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Convex posted:Wait what happened with Shatner, I think I missed that Well famously he was a bit of an arsehole to his costars, though I think they all got in better with him once they stopped having to work with him. Beyond that I don't think there is anything in particular, he's just a bit pompous.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I think we should have a general election. Remember that annual parliamentary elections is the one unfulfilled demand of the people's charter. I think the army also demanded annual elections during the Putney debates. Basically previous generations of British radicals were committed to the idea and our constitution continues to be a terrible let down.
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Jose posted:Election maps is unsurprisingly a melt To be fair I think he is only 17 and at that age i thought Tony Blair was good.
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Mebh posted:Oh hey, this is me. Cringe makes me want to hide behind the sofa more than any monster movie. Yes I'm exactly the same. Hate social awkwardness so I've ended up skipping a lot of comedies people love.
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Jan 3, 2021 22:47
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Yeah rice is really easy to eat with chopsticks. My dad made us learn how to eat with chopsticks at the same time as learning to use a knife and fork and although it was probably the only active parenting decision he ever made it was a good one.
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Grey Hunter posted:Lads school is shut for two weeks, he's already climbing the walls and I'm going to have to work hard to keep him sane, but I can understand the risks. Yeah I'm married to a teacher so I'm inherently biased but to my mind the obvious scale is: hospital staff -> care home staff -> teachers -> most clinically vulnerable -> olds -> everyone else in decreasing age order Though I guess olds are much more likely to vote tory than the preceeding groups in my plan.
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I fully buy the idea of Keir speed-running Ramsay MacDonald and splitting the labour party for a generation without even getting into power first.
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Jan 4, 2021 12:42
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Qwertycoatl posted:A couple of months ago weren't people saying Boris was wrecked by long covid and either planning to retire or sort of step back and have a spokesperson do all his actual work? I think it's a different thing that can't be repeated publicly without being sued but which people have suggested may eventually appear in a foreign newspaper/scandal mag (I have no inside knowledge of this so don't ask, it's just a rumour and you've probably guessed correctly) e: also for clarification I think its probably bollocks and sort of gross "wishful thinking" a pipe smoking dog fucked around with this message at 15:36 on Jan 4, 2021 |
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Jan 4, 2021 15:34
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XMNN posted:he's anti lockdown and goes on talkradio and retweets Paul Watson Oh cool someone got me his book for christmas and thankfully I haven't cracked into it yet
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Jan 5, 2021 15:53
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I haven't checked but I'm assuming the Guardian is still letting John Harris do his weekly "I spoke to some fascists and they are actually very reasonable" videos?
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Jan 7, 2021 13:11
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Filboid Studge posted:It's pretty gross to lump in the English with persecuted minorities. This thread has a big old blind spot around defensive English posters. Yeah I think there are a lot of people in this thread who don't realise just how deeply indoctrinated they are by English imperialism, and think they're good just because they don't like Churchill and know the words to come out ye black and tans
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Jan 9, 2021 10:10
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Yeah I think there are a lot of people in this thread who don't realise just how deeply indoctrinated they are by English imperialism, and think they're good just because they don't like Churchill and know the words to come out ye black and tans To be clear I think English Imperialism is a tool that has been used against the english working class as well as against other nations, but I think English people need to acknowledge how much it has warped their world view and recognise why Englishness is viewed so negatively by others. Simply saying that others need to focus on internationalist solidarity and ignore the negative impacts of England stinks of failing to remove the plank from ones own eye before removing the splinter from your brother's.
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Jan 9, 2021 10:48
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kyojin posted:Is it really the negative impacts of 'England' though, or is it the negative impacts of a small group of million/billion/trillionaires who happened to be from England? I'm asking sincerely - I think it is an important and meaningful distinction. I use England as more of a concept than as a collective description of its people. The, and I don't know exactly to describe it but , "Myth of England" casts a long shadow over these islands and I'm increasingly of the opinion that the people of the Celtic nations might be more able to engage in meaningful internationalist action free of England. I think it might also go someway to breaking the myth of England for the English and end the cultural Toryism that has ruined these islands. To be clear until very recently I would have definitely considered myself a unionist but I now think that given the opportunity I would support Welsh independence. I don't think England or Englishness is an inherent sin of the English, I think it's a tool which has been used to oppress both the Celts and the English and which needs destroying.
