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#691 Re: The Garden » How Realistic Do You Think A 3rd World War Is? » 541 weeks ago

Australia should be ok whatever happens.
Unless the Tasmanians start an uprising..

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#692 Re: The Sunset Strip » HBO's A Game of Thrones » 541 weeks ago

misterID wrote:

The Sansa love on the internet is kind of grating. The "thing" seems to be she saved Jon's ass and now he's getting the credit, which justifies her potential heel turn. She basically allowed thousands of men to be slaughtered and nearly killed Jon by keeping the Vale support secret. LF offered help at their secret meeting, she said no and didn't tell Jon. She yelled at Jon for not asking her opinion at the war counsel, and when he did, she yelled at him because she didn't know about battles... And didn't tell him about asking for help from the Vale. They could have waited an afternoon. Ehhh.


She's playing the game, & playing it well. She's "fully actualised". TJwq7Ay.jpg
Love her now. Team LF + Sansa ftw. Hope they outmanoeuvred those sick, incestuous targaryen's. LF & Sansa are the fuckin good guys! They represent civilised society ffs.

#693 Re: The Sunset Strip » HBO's A Game of Thrones » 541 weeks ago

AtariLegend wrote:
johndivney wrote:

Um.. Did you guys even watch the fuckin show?!

Only watch for tits and dragons, it makes more sense that way.

+ zombies.
Best show.

#694 Re: The Garden » How Realistic Do You Think A 3rd World War Is? » 541 weeks ago

Some people already think we've had world war 3 - the Cold War https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Podhoretz

Some people think we're living thru it right now. Something I'd give a little more credence to.

I dunno. There's wars everywhere on any given day. But in terms of super powers, or would be super powers, who the hell knows.

Do I think we've progressed enough as a society? Hell no. I've overestimated people too often this past half a decade & have had my eye blackened enough times to learn my lesson.
There's the school of thought why we haven't encountered an extra terrestrial race, or why they haven't encountered us that goes: that civilisations never last long enough to evolve that far because they always end up exterminating themselves (before they escape). I can definitely see that, the way we treat this planet (our only home) & each other. We're really stupid so yea I probably could see another world war.

http://youtu.be/p86BPM1GV8M


If I ruled the world things would be better. I'd be more optimistic.

#696 Re: The Garden » EURO 2016 Thread » 541 weeks ago

"They're all just headphones." Jesus Christ. "Timbuktu" lol

Today has been a great day. I'm fuck shattered now tho. Last night was insane.
I couldn't stop smiling & laughing this morning. Usually I'm a miserable fucker but I was full of joy. Everyone's loving it too, it's given everyone a lift and a laugh. Even the little old lady I met in the butchers was loving it. Brexit rained on the parade a little of course, but otherwise the day has been spent trawling thru the wreckage of another glorious England defeat. Long may it last.

#697 Re: Guns N' Roses » 26/6/16 FEDEX FIELD, WASHINGTON, DC UNITED STATES » 541 weeks ago

You don't get to be a multimillionaire by wasting your money on that crap. All he needs to do is a little less heavy lifting at the bar and maybe sit a bit further away from the dinner table.

#699 Re: The Garden » 2016 Presidential Election Thread » 541 weeks ago

"Britain's had enough of experts", that's what one of the the leading Leave campaigners said in response to 9 out of 10 economics advisors/bodies coming out in favour of Remain.

Don't underestimate people's ability to cut off their nose to spite their face.

(Tho I do agree with the sentiment the first comment on that video sg posted - Hilary is a cunt, an evil cunt is what I'd have no problem calling her, but sometimes you might have to choose the lesser of two evils.. I'm undecided tho as to who that is, but that's definitely the choice you're faced with imo).

#700 Re: The Garden » The United Kingdom General Election, 2nd May 2024 » 541 weeks ago

James Lofton wrote:

the Brits would be up shit creek without a paddle.

My favourite writer/journalist over here has similiar sentiments, I think this captures the scene as well as anyone has. There's a few references that might go over the heads of people on the outside but in general you should catch the gist of the fuck-uppery that's happening:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr … m-promises

Britain faces leaderless turmoil. But don’t worry, Boris is back from the cricket
Marina Hyde
You’d think leave’s career fibbers would have a plan to get out of the lies they told before the referendum. Instead they say they’ve had enough of promises

Nothing indicates quite what a bloody nose the referendum was for the establishment like discovering that Boris Johnson spent Sunday playing cricket with Earl Spencer and writing his £250,000 a year column for the Daily Telegraph. Given that the victory speech he and Michael Gove made on Friday looked more like a hostage video, the chief purpose of Johnson’s column seemed to be to assure Britain he had Taken Back Control of his sphincter muscles.

