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ItohRespectArmy posted:its crazy how antisemitism has become a genuinely meaningless word now It's actually synonymous with wokeism, identity politics, critical race theory, cultural marxism... so if antisemitism is meaningless, so are all of those!! 
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May 10, 2024 12:26
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I'm watching the taskmaster series with him on, and whoever said he's an idiot trying to be clever is absolutely right. He either fucks up by missing something fundamental about the task, tries to do something clever that doesn't apply, or just plain fucks it up. quote:i've only watched the first season admittedly but are you sure he isn't Doing Things Wrong To Be Funny because these shows usually tend to have at least one guy like this on them Yeah I've watched every series of the show and he's honestly one of the worst contestants ever. Keep in mind that this was an opinion I arrived at before I was fully aware of how terrible he is as a human being. It wasn't just that he was poo poo at tasks--there's always one or two contestants each series who are--but that IIRC he wasn't even a very good sport about being poo poo. Just placed poorly and tried to play it off in various ways but always with a sour edge. In Taskmaster you can almost always tell when someone is trying to be bad at something or putting in minimal effort to be cool and when someone is just genuinely bad. He was 100% in the latter category.
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May 10, 2024 12:33
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Til Massive Attack, the band, has good politics. Dunno what the music's like nowadays or if there is any even
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May 10, 2024 12:34
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:Til Massive Attack, the band, has good politics. Dunno what the music's like nowadays or if there is any even They're a bit Banksy but they're good eggs.
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May 10, 2024 12:37
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Nuclear Spoon posted:i've only watched the first season admittedly but are you sure he isn't Doing Things Wrong To Be Funny because these shows usually tend to have at least one guy like this on them There are definitely contestants that knowingly and happily fill that role. If Baddiel was doing that on his series he was a) really committed to the bit and b) an incredibly good actor. Because at one point he said he didn't know where his hip was, phoned his brother who had just had a hip replacement and his brother didn't know where it was either. Plus he repeatedly forgot/didn't realise that some tasks were against the clock. There were some tasks were he did pretty well - often the more creative ones - but regularly flunked the ones requiring logic or general knowledge. He's the most prominent of several contestants over the years that are very academic and cerebral but have absolutely no practical skills or basic 'street smarts' and so flounder hilariously. So it's very in keeping with the image that comes across from his political utterances of "not half as knowledgeable or insightful as he thinks but has a reputation for being generically 'clever' so gets listened to".
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May 10, 2024 12:38
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Baddiel is the Wario to Nish Kumar's Mario, who was also dogshit but absolutely knew it and was just delighted no matter what he was doing.
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May 10, 2024 12:44
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Wario would never do a blackface with a pineapple. He knows the line between acceptable mustache twirling train robbery and being really inappropriate.
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May 10, 2024 12:48
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Baddiel is the Wario to Nish Kumar's Mario, who was also dogshit but absolutely knew it and was just delighted no matter what he was doing. Plus Nish did take part in one of the all-time best Taskmaster tasks, Write And Perform A Song About This Person as The Diverse Stripes. Where as Baddiel's main value was in how much he drove Ed Gamble insane
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May 10, 2024 12:49
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Nish and Josh Widdecomb are both doing a show where they work at a different local newspaper every week, both as a vehicle for comedy (they are adorably goddamn terrible at it) and helping to remind people about the importance of local journalism. I recommend it, particularly as dinner time entertainment.
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May 10, 2024 12:51
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Also I appreciated Romesh trying his hardest but also knowing to not take the Ls to heart even while pretending to be furious about it.
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May 10, 2024 12:55
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Baddiel is the Wario to Nish Kumar's Mario, who was also dogshit but absolutely knew it and was just delighted no matter what he was doing. This is still the best moment Taskmaster's ever had https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDA7yDv4UBk
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May 10, 2024 13:16
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:Til Massive Attack, the band, has good politics. Dunno what the music's like nowadays or if there is any even It's excellent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIIovpUQiro
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May 10, 2024 13:37
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Tesseraction posted:Nish and Josh Widdecomb are both doing a show where they work at a different local newspaper every week, both as a vehicle for comedy (they are adorably goddamn terrible at it) and helping to remind people about the importance of local journalism. I recommend it, particularly as dinner time entertainment. I absolutely love it. Them desperately trying to present some dull local happening as an event of the century is never not funny. But also, local journalism is legitimately important and it's great to see it represented.
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May 10, 2024 13:56
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Just posting so I can see my old posts lol. I mentioned alternative Eurovision events in support of the boycott and some headbanger apparently started saying it was a Russian disinformation campaign lol
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May 10, 2024 14:04
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Eurovision, the boycotts, or alternative events?
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May 10, 2024 14:07
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All of the above. Leonid Brezhnev invented Eurovision to make Euros look bad and they took one look and ran with it.
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May 10, 2024 14:12
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Two elderly JSO supporters in their 80s destroy the case (not the document) in the British Library holding the Magna Carta https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/just-stop-oil-magna-carta-protest-british-library-b2542885.html quote:Two climate protesters have broken the glass around the Magna Carta as they called for the UK government to commit to emergency plans. Wonder if the anti-woke will be out in force accusing them of "student politics" living off "mummy and daddy"?
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May 10, 2024 14:30
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Oh no, if they destroy the bullshit world of dungeons and dragons constitution paper then the UK might have to write a real one, the worst fate. 
