UK is Fucked
UK is Fucked
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- Gardener3
- Failed statePhanLo
- Dunno, seems like quite a state to me.Nairn
- State propaganda machine the BBC?PhanLo
- Didn't they just can an Attenborough show because it might get backlash from the rightwing? Such a little Noddy-LandPhanLo
- Pay an aircut to this man, please!OBBTKN
- this is what happens when you put a hardline tory at the top, thankfully it won't be for long.fadein11
- mies´es barcelona chairs are the only classy things in that set up...neverscared
- Iannucci warned of this in his McTaggart lecture years ago. Looks like it's left to the football pundits to stand up to gvmnt interference.Fax_Benson
- That was a good watch, thanks Fax
https://www.youtube.…
So little's changed in 8 years :(Nairn - that's the one. The smart people are out there, which makes it more depressing.Fax_Benson
- neverscared0
- Prompt?utopian
- Bowie did it better
https://pbs.twimg.co…Gardener - What's been going on? Does this guy (person) think he's on par with Bowie?Ianbolton
- I've seen his defenders comparing him to Bowiezardoz
- #ursulaAQUTE
- Who?pango
- shoot it down
https://64.media.tum…hotroddy - He's not that thini_monk
- Who's this guy and why do you guys care?pango
- Imagine sitting next to him in the movies.Longcopylover
- grafician5
- British tourists vary greatly depending on the county. These are generally the idiots that visit Costa Del Sol.Chimp
- Or Greece.Continuity
- Someone needs to visit somewhere outside of London. I'd suggest starting off with the Bigg Market in Newcastle on a Friday night.Nairn
- What Narim, said!necromation
- Chimp6
- flolContinuity
- It's the only logical choice we have now.Chimp
- Not if you value living in the 21st c, it isn't! PM Set would send you all the way back to two tins and a length of string for making calls!Continuity
- Ah, simpler times...Chimp
- HUZZAH!!!!!Akagiyama
- grafician-1
- lmaoOBBTKN
- im guessing they knew it's behind glass, shamekingsteven
- In what kind of cartoon world does gluing one’s hand to a wall work?scarabin
- Those are NOT behind glass like the Monalisa!
I really hope they displayed fakes and real artworks are safely stored somewhere elsegrafician - also:
https://twitter.com/…grafician - ^ "This was funded by a group started by three rich Americans who became concerned about climate change after their houses in Malibu were threatened by wildfiregrafician
- here's the funding: https://www.nytimes.…grafician
- "every time i see this stuff i feel so bad for the 18yrolds getting manipulated into thinking this is how you change the world"grafician
- It’s behind glass and they’re not Marxistskingsteven
- LameGnash
- When I saw this painting and others like it, at several locations over the years it was not behind any glass.monospaced
- https://vm.tiktok.co…prophetone
- of course it's glazed i saw this at the van gogh museum about 8 years ago and it glazed. i was there for the Félix Vallotton exhibition tho because van gogh iskingsteven
- GASHkingsteven
- the idea of thinking it's better that people see a copy of the artwork vs displaying the original behind glass. look at yourselves... it's a stunt, they knew.kingsteven
- "The gallery in Trafalgar Square said the protesters caused "minor damage to the frame but the painting is unharmed". The painting went back on display a few hografician
- it's all bullshit, ask yourself why the fuck is a report about idiot eco activists damaging a frame and fucking attempting to glue themselves to a wall newskingsteven
- I will simply ignore this kind of reports from now on then, unless they burn the fucking museum downgrafician
- Marxists? Ha!OBBTKN
- bit did they use Campbell‘s Tomato Soup?uan
- hah, aye pablo calling them eco-marxists in the other thread :D it's just some kids in a stunt to bring attention to fossil fuel dependance if it wasnt for thekingsteven
- ridiculous situation of the Tories accepting 1.3m from Russian oil barrons and then the 'climate minister' Graham Stuart encouraging domestic drillingkingsteven
- i doubt these protests would be as media orchestrated, it's very painful for anyone with a brain to live in the UK these days tbhkingsteven
- I think van Gogh would have loved this, he'd be grinning from earGardener
- I didn't call them ex-Marxists, but victims of this ideology.pablo28
- *eco-Marxistspablo28
- that's a very american concept. neo-marxism being synonymous with post-marxism. these kids i'd imagine have a better overview than mostkingsteven
- ... and fear the thunderdome and read sartre. perfectly normal IMOkingsteven
- Fax_Benson4
- https://i.imgur.com/…kingsteven
- Act normalPhanLo
- FLOL kingstevenNairn
- queue, anonGardener
- https://twitter.com/…Bluejam
- o/t - Hey Blue - are your folks and fam ok down there? Pretty messed up :(Nairn
- @nairn ... the flooding in marche region? Shit, only just seen this as was avoiding the news due to queen death overload ...Bluejam
- ... my folks are not that near to the worse areas, ironically enough they were complaining about lack of rain over the summer and the garden was looking dry ...Bluejam
- ... crazy shit, thanks for askingBluejam
- xNairn
- utopian0
Prince Charles accepted suitcase with 1 million euros from Qatari sheikh.
