UKMT November 2019 - Andrew Can't Denounce Epstein Properly

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goddamnedtwisto: Dec 31, 2004; If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you; Fun Shoe

gh0stpinballa posted:

graceblakely on chapo, good listen. i find it weird ash sarkar or abi wilks haven't been on yet.

I think Grace has a semi-regular columnist spot for one of the American sites, it's probable that nobody in the States has heard of Ash or Abi.

# ? Nov 8, 2019 09:21

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# ? May 20, 2024 09:39

Microplastics: Jul 6, 2007; It's what's for dinner.

Daily Mail status: Shook.

# ? Nov 8, 2019 09:23

Braggart: Nov 10, 2011; always thank the rock hider

Junior G-man posted:

Oh my God it's full of stars.

https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1192576743154049024?s=20

Lol yes Laura, double down on your bullshit. Tell us more from the less popular political circles inside your brain. Sacrifice your remaining authority by using it to try to browbeat people who know what they are talking about.

Shitposting is when I trip over my own pants and get my head stuck in the toilet bowl while still phoneposting furiously.

I then drop my phone in the toilet and reach in with one arm, thus getting that stuck too. Now wearing the toilet seat like a bandolier, I scream and scream until I am sick, and immediately regret my actions.

*angry bubbles*

# ? Nov 8, 2019 09:24

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

Daily Mail status: Shook.

Do they explain how you can bankrupt a sovereign state that holds debt in its own currency? :thunk:

endlessmonotony posted:

Either extreme of the Bristol Stool Scale is bad, in the middle is the good spot, so you might be onto something

So are you planning to write a journal article on the Bristol Centrism Scale?

Vote lib dem for a solid turd that you can leave an impression on.

# ? Nov 8, 2019 09:25

gh0stpinballa: Mar 5, 2019

goddamnedtwisto posted:

I think Grace has a semi-regular columnist spot for one of the American sites, it's probable that nobody in the States has heard of Ash or Abi.

i am sure i have seen them both interacting with cush and felix on twitter, as a determined clout chaser i keep a chart of this stuff i will try to post a link

# ? Nov 8, 2019 09:35

Miftan: Mar 31, 2012; Terry knows what he can do with his bloody chocolate orange...

Junior G-man posted:

Oh my God it's full of stars.

https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1192576743154049024?s=20

Actually my favourite thing about this video is that they get THIIIIIIS close to understanding no platforming but if you ask them about it specifically they will almost certainly say it's a bad thing. :brainworms:

# ? Nov 8, 2019 09:37

RockyB: Mar 8, 2007; Dog Therapy: Shockingly Good

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

Daily Mail status: Shook.

God what a cuntrag. Nothing as depressing as seeing all the social media optimism then seeing all the tabloids shilling out shite like this. Because so many people will believe it, or at least use it to validate their world view.

# ? Nov 8, 2019 09:40

jackhunter64: Aug 28, 2008; Keep it up son, take a look at what you could have won

Jose posted:

i've eaten at the establishment that was involved in this story

I assumed this referred to Lau's Buffet in town before you clarified

# ? Nov 8, 2019 09:45

Poison Jam: Mar 29, 2009; Shh...
We're being watched.

Just a driveby shitpost

gently caress THE TORIES

Morning peeps

# ? Nov 8, 2019 09:53

Rustybear: Nov 16, 2006; what the thunder said

forkboy84 posted:

https://twitter.com/berggruenInst/status/1192531997706444800?s=20

Okay, I have question why anyone would want to listen to this loving idiot after he was so definitively proven to be talking shite with his end of history guff, but that headline is very enjoyable. Francis Fukuyama saying "socialism ought to come back" is like Milton Friedman saying it.

"The Chinese are arguing openly that it is a superior one because they can guarantee stability and economic growth over the long run in a way that democracy can�t�"

Youre gonna see a lot of this over the next decade imo, couched in two ways 1. "to compete with china we must..." and 2. "it's more stable and prosperous if we..." both cases it will be justifying the dismantling of democracy as it comes to threaten capital. ratbags like this just do the ideological heavy lifting for their masters.

on the plus side neoliberalism really is stone dead if he's jumping ship.

# ? Nov 8, 2019 09:54

His Divine Shadow: Aug 7, 2000; I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest. Fascists dress up in black and tell people what to do.

