When Kim Jong Un isn't satisfied with his personal look, does he try to Juche it up a bit?
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I found getting people into a room or upstairs the hardest part. I spent 3 days trying to get Kay into the kitchen,gave up and sent him to the shop for 10 fags (set in the 90s) and a pot noodle. Then he went to the kitchen.
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I met my wife in my third year at Uni and we've been together 21 years, married 15. Don't think either of us really qualified as a child bride or groom...
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I see what she's done here: she's confused "running the UK" with "being Ally McBeal's therapist".
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'Wouldn't it be amazing if we had a project to write the new UK theme song?'
Penny Mordaunt on how to bring the Union together
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Penny Mordaunt on how to bring the Union together
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Was nice to see Obi Wan finally give Aunt Bery a bit of a hero moment
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And after that, we're down to Alien Dancing Girl (very much female) in Jabba's Palace.
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New - Rishi Sunak was the director of a free school with close links to rightwing libertarian founders, which was found to have multiple financial and safeguarding failings years after his departure
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The second after I pressed send, I remembered Luke's aunt. OK, so that's two.
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Apart from Leia, who were the female characters in the original Star Wars trilogy? I feel as though there must have been some, even if they were just extras, but my mind's drawing a total blank. I mean recognisably female, by the way, not some weird alien arbitrarily called that.
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Omid was very good in The Infidel, one of the most thoughtful (and funny) examinations of antisemitism in recent(ish) British cinema. Perhaps he can ask the film's writer, David Baddiel, to spell out why this isn't a remotely kosher take.
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Weaponising anti-Semitism as a political tool is (still) one of the most appalling things weβve seen in recent times. Politicians blithely referencing βanti Semite Corbynβ to score a political point, know that your utter disrespect to Jews was - and is now - off the scale. twitter.com/guardian/statuβ¦
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what the fuck was he supposed to bring her this is driving me insane
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Michael Gove - "There are essential functions that the state needs to do better, which we fail to deliver at the moment"... basic functions of the Govt are βsimply not functioning... we are no longer providing an efficient delivery of services"
A result of 12 years of Tory Govt
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Also how did we get in this macho cobblers given the proven heatstroke deaths in the last 20 years when the temp exceeds 35 etc.
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Looking at some polls, I think Johnson was ahead of the game on net zero, etc. I'd take the interview and ask back, how do you propose to push the required changes if you aren't prepared as one of the worlds richest economies to do those yourselves?
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And no, of course I haven't read the actual article, but come on.
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"The Woke Mob are once again trying to exert Stalinist control over us by insisting we have houses that aren't on fire."
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I know couples who married almost straight out of school who are still doing perfectly OK. That might not be optimal for everyone, but if you're sure you've found the right person, why hang around? There's always divorce.
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They're the same age as my wife and me when we got married. Nice to know I'm now seen as a total wrongun in some circles for that.
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This isn't even opinion journalism as much as it's a sort of parlour game: starting with the conclusion "X is problematic", how can we work backwards to establish that?
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That was the point of my appeasement analogy. Once it was clear Hitler was a genuine and pressing threat, it turned out people were willing to accept quite a lot of material sacrifice to defeat him.
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It all depends on whether the public see net zero efforts as being too much, due to costs of energy and fuel. I think it's this what Kemi, and others, are trying to appeal to with their stance.
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My column on how the Forde Report misses the point about Labour antisemitism
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A couple more summers like this and even the Kemi Badenoch brand of soft denialism (i.e. "it's happening, but we mustn't do anything to stop it") may start to look dangerously reckless, and it might just turn out the public aren't *that* fed up with experts.
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"Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions." - Lord Havelock Vetinari
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'The Foreign Secretary may be competent, but what we desperately need now is a likeable, charismatic person who can act as the glue in this broken, bad-tempered society' | Writes @AllisonPearson telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022
Yeah, who needs competence while the countryβs falling apart, right? JFC these people.
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'The Foreign Secretary may be competent, but what we desperately need now is a likeable, charismatic person who can act as the glue in this broken, bad-tempered society' | Writes @AllisonPearson telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2021
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I'm starting to think Net Zero *will* end up being an issue of critical electoral importance, just maybe not in the way people like Toby Young assume it will. It's like how British public opinion broadly backed appeasement until the consequences became to clear to deny.
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Yesterday was our hottest day on record.
As the country boiled, Tory leadership candidates offered watered-down climate policies that will leave the burden of climate change to future generations.
A Labour government will tackle climate change head on.
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My mum has a nasty cold, which almost certainly means I'll get it as well in a day or two. Don't think it's COVID, but I might take an LFT (for the first time ever) if I start getting symptoms, just to be sure.
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There was nothing hesitant about this she just didn't want to play Piers Morgan's game. Who can blame her. She was upfront that she was there to discuss free speech not gender politics. She didn't seem hesitant but confident & self assured. Great for young women to be confident.
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"I'm not answering that, ask the next guest!"
NUS president Larissa Kennedy is hesitant to answer Piers Morgan's questions about JK Rowling and the definition of a woman.
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My intuition is that any "sex bot" capable of providing anything like a simulacrum of sex with a real human being would have to have some level of consciousness, which obviously immediately raises all sorts of ethical issues.
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It's one of those rules of life: as soon as any avenue of technology or culture develops beyond a certain point, men will start wondering whether they can have sex with it.
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In this case, they also all seem to have large and, presumably, completely superfluous breasts, which doesn't strike me as engineering priority #1.
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As always, I am deeply disturbed how it is always - ALWAYS - women who are the model for androids/human looking robots
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The fuck kind of meth addicts do you hang out with that you canβt tell the difference between them & this?
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Soon we will have a hard time recognizing who is a robot and who is a humanβ¦.
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Word of the morning is 'forwallowed' (15th century): exhausted from tossing and turning all night.
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Loved this thread so much. I assume these are all references to specific elements of MΔori folklore, but as far as my ignorant white self is concerned, the OT may just be trolling us all. Either way, hilarious.
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Hi, MΔori person here! I know a thing or two about keeping cool in hot weather. Hereβs some of my ancestral wisdom that Iβd like to share with youse 
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Dollars to doughnuts those two front pages will one day be part of a museum exhibit illustrating the wildest follies of the early 21st century, as we now look upon things like legal cocaine and child labour. That's assuming there'll be any museums, that is. (2/2)
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I try to avoid reflexive Mail-bashing, because a lot of their journalism is perfectly decent, particularly online, and writing off all their readers as swivel-eyed morons is the sort of trap that's kept Labour out of power over a decade. That said, this is quite special. (1/2)
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In the very first episode, Walt thinks fast and manages to incapacitate two menacing drug dealers with a deadly gas. A lesser show would have them both conveniently die, never to be mentioned again. As fellow fans will know, that's not how it works out here.
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