Good man feather...your death will go uncelebrated

knobmeup wrote:


EDIT... I also was 'non of the above' so neh

knobmeup wrote: Fixed
Damn that autocomplete eh?

I don' t understand Twitter. Can someone explain to me how the SZ Twitter account managed to get over 1,500 followers?

twitter.com/sanctum_zone

wake_up_bomb wrote:
That would be down to novum I'm guessing

I don't understand it either, it's not my thing at all.

wake_up_bomb wrote: Novum was/is doing a jiggerypokery 'thang' with it.

but I estimate 1,480 of them are probably oi's dif socks.

psketti wrote:
Says the one who not 10 mins ago was soliciting me to go join her there

feather wrote:

knobmeup wrote:
And?

psketti wrote: It's just that I've written for websites before, and they say "post links on your Twitter", and I always think, "what's the point? I don't know how to make anyone follow me! No-one will even see it!" I set up a Twitter account and I managed to get about 40 followers, but it was such an arduous task that I can't be arsed to post anything on it.

What's the code for the angel smiley?

knobmeup wrote:

I think we can come to the conclusion that if you're happy about her dying, that's fine... and if you don't think it means much... that's fine... and if you think it's not appropriate... tough shit!

Twitters pretty rubbish don't you think,your only allowed so many words per tweet.

Hmmm! on second thoughts. ie my post don't contain much.

Want to hear the most stupid 1 minute and 47 seconds imaginable?:

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22087786

Thank you, Dave Whelan, multi-millionaire. At least he was stupid enough to put his money where his mouth is and contribute to the Conservative Party.

dogsmilk wrote: Let's not be facetious there is a middle ground, as it stands It's clearly going to reinforce the Tory cunt's attitudes towards the people they are currently pushing through the mincer, if your grandmother died then a bunch of people started goading you, celebrating and laughin about it, would you be moved to consider them as humans and equals or become filled with resentment and anger towards them?

Mike wrote:



Do me a favour eh

Mike wrote:
I'd think "wtf did grandma do to piss that lot off so much? Was it because.....

1. She supported the retention of capital punishment
2. She destroyed the country's manufacturing industry
3. She voted against the relaxation of divorce laws
4. She abolished free milk for schoolchildren
5. She supported more freedom for business (and look how that turned out)
6. She gained support from the National Front in the 1979 election by pandering to the fears of immigration
7. She gerrymandered local authorities by forcing through council house sales, at the same time preventing councils from spending the money they got for selling houses on building new houses (spending on social housing dropped by 67% in her premiership)
8. She was responsible for 3.6 million unemployed - the highest figure and the highest proportion of the workforce in history and three times the previous government. Massaging of the figures means that the figure was closer to 5 million
9. She ignored intelligence about Argentinian preparations for the invasion of the Falkland Islands and scrapped the only Royal Navy presence in the islands
10. The poll tax
11. She presided over the closure of 150 coal mines; we are now crippled by the cost of energy, having to import expensive coal from abroad
12. She compared her "fight" against the miners to the Falklands War
13. She privatised state monopolies and created the corporate greed culture that we've been railing against for the last 5 years
14. She introduced the gradual privatisation of the NHS
15. She introduced financial deregulation in a way that turned city institutions into avaricious money pits
16. She pioneered the unfailing adoration and unquestioning support of the USA
17. She allowed the US to place nuclear missiles on UK soil, under US control
18. Section 28
19. She opposed anti-apartheid sanctions against South Africa and described Nelson Mandela as "that grubby little terrorist"
20. She support the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and sent the SAS to train their soldiers
21. She allowed the US to bomb Libya in 1986, against the wishes of more than 2/3 of the population
22. She opposed the reunification of Germany
23. She invented Quangos
24. She increased VAT from 8% to 17.5%
25. She had the lowest approval rating of any post-war Prime Minister
26. Her post-PM job? Consultant to Philip Morris tobacco at $250,000 a year, plus $50,000 per speech
27. The Al Yamamah contract
28. She opposed the indictment of Chile's General Pinochet
29. Social unrest under her leadership was higher than at any time since the General Strike
30. She presided over interest rates increasing to 15%
31. BSE
32. She presided over 2 million manufacturing job losses in the 79-81 recession
33. She opposed the inclusion of Eire in the Northern Ireland peace process
34. She supported sanctions-busting arms deals with South Africa
35. Cecil Parkinson, Alan Clark, David Mellor, Jeffrey Archer, Jonathan Aitkin
36. Crime rates doubled under Thatcher
37. Black Wednesday – Britain withdraws from the ERM and the pound is devalued. Cost to Britain - £3.5 billion; profit for George Soros - £1 billion
38. Poverty doubled while she opposed a minimum wage
39. She privatised public services, claiming at the time it would increase public ownership. Most are now owned either by foreign governments (EDF) or major investment houses. The profits don’t now accrue to the taxpayer, but to foreign or institutional shareholders.
40. She cut 75% of funding to museums, galleries and other sources of education
41. In the Thatcher years the top 10% of earners received almost 50% of the tax remissions
42. 21.9% inflation"

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Great post Oi, I don't disagree with the deleterious effects of Thatcherism on the political landscape in this country at all, I'm merely considering the deleterious effects of goading (the presiding) adherents to her ideology, i'm sure there will be blowback, I think it harms the cause of opposition to the current Tory cuts when we behave like this is all.

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I've spent half of today arguing the toss with an anarcho-feminist friend, not over celebrating her death, or accusations of it being because she is female, nope, the use of the word 'witch' is what riled her!