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Continuity NIP posted:If you're in the North but not North enough to be Scotland you should be in the Northern Independence Party Ah, the eternal delusion that if parts of the UK split away, they will somehow be innocent of the empire.
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Continuity NIP posted:Our position is that the north constitutes a nation in waiting, we don't have a position on guilt re: empire What a weird thing to say. What does the fact that I’m a UK/US dual citizen have to do with anything? Am I known as a great booster of American dominance? A tireless defender of a country I’ve literally never lived in? Maybe I should spit on my dead mum’s ashes for daring to be from a place. Good to know that immediately springing to having a pop at someone’s heritage after the mildest criticism is a preview of the attitude of an independent Northern England. Also, regardless of your party’s position, the North is 100% culpable in imperial crimes. I seem to remember ships launched from Liverpool getting into some shenanigans.
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This is extremely trivial, but here's one of the stupidest Guardian columns in a while: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/nov/29/i-raised-my-kids-on-pixar-and-it-has-ruined-classic-cinema-for-them Even if you're not a fan of Pixar, saying that Up is like some kind of attention-span-shrinking frenzy might be one of the weirdest opinions I've ever seen. So often when I read Guardian columns like this I am just agape that someone actually paid actual money for this to be written.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Its interesting that the phrase is explicitly linked with doctor who in particular rather than just generally scary TV. With doctor who going back to the sixties I suppose it could be that the families with TVs were wealthier and had larger houses? But I think maybe also that the TV was a less dominant feature of the home at that point, both culturally and physically. So families might temporarily draw out a sofa into the centre of the room for the family to watch a particular show on a much smaller tv screen than today's larger ones that occupy pride of place in many lounges across the country. TVs used to be smaller, so you had to sit closer. Also, Doctor Who is and always has been a children's show, so hiding behind the sofa when the Daleks turned up is something a lot of people probably actually did. An adult isn't going to hide behind the sofa because they're scared watching the Texas Chainsaw Massacre or whatever.
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Dec 1, 2020 16:33
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My 55-inch LG CX television is probably the closest thing I will ever have to a child.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:I like motion smoothing, but I've been ruined by years of videogames and think it looks fine. I would say that videogames haven't ruined your eyes enough, as having seen plenty of real 60fps footage, motion smoothing sticks out a mile. Especially when large, fast moves are made, you can tell that the in-between frames are all wrong. Motion smoothing is an abomination, but I am absolutely ride-or-die for the auto-HDR on my lovely LG CX, though from what I've seen all the AV snobs look down their nose at it. Obviously real HDR is preferable, but on everything else auto-HDR is a revelation. It's like having a "double production value" button on my remote. I was watching Babylon Berlin on my old TV when I got the new one, and before I liked it a lot but thought it looked rather bland. After, it suddenly looks like a gorgeous noir film, as it's obviously supposed to. Babylon Berlin is incredible, by the way, everyone should watch it.
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Speaking of TV: https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1333816482913001475 Oh goody. At least it's got an incredibly SEO-unfriendly name. Comrade Fakename fucked around with this message at 19:07 on Dec 1, 2020 |
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crispix posted:anthropomorphised fray bentos would kick the poo poo out of those pies That goes without saying, doesn’t it? If pies could fight, Frey Bentos would be the meanest pie in the game.
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I'm not really a fan of Gavin and Stacey, but there was one good episode where the whole plot revolved around the Essex family organising a protest against a mobile phone mast because of the terrifying radiation, while all through the ep all the characters constantly complain about how bad their phone reception is, and how the phone company should do something about it.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Nah this was on the way to LA - I don't think it was my laughing he was appalled by, just that it attracted his attention to the screen where this was happening: Got to say, it's not the DeVito sex scene that I would be worried about people taking out of context.
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stev posted:Honestly the hardest thing about going back into the office is I won't be able to have a little lie down whenever I want. Hmmm, a “lie down”, is it? I think you could do better as a euphemism.
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Jose posted:its so extremely poo poo I don't see any reference to a Jewish puppetmaster? It's loving terrible anyway, what is even meant to be the thematic link between Keith and foxes?
