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OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

Disnesquick posted:

The people complaining just seem to really hate the idea that everyone's worked out they are utterly shite people who've only ever engaged in tokenism and want to stop folks from saying it aloud.
Cancelling free speech to stop cancelling from hurting free speech: Liberalism, not even once.

I agree that it's entirely meaningless as they phrase it, occasionally it works out like with glinner but it's a two way thing, the target has to really embrace smearing their own poo poo all over themselves for it to have a proper effect, for most people it doesn't really work other than making them annoyed sometimes.

# ? Jul 15, 2020 00:34

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# ? May 27, 2024 08:17

Pesky Splinter: Feb 16, 2011; A worried pug.

Pleased with my words choice (although not too sure where "Acos" comes in?)

ゴ:4;
cygne:4;
acos:4;
374k:4;
insanonaut:3;
poppymass:3;
pisspig:3;
slurried:3;
person2:3;

Thanks goddamnedtwisto.

# ? Jul 15, 2020 00:34

Angepain: Jul 13, 2012; what keeps happening to my clothes

big scary monsters posted:

I'm not convinced that my ~~third~~ fourth* favourite word is Staatsb�rgerschaft. I guess it's just an extremely rarely used word in these threads, and your formula is skewed heavily by a word's unusualness? Actually most of my "favourite" words are in German, I think from one time someone asked about laws relating to inherited citizenship or something.

Yes, the only time I can find you using that word is here.

Similarly I have a fair few German words from having pasted Brecht's Die L�sung one time.

My other words have taught me that shamefully I am the only person to use "dickwave" and from noone else using it that perhaps "varyingly" is not, in fact, a word

Venomous posted:

trying to remember when I have ever used the word 'titoists'

You can't speak for them, apparently.

kingturnip posted:

Gotta be honest; I can't remember having evoked the good name of Scorpius other than in threads that can best be described as... inadequate.

It's possible that my drunk posting is less coherent than I think it is.

I have no idea what this post is about but here you go

And yeah, Guavanaut does seem to talk a lot about muriatic acid. Bit worrying.

# ? Jul 15, 2020 00:41

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

Tarnop posted:

This just goes to show that finding a fun project is an important part of learning to program.

Yeah, this is always how I try and pick up new hobbies/skills - I've no interest at all in going through a textbook or general guide, I just come up with a specific result I want and throw myself in to making it work. Obviously there's massive drawbacks with this way of doing things (as the horribly mis-shapen planters I have in one corner of my garden will attest) but it works for me.

Might as well take the opportunity for a minor brag, while I'm at it - I decided to roll my own way of doing the word counts because the suggested solutions all seemed arse-backwards to me and accidentally seem to have worked out a way of doing it that is a shitload quicker than the both the best brains of Stackoverflow and an actual Python library that's supposed to do it - it does the job, with a list of 27 million words, in less than a second while the other ways I tried took between 3 seconds (the Python library) and potentially over a year (my first attempt).

Admittedly my way of doing it only really works for my specific use, as a general solution it leaves you having to do a load of interpretation at both ends, but I'm pretty proud of what's my first actual proper bit of programming (compared to copy/pasting with minimal editing) in a language I only started learning a couple of weeks.

# ? Jul 15, 2020 00:41

Shakespearean Beef: Jul 12, 2008; Ask me all about how I proudly marched alongside literal NEO-NAZIS to protest against the GOVERNMENT taking away our FREEDOMS because of nothing mote that the common FLU!!! I'm holding aloft the TORCH of FREEDOM!!

Vitamin P posted:

The example I gave back then was someone that will happily respect someones pronouns but doesn't know what a nimby is, we could call them a bigot or we could meet them where they are.

# ? Jul 15, 2020 00:41

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
TO RACE TO THE THEATRES"
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Assume they mean enby rather than nimby, amusing parallel between jargon.

Apropos, Angela Nagle popped up again recently:
https://twitter.com/Convolutedname/status/1282752353687478273?s=19

# ? Jul 15, 2020 00:45

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

The dispute between Unison and Tower Hamlets continues - this just got emailled to me and I suspect there's a lot of poo poo going on behind the scenes about whether or not they (the CLP) should have sent this out to the members or not:

quote:

The Mayor says: �It�s disappointing that UNISON members felt they needed to strike�

UNISON�s Response:

The focus of the Mayor�s public disappointment has consistently been targeted at UNISON. This gives the incorrect impression that only UNISON members object to the Tower Rewards contract. In reality the objection is widespread:-

� UNITE and the NEU remain in a formal trade dispute about Tower Rewards with the council alongside UNISON. The NEU were due to take strike action alongside UNISON prior to the lockdown but suspended action due to Covid 19, as did UNISON.

