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OwlFancier posted:But watching I feel like I am just watching elsa finger friend family for adults. CoolCab posted:you run the risk of communicating one thing with your words and a radically different one with your presentation Failed Imagineer posted:I'm all about trackie pants and hoodie life these days, but then my missus just showed me a pic from last summer where I was in a good jeans/jacket/shades combo, about 15lbs svelter due to actual outdoorsiness, and I actually envied my own look, so maybe it's time to reconstruct my poo poo.     e: Kosmos 133 was the first uncrewed test flight of the Soyuz spacecraft and the first mission of the Soyuz program. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Feb 24, 2021 |
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I identify heavily with that comic, but I think Yoshimitsu is more my look
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Failed Imagineer posted:I identify heavily with that comic, but I think Yoshimitsu is more my look Which version? Personally I wish I could wear the cool beetle armour.
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I wear dark jeans and polo shirts for work, and whenever we get an email from senior management reminding us that jeans are against uniform policy, I shrug and carry on. The older children I work with could have a different response to being told they need to go and see someone who's wearing smart clothes (the younger ones don't have the kind of social awareness to recognise 'smart'), which is my rationale for my choice of work outfits. Well, that and I'm not going to crawl around on the floor (which is sometimes required for my work) while wearing smart clothes.
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Josef bugman posted:Which version? They're all good except maybe the squid like one
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Guavanaut posted:I had to read this like five times with some radically different interpretations coming out of it. I figured that would happen to someone, I mean the weird animated youtube videos using popular IPs designed for toddlers where they sing songs and occasionally re-enact plotlines from eastenders. They're largely nonsensical but the colours and recognizable imagery and sound keep children occupied. Hence the comparison, bright colours, pretty imagery, lacking substance, made to capitalize on monetization. E: also having a wardrobe comprised almost entirely of black trousers and black t shirts for work makes it fairly easy to dress yourself. kingturnip posted:Well, that and I'm not going to crawl around on the floor (which is sometimes required for my work) while wearing smart clothes. It is very annoying I have to wear trousers when I keep ripping the gusset because I have to crawl around. I think it's a conspiracy by Big Trousers. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Feb 24, 2021 |
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OH NO!!! Our ability to kill brown people is being severely diminished! Does size matter for Britain's shrinking Army? quote:The British army is already the smallest it's been in 400 years. And it's about to get even smaller. Also quote:Kim Darroch, the former British ambassador to Washington, recently said the message from the Pentagon was "…do not go down any further and expect to retain your current credibility". Lmao.
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bessantj posted:OH NO!!! Our ability to kill brown people is being severely diminished! this will just make when boris decides to invade ireland/iceland/calais all the funnier so im for it.
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OwlFancier posted:I figured that would happen to someone, I mean the weird animated youtube videos using popular IPs designed for toddlers where they sing songs and occasionally re-enact plotlines from eastenders. ItohRespectArmy posted:this will just make when boris decides to invade ireland/iceland/calais all the funnier so im for it.
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bessantj posted:
Oh, I know, all the constant pompous bullshit about how we have to retain our military credibility in the eyes of the Yanks, when we already utterly trashed it through two botched deployments in two separate wars, both of which they had to bail us out of when it became clear that we had neither the manpower nor the equipment nor the military leadership required to actually do the stuff we'd committed to. As far as I'm concerned, the smaller our armed forces the better anyway: for all the flag-waving, we couldn't invade anywhere these days with our titchy military, even if we wanted to.
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If the yanks don't want to bail people out of wars maybe don't start them.
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Pistol_Pete posted:As far as I'm concerned, the smaller our armed forces the better anyway: for all the flag-waving, we couldn't invade anywhere these days with our titchy military, even if we wanted to. Yeah, pretty much this. We should re-mission our military to home defense from the current "force projection" foolishness.
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bessantj posted:"…do not go down any further and expect to retain your current credibility". We have a current credibility? (Ignore my custom title!)
