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Darth Walrus posted:I mean, Tonker and Lofty's relationship is text, so Pratchett pretty obviously intended to explore queer themes to at least some extent. Not to mention the lieutenant really having enjoyed cross dressing at school.
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Aug 12, 2021 16:01
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Shaun on the youtubes just put out a video that talks about Monsterous Regiment and theres a lot of pretty explicit stuff I forgot about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjnubfRy8Ws
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Aug 12, 2021 16:08
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Mr Phillby posted:Shaun on the youtubes just put out a video that talks about Monsterous Regiment and theres a lot of pretty explicit stuff I forgot about. Explicit like obvious, or explicit like a troll.sounding with a gnome? I haven't read the last bunch of pTerrys
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Aug 12, 2021 16:12
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Explicit in a 'this character is actually textually trans' way lol Although given the subject matter MR is the TP book whith the most genital inspections.
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Aug 12, 2021 16:15
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"Love. Pride. Hate. Fear. Have you no emotions, sir?"
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Aug 12, 2021 16:31
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Mr Phillby posted:Explicit in a 'this character is actually textually trans' way lol Just lol that the terf narrative was that trans issues weren't on anyone's radar in 2003 tho. Like when was Goodwin v United Kingdom? Or the first GRA where the papers were full of Ann Widdecombe and Norman Tebbit's terrible opinions about everything? e: In completely unrelated news Guavanaut posted:Even if it's just Frostpunk: With Oil there's exciting things you could do with that. Look's though that's what it is. 
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Aug 12, 2021 16:43
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Sad to say that Una Stubbs has passed away, gonna miss Aunt Sally. 
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Aug 12, 2021 17:06
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Guavanaut posted:Also iirc some of his descriptions of Igor are about as close as you'd get to a textual exploration of his opinions on affirmation surgery; yes Igor could stitch himself a big fat cock on if he wanted, no it's not any of your business. The rhetorical stance of these shitheads will always be that they're railing against some recent upset to the status quo; it let's them present themselves as fundamentally reasonable in a vaguely liberal sense, with their current objection being to things taken too far. Helps to smokescreen the depths of their lovely views.
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Aug 12, 2021 17:07
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Guavanaut posted:Also iirc some of his descriptions of Igor are about as close as you'd get to a textual exploration of his opinions on affirmation surgery; yes Igor could stitch himself a big fat cock on if he wanted, no it's not any of your business. Trans issues were a pretty common subject in the kind of nerd circles Pratchett was in - don't forget as well as an F&SF nerd he was a very early internet adopter. It would have been weirder if those issues *weren't* on his radar even if he chose not to explore them in his writing. Post-Eternal-September Usenet and the early web forums (and of course IRC and the various chat/IM services) were, IMO, an incredibly useful safe space for non-cishet people - the acceptance of pseudonymity and the idea that your online persona was more or less completely divorced from your offline life was incredibly liberating for people who still mostly had to keep their true selves hidden in meatspace. Late-90s uk.rec.motorcycles had two trans women and an AFAB intersex person living as non-binary as regular posters, and even the football newsgroups had a couple of non-cis people kicking around. The actual nerdy groups would give Tumblr a run for its money - there were people with pronouns in their display names or .sigs two decades before people got all bent out of shape about it on Twitter. This is why I still - despite having really no real reason at all to do so - get twitchy when the Internet Karens start screaming about how everyone needs to be online under their full name with their birth certificate, DNA samples, and a handy link to report them to their managers attached to every single thing they do on the internet. As someone on Twitter (possibly a goon) put it a while back, WeedlordGoku420 was here long before Joe Bloggs.
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Aug 12, 2021 17:15
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Monstrous Regiment was one of only two* pre-dementia books that I've only read once. I remember thinking at the time it was a bit off form. Perhaps I should give it another go. * The other one was Thief Of Time, which 98% of the Pratchett thread raves about, but didn't do anything for me.
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Aug 12, 2021 17:17
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Gambrinus posted:Monstrous Regiment was one of only two* pre-dementia books that I've only read once. I remember thinking at the time it was a bit off form. Perhaps I should give it another go. It is a difficult read but that might be because the subject matter hits closer to home. goddamnedtwisto posted:Trans issues were a pretty common subject in the kind of nerd circles Pratchett was in - don't forget as well as an F&SF nerd he was a very early internet adopter. It would have been weirder if those issues *weren't* on his radar even if he chose not to explore them in his writing. Anonymitiy is, IMO, extremely important and I also really do not like the idea that everyone needs to go in The Database in order to be able to live.
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Aug 12, 2021 17:27
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Mr Phillby posted:Explicit in a 'this character is actually textually trans' way lol If you want to stretch about MR, you can say that cross-dressing was an abomination unto Nuggan. But: 1) You'd have to have completely misread the book to think that Pterry was on the side of the Nugganites, and 2) So was everything else.
