green not in a good way.
― Lord of the RONGS (Fizzles), Sunday, 14 February 2021 20:16 (three years ago) link
Thanks to everyone itt who’s now forced me to picture spunk and the Queen in the same thoughtframe, cos now I’m picturing Prince Phillip’s demon seed and need to repay the favour.https://www.abc.net.au/cm/rimage/11826304-3x2-large.jpg“It’s crunchy”
― scampless, rattled and puce (gyac), Sunday, 14 February 2021 20:16 (three years ago) link
Ah, there is the black magic card.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 14 February 2021 20:18 (three years ago) link
You brought it on yourself
― scampless, rattled and puce (gyac), Sunday, 14 February 2021 20:21 (three years ago) link
Tbf liches are cool. I approve of necromancy.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 14 February 2021 20:22 (three years ago) link
I mean you wouldn’t volunteer to suck one off, would you
― scampless, rattled and puce (gyac), Sunday, 14 February 2021 20:23 (three years ago) link
Well…
― pomenitul, Sunday, 14 February 2021 20:23 (three years ago) link
https://66.media.tumblr.com/c7cee5825468c56feba7d3f01f5a4e7d/tumblr_p04cgtdgv21ww7r0zo1_250.gif
― scampless, rattled and puce (gyac), Sunday, 14 February 2021 20:24 (three years ago) link
christ imagine Phillip shooting his dusty fossilised pellets of amber in your general direction, poor Lilibet has to wear a bullet proof basque these days!
― calzino, Sunday, 14 February 2021 20:27 (three years ago) link
Excellent Valentine’s Day content from everyone
― scampless, rattled and puce (gyac), Sunday, 14 February 2021 20:28 (three years ago) link
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
― pomenitul, Sunday, 14 February 2021 20:28 (three years ago) link
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― scampless, rattled and puce (gyac), Sunday, 14 February 2021 20:30 (three years ago) link
it was 30 years ago today I took my partner on our first date in what proved to be the biggest mistake in her life and I'm just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― calzino, Sunday, 14 February 2021 20:44 (three years ago) link
they've been going in and out of style, but they're guaranteed to raise a smile
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 14 February 2021 20:49 (three years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/15/everyone-in-my-household-is-permanently-tired-and-i-cant-stand-the-moaning
This ZW article is advertised at the top of the front page today.
― the pinefox, Monday, 15 February 2021 12:03 (three years ago) link
cheer up zoe not many people could get paid for this shite
― Left, Monday, 15 February 2021 12:53 (three years ago) link
I only want it if it's green
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 14 February 2021 20:14 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
'sell me a paper' indeed
― imago, Monday, 15 February 2021 12:59 (three years ago) link
Too right. These people live on a different planet.
― I'm Going to Bring a Watermelon to Mark Grout Tonight (Tom D.), Monday, 15 February 2021 13:59 (three years ago) link
it was recently pointed out to me that the scotland editor libby brooks is casually slipping hate speech into her articles now:
https://www.dumptheguardian.com/law/2021/feb/22/ill-set-no-limits-on-which-women-to-protect-from-hate-says-helena-kennedy
"The Scottish government’s own hate crime bill has attracted a huge amount of controversy and, while it was always the intention to examine this standalone option, the timing is far from ideal. As it stands, a bill is passing through Holyrood that criminalises the stirring up of hatred against men who dress as women but not the stirring up of hatred against women, while the decision of protections for women won’t be made until Kennedy’s working group reports back in 12 months’ time."
― plax (ico), Monday, 22 February 2021 09:27 (three years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/feb/22/jess-phillips-mp-motherhood-made-me-feel-like-i-mattered-i-wish-that-wasnt-the-case
Worse than it used to be.
― the pinefox, Monday, 22 February 2021 11:49 (three years ago) link
I feel pleased. pic.twitter.com/GUy3vHPUw0— Lucie Toblerone (@msloobylou) February 24, 2021
is that a fucking question?
― calzino, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 13:03 (three years ago) link
I didn't realise they had it in for people with disabilities too!
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 13:24 (three years ago) link
we established this during the corbyn era- all austerity deaths are just water under the bridge now. much like the invasion of Iraq. these are not lives that serious grown ups can afford to care about
― Towards a Britain-Free Planet (Left), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 13:39 (three years ago) link
thank u based boris
How it started / How it's going pic.twitter.com/nrGwhhBYxh— Stats for Lefties (@LeftieStats) February 24, 2021
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 14:50 (three years ago) link
fuck wrong thread
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 14:57 (three years ago) link
is it though
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 15:32 (three years ago) link
makes u think
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 15:36 (three years ago) link
https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/06/convenience-has-a-human-cost-so-i-am-quitting-amazon-prime?
