is a normal post I thought you put cold stare on ignore?

(, Thu 9 Nov 2017, 7:07, , Reply)
This is a normal post So is he suggesting that these videos are being created entirely by bots? Or that it's some sort of mass, sinister conspiracy to warp fragile little minds?
I'm not sure which is least likely.

I assume they're created as a cynical attempt to get views from kids intrigued by disgusting things, or adults as a result of articles like these.
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This is a normal post It's an interesting subject I think
I was pleased when a video of mine got a couple of million views, but realised that it's nothing when I saw my kid watching a video of someone opening Kinder Eggs - 42 million views. Most of these videos are just click bait purely for the ad revenue. Seems like the titles are generated by algorithms, but actual people make the videos - and if they can make enough videos with different variations of keywords, they can make money - sometimes a lot. I don't think there's any dark intentions behind most of these videos (unless it's those pesky Ruskies again)

I imagine Google will get round to doing something about it in the same way they change their search algorithms to downgrade websites using sneaky SEO practices. Eventually.
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Needs a touch more salt, and a lot more Danny Elfman.
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This is a normal post Haha. The buttering.
I'd like a foool bridge rectifier over easy, please.
(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 18:07, , Reply)
This is a normal post There's something a bit wrong
About that whisk hand motion
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This is a normal post THEY'RE THE WRONG BLOODY TROUSERS. Or something.

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This is a link post 46 & 2 reaction
With the typical "youtube star" flavored start, I expected to hate this. Pleasantly surprised...
(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 16:16, , Reply)
This is a normal post Gogglebox for music.

(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 16:23, , Reply)
This is a normal post No thanks.
Sounds like a shit idea.
[edit] Also, am I the only person who thinks Tool are MASSIVELY overrated?
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This is a normal post Indeed. The only person's opinion on music I respect is my own.
you're not wrong there. I don't get all the fuss about Muse either
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This is a normal post I gave up listening to mainstream music press recommendations years ago.
My source for new bands is now randoms on the internet.

www.reddit.com/r/ifyoulikeblank/

www.discogs.com/

Are my go to now and through them have found some really great bands.

Here's some little writing because my ocd says I should add some
(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 16:48, , Reply)
This is a normal post Same, but I get all my stuff through SoundCloud

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This is a normal post I often use the "related artists" tab on Spotify.
Lately I have disappeared down a pyschobilly rabbit hole.

Music is such a personal thing though. If you like it great, who gives a fuck what anyone else thinks?
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This is a normal post Interesting genre, never heard of it before.
Currently exploring French electro myself.
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This is a normal post You must know The Cramps?

(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 17:02, , Reply)
This is a normal post Heard of them never really listened though.
I quite liked Imelda Mays early stuff if that counts for anything?
(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 17:05, , Reply)
This is a normal post Have you got a Boom Boom
or Love Tattoo?
(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 23:32, , Reply)
This is a normal post it's not a bad rabbit hole to be in
southern gothic americana is the warren I'm currently burrowing in
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The Handsome Family and the like?
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"Music is such a personal thing though. If you like it great, who gives a fuck what anyone else thinks?"

And yet people post music all the time on here...
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This is a normal post Because they are sharing something they enjoy and think others might too.
They aren't doing it for approval. We're not all needy click whores.
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This is a normal post There's a great band name right there

(, Thu 9 Nov 2017, 1:19, , Reply)
This is a normal post I know a needy click whore in need of many, many clicks

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This is a normal post Shhhh
You not allowed to mention D*m
(, Thu 9 Nov 2017, 14:19, , Reply)
This is a normal post my main source of new music is friends' recommendations & The Quietus.
Though I try and bear in mind that they do champion their mates' shit bands.
change your sig, you horror
(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 16:55, , Reply)
This is a normal post Tool suffer from having over obsessive fans.
It's part of the tribalism that goes along with music tastes.
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Beavis "huh huh Ghost "BC" huh, huh, huh, huh"
Butthead "Shut up butt munch"
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This is a link post Meanwhile, in Germany …
… officers were examining whether any animal protection laws had been broken.
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This is a normal post It might belong to one of the man's relatives.
What else might it?
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This is a normal post obviously a "trouser snake" gag set-up
but he bottled it and got pissed instead
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This is a link post Priti Patel's plane stream

22k people watching!
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This is a normal post I can see her at the top of the steps down from the plane at Heathrow saying "I hold, in my hand, a piece of paper..."

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This is a normal post Toilet paper probably.

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This is a normal post ©The Viz book of crap jokes.

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She's just flown over my House in Greenwich, so she's just home to face the Music.. not sitting Pritti is she!
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This is a normal post Oh I do hope there's some sort of media scrum.

