Off-Topic III: The Revengening!

Hmm.

EU Elections just round the corner.

I think it's time for me to be practical and pragmatic and that, and for once, actually vote.....Conservative.

Why such a betrayal of my political leanings? Well, I live in a total Tory stronghold, so my usual Labour vote is arguably wasted. In the general run of things, this doesn't bother me, and I vote Labour anyway. But this time around.....UKIP. Urgh. I hate UKIP. Whilst the Tories might be a shower of excrement, UKIP are far, far worse. Plus, I know any UKIP MEP will do precisely nothing to benefit the country in their position.

Tactical vote - Tory. That vote could be the one that stops UKIP in their tracks.

It's PR on a region basis Mystery, not like a proper election.

...and local elections!

Me I will vote conservative for both.

The area I live in is a Labour stronghold. The labour concil has managed to deliver a poor service to my mind.
The rubbish collection is rubbish and now no longer collecting garden waste for free, isntead a £35 levy to do it which is non-transferable if you move to a different location.
Selling off of the NEC group, a terrible mistake.
The bus lane fiasco, where the prosecuted several thousands of drivers for driving in a bus lane despite being told that the signage was inadequate and so refunded only those who complained.
The "cycling manifesto" which has wasted thousands of pounds painting lines on roads and pavements preventing cyclists from getting where they would want to go, like the town centre, with ASLs where the advanced stop line is inaccessible without breaking the law
The absolute failure to repair my neighbours fence within six months.
Plus labour's anti-grammar school views are something I cannot abide.

hehehe, the Isle of Man on Buzzfeed

[url]http://www.buzzfeed.com/robinedds/horrifying-problems-only-people-from-the-isle-of-man-will[/url]

I dunno what I'm doing for the euro elections.

But I will destroy my ballet paper for the council election.
It's a straight lib dem / labour fight for the council. Our current councillor or the one up for election anyway is a libdem, and abuses her position too much ( one example moved the existing park from behind her house to a position that had no park. Yes I'm a nimby but why else did she do it? easier tha getting the police to do their job, just move the problem.) Wrote and told her why I wouldn't vote, got the standard thank you for your interest response suggesting they never actually read the letter beyond the sender address.
Under no circumstances will I vote Labour for the council. They're so busy trying to score points off the national government they're letting people suffer.
Also they're responsible for the poor design of our road system, the supertram debts, the stadium fiasco, lack of parking and general anti car policy in the city centre.

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Originally Posted by Psychosplodge

It's PR on a region basis Mystery, not like a proper election.

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Even so, I'd prefer a Tory euro-sceptic as an MEP. At least they know fact from fiction. UKIP, not so much.

Also, got a UKIP flyer through the door yesterday. Rude doodles completed, now looking for a paving slab so I can return to sender.

Max Clifford 1 assault 1 year in gaol. With a total of 8 years, though only 4 in gaol the next 4 on licence.

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Originally Posted by Kirsten

hehehe, the Isle of Man on Buzzfeed

[url]http://www.buzzfeed.com/robinedds/horrifying-problems-only-people-from-the-isle-of-man-will[/url]

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lols

Tried to read that twice.

First time it hung my pc
Second time it disconnected my internet...

Max Clifford, sentenced to 8 years.

http://www.first4lawyers.com/wp-cont...new-mobile.jpg

Surely justice would be if he served them?

[url]http://www.shouldivoteukip.co.uk/[/url]

[url]http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/[/url]

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Originally Posted by Psychosplodge

[url]http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/[/url]

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Interestingly, [url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/02/lhc-black-hole_n_5249511.html[/url] from today.

And now a UKIP Councillor has included in his manifesto compulsory abortions for Foetuses with downs syndrome, spina bifida etc, calling them a burden on the state.

Mmmmmm. Eugenics!

and I thought their velocopide views were strange.

I swear they're on a mission to win some kind of 'least electable party actually elected' award or something.

Still a fair way behind the BNP. I saw their election broadcast the other night and it was awful. Truly, truly awful. Half of it was bleeped out due to having been censored for being so offensive and it had some weird graphics that looked like they'd been made by brain damaged racist for poor computer skills on an LSD. Which is probably about right.

The Green Party had a decent one though. Couple of guys doing passable imitations of foggy and clegg, before then telling us about practical differences they have actually made. They've got my vote for the Euros (assuming they are standing round my way).

every day there is a new story about ludicrous UKIP nonsense, it is amazing they get any consideration whatsoever.

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And now a UKIP Councillor has included in his manifesto compulsory abortions for Foetuses with downs syndrome, spina bifida etc, calling them a burden on the state.

Mmmmmm. Eugenics!

