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Jel Shaker posted:ironically a bigger party for keir might be his downfall Hahaha nope. 1000 year Reich starts here. 1000 years of the most bloodless technocratic triangulators imaginable while Polly Toynbee and friends smile on the side lines and chant "better things aren't possible"
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Google Jeb Bush posted:I've been meaning to ask: councils are basically of highly variable size, right? Some are basically a neighborhood government, others are what a Yank would describe as a county government? North Yorkshire is the largest council in England at 3,341² miles. The City of London is about 1² mile. Also Birmingham has the highest population of 1,144,919 while the Isles of Scilly have a whopping 2,053.
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Kaveman posted:And? What gives you the impression that Kieth cares about what average people want or are interested in?
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smellmycheese posted:https://twitter.com/nigel_farage/status/1665390840892538885?s=46&t=m_nNbkNoHG4lLitcpyHReg Doing an R.Budd Dwyer live on stream
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Jel Shaker posted:does jeremy corbyn pay for twitter? Twitter decided to give away some blue ticks to some notable people after everything, because Elon Musk is a cretin
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I'm too stupid for my t-shirt, too stupid for my t-shirt I'm too sexy for my brain, it's been flushed down the drain
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1965917 posted:I'm still angry that Boris got elected. I'm still angry that Thatcher got elected, & I wasn't even born then.
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Jun 5, 2023 22:45
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Going to be fun when the Emperor just stands up out of his throne one day and goes "whoa, that was some sleep, must have lasted 13 hours. So, what did I miss?"
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mrpwase posted:Stephen Graham's most challenging role yet Amazing dedication to his craft, letting them glue ginger pubes to his face to approximate a beard
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Payndz posted:I just realised that I've been confusing Kiss with Aerosmith for many years, so I couldn't name a single one of Kiss's songs. Not even the classic I Will Never Go To School? I think on balance I'd rather listen to Kiss over Aerosmith but they are both pretty lousy
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Failed Imagineer posted:A lot of people around my age might have first come across KISS via Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey with their (cover) of "God Gave Rock N Roll To You". Detroit Rock City, Rock & Roll All Night, Strutter (I remember it from GTA San Andreas & was surprised it was a Kiss song coz it was quite decent but also I haven't heard it in over a decade so I could be wrong) But yeah, when you think of all these big '70s stadium rock bands, Kiss are down near the bottom of the list for me. Although I am much more passionately anti-Fleetwood Mac & Eagles & the whole AOR/boomer soft-rock thing. (Specifically their mid-to-late-70s stuff, Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green are fine & Desperado is a good country rock record in the Gram Parsons vein)
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God, hating trans people so much you go celibate, that's grim
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God, Labour picking up Boris's seat is going to be depressing. Meanwhile the last time a non-Tory won Mid Bedfordshire was 1929 so I don't see the Tories losing that one
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Jun 9, 2023 21:37
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happyhippy posted:I have a few TV series that are permanently on my hard drive so I can watch them at any time. My rainy day videos on my computer are mostly the first approximately 150 UFC shows, the entire run of Pride FC, NWA Saturday Night TV from most of the '80s and stacks of indy wrestling from the 2000s, a massive collection of All Japan Pro Wrestling matches (and some JWA stuff from the '60s) from their founding until the NOAH split in 2000. Oh, and I have both seasons of Rome and the HBO miniseries John Adams. But I think that's the only TV shows that have survived the regular purging to make sure I had free HDD space.
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Jedit posted:Gilmour was in great part incensed by Waters taking dictatorial control of the band, making an album that was entirely about himself and his own vision, then sacking Rick Wright for not contributing. Hard to argue that Waters wasn't a fascist on that tour, and indeed he wouldn't try it himself. Waters may well be a tyrant but fascist is a bit strong
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Julio Cruz posted:uh I'm pretty sure the guy who ran over counterprotestors in Charlottesville is in jail right now Yeeeeeah this was at least partially the inspiration for Republican States like Oklahoma introducing bills where "an Oklahoma driver will no longer be liable for striking — or even killing — a person if the driver is “fleeing from a riot ... under a reasonable belief that fleeing was necessary to protect the motor vehicle operator from serious injury or death.” I don't have a full list of states passing similar laws but it's literally true that since Heather Heyer was murdered laws have been introduced that make it legal to plow into a crowd with your automobile so long as they are protesting an issue "we" don't like
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Guavanaut posted:That would make him the first PM in over a generation to use the Lords as intended, as a cesspit of nepotism rather than a cesspit of business corruption. David Lloyd George's corpse is smiling now
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keep punching joe posted:I would have sex with Boris Johnson for a life peerage. Easy money. Yeah but you only get £330 per day. You'd have to turn up 5 or 6 times a month just to afford London rent! So much work
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keep punching joe posted:Turn up at 8, go in for prayers, spend the rest of the day in the subsidised bar/canteen. Take the occasional bribe from gambling/oil/tobacco/healthcare lobbyists. What a life. I'd certainly not turn down a peerage if Rishi wants more working class/precariat representation in the Upper Chamber
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Private Speech posted:Going by Wikipedia but she really doesn't seem to have done much of note: I just don't care how unqualified she is. So what? It's the House of Lords, 25 cunts sit in there because they are high ranking in the Church of England, a church with "According to a study published by the Journal of Anglican Studies...approximately 1.7 million active baptised members", & it's closer to 1.1 million if you get to those who bother to turn up in church as little as once a month. Or in other words under 2% of the population of the United Kingdom. 92 of them are in there because their great x7 grandad was hunting buds with Charles II. Or in the case of the Duke of Norfolk, friend of Richard III. And that's without touching upon the calibre of Life Peers, a motley mix of failed MPs, party donors & twats: Ian Blair, former Met Commissioner, Lord Falconer, Tony Blair's uni flat mate, so on, so forth. Lord Webber of Weston Super Mare of course. At least this fail forward grifter isn't old enough to remember World War 2.
