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Postby Questers » Sat Mar 10, 2018 6:32 pm

Everybody drink
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Postby Fartsniffage » Sat Mar 10, 2018 6:34 pm

Questers wrote:Everybody drink


It's Saturday night. What did you think I was doing?
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Postby Ifreann » Sat Mar 10, 2018 8:39 pm

Fartsniffage wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-43356769

Down with this sort of thing.
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Postby Dumb Ideologies » Sun Mar 11, 2018 2:51 am

Questers wrote:Everybody drink


Hydration is important.
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Postby Vassenor » Sun Mar 11, 2018 3:12 am

Fartsniffage wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-43356769


I mean that's some straight up incitement of terrorism right there.
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Postby Hallistrom » Sun Mar 11, 2018 3:20 am

Vassenor wrote:
Fartsniffage wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-43356769


I mean that's some straight up incitement of terrorism right there.


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Postby Dumb Ideologies » Sun Mar 11, 2018 3:22 am

I've sent Mayor Khan to the naughty step. My duty as a patriotic Briton is fulfilled.
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Postby Albrenia » Sun Mar 11, 2018 3:25 am

Vassenor wrote:
Fartsniffage wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-43356769


I mean that's some straight up incitement of terrorism right there.


Please tell me that isn't real.

Humanity, what the hell...
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Postby Olivaero » Sun Mar 11, 2018 3:49 am

Hydesland wrote:
Olivaero wrote:Thats a comment on how Immigration should be seen not pro/anti it in general. "Controls on immigration" is so broard it could mean cutting the number of people coming in just arbitrarily. I don't think many on the left want to import cheap labour from overseas, they want people to come here and seek a better life if they want to.


You don't think the workers that get "imported" aren't coming here seeking a better life?

They are, but that doesn't mean we should encourage their exploitation.
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Postby Eastfield Lodge » Sun Mar 11, 2018 4:42 am

Fartsniffage wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-43356769

I thought this was the sort of thing that was fine and acceptable in modern Britain?
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Postby Hurdergaryp » Sun Mar 11, 2018 4:48 am

Albrenia wrote:
Vassenor wrote:I mean that's some straight up incitement of terrorism right there.

Please tell me that isn't real.

Humanity, what the hell...

Oh, it's real. These things always are.


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Postby Fartsniffage » Sun Mar 11, 2018 8:53 am

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-ma ... r-43363588

Would a train even notice the bumps?
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Postby Dumb Ideologies » Sun Mar 11, 2018 8:54 am

Fartsniffage wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-43363588

Would a train even notice the bumps?


What a stupid protest. What do these numbnuts even want the government to do?
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Postby Fartsniffage » Sun Mar 11, 2018 9:00 am

Dumb Ideologies wrote:
Fartsniffage wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-43363588

Would a train even notice the bumps?


What a stupid protest. What do these numbnuts even want the government to do?


Send over Bernard Matthews?
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Postby Dumb Ideologies » Sun Mar 11, 2018 9:10 am

Fartsniffage wrote:
Dumb Ideologies wrote:
What a stupid protest. What do these numbnuts even want the government to do?


Send over Bernard Matthews?


Nobody expects the twizzler extradition.
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Postby Hydesland » Sun Mar 11, 2018 10:38 am

Fartsniffage wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-43363588

Would a train even notice the bumps?


Can't say I disagree with stopping Turkey from helping ISIS, but what exactly do they expect Network Rail to do about it??
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Postby Dumb Ideologies » Sun Mar 11, 2018 10:42 am

Hydesland wrote:
Fartsniffage wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-43363588

Would a train even notice the bumps?


Can't say I disagree with stopping Turkey from helping ISIS, but what exactly do they expect Network Rail to do about it??


Railgun mercenaries.
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Postby Vassenor » Sun Mar 11, 2018 10:45 am

Hydesland wrote:
Fartsniffage wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-43363588

Would a train even notice the bumps?


Can't say I disagree with stopping Turkey from helping ISIS, but what exactly do they expect Network Rail to do about it??


It's not about getting NR to do something. It's about causing enough disruption to get noticed.

Like blocking the Heathrow approach road for a BLM protest.
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Postby Questers » Sun Mar 11, 2018 10:47 am

Straight to jail.flv
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Postby Eastfield Lodge » Sun Mar 11, 2018 10:51 am

Questers wrote:Straight to jail.flv

That your action for all protesters?
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Postby Dumb Ideologies » Sun Mar 11, 2018 10:52 am

Questers wrote:Straight to jail.flv


Prison too good, throw out plane over Syria, sort it out themselves. Y/Y?
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Postby Hydesland » Sun Mar 11, 2018 10:57 am

John McDonnell urges Labour MPs to stop appearing on Russia Today

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Postby Dumb Ideologies » Sun Mar 11, 2018 11:00 am

7 years later and in different international context, man has different opinion.

Labour EXPOSED.
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Postby The Huskar Social Union » Sun Mar 11, 2018 11:01 am

RT is a load of shite, only watched it once instead of turning it off instantly and thats for the hadron collider they built in switzerland a load back.

Cant even watch the moscow parade without them yapping like shite.
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Postby Liriena » Sun Mar 11, 2018 11:01 am

Hydesland wrote:
Fartsniffage wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-43363588

Would a train even notice the bumps?


Can't say I disagree with stopping Turkey from helping ISIS, but what exactly do they expect Network Rail to do about it??

Yeah. I mean, if you're going to apply some civil disobedience, which is awesome, pick a good, at least symbolically relevant place to do it.

Erdogan can still suck it, tho
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