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 21:29 (two years ago) link
"For years, I’ve read stories about conditions at Amazon and thought: “That’s terrible.” But I’ve never felt terrible enough to change my behaviour and cancel my account. I’ve always found ways to justify using the service. It’s so damn convenient, after all. And I’m clearly not the only one who bypasses my principles in the name of convenience. Jeff Bezos could boast about how he likes drowning kittens in his spare time and, I’m pretty sure, people would continue to use Amazon."
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 21:31 (two years ago) link
lol that columnist and that blank look in her profile pic
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 21:49 (two years ago) link
it's just the monkey columnist face tbh
― imago, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 21:56 (two years ago) link
she’s quitting Prime. presumably she’s keeping her non-Prime account.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 22:24 (two years ago) link
Marina Hyde, actually, writes:
People are far more performative online in accordance with their consciousness of being watched. My colleague Jonathan Freedland made me laugh recently when he noted how Twitter had turned everyone into the archbishop of Canterbury, somehow feeling that every major news story requires them to issue an official statement.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 15 April 2021 09:39 (two years ago) link
know your place, proles.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 15 April 2021 09:47 (two years ago) link
know your place, proles. maybe there’s a new category in our world: “information proles”.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 15 April 2021 09:48 (two years ago) link
terrible that people that don't come from landed gentry backgrounds or have the connections to get a job at the Graun .. that these filthy nobodies can publish their own thoughts online without their approval!
― calzino, Thursday, 15 April 2021 09:55 (two years ago) link
I like how Marina's *hilarious* weekly writings in the Graun are like a stream of unrestrained consciousness and are not playing to the gallery at all.
― calzino, Thursday, 15 April 2021 10:00 (two years ago) link
If I had shagged Piers Morgan I’d probably wind my aristocratic neck in from time to time on the subject of others’ foibles tbh
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Thursday, 15 April 2021 10:23 (two years ago) link
I genuinely wonder what expertise Freedland imagines he has, other than in maintaining a public platform for thirty years.
Anxiety about populism / lack of faith in experts is all over the press but what kind of standing does he imagine 'journalist parents - PPE degree - opinions4U' gives him to dribble out a column five days a week on whatever happens to be in the headlines.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 15 April 2021 10:39 (two years ago) link
Born to rule.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 April 2021 10:48 (two years ago) link
Freedland has his regular radio 4 gig as well The Long View. Shockingly it's an absolute stinker of a program and he consistently stays on brand and usually seems to be feigning some kind of examination into events of the past and making a comparison with current events, but if you've read him and know his schtick it might be time flip to another station because you know where it is going.
― calzino, Thursday, 15 April 2021 10:50 (two years ago) link
I agree with these comments, but also find it remarkable, and awful in a way, to learn that Hyde *actually reads Freedland's work*, and *laughs at it*, when he writes unfunny things.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 15 April 2021 11:24 (two years ago) link
Maybe I would imagine that they all know that each other are bad, and would never *actually bother reading* each other - leaving that for mere Guardian buyers? (A bit like the rank cynicism of the family in the novel WHAT A CARVE UP! (1994)?)
― the pinefox, Thursday, 15 April 2021 11:26 (two years ago) link
if they don't believe in each other who will
― new display name (Left), Thursday, 15 April 2021 11:28 (two years ago) link
I don't find it hard to believe these people who all go to the same dinner parties genuinely do find each other funny and insightful, after all they never listen to anyone outside the bubble anyway
― new display name (Left), Thursday, 15 April 2021 11:30 (two years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/apr/16/experience-ive-had-the-same-supper-for-10-years
i'm not quite this bad wrt routine but i'm definitely feeling this guy. the bit about birdsong made me sad tho.
― oscar bravo, Friday, 16 April 2021 13:54 (two years ago) link
Ooft, wow. That's both immensely life-affirming and immensely sad somehow. What a great wee piece of writing.
― brain (krakow), Sunday, 18 April 2021 11:28 (two years ago) link
Reading the Mabinogion eating ma big onion
― jammy mcnullity (wins), Sunday, 18 April 2021 11:30 (two years ago) link
I need to know how he eats the onion
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 18 April 2021 11:57 (two years ago) link