port wine derby
Not entirely British, this (tho to be fair UK imperialism did really get the trade going, can't fault ye for that).
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 18:18 (three years ago) link
epoisses is gods own cheese
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
Apologies for that bit of ignorant assumption of me there Daniel. Cultural imperialism is a hell of a drug! I don't generally bother with celeb nonsense but was pleased to notice Christopher Eccleston has referred to the Queen as "parasite in chief in her idiot hat" on social media.
― calzino, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 18:33 (three years ago) link
haha no worries calz, I was being a pedant tbh; I mean there's Glennmorangie gets aged in port wine casks too and I don't think I could claim it for that
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
I wouldn’t be finding this as funny as I do if I wasn’t a bit heat-deranged, but I am and I do.
Couldn’t resist checking out @demarionunn’s theory... and he’ s right. Why i spent ten minutes of my life looking through stock photos of men with there thumbs up isnother matter! https://t.co/fTmmFAbSnI pic.twitter.com/NbGK7yO4uj— Kristian Purcell (@kristianpurcell) August 12, 2020
― caută tu singur (gyac), Wednesday, 12 August 2020 19:10 (three years ago) link
cheese in Canada is fucking shit
Some of the Québécois stuff is pretty good, but it usually pales next to its French inspirations.
― stabbing fantaisiste, repellent imagiste (pomenitul), Wednesday, 12 August 2020 19:14 (three years ago) link
Rishi has unblemished petite smooth hands that have never done hard labour, not that there is anything wrong with that but I could imagine him wearing silk gloves to do light gardening. Whereas that hand looks like the hand of a hgv driver or a plumber, they probably looked at that pic where he is giving a thumbs up to a toaster and decided not only does he look like a total dick but he's got very small hands as well (which I'm intending to shame here, just shaming the game!)
― calzino, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link
*not* intending to shame
― calzino, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 19:20 (three years ago) link
Needed a more trustworthy thumb, a People's thumb, is what I'm hearing
― The Scampos of Young Werther (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 12 August 2020 19:23 (three years ago) link
_cheese in Canada is fucking shit_Some of the Québécois stuff is pretty good,.
― caută tu singur (gyac), Wednesday, 12 August 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link
To which statement?
― stabbing fantaisiste, repellent imagiste (pomenitul), Wednesday, 12 August 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
This show has always been extremely bad not good but fuck this
As the UK goes into recession for the first time in 11 years, many express shock that five months of Rishi Sunak paying for everything has had a negative impact on the economy.— Have I Got News For You (@haveigotnews) August 12, 2020
― wins, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
Nice to see the Beeb continuing to subsidise that Geoff Tory bloke's career
― The Scampos of Young Werther (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 12 August 2020 19:28 (three years ago) link
Oh yeah, shiny Geoff who’s persecuted for being s Tory except he earns more off the BBC than Laura K
― caută tu singur (gyac), Wednesday, 12 August 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link
the truth is Geoff is more like the mainstream of BBC comedy than he seems to appreciate, the only difference is that he's come out as a conservative reactionary and in quite tedious style and made that his shtick. Other than on the brexit issue the melt "PC snowflake" comedians he has set himself up as the antidote to have much more in common with him than any lefty comedians, of which you could probably count on one hand in bbc comedyland.
― calzino, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 19:51 (three years ago) link
makes me realise even though I'm not a fan of bbc comedy, it became much worse when jeremy hardy died.
― calzino, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 19:56 (three years ago) link
Julie Burchill’s next book is called Welcome To The Woke Trials
another unfunny conservative reactionary comedian who will no doubt get lots of opportunities to plug her book on the bbc
― calzino, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 20:16 (three years ago) link
I thought time had cancelled Julie B
― The Scampos of Young Werther (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 12 August 2020 20:25 (three years ago) link
the only memorable bit of writing of Burchill writing for me was when she was quite angrily ridiculing her old pal Toby Young for being an ugly hypocrite, and a shallow and vacuous creep who worshipped celebs and went kerb crawling on a regular basis. I can't remember where I read it but it was p good and stuck in my memory.