- 3 Million in total.
Aside from being shambolic, it's pathetic.
Charlie's known for having a chip on his shoulder where wealth's concerned.Nairn - You mean... he didn’t accept money with his mummy’s face on it?shapesalad
- Must be fun for him knowing that his dove-like son, Harry, is milking the teat of capitalism way better than he ever managed.Nairn
- Harry isn’t his son, hehehePhanLo
- yep phanMrT
- Harry Stylez?nb
- Follow the money. Which "charities" does the money go to? I do have an idea.stewart
- I understand nothing. What's with the secrecy, explain me like I'm 5drgs
- His mother is a descendant of Mohamed the prophet, so the arab guys have to pay tribute to that family.uan
- https://twitter.com/…Ianbolton
- 3 Million in total.
- pango4
- his days are numbered, tories always kill their own.fadein11
- Yup, he's toast. Who's the successor? Gove? Sunak?Brabo_Brabo
- i nominate bobopango
- What if if Boris is Bobo?
https://i.imgur.com/…utopian - ^ Couldn't happen, Boris is actually relatively smart.garbage
- PhanLo2
- https://i.imgur.com/…PhanLo
- NAILED ITutopian
- True form capturedPhanLo
- HRM Corgifadein11
- When the light hits just right.Wordsworth
- Nailed the blowjob lips.mort_
- Reminds me of Adobe Neural Filter „Smile“.SimonFFM
- She's the head of the CofE, so this is a sectarian hate crime. dems the roolzBrabo_Brabo
- Fax_Benson3
More depressing newbuild shite
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Pictures and commentary on the miserable state of New Build houses.- Only made it 10 posts and I feel like killing myself.PhanLo
- good lordkingsteven
- When it comes to overhangs and such.. is there not code to be built to?!Nairn
- This is crazy.
https://pbs.twimg.co…Nairn - ton of this sort of thing round my way :-| https://twitter.com/…kingsteven
- so depressing. need one for Aus too.MrT
- Wow... Sad.Miesfan
- Fuck, some very ugly shit, bad architecture is one of the most depressing thingsi_was
- PhanLo0
- These courses will still happen but only for the rich kidsSlashPeckham
- Can some translate this to English pls?nb
- madness, this one adds around an extra £120 to the 3k p/a you pay these days. finished my degree in 2004 and fees trebled the year after, i recon that wouldkingsteven
- have excluded half my class. i'm still paying off my student loans ffskingsteven
- Didn't Boris want to spunk countless millions on a new Royal yacht? Maybe he could chip in with all the cash he plundered from that wretched garden bridge shit.face_melter
- we just sent £54m to france cos people want to come here on rubber boatsshapesalad
- hopefully they are not aspiring artists / designers.shapesalad
- Authoritarians don't have ideas and they don't create, they just dismantle things.SlashPeckham
- what is a "luvvie" ?monospaced
- Condescending name for someone in the arts, typically the theatre.Nairn
- ah, i seemonospaced
- Who fuck keeps on voting for these cunts?Chimp
- LUVVIES!!pango
- PhanLo3
- haha, I see I've done the Lord's work spreading this man here :) Tell you what, fish aside, i'd've given that box a go in my younger days..Nairn
- Yeah my mate sent me it as it reminded him of a guy we used to deal with from the council. But he also said it looked pretty appetising hahaPhanLo
- That guy from the council would always try to make us meet him at Morrisons so he could get a full breakfast while we'd discuss projects.PhanLo
- I think he'd do it bang-bang style, meet us then go to another meeting at another food place. He was ten years younger than me but looked like an old manPhanLo
- Hey I posted this guy firstly. Got the link from my hipster source.shapesalad
- No, I posted him a week or so before you had one of your regular whinges about how shit you think your country is.Nairn
- https://www.qbn.com/…
vs
https://www.qbn.com/…Nairn - ha ha. fair enoughshapesalad
- Big and Bankrupt?shapesalad
- Big for sure, but don't know about bankrupt - he's racking up a shitload of views.Nairn
- Heh I was ready to jump in there. "Nairn posted first" qbn timeline senses tinglingkingsteven
- “This is a fat mans dream this”
Perfect.Wolfboy - He says the smell is amazing, loli_was
- Are the fries from potatoes or just shitty? lol, they are amazing!!!i_was
- The cunt does not finish it, no game.i_was
- Fax_Benson3
Yep. Fucked.
