Squalid posted:

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

Used to be actual bonfires with effigies of guy fawkes but we stopped doing it because ELF AND SAFETY GONE MAD fireworks are better

Saith posted:

Wait... Has it stopped? I haven't done bonfire night in years, do people not burn catholics anymore?

Saith posted:

Wait... Has it stopped? I haven't done bonfire night in years, do people not burn catholics anymore?

Kegluneq posted:

Today in sassy corporate social media accounts:
https://twitter.com/BurgerKingUK/status/1059382781724295168?s=19

Beats KFC promoting rando tweets yesterday saying their chips are poo poo I guess.

ronya posted:

it did not succeed because, as noted, the US did not have the political will to sustain the subsequent occupation necessary to actualize the land reform of "forty acres and a mule". The US elected Andrew Johnson. Andrew Johnson explicitly reversed the land reform plans, and the Radicals did not have sufficient political heft to resist the erosion of Reconstruction from Congress alone. The root of this failure was that the white insurgency was sufficient to demobilize the black freedmen as a political force, and once lost, they were unable to form any political basis for Radical Republican efforts in the South to offset ebbing enthusiasm in the North. Southern states with black majorities elected Democratic representatives immediately upon rejoining the Union because this terrorism was so successful and so endemic.

as Guava observed, not having the will to follow through was arguably a foreseeable state of affairs - the North might have disliked the Southern plantation but it did not dislike it enough to send a steady stream of draftees to their deaths to enforce its dislike. The question is not: are you willing to shoot all these guerilla insurgents, once you catch them? The question is: are you willing to spend the steady dribble of lives to guard the people who had the audacity to believe in your promises? The answer for the North was no, which should hardly shock us.

And before you say: well that's easy, just shoot all the previous class of planters - non-slaveholding whites formed the majority of the South, non-slaveholding whites were disproportionately overrepresented in the Confederate army since planters could buy their way out of military service, and non-slaveholding whites formed the basis of Southern Democratic support and white guerilla terrorism of their now most immediate economic competitors and threat to the social transformation from non-slaveholding white to small-time slaveholding whites, which was critical to identity and masculinity in many parts of the South. That isn't a shock to a Marxist analysis of how race serves to divide a common class interest, surely.

Pochoclo posted:

So do we traditionally burn someone on Bonfire night or is it just the fireworks? Asking for a friend

ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:

Well KFC chips are poo poo

TACD posted:

but kfc chips are actually good

BizarroAzrael posted:

Would someone help me remember, it used to be Burger King chips were amazing, they did a promotion for the new recipe, but at some point they became poo poo, as they have remained to this day. When did that happen?

I'm sure KFC had good chips recently but not currently? Maybe the change in their supply chain?

BizarroAzrael posted:

Would someone help me remember, it used to be Burger King chips were amazing, they did a promotion for the new recipe, but at some point they became poo poo, as they have remained to this day. When did that happen?

I'm sure KFC had good chips recently but not currently? Maybe the change in their supply chain?

ookiimarukochan posted:

Good news everyone!
History's Greatest Monster was at a festival of cunts to tell them all how awful the SJWs are.

quote:

They shall not pasty: why British soldiers are banned from Greggs
Troops in the Royal Dragoon Guards, North Yorkshire, have been banned from the popular bakery as the British Army wages war on obesity

Mon 5 Nov 2018 17.36 GMT Last modified on Mon 5 Nov 2018 17.39 GMT



Name: Greggs.

Birthplace: Gosforth, Tyneside.

Age: 67.

Appearance: Slovenly.

Hey! Greggs is a national institution, like David Attenborough or the Proms. In what way is Greggs like the Proms?

Oh, well, it’s cheap, and you know … Anyway, the point is that the greatest people on earth, the ordinary British public, love Greggs. Don’t spoil their fun. It is obesity that spoils their fun, not me. Besides, it is another national institution, the British army, that says Greggs lowers the tone.


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Excuse me? How does Greggs lower the tone? Well, in a document about dress and discipline obtained by the Mail on Sunday, troops in the Royal Dragoon Guards, stationed at Catterick Garrison in North Yorkshire, were warned not to smoke or text in public. And “under no circumstances” should they “stand outside Greggs eating a pasty”, because it would “look unprofessional”.

How about a sausage roll? I think the ban applies to Greggs products in general.

Outrageous! Did we defeat Hitler only to surrender our basic freedom to eat baked goods? Hitler was largely defeated by the Soviet Union, a totalitarian police state where baked goods were often hard to come by.

Yes, but sometimes you need a VAT-exempt yum yum after a hard day. Marching while shouting burns a lot of energy. Maybe. But eating at Greggs might not show the highest commitment to physical excellence, lowering the esteem in which the army is held.

Doesn’t the army make you run up a hill every day at 4am, or something? It does impose regular fitness tests, it’s true, but in July, 8,662 army soldiers were revealed to be clinically obese. About 16% of all the members of the armed forces are at least overweight.

I’m sure it’s 90% muscle. Yeah. Maybe.

Why don’t the Dragoon Guards guys get a pasty at Greggs then slyly eat it outside Pret a Manger? Very cunning. I’m sure a few will try.

And they will succeed! Greggs defeated the pasty tax. We’ll defeat the army, too. Are you sure?

Absolutely. Their Scimitar light tanks will be no match for a legion of indignant gluttons. Let’s hope we never find out.

Do say: “Who do these people think they are, telling British soldiers what to do?”

Don’t say: “Their commanding officers. That’s how the army works.”

feedmegin posted:

I like how they seem to think socialists are 'radical liberals'

ronya posted:

This is perhaps optimistic.

ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:

Well KFC chips are poo poo

edit: and someone should train their staff to put the bags of chips so they stand UP in the bag, not lie them on top of each other for gently caress's sake

Pochoclo posted:

We should just call all liberals "marketophiles" or something like that, it's more fitting

Pochoclo posted:

We should just call all liberals "marketophiles" or something like that, it's more fitting

OwlFancier posted:

I feel like classical liberals should have gotten the idea that they were irrelevant and outdated bystanders from the name tbh.

ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:

Well KFC chips are poo poo

NZAmoeba posted:

https://twitter.com/laurafleur/status/1059063010587754496?s=21

OwlFancier posted:

I continue to not at all get the people who look at ww1 and think "oh the poor horses"

OwlFancier posted:

I continue to not at all get the people who look at ww1 and think "oh the poor horses"

Gort posted:

you can think that multiple things are bad simultaneously

Gort posted:

you can think that multiple things are bad simultaneously

Ms Adequate posted:

what the gently caress

Kegluneq posted:

Today in sassy corporate social media accounts:
https://twitter.com/BurgerKingUK/status/1059382781724295168?s=19

Beats KFC promoting rando tweets yesterday saying their chips are poo poo I guess.