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Jaeluni Asjil posted:The Wales thing looks more like the 1992 version. 
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May 13, 2024 14:44
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lol
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May 13, 2024 14:50
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Happens to the best of us. But also to the worst of us.
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May 13, 2024 15:00
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I loving hate this prick. Like, getting caught red-handed both plagiarising colleagues AND making poo poo up & every time his book comes out journos are falling over each other to lavish praise on what amounts to "i tried x & am now an expert on it", which he's now done with the fat drug & with anti-depressants. I said this on Twitter last night, but the main difference between Hari & me is that his expensive education gives him a sense of self-confidence where he takes an SSRI for a year & now knows as much as anyone, where as I have been on them for gently caress know show long now, at least 15 years on & off, 10 years consistently, & wouldn't ever dare confuse my experience with all experience. And I'm already an insufferably arrogant prick at times but next to these sorts I'm meek. It always reminds me of a Stephen Collins cartoon about Michael Gove: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/cartoon/2012/mar/16/1 keep punching joe posted:I though Wales was more about Minecraft Another thing Thatcher ruined forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 15:17 on May 13, 2024 |
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May 13, 2024 15:14
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-69001673 To the surprise of nobody: quote:A judge has ruled that large parts of the government's Illegal Migration Act should not apply in Northern Ireland because they breach human rights laws. Judges are woke now
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May 13, 2024 15:22
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forkboy84 posted:
When Collins hits, the dude loving hits.
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May 13, 2024 15:26
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fuctifino posted:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-69001673 Good thing they named the act "'Illegal' Migration Act" already, saves on some news column space.
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May 13, 2024 15:38
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Tesseraction posted:When Collins hits, the dude loving hits. I know he tends to veer into "jokes for middle class dads" pretty often which turns some folk off, but of the comics in the political cartoon thread he and Squires are pretty much the only ones who are actually funny, so their comics are pretty much the only ones I'll seek out if I missed a week. And hell, if it's a middle class dad joke chances are it's a decent one anyway.
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May 13, 2024 15:41
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fuctifino posted:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-69001673 Just need them to start checking passports on the boats and planes over from GB now and the unionists will explode into a bonfire of rage about how they let themselves be fooled by the eminently trustworthy Boris loving Johnson lol
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May 13, 2024 15:45
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Guavanaut posted:Nah that'd look much cooler than the Meta shite Wanna play Super Mario Wales.
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May 13, 2024 15:50
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Christ 
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May 13, 2024 15:53
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Isn't 'manifesting' that poo poo from the Donald Trump/Norman Vincent Peale positive thinking movement combined with the David Icke/Russel Brand nonsense? Imagining you're doing something while straining for a shite instead of actually doing it sounds about right. forkboy84 posted:every time his book comes out journos are falling over each other to lavish praise on what amounts to "i tried x & am now an expert on it", which he's now done with the fat drug & with anti-depressants.
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May 13, 2024 15:57
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May 13, 2024 15:59
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Guavanaut posted:Isn't 'manifesting' that poo poo from the Donald Trump/Norman Vincent Peale positive thinking movement combined with the David Icke/Russel Brand nonsense? Yeah "manifesting" is where you think about doing something, tell yourself you're doing it, imagine it happening, and then it will happen. Has a wonderful overlap with the idea that poverty is because you think you're supposed to be poor. There was a book out last year in the charts with endorsements from the telegraph that I think was advertising the concept, lmao.
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May 13, 2024 16:02
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Reveilled posted:I know he tends to veer into "jokes for middle class dads" pretty often which turns some folk off, but of the comics in the political cartoon thread he and Squires are pretty much the only ones who are actually funny, so their comics are pretty much the only ones I'll seek out if I missed a week. Given where he's being published, I don't think he can be faulted for turning out middle class dad jokes.
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May 13, 2024 16:04
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OwlFancier posted:Yeah "manifesting" is where you think about doing something, tell yourself you're doing it, imagine it happening, and then it will happen. It's just law of attraction stuff isn't it. Like someone says "Elephants" to you and then everywhere you go you see elephants, pictures of elephants, statues of elephants, figurines of elephants, etc. When I lived in Cairo through the revolution etc, one of my new agey friends refused absolutely to make any kind of contingency plans on the basis that if you made a contingency plan you'd make the thing happen. Whereas me - make a contingency plan then you can stop worrying even if you don't follow it when the fellahin are breaking down the door ready to decapitate you. (I had two backpacks on standby - one with clothes for 2-3 days and one with certificates, battery radio etc).