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Aug 12, 2021 17:56
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happyhippy posted:More of a cross of the Crypt Keeper and that Nazi who chose poorly decaying in Indiana Jones I would say peter stringfellow crossed with the curious orange from TMWRNJ once he rotted.
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Aug 12, 2021 19:10
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Jedit posted:If you want to stretch about MR, you can say that cross-dressing was an abomination unto Nuggan. But: Perhaps we should call terves nuggets.
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Aug 12, 2021 19:19
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https://twitter.com/WaldorfSixpence/status/1425658233734275074 Hero in a cheap suit WET EGGS! God bless our Keith, such content every day 
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Aug 12, 2021 19:36
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Imagine testing positive for whatever this man has Rapid-onset Jimmy Savillisation
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Aug 12, 2021 19:44
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It's the slicked back mullet that does it, especially with the unbuttoned shirt, amazing bond villain energy. God can you imagine him running for office again? He would ride around on a palanquin carried by four clones of Adonis stroking a cat and having everyone arrested who looks at him funny. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Aug 12, 2021 |
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Aug 12, 2021 19:46
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OwlFancier posted:It's the slicked back mullet that does it, especially with the unbuttoned shirt, amazing bond villain energy. Honestly, I think his biggest electoral problem is that he doesn't have quite that level of supervillain swagger. The British public love a good heel.
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Aug 12, 2021 19:54
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Someone is going on a rampage in Keyham in Plymouth with a gun. Reports on social media are saying multiple casualties, including 4-5 dead, with reports of one of those being a toddler. The shooter is still on the run. :/ fuctifino fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Aug 12, 2021 |
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Aug 12, 2021 19:59
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This one case is going to be used by chuds as an "Ah, but they had a shooting! Gun control doesn't work!" Also that the toddler was a dwarf employed by George Soros.
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Aug 12, 2021 20:09
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An awful lot of people with an awful lot of flags in their names on Twitter seem to be extremely confident about certain facts about the shooter.
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Aug 12, 2021 20:27
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goddamnedtwisto posted:An awful lot of people with an awful lot of flags in their names on Twitter seem to be extremely confident about certain facts about the shooter. I wonder what they'll do when they find out it was a young local lad? From friends of friends I know who live in the same street, he shot his family, then went outside and shot at random people before then shooting himself.
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Aug 12, 2021 20:30
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goddamnedtwisto posted:An awful lot of people with an awful lot of flags in their names on Twitter seem to be extremely confident about certain facts about the shooter. anyone assuming it's an Arab Muslim has clearly never been to Devon
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Aug 12, 2021 20:35
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fuctifino posted:I wonder what they'll do when they find out it was a young local lad? Ah! Well. Nevertheless,
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Aug 12, 2021 20:35
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I think we.... I think we need a new gangtag.
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Aug 12, 2021 20:57
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People posting footage of still warm corpses whilst lamenting what a tragedy the whole thing is really sums up how hosed we are as a species.
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Aug 12, 2021 21:00
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Yeah. Really wasn't expecting that. Thanks concerned twitter user.
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Aug 12, 2021 21:06
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Got a letter from my credit card company saying they're changing the way my interest is calculated by linking it directly to the Bank of England rate rather than some time-delayed adjusted rate. In the explanatory example, this of course meant I'd be paying more interest. Base rate rise finally expected after years of holding it to the minimum, so the card companies can cash in faster?
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Aug 12, 2021 22:19
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"reality" posted:KFC warns menu items missing due to supply issues https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58180308 poo poo. They don't specify what they're short of but I really hope it isn't the chicken theyve run out of.
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Aug 12, 2021 23:10
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Hope they run out of electricity and all fast food places have to close
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Aug 12, 2021 23:16
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i hope they've got spare electricity and they open more, faster, food places.
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Aug 12, 2021 23:18
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I can live without the Kentucky. Please let it be only the Kentucky.
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Aug 12, 2021 23:26
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They've run out of 'fried' so you have to eat it raw.
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Aug 13, 2021 00:21
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happyhippy posted:I can live without the Kentucky. 
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Aug 13, 2021 00:33
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My wife gets very upset any time I say Maryland as I always say it wrong.
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Aug 13, 2021 01:12
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Bacon Terrorist posted:People posting footage of still warm corpses whilst lamenting what a tragedy the whole thing is really sums up how hosed we are as a species. You should check out Plymouth Herald's crime reporter's live tweeting. The image isn't gory, but if it's what I think he drunkenly says it is, it's just as insensitive. https://twitter.com/CarlEveCrime/status/1425938193661272066
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Aug 13, 2021 01:43
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Aug 13, 2021 02:34
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Mebh posted:My wife gets very upset any time I say Maryland as I always say it wrong. How many ways are there to say it?
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Aug 13, 2021 08:14
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Mare-ee-lan-duh?
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u brexit ukip it posted:How many ways are there to say it? Here's a hint - you're not supposed to say either "Mary" or "land". Just like Baltimore is "Ball-mer" with extra slurring
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