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OwlFancier posted:Who the gently caress is bez he looks like pound shop bruce forsyth. Mate. How? How don't you know Bez, the pulled up guy who danced and shook maracas for the Happy Mondays 30 years ago?
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mehall posted:Can this weather gently caress off please? My parents front lawn is already looking burnt like it's mid July. I've been enjoying it mostly, chilling in the garden reading old comics and just doing nothing but reading and drinking tea, think my arms are going to end up tanned for the first time in donkey years. At least last night ruled, was 10C and felt like 5C. Great sleep
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AutismVaccine posted:Thats the most tinfoily thing i read here for a while. What the gently caress are you on about? Because our filth aren't quite at the level of American policing (mainly because they aren't all armed rather than anything magic about our polis) we can't complain about them? Get out of here with that bollocks.
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Yeah, I think the pandemic (or more accurately the isolation & lockdown) has been really bad for the general mental well being. People just don't have the ready access to their normal support networks, they can't just hug a friend, all these little basic things you can take for granted. Fortunately for me I'm exceedingly comfortable with my own company so I've been well equipped for the long hours alone. I'm learning Russian with Duolingo, I'm reading so drat many old comic books, I'm slowly savouring Yakuza 4 now I finished 3. I haven't run out of my SSRIs which helps me enormously. But I have noticed others struggling with it all and as much as I personally think we need to keep the lockdown in place for longer I'm also worried about how most people would react to that, or to a 2nd wave of Covid-19 that leads to a tightening of restrictions.
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josh04 posted:"extrovert" and "introvert" were invented by Myers-Briggs to sell more personality tests, don't believe the hype. Introvert is a useful short-hand regardless of what the initial intention of the term was. I'm not using it as a guiding principle for how to live my life but even before I got really bad social anxiety I was intensely comfortable with my own company for extended periods of time.
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CGI Stardust posted:I've found having a routine helpful. Previously whenever I got stuck inside, I turned into a capital-G Gamer or compulsive social media refresher; stopping that at the moment by having a schedule of stuff to do a little of each day even if feeling a bit poo poo, just so I can have a checklist of ways in which progress is still happening somewhere. Also mostly avoiding news, it's generally lovely and doesn't help. I'm probably talking with friends actually more (Discord, phone etc) since we're all stuck around. It's not easy. It took a couple weeks (could've been more, time no longer makes sense) just to wrap my head around the alphabet. And I don't really think Duolingo is the best way to learn grammar so I'll probably need to get a textbook at some point. I've been enjoying Alex Navarro's lockdown Euro Truck Simulator streams because he ofte puts on Russian language radio which is surprisingly helpful. Trying to think of an example that catches me out. Любит is like but some times it's люблю and hosed if I can work out which should be used when. That said, I've been doing it for 3 months and I'm only doing 15-30 minutes a day and I was shite at languages in school and I certainly can sense improvement. So I guess it's no harder than any other language really, once you wrap your head around the alphabet. Easier than learning a load of Kanji or whatever. And it is surprising me how satisfying it has been.
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IrvingWashington posted:A goon applied to the Solidarity Fund today but they do not have PMs and are not on Discord. Now I can't stop thinking the person in charge of the solidarity fund is the bloke from the KLF wot set fire to a million quid
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Jun 2, 2020 17:49
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Ms Adequate posted:B99 hurts me because it's copoganda while also being one of the best shows on TV Half the shows I watch are some sort of cop bullshit. Homicide, the hundred different Law & Orders, that dumb Bones show. I'm pretty sure it's a) cop shows are a simple way to do mystery stories/whodunnits & b) it's one of the few types of shows you don't have to watch the entire series to follow it. Sometimes I just want a monster of the week story, tune in for 1 episode, forget all about it. Which if you told me would be my opinion a decade ago I'd not have believed you. Stuff like Breaking Bad & Game of Thrones broke the serialised drama for me.
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Bobstar posted:The best whodunnit is House, because it doesn't need cops, and the bad guys are germs Yeah, House is the sort of mindless rot I can watch and the only shame is it's not repeated endlessly on Freeview after 10pm, unlike the other shows I watch. Because 10pm is about when I park myself in front of the telly for a couple hours before bed.
