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josh04 posted:If a friend tells you a humourous story about child naming it is always, 100% of the time, an urban myth. There is something about child-name urban myths which makes people determined to represent them as something they personally saw absolute proof of, despite them always being absolute bollocks. it's racism, op e: Number 12 Looks Just Like You
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ronya posted:On the downside, though, there's so little money available that it's relatively easy for some institutional heft to quietly push things around by simply choosing whose voices to emphasize: too many voices chasing the same few institutional funds and institutional access to the right mailing lists and Whatsapp groups and Telegram channels. This is interesting because I think it mirrors whats going on in the post-austerity UK in general. Austerity, while pissing off most public bodies, has also made them even more subservient to government because nobody can hope of surviving without their largesse anymore. so it has actually increased the soft power of the government substantially
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Vitamin P posted:To be clear I'm language libertarian lol Edit: Vitamin P posted:I'm a cringe sincere poster. lol Microplastics fucked around with this message at 13:04 on May 3, 2020 |
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May 3, 2020 12:57
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Going to have a niece in a few weeks. Bit annoyed my sister has turned down my naming suggestion of "Verruca Sephiroth"
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Communist Thoughts posted:This is interesting because I think it mirrors whats going on in the post-austerity UK in general. Post austerity? Lol I don’t even get the extra £20 a week because I’m on legacy benefits and they haven’t tacked it on to income support, PIP, or carers.
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May 3, 2020 12:59
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josh04 posted:If a friend tells you a humourous story about child naming it is always, 100% of the time, an urban myth. There is something about child-name urban myths which makes people determined to represent them as something they personally saw absolute proof of, despite them always being absolute bollocks. A guy I used to work would describe events that happened in viral videos as if they either happened to him or someone he knew.
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May 3, 2020 13:01
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josh04 posted:If a friend tells you a humourous story about child naming it is always, 100% of the time, an urban myth. There is something about child-name urban myths which makes people determined to represent them as something they personally saw absolute proof of, despite them always being absolute bollocks. I have personally met Richard Head, so they're not all myths.
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May 3, 2020 13:03
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I heard someone named their child Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, can you imagine.
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May 3, 2020 13:09
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Jedit posted:I have personally met Richard Head, so they're not all myths. And my mate's dad is called Michael Hunt.
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May 3, 2020 13:12
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Coohoolin posted:There should absolutely be a mechanism to protect kids from their parents' lovely naming attempts, but it needs to be decentralised because I can easily imagine a british naming law saying no to welsh or gaidhlig names. Mandating that names with no consensus Romanization like مُحَمَّد or علي be registered as 'John' or 'Clive' to placate the haram steak lot otoh... Jedit posted:I have personally met Richard Head, so they're not all myths.
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May 3, 2020 13:19
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Norway has a law to "protect" rare surnames. If fewer than 200 people are registered with a particular surname and someone else wants to change their name to it, they first have to get permission from everyone else in the country with that name. Being a foreigner my surname is unusual enough to be protected, so I'm just waiting for the day when I get the call to wield this incredible power. Not really sure what the purpose of this law is, but I'm going to assume it probably has roots in stopping commoners adopting noble names.
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May 3, 2020 13:21
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I played football in uni with a Michael Caine.
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May 3, 2020 13:30
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Jedit posted:I have personally met Richard Head, so they're not all myths. Have we already forgotten the thrilling two months when Dick Braine was leader of UKIP?
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May 3, 2020 13:34
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What about Tokyo Sexwale? More of a TRP thing I guess, but he was also Nelson Mandela's ally and friend.
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May 3, 2020 13:36
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Old pro wrestler Ricky Steamboat's real name is Richard Blood.
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May 3, 2020 13:37
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When your real name is too hardcore for wrestling so you have to tone it down.
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May 3, 2020 13:45
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It will always be a wonder to me that epitome of masculinity, the wrestler Big Daddy, was named Shirley
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May 3, 2020 13:48
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Pesky Splinter posted:And my mate's dad is called Michael Hunt. I also know a dad called Micheal Hunt. Terrible naming decisions are a thing, I meant the little story myths where there's a parent making a bad choice for some outrageous reason (like "after the brand of pregnancy test") and a 'sensible' third party there to make a face. tl;dr Failed Imagineer posted:it's racism, op
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I promise I won't be flooding the thread with go live notifications for twitch, but just as an FYI the podcast twitch is currently on on Fridays from 7 for Disco Elysium, and Sundays from half 2 for some chilled out Minecraft, and that means I'm live now if anyone wants to chill out with comrades. https://twitter.com/PraxisCast/status/1256940144126558208?s=20
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Failed Imagineer posted:it's racism, op There's some racism in there in that the names considered 'chavvy' often have some degree of overlap with anglicized Irish names, but it's different in character to the urban legend 'black' names poo poo.
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May 3, 2020 14:40
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Has anyone here played 'Not For Broadcast'? It's in early release, you play the vision mixer for the nightly UK news as Lefty Farage's party has just won an election and plans to destroy the 1%. It is very funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vxZNj0C7fQ https://youtu.be/5vxZNj0C7fQ
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May 3, 2020 14:46
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Guavanaut posted:
drat, the anglicisation of my Irish name seems to be high on the lists of "chavvy" names, TIL
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Jippa posted:A guy I used to work would describe events that happened in viral videos as if they either happened to him or someone he knew. He just has too much empathy. The mirror neurons in his brain give him a sort of disco ball effect when he makes eye contact. He can't help but repost memes saying 'it me' because he actually believes it is him.