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This is a normal post That would be undignified
I'm sure that won't happen
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This is a normal post Aw....
Hah!
That plane she's on didn't have wi-fi!

Oh to be there now she's getting a signal..
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This is a normal post Posted hastily

Forgot to mention she doesn't know!
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Oh I'm sure she knew. She'd been summoned to London to see the boss halfway through a journey to Uganda. You can't think that's going to be a good meeting.

Edit: Apparently a ministerial car met her on the tarmac. A swift motorcycle escort down the M4 and she'll be falling on her sword within the hour.
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This is a normal post According to Theo Usherwood she's not going straight there.
twitter.com/theousherwood/status/928291081577467904
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Gone to the office to clear her desk shred some files get her story straight say goodbye to her wonderful staff no doubt.
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This is a normal post I hope she's got absolutely shitfaced and is spoiling for a fight.

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This is a normal post Seeing as her and Boris were brought into the cabinet to keep them quite you might get that chance.

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This is a normal post She should tell May to shove it and take her down.
The boil needs lancing.
(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 15:35, , Reply)
This is a normal post how would that work then?

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First, she would tell May to shove it. After that, take her down.
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This is a normal post Amen

(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 17:13, , Reply)
This is a normal post Well she could get 47 other tory mp's to write to the 1922 Committee which would trigger a leadership contest.
She's got sod all to lose.
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This is a normal post Actually that would be hilarious

(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 15:38, , Reply)
This is a link post Boat transport I made this!
Worries and tribulations related to shipping now are not a part and parcel of your daily life. Have a stress free shipping of your vehicle through services by We Will Transport It.
(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 13:24, , Reply)
This is a normal post I need someone to take care of my heavy equipment
*unzips*
(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 13:26, , Reply)
This is a normal post Er...
This isn't how you do marketing.
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This is a normal post A lot of people are saying ...
... that We Will Transport It are massively involved in the smuggling of children for the slave trade and the distribution of extreme animal porn.

How is that business model working for you?
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This is a normal post Did you mean to post it on the dark web?

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This is a normal post This isn't the dark web?

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This is a normal post I wouldn't buy used panties here if I were you.

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This is a normal post Is that what people do with their bitcoin?

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This is a normal post Dunno, I pay your mum with Liquorice Allsorts

(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 15:38, , Reply)
This is a normal post Did you use We Will Transport to ship her the container(s)?

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This is a normal post Indeed I did.
And she used them to return her "containers".
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This is a normal post Nothing is beneath We Will Transport It.

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This is a normal post I like your very generic YouTube video that explains absolutely everything.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyYNQo6RovM


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Needs more crying laughing emoji
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This is a normal post Hello you cunt

(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 15:38, , Reply)
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i lol-ed at this
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This is a normal post Do you have any advice about how to
avoid the dangers of driving in the sun?
Do you haul municipal service truck?
Tell me about the multi car shipping discount for auto dealers!
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This is a normal post How did you know?
B3ta is the hub of vehicles that need shipping. We've got vehicles coming out of our arse. Thank God you turned up

As the elderly lady says in the video, "I'm very satisfied". Little minx
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This is a normal post Plants vs zombies music?

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This is a normal post Can someone explain this to me?
Specifically this:
In the olden days, when I was alive, television used to "live" for things like football matches. What you saw on the telly was actually happening. The only control you had over it was to switch to another channel, or switch off. So, if something exciting or interesting happened, the broadcaster would show an action replay, anticipating the viewer going "wtf?".

It's 2017. Most of what I watch, I watch on Youtube. The rest, I watch streamed from my PC or on my SkyHD box. EVERY SINGLE MEDIA SOURCE I HAVE allows me to pause, rewind and replay any section of video it shows, at will, all the time.

So why THE ACTUAL FUCK do Youtube video makers waste my FUCKING TIME making a 30 second video that consists of the same 15 second clip, twice?
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This is a link post Sounds From The Ground ‎– Terra Firma
Have some downtempo rub-a-dub-dub
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Top comment is top.
(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 11:19, , Reply)
This is a normal post That top comment is gold

(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 20:09, , Reply)
This is a normal post She's punching way above her weight.

(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 11:42, , Reply)
This is a normal post that's cutting

(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 13:16, , Reply)
This is a normal post Not surprised you're siding with her

(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 13:23, , Reply)
This is a normal post don't be a shunt

(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 13:31, , Reply)
This is a normal post Don't choo try to act the hard man in here

(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 14:15, , Reply)
This is a normal post Oh Railly!

