|
Replace it with 'braggart.' It rhymes, it scans, it fits thematically, we're done.
|
#
¿
Dec 1, 2021 09:16
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 9, 2024 12:09 |
|
|
I've discovered the post that kills Miftan. https://twitter.com/PA/status/1465963009399042056?t=npbudorIRMHeK3B5f8YAgg&s=19
|
|
#
¿
Dec 1, 2021 10:13
|
|
|
Curses, foiled again!
|
|
#
¿
Dec 1, 2021 11:49
|
|
|
China is also turning into a huge global market that nobody wants to piss off. They're also investing massively in shareholder stakes in media companies that they can't otherwise influence by witholding access to their markets, which is why given the choice of mentioning Tianemen Square or getting money, most companies will keep quiet. There's a Netflix series called History 101 that goes into the rise of China as an economic power, but it's from a very American perspective*, and rounds out the episode by implying that China's prosperity overtaking the US in the near future is a sinister thing. * The space race episode is especially hilarious, because they keep counting up the amount of times the Russians beat the US into space (0-5), and then the second the US lands on the moon, all 5 of the Russian victories on the infographic explode and the US victories turn into a 1. They then mention that the Russians built Mir, but the Russian count doesn't go back up.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 1, 2021 13:20
|
|
|
therattle posted:I see that. But if you look at the post I quoted above there is also something going on with China that doesn't get the same focus. Even journalists have to be careful because if their paper / station is publicly traded, the owners might get a quiet word in their ear if the article is too critical.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 1, 2021 14:23
|
|
|
Oh god that's incredible.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 2, 2021 00:50
|
|
|
 queen's fine
|
|
#
¿
Dec 2, 2021 04:27
|
|
|
WhatEvil posted:It's also 17000 words long. Bog snipe: 
Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Dec 2, 2021 |
|
#
¿
Dec 2, 2021 17:59
|
|
|
crispix posted:if you take a moment to think
|
|
#
¿
Dec 3, 2021 12:03
|
|
|
Borrovan posted:fully sanctioned plausibly deniable torture OwlFancier posted:and apparently there are still people going "hey now maybe it's just that we have the wrong people in charge, you can't just write off the system" It's like someone trying to argue that their electric car is better because at some point in the future a wizard will make it self driving and carbon negative, and all the times they burst into flames locking their occupants into a fiery shell of death, or cost more carbon to manufacture and ship than the average petrol car uses in its lifespan, or tried to take a shortcut through a bus queue shouldn't count because they never meant to do those things. OwlFancier posted:Neither the NHS nor the gov.uk websites seem to agree with this. StarkingBarfish posted:Young Labour... good? https://twitter.com/AaronBastani/status/1466870397366845440?t=XstHirDZIgp59DuMQ2k9cA&s=19 goddamnedtwisto posted:E.g. the time my mum managed to leave my then-newborn sister in her pram outside a shop and get all the way home before realising she'd done it - family legend has her only going back because the pram was a Silvercross and so quite valuable.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 4, 2021 10:02
|
|
|
TACD posted:Vaccine question: what’s the point of the little cards?
|
|
#
¿
Dec 4, 2021 20:45
|
|
|
Up to a certain point in his career it seems like as long as he had a co-writer, he was able to keep the shittiness in check. Unfortunately once he got to the point that he was making Graham Linehan's the IT Crowd by Graham Linehan, there was nobody cowriting so all of his shittiest takes come out. So many creatives go this way when their name recognition gets big enough that they can ignore the editors that were reining in their worst impulses. See jowling kowling rowling.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 4, 2021 21:55
|
|
|
Lady Demelza posted:What I'm trying to say is that there was trans-supporting mainstream media 25 years ago, TERFdom wasn't a universal state of being, and even at the time it was originally broadcast Linehan's transphobic IT Crowd episode was excessive. It feels like we've gone backwards. None of this is new, the GC dickheads have just managed to pretend that it is. Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 04:41 on Dec 5, 2021 |
|
#
¿
Dec 5, 2021 04:31
|
|
|
Moreover i'd like a form of ID that doesn't cost my entire month's disposable budget every few years.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 5, 2021 14:24
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/DerbyChrisW/status/1467489072482500608?t=5K9N1NMllmmxeWsAJVmb_Q&s=19 The war on Rayner continues,
|
|
#
¿
Dec 6, 2021 08:26
|
|
|
