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namesake
Jun 19, 2006

"When I was a girl, around 12 or 13, I had a fantasy that I'd grow up to marry Captain Scarlet, but he'd be busy fighting the Mysterons so I'd cuckold him with the sexiest people I could think of - Nigel Mansell, Pat Sharp and Mr. Blobby."


Lysenko was right lol

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Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

namesake posted:

Lysenko was right lol

he kept going lol

https://twitter.com/MaximEristavi/status/1274363622886707200

Dead Goon
Dec 13, 2002

No Obvious Flaws



He's maximising his bridges.

Failed Imagineer
Sep 22, 2018
What's this about getting a hummer off a sicko?

Powerful Two-Hander
Mar 10, 2004

Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.


sinky posted:

Like they used their real names and not Hugh Jass

All the weedlord bonerhitler's will be lost in amongst the actual hitlers that signed up

gh0stpinballa
Mar 5, 2019


lol oh my

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I'm trying to figure out how a genocide gene could possibly work and my brain is just sliding off the idea like it's teflon coated.

ronya
Nov 8, 2010

I'm the normal one.

You hate ridden fucks will regret your words when you eventually grow up.

Peace.
Here, in a potentially less contentious context: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/science/dutch-famine-genes.html

Wachter
Mar 23, 2007

You and whose knees?

My genocide gene is tingling! Someone must be wasting food!

ronya
Nov 8, 2010

I'm the normal one.

You hate ridden fucks will regret your words when you eventually grow up.

Peace.
the underlying point of "some ethnic minorities can have really negative reactions to Soviet symbols, so maybe limit yourself to British socialist symbols but not the ironic-ha-ha-tankie indulgences like the hammer and sickle, which has been the hammer and dove since 1988 anyway, didn't you receive the memo" is still valid, esp with Eastern European minorities increasingly naturalizing

a good swathe are Polish or Ukrainian

they're not terribly important electorally as they - like many ethnic minorities - live in the safe Labour cities. Still, why risk it

thespaceinvader
Mar 30, 2011

The slightest touch from a Gol-Shogeg will result in Instant Death!

OwlFancier posted:

Isn't she the same idiot who spends half her time whingeing about millenials?

She's a Graun columnist do you really need to ask?

Julio Cruz
May 19, 2006
absolute lol at the idea of a genocide gene manifesting itself within 3-4 generations

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

thespaceinvader posted:

She's a Graun columnist do you really need to ask?

I mean specifically I'm sure I remember an article with her face next to it literally about how millenials are all bad for something or other.

namesake
Jun 19, 2006

"When I was a girl, around 12 or 13, I had a fantasy that I'd grow up to marry Captain Scarlet, but he'd be busy fighting the Mysterons so I'd cuckold him with the sexiest people I could think of - Nigel Mansell, Pat Sharp and Mr. Blobby."


Oh yeah the actual science is reasonably sound because epigenetics is a thing, it's just close enough to Lysenkoism and politically relevant to this argument to make it amusing.

ronya posted:

the underlying point of "some ethnic minorities can have really negative reactions to Soviet symbols, so maybe limit yourself to British socialist symbols but not the ironic-ha-ha-tankie indulgences like the hammer and sickle, which has been the hammer and dove since 1988 anyway, didn't you receive the memo" is still valid, esp with Eastern European minorities increasingly naturalizing

This is reasonable and a really sad bit of history that a symbol of liberation can be interpreted as one of oppression which we should be mindful of. It's absolutely not of value to a political project to ruin working class solidarity because of symbolism, so long as they're not adverse to discussing the principles of socialism, possibly enhancing it with whatever practical experience they have of the USSR and Warsaw Pact.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Can we make an exception for following landlords around with an megaphone that plays the east is red?

XMNN
Apr 26, 2008
I am incredibly stupid

OwlFancier posted:

Isn't she the same idiot who spends half her time whingeing about millenials?

idk about that but this article is peak guardian


Priti Patel can’t kill my dream. I still want a holiday abroad posted:

I don’t believe it’s my duty to stay in the UK – or that foreigners are inherently dirty. I want to go somewhere I can enjoy a drink with an umbrella in it, unironically

It's actually an ancient Chinese curse: “May you live in times when you have to look up what a statutory instrument is, and how it relates to law passed in parliament.” If you don’t want to listen to my botched synopsis of Priti Patel’s new quarantine rules, there are online video explainers. Obviously you do, though, so here it is: English people, you may go on holiday (it is droll how fast the Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish quietly stepped away from English rule, when its full rubbishness unfurled. After all these centuries …). But when you come back, you have to self-isolate in the fullest possible sense, which is to say, no going out at all, not for supplies, not for exercise, except in exceptional circumstances.

Yawn, I thought, when I read this. Nobody will do that. They will think of Dominic Cummings and Barnard Castle. Or the Isle of Wight MP, Bob Seely, and his barbecue attendance. They will remember the lame excuses, in which the eye-test was actually surpassed, for absurdity and unrelatability, by Seely’s claim that he only had half a sausage. Seriously, who does that? Who do they think is going to eat the other half?

