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I mean, Linehan IS a good writer. Father Ted, IT Crowd and Black Books were all good, funny series. He's just also The Worst oval office. Cunts *can* be genuinely good at things. Sometimes (often?) the literal absolute best people in a given field are also just the worst people. The Left and Right just disagree over which of those facets of their personality should be the overriding factor. "Don't listen to that guy, he's a horrible person and does/has done horrible things which have caused real harm" vs "So what if he's done horrible things, he's good at [writing/football/acting/whatever]" and even "He's good at writing comedy, we should listen to what he has to say on gender!" which is clearly just completely bonkers and morally bankrupt. E: What a terrible page snipe.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:edited due to just being the word hello Hello, hello! HOLA! Bleerrrrblerrrblerrrr VERRRRTIGOOOOOOO that’s enough of that Microplastics your getup is badass. Where do you upload pics these days? I’ve decided I will grace you all with a picture of my new jacket but I can’t work out how to.
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Sep 14, 2023 07:37
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WhatEvil posted:I mean, Linehan IS a good writer. Father Ted, IT Crowd and Black Books were all good, funny series.
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Sep 14, 2023 07:46
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TACD posted:Didn’t it turn out that all the best gags on those shows were written by others and his stuff was all simple, punching-down dreck? Black Books definitely becomes funnier and weirder once Linehan's writing credit vanishes (and as far as I know, Dylan Moran has expressed nothing but carefully-worded contempt for the man when asked about him by journalists).
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Sep 14, 2023 07:56
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Turns out Arthur Matthews and Stephen Merchant were the funny ones.
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Sep 14, 2023 08:03
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Sep 14, 2023 08:40
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I wonder how much it boiled Gervais' piss that Merchant got to be Wheatley in Portal 2.
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Sep 14, 2023 08:41
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grobbo posted:Black Books definitely becomes funnier and weirder once Linehan's writing credit vanishes (and as far as I know, Dylan Moran has expressed nothing but carefully-worded contempt for the man when asked about him by journalists). Motherland similarly as good after Glinner's credit disappears so I feel comfortable extrapolating that he's either entirely replaceable with people who aren't abhorrent or, better, he contributed next to nothing in the first place (unlikely but one can dream).
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Sep 14, 2023 08:42
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WhatEvil posted:I mean, Linehan IS a good writer. Father Ted, IT Crowd and Black Books were all good, funny series. Which, as noted previously, were written by other people. Linehan's book in one sentence: "I built my career in comedy by hanging on the coattails of more talented writers, and lost it by being a heinous bigot that they didn't want to associate with any more".
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Sep 14, 2023 08:51
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Linehan has managed to do the challenging Reverse Roy Chubby Brown, where one is a bigoted prick on stage for laughs but has middling "I don't think people should act like that in public" opinions elsewhere.
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Sep 14, 2023 08:56
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Jedit posted:Your grandfather or great-grandfather probably wore pink as a child. It was a boy's colour right up to the 1940s. I've seen a gorgeous portrait of a 17th century mercenary in a pink silk outfit but can't find it on Google, so here's something from the 18th century, when pink could be worn by both men and women: 
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Sep 14, 2023 09:00
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fuctifino posted:A nugget of positive news amongst the constant torrent of poo poo: Note these rules mostly focus on chemical pollution, not biological, so have no influence on the amount of poo poo on rivers. The issue is the levels of nitrate mostly running into rivers which causes wildlife and ecosystem issues by allowing some bits of the ecosystem to grow unsustainably and choke out the rest of the wildlife. The EU rules are that if developers want to build on natural land, that would increase chemical levels in the rivers by having less runoff through natural land. Hence developers must by and protect equal amounts of other land in the watershed so nutrient levels in the river stays constant. This isn't a great scheme, because the actual main causes of the nutrient pollution aren't the developers, they are farmers and water companies, and more houses would be nice. But it does ensure the problem doesn't get any worse. These rules probably do need reform, but also doing it in a separate bill rather than slapping it on the end of the bill in the Lords is probably a more parliamentary approach.
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Sep 14, 2023 09:10
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We need a way to escape this cancerous idea that farmers are the custodians of our countryside. They're custodians of farmland and will happily and actively poison any river and decimate any natural wildlife if they think they can get away with it. Or sometimes even if they know they can't, like here where an enterprising farmer used a jcb to destroy a protected habitat whoopsy. Ah well it's destroyed now so no reason to stop my development anymore.
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Tending to the pastoral countryside by raising animals as cheaply as possible before bolt gunning them as soon as they reach adulthood and sending their corpse to be cut up and doled out for us to eat.
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Tesseraction posted:Tending to the pastoral countryside by raising animals as cheaply as possible before bolt gunning them as soon as they reach adulthood and sending their corpse to be cut up and doled out for us to eat. busy thursday?
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It all stems from run-off pollution off that Bob Moron cartoon about how nice countryside is clean and big cities are dirty and so we must kill all the *hem* globalist cosmopolitans, filtered through the Jorian Jenks soil yourself association.
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Pistol_Pete posted:I've seen a gorgeous portrait of a 17th century mercenary in a pink silk outfit but can't find it on Google, so here's something from the 18th century, when pink could be worn by both men and women: ignoring the fact that was wasn’t uncommon for little boys to wear frilly dresses, i recall some historian saying that the pink=girl blue=boy swapped in the victorian era for some reason
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Sep 14, 2023 09:48
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Jel Shaker posted:ignoring the fact that was wasn’t uncommon for little boys to wear frilly dresses, i recall some historian saying that the pink=girl blue=boy swapped in the victorian era for some reason I'm sure I read that boys & girls dressed identically (in dresses) until they were about 6 or 7. Doesn't that guy in that image look like Stephen Kinnockio.
