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Solefald: Jun 9, 2010; sleepy~capy

Did the discord disband or did you guys kick me out cos lol what??????

# ? Feb 11, 2020 18:44

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Mano: Jul 11, 2012

Sanitary Naptime posted:

Also if welsh is a Saxon slur, why hasn�t there been more work to fix that from within Wales? Is wales also a slur? I�m not being facetious here, I legit don�t know this poo poo and I�m curious

Not sure if I would directly classify it as slur, but AFAIK it�s from an old Germanic word meaning stranger/foreign. Other names coming from the same: Wallis/Valais in Switzerland; the Walser People; the french-speaking part of Switzerland is sometimes called Welschland and reneging on a deal used to be sometimes called welschen.

# ? Feb 11, 2020 18:51

mehall: Aug 27, 2010

Solefald posted:

Did the discord disband or did you guys kick me out cos lol what??????

I'm not aware of anyone having been kicked out lately.

We did do a purge of zero-contribution members, and anyone on a couple of known nazi lists, after an issue we had shortly after the election, but there's not been anything additional that I'm aware of this year.

# ? Feb 11, 2020 18:53

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

Gonzo McFee posted:

Every poll of people who vote tory only gives more weight to my opinion that you should slap the absolute gently caress out of anyone who ever admits to voting tory. Just beat the piss out of them.

Solefald posted:

Did the discord disband or did you guys kick me out cos lol what??????

How long ago were you last on there? Cause there was an incident a while back and now everyone has to get verified or something.

# ? Feb 11, 2020 18:54

Sanitary Naptime: May 29, 2006; MIWK!

Solefald posted:

Did the discord disband or did you guys kick me out cos lol what??????

It�s still there, but you need to auth yourself because of all the discord drama shite around the whole fyad thing.

Links still in the OP so just jump in and get authd again

# ? Feb 11, 2020 18:54

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

Sanitary Naptime posted:

It�s still there, but you need to auth yourself because of all the discord drama shite around the whole fyad thing.

Links still in the OP so just jump in and get authd again

See now I'm a little annoyed that I didn't have to do that because I'm just that boring.

# ? Feb 11, 2020 18:57

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

From the comments on RLB's trans rights tweet:

quote:

I was also going to vote for her as everybody says she is the left wing choice... this is no left wing, this is liberal BS, there's nothing more capitalist and individualist than gender self-id. I'm going to spoil my vote, this is totally disgraceful. Labour future is bleak

Gender self-ID is capitalism now, everyone watch out. I'm going to eminent domain TERFs of their genders and rent them back to them.

# ? Feb 11, 2020 18:59

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

That sounds like galloway's bullshit where anything fun is capitalism.

# ? Feb 11, 2020 19:00

Comrade Fakename: Feb 13, 2012

A shitload of country names in various languages eventually translate down to "foreigners", "people who aren't us", "people we don't know anything about", "people who have one weird attribute because some of our lot met some of them like that thousands of years ago".

A lot of country names involve the word for "mute" because the name is from long enough ago that the people who named it thought that people who couldn't speak their language literally could not speak at all.

# ? Feb 11, 2020 19:01

TRIXNET: Jun 6, 2004; META AS FUCK.

Mano posted:

Not sure if I would directly classify it as slur, but AFAIK it�s from an old Germanic word meaning stranger/foreign. Other names coming from the same: Wallis/Valais in Switzerland; the Walser People; the french-speaking part of Switzerland is sometimes called Welschland and reneging on a deal used to be sometimes called welschen.

I've never quite known what Lister in Red Dwarf meant by Rimmer welschen on him in Bodyswap, until now! The more you know.

# ? Feb 11, 2020 19:05

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

sebzilla posted:

Time for the monthly "Restore the Heptarchy" post

I think we should restore the Heptarchy :hai:

Guavanaut posted:

From the comments on RLB's trans rights tweet:

Gender self-ID is capitalism now, everyone watch out. I'm going to eminent domain TERFs of their genders and rent them back to them.

Big tankie energy :allears:

# ? Feb 11, 2020 19:19

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

Going to leverage my gender identity to extract wealth from the gender disenfranchised.

Actually isn't that glinner's business model?

# ? Feb 11, 2020 19:23

Gort: Aug 18, 2003; Good day what ho cup of tea

That's "welching", isn't it?

