The Official Status Thread
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@RaceProUK said:
I wrote my friend in Mississippi
What would a British person say?I wrote to my friend in Mississippi
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Named after
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I wrote to my friend in Mississippi
Ok that one I'll give you.
Named after
Now that I think about it, I've never heard anybody say "named for", so I'm not sure this is a thing at all. Or maybe it's from the South, where everybody has a 3rd grade education.
But assuming "named for" is a thing that exist, then I'll grant this one, too.
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Does the EU have zero marriage equality legislation at all? I kind of assumed it did, (or that this would fall under it's declaration of universal human rights) but maybe I'm being the idiot.
My advice? Give up on trying to make sense of it. We changed probably hundreds of laws due to "they have to align with EU laws". But then you find out some countries don't have to do that. But apparently it was EU mandate.
So is it EU leadership playing favourites, pulling stuff out of their asses, or are local politicians just using EU stuff as an excuse? Fuck it if I know or care any more. We have like gazzilion parties, but only two of them are big enough to stand a chance. So it's those same two parties changing places. Looking at their fiscal policies, it's the same promises from the both sides. The only difference is that one of them is a bit more progressive on the social issues front. They are all shitheads none the less.
Did you know our ex prime minister is in jail for fraud? Yup. He (with the help of much of the party leadership) leeched fuck knows how much money from government contract deals and pure flat out fraud. And that party still has a huge genuine chance of winning the next election. After being proven they are corrupt as fuck, as a whole. And the other option is not much better. Well, maybe at not getting caught.
Fuck it, I give up. Shit is just getting worse here by the year, while politicians are too busy blaming the other side for fuckups 4 years ago to try and fix shit. I usually go voting "if I can be arsed" because I see no difference. Maybe the current leading party is slightly less bad, I guess?
I'm done with this discussion, it just pisses me off. But there, that's probably pretty much all you'll hear about politics from me, ever.
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Now that I think about it, I've never heard anybody say "named for", so I'm not sure this is a thing at all
I'm certainly aware of hearing it on American TV shows, but I can't think of any specific examples. Could well be regional but I always thought it was the idiomatic American English version of named after.
Let this conversation stand as proof that @blakeyrat is perfectly capable of admitting when he's wrong, which means all the times he doesn't give up he must be right
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Do you vote? If so, moan away! If not, why not? Voting may not change a damn thing, but at least you tried!
Some would say that you are the one who cannot piss and moan. You are the one who elected them. ;-P
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What if you've never voted for a candidate who actually got in?
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Today's vote was the first where I voted tactically rather than for the party I actually want to see in charge.
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Let this conversation stand as proof that @blakeyrat is perfectly capable of admitting when he's wrong, which means all the times he doesn't give up he must be right
"My dear Doctor, Blakeyrat is always right."
"Even when he's wrong?"
"Especially when he's wrong."
With apologies to Garak. I know people think that In the Pale Moonlight is the best Garak episode, but The Wire is the best Garak episode. Especially the reveals of 1) why Garak's wire malfunctioned, 2) who Elim is. Blows you away every time.
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Did you know our ex prime minister is in jail for fraud?
Big deal. On inauguration day in Illinois, they measure you for an orange suit.
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They still make that?!
Well, whether they make it or not, I'm damn well still using it.
Because I hate Illustrator and its "just follow your feels" type of drawing. Corel has a 1000 little annoyances, but at least they make it easy to measure, cut and arrange all elements to the pixel level precision.
Filed under: Yeah, I'm probably just ignorant about Illustrator, whatever, let me have my illusions
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Corel has a 1000 little annoyances
I just need to know one thing - can you finally edit gradients live?
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I usually go voting "if I can be arsed" because I see no difference. Maybe the current leading party is slightly less bad, I guess?
Join the crew that votes third party. Pick one that you agree the most with and see if you can convince your friends to as well.
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Right, because who needs to validate that the people voting are both who they say they are, and eligible to vote?
Racists.
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GREATER POOP: Are you really serious or what?
MAL-2: Sometimes I take humor seriously. Sometimes I take seriousness humorously. Either way it is irrelevant.GP: Maybe you are just crazy.
M2: Indeed! But do not reject these teaching as false because I am crazy. The reason that I am crazy is because they are true.GP: Is Eris true?
M2: Everything is true.
GP: Even false things?
M2: Even false things are true.
GP: How can that be?
M2: I don't know man, I didn't do it.
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There's like 50 of them. None of them has a chance to get anything more than maybe two seats if they are lucky.
Then again, given that half the time the lazy bastards barely make the quorum, maybe it would count for something. If those two will be in a mood to show up, that is.
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Status: just figured out that if i don't call a function it does nothing.
Mmmm....most pure.
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Some would say that you are the one who cannot puss and moan. You are the one who elected them. ;-P
There are 650 seats in the House of Commons, one for each constituency; however, a voter can only vote in their constituency. I have a say in the occupant of just one seat; I have no say on the other 649. And no voter gets to elect the Prime Minister directly.
Our political system is pretty broken.
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See?
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GREATER POOP:
What the fuck are you talking about?
Goddamned you people are crazy fuckers.
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Join the crew that votes third party
In the UK, that would mean voting Liberal Democrat. And they spent the last five years under the thumb of the Tories.