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bah he doesn't have a clue does he, people with Downs and Spina are still productive people, they can work just like other people, ok with Downs you can't expect them to handle really complex tasks easily, but they can still interact with people and such.

People with Spina Bifida may end up wheelchair bound, but they are able to communicate and are capable of doing office based work.

So neither can be called a "burden on the state"

But on the other hand those poor souls who are stuck in wheelchairs, unable to feed themselves, talk or perform even the most basic of tasks in life, I do wonder why we make them and the parents suffer, it's cases like that for which I would support euthinasia for.

But making it Compulsary, ugh now we moving into **** Territory and we all know where that leads :(

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hmm it seems the message board doesn't like the shortened version of the historic National Socialists Party it seems :rolleyes:

Indeed. That's the problem with eugenics.

As a pure theory, it does make sense. But as soon as it becomes a discussion point, you need to define what are desirable and undesirable traits, and it all goes horribly wrong.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/d6bb03981...83ebo9_400.gif

*boop*

https://24.media.tumblr.com/5d312868...83ebo6_400.gif

I can't get gifs to work, what sorcery is this?

Gifs can not work?

https://31.media.tumblr.com/87bb1900...hnmco1_500.jpg

I have never gotten gifs to work on any website.

I would be more impressed if the 'zilla' had been neatly stenciled to match the rest...

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images...3424/image.jpg

rawr

I changed up all my shrapnel today using a machine in Sainsburys.

£16.53...all in 5's, 2's and 1's.

Not bad eh?

Though I seem to have ended £2 up on where I thought I should be.

[URL="http://youtu.be/D5bOJT_HtUI"]God is dead.[/URL]

an interesting article about pornography and why it isn't the problem, and restricting it will not help. the article also suggests that sex crimes go down when access to porn increases

[url]http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/women-who-stray/201305/porn-is-not-the-problem-you-are[/url]

well any body into porn could have told those idiots in charge that, the majority of people will be satisfied by porn, it's only the .00001% that would go further down the criminal route.....

Beside Porn isn't excatly new now is it, the Romans and Greeks like their porn too....

Plenty of mosics and poetry to prove it :D

Yay! Cannibal films!

Cannibal Terror done - and it was god awful.

Last Cannibal World now, with Cannibals and Cannibal Apocalypse to follow.

Video nasties RULE!

I've always found the arguments about porn kind of flawed. I mean there is firm evidence that it screwed up pre-teen thinking about sex a lot but the solution to that is better, earlier sex education. The idea that porn is degrading to women rests on the premise that sex is degrading to women. The fact is it is only degrading because culturally we see sex as something that degrades women. If we got over this misogynist nonsense that women are degraded by sex then porn wouldn't be seen as degrading. As it is even if you banned porn, ignoring all the negative problems that would cause, men would STILL degrade women because we have a culture that says they can.

Hee:
https://31.media.tumblr.com/8e0d1d04...9a2o1_1280.png

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Hee:
https://31.media.tumblr.com/8e0d1d04...9a2o1_1280.png

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ah yes the Spidermen limited comic series, yeah that was kinda funny....

this is awesome, scientists solve the mystery of how the egyptians moved such massive stones across the sand

[url]http://www.iflscience.com/physics/mystery-how-egyptians-moved-pyramid-stones-solved[/url]

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I swear they're on a mission to win some kind of 'least electable party actually elected' award or something.

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Clearly got the "big three" (though debatable we should still include the libdems in that) running scared, or why else they barrage of attacks? Most lunatic fringe parties are merely ignored.

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Originally Posted by Wildeybeast

The Green Party had a decent one though. Couple of guys doing passable imitations of foggy and clegg, before then telling us about practical differences they have actually made. They've got my vote for the Euros (assuming they are standing round my way).

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Ah yes, but you don't really on the private sector still existing :D

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Originally Posted by Mr Mystery

Indeed. That's the problem with eugenics.

As a pure theory, it does make sense. But as soon as it becomes a discussion point, you need to define what are desirable and undesirable traits, and it all goes horribly wrong.

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Interesting way of looking at it, never considered that.

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Originally Posted by Gotthammer

*boop*

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*[URL="http://getyourgifsout.tumblr.com/post/84210660503"]boop[/URL]*

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Originally Posted by Mr Mystery

I changed up all my shrapnel today using a machine in Sainsburys.

£16.53...all in 5's, 2's and 1's.

Not bad eh?

Though I seem to have ended £2 up on where I thought I should be.

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Got an ammo box full of copper, its about reached the point to weigh in...

Did everyone have a good May Day?

I went for a drink for Cinco de Mayo. :)