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WhatEvil posted:Also if you read it, the headline says it would "wipe out" Tory majority and while that's technically true, they would still be the largest party by like 1 or 2 seats over Labour. Lol. 20 points ahead baby!
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sebzilla posted:Lib Dems on 2 (two) seats would be hilarious. Not as hilarious as Boris becoming the first ever incumbent Prime Minister to be unseated.
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Guavanaut posted:The news can't even bring on a scientist to explain the latest understanding of how sex and gender work without having to bring on a discredited radfem from the 70s to claim that it's all a trick to allow endocrinologists into your home bathroom for balance. At this point I'm surprised they don't have an alternative newsreader after each news item saying that everything the other presenter just said is all made up.
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My read-through of the Discworlds has got to Unseen Academicals and man is the slip in quality noticeable. I couldn't say what it is, but it's just noticeably worse executed than the ones before. I think I'll leave off with this one, I don't particularly want to experience the rest of his decline and I don't want to get to the one where Granny Weatherwax dies.
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Dabir posted:My read-through of the Discworlds has got to Unseen Academicals and man is the slip in quality noticeable. I couldn't say what it is, but it's just noticeably worse executed than the ones before. I think I'll leave off with this one, I don't particularly want to experience the rest of his decline and I don't want to get to the one where Granny Weatherwax dies. Yeah that's the one where I gave up too. I've read them since I was little but I just couldn't bring myself to read the last couple.
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I'm on the last of the regular discworld series (not the Tiffany Aching ones) and the last few have been a bit of a slog, it's a shame. I put disliking unseen academicals down to not really liking football but the spark and wit is just not there. There are also so many characters to shoehorn in they all feel quite thin.
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my sense was that Pratchett's writing changes to become more verbose in a tell-not-show way in the last few books, and the layered references and humour of the unsaid diminish. The author voice no longer trusts readers to infer characterizations or jokes and must outline them instead this maps pretty well onto his own description of his experience with a rare form of Alzheimer's, where his memory suffered but his language fluency did not the Tiffany Aching books are written for a younger audience and still come off OK, though ronya fucked around with this message at 07:50 on Jan 3, 2021 |
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I thought Raising Steam was probably the worst, the Shepherd's Crown was a decent send-off. Don't really plan on rereading either though.
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Ms Adequate posted:I concur. Need them at the TUV level.  edit: missed this; Dabir posted:My read-through of the Discworlds has got to Unseen Academicals and man is the slip in quality noticeable. I couldn't say what it is, but it's just noticeably worse executed than the ones before. I think I'll leave off with this one, I don't particularly want to experience the rest of his decline and I don't want to get to the one where Granny Weatherwax dies. Me as well, instead of an enthralling story it was just one word in front of another till it finished and the same for the next couple until i just stopped buying them. Terribly sad he's gone and i've barely read any of his older ones since but they are on the shelf for when i can do so again. Just Another Lurker fucked around with this message at 09:08 on Jan 3, 2021 |
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sebzilla posted:Lib Dems on 2 (two) seats would be hilarious. It's funny that people are still insisting that there's this enormous unfulfilled demand for sensible centrism amomg the electorate, despite the copious evidence to the contrary.
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Dabir posted:My read-through of the Discworlds has got to Unseen Academicals and man is the slip in quality noticeable. I couldn't say what it is, but it's just noticeably worse executed than the ones before. I think I'll leave off with this one, I don't particularly want to experience the rest of his decline and I don't want to get to the one where Granny Weatherwax dies. I Shall Wear Midnight is still a good one which comes one year afterwards.
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daddy boris come on tv soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  lol how did Andrew Marr get where he is, he's a bimbo
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Pistol_Pete posted:It's funny that people are still insisting that there's this enormous unfulfilled demand for sensible centrism amomg the electorate, despite the copious evidence to the contrary. Wouldn’t Labour under Starmer ostensibly fill that demand? With Labour tacking to the centre and Brexit “done”, I don’t know what the Lib Dems are selling the centrist dads that Labour isn’t (or can’t).
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Remember that annual parliamentary elections is the one unfulfilled demand of the people's charter. Annual elections would be disastrous because there's basically no *good* policy that can be set up and have its positive benefits felt in that short a time. It'd be a recipe for at best complete inertia because nobody would ever propose a policy that would have long-term benefits, and at worst would just be constant culture war bullshit as governments chase the biggest headlines.
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I od'ed on the trump thread in gbs after the election and haven't followed it for ages now. When does he have to leave the whitehouse? I want to read it during this period.