I've noticed a few people in the Monbiot debate seeming to imply that purity (in terms of never having said / associated with anything problematic) is a unique problem with 'the left,' when honestly it seems like a problem with a minority of hardliners that you would get in any collection of human beings. And then go on to pretend the majority of people on the left are like that. Just look at the Riley / Obermann spiral of insanity over trying to get people fired for liking a tweet that mentioned Corbyn positively. Or fubpees pulling up any criticism of the EU as proof of racist arch-brexiteering. Or hell, getting shitcanned by BTS stans for once saying you didn't like their music. Every group has these hardliners for whom a 'this you' hit means never having to listen to that person again. As as side note it's one of the reasons I find twitter dunks so impenetrable, because half the time they revolve around knowing not only who the person is, but also the context of what they said, and the context of the person doing the dunk. My least favourite example is Tomska, asdfmovie animator. Some of his old videos have issues. Some are outright offensive to vulnerable people. But if you keep up with him now, he's just an older youtube guy trying to make wholesome content who gets kicked in the dick every few months when someone rediscovers content he's clearly sorry for. Counter example I think I've mentioned before: Jim Davidson. Whereas Tomska is openly apologetic over his older content and trying to do better, Davidson is clearly not happy he's had to stop being racist. There's a video on youtube of him at a signing saying he can't keep apologising for stuff he said 30 years ago, but if he genuinely regretted it and realised why it was wrong, why would you not apologise every time it came up? Why rail against the cancel culture that won't let you say the gamer word on stage any more? There is a huge difference between someone who said something poo poo and is trying to be better, and someone who was poo poo and is still poo poo. The issue with pulling up old tweets like that is whether it's to warn people they're hypocritical / still poo poo, or if you're doing it to say "You shouldn't listen to this person, ever if they're right, because they once did a bad." And a worrying amount of people don't seem to recognise the difference between the two. If you have someone like Monbiot who says the Nandy recommendation was because he was put on the spot about a subject he (at the time) didn't really understand, and is apologising for it now, leave the guy the gently caress alone. Dunk on him for it sure, rag on him for it, but lets not pretend it's any reason to never listen to what he has to say again, especially when he's one of the few journalists taking anticapitalist sentiment even remotely seriously. I hate to seem like I'm aligning myself with the 'ugh, they're posting screenshots of old tweets' discourse from a few days ago, (or the kind of anti-woke rants Vitamin P used to go on), but there's something massively toxic to any movement that indulges in your-fave-is-problematic levels of refusal to accept that a person can ever change their opinion. People - even people on the left - seem to be portraying it as a uniquely leftist problem though, and it's not. Not really. Monbiot is broadly good now, and is at least trying. Like yes he expressed a poo poo opinion. Everyone had poo poo opinions back then, and he admits that it was uninformed. Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 07:10 on Dec 7, 2021 |
|
#
¿
Dec 7, 2021 07:00
|
|
|
Comrade Fakename posted:ITV News going hard: Why do they still have a loving reputation? After killing over 150,000 sick and disabled people through benefit sanctions? After mangling the brexit negotiations and reigniting the troubles in Northern Ireland? After killing a further 120,000 people through the botched covid response while they dumped the response money into their mates bank accounts? While they used their majority to asset strip the NHS, remove protest rights, and allow the police to break the law with impunity? I wonder if there's anyone who could have maybe stopped that from happening by not constantly laundering their reputation? You absolute loving weapon! AAAAAAAAAGGGHHH E: this country does not deserve s picture of my dog.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 8, 2021 09:38
|
|
|
Private Speech posted:I mean, well, I'm still going to vote Labour. They've also made it perfectly clear that if they lose through disengagement, they're just going to spin it as still having a long way to go post-Corbyn. May as well pick the least bad option - If my choice is between being slapped in the face or kicked in the balls, I'm going to choose being kicked in the balls and moan the whole time.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 9, 2021 00:14
|
|
|
Essentially it's the difference between Starmer saying "The people won't like it so we're not going to do it" and Corbyn saying "The people may not like it so it's our job to advocate for why it's a good thing."WhatEvil posted:I'm not voting Labour. I think that if you do you're legitimising Keith.. He's not going to get in, and the wider margin he crashes and burns by, the better. You're talking about sending a message to a party that is stood there with it's fingers in its ears going "Lalala, electorability sensible business focussed middle ground lalala" while SPADS pull lib-dem level stat-bending to convince their idiot MPs that punitive austerity is what people really want. Meanwhile every missing vote is a proportional boost to the Tories. I hate that it's that way. I don't think there's anything else in my life that will make me feel as sad / angry as what they did to the Corbyn / Momentum movement. I do not want to vote for Labour now. But I do want to vote against the Tories and Lib Dems, and the best way to do that with all the current fuckery and