Gemmill 44811 Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 Wow. How fucked is America. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44811 Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 Could you summarise the article with a Three Pigs analogy please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 30569 Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 (edited) Itll be filibustered in the Senate and Obama will never sign the bill. Which shows what a proper bicameral legislature and balance of powers should look like I suppose, unlike what we have here. Edit: That wasn't the analogy btw. Maybe one day they'll make a Horrible Histories episode out of it and you'll be able to understand. Edited September 19, 2015 by ewerk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 5217 Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/09/house-votes-defund-planned-parenthood So the options were basically to either cut funding for women's health or shut down the government. Fucking lunatics. It means shut down planned parenthood rather than the government I think, but even so it's not hugely impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44811 Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 Itll be filibustered in the Senate and Obama will never sign the bill. Which shows what a proper bicameral legislature and balance of powers should look like I suppose, unlike what we have here. Edit: That wasn't the analogy btw. Maybe one day they'll make a Horrible Histories episode out of it and you'll be able to understand. WHY MUST I ALWAYS BE LEFT IN THE DARK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 30569 Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 It means shut down planned parenthood rather than the government I think, but even so it's not hugely impressive. The federal funding bill due at the end of the month included the $500m for Planned Parenthood and the Republicans were threatening to vote down the federal funding bill unless the PP money was removed, that would have led to an entire shutdown of the federal government. The thing is that none of the federal money given to PP goes towards abortions, it's used for women's health services. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 30569 Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 http://nypost.com/2015/09/30/juice-crawls-are-the-death-knell-of-new-york-nightlife/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44811 Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 The wacky bastards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15518 Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 Always a pleasure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Carr's Gloves 3887 Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 http://nypost.com/2015/09/30/juice-crawls-are-the-death-knell-of-new-york-nightlife/ Quote from article "Your inner five year old can come out and have a mther freakin blast". A five year old KCG would have asked where all the mother fucking sweets were. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35063 Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 http://nypost.com/2015/09/30/juice-crawls-are-the-death-knell-of-new-york-nightlife/ High on being / been cunts more like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35063 Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 The wacky bastards. This sort of shit is the result of places like New York being completely unaffordable for the average Joe. So you get all these 'zany' rich types living in places like Greenwich Village who think they're being wild when in fact they're part of the reason the life has been sucked out of the place. Manhattan's a much nicer place for tourists to visit but when they cleaned it up the creativity was thrown out too. This is what counts for a 'scene' now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44811 Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 Aye there's a good documentary on Netflix about the Greenwich Village scene in the 60s. About all the folk singers, Dylan etc, but the thing that you notice most is how seedy and rough it all looks. Sooner that than these dickheads though. I mean if you're gonna go on a gun rampage, don't do it in a school when you've got people like this to deal with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35063 Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 Aye there's a good documentary on Netflix about the Greenwich Village scene in the 60s. About all the folk singers, Dylan etc, but the thing that you notice most is how seedy and rough it all looks. Sooner that than these dickheads though. I mean if you're gonna go on a gun rampage, don't do it in a school when you've got people like this to deal with. It was still seedy and rough in the 80s but you'd never have gotten the punk and hip-hop scenes without stuff like that either. Not the 'roughness' per se, just the affordability allowing lots of young people to be able to live there without having a job on Wall Street. Slight exaggeration but you'll take my point. There should be a happy medium but once the property developers get in on it it's game over. London's got similar 'problems'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44811 Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 Yeah I was reading something the other day saying that London is basically just a property portfolio for Russian oligarchs and Dubai types. You're right though, you watch that doc and these folk types were dirt poor, living on the shitty money they made from their performances and yet still living locally. Good luck with that now. San Francisco is the same - I was paying $1400 a month for a one bed apartment when I was there, which in itself is ridiculous, but I asked someone on Reddit how much you'd pay for an apartment on that block now and he reckoned at least $3.5k per month but probably over $4k. I don't know how anyone normal lives there anymore - particularly if you're in something vaguely artsy or creative where you're living hand to mouth, you probably can't even afford Oakland prices anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35063 Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 The London property market is supposedly sustained, at least in part, by money laundering from foreign criminals. The government are meant to be cracking down on it but you'd have to question how much they really want to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 30569 Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 Most of you have probably already seen it but yet again http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-34404651 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJS 4378 Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 The London property market is supposedly sustained, at least in part, by money laundering from foreign criminals. The government are meant to be cracking down on it but you'd have to question how much they really want to.Boris glories in it like a pig in shit - I wouldn't be surprised if he's quids in somehow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35063 Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 Boris glories in it like a pig in shit - I wouldn't be surprised if he's quids in somehow. If he's got property in London he's quids in anyway, even if he isn't 'involved'. Most MPs have a vested interest in a London property bubble being sustained. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44811 Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 Most of you have probably already seen it but yet again http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-34404651 That landlord wants a fucking good hiding from someone he tries to show that to. Knock him out and leave him tucked up in the bed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35063 Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 Worst thing is this'll probably play well with his support: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34397272 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 Had 2 Syrian 'refugees' stay with me last weekend. One had a mobile phone business in Lebanon and the other worked in a greengrocer. They're in Germany cause their mates told them they will get loads of cash and free education here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15518 Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 Most of you have probably already seen it but yet again http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-34404651 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 21912 Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 Nice touch with the box of Daz at the bottom of the bed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizza 105 Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34419802?ocid=socialflow_facebook They're at it again.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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