CommissarMega posted:

DontMockMySmock posted:

Ratjaculation posted:

So they are both cunts?

Zushio posted:

Speaking of schad was The Watch show as bad as the trailer made it look?

steinrokkan posted:

What's up with so many posters constantly saying cnut like they are 13 year olds who discovered a naughty word. It's been going on seemingly all over the forums for the past several days.

Hihohe posted:

The Australians shed thier skins in the late winter so they are all over the place.

Cocaine Bear posted:

Yeah, it's been like and unstoppable rising tide lately.

steinrokkan posted:

What's up with so many posters constantly saying oval office like they are 13 year olds who discovered a naughty word. It's been going on seemingly all over the forums for the past several days.

Party Ape posted:

I like that you fixated on that rather than the elderly woman with the broken wrists. Won't someone think of the ~~decorum~~

Party Ape posted:

I like that you fixated on that rather than the elderly woman with the broken wrists. Won't someone think of the ~~decorum~~

steinrokkan posted:

I'm not offended, just curious

steinrokkan posted:

What's up with so many posters constantly saying oval office like they are 13 year olds who discovered a naughty word. It's been going on seemingly all over the forums for the past several days.

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

Maybe everyone's come down with a bad case of upcunt.

steinrokkan posted:

What's up with so many posters constantly saying oval office like they are 13 year olds who discovered a naughty word. It's been going on seemingly all over the forums for the past several days.

steinrokkan posted:

What's up with so many posters constantly saying oval office like they are 13 year olds who discovered a naughty word. It's been going on seemingly all over the forums for the past several days.

steinrokkan posted:

What's up with so many posters constantly saying **** like they are 13 year olds who discovered a naughty word. It's been going on seemingly all over the forums for the past several days.

SilvergunSuperman posted:

shut up bitch


happy?

CommissarMega posted:

I may have to re-read Monstrous Regiment again, but IIRC the Tumblr screenshot I saw pointed out that Maladict is the one who gave Polly the socks she'd need to pad her trousers, implying that he needed them to 'prove' he was physically male. However, when he goes from vampire to bat swarm and back to vampire again, he retains his clothes, which seems to be something only vampire men can do. Contrast Sally von Humpeding from Thud!- she does not retain her clothes when transforming from bats to vampire again, for example. After all, the Disc runs on narrativium, and 'sexy male vampire' is a different archetype from 'sexy female vampire'.

People also like to read Maladict as non-binary/agender, since he doesn't seem comfortable with either cis male or female gender roles, and I do admit it's a valid of the character. Still, I think that taking the whole transformation thing into consideration (assuming it's not Pterry messing up his vampire lore), I have to agree with the poster that Maladict is a trans man on the whole.

Cable Guy posted:

Edit: one of them is flying the red ensign on their car... so do the maths I guess...

Call Your Grandma posted:

A lot of people here aren't american and find it incongruous that it would be forbidden in the first place.

Shaking lemur butt posted:

I've only seen the first episode, but yes. It felt like they'd written an entirely different show, with entirely different characters, and then forced a bunch of Discworld aspects on top of that.

BlankSystemDaemon posted:

This post made me realize how much of Monstrous Regiment I've forgotten, so I have no choice but to re-read it.

Inceltown posted:

It's a little hard to tell from the video but it's probably a federation flag. Those freaks go nuts for that thing. A lot of them don't know the difference though and so end up with the wrong one but the federation flag is the one that they go for.

quote:

The Australian red ensign – a red version of the familiar Australian flag – has appeared all over the news and social media in recent months. The question is, why?

Historically associated with Australia’s commercial shipping vessels, the merchant navy, the flag has recently been adopted by people involved in anti-lockdown and anti-government movements....

...the Australian blue ensign was used only by the Commonwealth government. It did not become the general national flag until 1953.

Before that date, if citizens wanted a distinctive flag to signify an Australian rather than a British identity, they tended to (mis)use the Australian red ensign.

Why do SovCits use the Australian red ensign?

Unfortunately, the decentralised nature of the SovCit movement makes it difficult to reach definitive conclusions.

For a movement that has an inherent distrust of government, the flag’s historical usage as a “people’s flag” must seem appealing.

A similar appeal may derive from the fact the ANZACs fought under this flag (as Australian divisions of the British Army).

In both cases, though, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. In both cases, those historical usages spoke more to Australia’s identity as a British dominion.

Indeed, RSL Australia has condemned the flag’s use by protesters as disrespectful.

Alternatively, the usage may derive from the maritime nature of the flag. One of the more outlandish claims of the SovCits is that the only valid sources of law are the common law and “admiralty law”. As such, a maritime people’s flag must seem like the perfect symbol.

There are darker possibilities, too. For some people, it could be an attempt to mirror the use of the Canadian red ensign by the far-right. In Canada, white supremacists see their red ensign as a
throwback to a time when Canadians were overwhelmingly white.

In the US, the SovCit movement has explicitly racist and antisemitic roots, emerging from the Posse Comitatus movement led by the notorious preacher William Potter Gale.

A similar undertone may underpin the use of the flag in Australia, a racist yearning for a non-existent “golden age” when Australia was “free” and “white”.

To me, the use of this flag also suggests a yearning for certainty and a simpler past, that, though misguided and exclusionary, perhaps emerges from the collective trauma of the last two years.

In the minds of these fringe protesters, they are not law-breakers, but patriots who possess a deep and true understanding of the law.

Like the Australian red ensign itself, these movements take familiar images and ideas and twist them.

Wurzag posted:

I didn't know that show existed until now, wish I didn't.

Cable Guy posted:

It's (the) red...

https://thebigsmoke.com.au/2021/11/20/why-anti-government-groups-fly-that-red-flag/

Cable Guy posted:

It's (the) red...

https://thebigsmoke.com.au/2021/11/20/why-anti-government-groups-fly-that-red-flag/

ante posted:

Flying a county's flag in general seems to correlate with shitheadery

Brawnfire posted:

drat, got the Foundation treatment huh

Shaking lemur butt posted:

What, you never wanted to know what Vimes would be like if he were more like Jack Sparrow??

Hyperlynx posted:

mistaking their brand of destructive insanity for patriotism.

gleebster posted:

What if it's the Post Office?

Regarde Aduck posted:

Wow

ekuNNN posted:

why would the post office fly the national flag? are people afraid they'll forget what country they're in?

The Modern Leper posted:

Because federal buildings usually fly the flag of the federal government? Like, I've definitely seen this outside of the United States.

Inceltown posted:

The Federal Red Ensign aka Federation Flag has the 6 points. The Red Ensign has 7 points on the star. It's quite likely that the lady has the 7 point current naval flag on her car and not the chud 6 point one is what I'm getting at. The 'do your own research' crowd aren't good at researching which hate symbol they should be flying.