>>448890

All of the brokers being interviewed by Joan Bakewell had working-class accents. At that time, losing your regional accent was almost a prerequisite for social mobility - Joan Bakewell grew up in Stockport, but you wouldn't know it from her perfect RP. Even the young lady in the yellow blazer spoke in an accent that would be considered "common" by the standards of the day, the sort of accent you might hear on Eastenders but certainly wouldn't hear coming from a newsreader.

>>448891

I (Thatcherlad) think that the situation is much worse than the blind profit motive. Britain is horrendously corrupt, we've just been conditioned to think of it as "sleaze". Somehow a foreign person taking an envelope full of cash is seen as worse than a British person giving their nephew a £150k job or their mate a £150m government contract. We use phrases like "it's not what you know, it's who you know" without for a moment reflecting on the awfulness of that reality. Our institutions aren't laissez-faire, they're structured to aid and abet corruption.

I think we should let capitalism go mental and use the resulting tax revenues to patch up the damage, you probably think the government should play an active role in managing the economy, but neither of us are served by the current state of affairs.

>>448892

I'm not convinced. The other lad in turquoise, at a push, but the one in black had plums in his mouth.

>>448894

The "t" in "better" is progressively overcorrected as he repeats it, betraying the fact that he'd naturally drop it. His vowels are far too close and fronted to be even remotely RP - the "a" in "Labour" is a dead giveaway.

It sounds like you lads have misunderstood what she meant.

>>448742
Out of the blue, she wasn't even on telly when the post was made and let's be honest, there's nothing those freaks love more whinging about more than fat black lasses.

>>448743
If you mean >>448731, then I wrote that post, and I sat through the entire Big Fat Quiz of 2021, which she was on, and I assume the other poster had seen her on that too. She was also on Strictly Come Dancing earlier this year. She is definitely doing the celebrity circuit, while I haven't seen her doing anything not as a celebrity, like presenting her own programmes or telling her own jokes or whatever. She's not offensively bad, but she doesn't contribute anything good either. She might as well not be there.

I have also posted several times in the latest clashes with Marxist Reductionist Poster, however, so you could be right.

>>448744
I'm not reading all that, stop talking to me.

>>448745
Okay.

>>448744
Also she's on Loose Women, and the panel show about black excellence, and Celebrity Masterchef last year. Her star seemed to rise very quickly and out of nowhere, particularly for an older woman.

>>448636

I'm not, and even if I was, I have to pay tax on "unrealised" gains over my 20-whatever grand ISA limit, an amount he makes in literally seconds. I'm incalculably poorer than him, yet pay 45% more tax.

>>448638
The ISA limit is what you can pay in per tax year, not the overall amount you can hold in them. If you're getting to get into this sort of discussion it helps if you know the absolute basics.

>>448639

What part of my post made you think I had got this wrong? Tax is also paid yearly, you know.

>>448641

He is saying that you can contribute at most £20k a year and you pay no tax on any gains from that money (whether it is realised or unrealised). If you put £20k into your S&S ISA right now, it went to a million and you sold, you'd pay no tax.

>>448637

>They're not really "unrealised" if he's turning them into money.

Yes, they are not unrealised if he is realising them. However, they are unrealised and you are including them.

>>448655
>Yes, they are not unrealised if he is realising them. However, they are unrealised and you are including them.
Like I said, they're included because, as pointed out, he is, in fact, converting those gains into money. You can argue until the cows come home about whether that amounts to technically realising them, but the simple fact of the matter is that he has gains and is generating cash off the back of them.

>>447970
Alright, lad, no need to kinkshame.

Every time I see this thread I think the OP image is am angry bird attacking the camera, feet first.

>>447969

What, Japanese people?

>>448568

YES EXACTLY

>>448491
Step to the rythm made out of brown paper. Brown paper wrapping is the best rapping.

>>448493
Yes, absolutely. Love you.

>>448497
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

>>448497
>>448498

Is this going to turn into a cyber threeway, because I've got quite the stonk on today and the missus is off visiting her mum and dad.

Not that she would want to fuck anyway, ungrateful cow. I got her a warmie shaped like a frog, and she's probably not even going to suck my knob to say thanks.

I can already tell I'm going to have a row tomorrow. But you lads will still love me. Right?

>>448508
Don't worry, we'll both be here waiting for you.

You lot never stop to ask the important questions; maybe if he'd killed less of the Sierra Leoneans and Serbs then Brown wouldn't have lashed out?

That man's face is a sickening reminder of a time in Britain when things actually improved. As a moaning old cunt, I much prefer it when the country is in miserable decline.

>>448409
Best Prime Minister of the last twenty years. But thats a very unpopular view.

