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Jedit posted:Naive of you to think that he was joking. Also: he left his wife and ran off with a young wan 
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eleven extra elephants posted:Michael Winner's restaurant reviews fall under this umbrella for me. Ah. The good old days of Chefs applying “Winner’s Relish”
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Dec 21, 2023 17:21
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Failed Imagineer posted:"Cunts Who Have Written Things That Amused Me" 
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Dec 21, 2023 17:24
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I don't know that HP Lovecraft is disappointing, he writes exactly the same way about foreigners as he does about aliens from the bottom of the sea. They're the same thing to him.
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Dec 21, 2023 17:30
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I'd put him alongside Arthur Schopenhauer in that his opinions on perception and humanity are fascinating and his opinions on who falls outside of those are tepidly predictable cuntery.
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Dec 21, 2023 17:35
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Remind me who the bearded guy and Ernest are I forget
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Dec 21, 2023 17:35
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Tesseraction posted:Remind me who the bearded guy and Ernest are I forget Hemingway and Orson Scott Card
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Dec 21, 2023 17:38
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grobbo posted:There's a powerful Venn diagram of Fleet Street tossers here but I don't want to make it the inner overlap being 'pedo oval office'
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Dec 21, 2023 17:45
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keep punching joe posted:AA Gill the creator of Winnie the Pooh Poor A A Milne, to be confused with that
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Dec 21, 2023 18:05
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Guavanaut posted:That's a whole wing of the League of Disappointing Authors.
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Dec 21, 2023 18:06
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cat botherer posted:What did Hemingway do besides being a sadbrained raging alcoholic? Well according to Wikipedia he broke the Geneva Convention during WW2. Also he was American, that's always bad
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Dec 21, 2023 18:33
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Sorry if anyone finds this post offensive I am posting it in good faith and if the language I use is bad the please drag me so I can correct it but i have a question for the trans people in this thread. I was watching a YouTuber I like and he was having a debate on should trans women be allowed to compete in women's sport. It made me wonder how big an issue is that in the U.K. trans community? Because it seems to me that just getting basic respect and health care is a huge problem for trans people at the moment. Again if this is a badly done post tell me and I will willingly change it.
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Dec 21, 2023 18:48
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eleven extra elephants posted:Michael Winner's restaurant reviews fall under this umbrella for me. also the ending of death wish 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyXQp-HzLaE
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Dec 21, 2023 18:51
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forkboy84 posted:Well according to Wikipedia he broke the Geneva Convention during WW2. barely
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Dec 21, 2023 18:52
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forkboy84 posted:Well according to Wikipedia he broke the Geneva Convention during WW2. Also he was American, that's always bad NotJustANumber99 posted:barely Being fair breaching it by pointing a bunch of Frenchmen at the Nazis seems like a pretty low mark on a person's record.
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Dec 21, 2023 18:59
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bessantj posted:
Only a small subset of UK people are trans and it's only a subset of them that do competitive sports and there's only a small subset of them where anyone has any problem with it, by which time you've got down to a vanishingly tiny number of cases. I suspect it only gets the airtime in the press and on YouTube that it does because it's seen as a wedge issue that can easily be portrayed as being about 'fairness' rather than 'transphobia' which can then be exploited to draw people more deeply into gender critical craziness.
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Dec 21, 2023 19:20
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I tried to read a Hemingway book, twice. Didn't enjoy it.
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Dec 21, 2023 19:21
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bessantj posted:Sorry if anyone finds this post offensive I am posting it in good faith and if the language I use is bad the please drag me so I can correct it but i have a question for the trans people in this thread. As a rule the whole sport issue is fabricated by the right as the thin end of the wedge to try to frame their transphobia as a feminist issue. It's the same thing as "women only spaces" and bathrooms etc. Like yeah there is a general question of "if you're going to segregate people into different sports leagues how do you actually do that other than just vibes" and so far the solution is "exclude a bunch of cis women from the women's leagues because you don't like how their bodies work just so you can be lovely to trans people" and "women's brains are biologically bad at chess" Which a thinking person might say strikes at things like the entire legitimacy of sporting leagues founded on segregating people and whether or not we can or should be trying to make up categories so that we can say who is "objectively" the best at things. Perhaps the search for an objective best sporter is intrinsically stupid. Similarly a thinking person might look at the intrinsic discomfort of communal bathrooms and say maybe we could just give everyone a real private room to poo poo in rather than the cheapest nastiest shithole we can bung together out of bits of plastic. There are solutions to these problems because the problems are actually general problems, but the right only pretends to care about them insofar as they can be applied as a beating stick against their preferred targets and aren't interested in the actual solutions.
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Dec 21, 2023 19:21
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Like when Scientologists offer to give you a free mental wellness test: they know that if they start straight in on alien spaceships and spirits in volcanoes and stuff that they'll scare you off: they need to lead you into it in baby steps.
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Dec 21, 2023 19:22
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Dead Goon posted:I tried to read a Hemingway book, twice. I tried to read Farewell to Arms but he kept using 'thee' and 'thou' to try and give a sense of Spanish language in English and I found it really irritating.
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Dec 21, 2023 19:25
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OwlFancier posted:There are solutions to these problems because the problems are actually general problems, but the right only pretends to care about them insofar as they can be applied as a beating stick against their preferred targets and aren't interested in the actual solutions.
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Dec 21, 2023 19:30
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Tigey posted:I can smell Boar Taint so did not know you worked at Xformerlyknownastwitter, op
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Dec 21, 2023 19:31
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Dead Goon posted:I tried to read a Hemingway book, twice. Hemingway sucks rear end, but Faulkner fucks
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Dec 21, 2023 19:35
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crispix posted:did not know you worked at Xformerlyknownastwitter, op That's boer taint. That said, castration does work to get rid of the stench when it comes to pork... Perhaps they should try it with Elon too... 
