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Now he's in heaven, definitely not watching over us, despite what virgin media claim!
(I should say i haven't watched it as such, but was in the room when it was on. Maybe I missed some of its charms but it doesn't sound like it)
It feels like an AI generated image of cosyness posted on Facebook- deep in the uncanny vally
Excellent hair game there
It's true. They should have picked Glen or Steve.
You Don't Have To Be Mad To Work Here, But The Organisation Is Obliged Under The Equality Act To Make Reasonable Adjustments To Accommodate Your Condition If You Are
Another day another American going "yes but where are you *really* from to anything British that doesn't conform to their racial stereotypes" The idea that, eg, rishi sunak isn't English is an incredibly racist position to take in the UK but seems to be the progressive American starting point
Our Emperor Tamarin "Elliot" is aware he looks like Wilford Brimley and is so sick of hearing about it.
BRB starting a conspiracy theory that musk has trained an llm exclusively on trump content and is slowly taking over
HOW STEPHEN. HOW HAVE YOU MADE THIS ABOUT HARRY POTTER
Football ducks? You mean ilkley moor?
He should train a crab army to master the seas for him. Unfortunately he sacrificed so many that they have sworn an oath if vengeance against him.
Has Andrew Neil's learned nothing from the fallout of his "hiv doesn't cause aids" and "mmr causes autism" stances? No. Of course not.
To the guy riding his bike down University Avenue yesterday, with full-grown irridescent fairy wings and antenna, I just want to say, you made my day. So happy, knowing there are still people who refuse to be squished into shiny little identical boxes. Keep on flying...
Slack may be better at messaging etc, but teams (went set up and used properly for what it does best) blows it out of the water
Because its an excellent way to collaboratively produce, edit and distribute documents across teams in multiple organisations
I promise you, this will develop into one of the funniest stories in energy for sometime. The ultra-pro fracking nutters: can't frack / won't frack. Couldn't even dream up that much joy if I tried. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Its not as catchy as the old "to secure for the worker, either by hand or bu brain, the full fruits of their industry via the collective ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange and in the process making sure Maurice glassman gets his leg over"
I like it
One fun thing about the sea peoples is that one group, the Sherden, are depicted wearing horned helmets in Egyptian reliefs:
don't believe everything you believe
Broke: lowercase vikings Woke: the sea peoples come again
Has there ever been a more aesthetically appropriate name for an aircraft though?
But not real coal miners, obviously, graduates who feel guilty about being graduates and therefore project their prejudices onto imaginary coal miners
And here we were wondering how they'd end up violating *every single* ammendment in the bill of rights. The 3rd was pretty much the hold out
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
Im not sure that's really true. Sci-fi and fantasy fandoms have always had significant female presence, despite attempts to drive them out/ deny them. This is especially true you widen the debate to horror (and then argue where horror overlaps with fantasy). 50 years of lestat fanfic is the proof.
Yeah but there were neo nazis in the 60s and 70s who were claiming tolkein as their own too (not that the difference between hippyism and neo naziism is as big as people assume, but that's another argument)
*every* character in HIMYM was awful, but of course the random idolised the sexual predator
Oh yes, it was very much a wider late 90s/2000s thing (and as you said also a very online thing- in a flame war the first petson to care lost), but Southpark did it so well it has far more ongoing cultural impact almost 3 decades later.
I'd be giving its creators far too much credit, but I can't help blaming an awful lot of cultural and pollitical rot on south park, a show at the vanguard of teaching generations that caring about things was cringworthy.
thanks for that ft
My earliest memory is me accidentally electrocuting myself. It happened 10 minutes ago.
Broken hearted I'll wander is such a banger, isn't it?
Bbc obviously, but give it time and im sure we'll have nbc wales
I hate to break it to him, and nbc wales but all he's missing is a giant pair of noise cancelling headphones
I worked out this morning that it has been one hundred and sixty four days since we began a trade war with the penguins. The penguins have so far offered no concessions and seem to be unmoved by the administration's tariff power moves
What’s the best thing to hang from a lamppost in your area as a clear alternative to the current messaging? Is it a Mussolini?
Nice.
Illin' for Amoxicillin
He got them yesterday so he's come back for more...
Sat in dentist waiting room. Man is arguing with the receptionist that the dentist told him to take 3 doses of antibiotics 7 times a day not one dose 3 times a day for 7 days. Hes just shouted out "I guess that's why ive got the shits, eh!" Ah, ipswich. Never change.
And even then I thought g it they'd misspelled "enquiry" on their application forms
There *is* a separate strand of this englush nationalism kick which centers all of this stuff- but its almost entirely confined to lefty folk fans/ musicians and gets no coverage
Enjoyed this sign at the parish church in Whitby today…
TBH I'd love to get external shanty singers in to my workplace. I must now make this happen
Thanks. I've often wanted to be as impressive as a cabbage, and today I gor near that goal 😁
I still cant get over the size of that cabbage
This is the world's largest cabbage, weighting in at over 138lbs, nearly 10 stone. I learned this fact today because the app that I use to track my weight loss informed me that I've now lost more than that cabbage weighs.