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If anything the Americans did in Iraq or Afghanistan constituted bailing us out I'd be fascinated to know what it would have looked like if they hadn't
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Well as he said the other day, if he's being attacked from the left and the right he's probably doing things right. This is proof of that.
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Pesky Splinter posted:Have we considered that Starmer knows the Labour party is too rotten to the core, and has to die for something new to emerge? Had a long chat this afternoon with a local comrade hanging in on the Labour party by his fingernails about the local goings-on and who gave me the dirty lowdown on local suspensions. We have concluded that Project Stairmaster is kick out the entire left, reduce the party to a membership of around 150k (like the tories) and get funding from a few Big Donors. I think I've mentioned before that apparently any member NOT paying the full rate costs local CLPs money so they won't care if non-full payers leave, they'll be financially better off. Campaigning to be principally via formal social media adverts and feeds so feet on the ground for canvassing, leafleting etc not required. Josef bugman posted:See I like to wear my nice clothes sometimes because it makes me sometimes feel a bit better about myself. It's why I shower every day and put on deodorant even though I am probably not going to be seen by more than 3 people over the course of a week and not for longer than 10 minutes at most. (London living with housemates) I've 'worked from home' for almost 14 years now. I shower daily and wash my hair most days, shave my legs and all that stuff because it makes ME feel better even if I'm not going to see anyone. I don't wear makeup though. I have very sensitive skin and just about anything irritates it. Re 'nice clothes': which of you has planted a video-enabled bug in my flat? (Except not the sandals. I do have a pair of my late father's one-size too big shoe-slippers that I wear to go out to The Bins in. (They were almost new when he passed away and as I don't care what's on my feet really - gave up caring when I reached size 10 (Euro 44) and getting any women's shoes regardless of appearance required trips to London and mortgages on each foot let alone any shoes that look nice).
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Pistonheads forums tend to be pretty right wing (by this thread's standards at least) but I like to read them from time to time, just to get a different perspective on things - they tend conservative but articulate and the forum is structured pretty similarly to this one. They have a nearly 200 page Keir Starmer thread! I've browsed through the last few day's posts and here is a centre/ rightwing view of his efforts so far: Pistonheads Poster posted:As it stands, Starmer has had a prolapse. There were the odd smidgens of expectation that he was doing the right things, but he has not followed through. He should have focused 100% over the last year on sorting out his party and what it stands for beyond Covid, and beyond Brexit. The first is a poisoned chalice he should simply have been thankful he didn't have to deal with and kept his head down on, and the second is over for the next term or 5 of UK govt. Pistonheads Poster posted:
Pistonheads Poster posted:I listened to Starmer's reply to Johnson's HoC statement earlier this week and it just wasn't very compelling. His broader problem is that he hasn't (yet?) found a significant point of difference that he can press the Government on, either related to COVID or other policy areas. That's not to say he isn't trying to distinguish Labour from the Conservatives just that there's nothing significantly different to really breakthrough into people's consciousness. We don't really know what he wants to do and so it's easy to fall back onto the "usual" party stereotypes (which are never flattering, regardless of party). His speech last week was a huge failure in that regard. And a bit more positive: Pistonheads Poster posted:I think he's a decent man, doing what he think's right for the country right now rather than scoring cheap points (unlike some regional leaders I could think of). I was struck that, from a different political perspective, the Pistonheads thread had reached a pretty similar consensus on him to this thread - That he's wasted time, failed to produce anything of substance and doesn't come across as committed or trustworthy. Backs up those polls posted a little further back in the thread showing that he's lost credibility with both 2019 Labour and Conservative voters.
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Guavanaut posted:we (UK) should simply invade Ireland with three guys A British Isles reenactment of the first Sino-Japanese war incoming, where the former small who gives a crap periphery (Japan/Ireland) absolutely annihilates the has-been arrogant bigwig (China/UK).
