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https://twitter.com/jrc1921/status/1531601441734942720 He's running.
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Guavanaut posted:Much like with pāk being Urdu for pure, it doesn't matter where it comes from once ham headed cunts start screaming derivatives at Indian people (and Latin American, East African and Madagascan because racists are often stupid as poo poo) in the street, although I suspect the people making those sort of claims already know that. I've told this story a few times but one time I was waiting for the bus home after the pub and this guy comes up to me and after some small talk decides I'm solid enough to reveal to me the truth: "Do you know what the problem is with this country?" Me: "No what's that?" "Too many fuckin' Pakis" Me: "Ah, well I'm a bit biased to comment, being Indian" and the next uncomfortable few minutes before the bus arrives with him apologising and trying to walk it back
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# ? May 31, 2022 12:53 |
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Mate you're looking to be selected as an MP candidate you're not gonna do any of that poo poo lol. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 13:02 on May 31, 2022 |
# ? May 31, 2022 12:54 |
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Love to get the leaflet from my local MP that says - fix potholes - pensioners shuttle bus to the shopping centre - reaffirm commitment to NATO
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# ? May 31, 2022 12:57 |
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the sex ghost posted:- reaffirm commitment to NATO oh thank god the alliance is saved
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# ? May 31, 2022 12:57 |
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Tesseraction posted:I've told this story a few times but one time I was waiting for the bus home after the pub and this guy comes up to me and after some small talk decides I'm solid enough to reveal to me the truth: It's weird how people seem to walk around desperate to tell people poo poo like that. I had relatives visiting from northern ireland the other day and one of the few actual exchanges I had with them was asking if there's anywhere I might like to visit, I said cascadia would be quite nice to see cos I like big forests and that, which they followed up with by telling me the one time their friend went to canada and got lost looking for their hotel and went to a place where "there were all these rastafarians" but "some white people came and took them to their hotel and said if they had gone there at the wrong time they wouldn't have come out alive" ending with "what do you think of that?" Like that is the thing you are desperate to tell me, I have not seen you for nearly a decade but you must tell me that your friend saw a black person one time and nearly died. Thanks I guess I will never go to canada lest I also see a black person and die.
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# ? May 31, 2022 13:02 |
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Phil Wang is Malaysian There's a great bit from an Asian-American comedian (from the "you just insulted my entire culture, but yes" memes) about this. If you see an Asian guy, don't go for the statistically likely guess that they're Chinese. Instead, ask if they're Korean. You'll probably be wrong, but it won't be racist!
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Tesseraction posted:I've told this story a few times but one time I was waiting for the bus home after the pub and this guy comes up to me and after some small talk decides I'm solid enough to reveal to me the truth: When I worked on the phones in car insurance claims, I had a customer originally from India who had suffered a collision from a couple of teenagers pulling out of a junction on him while he had right of way. He was very insistent that the other drivers would lie about what happened because they were "fuckin' Pakis", and I was subsequently subjected to a five minute long rant about how they were ruining this country and every single one of them was either a rapist or a suicide bomber. I got a similar but reversed rant about all Indians being drunken thieves from a Pakistani customer. But I think the one that takes the cake would be the guy who was Second-generation Pakistani who confidently told me that back over in Pakistan most people wish they could have the British back. Now this guy's been to Pakistan (at least so he tells me) and I haven't, but I found myself rather skeptical of that one.
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# ? May 31, 2022 13:12 |
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I'm terribly broken because I started reading this and then got to "Repeal The Trade Union Act" & could only think "yeah, that'd be nice" Ultimate funny scenario is Paul tries to run but Keef pushes for some anonymous SpAd with no dangerous notions like that to be parachuted into the constituency, and yet Paul remains a Keefy believer.
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# ? May 31, 2022 13:16 |
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In my experience Australians in airports are ground-zero for 'this guy is white so he, like me, will enjoy a racist conversation' moments.