norms is sadly Labour. Everything is hosed right now. There are no perfect or even good enough choices. Tactical voting sites disproportionately say to vote Lib Dem based on one Guardian article by an ex lib dem (I wrote a whole thing about this but it's long and rambling and my hands are too hosed to edit the relevant bit out). A lib/lab coalition is probably the only numerically likely alternative to the Tories in this press hellscape, and it's going to be absolutely loving unbearable if it even happens. The answer is not to abstain from choosing though. We've had too many Tory governments that have slipped through on opposition doubt. I cannot afford for the benefits system to get any worse. I don't want to see the climate continue to get worse when summer is already loving unbearable. Nor do I want to see the culture war poo poo slide further into open fascism, or see the NHS get any more privatised. Absolutely yes Labour are centrist dipshits right now, but given the choice between capitulating idiots and a sociopathic kleptocrats, I'd rather try and stop the overton window getting bulldozed as far right as possible. ThomasPaine posted:Tory win: Nothing changes. If Labour get in not, much will change. If the Tories stay in it's a clear message that they can get away with whatever they like, and they'll use that mandate to push for the next level of horror, whether that's a full return to workhouses, expatriating refugees by trebuchet, or whatever return to turn-of-the-century values they're currently wanking themselves raw over. ThomasPaine posted:I encourage anyone who might have forgotten to go watch some old early-mid 2000s 'documentaries' because wow the sheer hatred we had towards fat people and poor people and especially fat poor people was something to behold. Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 10:02 on Dec 9, 2021 |
|
#
¿
Dec 9, 2021 10:00
|
|
|
Jedit posted:Carrie Symonds cheated on her partner to be Boris's mistress when Boris was still married to his now ex-wife, who I think may have been pregnant at the time
|
|
#
¿
Dec 9, 2021 13:03
|
|
|
Tijuana Bibliophile posted:why d'you keep outsourcing these things jesus NotJustANumber99 posted:She'd changed all the words around like I would do, what are the rules on this? Crappy little articles don't have bibliographies. She wrote it in 2008, when he was a nobody fresh out of uni so its a bit lol I guess now, although I suppose she wasn't much older. Not citing the people who's ideas you're nicking is lovely practice. Failed Imagineer posted:I didn't even know Nazi was a player class in D&D? 
|
|
#
¿
Dec 9, 2021 14:35
|
|
|
Most leftist discourse is that simpsons meme of Groundskeeper Willie talking about the scots being natural enemies with etc etc
|
|
#
¿
Dec 9, 2021 15:22
|
|
|
Jaeluni Asjil posted:or a very competent right winger (not that I'm convinced there are any competent persons in a position to take over the tory party leadership)?
|
|
#
¿
Dec 10, 2021 12:39
|
|
|
Barry has also repeatedly mentioned mental health trouble. I got the impression that he said he was going to stop posting after it became clear that this was likely affecting his perception of the new strain.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 10, 2021 16:53
|
|
|
Julio Cruz posted:I ordered an STI testing kit online and didn't even get a swab to stuff into my dick, what is the world coming to these days
|
|
#
¿
Dec 11, 2021 00:43
|
|
|
Underfunded. The word she's looking for is 'underfunded.'
|
|
#
¿
Dec 13, 2021 18:34
|
|
|
Also that a bunch of 'private' stuff is done on NHS facilities, by NHS staff, with NHS resources; it's just that private patients get to have it sooner and stay in what is essentially a hotel room afterwards.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 14, 2021 13:48
|
|
|
Streeting has had a haircut and is moving in a decidedly forensic direction. Would be hilarious if the Labour right decide to copy the tories with a leadership coup as well. https://twitter.com/AaronBastani/status/1470892414873309187?t=9YWwcekv2FegFFuax8Pk-A&s=19 I would like to submit 'McShitler' for the consideration of the Midnight Society.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 15, 2021 17:00
|
|
|
I wonder of cases are actually higher than they were at the start of the year, or if the cases were undersold last year because that was when they had the spreadsheet the wrong way round.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 16, 2021 18:55
|
|
|
learnincurve posted:My lad has been officially put on the incapable for work list but as a added bit of torture, as a treat, we won't know what money he will be entitled to for another 7 working days. I heard back from the IIDB people a few weeks ago. They say yes I'm disabled, yes I have the condition I said I did, yes it's lifelong and yes it was caused by my old job. They also say it's only 4%* disablement because I seemed fine on the day of assessment (I was fine because I haven't worked full time in ten years and haven't worked at all the last 5), and they don't pay out unless you are at 14%* or more. Currently appealing it with a big letter that properly hosed up my hands trying to write, but not hugely optimistic they won't bump it to 13.9% and say gently caress you we're still not paying. * Of what, i'm not sure. 4% of total possible capacity? Compared to another person? Compared to the worst possible disability?
