UKMT Summer 2023 - Too fat and woke to fight

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Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

OwlFancier posted:

I really do enjoy the trend of unbelievably yoked wizards.

Bring your spell book to leg day energy.

Did someone say MUSCLE WIZARD

# ¿ Jun 1, 2023 16:01

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 03:08

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

First they came for 'bart get out im piss' and i did not speak out because i was not bart

# ¿ Jun 1, 2023 17:48

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Skull Servant posted:

I don't think this is a correct read of the situation at all. His brother was convicted of sexual abuse of someone underage. If the timeline constructed by others is correct, the guy Schofield was having the affair with was between 19-20. Certainly questionable and immoral (both the age difference and the power balance are issues warranting attention), but certainly not pedophilic in nature.

That's textbook grooming though. Like if he'd befriended the kid at 10 and then gone on to not have a relationship, then fine - odd, but fine. But having a relationship with someone he started to know as a child, spend a lot of time with them, and then loving them the second they hit legal age is the literal definition of grooming.

This isn't an LGBTQ issue and it's kind of gross of Schofield to use that as a shield, given the historical conflation between gay men and pedophiles.

# ¿ Jun 2, 2023 14:26

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Mega Comrade posted:

Dunno where you got 10 from. And not sure how 19/20 is "second they hit legal age"

In my mind the specific attention the media are giving this is an LGBT issue.

There was a timeline posted in the last thread, unless I misremembered he first met the kid at a talent contest thing when the kid was young - maybe not 10 but I remember it being way under any age of consent - kept in touch via twitter, got him a position as a runner on the show, started getting innapropriately close as early as 15 and was openly having a relationship with him at 18 or 19.

Whether or not he intended to have a relationship with the kid the whole time, it's still creepy to meet a kid and then later develop an attraction to that person suspiciously close to what was the age of consent for gay men for a long time.

Also I don't care about the math, a 60 year old tv personality having sex with a 20 year old would be looked down on as an abuse of power if it was ~~Andrew Neil~~ any straight TV personality.

# ¿ Jun 2, 2023 15:38

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Almost wonder if it's an Al Capone thing, like they wanted to get him off the streets for something, and that was the only thing they could get him for.

E: the sunderland nonce, not schofield.

# ¿ Jun 2, 2023 17:49

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

# ¿ Jun 3, 2023 20:57

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

If you mention the word isekai the baliff is legally allowed, nay required to gun you down without honour.

# ¿ Jun 3, 2023 21:42

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

SHOW US THE HOG NIGE

# ¿ Jun 4, 2023 18:22

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

The Wicked ZOGA posted:

Stop going on Twitter you fools

I probably would, if SA / SALR would create an embeddable preview that worked directly with website links.

I honestly never thought twitter could get worse, but you've got to hand it to Musk, if there's something you think can't possibly be hosed up any worse, his capacity to gently caress everything up is absolutely boundless.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2023 20:43

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Tesseraction posted:

This is the "balls to the wall" part I mentioned. Considering they're the "Conservative and Unionist" Party their sheer abandonment of Northern Ireland is only not shocking because you can never trust a tory.

More like the Conservative and Unionist National Trade Society.

# ¿ Jun 6, 2023 18:32

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Go Woking go brok(ing)

# ¿ Jun 7, 2023 13:59

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

kecske posted:

it's pretty hard to avoid when the buyer can just stick a note through the door saying "I'll pay 10k over what you're currently getting"

I think I've mentioned before but there was a mass-landlord doing this in our old uni town. When the couple we were renting from decided to relocate to NZ and sell up, according to the lettings agent he called them and said he would bid 10 grand over anyone else's highest offer and bought it sight unseen. It's almost impossible to buy a house there if there is any potential for it to be converted into a shared student house.

# ¿ Jun 10, 2023 11:13

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Kuntsberg has accidentally let good politics on again.

https://twitter.com/jrc1921/status/1667847796467048449?t=51lyreJvQYm35IueE5gpng&s=19

# ¿ Jun 11, 2023 12:16

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Grey Hunter posted:

My wargaming club meets in the village hall of Brightwell cum Sotwell, the village he's just got his new mansion in, so we now live in terror* of him wandering in.

# ¿ Jun 12, 2023 13:50

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

kingturnip posted:

She looks like his mum and his sister.
He's definitely either slept with her or tried to (and is giving her a peerage to keep her quiet).

It's entirely possible he had an oedipus moment and that's why the lordship is to keep her quiet.

We are currently looking after my gran-in-law's tortoise, and it basically spends all day trying to gently caress a rolled up bit of towel. If we forget to put it out he rams into every door and wall and tries to bite our feet until we do. Once he's had enough, he goes back into his box to sleep.

I feel like if someone had just given Boris the human equivalent of a rolled-up bit of towel, a lot of the last few years political poo poo could have been avoided.