� Unite have reported that they have now served a formal ballot notification on the council

� Members of all NJC unions (Unite, GMB and UNISON) repeatedly voted in the majority to reject Tower Rewards in all �1 member 1 vote processes� throughout 2019 and 2020

� While UNISON�s legal strike ballot broke through the anti-union strike threshold, the GMB�s did not although the vote was strongly in favour of strike action

� On the 6 July 2020 the council imposed Tower Rewards on the majority of its workforce by sacking and then rehiring them on the inferior contract. At that date only 30% of the workforce had signed the new contract - despite staff being subjected to a campaign of intimidation/misinformation by the council and the Head of HR to try and get as many as possible to �voluntarily� sign.

� The low take up by council staff is the best evidence that the vast majority of the workforce, regardless of their trade union status, do not believe that Tower Rewards is �modern� or �rewarding�.

The Mayor says: �The new contracts invest more than �2m in pay and conditions�

UNISON response:

This claim seems to have appeared for the first time in February 2020. It contrasts with the Corporate Director of Finance�s statement to unions that Tower Rewards delivers a �2m pa saving, or the Chief Executive�s claim that it financially breaks even. The council has refused to provide unions with a comprehensive financial analysis so they can independently assess any of these claims. The refusal to provide this information means it is reasonable to suspect that the latest claim is a manipulated figure. If Tower Rewards did genuinely invest an additional 2 million � (pa?) to enhance staff pay and conditions it is likely the entire workforce and all trade unions would have welcomed it.

The Mayor says: �The new contracts came into effect on Monday. Despite UNISON�S warning, nobody lost their jobs�

UNISON�s response:

This is a deliberate misrepresentation. On Monday 6 July 2020 the council dismissed the majority of its workforce ( 2/3rds ) so it could impose the inferior Tower Rewards contract on them. �Sacking and re-engagment� is a rarely used and aggressive legal tool employers can opt to deploy to change contracts of employment without consent. It is most commonly used in the private sector to drive down pay and conditions. Employees are formally issued with written notice and at the end of the notice period dismissed and then rehired on the new contract. If an employee does not acquiesce to the new contract they are out of a job with no right to a redundancy payment.

All council staff were issued with a formal termination notice on the 6 January 2020. Those who had not signed the new contract were dismissed on the 6 July 2020 then subsequently rehired on it. That a Labour council would serve mass termination notices, sack and re-engage the majority of its workforce to force through contractual changes is astonishing, and even more so in the context of a pandemic when many of these employees are essential workers.

The Mayor says: �Social workers and other hard to fill roles have seen a pay rise�or increases in annual leave �

UNISON�s response:

Many social workers refused to sign the contract and this is an occupational group which have noticeably turned out in force on picket lines. While it is accurate that some receive access to additional base salary increment/s, what the Mayor has not revealed is that this is being coupled with the removal of a market supplement some have been paid for three years and that all social workers will see their travel allowance cut by 596� pa. This means that many social workers employed as part of the Ofsted improvement journey see little benefit to their overall pay package. Some object to Tower Rewards because of negative changes to other terms and conditions that are not pay related. Many first tier social work managers have taken part in strike action as they believe the new pay spine is fundamentally unfair to them. It is overly simplistic to infer that social workers are positive about Tower Rewards.

Other grades which gain a small additional amount of annual leave would have received this anyway as part of the current round of NJC national pay negotiations.

The Mayor claims: �Everyone will benefit from our new rent deposit scheme, updated special leave allowances and other changes. Any adversely affected by an element of changes will see their pay protected for 2 years or until pay rises mitigate loss.'

UNISON�s response:

Tower Rewards is a multi- element package that varies a large number of terms and conditions. The Mayor has omitted to itemise the many terms and conditions that have been detrimentally changed. Such as permanently lowering the entry point for some grades below SO2, cutting the travel allowance and introducing a mobiilty clause with limited financial compensation, to name but a few. The ability for staff to access special leave for domestic violence situations already exists in a stand alone staff DV policy so this is not a new benefit, just a repackaging of an existing one.