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discourse just put up the quote reply button after I hit the reply button on mobile.
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Big deal. On inauguration day in Illinois, they measure you for an orange suit.
Oh, I forgot to mention - our position of Prime Minister is pretty close to UK's - the president is mostly just a figurehead with very little power. Commander in chief and all that, but in peace time
hisher duties pretty much involve travelling and having expensive dinners around the world.
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In the UK, that would mean voting Liberal Democrat.
Not UKIP?
also emoji autocomplete is broken on mobile but Android text to speech knows the word emoji.
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no voter gets to elect the Prime Minister directly
Except voters in the PM's constituency.
One question I've never found an answer to: if a party gets the majority of the seats but the leader loses theirs, what happens? Do we get a PM who isn't a sitting MP or does the party have to elect a new leader? Or is it the deputy leader quickly promoted?
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Commander in chief and all that, but in peace time hisher duties pretty much involve travelling and having expensive dinners around the world.
I'm sure in the fullness of time that will change.
also I just had to add trolley bus to my android dictionary
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What the fuck are you talking about?
Don't you badmouth my religion!
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Except voters in the PM's constituency.
They elect the PM to the Commons seat, but not to the position of PM; that's determined by the fact the party internally elected that person as their leader.
@Jaloopa said:One question I've never found an answer to: if a party gets the majority of the seats but the leader loses theirs, what happens?
Good question…
@Jaloopa said:Do we get a PM who isn't a sitting MP or does the party have to elect a new leader?
The PM has to be an MP, so I guess they'd have to find someone else pretty damn sharpish.
@Jaloopa said:Or is it the deputy leader quickly promoted?
But what if they also lose their seat?It won't ever come to pass anyway; party leaders are always put in safe seats
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Status: I did a bad, but funny thing. I was driving with my son earlier and his toddler curiosity was in full force. He was asking me what all sorts of things do.
Son: "Daddy, what do chickens do?"
Me: "They scratch in the dirt, and eat bugs and seeds and play with all their little chicken friends."
Son: "Play with their chicken friends? That's silly! What do cows do?"
Me: "They hang out in a field, and eat grass, and moo and play with all their cow friends."
Son: "Play with their cow friends? That's silly! What do bears do?"
Me: -pauses- "Bears poop in the woods."
Son: "Poop in the woods? That's yucky. They should use the potty."
Me: "I know son. That is yucky."
Son: "People might step in it. Gross!"I just know he is going to say that at preschool now, and I am going to have to come in to talk to the teachers.
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It won't ever come to pass anyway; party leaders are always put in safe seats
Shock results do happen. Didn't a prominent Labour frontbencher lose their seat in the 2002 election? I imagine there s are rules about it but nobody I've ever asked has known
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And you don't?
Not nearly as much. You would never see an American write drivel like "Cupertino idiot-tax operation junks duff throbbless jazzbangles", for example.
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I just know he is going to say that at preschool now, and I am going to have to come in to talk to the teachers.
They haven't come to expect that from him yet?
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I'd rather commit seppuku than vote for them
From an American perspective, a lot of the claims that UKIP are a bunch of racists sounds a lot like "BBC and government types don't like that UKIP doesn't appreciate the government attempting to import a new citizenry that holds incompatible values".
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They haven't come to expect that from him yet?
Possibly. I have not had to talk to them for a while, so either he knows not to repeat his dad at school, or his teachers have just given up on me. Probably the latter.
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I'm sure in the fullness of time that will change.
Quite possible. We have a history of stirring shit over here.
But my point was that your state governor (I buttume that's what you've been referring to) does not really compare to our PM on a political scale.
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From an American perspective, a lot of the claims that UKIP are a bunch of racists sounds a lot like "BBC and government types don't like that UKIP doesn't appreciate the government attempting to import a new citizenry that holds incompatible values".
Believe me, you're getting a very sanitised view of UKIP
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I always thought UKIP was a Swedish pickled fish product.
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I did a bad, but funny thing
There is a reason my wedding vows include the line "when we have children, I promise not to be too much of a troll dad"
Emphasis on too much. I will definitely be filling Jaloopa Jr's head with a decent amount of stuff that sounded funny to me at the time
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you're getting a very sanitised view of UKIP
An example of the kind of UKIP thing that's seen as pretty much par for the course by now:
Ex-Conservative Mr Blay noted Mr Jayawardena had been tipped as Britain's first Asian prime minister.
The Mirror reported that he said: "If he is I will personally put a bullet between his eyes. If this lad turns up to be our prime minister I will personally put a bullet in him. That's how strong I feel about it."
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Status: worked for 2 hours without realizing I forgot to connect the VPN... then again, with the code all local, our company using Office 365 and Slack, it didn't really come up.
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too much
I have crossed that line so many times. My problem is that I have little to no filter. Communication online is easier, as I have a chance to review before I commit to my comments. Speech has no undo button.
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Did you know our ex prime minister is in jail for fraud?
at least he's in jail.
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Menem#Corruption_charges
that man is still a senator.
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Status: Wondering why someone has to sleep with ballot papers, instead of sticking them in a safe or something
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No. But we have our own version of UKIP. Interestingly, UKIP do not want to be in the same party group in the EU because they think ours are too extreme.