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Bobby Deluxe posted:The venn diagram of 'people complaining that wearing a mask is a huge imposition' and 'people who say suck it up snowflake' is a perfect circle. Thats probably not a venn diagram but I havent got a clue
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The Question IRL posted:The big moment for me was a few years ago. I used to watch shows like Designated Survivor and Mr. Robot. Shows that were big on "there is a super secret conspiracy of all powerful geniuses who control the world. These Sphinxes manipulate the world and they can only be fought be people just as smart as them!" Theme. The funniest cultural casualty of Trump though is House of Cards. That show was dead the second Trump got elected, because how can you take a show about this Machiavellian schemer seriously when the Presidency was just won by a camp reality TV star who woke up one day, stuffed his face with a McDonalds breakfast and while taking a poo poo thought to himself "yeah why don't I run for high office".
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Danger - Octopus! posted:My cynical view was that the people in government do not want to wear masks themselves because they've lived lives free of rules and personal inconvenience, and masks are a thing they can be caught not wearing so they hate the idea of them being mandatory because then irritating political opponents will call them out on it when they don't Remember when Michael Gove was spotted coming out of a Pret without a mask and instead of going "Oops, my mistake, sorry" and maybe even making an ostentatious donation to Captain Tom or some poo poo, they instead hurriedly changed the rules to "You don't need to wear a mask if you're buying takeaway food"? That, for me, summed up everything about what's wrong with the government and, more particularly, the media. None of these pricks takes any of this seriously, it's all one big game to them.
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Gorn Myson posted:The funniest cultural casualty of Trump though is House of Cards. Was it not more spacey being a huge sexual predator?
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Was it not more spacey being a huge sexual predator? The show got really bad a year or two before that all came out. So a bit of column A and a bit of column B. I'm surprised Veep managed to stay relatively good after Trump and Brexit hit.
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oxford_town posted:e: 89 is the ISBN group identifier for books published in South Korea.
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Back at the start of the pandemic, when news from across Europe was horrifying and we knew we were at the start of the scary unknown, people were OK with restrictions. Now we're a year and a half in, the majority of people are vaccinated, and lots of people don't know anyone who has died or even been seriously ill with Covid. They are lucky, and their luck may well change, but for most people the odds will continue to be in their favour.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:If nothing else the last two years have convinced me climate change is never, ever getting fixed. Fixing it is going to require a lot more inconvenience than wearing a mask and not demanding the entire country travel at the exact same times 5 times a week, and we're not willing to do that while to bodies are visibly piling up. I take great solace in the fact that it's actually far too late to fix climate change, it was too late 20 years ago, and it'll kill us all, and the rich and powerful are coming with us 
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Oct 21, 2021 22:26
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https://twitter.com/RespectIsVital/status/1451300469452722178
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Big "glorious victories moving ever closer to the capital" energy.
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Oct 21, 2021 22:41
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gently caress i don't want to have to learn the new lyrics for God Save The Queen, too much effort
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I never learned the old ones.
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CGI Stardust posted:gently caress i don't want to have to learn the new lyrics for God Save The Queen, too much effort We should really get an entirely new anthem when a monarch dies. Like with the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure opening tracks.
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Communist Thoughts posted:Later seasons of Veep got real bad too.
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isn't she glorious? hnnn nnn nnn nnnnorious da da da daaa dada god save our queen!
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I think I might actually know more words to the american version than god save the queen.
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I for one do not feel the need to post happily about the potential death of an old lady, whoever she might be. until twisto posts about a weird helicopter its all bullshit anyway
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Dog, shave the Queen
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Initially read that as “government warned”, but when I realised it was ”warns” jfc oc
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quote:The Queen spent Wednesday night in hospital for preliminary medical checks and is now back at Windsor Castle "in good spirits", better to use formaldehyde but ok
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If she dies before poppymas I think this country might be in store for a degree of poppy frenzy the likes of which it has never before seen. There will be life-size, nay, collosus of rhodes -sized effigies of the queen made entirely out of poppies, paraded up and down the country for people to sob uncontrollably at, emerging from their homes in the finest clothes but immediately getting them dirty as they fall to their knees in the gutter, hands trembling as they grasp a pot and a pan, yet unable to bang them for the grief has struck them down
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Communist Thoughts posted:Later seasons of Veep got real bad too. I don't get why this is a bad plot point for a show like Veep to have. 