Members of all unions have consistently voted to reject the overall package as the negatives far outweigh any benefits. The introduction of a rent deposit scheme is a trivial addition (which only a handful of staff will ever make use of) when juxtaposed next to the many terms and conditions that are being detrimentally changed. Essentially the council is offering us a few crumbs while it snatches away a loaf.

The Mayor claims : �It was suggested that an equalities analysis was not carried out�

UNISON�s response:

The council has released a blizzard of material it purports to be equality impact information. But it is nothing more than an exercise in data manipulation, obstruction and obfuscation. The high level summary spread sheet referred to by the Mayor is plainly inaccurate. It gives every single group an average % increase in salary . This is impossible as it is a straightforward fact that the majority of the workforce see no increase in base salary from Tower Rewards, which only increases base salary in the top third of the council but cuts entry pay lower down. We know that these lower grades are disproportionately women and BAME.

UNISON has not been able to undertake an independent equality assessment as despite the council�s document �blizzard�, the basic data required has not been released.

The Mayor claims: �the strike at its high point had about 14% of staff participating�.�

UNISON�s response:

This figure is disputed- more than 14 % presented at socially distanced picket lines alone, and overall 1200 people attended three virtual on line strike rallies. Many staff were subjected to inappropriate strident management instructions demanding they reveal in advance if they were striking, even though managers are not entitled to dictate they tell them. Many rightly refused to divulge this information. It was disappointing, but predictable, that the Mayor would try and downplay the impact of the strike, in the same way he has sought to downplay how widespread the disapproval of Tower Rewards is amongst the workforce.

There is no doubt that striking in a pandemic under socially distanced conditions is a unique occurrence, especially as many staff continue to work from home and no one quite knew in advance how it would pan out, but overall it has been judged as an overwhelming success. Not least because of the resulting national publicity the dispute has attracted.

The Mayor says: �Currently the council spends 1.7 m a year on additional severance payments and we think reducing this and investing the money in increased pay is the right thing to do�.

UNISON�s response:

It is UNISON �s understanding that the council spent 1.7m over 3 years on severance, not in 1 year alone. Only the top third of the workforce receive a pay rise whilst the majority get nothing. Furthermore, savings are only made by cutting severance if a significant number of staff are made redundant. There is significant unease amongst staff that the slashing of severance is a precursor to mass redundancies on the cheap. The spend on severance (which provides a reasonable cushion to people who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own) is miniscule when compared to the spend on consultants.

The Mayor claims: �We entirely respect the right of staff to strike�

UNISON�s response:

This claim stands in stark contrast with the Mayor and the council�s conduct. This council has embraced and zealously deployed the Tory anti- unions laws to their full extent � even the optional elements it is under no obligation to use, which the Mayor has then sought to justify. This has been done under the guise of ensuring �legal compliance�.

In January 2020 UNISON�s Regional Secretary sent an open letter to Mayor Biggs slamming the council�s conduct and accusing it of acting like an �unscrupulous private company not a Labour run council: - � It is a disgrace that your council is using the most anti- union piece of legislation in recent years, enacted by a Conservative government determined to diminish workers� rights, to try to prevent union members from using the only remaining tool they have to resist the imposition of new contracts that they have not agreed to. �I urge you to consider the actions of your Labour council, not only in the way they have handled receipt of our ballot notices but also in the disgraceful way they are seeking to bully our members and your staff.�

Such behaviour includes, but is not limited to:

� Repeated threats by the Chief Executive to UNISON that the council would seek an injunction to stop its ballot going forward

� Similar threats to the NEU culminating in the council filing an application for an injunction at the High Court, only to withdraw it at the eleventh hour in the wake of public outrage

� The banning of UNISON branch officers from using the council�s email system to communicate with members about Tower Rewards

� The Head of HR attempting to deter workers from striking by sending all staff an email dishonestly inferring they would lose their continuous service if they went on strike (they don�t)

But most significantly, this Labour council has sacked and rehired the majority of its workforce after it could not obtain their consent to change their contract of employment. They have done this to key workers in the middle of a pandemic. By any reasonable standard, this is truly shocking.

We hope to see you on the picket line.