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# ? May 31, 2022 13:16 |
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forkboy84 posted:I'm terribly broken because I started reading this and then got to "Repeal The Trade Union Act" & could only think "yeah, that'd be nice" Yeah, there's no way he's getting the nomination with opinions like that: I saw no references whatsoever to the need for making Tough Decisions, or Balancing the Books, nor does he specifically refute the concept of the Magic Money Tree, like any good candidate should.
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# ? May 31, 2022 13:42 |
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First of all 'family of weavers and miners going back generations' is giving off extremely 'working class pizza restaurant owner from lee' vibes, i.e. your dad owned a business where he employed working class people but he had a bit of an accent. Secondly, universal credit is poo poo right now, but abolish it? And replace it with what? And how will your version be any better? The concept of UC (a streamlined single point application process for welfare) could actually be a good thing if you abolished sanctions and investigations, and spent that money hiring enough admin staff to get processing times down. Thirdly amd most importantly, gently caress oooOOOFFF
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# ? May 31, 2022 13:44 |
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I'm sure I've said it before but I can't read Paul Mason's name and not think about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFevH5vP32s
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# ? May 31, 2022 13:52 |
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Strom Cuzewon posted:There's a great bit from an Asian-American comedian (from the "you just insulted my entire culture, but yes" memes) about this. If you see an Asian guy, don't go for the statistically likely guess that they're Chinese. Instead, ask if they're Korean. You'll probably be wrong, but it won't be racist! Oh well in my case I know that Wang isn't a Korean or Japanese surname so he was likely of Chinese heritage of some kind. If he was Phil Hwang then I'd have thought differently. Also again, in a joke about a man being racist, that person theoretically misidentifying the ethnicity is an additional layer. OwlFancier posted:Like that is the thing you are desperate to tell me, I have not seen you for nearly a decade but you must tell me that your friend saw a black person one time and nearly died. Thanks I guess I will never go to canada lest I also see a black person and die. lmao did they actually say rastafarians? Reveilled posted:But I think the one that takes the cake would be the guy who was Second-generation Pakistani who confidently told me that back over in Pakistan most people wish they could have the British back. Now this guy's been to Pakistan (at least so he tells me) and I haven't, but I found myself rather skeptical of that one. Yeah somehow I don't think that's true. Do love the usual Indian-Pakistani racism olympics, though. Too busy making GBS threads on each other to remember to hate the Brits who booted them in the face for so long.
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Tesseraction posted:One of the claims that "wog" wasn't slur because it was "Western Oriented Gentleman" - a term that has never been used seriously and is clearly trying to pretend it isn't more likely to be from gollywog. Which I only bothered to learn today is from golly + pollywog, a pollywog being another name for a tadpole, meaning "wiggly head." Now I feel bad that whenever I am playing with my dog, I call her "a doggy woggy wog". (Since it rhymes) Guess I'll have to file it under the "problematic things" folder.
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# ? May 31, 2022 14:25 |
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Not the worst thing anyone called a dog.
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# ? May 31, 2022 14:28 |
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Ah it's fine, in this case it's referring to the wagging of the tail (and also a rhyme). You cannot be racist against a dog. Unless you call it Didier Dogba.
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Tesseraction posted:One of the claims that "wog" wasn't slur because it was "Western Oriented Gentleman" - a term that has never been used seriously and is clearly trying to pretend it isn't more likely to be from gollywog. Which I only bothered to learn today is from golly + pollywog, a pollywog being another name for a tadpole, meaning "wiggly head." The Wiggles, deeply problematic
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# ? May 31, 2022 14:29 |
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Speaking of problematic yesterday I laughed so hard the next thing I knew I was on the floor with bruised elbow and knee, so if I stop posting in the near future please mourn that I Chrysippused myself.
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# ? May 31, 2022 14:33 |
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Guavanaut posted:Not the worst thing anyone called a dog. Ah yes, the unamed dog from The Dam Busters!
