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Thank you Chris Horne for your earlier involvement with BoC

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made it happen just as much as the rest of us did

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Gazebo4, if you are out there, I miss you

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and asyptome, i wish i could like your posts, you speak some facts. let's go get a beer sometime

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Happy 10th Birthday!

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[Gazebo4]

Gazebo4, if you are out there, I miss you

Hey man, Im still here
Just lurking in the shadows mostly from time to time!

How are you doing?!

[Orbited insanitarium]

Labour Landslide victory for 410 seats.
This is great news, but my mother is mega worried. She doesn't give a toss about the abhorrent personalities of the tories in this election, as she only focuses on the economy and the figures, being an accountant, so having a Labour government at this point in time is disconcerting her. She believes that we haven't got enough money to pass to this new government and that Labour have again overpromised in their nationwide manifesto.
Her focus isn't on the past 14 years but what the future is. This scrapheap of economic dogshit, now balancing out, that the conservatives are leaving behind. I can kinda see her point. This was not the state of affairs of 2010, back when the global financial crash of 2008 wreaked lives. So I agree with her while also saying good riddance to the tories (who she would've voted for in this election on economics). Labour are as uncertain as their big promises, I now wonder what interest rates will do in the next couple of months.

Anyways, I hope they do a sterling initial few weeks in office and improve this country's moral. I have confidence and we'll see what happens with Labour, but it's my mother's ppinion (shared) that this is the most unstable time to have a change of government with the amount the tories have spent in these past few years with viruses and war being major factors in the current working class wages and economic climate. Money and the cost of living is still going to have a tight grip for a long while yet.

tl;dr? The Tory fuckers are out! but I'm a little worried about the the monetary side of Labour at the moment

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Does the name Tory derive from them being Conservatives? Genuine question, dumb American here

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Does the name Tory derive from them being Conservatives? Genuine question, dumb American here

Yes.

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Does the name Tory derive from them being Conservatives? Genuine question, dumb American here

Yes.

Thanks for confirming lol. I took about two hours today reading up (and watching) to learn about what's going on with the politics in the UK currently. The agendas and approaches are similar to American absurdity with conservatism and fascistic tendencies, yet it seems more nuanced and complicated, and perhaps has a slightly different version of populism, than American political theatre. One thing I've learned for sure is how much of a garbage human being Nigel Farage is.

When I mean approaches, I mean conservatives blaming everything on immigration when the truth couldn't be more blatantly opposite, for both countries / parliament / gov't etc.

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It's not that he's over promised exactly, he's spent the last few months hammering "change" and won on it. But like, he's also done interviews where he's said (paraphrasing) "oh this thing that the Tories did, we're not going to change that at all" so it's not clear exactly *what* he plans to change.

I had a good old chat with the guy campaigning for them round here cos at one point I was a paid up member. Talked through the list of pledges Starmer made when running for leader of the party, and how many of them he's talked about going back on as soon as he got made leader. The guy was really nice and everything but basically confirmed the plan was to be just a little bit better than the Tories to try and get the votes in the general and it worked but it's hardly gonna amount to much of a change

Farage is garbage indeed, it's kind of interesting comparing where we are now with France. I reckon they're running about 5 years ahead of us right now, they had Macron who did the same middle of the road, don't do anything too drastic to improve things, everybody not in the comfortable middle class hates it and they get driven to the hard right because that's what people like LePen and Farage are good at, talking to people fucked over by social conditions and saying "the other parties are all the same, but we're the answer".

It's pretty grim, unless Starmer does something meaningful which to be clear he's gone out and said "we won't be doing that but... Change! Vote for me" so he won't, another 5 years of this and it hands it to Farage which is the worst case scenario.

Cos as your wife says, not a lot of money in the pot to actually do anything with and if you're determined not to raise any by taxing the super rich that are rinsing the country, when the hard right get in and find the same situation they look for groups of people to pick off.

I dunno wind me up and watch me go, eh? I shouldn't talk about politics online. I'm glad things are like a gnats hair better this morning in theory. The worst case scenario didn't come to pass, yet.

And fwiw I voted green. Totally unlikely to have affected the vote in my ward but the policies were mostly good and when Labour are looking round for people to vote for them next time and want to appeal to them it's good if they've got somewhere to look other than Farage, you know?

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Usually I try to stay out of the worldsphere in general for the sake of muh mentalz, but USA yall, damn we're either goin to war with the rest of the world or each other.

Did you know that women can't be in the draft due fears over depleting birth rates? What if this is gonna be the first draft that women are apart of for that exact reason? Muh population control!!!!!!

End of schizo posting bye

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If God is out there, he's the most American ass God ever and sure does love throwing the biggest curveballs at America come election time. That's my post. I'm checked out now, it's all too much nonsense

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Joe Biden finally dropped from the race. I'm so happy

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Joe Biden finally dropped from the race. I'm so happy

To add context, this is not an endorsement of Trump in any way. I hate him.

[Samplehunter]

Seefeel is a band whose influence on Boards of Canada has always been talked about, and I think this track from their 1996 album (CH-VOX) make it easier to understand why:

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[zeoevil]

Joe Biden finally dropped from the race. I'm so happy

The whole situation is fucked. If we get Trump, we get war with Iran for Israel. If we had gotten Biden, we would have gotten war with Russia for Ukraine. With Harris, we might get both. The whole thing is just pants on head and I want no part of it.

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I'm not sure how Harris makes both happen, but I don't know her very well and yea that does make me paranoid about the things you mentioned. A lot of proxies and extensions of the different groups in the middle east are positioning on attacking Isreal, which will drag us in unless there's a strong decision to step away from Isreal. But I find that unlikely. Either way, I think it's about to get really bad in the middle east given people in Tel Aviv being evacuated, and US is urging everyone to evacuate Lebanon.

I'm not supporting anyone in the possible violence in the near future, but I sure am blaming the US for letting Netanyahu continue on this terrible blood conquest. And I blame Netanyahu for being a monster, as well as all the extremists he's let into his circle.

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The whole situation is fucked. If we get Trump, we get war with Iran for Israel. If we had gotten Biden, we would have gotten war with Russia for Ukraine. With Harris, we might get both. The whole thing is just pants on head and I want no part of it.

Perfectly stated

In other news I got stuck on a bike trail without a hat and sunburned the top of my head bad (with hair) now my scalp is all dry and messed up I wish I could lift or levitate the hair from my head, apply a healing salve or ointment, and then lower and reattach/replace the hair on my head maybe I'll just buzz it all off

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That's pretty awful sounding, there must be some medical product that can help with that without the buzz. I got a minor case of heat stroke last weekend and I was out of commission for about two days. The worst headache of me life. Be safe out there with the heat folks.