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Jun 2, 2020 20:18
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Niric posted:I think I missed the start of police show chat, so apologies if someone has already done the whole just watch the loving Wire already post, but it's been noticeably absent from all the pages I read. It's because we were talking shows which are more mystery of the week than serialized prestige drama. But obviously yes, The Wire is terrific and one of the few prestige dramas that is worth all the praise.
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Jun 3, 2020 09:28
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peanut- posted:The Shield is just a fun TV show, The Wire is a genuine masterpiece. Though i really wish David Simon didn't have a Twitter account (something that holds true for a lot of creators I used to greatly respect). The Shield is much in the vein of Justified or the first 2 seasons of Sons of Anarchy, exceptionally fun, kind of dumb. Could probably throw Oz in there too. Cracking shows. Well, SoA wasn't but the start was good, and Henry Rollins as a Nazi thug was loving terrifying.
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Jun 3, 2020 12:57
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peanut- posted:Justified has got to be the worst offender among "bad" police TV shows. Raylan Givens is unspeakably terrible at his job and just arbitrarily executes anyone he didn't work down a coal mine with all the time. I mean yes but at least everyone is constantly pointing out what a fuckup Raylan is. He's a staggeringly unsympathetic protagonist really. A lot of it is that I sometimes wonder if Raylan Givens thinks he's Sheriff Bullock from Deadwood rather than a 21st century lawman in a decidedly less And yes, sure, most of the people he kills are technically in self-defence but he's usually setting it up so he needs to make a kill in self-defence. He's a loving lunatic but also the show is exceedingly fun. And yes, an awful lot of that is on Goggins, one of the finest character actors of his generation. But Raylan Givens being a dumbass murder machine helps.
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Jun 3, 2020 13:43
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MeinPanzer posted:As a longtime appreciator of Simon's shows who has never followed him on Twitter, can you explain? What show did he write himself into as a hero? Also, I thought he generally had good political opinions? He's a lib. And he's Gus in Season 5 of The Wire iirc
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Only white collar criminals should lose the vote and all of the middle class are criminals
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Jedit posted:Have you considered the possibility that it's so a man doesn't accidentally walk in on a woman in the toilet, or vice versa? Lock the door mate.
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The only way my morale will be improved by a new Royal Yacht is if we taxpayers all get a time share of it. I bagsy 2 weeks next July.
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Pablo Bluth posted:Police horses are literal slaves. They are forced to work against their own self-interest for the betterment of their owners. A BLM is exactly the protest where protesters should have the welfare of police horses as a concern. Oh go away. "Another form of racism". https://twitter.com/inthesedeserts/status/1269355157281800192?s=20 forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Jun 6, 2020 |
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Pablo Bluth posted:Horses might not have the the developed brains of homo sapiens but they are fully capable of suffering psychology damage from long term abuse. Yes, nobody is denying that, they are simply laughing at the ridiculous language you chose to use which makes you sound like a bad right wing comedian's parody of a vegan
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Jun 6, 2020 21:16
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ThomasPaine posted:lol I called out dumb facebook lady who thinks 'bootlicker' is a racist term comparable to the n-word after finding a bunch of examples of pretty explicitly anti-racist groups like *checks notes* the Black Panther Party using it, anyway the good faith disappeared very quickly and apparently I'm a white nationalist or something now, idk, it was difficult to parse the borderline incoherent paragraphs of text. Just tell her that she's racist for thinking black people lick boots.
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Jun 7, 2020 22:15
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a pipe smoking dog posted:I've been willing to give starmer a lot more leeway than most of you lot but that was loving abysmal. Sure, he was abysmal. But he was abysmal in such a forensic manner!
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Algol Star posted:https://www.theguardian.com/comment...ative-overnight Why does a "cultural critic" writing an article about science?
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lol, I knew I'd be in a fight to post this with you, you win. This tweet is so good
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punk rebel ecks posted:Saw this on my Facebook feed: If I was less lazy I'd go on that Facebook page & pointed out people hated Churchill in his loving life time. It's not like "Churchill is a divisive figure" is anything but a statement of fact.
