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Azza Bamboo posted:Cultural Renewal sounds like one of those vacuous phrases a church would come up with to mean "we want volunteers to help us proselytise" Wait, Frank Furedi is involved with this isn't he? e: 34 is a magic number in physics, and the number of genocides that Frank Furedi has denied today. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 11:41 on Aug 4, 2019 |
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I had to pop out this morning and had Radio 4 on in the car. Will Self was bloviating on in his Point of View about the fact that as a 'society' we've essentially decided that culture has a market value, and that if it has no market value, it isn't culture. He tied this to neoliberal policies and had a few digs at poor people (because it's Will Self), but I thought it was mildly interesting for 8:50 on a Sunday morning.
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Graffiti is culture, and slang and resistance. A weed is a cultivar which has been selected for by the arduous task of surviving when so many want it dead. A rose will sell for a great price, but a dandelion is just as cultured and honed.
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Aug 4, 2019 11:50
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So what you're saying is Weed is the victim of bigotry and hatred? Checks out. Give me all the weed, I'll take good care of them... *hides "gas chamber"*
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Aug 4, 2019 11:53
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AceOfFlames posted:See, this is something that kind of bothers me with modern progressivism in general: "You want to know? Figure it out yourself! *later* No, that's not it at all you idiot!" I understand this derives from people arguing in bad faith but how in the hell do you change people's minds like that? You're just going to get people who are already primed to do the legwork while the racists are all too happy to dump Muslim rape statistics or whatever on people who have no opinion one way or the other. Are we really moving towards a future of "preach to the choir and shoot anyone who does not accept what we say on faith" on all sides?
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kingturnip posted:I had to pop out this morning and had Radio 4 on in the car. Will Self was bloviating on in his Point of View about the fact that as a 'society' we've essentially decided that culture has a market value, and that if it has no market value, it isn't culture. This is the dumbest loving poo poo. I was starting to write an effortpost but I can't be arsed. It's so dumb. Junior G-man fucked around with this message at 12:04 on Aug 4, 2019 |
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Aug 4, 2019 12:00
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It would appear the second one there is the Grover mezzanine bathroom design. The inset where the bathtub is actually overhangs the building on the outside so you just pull the plug out of the tub when you're done and the water gushes onto the ground outside. Really saves money on waste pipes 
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Aug 4, 2019 12:05
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Aug 4, 2019 12:11
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Aug 4, 2019 12:12
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After her visit to a bush, Jess Phillips will now send a swarm of locusts upon the labour party before she calls the jews to evacuate.
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Aug 4, 2019 12:16
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Speaking of, I have around 50 or so spiders living on my back wall and window, with most of it covered in webs and eggs. I've never seen spiders live so close to one another as thought they were quite territorial, but this group seem to work together and have caught hundreds of flies. I've watched them and they seem to respect each others space and not steal food or anything, it's quite strange really. Spider communism.
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Aug 4, 2019 12:21
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"Cultural Renewal", plus the Remembrance Day bank holiday to me just sounds like "we're going to elevate the WW2 nostalgia to even more absurd heights". - We're going to build a Colossus of Rhodes style statue of Winston Churchill and stick it over the Thames. - Wearing a poppy every single day of the year will be compulsory. - Vera Lynn will be placed permanently at #1 in the charts.
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forkboy84 posted:https://twitter.com/rightwingtwits/status/1157971003366137856?s=20 I'm not Jess's biggest fan but this is what we call a "joke".
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forkboy84 posted:https://twitter.com/rightwingtwits/status/1157971003366137856?s=20 or just a lovely joke
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*looks at sea* "so much for this so-called drought"
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Not So Fast posted:I'm not Jess's biggest fan but this is what we call a "joke". It's a joke in the same way that tweeting "so much for global warming!" on a cold day is a joke.
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Aug 4, 2019 12:37
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What was she doing in the bush? Urinating? I'll HAVE YOU KNOW THAT'S ILLEGAL JESS. MP Piss kills insects you see, must be all the arsenic.
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Aug 4, 2019 12:41
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The tweet about her is also for comical effect. It's jokes all the way down!
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Aug 4, 2019 12:42
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Pilchenstein posted:This reads like something you'd see your dad post on facebook a couple of weeks before "you might as well just be racist since you're going to get called a racist anyway". If youmfind that the way you interact online commonly has that effect on other people, a moment’s self reflection could be in order.
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Or a replacement dad.
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Pilchenstein posted:This reads like something you'd see your dad post on facebook a couple of weeks before "you might as well just be racist since you're going to get called a racist anyway".  This and "yet you participate in society" (delivered from inside a well, actually) will sadly not stop being relevant anytime soon.
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crispix posted:I really don't think the internet is an appropriate medium for humour/silliness Agreed, I'm glad that we have never resorted to making jokes in this, the UK Megathread of the Something Awful forums.
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justcola posted:Speaking of, I have around 50 or so spiders living on my back wall and window, with most of it covered in webs and eggs. I've never seen spiders live so close to one another as thought they were quite territorial, but this group seem to work together and have caught hundreds of flies. I've watched them and they seem to respect each others space and not steal food or anything, it's quite strange really.  Gorn Myson posted:"Cultural Renewal", plus the Remembrance Day bank holiday to me just sounds like "we're going to elevate the WW2 nostalgia to even more absurd heights".  as Gordon Brown's attempt to create a more unified British identity by releasing a commemorative two pound coin.