― calzino, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 20:32 (three years ago) link
xp what is already cancelled can never be cancelled
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 12 August 2020 20:35 (three years ago) link
I have a guilty soft spot for her tbh
― The Scampos of Young Werther (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 12 August 2020 20:36 (three years ago) link
I mean she makes me laugh sometimes, not a crush
She has always been bad afaict but as with hignfy it’s not like I’ve bothered investigating the stuff from when I was like two years old
― wins, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 20:40 (three years ago) link
full disclosure: I used to regularly read her Culture section of the Times movie reviews in the 90's !
― calzino, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 20:40 (three years ago) link
Burchill literally advocated shooting "prostitutes" for their "terrible betrayal of all women" back in the 80s. she was never good
― Your original display name will be displayed in brackets (Left), Wednesday, 12 August 2020 22:45 (three years ago) link
I don't think anyone is making any arguments for her rehabilitation as an acceptable member of the commentariat, it's more like nervously approaching the confession booth because telling the truth can be cleansing!
― calzino, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 23:05 (three years ago) link
There’s been a rash of new You Can’t Say That sites eg. Uncancelled where mediocre journalists TERF out for free. Spiked doesn’t pay its contributors either.
― santa clause four (suzy), Thursday, 13 August 2020 00:10 (three years ago) link
Nick Cave: 'cancel culture is bad religion run amuck' https://t.co/Y0X6PavdMg— The Guardian (@guardian) August 12, 2020
I can't believe a public school doctor's son who has had a way too fucking long + overrated career as a turgid goth balladeer would turn out to be such an enemy of the people!
― calzino, Thursday, 13 August 2020 00:22 (three years ago) link
does he unbutton his shirt and ruffle it up in the same manner boris makes his hair look dishevelled whenever doing a photo/tv op? What a fucking jerkoff.
― calzino, Thursday, 13 August 2020 00:32 (three years ago) link
I have never liked Nick Cave, and if my impeccable source is correct, he isn’t worthy of anyone’s appreciation for ‘if someone tells you who they are, believe them’ reasons.
― santa clause four (suzy), Thursday, 13 August 2020 00:33 (three years ago) link
he's a pretentious, laughably overrated ageing goth arsehole, would love to give him a good shoeing - but no blades!
― calzino, Thursday, 13 August 2020 00:41 (three years ago) link
My partner who is 5 foot tall and spare change at best, went up to him and called him a fucking prick at a Palace Brothers show in London in the 90's. He was being an arrogant prick in a queue or something. I thought we were going to get thrown out but instead there were people coming up to congratulate her!
― calzino, Thursday, 13 August 2020 01:02 (three years ago) link
Still staring at this. https://t.co/nfUkkkrEKt— Sarah Phelps (@PhelpsieSarah) August 13, 2020
In fairness one of the prerequisites for being Gavin Williamson is not knowing that you're Gavin Williamson.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 13 August 2020 08:24 (three years ago) link
It's such an unbelievably bone-headed way to defend what's ultimately a defensible system. The problem is not fairness to the class of 2019 or 2021, it's fairness within the class of 2020. If grade inflation were to stand, the more accurate a teacher is in their judgement, the bigger the disadvantage to the learner. Just say that ffs!
You've now got a system where kids have been told they can use their mock exam grades instead of the calculated ones - but OFQUAL and exam boards haven't been told how this should work or what evidence will be required and where it's been heavily implied, probably incorrectly, via the "triple-lock" messaging that if they get a lower grade in their real A-Level, should they choose to take one in October, they can stick with their mock or calculated one. He's been pressured into making a bad situation substantially worse.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 13 August 2020 08:32 (three years ago) link
The shit that is actually genuinely documented about Kick Knave is enough to cancel him forever, Suzy's impeccable source only reveals that he is still on bullshit that he has been on for 40+ years. I do not understand why this guy gets such a free pass when he has been telling people who he is for his _entire career_.
