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Now the wheel has turned around! Jean Valjean is canceled now!
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He's Richard Ayoade's brother in law, apparently.
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God drat, I like Richard Ayoade but he's sure got a lot of chuds in his orbit apparently.
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Flipperwaldt posted:He's Richard Ayoade's brother in law, apparently. Wikipedia posted:Ayoade and his brother-in-law, actor Laurence Fox, engaged in a public vocal feud in 2020, when Fox asked Ayoade to announce his support for him on Twitter after a controversial appearance on Question Time. The episode in question was condemned for allowing Fox on as a guest, in particular for when he told a black woman in the audience that discussing racism was "boring". According to Fox, Ayoade told him that "You have never encountered racism." Fox stated that he had told Ayoade he had, because "he worked in Kenya once" and "racism can be deferential".
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PKMN Trainer Red posted:God drat, I like Richard Ayoade but he's sure got a lot of chuds in his orbit apparently. i bring bad news 
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Yeah sorry, there might just not be any take away from the in lawship per se, I didn't look into it any deeper. It's more like huh, that British acting scene is sure one improbably tightly linked together bunch.
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Flipperwaldt posted:Yeah sorry, there might just not be any take away from the in lawship per se, I didn't look into it any deeper. It's more like huh, that British acting scene is sure one improbably tightly linked together bunch. No worries, my post was meant to be an addition to yours, not a correction. Plus, there's no way "I'm not racist, I've been to Kenya before" doesn't fit this thread. 
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Laurence Fox is a member of a highly acclaimed family of British actors, which already gave him an enormous leg-up in the industry. He was sent to public school, which gave him and enormous leg-up in British society. He failed out of public school because he was very lazy. English public schools do not let their students fail because they are all destined to be the Ruling Class. That he managed to fail at that is very telling. He seems to have gotten into RADA* largely based on family connections, since he's never done any work better that "alright for TV I suppose" He was not loud, public rear end in a top hat until his ex-wife Billie Piper (actual talented actor and successful pop singer from her early teens) dumped him. He's a terrible combo of Divorced Guy / Entitled From Birth rear end in a top hat / Profoundly Mediocre *I actually know/knew 2 people who got into RADA without family connections and it was incredibly competitive and they are both really loving hardworking and talented actors. gently caress that lazy prick. Pookah has a new favorite as of 20:57 on Oct 3, 2023 |
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Do you mean private schools or is this another case where British English is at odds with American English?
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Henchman of Santa posted:Do you mean private schools or is this another case where British English is at odds with American English? Yeah expensive private schools are called public schools in ye olde britaine
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Henchman of Santa posted:Do you mean private schools or is this another case where British English is at odds with American English? Biplane posted:Yeah expensive private schools are called public schools in ye olde britaine In England specifically, in Scotland paid-for schools are private schools, state schools are public schools.
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public in the bri'ish context stems from them being open to students regardless of where they live or their religious denomination (provided they have money)
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Biplane posted:Yeah expensive private schools are called public schools in ye olde britaine 
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Henchman of Santa posted:Do you mean private schools or is this another case where British English is at odds with American English? Yep, English "public schools" are an extremely small set of extraordinarily exclusive and expensive schools originally set up, many hundreds of years ago to educate ordinary boys, but which were taken over as enclaves for the aristocracy a few hundreds of years ago. In Britain, a fee-paying private school is likely to be far far cheaper than a public school. There are many non-fee paying schools, but they aren't called public schools. It makes no sense, but Britain has always loved using terminology that is extremely counter-intuitive. Eton, the UR public school, if I remember correctly costs about 15,500 pounds per term. There are 3 terms per school year. E edit: corrected Eton fees Pookah has a new favorite as of 21:08 on Oct 3, 2023 |
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Brits call them “public” because they’re not parochial or trade schools. They accept applications from anyone, but you’re generally not getting if you come from a family that buys furniture. (The nobles have centuries of antique furniture gathering dust in their manses.)
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Also the public private schools are child rape factories. England prevails!!!
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Biplane posted:Also the public private schools are child rape factories. England prevails!!! This is literally all I know about British boys' schools: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fagging
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https://twitter.com/jestingtime/status/1709229813268144190
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Platystemon posted:Brits call them “public” because they’re not parochial or trade schools. I'm kind of embarrassed as an Irish person to point out a British point of order, but the only person who lives in a manse is a Presbyterian minister, who is likely to be both Scottish, absolutely no fun, and poor. Wealthy English (and they are nearly all English) people, come from landed estates. These people have country estates with hundreds of acres of farmland, tied villages where they own every drat house, and have a house in London in one of the most expensive streets. The transition from the 18th to the 20th centuries destroyed the long-term wealth of most of these families because inheritance tax became a thing, and the revenue value of farm land collapsed.
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our collective failchildren
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I want a manse 
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...! posted:I want a manse No fun allowed!
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...! posted:I want a manse —Conquering Billy’s friends in 1065, probably
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Pookah posted:He was not loud, public rear end in a top hat until his ex-wife Billie Piper (actual talented actor and successful pop singer from her early teens) dumped him. In a way, they both managed to grab themselves meal tickets for life as long as they can stand the cons full of nerdy virgins, but at least Billie has a decent chance of bumping into a Doctor Who fan who isn’t an incel.
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Biplane posted:Yeah expensive private schools are called public schools in ye olde britaine why is england like this
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https://twitter.com/Pioldes/status/1709323993847631978quote:found out that facebook messenger has ai generated stickers now and I don't think anyone involved has thought anything through Spoilered because, predictably, it'll mash anything you type. Like "child soldier" or "karl marx large breasts" in the linked tweet. I give this under a week before it gets removed or they censor half the possible words in the English language to avoid the truly hosed up prompts.
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Absolute banger new avatar for someone though.
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Fister Roboto posted:why is england like this It is a backwards land
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PKMN Trainer Red posted:Absolute banger new avatar for someone though. Seize the means indeed 
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Like most FB features it's not rolled out to everyone yet. I got dark mode like 2 years later than most people -even my partner who had the exact same phone got it a year ahead of me. So I don't think I'll get AI stickers until they've muzzled it enough not to be fun.
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PKMN Trainer Red posted:Absolute banger new avatar for someone though. I've been thinking to stop using the chi-rho for a while now, and here it is.
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Coolness Averted posted:Like most FB features it's not rolled out to everyone yet. I got dark mode like 2 years later than most people -even my partner who had the exact same phone got it a year ahead of me. So I don't think I'll get AI stickers until they've muzzled it enough not to be fun. More concerning: why are you (or anyone else) using Zuckbook still, and why is the OP still using twaxter
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Weatherman posted:More concerning: why are you (or anyone else) using Zuckbook still, and why is the OP still using twaxter \ 🤓
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Byzantine posted:I've been thinking to stop using the chi-rho for a while now, and here it is. byzantine naturals
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Byzantine posted:I've been thinking to stop using the chi-rho for a while now, and here it is. ROME HAS FALLEN AND THE WOLF TEATS ARE UP FOR GRABS 
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Byzantine posted:I've been thinking to stop using the chi-rho for a while now, and here it is. You don't even put some text under that AV? Shame.
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Weatherman posted:why are you (or anyone else) using Zuckbook still
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Tiggum posted:Everyone I know in real life uses Facebook Messenger as their primary means of communication
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Faustian Bargain posted:this is baffling to me. how old are you? i’m early 40s and zero of my friends use fb messenger or even facebook for anything other than marketplace. fb has been the boomer site for years. Same except late 40s. Hell, my parents gave Facebook a try but quickly gave it up as pointless, and that was like ten years ago.
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