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Dec 3, 2020 14:41
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Dabir posted:"Better check with the NEC whether foxes are kosher" is the line being referred to I really don't want to defend this poo poo, but that's a pretty massive stretch. It's a joke about the NEC legislating on anti-semitic stuff. It's not a nod to Jewish puppetmasters.
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josh04 posted:Ah, right on cue: Just doing Spitting Image but actually well might be the hardest comedy burn I've ever seen. If this guy wasn't left wing he'd already have a TV show.
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Practically every day I open Twitter in the morning to see Naga Munchetty trending, because she asked some basic questions of a Tory. Today I see this: https://twitter.com/expressceleb/status/1334773623505219585 This is actually a story about one of Naga's co-workers leaving BBC Breakfast, and her saying goodbye to them.
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I imagine there is a lot of overlap in the group of people who want to go to a football game during a pandemic and racists. Anyway, lol, I’d never seen this clip: https://twitter.com/owenjones84/status/1335174509171781633
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Vitamin P posted:They really do don't they?
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I love that the government are running TV ads compelling businesses to prepare for the transition at the end of the month, but with no deal signed we have no idea what we’re transitioning into, and it’s impossible to prepare.
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Borrovan posted:Points aren't so much gamification as a way to pass the responsibility of making your employees feel appreciated onto the employees themselves because the boss can't be hosed, imo Isn't "a voucher thingy you could spend anywhere" just money?
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Boris doesn't get the credit he deserves for not coming up with an operation name that includes a racial slur.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:70% of britons are born on 2 islands I was only born on one island.
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This is the most pathetic thing I’ve ever seen.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:It's so ridiculous how far ahead of the rest of the country TfL is, and yet nationalising public transport beyond The Trains doesn't ever seem to get even a mention. I think there was some vague noises in the 2019 Labour manifesto about improving bus services, but even that seemed a bit half-hearted. The 2019 manifesto had a commitment to nationalise the entire bus network and introduce thousands of new routes.
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Attractive Tories are the worst ones. At least if they're hideous you can guess why their soul might have been twisted.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:What we're all going to be eating after January 1st. So, human breasts.
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I think the plan from the Tories was, and to an extent still is, to play brinksmanship and signal that you’re totally willing to commit national suicide and have no deal so that you hold the upper hand in negotiations. So it’s them trying to attract us not to do a terrible thing for everyone, instead of us begging for scraps to keep our country afloat. However, I also think that a lifetime of propaganda, and ramping up in intensity over the last few years, has been swallowed by the idiots in charge, and every day the thoughts of “you know what, we SHOULD do no deal, Britannia rules the waves, we’ll bounce back stronger than ever, good old Blighty sneers in the face of foreign cowards, and we’re such brain geniuses we’re the perfect people to guide the country through these waters, and also our supporters will go mental if we seem to capitulate” grow stronger and stronger in what suffices for a mind in these people.
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Personally, I'd say that The Guardian is the most powerful newspaper in the country. Overall, the right-wing press is more powerful, but that power is diffuse - it's easy to look at the front pages of those papers and see different nuances, some backing Boris to the hilt, others starting to undermine him in favour of Rishi or Gove or someone. But if you're not a Tory, there is only one newspaper to read (other than the non-entity that is the Mirror) and that's The Guardian. So there's just a huge, and generally relatively powerful, chunk of the country that just takes its word as gospel. In fact, the idea that someone who isn't a Tory wouldn't like it is just bizarre to them. These are the people who hate Corbyn but can't actually articulate why.
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I don't really put much credence into the "MI5 forced the Guardian to hate Corbyn" theories, because that doesn't really explain why all its writers vociferously defend it on Twitter. The newspaper does seem to accurately reflect the worldview of the people who write it, it doesn't seem like anyone has been coerced.
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Here's the call, btw: https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1338460360114905089
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sebzilla posted:
Unfortunately, he was not in fact, a great replacement.
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I think there would literally have to be bodies piling up in the streets for the Tories to cancel Christmas.
