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BA will generously allow you to donate them to the NHS. e: I can't be bothered searching for 131, so have a cat instead. 
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May 25, 2020 15:09
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enjoying* all the blue-tick melts on Twitter talking about how loving terrible Johnson as if they had absolutely nothing to do with him getting in in the first place *this is an obvious lie
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ronya posted:Academia has an inherent tendency to contrarianism but even so there is definitely a reaction against what one might call the Blackadder understanding of WW1, e.g. Dan Todman's The Great War: Myth and Memory There's starting to now be an overdue reaction against what I think of as Sheffieldisation (after Gary Sheffield, the leading revisionist). This is the process by which people start by finding out interesting things like no, men didn't literally live in a trench for years at a time like Blackadder did, or how a lot of attacks and battles in the war led to some kind of limited success without being the war-changing triumphs their planners were hoping for, and the picture of Melchett and Darling peering at an 18-square-foot one-to-one scale map of the last offensive's gains isn't supposed to be literally accurate. They then react to having these somewhat lazy assumptions challenged by throwing out the baby along with the bathwater, and in jig time they're making serious straight-faced arguments about the need to defend the British Empire, champion of freedom and liberty (never mind that 40% of British men don't have the vote, and they invented concentration camps for Boers) against the villainous Prussian-militarist designs of the perfidious Hun and his small sausage factory outside Tanganyika (conveniently forgetting his universal male suffrage, Bismarckian welfare measures, and Herero genocide).
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..." seared into their own understandings of WW1. It goes to and fro).
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Jose posted:he 100% has no friends or anything else going on which is why he's always on the bbc Standard reminder that when running for NUS president, Tom Harwood made more apperances in national media than percent votes received.
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May 25, 2020 15:19
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josh04 posted:Standard reminder that when running for NUS president, Tom Harwood made more apperances in national media than percent votes received. so running the numbers on the normal turnout of student elections, this would mean his appearances in national media were at least 10 times more than his number of individual votes
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May 25, 2020 15:26
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xtothez posted:Just need them to last long enough to cash in the avios points I got from work flights over the last few years Or just... go where you're going without flying, or not at all?
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May 25, 2020 15:31
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communism bitch posted:https://twitter.com/business/status/1264837379652714496 Incredible 
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May 25, 2020 15:42
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jesus y'all weren't kidding about flaps https://twitter.com/psflaps/status/1264918201827237896 mask all the way off
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May 25, 2020 15:48
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I really feel like a lot of it is unresolved gay panic. Like some people just really cannot fit transpeople into their sexuality so they just go absolutely bugfuck insane.
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May 25, 2020 15:56
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I'm going to see Pissflaps and Linehan on Newsnight this year aren't IOwlFancier posted:I really feel like a lot of it is unresolved gay panic. I was talking about it yesterday as it happens. The "trans women are just men who want to use women's changing rooms to peep at boobs and fannies!!!!!!" warps my brain in the same way as the old "gay men are paedophiles" poo poo in that it seems to be quite widespread but I don't understand how people arrive at that idea crispix fucked around with this message at 16:02 on May 25, 2020 |
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Guavanaut posted:The broadcast will psychically compel all subjects to build a 'cum beacon'. Someone send this to private eye. I already sent them one of Cummings and they didn't print it.... Or at least not in any of the issues I bought anyway.
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May 25, 2020 15:57
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Can't believe Pissflaps was forced to become a bigot by the intolerant left, if only we'd taken the time to properly debate him.
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crispix posted:I'm going to see Pissflaps and Linehan on Newsnight this year aren't I Well, Linehan's already been on so yeah probably
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Trin Tragula posted:There's starting to now be an overdue reaction against what I think of as Sheffieldisation (after Gary Sheffield, the leading revisionist). This is the process by which people start by finding out interesting things like no, men didn't literally live in a trench for years at a time like Blackadder did, or how a lot of attacks and battles in the war led to some kind of limited success without being the war-changing triumphs their planners were hoping for, and the picture of Melchett and Darling peering at an 18-square-foot one-to-one scale map of the last offensive's gains isn't supposed to be literally accurate. They then react to having these somewhat lazy assumptions challenged by throwing out the baby along with the bathwater, and in jig time they're making serious straight-faced arguments about the need to defend the British Empire, champion of freedom and liberty (never mind that 40% of British men don't have the vote, and they invented concentration camps for Boers) against the villainous Prussian-militarist designs of the perfidious Hun and his small sausage factory outside Tanganyika (conveniently forgetting his universal male suffrage, Bismarckian welfare measures, and Herero genocide). Do you see such a reaction in professional readings or do you mean that in a pedagogical sense? (If we start pointing fingers at fields whose undergraduates leave with a half-baked "just enough to be dangerous" knowledge of their chosen field of study, we'll be here all day really...) My sense of the tide is that most folks are not on the "actually it was a glorious British triumph" train but instead focus almost indulgently on how alien the cultural outlook was and how different its values were
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Dabir posted:gross stuff Please don't flapspost in the thread. We finally got rid of him and I don't care about his twitter bile.
