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Brings a whole new meaning to, "Feel the force!"
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We have to speak to each other, no-one else can understand what we’re saying.
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Someone is, inevitably, going to tell me there's already a urine-based Star Wars porn parody... and any stills, clips, or links to such will get you blocked!
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I know, right. Where's "Really complicated Excel formula" gone?
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You'd have to check the T&Cs of the competition… which never happened, because the guy didn't get elected.
Then again, neither did the guy at the other end of the UKIP spectrum, whose election promise was that he'd fix the town statue.
What a loss to parliament they both were.
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I created a flier for the scheme at the time...
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Sorry, 9 - I must get rid of this UKIP calculator.
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No, it's from back in 2017, so there was a generous 11 years allowed to make it all happen.
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Ah, you only have to get it *close* to Earth, then the transportation takes care of itself.
We mine about 3 billion tonnes of metal per year, so just imagine that being provided by extremely express delivery.
On the plus side, after just a few weeks we'd need a lot less metal.
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This gentleman, who went on to stand as a contender for the leadership of UKIP. Who knows, maybe he won.
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Yup. One of my favourite election moments was the UKIP candidate, promising to offer a ONE BILLION POUND prize, if you could just nip to Europa, pick up some water, bring it back to Earth, and sell it *at a profit*.
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The stand-out quote of the book was, "It may prove the handbrake helping reverse privatisation…"
He managed Jim Hacker levels of mixed-metaphors all the way through, but that one made me properly laugh.
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Bastani's whole train of thought is, Make space flight cheaper ⇾ Mine near-Earth objects ⇾ End scarcity ⇾ Socialist Utopia, and I don't think he understands a single step in that process. Like, not even the very basics.
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You can have the exact quote, from his god-awful book, if you want...
"Private business was incapable of even launching a liquid-propellant rocket into orbit until 2008, sixty-four years after a V2 left the Earth’s atmosphere. So much for private sector innovation."
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I hear it will feature a seemingly immortal and all-powerful alien, who frequently turns up just to annoy the other characters.
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Did you not hear? They found that cuff link you thought you'd lost.
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Right, everyone back to first positions! We're going to do 2024 again from the top! And this time, people, FOCUS!
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It's a good thing he didn't just blurt out the first thing that came to mind, after 5 years.
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I've left myself a reminder to respond with "I know you are, what am I", sometime in autumn 2031.
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No, you're confusing the issue - should women who terminate their own pregnancies be criminalised, with a very different one - should we allow for the provision of abortions up to term.
This really does make it simpler, because the question is just whether anybody gains anything by criminalisation.
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I hear on the grapevine that they're going to invite Israel to settle this with a bikini jelly-wrestling contest, and no tabloid newspaper will convince me otherwise.
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Come on, this is about not criminalising women who are desperate enough to end their own pregnancies, not about legalising As-long-as-its-not-already-in-a-nappy abortion services.
I just don't see how anybody involved, or society as whole, benefits from making that desperation a legal matter.
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But if 4½ months is also viable then your argument is around the 2nd point, and you're making a context-free judgment about when the right to choose ends.
And, irrespective of the context, who is served by the matter being criminalised?
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The issue with basing it on viability is that viability is a moving target.
Mrs R tells me that they can now resuscitate at 22 weeks+2, does that become your abortion limit? How about when Dr Fallopia invents an artificial womb, that you can put a 15 week foetus into, is that now your limit?
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Hey, I need to replace it, and every crisis is an opportunity, right?
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"...arents disappointment in my career choice"
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You don't even need to know about frogs, just about how to sound convincing.
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Blimey, a single-digit Referdle as well.
Maybe I is become an genius overnit.
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Must be something in the water. Nanopatticles, most likely.
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Meh, it’s easy chewing-gum for the brain, for me & the wife to watch. And it does have some funny moments.
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I dunno, maybe the heroes murdering an 11-year-old, while also telling one of the bad guys that he was free to go and run/terrorise a whole country, didn't test well with audiences.
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I know! Eternals was made at the "Quick, film every thought that has ever cross this man's mind while he took a dump!" stage of his career.
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I've said it before, but I'll never understand why they didn't adapt Neil Gaiman's Eternals run. It introduces all the characters, has some cameo slots for Marvel familiar faces (masks?), explains why we'd never seen the Eternals before, and ends with a heart-warming child murder… ticks every box.
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Yeah, you have to go a bit further South if you want to see a "To the best mum/sister" card in the wild.
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If a band suddenly started playing "new" songs that someone we knew had been playing for years then, surely, we'd all immediately jump to the conclusion that they're a time traveller, right?
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It was my knees hurting that got me started. I was lugging a 17Kg bag of dog-food through to the kitchen when I thought, "I'm carrying around 3 or 4 of these all the time, no fucking wonder my knees hurt."
My knees feeling better happened really quickly and encouraged me to keep going.
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"Oh god, not saffron-dusted, swan stuffed with lobster for dinner AGAIN!"
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You need to come and visit Hadrian's Wall again, and marvel at me walking further than the car-park without needing to stop for a sit down and a Twix.