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Vitamin P posted:The writers defend their employer, that's not wierd. When I got my first part-time job at GAME I would have defended GAME to the death because GAME was why I had £557 in my bank account each month, it isn't more complicated than that. The writers being poo poo is easily explained and less interesting than the readers being poo poo. Are you saying that all the Guardian journos actually really liked Corbyn, but just trashed him both in the pages of their newspaper and then also every loving where else for half a decade just out of a forelock-tugging deference to their bosses? You know the editors of the Guardian never stood up on a milk crate in the office to announce that they officially hate Corbyn from now on? I’ve never seen any evidence that the political beliefs of these idiots aren’t sincerely held by them. Comrade Fakename fucked around with this message at 10:27 on Dec 15, 2020 |
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Christmas is good. It’s nothing to do with Christianity, or capitalism. It’s just an excuse to have a party, be with your loved ones, eat nice food and share presents, all in the dead of winter when we’re all cold and miserable. There’s no need to rationalise it further.
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therattle posted:Christmas can be good, but as someone who doesn't celebrate it, what I mostly see is an ENORMOUS amount of pressure put onto people to spend a lot of money they may not be able to afford on the perfect Christmas with a huge amount of food, expensive presents, etc. It's an orgy of marketing-led consumption, and it's pretty gross. No doubt there is a kernel of peace, light and love at the centre but it's really obscured. The solution is that you should just celebrate Christmas. There is literally no reason not to. It's like saying "I don't celebrate the August Bank Holiday". It's a day off work, in the summer. Maybe you can go on a short holiday somewhere, maybe you can take another day down the pub with your friends, maybe play a videogame you've not had time to get to. Christmas really isn't much more than that. Who cares about the commercialisation? Capitalism works every other day of the year too. It's not about "peace, light and love", it's about a party in the winter. That's it.
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therattle posted:I'm Jewish. We have had gatherings of friends on/around Xmas and it's nice but the day itself has zero significance. Christmas is a secular holiday so there's really no reason not to celebrate it if you're Jewish. But it sounds like you do anyway but with the day just shifted a bit. Because all Christmas is is a party in the winter. forkboy84 posted:This is so dumb, even to someone who has mostly thrown off his Grinchiness and enjoys it as a rare time me, my folks and sister and brother-in-law are all in one house at the same time. I'm single, everyone in my family who I chose to associate with are dead, and I don't have many friends. Don't lecture me about loneliness at Christmas. I've got two weeks off work, I'm going to relax, play Cyberpunk, watch telly, eat some good food and make myself a big meal on Christmas day specifically. I'm looking forward to it, it's going to be nice. Just because my circumstances are bad is no reason to be resentful of other people having a good time, when the good time we're talking about is celebrating with family.
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forkboy84 posted:I wasn't, I was lecturing you about not being quite so smug and maybe accepting that people are allowed to not enjoy the things they don't enjoy. Great that you cope how you cope, let others cope how they want. "Smug" is a pretty weird way to describe someone who just told you they'll be spending Christmas alone because their family is dead, but okay. Obviously people feel however they want as according to their own circumstances, but there's no point acting like there's anything wrong with there being one day a year where the vast majority of people have a good time. Christmas is a collection of ancient pagan religious festivals that have been defunct for many centuries and has been co-opted by modern society into a non-religious excuse to, again, have a party in the winter. All the Christians managed to do is staple a name onto it. Incidentally, Easter is exactly the same thing in the spring, but the Christians didn't even manage to get the name for that one.
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Borrovan posted:Yeah I know the Christmas one is almost certainly true to the extent that nobody even has any alternative proposition anymore, but, uh... what? Easter, just like Christmas, is a mish-mash of ancient pagan fertility celebrations, so much so that it is literally named after the pagan fertility god Oestre (as in oestrogen). All the signifiers of Easter - eggs, bunny rabbits, green fields - have nothing to do with Christian symbology (beyond an after-the-fact rationalisation that it's something to do with "rebirth" or whatever). Christians have a better excuse for the date, but it barely effects the actual celebration.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Ukmt I need your expertise in all things food to answer me the following question I think it's meant to be a hedgehog? Camrath posted:Random coincidence- Clarissa from TFL was my godmother. You're way too posh for this thread.
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