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how about. i woke up too early cause of loud construction noises
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Jun 28, 2021 22:21
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Guavanaut posted:People who use "woke" unironically. Anne Robinson is the new countdown host and was moaning on the news how she couldn't make something like weakest link now as people are too woke.
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Jun 28, 2021 22:33
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The Wokest Wank, where she still insults everyone but it's all insults that people think 'woke' people use. "Do people know you're a gamma male sexist white guilt imperialist genderphobe? How many statues of Cecil Rhodes do you have?" Also the contestants are all gamma male sexist white guilt imperialist genderphobes with statues of Cecil Rhodes so it works. They can use the Question Time audience list.
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Jun 28, 2021 22:45
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I saw an old clip from the weakest link from years ago and bloody hell some of the jokes have not aged well at all
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Jun 28, 2021 22:49
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Lungboy posted:Anne Robinson is the new countdown host and was moaning on the news how she couldn't make something like weakest link now as people are too woke. and yet we can get guff like love island
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Jun 28, 2021 22:54
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ThomasPaine posted:I saw an old clip from the weakest link from years ago and bloody hell some of the jokes have not aged well at all There was a clip doing the rounds on twitter (maybe ITT as well?) a couple of months ago where Anne Robinson spent a good few minutes just heaping abuse on a contestant because they were a single mum to two teenagers. Robinson basically badgered her into defending her kids because the ' ' ' joke ' ' ' was that they obviously had a string of ASBOs. I didn't watch much Weakest Link when it was on but seeing it now it's shocking how spiteful and insulting the tone was, even if that was just part of the show's gimmick. It was also a horrible insight into a) how the UK has a really lovely attitude to children in general and b) how poo poo so much of the cultural narrative was under New Labour. Obviously, if it's a single mum raising teenagers the mum's going to be a lazy benefits scrounger and the kids are going to be delinquents blitzed out of their minds on alcopops smashing in bus shelters. And that was quality prime-time family viewing.
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Jun 28, 2021 23:06
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New Labour were even more committed to the idea that "the only place you should be raising children is within a (hetero monogamous) marriage" than even the Thatcher/Major Tories were, from their single parent welfare 'reforms' to outright stating that. What happens if one party passes away or leaves or is intolerable to live with was apparently beyond them.
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Jun 28, 2021 23:14
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Again TV is just the internet for old people, if I want to watch people be pricks I can do that on the internet.
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Jun 28, 2021 23:25
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 once again i regret to inform you that im becoming the joker
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Jun 28, 2021 23:33
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https://www.theguardian.com/busines...ndroidApp_Other Brewdog prove themselves to be full of poo poo, yet again. Can't help but feel that if they so go public the shares are gonna bomb like hell.
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Jun 28, 2021 23:33
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The Perfect Element posted:https://www.theguardian.com/busines...ndroidApp_Other quote:It said the valuation was “reasonable based on multiple factors – including the price we paid for its manufacture, the constituent metal and quality of the final product, the standard retail markup and the rarity and uniqueness of the cans.” So they literally just decided it was worth £15k because they guesstimated that that was the value of a collectible novelty can. ie "someone might conceivably pay that much for it". I feel like this should count as competition fraud but I'm sure there's a loophole to make them legally sound on Normal Island.
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Jun 29, 2021 00:13
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Pretty sure that making them legally sound a 330ml can would break some part of the HRA, but it is plated with a micron of gold so you might be able to get medical approval.
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Jun 29, 2021 00:16
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Umbra Dubium posted:Has literally anyone on the left used "woke" unironically?
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Jun 29, 2021 00:16
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The Perfect Element posted:https://www.theguardian.com/busines...ndroidApp_Other Either that or they go the way of Tesla and are catnip to morons
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Jun 29, 2021 00:45
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they already have a dedicated brigade of simps who worship the ground they walk on.
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Jun 29, 2021 02:19
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Guavanaut posted:The Wokest Wank, where she still insults everyone but it's all insults that people think 'woke' people use. Does Ian Hislop get a little table on the side where he can make a wry joke and chuckle to the camera whilst rapping his knuckles on the table
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Jun 29, 2021 03:10
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I realize this is pretty "explain the UK to Americans" but I've been watching Taskmaster and just got to the season with David Baddiel in it. He's a total moron on the show but I also remember about him being a moron/prick in other things, can anyone give me a quick run-down or pointer in the right direction?
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Jun 29, 2021 03:25
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He's just some ancient 90's comedian who, like most of them, decided he was extremely clever and poltiically informed while just being a tory. There's an endless supply of people who self identify as apolitical or some other flavour of idiot centrist but who just have entirely unremarkable right wing opinions about everything and who are also for some reason convinced that 1. it is still the 90's and 2. they are still cool despite being a million years old and shuffling through daytime TV bookings and lovely book deals like reanimated corpses. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 03:58 on Jun 29, 2021 |
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Jun 29, 2021 03:55
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Baddiel will also block you immediately on twitter any time you ask him about that time he performed in blackface.