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Boris next Brexit move unveiled https://twitter.com/trtworld/status/1301929984643211269
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Jose posted:these are the real reason to read pistonheads Page 1 of 500 lol
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Pistol_Pete posted:Page 1 of 500 lol volume 3 as well
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Josef bugman posted:Socratic ignorance is a method of argumentation where you start off appealing ignorance and use it to get people to define terms, before then coming in with "well you and I know that" and then getting into the argument. It's a way of defining terms. However it is also used as a debate tactic that is a bit liable for abuse as it means the other person has to do your work for you. It also doesn't help when you are not involved in a dialogue. Yeah this is definitely it. Thanks bugdude, I can put it into words now! Josef bugman posted:See I like to wear my nice clothes sometimes because it makes me sometimes feel a bit better about myself. It's why I shower every day and put on deodorant even though I am probably not going to be seen by more than 3 people over the course of a week and not for longer than 10 minutes at most. (London living with housemates) This is good and valid but some people don't feel like that and people who do and don't get value from "prettying themselves up" should respect each other. People are different, innit. I'm not saying that people ITT are being disrespectful btw but I've seen it quite a lot on twitter etc. when people have complained about not being able to get a haircut or their nails done or whatever and I get it - I'm a total caveman most of the time, don't give a crap about my appearance or anything but for a lot of people it's self-care which has a big mental component as well as the physical. Plus it's just nice to be pampered once in a while - it's a little luxury that can help you relax and feel good about yourself.
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I feel like "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" is a truism and most of us (here) would think that, however, I don't see a problem with compassionate consumption under capitalism/our poo poo planet. Like the individual can't do much but why not strive for whatever you feel would make life better for all of us? Even if my personal choices in the end do nothing but to make myself feel a little better I'd rather live that way than shrug and throw my hands up in the air. (I fully realise compassionate consumption is a bit of an oxymoron) Life is poo poo, meh.
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i feel like it's sometimes used like "free speech" is used, in that if it's all you can point to as a defence of your action it says more about your argument than you think. freedom of speech becomes freedom from consequence of speech, no ethical consumption becomes all consumption is equally (un)ethical. sorry if it comes across as confrontational but i've always found it kind of lacking.
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Lockdown clothing chat, some MP got told he couldn't speak in a debate (via Zoom) unless he put on a jacket earlier. Jumpers are Not Parliamentary Attire. Which is bullshit imo. If I were an MP I'd be slouching into Parliament in a band hoody.
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Re contrapoints- I just don't like that every video has to be like 90 minutes long. Condense that poo poo I've got things to do.
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Going to work every day in yoga pants is one of the best parts of the last 10 months.
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multijoe posted:SLIGHTLY LEFT WING PARTY
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weird to think i probably won't vote again. this is what freedom feels like.
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does anyone still have that old brexit gif, of the uk flag abandoning EU, schengen et al to fall into the abyss? I forgot to save it
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gh0stpinballa posted:weird to think i probably won't vote again. this is what freedom feels like. Find small local parties which aren't poo poo and consider voting for them, or spoil your ballot in vulgar and amusing ways. That's real freedom!
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i reckon starmer throws tantrums and tells everyone to gently caress off and locks himself in a houses of parliament pantry and angrily eats corned beef out of a tin with a teaspoon
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crispix posted:i reckon starmer throws tantrums and tells everyone to gently caress off and locks himself in a houses of parliament pantry and angrily eats corned beef out of a tin with a teaspoon OK but after every few mouthfuls he has to stop for a breather like you or I would while eating a vindaloo
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I think the Labour Right keep talking him into doing stupid poo poo and he keeps going along with it 'cos he's got no power base or strong opinions of his own.
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double nine posted:does anyone still have that old brexit gif, of the uk flag abandoning EU, schengen et al to fall into the abyss? I forgot to save it  crispix posted:i reckon starmer throws tantrums and tells everyone to gently caress off and locks himself in a houses of parliament pantry and angrily eats corned beef out of a tin with a teaspoon
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