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"to not having enough of a spine to even address UK energy prices (he locked in his rates, you see)"
This is pretty disingenuous considering the starting point for any discussion about UK energy prices is "lol UK is gonna freeze because they're poors who can't afford higher energy bills"
Yes, they've gone up and are still going up.
Yes, most people get offered the chance to fix their rates for X amount of time (which usually means paying a little bit more now to avoid several rounds of subsequent price increases.
Yes, most people can actually afford to heat their house.
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If I were to say to you that the farmers in the UK would burn London to the ground and hang every MP they find (LOL) would you take that literally?
In much the same way, I wasn't picturing people literally freezing to death in their showers at the time, either, LOL. But most people with an IQ higher than 70 got the gist of it.
Also, I don't remember the larger argument being that Chris was going to freeze, rather that is was going to 'get bad' for the UK (Didn't it?) I'm trying to see where you're getting the idea that we were being disingenuous? Or is this just a "Dumb Brit" thing?
To be fair, now that we can look at things in hindsight, things went 'less bad' that expected and Europe as a whole coped better than predicted. I still found the situation to be hugely amusing, though.
The issue with the whole "locked my rates in" wasn't that Chris was just casually stating it as a fact; that just happened to be the defense he chose so he wouldn't have to engage
Araysar
anymore.
But maybe Araysar remembers it differently than I do. I can't exactly go back and search for those posts anymore...
In much the same way, I wasn't picturing people literally freezing to death in their showers at the time, either, LOL. But most people with an IQ higher than 70 got the gist of it.
Also, I don't remember the larger argument being that Chris was going to freeze, rather that is was going to 'get bad' for the UK (Didn't it?) I'm trying to see where you're getting the idea that we were being disingenuous? Or is this just a "Dumb Brit" thing?
To be fair, now that we can look at things in hindsight, things went 'less bad' that expected and Europe as a whole coped better than predicted. I still found the situation to be hugely amusing, though.
The issue with the whole "locked my rates in" wasn't that Chris was just casually stating it as a fact; that just happened to be the defense he chose so he wouldn't have to engage
Araysar
anymore. But maybe Araysar remembers it differently than I do. I can't exactly go back and search for those posts anymore...
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If I were to say to you that the farmers in the UK would burn London to the ground and hang every MP they find (LOL) would you take that literally?
In much the same way, I wasn't picturing people literally freezing to death in their showers at the time, either, LOL. But most people with an IQ higher than 70 got the gist of it.
Also, I don't remember the larger argument being that Chris was going to freeze, rather that is was going to 'get bad' for the UK (Didn't it?) I'm trying to see where you're getting the idea that we were being disingenuous? Or is this just a "Dumb Brit" thing?
To be fair, now that we can look at things in hindsight, things went 'less bad' that expected and Europe as a whole coped better than predicted. I still found the situation to be hugely amusing, though.
The issue with the whole "locked my rates in" wasn't that Chris was just casually stating it as a fact; that just happened to be the defense he chose so he wouldn't have to engage
But maybe Araysar remembers it differently than I do. I can't exactly go back and search for those posts anymore...
Chris
said so much stupid shit that I really can't keep track of it allI vaguely recall it getting started when UK got on its soapbox about how they didnt need oil or gas from Russia and then people started posting charts of UK energy rates immediately taking off. This was early on in the war so Chris and like 1-2 people (maybe Maul or Phisey?) retorted with how it was fine because this would starve Russia of money. So then people started posting the freezing Wojak in the cold shower, with his teeth chattering, saying "Take that Putin". After that meme got posted like 100x times, Chris eventually tried "Well i locked my rates in" and then it just kept going. This was like in 2022 so my memory is hazy
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If I were to say to you that the farmers in the UK would burn London to the ground and hang every MP they find (LOL) would you take that literally?
In much the same way, I wasn't picturing people literally freezing to death in their showers at the time, either, LOL. But most people with an IQ higher than 70 got the gist of it.
Also, I don't remember the larger argument being that Chris was going to freeze, rather that is was going to 'get bad' for the UK (Didn't it?) I'm trying to see where you're getting the idea that we were being disingenuous? Or is this just a "Dumb Brit" thing?
To be fair, now that we can look at things in hindsight, things went 'less bad' that expected and Europe as a whole coped better than predicted. I still found the situation to be hugely amusing, though.
The issue with the whole "locked my rates in" wasn't that Chris was just casually stating it as a fact; that just happened to be the defense he chose so he wouldn't have to engage
But maybe Araysar remembers it differently than I do. I can't exactly go back and search for those posts anymore...
I wasn't referring to you specifically but
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was one of many who recited that the UK would freeze because we can't afford rising energy prices. It's up there with "butter knife" memes and the endlessly repeated and debunked nonsense that the Indian and Nigerian leaders of the Tory party are woke.So whether it's meant seriously or just as a line of attack or just "banter" it is disingenuous to accuse Chris of that for refusing to engage via the defence that his rates were locked.
Now, having said that I did repeatedly call out his "I'm trying" schtick as disingenuous but that doesn't change the fact his "I'm just shit posting back" isn't entirely without merit
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This is exactly what I was referring to
Unlike the foh big brains my recollection is flawless and I laugh at those who need a search engine
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Erronius
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Why else would he throw that up as a statement in the Ukraine thread, of all places, LOL?
Despite all of his other faults, he wasn't in there trying to Livejournal his everyday life for us.
You're dumber than dirt if you think he wasn't trying to disengage/deflect with that ridiculous position.
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". So then people started posting the freezing Wojak in the cold shower, with his teeth chattering, saying "Take that Putin". After that meme got posted like 100x times, Chris eventually tried "Well i locked my rates in" and then it just kept going. This was like in 2022 so my memory is hazy
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