Largely Kermode who originated this view, I think, as he believes The Exorcist is the greatest film ever made. I think he has since said it isn't even the worst film he's seen any more. I believe he apologised to John Boorman about it.
Fan of Doctor Who, history and generally nerdy stuff. Left the bird after some unpleasantness. Slightly left of centre left. All views my own and don't reflect my employer or anyone else.
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Largely Kermode who originated this view, I think, as he believes The Exorcist is the greatest film ever made. I think he has since said it isn't even the worst film he's seen any more. I believe he apologised to John Boorman about it.
I hear Polanski won the Green's Annual Crank off...
This is driven by logistics I expect. My other half works for the council in housing and has a nightmare with single male applicants who when granted are allocated a one bedroom council house and then want a 5 bedroom house for their extended family that the council is unable to provide.
He's been sticking KitKats up his arse
Why is Martin on only connect dressed as a racist pantomime villain?
Why are the bays always at a weird angle though?
Mate...
I actually do believe this one. My mum played Queen non stop when pregnant with me and then used to play it when I was a baby.
Not to sound cocky but I reckon I can smash that and I havent watched them in like 20 years
Richard Tice lives in the UAE and wants to give money to the Taliban. Are we absolutely positive that he isn't a fundamentalist Islamist and Reform isn't an elaborate cover?
Some of us do real jobs
Have you played Disco Elysium mate?
Great. The bus that is always late or cancelled would cost me less. I'll tell my boss that when he's yelling at me for being late.
Welcome back!
Fascists love being treated as bad guys, love pearl clutching. It makes them seem serious and professional. They hate being mocked. If people think fascism is ridiculous, they are far less likely to get caught up in it.
So what do we do, Umberto Eco?
Our community needs houses and public transport links, but the minority nimby groups always prevent them happening. Anything is better than "save this random threadbare" field campaigns taking precedence over everything.
I assume it means literally nothing we need in the country from housing to transport to infrastructure gets built because nobody knows the difference between green belt and a threadbare field with one goat. We're an embarrassment compared to most of Europe.
100%
I think a kick in the bollocks is usually more effective
If it didn't bollock it down in winter I would agree
Yeah I agree that someone with zero interest in football or team preference would do much better analysis. But would they want to.
Nimbyism ruined HS2. Just as it does pretty much all infrastructure projects and spending, housing, transport etc here in the UK.
Because there's always unlimited money and infrastructure investment for London. None for us plebs up North.
I don't really get this. The middle aisle is always full of power tools and paint.
I think the quality is generally good. The only exception is fruit which spoils very quickly.
Or maybe he's just right. I always shop there. It's so much cheaper than all the others. Where do you buy your groceries?
Its a very mixed bag. There are things about it I love and think are very good, other things I think are misfires. Its certainly better than the Rankin Bass bollocks. Not a patch on the Jackson trilogy though.
Mine has all that stuff. No spare. Im considering buying a spare however.
Dumbass
Batley Townswomen's Guild reenact the Siege of Jerusalem
Try this. Started using it last year and it's massively helped with my skin.
I literally always just order online and collect from the warehouse now. I'm never walking round that fucking place again.
Nah, the beach is lovely
It actually is. Hell, some friendships work like that. There are people who I go years without speaking to, but when I see them, we're still great friends.
But the only people who ever get those replies are either petulant or tedious
It didn't feel legendary the next day when I couldn't remember what I said 🤣
Thankfully, this wasn't at work in my case, but well done! Would love to do that with some of our managers.
All the people saying "bad teacher", did you not have any lazy dickheads in your classes at school? The best teacher in the world can't teach someone who doesn't want to learn.
The latter I suspect. Also seemingly the subjects where the need to have actual qualifications of any kind are slightly lax
Oh I did this once. Turns out I went round the room one by one telling everyone why I hated them.
Have you ever seen how chimps treat each other mate? A tea party and a piano is arguably better than being flayed alive.
My wife was talking about pianos earlier and I made a PG Tips joke that got a blank stare and made me feel 90 years older than her rather than 5.
If you'd said the best films usually don't win I would agree, but nominated? You overreached.
They're also the two kinds of teacher most likely to be nonces judging by my school
I like both cheeseburgers and pies but can't imagine this is nice
Sure, but nobody microwaves bloody sponges, and those who do clearly have way too much time on their hands. Most busy workong families with kids dont have spotless houses and manage to clean sporadically yet are not perpetually ill. Too many people paranoid as a result of dettol adverts.
