>>33638
Sponge Bob?

He's clearly going to silence bumb them. It's the most insidious form of bumming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpkQEq75y18

If history teaches us anything is that history teaches us nothing.

>>33660

Never cared much for Hegel.

>>33534

A dozen bootnecks in a paddle boat would be a better navy than Iceland's, I wish people wouldn't talk about the Cod Wars like they were an actual military conflict.

Never forget the Fourth Cod War.

>>33534
We have so few ships to operate in support of HMS Queen Elizabeth that if the French fishing fleet were retooled as fast attack boats they could probably sink the damned thing.

>>33537

The planes'd sort it.

>>33535

Indeed remember that time that we just decided it was too important for us to not to control Iceland and we just took it over in a morning, and by the evening the Icelandic government had just accepted British rule.

>>32910
Why can't I delete my own post? I feel embarrassed.

>>32911
IIRC it's a browser-specific problem. It works in the browser purple uses so he can't be bothered to fix it for other browsers.

>>32912
How does one download PurpScape then?

>>32913

I think it works in Chrome.

Nope, it does not.

>>31878

>Falling through ice is much more survivable than falling into cold water

It all depends on the circumstances. If you break through the ice in chest deep water, arguably you have a good chance of survival. But what frequently happens when people break through in deep water is that they get trapped under the ice sheet beyond the opening that they fell through, and then they panic, lose orientation, and drown very quickly. It's also why scuba diving under ice is so dangerous and can only be done with a rope or tether and somebody above the ice assisting you.

>>31883
If you wanted to push someone in the canal from Ossett you're only a few minutes away from the Calder.

>>31867
> You want Venice for that, not Amsterdam.

I'm just happy someone got my reference. I thought that'd be a bit obscure but trust Britfa not to disappoint.

> Much like in Manchester, most of those deaths will be late at night and involve lone men who have been drinking.

You're right, I suppose. If you'd been drinking enough and you managed to steer your bike into a relatively uninhabited part of the canal at say 3am then I could see things going wrong. Eighty-eight people doing that is a lot though. Personally I blame them hipsters on the bikes with no breaks; get too pissed to remember to peddle backwards to stop and you're fucked.

>>31947
Looking at that map, if you wanted to see total despair up close why bother going all the way to Manchster to kill someone? Just spend half an hour walking around Huddersfield.

>>31965
Dewsbury would be even nearer, but most people pretend that it doesn't exist.

Didn't that guy off Eggheads kill someone by pushing him into a canal in Amsterdam?

>>32270
Phone their office. It's the one thing they can't ignore and can't issue mealy-mouthed form-letter replies to.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/police-bill-academics-letter-priti-patel-b1818695.html article outlining that 700 legal academics have signed a letter speaking out against this. What's really remarkable about this isn't the number because other petitions get many more, but how quickly they've signed it. That's some real shock motivation there.

>It’s been confirmed that the oppressive and authoritarian #PoliceCrackdownBill has been delayed until ‘later in the year’ by
>@peterkyle
> MP.

>It’s an incredible victory for
>@SistersUncut
> and everyone who turned up to the protests, made noise about it and contacted MPs

at least that's what this tweet https://twitter.com/g__ferris/status/1372653028210278401 says
what it actually entails, I'm less certain.

>>32313
>what it actually entails, I'm less certain.

Kick it down the road and hope things die down and people stop making a fuss/get distracted once things open up then pass it anyway. I would assume.

>>32252
>Here's a list of everyone who is a Conservative MP
Votes like this are always done along party lines.

>>31892
I loved the Toca games.

Oddly I never realised just how old he was. I say oddly because he was of a grandfatherly vintage twenty years ago, but at the time I was too young to know how long he'd been at the commentary game. A tank commander at the Battle of Reichswald in the Second World War too, Christ.

>>31892
Strange that you chose BTCC as the thing he was famous for, rather than F1.

>>32278
BTCC was actually fun. There's just something about chucking a Ford Mondeo around Brands Hatch that F1 just can't quite match.

Also, John Cleland "going for first" was a classic Murray moment.

>>32278>>32280
I think this was at a time when F1 wasn't the only game in town as far as motorsport was concerned for most people. It was definitely the most popular, but less so than today. BTCC still goes out on TV, only it's on ITV4 or ITV1, but in a total graveyard slot.

>>32092

You have no way of proving that.

>>32060
That's a genuinely great response.

>>32092
People on the internet aren't always acting in good faith. Maybe they can fake a bit of rage just to get retweeted and get a little bit of dopamine flowing.

>>32099
I'd go even further, nobody is quite sure how many twitter accounts are fake but the site itself seems to shut down millions whenever the heat rises on them. This combined with that fact that we've seen numbers like 10% of users producing 80% of the tweets and it becomes a dreary picture of how much focus twitter storms gets in the public discourse (i.e. lazy journalism).

The latter isn't really too distinct from the typical situation within any democratic debate but I think we can all recognise that internet people are not normal. We're weird quasi-humans more similar to hobgoblins where humanity would collapse if everyone was like us.

>>32099
I'd go even further, nobody is quite sure how many twitter accounts are fake but the site itself seems capable of shutting down millions whenever the heat rises on them. This combined with that fact that we've seen numbers in the US of 10% of users producing 80% of the tweets and it becomes a very dreary picture in how much influence twitter storms have on the public discourse (i.e. lazy journalism).

The latter isn't really too distinct from the typical situation within any democratic debate with extremists but I think we can all recognise that internet people are not normal. We're weird quasi-humans more similar to hobgoblins where humanity would collapse if everyone was like us. Not least as we're unable to communicate properly without a delete function.

>>31493
Use the report function then.

