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Re: Election night party

Post by JQH » Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:03 pm

Bird on a Fire wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:01 pm
discovolante wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:57 pm
Is this the thread where we're watching the telly? Nigel Farage is making me feel physically sick.
We were. I think we've all turned the telly off now, and are now sobbing and necking gin on the toilet.
Blended whisky (all I've got left) but otherwise spot on.
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Re: Election night party

Post by discovolante » Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:06 pm

Bird on a Fire wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:01 pm
discovolante wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:57 pm
Is this the thread where we're watching the telly? Nigel Farage is making me feel physically sick.
We were. I think we've all turned the telly off now, and are now sobbing and necking gin on the toilet.
I haven't got the gin out yet but might do in a minute. I'm off work until Tuesday so f.ck it.
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Re: Election night party

Post by GeenDienst » Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:10 pm

Went to the Co-op*, 4 beers for £7. McKewans Champion and Marston (and some Septics) Shipyard IPA. Yes, the strongest.

Oh, and bourbon.

And we watched two episodes of Dragons and Tits, instead of IT.


*Irony. I know they're not the same thing but...
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Re: Election night party

Post by Brightonian » Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:10 pm

discovolante wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:06 pm
Bird on a Fire wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:01 pm
discovolante wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:57 pm
Is this the thread where we're watching the telly? Nigel Farage is making me feel physically sick.
We were. I think we've all turned the telly off now, and are now sobbing and necking gin on the toilet.
I haven't got the gin out yet but might do in a minute. I'm off work until Tuesday so f.ck it.
I'm on my second treble* G&T now.

* assuming I'm guestimating the measure about right. Can't be bothered to use my measuring jigger thingy

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Re: Election night party

Post by Opti » Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:12 pm

I've still got plenty of Lidl vodka left. But I'm off to bed now. I've got a contract to sign at 09.30 tomorrow, I'll need some for breakfast.
Time for a big fat one.

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Re: Election night party

Post by TimW » Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:22 pm

Bird on a Fire wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:01 pm
discovolante wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:57 pm
Is this the thread where we're watching the telly? Nigel Farage is making me feel physically sick.
We were. I think we've all turned the telly off now, and are now sobbing and necking gin on the toilet.
I was watching some weird stuff on ITV a little while ago where they were looking at the seats that were predicted to be Tory gains, and discussing why those particular seats went that way, such as how leavy they are, and noticing those effects.

The results aren't in yet! They're just reverse engineering the exit poll model and presenting it as news.

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Re: Election night party

Post by discovolante » Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:26 pm

TimW wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:22 pm
Bird on a Fire wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:01 pm
discovolante wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:57 pm
Is this the thread where we're watching the telly? Nigel Farage is making me feel physically sick.
We were. I think we've all turned the telly off now, and are now sobbing and necking gin on the toilet.
I was watching some weird stuff on ITV a little while ago where they were looking at the seats that were predicted to be Tory gains, and discussing why those particular seats went that way, such as how leavy they are, and noticing those effects.

The results aren't in yet! They're just reverse engineering the exit poll model and presenting it as news.
There's a lot of time to fill though.
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Re: Election night party

Post by TimW » Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:28 pm

Labour 1 Everyone else 0

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Re: Election night party

Post by discovolante » Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:29 pm

I'm watching all my lawyer pals on social media going on about moving to Scotland and then getting upset that they have to do exams. Suck it up.

Also I doubt it's going to be all sunshine and roses up here anyway given the Tories aren't going to allow another referendum.
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Re: Election night party

Post by GeenDienst » Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:30 pm

TimW wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:28 pm
Labour 1 Everyone else 0
You are the far end of Momentum AICMFP.
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Re: Election night party

Post by TimW » Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:30 pm

2 - 0

Looking good.

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Re: Election night party

Post by lpm » Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:32 pm

Hartlepool likely Tory

Cambridge likely Labour

Well weird.
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Re: Election night party

Post by lpm » Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:33 pm

Blyth Valley in Northumberland - now Tory.
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Re: Election night party

Post by Brightonian » Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:34 pm

Blyth Valley is a Conservative gain from Labour by a huge swing.

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Re: Election night party

Post by discovolante » Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:35 pm

OK I'm gonna be snarky just before I tell someone else not to be snarky but...


We don't all need to announce the results in this thread. Everyone posting in this thread is following the results.

Have at it lpm.
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Re: Election night party

Post by lpm » Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:42 pm

It's worth stressing these northern results as they come in - they are amazing.

