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Oh, those days are long, long gone and, in fairness, they're quite open about it too. Anyone still voting Labour and expecting socialism isn't just naive, they're ignoring the explicit text. The idea of the Tories pointing that out is hilarious, and is presumably just their way of saying, "don't vote at all so we can get back in and be even worse". I don't know if this has ever worked the other way - have Labour ever run campaigns saying, "don't vote Conservative, as they absolutely won't sell off the family silver to give you a brief Income Tax reduction while taking the money back elsewhere"?

It's alright mate, I get the same messages when I've slipped into the overdraft again. My mother appears to have just given up on pressing the "end call" button. Every call for years has finished with me hanging up after listening to her talking to her cats for a minute. She swears blind she presses the button and it doesn't work, but I've been there when she's taken calls from elsewhere and she just does a weird wave of her hand in the general direction of the phone and puts it down. Really great when she immediately starts bitching about whoever she was just talking to and I have to run over to end the call before she says anything actionable I'll genuinely be amazed if Barr haven't run an "Irn-Bru gave me a massive tadger" campaign at some point. Bonus points if it's a shocked auld lady saying it.

I had to start using it recently, and it's remarkable how many roasters use it as Facebook for capitalism. I suppose they think that employers will think they know what they're doing because they keep telling people that they do, which...yeah, it wouldn't really surprise me if that works, but anyone hiring based on that shite deserves what they get. Oh, and the OP's making fun of Twitter's effort to rebrand to X, which can be a kiss in a text* or the roman numeral for ten. Took me a minute too. Personally, I appreciate Elon's effort in making parents and employers think their employees/offspring are surfing porn sites - hopefully the "no, PornHub is just what they're calling Wikipedia since Elon bought it" excuse stays valid for a while yet. * or is it a hug? I get so confused.

He changes his parties like he changes his pants*, but a well-run right-wing party might be a bit of a tricky ask. The Lib Dems might be well run, seeing as how there are only a handful of them in Scotland now. Perhaps Abla or the Scottish Family Party? You probably only need one person who knows what they're doing at that level of support. * at least three times in a decade or so

I was going to ask about this. I noticed the Tories were gleeful about her buying her house under Thatcher's Right to Buy scheme a while ago, which is the definition of the meme below, and is popular with the denser posters on the Politics board when someone turns out to have savings or a pension, yet still thinks rapacious capitalism might not be a good thing. They now seem to have added something on about her potentially owing up to £3,500 in Capital Gains Tax, which...the fact that they've robbed the country blind for years yet feel confident that this is a vote-winner for them is staggering, yet I can think of at least one person I know who'll be delighted that the hypocritical lefties have been exposed as doing something bad, and use it as an excuse to continue voting for the people who do the bad thing on a much grander scale. Right now one of the usual suspects will be reading this thread and preparing an "oh, I see it's OK when your beloved Marxist heroes do it!" response, deliberately ignoring the point that it's not OK when any of them do, but that it's wild when the biggest offenders make a show of moral outrage as though hypocrisy is somehow the worse crime.

Reads like somebody involved has contacts in the dog food business.

Worse, they'll do more North Britain specials where Dirty Den and Phil Mitchell travel to Sco'lund for a dodgy deal and find nothing but dark post-apocalyptic moorland and mutated ghouls with Weegie accents who supposedly come from Edinburgh.

f**k's sake. Thinking about it, this shite happened a lot with the Panini Euro albums too. Somehow they usually sort themselves out for the World Cup ones. Also, has Courtois always been part giraffe? Many moons ago, Panini did SPL albums with normal, silver, and gold versions of certain stickers in the collections. They also had a daft giant sticker in each pack, roughly two times the size of a regular one, and strange transparent plastic cards that you couldn't stick in the albums. Presumably an attempt to turn the sticker market into something like the American trading card collections, where you get about half a dozen versions of each card of varying rarity. Be nice if they could try working on having a nice set of normal stickers before fannying about with that shite.

Never. Always protein before a long night putting spindles in boxes!

If I'm working night shifts and sleep all day, what's the meal I eat before leaving for work? I refer to my midnight meal as "lunch", if that helps.

I'm so sorry, I know this is puerile, but...