Brexit is affecting peoples relaitonships now too:

Power Khan posted:

my (21f) boyfriend (21m) won't stop sleeptalking about brexit and it's driving me insane!!
so my boyfriend has always been talking in his sleep, but recently it has become a problem. not only has it become more frequent, but also a lot louder and clearer.

and it is pretty much always about one thing: brexit and more specifically boris johnson.

he usually falls asleep before me and will start saying his name over and over. he has his eyes open while he does this btw, i know because i left on the fairy lights one night.

it's super creepy (he talks in this voice that sounds VERY awake) and keeps me up many nights. i'm becoming very sleep deprived and i'm thinking to tell him to move out...

what do you guys think? how can i solve this? I've talked to him about this, but of course he doesn't have any memory of this or control over it. we agreed to record him one night so he could hear it himself and when we played back the CONSTANT boris johnson chanting he just laughed it off. of course he doesn't think it's a problem if he's not the one not getting any sleep...

TLDR: bf dreams of boris johnson and chants his name every night in his sleep and keeps me up.

# ? Nov 8, 2019 09:54

Aphex-: Jan 29, 2006; Dinosaur Gum

RockyB posted:

God what a cuntrag. Nothing as depressing as seeing all the social media optimism then seeing all the tabloids shilling out shite like this. Because so many people will believe it, or at least use it to validate their world view.

To be fair I highly doubt anyone who doesn't already vote tory/brexit/ukip would ever actually get persuaded by a dail mail headline. It still sucks how blatant it is but it's pretty much white (gammon) noise at this point.

# ? Nov 8, 2019 09:56

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

RockyB posted:

God what a cuntrag. Nothing as depressing as seeing all the social media optimism then seeing all the tabloids shilling out shite like this. Because so many people will believe it, or at least use it to validate their world view.

It's not on the front of the Online version so unless the other tabloids are producing the same shite today hopefully it's effect will be diluted to those who were going to vote tory anyway.

# ? Nov 8, 2019 09:57

Jedit: Dec 10, 2011; Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

I am hearing that the Tories are standing down their candidate against Jo Swinson. Can anyone confirm?

# ? Nov 8, 2019 10:02

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Meanwhile, in the Online version of the Heil

quote:

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Good riddance to the Nonce Finder General Tom Watson
....

That so many people have been fooled into looking upon him as some kind of guardian of the decent soul of Labour says as much about their own shallow gullibility as it does about the man himself.

....

I�ve never bought into the �my enemy�s enemy is my friend� view of the world. Just because Watson is hated by the Corbynistas, it doesn�t absolve him of his multitude of sins.

He can�t be allowed to shed his wicked past, like one of those Weight Watchers of the Year posing alongside a cardboard cut-out of his Nonce Finder General former self.

The truth is he�s one of the most malevolent, malignant individuals ever to soil British politics, a self-serving, self-pitying, self-righteous enemy of free speech and persecutor of innocent men and their families.

....

Yet, incredibly, you won�t be told any of this in the glowing tributes to Watson on the BBC and elsewhere.

They are all prepared to overlook, or forget altogether, his past transgressions. As far as they are concerned, he is the greatest Prime Minister We Never Had.

Sorry, but I�m not buying any of it. Public life is well rid of the Nonce Finder General.

I�m sticking with my verdict that Watson � to adapt the outrageous smear he directed at Leon Brittan � is as close to evil as any politician can get.

Source: online heil, you can find it if you want to.

Stopped clocks and all that. Ed: It is vitriolic though.

Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 10:07 on Nov 8, 2019

# ? Nov 8, 2019 10:02

Rustybear: Nov 16, 2006; what the thunder said

RockyB posted:

God what a cuntrag. Nothing as depressing as seeing all the social media optimism then seeing all the tabloids shilling out shite like this. Because so many people will believe it, or at least use it to validate their world view.

The print editions are all 'calamity for communist corbyn' this morning meanwhile there is mysteriously minimal coverage in the online editions; almost as though nobody under 50 buys a print newspaper anymore and they just cynically chase entrenched opinion.

It's depressing but do you really think there's someone out there buying a mail or telegraph who was a 2017 corbyn voter but is like drat, not ian austin?! too far, time to quit my union and vote bozza. it's just running up the score with insane brexit zombies.

# ? Nov 8, 2019 10:03

Sanford: Jun 30, 2007; ...and rarely post!

Richard Littlejohn, oval office and not just a man who works as a oval office, continues to deserve the title.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Stopped clocks and all that.

Can't agree with you here. Watson's a shitheel but the article is horrendous in tone.

# ? Nov 8, 2019 10:04

CGI Stardust: Nov 7, 2010; Brexit is but a door,
election time is but a window.