Finally finished, Isaiah, it is beautifully written, full of terrific verses, and incredible imagery, retaining a real power, but far, far too long. We get it, we've forsaken God, Israel will have liberation, the Messiah is coming. Also, clearly more than one author, one of whom is not as good.
I don't think I've ever been excited in my life at the prospect of going to a supermarket.
RELEASE THE BURBIDGE CUT!
I've got a dishwasher
And yet we don't all permanently have the shits. Incredible.
Complain to HR and get him fired, obviously. It's gross misconduct.
"No, I'm just too warm"
Indeed. So many fessors on here need to join a union and learn their rights at work.
Or indeed to let any nutter buy a gun
I do find it odd they didn't wait till October.
With what exactly? The alternatives hardly seem to be faring better.
I actually think Charlie is alright. Of course, Richard III was the last legitimate monarch England had.
No. It wasn't.
It's English. I know that might be difficult for an American, even one who claims to live in Southern England, to understand.
Yeah, that's what she said, and there is a convincing claim that Gordon misheard flocking as fucking.
Yeah, I've long held this view. Not the only reason he lost though. A lot of people just superficially voted for a well turned out posh boy over a grumpy Scotsman. 2010 is rarely talked about as a key election but it really is. All the problems we have had since started there.
To the extent that you would think slavery was entirely invented by the British and had never occurred anywhere else in the world or at any point in history prior to that.
This wasn't my experience at all. We did empire almost exclusively in relation to slavery.
My history teacher (best teacher I ever had) was a Hobsbawmian Marxist. We covered a lot on 19th century stuff but it was very history from below. I dont recall every studying anything at school that was about exceptionalism. The empire was covered in the context of slavery.
When I was at school (I left in 2006) we only did it once in KS3 I think. I remember doing a lot about the industrial revolution (roads, canals, railways, education, factory acts, cholera, enclosure, reform acts, chartism) and also Ireland 1801 to 1997, the unification of Italy, France 1815 to 1848.
I like Box of Rain. They're alright. Neither love nor particularly hate them.
Then you're absolutely soulless. Its beautifully written, animated and acted. It deals with big issues in a way that makes sense to kids and teaches them good behaviour and coping strategies in a way that few other kids programmes do. Yeah, Bandit is an ideal but all role models are.
I like The Grateful Dead as much as the next man
Maybe officially. But no normal member of the population in England would ever call them that.
Nobody says principal. They say head or headteacher.
But shirts take longer to dry and get more sun/wind on the outside. That's why.
- Ymir, Ginnungagap
I know a number of people who work for the HO who are tearing their hair at out at the yawning gulf between the clear trajectory of progress, progress which they have worked themselves sick to achieve, and the way the media is uniformly reporting things.
Im such a partisan I left the party this year after nearly 20 years of membership. Believe me I know how shit the government is. What I cannot fathom is how anyone looks at reform and sees a valid alternative. Especially those that fell for and were burned by Johnson.
The thing is, though, what the government is doing is working. Small boats' arrivals are falling, deportations of foreign offenders have increased, the asylum backlog is a shadow of what it was a year ago. Asylum claims are now being processed in months rather than years. Report that.
Adam sort of assumes in this that the people likely to vote for reform actually give a shit about things like human rights or the suffering of foreigners, though. Why would telling people who often gleefully say we should sink the boats that this policy will cause suffering have any effect?
The people who want to vote for Reform don't give a shit about that. They don't view migrants as people.
Faye can definitely sing
Nah. Blake's 7 is still a touchstone for gritty sci-fi. I've heard a lot of TV series described as like Blakes 7 (Firefly, Dark Matter, etc). I've never heard anyone say their show is the new Space 1999.
Alright, Larkin, chill out
I always leave mine in the bloody car
- John Berger, Oxford
Sugar free sweets
All teenagers are unbearable. They grow out of it.
Violent parenting results in kids with lifetime mental health and self esteem issues.
Usually by the baking stuff I find
After a two hour drive, lugging everyone's luggage, nightmare at check in, all the security bollocks, I need a pint.
But the whole point is the mix of textures and flavours. This is absolutely insane. Who eats a shot of bechamel?
BMW or Audi?
Do you know what a confession is? It's admitting something you feel guilty or ashamed of. I think this qualifies in the same way that "I dont read novels, just wikipedia summaries of them" would.
It is sort of a confession that they're unable to consume an entire cultural medium because despite being an adult they're incapable of sitting still for an hour. I have ADHD myself but even I can manage that.
Im from Leeds and can assure you nobody here is spending 37k on a bloody coat