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Guavanaut posted:Not the worst thing anyone called a dog. H. P Lovecrafts cat is the worst one I believe.
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# ? May 31, 2022 14:44 |
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Lol gutted I no longer live in Stretford
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# ? May 31, 2022 14:52 |
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https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1531293463890862085 The replies are excellent.
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# ? May 31, 2022 15:46 |
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If they take Stonehenge to Russia then they can finally build that tunnel, or not bother with a tunnel really. And think of the savings in your heritage budget!
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# ? May 31, 2022 15:50 |
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What the hell is Russia's obsession with Wiltshire? Did someone sell all the Kremlin's maps of the UK except an old OS NPE One Inch of Salisbury Plain? Are all their intelligence officers operating out of Ted Heath's old house? Is it because it has something resembling steppeland and it's full of rusty old tanks?
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# ? May 31, 2022 16:16 |
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If they check their receipts, there's every chance that Russia has already purchased Stonehenge along with everything else.
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# ? May 31, 2022 16:17 |
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I've told this story before I'm, sure, but when I used to play cricket for my local village team, we used to play against a team called the Wisbech Old Grammarians. Yes.
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# ? May 31, 2022 16:38 |
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I'll focus on the policies Keir Starmer fought for in his leadership campaign (and subsequently abandoned for convenience while also stating he'd promise anything to get into power) Great pitch!
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# ? May 31, 2022 16:39 |
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Tesseraction posted:lmao did they actually say rastafarians? Literally yes, so I was just imagining a load of old dudes in rainbow hats just chilling out and these nothern irelanders just absolutely quaking in terror. One of the nice things about living up north is that you really learn to be more terrified of skinny white dudes with their trackies tucked into their socks than anyone else. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 17:16 on May 31, 2022 |
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Today in the pharmacy the woman in front of me was buying some off the shelf medication for her child and when she paid she was charged £6.89 and as she paid pointed to the shelf where she said "I thought it was £4.19" and ended up getting the £2.70 refunded and as the pharmacist handed over she kinda sheepishly added "sorry, it's just that times are tough at the moment" Another reminder to me of how much people are struggling at the moment.
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# ? May 31, 2022 17:25 |
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I thought you meant the pharmacist said that times are tough and was trying to gouge extra profit. I was fully readying my face
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# ? May 31, 2022 17:28 |
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No the pharmacist was just pissing me off by moving SLOWER THAN A SNAIL while I was boiling at the non-air-con part of the shop (the air con is in the back for the DRUGS)
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# ? May 31, 2022 17:31 |
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Tbh I'd be kicking off for that 40% refund even if times weren't tough
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# ? May 31, 2022 17:33 |
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Yeah gently caress that, the price is the price
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# ? May 31, 2022 18:03 |
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Just had a nasty thought this morning, if the £400 heating thing is going to come directly off our bills, how does this work for people on metred electricity? Do their accounts get topped up with £400 credit, or do they just not get it?
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# ? May 31, 2022 18:58 |
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Theoretically yes, every account gets its balance shifted by £400
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# ? May 31, 2022 19:00 |
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Just had a nasty thought this morning, if the £400 heating thing is going to come directly off our bills, how does this work for people on metred electricity? Do their accounts get topped up with £400 credit, or do they just not get it? A news article said it would either be vouchers or applied to the meter automatically.
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# ? May 31, 2022 19:09 |
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Lol https://twitter.com/MitchellCMM/status/1531672560361951232
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# ? May 31, 2022 19:15 |
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I can't keep up. Is Mason weteggs or no?
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# ? May 31, 2022 19:18 |
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Jeherrin posted:I can't keep up. Is Mason weteggs or no? he resigned after Corbyn became leader so he could post in favour of Corbyn without being CONSTRAINED but also has a habit of posting "I'd like to see capitalism wiggle its way out of this one *capitalism wiggles its way out easily* ah, well, nevertheless"
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