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Ms Adequate posted:Mods please I'm begging you Another forum name change request? (Sorry.) E: In November 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. This was in the main a good thing, but it did remove the handy dividing line to show where all the AfD voters live.
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big scary monsters posted:There are plenty other difficulties with moving abroad, but I think people overestimate the language barrier. Basically any large city in Central or Northern Europe is going to be completely fine to live in speaking only English. Having done this in Oslo...sooort of. Yes anyone will understand you if you speak English so the supermarket is no problem. But if you're down the pub socialising for instance everyone is speaking Norwegian so you can't join the conversation. It becomes isolating.
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# ? Feb 18, 2020 20:26 |
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Jedit posted:E: In November 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. This was in the main a good thing, but it did remove the handy dividing line to show where all the AfD voters live. thespaceinvader posted:You assume anyone would notice other than the people who want to actually use it.
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https://starwarsintrocreator.kassellabs.io/?ref=redirect#!/BM0OkipgbeBNfcONKihf
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endlessmonotony posted:Ash may be disagreeable but there's certainly good reasons to be that way in the current situation, and the logic is solid. It's not really any different from the empty slogan of Cameron's "we are all in this together"
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https://twitter.com/Otto_English/status/1229830928169611265?s=20 Some funny replies to that.
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WhatEvil posted:I don't take issue with green spaces etc. and I don't actually necessarily think that golf courses should be the first thing we build on, but they're green spaces which are only enjoyed by a privileged few, which is a bit poo poo. 98% of golf courses are completely empty far more often than they have people playing you can just walk round them and no-one will give a gently caress as long as you're not letting your dog poo poo in the bunkers
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# ? Feb 18, 2020 20:54 |
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Jedit posted:Another forum name change request? Always. If I had my way I'd change my name four times a day. Also I wanted to go back to talking about FALGSC. I don't know if we have enough to fully bring everyone up to current first-world standards, but we could certainly do a great deal to make life fairer, globally, by massive economic and political restructuring. I think sometimes despite being leftists we overlook just how much is wasted on shite that could be spent better, and I'm not talking about smartphones. One of the very arguments being made is of course that we don't need to and shouldn't want to bring everyone up to today's conception of wealth and luxury, which is true to an extent (Though I am leery of arguments that get too close to "Oh you don't actually like [thing] it's just capitalism has told you you should like it" because no, there's no circumstances in which I wouldn't love videos game or some descendent thereof), but more importantly we could do an incredible amount to help the global south if we just treated them fairly. Literally that alone would be enough to help a lot of people do a lot better in material terms. Of course, capitalism necessarily precludes fairness, which is why we need radical and global changes. So; Treat them fairly. Help install and grow technological bases by sharing we have that's most clean and efficient. Maybe if we spent the money currently going into the military on healthcare, sanitation, and education? Even that much would be a massive change that would bring the wealth of the world up vastly, and we haven't even got into the issues of reparations or guillotining the rich and distributing their ill-gotten gains to those who actually mined the ore and assembled the phones and transported everything. Nor, indeed, have we really touched on the potential for automation technologies, though it's somewhat related to the second point it's also an important and distinct issue that could already have dramatically changed the world but instead has dramatically increased the wealth of the 0.01%. I'm not saying everyone could live like a billionaire, or even a millionaire, but I struggle to believe that we couldn't get everyone up to a level roughly akin to a comfortable level that the average person from a developed country would be pretty okay with. And if we began to develop on that with specific intentions in mind, and the ability to plan and execute over the medium and long term (Rather than just the next quarter or elected term as finance and liberal capitalism demand) we could work on improving that further and doing so without environmental catastrophe.
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WhatEvil posted:Anyway in other news: feedmegin posted:Having done this in Oslo...sooort of. Yes anyone will understand you if you speak English so the supermarket is no problem. But if you're down the pub socialising for instance everyone is speaking Norwegian so you can't join the conversation. It becomes isolating.
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Julio Cruz posted:98% of golf courses are completely empty far more often than they have people playing What if you want to poo poo in the bunkers (asking for a friend)
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# ? Feb 18, 2020 21:03 |
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Forgive me for going off on a CSPAM-like tangent about this, but: The worst period for wage growth in the last 200 years. Conservatives: Good For The EconomyTM But it's okay! Such a temporary fall in wages is a reasonable cost for implementing wide-ranging socialist policies, like, uhh. Umm. The Great British Public: Oh wow let's elect these cunts for five more years! Except even more rabid and nationalist, I'm sure it will work out fine.
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Ms Adequate posted:Though I am leery of arguments that get too close to "Oh you don't actually like [thing] it's just capitalism has told you you should like it" because no, there's no circumstances in which I wouldn't love videos game or some descendent thereof A better society would have more community oriented ways of providing fulfillment.
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crispix posted:What if you want to poo poo in the bunkers (asking for a friend) do it under cover of darkness
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# ? Feb 18, 2020 21:08 |
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Guavanaut posted:It's not so much that you wouldn't like video games if there were no consumer electronics industry, although that's a thing that tautologically true, it's that consumerism employs a whole ton of psychoanalyses to get people to want next thing, or different thing. Multiplayer is haraam.
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WhatEvil posted:I don't take issue with green spaces etc. and I don't actually necessarily think that golf courses should be the first thing we build on, but they're green spaces which are only enjoyed by a privileged few, which is a bit poo poo. we saves 'em, we keeps 'em What do you mean that's theft?