Kerie Anne

UNISON Assistant Branch Secretary

14 July 2020.

In Solidarity,

Mike Davis

Chair of Poplar and Limehouse CLP

# ? Jul 15, 2020 00:47

Venomous: Nov 7, 2011

Angepain posted:

You can't speak for them, apparently.

oh yeah, that was it, we were discussing authoritarian communism and I mentioned Titoists. My memory is hosed lmao

# ? Jul 15, 2020 00:47

Angepain: Jul 13, 2012; what keeps happening to my clothes

josh04 posted:

Assume they mean enby rather than nimby, amusing parallel between jargon.

yeah this is definitely a thing that happens

"Oh I was just talking to Chris, apparently h- sorry, they - they want to be called they now. Heard a bunch of people are doing that these days. Did you see that Sam Smith on the news a while back. Fine with me, if it makes you happy, of course."
"Yeah, Chris told me they were an enby a while back, we-"
"An enby? What?"
"...BEGONE, THOU FOUL BIGOT. WE WILL SHOOT YOU WITH KNIVES. HANG THEE IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE, SO WE WILL. DEATH TO THE BACKWARD MAN."

# ? Jul 15, 2020 00:50

Angepain: Jul 13, 2012; what keeps happening to my clothes

Iohannes' favourite words are an interesting one:

iohannes;ww;wwww;wwwwww;wwwwwww;wwwww;wwwwwwwwww;wwwwwwwww;wwwwwwwwwwww;

Not sure what exactly is going on there.

e:ok the answer is here, which I don't have archives to view but I can ssume from context is some kind of ASCII porn. 2010 ukmt was steamy i guess.

Angepain fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Jul 15, 2020

# ? Jul 15, 2020 00:54

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

Angepain posted:

Iohannes' favourite words are an interesting one:

iohannes;ww;wwww;wwwwww;wwwwwww;wwwww;wwwwwwwwww;wwwwwwwww;wwwwwwwwwwww;

Not sure what exactly is going on there.

They like singing that song but upside down.

# ? Jul 15, 2020 00:54

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Guavanaut and OwlFancier are skewed by being OPs so have poster names in their favs, but I'm confused and worried by "muriatic" and "sexhow".

It's probably in the context of our first environmental law with some teeth and real words in it, the Alkali Act, which regulated muriatic acid gas from alkali works when it was still called that. It's still, afaik, in force in some form, but they amended muriatic to hydrochloric in 1983.

Also brick cleaner used to be called muriatic acid long after they changed it to hydrochloric acid in chemistry labs, so I think I used it as an example of something you can buy at a builder's merchants that would also be extremely bad to throw at someone in the contexts of various politics/media people saying "we must ban sulphuric acid drain cleaner and only that and then do nothing else" back when that was the moral panic of the day. Seems like a decade ago.

Also it's a fun word. Of the sea/relating to brine.

# ? Jul 15, 2020 00:55

sebzilla: Mar 17, 2009; Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.

My posting trademarks are apparently shilling for various bands I'm in, snackchatchat (or in this case snackchatchatchat) and the atttempted introduction of the word "tumhole" to replace the inferior "bellybutton"

# ? Jul 15, 2020 00:55

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

josh04 posted:

Assume they mean enby rather than nimby, amusing parallel between jargon.

*I* didn't know what an enby was until I just googled it, and I'd love to see examples of people being driven off of leftist circles for not knowing what that term means.

# ? Jul 15, 2020 00:58

Pesky Splinter: Feb 16, 2011; A worried pug.

sebzilla posted:

My posting trademarks are apparently shilling for various bands I'm in, snackchatchat (or in this case snackchatchatchat) and the atttempted introduction of the word "tumhole" to replace the inferior "bellybutton"

# ? Jul 15, 2020 01:04

Lt. Danger: Dec 22, 2006; jolly good chaps we sure showed the hun

gove_clapping
spld
pigsex
atavastic (sic)
immanentise
castling
legalistics
bwuh
scents

shamefully one is a misspelling but otherwise a, uh, broad range

# ? Jul 15, 2020 01:08

Tarnop: Nov 25, 2013; Pull me out

I loving love explaining how the Klobb in Goldeneye N64 got its name, apparently (it's right, I do)

# ? Jul 15, 2020 01:09

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

Oh so that's what the gently caress nimby have to do with things. I was wondering why the gently caress anybody would be angry that someone doesn't know what a nimby is.

