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c0burn posted:Is it? Yes, read back a few pages.
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It's always a proud day when someone grows up to become a high level Poster.
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Failed Imagineer posted:This is the only show that's given me a stomach ache from laughing in a decade or more. Probably not for everyone but it's just so idiotic it's incredible if you like i think you should leave, you should watch detroiters
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uk and us racing to see who can ruin the vaccine first https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1345773561269649408?s=20 https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1345536511643709448?s=20
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Remember Starmer is a rudderless Ed Milliband-esque triangulator on a good day so it doesn't matter how small the % of people wanting schools open is, it doesn't matter if they are all childless pensioners with net worth of over £500,000, it doesn't matter if it makes no loving sense at all, if that's a target group for him to 'win back' then they're going to get dollops of tough, meaningless announcements aimed at getting them to give a firm nod to.
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Necrothatcher posted:lmao was reading some drippy Guardian article about Keith and this is normal as market research focus grouping goes - if Coca-Cola were an animal, what kind of animal would it be; if it were a house, what kind of house; a car, a celebrity, etc. - this is to get around nebulous "I buy it because I like it / I don't buy it because I don't like it" responses the key is in the follow-up question: "and why do you say that?" which then prompts participants to start rationalizing their initial answers. It is that rationalization which reveals something about attitudes - if participants start attributing certain characteristics to the product then it may be meaningful to poll on that specific angle the animal of choice is not itself very meaningful - BritainThinks 2019 had respondents compare Johnson to an eagle (and Corbyn to a mermaid) e: vvv you don't ask that kind of question in a poll, it's a open-ended focus group question ronya fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Jan 3, 2021 |
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Jose posted:just refuses to back the unions and wants to be shown doing so loves laying down the rules this lad ey? No ifs, no buts, no excuses and if you don't do it I will be very cross! I'm serious this time! He has the authority of a supply teacher on the last day of term
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Goldskull posted:How is it no-one's mentioned the greatest comedy moment of all time, Delboy falling through the bar? You all voted for it! just like Basil Fawlty smacking a Mini with a branch? It's weird the moments from 'classic comedies' that get memed, because in a lot of cases they're not the best moments, or what made them funny was knowing the character and the lead-up to that moment, like Basil Fawlty hitting the mini with a branch. I was flicking through channels a few years ago and saw an earlier episode of Only Fools about an ambulance scam that was actually pretty well constructed. Del is given an offer of a contract that seems pretty amazing, and goes to a meal at a local restaurant. Halfway through, the guy has a heart attack, leaving Del to pick up the bill. It transpires the ambulance was fake, and the whole thing was set up to scam a free meal out of Del (I think he also scams him out of a deposit, or important item as well). They spend the rest of the episode trying to track them down, and then right at the end it looks like he's scammed the friends they sent to find him as well, but it's Del and Rodney in the fake ambulance. It's really well done and is great from a structural standpoint. No Nag's head scenes, no Boycie, none of the usual memes, but it works as a show about cockneys trying to grift their way out of Peckham and failing. The memification and descent into 'do the thing!' humour is what killed it - the point at which the writers stop constructing great scenes that culminate in a memorable catchphrase, and start constructing scenes in order to get to that catchphrase. This is why Little Britain has always been poo poo because they went straight to the latter kind of construction. Fast Show as well, although they played with the format a hell of a lot better than LB did. Red Dwarf got absolutely nailed to the wall with this to the point that the better of the two writers left, and now Dave won't even touch it. The best example of this is that the first 'Dwayne Dibbley?' moment was pretty funny in context. Every moment they've done it since has been painfully embarrassing in a way that makes my skin crawl.
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Necrothatcher posted:lmao was reading some drippy Guardian article about Keith and The problem with this kind of polling is that it self-selects for participants who won’t answer questions like that with “is that seriously your loving question? No I don’t know what animal political leaders would be, I’m hanging up now, don’t call me again,” so you get a less intelligent polling base.
