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Angepain
Jul 13, 2012

what keeps happening to my clothes

This has gone now (looks like they restricted their tweets), did I miss anything exciting

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Angepain fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Jan 16, 2021

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Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
Jeremy Corbyn would have unleashed the Babadook, the most antisemitic of monsters, onto these British Isles and this caused me to have a heart attack that was completely unrelated to me screaming abuse at my children for singing a white stripes song.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
its completely insane and i assume him and everyone else are just gaslighting themselves into believing it because otherwise they have to reckon with being responsible for the tories winning, killing thousands with a poo poo covid response and how hosed brexit is

Lord of the Llamas
Jul 9, 2002

EULER'VE TO SEE IT VENN SOMEONE CALLS IT THE WRONG THING AND PROVOKES MY WRATH

Jose posted:

its completely insane and i assume him and everyone else are just gaslighting themselves into believing it because otherwise they have to reckon with being responsible for the tories winning, killing thousands with a poo poo covid response and how hosed brexit is

:agreed:

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
oh look one of the literal tory manifesto promises but no its jeremy corbyn who was the great racist

https://twitter.com/GypsyTravellers/status/1350367454434889728?s=20

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

Jose posted:

oh look one of the literal tory manifesto promises but no its jeremy corbyn who was the great racist

https://twitter.com/GypsyTravellers/status/1350367454434889728?s=20

Ah but you see Rafael isn't a Traveller so he doesn't feel the need to speak.

Jel Shaker
Apr 19, 2003

Jose posted:

its completely insane and i assume him and everyone else are just gaslighting themselves into believing it because otherwise they have to reckon with being responsible for the tories winning, killing thousands with a poo poo covid response and how hosed brexit is

they got what they wanted

CoolCab
Apr 17, 2005

glem

Tarnop posted:

Well at least we get to watch you two qualified doctors work this out in real time based on your feelings

oh no i'm not a doctor, but i don't think you need to be to remain informed - mostly i'm pulling from this, which is a few years old now I think, yeah 2005ish, which pulls from a period where there was a nontrivial amount of effort made to prove or disprove the implication that psychopaths are either, as depending on the cultural context they are painted, either of high or low intelligence. my impression is that both are incorrect, psychopathy does not have a strong correlation with intelligence at all - and then using that as a springboard to the intellectual discussion, why do we want evaluate it in this way?

is it easier to imagine people who lack empathy as being smarter? do we all secretly suspect that people who engage in these antisocial behaviours are cleverer than us, does that imply a longing? or the inverse, is it easier to see them as being less than us, that the absence is a handicap rather than an advantage somehow. i think there are some interesting ideas and implications as to how we see ourselves in how we talk about things like this. are we motivated to draw deeper and more complex difference between ourselves and this psychological other, to feel inferior or superior to them somehow?

is it culturally motivated, and to which extent? is our social conception of "psychopath" more or less a construction to describe serial killers like ted bundy where there was a heavy media bias - influenced by sensationalist reporting, perhaps? i can personally cite occasions where ted bundy is used to prove both - either that psychopaths are suave and sophisticated intelligent charmers, or off putting and violent thugs.

and even that simplified conclusion is flawed - in the process of typing this thought i came across a separate piece which looks at child psychopathy which supports some, but not all, suggestions that there is a correlation with intelligence, or some kinds of intelligence, or this counterpiece, which from perspective affirms my personal bias - that intelligence and psychopathy have a very poor correlation.

if you would like i could provide a biblography with all my great posts but i dunno, effort.

Bobstar
Feb 8, 2006

KartooshFace, you are not responding efficiently!

Gonzo McFee posted:

Ah but you see Rafael isn't a Traveller so he doesn't feel the need to speak.

I think Travellers must be the least likely group to convince the Nevercorbyns that the Tories are much more racist. I saw a Traveller activist on Twitter trying to convince a gammon that they were an ethnic group, but the gammon was convinced that people became Travellers when they got a caravan, and stopped being when they didn't.

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

somehow that last av was even worse than your posting
I lived in a caravan for a year when I was a kid and everyone at school called me a gypsy, I guess thats illegal now.

