Quinch posted:

Yeah, a lot of people look at how tolerant and accepting modern culture often is of minorities but can’t accept that any gains are precisely because of the way it has put at the forefront that they are now raging against. They think it should be stopped because it isn’t needed without realising that it’s removal would lead to culture becoming intolerant again, that racism is no where near being a solved issue and it’s an ongoing process.

Guavanaut posted:

It's just the standard one rotated 90 degrees.

Santa's obviously authoritarian left (pro-redistribution, anti-naughty, big beard, probably a trot of some sort), Moses is auth right (wrote all that Mosaic Law), Jesus is a libcom, which I guess means George is libertarian right.

Puntification posted:

Take that back about him being a trot; Santa's never tried to sell me a paper.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

I know two young kids with the name Nnn(e)

happyhippy posted:

Yeah, but where does he get the coal from to give to bad kids?

ThomasPaine posted:

All very interesting but I'm a little uncertain about this part - I grew up in Tyneside where NUFC is extremely important from a cultural position and many people my family were very close to were season ticket holders. Despite that my parents always (never openly saying it, in their very subtle way) felt like they had this low-key disdain for football fans that I picked up on - stupid, violent, vulgar: read, daily mail working class. I certainly grew up with an elitist attitude towards the game (why waste your time on that pointless rubbish, brb off to spend 8 hours playing videogames), and it was only in my twenties I started to realise that it was an important social and cultural institution for many people in a way I had previously been too arrogant to understand. I still think there are lots of very problematic aspects of the game like tribalism, lots of homophobia, racism, hooliganism etc but where I used to think they were inherent parts of it I now see your point - they're more reflections of left failure and unchallenged right hegemony (with some major exceptions like Celtic).

Getting back to my parents, I do feel like there was a bit of reverse hyacinth bucket about them. They grew up quite poor before doing super well for themselves, that all went to hell, then they evened out firmly in the lower middle class 'comfortable if small Towns^TM semi detached' bracket. I think that attitude towards football was based on a symbolic rejection of their working class origins, and a reassertion of their 'respectable' credentials in light of their abrupt financial decline (even though they finished significantly better than they started it was well below their peak)

Guavanaut posted:

Jose posted:

My dad is from London and still got a season ticket to take me and my brother

Maugrim posted:

Thanks for the fudge, mine arrived this morning and it's very good - having to resist scoffing it all at once!

Although the sea salt one should come with a warning not to sample it after you've already desensitised your taste buds trying four other kinds of fudge.

Renaissance Robot posted:

How do I get on Camrath's fudge list?

Camrath posted:

So glad you like it.

The sea salt is particularly punchy- it’s the whole flakes on top. But yes, I can see it being a shock if you had the others first!


Drop me a pm or an email at Fudjit.orders at gmail. I’ll be opening up for pre-valentines orders early next week, and will obviously post here when I do.

Anyone have any ideas, desires or good lefty puns for the Valentines goon special?

Camrath posted:

Anyone have any ideas, desires or good lefty puns for the Valentines goon special?

MikeCrotch posted:

Dinner and a movie

Borrovan posted:

Urgent advice needed, somebody took just short of 20 co-codamol & is begging me not to take her to hospital. Do I force her? She'd go along with it if I tell her she doesn't have a choice, but likely to never trust me again if she needs help another time

e: I've tried persuading her, begging, asking for a favour as a friend, all that poo poo

Camrath posted:

Anyone have any ideas, desires or good lefty puns for the Valentines goon special?

Maugrim posted:

Doesn't co-codamol contain paracetamol? If so get the gently caress to hospital

E: I mean do it anyway but paracetamol overdose is horrendous

Camrath posted:

Anyone have any ideas, desires or good lefty puns for the Valentines goon special?

Borrovan posted:

Urgent advice needed, somebody took just short of 20 co-codamol & is begging me not to take her to hospital. Do I force her? She'd go along with it if I tell her she doesn't have a choice, but likely to never trust me again if she needs help another time

e: I've tried persuading her, begging, asking for a favour as a friend, all that poo poo

mrpwase posted:

Maugrim posted:

As a turkish delight fan I'd be interested to try a rose-flavoured fudge but I can't think of a good lefty pun for it.