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Dec 21, 2023 19:57
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Dead Goon posted:I tried to read a Hemingway book, twice. If the lad wrote anything worth reading there'll be a movie.
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Dec 21, 2023 19:59
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NotJustANumber99 posted:If the lad wrote anything worth reading there'll be a movie. I'll wait for the graphic novel adaptation of the movie, written by Kevin J. Anderson
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Dec 21, 2023 20:04
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Pistol_Pete posted:Only a small subset of UK people are trans and it's only a subset of them that do competitive sports and there's only a small subset of them where anyone has any problem with it, by which time you've got down to a vanishingly tiny number of cases. Yeah, I feared that would be the answer. Thank you very much for taking the time to reply, shamefully I don't really know enough about trans issues and the trans community. OwlFancier posted:There are solutions to these problems because the problems are actually general problems, but the right only pretends to care about them insofar as they can be applied as a beating stick against their preferred targets and aren't interested in the actual solutions. This YouTuber is quite a leftist but I've noticed that there are enough on the left who seem to think a trans woman is some sort of madness. Guavanaut posted:anyone writing less words on that specific issue who is not a trans athlete themselves can be safely assumed to be angling for guardian headlines rather than taking a serious position, and should be taken about as seriously as "but what if a gay rugby in the showers???" article from 30 years ago. One of the examples that the YouTuber used was a trans woman breaking the leg of a cis woman during rugby training, when he said that I had to give up on the video. I had payed rugby, in various forms, for nearly 20 years I've seen people break bones during training, I've gotten a bad injury in training. It felt like a very disingenuous thing to bring up.
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Dec 21, 2023 20:10
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NotJustANumber99 posted:If the lad wrote anything worth reading there'll be a movie. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_based_on_works_by_Ernest_Hemingway ???
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Dec 21, 2023 20:11
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bessantj posted:This YouTuber is quite a leftist but I've noticed that there are enough on the left who seem to think a trans woman is some sort of madness. There's a strain of people who seem to be just ardent conservatives who happen to like the idea of a command economy. They seem to gravitate towards being self identified stalin fans or other authoritarian flavours of historical communism and spend a lot of time calling socially liberal positions "bourgeois" and has a conception of working class that would be shared with the daily mail.
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Dec 21, 2023 20:27
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Failed Imagineer posted:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_based_on_works_by_Ernest_Hemingway A lot of these look suspiciously like they'll be in black and white.
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Dec 21, 2023 20:32
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Guavanaut posted:Yeah I think Shades of Gray is the best well sourced thing I last read on it As a fellow Fforde Ffan I was confused there for a second... Sequel in February!
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Dec 21, 2023 20:42
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bessantj posted:One of the examples that the YouTuber used was a trans woman breaking the leg of a cis woman during rugby training, when he said that I had to give up on the video. I had payed rugby, in various forms, for nearly 20 years I've seen people break bones during training, I've gotten a bad injury in training. It felt like a very disingenuous thing to bring up. its (allegedly) about perceived unfair advantage, although nobody ever gave a hot gay gently caress that michael phelps was racking up the golds with more cheat code advantages than anyone. Including but not limited to having a body that was observed to produce only half as much lactic acid as any peer athletes, massively reducing fatigue and recovery times in comparison.
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Dec 21, 2023 20:45
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I don't think sports are pointless and I do value competition but I think worrying about transpeople in sports is like at the figure this out later end of the scale due to the numbers involved suggested earlier. And by figure it out later I mean once you've figured out to respect people for who and what they identify as, cos probably once you've done that, the sporting rulebook edits are a much less difficult task.
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Dec 21, 2023 20:55
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 The govt have rolled back plans to raise the salary threshold for foreign dependants
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Dec 21, 2023 21:11
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For sale, Geneva convention, Barely breached.
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Dec 21, 2023 21:18
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It's an effective wedge issue because it feels like it makes sense, and you can twist it so you feel like it's not a contradiction to say you support trans people but this is a special area that needs special consideration. Without knowing some of the effects of things like HRT it's understandable that some people would think "Trans women have an advantage because of their bone structure/male muscles/etc" and not realize that things are far more complex than that.
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Dec 21, 2023 21:18
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They always phrase it like someone who looks like Fabio is going around drop kicking the girls' badminton team and nobody can stop it because they're afraid of the gender police. Which I do lay a lot at the feet of people willing to believe that. I think you have to want to believe that sort of thing to not think "hang on that sounds daft"
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Dec 21, 2023 21:21
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fuctifino posted:
Still 7 grand higher than a minimum wage salary (which is presumably supposed to be enough to support a family).
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Dec 21, 2023 21:23
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Pretty hosed up that someone can get an indefinite hospital order for hackingquote:An 18-year-old hacker who leaked clips of a forthcoming Grand Theft Auto (GTA) game has been sentenced to an indefinite hospital order. I wonder why they might be violent while held in custody    quote:The jury was told that while he was on bail for hacking Nvidia and BT/EE and in police protection at a Travelodge hotel, he continued hacking and carried out his most infamous hack. Also  at the judge for trying to make people care that some videogame clips got leaked / cost four companies an entire £10m. Nvidia alone made $4billion in profit this year.
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Dec 21, 2023 21:28
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fuctifino posted:
This is a big relief, but its still far far too high for many families, and especially those based in the north of the UK. I hope that it gets legally challenged and thrown out because I feel totally awful for the people who are in my situation, but only a little bit behind on the timing. I just hope that my partners visa is approved first time round...
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