The working class areas of the north, totally trashed by Thatcher and never recovered, now falling to Tory gains. Mining areas voting Tory! It's unbelievable.
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Re: Election night party

Post by GeenDienst » Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:44 pm

Indeed. And, fellow remoaners, it's over. We're out end January. Be sure to add 2 hours to your flight connections anywhere within the EU 27.
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Re: Election night party

Post by bjn » Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:49 pm

lpm wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:42 pm
It's worth stressing these northern results as they come in - they are amazing.

The working class areas of the north, totally trashed by Thatcher and never recovered, now falling to Tory gains. Mining areas voting Tory! It's unbelievable.
I’m in a complete “f.ck ‘em” mood. When the U.K. economy tanks and they get more impoverished and desperate than they are now, they’ll have nothing but my contempt. Brexit was a wedge issue appealing to base xenophobia, they fell for it. I hope they enjoy waiting years for their next damn doctors appointment.

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Re: Election night party

Post by P.J. Denyer » Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:50 pm

tenchboy wrote:
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Fields of the Nephilim: Last Exit For The Lost.
Seconded.

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Re: Election night party

Post by Brightonian » Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:51 pm

discovolante wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:35 pm
OK I'm gonna be snarky just before I tell someone else not to be snarky but...


We don't all need to announce the results in this thread. Everyone posting in this thread is following the results.

Have at it lpm.
Personally I'd been hoping that something had gone awry with the exit poll, somebody mangling a spreadsheet, worthy of the "sackcloth and ashes" thread, but it's looking obvious now how things are going.

But I'll stay up a bit longer as I've still got a lot of gin left.

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Re: Election night party

Post by discovolante » Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:53 pm

bjn wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:49 pm
lpm wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:42 pm
It's worth stressing these northern results as they come in - they are amazing.

The working class areas of the north, totally trashed by Thatcher and never recovered, now falling to Tory gains. Mining areas voting Tory! It's unbelievable.
I’m in a complete “f.ck ‘em” mood. When the U.K. economy tanks and they get more impoverished and desperate than they are now, they’ll have nothing but my contempt. Brexit was a wedge issue appealing to base xenophobia, they fell for it. I hope they enjoy waiting years for their next damn doctors appointment.
They voted. They can vote again differently at the next election.

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Re: Election night party

Post by Little waster » Fri Dec 13, 2019 12:06 am

Brightonian wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:34 pm
Blyth Valley is a Conservative gain from Labour by a huge swing.
So after 40 years of having the sh.t kicked out of them by Thatcher's policy of deindustrialisation, compounded by a decade of pointless Tory austerity, marginally corrected by EU regional development cash, the (ex)Pit Yakkers have decided that the best bet for their kids' future is to post a flaming bag of dog shite through the letterbox of that Polish girl who works in the corner shop.

That'll stick it up the elites!
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Re: Election night party

Post by lpm » Fri Dec 13, 2019 12:13 am

It's a great night for Farage. The greatest political victor of our lives.

He is a virus who got inside the Conservative cell and exploited its mechanism to churn out hundreds and hundreds of Brexit crazy MPs.
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Re: Election night party

Post by P.J. Denyer » Fri Dec 13, 2019 12:16 am

Little waster wrote:
Fri Dec 13, 2019 12:06 am
Brightonian wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:34 pm
Blyth Valley is a Conservative gain from Labour by a huge swing.
So after 40 years of having the sh.t kicked out of them by Thatcher's policy of deindustrialisation, compounded by a decade of pointless Tory austerity, marginally corrected by EU regional development cash, the (ex)Pit Yakkers have decided that the best bet for their kids' future is to post a flaming bag of dog shite through the letterbox of that Polish girl who works in the corner shop.

That'll stick it up the elites!
They will point at the beggar in the doorway and say "That's where your money's going" at the very moment that they're picking your pocket.

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Re: Election night party

Post by Little waster » Fri Dec 13, 2019 12:28 am

discovolante wrote:
Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:35 pm
OK I'm gonna be snarky just before I tell someone else not to be snarky but...


We don't all need to announce the results in this thread. Everyone posting in this thread is following the results.

Have at it lpm.
As it happens I'm in an Air BnB tonight with work with neither a telly nor WiFi and am currently following along on my ancient brick of a phone's 1.5G Internet.

My night consists mostly of scrolling past the Guardian's begging letters to read second hand reports of what various obscure backbenchers make of the "not much happening" which coincidentally 100% matches whatever they were spouting at 21.59.
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