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sassassin posted:The next post-apoc zombie movies/shows/games are definitely going to have tattered 'mission accomplished' banners everywhere, with newspaper headlines about how easy the crisis is, and how well our dear leaders are doing. Everyone trying to make it to the fabled safe zone in the ironically named nation of "new Z-Land". I disagree because there isn't going to be a revitalisation of critical popular media until the revolution. There's going to be an underground scene which does these things but it'll never make it to the silver screen unless the Chinese film industry manages to jump internationally as a nationalist critique of the rest of the world. There's too much to lose to allow serious biting critique of their immediate failures to reach a mass audience.
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thespaceinvader posted:Idiots jump off cliffs for thrills all the time tho? Yeah but you have to like, work up to doing the big jumps, get the technique down. If you don't hit the water juuuust right from those heights you can break your back and stuff. Guessing these people were just some chuds who'd never done anything like it before. I did a canyoning in Wales for my stag do, and the last thing we did was jump off a waterfall which was, I wanna say, 7 metres high (I think that's what I remember). I landed slightly wrong the first time I did it and it felt like I'd been kicked up the arse HARD and had the wind knocked out of me. From 7m your terminal velocity will be something like 26mph, from 200ft (apparently what those guys at Durdle Door did) it'll be around 70mph. Energy goes up by the square of the speed so although it's less than 3x faster it's about 7.3x more energy when you hit.
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I just don't get what possesses people to do that. I'm 37, pretty healthy, run 3x a week and do power lifting. If I so much as step on a cat toy the wrong way getting out of bed I can be hosed for a week. I used to rock climb and I have had my fair share of tumbles too. Spain was full of idiot British tourists jumping onto swimming pools from balconies and fracturing their legs or missing and breaking every bone in their body. Why the gently caress do people do this.
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I had to look up the height of durdle door to check because I just couldn't believe anyone would jump off a 200ft arch even if it was more like 150 from where they jumped. I jumped off Stari Most bridge once, that was about 20m and it was far from pleasant. I no longer have any desire to jump from heights and honestly am shocked they are still alive.
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Ms Adequate posted:The fact the US isn't the top story on tomorrow's front pages is kinda wild to me, ngl Heavy "don't get any ideas" vibe
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Gonzo McFee posted:Heavy "don't get any ideas" vibe For real, for real
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Friend of mine has a cut glass RP British accent and several times has been asked by Egyptians "please speak English" because they're so used to hearing "Egyptian English" (which I lapse into over there - most Egyptians I speak to - shopkeepers, taxi drivers, workmen etc - who do speak English can't understand a regular British accent and as it happens neither can my Italian friend who speaks fluent Arabic and almost no English). (Ed I should point out I do speak Arabic when I can. Most Egyptians assume I'm German and try to speak German with me then we get stuck in conversations with me speaking pidgen Arabic and them speaking pidgen German - quite hard to get out of a morass it's like the brain has an on/off switch for forin speak.) Ha! I came to the UK in August 2003. When I sat to listen to the Queen's Christmas message on TV that year, I to had to ask my flatmates if the Queen was a foreigner. Like I sat there thinking what the heck, it's the Queen of England and she does not even sound English.
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Ms Adequate posted:The fact the US isn't the top story on tomorrow's front pages is kinda wild to me, ngl just normal stuff https://twitter.com/princesslondyxx/status/1266893071821635585?s=20
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May 31, 2020 04:15
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May 31, 2020 04:25
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bornbytheriver posted:Ha! I came to the UK in August 2003. When I sat to listen to the Queen's Christmas message on TV that year, I to had to ask my flatmates if the Queen was a foreigner. Like I sat there thinking what the heck, it's the Queen of England and she does not even sound English. I mean, you weren't wrong about Brenda Saxe-Coburg-Gotha tbf
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Jose posted:if you see the massive protests against racism and capitalism in the us and get annoyed at people discussing it here with posters they know in what is practically a chat thread you're probably a oval office imo Fully agree. Also this is definitely spilling over into the UK. There are protests planned. Like, especially that this is a heavily leftist thread which is always (rightly) going on about internationalist action against western capitalism/imperialism it's absolutely fair and good to discuss this stuff here.
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OwlFancier posted:Given that he always said hello with a very enthusiastic wayeayeman I'm pretty sure he was geordie. Mackems say wayayeman, too They all secretly want to be Geordies anyway. I'm from Middlesbrough as you know and when I went down to Peterborough for a
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this is a chat thread? i thought it existed solely for the endless sharing of tweets no one reads
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Ratjaculation posted:this is a chat thread? Hey guys, how about them crisps I'm glad giant wotsits are a regular thing in supermarkets now and my wife doesn't have to keep buying overpriced Cheetos from import stores.
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Yup, normal as gently caress https://twitter.com/tkerssen/status/1266921821653385225
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Maugrim posted:Hey guys, how about them crisps the best wotsits are the bbq beef ones, change my mind (yes I know they changed the name to sizzling steak but they taste the same)
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nows my chance to declare that monster munch sucks and it's a travesty that they cast a shadow over their superior alternative: SKIPS
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kecske posted:nows my chance to declare that monster munch sucks and it's a travesty that they cast a shadow over their superior alternative: SKIPS skips are cool because they melt in your mouth, not in your hand no wait that's m&ms
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kecske posted:nows my chance to declare that monster munch sucks and it's a travesty that they cast a shadow over their superior alternative: SKIPS 
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Skips are grest until you get the rock
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Yeah, once you've had the objectively best bit it's all downhill from there.
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kecske posted:nows my chance to declare that monster munch sucks and it's a travesty that they cast a shadow over their superior alternative: SKIPS Both pale in comparison to rib n saucy niknaks
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scampi fries are the best crisps because they taste great and make your breath smell like a urinal.
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Annalise dodds absolutely pathetic on Marr right now. He's asked 'do Labour support the government relaxing lockdown' and she's just spent 10 mins not answering the question, and sitting on the fence about absolutely everything. He read out the five criteria labour had previously given for relaxing lockdown, nome of which has been made met, and all she can say is 'its not up to the opposition to decide whether we relax lockdown or not'. How is this can be their idea of an effective approach? Disgraceful.
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jabby posted:https://twitter.com/PTaylorheather/status/1266513325514514437 I loving knew it. The plan is literally to make martyrs of the healthcare staff so that their "noble sacrifice" will be described as "heroic sacrifices in the line of duty in the war on covid", rather than "disgraceful preventable deaths caused by govenrment incompetence and mis-management".
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Ah no, richmond has painfully few gender neutral bathrooms as it is!
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https://twitter.com/rodbishop15/status/1267005113308151810?s=20 Daily Mail doing some classic character assassination. Edit: Marr having a good day: quote:‘I came on your programme to talk about transport matters,’ says Shapps, ‘as my expertise lies in transport.’ Prince John fucked around with this message at 09:46 on May 31, 2020 |
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Prince John posted:https://twitter.com/rodbishop15/status/1267005113308151810?s=20 No, no - my expertise: Lies! In transport.
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WhatEvil posted:Yeah but you have to like, work up to doing the big jumps, get the technique down. If you don't hit the water juuuust right from those heights you can break your back and stuff. Please, you're misunderstanding. They were actually government spokesmen explaining the Tories' new COVID strategy through the medium of interpretive dance.
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