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May 13, 2024 16:08
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I mean people also do it with things like "I want to be rich" and I don't think that wanting to be rich, telling yourself you're rich, spending money like you're rich, will actually make you richer. People appear to believe this stuff in direct opposition to the evidence in front of them. It seems like a pretty prime example of how having big brain sometimes makes humans a lot stupider than say, the average rat.
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May 13, 2024 16:11
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Manifesting a rockstar lifestyle by dying of an overdose alone in a bathtub.
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May 13, 2024 16:13
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lmao just remembered Scott Adams claimed to have invented his own version that worked, sometime after inventing a burrito that caused gastrointestinal distress but before inventing racism again.
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May 13, 2024 16:16
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Adams also claimed his powers of persuasion were so good he once persuaded himself he was incapable of talking and was unable to undo the conditioning for a month.
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May 13, 2024 16:23
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Bet that never happened to a rat.
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May 13, 2024 16:24
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Tesseraction posted:Adams also claimed his powers of persuasion were so good he once persuaded himself he was incapable of talking and was unable to undo the conditioning for a month. Because Adams also did the inverse with persuading himself not to ever shut up, until he did the same thing as Glinner, Rowling, etc. did and started off with the "nobody even noticed race/gender/etc. until those people started talking about it" angle and managed to law of repulsion himself into seeing it everywhere and then getting mad that the more he started ranting about it the more people called him a bigot, which could never be the result of his own perfect brain.
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May 13, 2024 16:38
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OwlFancier posted:Yeah "manifesting" is where you think about doing something, tell yourself you're doing it, imagine it happening, and then it will happen. last big one I remember was The Secret, which was a while back. i guess it just keeps getting reinvented with different names and a new set of books to buy every few years
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May 13, 2024 16:39
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Angepain posted:last big one I remember was The Secret, which was a while back. i guess it just keeps getting reinvented with different names and a new set of books to buy every few years This is the premise of the podcast If Books Could Kill, which dissects and mocks this type of thing. Running gag: they're all the same book.
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May 13, 2024 16:42
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forkboy84 posted:I loving hate this prick I find it bizarre when I see his name on an article. Its an immediate flag of "theres a high probability that what you're about to read is completely fictional".
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May 13, 2024 16:45
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smellmycheese posted:Christ skip
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May 13, 2024 17:17
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Brighton Beach was looking lovely over the weekend Is it poo, or is it an algae bloom eating the poop? fuctifino fucked around with this message at 17:33 on May 13, 2024 |
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May 13, 2024 17:30
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Por qué no los dos? Looks like an impressionist rendition of a sedimentation tank. e: 
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May 13, 2024 17:42
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fuctifino posted:Brighton Beach was looking lovely over the weekend that cant be real surely?
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May 13, 2024 17:44
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Apparently is, there are more photos of it:
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May 13, 2024 17:47
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nice, a different swirling colour show for those of us who missed the aurora
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May 13, 2024 17:50
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Could be algal bloom with the mild winds and sudden warmth.
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May 13, 2024 17:51
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God, I can see getting to the beach and being determined to have your holiday but why would you paddle in that? Get out of the water 
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May 13, 2024 17:52
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Eh if it's algae it's not much worse than seaweed or swimming in a lake. I probably wouldn't, but I don't imagine it'll do you any harm. I did go swimming late in the season as the seaweed was dropping to bits and it was rough seas, was like swimming in angry vegetable soup. Not the most fun in the world.
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May 13, 2024 17:53
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Bobstar posted:This is the premise of the podcast If Books Could Kill, which dissects and mocks this type of thing. Running gag: they're all the same book.
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May 13, 2024 17:57
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OwlFancier posted:Eh if it's algae it's not much worse than seaweed or swimming in a lake. I probably wouldn't, but I don't imagine it'll do you any harm. Some of them are mostly harmless but some are toxic, and both kinds can cause allergic reactions. Overall best no to try: CDC posted:When in Doubt, Stay Out Reading news reports it also apparently smelled pretty bad. Probably would just go sit in a cafe or something if it were me. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 18:04 on May 13, 2024 |
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May 13, 2024 17:57
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Given what happened to them boat race lads, I would simply not go in the British water.
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May 13, 2024 18:05
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Private Speech posted:Apparently is, there are more photos of it: as an ex Brightonian who has many happy memories of crazy times on that beach this makes me very sad
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May 13, 2024 18:05
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Lmfao. I regret to report that Andrew “Brillo pad” Neil has gone full on “WHO REMEMBERS???” https://twitter.com/flying_rodent/status/1790065193633853856?s=46
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May 13, 2024 18:14
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Yeah your generation returned milk, soda and beer bottles and then what happened to that policy, old idiot woman?
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May 13, 2024 18:20
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