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Author Topic: The friendly and polite Europe related terrible jokes thread  (Read 1006905 times)

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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #465 on: January 24, 2016, 11:59:34 am »

Conspiracy theories tend to ascribe far too much cunning and patience to people with little of either. If you point to a human problem you're likely pointing to a human problem, if you catch my drift.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #466 on: January 24, 2016, 01:00:00 pm »

This is my 3rd valid report on nullBolt in the 11 days the account has been around.  You won't need to reply to nullBolt any longer.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #467 on: January 24, 2016, 01:00:37 pm »

Thank you, I was just about to post another calm down folks post
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #468 on: January 24, 2016, 01:11:02 pm »

This is my 3rd valid report on nullBolt in the 11 days the account has been around.  You won't need to reply to nullBolt any longer.
Seemed pretty inevitable, nullBolt was in dire need of developing more modes of conversation than angry or infuriated

Just like Putin needs to stop dealing with his opposition by giving them polonium in tea vs ricin in umbrellas, both are pretty shit, at least the American administration didn't fill Snowden's shoes with killer bees

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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #469 on: January 24, 2016, 02:13:57 pm »

In Cardiff, refugees are reporting being harassed in the streets, ever since they became identifyable in public. The company contracted by the government to provide housing for refugees in Cardiff, Clearsprings Ready Homes, made it mandatory for refugees to wear brightly coloured arm tags. If they take them off, they forfeit their right of getting their 3 meals every day. Refugees in the UK that are awaiting asylum are not allowed to work, and they do not get any spending money, so they are depending on food distribution to be fed. If at any time they take their tags off (which is irreversible), the company will report this to the government.
So far, authorities have not yet responded to complaints of harassment.
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http://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/asielzoekers-lastiggevallen-in-cardiff-wegens-verplichte-polsbandjes~a4231374/

Meanwhile, in Middleborough, a similar story has surfaced. Housing for immigrants there provided by Jomast, owned by billionaire Stuart Monk, all have red painted doors. This apparently has been ongoing since 2012. Refugees have been complaining that their homes are being targeted for harassment with rotten eggs, dog poop, and vandalised with stones. Refugees that tried to paint their door another colour, were confronted within days with a painter sent by the house owner, to repaint the doors red and inform them that any other colour 'goes against company policy'. A local politician compared the red doors to nazi practice.

The British Secretary of Internal Affairs has ordered an investigation into the matter now. Stuart Monk has responeded by announcing that all houses will get another colour door within half a year. The Jomast company is notorious for buying the worst quality housing in low income areas with the intent of making easy money.

Politician Mark Anderson also commented on the matter, when it got a lot of attention on UK social media. He said that while ofcourse he rejected violence and harassment, that there are a lot of British people on waiting lists for tenancy, that would love to have on of those red doored houses.
Some citizens of Middleborough commented on social media that they do not have red doors because they're refugees, but because red is the colour of the local football team.
http://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/asielzoekers-in-middlesbrough-krijgen-huizen-met-rode-voordeur~a4229170/
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #470 on: January 24, 2016, 02:36:19 pm »

The company contracted by the government to provide housing for refugees in Cardiff, Clearsprings Ready Homes, made it mandatory for refugees to wear brightly coloured arm tags.
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    Where the Godwin has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #471 on: January 24, 2016, 02:39:43 pm »

    Godwin is the little-Hitler that brings total Holocaust. 

even though my literary senses abhor such twisting of Herbert's prose, I couldn't help rofling.
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We can ­disagree and still love each other, ­unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist - James Baldwin

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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #472 on: January 24, 2016, 02:44:14 pm »

Wait, I thought no one died? I thought it was an empty, under-construction refugee center that was set alight.

I don't know, Covenant, I think questioning that is quite crude.


I'm not getting into this ing debate but don't you try and use sarcasm to cover up the fact that the rigged the building to explode and kill the ing firemen who responded.

You want to get into ism because you think you're not being listened to? Leave the ing firemen alone. People who risk their lives on a near-daily basis to rescue people from horrible deaths? off with your "The silent majority wills the death of these heroic men and women" attitude.

EDIT: THIS POST IS UNDER RENOVATION WHILE I REMEMBER THAT THIS IS THE POLITE AND FRIENDLY THREAD

EDIT: POST HAS BEEN RENOVATED TO BE HAPPY FUN RESPECTFUL TIME
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #473 on: January 24, 2016, 02:45:43 pm »

There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. However there is also a widely- recognized codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful.

Everyone seems to be calling everyone else a nazi these days.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #474 on: January 24, 2016, 02:59:25 pm »

I'm not getting into this ing debate but don't you try and use sarcasm to cover up the fact that the rigged the building to explode and kill the ing firemen who responded.

You want to get into ism because you think you're not being listened to? Leave the ing firemen alone. People who risk their lives on a near-daily basis to rescue people from horrible deaths? off with your "The silent majority wills the death of these heroic men and women" attitude.

EDIT: THIS POST IS UNDER RENOVATION WHILE I REMEMBER THAT THIS IS THE POLITE AND FRIENDLY THREAD

EDIT: POST HAS BEEN RENOVATED TO BE HAPPY FUN RESPECTFUL TIME

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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #475 on: January 24, 2016, 03:58:06 pm »

Some top-level shitposting. Can we frame it and hang it up or something?
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #476 on: January 24, 2016, 05:49:23 pm »

It's certainly innovative. We should start a hall of fame for posts important to the forum's history.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #477 on: January 24, 2016, 06:20:33 pm »

It's certainly innovative. We should start a hall of fame for posts important to the forum's history.
It would devolve into a circlejerk that would put Freud to shame, interspersed, of course, by both complaints about it and more shitposts. Do it.
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #478 on: January 25, 2016, 12:22:38 am »

It's certainly innovative. We should start a hall of fame for posts important to the forum's history.
It would devolve into a circlejerk that would put Freud to shame, interspersed, of course, by both complaints about it and more shitposts. Do it.
In the words of (most of) FG&RP (when it's shitposting):
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Re: The friendly and polite EU-related news thread
« Reply #479 on: January 25, 2016, 10:07:23 am »

O.o

Armbands reminiscent of Nazi practices (wouldn't an ID card have been better?), painting doors red.... Europe is repeatedly Godwinning itself isn't it......
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