And anyway, it is actually my civic duty to defy this stuff, I decided, as I was scrolling through the weather forecasts for everywhere I have ever been, thinking: “Wow, who knew Amsterdam was so hot?” Perhaps quarantining returning travellers from specific countries would have made sense in January and February. What could its rationale possibly be now, except: “You’re more likely to get a disease from another country than you are in England”? And since, demonstrably, the opposite is true, what could the foundational logic be, besides “foreigners are mucky”? When I am browsing Eurostar timetables, I am not looking for a holiday; I am resisting xenophobia. With browsing. Call it online activism, if you will.

There is a kind of lockdown-signalling, where you demonstrate your commitment to the nation’s wellbeing by constantly voicing your desire never to go anywhere, ever again. “I don’t think I ever will go back to the office.” “I’m not getting on a tube until 2025, soonest.” “Who needs to go abroad?” “Why should we impose our filthy urban germs on those rural folk who, by dint of living further apart from one another, are relatively less infected and, apparently, morally better?” “Yea, gladly will I eschew the call of the wild, in favour of the HBO theme music.” Sometimes it has a top note of schmaltz, and you have to pretend that you love your family so much that you don’t care where you are, so long as you are together.

This is what passes for solidarity at the moment: because some people cannot go on holiday, being especially vulnerable, or totally skint, everyone pretends holidays are so last century and right-thinking people never needed them. I do not think it helps. It’s a Facebook version of solidarity, where you take an image that was two-dimensional in the first place and crop everything unsightly from it. All self-indulgence, all hedonism, anything needless, anything self-interested, it all has to be scrubbed off your character.

To channel Phoebe from Friends, I need to live in a world where people can spill. I need to at least be able to fantasise about going somewhere different, and not having to work at a nuclear plant, or a space agency, in order to be allowed to come home. (These are two of the exceptions to the quarantine rule, along with post office workers, and people who commute between countries for their job, and anyone involved in a clinical trial. The list would be quite amusing, but for the terrible klaxon it sets off: “Christ, there are children in charge, and they’re writing actual law!” To which you can self-soothe with: “It’s not a law, it’s a statutory instrument.”)

Mr Z has chronic cabin fever and wakes up every morning with a different, urgent yen. He needs to smell heather. He wants to hike in the Caucasian mountains. He has to visit a distillery. He must drive to New Zealand. He wants to hear a cicada, outside of a zoo. Or any other insect, or animal: he wants to hear anything that isn’t our own dog, or a fox having sex. I want completely different things. I want a drink with an umbrella in it, not ironically. I want to hear a really loud, preferably five-way conversation in a language I don’t understand. I want to be far, far too hot, and then sunburnt. I want to watch a couple I don’t know having an argument. I would kill to see a buffet. I will not go softly into perpetual lockdown.
going on holiday in the middle of the pandemic is one of the bravest political statements you can make, welcome to the resistance comrade williams

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I wish to extend my earlier sentiment about landlords also to journalists.

ronya
Nov 8, 2010

I'm the normal one.

You hate ridden fucks will regret your words when you eventually grow up.

Peace.
whatever happened to the Internationale

(besides the fact that it sounds barbarous in English)

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

The internationale is great in english what the hell is wrong with you?

But specifcally the internationale is the positive, uplifting power of socialism, along with a lot of other good songs, particularly wobbly ones. It's the sort of thing you sing to comrades. But I do not feel very comradely when I am in mental or physical proximity to journalists and landlords.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
The best part of left liberation is getting to make your own symbol, using the popular crossed agricultural/industrial tool/weapon/allusion to education/mass communication format and banging a star on it. 🌟

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Three crossed smartphones and a star does not evoke a very left wing aesthetic IMO.

Or like a star made out of smartphones.

OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 17:05 on Jun 21, 2020

BizarroAzrael
Apr 6, 2006

"That must weigh heavily on your soul. Let me purge it for you."
https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/1274689013966934017?s=19

Considering making that Jokerface and "Check out my LinkedIn" as my next av/title combo.

Ratjaculation
Aug 3, 2007

:parrot::parrot::parrot:



Kirby likes stars

Kirby is symbol now

Strom Cuzewon
Jul 1, 2010

What does a University Director of External Affairs and International Strategy even do? I know I have a low tolerance for corporate buzzwords, but my brain is just sliding off that.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

In charge of the university drone strike fleet I think.

ronya
Nov 8, 2010

I'm the normal one.

You hate ridden fucks will regret your words when you eventually grow up.

Peace.

Strom Cuzewon posted:

What does a University Director of External Affairs and International Strategy even do? I know I have a low tolerance for corporate buzzwords, but my brain is just sliding off that.

It's Oxford

so largely fly around the world hat in hand bothering alumni for donations

there's also ancillaries like overseas accreditations, partnerships with overseas institutions, postgraduate research funding partnerships, campus visits, visiting faculty, etc but it's the donations part which is big

ronya fucked around with this message at 17:20 on Jun 21, 2020

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

Strom Cuzewon posted:

What does a University Director of External Affairs and International Strategy even do? I know I have a low tolerance for corporate buzzwords, but my brain is just sliding off that.

