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It's insane how early everything seems to be Christmas nowadays. I wonder if there might be a reason all the shops are maximising the time they are able to sell high margin culturally significant items that usually have to be re-bought every year, maybe some kind of artifact of the economic system we live under? No, it must be the decline of public morality!!
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Angepain posted:Wonder if it depends on the board game. Do tories play different types. What game do the communists play I'm never quite sure where I stand politically, we had a Tory round for dinner once but we didn't talk about politics and they never invited us back so I don't think I'm one of them I like to play codenames, carcassone and ticket to ride
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Nov 22, 2023 18:13
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Trying to imagine playing board games with a tory. "What do you mean we all start off with the same? My dad owns Hasbro, give me that."
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Nov 22, 2023 18:16
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Failed Imagineer posted:Not sure if this was discussed, but I had a good chuckle imagining the kind of person who would be piss-boiled about this from at least two different angles Fun fact, the Roman empire split as an entity when a woman (Irene) became the sole regnal Empress. The western part was defunct at this point anyway, with all the great families having moved to constantinople, but the pope wasn't going to accept a woman in charge and cut itself off, declaring Charlemagne the Roman Emperor. The Eastern empire chugged on for another 600 years or so.
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Nov 22, 2023 18:16
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Honestly - if people want to put up some twinkly lights to cheer themselves up in this dark, grim shithole world then good luck to them. I’m not gonna loving judge
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Nov 22, 2023 18:17
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Two reasons we don't do decorations
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Nov 22, 2023 18:20
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Betjeman posted:The estate down the road has a mish-mash of skeletons and santas, it's very mixed messaging Big fans of Tim Burton's 1993 classic "The Nightmare Before Christmas" no doubt
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Nov 22, 2023 18:21
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Maybe now that we have cheap energy efficient LED lights we should have a secular humanist tradition of pretty lights that are on when it starts getting dark at 5pm (approx Nov 7 by civil dusk) until it stops getting dark at 5pm (approx Jan 16 by civil dusk) without giving Allison the moral panics.
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Nov 22, 2023 18:23
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One of my wifes friends moved into a new area last year and around mid december they got a note through the door complaining they hadn't put up any lights yet and were 'letting the community down'
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Nov 22, 2023 18:31
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Mega Comrade posted:One of my wifes friends moved into a new area last year and around mid december they got a note through the door complaining they hadn't put up any lights yet and were 'letting the community down' Should have put up the note on a local notice board with "christmas lights are heresy" scrawled on it IMO. Or just ignore it I guess, if you want to be normal and boring.
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Nov 22, 2023 18:44
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Broke out the Christmas tunes today because Christmas rules and I'm going to enjoy it for as long a period as I can. I think it's time for another listen of Wonderful Christmastime [Full Version].
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Nov 22, 2023 18:49
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escapegoat posted:Wonderful Christmastime [Full Version]. featuring seventeen minutes of nothing but Paul pressing random synthesiser keys
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Nov 22, 2023 18:50
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OwlFancier posted:It's my first time in ten years not working the retail rush and it's very nice to have christmas just sort of sneak up on you. So soothing.  ----------------- Still not going to watch any xmas media myself, just me, a plastic tree with pretty lights and happy gaming. 
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Nov 22, 2023 18:50
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smellmycheese posted:Pearson is on a roll what a miserable old oval office
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Nov 22, 2023 18:52
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You just don't see that it's part of the triumvirate of national moral decline. Sodomy, devil worship, and selling Christmas cardigans in late November.
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Nov 22, 2023 18:54
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Just Another Lurker posted:Still not going to watch any xmas media myself, just me, a plastic tree with pretty lights and happy gaming. Seems a bit harsh, Die Hard has aged pretty well IMO
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Nov 22, 2023 18:54
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Betjeman posted:Two reasons we don't do decorations
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Nov 22, 2023 18:55
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Santas do look very sus imo.
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Nov 22, 2023 18:56
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Rappaport posted:Seems a bit harsh, Die Hard has aged pretty well IMO A fair point, that plus The Hogfather are acceptable viewing, more specifically i meant whatever dross is on tv, sat & radio. ------ I watched that Jimmy Stewart xmas movie; "It's a Wonderful Life" one time... nope. 
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Nov 22, 2023 19:02
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Rappaport posted:Seems a bit harsh, Die Hard has aged pretty well IMO Yeah and also gotta add "It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie", which was released in 2002, and there's a scene where an angel shows Kermit what the world would be like if he had never existed, and you see the Twin Towers standing in the background.
