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Renton

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  1. I always though the Metro's "South Gorsforrrrth" was a piss take but actually it probably fits the demographic on reflection. Should change the Wallsend announcement to "*hockle* Howman Waaalsend ya cunt" though.
  2. New Netflix documentary called Turning Point about the Cold War. I don't think its teaching me anything new* but its a canny watch nonetheless and a history refresher. Plots the relationship between Russia and the West from the revolution to Putin, 9 1 hour episodes. * Other than Marx was German not Russian, the CIA are/were even more useless than I had supposed, and Gorby's wife was quite the groin stirrer when they met.
  3. Talking of Barton, the fucker's hilarious.
  4. You're not wykiki. You can't steal this joke. Mods! I want to report some cultural appropriation!
  5. Who'd have thought bisexuality has its own flag? If we're all honest, it has to be the best orientation to be, opens up a lot of real estate. As for Barton, he's gone down the usual rabbit hole hasn't he? Was an absolute bellend, reformed himself a bit, turned back to being an absolute bellend.
  6. Have everywhere, and the airport seems more packed than ever. Which is a bit of a mystery to me considering there is a cost of living crisis.
  7. For anyone interested. https://www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/episodes/7Dri6f8/ (Newsagents, Owen Jones interview).
  8. I mean I know it's not just us, not even just anglophone countries. In a world where we have great scientists, artists, economists, inventors, technologists, business people..... And yet we have systems where the very detritus of society rise to the most important positions in society like one of CT's turds. Maybe politicians should be the first to be replaced by AI.
  9. Electric lawn mowers are woke now? This man somehow became deputy chair of the Labour party. What an indictement of our political system.
  10. The UK is a great country, I love all the countries of Europe I have been to, always felt we shared a kinship which is one reason why I fucking despise Brexit. Europe is by far the best place on the planet to live with its immense diversity in a relatively small area. As that survey alludes to, I haven't even seen the vast majority of it, despite being quite a seasoned traveller bk (before kids). North America is just a huge monoculture in comparison. Never had the pleasure of the antipodes but there are some right dodgepots over that way and Oz looks way too Americanised to me. Japan is still on my bucket list, and I've missed two huge continents outs here, South America and Africa. Don't like South Africans and find poverty a bit shit though. Way things are going the Isle of Wight will probably be an exotic holiday for me.
  11. This Wednesday fan has a soft spot for the scabs of Forest? Dear me. I am absolutely gutted we are on the hate list. Monday's are bad enough already and now this?
  12. It's not that surprising tbh, must be hard watching Sunderland every week and not literally getting them confused with Brazil '70......
  13. Rome is on it, Edinburgh, Barcelona etc. All touristy, busy, expensive. I thought it was focused on architecture. Venice is unique and if you avoid San Marco, no more expensive than some others.
  14. Same as me and I've been to all the UK ones which is the only reason I'm semi-respectable. Think it's deliberately including a few places a bit off the beaten track and excluded most capital cities. And Venice not there, fuck right off. Arbitrary.
  15. The deep state is so deep even the ex-PM can't explain what it is? Well I never. Before these rightwing fruitloops started the conspiracy theories, my understanding was the deep state was the network of regulations, constitutional norms, checks, and balances which prevented the executive from over reach and descent into totalitarianism. If that's correct you can see why the likes of Johnson, Truss, and Trump take issue with it.
  16. People voted for Bexit across an entire spectrum of lies, from Lexit to outright racism. The people behind it were certainly far right, I wouldn't include Johnson in that group though personally. So I just don't think you can extrapolate from this that the majority of people in the UK are far right leaning, especially as the Tories did not win the popular vote. People are gullible and believed the lies, simple as that. They've belatedly wised up. Labour will first and foremost give us stability in their first term, competence. I hope you will be pleasantly surprised what they then go on to do., but we'll see. To add btw, I despised Corbyn, still do. But twice I held my nose and voted for him as the lesser of two evils. I would hope those at the left spectrum end of the Labour party could do the same, rather than being a prick like Jones trying to sabotage the party.
  17. Johnson wasn't voted in to deliver a right wet dream though was he? In fact, arguably the opposite. Brexit was never framed that way, and he promised "levelling up". The culture war bollocks almost exclusively came after he was elected. And even in 2019, more people voted for left leaning parties than right. Johnson was elected on a promise to please everybody and to do this he lied to everybody. His lies have ultimately been found out and will destroy his party. As fot GenZ, are they really all enamoured with the likes of Tate? I thought in the UK at least younger people, and increasingly the middled aged, were moving in favour of so called progressive parties. I guess you wouldn't accept Labour as being progressive, but I think you're just wrong on that.
  18. No, I don't regard him in those terms. He is an authoritarian narcissistic psychopath with zero idealogical principles, an extreme version of Johnson. In the UK, people rejected Johnson once they finally realised what he was (I know it was obvious to us). I can't comment on the US, very different country.
  19. And, if you think it's impossible for a major party to go out of existence, consider Canada, 1993. The governing Conservatives then went from 169 seats to 2, and shortly ceased to exist as a party. This is increasingly a possibility for the UK conservatives, and if it happens, I will rejoice.
  20. Also politics is cyclical. There's definitely been a shift to the right internationally recently, nothing to say it won't swing back again. Might take WW3 though.
  21. No he wasn't, he was a popularist only interested in himself, zero idealogy. Gloom is right on this. Neither far right nor far left are getting elected in the UK.
  22. Yeah, stuff like this are a handy gammon detector.
  23. Imagine getting upset over a tiny little flag on the back of a shirt collar? I'm old enough to remember when they butchered the union flag for the 2012 Olympics by making it look like Lisa Simpson giving a blow job. Still fucking raging.
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