Permafucked.
- The brakes are gone. There is no brakes.Fax_Benson
- Yeah but that £2.6 mill press room ... fucking sweetBluejam
- And more nukes, that's got to be a good thing, right? I mean, if we were still in Europe, it *might* make sense, but we're not, so.. yeah. Wut?Nairn
- I'd kind of zoned out. Accepted a constant background level of fuckedness. But the last couple of weeks. Jesus.Fax_Benson
- Have some words of encouragement from Nigel ... https://twitter.com/…Bluejam
- I'm sorry this is happening to youTOMMYxGUNN
- But yeah. We’re fucked.Bluejam
- 2m press room and some more nukes... Becoming more like North Korea by the grey rainy miserable day.shapesalad
- Who needs brakes when it's all downhill from here?garbage
- "more like North Korea" lolTOMMYxGUNN
- Bluejam3
Meanwhile in Handforth ...
"Read the standing orders - read them and understand them!"
... shit kicks off at 3:00
- Standard local politics. I've had the misfortune of going to several local party meetings in my area over the past 5 years and this is horrifically familiar.Wolfboy
- Julie's iPad FTWHayzilla
- Jackie Weaver is drunk with her own power.cherub
- I literally came here to post this...it was amazing!BaskerviIle
- Brexit is starting to become understandable, because across the UK... these are the people that make decisions.shapesalad
- @shapesalad Agreed. It's why things won't change anytime soon. The psychopaths have their claws dug in at the top...Wolfboy
- ...but it's these old, petty wannabe bureaucrats who block any bottom up movements or change.Wolfboy
- what is going on?milfhunter
- @milfhunter It's a Parish Council meeting over Teams - that's a level of local authority in the UK. The woman has been drafted in to help facilitate the meetingWolfboy
- the guys are councillors who clearly live and die by the hand book of how to run a council. Real jobsworth, NIMBY fucknuts; the kind of people who think how...Wolfboy
- you raise a point of order is more important than the point itself. They are the reason it's so hard to get things organised and done at a local level.Wolfboy
- nb1
Wait.
Hold up.
Just a sec.
At the risk of being the ignorant American in the room...
What the fuck PETS need a passport?!? Like a passport for your dog?!?! Hahahawut
- think of it like a vaccination certificateNutter
- if anything in this world makes sense anymore it's legally required paperwork proving the animal you're flying with doesn't have a virusFax_Benson
- because this sceptred isle is rabies free, unlike the disgusting continent where it's rife. and we don't want that shit here.hans_glib
- yes, they have a cute little book with their photo in it and stamps of all the places they have been.
It's for disease control, you muppet.face_melter - If you have the right connections you can get a Diplomatic Pet Passport, my Gerbil 'Gertrude' used to have one, but due to some political infighting...shapesalad
- A passport is a funny term for it.nb
- Good. People should stop flying with pets as much as possible anyway.monospaced
- As an American, you are probably confused by the term passport. It's what we use to leave our own country and explore other nations.Hayzilla