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Lets play a game!

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:53:00 +0100

Pick a single Pokemon type
Go to http://www.random.org/
Enter a minimum of 1 and a Maximum of 6
Next go to http://www.wyncorporation.com/pokemon/pokemon.php
Set the number of Pokemon to the generated number
Pokemon type to the chosen type you picked to start with
Exclude Legendary Pokémon from results?: set to yes
Final Evolutions/Single Evolutions only?: set to no
You are now a Gym Leader

Print Screen and paste it in to paint, photoreply or reblog with results

Balls.

BBC News - Lib Dem MP Tim Farron attacks 'toxic Tories'

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:17:31 +0100

BBC News - Lib Dem MP Tim Farron attacks 'toxic Tories':

A Lib Dem MP has said many Tory MPs are “toxic” and claimed David Cameron is using his coalition partners as “cover” for unpopular decisions.

Rowan Atkinson - Conservative Conference

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:37:32 +0100

Rowan Atkinson - Conservative Conference

I'm looking for someone...

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:14:00 +0100

I’m trying to track someone down from my youth, details of which are kind of fuzzy in my memory.

Here’s what I can remember about them:
* Their name is Andy/Andrew - and male;
* They’re British (possibly living in the north of England);
* They’re either red- or brown-haired;
* They write published thriller novels (of which they have written at least three);
* One of these novels has a tank on the front;
* They enjoy motorcycling.

So yeah, anyone can help with who this is?

UK health system is top on 'efficiency', says report - BBC News

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:10:39 +0100

UK health system is top on 'efficiency', says report - BBC News:

The UK’s universal, public healthcare system is the most efficient in the world and second best overall. America (the only country studied with a private system) came last in every single research area.

Public sector > Private sector.

Dick Cheney's admission on how close he came to destroying the United States

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 01:26:47 +0100

Dick Cheney's admission on how close he came to destroying the United States

How the Daily Mail makes their headlines

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:44:58 +0100

How the Daily Mail makes their headlines

"I am very excited that there’s no oil in the Gulf of Mexico"

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:51:00 +0100

“I am very excited that there’s no oil in the Gulf of Mexico”

- Kent Wells, senior vice-president for BP, in denial

Catholic Church lets off paedophile priests, prosecutes one who supports gay marriage

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:22:50 +0100

Catholic Church lets off paedophile priests, prosecutes one who supports gay marriage:

They totally have their priorities in order.

I wish people like this were joking (from YouTube comments on an astronomy video)

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:18:24 +0100

ProtestantTruth: God created everything. I don't trust science and I definitely don't buy into humans leaving this planet. We've never been on the moon because we are meant to be on this Earth. It's Gods will. Let things that are beyond us stay out of our minds. The only thing that should be in your mind is to make sure you pray to Jesus everyday. Not this science garbage. You people are so ignorant of this existence. Bend to Gods will already!
kaminarigaston: @ProtestantTruth That's right, you can't go to the moon. There be dragons.
ProtestantTruth: @kaminarigaston Dragons? That's not even close to being funny. I'm being serious. We need to give up trying to explain everything. Science has only held us back as a people. It has divided us from God. It isn't our place to find reasons and make theories about stuff. So many people are going to Hell because they won't submit to God's will.

How to be get elected as a Republican Party president. (via...

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:29:34 +0100

How to be get elected as a Republican Party president. (via ilovecharts)

Tory Cuts For All... Except Tories

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:16:21 +0100

Tory Cuts For All... Except Tories:

Conservative councillors in Barnet double own pay, remove benefits of other councillors and fire any opposition. That’s nice of them.

Death List

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:34:00 +0100

People I’d like to kill off, if just to save the rest of the world from them.

Nick Griffin, the former member of the National Front; best friends with the KKK; the man who somehow gave the British ~~Nazi~~ National Party an “acceptable” face, slowly leading them into more and more political influence whilst keeping the inherently xenophobic agenda that the party always had.

Rupert Murdoch is the very definition of evil, manipulative billionaires; the real life Mr Burns. Murdoch uses his incredibly wide media empire - which includes everything from Fox News to The Times and MySpace - and links with large political parties (like the Conservatives in Britain, and the Republicans in the USA) to manipulate policies to the benefit of him and his organisation.

Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity are all people who build their livings off being loudmouthed imbeciles with overinflated egos, shouting slander across the airwaves in order to brainwash gullible Americans into accepting their offensive opinions as fact. Lives built upon hypocrisy and lies to further their own beliefs.