Amusingly, after the emotive and divisive campaign he headed, Johnson’s team were briefing that he would be running for the Tory leadership as a “unity candidate” – Unity Mitford?

According to reports, Tory chiefs are clearing his path to the leadership by scrapping potential stumbling blocks like the proposed mandatory inclusion of a woman candidate on the shortlist, and are timetabling the contest for before 2 September, with that speed thought to favour the favourite. “The pound is stable,” explained Johnson, minutes before the pound was revealed to have fallen to a 31-year low, on a morning of financial activity we’ll call Episode V: The Experts Strike Back.

Meanwhile, former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie is perhaps the most prominent voice to have confessed to regretting his vote in Thursday’s referendum. The high priest of Up Yours Delors is just one of countless leave voters suffering red pill remorse, who are urgently seeking to get in touch with Morpheus to ask if they can be plugged back into the Matrix at his earliest convenience. Someone needs to level with them: Morpheus isn’t coming. Morpheus shorted red pills as soon as the markets opened. Morpheus has pulled his leather trenchcoat business from the UK and is now operating out of Frankfurt.

Given the sense of utterly leaderless turmoil, Britain spent the weekend contemplating a bizarre thought experiment: are there circumstances in which it would be comforting to clap eyes on George Osborne? The chancellor finally broke cover on Monday morning. Interspersed with the argument that austerity had put the economy in a position of strength were coded hints of cuts, suggesting that sections of the public are soon to find out the answer to the question: “What does the economy have to do with the public?” A ComRes survey during the penultimate week of the campaign found 61% of voters declaring themselves willing to accept a short-term economic slowdown to tighten immigration controls, but 68% unwilling to see their personal annual income negatively affected at all to achieve the same.

That leave had no agreed plan on Brexit, meanwhile, feels like just one of the WTF-tinged elements of our new reality. But as career fibbers, you’d think they’d at least have had an agreed plan on how to get out of the lies they’d told during the campaign. Instead, the public has been treated to a parade of junior leave personnel effectively explaining that Britain had had enough of promises. Most wince-inducing was Iain Duncan Smith, who explained to Andrew Marr: “Our promises were a range of possibilities.” That’s right – think of them as colour swatches, paint samples – a sort of pledge moodboard. And try not to notice that Britain’s walls are today decorated less appealingly than those of H-block in 1978.

Scrawled on the Polish Social and Cultural Centre (PSOK) in London’s Hammersmith, founded by the generation of Poles who fought alongside Britain in the second world war, was graffiti the police are investigating as racist. And the reaction of Arron Banks, the multi-millionaire businessman who bankrolled Leave.EU? “What’s a psok cultural centre when it’s at home?” As predicted, the provisional wing of the leave campaign has been wildly emboldened by this victory. I suspect that last week Banks wouldn’t have said that out loud; this week he seems to regard himself as having purchased the right to.

As for Labour, the rolling pageant of departures from Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet, and the countermoves against them, frequently resembled an episode of Game of Thrones re-enacted by the Teletubbies. To hear some of the jobs that were being resigned from was to discover that they had existed at all. Alex Cunningham is no longer shadow minister for the natural environment. I think Diane Abbott was made shadow Magneto. It was unclear whether the new shadow defence secretary, Clive Lewis, would make defence questions in the Commons on Monday afternoon on account of the fact he was on his way back from Glastonbury. (No one analyses modern political life in the way many normal people would like, so we’ll probably never know what percentage of Labour MPs and financial services experts are firefighting today’s events on a Glasto comedown. But a non-scientific estimate places the number at “more than you’d prefer”.)

The departing shadow leader of the house, Chris Bryant, told the BBC he thought Corbyn might actually have plumped for leave, given he refused to say which way he voted when Bryant asked. Yet on the Labour leader clings, his mulish cabal citing the mandate given by his landslide election in a leadership contest that now feels like it happened about 12 years ago. At this stage in Corbyn’s journey, endless references to The Mandate are beginning to sound creepily reverential. Jeremy Corbyn and The Mandate Family. The Reverend Mandate. I salute Corbyn for being that rare thing: a soft-spoken egomaniac who doesn’t have sex with his own followers. But I concede that there will be those who think he can’t even lead a cult properly in this regard.

Where now? A few weeks ago, Johnson assured us that “sunlit meadows” lay beyond a leave vote. Instead, we are – as everyone keeps saying for want of more specific coordinate – in “uncharted territory”. And yet, you get the feeling that when the cartographers eventually come to mark this place, the word “creek” will be involved.

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