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Sep 14, 2023 09:55
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Aramoro posted:We need a way to escape this cancerous idea that farmers are the custodians of our countryside. They're custodians of farmland and will happily and actively poison any river and decimate any natural wildlife if they think they can get away with it. Or sometimes even if they know they can't, like here where an enterprising farmer used a jcb to destroy a protected habitat whoopsy. Ah well it's destroyed now so no reason to stop my development anymore. A lot of my family are farmers, proper mid-sized nice picturesque farm farmers. They are all, without exception, utter cunts. All their farmer mates that I've met are utter cunts. All their stories of farming life suggest the kind of deep-seated blood lust and hatred for nature that would be eye-rollingly OTT if you saw it on an episode of Captain Planet. They also seem to view paying anyone a wage for work done as a gross hardship, and think that "I get up early in the morning" is some kind of incredible feat. Never mind that their 4:00 start comes with a 10:00 finish and they're in the pub by 12:30. Fuckin' hate farmers, me. Alan Partridge was right.
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Sep 14, 2023 09:58
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Jel Shaker posted:pink=girl blue=boy swapped in the victorian era for some reason
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I'm sure I read that boys & girls dressed identically (in dresses) until they were about 6 or 7. Theres a picture of me in a smock (functionally a dress) aged about three. Mum was a hippy though.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I'm sure I read that boys & girls dressed identically (in dresses) until they were about 6 or 7.  Franklin Roosevelt as a wee one.
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Saddened and angered that the all powerful trans lobby is using time travel to make our great grandfathers wear biologically female clothing
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Sep 14, 2023 10:14
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Angepain posted:Saddened and angered that the all powerful trans lobby is using time travel to make our great grandfathers wear biologically female clothing That episode of Dr Who hasn't been released yet, don't spoil it 
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Skulker posted:A lot of my family are farmers, proper mid-sized nice picturesque farm farmers. Lmao I had to spend a couple of months following around a Farm Vet in the Downpatrick area a couple of years ago and, gently caress me, that was an eye opener. The way cows are treated is loving horrifying. Either hi tech gigantic torture factories with robots cleaning the poo poo up , or filthy decrepit “traditional farms” knee deep in poo poo and filth with bulls having their bollocks crushed by giant metal tongs. It was awful.
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smellmycheese posted:bulls having their bollocks crushed by giant metal tongs. It was awful. 
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Jakabite posted:
I still use imgur but only because the Awful app makes it so convenient. The app uploads it to imgur straight from my phone's gallery and pops the embed code right into the post Sometimes I'll email myself a pic from my computer to my phone just so I can use the app for this express purpose
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66798508 A Russian pilot tried to shoot down an RAF surveillance plane after believing he had permission to fire, the BBC has learned. The pilot fired two missiles, the first of which missed rather than malfunctioned as claimed at the time. Russia had claimed the incident last September was caused by a "technical malfunction". The UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) publicly accepted the Russian explanation. But now three senior Western defence sources with knowledge of the incident have told the BBC that Russian communications intercepted by the RAF RC-135 Rivet Joint aircraft give a very different account from the official version. The RAF plane - with a crew of up to 30 - was flying a surveillance mission over the Black Sea in international airspace on 29 September last year when it encountered two Russian SU-27 fighter jets. The intercepted communications show that one of the Russian pilots thought he had been given permission to target the British aircraft, following an ambiguous command from a Russian ground station. However, the second Russian pilot did not. He remonstrated and swore at his wingman when he fired the first missile. The Rivet Joint is loaded with sensors to intercept communications. The RAF crew would have been able to listen in to the incident which could have resulted in their own deaths. The MoD will not release details of those communications. Responding to these new revelations an MoD spokesperson said: "Our intent has always been to protect the safety of our operations, avoid unnecessary escalation and inform the public and international community."
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Diet Crack posted:Wasn't pink actually a masculine colour until feminism came along? From the little i remember it changed in the 1920s, possibly due to marketing pink and blue got swapped as gender specific colours. edit: apparently:  but it happened and here we, fighting over pastels. 
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Sep 14, 2023 10:28
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On the whole farmers are probably a net positive. Salute tractors as they drive past
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DreddyMatt posted:On the whole farmers are probably a net positive. You mean as I drive past them, right? Get outta my way you tractor gently caress! 
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I guess once we got out of the black and white times, everyone saw what the colours really looked like and were like gently caress me that's a bit girly looking.
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Sep 14, 2023 10:41
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https://twitter.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1702207737151590877
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Microplastics posted:You mean as I drive past them, right? Ah, you're right there. Hadn't considered that one. gently caress those guys Lorry drivers doing slow elephant races on dual carriageways can eat poo poo too. Would rather my Amazon packages arrive late than deal with those dicks
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Rory’s publisher must be furious that he’s absolutely ruined any good publicity for his new book as every single centrist now thinks he’s worse than Hitler for his extremely mild endorsement of Jereboam Crubbin https://twitter.com/rorystewartuk/status/1702222705779470573?s=46&t=m_nNbkNoHG4lLitcpyHReg
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Sep 14, 2023 10:52
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Is his book even allowed to look like that
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Sep 14, 2023 11:00
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Or, maybe he's done the whole 'algorithms don't give a poo poo if it's a hate search/share, they'll boost it anyway' seo grift, except winding up the centre instead of the left. (Because he knows the left is already done with his poo poo and it wouldn't work, whereas credilous centrist dads will boost the hell out of it)
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Sep 14, 2023 11:08
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"were hit by the crisis" in the same manner that parts of the geography "were hit by" glaciation.
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Microplastics posted:Is his book even allowed to look like that Lol But the actual book cover looks really old fashioned. Like it's been released straight to the charity shops.
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