# ¿ Jun 12, 2023 17:47

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

smellmycheese posted:

Honestly surprised they didn’t go with “Corbyn’s Britain”

I am curious exactly what she considers poverty, like 'had to shop at sainsburys instead of M&S' or more like that deranged "80k isn't enough to live on after you've put 9k in savings each month" tweet.

E: I read it so you don't have to:

nads mikkelsen posted:

I grew up on a Liverpool council estate and I knew what hunger pains felt like. I had to borrow shoes in order to attend school.

After qualifying as a nurse, I gave ten years of my life to the NHS. Later, I ran a community school in Zambia (where my husband was working). When we returned to the UK, I raised our three children while building my own childcare business with little financial backing.

We sold it a decade later to a blue-chip company where I served as a director. And then I turned to politics, which changed my life for ever.

It's the boomer thing. Parents bought their council house back when that was possible. Her experience of poverty was likely her dad scrimping and saving (i.e. had hand-me-downs and one of the poor kids described hunger to her once).

Followed by an absolutely normal career progression every child born in poverty gets, by selling her business to another business she was director of. Before pulling the ladder up behind her by joining the conservatives once she was making idle money.

All normal stuff there.

Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 08:44 on Jun 13, 2023

# ¿ Jun 13, 2023 08:25

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

The privelages committee have finally returned a verdict: "This straight white rich, privately educated cisgender old man may be the most privelaged we have ever seen. We can shut it down now lads, we found him."

# ¿ Jun 13, 2023 09:44

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

If there was a sort of subscription service which the online news'papers', other news services (blogs or whatever) signed up to and I could pay - I dunno, a monthly sub of say £10 or say '10p per article capped at a max of £10' - I would willingly sign up to it. I ran the idea a year or so ago on FB and quite a few of my friends said they would happily sign up too.

A lot of things would benefit from this. It would be incredible if you could pay £10 to one streaming co-ordinator, and they would just redistribute the royalties to the relevant holder.

Unfortunately, the counter to that is that execs think "right, or we can have our own platform, and ransom the shows to get each person who wants to watch them to pay just us £10."

Until a service like that exists and can be solidly proven (probably with a bunch of pivot tables) to end up paying more to the providers, they won't go for it.

Music streaming services like Spotify have (eventually) come round to that sort of model, the problem is they also pay a loving pittance to the artists and rights holders.

Guavanaut posted:

So you won't be spending $3,499 to have a virtual copy of the Daily Mail float in front of your vision at all times?

They'd make more paying not to.

# ¿ Jun 13, 2023 16:07

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

I can't seem to find the post on mobile, any chance someone could quote it?

# ¿ Jun 13, 2023 17:25

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Guavanaut posted:

Then when they get a majority Wes Streeting will get to beat a puppy to death.

Assuming any survive the fire.

Guavanaut posted:

There's a Popeye's and a Jollibee in Leicester now,

Popeye Jollibee's columns have really declined in quality given her supposedly radical upbringing.

# ¿ Jun 13, 2023 23:43

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

smellmycheese posted:

It’s all just so loving stupid. If this had been exactly a year ago Keith would have been claiming the NHS could be saved via the possibilities of the blockchain and NFTs

[goose meme]free up the staff to do what

FREE UP THE STAFF TO DO WHAT MOTHERFUCKER

Jedit posted:

There's nothing to get in Friends. A friend of mine inflicted an episode on me and there literally weren't any jokes in it.

Do you often find yourself envying the humans and their simple pleasures?

There are network minimums of one joke per script page, which translates to at least one every 15-30 seconds - if there was 'literally' not one you related to in the whole episode, seek medication.

I can get deriding it for being lowbrow, or formulaic, or whatever, but come on man. Friends was at best average and a lot of average people liked it, the 'being baffled by thing lots of people seemed to enjoy' is a tired cliche.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2023 10:29

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Skulker posted:

No.

There is the entire arc with one of Chandler's parents, it's transphobic as gently caress.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2023 11:21

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

forkboy84 posted:

It's entirely possible to just not think Friends was very funny. There's nothing performative about it.

Maybe I'm just getting hung up on technicalities but there's a big difference between "I didn't like it" and "the show has no jokes and people who like it are weird." The former is fine, the latter is hipster poo poo.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2023 11:50

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Mega Comrade posted:

Scrubs is a funny one because it has episodes which seem ahead of the curve even now and other ones that make you go

There's an episode where the punchline to one of the flashbacks is that Dr Cox and his wife got date raped by another doctor. Profoundly weird. Also it's hard to get past the first episode's invoking of the friend zone without your brain screaming incel.

Same sort of 'hasn't aged well' as seeing Bryan Singer's name in the credits of House and then the rest of the episode revolving around 'funny' sexual harrassment.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2023 13:55

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

OwlFancier posted:

I do like how everyone has their guns out for the box art.