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Jun 29, 2021 04:09
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shimmy shimmy posted:I realize this is pretty "explain the UK to Americans" but I've been watching Taskmaster and just got to the season with David Baddiel in it. He's a total moron on the show but I also remember about him being a moron/prick in other things, can anyone give me a quick run-down or pointer in the right direction? He started in a 90s comedy show called The Mary Whitehouse Experience, which was great back then but horribly dated. I still think History Today is funny though and will fight you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhrD5SVo3OU He then joined in the 'lad culture' of the 90s, hosted football themed shows, did a football song, and never really left that mentally since.
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Jun 29, 2021 04:09
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Yeah, he's an unreflective person who hasn't bothered to engage with any new ideas for at least two decades but retains an overbearing belief in his own obvious intellectual superiority.
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Jun 29, 2021 05:05
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Talked scythes a couple days ago, here's my scythe frankenstein now. Norweigan carbon steel blade, homemade snath in eastern european fashion with a single handle and wedge style attachement. I need to work on the handle ring yet, didn't get it the proper size for the snath (which is hand carved so not perfectly round or straight all the way). Had to resort to some shims to make it fit for now. I have made it so you turn the handle to tighten the ring around the snath. The idea is you will be able to easily move the single handle to where you want it without tools. I might make it into a two handle setup yet though.   Had to reinforce the snath, it broke more than once. Fir isn't the ideal material... But cheap and light.  
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Jun 29, 2021 06:18
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David Baddiel wrote a book called "Jews Don't Count" all about how the Left doesn't take antisemitism seriously and when he got to the subject of left wing Jews wrote that they don't count because they actually just secretly hate being Jews. He is nether a bright nor a serious man.
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Jun 29, 2021 07:03
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Umbra Dubium posted:Has literally anyone on the left used "woke" unironically? I feel like I remember a bunch of leftist americans using it half a decade back, but I can't say Ive seen it unironically from the european left.
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Jun 29, 2021 07:10
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'Woke' replaced 'Social Justice Warriors', which replaced 'PC gone mad', which replaced 'Looney Lefties', which replaced 'Women's Libbers' The insults change over the decades, but it's always the same fight: between people who challenge existing power structures and want everyone to be treated decently and people who... don't want that. You can see the exact same articles in newspapers going back decades.
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Jun 29, 2021 07:20
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shimmy shimmy posted:I realize this is pretty "explain the UK to Americans" but I've been watching Taskmaster and just got to the season with David Baddiel in it. He's a total moron on the show but I also remember about him being a moron/prick in other things, can anyone give me a quick run-down or pointer in the right direction? Euro96
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Jun 29, 2021 08:02
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Convex posted:Does Ian Hislop get a little table on the side where he can make a wry joke and chuckle to the camera whilst rapping his knuckles on the table
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Jun 29, 2021 08:17
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JollyBoyJohn posted:Euro96 Forgive the pseudishness but Baddiel really did have a remarkable bit of luck in managing to hit the rising tide of all three major cultural shifts of the 90s. He was part of the third-wave alternative comedy boom and (thanks to being paired up with the much funnier Rob Newman) was propelled to the very top of the "comedy is the new rock and roll" part of that boom. Then - thanks to coincidentally being a flatmate of the much funnier Frank Skinner - he managed to catch the popularity wave of the brand new sport of "football" after it was invented in 1992 by Rupert Murdoch and so caught the Lad movement (populated entirely by middle class people cosplaying as working class of course) on it's upward curve. Then - thanks to teaming up with the far more talented Lightning Seeds - he managed to get himself into the Britpop/Cool Britannia mix too. Like he's not *untalented* - some of his solo standup is pretty good, and his novels aren't the worst - but he's managed to cement his place in the Centrist Pantheon by the purest luck of timing and connections, and of course he completely ignores this and assumes he is completely self-made and so deserving of this position of power and privilege, and never for a second reflects about why his erstwhile partners *don't* get the massive platform that he's afforded (hint: Newman is extremely left wing, Skinner is actually authentically working class)
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Jun 29, 2021 08:27
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Then - thanks to coincidentally being a flatmate of the much funnier Frank Skinner - he managed to catch the popularity wave of the brand new sport of "football" after it was invented in 1992 by Rupert Murdoch and so caught the Lad movement (populated entirely by middle class people cosplaying as working class of course) on it's upward curve. Lmao I don't like the guy either but cmon
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Jun 29, 2021 08:40
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Thanks for reminding me that the three big cultural waves of the 90s were that brand of mainstream alternative comedy, televised football stripped of any sense of place, and Britpop. Bad decade. And the other 90s trifecta of home internet, conspiracy culture, and South Park just got us Nazis again.
