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Failed Imagineer posted:Nah, just tell him to gently caress off, or as others have suggested just lie that the moneys gone. You don't want to invite a situation where this probably-dodgy oval office starts working "on spec" and just knocks a big hole in your wall and fucks off until you pay him 75%. This. I'd have thrown him out on his ear as soon as he suggested a 75% deposit. He's waterproofing a basement not building the loving Taj Mahal.
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OwlFancier posted:Always reassuring to know that even if I try very hard I do not think I can manage to be that much of a fuckup this late in life. Don't worry he managed it after pocketing nearly half a mil for these dead gay forums.
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Well yes that's part of why I can't manage it because I will never have the funding let alone the head start.
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Nov 11, 2021 21:19
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OwlFancier posted:Always reassuring to know that even if I try very hard I do not think I can manage to be that much of a fuckup this late in life. Well, certainly not with that attitude You gotta believe in yourself
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Nov 11, 2021 21:22
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I was going to suggest if the UK arts grants want to fund me to see how much of a fuckup I can be that'd be nice but I think that more normally achieved by standing as a political candidate.
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Whenever I think of Lowtax I will remember that he *told* everyone he got banned from Twitter for arguing with some Fash called Baked Alaska When the reality was he got banned for sending pictures of dog dicks to many many random women who disagreed with him Including a trans friend of mine completely unconnected with the site and who had no idea who he was, which is why there was a posting gap with me,
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learnincurve posted:Whenever I think of Lowtax I will remember that he *told* everyone he got banned from Twitter for arguing with some Fash called Baked Alaska  WE MUST NOT ALLOW A POSTING GAP!
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Nov 11, 2021 21:38
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goddamnedtwisto posted:
I never realized how much George C. Scott looked like Tim Robinson. Which makes Dr Strangelove the longest I Think You Should Leave episode ever.
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Nov 11, 2021 21:42
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learnincurve posted:Whenever I think of Lowtax I will remember that he *told* everyone he got banned from Twitter for arguing with some Fash called Baked Alaska I don't think i've ever heard of that before but that would 100% scan with his weirdoness.
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Nov 11, 2021 21:53
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A brain forever trapped in 2002 internet.
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Nice for him to be involved in at least one funny thing on the internet in the past 20 years. Also gently caress Starmer.
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happyhippy posted:You are talking about the peeps that have delayed the Irish Language Act that the UK and Ireland agreed to back in 2006. This has always annoyed me. The Irish flag* is Green, White and Orange. That's their colours. And yet it treated as some subjective belief and sometimes the last colour is replaced with Gold or Yellow. The Constitution specifically says what colours make up the flag. * = Also the Ivory Coast, even if it's in the wrong order.Those guys are cool too.
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learnincurve posted:Whenever I think of Lowtax I will remember that he *told* everyone he got banned from Twitter for arguing with some Fash called Baked Alaska The more new things I learn about Lowtax the worse he appears.
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Leyburn posted:Nice for him to be involved in at least one funny thing on the internet in the past 20 years. Gaming Garbage or whatever his youtube thing was called was fun when it was him and Shmorky falling through level geometry of terrible games made by idiots.
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The Question IRL posted:This has always annoyed me. The Irish flag* is Green, White and Orange. There is a song about it and everything.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-59242195 I think this is the head who got into trouble last year for bullying staff.
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sebzilla posted:Gaming Garbage or whatever his youtube thing was called was fun when it was him and Shmorky falling through level geometry of terrible games made by idiots. The streams with his daughter were funny (and she was considerably funnier than he was, which... should have been a sign really). I'll never forget "You know eventually I'll die and you'll have to take my place" "Okay daddy, I will be a fat man on the internet" which is the most savage burn a kid has ever delivered, if a little poignant now. I hope she and her family will be able to get over this eventually.
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The Question IRL posted:This has always annoyed me. The Irish flag* is Green, White and Orange. I'm sure there was something about the orange being replaced by gold by some of the more extreme nationalists who felt that having protestant orange represented on the flag was bad?
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a pipe smoking dog posted:I'm sure there was something about the orange being replaced by gold by some of the more extreme nationalists who felt that having protestant orange represented on the flag was bad? Yeah but that was equally stupid and pointless
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Nov 11, 2021 22:58
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They could instead just cut the orange bit off and have a green and white square flag and also some material to make a robe for a very small Buddhist.
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Sincerely hoping this is just another bit of TBEU, but... https://twitter.com/Charlyf_81/status/1458735083809120261
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Nov 11, 2021 23:52
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It did seem like fewer people were wearing them this year.
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"Never read the comments" he reminds himself, after looking at Billy Bragg's tweets on why he reworded 'Sexuality' to specifically include trans people and now wishing the technology existed to punch people via the internet. "Trans people by definition no longer have any sexuality so you can't include them in a song called that!"  is a take so nuclear it should hopefully have rendered the poster themself sterile.