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OwlFancier posted:I think I might actually know more words to the american version than god save the queen. Sweet land of liberty Of thee I sing. Thy choiciest gifts in store Pour them all over her Something something Huge birds steal our sons This is all Scotland's fault My ding a ling God save the England team God save the backside beans Save all of the lyrics sheets There's six verse more
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Oct 21, 2021 23:07
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stev posted:I don't get why this is a bad plot point for a show like Veep to have. coz its a completely uncynical view of america to me it marked the point where the show jumped the shark and ianuccis influence had vanished entirely america constantly bombs civilians as a matter of policy and nobody give a poo poo. the idea of the PRESIDENT OF AMERICA being panicked about war crimes and having to hide over a single drone bombing is complete naive fantasy that supports the idea that: A) its an unusual event B) that america abides by international law C) international law even attempts to meaningfully constrain america when you compare that to the utterly black comedy reality of america drone bombing its own allies, some kids and charity workers during the afghanistan withdrawal as an attempt to save face with no apology, it just looks extremely out of touch
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Lol if you don’t think that JRM IDS and their ilk aren’t loving the eugenics of it all. Boris isn’t even that thick, he’s notorious for it as well. I’m not saying they planned it, but it sure does suit them to keep the cull going.
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Today was the 55th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster when 116 children and 28 adults were killed when a coal-mining spoil heap slipped and engulfed the Pantglas Junior School just as morning registers were being taken. I was 6 at the time and attended a tiny Welsh primary school. We had visited parents' friends in the town just a few weeks before. A year or so later, we moved to a mining town. Our house was on the side of one coal tip, and my junior school across the valley on the side of another coal tip. Lengthy wiki on the disaster and the aftermath, inquiry etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disaster quote:At the time of the (50th) anniversary, Huw Edwards, the BBC News journalist and presenter, described the need to continue learning lessons from Aberfan; he wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0HEXdKXSaY Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Oct 21, 2021 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Today was the 55th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster when 116 children and 28 adults were killed when a coal-mining spoil heap slipped and engulfed the Pantglas Junior School just as morning registers were being taken. I was 6 at the time and attended a tiny Welsh primary school. We had visited parents' friends in the town just a few weeks before. A year or so later, we moved to a mining town. Our house was on the side of one coal tip, and my junior school across the valley on the side of another coal tip. Oh yeah my mum said that this happened when she was a young'un and had no concept of how far Aberfan was from Bedford and was terrified it was gonna happen to her next.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I for one do not feel the need to post happily about the potential death of an old lady, whoever she might be. Almost every truly momentous death happens while I'm away from the internet for some reason or another anyway. In fact the most likely indicator of her going will be a sudden weird silence from me because I'm somewhere with no phone reception or just generally doing something offline (I know, what a concept, right?). The incredible cacophony of missed calls, voice mails, texts and messenger notifications I got when I turned my phone on after a training day on 8/4/13 will probably be the last sound I remember on my death bed.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:The incredible cacophony of missed calls, voice mails, texts and messenger notifications I got when I turned my phone on after a training day on 8/4/13 will probably be the last sound I remember on my death bed. Yeah Filip Vujanović’s election as President of Montenegro was a wild time.
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OwlFancier posted:I think if you look historically, human society is basically incapable of behaving proactively and is instead entirely reactive, it may theoretically be capable of acting in advance of a known problem but I think that would require a different form of societal organization. Yeah I think this is pretty much one of the biggest problems we face as a species. Being proactive is simply not in our genes. Also, because the problem is in the genes, I don't think any form of societal organisation can do very much about it either.
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I don't think I would say it is "genetic" especially as society-wide proactive behaviour is like, the definition of socially constructed. Just because society has, on aggregate, been unable to demonstrate it hitherto doesn't mean it's biologically encoded any more than lovely gender norms are. The question is better posed as "why and how does that happen and how can it be prevented" rather than "guess humans just have a bone in their brain that stops proactive behaviour"
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Folks. It's happening. The queen is going to die. Long live King Charles III
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u are down type 'thank gibbo and cheeksy' in chat
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Even if they did, they'd be prescribed the good stuff without question - stuff like prednisone that they have to ration to the plebs, but Boris gets to mainline the highest dose possible. few pages back but prednisalone gives you a phat face. I know cause i used to take it for RA. Does boris have an unusually fat face [y/n]?
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Folks. It's happening. The queen is going to die. The perfect way for this country to commemorate the final end of our international relevance in Hell Dimension. There’s no way the writers would pass up an opportunity like that.
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cyril sneeeer posted:few pages back but prednisalone gives you a phat face. I know cause i used to take it for RA. Does boris have an unusually fat face [y/n]? Fond memories of returning to boarding school after a hospital stay, 2 stone lighter and rake-thin, and being told I looked "healthy" because of my prednisolone-induced facial water retention Really didn't help my acne either
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