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Guavanaut posted:What happens on the day that both parties just respond to that with 'lol, lmao'? Using basically the same colour for FT and Mail is annoying
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Brendan Rodgers posted:gently caress my hip problem isn't gonna go away and I'm gonna need a replacement one day. For now got my walking stick and painkillers. This was nearly 15 years ago and in Glasgow, but I got referred to...some sort of social worker who specifically helped me fill out a...whatever it was before PIP, ESA? But then that may have been because I was sucidial and mentioned money woes as a specific reason, IDK. But possible? Waiting times are probably even worse now than then mind
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Payndz posted:Ugh, Baddiel's Syndrome. There's a show I hadn't thought about for a long time, and with good reason. Just an unbearably smug, self-indulgent and worst of all unfunny vanity trip which had exactly one (1) memorable joke - trying to get the pointless dumbass American to pronounce "herb" properly. I wonder if anyone has put it online, in case I'm ever in a masochistic mood and want to torture myself. Never had Sky but boy oh boy does this sound stupid smellmycheese posted:https://twitter.com/courtnewsuk/status/1668605416656236546?s=46&t=m_nNbkNoHG4lLitcpyHReg Truly a hero for modern Britain. Make Lee from Blue King
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Guavanaut posted:Because nobody told them about how much better Seinfeld was (just don't check in on what any of the cast did later). People assure me that Seinfeld gets much better after the first 2 seasons but it'd have to, because Jerry Seinfeld doing stand-up at the beginning of episodes is the dirt worst. Observational comedy that makes Peter Kay bellowing about garlic bread seem like high art.
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kecske posted:being performatively above pop culture things is par for the course It's entirely possible to just not think Friends was very funny. There's nothing performative about it. I like lots of trash, most of my posts on Something Awful are in the wrestling sub-forum, before signing up here I mostly posted on metal forums, and you don't get much more than trashy than wrestling and heavy metal. I just don't find Friends very funny, broad comedy isn't really my think and I'm sure it's the same thing for Jedit. It's not even a matter of being low-brow, plenty of UK sitcoms I've enjoyed were low brow as hell, Rik Mayall wasn't making you think about the deep questions of existence when he was battering Eddie Hitler with a frying pan. TBH a lot of it is a US sitcom thing. I can watch clips from something like Parks & Recs or US Office, but I try watching a full episode and it's just...not for me. Do like Rick & Morty (well, the first 2 seasons) but that's because it's extremely loving stupid TV wrapped up in the thinnest veneer of smart concepts. I like that and think it's hilarious that Rick & Morty became best known for that "You Have To Have a Very High IQ to Understand Rick and Morty" meme. It's just fart and poop jokes basically and facts are unequivocally hilarious
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Gorn Myson posted:The Pythons developed a method of taking something quite high brow and then deliberately making it really silly. Like throwing out the question "German or Greek philosophers?" and then answering it with a football match. Or the guy who rejects the whole concept of monarchy in the Holy Grail. Or the scene with Michael Palin casually and delightfully asking "Crucifixion?" to a queue in Holy Grail, finally ending up with Eric Idle trying to blag his way out of punishment. I'm not sure anyone involved with The Mighty Boosh would say they were in the same league as Python. Well, maybe Noel Fielding, he does seem like a cock. I dunno, I think the LOLRANDOM nature of Boosh was over-stated. There's an element of it, but there's still an internal logic to it all, for the most part anyway. Though I haven't watched anything but the first season when they were at the zoo in a long time. It's not the greatest comedy show ever, & it's a long way from perfect, but it makes me laugh more than Friends ever did. Even if hearing about Old Gregg gives me flashbacks to Donington Park & Download Festival '06 where someone near where I was camping kept yelling "I'VE GOT A MANGINA" all loving night long & I wanted to murder them.
