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jeebus bob posted:Continually amazed that Keir's reaction to stuff like this isn't "welp, might as well back the strikes since the torys will claim I do so regardless of the truth", and instead tries to oppose the very concept of striking even harder. There needs to be handy terms for the two approaches to being called something you're not "they keep calling me racist" -> "so I might as well be a racist" (we've seen this one a lot) "they keep calling me a racist" -> "so I'll publically declare all racists should be burned at the stake without trial, along with their families" (is controversial enough to dominate the news cycle and immediately put to bed any idea that you support racists, a sort of dead cat gambit)
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TBH the former is the case of a spoon being called a spoon and then saying "well if you're going to CALL me a spoon" And the latter is protesting too much.
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Microplastics posted:There needs to be handy terms for the two approaches to being called something you're not Suggest "the Bors cycle" for the first one in honour of the OG https://twitter.com/thenib/status/1027247065783574528?t=bvfjlOi4nmZrek2ZlrayBg&s=19 (Plus it sounds vaguely scientific)
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Failed Imagineer posted:"the Bors cycle" Differentiated from the Bohr model in that those that undergo the Bors cycle are not orbited by a minor but do the opposite,
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Failed Imagineer posted:Suggest "the Bors cycle" for the first one in honour of the OG isn't that when you side with Lancelot after his infidelity has been exposed?
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It's not it a cycle though. "the Bors pipeline" maybe
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Microplastics posted:It's not it a cycle though. Yeah fair enough, "Bors transition", or what u said
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It is just me or is there a notable decrease in poppy wearing this year? More weird dioramas in supermarkets for sure, but I don't see that many people wearing them,
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Wonder if it's a fallout from working from home becoming more common meaning less chance to come across a poppy seller or if the pandemic wiped out all the olds who'd sell them.
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Necrothatcher posted:It is just me or is there a notable decrease in poppy wearing this year? 
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When you are expected to pay a grand more from this winter onwards to stay warm, most may second think buying £2 pieces of plastic.
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happyhippy posted:When you are expected to pay a grand more from this winter onwards to stay warm, most may second think buying £2 pieces of plastic. Wow imagine being so selfish as to snub our brave boys just so you can stay alive. Our brave boys didn't get to stay alive did they? They died so that you can live, and now you mock their deaths by choosing to live??
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The nation pays touching tribute to the fallen of WW1 by collectively freezing to death over the winter.
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Is there another city which properly respects the poppy and is in line to take over as capital?
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At least they'll always have the politicians market, who can be relied upon to always have poppies to show how much they care. Maybe the British Legion or whoever it is could hire a strategic consultant (like me) to propose new revenue streams? More than one poppy = more respect for the war dead. Failed Imagineer posted:Is there another city which properly respects the poppy and is in line to take over as capital? The race is on.
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Microplastics posted:Wow imagine being so selfish as to snub our brave boys just so you can stay alive. Our brave boys didn't get to stay alive did they? They died so that you can live, and now you mock their deaths by choosing to live?? I clapped for Captain Tom, and look where that got him!
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Captain Tom didn't die just so some blue haired wokeerati could call me a poppy nonce on the computer. Is this good? https://twitter.com/PA/status/1590684904643182592?t=Adb-u5RlVdDD0ij7f4x8Zg
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if jeremy corbyn had won then everybody would be on strike, that's why I'm glad I voted conservative
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Failed Imagineer posted:Is there another city which properly respects the poppy and is in line to take over as capital?
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There is going to be a general strike soon I suspect. A lot of the older people are still wearing them, the poppies, but I have seen a lot of people just not bother.
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OwlFancier posted:if jeremy corbyn had won then everybody would be on strike, that's why I'm glad I voted conservative *everyone is dead except for me* Yeah but if corbyn got in I'd be dead too!