I'll be back

Miftan posted:

Pronounced za-een ba-a-een does mean "dick in eye" and is commonly used slang in modern Hebrew to mean "bullshit" or express disbelief and much less commonly as a replacement to something like "owned". Haven't heard anyone use it in years though! Maybe I got old.

"ive got dust in my eye, but u got a dick in urs. that's why u cant aim worth poo poo. lol owned" - [NZRTH] Jesus, making another successful noscope

# ? Nov 8, 2019 10:05

AceClown: Sep 11, 2005

EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A VHS INTO THE SLOT. ITS BEST OF @DRIL TWEETS AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I START DOING THE SHITPOSTS ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, WINT. I DO EVERY SHITPOST AND I DO EVERY SHITPOST HARD. MAKIN WHOOSHING SOUNDS WHEN I SLAM DOWN SOME MEMES OR EVEN WHEN I MESS UP AND SERIOUSPOST. NOT MANY CAN SAY THEY'VE BEEN BANNED FORM SEVENTEEN SUBREDDITS. I CAN. I SAY IT AND I SAY IT OUTLOUD EVERYDAY TO PEOPLE IN MY COLLEGE CLASS AND ALL THEY DO IS PROVE PEOPLE IN COLLEGE CLASS CAN STILL BE IMMATURE JEKRS. AND IVE LEARNED ALL THE SHITPOSTS AND IVE LEARNED HOW TO MAKE MYSELF AND MY APARTMENT LESS LONELY BY SHOUTING EM ALL. 2 HOURS INCLUDING WIND DOWN EVERY MORNIng

# ? Nov 8, 2019 10:05

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Sanford posted:

Richard Littlejohn, oval office and not just a man who works as a oval office, continues to deserve the title.

Can't agree with you here. Watson's a shitheel but the article is horrendous in tone.

You're right, it is.

# ? Nov 8, 2019 10:07

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

Sanford posted:

Richard Littlejohn, oval office and not just a man who works as a oval office, continues to deserve the title.

Can't agree with you here. Watson's a shitheel but the article is horrendous in tone.

I got a strong sense of "glad the Nonce Finder General stepped down before he looked at me" from it.

# ? Nov 8, 2019 10:07

sebzilla: Mar 17, 2009; Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.

AceClown posted:

EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A VHS INTO THE SLOT. ITS BEST OF @DRIL TWEETS AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I START DOING THE SHITPOSTS ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, WINT. I DO EVERY SHITPOST AND I DO EVERY SHITPOST HARD. MAKIN WHOOSHING SOUNDS WHEN I SLAM DOWN SOME MEMES OR EVEN WHEN I MESS UP AND SERIOUSPOST. NOT MANY CAN SAY THEY'VE BEEN BANNED FORM SEVENTEEN SUBREDDITS. I CAN. I SAY IT AND I SAY IT OUTLOUD EVERYDAY TO PEOPLE IN MY COLLEGE CLASS AND ALL THEY DO IS PROVE PEOPLE IN COLLEGE CLASS CAN STILL BE IMMATURE JEKRS. AND IVE LEARNED ALL THE SHITPOSTS AND IVE LEARNED HOW TO MAKE MYSELF AND MY APARTMENT LESS LONELY BY SHOUTING EM ALL. 2 HOURS INCLUDING WIND DOWN EVERY MORNIng

Then I tweet

# ? Nov 8, 2019 10:09

CGI Stardust: Nov 7, 2010; Brexit is but a door,
election time is but a window.

I'll be back

some kind of contract between Elizabeth Holmes and the Nonce-Finder General, pricking your finger and using the blood to tell if you're a paedo

ed: Theranonce

# ? Nov 8, 2019 10:10

Gum: Mar 9, 2008; _{oho, a rapist

time to try this puppy out}

Guavanaut posted:

I got a strong sense of "glad the Nonce Finder General stepped down before he looked at me" from it.

I got a strong sense of "I came up with the phrase "nonce finder general" and, by god, I'm gonna use it"

# ? Nov 8, 2019 10:12

xtothez: Jan 4, 2004; College Slice

Gum posted:

I got a strong sense of "I came up with the phrase "nonce finder general" and, by god, I'm gonna use it"

He didn't even come up with it, it's adapted it from the "pedo finder general" in Monkey Dust.

# ? Nov 8, 2019 10:14

Scikar: Nov 20, 2005; 5? Seriously?