# ? Feb 11, 2020 19:25

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

Guavanaut posted:

From the comments on RLB's trans rights tweet:

Gender self-ID is capitalism now, everyone watch out. I'm going to eminent domain TERFs of their genders and rent them back to them.

it's because being trans is a scam pushed on us by Big Hormone Pharma to get reassignment treatment

(this is what some people actually believe)

# ? Feb 11, 2020 19:25

Borrovan: Aug 15, 2013; IT IS ME.
🧑‍💼
I AM THERESA MAY

Guavanaut posted:

Gender self-ID is capitalism now, everyone watch out. I'm going to eminent domain TERFs of their genders and rent them back to them.

I self identify as owning the means of production

Which I hereby bequeath to the worker

It's over, comrades, we won

# ? Feb 11, 2020 19:32

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

My condolences to all in this thread who have lost someone.

The Question IRL posted:

So not to weigh in any further on the Nationalism/UK debate. I have Opinions on this topic which arises from being lucky enough to grow up in an Ireland that is Independent and that went from being a really crappy 80's economy to Celtic Tiger and better economy, and from consuming a lot of English media and the way in which Ireland is viewed in Britain.

What I will weigh in on is what Saith said.

Firstly, I'm sorry that your Uncle died. That absolutely sucks. It also sucks that he died as a result of failure from medical care.

My daughter died in June. It was awful. She also died from what my wife and I felt was failure of medical care.

So some things I have learnt about grief.

1) It's horrible. It's a pain that is always there. And some days it gets better. And then other days something will set you off and you'll feel wrecked. It can't be predicted, it just happens.

2) You can feel depressed. Like a lot of the time. And occasionally you will find yourself getting angry instead. And being angry is intoxicating, because there is a feeling of power you get from being angry (to use a strained analogy, depression can feel like being on downers, while anger can feel like being on uppers.) And while you can feel powerful and righteous if you are angry about something, anger is bad for your mental well being, just like depression is.

3) We form narratives in our head. This one is strange. Basically humans and their minds have a lot of difficulty coping with tragedy. Often because tragedy arises out of something that was random. And that messes up our heads. And we find it is easier to ascribe their being a reason behind the tragedy. Even if that reason is dumb and non-nonsensical, we will accept above the idea that it was just pure chance.
I still remember when I was in the Ultrasound room and we were told that there was no longer a heartbeat. I fell to the floor and just howled. And in between my tears I insisted that the reason this happened was because I hadn't read the Parenting book I was given as a gift at Christmas.
Now this is clearly untrue and not the reason why my little girl died. But at the time, my mind accepted that because it made more sense than "poo poo happens."

And I think you may be dealing with a bit of that. It is easier to think that Wales being an Independent nation would have prevented this as opposed to the idea that this was an accident that sadly probably could not have been prevented.

However this is where your situation gets a bit more complicated

4) Tragedy is made worse when there is negligence involved.
Dealing with a loss is bad enough when there is objectively nobody to blame.
But where you can say that you feel let down by the care services (and without going into the details of my situation, my wife and I did feel let down) you have somebody that you think is responsible. And the degree to which that is the case and how you'll always say to yourself "What if this thing happened differently. Would my loved one still be alive?" is something that makes the grief process a lot harder.

To summarize. I'm sorry for your loss.

Try not to let the anger consume you over this.

Maybe if your Uncle was in a different part of the country or care services hadn't been so cut to the bone, a different result would have happened. Sadly you won't know and as difficult as it is, you need to move away from the temptation to imagine what could have happened and focus on your reality.

But campaign for a full understanding of why it happened if you feel the need for this, and to see if a change can be made to make sure this won't happen again.

A very powerful post. Thank you.

# ? Feb 11, 2020 19:37

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

Mano posted:

Not sure if I would directly classify it as slur, but AFAIK it�s from an old Germanic word meaning stranger/foreign. Other names coming from the same: Wallis/Valais in Switzerland; the Walser People; the french-speaking part of Switzerland is sometimes called Welschland and reneging on a deal used to be sometimes called welschen.

We do still use the term 'to welch on an agreement' here in the UK.

# ? Feb 11, 2020 19:38

Borrovan: Aug 15, 2013; IT IS ME.
🧑‍💼
I AM THERESA MAY

Wait is "welch" racist?