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I vote we have a referendum every year on whether to have an election that year
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Just had a dickhead on LinkedIn share this as "proof" that the pandemic is in fact a massive hoax and we're living in a dictatorship. https://dailyexpose.co.uk/2021/01/02/england-nhs-data-support-dictatorship/amp/ I will say, it's at least attempting to use real NHS data in its analysis, although its conclusion is obviously bollocks. Is there a good stats-based takedown of articles like this out there, showing that the thing is real?
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Didn't Pratchett have a ghost writer in his later years? I imagine having his words and ideas filtered through someone else would also impact the writing style
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ronya posted:my sense was that Pratchett's writing changes to become more verbose in a tell-not-show way in the last few books, and the layered references and humour of the unsaid diminish. The author voice no longer trusts readers to infer characterizations or jokes and must outline them instead For me the decline happened earlier than his diagnosis. By Thud basically all of the main characters had such massive suits of narrative armour that they started to come across as Mary Sues, incapable of ever making a mistake or finding themselves in a situation they couldn't handle. Now possibly this might have been related to the very early stages of his disease but it's a problem that almost all long-running series have - the author (and audience) get so attached to the character that it becomes impossible for them to be written into an actually interesting story. Granny Weatherwax goes from being a witch scared of her power to the most powerful user of magic on the Disc, Sam Vimes goes from someone trying to be a good copper despite believing ACAB to a literal god of justice, and Moist von Lipwig - a character I always assumed Pratchett introduced because he was aware of the problems with the other main ones - takes just three books to go from con man trying to hide his past to some weird avatar of Good Capitalism. Interestingly the character that *started* with that level of invincibility - Rincewind - never made a comeback in the late books. He was in a lot of ways my favourite character because he was aware that he was basically unkillable but hated it because he was much more aware of the narrative rules that kept him alive but in really dangerous situations. Also the potato joke at the start of Interesting Times is one of the best throwaway gags in the series. (Incidentally this is why all superhero movies are poo poo, and I will not be taking questions on this)
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Jippa posted:I od'ed on the trump thread in gbs after the election and haven't followed it for ages now. When does he have to leave the whitehouse? I want to read it during this period. 6th is the official confirmation of the election results in Congress, 20th is Biden's inauguration.
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Mourning Due posted:Is there a good stats-based takedown of articles like this out there, showing that the thing is real? I dare say that anyone who thinks the pandemic isn't real at this point is simply irrecoverable
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goddamnedtwisto posted:6th is the official confirmation of the election results in Congress, 20th is Biden's inauguration. Cheers.
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Pistol_Pete posted:It's funny that people are still insisting that there's this enormous unfulfilled demand for sensible centrism amomg the electorate, despite the copious evidence to the contrary. I watched The Social Dilemma recently, which is very good. It makes a persuasive argument that social media has massively increased political polarisation and led to the collapse of the centre. So the people clinging to centrist electoral politics are probably still thinking of that now-obsolete paradigm where there was a strong centre and elections could be won by appealing to it. crispix posted:he'll change his mind and announce closure this evening at about half seven don't worry About a week ago I predicted the u-turn coming tonight at about 18:34. We differ by less than an hour!
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don't worry we have a plan https://mobile.twitter.com/LizzyBuchan/status/1345666417396506625?s=20 ok so they miss half of asymptomatic cases, but on the bright side there'll be so many cases that they're bound to find some of them
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Watched 5 minutes and couldn't watch any more. Such waffle and refusal to answer a question. He doesn't even finish his own thoughts. Was talking about schools, Marr started trying to ask about vaccines. Boris said he wanted to talk about exams, Marr let him and instead he waffled about schools being important without a single word about exams.
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therattle posted:
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GreyjoyBastard posted:my understanding of european time is that half seven is 6:30pm, although i suppose you're no longer european isn't that just German
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WhatEvil posted:Also if you read it, the headline says it would "wipe out" Tory majority and while that's technically true, they would still be the largest party by like 1 or 2 seats over Labour. Lol. What an excellent catte!
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Jose posted:Election maps is unsurprisingly a melt when I want people to stop making fun of me, I make sure to  extra hard about it in public forums so they know how much they're getting to mee: also very well in polls is an interesting way to phrase "2 points ahead in a single poll"
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XMNN posted:when I want people to stop making fun of me, I make sure to Lol that's the CEO of opinium
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jiggerypokery posted:Is fully automated luxury gay space communism on Facebook a goon thing? Isn't that more an Aaron Bastani thing, he had a book on it.
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XMNN posted:when I want people to stop making fun of me, I make sure to 2 points ahead of an obvious trainwreck of a pm and govt. But I'm sure similar standards would apply to a leftwing leader too...
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