Captain Seafort wrote:I take it you didn't read the section immediately above about Red Ken's coup?
I did. And? Since when inter-party struggle gives opposition to completely destroy government elected just beforehand, to replace it with opaque web of your own cronies multiplying bureaucracy, making overseeing whole of city far more difficult and less efficient, giving right wing opportunities for more criminal 'privatizations', 'deprioritizations' and 'deregulations' solely to pad their own pockets, against electorate's will?
Darth Yan wrote:Also, how was she a xenophobe? she just struck me as very conservative.
She literally claimed that Germany would immediately become Nazi again if allowed to reunify.
Was she serious about that? I though that was just the usual "Nazis!" used to push through own interest. And with the british tabloid press at home Thatcher had to more extreme than the other governments.
Yes, she was serious about that. She vehemently opposed reunification and had Bush not brought her in line, she might as well have scuttled it.
Whoever says "education does not matter" can try ignorance
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Welf wrote:Was she serious about that? I though that was just the usual "Nazis!" used to push through own interest. And with the british tabloid press at home Thatcher had to more extreme than the other governments.
Interest or not, Germans feel their country has more things for people to associate with them than the Nazis. They get offended, that is. It would be like the southern US and their thing with slavery, only with the Germans not actually being pricks and saying the Holocaust was just a matter of conflicting geostrategic interests.
and the linked vid had had 100,000 views in 24 hours. (and another 80,000 while I've been asleep)
"Aid, trade, green technology and peace." - Hans Rosling.
"Welcome to SDN, where we can't see the forest because walking into trees repeatedly feels good, bro." - Mr Coffee
So, estimates of the cost of her funeral are up to 10 million, and members of the Tory party are insisting that the country can afford it. A far cry from the austerity shit they've been making everyone else chew on.
"Prodesse Non Nocere." "It's all about popularity really, if your invisible friend that tells you to invade places is called Napoleon, you're a loony, if he's called Jesus then you're the president." "I'd drive more people insane, but I'd have to double back and pick them up first..." "All it takes for bullshit to thrive is for rational men to do nothing." - Kevin Farrell, B.A. Journalism. BOTM - EBC - Horseman - G&C - Vampire
Keevan_Colton wrote:So, estimates of the cost of her funeral are up to 10 million, and members of the Tory party are insisting that the country can afford it. A far cry from the austerity shit they've been making everyone else chew on.
Her funeral arrangements should go to the lowest bidder, it's what she would have wanted...
Η ζωή, η ζωή εδω τελειώνει!
"Science is one cold-hearted bitch with a 14" strap-on" - Masuka 'Dexter'
"Angela is not the woman you think she is Gabriel, she's done terrible things"
"So have I, and I'm going to do them all to you." - Sylar to Arthur 'Heroes'
There have been people willing to deal with it for free for years now....particularly before she was dead.
"Prodesse Non Nocere." "It's all about popularity really, if your invisible friend that tells you to invade places is called Napoleon, you're a loony, if he's called Jesus then you're the president." "I'd drive more people insane, but I'd have to double back and pick them up first..." "All it takes for bullshit to thrive is for rational men to do nothing." - Kevin Farrell, B.A. Journalism. BOTM - EBC - Horseman - G&C - Vampire
I think it was Frankie Boyle who suggested just giving everyone in Scotland a shovel; they'd dig a hole so deep that Satan could take direct delivery.
There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.
-- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)
Replace "ginger" with "n*gger," and suddenly it become a lot less funny, doesn't it?
-- fgalkin
Zaune wrote:I think it was Frankie Boyle who suggested just giving everyone in Scotland a shovel; they'd dig a hole so deep that Satan could take direct delivery.
Sure was;
Crown wrote:
Siege wrote:I suspect the pubs in Scotland will do well today.
Η ζωή, η ζωή εδω τελειώνει!
"Science is one cold-hearted bitch with a 14" strap-on" - Masuka 'Dexter'
"Angela is not the woman you think she is Gabriel, she's done terrible things"
"So have I, and I'm going to do them all to you." - Sylar to Arthur 'Heroes'
"Aid, trade, green technology and peace." - Hans Rosling.
