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Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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I don't drink tea.

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Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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u brexit ukip it posted:

Just drink coffee

I don't drink coffee.

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Love how passive aggressively attacking his own party is the objective here

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Failed Imagineer posted:

Other than that...work wank?

Thought the objective was to be less sleepy

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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What's the story, Noel's a Tory
Well

I have a soft spot for Oasis/Noel from my teenage years but I genuinely can't listen to his music anymore, he's the definition of ladder pulling cunts

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Trump will stomp him into the ground. They're both senile old racist bastards, but Trump's got that psycho energy

Have you ever heard Biden talk at length? He's the absolute epitome of the patronising, self-congratulating liberal white guy. The first and only time I have I had to turn the interview off, I viscerally hated him within fifteen seconds

Barry Foster fucked around with this message at 12:15 on Aug 6, 2019

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Jose posted:

was that before or after he decided to run because he's absolutely awful at public speaking now. its why they're mostly hiding him from meeting the public

Before, somewhere around Spring last year. His brain has completely fallen apart now, though, it's actually kinda shocking how much he's deteriorated since then.


lol, yeah...

Edit


...s'actly

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Yeah, seconded.

'Terminal Brainworms' does the trick just fine

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Diet Crack posted:

You’re welcome

Lol what is this babby poo poo

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Ratjaculation posted:

See this is what I mean, the thread needs a common enemy, Pissflaps 2, I'm still willing to do it if Diet Crack decides its not for them.

Too many p.good posts about ecology and poo poo at this point.

Sorry pal, you hosed it for yourself

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Jose posted:

Would it help if I told you he looks like a member of the weasely family?

Wait, do you have mugshots of all the posters itt too? I thought it was just our collective prolapse pics

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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^^^^ Aight.


Diet Crack posted:

Don’t forget the front on nudes and dick pics - goonsxxx.txt

Are they ascii?

OwlFancier posted:

weasely prolapse.

Woah!

Good band name

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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It cannot be denied that mine is indeed a capital d

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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kingturnip posted:

Whereas I have what is basically a vocational BSc in a very 'people person' field, yet I'm still a misanthrope.

Misanthropy isn't necessarily bad or immoral, I often think it provides a better platform for ethical behaviour than cheap optimism. Zizek chats about this iirc

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Rarity posted:

But with hope, courage and socialisation programs we may yet reintegrate one day :unsmith:

They will reintegrate with us

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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efb

Bobby Deluxe posted:

I don't know what to think about it really. Obviously censorship is bad because you drive it underground and it crystalises around places like 8chan and voat. But just leaving discussion of this poo poo out in the open where any idiot can be influenced by it is equally bad.

Historically censorship and deplatforming (unplatforming?) works really well at breaking up extremism, man. It's very difficult to rebuild communities when everyone is scattered to the wind, and a lot of people are too lazy and/or not dedicated enough to seek out offshoot groups. It doesn't end the problem but it's infinitely better than leaving it out in the open, because simple exposure to, for example, far right talking points does a lot to influence people whether they like it or not.

Barry Foster fucked around with this message at 11:20 on Aug 7, 2019

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Tesseraction posted:

Prestor Jane spoke about how getting probated on SA helped her deradicalise from being raised in a death cult because she couldn't stop angrily reading D&D/LF but was unable to post to retort, and ended up realising D&D was correct.

And now she's one of the most strident (if a little OTT) posters in D&D. I guess our idiot system works

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Rarity posted:

Anyone who watches Mrs Brown Boys deserves the :thermidor: and I don't think there's anyone alive who would judge me for that

It's so bad. It's surreal how bad it is. It's so bad it's genuinely disorientating

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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gently caress the police

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Jose posted:

being raised in a cult does weird things to a person. she still uses way too many words per post

And she has a way of making her every post about how much smarter she is than everyone else. And her theoretical system is not the paradigm-shifting revelation she thinks it is.

BUT she's really good at slapping down the many pathetic liberals that inhabit the USPOL thread, and that covers a multitude of sins

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Don't see this rules-lawyering making a lick of difference myself

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Forums slow.

No es bueno.

Do we need to sacrifice a poster to Lowtax?

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Tarnop posted:

Re-indexing for search according to the Awful app thread

Unacceptable. I'm a self-sufficient poster and am quite capable of reading my own posts, I don't need to search for anyone else's.

Looks like we're back though, so some lucky Incorrect poster's been spared the pyre

Rarity posted:

I searched it for your good posts.

I couldn't find any.

oh poo poo

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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A Buttery Pastry posted:

I can totally imagine a show called Law & Order, presenting the audience with a God's Eye version of events, that is a total condemnation of police/justice system worship. Just have the show be a constant parade of officers shooting people for carrying toy pistols/cars/nothing, detectives railroading them, and politicians defending this. Like, don't even have a tragic "This is what the officer thought they saw and they're real sorry" clip to contrast with what really happened, just film shootings from the point of the cops while clearly showing that the person isn't a threat at all.

I mean, it'd be ACAB the show, but Law & Order would be a totally appropriate name. Whether you could get it made is another matter - it's one thing to have a show that says "people within the justice system can be corrupt", it's quite another to say "the justice system is corrupt".

I guess the closest thing to this is The Wire but even then some of the po-lice are occasionally portrayed as trying to do the right thing even if not a one of them are actually good people

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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namesake posted:

If you're that confident that the structure of British legal society is so complicit and/or incompetent then why even care about parliament? You're saying there's no possible gains to be made on a procedural basis so why bother whether they're being fair to Corbyn or not because you can only progress by destroying it all.