(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 16:28, , Reply)
This is a normal post couldnt see what you are talking about still buffering

(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 20:54, , Reply)
This is a normal post I hear her marriage has gone off the rails.
But while it lasted it was a steamy affair. She always felt very hornby.
Drove her loco.
(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 11:56, , Reply)
This is a normal post Her wedding dress
had a lovely train.
(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 12:00, , Reply)
This is a normal post That bra-less sweatsuit look
really shows off her gargantuan, pendulous udders. You go gurl.
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What is it with the mentally ill and lack of bosom support?
(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 12:05, , Reply)
This is a normal post I could answer this,
but I don't want to get banned from /links.
(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 12:07, , Reply)
This is a normal post If it involves you showing us pictures of your gargantuam, pendulous udders
then I think it is worth the risk.

I am tumescent with anticipation.
(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 12:21, , Reply)
This is a normal post Leave Voldermort alone!

(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 13:22, , Reply)
This is a normal post Freedom

(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 14:41, , Reply)
This is a normal post Office lol you twat

(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 15:39, , Reply)
This is a normal post Well, I doubt she's had any better offers.
P.S. It's "railway station", not "train station".
(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 12:08, , Reply)
This is a normal post Well, this bus stop was quite keen.

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This is a normal post Mmmhm.
(Redirected from Railway station)
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This is a normal post From that very page
"In British English, traditional usage favours railway station or simply station, even though train station, which is an Americanism, is now misused instead of railway station in writing."
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This is a normal post That's clearly not correct though.
I take no issue with the first part of that sentence.

But misused? Is there a more correct usage for "train station" than meaning "station for trains" such that using it as "station for trains" counts as misuse?

That's clearly just someone's opinion, and not an objective fact. So I have corrected it.
(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 13:50, , Reply)
This is a normal post I don't really care either way
I was just amused that the page you produced as proof seemed to directly contradict you.

Edit: and now you've edited that page so that it doesn't? That's genius. I'd take my hat off to you were I the sort of cunt who wore one.
(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 13:55, , Reply)
This is a normal post Lol, yeah I suppose it was a bit of a cheap trick,
but I wouldn't edit a page to be actually wrong only to prove a point. I figured I should do it here since the original sentence basically didn't make sense.
(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 14:04, , Reply)
This is a normal post Words get old and replaced. That's why games like Call My Bluff exist.

(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 13:18, , Reply)
This is a normal post Haha. You're a sad cunt.

(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 13:34, , Reply)
This is a normal post I take it the train station didn't have any say in it?

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This is a normal post maybe the vicar mistook a train whistle for
"I dooooooooo!"
(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 13:32, , Reply)
This is a normal post I Choo-Choo-Choose You!

(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 20:23, , Reply)
This is a link post Looks like may's going to lose a cabinet minister today
No not him.

TL:DR Minister goes to Israel on "holiday" and has secret meetings with the Israeli government. Then planned to use humanitarian aid money to fund the Israeli armed forces.
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This is a normal post May reminds me of a school-mates mum standing in as dinner lady for a few days
An embarrassment.
(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 9:27, , Reply)
This is a normal post Wait wait wait
Got a source on that second bit?
(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 9:28, , Reply)
This is a normal post Yesterday’s Independent: Priti Patel discussed giving British foreign aid money to Israeli army, Downing Street confirms
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/priti-patel-israel-army-idf-foreign-aid-money-british-holiday-meetings-netanyahu-international-a8041716.html?amp
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This is a normal post Yup, but after she fessed up to Mau some more secret meetings came to light.
She's flying home now and is pretty much finished.
(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 9:47, , Reply)
This is a normal post Christ on a bike
She's toast.
(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 9:50, , Reply)
This is a normal post And not happy toast at that.
Did you see what I did there?
(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 11:00, , Reply)
This is a normal post the cabinet is one of the few places where Priti Patel is not the dumbest person in the room
hope she goes
(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 9:55, , Reply)
This is a normal post It takes a special kind of cunt to inquire with her team if she can divert aid money to bank rolling the policing of occupied land.

(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 9:57, , Reply)
This is a normal post which special kind of cunt?

(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 10:05, , Reply)
This is a normal post One filled with corruption and reeking of putrefaction.

(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 10:13, , Reply)
This is a normal post that's what
SHE said
(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 10:19, , Reply)
This is a normal post I love it when you talk dirty.
*unzips*
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*fetches telescope.... squints*
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n r
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This is a normal post good summary :)

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This is a normal post It would hardly be the most egregious misuse of tax payers cash by the DFID.
Jussayin.
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This is a normal post I agree 100%, the rules need changing.