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Endjinneer posted:It's relevant that case numbers have been increasing despite lockdown conditions that would previously have been sufficient. Rather than holding back vaccine stocks for a couple of weeks to administer as second doses, the plan is to throw a needle into every available arm in the desperate hope that it does some good. There is evidence to suggest decent immunity from one shot, at least in the AZ trial because of how they hosed up. As for 'no benefit' i'm not a doctor but that seems unlikely. The lack of a reinfection wave points to a decent level of lasting immunity in people that have had actual covid, combined with the stats that say 1 does goes up to 90% efficiency after 14 days. I'd say the bigger issue here is 'will it actually be 12 weeks or do we just not get the second dose'. If they can change the dose regimen this late into the game whose to say they won't do it again. Like fine, it's out of control and now we wait 12 weeks for the second dose, but we really have to get that second dose. There can't be any more delays.
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I’d vote for a gorilla as PM because you might as well have somebody that will literally tear the ruling class to pieces
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Comrade Fakename posted:The problem with this kind of polling is that it self-selects for participants who won’t answer questions like that with “is that seriously your loving question? No I don’t know what animal political leaders would be, I’m hanging up now, don’t call me again,” so you get a less intelligent polling base.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:That's always going to be an issue with polls though, essentially that you only get responses from unemployed / retired people who have nothing better to do, or people dumb / greedy enough to exchange half an hour of their time for the *possibility* of an Amazon voucher. And people who just want to gently caress with them.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:
I think all of Only Fools and Horses was written by a single guy John Sullivan and he found it limiting to have such a short run time for each episode, I was watching a documentary about it and he used to re-use scenes cut from episodes for time reasons and eventually got to make a longer form episode like To Hull and Back.
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The long episodes are really bloated and generally a lot less funny. Miami Twice is particularly bad.
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Re; British humour. I feel like we haven't really had the sorta working class material you once got since the 80s and it's all now just poshos grifting on Daddy's money who just aren't very funny, I am unsure how to articulate that point better but maybe someone else can reiterate it. I think Red Dwarf is a classic example where a lot of the cast were from working class backgrounds, had tight script writing and even the race barrier was somewhat broken without it being important to the narrative. Yes there is certainly some dated ideas and outright plain bad and offensive jokes on occasion but compare that to anything in the 2000s onwards and it's still pretty brilliant. (just don't watch anything from series seven onwards of course, oh dear)
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Jose posted:closing schools is overwhelmingly popular with the public so you think even if he wants to ignore the unions that'd be enough but no mass death for everyone It's overwhelmingly unpopular with businesses though as all their staff have to stay home to look after the kids.
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Failed Imagineer posted:I remember chuckling when the idiots at /b/ rigged the poll to name the new Mountain Dew flavour Hitler Did Nothing Wrong. Seems a bit less ironic now...
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We have things like Alan Partridge, Brass Eye, Dark Place, Peep Show, The Thick Of It, The Office, and all the various other shows from that very rough area which are all absolutely great. I think it’s important to distinguish between funny in the sense of producing good professional comedy and comedic media, and funny in the sense of the people being funny though. Also anyone who thinks we should replace professional comedians with shitposting has clearly never been to see live stand up.
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I have also never stabbed myself in the dick for fun but I am more likely to take this thread's advice on that than I am to voluntarily subject myself to live stand up comedy.
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It's sound advice either way.
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Regarde Aduck posted:There is evidence to suggest decent immunity from one shot, at least in the AZ trial because of how they hosed up. As for 'no benefit' i'm not a doctor but that seems unlikely. The lack of a reinfection wave points to a decent level of lasting immunity in people that have had actual covid, combined with the stats that say 1 does goes up to 90% efficiency after 14 days. The confidence interval on those stats is enormous though. The mean is 89% which sounds great by itself, but the 95% confidence interval on that is 52%-95% or something. Presumably because it's data they gathered by accident rather than design.