|
|
#
¿
Dec 17, 2021 00:03
|
|
|
fuctifino posted:The Tories didn't lose the byelection, they just changed colour. People seem to have short memories and have forgotten what happened in 2010. One thing that strikes me is that Labour's swing to the right and attempted rebranding as the party of business is... Why did they do this with Labour? I mean I get the MI5 plant conspiracy theories, and I can also see why they would just look at Labour as the 2nd biggest party and so the most likely non-tory place to make it happen. But just looking at the labour right as a group who genuinely think that centrism and business appeal is the thing... Why battle twice as hard to turn Labour into that? It's not a great analogy, but it's like if a company did a hostile takeover of McDonalds, with the reputation McDonalds has; then pivoted to health food only, and then spent their whole time bitching that they lost their entire customer base. The core will stop going because they're no longer getting what they used to go for (trash burgers), and the new audience (health food) are going to be put off by the long-term reputation, historic branding and the old customer base who want that old branding back. This is an actual problem McDonalds are actually having, an attempted pivot to health food and being seen as almost a starbucks-esque middle class coffee joint, but they still have to appeal to the huge chunk of their base who want a cheap burger meal, turn up wearing trackies and scare off the nice middle class families they want to be appealing to. Like it's not possible to be the party of workers rights AND the party of business. It's just not. And if you're going to try and go all-in on business, then it's absolutely nonsensical to try and do that in a party still structurally funded by unions. Businesses are never going to fund a party that is still tied to the unions, not like they would the tories or Lib Dems. It's just mad, but Keith and his pet dickheads are never going to be able to see why people hate them. They're management wankers.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 17, 2021 12:18
|
|
|
Beefeater1980 posted:You’d think that Labour would have a clear leftist identity and a standing agreement with the LDs to introduce proportional representation on the off chance there’s a hung parliament but oh well.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 17, 2021 13:39
|
|
|
On the other hand, what the gently caress is wrong with people who assault fire & ambulance workers? Convex posted:I remember when i was 5 i saved up tokens from jam jars and got a Canadian Mountie golliwog badge in the post. What a great country  More info about halfway down this article which is obviously all  for racism, extremely dodgy childrens book where the main character is stripped and then spends half the book wandering round naked and crying, and general 'why the gently caress would anyone publish this). https://flashbak.com/a-history-of-controversial-childrens-books-sex-sambo-and-obscene-rebellion-5411/ Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 13:02 on Dec 18, 2021 |
|
#
¿
Dec 18, 2021 12:58
|
|
|
I have to admit I kind of like it during the winter - when it's really cold it's nice having something covering my nose.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 18, 2021 17:38
|
|
|
That's how they cracked the nazi code, by scanning the start of Daily Mail articles for the words 'the traitor Jeremy Corbyn.'
|
|
#
¿
Dec 19, 2021 01:38
|
|
|
Piers Corbyn murdered Boris Johnson and all our problems are solved and we can go back to 2012.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 19, 2021 18:49
|
|
|
dear boss, i am a zombie now, lots of love cillian murphy
|
|
#
¿
Dec 20, 2021 13:08
|
|
|
I think if 2019-2021 has proven one thing, it's that bat/people interactions can gently caress off.
Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 13:29 on Dec 20, 2021 |
|
#
¿
Dec 20, 2021 13:27
|
|
|
Testro posted:I remember it; it was quite famous at the time not just for them "facing off" but because it was one of the first public reappearances of Robbie Williams after he left Take That, and was trying to move away from the boy band image to a Britpop one:
|
|
#
¿
Dec 20, 2021 14:11
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 9, 2024 12:09 |
|
|
https://twitter.com/TheScotsman/status/1472899772709285890?t=2P1O7t4hwoYveSC5N4fRyw&s=19 For fucks sake. E: Also she's trending on twitter, and twitter keep removing the picture of her wearing the 'corbyn is a racist' t-shirt. Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Dec 20, 2021 |
|
#
¿
Dec 20, 2021 18:57
|
|