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This is a normal post I have to declare an interest here
as my wife works in international aid and a lot of their funding comes from DFID. I believe the majority of the projects they're working on are actually completely sensible - the one my wife is on certainly is. However the ones that grab the headlines are clearly in the "what the hell were you thinking" category, and there seems to be a serious problem in some areas in ensuring the aid isn't siphoned off by the regime before it reaches the intended recipients.
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This is a normal post I also have to declare an interest here
My wife is a civil servant and I've heard stories about massive waste in spending.

Is it true that a lot of the WTF projects are funded because the DFID has a legal target on how much they have to spend?
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This is a normal post Yes.
They are the only government department that are obliged, BY LAW, to spent the entirety of their budget and if they do not they have to make a statement to the House explaining why. You know how councils suddenly become highly concerned about fixing kerbs and paving stones in the run up to April even when they don't need fixing... Their budget is fixed, again BY LAW, at 0.7% of GDP.
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This is a normal post That's how all government departments work.
Underspend by 10% this year and (rather than a pat on the head for being efficient) you get 10% less than whatever you ask the Treasury for next year.

Fortunately there are plenty of government suppliers who are good at 'helping out' the procurement people and pricing based on what's currently in the pot (which is how you get to the NHS and MOD paying shitloads for spoons and pens and stuff).

But enough of that! Lets get back to decrying celebrities who avoid tax...
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This is a normal post No. It's not illegal to underspend in any other department, no other department has to give a statement to the house if they underspend, and no other department has their budget set as an elastic percentage of GDP.
Apart from that, it's exactly the same.
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This is a normal post just correct the grammar
My wife is a civil s e rvant and I've he a rd stories about massive waste in spending
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This is a normal post Bit low mate.

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impossible
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Down with the faceless, unelected shitty Briteaucrats
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This is a normal post 0.7% of GDP to be spent by the DFID was a Tory 2010 manifesto pledge.
How exactly is that faceless and unelected?
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I was talking about Cerebus' civil servant wife you dumb fuck
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This is a normal post I've said it before and I'll say it again,
for one so inclined to sanctimony, you're very quick with the offensive language and verbal abuse.
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And you're still jumping to conclusions and not reading things properly. C'est la vie.
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This is a normal post I was talking about you calling Cerebus' civil servant wife a "faceless, unelected shitty Briteaucrat" you dumb fuck.
Plus ça change...
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When one's entire argument for Brexit is based around magic beans and complaining about imaginary "unelected faceless eurocrats" and your wife is one, I feel entirely fine pointing out the hypocrisy.

You're a genuinely thick shit.
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This is a normal post Seeing spouses appear to be fair game I would just point out my wife is a staunch remainer.
Carry on.
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I like your wife, she seems lovely :)
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This is a normal post See, I'm also a staunch remainer.
I just find myself arguing with many other remainers here when they rely on shitty arguments, or ignore very good arguments from the other side. Similarly, I voted Lib Dem, but I end up finding myself defend Tory ministers because of shitty arguments.

Everyone then assumes I'm on the other side when mainly I'm trying to tidy up the mess on my own side.
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This is a normal post Another insubordinate arsehole in the cabinet?
It’s almost as if the PM is incapable of sacking anyone.
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This is a normal post She's flying back to be sacked.
uk.flightaware.com/live/flight/KQA100

This has got to have been a long flight.
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This is a normal post Bet she stays on after they've landed to watch the end of the movie

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I'm sure the taxpayer funded champagne will take the edge off
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This is a link post Metallic Blimp - In the Light
Anyone else see the last episode of Mind Hunters?
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This is a normal post B&

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This is a normal post Although, I am now listening to the album, so thank you for the prompt.

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This is a normal post BAMPERSAND

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This is a normal post Mindhunter? Aye.

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This is a normal post William Petersen is good in that

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This is a link post Midnight at the Oasis
Check also their Street Life cover
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This is a normal post Regendary...

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The singer needs to have words with whoever came up with those volume levels.
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This is a link post Drunk people. Boat. Water - what could go wrong?
Edit: don't bother watching past 20 seconds. Nothing else happens unfortunately

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(, Wed 8 Nov 2017, 19:18, , Reply)
This is a normal post Looks like
Utrecht to me.
www.google.nl/maps/@52.0884184,5.1215193,2a,34.7y,342.89h,89.42t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sdGwVsIdOnWMoaHh4lPC6sA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
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This is a link post Free the nipple

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This is a normal post I was expecting this to be about Mario Odyssey

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This is a normal post I'm loving that game at the moment.
Mario's nipples are the least delightful thing about it. That's how delightful it is.
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This is a normal post Disturbing
And kind of sexy
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This is a normal post Nibiru! The end is nigh

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This is a normal post Encouraging children
to drink from the long one.
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This is a link post Death Rattle
A man obsesses over perfecting his death rattle. Weird and a little disturbing
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