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Jun 29, 2021 08:40
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At least now the 90s are over, and it is approximately the year 2000, meaning we live in the future and Tonty Blair's ended history so things can only get same
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Jun 29, 2021 08:53
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TheRat posted:I feel like I remember a bunch of leftist americans using it half a decade back, but I can't say Ive seen it unironically from the european left. It's originally AAVE, I don't think anyone here had appropriated it yet before the Daily Mail started using it as an insult
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Jun 29, 2021 08:54
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Bobstar posted:At least now the 90s are over, and it is approximately the year 2000, meaning we live in the future and Tonty Blair's ended history so things can only get same A second Tonty has hit the world history!
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Jun 29, 2021 09:09
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shimmy shimmy posted:Baddiel... a quick run-down or pointer in the right direction? it's a symptom of one of the many diseases in the british system that also highlights the generational/social divide- For decades there has barely been any fresh "talent" (for want of a better word) brought into the mainstream, at the same time there has been a massive and continued exodus of younger (and at this point I'm talking under 50 years) viewers from live broadcast television to largely internet based stuff/on demand As younger folks stopped watching for various reasons, the programming increasingly focused on the remaining (elderly, more conservative leaning) viewers and their want for more of the same reliably reassuring and non challenging crap- people who were last relevant in the 90s doing... things. Celebrity bake off. Celebrity big brother. Celebrity house renovation show. Celebrity sat on a comedy panel show. Celebrity ancestry tests. Celebrity bristol stool chart showdown. Got a show idea that's not being picked up? Stack it with some people who were last culturally relevant at the time of the first spice girls single and you probably just got greenlit. After two decades+ of this, much like journalism, a walled-off, incestuous and viciously self protective little ecosystem has been created of people who can reliably spout a useful and safe opinion and not kick up a fuss otherwise. Without it, baddiel would be half the answer of a question on a shite pub quiz and nowt more
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Jun 29, 2021 09:10
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JollyBoyJohn posted:Lmao I don't like the guy either but cmon Show me the lie. He's a privately-educated Footlights alum, he gets minor props for being (or claiming to be) a Chelsea fan pre-Gullit but he never attended a game until he started doing FFL, and FFL was as integral to Lad culture as Loaded and whoever made those lovely hats.
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Jun 29, 2021 09:15
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Show me the lie. He's a privately-educated Footlights alum, he gets minor props for being (or claiming to be) a Chelsea fan pre-Gullit but he never attended a game until he started doing FFL, and FFL was as integral to Lad culture as Loaded and whoever made those lovely hats. It was more the 1992 gag I was loling at
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Jun 29, 2021 09:20
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JollyBoyJohn posted:It was more the 1992 gag I was loling at It's a pretty standard football gag tbh
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Jun 29, 2021 09:22
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I did like Baddiel's comedy, both from the Mary Whitehouse Experience and the later Newman and Baddiel in pieces. I found he has this self depreciation comedy thing going on in a similar vein to Rodney Dangerfield (though very different styles) which I enjoyed a lot. Though I suspect that the reason I liked the later show was due to Rob Newman and his personal life anecdotes. I like a lot of comedians that do the "here's an anecdote about something that actually happened". It's why I like Jim Bruer and Dave Gorman as comedians. Now that he is on his own however, there's not much to like. It seems he definitely needed to be with other comedians to really succeed. Also Punt and Dennis are a national treasure.
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Jun 29, 2021 09:36
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Reading about a real ACAB story rn. In 2011 a guy gets locked out of his house so breaks a window to climb inside. A neighbour calls the police suspecting a burglary. They proceed to smash down the front door, arrest the guy and interrogate him for hours. Despite him proving its his house it goes to trial, where the jury quickly toss the case out and find him not guilty. The police appeal against this and are denied. They're now appealing again on some other technical legal point, apparently just to make this guy's life a misery.
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Jun 29, 2021 09:37
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Necrothatcher posted:Reading about a real ACAB story rn. In 2011 a guy gets locked out of his house so breaks a window to climb inside. A neighbour calls the police suspecting a burglary. They proceed to smash down the front door, arrest the guy and interrogate him for hours. Despite him proving its his house it goes to trial, where the jury quickly toss the case out and find him not guilty. The police appeal against this and are denied. They're now appealing again on some other technical legal point, apparently just to make this guy's life a misery. It might not even be personal, that's probably the only burglary case they've solved in years and they need to get the numbers up.
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