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Phosphine posted:This is a bad metaphor, because shark attacks are an overblown and made up threat. Are you the mayor from jaws
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Necrothatcher posted:A reminder that Boris Johnson explicitly chose the mayor from Jaws as his role model during COVID. Oh my god, he actually said this. 
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Aug 13, 2021 13:15
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Mayor from Jaws was still the mayor in Jaws 2.
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Aug 13, 2021 13:17
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He did the Brave thing, he did nothing. That pretty much sums up modern political thought in a sentence
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CharlestheHammer posted:He did the Brave thing, he did nothing. In making the decision that led to the maximum loss of life, he proved he was a Hard Man making Hard Decisions, and that's the important thing really
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Aug 13, 2021 13:20
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Necrothatcher posted:A reminder that Boris Johnson explicitly chose the mayor from Jaws as his role model during COVID. This absolutely has to be satire. I'm hanging onto the thinnest thread in history so I absolutely must believe that this is made up for lols.
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Aug 13, 2021 13:26
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Flint_Paper posted:This absolutely has to be satire. I'm hanging onto the thinnest thread in history so I absolutely must believe that this is made up for lols. Boomers think movies are real and fall asleep before the end is my guess.
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Aug 13, 2021 13:29
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Flint_Paper posted:This absolutely has to be satire. I'm hanging onto the thinnest thread in history so I absolutely must believe that this is made up for lols. No it's thing he actually said and was widely reported on.
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Aug 13, 2021 13:33
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Cocaine Bear posted:Boomers think movies are real and fall asleep before the end is my guess. No that quote references it failing. He just thinks the results aren’t important
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Aug 13, 2021 13:34
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does the most cursory google oh my god
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Milo and POTUS posted:Ben stiller looks weird as poo poo but VV looking fine as hell Jason Priestley looks like you could cut yourself on his cheekbones. Skwirl posted:Mayor from Jaws was still the mayor in Jaws 2. This demonstrates the importance of voting in local elections. There was what, four years between the two movies? Enough time to get rid of him.
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Aug 13, 2021 13:51
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Skwirl posted:No it's thing he actually said and was widely reported on.
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Phosphine posted:This is a bad metaphor, because shark attacks are an overblown and made up threat. And even though they’re overblown and made-up we still treat them deadly serious, year after year, even at the cost of fun and profit.
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Aug 13, 2021 14:22
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Aug 13, 2021 14:39
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Lampsacus posted:this weird mix of knowing ancient greek and also not knowing how to open umbrella is a real culture artifact and its ultra hosed and the whole thing sucks and it just leads to lower classes and the left bewildered but that's also fine by them because the British class system is horrid and all is lost. He doesn't even know ancient greek / latin though. He's memorized a couple of quotes, regularly fucks them up, and no one [in the media] calls him out on it. Johnson and Gove are ex-journos and still get covered by the Journalist Omerta.
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ultrafilter posted:Thread. Yeah, I should have made it more clear that you absolutely need to read the entire thread: 
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Cocaine Bear posted:Boomers think movies are real and fall asleep before the end is my guess. see also: every single conservative still thinks Jack Nicholson is the hero in A Few Good Men
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Cocaine Bear posted:Boomers think movies are real and fall asleep before the end is my guess. Someone has said something like this very recently and I don't know where on the forums I saw it and it's driving me nuts
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deoju posted:Oh my god, he actually said this. 
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SimonChris posted:Yeah, I should have made it more clear that you absolutely need to read the entire thread: That doesn't follow the rules for stand names! The stand should have been called 「The Bartman」and the ability called『 I Didn't Do It』
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Everything Johnson does is intentional and plays into his whole 'gosh I'm just a bumbling chap arn't I funny' and is an act. He's nasty piece of work who was sleeping with his mistress while his wife was dying of cancer, tried to arrange for a journalist to be beaten up, burned £50 notes in front of homeless people while in the Bullingdon Club (which is like a who's who of nasty bastards) and on and on. It infuriates me because the British public lap it up and think he's a proper lad they could have a pint with and not a entitled poo poo bag that despises the poor.