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

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


Jose posted:

its completely insane and i assume him and everyone else are just gaslighting themselves into believing it because otherwise they have to reckon with being responsible for the tories winning, killing thousands with a poo poo covid response and how hosed brexit is

sort of, but also theyr falling into a depression too. they can't actually escape the effects of it fully just by dropping into fantasia.

quote:

I followed the final moves of the Brexit endgame last month with numb sadness. The seething anger is still available, and politics is always synthesising new reasons to feel enraged, but I handle the compound differently now. I try to decant it on to the page with less casual spillage into the rest of my life.

he's portraying it as personal growth but he's really just detaching himself from the world.

i don't know about anyone else but i'm certainly doing that. i've given up hope in the near future of UK politics so don't see the point. i'm focussing on other poo poo instead and occasionally looking over like "yep, got worse? makes sense"
if you're a commited dumb lib you hated corbyn but even they can't find much hope in kier's labour so they feel a similar detachment

my dad is an archetypal guardian lib, though still loyally voted for labour even under corbyn and he's fallen into a deep depression over politics.
they lack my assurance i guess, politics is poo poo but i know whats right and know i did what was right and if everyone voted like me the country would be better off.
for them there has to be the inkling that they were taken for a ride, if theyr intellectually honest its a possibility that they were part of a movement that helped boris.

though i obviously dont think we'd have won 2019 with the guardian and all its readers on side so they didn't throw it themselves
you could make an argument for 2017 i guess

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

peanut- posted:

That explanation doesn’t make total sense in the context of the deferred payment discounts now being offered. If retailers pay Klarna for sales why are they explicitly incentivising customers who might otherwise pay up front onto deferred payment schemes?

Same reason mail order catalogues used to offer stuff on interest-free payments, and basically all chain furniture stores and home improvement companies still do - they figure that the combined cost of admin (or in this case merchant fees), missed payments and reduced up-front cashflow is offset by the extra sales they'll get from people who either can't afford the up-front costs or at least believe the payment scheme is more affordable.

It's been a way of selling pricey stuff to low earners pretty much since the beginning of mass-production (with the degree of outrageous interest rates and knee-breaking collections moving up and down with the tides of regulation), it's only a surprise (and an indicator that a lot of people are in pretty deep financial distress right now) that it's taken the Silicon Valley "Thing that's always been done, but now with algorithms" business model to catch up with it.

Haramstufe Rot
Jun 24, 2016

Sir Simon Rattle is now German

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jan/16/simon-rattle-applies-for-german-citizenship-brexit


probably still mad there's no concert hall in London

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I thought he basically was already tbh.

kingturnip
Apr 18, 2008
Is there a group of people more persecuted than Gypsy/Traveller/Roma in Europe these days?
There are, after all, plenty of NIMBY Tory cunts who'll say nice things about immigrants as long as they can maintain the White Purity Enforcement Zone around their village, but even suggest that Travellers get a bad rap, and they start frothing at the mouth about them.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
https://twitter.com/LabourList/status/1350492955715530757?s=19

Haramstufe Rot
Jun 24, 2016

OwlFancier posted:

I thought he basically was already tbh.

he came back couple of years ago afaik

Pablo Bluth
Sep 7, 2007

I've made a huge mistake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GK8QQsKSpQ

There aren't any crisps involved.

crispix
Mar 28, 2015

Grand-Maman m'a raconté
(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)

Hello, dear
i lost my temper and went out and deliberately drove my car into some wheelie bins but it was actually jeremy corbyn's fault, your honour

WhatEvil
Jun 6, 2004

Can't get no luck.


I like the dude talking about Scottish shortbread "It is neither salty nor sweet, it is tasteless... still I would rate it 7/10".

thespaceinvader
Mar 30, 2011

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

ah yes, noted labour politican, margaret thatcher.

My loving lord these people are awful

josh04
Oct 19, 2008


"THE FLASH IS THE REASON
TO RACE TO THE THEATRES"

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Even just aside from anything else, she was thirty loving years ago. The Soviet Union was still a pressing concern when Thatcher was in power. Find some new ideas, anywhere, please.