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Enough staff at my wife's primary school sent section 44 letters that they're opening to key workers and vulnerable kids only. Pretty proud of her today as the main driving force behind drumming up enough support to reach critical mass (she's the school's union rep). Anyone who thinks teachers "just want a day off" needs their heads checked; even in a literal life and death situation so many more would rather go in, even knowing the risks (we're in T4), than let down kids and parents. It's admirable and intensely frustrating in equal measure, gently caress the government for putting those on the ground in this situation in the first place.
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The compere at a tiny show in Colchester called me pube beard and a couple of months later she was on the panel circuit. That's my story.
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Jakabite posted:The Office One of these things is not like the others.
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SpicePro posted:I think Red Dwarf is a classic example where a lot of the cast were from working class backgrounds, had tight script writing and even the race barrier was somewhat broken without it being important to the narrative. Yes there is certainly some dated ideas and outright plain bad and offensive jokes on occasion but compare that to anything in the 2000s onwards and it's still pretty brilliant. (just don't watch anything from series seven onwards of course, oh dear) It's funny that around the time Kryten arrives there's more of a sense of it being about them running the ship and choosing where it goes and having adventures, rather than having to essentially mend things or die as so many of the original episodes were about. I haven't watched many of the episodes post S5 but that was where they dug their heels in and started really leaning into fan service. Was sort of interested in the idea of the rest of the crew coming back, but only as a return to their status in the original seasons. Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Jan 3, 2021 |
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OwlFancier posted:I have also never stabbed myself in the dick for fun but I am more likely to take this thread's advice on that than I am to voluntarily subject myself to live stand up comedy. Much like corona vaccines, you get the results by doing one shortly followed by the other It's not like the next generation are going to have much use for cutlery when they're foraging for grubs in the Zone Failed Imagineer fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Jan 3, 2021 |
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Put children's lives on hold, put children's lives in the hospital. Who can say which is better?
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Jakabite posted:We have things like Alan Partridge, Brass Eye, Dark Place, Peep Show, The Thick Of It, The Office, and all the various other shows from that very rough area which are all absolutely great. I think it’s important to distinguish between funny in the sense of producing good professional comedy and comedic media, and funny in the sense of the people being funny though. Maybe my issue with british comedy is that I don't enjoy 'cringe comedy' where the main character keeps loving up and making stupid cringey mistakes for laughs. I don't enjoy Alan Partridge or a lot of Peep Show for this reason.
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It's fair though. I missed a a few weeks of school with chicken pox when I was 7 and I've never been able to learn how to eat with cutlery since. I have to eat off the floor out of a dog bowl. It's quite embarrassing at work.
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Miftan posted:Maybe my issue with british comedy is that I don't enjoy 'cringe comedy' where the main character keeps loving up and making stupid cringey mistakes for laughs. I don't enjoy Alan Partridge or a lot of Peep Show for this reason. I rescind all of my criticisms of your chocolate opinions, we are kindred, comrades, brothers in comedic tastes.
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Ewan posted:I have to eat off the floor out of a dog bowl. It's quite embarrassing at work. 
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Necrothatcher posted:lmao was reading some drippy Guardian article about Keith and god damnit maybe its long enough and i can return to the graun to read it ironically because thats hilarious
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OwlFancier posted:I rescind all of my criticisms of your chocolate opinions, we are kindred, comrades, brothers in comedic tastes. We have forged a bond that will last a lifetime and never falter, comrade.
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Miftan posted:Maybe my issue with british comedy is that I don't enjoy 'cringe comedy' where the main character keeps loving up and making stupid cringey mistakes for laughs. I don't enjoy Alan Partridge or a lot of Peep Show for this reason. its like being too scared to watch horror movies, you just gotta get over the hump and then you can enjoy some great stuff. i was the same the first time i watched the office
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