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Nov 22, 2023 19:05
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Failed Imagineer posted:https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1726684514049569209?t=DZefW0nhUMN1hcRtTYurqQ&s=19 I understand that you can’t map modernity straightforwardly onto the past, but I always feel historians are telling on themselves when they get pissy about how we think about gender non-conformity in the ancient world. “No! The Galli may have ritually castrated themselves in order to live and die in women’s clothing and jewellery, in worship of Cybele/Agdistis, a goddess who is sometimes said to have been herself born male before becoming female, but that doesn’t make them trans. Masculinity-obsessed Roman writers described them as ‘effeminate eunuchs!’ or ‘half-men’ so that’s how we should think of them!” I dunno, there invariably seems to be a remarkable emotional incuriosity and obvious discomfort underlying the protests.
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Nov 22, 2023 19:11
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And the good versions of A Christmas Carol: Scrooged and The Muppet Christmas Carol. What was the recent really stupid modern one with Scrooge molesting Mrs Cratchit and Tiny Tim got better but then fell through the ice and died? Was it a Gatiss version or am I misremembering his fabulously terrible Dracula?
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Nov 22, 2023 19:14
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I will never not read Die Hard as Die Hard. It's maddening.
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Nov 22, 2023 19:18
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Runcible Cat posted:And the good versions of A Christmas Carol: Scrooged and The Muppet Christmas Carol. The one by the Peaky blinders guy maybe?
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Nov 22, 2023 19:18
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escapegoat posted:The one by the Peaky blinders guy maybe? 
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Nov 22, 2023 19:21
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Dead Goon posted:I will never not read Die Hard as Die Hard.
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Nov 22, 2023 19:24
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grobbo posted:I understand that you can’t map modernity straightforwardly onto the past, but I always feel historians are telling on themselves when they get pissy about how we think about gender non-conformity in the ancient world. I would generally take the position that "being gay" or "being trans" or for that matter "being black/white" or "being a man/woman" are all things that exist here and now and don't necessarily map well onto the past and hopefully won't map well onto the future. But that doesn't stop you from seeing parallels. If you don't want to be as categorical about it you could just describe the things you know happened and then point out the similarities to things people might experience in the modern day. Which is no different from any other look at history. You're going to see things you recognize and relate to and that's good. I don't think it should be any different for concepts surrounding gender or sexuality. If people see stuff in historical records that they recognize then that's cool, it's good to feel a connection to history like that, I think.
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Nov 22, 2023 19:28
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Or you could get your PR department to say something you know will spark engagement and hope that the increase in visitors is worth more than the extra security you have to hire to keep Allison Pearson away
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Nov 22, 2023 19:36
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I still can't figure out what she's appalled at. Normally with these moral decline types you can't get them to not tell you what's actually wrong with the world; if it had been Peter Hitchens he'd give you an unbroken chain of events between a Mind The Ducks road sign from 1973 and Santa being transgender now, or how sex in the suburbs was for procreation only until the invention of the pornograph by the atheist Tim Berners-Lee. With her article I can't even get a handle on why she's mad about the thing she seems to have decided is only just happening.
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Just Another Lurker posted:I watched that Jimmy Stewart xmas movie; "It's a Wonderful Life" one time... nope. How is that not goon blasphemy I just tried that new Ebenezer Scrooge metroidvania game, he's running around smashing capitalism by throwing the ghost of Christmas beatings at cops.
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Nov 22, 2023 20:15
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Chubby Henparty posted:How is that not goon blasphemy It's the most overrated movie of all time imo
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Nov 22, 2023 20:26
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Think I've only seen the nick cage version. I would have gone back to my penthouses and Ferrari
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I liked it when he pushed the nitrous button and outran the helicopter
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And then tiny tim put on his sunglasses and said "god bless us, every one" and aerosmith starts over the credits. Very faithful adaptation.
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Nov 22, 2023 20:37
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Just reminded myself that Con Air was directed by the same guy that did the video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
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Guavanaut posted:Just reminded myself that Con Air was directed by the same guy that did the video for Never Gonna Give You Up. a Renaissance man
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Failed Imagineer posted:It's the most overrated movie of all time imo I think that title should go to something that most people actually rate highly. I'd say the most overrated one is Star Wars. Or some Disney poo poo like Little Mermaid or Bambi.
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Nov 22, 2023 20:46
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Guavanaut posted:Just reminded myself that Con Air was directed by the same guy that did the video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I heard Rick’s new tune on radio 2 today and I am delighted that he has enjoyed such a massive career renaissance thanks largely to 4Chan
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Domino meme - small domino is Lowtax and big one is Rick headlining Glastonbury
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