Honestly that LauraK video explains so much. Political journalists who have a question they can't answer, asking other political journalists who don't know either, until they ask someone who is too insecure in their position to say "I don't know" so they give some half baked bullshit answer instead, then collectively convince themselves that yes, this must be the truth because that came from someone with authority, and now other political journalists are saying it as well and we can't all be wrong!
Now imagine this with a question about Corbyn but going through the same process - that's the Westminster bubble right there.

# ? Nov 8, 2019 10:14

RockyB: Mar 8, 2007; Dog Therapy: Shockingly Good

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

It's not on the front of the Online version so unless the other tabloids are producing the same shite today hopefully it's effect will be diluted to those who were going to vote tory anyway.

Yeah this was more triggered by the guardians front page roundup than the mail specifically. It's all Labour bashing distortions. And lmfao at the heil having the gall to go after someone making false paedo accusations.

Sure newspapers are a dying medium, but they're also a physical presence in the world where socialism seems only very online. Think of the poor kiddies seeing this shite on the way to school.

Apropos of nothing, I forgot to say it earlier but: Thank You for Your Service

DesperateDan posted:

As a mental health worker I had to clear out one of these and it became a life long scar, so I might as well inflict it on others

Spoilered for weak stomachs/those eating

previous staff had not realised it was a thing that might hold stuff and thought it was just a weird plug hole and thus it never got cleaned properly and that shower was solely used by a lady who happened to have vagina problems and oh god the memory of the smell/texture/sight of it is enough to turn my stomach 15 years later

I put olbas oil on the inside of a dust mask and otherwise built my own hazmat suit largely from bin bags to deal with it and ended up killing my sense of smell for about a week because that much olbas oil up close is a bad loving idea in the vast majority of circumstances. But it got cleaned

E: Page 100 already. Thread is going places this month

RockyB fucked around with this message at 10:21 on Nov 8, 2019

# ? Nov 8, 2019 10:15

pitch a fitness: Mar 19, 2010

OwlFancier posted:

I actually found myself trying to figure out how I'd actually explain it to someone and that's close.

I'd say politically it serves three purposes.

1. It's funny.

2. It's provcative.

3. It serves as a filter for whether someone is worth engaging with because of the former two.

If you already understand the context, you can join in, and it's funny and a kind of bonding exercise. If you don't understand the context, the provocativeness may elicit interest and can segue well into an actual discussion. If you don't understand the context but really don't like the sound of it, you're probably not worth bothering with and it outs you as that sort early on.

Generally I'd say a good example is when you state the conclusion of a political position without any of the working, so people who already understand it agree in equally unqualified terms and it forms a sort of in-joke, people who don't understand but are curious might ask for clarification which you can then expand into, while people who don't understand and don't want to understand just call you a filthy commie and save the hassle.

I think it's actually a necessary part of dealing with the weird nature of social media whereby the audience is simultaneously everyone and also only people who already have an interest in the subject. You need a way to filter responses, and shitposting is a pretty effective one.

Agree and I think there's a little to add around the bold bit. While there can be relatively high barriers for access, there are very low barriers for positive participation.

In a """"non-political"""" context the forums Simpsons shitposting exemplifies this. Most of the posts are nonsense unless you have a pretty thorough knowledge of the simpsons seasons before it got crap (in a freak coincidence, the simpsons got objectively crap at the exact time you, the reader of this post, stopped enjoying it.). Those with that knowledge can enjoy them and, more importantly, contribute - even with basically no artistic skills. Good contributions are generally recognised and weaker/repeated jokes are typically ignored - the quality of the production is rarely a factor unless it's exceptional. The thread - & perhaps shitposting in general - resembles a Participatory Culture.... Which i guess makes the simpsons shitposting thread political in its own way - people have rejected the consumer model of passively absorbing a cultural goliath's output and took control of the property for the group's own enjoyment.

I think what i'm trying to say is Shitposting Is Praxis

# ? Nov 8, 2019 10:23

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
TO RACE TO THE THEATRES"
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xtothez posted:

He didn't even come up with it, it's adapted it from the "pedo finder general" in Monkey Dust.

Incredible "change a few words copying your homework from wikipedia" energy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCywGhHQMEw&t=479s

# ? Nov 8, 2019 10:24

Failed Imagineer: Sep 22, 2018

I followed the link and it went straight to Jose's "Burnsy...Snrub...Burnsy...Snrub" post and fuckkin lmao

# ? Nov 8, 2019 10:25

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

RockyB posted:

Apropos of nothing, I forgot to say it earlier but: Thank You for Your Service

Desperate Dan buy the rebreather.

