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Bobby Deluxe posted:This was something I meant to bring up actually, snopes is saying it's real: Isn't snopes just a mother and son in a back bedroom in a semi-detached house somewhere?  Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 16:31 on Dec 25, 2019 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Isn't snopes just a mother and son in a back bedroom in a semi-detached house somewhere? You could ask them to fact check it.
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I'm spending my first ever Christmas away from my family and it's just me and my girlfriend getting drunk and eating and watching tv by ourselves, don't even have a tree up and we opened presents last night because why the gently caress not then didn't get out of bed till half eleven. It's loving brilliant
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ThomasPaine posted:I'm spending my first ever Christmas away from my family and it's just me and my girlfriend getting drunk and eating and watching tv by ourselves, don't even have a tree up and we opened presents last night because why the gently caress not then didn't get out of bed till half eleven. My first ever Christmas away from my family was grim because I was loving skint. My flatmates were away, I was in Sheffield & knew nobody apart from the 2 people I lived with. I had beans on toast because it was all I could afford and I played Mario Galaxy for a little while until the batteries in the Wiimote died & I had no replacements. You have managed to do better than me.
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https://twitter.com/bbcnews/status/1209781237444939776?s=21 lol, of course
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Orthdox christmas is 7th January because they follow the old Julian calendar. When we switched to the Gregorian calendar our Christmas became 25th December or something like that anyway.
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Happy Holidays, comrades!
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A Buttery Pastry posted:This is still based on the assumption that Christmas Day is the day you should open presents. Do like your royals and open them on Christmas Eve, and you get to open your presents an entire day earlier. You're right. I guess maybe it's because for a lot of people historically Christmas Day was the only day they didn't work.
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My family disagree about politics but we all happily agreed that lol prince andrew
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Isn't snopes just a mother and son in a back bedroom in a semi-detached house somewhere? Like this might just be Americans having trouble navigating the finer points of British twitter and political groups, but it does seem fairly convincingly researched. Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Dec 25, 2019 |
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Hello comrades, it's me, Barry Foster. Happy Christmas. As you've no doubt noticed to your own lamentations I've not been posting and won't be for the foreseeable. I've completely removed myself from the outside world to the greatest extent possible, and I don't plan on rejoining it again anytime soon. Why pay attention when there's nothing you can do about it? Same reason I don't want to hear the four minute warning, I suppose. Anyway, I've made a plan to see my shrink in the new year and once I'm on a slightly more even keel I'm going to spend as much time as possible volunteering. I don't see any future for this country worth thinking about and I want to have as little to do with it as possible. This benighted island probably can't be saved but we've still got to help who we can. Anyway, I really hope y'all have a lovely day today. Hug your loved ones (though if they're tories only if you can bear it), eat and drink as much as you can, and take care of yourselves. I really do love you all.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:You're right. I guess maybe it's because for a lot of people historically Christmas Day was the only day they didn't work.
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Barry Foster posted:Hello comrades, it's me, Barry Foster. Happy Christmas. Love you too man, look after yourself.
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Barry Foster posted:Hello comrades, it's me, Barry Foster. Happy Christmas. Take care of yourself Barry. It's good you have a plan for new year.
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Merry Christmas British goons. I hope the new year brings better news than this year did.
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On the Nth day of Christmas my true love gave to me 12 beans up backside 11 shitters posting 10 lords beheaded 9 roller derbies 8 Mikes a-miwking 7 Swinsons winning 6 Rees-Moggs braying 5 guillotines! 4 falling heads 3 French strikes 2 Brexit gloves AND A MARXIST AS AN MP!
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Well Goons, yo ho ho & a merry christmas & all that. I am full to bursting point and am going to have a massive jobby tomorrow, it truly is Christmas.