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May 25, 2020 16:05
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DC didn't go Durham just the once, right? Didn't he go back and forth a load?
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Strom Cuzewon posted:DC didn't go Durham just the once, right? Didn't he go back and forth a load? It'll probably turn out he's been up there every weekend at this rate.
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So the only even vaguely sane thing that could come out of this dog and pony show will be him saying "Yeah I lied to the PM and I'll be resigning, it's all my fault", right? So what do we think he will actually do? I'm going to guess that he will say the words "Brexit" and "media elite" or variations considerably more than "Durham", with a side-bet on him going full "You won't have old Dominic Cummings to kick around any more".
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ronya posted:Do you see such a reaction in professional readings or do you mean that in a pedagogical sense? Yeah, most of them really. Contrary to pressures to start fast-track two year degrees, if we really wanted people to know something by the time they left, we'd have five year courses instead.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:So the only even vaguely sane thing that could come out of this dog and pony show will be him saying "Yeah I lied to the PM and I'll be resigning, it's all my fault", right? So what do we think he will actually do? I'm going to guess that he will say the words "Brexit" and "media elite" or variations considerably more than "Durham", with a side-bet on him going full "You won't have old Dominic Cummings to kick around any more". Personally I'm hoping for a "You haven't seen the last of me!" maybe with a bit of "You'll rue the day!" thrown in for bants.
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Exciting scenes from the garden of 10 Downing Street. Due to the lateness I'm guessing nothing at all will be announced, the classic Theresa May move in 4D chess where you spend at least ten minutes making GBS threads and panicking in a nearby toilet before not actually saying anything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mSyZGy8LX8
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Miftan posted:Please don't flapspost in the thread. We finally got rid of him and I don't care about his twitter bile. ronya posted:(If we start pointing fingers at fields whose undergraduates leave with a half-baked "just enough to be dangerous" knowledge of their chosen field of study, we'll be here all day really...) e: They also retweeted this: https://twitter.com/LED5991/status/1264900906950287360 Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 16:15 on May 25, 2020 |
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May 25, 2020 16:13
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https://twitter.com/LadPolitics/status/1264897745590071297 and I was joking about betting on what buzzwords he'd use, of course someone would open an actual market.
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May 25, 2020 16:14
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15 minutes late and nothings happened. Someone, somewhere is getting a massive, massive panicky bollocking.
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Miftan posted:Personally I'm hoping for a "You haven't seen the last of me!" maybe with a bit of "You'll rue the day!" thrown in for bants. If he didn't always dress like a divorced dad taking his kids to McDonalds on a Saturday afternoon and expanded his wardrobe to include formalwear and possibly a cape, he's got the right face and build to pull this off.
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May 25, 2020 16:16
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15 minutes late & all the journos are nicely distracted, he's halfway to Venezuela by now
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I'm hoping that his inviting the journalists in-person to ask questions is so he can call them all hypocrites for leaving their houses.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://twitter.com/LadPolitics/status/1264897745590071297 bold to assume he'll even be able to understand the concept of regret also where the gently caress is he did he have to come down from Durham again
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May 25, 2020 16:17
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Cis and trans don't exist, which is why julius caesar got lost a lot.
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May 25, 2020 16:17
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I wonder what excuse CUMmings will come up with that at all justifies him doing a press release haha. It's big brain 8th dimensional chess time.
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namesake posted:15 minutes late and nothings happened. I'd assume he's frantically rereading Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality to make sure he's got the extended quotes right for his speech.
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Borrovan posted:15 minutes late & all the journos are nicely distracted, he's halfway to Durham by now Fixed
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Trin Tragula posted:conveniently forgetting his universal male suffrage, Bismarckian welfare measures, and Herero genocide). Uhh one of these things is not like the others  I assume you aren't listing that as a good thing?!
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May 25, 2020 16:18
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I'd assume he's frantically rereading Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality to make sure he's got the extended quotes right for his speech. My money's on Maps of Meaning tbh
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://twitter.com/LadPolitics/status/1264897745590071297 I suppose there's not much else to bet on atm
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Kin posted:I'm betting he'll just apologise, admit he did wrong for (important reasons) and put on a fake humble persona then hope things naturally move on. He's not going to apologise. If he does it'll be a total non-apology.
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Ziggy Tzardust posted:Maybe he just wants to start it at 4:20 or just after 4:20, to properly get into a mindset where the things he did seem to make sense
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