Obviously you have to try regardless but surely if we've learnt anything it's that pessimism is hardly unwarranted

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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CoolCab posted:

i know it's a lol biden brain thing, but lmao poor may biden literally can't remember her name

It is lol but it's hard to overstate how rapidly his brain is rotting into soup

He'll make a wonderful 46

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Jose posted:

I'm surprised trepanation isn't making a comeback since phrenology seems to be

Phrenology is a lot more amenable to racism

Barry Foster fucked around with this message at 11:49 on Aug 9, 2019

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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forkboy84 posted:

Is it a hot take to say that some police do try to do the right thing on occasion? Because ACAB doesn't mean literally every copper is scum, I always took it as more of a generalisation about the institution. In that respect The Wire is very right because the takeaway is that a handful of decent people trying to do the right thing makes gently caress all difference when the institution is as utterly hosed as policing is. That's why The Wire was good, because it pointed out that every institution in modern Baltimore is hosed because of politics and special interests and corruption. Individually there's well intentioned people in the police but there's also far more lazy grifters, morons, yes-men, thugs and politicians. It's not Breaking Bad in making the bad people cool, but it does do a terrific job of pointing out that the gangsters and dealers are people and some of them are good people in a poo poo place and some of them are absolutely as scummy as Commissioner Burrell.

Obviously it doesn't have any real answers to this, and none of its observations ever make it past liberalism but as far as a liberal criticism of the current world it was pretty good even if most stuff influenced by it since has the subtlety of a brick to the testicles.

Oh yeah, for sure, I was being a bit facetious, The Wire makes it very clear who and what is to blame, and to its credit even the main cast occasionally get in on blatant police brutality. As you say though it doesn't really point to any conclusions and I guess I'm just leery of police protagonist poo poo in general nowadays (he says as he compulsively rewatches it).

Like Boots Riley's criticism of BlackkKlansman

Edit - oh and what happened to your friend is loving terrible, Camrath, and whatever happens I hope that therapist gets nailed. Defo get your friend an account though

Barry Foster fucked around with this message at 14:25 on Aug 9, 2019

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Guavanaut posted:

David Simon gets a lot more shouty about systemic issues in his written work than you'd get away with on television, but still stops short of radical solutions. I like his rant at middle class white America from the end of The Corner.

Which makes it all the more disappointing that he's been very 'we need sensible Democratic Party Politics back' and (iirc) critical of Sanders. It's like, goddamn, you made a series where the end boss is obviously capitalism seemingly without realising it

Also, :hfive: Camrath and soon-to-be goon

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Camrath posted:

Yeah I've made sure that's clear.

Though I'll say the forums are a hell of a lot nicer than five or ten or fifteen years ago, that might be a function of not going past the bookmarked threads in my control panel for years..

I think most of the specialist threads have always been fine, or if there is beef it's a dumb slap fight about which camera lens or cpu or whatever is best. It's mostly just GBS and FYAD that have been cesspits. And even then both have produced some pretty great stuff...

I am glad the 'poison womb' days are gone though

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Sanford posted:

Wait wait wait have we checked what’s this woman’s crisp opinions are before we invite her to our sacred space

She will endure The Trials just as all those who have preceded her. Worry not, comrade Sanford.

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Rarity posted:

She'd better be down with chocolate oranges though :colbert:

That's a direct yes/no question, and the first of the Trials. Only one has given the Incorrect answer and has lived to post, and He Shall Not Be Named


forkboy84 posted:

imprinting ideas on the book that the author didn't even put there.

*coughs a syllable that sounds suspiciously like 'barthes'*

Barry Foster fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Aug 9, 2019

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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OwlFancier posted:

I would advocate for the approach of abandoning the notion of socially acceptable things to like and go instead with your actual brain. If you like playing d&d then good, you're having fun with people you like. The point of living, if it can be said to have any point, is to enjoy it, collectively.

People who put stock in being cool are thick..

This is correct. Read classic literature or whatever because it is worthwhile, but only do so if you want to. Otherwise you're just setting yourself up to fail.

It's not quite the same but I don't read nearly as much as I would like to/used to right now, but that's because I simply don't have the energy or motivation to do much that involves active concentration. It sucks but I'm trying to remind myself there's no right way to be and I'm not at fault

Edit I am re-reading the Silmarillion at bedtime, because it's a fine sleep aid lol

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Tarnop posted:

Yeah, this is solid advice. My particular blend of brain-wrong is anxiety, perfectionism, and depression, so seeking external validation and worrying myself down to a nub about enjoying things wrong is really the core of it. Trying to unlearn overthinking everything is a nightmare, like operating on your own broken arm but you have to use that arm to do it.

How do you do, fellow me?

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Klepsie posted:

I am also advised that I should confess that I don't eat chocolate oranges, or chocolate at all, as part of my gritty smack battle to lose some effing weight. (She says, remembering Camrath's home made fudge guiltily)

...acceptable. There may be further questions on crisp flavours though.

Welcome to the thread! We're very glad you're here.

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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I'm trying to figure out the consequences and so far my reaction is either 'lol' or 'oh poo poo'

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Guavanaut posted:

More like a great day to
https://twitter.com/esoapbox/status/1130471528515145728

e: ^ Loud Angry Dad Sectarians vs. Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists

Owns

Jose posted:

the old man who stopped the nazi shooter in norway kicked the poo poo out of the nazi

https://twitter.com/mollycrabapple/status/1160940463744069632?s=20

Owns

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

John McDonnell just invited me out for an Indian

I hope he's surprisingly down to earth, and VERY funny

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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NotJustANumber99 posted:

Is this a death threat?

I didn't say anything about getting in the sea now did i

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Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Lol I somehow didn't realise that limmy only said that about people who've died. I dumb

In that case I hope he's got his head in the clouds and doesn't make you laugh once

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