The canonical weak nerd seems to have bigger guns than the military guy.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2023 19:10

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Isn't there a law against registering a party with a name that might mislead voters, i.e. "the real conservatives, tick here for free money" party? Might be stymied by the existing tories.

Which they will no doubt blame on the woke electoral comission.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2023 19:55

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

We should rebrand from socialism to 'jolly co-operation' and also have a sun for a logo.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2023 21:47

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Smack the Pony was a bizarre mix of incredible and meh, speaking of Sarah Alexander. "Unfortunately, I'm also bone- astard idle" pops into my head on a daily basis.

# ¿ Jun 15, 2023 00:10

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Every time the wife and I are at a garden centre I chant 'calendula wisteria leylandii' under my breath.

# ¿ Jun 15, 2023 03:25

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Tesseraction posted:

I mean he wasn't scared of the virus until he caught it, then they pumped him full of a cocktail of chemicals that made him feel invincible. That means the only person he cares about is now immune and knows that even if he catches it again somehow they can give him the special cocktail that the poors aren't allowed.

I have a pet theory that both he and Trump were put on Prednisolone as part of their treatment, and both have solidly refused to come off it.

I had a chest infection way before covid and was on the stuff for 2 weeks, and felt incredible. I also felt like my heart was going to explode, and was reliably informed that it probably would if I stayed on it too long, but gently caress me I had energy, motivation and drive I haven't had since I was a teenager.

If either of those two blazing narcissists even got a whiff of it, I can't see them giving it up willingly (especially Trump), and they're both rich enough to afford the kind of doctors who'll find an excuse to keep giving it to them even if it kills them.

# ¿ Jun 15, 2023 12:01

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Probably couldn't afford the :10bux:

after alimony. I assume the amount you have to pay is proportional to how much divorced energy you give off.

# ¿ Jun 15, 2023 12:05

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

ah but you see it's fine because that boat wasn't small

# ¿ Jun 15, 2023 12:21

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Failed Imagineer posted:

Yeah I like Graeber a lot but I don't really buy that thesis at all.

First you'd have to convince me that there was genuinely more cameraderie in the average mine than the average office.

I know my Dad started working for British Gas back when they had depots, and most of his job as a trainee was making sure the pipes went into tower blocks correctly. His stories of that time made the job sound amazing, full of cameraderie.

Then in the early 90s they closed all of the depots and had them working out of their vans from laptops, and it just sucked the life out of the job. A lot of the older engineers who remember the before times get together for socials once a month, and my dad and 2 other people work hard to keep everyone in touch, but the younger lads are getting tougher and tougher to contact, partly because they don't want to go to the pub with a bunch of old men but also because to them, that cameraderie just doesn't exist - they don't really talk to each other either.

Most of the jobs I've worked in have had a supervisor or a line manager breathing down my neck about efficiency every time we've been caught having a conversation or pausing for a 30 second break. And Amazon are pioneering new and exciting ways of wringing the last dregs of efficiency out of workers.

Graeber is absolutely right that jobs used to have wiggle room, they used to have the opportunity for socialisation. Now people are drained and atomised. The few things that made poo poo jobs even slightly bearable are gone. I don't think it's that there's some idyllic past when things were great for workers, it's just that they're undeniably worse now.

# ¿ Jun 15, 2023 22:29

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Guavanaut posted:

Shattering worker cohesion because *taps head meme* "can't have racist talk if nobody's talking" is about the worst way to deal with that though.

I feel like now it's more union busting. Workers can't organise if they can't talk.

# ¿ Jun 15, 2023 23:02

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Also just generally not giving a poo poo about manual labour.

# ¿ Jun 15, 2023 23:03

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Couple of interesting articles:

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/61782/iain-dale-lbc-diary-mick-lynch-is-right

The thing about accessibility is that nobody ever thinks about it 'til they need it. Also, nobody ever thinks they'll need it until they do.

# ¿ Jun 16, 2023 03:54

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

smellmycheese posted:

Straight out of politics and into a weekly column at The Mail. A merry go round of grifting

WHO'S

THAT

POKÉMON

# ¿ Jun 16, 2023 09:31

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

History Comes Inside! posted:

MyCrimes.txt never seems to stick so I dunno if MyCrimes.mp4 is gonna do much better

.csv is more universally supported and can be converted into handy tables and charts for easy reference!

# ¿ Jun 17, 2023 22:37

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Preparing a venn diagram of Boris' crimes just to make Llama guy mad.

# ¿ Jun 17, 2023 22:41

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 03:08

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

Alright, how are they going to gently caress this up?

https://twitter.com/Ed_Miliband/status/1670408633442549760?t=yeEjmzIoiCaiLPCR2IrWow&s=19

Red Ed seems pleased which is a good sign at least.

# ¿ Jun 18, 2023 15:12

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