random stuff

[StraferJack]

I don't have a problem with a big blue love-in tho'

That they then choose some names to give awards to as a sort of trolling tactic I'm ok with too

I thought the point of the article is that being in power, having lots of cash and hanging out with fellow tory-travellers doesn't bestow any level of coolness - which, it being GQ, is what it is trying too hard to be?

[????]

The tories are never cool being a 'lefty', but not neccessarily Labour is...for a young upcoming artist/comedia,/popstar saying you supported the tories would be near career suicide...though Adele said she hated paying so much tax. My suspicion is that many 'celebs' etc, are tory voters bur just keep stum. Out tories apart from the ancient celeb golfer set off the top of my head - Emin, Cracknell, Henman.....

Still redwedge was hardly cool... and in 1979 Paul Weller said he was going to vote Tory.

[Otta]

Gary Barlow & Michael Caine I think.

[????]

Yup - but MC is in my old golfing lot, even togh he doesn't play golf...famously Gary Newman was absoultely slammed for saying he was a tory back in the day (see also Rick wakeman- though he deserved it the fuck)

[Otta]

Found this from 2010.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8617149.stm

Surprised to see Alan Sugar was wheeled out by the tories in 1983. Thought he was old skool Labour.

[Jeremy]

Otta Wrote:

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> Gary Barlow

But surely this doesn't apply to boy bands (or reinvented adult-oriented pop chart botherers), being "cool" is not part of their formula.

[steveo]

Blair's look in those pictures: Hunted, paranoid, grinning with his teeth, terror in his eyes.

Off his rocker

[????]

Otta Wrote:

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> Found this from 2010.

>

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_20

> 10/8617149.stm

>

> Surprised to see Alan Sugar was wheeled out by the

> tories in 1983. Thought he was old skool Labour.

Only real propa old school Labour voted Labout in 1983*.... That was the 'longest suicide note in political history' manifesto

*polishes proper lefty credentials

[????]

Nationalise tons

Out of Europe

Nuclear disarnament

..they were the more sensible bits

[david_carnell]

2 out of 3 ain't bad. ;-)

[El Pibe]

social justice > retirement ⇔ you're young

social justice < retirement ⇔ you're old

yaaaawnnnn

[maxxi]

steveo Wrote:

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> Blair's look in those pictures: Hunted, paranoid,

> grinning with his teeth, terror in his eyes.

>

> Off his rocker

Exactly. Especially if you do that covering-the-right-side-of-the-face-and-just-looking-at-the-left-side thing with his GQ pic - psychotic.

[StraferJack]

I quite liked these versions of Seinfeld and Friends from Sims4

http://www.vg247.com/2014/09/08/the-sims-4-gallery-friends-seinfeld/

[El Pibe]

oh cool, either the erebus or the terror has been found. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29131757

Given that all i know about them i learned from Dan Simmons' horror novel of the same title (the terror) I look forward to the gory bits about canabilism and savage ice demons!!!

[El Pibe]

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/the-middle-east-key-players-notable-relationships/

col infographic if you've ever wanted to tease apart the crazily complex web of relationships in the middle east. mind you it's a complex infographic naturally ;)

[El Pibe]

This ones very cool too.

Why people died in the 20th century, the car almost as deadly as world war 2, neither nearly as danagrous as the shits!!

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/20th-century-death/

[steveo]

This has everything: the death of the hippy dream, walking is the new religion, modern life is rubbish, veggies are over and more.

I have seen the light and am becoming a hunter gatherer

Just as soon as I've finished this pint

http://playwithstrangers.com/2014/09/17/back-to-the-land-the-great-hippy-blunder/

[El Pibe]

That's quite interesting

As usual people come to a revelation on a personal level and think its the answer to all ills.

My guess, the guy's just unhappy and this hypothesis (which has a compellng ring to it I grant you) fits the questions he's asked.

Putting two and two together I reckon a vegetarian broke his heart ;)

[david_carnell]

Lovely stuff. The previous article on the English middle-classes and colonials had me chuckling too.

[vgrant]

At last, an interesting article in a forgotten about periodical that you only ever see in dentists waiting rooms

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201409/the-last-true-hermit

Its about Iphones*, so should appeal to like 95% of the people on here

*no its not.

[El Pibe]

what ... the ...very ....

 

[vgrant]

*artists impression

[vgrant]

http://comeheretome.com/2014/09/16/anything-good-in-the-irish-times-just-more-kim-il-sung/

[????]

Fifteen per cent of European monarchs who lived between

600 and 1800 were murdered. Their risk of violent death was

more than 700 times greater than their subjects and seven times

greater than young black American males today.

[vgrant]

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