VideoGames posted:

I will do my best to endure. There are also plans should the worst happen and I start to go all Diablo.
It involves monster munch and feeding me the one true evil flavour. The regulars will know what to do.

gh0stpinballa posted:

hopefully swinson's obvious agenda will serve to poison the enthusiasm of lib dem voters. already seeing some of them looking again at that voting record and putting 2 and 2 together.

gh0stpinballa posted:

what i think (hope) we'll find is lib dem supporters who are only there for the brexit culture war realising they've been had and that the lib dems are still the same party as before but with a thin smear of remain progressivism over the same old anti-left, tory-lite ugliness. the piss diamond cult is irredeemable but i think there are a fair few potential labour voters to scoop up there.

Rarity posted:

Can confirm that I am also Angepain, Miftan, Tesseraction and ronya.

Guavanaut posted:

Tesseraction posted:

It's the date of unconditional surrender from the German forces. 8 days after 2 shots rang out from the Hitlerbunker. Sometimes called VE-day for "Victory in Europe" day since America still had some Asian civilians to genocide.

Rarity posted:

So according to Google poggers is an alt-right thing?

floofyscorp posted:

I looked up the origins of pogchamp/poggers recently because I had to explain to my manager why our youngest programmer says 'pogchamp' when he's excited about something.

It's silly. A streamer won a pog tournament and his expression of triumph was funny enough to turn into an emote. That's it.

coffeetable posted:

tangent, but: some friends were chatting about the being-bullied-for-nerd-interests-which-are-now-cool thing the other night, and at least in our case hindsight has revealed we were actually being bullied for being awkward/weird/undersocialized. then there was a feedback loop where we dived into certain insular interests because no-one wanted to hang out with us, and then you get a cycle of bullied -> insular interests -> undersocialized -> bullied.

e: and thinking about it now, the awkwardness/weirdness/undersocializedness had some direct contribution to being chosen as targets, and some indirect contribution because it meant we had no allies or alternate group to escape into

bump_fn posted:

no they were saying its being trad cath thats stupid

Camrath posted:

Talking of which, when's the planned release? Got to drive from London to north of Wigan for a larp thing tomorrow and could really use good talking-noises to keep the M6 from driving me to suicide.

Kitfox88 posted:

https://twitter.com/milkmedianewyor/status/1179152071431524352?s=20

Guavanaut posted:

Queen Elizabeth II enters the room. She is also a boat.

Junior G-man posted:

Brenda is the oldest-known Transformer. No wonder she hangs out with Anthony Hopkins.

Barry Foster posted:

Mushrooms are loving weird when you think about it


That is an eyeball shroom, are we even looking at the same picture

Barry Foster posted:

White and gold or blue and black?

Private Speech posted:

Always though bread with oil and salt would work out pretty well calorie-per-pound-wise.

Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

Get Tae/To gently caress chat has been fascinating, but none of it explains what in the hell ISF meant with Get The gently caress.

sebzilla posted:

It's more the "live in my house and pay 92% of my mortgage for me" factor.

Lord of the Llamas posted:

By this logic nobody should live with anyone ever pretty much. If your landlord (or flatmate, or spouse,...) is acting lovely you're probably going to want to get out of that situation as soon as is reasonably possible; knowing your rights is obvious an important part of that.


Well the article sort of implies it includes bills and it's hard to make a subjective judgement on the price without knowing what normal rents are in that area. I just think it's ridiculous to dogpile on this and act as if it's exactly the same as BTL landlordism and it therefore unadulterated a priori evil when it's not.

Lord of the Llamas posted:

We don't know how reasonable or unreasonably the £400 a month is. The £436 payment on a 30 year term suggests a mortgage of around £90,000 which may or may not be a large proportion of the value. And as already stated it's possible that includes bills too. I just don't agree with the "it would be morally superior to leave the spare room empty than ever rent it out" logic going on here.

Bobstar posted:

We lived in our rented flat in London for 7 years. The management wasn't too bad, compared to some of the stuff you hear, but most years we'd get a letter that boiled down to "the rent is going up because everybody else is doing it!"

Remember, if there's such a thing as a "fair price" for accommodation, then it's fair in the absolute (or maybe relative to wages?), not relative to the ~~market~~

That Italian Guy posted:

I'm actually intrigued by the moral ramification of this thing and where the line in the sand gets drawn to the point where someone becomes bad. All these are hypothetical questions w/o a real case in mind.

1) Let's say: you have inherited wealth in the form of an apartment because your parents/grandparents/relatives generation was wealthier, but are now living with a minimum wage job and have no other forms of income. You decide to rent the second room in this apartment to someone to make sure you/your family are able to get to the end of the month. Are you a "landlord" (in the sense of "all landlords are bad")?

At what point in the slider scale you go from being "bad" to being "good" in this scenario?
2) What if you need some life saving medication and the only way you could afford it is by renting (aka: you are leveraging your capital to meet an unavoidable need)?
3) Would making your room available at X£ to someone who would otherwise be renting a room somewhere else at nX£ be ok (aka: you are making someone happy, but you could make someone happier)?
4) All form of private property is theft, but we live in a world where 99% of what goes on is based around private property. Where do you draw the line between "be the change you want to see in the world" and "there is only X I can do change the world?"

Guavanaut posted:

OwlFancier posted:

Apparently it's from "government documents" that came up in a court case? Rather than from johnson himself.

Rarity posted:

Rent strikes, good if you're a corporation actually

ANYTHING YOU SOW posted:

A new variety of lib dem chart:
https://twitter.com/FoxDefeated/status/1180098926592086017?s=19

Aphex- posted:

Didn't Metallica headline glasto the other year?

Darth Walrus posted:

Actually, yeah, looking into it, antisemitic blood libel does seem to be the oldest major conflation of wealth and vampirism (a literary example would be Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, whose lust for coin is transformed into a lust for blood). It dates all the way back to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, if not further. The Vampyre seems to be the first time it was repackaged into a more sanitary and less racist form.

Darth Walrus posted:

A remarkable number of European mythological monsters seem to be derived from Jewish people - dwarves and goblins are as well. We do actually have a racist fictional monster that emerged quite recently, though - orcs as stand-ins for black people date back to the 1970s, although they also draw on a fair amount of inspiration from interbellum fantasy.

Rustybear posted:

Right but then Boris gets to frame the whole GE as 'I tried as hard as possible and those traitors in parliament connived to stop me' and his base will go nuts for it.

The sight of Ken Clarke or Soubry or whoever gets gulled into being that deputy will galvanise every single gammon the length and breadth of England to march through snow and ice to tell them where to stick it.

ronya posted:

somewhere, nozick's chin itches

Azza Bamboo posted:

ask her opinion on monster munch

Guavanaut posted:

Western imperialism bad, Midwestern imperialism good.

Ms Adequate posted:

Guy is originally from the Middle East so I'm eager for this actually!