Isomermaid
Dec 3, 2019

Swish swish, like a fish
It's very telling that the tories and the libs will roundly mock socialism with jibes about the Soviet Union and make out like it's an idea that's had its time and it's chance and yet Thatcherism is apparently ageless.

mrpwase
Apr 21, 2010

I HAVE GREAT AVATAR IDEAS
For the Many, Not the Few


i lost my temper and went out and tried to drive my van into jeremy corbyn but it was actually jeremy corbyn's fault, your honour

kingturnip posted:

Is there a group of people more persecuted than Gypsy/Traveller/Roma in Europe these days?
There are, after all, plenty of NIMBY Tory cunts who'll say nice things about immigrants as long as they can maintain the White Purity Enforcement Zone around their village, but even suggest that Travellers get a bad rap, and they start frothing at the mouth about them.

I think it's more that prejudice against GRT is still accepted in polite culture, from people who wouldn't consider themselves racist.

Bobby Deluxe
May 9, 2004

CoolCab posted:

always been a bit suspicious of this - I enormously doubt psychopathy has a significant impact on intelligence, just predisposition to violence. that would suggest that the correlation is stronger that lower intelligence psychopathy has a higher risk of getting caught.
It was my understanding from studying psychology years ago that psychopathy is associated with poor short-term impulse control and low IQ, whereas sociopathy is associated with better short-term impulse control and higher IQ.

Meaning the distinction is largely that psychopaths can't control their antisocial impulses, whereas sociopaths can generally control them long enough to plan to do them at a later, more convenient time.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
So what you're saying is if last December we'd offered Boris Johnson a choice between two marshmallows now and one marshmallow now and Brexit in 12 months we could have avoided a lot of trouble?

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

somehow that last av was even worse than your posting
I'm warned about once a week that travellers have been spotted in the area and be careful to make sure my site is properly locked up and secure.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
7DA for hospital admissions is starting to drop, which is another good sign for the lockdown's efficacy.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Angepain posted:

This has gone now (looks like they restricted their tweets), did I miss anything exciting

Only a well-made picture with amusingly awful subject matter.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

Please be excited.



Darth Walrus posted:

7DA for hospital admissions is starting to drop, which is another good sign for the lockdown's efficacy.

I wonder how much of it is lockdown and how much is just the fact that people don't go out in January. I don't think I would've done much more than the gently caress all I've done under normal circumstances.

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

Я выдуман напрочь

thespaceinvader posted:

ah yes, noted labour politican, margaret thatcher.

My loving lord these people are awful

Mother of New Labour

Jaeluni Asjil
Apr 18, 2018

Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!
All this complaints on twitter about how bad brexit is proving to be so far. Those sharing the benefits of brexit are obviously being silenced by the lizard elite.
I demand to know all the benefits of brexit that must have occurred in the last 16 days. :colbert:

Cancel culture is concealing the right for you to know the benefits of brexit. Surely there are some after spaffing £200bn in the last 4 years getting ready for it? Surely? Anyone? Just one benefit, anywhere? Oh, the happy fish. That makes it all worthwhile. :derp:

Borrovan
Aug 15, 2013

IT IS ME.
🧑‍💼
I AM THERESA MAY


crispix posted:

i lost my temper and went out and deliberately drove my car into some wheelie bins but it was actually jeremy corbyn's fault, your honour
This is bad for Jeremy car-bin

Bobby Deluxe
May 9, 2004

Guavanaut posted:

So what you're saying is if last December we'd offered Boris Johnson a choice between two marshmallows now and one marshmallow now and Brexit in 12 months we could have avoided a lot of trouble?
A psychopath would break the journalist's ribs immediately, a sociopath would conspire to give the address of the journalist to a man who had clearly stated they wanted to send some flat nosed geezers round to break his ribs.

DaWolfey
Oct 25, 2003

College Slice

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

I demand to know all the benefits of brexit that must have occurred in the last 16 days. :colbert:

Happier fish

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

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


DaWolfey posted:

Happier fash

*nods*

Wachter
Mar 23, 2007

You and whose knees?

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

I demand to know all the benefits of brexit that must have occurred in the last 16 days. :colbert:

There's sovereignty everywhere, can't you feel it?!

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer
sovereignty all over the shop

stev
Jan 22, 2013

Please be excited.



In 150 years our great grandchildren will look up at the greenish orangish sky and say 'thank you Nigel for my sovereignty' before chowing down on a perfectly bendy banana.

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TACD
Oct 27, 2000

CoolCab posted:

<Psychopathy>
Haha I also went off and did a bit of research following your post and yea it doesn’t look like it’s all that clear one way or the other.

But that means the original question of “why are they so loving inept at being evil” remains unanswered

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