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I read her Wikipedia page and nothing stood out, what's wrong with her?
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I've been in a room with her.
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May 18, 2023 17:08
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Failed Imagineer posted:Has Self really fallen off the deep end since she died or something? I remember reading one of his books about 20 years ago and thinking it was fairly well written, but anything I've seen from him recently has been a deeply pretentious psychosexual nightmare That 'always has been' astronaut meme. Tesseraction posted:I did enjoy that time he made Mark Francois mad on national television a few years back This clip has been unfortunately edited, I'm sure I remember the segment ending with an uncomfortably long Will Self death stare while Francois gets increasingly flustered and red. keep punching joe fucked around with this message at 17:15 on May 18, 2023 |
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May 18, 2023 17:11
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I remember back in 2012 I read an interview where he was praised for his unique understanding of the 'female psyche' in his work and his response was along the lines of, 'well, I always make sure to begin by imagining the character having periods and then I go from there, and I feel like that's why I can write women better than other men' and it did maybe make me wonder whether we'd perhaps all given him too much intellectual credit based on some entertainingly withering panel show appearances.
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May 18, 2023 17:19
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Self is a bit of a Dawkins. Big in the 90s and early 2000s then went on a lengthy voyage up his own backside. Chiles on the other hand was shagging Christine Bleakley before she found Frank Lampard and is now Britains Favourite Columnist
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Tesseraction posted:I've been in a room with her. Ah. So it's a matter of the company she keeps.
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May 18, 2023 18:02
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Will Self voices the Muskrat in Moominvalley
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grobbo posted:That feels particularly lovely because until she sadly passed away in 2019, Self's wife was a well-connected Guardian journalist and he presumably benefitted from that.
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May 18, 2023 18:14
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Ah. So it's a matter of the company she keeps. Ho ho, well played, but mostly she just very much brought back Australian political views when she returned from the sunblasted antipode. Also was the key driver of the TERFism in the graun.
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grobbo posted:I remember back in 2012 I read an interview where he was praised for his unique understanding of the 'female psyche' in his work
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May 18, 2023 18:38
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I liked Self's track on classic Bomb The Bass album 'Clear'
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https://twitter.com/STVNews/status/1659148951268782080 She can make as many dodgy ferry deals as she wants imo
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Guess that's why the New Shitesman hadquote:To qualify, individuals must have some affiliation with the left, whether the social democratic or socialist tradition, or have challenged the economic status quo; social liberalism alone is not sufficient. Where "affiliation with the left" includes donating to Labour in 2005 but not expanding free early years education or providing Finnish socialist inspired baby boxes proven to decrease infant mortality.
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May 18, 2023 19:03
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Guavanaut posted:Guess that's why the New Shitesman had I wonder if membership of the National Socialists counts.
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May 18, 2023 19:42
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sebzilla posted:https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1659256460063170563?t=Skli2Wvnrjhx5B_rnzEPaA&s=19
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/STVNews/status/1659148951268782080 Make her FM again.
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Ah, they've found a use for all those empty office buildings that can be converted to substandard accomodation and the buildings that get shown in TV exposes of poo poo landlords. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/16/asylum-seekers-to-lose-basic-housing-protections-in-move-to-cut-hotel-use Those HMO licences do annoy landlord types who hate having to spend money on their properties so I can see them salivating at getting to not even bother.
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What's happened to the big camper van? My parents just got a parking ticket in Scotland cos their camper didn't fit in the space. Failed state. Is it a state?
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certainly a terrible state
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Danger - Octopus! posted:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/16/asylum-seekers-to-lose-basic-housing-protections-in-move-to-cut-hotel-use This is insane quote:The changes would exempt landlords from regulations governing everything from electrical safety to minimum room sizes, leading campaigners to warn that the government is preparing to cram people into small spaces in an effort to alleviate the crisis in asylum seeker accommodation. I can't see this being abused at all.
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May 18, 2023 20:38
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Lets just do Grenfell again but legalize it
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May 18, 2023 20:48
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rachmanism is alive and well
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Someone read and thought hmm yes, not terrible enough. (Also on a comparatively tiny and pissy personal quibble, landlords will be allowed to run a bare 35kV bus right through the bathroom if it's for refugees, and I still can't get an RCD protected proper mains socket fitted?)
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May 18, 2023 20:55
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sure you can, if its over 3 meters away from anything wet
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May 18, 2023 20:57
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I think my neighbours would complain.
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Guavanaut posted:I think my neighbours would complain. RCD protected socket in their house, but on Guava's bill? They'll be mining dogecoins in no time
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If you all didn't eat so many cheese sandwiches maybe you could afford to buy.
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kecske posted:sure you can, if its over 3 meters away from anything wet Can you put a like outdoor ip66 socket in the bath or whatever?
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We've had assholes with cars modded to be really loving loud and quad bikes zooming around all over the place at all hours of the night around here for months. Today I was up the high street and saw an absolute oval office quad biking on the pavement and then going in between the lanes of traffic. They go on well past midnight advertising their tiny dicks to the entire neighbourhood, it's driving me loving insane. What the hell do I do here
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Can you put a like outdoor ip66 socket in the bath or whatever? I'm not sure if those childproof socket covers with a key count as that or not. Other than that it doesn't seem to matter if they're actually ingress-proof or RCD protected or anything else. Which in the real world means people end up using extension leads for dehumidifiers and heaters.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Can you put a like outdoor ip66 socket in the bath or whatever? Yes, at least once
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Failed Imagineer posted:Yes, at least once lol to be fair i dragged one around in the mud for months and never even died
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what are you doing in the bathroom that needs mains power it's a sex thing isn't it? masturbatron 5000
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Guavanaut posted:His name sounds like the main character in a fanfic written by an edgy teenager who likes Nietzsche but hasn't actually read any. Reminds me of the main character in About A Boy being called 'Will Freeman'... 'cos he's a Man whose personal circumstances leave him Free to do whatever he Wills! loving deep.
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kecske posted:what are you doing in the bathroom that needs mains power I do that on the patio
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Pistol_Pete posted:Reminds me of the main character in About A Boy being called 'Will Freeman'... 'cos he's a Man whose personal circumstances leave him Free to do whatever he Wills! loving deep. Nick Hornby is the definition of the Garth Marenghi "I know writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards"
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