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Can't wait for the unrelenting tide of "Britain has lost its marbles!!" from fubpees
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Ms Adequate posted:Multiplayer is haraam.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:https://twitter.com/Otto_English/status/1229830928169611265?s=20 Drench me EUDaddy!
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Ratjaculation posted:we saves 'em, we keeps 'em https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x73PkUvArJY
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WhatEvil posted:I don't take issue with green spaces etc. and I don't actually necessarily think that golf courses should be the first thing we build on, but they're green spaces which are only enjoyed by a privileged few, which is a bit poo poo. GLORIOUS
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Guavanaut posted:Oh I saw this earlier and thought Ms A should see this so now you have to. Hey there with the abnormal geometries. Wanna make those spheres redolent. Ph'dang
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WhatEvil posted:I don't take issue with green spaces etc. and I don't actually necessarily think that golf courses should be the first thing we build on, but they're green spaces which are only enjoyed by a privileged few, which is a bit poo poo. Presumably if they're being sold they're not keeping it as a golf course and it could become a park instead.
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# ? Feb 18, 2020 22:03 |
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I highly recommend everyone watch this series on Netflix, it's some incredibly well-crafted stand up
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# ? Feb 18, 2020 22:09 |
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interesting news, but not unexpected. Andrew Murray has quit his advisory role in the Labour leadership office to go back to full time at his Unite gig
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# ? Feb 18, 2020 22:17 |
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Let's play another fun game of complete the headline, goons! Wait, let's not.
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# ? Feb 18, 2020 22:31 |
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Only semi-related to anything being discussed here other than my own theories that London is better than everywhere else, but came across this line on wiki:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparrows_Can%27t_Sing posted:The dialogue is a mixture of Cockney rhyming slang, London Yiddish, and thieves' cant. The New York Times, in its review said "this isn't a picture for anyone with a logical mind or an ear for language. The gabble of cockney spoken here is as incomprehensible as the reasoning of those who speak it."[6] It was also the first English language film to be released in the United States with subtitles.[7] :crying-pie-and-mash-emoji: Cockneys were baffling Americans almost half a century before Trainspotting.
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# ? Feb 18, 2020 22:34 |
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Ms Adequate posted:The greatest shame of the 20th century was not doing Operation Unthinkable, Because you think the USSR would win or....???
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It's also on archive.org if anyone is interested in the language of these people: https://archive.org/details/Sparrows.Cant.Sing.1963.720pSparrows.Cant.Sing.1963 e: Cockneys, not the USSR. However the USSR would certainly have won, especially if the USA had noped out after Japan capitulated.
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Guavanaut posted:It's also on archive.org if anyone is interested in the language of these people: It's a great little film but also an absolute time capsule in both the plot ("A woman... who wants to decide what to do with her own life?!?!?") and the setting, an East End still half-destroyed by the Blitz and still not really sure what to do next. Also an absolute who's who of light comedy actors of the 70s (Barbra Windsor stars in her first major role playing the role she has played literally ever since, Roy Kinnear, George and Mildred, Blakey off On The Buses (who also wrote it)), and a cameo from the Kray Twins (who allegedly bankrolled the film) and - at their insistence - Queenie Watts (who was definitely a much bigger star in the East End than anyone else in the film).
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namesake posted:Because you think the USSR would win or....??? Read the rest of her post. It's not entirely serious.
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Guavanaut posted:It's also on archive.org if anyone is interested in the language of these people: this is extremely not difficult to follow, i was expecting much worse.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Barbra Windsor stars in her first major role playing the role she has played literally ever since CoolCab posted:this is extremely not difficult to follow, i was expecting much worse. My grandad had several stories about how he had to act as an interpreter between Geordies and English during the 30s, like they were not mutually intelligible, and my dad had one about American investors in the 70s coming to London and getting a tour of sites up to Liverpool. They lost the ability to keep track of the spoken word somewhere around Coventry. There's probably some exaggeration there, but having a range of accents in news media, popular entertainment, etc. trains the ear. I'm also pretty sure this is taking the direct piss out of standard East End movies being subtitled for the US. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73d6h_go7QI
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# ? Feb 18, 2020 23:02 |
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Geordies can be really hard to understand, I worked with a guy once who was almost completely unintelligible and looked like one of the chuckle brothers.
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OwlFancier posted:Geordies can be really hard to understand, I worked with a guy once who was almost completely unintelligible and looked like one of the chuckle brothers. Geordies are some of the friendliest people you'll ever meet
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He was nice sure I just couldn't understand half the stuff that came out of his mouth.
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Darth Walrus posted:Read the rest of her post. It's not entirely serious. Oops. I read good.
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# ? Feb 18, 2020 23:39 |
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Guavanaut posted:Oh I saw this earlier and thought Ms A should see this so now you have to. (But also lol) namesake posted:Because you think the USSR would win or....??? Oh I just think comboing straight from the largest war in human history into an even larger one would be the galaxy brain move.
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Ms Adequate posted:Oh I just think comboing straight from the largest war in human history into an even larger one would be the galaxy brain move. Yeah sorry I am not posting good tonight. I'm still a bit tired from the weekend it seems.
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lol, I did think as much
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Communist Thoughts posted:Yeah I was thinking something similar as I posted it. It could also be a sign of the kind of insularity we ended up with, just not caring about stuff coming from outside. I don't have much to add, but I thought this was an excellent post on a topic that doesn't really get discussed all that much, but should. There's a lot of assumptions about all the great stuff that RLB is definitely going to do to radically reshape the party, but as far as I can tell a lot of it is just people having huge faith in the power of open selections to be transformative
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