@DominicRaab
This graph literally shows that real wages are lower than when your lot came into government in 2010. Not really something to be boasting about.
@maxpayneonpoli1
@gavnugent
It's to reinforce the notion, at least amongst those not paying close attention to the details of these pieces, that poor people only have themselves to blame and should stop complaining. Tl;dr, it's capitalist propaganda.
@PhilipNByrne
Billy Corgan/smiling politely is obviously great, but I think “Someone ordered the London Symphony Orchestra? Possibly while high? I’m looking in your direction, Cypress Hill?” is unfairly overlooked.
Being forty years old and performatively complaining about things that have existed for 21 (Halo), 21 (XBox), 13 (Minecraft), 6 (TikTok), 11 (GoT) and, er, 68 (LotR) years respectively.
This is genuinely pathetic and, in a functioning press, would get you fired from your columnist job for inexcusable ignorance of the world you harp on about endlessly:
@MermaidMads
@FlorenceHRScott
I was literally just thinking about this reading his space comments earlier and I fully convinced myself maybe I'd imagined all the awful stuff
@eaterlondon
Always thought the burgers were pretty good and used to go pretty regularly, but I've not been back since they grassed up their own staff to the immigration cops.
@NewStatesman
Wow if only emergency services vehicles could in some way be exempt, as necessary to their function, from the usual rules governing private motorists. Idk maybe they could have special lights or markings to clearly distinguish them idk.
@joshcheetham
Josh. Is this sort of hair-splitting the most important misinformation-combatting thing you could be doing right now? Boat’s fucked. Whether or not it’s actually all the way under the water seems kinda beside the point under the circumstances.
@NME
@pictureparlour_
An actual journalist, rather than an extension of this band’s PR/management/label advertising strategy, might interrogate how a band with 31 monthly listeners on Spotify comes to suddenly get these huge opportunities, but that seems to be beyond
@fluorescentsoph
’s capabilities.
Thinking again about when an entire series of The Bake Off But Woodworking got binned after one episode when loads of ppl on here pointed out the guy who clearly went on to win it had Nazi tattoos all over his face, something that had apparently eluded the entire production team.
Painted two more Orks which means I’ve finished off the unit of Evil Sunz which were originally part of my “finish shit off in November” plan. Oh well, better late than never, eh?
Weird how Robin Hood’s seen as this sort of English folk hero when minimum 60% of the bootlicking dickheads in this dogshit country would grass him up to the Sheriff of Nottingham at the drop of a fucking hat.
@mjrobbins
Well yes, I think in that instance people would, quite rightly, be outraged by it and anything drawing attention to that fact would be entirely legitimate. The key thing of course is that, unless I’ve missed something fairly major, this is a scenario you’ve just made up.
@ColinBrazierTV
I dunno Colin, has it ever occurred to you that a song in which we appeal to a fictitious deity to give special treatment to one specific guy who’s magically better than the rest of us might be part of the problem, rather than a solution to anything?
@misslucyp
I don’t say this lightly, but I honest-to-god hope someone kicks him down the big stairs and then it turns out nobody actually saw who did it.
@mjrobbins
Well given that the express, institutionally-sanctioned role of a nurse within the NHS has never been to kill people, it’s not really the same thing at all, so the analogy’s a pretty fatuous one.
I’m totally fine with “being friends with people with different opinions” but more along the lines of “which is the best Iron Maiden album” rather than “should refugees have their boats shot full of holes then be left to drown in the Channel”
Obviously it is phenomenally impressive to have actually made this but I always find the sight of a Space Marine stomping about the garden of a semi-detached house entirely hilarious.
@hugorifkind
@OwenJones84
From your tone here Hugo it seems you feel any criticism you’re facing over your ghoulish article can happily be dismissed as long as “all this” can be claimed to be “coming from” Owen, rather than that he maybe just happens to share the opinion of you that plenty of others have.
Having a bit of a case of the Everything-is-Terribles, so I want you to:
• show me your pet
• tell me their name
• tell me the thing you call them that bears the least relation to their actual name
This is Rollo. Lately I have been calling him “Mr. Tinkus, The Baby Binkus”.
@elonmusk
You have the ability to save the people on the sub they are in deep waters, location known. You can rig something up. Your the only one on the planet that can.
@WarComTeam
@MrKhornversion
Soooo when you did that Warhammer Preview stream and *repeatedly* said it was to become part of the ongoing range that was just… complete bollocks? Huh.
@LNER
Just looked on your website and if I went to Edinburgh by train this weekend, it’d cost me £148. Flying – £97. Good job encouraging people to carry on destroying the planet, guys. 👍
@such_hockey_wow
@AITA_reddit
Fucking lol that someone’s solution to OP wanting out of something that could potentially physically or psychologically damage them is “idk, join the military maybe?”
@StefGotBooted
@LeftieLawyer
Also, the framing of this as being “with Corbyn gone” rather than “since a sustained and ruthless campaign to outright alienate and exclude anyone on the left of the party” is pretty telling.
Labour will continue screaming at the top of their lungs to anyone who’ll listen that they will change absolutely *nothing*, and a certain kind of person will still tell you you’re morally obliged to vote Labour to get the Tories out.
Of course none of this needs to be true, it’s just pure job-mandated reactionary-signalling to the Times’ core audience of spiteful dickheads. Horrible little pick-me millennial traitor cunt.
Stg the internet “truescale” bullshit that’s been going on for like 20 years has broken some people’s brains to the extent they’ll not be happy til a single Space Marine *miniature* is 7ft tall, with a little 28mm-scale head.
@ClintSmithIII
Thanks for two things: 1. I found this very encouraging, in a way; it reminded me sometimes stuff that seems insurmountably fixed in place isn’t always so. 2. I’m now on Wikipedia learning about Frederick Douglass, whom I hadn’t heard of before.
THING I LEARNED TODAY: Goblin, Kobold and the element Cobalt share the same etymological root, the latter because poisoning from it was attributed to mischief by naughty creatures. I am inordinately excited about this discovery.
What are examples in any form of media where a "brilliant song/painting/play/etc" within the story is actually as good as the characters act like it is?
Note: NOT the same as just "I liked it". It needs to actually fully match its fictional reputation
I was just talking to a pal about Rob Halford, and I remembered this smashing piece from earlier in the year by
@GrimKim
. It’s nice to have a reminder that those whose art you might admire aren’t always awful, reactionary dickheads.
Didn’t get much chance to paint little spacemen in April, but I cracked into this grotty guy yesterday. Extremely annoyed about not having left the backpack separate as I think that would have made it like twice as easy to paint.
#WarhammerCommunity
Do you know what a "bottle night" is?
Probably not, because my gf and I invented it during a 2023 blizzard in Buffalo, NY.
We lock our phones away, turn the TV off...
Each grab a bottle of wine, and talk.
That's it, we simply talk and enjoy each other's presence.
We live