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Also sorry if my posts are a bit half baked, it was my birthday yesterday so I'm tired hungover and phone posting but I hope you get my point. Maybe once I've had some coffee I'll do a ronya post on the development of Celtic nationalism and independence movements over the last 100 years.
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Jan 9, 2021 11:13
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kyojin posted:I think that a few powerful members of the 'people of the celtic nations' would consolidate their advantage and exploit all the other less powerful people of the celtic nations, because that is what happens pretty much every single time and its dead weird to think that the people of the celtic nations would somehow be impervious to this by dint of their specific co-ordinates I'm not saying an independent Wales would suddenly emerge fully formed as socialist phoenix (or dragon I guess), I'm saying that the dissolution of the UK could create a space where internationalist socialism would be more possible.
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Jan 9, 2021 11:16
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CoolCab posted:man do you remember that time endlessmonotony declared me a blood and soil fascist for saying guto bebb is a star wars name I don't think you're a fascist at all but honestly your post taking the piss out of Guto Bebb's name is honestly something my mind goes to everytime this thread talks about nationalism, because it is such a perfect example of ingrained english chauvinism . e: it is partially because I have a very Welsh name and English people often assume I'm "foreign"
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Jan 9, 2021 13:07
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CoolCab posted:i mean please finish "blood and soil fascist" when you say "i don't think your a fascist"- i feel like abbreviating it kind of reduces the absurdity of it? like, i'm here pointing out - with no negative connotation whatsoever, just observing the coincidence - and your compromise is i don't think you're a fascist. Man I'm glad you took the fact that I've never called you a fascist to double down on the fact that you think my culture us alien and comically weird.
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Jan 9, 2021 13:22
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CoolCab posted:don't worry with just three easy lessons in endlessmonotony's patented good posting school you too can be a posting superstar like whoever the rattler is! learn incredible lessons like "it's definitely moral, tasteful AND dignified to repeatedly accuse people of being devout nazis for star wars name crimes" Hey CoolCab if anyone else was telling you your behaviour was demeaning and culturally insensitive would you just crack on with it, out might you reflect on the fact you're being lovely and potentially racist?
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Jan 9, 2021 13:55
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CoolCab posted:
I literally never called you a fascist, to the extent that I explicitly said I didn't think you were a fascist. You seem to have just assumed all Welsh posters have some sort of give mind and we've decided you're a Nazi. I just think you are a dick who is unwilling to admit you are making an offensive jibe about an entire culture. You seem like one of those "my free speech" dickheads who don't like the fact they are being called out on their offensive jokes.
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CoolCab posted:no, i think i am pretty explicitly talking about the time endlessmonotony called me a blood and soil fascist for calling guto bebb a star wars name and not uh, assumed something about welsh posters and something something? I'm not going to apologise for what someone else apparently said as a quid quo pro to stop you taking the piss out of my culture.
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Jan 9, 2021 14:15
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Lt. Danger posted:that's a long way to go in defence of a not particularly good joke, Mr Davidson CoolCab please read this post a couple of times and understand that I object to you obsession with defending your right to the "foreign people have weird names" school of 1970s comedy. And for the fourth or fifth time I don't think you're a nazi. I just think you're being a twat.
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forkboy84 posted:It absolutely does. It's funny, thinking it's funny doesn't make you want to join the Third Reich. So what's the solution? Sounds like Welsh people change our names so that English people stop laughing at them? This is definitely not a thing with historical prescendent amongst other nations the English have ruled. Making fun of people from a minority culture for having weird names is the sort of thing this thread normally objects to do I really don't understand it.