>>448484
A rather unfair contest when the competitors are "His policies presented by a dour Scotsman with a cabinet angry they got rid of Him", "Posh man live action roleplaying as Him", "Autistic Woman's wish to be prime minister granted as national trolling exercise" and "Gimmick Mayor".
I pick the dour Scotsman personally. I admire his brazen attempt to weathervane and go "Oh yeah, I'd have basically been Corbyn if 2008 hadn't happened, y'know. Honestly, I would." now that the political project to which he dedicated most of his parliamentary life is discredited.

>>448492
I want to believe that the dour Scot is a good person - he wasn't optimistic enough for me, but I don't doubt he is good.

I know it's also a cliche, but a few-birds-one-stone approach might be to take up rock climbing if there is a decent gym around you. It's an interesting and enjoyable hobby, it'll help you get fit, and you'll end up meeting people if you do it often enough even if you're not especially good at it.

>>448388
Everyone I work with and everyone I went to uni with are fervent rock climbers. I honestly cannot understand it. I tried it twice and both times it was one of the most miserable experiences of my life. The shoes are like wrapping your feet in impermeable cling film so they just collect sweat, and if you don't have narrow feet (I have EEEE wide feet) then are horribly uncomfortable. You have to completely dry your hands out, which I absolutely abhor the feeling of, and the second time I ripped so much skin off the palm of my head I left a massive blood trail all the way down the wall, and it didn't heal fully for about 2 months.

Everyone says it's about problem solving too but I didn't see that.

>>448131
I'm not sure how that makes sense. If you managed to post that suggests you know about using Tab to focus controls. So you could focus back to the input box to complete it.

>>448135
I actually tried using Tab before I replied to him. Once you've tabbed through all the buttons in the Reply box, it then tabs through every single clickable button in the thread. It would take hours. I believe him.

>>448136
Well now we're getting somewhere. Sounds like both you and he don't know about the wonders of Shift+Tab.

>>448135
>>448136

Actually it's just that it stopped moving, and it was already hovering over the reply button. So what do you do when your mouse stops moving? You wiggle it frantically and spam the buttons, obviously. But the buttons DID work, thus it submitted the post.

There was nothing I could do but watch, horrified, and dramatically express my feelings.

>>448137
GASP

>>448028
I'm pretty close to shaving mines off, Im pushing Norwood 3 at the front. I was Norwood 2 for like 10 years, but it's game over I think.

The worrying part is that I'm the only male on my fraternal side with male pattern baldness and my maternal Grandfather never went past Norwood 2.

I think I might be illegitimate. I'm also a good 4 inches taller than them all.

You know what to do.

>>448037

I've always said that once you even know what a Norwood pattern is, let alone have determined your own, then you're already just clinging on to a lost cause. There's drugs, but the side effects seem pretty bad, and there's implants, but personally I couldn't bear the social ridicule of suddenly being not being balding anymore, after a suspicious holiday to Turkey.

As for the patronage thing, yeah - me too actually. Both of my grandads never really had balding, just their hair got thinner in their seventies and eighties. I will watch my cousins scalps with great interest.

>>448038

Buzz your head and get the baldy bits of stubble tattooed on.

>>448029
I meant to reply to the weekday thread and made a new one by accident. I was on top form yesterday.

>>448030
I don't think I'm at that stage yet. I've used a tape measure and it's 6cm from in between my eyebrows to my hairline. However, the left corner goes back a further 2cm and the right corner must be about 4cm back. I do also have a relatively large head.

I'm not quite yet at Mazepin levels of receding hairline.

>>448037
I'm probably a Norwood 2 on that scale but I've just taken a picture of the back of my head and it is a little thin around the whorl. Not a bald patch but it's definitely thinner. I tend to have naturally thick hair so I'll have to compare what it looks like when it's grown a bit.

My friend has recommended I use Regaine, but it's £70 for a three month supply.

>>448038
I haven't managed to find a post-transplant picture of Claridge.

>>447930

Strikes me as irrelevant. Actors should be able to improvise, the gun should never have been loaded.

>>447931
Improvise by aiming a gun at someone and pulling the trigger?

>>447931

That's batshit logic, especially if you've been following this case even a little bit, you'd know how tight on set gun protocols are supposed to be.

Not saying it's Baldwins fault, but your reasoning as to why it isn't might be the weirdest take I've seen for a while.

>>447934

Actually I'll admit total ignorance, here. I haven't been following the case at all, but my (lacking) understanding of on-set protocol is that the kind of (live?) ammunition used should never even be present, let alone loaded into a gun for filming purposes.

If that's not the case I'll gladly withdraw my hot take.

>>447932

In a scene where it sounds like someone is being threatened with a gun, or will be shot, maybe.

>>447935
Don't get them started on "live" ammo again. They will start gaslighting you.

>>447768
Yes, 2-3 is where the fun excitable everyone is a big family bit of drunk is. 5+ is where the shit dancing and falling over happens.

>>447776
I thought I was the only person in the world who drank neat gin. That's certainly how all bartenders react when I order some. It's lovely (usually; some gins really, massively aren't).

>>447780

People don't really order neat anything in the UK. Even in scotland asking for neat whisky sometimes gets a puzzled look.

