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Bobstar posted:Ah my second-favourite statistical  See also from the past few weeks: "You can't know how many Covid deaths there's been because they're not testing them and throwing a bunch of unrelated deaths in there." "True, but there has been at least 50,000 excess deaths over the past few months, compared to an average of the last few years." "But you don't know that they're all Covid deaths." "If something else is killing 50,000 people that's quite alarming, and something we should also take seriously." "They could be faking the death stats." "They could, but it's a lot easier to lose death certificates than it is to fabricate them, so if they are it would probably be higher, something's killed a lot of people." Which then leads to either letting it stand or down the rabbit hole that the ONS along with every single European country has been covering up deaths for 5 years just so that they could make the trendline higher this year. This is something that I'm sure links in with conspiracism, delegitimation, neoliberalism, anti-rationalism, and neoreaction chat; statistics can only provide confidence, conspiracies provide certainty, and reaction fetishizes the concrete, so even though some of these people are leftist or 'apolitical' it's no surprise to see Britain First and the Katie Hopkins Ket Krew spearheading it. Ziggy Tzardust posted:Oh god no. THE CURSED NUMBER has appeared 144 Tory MPs is called a gross misconduct.
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, beaten only by "they can't know what percentage of benefits claims are fraudulent, because they're fraudulent, therefore unknowable, you imbecile. you loving moron.
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It’s well known that the government wanted the frightened great British public to return to their everyday toil and save the economy. So they activated the most powerful tool in a politicians arsenal against the lockdown - sheer spite. /s
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thespaceinvader posted:TBF I don't think he should resign I think he should be sacked. Yes, sacked like Constantinople.
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Guavanaut posted:This is something that I'm sure links in with conspiracism, delegitimation, neoliberalism, anti-rationalism, and neoreaction chat; statistics can only provide confidence, conspiracies provide certainty, and reaction fetishizes the concrete, so even though some of these people are leftist or 'apolitical' it's no surprise to see Britain First and the Katie Hopkins Ket Krew spearheading it. This is why they love the Brexit referendum - finally, someone's doing an opinion poll properly and asking everyone* in the country! Therefore, the result is concrete and inviolable. Random aside, the episode of ER I was watching the other day featured an AIDS denier, which is something I'd totally forgotten even existed. So that's another example of "too small to see, therefore not concrete enough" E: although actually she admitted HIV existed but didn't cause AIDS, so I think it's more a case of the scientific link between the two being complex, and could be made up for all the average person can verify.
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Nobody reads my posts but I was head-shaming earlier and that was a bad thing. I am not going to edit the post because I'll take the hit to my karma. Dominic Cummings can take being complicit in the deaths of tens of thousands of people (so far) as a hit to his.
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May 26, 2020 14:29
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I read your posts and they are good posts.
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I feel a bit bad about the head-shaming too.
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K9 posted:I feel a bit bad about the head-shaming too. Wait, what do you mean by "head shaming"?
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May 26, 2020 14:38
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Dude had a bad head.
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Jose posted:Corbyn should have taken this approach to the media joe Scarborough had a congressional intern die in mysterious circumstances in his office quote:“Please delete those tweets,” the widower begged in a letter last week to Twitter’s chief executive, Jack Dorsey. “My wife deserves better.” you really want to be approvingly quoting Trump of all people? spreading bullshit like that?
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Mocking people for their looks rather than the fact that they're awful human beings.
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Mebh posted:Mocking people for their looks rather than the fact that they're awful human beings. but his head is hosed up
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But there are lots of people with hosed up heads who aren't assholes. And "your head is only hosed up because you're an rear end in a top hat" is either postmodernism or an overly literal reading of noted racist roald dahl.
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Ash Crimson posted:but his head is hosed up on the inside for sure
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Also on a personal level I am not impressed by all these people lauding the size of cummings' head because mine is almost certainly bigger. Tired of him getting all the acclaim as the giant head guy. Does he ever wear a hat? If so I've got him beat.
