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Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe
The only good thing about the Economist is that it's kinda funny to see a magazine where the op-eds are not only completely divorced from the actual reporting but obviously contradictory to it.

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quite stretched out
Feb 17, 2011

the chillest

GalacticAcid posted:

No I behaved correctly and made good posts, as I always do

no such thing as good post friendo

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

Cerebral Bore posted:

The only good thing about the Economist is that it's kinda funny to see a magazine where the op-eds are not only completely divorced from the actual reporting but obviously contradictory to it.

Yeah. Their reporting covers a lot of poo poo I don't see anywhere else. I think there's information to be gleaned from the magazine as long as you skip the final paragraph of every article

A Handed Missus
Aug 6, 2012


https://i.imgur.com/xAKXf3S.gifv

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
Well Economistchat finally made me go ahead and write the OP for a PERIODICALS THREAD

have at it

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

whomupclicklike posted:

I wish there was magazine like the Economist but not so, say, market liberal centristy

:same:

Edit:

GalacticAcid posted:

Well Economistchat finally made me go ahead and write the OP for a PERIODICALS THREAD

have at it

Wasn't there already a thread like that in D&D?

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES

Absurd Alhazred posted:

:same:

Edit:


Wasn't there already a thread like that in D&D?

Many moons ago, but it died, and D&D sucks balllllls

(I wrote the OP for that one too)

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

GalacticAcid posted:

Many moons ago, but it died, and D&D sucks balllllls

(I wrote the OP for that one too)

Don't... ballsuckingshame?..

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
Ballsuckinshamshire

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

GalacticAcid posted:

Ballsuckinshamshire

Hey, there's a literal Hexham (:black101:) in England, I'd believe anything at this point.

sub supau
Aug 28, 2007

i'm ballsuc-kin

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
ITT, post funny town names you suddenly remember

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

and?
mechanicsville
arbutus
accident
Paducah
funkstown

quite stretched out
Feb 17, 2011

the chillest
not a town but theres a shire in australia called Bogan Shire which is kinda the same as if there was a Hick County in america

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

quite stretched out posted:

not a town but theres a shire in australia called Bogan Shire which is kinda the same as if there was a Hick County in america

We have several Hicksvilles, thank you very much!

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Ken Bone

Asbury
Mar 23, 2007
Probation
Can't post for 6 years!
Hair Elf
i once believed that the last debate between Clinton and Trump wad going to be thr nadir of american politics

theres wrong and then theres kill u r salf wrong

old.flv
Jan 28, 2017

A good lad who likes his Anna's.
when Trump won and c-spam had the suicide hotline stickied at the top of the forum

MikeCrotch
Nov 5, 2011

I AM UNJUSTIFIABLY PROUD OF MY SPAGHETTI BOLOGNESE RECIPE

YES, IT IS AN INCREDIBLY SIMPLE DISH

NO, IT IS NOT NORMAL TO USE A PEPPERAMI INSTEAD OF MINCED MEAT

YES, THERE IS TOO MUCH SALT IN MY RECIPE

NO, I WON'T STOP SHARING IT

more like BOLLOCKnese
The prime minister of the UK in the 1970's turned out to be a no-poo poo pedo

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
x-post

power word- Jeb! posted:

david brooks taught a course on humility at yale, and assigned his own columns as part of the reading

im on the net me boys
Feb 19, 2017

Hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhjjhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhjhhhhhhjhhhhhhhhhjjjhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh cannabis

old.flv posted:

when Trump won and c-spam had the suicide hotline stickied at the top of the forum

Before we were engaged my fiance and I joked about making a suicide pact if he won but instead we started dating and he came out to his family

Jewel Repetition
Dec 24, 2012

Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

old.flv posted:

when Trump won and c-spam had the suicide hotline stickied at the top of the forum

r/The_Donald also had the suicide hotline stickied and still do to this day

frankenfreak
Feb 16, 2007

I SCORED 85% ON A QUIZ ABOUT MONDAY NIGHT RAW AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY TEXT

#bastionboogerbrigade
lol

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

MikeCrotch posted:

The prime minister of the UK in the 1970's turned out to be a no-poo poo pedo

Isn't that a requirement for the office?

Retromancer
Aug 21, 2007

Every time I see Goatse, I think of Maureen. That's the last thing I saw. Before I blacked out. The sight of that man's anus.


The 2016 election was such a shitshow that people grasped onto the most aggressively normie thing they could find in this goober, then he had to go and ruin it by doxxing his own reddit account.

Pikavangelist
Nov 9, 2016

There is no God but Arceus
And Pikachu is His prophet



Cerebral Bore posted:

The only good thing about the Economist is that it's kinda funny to see a magazine where the op-eds are not only completely divorced from the actual reporting but obviously contradictory to it.

My finest achievement in college was when my professor told me I no longer had to take part in the weekly discussions about whatever Economist article we'd been told to read over the weekend.

Shark Sandwich
Sep 6, 2010

by R. Guyovich

MikeCrotch posted:

The prime minister of the UK in the 1970's turned out to be a no-poo poo pedo

pretty sure that entire benighted island is weak-jawed inbred pedophiles

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 10 years!)

David Cameron hosed a dead pig

DCFADP

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!
Saddam setting the oil rigs on fire to own the US.

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

sub supau
Aug 28, 2007


Beautiful human submarines

A Handed Missus
Aug 6, 2012




sleeptalker
Feb 17, 2011



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HZ3Tjohwqo

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


A Handed Missus
Aug 6, 2012


Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 10 years!)

Jewel Repetition
Dec 24, 2012

Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

when you're so upper class white person you don't care about the material results of actual politics

DACK FAYDEN
Feb 25, 2013

Bear Witness

Aliquid posted:

Yeah. Their reporting covers a lot of poo poo I don't see anywhere else. I think there's information to be gleaned from the magazine as long as you skip the final paragraph of every article
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KJSnd8VzQw

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logikv9
Mar 5, 2009


Ham Wrangler
bernie supporters freaking the gently caress out over a The Onion article and blaming Soros for it

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