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ThomasPaine posted:Crazy how I feel like I have a black hole where part of my life should be, basically zero memories for a year and a half. It's like I went to bed a relatively successful 29 year old and woke up an unemployed 31 year old layabout. Pandemics amirite. Same here, though less on the successful.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Basically completely gave up on even *pretending* to appeal to/represent people outside of large cities, something that I should be allowed to tattoo on the face of every single person who tries telling me Blair et. al. have some special prole-whispering wisdom. Liberal centrism always boils down to wanting to win through the absolute minimum effort, and creating excuses to that effect.
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Jun 2, 2021 15:48
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Financial literacy has been deliberately omitted from school curriculums.
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Jun 3, 2021 10:11
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bump_fn posted:its weird to see biden doing something good even if its just becasue he decided he was irish when he was 34 It's fun to gently caress with Britain
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Jun 10, 2021 11:28
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Failed Imagineer posted:Ma'am we regret to inform you your son may be a rogue. She sounds thick as hell tho lol He's clearly a Monk, though. endlessmonotony posted:"needs alcohol to get through the working day" also applies Pretty sure these people don't work anymore. British retirees just seem terrified of literally everything that isn't them and people exactly like them. (and I'm not even sure about that)
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Jun 11, 2021 08:59
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Niric posted:As I understand it from very cursory research, all crypto nerds are either Exactly this, yes. Usually both.
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Jun 11, 2021 11:14
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Pistol_Pete posted:Boris currently writing two speeches, one where he announces the end of restrictions and one where he extends them. Just wait til he mixes up his notes and does half of each
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Jun 12, 2021 09:49
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Neoliberal centrists campaign on fake leftism, do the bare minimum of it and otherwise empty centrism when they get in charge, then blame the inevitable backlash on being too far left. The end result of discarding every single policy because the Murdoch press pitched a fit about it is having absolutely nothing. It's also that they're actively trying to please the press that is actively opposed to their very existence. It's like the world's dumbest kind of gaslighting.
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Jun 14, 2021 14:55
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In Feb 2020 I watched Sonic the Hedgehog
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Jun 15, 2021 09:44
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I reckon this is what happens when your entire staff is fourth generation failsons and internet contrarians.
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Jun 16, 2021 09:56
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Grey Hunter posted:Preppers mostly prep for a single event, and often would not do well in any other type of apocalypse. IIRC, stories of Argentina's social collapse pretty much bear that out. The doomsday preppers were the first to go. Even the most helpless people in cities are the first to run to their neighbours to ask what the gently caress to do, and people generally want to keep the status quo or some semblance of it going first and foremost.
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Jun 16, 2021 15:14
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Everyone in England is just so bad at everything Boris at least makes a gimmick out of it
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Jun 17, 2021 10:42
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OwlFancier posted:Look I can't just get off with a million dollars I need the million dollars to have the right backstory or it doesn't work. This is actually really capitalists in a nutshell
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Jun 17, 2021 11:07
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Thing is I'm pretty sure Fox News grabs its audience specifically because it presents all its poo poo in a wrapper that its original audience is trained to find comforting and appealing. Slick presentation, attractive and vaguely charismatic hosts speaking in accepted authoritative accents, enough variety and a comforting schedule to make a background noise of hate and fear while they sit on the couch staring or go about their day. If you don't have all those elements, the bare minimums, the audience starts to pay attention rather than be passively brainwashed, and they don't want that!
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Jun 17, 2021 17:02
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It's like they're trying to find absolutely every single self-destruct device for the party.
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Jun 20, 2021 11:06
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Bercow sounds like what the labour right deserves.
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Jun 21, 2021 07:38
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TheRat posted:A charismatic, respected and popular figure they can rally around? More being a horrible bully behind the scenes, but fair
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Jun 21, 2021 08:32
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Z the IVth posted:I would in all honesty trust a foreign-trained "uncredentialed" nurse more than a doctor in a similar situation. You can find some truly dire cases about unscreened doctors from Eastern Europe which were exempt from competency testing (EU) who have made statements like "that scar means the patient has no brain". Well, depends on what the scar is.
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Jun 21, 2021 09:57
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keep punching joe posted:Man the 70s sure was tough on people. Aside from everything else mentioned, the facial hair seems an influence, moustaches and beards make people seem old now.
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Jun 23, 2021 18:57
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IIRC the gist I got was that it was covered up, or rather ignored, because the victims were poor, not because the perpetrators were nonwhite.
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Jun 23, 2021 19:12
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Makes a lot of sense that even moreso than most, UK cops do not give a poo poo about children getting raped.
