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Ferrosol
Nov 8, 2010

Notorious J.A.M


I'm glad someone did. I'm just sick of journalists with all the intellectual curiosity of a not too bright Labrador.

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fuctifino
Jun 11, 2001

https://twitter.com/AkanKwaku/status/1638573752072937474

Red Oktober
May 24, 2006

wiggly eyes!



Ferrosol posted:

I'm glad someone did. I'm just sick of journalists with all the intellectual curiosity of a not too bright Labrador.

The actual investigation side of journalism is expensive, so it's been cut to the absolute bone, with most 'journalists' just repeating press statements or quotations. It looks like it's being left to specialists like Private Eye and certain online houses to do any actual investigation.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

jaete
Jun 21, 2009


Nap Ghost
I don't understand the thread title

The USA version I do understand, it goes like this: drink a fifth - plead the fifth

"A fifth" is 1/5 of a gallon which is approx 0.7 in actual units, i.e. a wine bottle or whatever

Pleading the fifth means not talking to the filth (probably always a good idea, at least in the US)

Tanks for comin gto my ted talk

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

Payndz posted:

Never read Viz? Drink beer, smerk tabs.

If you were doing that all the way through lockdown then you might be doing the third one today.

Jaeluni Asjil
Apr 18, 2018

Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!
So many articles these days are just copies of twitter or reddit posts with a sentence or two between them:

wordcount = 0
goal = 500
Start subroutine:

User Twitter00001 said

[post from twitter]

But this poster on Reddit, Reddit00001 didn't think so and posted this

[post from reddit]

Word count=wordcount+20

if (wordcount=goal) go to finish else go to start

finish

Plenty of us ITT can do this but we're not claiming to be journalists.

Lord of the Llamas
Jul 9, 2002

EULER'VE TO SEE IT VENN SOMEONE CALLS IT THE WRONG THING AND PROVOKES MY WRATH
If the journos like Peston weren't so poo poo we wouldn't be able to enjoy people dunking on them on twitter.

crispix
Mar 28, 2015

Grand-Maman m'a raconté
(Les éditions des amitiés franco-québécoises)

Hello, dear

OwlFancier posted:

Even if that were true I fail to see what it has to do with lesbians. Whether I were gay or straight I still don't see why lesbians would want to sleep with me. Whether or not I have achieved the perfect sexuality does not mean other people will want to sleep with me.

graham linehan has serious mental health issues and has completely lost touch with reality, op

fuctifino
Jun 11, 2001

Jaeluni Asjil posted:


Plenty of us ITT can do this but we're not claiming to be journalists.

I think you have to be born into the trade. You can't just have anyone join the press, otherwise they might report on the wrong news

Pistol_Pete
Sep 15, 2007

Oven Wrangler

Lord of the Llamas posted:

If the journos like Peston weren't so poo poo we wouldn't be able to enjoy people dunking on them on twitter.

If they weren't poo poo, they wouldn't be in positions of importance in the first place.

TACD
Oct 27, 2000

Microplastics posted:

(me with my new placard)

It's called Eve Online not Steve Online!
It’s spreadsheets in space not bedsheets in space!

Bobby Deluxe
May 9, 2004

ItohRespectArmy posted:

i believe the current gist of it is that if you're a terf you believe that trans women are pressuring lesbians to have sex with them (and their assumption is that trans women are men) so therefore promoting bisexuality is so on and so forth
The only person that's ever been 'true' for is Lily Cayde, a porn star who runs her own production company and was approached by a trans woman about making porn. Cayde sells herself as a 'gold star' lesbian and kicked up a massive fuss over even being asked, fell deep into the "what's next" radicalisation pipeline, and made a number of incredibly transphobic blog posts calling for 'them' to be exterminated.

As ever transphobes have muddied the water between "a professional sex worker handled turning down a performer very badly" and "trans women are going to demand sex from cis lesbians and pc culture gone mad says they have to" and that's not how anything works.

She was quoted in a BBC article calling trans women predators and then it instantly came out that she's assaulted a bunch of women in the past. In bathrooms.

All projection.