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Jun 8, 2020 20:35
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Miss Hitler? As in women dressed up to look like Adolf Hitler? Or Eva Hitler? Nah, just a beauty pageant for racists if IIRC. Remember reading about it the first I heard about National Action
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Borrovan posted:He could, like, actually try to influence politics, being a politician and all. That would be wrong to do because Labour lost the general election you see.
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Borrovan posted:Ah yes, I forgot we switched to a presidential system I believe it happened sometime after 1997.
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Jun 9, 2020 15:41
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Well, I never heard of urethral sounding before. I'm so impressed you managed to miss the dozens of times certain people have talked about it in this thread!
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Jun 9, 2020 16:33
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thespaceinvader posted:I posted this a few days ago, it's a nonsense survey with horrible questions and they're collecting emails. I'm not giving them my loving email, but I'm hoping the resident computer touchers might be able to find a quiet way to gently caress with the data or something. So far I've not gotten anything from them yet & I answered it several days ago
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Jun 9, 2020 16:39
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Jose posted:there was an old EN thread about a posters 13 year old brother nearly dying from septicemia twice and not knowing what caused it and then it turned out he was sticking cotton buds down his dick loving nora, when I was 13 I'm not even sure I'd started wanking yet.
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Guavanaut posted:I'm certain it was later than that, wikipedia says That makes more sense. I definitely remember Golliwogs on my mum's marmalade jars & I was also born in '84. '88 would be far too early. Jose posted:litearlly none of the people being racist in the report have suffered any kind of punishment This picture would be less uncomfortable if there was a cotton bud stuck up Kier's penis.
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Jun 9, 2020 18:48
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DeadButDelicious posted:Little Britain is gone from iPlayer and Netflix, and Come Fly With Me gone from Netflix too. Imagine if Graham Linehan's reaction to being questioned on lovely thing in his old shows was as reasonable as Matt Lucas's here? Okay, I don't think black face was actually acceptable when this show was on either, but at least he's not gotten completely broken by the mild criticism.
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OwlFancier posted:https://twitter.com/paul_tyndale/status/1270416824379879429 This is perfection. I want to kiss this tweet it's so good. Cannot tell if it's real or parody.
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Beefeater1980 posted:The chunk of text you quoted says that Gladstone “opposed slavery but wished to improve the conditions of the slaves” He's a liberal. Nigel Lawson, Thatcher's Chancellor for most of the '80s, regarded him as the greatest Chancellor of all-time. Hayek admired Gladstonian liberalism. Gladstonian liberals were among the most strident critics of the People's Budget of Lloyd-George which as well as introducing a higher rate of income tax for those earning over £2,000 & tried to implement some Georgist ideas. Where the gently caress do you get the idea that leftists attacking this guy is somehow odd? Christ, one of the worst Labour Chancellors of all time, Philip Snowden, who hosed up the response to the depression precisely because was a Gladstonian liberal.
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Are people finally coming around to the idea they are loving imbeciles for voting for this prick?
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Prince John posted:People really need to stop giving Liz Truss jobs. He was a racist old shite. It's important people make this case. As a white bloke I'd not die on the hill but wouldn't blame someone else for wanting to at least start the debate that the hagiography of Churchill is loving gross.
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DeadButDelicious posted:Huh, wonder what this group are about... It's also worth remembering who they are named after. Henry "Scoop" Jackson was a Democrat Senator from Washington from the 50s until his death in 1983. He was a rabid Cold Warrior who moaned that Eisenhower wasn't spending enough on national defence, opposed the SALT missile treaty, had on his staff & various points noted Bush era nightmares Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz & Bill Kristol, oh yeah and was a big proponent of Japanese-American internment during WW2 & after the war supported attempts to try & restrict them from returning to their homes on the Pacific coast. Some guy.
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Julio Cruz posted:Darren Grimes We all saw your request, we just ignored it. He's a talking head regularly on the BBC, unlike Tweetman who has no national presence outside of Twitter. Until the BBC bans him he's entirely fair game for the thread imo
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Cerv posted:it's a vital service for all the the undersigned posters in this thread who want to read his tweets but for some reason don't just sign up for a twitter account and follow him My Twitter is carefully curated to only follow people I agree with. I'd never poison it by following Grimey
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