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BisonDollah posted:Has anyone here played 'Not For Broadcast'? It's in early release, you play the vision mixer for the nightly UK news as Lefty Farage's party has just won an election and plans to destroy the 1%. It is very funny. Yeah I've got it, only played the two broadcasts so far and I'm a little worried that it's gonna be going radical centrist on me and helping the pissed-up bloke talking about taking all the rich people's money will somehow be the "wrong" choice.
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Comrade Fakename posted:Maybe you could just consider it a form of child abuse? If you genuinely burden your child with the name Superhitler or something you probably should have that child taken away from you. Remember these guys? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/18/uk-couple-who-named-baby-after-hitler-jailed-for-terror-group-membership
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May 3, 2020 14:59
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Liz Truss's twitter follows are unsurprisingly poo poo:
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FairyNuff posted:Liz Truss's twitter follows are unsurprisingly poo poo: this loving sucks
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May 3, 2020 15:26
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It does. But at least she's a tory, so she's their problem not ours. I mean yes, she's in power, so she's also our problem but at least the shitness isn't coming from inside the house.
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Isomermaid posted:It does. But at least she's a tory, so she's their problem not ours. I mean yes, she's in power, so she's also our problem but at least the shitness isn't coming from inside the house. I guess I'm lucky that I'm old enough to make a decision but her views are tantamount to forcing young transpeople into the closet, at least that is what will functionally happen as a result. I mean, people are going to kill themselves over this, they already did before, but it's going to be worse now.
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May 3, 2020 15:43
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So are we as a society going to start talking about the 9-5 grind any time soon? Because right now I'm defaulting to a roughly 1-9am/2-10am sleep pattern and I feel loving amazing. I'm getting really productive around 5pm to 10pm.
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Ash Crimson posted:I guess I'm lucky that I'm old enough to make a decision but her views are tantamount to forcing young transpeople into the closet, at least that is what will functionally happen as a result. Yep, it loving sucks. Everyone remember to keep supporting charities that work with trans kids and their parents eg Mermaids
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Jedit posted:I have personally met Richard Head, so they're not all myths. My brother knew a Richard Head. I knew a Richard Butt (went to school with him) and last I knew he was engaged to a girl called Frances who went by "Fanny". My brother knew a Wayne and Joe King... which I have had corroborated by somebody else he went to school with. Apparently they were Wayne and Joe something else but then his Mum got remarried to a Mr. King and they all changed their names.
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Had A GIRLFRIEND in school called jo king, her brother was called nick too
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:So are we as a society going to start talking about the 9-5 grind any time soon? Because right now I'm defaulting to a roughly 1-9am/2-10am sleep pattern and I feel loving amazing. I'm getting really productive around 5pm to 10pm. There's going to be a long way to go with that, culturally. I will always remember working nights for over a year when I lived in Edinburgh city centre. It was a loving nightmare for many reasons but something that really pissed me off was sometimes after work while I was winding down in the morning I'd nip out to the shop in my trackies or whatever for some beer or wine and I would always get glares and sometimes even tut-tuts from people who apparently assumed I was a jobless day-drinker 
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crispix posted:There's going to be a long way to go with that, culturally. I will always remember working nights for over a year when I lived in Edinburgh city centre. It was a loving nightmare for many reasons but something that really pissed me off was sometimes after work while I was winding down in the morning I'd nip out to the shop in my trackies or whatever for some beer or wine and I would always get glares and sometimes even tut-tuts from people who apparently assumed I was a jobless day-drinker one of the highlights from working night shift at Domino's was going to the local Spoons at 8am and ordering a pint to go with a full English
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:So are we as a society going to start talking about the 9-5 grind any time soon? Because right now I'm defaulting to a roughly 1-9am/2-10am sleep pattern and I feel loving amazing. I'm getting really productive around 5pm to 10pm. Your body is going to be hosed when you go back to work.
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It seems very likely that the result of the GRA consultation will eventually be announced to be to improve access to care during the recognition period and will probably stop there. It is reasonably clear that businesses, statutory bodies, and NGOs are all confused on their existing obligations under the Equality Act so there will probably be tweaks to hammer those out too, maybe introduce some procedural body to write guidelines. The political momentum has stalled, most visibly in Scotland where a single party with a comfortable majority and an electoral mandate to push it through since 2016 cannot get it done even after a lengthy consultation process. The CON reading of the atmosphere in GE2019 was to simply decline to mention it altogether (which also shows that they suspected they could not make headway by attacking LAB's cake-and-eat-it position, notably). Likewise LDEM and GRN embracing a much more enthusiastic self-declaration position in 2019 failed to attract activist defectors from LAB or SNP over it. The brutal reading, probably correctly so, is that influential trans activists are actually quite willing to compromise expansive self-declaration for other objectives and can therefore be relied on to keep doing so. If one doesn't care enough about a supposed single issue to punish one's party for it, certainly nobody else is going to do the caring on one's behalf. At one point the establishment "the train of history is here, we can't stop it, so we may as well get on it" sense was very strong, especially amongst 2020 Group Tories - all of this has fallen apart. There's still a huge age swing in the polling over self-declaration though, so probably the new stasis is just kicking the can down the road for a few more years. (then again, we said/say that about Brexit too)
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Dell_Zincht posted:Your body is going to be hosed when you go back to work. Yes, that's my point. I am going to be hosed by a lovely schedule that there's no particular reason I need to adhere to because no amount of effort has ever made me able to wake up before 8am at the absolute earliest without it taking a toll on my mind and body.
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David icke got banned from youtube. https://twitter.com/LondonRealTV/status/1256945730675146752
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 The number of tests has gone back down, but the target was for the end of April, not the start of May, suckers! The government's own chart shows the number of tests back down to 76000 Hallucinogenic Toreador fucked around with this message at 17:15 on May 3, 2020 |
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