Borrovan posted:

Urgent advice needed, somebody took just short of 20 co-codamol & is begging me not to take her to hospital. Do I force her? She'd go along with it if I tell her she doesn't have a choice, but likely to never trust me again if she needs help another time

e: I've tried persuading her, begging, asking for a favour as a friend, all that poo poo

Borrovan posted:

Thanks guys, took her to A&E. She has flipped the gently caress out but eh. She'll def get the chance to calm down now, at least.

Trust concern was more just worrying whether she'll tell me if she takes a lot more next time, but hopefully she'll get over it.

Anyway, how about them Tories, eh

Borrovan posted:

Thanks guys, took her to A&E. She has flipped the gently caress out but eh. She'll def get the chance to calm down now, at least.

Trust concern was more just worrying whether she'll tell me if she takes a lot more next time, but hopefully she'll get over it.

Anyway, how about them Tories, eh

OwlFancier posted:

Put it on a biscuit and call it shortbread and roses.

forkboy84 posted:

That's potentially 10000mg of paracetamol (if I remember how much paracetamol is in co-codamol). Which is definitely enough to do serious damage to her liver and so you did the right thing. Going to A&E or where ever is scary as hell but paracetamol toxicity isn't something to experience.

Lord Ludikrous posted:

Going to play armchair psychologist here but this feels more like a cry for help than anything. If she truly wanted to end it all then why tell someone when it gives them an obvious chance to step in and stop you?

I think she will be very grateful to you in the future when she’s feeling a bit better.

Borrovan posted:

Thanks guys, took her to A&E. She has flipped the gently caress out but eh. She'll def get the chance to calm down now, at least.

Trust concern was more just worrying whether she'll tell me if she takes a lot more next time, but hopefully she'll get over it.

Anyway, how about them Tories, eh

Tesseraction posted:

A little off-topic but do any of you have good game griefing stories you can share? I'm working on something

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VIDEO: MAN POSES AS TORY TO GET ONTO BBCQT – THEN HAMMERS MEDIA FOR DIVIDING COMMUNITIES TO HELP TORIES RULE
24/01/2020 · by SKWAWKBOX (SW) · in comment. ·

“I literally pretended to be a Tory in every stage of the application process”

A student in last night’s BBC Question Time audience has caused a stir by hammering the media’s role in helping divide the UK’s people so that they don’t resist Tory cuts like the French – and posing as a Tory to get past the programme’s checks.

The man, who goes by the Twitter handle of @sensiblehuman96, was invited to speak toward the end of the programme – and laid out the truth that people power is a viable alternative to parliamentary power for changing the political direction of the country.

And he blasted the media for helping to divide communities to help the Tories avoid the type of resistance that ‘scares Boris Johnson… that scared Thatcher in 1990 when she tried to introduce the poll tax’:

VIDEO HERE IN LINK

Tory trolls immediately tried to dismiss his contribution as that of a ‘plant’ – contrary to all the evidence, right-wingers love to pretend Question Time and other BBC output is full of ‘liberal bias’.

But the young man had posed as a Tory in order to get onto the programme, as he told the odious Toby Young:


Question Time is regularly and justly criticised for its bias and for cramming audiences – even in left-wing cities like Liverpool – with aggressive Tories and even right-wing extremists. And a frequent tactic on the programme is to ‘book-end’ each show with comments from a right-wing audience member to first set the tone of the discussion and then to ensure a right-friendly ‘take-away’ for those who have endured to the close.

‘SensibleHuman96’s brilliant-made point is perfectly correct. Boris Johnson’s parliamentary majority does not have to mean Johnson can do whatever he wants.

But the fact that the student had to con his way onto the programme to make it shows the scale of the challenge facing British people who don’t want to allow the Tories to asset-strip and degrade our country for the next five years.

Lord Ludikrous posted:

Going to play armchair psychologist here but this feels more like a cry for help than anything. If she truly wanted to end it all then why tell someone when it gives them an obvious chance to step in and stop you?

I think she will be very grateful to you in the future when she’s feeling a bit better.

Guavanaut posted:

Parasuicides are all kinds of weird and often the person themselves doesn't even know why they did it.

A common one seems to be a reaction against the pain of living without a desire to actually die but without knowing what else to do, which generally points to some underlying issues.