Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

Give Undead Unluck a try, it starts crazy then just absolutely goes places.

Also come join the One Piece thread, every week we're just hooting and hollering about how Oda's done it again.

fuctifino posted:

https://twitter.com/carolvorders/status/1748019732354101316

smellmycheese posted:

Beefeater1980 posted:

I had a very educational conversation with a taxi driver today. I learned:

* “it’s a joke, innit, how them politicians bring people in so they’ll vote for ‘em, we’re a bloody island, but they get houses, flats, the works, no disrespect, anyone wants to make their life better it’s ok, but they don’t wanna work, do they? Albanians and stuff.”

* “Had a Jewish guy the other day, seven million pound house, would have been nine million but he argue it down don’t ‘e?, finance feller, did a protest with his Jewish mates, didn’t bother anyone, not like these people, anyway ‘e tells me, them girls the Palestinians took, all pregnant! Yeah! No older than my daughter, and they was all raped. And the Israeli government won’t tell anyone, they’re keeping it secret. Won’t tell anyone! Wish I’d have one of those guys in my cab, I’d ask ‘em, no disrespect, what you need all those girls for eh?”

* “Uber, they’re all using immigrants and minorities ain’t they? That’s how it is, they keep it cheap like. Politicians is all in on it too. Had one of them pull up next to me the other day, feller in a turban, and he tells me ‘you oval office, you think you’re so much better than me don’t you, coz you got a taxi license and all that’, and I tells him, no disrespect, we’re all doing the same job, but if you call me a oval office again I’ll break your loving jaw, and also you’re smoking I see, not very nice for you passengers is it? Not very professional.”

It was amazing, just this pure stream of id for 40 minutes or so, and I thought, 60 million people in this country, and probably 59.9 million are like this guy and maybe 100k are within even squinting distance of this thread. And that 100k includes all the MPs and Lords and business leaders and everyone we think is awful, and the actual population of the country are this dude x 59.9 million.

Gonzo McFee posted:

Love Liz Jones, absolutely batshit woman.

grobbo posted:

Every once in a while I still think back to that infamous article where she goes to a murder victim's neighbourhood in Bristol, tries and fails to cheat the toll on Clifton Suspension Bridge, and then concludes her article by sorrowfully shaking her head at a world where murder is OK and yet bridge tolls exist.

Just bugfuck nuts.

Gonzo McFee posted:

Love Liz Jones, absolutely batshit woman.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

It's quite alarming. Sometimes I'll start having a normal conversation about the state of the UK today with neighbours but we'll get to the long waits for ambulances, queuing in ambulances outside A&E waiting to be triaged, difficulties in getting doc appointments, and then instead of making the leap to "this is the result of 14 years of tory govt" it's "all them immigrants innit with their 10 wives, 64 kids, 55" tellies on the taxpayer, free houses" yadda yadda.

NotJustANumber99 posted:

40 minutes in a taxi sounds expensive

Miftan posted:

When I was campaigning in 2019 this was every other house. It was terrible and I knew we weren't going to win that constituency despite it being pretty close in 2017.

Beefeater1980 posted:

He was blaming Starmer for a lot of the things he didn’t like, which is quite impressive 360 degree noscope puppeteering for a leader of the opposition.

smellmycheese posted:

I know we don’t like reading The Mail here but that article is truly unhinged. She’s gone back to her old tactic of just completely making ludicrous poo poo up.

Beefeater1980 posted:

He was blaming Starmer for a lot of the things he didn’t like, which is quite impressive 360 degree noscope puppeteering for a leader of the opposition.

Gonzo McFee posted:

Utterly mental but I have been told that there are certain parts of the country that are just like this where literally everyone has a parasocial relationship with the Royal family to the point where they react like 9/11 shot Kennedy when one of them gets sick.

bessantj posted:

My mother will mainline any program about the royals. When Liz died she actually phoned me all teared up telling me she was the only queen I'd ever know as if that was supposed to mean something or I cared. It's bizarre.

Beefeater1980 posted:

Hello, operator? My fellow humans have feelings of group belonging that I don’t share. Can I stop this?

bessantj posted:

Thank you, that's all I ask. Is that too much?

bessantj posted:

How do people get like this? I'm a loving idiot but even I recognise that the government has more power than the opposition.

Bobby Deluxe posted:

That's what I mean, there are people in their 40s and 50s who are less flexible mentally than some 70 and 80 year olds, because they don't keep themselves learning. I can feel this process starting with me already.