>>31494
Sometimes when you report people the mods ban you, with the message that you should be calling people out for shitposting/poor spelling and grammar rather than solely relying on them.

>>31495
The report function isn't for reporting posts you disagree with.

(A good day to you Sir!)

>>31496
We'll see about that...

>>31495

>Sometimes when you report people the mods ban you, with the message that you should be calling people out for shitposting/poor spelling and grammar rather than solely relying on them.

Good idea, we shoud have a role on this website to performs this task.

>>31333
>just paranoid delusion

Sort yourself out mate.

>>31333

>Has he gone off his rocker?


Joe Biden has always been kind of the uncrowned king of legendary gaffes. It's almost odd that he hasn't had any noteworthy ones in the last couple of months.

>>31335
I think the one telling the American people that a 2k cheque is in the mail is still paying dividends.

>>31335

He's not exactly been super visible this past year.

I for one can't wait for his Fireside Chats which will almost certainly be Cassetteboy remixes produced at gunpoint.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/17/politics/republican-election-commission-voting-bills-2021/index.html

>Though there has been no evidence of widespread voter fraud, Republicans nationally have made election law changes a priority this year.

>Overall, lawmakers in 33 states have proposed more than 165 bills that would restrict voting, according to an updated analysis of election bills by the Brennan Center for Justice. That's more than four times as many bills of this kind that had been introduced at this point last year.

>Meanwhile, Democrats responded on Wednesday by criticizing the commission as a coordinated effort of "voter suppression."

>"Republicans are using the lies they told about election integrity to launch a coordinated effort to roll back voting rights nationwide," said Jessica Post, president of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, in a news release.


As predictable as this was, the mind still boggles.

>>31080

It was one of the flight attendants, who was one of few people who weren't buckled up in their seat at that moment.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_Airlines_Flight_243

The flight was between two islands in Hawaii, where that plane was in daily operation. There was a documentary about it on TV once, and they said that because the plane was serving those short-distance routes several times a day, it did many more takeoffs and landings than other planes, and that therefore the structural wear and tear was much greater than anybody had considered.

>>31083

It was specifically corrosion in the epoxy seal on the fuselage that caused the initial failure. Stress was put into the rivets instead, which caused microcracks in the fuselage. This was missed due to hurried and lax safety checks by the airline.

The FAA concluded it was just that which caused the explosion, but I still favour the fluid hammer theory.

>>31061

How fast would that music be if this clip was played at regular speed? Crikey.

>>31091

Five million BPM.

If the whole ten minute video was played back at actual speed, it'd be over in 0.015 seconds. If you played it on a loop, you'd miss at least twenty repeats every time you blinked.

>>31093


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0tMvxV-GC4

Music to do cake to.

>>30932
>What also happens frequently is that they deposit the cash into some offshore account in a country with lax money laundering laws, and then wire it to your bank account in Britain.

A few years back the government decided to overhaul companies, making it cheap and easy to set up your own company, in the name of Mrs Stalin Knobhole of Turkmenistan and keep all your money laundering in the good old British Isles.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/05/how-britain-can-help-you-get-away-with-stealing-millions-a-five-step-guide

>>30937

Why do you think so many Russian oligarchs or their family members have moved to Britain.

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/russia-report-multi-millionaire-russian-oligarchs-welcomed-london-558887

>>30938
It says lots have but doesn't give any examples.

>>30938

They haven't but London property is the best investment tool around. Gives out much better rates than any other and is considered quite secure thanks to the aiding and abetting of the fucked housing situation by central government and the boomers.

>>30940

The London property market is absolutely bonkers these days. Your only way to profit from it as an average person who isn't minted is if you or your parents bought a house in Croydon in the 90s and you now sell it to move out to the country. Depending on your expectations, you could have over £250K left over in cash after you've bought your new place.

>>30882

I think he was saying, in a roundabout way, "I know we are, but what are you?"

It seems like someone doing a bad impression of how a "slav" would speak, but typing it out. It makes no sense so I'm just gonna assume it's some lad taking the piss.

>>30866
It's some Scottish lad trying to false flag by pretending to be Russian. I don't know what he seeks to gain from LARPing as a pro-indy Ruskie, but it's all rather sad.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/02/russian-opposition-leader-alexei-navalny-jailed

2 years and 8 month in prison. Will he ever leave?

>>30919

Best for him to avoid getting anywhere near a window on one of the upper floors of that prison.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-coronavirus-doctors-cases-covid-19-a9502876.html

Those Russian windows are dangerous, I tell you.

>>29639

Her husband is proper posh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_der_Leyen_(family_from_Krefeld)

>>29639
Not sure but it's just German for "of" or "from".

>>29608

How about this https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/uk-eu-agreement-parliament/

How about that N. Ireland is in the single market and the rest of the UK isn't? This threatens the break up of the union, with Scotland asking why it can't be part of the single market too.

How about the fact the 80% of the UK economy is services and it is not covered under this deal?

How about the fact that wasn't Brexit meant to be about cutting "red tape" but this deal has instead created a bunch? Notably in trading certain goods (which need certificates), travel of pets, driving abroad etc

>>29639
It did and they did, but you still see it in surnames from time to time.

>>29646

I just read up on it. Both Germany and Austria lost their distinct social class of nobility when their respective emperors abdicated after WWI, but Germans were allowed to keep their surnames and titles. Austria went a step further and by law stripped people's surnames of anything indicating nobility. In Austria, a former Count of XYZ was thereafter only Mr. XYZ.

But apparently, that loss of class status mainly hit insignificant noble families, who weren't wealthy or influential and had little more than their surname itself to distinguish themselves from the rest of the general population. Whereas the household names of Austrian higher nobility largely continued their lifestyle, even though they lost their class privileges on paper, and still form a tightly knit group today.