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forkboy84 posted:Well Goons, yo ho ho & a merry christmas & all that. I am full to bursting point and am going to have a massive jobby tomorrow, it truly is Christmas. Block the drains with massive jobbies! Fa-fa-fa-fa-fart, fa-fart fart fart
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forkboy84 posted:Well Goons, yo ho ho & a merry christmas & all that. I am full to bursting point and am going to have a massive jobby tomorrow, it truly is Christmas. You can't, like, OWN Jess Phillips, forkboy.
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Woo hoo! woke up with a stomach bug!
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Hope everyone is having a great Christmas. I went to my brother's for Christmas lunch. My youngest nephew was reading 'Mort'. Was great to see the younger generation getting into Terry Pratchett. Now back home and drinking and watching Lair of the White Worm.
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Happy Christmas UKMT
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bessantj posted:Hope everyone is having a great Christmas. I went to my brother's for Christmas lunch. My youngest nephew was reading 'Mort'. Was great to see the younger generation getting into Terry Pratchett. Now back home and drinking and watching Lair of the White Worm. How spooky, I've just been reading Mort myself. Honestly can't believe I didn't get into Pratchett at a younger age, I have a huge library of work to get into and I can't wait! Also spent time with my young niece, my role as cool uncle is being slowly established. 
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Spent Xmas dinner trying to get the family to stop using racial slurs. Learnt a new one for black people complete with aetiology. Sister in law thinks political correctness has gone too far because you can't sing ba ba black sheep anymore. Why yes the region did go Tory last GE
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I hear that quite often. Apparently it's baa baa rainbow sheep these days? Not sure the LGBT community asked for that one.
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Barry Foster posted:Hello comrades, it's me, Barry Foster. Happy Christmas. You can’t look out for other people if you don’t look after yourself - take care of you first.
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Only reference to it I found was a nursery doing multiple verses replacing the word black with different colours, which just sounds like they are doing their job really
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Azza Bamboo posted:I hear that quite often. Apparently it's baa baa rainbow sheep these days? Not sure the LGBT community asked for that one. Apparently political correctness is a 30 year war against one nursery rhyme. e: ^^ That does sound better. People being mad about a 30 year war to make one nursery rhyme better for kids.
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Like you're literally making fun of the sheep's language while demanding raw textiles and the response of 'yessir yessir' is a typical imperialist depiction of...
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The family is watching some awful compilation wrap up shite and my brain is slowly dissolving from the state of Christmas culture. I don't normally watch TV and the adverts are soul melting. Pity the viewers of Celeb Coach Trip. Food and booze though. Merry Christmas comrades!
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quote:A controversy emerged over changing the language of "Baa Baa Black Sheep" in Britain from 1986, because, it was alleged in the popular press, it was seen as racially dubious. This was based only on a rewriting of the rhyme in one private nursery as an exercise for the children there and not on any local government policy. A similar controversy emerged in 1999 when reservations about the rhyme were submitted to Birmingham City Council by a working group on racism in children's resources, which were never approved or implemented. Two private nurseries in Oxfordshire in 2006 altered the song to "Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep", with black being replaced with a variety of other adjectives, like "happy, sad, hopping" and "pink". In 2012, a private nursery in Kingston upon Thames replaced "black" with "little" for their Easter show. Commentators have asserted that these controversies have been exaggerated or distorted by some elements of the press as part of a more general campaign against political correctness. That's the state of the inclusivity debate in this country.
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crispix posted:We're also in for 40 years of THE LAST LABOUR GOVERNMENT, seems :/ The counter resets when Labour get in, it doesn't actually mean anything.
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Why can't it be "baa, baa red, white and blue sheep have you any Brexit?!" 
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bessantj posted:Now back home and drinking and watching Lair of the White Worm. It's not christmas without at least wincing once at a penis being crunched on. And wasn't Baa Baa used as a racist football chant back in the early 90s? I think I remember some premiership footballer getting it chanted at him. And have an excellent christmas and 2020 people. For this time next year we'll be millionaires bruv*. *Brexit hyperinflation happyhippy fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Dec 25, 2019 |
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