Fred Phelps and co. of the Westboro Baptist Church. Just like the above four people, their infamy is built on their loud and offensive opinions, vomited up across America and occasionally the rest of the world. Fred Phelps and his daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper are banned from entering the UK, having been classed as political extremists (along with any number of terrorsts).

Who else should I add?

How to lose jobs and alienate workers

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:12:00 +0100

Well, that budget was a doozy wasn’t it? Thankfully they didn’t put up tuition fees (I’m gonna thank the Liberals in government for that), but there a whole lotta stuff just happened to do with employment. So let’s dig in a little here.

The public sector has stopped hiring. As part of the cutting back of government bureaucracy, the public sector has stopped hiring people - cutting out tens (and potentially hundreds) of thousands of jobs created annually, of which some 25,000 are usually reserved graduates. Additionally, with these £6 billion or so of cuts, we’re going to see a lot of existing civil service staff be laid off.

The age of retirement is going up to 66. While that’s not much of a rise from 65, it is a stepping stone on making it higher still. Iain Duncan Smith (Secretary of State for Work and Pensions) said last night that he wanted to raise retirement up to 70 at some point in the future. That’s only adding a few hundred thousand more people to the job pool, and more still as people live for longer.

It also - if somewhat tenuously - links to the whole “help the rich” vibe you tend to get from the Conservative party. After all, the affluent are the people who live longest. Your average working class manual labourer will statistically only survive a few years after retirement, while a member of the middle and upper classes can enjoy over 20 years of life after 65. It’s not true in every case, but enough to be statistically significant.

They’re cutting benefits for those out of work. Be it for disability or just plain unemployment, you’re gonna get less money. The amount of time you’re allowed to claim unemployment benefits is being reduced, meaning people are going to have to find work faster before being left out in the cold (something rather difficult I would think, now that there’s half a million more unemployed people).

Over the coming years they are going to evaluate people classed as disabled to see whether they are actually capable of work - something they may struggle to do, seeing as there aren’t even standardised tests to detect many mental disorders, which are instead diagnosed through psychiatric procedures. These tests are (apparently) going to be very strict, so let’s add another bunch of people to the job market, trying to survive on the (now reduced) jobseekers allowance while searching for work.

Job centres are closing down. While I do not think this was mentioned in the recent budget, it was part of the Conservative party manifesto as part of the whole cutting back of work and pensions and blah-de-blah. Saving money by closing down state-run job centres and replacing them with either private-sector or charity run organisations. Of course, if it’s private-sector then they’re going to want money to help people find work (which I doubt many will do when living solely off benefits), and charities depend on - well, charity. It’s by no means certain whether you’ll be able to find a place to find work at all.

So let’s see, they’ve added hundreds of thousands more people to the job market (through public sector cuts, raising unemployment age, cutting disability and unemployment benefits), made it harder to find work (through flooding the market and closing job centres), then penalised people who can’t find a job (through reduced benefits). Totally makes sense!

And all this during a recession, when the Keynesian principle of full-employment is at it’s most critical - you NEED people to be in work in order to keep the flow of cash through businesses. If you want to roll-back spending in benefits and welfare, don’t do it by making MORE people depend on benefits and welfare!

I feel a facepalm coming on.

Update: What did I tell you?

Sarah Palin’s Gulf oil spill solution: ask God to clean it...

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:27:16 +0100

Sarah Palin’s Gulf oil spill solution: ask God to clean it up for us.

Airbrushed for Change

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 23:42:41 +0100

Airbrushed for Change:

So I was just browsin’ around Know Your Meme when I came across the entry for “I agree with Nick” and I was like “Oh yeah, there were a few little memes during the election (think “that bigoted woman”, “I agree with Nick”) and then I realised that the Conservative party posters had got goddamn everywhere.

So I made an article for them.

Taddah.

I always find myself listening to this song whenever a...

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:28:56 +0100

I always find myself listening to this song whenever a relationship ends.

fuckyeahpoliticalcartoons: Trust Me, What Could Possibly Go...

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:14:45 +0100

fuckyeahpoliticalcartoons:

Trust Me, What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Or, how Deepwater Horizon has nothing to do with Barack Obama, so stop blaming him you whiny conservative bitches.

(via slightlyamusing

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:34:24 +0100

(via slightlyamusing

theyahooanswers: -.- Submitted by: joostehn Pffft, it would...

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:09:34 +0100

theyahooanswers:

-.-

Submitted by: joostehn

Pffft, it would not. Britain be loving up some Obama