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I don't know as I said before I've been mocked for having a Welsh name so maybe I'm taking this too personally but I thought the general tenor of this thread was better than to accept that sort of lowest common denominator bullshit. Guess not.
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Jakabite posted:It's the sort of joke that you shouldn't exactly be pilloried for, but if a Welsh person says 'hey that's not very nice, we get that poo poo a lot', probably just say 'yeah, sorry, no bother'? I feel it's one of them funny observations that you should maybe only make around an audience that doesn't catch that poo poo all the time. Like I'd happily say to one of my closest mates, who's Welsh, 'hey have you heard of this Guto Bebb fella? Do you all sound like Mos Eisly Cantina residents?', because he's one of my best mates and he'd find that funny and knows I don't hate Welsh people or something. Would I make that joke to any other Welsh person, or even in a group of people I don't know very well? No. Would I bring it up randomly out of context at all? Probably not actually because it isn't even that funny unless Guto Bebb has come up in conversation previously. Just jumping back in to say this is a good post and I haven't seen the Social Dilemma
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lol kieth has confirmed that contrary to his campaign promise he will not try to bring back free movement of he becomes pm. I'm sure the fbpes will turn on him any second now...
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Jan 10, 2021 14:17
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stev posted:It makes you wonder what they do get away with when the evidence is quietly eaten by a hungry child in school rather than being sent home for the parents to see. Weird that Keir is wearing a small latex mask of his face over his own face.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Oh yeah he only donated £100,000, it's not like that's a lot of money. I mean on the scale of tory donations thats probably the sort of donation which gets you a lunch with Michael Howard.
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Sanitary Naptime posted:Oh it’s new ideas you want is it? Aren't the followers of the account from the TBEU? It's got to be a bit.
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Jan 16, 2021 23:45
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sebzilla posted:I typo'd kieth as koeth recently and I'm sticking with it. Koeth the raven: "now is not the time for politics"
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Jan 18, 2021 12:13
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stev posted:I'm just gonna give 1p to an unemployed person instead. Doing my bit. When they say 1p they mean 1p on the pound or a 1% increase. It's still horrific but they're not saying they're killing poor people for the sake of saving a penny off people's tax bills.
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Jose posted:i'm not sure why i find that qc melting down about nate bethea so funny I've been really struggling to work out what is going on because the QCs have blocked me despite my never having interacted with then before.
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Guavanaut posted:
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Lobster God posted:This is the most criminal thing in this post This is worse than BYOB reggae
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Jan 22, 2021 22:41
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big scary monsters posted:How is it legal to give someone a warning over sick leave? What the gently caress. Yeah that sort of poo poo is very standard. I work in management and once a year I get an angry email from HR telling me some member of my team has been too ill and needs to face some sort of formal disciplinary action. I just ignore it and then get an email from HR a week later telling me how important it is that I look out for the mental well-being of employees.
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kecske posted:a lot of places use the Bradford Factor to monitor sick leave, which is 5 instances in a rolling 12 month period. Up to 5 is fine, any more gets you a snotty email from HR. Taking a single day is one instance, and a week is also one instance. You can have something like 7 consecutive days off without a doctors note so you're doing yourself a disservice if you don't take your quarterly free extra week holiday. Yeah I always tell my guys to take an extra day once they feel better, because if they come in and then feel ill again it's going to mess up their Bradford score (and I don't want to deal with HR)
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Jan 24, 2021 10:00
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*a french person sweating in front of two buttons that say "fascisme"* Seriously if Melenchon was able to get through I feel like most of Macron's support would go to Le Pen
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It should be pointed out that the redditors who have been leading the charge are all pretty wealthy techlord bros who had capital to invest. They're also being backed up by other evil financial groups who saw what was happening and realised that could make money, notably BlackRock is apparently going to make a load out of this. So yeah fun but also anyone getting involved in the stock market is immediately tainted. It's very much a "worst person you know makes a great point" situation.
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crispix posted:Good news for dissident republicans We're now so sovereign we need to fill out a form and ask permission to move our own army within our own borders. Seriously this owns.
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