# ? Jul 15, 2020 01:12

WhatEvil: Jun 6, 2004; Can't get no luck.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Presented almost without comment, a spreadsheet showing just how much bollocks you people talk

You're telling me I've posted 265,000 words in the UKMT?

Christ.

I like how most people's postwerwangs include misspellings which are unique/semi-unique to them.

# ? Jul 15, 2020 01:17

Angepain: Jul 13, 2012; what keeps happening to my clothes

You know, these days, mate, if you say you don't know what an enby is, you get arrested and thrown in jail

# ? Jul 15, 2020 01:18

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

goddamnedtwisto posted:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3908679&pagenumber=136#post502064778 12 times in one post! Also you're 66th on the list of posters by posts, which makes me want to do a quick list of posters by average words per post.

And yes, definitely give Brass Eye (and The Day Today which, possibly sacrilegiously, I prefer to Brass Eye) a day in court.

Maybe a word shouldn't count 12 times if it is one post? That was a bit of a tv script. (Chelmsford 123 IIRC).

# ? Jul 15, 2020 01:19

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

We've got a posts room?

# ? Jul 15, 2020 01:21

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

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Maybe a word shouldn't count 12 times if it is one post? That was a bit of a tv script. (Chelmsford 123 IIRC).

I hemmed and hawed about that for a bit and you're probably right but it ultimately came down to it being a *shitload* more expensive, computationally, to do that compared to dealing with just a big blob of words.

e: And I forgot I'd left the "who's the wordiest poster" search running in the background where it had stalled because someone had actually managed to make several posts with no words in them at all, which is fun. Anyway you'll be pleased to hear that you're only the 50th-wordiest poster in the history of the forums (with > 100 posts): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10u2ylrOxkSfCQurkKmNYrsdnwLIytHmv66KkqDP1yjk/edit?usp=sharing

Loads of names I barely recognise there, many from the very early iterations of the thread, which is interesting - I'll do another one with just recent posters

goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 01:37 on Jul 15, 2020

# ? Jul 15, 2020 01:24

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

forkboy84 posted:

I'm pretty excited to find out I say fucksake far too often, thanks hellworld

we have more words than ronya. In your face ronya!!

twisto you should definitely do the markov chain, it's not hard - just building a dict of words that maps to a list of the words that appear after it (well a dict with a count is better). Then you can make your own UKMT hive mind (or clone individual posters if you're evil)

ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:

In the words of thread favourites IDLES: Mother FUCKER

they've been cranking them out lately
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYGtGcJ8rKw

# ? Jul 15, 2020 01:25

ShaneMacGowansTeeth: May 22, 2007; I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

baka kaba posted:

they've been cranking them out lately
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYGtGcJ8rKw

amazing and adorable at the same time

# ? Jul 15, 2020 01:33

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Apparently Westminster planning to withhold power to control state aid from Wales & Scotland after Brexit transition

https://nation.cymru/news/uk-government-planning-to-withhold-power-from-wales-and-scotland-after-brexit-transition/

quote:

UK Government �planning to withhold power� from Wales and Scotland after Brexit transition
13th July 2020

Westminster Government Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Picture by Annika Haas (CC BY 2.0)
The UK government is planning to withhold power from Scotland and Wales when the Brexit transition ends, according to reports citing government sources in the Financial Times and the Guardian.

Scotland�s First Minister described the plans as an �attempt to erode� devolved powers and a �full-scale assault on devolution,� and predicted that support for independence would rise as a result.

According to the Financial Times, which cites two sources familiar with the plans, a proposal to withhold power to control state aid from Wales and Scotland is expected to appear in a bill this autumn laying the legal grounds of a new internal market.

The Scottish and Welsh governments have said that state aid policy should be devolved to them under current legislation, but the UK government insists it should have the power.

It follows plans to �force� Scotland and Wales to accept whatever new standards on food, environment and animal welfare it agrees in future trade agreements with other countries, they say.

The Guardian newspaper also reports on an UK Government attempt to �emasculate� the devolved governments in Wales and Scotland, again by using primary legislation passed at Westminster.

According to the newspaper, the UK Government is planning for an unelected oversight body that would hold any new devolved bills to a �market impact test�.

That could tie the hands of devolved parliaments on matters such university tuition and minimum unit pricing for alcohol.

