Posts you had second thought about and decided not to post - put them here

And there he is :)

That was petulant and performative and I regret it obv. I'm also v much on the spectrum

(xp) He"s been told to cool it with the anti-imago stuff by me and plenty of others lots of times, it's tedious as hell. I don't know what goes on on threads I'm not on though.

Perchance these acoleuthic matters can be offed elsewhere?

(xp) He"s been told to cool it with the anti-imago stuff by me and plenty of others lots of times, it's tedious as hell. I don't know what goes on on threads I'm not on though.

― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), 25. februar 2020 18:26 (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Lol, are you going to pretend to be surprised that your perpetual bully buddy has kept on bullying? At some point it's on you. And you've joined him in a pile-on twice the last hour.

There’s only one bad poster in this argument.

tbf xyzzzz has been quite restrained and non-combative in recent days/weeks, and I'm perfectly happy for it to stay that way and for you lot, Fred included, to not try and stoke any fires

Agreed.

https://tenor.com/view/casablanca-shocked-im-shocked-bogart-gif-14796634

Where's deems btw? We need one of his 'lads'.

on a break

LJ otm.

About keeping the fire out.

I thought so too, but xyzzzz bumped the guardian mess an hour ago, and you all know what happens once he gets started. But yeah, it's why I'm pissed Tom had to lose his head because I posted something about Scandinavian politics.

I agreed that Tom had gone in high, late and off the ball but hes not that sort of player and really best let lie

I say we go back to discussing how The Guardian is worse than it used to be. Like, fuck them for posting this piece of 'news', I don't want to be made to feel guilty for not exercising as much as I would like to:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2020/feb/25/george-hood-62-year-old-man-planked-eight-hours-world-record

I only appear less combative because there is less to be combative about not because I have calmed down. I will never calm down.

"But yeah, it's why I'm pissed Tom had to lose his head because I posted something about Scandinavian politics."

Sure that's all it was, nothing to do with UK politics at all.

"But yeah, it's why I'm pissed Tom had to lose his head because I posted something about Scandinavian politics."

Sure that's all it was, nothing to do with UK politics at all.

i too hate when people not from my country opine idiotically about our politics

What a self-own

This is what I posted btw:

Every country in Scandinavia has a Socialist and a Social Democratic party, btw. And a Green one, and probably a Socially Liberal one. It's great. You can really pinpoint the melts.

― Frederik B, 25. februar 2020 10:49 (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

It's everyone but the Socialists, of course

― Frederik B, 25. februar 2020 10:50 (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

im afraid you do not grasp the enormity of who it is you are dealing with. (removes diaper,. revealing two sub-diapers ) Shall we continue..

— wint (@dril) August 10, 2016

Can someone help me figure out how on earth that is supposed to be about anything but Scandinavia? I'm honestly intrigued

In a discussion of a Polly Toynbee article about UK politics. Sure, it's just you calmly posting about Scando pol, nothing else xxp

Uh... Yes it is?

What do you think it's about?

I only appear less combative because there is less to be combative about not because I have calmed down. I will never calm down.

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, February 25, 2020 5:55 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

gonna read this as critical support for my endorsement of RLB and plot of a coup against Starmer

Was it really so offensive of Fred to bring in a Scandinavian perspective? I didn't think so.

It was the Fred perspective that was the problem, not the Scandinavian one.

It's tone deaf to go on about the way wonders of a party system which cannot even begin to be implemented here, with an added assumption this would solve problems.

That assumption is in your head

I was responding to pinefox:

"There should be a socialist and a social democratic party. Trying to contain both has led to historical Labour strife."

This is wrong. What most 'socialists' are trying to achieve in practice is social democracy - eg: on the Scandinavian model that PT used to champion. I am on the far left by most UK standards but would call myself a social democrat. The real problem is that the Labour right, Blairites, et al, are not really keen on social democracy either. So she means 'There should be a social democratic party as well as a socially liberal neo-Thatcherite one'.

― the pinefox, 25. februar 2020 10:29 (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I read Fred's post as a casual 'btw this is what it's like in Denmark, comparing political systems is interesting and informative' (which is true). It wasn't a swipe – I don't even think he used the word 'melt' ironically in the follow-up, or just barely.

I'm all for the whole 'don't stoke the fire' thingy, but it's a bit hard when posters just make up shit in their own heads and can't read stuff in context before blowing a fuse. The obvious answer remains permabanning the bully.

It’s definitely a weird post to be raging about

The Social Liberal party in Denmark are absolutely melts, and having them in their own party means being able to humiliate them thoroughly every now and then. There was no irony at all. The Green and the Social Democrats are quite melty as well, though they do have their moments every now and then.

could go for a tuna one right about now mmmmm

Had a tuna melt on Sunday and was like why am I not always eating tuna melts

Personally I have never used the expression 'melt' in my life, either here or irl. Anyway I assumed Fred was doing his usual, "You lot are all tankies" routine, so maybe I got that wrong. That and the fact that he never seems to show up in UK politics threads to do anything other than provoke a fight.

Dafuq is goin on

-Marvin Gaye

lol

For the uninitiated:

Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

Storm in the proverbial.

Was it really so offensive of Fred to bring in a Scandinavian perspective? I didn't think so.

Tom wrote this in response to my post about Scandinavia:

As usual, Fred, you have no idea what you're talking about, you have no clue about the Labour Party and the Labour movement in the UK - its history, its significance, its importance, so shut the fuck up and go and irritate some Americans instead.

I did go off one before that tbf but, yes, that was a neat touch from Fred.

we didn't stoke the fire

tbf Tom was bang otm there

Telling me, a guy from Scandinavia talking about Scandinavia, that I don't know what I'm talking about?