I see that sections of the terminally online right have now decided that knife crime is good
You know that tweet about "Your going to the camps!" "Its 'you're'" Well imagine if that was the entire political strategy of the government of a G7 nation
People should read the Labour response in full before judging. I think it’s actually more well considered than reported: “Thank you for your email. I am out of the office at the moment. My team will decide whether we are against race riots and giving money to the literal Taliban upon my return.”
You know that tweet about "Your going to the camps!" "Its 'you're'" Well imagine if that was the entire political strategy of the government of a G7 nation
Making a rope ladder?
They actually went *further* than the energy price freeze which was a policy to pause some tarrifs for some customers of some suppliers (communist obviously) replacing it with "the government sets the max price for everyone" (pro market, conservative policy). The industry was shocked.
To be fair to them, their pro disorder stance is at least consistent with their policing and prison abolition by stealth policies
A high garlic intake is only sensible in whitby, for safety's sake
I think the idea of referring to other people as NPCs is genuinely one of the most distressing and revealing things someone can do—like, that person is not *necessarily* going to hack me to death with a machete when the radio tells them to, but I don’t feel super safe around them either
That works depressingly well
A stranger on the tube complimented my shoes so there's that
this is what happens when everyone feeds the same stray
It's a deeply fascinating contrast between most British progressives being perfectly open and aware of the deep flaws in the British political system and most American progressives sincerely believing the US constitution and system (which is dogshit) is the greatest in the world.
Or Do Not Clear Your Cache
The Harrogate of south east London.
Their comfort blanket is xenophobia but they think they can shake off the fascism in a couple of years
Their checks fail to balance on a daily basis but they're still convinced that nothing *really* bad could happen there and it'll all be ok in the end
It's hullarious (but depressing) to watch people on the us liberal/left be complacent about the creepibh fascist dictatorship in their country, because a mixture of American exceptionalism and jingoism that's so ingrained that they dont notice it has convinced them everything will be ok
The UK government's secret anti asylum riot weapon
She squares that circle by believing that she takes full responsibility for everything she's ever done wrong, fortunately for her she's never done any wrong hin her view
"How little responsibility she's willing to take" is a major part of her personality
We’ll have to let them paint roundabouts because you have to give way to the right.
Its an absolute banger. I may have to learn it and inflict it at folk clubs
normal people don't say "triggered" or "heteronormative," they say they gave their life to christ in a cracker barrel parking lot
Ooh even better would be a 23 part adaptation of mammets speed the plow
I have a theory that this style is downstream of the fact that high profile, or in demand, directors/ showrunners want the artistic freedom to make this stuff. The process then goes big name makes money > give big name money & freedom> get this style of stuff > this is how we make money / prestige
I'd dearly love someone to convince a production company that waiting for goddot should be adapted as a 9 season, 23 episodes per season, epic. It would be both wonderfully fitting *and* a comment on this nonsense
I know a number of officials who worked for YC when she was in housing. They would fall about laughing at your assessment...
think that if "we must debate the fascists not no-platform them!" is your view then we have probably reached the stage, globally, where you may wish to wonder if your preferred way of doing things is actually working
Ah yes. The federal tax system absolutely works like that. Every week all the govoners take a trip to DC with a big bag of cash and hand it over the the president like gangsters kicking up to the boss.
The only thing stopping the US becoming a "papers please" society is that their law enforcement agencies would never stoop to saying "please"
Given the cast age it would be something like Byker Druids Grove or Mage Hill
Been a bit of a whirlwind last few days with trips every day to hospital, and tonight an extremely short notice CT scan, but as a result I did get to meet a long forgotten Roger Hargreaves character.
I cant think of any tv show that has anything other than spring, summer autumn and winter. There hasn't been an n k jesmin adaptation ive missed has there?
You've found an HBO board members alt there
Although it would raise questions about what was causing the promoted teams to pop into being
Especially if he got renumbered to tom three hundred and sixty fifth under this scheme
Wait, what?
I dunno, if it's a close score and you have the baby away from the action, I'd probably say it's fine to play on.
Tbh im concerned about the level of immigration given how fast it's falling and our demographic time bomb
I see that you're refusing to comment on my primary theory...
There is a difference between "Pepsi shouldn't mention Coke in its adverts" and "telling people what they should buy is wrong, we, Starmerco, should just shut up and let people buy Fashocola"
The witch trials of 1612 still cast a long shadow.
A life-sized bronze statue has been unveiled on the island of Papa Westray, Orkney, in memory of the last known Great Auk Pinguinus impennis killed there in 1813. The statue is an exact replica of the preserved remains of the bird, which are held by the Natural History Museum.
I love that this is how they ask for people to pay yo read more of Stephens fan fic. "Extraordinary" indeed
There is an outside chance tgst it may be that they know their market. People who grew up with Harry Potter and will be in their 40s and 50s during the run of this show and wallowing in nostalgia. This is second place to my theory that someone at hbo is trolling FT editors for fun.
Sir Isaac Newton's treatise "Principia" where he outlined his Three Laws of Motion and the Law of Gravity was almost unpublished, because the Royal Sociey had blown their publishing budget on an Encyclopedia of Fish, which was a financial disaster. Sir Edmond Halley paid for it.
In the civil service i understand it goes Strategy 》policy 》delivery 》operations
Possibly. But i think it overlays on a much longer standing tendency to want to come up with bright new ideas as solutions but a distaste for the messy, hard work, of the practicalities of implementation