Of course he sees a wave sweeping through his industry getting ever nearer to his arse and starts bemoaning ~cancel culture~ as a pre-emptive move. Of *course* he does.
― Branwell with an N, Thursday, 13 August 2020 08:36 (three years ago) link
I don't know what is worse : a repeat offender trying to dress up getting your defence in before the shit hits the fan as some kind of high minded principled stance or all the idiots commenting oooh he's nailed it there.
― calzino, Thursday, 13 August 2020 09:01 (three years ago) link
https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/12/uk-gdp-tradeoff-lives-growth-dire-covid-strategy
This is really good on yesterday's GDP figures.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 13 August 2020 09:49 (three years ago) link
Gavin Williamson on inflating A-level grades: “The danger is that pupils will be over-promoted into jobs that are beyond their competence"
...
― nashwan, Thursday, 13 August 2020 09:51 (three years ago) link
everybody's enjoying the irony of that one and it's very lol, but putting that to one side it's an amazingly thick-headed and wrong thing to say, it's like Williamson has no idea how the world works
― The Scampos of Young Werther (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 13 August 2020 09:54 (three years ago) link
All those people who move from doing A-Levels straight into surgery or bomb disposal?
― Matt DC, Thursday, 13 August 2020 09:54 (three years ago) link
not even sure what an A-level entry job would look like in 2020 but i am pretty sure that no interview panel comes to a decision primarily based on some exam results, even when there isn't a massive surplus of applicants for every job going
― The Scampos of Young Werther (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 13 August 2020 09:59 (three years ago) link
Also if you turn up to do a job at the age of 18-22 and turn out not to be able to do it then you get fired or moved into something else, unless you're benefiting from nepotism or entrenched social biases, both of which the Tories appear quite fond of.
I've seen highly educated people absolutely fuck up entry level work and I've seen people with significantly fewer qualifications do much better at the same job. But no one is making that call on the basis of A-Level results.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 13 August 2020 10:02 (three years ago) link
Williamson not understanding how life beyond nepotism works was my main thought
― The Scampos of Young Werther (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 13 August 2020 10:03 (three years ago) link
Also assuming most of these kids bother to go to university they'll be graduating into either a post-covid boom or a post-Brexit depression, and in either case whether you've had an A-Level nudged up one level is going to be neither here nor there. (Also it's irrelevant because once you've got a degree no one gives a toss what A-Levels you got).
― Matt DC, Thursday, 13 August 2020 10:07 (three years ago) link
i'm sure that whichever journalist he gave the comment to pointed out all this stuff at the time
― The Scampos of Young Werther (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 13 August 2020 10:09 (three years ago) link
Is that Williamson quote made up? It’s not in the Telegraph article or in the one linked to here, as far as I can see:
"The danger is that pupils will be over-promoted into jobs that are beyond their competence"(Gavin Williamson)... one of many @Conservatives ministers promoted way beyond their competence... one of many #Tory ministers promoted rather than sacked for multiple failures https://t.co/S3jE5UGd1r— Source at No.10 (@10_source) August 13, 2020
― toby, Thursday, 13 August 2020 10:14 (three years ago) link
Plus claims that it’s made up:
No fan of Williamson but it still irritates seeing people who get on their high horse about fake news sharing a made up quote. https://t.co/V81JfglxNj— Sam Freedman (@Samfr) August 13, 2020
― toby, Thursday, 13 August 2020 10:16 (three years ago) link
I cannot source it either so humbly accept Williamson's reputation should return to its previous level.
― nashwan, Thursday, 13 August 2020 10:21 (three years ago) link
There is a Williamson op-ed further into the Telegraph that is also paywalled so it might be in there. I perhaps naively assumed that a member of the Economist editorial team might have checked that before posting it (although, significantly, he didn't put it in quotation marks).
― Matt DC, Thursday, 13 August 2020 10:24 (three years ago) link
afaict, it's not a quote, it's an interpretation of his statement on potential unfairness across year groups.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 13 August 2020 10:27 (three years ago) link