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I'm always so loving mad about this guy. His NUS presidential campaign campaign in 2017, where he was an irrelevant right-wing shithead candidate who eventually received less than 5% of votes, had glowing coverage across the UK media. I made a list at the time, just look at this poo poo: "Tom Harwood on the Daily Politics" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iFTGozKf8M "The NUS is a mess. As president, Tom Harwood could clean it up" https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/apr/10/nus-mess-tom-harwood-president-clean-up "A candidate from Durham University was elected as a National Union of Students delegate after an unusual video pitch." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-38370145/tom-harwood-elected-as-national-union-of-students-delegate "Tom Harwood, a 20-year-old undergraduate at Durham University, could become the first Conservative president of the NUS since the modern organisation emerged in 1969. " https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/22/student-tory-groups-swell-backlash-left-wing-activists/ "NUS Presidential candidate claims the far left have 'hijacked' the student organisation " https://www.independent.co.uk/stude...a-a7628006.html "Joker candidate bids to topple NUS head" https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/joker-candidate-bids-to-topple-nus-head-vxg87pg0v "But this year, a different kind of candidate is causing a stir. Tom Harwood is a 20-year-old student from Durham. " https://www.spiked-online.com/2017/04/19/dont-reform-the-nus-ditch-it-and-start-again/" "Tom Harwood — a Durham University student who has repeatedly criticized the NUS for its attitude toward Israel and Jews — said, “These horrific revelations are becoming an all too common feature of NUS life. It is clear that there is an institutional problem and NUS has to wake up to it.”" https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/04/...esentatives-wr/ "NUS Delegate Tom Harwood Calls Union 'An Irrelevant Student Body' " https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/en...4b09b495cae9737 "NUS Presidential candidate Tom Harwood is hoping to return the organisation to its former useful state" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/04/04/nus-broken-need-moderate-candidate-fix/ "Tom Harwood, 20, used his campaign for election to the National Union of Students to lampoon the body" https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/manifesto-of-mockery-wins-student-election-90ptcggxs "Why some people think the NUS is finished after delegate mocks it in his campaign " http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/38378792/why-some-people-think-the-nus-is-finished-after-delegate-mocks-it-in-his-campaign
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Watching the Ashes in a country that doesn't care about the Ashes is tricky. But I found a way. Let's just say I want to buy an SUV and drive down to Maccas right about now. E: And get more "dada" on my phone. Bobstar fucked around with this message at 13:36 on Aug 4, 2019 |
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Hentai Jihadist posted:Why is the heil running a Corbyn puff piece? The mail is a very different publication without Dacre.
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josh04 posted:I'm always so loving mad about this guy. His NUS presidential campaign campaign in 2017, where he was an irrelevant right-wing shithead candidate who eventually received less than 5% of votes, had glowing coverage across the UK media. I made a list at the time, just look at this poo poo: He's 100% being pushed by someone to have a huge media career despite having absolutely zero skill, reason or ability purely to push right wing talking points.
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Gonzo McFee posted:He's 100% being pushed by someone to have a huge media career despite having absolutely zero skill, reason or ability purely to push right wing talking points. he was part of TPUK;s failed launch before quitting because it was such a failure
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Jose posted:he was part of TPUK;s failed launch before quitting because it was such a failure He's getting that Koch brothers money for sure.
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Vaguely related to Tory student chat: when I were a lass extremely many moons ago (500+), they always had these documentaries on TV about students applying to uni (back in the glory days of grants where students were encouraged to live away from home) and without fail there was always a scene with a selection panel interviewing that rare item, a Tory supporter school student. The comments from selection panels were always along the lines of how thoughtful and mature such a student was compared to those of us going on Anti-apartheid and Rock Against Racism demos. (So much for academia being a hot bed of radicalism) and these students always got offered places with lower grade offers than others.
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Bobstar posted:Watching the Ashes in a country that doesn't care about the Ashes is tricky. But I found a way. Let's just say I want to buy an SUV and drive down to Maccas right about now. You're watching Aussie coverage? Optus ads?
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Helith posted:You're watching Aussie coverage? Optus ads? Either that or the Channel 9 feed using a VPN
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I'm just keeping up through the ECB's highlights videos.
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Does anyone know if theres any further information in private eye about the current situation with the new children's hospital in Edinburgh? Seems to be a catastrophic gently caress up and now they're talking about having to rip it all down and start again? 
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justcola posted:Speaking of, I have around 50 or so spiders living on my back wall and window, with most of it covered in webs and eggs. I've never seen spiders live so close to one another as thought they were quite territorial, but this group seem to work together and have caught hundreds of flies. I've watched them and they seem to respect each others space and not steal food or anything, it's quite strange really. I think most web making spiders cant see that distant, so cant see another nearby. When they get close they may get into fighting. Maybe why they use their legs to feel the web vibrations and not seeing them on it. Now wolf spiders would love this wall buffet if they find it on their roaming about. As a kid at my grandmothers detached house, one wall would be full of butterfly cocoons. Absolutely beautiful. Now alas none as they are rare as poo poo.
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