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peanut- posted:They're coming for Red Ed They'll order him to call Corbyn something like "a demented spaz" as a test of loyalty during PMQ and when he refuses send Jess Flips in to knife him (in the front, literally figuratively)
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Marmaduke! posted:They'll order him to call Corbyn something like "a demented spaz" as a test of loyalty during PMQ and when he refuses send Jess Flips in to knife him (in the front, literally figuratively) truly a reverse-Dolchstoß
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Necrothatcher posted:It is just me or is there a notable decrease in poppy wearing this year? I'm wondering now if anyone will turn up to my wedding tomorrow wearing one. I kinda didn't even think about it when we chose the date.
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I hope the officiant gets to "Do you, Mega Comrade, take Other Person to be your lawfully wedded spouse?" at exactly 11:11 and has you sweating.
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Mega Comrade posted:I'm wondering now if anyone will turn up to my wedding tomorrow wearing one. I kinda didn't even think about it when we chose the date. Carefully crafting it so that the vicar says "speak now or forever hold your peace" just as the clock hits 11:00 and one frustrated guy at the back has to sit there in silence, a single tear rolling down his face
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Skulker posted:I hope the officiant gets to "Do you, Mega Comrade, take Other Person to be your lawfully wedded spouse?" at exactly 11:11 and has you sweating. god loving drat it
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Was in a pub in Quebec last week drinking beer and eating poutine and they had a local ice hockey discussion thing on the TV, and every one of the french speaking hockey guys talking in an incomprehensible accent was wearing a poppy. Unexpected. Nobody in the pub was, though.
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Move the capital of the UK to Saguenay, replace Parliament with the Canadiens. It is the only way to ensure the paper flower is respected.
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Mega Comrade posted:I'm wondering now if anyone will turn up to my wedding tomorrow wearing one. I kinda didn't even think about it when we chose the date. Have fun! I'm thoroughly enjoying being married a few weeks now. Do not Ponder the Poppy
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Move the capital to Kabul, they love and kiss the poppy
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forkboy84 posted:I think it's funny that Ed didn't serve in Corbyn's shadow cabinet & Kieth did & it's Ed who is the left-wing radical Rappaport posted:Let's gameyfy twitter! With your GOLD SPECIAL PLUS subscription, just $9.99 a week for your first 6 weeks, lifetime subscription included you will receive a +13 MODIFIER to your SICK ICE BURN ROLLS when tweeting witty insults to your CELEBRITY POSTING ENEMIES! Our new AI PHRASING COMPANION will ensure your ENEMIES will be PWNED and/or DEVASTATED by your new, increased POSTING POWER! Sign up today! Elon loves you!
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Guavanaut posted:UK capital moved to Ballymena for maximum respect to British flag and British flower and British pile of British wooden pallets. Dunclug deserves all that it gets. 
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Answers Me posted:So is Mastodon going to be a viable alternative for people who need social media to promote their creative work, or is it just methadone for the people addicted to saying whatever will Make Number Go Higher? Everything I know about Mastodon and how it works points to the answer to this question being, unfortunately, just the following: "lol"
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jaete posted:Everything I know about Mastodon and how it works points to the answer to this question being, unfortunately, just the following: "lol" 
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Traditions die off, either by ennui or by some other war being more relevant. In Northern Ireland the poppy always signified loyalty to the British crown instead of some overly-politicized "recognition" of the long dead, so we never had to wear it. If I see someone wearing it on the street I'm not going to tell them they shouldn't, but I will quietly think they wasted their money.
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The navy still observes Trafalgar Day, they do a remembrance thing on board HMS Victory. I assume they'll keep doing that as long as there's a navy, because they're definitely not doing it for anyone that lived through it any more, it's been added to the continuing body of traditions of the service. Most of the general public couldn't even tell you what day that was though, it's definitely not part of the general body of accepted knowledge any more. I can see similar happening with Armistice Day/Remembrance Day, the armed forces will keep observing it, but it will slowly detach from the public side. That or it'll become one of those American-style 'holidays' where it's all about mattress stores declaring war on high prices and storming the beaches of double spring comfort! Adverts with guys dressed as WWI Tommies happy that they have a mattress in their trench. I hope that doesn't happen though. https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1590704635433844737
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