I still have to consciously remind myself not to say "gyp", which I always thought was spelled "jip". gently caress.

e:

Borrovan fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Feb 11, 2020

# ? Feb 11, 2020 19:41

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

mehall posted:

My overwhelming preference would be for a socialist united kingdom, but short of that I'll take materially improving the lives of the working class folk around me, because for my entire life the people around me have been the third of fourth consideration.

The Firth of Forth consideration, surely? :thunk:

# ? Feb 11, 2020 19:41

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Angela Rayner also signed up to the trans rights pledges. Don't see any other leadership or deputy leadership candidates on the list yet, but that may have changed since I last checked.

https://twitter.com/angelarayner/status/1227188845642424320?s=21

Also, has anyone else ever received unusually large payments from Universal Credit? Particularly after attending a disability interview?

# ? Feb 11, 2020 19:48

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

Borrovan posted:

Wait is "welch" racist?

I still have to consciously remind myself not to say "gyp", which I always thought was spelled "jip". gently caress.

e:

Is "swizz" anti-Swiss?

Paging Coohoolin

# ? Feb 11, 2020 19:51

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

Coohoolin posted:

it's because being trans is a scam pushed on us by Big Hormone Pharma to get reassignment treatment

(this is what some people actually believe)

Surely self ID and telling transmedicalists to gently caress off helps solve that.

The current situation where you have to prove that you're 'really trans' with years of living as a gender and any medical notes and surgery helps your 'case' sounds far more like a Big Hormone Pharma thing than trusting someone's self ID.

# ? Feb 11, 2020 19:54

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

Borrovan posted:

Wait is "welch" racist?

I still have to consciously remind myself not to say "gyp", which I always thought was spelled "jip". gently caress.

e:

Did you ever hear that old nursery rhyme Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief?

(Taff - is also considered a term of abuse these days. Not sure if Gog is!)

# ? Feb 11, 2020 19:54

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Sorry, I've been catching up and shitposting in the middle of some genuinely heavy poo poo. My condolences to everyone who has lost someone, and I share the rage of those who lost someone unnecessarily. To lose a child is far worse than anything I can imagine, especially.

# ? Feb 11, 2020 19:58

Apraxin: Feb 22, 2006; General-Admiral

Well, this is pretty mask-off from Cummings and Javid:
https://mobile.twitter.com/guardian/status/1227216880294912000
�Downing Street has dismissed concerns about a deportation flight to Jamaica as the preoccupation of a �Westminster bubble� and vowed to press ahead with an inquiry into the use of judicial review.

After a court judgment forced the government to remove more than half the people from the flight list, the prime minister�s press secretary said reaction to the case showed that �certain parts of Westminster still haven�t learned the lessons of the 2019 election�.�

# ? Feb 11, 2020 19:59

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

For the record, I'm pretty OK with Rayner, simply because she's one of RLB's most trusted friends and co-workers. I think they'd be an extremely effective team, simply because that's what they've been in the past.

# ? Feb 11, 2020 20:00

EmptyVessel: Oct 30, 2012

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Did you ever hear that old nursery rhyme Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief?

(Taff - is also considered a term of abuse these days. Not sure if Gog is!)

Only ever heard Gog used by Southern Welsh about Northern Welsh.
(Because even if group A think all group B are 'slur' you can bet that parts of group B will think that other parts of group B are 'slur', and so on and on until you get one end of the street slandering the other. No need.)

# ? Feb 11, 2020 20:03

NotJustANumber99: Feb 15, 2012; somehow that last av was even worse than your posting

Darth Walrus posted:

For the record, I'm pretty OK with Rayner, simply because she's one of RLB's most trusted friends and co-workers. I think they'd be an extremely effective team, simply because that's what they've been in the past.

A new Blair and Brown? To be fair a decade in charge does sound alright.

Apraxin posted:

After a court judgment forced the government to remove more than half the people from the flight list, the prime minister’s press secretary said reaction to the case showed that “certain parts of Westminster still haven’t learned the lessons of the 2019 election”.’

He's right. The lesson is that they can do whatever they want, literally be told its illegal and not to do it by a court and still nobody cares.

# ? Feb 11, 2020 20:06

Isomermaid: Dec 3, 2019; Swish swish, like a fish

Apraxin posted:

Well, this is pretty mask-off from Cummings and Javid:
https://mobile.twitter.com/guardian/status/1227216880294912000
�Downing Street has dismissed concerns about a deportation flight to Jamaica as the preoccupation of a �Westminster bubble� and vowed to press ahead with an inquiry into the use of judicial review.