Many years ago there was something on (Watchdog I think?) with Harry Enfield's dad - they did a 'brain age' test and found he was as agile as a 30 year old at 60, which he put down to doing the crossword every day.

Beefeater1980 posted:

My fellow humans have humans have feelings of group belonging that I don’t share.

Beefeater1980 posted:

I had a very educational conversation with a taxi driver today. I learned:

* “Uber, they’re all using immigrants and minorities ain’t they? That’s how it is, they keep it cheap like. Politicians is all in on it too. Had one of them pull up next to me the other day, feller in a turban, and he tells me ‘you oval office, you think you’re so much better than me don’t you, coz you got a taxi license and all that’, and I tells him, no disrespect, we’re all doing the same job, but if you call me a oval office again I’ll break your loving jaw, and also you’re smoking I see, not very nice for you passengers is it? Not very professional.”

quote:

It was amazing, just this pure stream of id for 40 minutes or so, and I thought, 60 million people in this country, and probably 59.9 million are like this guy and maybe 100k are within even squinting distance of this thread. And that 100k includes all the MPs and Lords and business leaders and everyone we think is awful, and the actual population of the country are this dude x 59.9 million.

WhatEvil posted:

I dunno I mean, what, 12m people or so voted for Corbyn?

Failed Imagineer posted:

I definitely empathise with that feeling though, where you have a nasty run-in with a racist and you're left thinking "Ah right so everyone is just a racist oval office then". It can be hard to shake that sour taste it leaves in your mouth, and it's destabilizing when you have a worldview predicated on the flourishing of basic human goodness and empathy.

Ironically though, it's the exact same kind of thinking error that the racists themselves make, where they see an example of something (or imagine it in their tiny skulls) and then extrapolate that to everyone with a similar phenotype.

Many people are loving cunts, many irredeemably so. I wish death upon them but in the meantime I'll try to focus on solidarity with the non cunts.

mrpwase posted:

tabloid newspapers

smellmycheese posted:

I think if you live in a city you are somewhat insulated against just how eye wateringly racist provincial England can be.

smellmycheese posted:

I think if you live in a city you are somewhat insulated against just how eye wateringly racist provincial England can be.

Failed Imagineer posted:

In my mind that's what you all sound like.

Failed Imagineer posted:

I definitely empathise with that feeling though, where you have a nasty run-in with a racist and you're left thinking "Ah right so everyone is just a racist oval office then". It can be hard to shake that sour taste it leaves in your mouth, and it's destabilizing when you have a worldview predicated on the flourishing of basic human goodness and empathy.

Ironically though, it's the exact same kind of thinking error that the racists themselves make, where they see an example of something (or imagine it in their tiny skulls) and then extrapolate that to everyone with a similar phenotype.

Many people are loving cunts, many irredeemably so. I wish death upon them but in the meantime I'll try to focus on solidarity with the non cunts.

Failed Imagineer posted:

I definitely empathise with that feeling though, where you have a nasty run-in with a racist and you're left thinking "Ah right so everyone is just a racist oval office then". It can be hard to shake that sour taste it leaves in your mouth, and it's destabilizing when you have a worldview predicated on the flourishing of basic human goodness and empathy.

Ironically though, it's the exact same kind of thinking error that the racists themselves make, where they see an example of something (or imagine it in their tiny skulls) and then extrapolate that to everyone with a similar phenotype.

Many people are loving cunts, many irredeemably so. I wish death upon them but in the meantime I'll try to focus on solidarity with the non cunts.

domhal posted:

Very frustrating the vast swathes of discourse that government is allowed to operate unchallenged in: the UK should be a strong independent country and is held back by EU beaurocrats etc etc while simultaneously crucial manufacturing capabilities have been sold off and it somehow does not reflect badly on the government in the media.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

It's quite alarming. Sometimes I'll start having a normal conversation about the state of the UK today with neighbours but we'll get to the long waits for ambulances, queuing in ambulances outside A&E waiting to be triaged, difficulties in getting doc appointments, affordable housing etc and then instead of making the leap to "this is the result of 14 years of tory govt" it's "all them immigrants innit...."

WhatEvil posted:

I mean they're not wrong about this. Uber and other service industries absolutely do take advantage of immigrants who are willing to accept lower pay... but that's not the immigrants' fault.

I dunno I mean, what, 12m people or so voted for Corbyn?