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Gorn Myson posted:I disagree with all of this, especially the idea that Boosh being random was overstated because they've had no staying power as a comedy group so the only people still saying that are ageing millennials going "do you remember this?". I don't think a group needs to stick together to have been good originally, that's an odd argument. People who meet at uni going separate ways in their 30s seems barely notable. Barratt seems to have less desire to be in the spot light than Fielding, which is why he's done poo poo like be in a production of a Gogol play and the Majestic A Field in England as well as being in weird underappreciated shows like Flowers and Sally4Ever Actually talking of Sally4Ever, Julia Davis is a comic writer who doesn't really get her due, probably because her stuff is often genuinely uncomfortable.
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Nilbop posted:I might be in the minority here but I have no problem reccomending Father Ted, Black Books and IT Crowd despite Glinner. I suppose it might have been different had I followed their production at the time and particularly identified Linehan with the show instead of lovely people like Dermot Morgan and Richard Ayoade. Big Train. Big Train is my big "Linehan being a oval office does not change my opinions on it", such a great cast with Mark Heap, Julia Davis, Simon Pegg, Kevin Eldon, Rebecca Front. It's not the best sketch show of the 90s because Jam exists, but I think it has aged slightly better than The Fast Show. But that may just be because it has fewer of the recurring catchphrases/characters. Although if you want to talk about aged poorly, Kevin Eldon playing a dying Chairman Mao who bursts into a rendition of Virginia Plain in yellow face is not the sort of thing you'd do now. But I do think by their nature sketches shows will always be hit and miss. Talking of underappreciated, I'll always be grateful to my cousins university flatmates for introducing me to 15 Stories High, Sean Lock's very low key but slightly surreal sitcom, which I think is on the iPlayer these days
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RIP to former Labour MP Glenda Jackson, who sadly has been outlived by her wretched child. A very talented actor (if you've never seen her in Marat/Sade as Marat's murderer Charlotte Corday) with a career stretching decades, & before getting into the HoC she supported the Anti-Nazi League, Shelter & other good causes. As an MP she was a staunch critic of Thatcher, & later of Blair, her speech in "tribute" to Thatcher's death is extremely good: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2013/apr/11/glenda-jackson-margaret-thatcher-video And yet through all this, she gave the world Dan Hodges,. What is it with the left & their melty children?
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Red Oktober posted:This isn’t correct. I know for an absolute fact he’s getting a lot more, but I can’t say more. How much are you paying him to attend your child's birthday & don't you know that most other clowns cost a fraction of that?
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kecske posted:what are you doing in the shower that takes 20 minutes Mostly trying to wake up. Also if you have long hair then obviously showers are more time consuming, gotta condition properly to avoid Tetsuya Naito hair. Mine is silky soft and I'd like to keep it that way, even as it gets greyer and greyer
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kecske posted:
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OwlFancier posted:I think your mother is turning into the worst kind of english, an expat. This is why football is essential. Like half the places in England I can name are because of hearing their name in the classified football results at Saturday dinner time
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Tesseraction posted:Sure, but I've used that very controller and it's a piece of poo poo. Unreliable, and the analogue sticks are unreliable for precision. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance's sword controls are nigh on impossible because the stick does not track correctly. I think we should have more shoddily made deep sea submersible that cam only be used by the ultra wealthy
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smellmycheese posted:The genius critical minds of our best billionaires on display as they decide descending to the deepest depths of the Atlantic in a metal tube accessorised with bits from B&Q, Camping World and Game Spot is a smart and rational idea. Now I'm just imagining the walls are a video screen showing old episodes of On The Spot
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Not that weird, after Richard Garriott got rich he spent his time doing that kinda extreme exploration, he's been in space, and in the mariana trench. He's the exact person who would be connected to them. Probably spends more on his game controllers though. And there was that Yank who did around the world ballooning with Dick Branson. Steve Forbes? Fossett? Foster? Something like that anyway. He ended up dying in a plane crash in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Which is why all these billionaires who fancy themselves as explorers are my favourite billionaires. Spangly A posted:Rumours? His sub and rocket construction threads are in the goldmine somewhere. At some point I half expect to find out that the student whose paper was nicked for the dodgy dossier that justifies invading Iraq was a Goon. Someone from this dumb has been involved in almost every other decision the last 20 years. Wonders never cease forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 11:57 on Jun 20, 2023 |
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