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OwlFancier posted:Also on a personal level I am not impressed by all these people lauding the size of cummings' head because mine is almost certainly bigger. post yr caliper stats
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thespaceinvader posted:TBF I don't think he should resign I think he should be sacked. If by "sacked" you mean bundled in a sack and thrown in the river, yes i agree
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Bobstar posted:Random aside, the episode of ER I was watching the other day featured an AIDS denier, which is something I'd totally forgotten even existed. The reason you don't see them anymore is because they all died. From AIDS.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:If by "sacked" you mean bundled in a sack and thrown in the river, yes i agree unfortunately I'm not sure the RSPCA would let you put a monkey, a dog and a snake in there with him to go properly Roman it's PC gone mad
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OwlFancier posted:Also on a personal level I am not impressed by all these people lauding the size of cummings' head because mine is almost certainly bigger. Tired of him getting all the acclaim as the giant head guy.  Speaking of, I guess this is an acceptable way to synthesize 'he's a bad person' and 'his head's funny' as a way of making fun of someone: https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1262847416778326016
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Necrothatcher posted:The reason you don't see them anymore is because they all died. From AIDS. Continuum was a magazine published by an activist group of the same name who denied the existence of HIV/AIDS. Favoring pseudoscientific content, the magazine addressed issues related to HIV/AIDS, AIDS denialism, alternative medicine, and themes of interest to the LGBT community. It ran from December 1992 until February 2001 and ceased publication because the editors had died of AIDS-defining clinical conditions.
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Ash Crimson posted:but his head is hosed up The point is that a lot of people have hosed up heads but not hosed up ideas like DomCum. I have a hosed up head and I have a lot of hosed up ideas but none of them are as hosed up as whatever nightmares motivate that twerp to be the bizarre monster he is.
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https://twitter.com/BeardedGenius/status/1264936171517489160 He so desperately and transparently wants to be thought of as a cool rebel outsider.
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Looks like he's about to cry in the bottom left. He knows a storm is coming.
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Me: Can we watch the new Tarantino movie? Mom: We've got Tarantino at home. The Tarantino at home: 
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I have no comment on whether headshaming is good or bad, but frankie boyle's description of him as a 'startled testicle' has forever stuck in my mind. As has his reference, in the same sentence, to Boris as a 'confused sex yeti'. https://twitter.com/frankieboyle/status/1176553550698225664 Both are top 3 descriptions, but the number one spot still goes to Charlie Brooker for this gem of a description of our favorite heel-turn Piers Morgan: https://twitter.com/charltonbrooker/status/1974283482
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OwlFancier posted:I read your posts and they are good posts.
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StarkingBarfish posted:Both are top 3 descriptions, but the number one spot still goes to Charlie Brooker for this gem of a description of our favorite heel-turn Piers Morgan "a speaking Toby jug filled to the brim with hot piss."
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its not about the size of his head its the fact he for sure believes in phrenology despite having a weird head himself
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GazChap posted:I've always been quite partial to Stewart Lee's description of Adrian Chiles as That's brutal. See also the recent moniker for Tom Harwood: BNOC Powell
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So is the thread title going to be updated to Dominic Stayings?
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He probably didn't realise he had a weird head until he went bald. I always thought my head was a weird shape until I shaved it.
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Can someone explain to me, an idiot, the reason why the """official""" daily COVID-19 deaths follow a fairly reliable pattern of 5 days high, 2 days low?
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Fewer deaths recorded on a weekend afaik. They catch up on those over the next week.
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I'm considering head enhancement surgery to turn mine into a flawless sphere, the most perfect, beautiful and normal of head shapes.
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Wachter posted:Can someone explain to me, an idiot, the reason why the """official""" daily COVID-19 deaths follow a fairly reliable pattern of 5 days high, 2 days low? Dying on a weekend doesn't get the proles out of doing a hard day's graft, so the cheeky bastards always wait until the following Monday.
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