"Welcome to SDN, where we can't see the forest because walking into trees repeatedly feels good, bro." - Mr Coffee
Man, I never saw so many "She's dead, let's party" videos on youtube. It is practically overflowing with those things.
Whoever says "education does not matter" can try ignorance
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A decision must be made in the life of every nation at the very moment when the grasp of the enemy is at its throat. Then, it seems that the only way to survive is to use the means of the enemy, to rest survival upon what is expedient, to look the other way. Well, the answer to that is 'survival as what'? A country isn't a rock. It's not an extension of one's self. It's what it stands for. It's what it stands for when standing for something is the most difficult! - Chief Judge Haywood
------------ My LPs
Keevan_Colton wrote:So, estimates of the cost of her funeral are up to 10 million, and members of the Tory party are insisting that the country can afford it. A far cry from the austerity shit they've been making everyone else chew on.
Her funeral arrangements should go to the lowest bidder, it's what she would have wanted...
One of the first comments I saw on twitter was along the lines of "Watch Thatcher's funeral for the protests and the violent police response to them, the truest memorial she could ever have."
I heard the BBC say they will consider whether or not to play a certain song from The Wizard Of Oz on Radio 1's chart show, should it actually be at number one.
Thanas wrote:Man, I never saw so many "She's dead, let's party" videos on youtube. It is practically overflowing with those things.
It's because she was a cunt.
Η ζωή, η ζωή εδω τελειώνει!
"Science is one cold-hearted bitch with a 14" strap-on" - Masuka 'Dexter'
"Angela is not the woman you think she is Gabriel, she's done terrible things"
"So have I, and I'm going to do them all to you." - Sylar to Arthur 'Heroes'
There is something almost compelling about the news coverage at the moment - just to see how hard it is possible to scrape the barrell in order to find a new angle.
BBC London are currently leading this one for me with an interview with the estate agent who showed her round the Dulwich home she moved into after leaving 10 Downing Street.
Somebody brought a copy of Tuesday's Daily Telegraph into work - all other news stories were fitted on to just 4 pages with the whole of the rest of the paper being taken up by Thatcher stuff. They also have a 68, yes sixty-eight, page commemorative magazine coming out on Saturday.
This is a royal death in all but name. Roll on the funeral - that should be fun
Funeral's on the 17th if anyone's thinking of holding a party or commemorative riot or something.
There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.
-- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)
Replace "ginger" with "n*gger," and suddenly it become a lot less funny, doesn't it?
-- fgalkin
The police are going to be out in force around London come that day. They had the Met commander talking about it and how, as with the Royal wedding last year, they may preemptively arrest troublemakers. Oh, and you're all obligated to inform them of any protest activity.
Or, to use more formal language, to prevent a breach of the peace. If they've got intelligence that there's trouble brewing (such as an invitation on an internet forum to a "commemorative riot") they can take steps to prevent that trouble.
If the Met use my comment as an excuse to nick someone I'm suing them for libel. (In the hopefully unlikely event that they're reading this, don't say I didn't warn you!)
There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.
-- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)
Replace "ginger" with "n*gger," and suddenly it become a lot less funny, doesn't it?
-- fgalkin
Zaune wrote:If the Met use my comment as an excuse to nick someone I'm suing them for libel. (In the hopefully unlikely event that they're reading this, don't say I didn't warn you!)
Sure you will :snort:
I think the procession goes past my office window. We'll be queued up in two factions; those with black armbands and those with a glass of bubbly. Should be an electric atmosphere.
Whatever your opinion of her, it's certainly going to be a memorable funeral.
Baltar: "I don't want to miss a moment of the last Battlestar's destruction!"
Centurion: "Sir, I really think you should look at the other Battlestar."
Baltar: "What are you babbling about other...it's impossible!"
Centurion: "No. It is a Battlestar."
Corrax Entry 7:17: So you walk eternally through the shadow realms, standing against evil where all others falter. May your thirst for retribution never quench, may the blood on your sword never dry, and may we never need you again.