Sells degrees to various failsons around the world.

thespaceinvader
Mar 30, 2011

The slightest touch from a Gol-Shogeg will result in Instant Death!

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Sells degrees to various failsons around the world.

Sells the naming rights of buildings and departments to various disaster capitalists, billionaires, and royals around the world.

The failsons will buy the degrees regardless.

baka kaba
Jul 19, 2003

PLEASE ASK ME, THE SELF-PROFESSED NO #1 PAUL CATTERMOLE FAN IN THE SOMETHING AWFUL S-CLUB 7 MEGATHREAD, TO NAME A SINGLE SONG BY HIS EXCELLENT NU-METAL SIDE PROJECT, SKUA, AND IF I CAN'T PLEASE TELL ME TO
EAT SHIT

OwlFancier posted:

It is obama, the face on the right is what the computer tries to construct from a pixellated picture of obama.

It is physically impossible to reverse information entropy, all the computer is doing is inventing a face based off a prompt.

Yeah but it also turned him into a white dude

how does this keep happening :thunk:

Doctor_Fruitbat
Jun 2, 2013


A facial recognition program that actively refuses to profile minorities sounds pretty good.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Strom Cuzewon posted:

What does a University Director of External Affairs and International Strategy even do? I know I have a low tolerance for corporate buzzwords, but my brain is just sliding off that.

get fired over twitter posts from the looks of it

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


anyone know a good place to donate for UK BLM style causes?

moostaffa
Apr 2, 2008

People always ask me about Toad, It's fantastic. Let me tell you about Toad. I do very well with Toad. I love Toad. No one loves Toad more than me, BELIEVE ME. Toad loves me. I have the best Toad.

Communist Thoughts posted:

anyone know a good place to donate for UK BLM style causes?

https://uk.gofundme.com/f/ukblm-fund

https://twitter.com/AJSchonfield/status/1267565248808136707

baka kaba
Jul 19, 2003

PLEASE ASK ME, THE SELF-PROFESSED NO #1 PAUL CATTERMOLE FAN IN THE SOMETHING AWFUL S-CLUB 7 MEGATHREAD, TO NAME A SINGLE SONG BY HIS EXCELLENT NU-METAL SIDE PROJECT, SKUA, AND IF I CAN'T PLEASE TELL ME TO
EAT SHIT

Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

A facial recognition program that actively refuses to profile minorities sounds pretty good.

I guess there is always a silver lining :yaycloud:

feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

ronya posted:

a good swathe are Polish or Ukrainian

they're not terribly important electorally as they - like many ethnic minorities - live in the safe Labour cities. Still, why risk it

And, y'know, mostly don't get to vote, if they did we wouldn't be Brexiting.

bessantj
Jul 27, 2004


Apparently when you point out that neo-nazi views are allowed in the UK press and you give the example of Hopkins saying immigrants are cockroaches and their boats should be sunk that's not a real example because

quote:

she was talking about specific media stories what she believed to be fake and illegal immigrants for benefits of the UK after they have arrived in safe countries in Calais and try to force a move to the UK and rapists in Cologne new years incident

bessantj fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Jun 21, 2020

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Sink the bots

bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them
https://twitter.com/wurrance/status/1274645039780593665

amazing thread

Angepain
Jul 13, 2012

what keeps happening to my clothes

bessantj posted:

Apparently when you point out that neo-nazi views are allowed in the UK press and you give the example of Hopkins saying immigrants are cockroaches and their boats should be sunk that's not a real example because

I don't hate foreign migrants! I love and respect good foreign migrants. I just hate the foreign migrants who don't fit in to the precise immigration systems to deal with them that we designed for our own purposes, and the ones who are faking needing to come here to exploit us, which I get to decide which ones those are.

I don't hate poor people! I love and respect good poor people. I just hate the poor people who don't fit in to the precise benefits systems to deal with them that we designed for our own purposes, and the ones who are faking being needy to rip us off, which I get to decide which ones those are.

I don't hate gay people! I love and respect good gay people. I just hate the weirdo queers who don't fit in to the precise social systems to deal with romance and sexuality that we designed for our own purposes, and the ones who are being too loud to convert our children into a life of sin, which I get to decide which ones those are.

I don't hate the disabled! I love and respect good disabled people. I just hate the disabled people who don't fit in to the precise systems to deal with their needs that we designed for our own purposes, and the ones who are faking being disabled to skive off an honest day's work, which I get to decide which ones those are.

I don't hate trans people! I love and respect good trans people. I just hate the ones who don't fit in to the precise medical and legal systems to deal with gender and sex that we designed for our own purposes, and the ones who are faking being trans to assault women in bathrooms, which I get to decide which ones those are.

I don't hate Black people! I love and respect good Black people. I just hate the Black people who don't fit in to the precise economic and justice systems that we designed for our own purposes, and the ones who are violent thugs who are up to no good, which I get to decide which ones those are.

I don't hate Romani people and Travellers! Okay, actually I do

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Wolfsbane
Jul 29, 2009

What time is it, Eccles?


Some of this is fake, possibly all of it, but it's really hard to tell how much. Still hilarious.

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