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Josef bugman posted:Where does that phrase come from originally. The "X cannot fail, it can only be failed" one. https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-this-quote/497492 Blogger themself seems to confirm: https://twitter.com/digby56/status/1208605648377630721 e: Future scholars will someday discover Blink 192, the pop punk telephone directory.
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Apr 20, 2024 13:23
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the actual blog seems to have broken permalinks so the original post can be found on the archive page here, in the post titled "Political Religion"quote:George W. Bush will not achieve a place in the Republican pantheon. Conservatism cannot fail, it can only be failed. (And a conservative can only fail because he is too liberal.)
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Apr 20, 2024 13:30
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:enthesopathy I had never heard of the entheses before.
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Apr 20, 2024 13:41
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Guavanaut posted:MARS rifle ban, Tbf they never should have done that "buy one Mars bar get a free rifle" promotional giveaway Rust Martialis posted:I had never heard of the entheses before. Thesis + enthesis --> Symphysis (?)
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Apr 20, 2024 13:55
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They used to sell these really big MARS rifles but too many people were getting hurt so now you can get two MARS pistols that adds up to slightly more than a rifle in one container which is much better.
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Apr 20, 2024 14:03
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Rust Martialis posted:I had never heard of the entheses before. top tip if you ever have a medical question just type it in + “radiopedia” and you will know everything a radiologist knows
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Apr 20, 2024 14:05
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The funny thing is that there was never a single crime linked to a MARS style rifle, the ban was argued entirely on the statistical likelihood that they might cause a crime. A standard that they completely flip out over when it is applied to using violence against children.
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Apr 20, 2024 14:06
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Rust Martialis posted:I had never heard of the entheses before. huh, the same root as "parentheses", which I guess sort of makes sense (the ancient greek énthesis meaning "insertion")
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Apr 20, 2024 14:20
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Josef bugman posted:
I have a remote work uni research job and it's loving great, nobody keeps tabs on me whatsoever as long as I get stuff done by kinda when I say it'll be done by. I very rarely start working before about midday and some days I just don't bother at all and go for a walk or play the playstation instead. It's kinda sickening that I'm being paid really decent money for working considerably less than I did in customer service but I'm not looking a gift horse in the mouth. The counterpoint, I suppose, is that this level of freedom is dangerous when you have total responsibility for a whole project. It would be so easy to just... not do it. I imagine if you're used to being told what to do at all times it would be pretty stressful to have that weighing on you. But yes, would recommend. Shame none of these things are permanent and you have to bounce around between short term contracts constantly.
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Apr 20, 2024 14:44
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Hopefully the right leaning people dry retch so hard they have a stroke and all die, the evil loving cunts
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Apr 20, 2024 14:45
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File this under unexpected. “Cooking in Lagos with Tim Westwood” definitely gets full Partridge approval https://twitter.com/scarcitystudios/status/1781380729164706144?s=46
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Apr 20, 2024 15:23
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smellmycheese posted:Deciding to stop watching all the bollocks like QT, Klientssberg on Sunday, pissy Peston and the rest was one of the best media decisions I ever made i did the same but i just like the TV or the radio on when i'm working at home and it happened to be on, sort of thing
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Apr 20, 2024 15:24
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sinky posted:
jesus christ "would you like this thing we're offering your young people to improve their lives?" "oh no thank you we hate them and we hate you" 
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Apr 20, 2024 15:26
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smellmycheese posted:File this under unexpected. “Cooking in Lagos with Tim Westwood” definitely gets full Partridge approval Probably related to the numerous women with historical complaints about his cooking.
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Apr 20, 2024 15:27
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Guavanaut posted:Ah yeah, 'cooking'. That's surely what DJ Tim Westwood is doing in the city where police disappear journalists who investigate sexual assault allegations against powerful figures. I’m sure he just has a very sincere and genuine interest in their cuisine* *and extradition arrangements
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Apr 20, 2024 15:29
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This is the great circle of life. As a teen in boring Bedfordshire I used to desperately tune the FM dial to catch the scant signal from london of Capital Radio and The Westwood Capital Rap Show. He was a god to me, the coolest man alive playing the most awesome cool music I had ever heard. Now , 4 decades on, he’s cooking Okra on YouTube from Nigeria to avoid noncing charges.