OwlFancier posted:

I actually found myself trying to figure out how I'd actually explain it to someone and that's close.

I'd say politically it serves three purposes.

1. It's funny.

2. It's provcative.

3. It serves as a filter for whether someone is worth engaging with because of the former two.

If you already understand the context, you can join in, and it's funny and a kind of bonding exercise. If you don't understand the context, the provocativeness may elicit interest and can segue well into an actual discussion. If you don't understand the context but really don't like the sound of it, you're probably not worth bothering with and it outs you as that sort early on.

Generally I'd say a good example is when you state the conclusion of a political position without any of the working, so people who already understand it agree in equally unqualified terms and it forms a sort of in-joke, people who don't understand but are curious might ask for clarification which you can then expand into, while people who don't understand and don't want to understand just call you a filthy commie and save the hassle.

I think it's actually a necessary part of dealing with the weird nature of social media whereby the audience is simultaneously everyone and also only people who already have an interest in the subject. You need a way to filter responses, and shitposting is a pretty effective one.

# ? Nov 8, 2019 10:31

VideoGames: Aug 18, 2003

Somehow I have never seen that simpsons meme thread and now I am at work, hunched up over my desk and trying to control this laughter from things I do not really get but are making me guffaw nonetheless. Holy moly.

# ? Nov 8, 2019 10:32

CGI Stardust: Nov 7, 2010; Brexit is but a door,
election time is but a window.

I'll be back

josh04 posted:

Incredible "change a few words copying your homework from wikipedia" energy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCywGhHQMEw&t=479s

they forgot the musical

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdu4wSBZqMM

# ? Nov 8, 2019 10:32

Failed Imagineer: Sep 22, 2018

VideoGames posted:

Somehow I have never seen that simpsons meme thread and now I am at work, hunched up over my desk and trying to control this laughter from things I do not really get but are making me guffaw nonetheless. Holy moly.

Just looked through like 5 pages and seriously considering giving up reading about politics and just chuckling at Simpsons memes instead

# ? Nov 8, 2019 10:34

pitch a fitness: Mar 19, 2010

Failed Imagineer posted:

I followed the link and it went straight to Jose's "Burnsy...Snrub...Burnsy...Snrub" post and fuckkin lmao

VideoGames posted:

Somehow I have never seen that simpsons meme thread and now I am at work, hunched up over my desk and trying to control this laughter from things I do not really get but are making me guffaw nonetheless. Holy moly.

Yeah that's why i linked to page 3. It took only 2 pages to turn around from a boring thread into launching 300+ pages of laser-guided precision content seeming made specifically to make me laugh.
and even then i didn't start contributing until like page 200+ the moral is: :justpost:

# ? Nov 8, 2019 10:36

Tesseraction: Apr 5, 2009

Tsaedje posted:

As temporarily funny as it is, it's going to be a right ballache for the charities when he has the charges reversed by his bank

that's why you donate to lovely ones like Autism Speaks who don't give a gently caress about autistic peoples' needs and is basically just a front for post-facto antivaxxers

# ? Nov 8, 2019 11:00

Angepain: Jul 13, 2012; what keeps happening to my clothes

goddamnedtwisto posted:

SA is being mirrored by the Library of Congress, I assume because historians and archaeologists always learn more from middens than they do from palaces.

To a Shitposter a Thousand Years Hence

I who am dead a thousand years,
And wrote this sweet archaic song,
Send you my words for messengers
The way I shall not pass along.

ayy wassup lmao you still got updog in the future? lol im gay

# ? Nov 8, 2019 11:02

Junior G-man: Sep 15, 2004; Wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma

gh0stpinballa posted:

graceblakely on chapo, good listen. i find it weird ash sarkar or abi wilks haven't been on yet.

Grace was over in the US to promo her book, which probably helped as she could do a local recording or something?

# ? Nov 8, 2019 11:16

HJB: Feb 16, 2011; I can't get enough of are Dan

The original concept of shitposting would be old enough to vote if the voting age had been lowered, but it would spoil its ballot paper by writing "its cold outside and i didnt bring my nice wool mittens" somewhere in the bottom corner.

# ? Nov 8, 2019 11:22

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# ? May 20, 2024 09:39

Eschenique: Jul 19, 2019

Can anyone clear up the whole "Corbyn did Iranian State TV for �20,000" thing?

Looks kind of a bad considering the Iranian regime at the time. I realize it's blown out of proportion on the google search results but are there any mitigating circumstances?

# ? Nov 8, 2019 11:24

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