ItohRespectArmy
Sep 11, 2019

Cutest In The World, Six Time DDT Ironheavymetalweight champion, Two Time International Princess champion, winner of two tournaments, a Princess Tag Team champion, And a pretty good singer too!
"When I was an idol, I felt nothing every day but now that I'm a pro wrestler I'm in pain constantly!"

personally I'm a gold star bisexual (i'm very good so I deserve one)

Bobby Deluxe
May 9, 2004

^^^ I got a participation trophy :unsmith:


Oh, and as far as the biphobia angle goes it's the belief that bi people are either 'stealing' full gays and stopping them being their full gay selves, or they're straight and just kidding themselves and should get out of gay spaces.

The fact that Graham Linehan, a straight cis male has placed himself front and center of this, fully does my nut in Danny Dyer style.

Jedit
Dec 10, 2011

Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

crispix posted:

graham linehan has serious mental health issues and has completely lost touch with reality, op

You could say the same about Jack the Ripper and nobody's cutting that guy any slack for it.

Drone_Fragger
May 9, 2007


crispix posted:

graham linehan has serious mental health issues and has completely lost touch with reality, op

Every day we edge closer to Glinner lurking outside ladies restrooms running a genital inspection service to ensure none of (((THEM))) use the wrong toilet, (for the good of the women involved, obviously) before getting rightfully arrested and ranting non stop during his court appearances how the entire justice system has been subverted by the trans lobby, his evidence being the judge is wearing a wig. Hes insanely deluded and completely unhinged from reality.

bessantj
Jul 27, 2004


Jaeluni Asjil posted:

So many articles these days are just copies of twitter or reddit posts with a sentence or two between them:

wordcount = 0
goal = 500
Start subroutine:

User Twitter00001 said

[post from twitter]

But this poster on Reddit, Reddit00001 didn't think so and posted this

[post from reddit]

Word count=wordcount+20

if (wordcount=goal) go to finish else go to start

finish

Plenty of us ITT can do this but we're not claiming to be journalists.

Wales On-line do this a lot I think it's just one dude scraping the web for stories.

Diet Crack
Jan 15, 2001

Drone_Fragger posted:

Every day we edge closer to Glinner lurking outside ladies restrooms running a genital inspection service to ensure none of (((THEM))) use the wrong toilet, (for the good of the women involved, obviously) before getting rightfully arrested and ranting non stop during his court appearances how the entire justice system has been subverted by the trans lobby, his evidence being the judge is wearing a wig. Hes insanely deluded and completely unhinged from reality.

don't forget, it'll cost £1.50 in coinage for entry too and the inspection for your own safety.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
All going according to the original plan

Sir Sidney Poitier
Aug 14, 2006

My favourite actor


Like she of all people would spend money on police.

Tijuana Bibliophile
Dec 30, 2008

Scratchmo

Sir Sidney Poitier posted:

Like she of all people would spend money on police.

lots of people don't mind rping police when given half a chance

Mano
Jul 11, 2012

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Reminds me of when people first started getting email accounts.

My brother & his late wife had a joint aol account so had a 'merger' of their names as an email address BroNameWifeName. Turns out that the pet name Chez we used for his wife (whose full name was Cherry) is apparently a male name in the US and suddenly he started getting inundated with homophobic emails where writers had assumed they were two blokes, but it was right at the start of public having emails so they weren't in any chat rooms or on any message boards so where people had picked up their email address from we did not know (and never found out)!

Old browsers in the 90s used to have a possibility to enter your email-address; Web sites were able to get that from the browser.

Jaeluni Asjil
Apr 18, 2018

Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Mano posted:

Old browsers in the 90s used to have a possibility to enter your email-address; Web sites were able to get that from the browser.

I didn't know that.
Back then we used to sign on via the AOL interface and use its browser because we didn't realize we could just have avoided it and clicked internet explorer or netscape and got online that way.

Clyde Radcliffe
Oct 19, 2014

90s AOL was just wall-to-wall information leakage. Anyone with even a passing interest in doxxing someone could gather a pretty sizable amount of information on them.

I can't remember the details but Scott Adams, the Dilbert guy, started signing his comic strips with his aol.com email address. People were able to reverse lookup all AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) accounts associated with his email and found he had a bunch of troll IM accounts under some incredibly offensive usernames.

Goatse James Bond
Mar 28, 2010

If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

Jakabite posted:

Thank god denmarks honour has not been besmirched in this here thread, endlessmonotony you truly do us all a service with your poorly written kramer-posts

something something Danes invading England again

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

somehow that last av was even worse than your posting
as long as the right person was probated over the whole Scandinavian mess.