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May 10, 2024 14:33
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it's not exactly our country's magnum opus
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May 10, 2024 14:42
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wait hang on...
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May 10, 2024 14:42
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I loving wish they'd chucked paint on it, would have driven those freeman of the land dickheads properly insane.
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May 10, 2024 14:47
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Nah if anything had happened to it Rishi would declare that elections have been cancelled by the woke mob and stay in power until he dies.
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May 10, 2024 14:49
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He would literally become the short king.
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May 10, 2024 14:50
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Honestly, at what point do we stop attacking pointless trinkets and escalate to attacking those in power who are maintaining the status quo?
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May 10, 2024 14:50
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Tesseraction posted:Nah if anything had happened to it Rishi would declare that elections have been cancelled by the woke mob and stay in power until he dies.
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May 10, 2024 14:53
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That is the rub of it, really. Although, HELLO MI5, I don't think political violence is necessarily the answer, AND GHCQ, not just because it's a double edged sword, but also this group of cunts would not feel scared into action, just into fascism. We do not live in a police state en par with Russia, yet, but the current government has a rather prominent "gently caress the convention on human rights" tac of late.
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May 10, 2024 14:59
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Even if people started assassinating oil company CEOs I think that would just make them hide on private islands rather than stop wrecking the place. It's kind of like immigration, even if the state is extremely motivated to try and stop it, economic reality demands it continue, and the state does not have the power to just turn off the supply of labour it provides. If they wanted to do that they would have to invest shitloads of time and money into reworking the economy and education, to maybe achieve relative autarky in a couple of decades, and the same pressures that reduce government to hooting about SMALL BOATS and handing out money to their mates make that impossible.
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May 10, 2024 15:03
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Excuse my ignorance but if The Magna Carta was destroyed Magna Carta would still have legal force, right?
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May 10, 2024 15:07
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I don't even know if it has legal force anyway, it's been superceded or repealed since it was written.
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May 10, 2024 15:09
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PriorMarcus posted:Honestly, at what point do we stop attacking pointless trinkets and escalate to attacking those in power who are maintaining the status quo? the trinkets represent legitimacy of the system, even if you went all v for vendetta and blew up parliament there would be 600 briefcase wankers ready to instantly take their place, the hard bit is building up a mass movement that you can overwhelm those in power without falling into the trap of just replacing the old guard with a new guard
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May 10, 2024 15:09
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OwlFancier posted:I don't even know if it has legal force anyway, it's been superceded or repealed since it was written. With the sole exception to the right to trial by a jury of your peers, IIRC. And even that has changed a bit.
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May 10, 2024 15:12
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notaspy posted:Excuse my ignorance but if The Magna Carta was destroyed Magna Carta would still have legal force, right? In Israel news, don't bet on Eurovision being as pro-Palestine as you might expect: https://www.threads.net/@glitterbeamuk/post/C6w5aGCi_jT/ 39% support for Israel compared to 2-5% support for every other nation. Expect more than a few 'my heart goes out to the poor opressed people of Israel' before the night is out
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May 10, 2024 15:13
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Bobby Deluxe posted:AFAIK almost all of it has been overwritten by modern laws anyway, but no, it's not a magic scroll that stops working if you destroy the scroll. i wonder how “secure” the public vote is because it’s just an app on the phone now? whereas before it required a physical landline or text ? either way israel is a huge generational thing, most people over 50 love them and everyone below 50 hates them and i bet the oldies are voting for the first time ever in their droves
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May 10, 2024 15:20
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Jedit posted:With the sole exception to the right to trial by a jury of your peers, IIRC. And even that has changed a bit. Pretty much, and the "Liberties of London" https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Edw1cc1929/25/9
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May 10, 2024 15:21
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Huh just had a market researcher round. Put me down as a C1 based on my part-time semi-retired job. Oi - says I - you better upgrade that to a B. OK he says. Didn't know they were still using those classifications (where in everyone 'retired' is automatically downgraded to an E) Call me a snob 
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May 10, 2024 15:26
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PriorMarcus posted:Honestly, at what point do we stop attacking pointless trinkets and escalate to attacking those in power who are maintaining the status quo? When voters stop caring more about those trinkets than they do about other people's quality of life
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May 10, 2024 15:37
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New Labour MP too extreme even for the old Rugmeister
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May 10, 2024 15:40
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The Labour leader said Elphicke’s move was “an invitation that we should be less tribal in the pursuit of a better country and invite people to our party who want to join in our object of national renewal”. i find it hilarious that keir can somehow turn a thing normally a huge coup for an opposition leader into a PR disaster
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May 10, 2024 15:47
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radmonger posted:A quirk of the YouTube algorithm means I pretty much always have in my feed some American reacting to the song _Zombie_ by the Cranberries. I like the song, so I eventually click on it, and so in a day or two there will be another. Working as designed I guess. Dude you are being disingenuous here, we are not talking about history students. Pick a random Irish-American and ask them who the IRA are. Hell there is an episode of Captain Planet about the Troubles - it's pretty terrible, but still, that was for random American schoolkids. Idiots commenting on Youtube are possibly not a representative sample here.
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May 10, 2024 15:54
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smellmycheese posted:New Labour MP too extreme even for the old Rugmeister And funny how it's no longer a problem three days later eh Mr Adonis?
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May 10, 2024 15:57
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