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OwlFancier posted:It did seem like fewer people were wearing them this year. Yes I've noticed that. Fewer people wearing them and my facebook newsfeed normally poppy-heavy, not seen many at all these days, just some fairly discreet ones on peoples' profiles etc. Though I guess they might all have blocked me from seeing their posts LOL Just checked a couple of the most vociferous poppy supporters and nope, nadda.
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Nov 12, 2021 00:20
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I used to wear one every year, but over the years the war christmas moniker has become more accurate and more prevalent so I stopped. It would be nice to think that as the die hards get more nuts about it, others will just lose interest.
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Maybe it's all the right wingers boycotting poppies because RBL appointed a Diversity officer a few months ago? Too woke to {something that rhymes with woke} (paraphrasing too posh to mosh)
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I feel like this is a big confession in this thread but I do actually wear a poppy; it's habit more than anything, and the RBL *do* do decent work even if they're leaning too far into the troop worship thing. However I've noticed in the last week that I'm very much in a minority, there's almost nobody out and about on the street wearing one. (Also I stopped for lunch in a greasy spoon in Bermondsey and noticed I was literally the only person wearing one and was suddenly *acutely* aware that I'd forgotten I was heading that way and so was still using my GSB OUT badge to hold it in. I assume the troop-respecting counteracted wearing a West Ham badge pretty much in the shadow of the New Den, although it's also possible all those letters so closely together confused them long enough for me to escape)
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I feel like this is a big confession in this thread but I do actually wear a poppy; it's habit more than anything, and the RBL *do* do decent work even if they're leaning too far into the troop worship thing. However I've noticed in the last week that I'm very much in a minority, there's almost nobody out and about on the street wearing one. I keep one in my handbag (confession - not new) in case I get accosted in the street. Not a hill I want to die on (other hills I don't want to die on are available eg tv licence). I remember when I was still in The Party and looked after the CLP facebook page - what a nightmare. Whatever colour poppies I posted for the remembrance thing I would get a mouthful of nasty comments about how white poppies were traitorous wokes, just red poppies were war worshipping, both colours would invoke ire of all. Only purple poppies went down well with everyone. One year I posted 'silent soldiers' our garrison had put up in the war graves part of the town cemetry. That went down ok too. Mind you I switched off private messaging on the page! Once when I was about 8 I bought one of those wooden crosses with a poppy on. My dad objected (he'd had some row wth the local BL I don't know what about*) so I took it back to school to say I didn't want it. *this is the same dad who when in my 20s I turned up to the folks one Sunday lunchtime on the back of a large motorbike driven by a policeperson, spent the whole time muttering about 'overpaid bourgeois imperialist bully boys in blue'. (Mum, on the other hand, was delighted. A step up from the former hell's angel of previous encounters in her view). Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 00:49 on Nov 12, 2021 |
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In a stunning bit of "rats fleeing ONTO a sinking ship", apparently Eamonn Holmes is going to GB News.
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I think if anyone gives me poo poo I'm just going to paraphrase matthew 6:1-8 at them.
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Like so many of these things, buying and wearing a poppy in support of charity and as a quiet mark of respect is fine and good, but it’s sadly becoming something that marks you as a very particular kind of virtue-signalling loon.
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I mean it literally is virtue signalling whyever you do it, that is a completely accurate descriptor of how it functions in society, you wear it to signal a thing to others that you believe to be a virtue of some sort, whether that is because you think it will win you praise or because you want them to feel a certain way in themselves.
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Some virtue signalling pillock on Facebook was giving Zarah Sultana grief because she didn't post a remembrance thing until this afternoon. Not enough respects.
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The difference is which virtue you’re trying to signal.
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:In a stunning bit of "rats fleeing ONTO a sinking ship", apparently Eamonn Holmes is going to GB News. Must have caught it from that foot thing he advertises on tv.
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:In a stunning bit of "rats fleeing ONTO a sinking ship", apparently Eamonn Holmes is going to GB News. No one back in Ireland wants him. And he aint even from GB too, so he must have been way down the list of gammons they asked.
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Lots of people are reporting fewer poppies on the street this year, and my guess would be people aren't carrying loose change as much/at all.
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The idea of eamonn holmes doing a tucker carlson bit is just... very hard for me to take seriously. He's just the doughy guy who does the light morning poo poo where they have someone bring a dog on the show to talk about their pet rescue or whatever. Like I feel as if he would just make anything he tries to tell you less credible.
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OwlFancier posted:I mean it literally is virtue signalling whyever you do it, that is a completely accurate descriptor of how it functions in society, you wear it to signal a thing to others that you believe to be a virtue of some sort, whether that is because you think it will win you praise or because you want them to feel a certain way in themselves.
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