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ThomasPaine posted:Oh sure, I think it was mostly the way the photo was shot that got me, rather than the subject Private duplicitousness that Boris has a penchant for can't really be exposed any other way can it? Edit: The BR class 73 is an ugly train not worthy of note other than that it uses all the worst sorts of traction power. Much better is the class 37, the mighty deltic. A train from the time when the same company could turn out fridges, torpedo boats, trains and supersonic fighter planes and do it well. Endjinneer fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Dec 18, 2021 |
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Red Oktober posted:Bene Gesserit training has had some budget cuts, I see. That gave me an actual real laugh.  An early morning provision raid to Tesco on the 23rd and then i batten down the hatches for a few months (which i'm actually looking forward to). We all deal with life differently. 
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Go to a party, go to the pub. gently caress it. I'm rapidly becoming a covid accelerationist. Bring on the sweet embrace of no oxygen. I shall remain locked down and slathered in alcohol gel. Waiting for the day I can pick through the corpses and finally get a Switch. keep punching joe fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Dec 18, 2021 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Ah the Water Margin. I have the entire series on my computer.
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A bit late to the 'old racist stuff from childhood' chat, but throwing mine on the pile: When I was in primary school back in the 90s, we would sometimes have a 'religion' class which basically amounted to a local reverend or rabbi or someone connected to a religious institution coming in and... doing something. Talk about their religion or a holiday that was coming up or tell a bible story, it was very random and unstructured and not really supervised by the school much. One time around Easter we had a lady who was like a deacon of some alternate protestant sect come in and tell us an Easter story, which went like: '  Before the Romans crucified Jesus, they needed nails made for the cross. But none of the blacksmiths in town would make them, even when the Romans threatened and punished them. Eventually, they found a greedy blacksmith who thought only of money, and he made the nails that the Romans used in the Crucifixion. The day after Jesus rose, the blacksmith woke up and found the nails had mysteriously appeared in his workshop, as if they had burrowed up from the earth. He was terror-stricken, and hurriedly moved with his family to a new town. But sure enough, soon he found the nails in his workshop again. The blacksmith kept on moving, trying to escape this reminder of his crime and his guilt, but the nails followed him for all his life. After he died, the curse passed on to his children, and his children's children, and all his descendants forevermore, to show their sin.And that, children, is where Gypsies come from, and why they always move from place to place .'Just seemed like another weird Bible story to Year 6 me and I never thought much of it at the time. Remembered it suddenly several years later and was like 'wait,  '
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If I were a greedy and unscrupulous blacksmith who thought only of money and had some magic nails that kept coming back to my workshop I'd keep selling them.
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I know that's not the point, but she's not selling the character's motivations very well in addition to being racist.
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Apraxin posted:A bit late to the 'old racist stuff from childhood' chat, but throwing mine on the pile: Which has sparked off my one too, I don't remember if he was religious or not but he came in to tell us a story about how there was a fountain that God told all the people in the world to wash themselves in, and the first people there were from Europe and they covered themselves in the water, so they were the whitest, then the people from Asia were next and there wasn't as much water for them, which is why they were brown, and the people from Africa were last and there was only enough water for them to wash their hands and feet, which is why they were black apart from the palms of their hands and the soles of their feet. He used it as a parable for how rich white countries took much more than they needed, leaving not enough for the rest of the people of the world, but holy poo poo in retrospect that sounds like proper old-school Victorian racism right there.
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Apraxin posted:A bit late to the 'old racist stuff from childhood' chat, but throwing mine on the pile: Sounds a lot like the Wandering Jew myth, which is a fine bit of old school anti-semitism. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandering_Jew
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Endjinneer posted:Much better is the class 37, the mighty deltic. <twitch>
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Albinator posted:Where did you find that? I had a hunt around for it the other week and managed to find episode one, but everything else was languages I don't speak. And apparently there was a remake a few years back? I used to own the entire series on VHS but then I torrented it back when I lived in Cairo so maybe 10 years ago. No idea about a remake, I have the original. I recall there was a torrent that used to get to something like 98% and never ever budged above that. I finally found a different one at some point. Ed: see PMs. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Dec 18, 2021 |
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smellmycheese posted:Frost has walked out of the government
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Apraxin posted:A bit late to the 'old racist stuff from childhood' chat, but throwing mine on the pile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_crucifixion_legend
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loving lmao @ "Another version does not condemn blacksmiths." Still calls all Romani thieves, but at least it's not bigoted against ironmongers.
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Guavanaut posted:I know that's not the point, but she's not selling the character's motivations very well in addition to being racist. What if you had him move home symbollically, just walking between two neighbouring houses, thousands of times per day? how soon do the mass and volume of the nails become a problem? Brendan Rodgers fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Dec 18, 2021 |
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I still don't get why the gently caress anyone is annoyed by magic free nails, put em in your boots or something.
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Guavanaut posted:loving lmao @ "Another version does not condemn blacksmiths." The swerve back towards racism is really breakneck.
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Brendan Rodgers posted:What if you had him move home symbollically, just walking between two neighbouring houses, thousands of times per day? how soon do the mass and volume of the nails become a problem? "Sorry to hear about your birdhouse falling down Mr Murray, and the nails just disappeared did they? Well fortunately I've just made three identical ones this morning. I'd keep a watch out for any white fundie protestant ladies who go around to schools talking utter shite to kids, I hear most of them are also thieves."
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Guavanaut posted:I think it's supposed to be the same three nails that just keep returning to his workshop, so I'd just sell them and then they'd magic back to me. What if you fired the nails out of a blowpipe and then quickly set up a sleeping bag on the ground? Would your nails come back to you, allowing a tactical reload?
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They'd be quite big nails which would probably be a bit specific in utility at the time, and expensive.
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If Jesus didn't want us reproducing miracles until we figure out how to violate thermodynamics, he wouldn't have shown them to us.
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Brendan Rodgers posted:What if you fired the nails out of a blowpipe and then quickly set up a sleeping bag on the ground? Would your nails come back to you, allowing a tactical reload?
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The next Christmas number 1? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP5-KpgGO3o
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smellmycheese posted:Frost has walked out of the government Hopefully Boris caved in on the Northern Ireland Protocol stuff and Frosty walked off in a huff. I can dream... dammit!  As for the Romans, they had their own blacksmiths as they had to do maintenance on all the body armour ... a few nails were just ten minutes in a days work. 
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Julio Cruz posted:so there's a pre-Christmas Thing I was hoping to go to tomorrow, but I can't find an LFT anywhere in this godforsaken city stay indoors screaming constantly, imo
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You can go outside and scream too if you want, just do it away from other people.
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Cry St Fu for Boris, the Tories, and Jacob Rees-Mogg
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Albinator posted:Where did you find that? I had a hunt around for it the other week and managed to find episode one, but everything else was languages I don't speak. And apparently there was a remake a few years back? See PM
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I thought fax machines were the backbone of the NHS. (still lol)
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That’s quite a subtle knife in the back now that Brexit is turning out to be about as poo poo as we thought it would.
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therattle posted:That’s quite a subtle knife in the back now that Brexit is turning out to be about as poo poo as we thought it would. I'd read it as a desperate attempt to crawl back into party favour again after the second jobs thing, but you're right it has a lot of the "friends, romans, countrymen" about it. A new challenger has entered the leadership competition.
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Endjinneer posted:I'd read it as a desperate attempt to crawl back into party favour again after the second jobs thing, but you're right it has a lot of the "friends, romans, countrymen" about it. Yours is an equally valid take. Who can know?
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