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Jun 23, 2021 19:21
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learnincurve posted:Dan Hodges kept Glenda Jackson locked in a basement flat for a year and had her grandson yell happy birthday at her through the letterbox. Is this real is your country real
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Jun 26, 2021 10:03
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bump_fn posted:ok seriously what is goin on with british women that boris johnson and matt hancock are viable sexual partners??? is this becaus of brexit I've said before, being apparently interested in consenting adult human women puts them well above the rest of their peers when it comes to british men who have money
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Jun 26, 2021 16:49
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Guavanaut posted:Why do they object to being called Blairites if their only idea ever is to bring back Tony Blair? And then they accuse everyone else of preferring personality over policy. Centrists hate being described accurately more than anything
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Jun 27, 2021 15:40
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Julio Cruz posted:so Keith's new idea is just to go on a country-wide pub crawl? A picture of him passed out on the floor of a pub would probably improve his polling.
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Jun 28, 2021 13:58
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Gorn Myson posted:Polly Toynbee had that article a while ago where she talked about how voters have no excuse not to vote for Starmer because hes "thoroughly electable", and thats the first time I really understood that "electable" is an aesthetic that centrists believe in and it does not require you to actually win elections. 'She's electable if you vote for her!' comes to mind. Centrists as I've said many times are electoral Wimp Lo, they've been taught wrong on purpose.
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Jun 28, 2021 14:21
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keep punching joe posted:I thought the playing cards one was true That's an extra funny one given playing card suits have changed a fair bit over the centuries, see the swords, cups, coins and staves of a full tarot deck.
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Jun 29, 2021 14:44
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I was wondering about Space Jam but that was December 1996, so close. Daria also first aired in 1997.
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Jun 30, 2021 11:01
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Lungboy posted:Because they tried the novel system of "voluntarily playing with only 10 men plus Kane". I'd watch the Brotherhood of Nod team
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Jun 30, 2021 13:15
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keep punching joe posted:George Galloway is one of the worst people in British politics. He is a mysoginist and rape apologist, homophobic, and is happy to stir up the worst sectarian and racist anxieties to get elected. If you vote for him, shame on you. What about Labour being willing to stir up sectarian and racist anxieties to lose elections
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Jul 1, 2021 07:43
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Guavanaut posted:Do any of the teens give a poo poo about what's in the top 20 now? Pretty much yeah. Also video game music. Top 40 or whatever is for whoever the gently caress still listens to the radio.
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Jul 1, 2021 13:08
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Sloth Life posted:That's the way to do it! Save the teabag though, you can get 4 mugs out of it And I thought DuckTales was making a joke about Scrooge using the same bag for the whole week.
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Jul 3, 2021 11:07
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keep punching joe posted:It seems like individually, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics would be a good academic grounding to work in government. Why is it when you mash them all into one course it churns out absolute fuds? Because the way those things are actually taught in practice has been specifically designed so the most worthless failchildren of the aristocracy can pass.
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Jul 6, 2021 10:50
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Communist Thoughts posted:Rashfords penalty was basically the 2019 General election result I think England is trying to tell us something
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Jul 12, 2021 07:15
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goddamnedtwisto posted:It started pissing down with rain in London pretty much the moment the game finished, and I'm a) certain that prevented an awful lot of bad poo poo happening - there were a lot of people just sheltering under flags looking sad when I went home and b) now fully onboard with the idea that localised weather control is possible because the timing was just too loving good. On the other hand, it was rainy in London
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Jul 12, 2021 10:52
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I went to Rome for a holiday in 2010 and was somewhat shocked to discover quite a lot of large, tattooed Romans including women lying around on benches in smelly clothes pissed out of their heads with empty bottles of various booze scattered around, heavily graffitted metro train cars.. always gives me a shock when other countries have the same issues/problems/groups as Brits. There's a whole phenomenon about this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome
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Jul 13, 2021 10:40
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Borrovan posted:Easy to forget that when most of this thread were teenagers there wasn't such a thing as "incel culture", & what incel culture basically did was build an ideologically sexist belief structure around perfectly normal teenaged thoughts like "I am sad that the girl I like prefers someone better looking than me even though he's kind of a dick" (as most teenaged boys are). There's a bunch of stuff which is hard to enjoy with hindsight, but we didn't have the benefit of hindsight at the time so Arrested adolescence is a big part of incel culture, though I'm pretty sure a lot of that is also sheltered, neglected and isolated suburban boys who basically stopped having socialisation once they graduated school and struggled to find any new outlet that wasn't online. The suburbs gently caress people up.
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Jul 13, 2021 11:38
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Jo 'nuke the squirrels' Swinson
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Jul 14, 2021 09:08
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Isn't puking up your own poo poo one of the end stage symptoms of hardcore opiate abuse
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You assume that gammons who aren't retired actually do any real work at their jobs
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