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Hey you, reading this post. Go have a talk with your boyfriend about being a redditor. https://twitter.com/redditships/status/1426244579502739463
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In my mind that's why Lottery of Babylon stopped posting.
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Aug 13, 2021 19:35
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wizzardstaff posted:Hey you, reading this post. Go have a talk with your boyfriend about being a redditor. I'm nearly positive that's just someone on these forums who made a throwaway account to make a joke post about these forums. It's something awful all the way down.
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Lampsacus posted:yeah boris is an absolute dickwad but, and this is just my theory and could be wrong, but part of what makes the british class system so insidious is that when he has the chance to say something really dumb like that, its partly to to show he can get away with saying dumb things and it doesn't matter. or, probably in his particular case, he's been literally raised and designed as a upper echelon twat who must lack social grace and be an idiot buffoon in particular ways to, again, show it doesn't matter one bit because he's so encased by class and privilege. this weird mix of knowing ancient greek and also not knowing how to open umbrella is a real culture artifact and its ultra hosed and the whole thing sucks and it just leads to lower classes and the left bewildered but that's also fine by them because the British class system is horrid and all is lost. The Dean Scream killing a presidential campaign stone dead feels weird to us in comparison, loving guy's made of Teflon.
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wizzardstaff posted:Hey you, reading this post. Go have a talk with your boyfriend about being a redditor. https://twitter.com/version69420/status/1426267457824727046?s=21
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https://twitter.com/DaybookJobs/status/1426182241659416581?s=19 This opportunity won't last long!!
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I don't know why you think he's trying to hid the fact that he hates the poor. So do most far right conservatives. Even the poor ones. Especially the poor ones, because they're only temporarily poor, not like those lazy freeloaders. It's probably the most relatable thing about him to them.
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Aug 13, 2021 21:50
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I always figured he was an idiot who thinks he's a genius pretending to be an idiot.
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Aug 13, 2021 21:56
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On phone, so photo posting is awkward, but look up the 1982/3 rugby team photo of Boris Johnson with his 12 or 13 year old team, and shrivel at the sight of so many inconcievably arrogant and unpleasant people. They are physically distinct, but they all have the same expression; you, the observer are inferior, and you'd better have a bloody good explanation for why you failed to fulfil your duties.
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Pookah posted:On phone, so photo posting is awkward, but look up the 1982/3 rugby team photo of Boris Johnson with his 12 or 13 year old team, and shrivel at the sight of so many inconcievably arrogant and unpleasant people. They are physically distinct, but they all have the same expression; you, the observer are inferior, and you'd better have a bloody good explanation for why you failed to fulfil your duties.  drat I want to bully these dorks so bad
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Ror posted:
POV: you just suggested going to the club instead of spending another night with the pig head
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Ror posted:
That's the one! So many distinct physical types and they all have the same ' I want to speak to your manager, I know him, we went to school together' vibe. It's nauseating.
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Aug 13, 2021 22:35
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See also this picture taken from Lord Fauntleroy's School for Fancy Lads
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Aug 13, 2021 22:43
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Ror posted:
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It's from 82, so I think they're actually around 17. At least Boris, I don't know if it's all the same grade.
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Ror posted:It's from 82, so I think they're actually around 17. At least Boris, I don't know if it's all the same grade. Okay, that makes more sense.
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Aug 13, 2021 22:46
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Ror posted:
Hitler: "Yeah you guys can join my master race club"
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I've always loved the difference between English and Welsh rugby. England team is usually full of poshos with silly names, while Wales is usually recruited by going to the nearest caves and finding the hairiest inhabitants.
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Pookah posted:On phone, so photo posting is awkward, but look up the 1982/3 rugby team photo of Boris Johnson with his 12 or 13 year old team, and shrivel at the sight of so many inconcievably arrogant and unpleasant people. They are physically distinct, but they all have the same expression; you, the observer are inferior, and you'd better have a bloody good explanation for why you failed to fulfil your duties. I got u fam 
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