There is also a proposal for a �mutual recognition regime� requiring regulatory standards in one part of the UK to be automatically accepted in others. In practice this could leave them unable to reject UK government decisions on, for example, chlorinated chicken or genetically modified (GM) organisms.

�Fight�

Wales� Brexit Minister Jeremy Miles told the Guardian that while the Welsh government �want[s] the union to work�, any mutual recognition scheme �needs to be agreed between the four governments, not imposed by one, and it needs to be flexible and nimble, not a statutory fist crashing down across the UK.�

Proposals to enshrine mutual recognition in law would �create a huge constitutional fight�, he said. �In essence, it emasculates the devolution settlement. That�s not going to be tolerated.�

Legal experts told the Financial Times that Westminster�s decision to legislate to make state aid policy a reserved power was an implicit recognition that the government was not confident of winning the argument in court.

George Peretz QC, a lawyer at Monckton Chambers in London and an expert in EU law, said the UK government had previously contended that its undisputed powers to rule over �anti-competitive practices� also extended to state aid.

�I think that that�s not really arguable. And in seeking to settle the matter through primary legislation � if that is what occurs � it looks as if the government has now agreed that it isn�t arguable either,� he told the newspaper.

Which reminds me, haven't seen Coohoolin lately?

# ? Jul 15, 2020 01:37

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

baka kaba posted:

twisto you should definitely do the markov chain, it's not hard - just building a dict of words that maps to a list of the words that appear after it (well a dict with a count is better). Then you can make your own UKMT hive mind (or clone individual posters if you're evil)

It's on the list, but I'm baby-stepping at the minute.

# ? Jul 15, 2020 01:39

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

goddamnedtwisto posted:

It's on the list, but I'm baby-stepping at the minute.

How did you eliminate all the most common everyday words ('the' 'and' 'or' etc etc)?

# ? Jul 15, 2020 01:41

Comrade Fakename: Feb 13, 2012

Bobby Deluxe posted:

Is there a marginally more ethical place to get masks from that anyone knows of? Obviously no ethical consumption under capitalism and all that, but if I can avoid engorging Bezos' dragon horde then I'm all for that.

This is from a couple pages back but my local Co-Op were selling packs of five masks. It�s not very hard to get them now.

# ? Jul 15, 2020 01:49

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

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

How did you eliminate all the most common everyday words ('the' 'and' 'or' etc etc)?

A big negative weighting the more posters use a particular word - of the 4437 posters in my NSA-like database, 3865 have used the word "the" at least once (and I feel like I should investigate the ones who haven't a bit more), 2413 used the word "gently caress" and variants, 1238 have said "Brexit", etc.

Also, because I'm sure it'll be asked, 284 have used the phrase "monster munch", and they are going in another database, or more accurately... The List.

# ? Jul 15, 2020 01:51

Angepain: Jul 13, 2012; what keeps happening to my clothes

Do people still use the word "emasculate" outside of alt-right youtube videos or is it just me that finds it a bit weird a word to use these days. Oh no you cut off my devolution-powers penis. Now i am a sissy lady parliament

# ? Jul 15, 2020 01:54

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

I love ratifying legislation proposed by my daddy parliament.

# ? Jul 15, 2020 01:59

radmonger: Jun 6, 2011

forkboy84 posted:

They mean "I wrote an article that was really loving stupid & now people are laughing at me on Twitter & it hurts my feelings" & they mean "you can't even say racial slurs any more, what is the world coming to, political correctness gone mad". It's not a term with rehabilitating except to sarcastically point out that the stupid loving mewchs like Bari Weiss are snowflakes who can't take the mildest forms of criticism, so used to being in their safe spaces where no one challenges their reprehensible & intellectually lazy

The only reason centrist shitheads don�t use the phrase �shot in the head� to refer to being disagreed with is that it isn�t trending on twitter right now.

But if it was, and they did, that wouldn�t make being shot in the head any less of a problem for those people actually living the experience the phrase usually describes.Which is generally workers being summarily fired by their bosses because some customer got publicly annoyed with them.

# ? Jul 15, 2020 01:59

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

The water wars are coming:

Ethiopia and Egypt gearing up for fisticuffs methinks.

Nile flows through 11 countries starting in Ethiopia and eventually feeding into the Mediterranean .
There is an agreement on how much water each country should take from the Nile.

Ethiopia needs more water for its growing population / industrialization and are building a dam Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and wants to take more water.

