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jiggerypokery posted:You do have a point though. I legit had to explain that Al Murray was playing a character to an American with 140 IQ the other week. E: I mean it's possible his whole 'Corbyn is antisemitic' derrangement was a bit, but at a certain point the satirist has to realise that the subtlety failure lies with them, and not the people taking it at face value. Like qanon berks insisting that the racism is a joke to own libs, it's just a 'joke' that they follow through to the point that their movement is materially indistinguishable from white supremacy, up to and including an 'ironic' storming of the capitol. Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 16:03 on Jul 15, 2021 |
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I've found it. The hottest take: Those are words but not in a recognisably coherent order, gently caress..... i'm getting old & crotchety. 
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Jul 15, 2021 16:05
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I'm sure I recall something about Al Murray saying if he had realised 'the pub landlord' would become such a big character he'd give him another name.
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Jul 15, 2021 16:10
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sebzilla posted:Do we wait until people are dead or just go for it? We've got cliffs here so you could just have a big slide you go in that lops your head off and then toasts you on the way down.
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Jul 15, 2021 16:11
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There's a big scary spike in cases and it's worth reminding everyone that it's because of the finals and not necessarily a trend.
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Jul 15, 2021 16:12
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OwlFancier posted:We've got cliffs here so you could just have a big slide you go in that lops your head off and then toasts you on the way down.
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Jul 15, 2021 16:13
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Szmitten posted:There's a big scary spike in cases and it's worth reminding everyone that it's because of the finals
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Jul 15, 2021 16:15
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Guavanaut posted:Not seen anything like it since https://bjgp.org/content/bjgp/13/3/297.full.pdf I mean they actually just numerically recreated the Christmas spike.
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Jul 15, 2021 16:19
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Is that what that guy was doing off his keys?
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Jul 15, 2021 16:19
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Szmitten posted:I mean they actually just numerically recreated the Christmas spike.
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Jul 15, 2021 16:29
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jiggerypokery posted:You do have a point though. I legit had to explain that Al Murray was playing a character to an American with 140 IQ the other week. Anyone else old enough to remember the Spike Milligan Q series? Sitting in the tv room in our halls of residence back in 1979 - before Entitled Youths Of Today with their fancy individual tvs and phones etc  - trying to explain to an American visitor who was saying 'this is so amateurish it wouldn't be allowed on tv in the States' that it was MEANT to be like it is and a lot of Brits found it hilarious.
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Jul 15, 2021 16:47
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Anyone else old enough to remember the Spike Milligan Q series? Not old enough to have watched it, but old enough to know of it. I also have a copy of every surviving Goon Show somewhere.
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Jul 15, 2021 16:51
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:'this is so amateurish it wouldn't be allowed on tv in the States'
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Jul 15, 2021 16:56
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Jedit posted:Not old enough to have watched it, but old enough to know of it. I also have a copy of every surviving Goon Show somewhere. I wasn't a Goon Show fan, but I do have The Men from The Ministry, All Gas and Gaiters, and a pile of Tony Hancock downloads. (I had them all on cassette until very recently - this year! - but nothing to play them on so I found them online.) I did have a Much Binding in the Marsh but I don't know what happened to that. Old radio shows available here: https://www.radioechoes.com/ Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Jul 15, 2021 |
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Jul 15, 2021 16:57
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Is the UK still speedrunning covid suicide? How can you gently caress up your save like that?
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Jul 15, 2021 16:59
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1Mrl17D8y8
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Jul 15, 2021 17:00
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skewetoo posted:Is the UK still speedrunning covid suicide? The save has been a write off for centuries.
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Jul 15, 2021 17:02
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https://twitter.com/piercepenniless/status/1415702759253450755 wtf
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Jul 15, 2021 17:04
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It's less speedrunning and more just a half assed kill everyone run, in that not everyone is dead and also they are not really trying very hard just killing lots of people when they feel like it. It lacks either the commitment or the technical impressiveness of really committed mass murder.
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Jul 15, 2021 17:04
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Sad news: https://twitter.com/Sarah_Woolley/status/1415702888089784324 Dawn was a good 'un, probably best known for her absolutely scathing takedown of Tom Watson in the Guardian, which also happened to be the last time the Guardian published her for some reason  .
