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Re: Testing Episode IV: A New Lament

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 7:38 am
by Dude
Did Scotland even decide how big of a majority they needed to seperate?

Re: Testing Episode IV: A New Lament

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 8:08 am
by Stofsk
Literally it was 50%+1 IIRC

Re: Testing Episode IV: A New Lament

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 8:21 am
by Dude
Oh for fucks sake.

Re: Testing Episode IV: A New Lament

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 8:40 am
by Stofsk
Yep. Once in a lifetime opportunity and the Scots decided 'nope'

Re: Testing Episode IV: A New Lament

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 9:11 am
by Ralin
Stofsk wrote:I very much doubt Westminster will allow another ballot box on this matter, not with that turnout and not with a mere 5% majority.
So what exactly is stopping British nativist parties or whatever from going out of their way to fuck Scotland over from this point on?

Re: Testing Episode IV: A New Lament

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 9:17 am
by Stofsk
*shrug* Nothing, I guess. I'm not holding my breath anyone from Westminster will hold to the promises they made during the campaign either.

Re: Testing Episode IV: A New Lament

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 11:21 am
by Crazedwraith
Stofsk wrote:Yep. Once in a lifetime opportunity and the Scots decided 'nope'

Yeah. And?

That's as valid a choice as yes.

Re: Testing Episode IV: A New Lament

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 1:12 pm
by Stofsk
They're not going to get another one anytime soon.

Re: Testing Episode IV: A New Lament

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 1:35 pm
by joviwan
my friends near the area are having a laugh about it because the yes people are angry

and to them the no people are literally No True Scotsmen

Re: Testing Episode IV: A New Lament

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 3:01 pm
by Stofsk
Haha I'll pay that

Re: Testing Episode IV: A New Lament

Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2014 7:37 pm
by RogueIce
:colbert: "A handful of people on a leaky boat are going to save the world."
:sun: "Exactly."

Re: Testing Episode IV: A New Lament

Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2014 4:28 pm
by Oxymoron
"Loneliness"/"Solitude"


Note: that guy was, just an hour before, sprawled on his back passed out drunk just in front of the supermarket this is the parking lot of.

Everytime I pass there he's here. Haunting the place with his gaunt frame, ravaged by alcohol and years of living in the street.

Re: Testing Episode IV: A New Lament

Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2014 5:29 pm
by Dude
We got a call last night from a little girl asking for help, her moms ex bf was going to kill her. No number on the display, couldn't get any details and she hung up when I suggested she call the police. She called back less then a minute later and then hung up when I asked where she was.

So I called the police. It took them about half an hour but they got the number and then called back asking if I knew a Lucy Campbell out of Ebb & Flow (nearby First Nations reserve). I don't, though I get a lot of calls from the community centre looking for various people.

They said when they tried to call, whoever answered just hung up so they were going to go to the residence.

I stopped in the local store today and the lady who runs it got a similar call but heard laughing in the background so it was probably a prank. Who does that to a kid?

Re: Testing Episode IV: A New Lament

Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2014 8:27 pm
by Oxymoron
Man that's fucked up.

Re: Testing Episode IV: A New Lament

Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 9:48 pm
by Big Orangutan
Stofsk wrote:Yep. Once in a lifetime opportunity and the Scots decided 'nope'
The people in "No" camp were generally older, with higher paid jobs and private property. I prefer a Federal system and don't like moribund Westminster at the moment, but Salmon seemed to have had an unrealistic "we'll cross that bridge when we get their attitude" and even George Galloway was in the "No" camp.

Re: Testing Episode IV: A New Lament

Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 12:17 pm
by Oxymoron
Just encounter in the Paris' underground people from an anti-gay manifestation. The father, the mother and the six under-10yo kids all wearing pink and brandishing French flags, fighting against the perils of Gay Marriage and LGBT Rights (apparently they have also started fighting against Trans rights now...).

My blood is still boiling from that. Didn't say anything, but the scowl I had on my face must have said it all. Don't think they saw it, though, absorbed as they were on the idea of going on a family picnic under the Eiffel Tower before going on walk to fight against my rights to be their equals.

Goddamn motherfuckers.

Re: Testing Episode IV: A New Lament

Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 12:55 pm
by The Spartan
Would it make you feel better if we dropped a bomb on them?

Re: Testing Episode IV: A New Lament

Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 1:05 pm
by Oxymoron
Probably for a few seconds, but that wouldn't solve anything.

Re: Testing Episode IV: A New Lament

Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 4:41 pm
by The Spartan
I know. There's just not enough bombs. ;)

Re: Testing Episode IV: A New Lament

Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 7:43 pm
by Oxymoron
I was mainly thinking about collateral damages and radicalization of the otherwise-moderate majority.

Hearts and minds, man. Hearts and minds.
two in the heart and one in the mind

Re: Testing Episode IV: A New Lament

Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 8:42 pm
by The Spartan
You're trying to explain headshrinking to an engineer!?

To the mines with you!!!

Re: Testing Episode IV: A New Lament

Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 10:08 am
by thejester
Dat moment when you come out of a murky lagoon and realize you're staring at a sea snake

Re: Testing Episode IV: A New Lament

Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 1:39 pm
by Stofsk
Dat moment when your dog wakes up from surgery and begins crying

He's settled down now and might be nodding off, but mang feeling helpless while a loved one suffers is shit

Re: Testing Episode IV: A New Lament

Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 1:53 pm
by thejester
:(

Re: Testing Episode IV: A New Lament

Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 9:28 pm
by Dude
Health Canada is hilarious. "We don't recognise the medicinal benefits of marajauna"

Then why do you have an access program? Why did you make it easier to apply?


Why do you give me this Health Canada sheet saying this with every prescription? Have I forgotten about that since last time?

Your not fooling us CPC, I'm just going to assume you mean the opposite of what you say from now on.