After a court judgment forced the government to remove more than half the people from the flight list, the prime minister�s press secretary said reaction to the case showed that �certain parts of Westminster still haven�t learned the lessons of the 2019 election�.�

"You're in a bubble, whereas I am in a safety shell of lightweight transparent material that affords me protection whilst offering excellent unparalleled 360 degree visibility on the world" he screams from his bubble as he deports Brits home from the place they've lived all their life

# ? Feb 11, 2020 20:07

Darth Walrus: Feb 13, 2012

Since we were chatting about invisible racism today, this is a grim but important thread about that soldier who died recently:

https://twitter.com/roadsidemum/status/1227056652765016064?s=21

# ? Feb 11, 2020 20:17

Puntification: Nov 4, 2009; Black Orthodontromancy
The most British Magic; Fun Shoe

My Condolences to all goons dealing with a loss.

Darth Walrus posted:

For the record, I'm pretty OK with Rayner, simply because she's one of RLB's most trusted friends and co-workers. I think they'd be an extremely effective team, simply because that's what they've been in the past.

My parents are part of a socialist education organisation who like and support Rayner on the basis of her willingness to meet with them and associated trade unionists and be swayed left by them on education; they do worry that if starmer gets made leader she may be similarly swayed rightward though.

Apraxin posted:

Well, this is pretty mask-off from Cummings and Javid:
https://mobile.twitter.com/guardian/status/1227216880294912000
‘Downing Street has dismissed concerns about a deportation flight to Jamaica as the preoccupation of a “Westminster bubble” and vowed to press ahead with an inquiry into the use of judicial review.

After a court judgment forced the government to remove more than half the people from the flight list, the prime minister’s press secretary said reaction to the case showed that “certain parts of Westminster still haven’t learned the lessons of the 2019 election”.’

Winning the election has them feeling this is a post-mask era.

# ? Feb 11, 2020 20:37

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Darth Walrus posted:

Since we were chatting about invisible racism today, this is a grim but important thread about that soldier who died recently:

https://twitter.com/roadsidemum/status/1227056652765016064?s=21

loving shocking from top to bottom.

# ? Feb 11, 2020 20:40

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

The entire idea that the army would not notice a dead guy on the base for 3 weeks is farcical as is, they're clearly hiding something and that's as likely as anything. I'd been assuming he was murdered probably by some officer or something. Or some toff's son or something.

# ? Feb 11, 2020 20:43

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

Yeah this is terrible from top to bottom. I did wonder if he found something out that he shouldn't have, given his position.

Now just looks more likely that it was a racist beating.

# ? Feb 11, 2020 20:46

Gonzo McFee: Jun 19, 2010

https://twitter.com/mynnoj/status/1227315285759229953?s=19

lol

# ? Feb 11, 2020 20:49

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

OwlFancier posted:

The entire idea that the army would not notice a dead guy on the base for 3 weeks is farcical as is, they're clearly hiding something and that's as likely as anything. I'd been assuming he was murdered probably by some officer or something. Or some toff's son or something.

It almost doesn't matter how he died - that he was left undiscovered for three weeks pretty much removes any benefit of the doubt you'd be willing to give, because that's a level of incompetence that is indistinguishable from malice.

# ? Feb 11, 2020 20:50

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

Gonzo McFee posted:

https://twitter.com/mynnoj/status/1227315285759229953?s=19

lol

Nobody click on #expelme if they value their sanity/wish to pretend Labour Party members are universally non-trash people. I mean I'm sure if I were to bother to dig in a bit the amount of the people using it who were actually members would be about the same as those claiming to quit because of AS or Corbyn being a terrorist or any of the other Fiat 500 Twitter "deeply held concerns" (i.e. 50% at best) but still.

# ? Feb 11, 2020 20:52

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

Why on earth would julie bindel be a member of the labour party anyway???

# ? Feb 11, 2020 20:58

Prince John: Jun 20, 2006; Oh, poppycock! Female bandits?

Has the Matt Singh thread with lots of snippets from the big focus group been posted yet?

Quite a lot of info for those who don't want to read the whole report.

https://mobile.twitter.com/MattSingh_/status/1227009423585021954

# ? Feb 11, 2020 21:02

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OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

I really hate that there's an industry based around quantifying the kind of moronic poo poo you can find in any comment section.

# ? Feb 11, 2020 21:06

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