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Jul 15, 2021 17:06
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Extremely sad news I'm afraid. https://twitter.com/piercepenniless/status/1415702759253450755
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Jul 15, 2021 17:06
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Holy poo poo, I don't think she was even 30 yet! That's awful, she'd been suffering with bad health for a while and had always been good humoured about it.
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Jul 15, 2021 17:09
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That's sad about Dawn Foster  She seemed to be a good egg. I had no idea she was ill.Her last tweet seems to be 9th July.
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Jul 15, 2021 17:09
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stev posted:The save has been a write off for centuries. If you read the fiction of that era it’s a running theme that in the 1940s-1950s people were hyper aware their children and grandchildren were being spoiled and pandered to, and just didn’t care because of all the poo poo they went through in the war.
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Jul 15, 2021 17:11
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I didn't know she was unwell, that sucks.
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Jul 15, 2021 17:13
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Dawn was sound. This is truly awful news 😞
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Jul 15, 2021 17:14
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Ah gently caress, Dawn. One of the good ones. On her Twitter she'd been talking constantly for ages about how she's been in and out of hospital with seizures. I didn't see this coming though.
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Jul 15, 2021 17:17
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jfc that's a tragedy
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Jul 15, 2021 17:18
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that's an absolutely loving horrific loss, gently caress
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Jul 15, 2021 17:23
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I'm feeling my own dumb hot take arising about 'parody' that sails too close to just repeating dumb / bigoted content without bothering to add a joke, but irony's not really my strong suit, so maybe this is fine for most people and I just don't get it. I've started to think about that slightly unspoken take of yours, since I saw Americans on reddit demanding people post "/s" on really obvious sarcasm in UK subs. Even with their being an ostensibly English speaking nation, they struggle to read our irony. When you start operating on multiple levels of irony, you're posting content that will be enjoyed sincerely by most of the internet. People like dril take it to a surreal level that kinda transcends what I'm talking about.
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Jul 15, 2021 17:24
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gently caress, hearing about Dawn really got to me. She was cool on Twitter, she seemed lovely. I just donated to that dogs trust thing in her name as per the request. Didn’t think I would be that emotionally invested in just someone I follow on Twitter ffs but I actually cried. She was a good person.
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Jul 15, 2021 17:30
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 That is awful. Genuinely loving terrible.
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Jul 15, 2021 17:31
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Brendan Rodgers posted:I've started to think about that slightly unspoken take of yours, since I saw Americans on reddit demanding people post "/s" on really obvious sarcasm in UK subs. Even with their being an ostensibly English speaking nation, they struggle to read our irony. When you start operating on multiple levels of irony, you're posting content that will be enjoyed sincerely by most of the internet. People like dril take it to a surreal level that kinda transcends what I'm talking about. I've found most of my American friends on FB take things VERY literally and if any of us Brits post something that almost every other Brit would recognize as sarcasm/irony, they get completely confused. (These are American friends I know from Real Life not just random 'friend of friends' that I've picked up). I do have one Brit friend the same - she's given up on FB because she just can't detect it at all and it confuses the heck out of her. I've taken to trying to remember to write 'joke' or 'sarcasm' if I make those kind of posts. (A lot of people I know would not have any idea what /s means).
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Jul 15, 2021 17:32
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stev posted:Ah gently caress, Dawn. She managed to make it all sound almost fun, though. What a wonderful person she was, and what a loving disgrace it is that the universe should put her through this poo poo and take her away.
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Jul 15, 2021 17:43
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Yeah, I'm normally not that concerned when public figures die but I feel really lovely about this. I admired Dawn: she was warm and human and never showed any self-pity with her sickness and hospitalisations. And she was so young as well. Urgh, I'm having a drink.
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Jul 15, 2021 17:46
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That's just awful!
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Pistol_Pete posted:Yeah, I'm normally not that concerned when public figures die but I feel really lovely about this. willie_dee posted:I just donated to that dogs trust thing in her name as per the request.
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Jul 15, 2021 18:05
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Well, that sucks. My finest moment on Twitter was when I had Dawn do the "this website is free" thing about me making fun of a Tory and Michael Rosen retweet a joke about cum on the same day. Stopped posting after that because I'm never topping it. Seriously, she was one of the best people on that hell site and I'm going to miss her.
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Jul 15, 2021 18:19
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That's really terrible news.
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