Sexy, sexy Sighthill. Phwoar. The absolute grot of British swingers is incredible. Give them a choice of an expensive hotel room with friends, or on top of the tools in the back of a knackered plumber's van surrounded by scheme goblins in the latter stages of syphilis, and it's dogging next to the sewage farm every time. According to a mate.

To their supporters, the actions of fascists will always, always, always be the fault of THEM. There are still plenty of folk to this day who claim the Jews, homosexuals, lefties, Slavs, disabled, and all the other persecuted groups were at least partially to blame for being murdered in death camps by the Nazis. For some people, the only important thing is to have someone telling them they're better, smarter, more important than experience has taught them that they are.

Dunno what the world's coming to when good hard-working normal BRITTISH people can't gloat about the murder of Kaffliks in public without minor repercussions.

It certainly looks a lot like the game, specifically Fallout 4. It makes sense that it would translate well to a TV show, considering the games are a series of quirky contained vignettes with an overarching story - perfect for the format. Yeah, it occurred to me that the Forever Alone types will be fuming that there's a female protagonist. The gift that keeps on giving. I recently discovered that a group of them have been working on a mod that replaces all the non-white and/or female characters in Fallout 4 with caucasian male ones because women and black people are woke. Fucking hilarious.

Oh FFS, they're back to this shite? There was a while when Panini only had the rights to certain nations' FA logos, so you'd just get a generic bland flag shiny for the others. The English FA seem particularly bad for making their own arrangements (unsurprisingly). Not as bad as Iran being missed out entirely in 1998 because Panini didn't get the rights in time

They're planning to be back in power by 2029, but all three could do a good world tour of places full of poor people who disgust them. Think they'd probably skip the UK episode, though.

Give up now - it's a b*****d and, after you've spent years grinding your way through to the end, it just gives it, "ha ha, you didn't finish the game using a rusty spoon, so no end sequence for you!" Also, you're not a kid anymore and your reactions have gone to shite. Get back to Plants vs Zombies with the rest of us decrepit codgers.

It was a bit of mild amusement at the proles' reactions, knowing that he was already a wealthy, well connected man who'd be absolutely fine. I don't think we realise quite how little losing an election matters to most MPs, other than to their pride. Mind David Mellor losing the plot at Sir Jammy Goldfinger on the hustings and somehow making an ever bigger embarrassment of himself than when he was sucking Z-list actresses' toes. "No, no, I think you will find that it is YOU who has made a fool of himself today, James!"

I might be about 130kg the now. Really let myself go over the past year. On the plus side, I'm ready to take my "P&B's biggest tits" crown back from @RH33. We should do a survey to find out P&B's biggest chonky boy.

#1 on Google's list. Phwoar. Best of luck; sounds manageable, so hopefully between tablets, salt, and sexy lingerie you'll be set

New REFUK training materials:

Ah, the big list of clubs that are secretly "ONE OF THEM" because they had the temerity to beat one/lose to the other heavily. I wonder if they really believe that club managers all eventually have an edict sent down from the board that they have to relay in the dressing room..."well lads, I know we were planning to slack off in the last couple of games, but the chairman's noticed that our opponents might win the league ahead of his favourite clumpany, so I need you to go out and win for the Pope/Queen today".

Standard. When Celtic lost at Tynecastle recently, the BBC (I believe) had a headline referring to it as a "shock". Nobody in positions of authority in the game questions that the current champions losing away to the team in third place is a surprise, and whether it's a healthy thing that Celtgers should be expected to win every game against everyone else.

Yes, very. The amount of internecine plotting and one-upmanship that goes on in offices is insane. One place I worked at had internal cliques between departments and locations, to the point that people would freeze out new additions to their department if they'd come from the same department in another building, just in case they were spying on them. Most departments had a "friend" (read: reasonable person) that other departments knew they could approach to ask about bog standard work issues, as everyone else would ignore any verbal requests, and attempts to copy in higher-ups to ignored emails would just result in a massive blame chain. There were probably less than a hundred employees across the whole business. I was universally distrusted because I operated out of multiple locations in my own department and got to see what everyone was up to. The business owners were well aware of all of this and had a "what can you do?" attitude, which is probably part of the reason why they're long out of business.