They sent an 'open letter' to Egypt via the Egyptian Embassy in Ottowa: https://borkena.com/2020/04/06/open-letter-to-the-people-of-egypt-on-grand-ethiopian-renaissance-dam/
Egyptians are accusing them of lying - not sure if there's been an official response yet but I have seen lengthy responses from Egyptians online (but in what capacity I'm not sure).

# ? Jul 15, 2020 02:03

WhatEvil: Jun 6, 2004; Can't get no luck.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Which reminds me, haven't seen Coohoolin lately?

He's around on Discord/Twitter.

# ? Jul 15, 2020 02:22

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Presented almost without comment, a spreadsheet showing just how much bollocks you people talk

I don't really understand but am pleased to be in it. Pleased also to have wanged the words Kancho and urutsukodoji considering this forum's proven track record with anime deviance.

Haven't been out much since lockdown started (I'm asthmatic) so wasn't aware mask acquisition had become easier, so thanks for the recommendations all.

# ? Jul 15, 2020 03:23

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Presented almost without comment, a spreadsheet showing just how much bollocks you people talk

It's restricted to the top 100 posters of all time and anyone who has posted here in the last two months because who really cares what someone who posted 3 times in the middle of the 2010 election has to say?

A quick description of the methodology and what it all means (if anything). I made a list of the frequency of every single word ever used in the threads, then the frequency of words posted by individual posters. I worked out a (rather shonky, but it seems pretty solid) formula to work out what that posters favourite words were*. I then checked if they were the only poster to use that particular word, which gets shuffled off to its own column (that's posterwang!).

Some quick highlights - unsurprisingly my favourite words are about the internet, east London and motorbikes. Guavanaut and OwlFancier are skewed by being OPs so have poster names in their favs, but I'm confused and worried by "muriatic" and "sexhow". Posters with their own names in their favs aren't egomaniacs posting in the third person, it means they edit their posts a lot (mostly), ronya's favourite words are what you'd expect, and guess what ThomasPaine's second favourite word is?

I've put the frequency of the posterwangs with them because ones with 1 example are normally fragments of URLs that I still can't quite reliably strip out of my corpus.

Anyway the next bit is to use all this to track words coming into and going out of vogue across the entire thread instead of per-poster - I only did this because my test case was my own posts and it was easy just to let it run across a long list of posters.

* Okay it gets a bit complicated, and I'm not entirely sure *how* it works any more, but basically it's a horrifying nested formula that takes into account the word frequency, the amount of other posters who also use that word, and the amount the poster uses that word compared to the others who do - I'm going to come back to this at some point because this sort of trend-spotting is the whole reason I even started this project, it was originally going to be to spot blue-tick words of the day to try and work out who's being briefed by who and when.

Genuine hearty :lol:

when I saw "Episcopalians" in Guava's :v:

# ? Jul 15, 2020 03:50

Grey Hunter: Oct 17, 2007; Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Apparently Westminster planning to withhold power to control state aid from Wales & Scotland after Brexit transition

https://nation.cymru/news/uk-government-planning-to-withhold-power-from-wales-and-scotland-after-brexit-transition/

Which reminds me, haven't seen Coohoolin lately?

He means to evolve the country to a higher, more Tory state.

# ? Jul 15, 2020 05:04

Private Speech: Mar 30, 2011; I HAVE EVEN MORE WORTHLESS BEANIE BABIES IN MY COLLECTION THAN I HAVE WORTHLESS POSTS IN THE BEANIE BABY THREAD YET I STILL HAVE THE TEMERITY TO CRITICIZE OTHERS' COLLECTIONS

IF YOU SEE ME TALKING ABOUT BEANIE BABIES, PLEASE TELL ME TO

EAT. SHIT.

What the hell is villacañas? Probably from something I qouted but I have no idea.

e: It's a town of 10 208 people in Spain. Uh. Okay.

# ? Jul 15, 2020 06:56

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# ? May 27, 2024 08:17

TheRat: Aug 30, 2006

tapdancing;
shitballs;
tim_r_dawson;
theposieparker;
clearcast;
1984x1488;
jeremyduns;
thundercunt;
ianaustinmp;

My words are a thing of beauty. Though I'm not sure how comfortable I am with having ianaustinmp in there.

# ? Jul 15, 2020 07:36

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