I don't really know why.

>>447781

You don't go to the pub to pay £3-4 per glass for the purpose of savouring a quality drink, if you're at the pub it's to get pissed, you order something you can chuck down your neck. It's a social occasion. Drinks are just the lubricant.

It'd be a bit like asking to book a table then eat with a knife and fork at Maccies. It's a total misapprehension of why the place exists and why anyone wants to be there. Not unthinkable, but just totally illogical to 99% of the population.

>>447782

I mean, I go to the pub to get pissed, but I prefer drinking whisk(e)y to beer. A Jameson's (which I really like and is cheap) at most pubs is equal to, if not better, in terms of cost per amount of alcohol.

I wouldn't order a 40 year Macallan at a spoons obviously, and to be honest I usually wouldn't order a straight sprit anyway, even though I want to, because people do think it's weird, and the last thing I want to do is have this conversation when I'm just trying to get hammered, so I'll just begrudgingly drink pints if we're doing rounds, or have scotch and sodas because people seem to accept that.

>>447616
Also drugs and cartels. But toffs like their cocaine so they don't give a shit about who gets shot for it.

>>447621

Even that was the CIA. A lot of South American drug rings were established by the CIA directly in order to import their product into the USA, thereby providing funding off the books for their black ops.

I have seen it argued that there is a direct causal link between the CIA's regime change activities in the 70s and 80s, with the drug and gang violence epidemics amongst black communities in the 90s and onwards.

>>447626
I've "seen it argued" that the CIA invented crack to oppress black people. But that's generally regarded as a conspiracy theory that did not happen.

>>447634

It's a matter of historical fact that the CIA were directly involved in large-scale drug trafficking. It's also a matter of historical fact that the FBI engaged in a decades-long campaign of illegal repression of domestic political groups under the COINTELPRO campaign, with black rights groups being a primary target.

The extent of the CIA's involvement in the drug trade is the subject of dispute and the idea of a deliberate conspiracy against black people is a bit of a stretch, but it's not completely insane.

>>447634
>>447637

It doesn't have to be a deliberate conspiracy, that's honestly a complete non-sequitur leap to make from what >>447626 said. The crack epidemic in black communities was almost certainly just collateral damage as far as the security agencies were concerned, but it was nevertheless related.

There's basically no pie the American intelligence agencies haven't at least tried to stick their fingers in for the last 70 years or so. In some cases they've been successful, in others not so much. Sometimes their actions appear to defy all logic- Being powerful doesn't always imply competent. But either way, you have to be thick to deny the level of influence they've had.

>>447393
I wish I knew British sign language. I bet it's a bastard to keep practice but makes for a nice side gig. Plus if I wanted to be BRILLIANT and deny disabled people access to the news I could just sign 'bollocks' again and again.

>>447400

>I bet it's a bastard to keep practice but makes for a nice side gig

Just make sure you don't fake it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-25330672

>>447393
For the benefit of people who don't know, full-on BSL uses movement and facial expressions as well as hand gestures. Non-manual aspects are sign language equivalents to tone and emphasis in spoken language.

I think I'm going to order a big fuckoff bag of those things from the OP pic, honestly.

>>447415
I like the rhubarb and custard ones that look similar, but they're all pink and yellow and green. My parents once got me a kilo box of those from Makro for Christmas.

>>447132

That's exactly the point I was making.

>The man accused of murdering Sir David Amess in a daft militant wog attack allegedly began plotting to kill an MP two years ago, a court has heard.

>Ali Harbi Ali, 25, was charged on Thursday with stabbing to death the Southend West MP during a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex last Friday. Mr Ali, from north London appeared in the dock at Westminster Magistrates' Court accused of murder and also preparing acts of militant daft woggery between May 1 2019 and September this year.

>It is understood the plot was inspired by Shamanismic State and it is alleged he previously focused on two other politicians. He is said to have carried out reconnaissance at one of their homes, the surgery of another and the Houses of Parliament.

>Prosecutor James Cable told the court Mr Ali had made a midday appointment to see Sir David at his surgery at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea. During the meeting with the MP he was seen using his mobile phone and then allegedly stood up and stabbed Sir David with a large knife.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/10/21/ali-harbi-ali-charged-sir-david-amess-murder/

Two years seems like a long time to come up with the plan of "go to his surgery and stab him."

>>447203
How come MI5 never picked this up? Two years is a long time.

I don't understand how a 23 year old would start planning to murder an MP. I was trying to find a better job, chasing women and drinking too much at that age.

>>447203
To be fair a lot of us made plans in 2019 that we never got to carry out.

>>447203
>During the meeting with the MP he was seen using his mobile phone

Someone at the telegraph knows what really happened. DJ Harbi-between-two-Alis was brainwashed by the illuminate who sent a subliminal messages to his phone to have him murder a politician who was going to expose the conspiracy.

Remember to check back on this post in 10-20 years when the truth comes out.