Jaeluni Asjil
Apr 18, 2018

Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Clyde Radcliffe posted:

90s AOL was just wall-to-wall information leakage. Anyone with even a passing interest in doxxing someone could gather a pretty sizable amount of information on them.

I can't remember the details but Scott Adams, the Dilbert guy, started signing his comic strips with his aol.com email address. People were able to reverse lookup all AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) accounts associated with his email and found he had a bunch of troll IM accounts under some incredibly offensive usernames.

I still have 6 aol email addresses LOL
I had to get rid of the 7th because it was a 'hosting' one and they stopped 'hosts' (we used to get free internet in exchange for a minimum of 3 hours a week message board moderation) when they moved to paid moderators.

Diet Crack
Jan 15, 2001

https://twitter.com/TobyonTV/status/1638673945875341312

Lol Michael, you're not supposed to get coked up then write your fanfic as the Daily Heil's cover through your wife's account - though I suppose this is where we're at now, the mask is full off with the media manipulation and corruption.

(also that header alone, I feel for whoever had to sit next to them)

Diet Crack fucked around with this message at 10:12 on Mar 23, 2023

The Perfect Element
Dec 5, 2005
"This is a bit of a... a poof song"
They're just trying to sex up something that was incredibly boring and generated no actual headlines. I think Johnson's line of 'well if I'm in trouble for not realising we were breaking the rules then literally the entire rest of the government and civil service should be too' is going to stick, and they can't do anything to him which they wouldn't want inflicted on themselves.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
"if you're going to come for me then you'll have to come for the entire government"

ok

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Diet Crack posted:

https://twitter.com/TobyonTV/status/1638673945875341312

Lol Michael, you're not supposed to get coked up then write your fanfic as the Daily Heil's cover through your wife's account - though I suppose this is where we're at now, the mask is full off with the media manipulation and corruption.

(also that header alone, I feel for whoever had to sit next to them)

*coughing way too hard* ex-wife

The Question IRL
Jun 8, 2013

Only two contestants left! Here is Doom's chance for revenge...

The best part of the Boris show yesterday was seeing his expensive lawyer sitting next to him who had no doubt spent hours crafting a defence and teaching it to Boris for recital. And then watching his face every time he heard Boris go off script.

Diet Crack
Jan 15, 2001

Tesseraction posted:

*coughing way too hard* ex-wife

If you're game enough to marry Gove the first time around, you're a toadfucker for life.

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

The Question IRL posted:

The best part of the Boris show yesterday was seeing his expensive lawyer sitting next to him who had no doubt spent hours crafting a defence and teaching it to Boris for recital. And then watching his face every time he heard Boris go off script.

Am I right in thinking that the absolute worst thing that could happen to Big Dog from this - the absolute worst - is that he'll get re-elected to his seat by his idiot constituency, if said idiot consistency decides to recall him in the first place?

I don't think his lawyer has anything to worry about

Red Oktober
May 24, 2006

wiggly eyes!



Barry Foster posted:

Am I right in thinking that the absolute worst thing that could happen to Big Dog from this - the absolute worst - is that he'll get re-elected to his seat by his idiot constituency, if said idiot consistency decides to recall him in the first place?

I don't think his lawyer has anything to worry about

I wouldn't put it as anywhere near a guarantee that Uxbridge and South Ruislip would re-elect him.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Diet Crack posted:

If you're game enough to marry Gove the first time around, you're a toadfucker for life.

oh the shame is permanent sure, but it's also extremely funny that the fish monster ditched her for a young twink

ItohRespectArmy
Sep 11, 2019

Cutest In The World, Six Time DDT Ironheavymetalweight champion, Two Time International Princess champion, winner of two tournaments, a Princess Tag Team champion, And a pretty good singer too!
"When I was an idol, I felt nothing every day but now that I'm a pro wrestler I'm in pain constantly!"

pretty sure boris will be PM again within the decade.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Barry Foster posted:

Am I right in thinking that the absolute worst thing that could happen to Big Dog from this - the absolute worst - is that he'll get re-elected to his seat by his idiot constituency, if said idiot consistency decides to recall him in the first place?

I don't think his lawyer has anything to worry about

Please do not insult the Big Dog Shuji Ishikawa with this comparison

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Josuke Higashikata
Mar 7, 2013


anyone who has ever spent any sort of time with a cat will realise that they're actually incredibly clumsy idiots and dumb as gently caress, so not that unfitting of boje

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