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Apr 20, 2024 15:35
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i do wonder if the offer and its rejection are both based on practical self interest, though, with all of our societies starting to deal with a demographic crisis
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Apr 20, 2024 15:37
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crispix posted:jesus christ well labour was basically pro-brexit at the time so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Apr 20, 2024 15:38
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the referendum was almost a decade ago
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Apr 20, 2024 15:41
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crispix posted:the referendum was almost a decade ago gently caress
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Apr 20, 2024 15:52
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i hate everything
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Apr 20, 2024 15:53
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crispix posted:the referendum was almost a decade ago Yeah, decade this September. Oh wait, you mean the other depressing referendum I've lived through this past decade
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Apr 20, 2024 16:11
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i mean a lot of people did, Truman McBurbank 
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Apr 20, 2024 16:17
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“Oh God this was Cat’s 50th at work” “That’s amazing, she’s wearing that with her figure.” “Yes she’s so brave.” I have no idea who Cat is but I am definitely on Cat’s side.
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Apr 20, 2024 16:32
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Been watching some economics vids on the tubes since Gary Stevenson was posted in this thread... and now YouTube has decided to recommend the loving Institute for Economic Affairs youtube channel to me. It's a vid explaining why Tesco isn't profiteering despite doubling its profits. The pre-vid clips show some econ prick saying that "it's exactly those kind of price increases and the increase in profit associated with it that we need to correct the imbalance between supply and demand that's caused the problem in the first place", and "every single example of rent controls has backfired in one way or another". gently caress you YouTube and gently caress you IEA.
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Apr 20, 2024 17:05
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You could correct the imbalance between supply and demand by eating people from the institute of economic affairs.
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Apr 20, 2024 17:18
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mediaphage posted:well labour was basically pro-brexit at the time so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ no matter how many idiot trolls we threadban they just keep coming
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Apr 20, 2024 18:45
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sinky posted:
Child trafficking, however.
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Apr 20, 2024 19:19
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I got a booklet in the post about the London mayoral candidates. Mostly people who love cops, and hate ULEZ and graphic design. My "favourite" was this message from Britain First's candidate:A racist posted:Dear voter, 
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Apr 20, 2024 19:24
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Julio Cruz posted:no matter how many idiot trolls we threadban they just keep coming oh gently caress off i’m not an idiot troll i just had my time wrong. i was thinking of corbin being really lacklustre about another vote but that was clearly after the first one
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Apr 20, 2024 19:26
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Lol at the idea that london is basically the opening scene of demolition man.
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Apr 20, 2024 19:27
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OwlFancier posted:Lol at the idea that london is basically the opening scene of demolition man. I feel like that crazy London is hell on earth stuff doesn't really work in a London mayoral campaign where voters have everyday experience of London.
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Apr 20, 2024 19:44
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“Spending on woke nonsense has exploded” - I love the old woke, it’s like Brexit, it means whatever the person thinks it means. Woke means Woke.
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Apr 20, 2024 19:52
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killerwhat posted:I got a booklet in the post about the London mayoral candidates. Mostly people who love cops, and hate ULEZ and graphic design. My "favourite" was this message from Britain First's candidate: The anti-woke SDP woman is something else. I thought the SDP were meant to be like the Lib Dems? She was just a few rhetorical rungs below the Britain First oval office. The first guy in the booklet, the bald cop lover, is weird as well. What is he an ex-cop or something?
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Apr 20, 2024 19:58
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I recently retired from working at the metropolitan police for reasons I do not wish to discuss, but now I'm running for mayor of london.
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Apr 20, 2024 20:00
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Their police nickname:
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Apr 20, 2024 20:02
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Necrothatcher posted:I feel like that crazy London is hell on earth stuff doesn't really work in a London mayoral campaign where voters have everyday experience of London. You'd be surprised; my neighbours once asked if I wasn't afraid to open my front door at night. Er, no? Why? Well-lit street, terrace with plenty of neighbours, no Mad Max gangs rampaging down the street... not that that crosses my mind when I go to put stuff in the bins at 10pm. I just do it because why wouldn't I?
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Apr 20, 2024 20:03
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Runcible Cat posted:You'd be surprised; my neighbours once asked if I wasn't afraid to open my front door at night. Aren't you worried at all about the hordes of woke albanian trans-activists arriving on dinghies that are hiding just out of sight?
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Apr 20, 2024 20:39
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those stories remind of how the conservatives in the us peddle the same fright time rants about communities of sharia law and inner cities are completely bereft of modern society or law enforcement where you take your life into your hands just driving through
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Apr 20, 2024 20:49
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As noted though it does seem like that would work better on people who don't actually live there. But there are certainly people who can exist in a place for some time while still holding the belief that everywhere outside their field of vision is writhing with densely packed criminal immigrants. Reminds me of Lovecraft writing about how he went to new york once and he describes a normal street the same way he does coming face to face with an elder god or something.
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