Democracy manifest This poll is closed. |
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Labour | 75 | 11.85% | |
Conservatives | 3 | 0.47% | |
Liberal Democrats | 27 | 4.27% | |
Reform UK | 8 | 1.26% | |
Greens (including Scot & NI Greens) | 206 | 32.54% | |
Scottish National Party | 33 | 5.21% | |
Plaid Cymru | 13 | 2.05% | |
Some Kind of Irish Unionist | 0 | 0% | |
Alliance | 4 | 0.63% | |
Some Kind of Irish Nationalist | 15 | 2.37% | |
Misc. right wing party | 1 | 0.16% | |
Misc. lefty party | 15 | 2.37% | |
Count Binface/MRLP/etc | 26 | 4.11% | |
Independent | 11 | 1.74% | |
Can't vote | 68 | 10.74% | |
Won't vote | 28 | 4.42% | |
Spoiled ballot | 11 | 1.74% | |
Taylor Swift | 89 | 14.06% | |
Total: | 633 votes |
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You are welcome to participate but I'm afraid I cannot enforce people wanting to listen or speak to you if you turn up just to complain about how much you don't like the thread. If you don't like the thread I encourage you to try one of the many other threads available on something awful dot com. I hope you are not being forced to read this one against your will. An element of white noise posting is fine, it is a chatty thread, but if it is consistently unappealing to read and neither funny nor informative this may engender a similar response to complaints. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Jun 19, 2024 |
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# ? Jan 25, 2025 09:24 |
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Angepain posted:looks like crispix has been de-IK'd - specifically for editing posts, which fair tbh it is explicitly against the ik rules Flew too close to the sun, that lad
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# ? Jun 19, 2024 16:31 |
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Editing posts for no good reason and a without saying what you did is a pretty serious forums faux-pas.
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# ? Jun 19, 2024 16:35 |
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Guavanaut posted:You're right, but it did seem to be the defining moment between the wider public reaction being a sense that it was about some things that happened in the US to "they're coming for our statues" and then (among anyone prepared to reflect on it) "wait, do we have any statues of racists, and if so what should we do with them?" just checked in oxford and oriel college's statue of cecil rhodes is still standing, unfortunately too high to make it easy to tear down
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# ? Jun 19, 2024 16:35 |
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eleven extra elephants posted:oh yeah, add this smug as poo poo 'locals only' attitude to the list too You don't have to be a local to post here, we've got regulars from places as exotic as Finland and Ireland, but criticism of the "thread culture" for lack of a better term from people who rarely post in it just comes across more like concern trolling than anything worth paying attention to. If you do want to post here regularly, great, cool, more the merrier. But the thread shouldn't change to accommodate your particular peccadillos. And with the recent bizarre (to put it mildly) witch hunt against Fuctifino, yeah, think we're entirely within our rights to be suspicious of the motives of someone coming & saying "change this, this & this to be better". But sure, it's a local thread for local people Anyway, the one part I agree on is there's too much forum drama, so moving on https://x.com/mish_rahman/status/1803459465561203132 For those without Twitter, a post from Labour NEC member Mish Rahman: "This legal threat from the Labour Party to Mr Forde is consistent with the behaviour of Starmer’s Labour Party, which is intent on cracking down on any dissent or criticism rather than the actual perpetrators of racism" And here's the article linked quote:Labour attempted to gag a prominent Black barrister who authored a report which exposed a "hierarchy of racism" within the party, The Independent can reveal. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 16:38 on Jun 19, 2024 |
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OwlFancier posted:It does seem a strange rule particularly when I've had problems with say, Vitamin P and occasionally others essentially using the probation system to evade threadbans at a rate of one post per six hours. A threadban means you are not allowed to post here, not "you have to wait six hours between posts and we still have to read them" TBF vitamin P's case is a bit different, since he's explicitly told "you're no longer allowed to post here because of your cruel and harassing behaviour" and then goes back to doing it, and editing out harassment is the kind of thing IKs are allowed to edit, to my understanding?
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# ? Jun 19, 2024 16:37 |
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We've had a bunch of lurkers out of the woodwork recently to pay tribute to our fallen comrade and they've generally been encouraged to stick around. Folks aren't daft though, and it's pretty obvious when someone's here just to poo poo things up
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# ? Jun 19, 2024 16:37 |
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oh yeah and I believe you absolutely have to sign saying you did it and why
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# ? Jun 19, 2024 16:37 |
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I was a bit distressed by the thread reaction to the fuctifino situation to be honest. I haven't spoken up before because I don't want people here to decide I don't belong here. But I saw some of the PMs he sent and they were beyond just angry, they were well into territory that gets people shown the door. Call me a liar if you like but I've been a regular poster in here for years.
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# ? Jun 19, 2024 16:39 |
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forkboy84 posted:You don't have to be a local to post here, we've got regulars from places as exotic as Finland and Ireland, but criticism of the "thread culture" for lack of a better term from people who rarely post in it just comes across more like concern trolling than anything worth paying attention to. If you do want to post here regularly, great, cool, more the merrier. But the thread shouldn't change to accommodate your particular peccadillos. And with the recent bizarre (to put it mildly) witch hunt against Fuctifino, yeah, think we're entirely within our rights to be suspicious of the motives of someone coming & saying "change this, this & this to be better". I used to post in here a lot, but do have to agree I have been turned away by the insular nature. I enjoyed it being something of an island, but don’t enjoy it being an island that actively tries to block new people coming in. If they’re a prick, tell them or ignore them. Do not just erase their posts on a whim so nobody else can judge. Basic rule.
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# ? Jun 19, 2024 16:40 |
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Tbh, the whole Fuctifino incident could of had a lot more clarity about it rather than a permaban, some words in their LC probe and peaced out.
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# ? Jun 19, 2024 16:41 |
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sinky posted:Even funnier than Jo Swinson of Jo Swinsons Liberal Democrats losing her seat More time for her to go after squirrels. People of this thread who have ADHD, what is your opinion of this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4-I4nmNAHE
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# ? Jun 19, 2024 16:41 |
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Re: Colston, the removal of the statue also had an ongoing impact within Bristol where a bunch of major buildings with Colston's name attached got rebranded. It definitely initiated an important reflection in the city of its history with the slave trade.
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# ? Jun 19, 2024 16:42 |
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Tai posted:Tbh, the whole Fuctifino incident could of had a lot more clarity about it rather than a permaban, some words in their LC probe and peaced out. Maybe. The admins were trying to walk a line and not break anyone's privacy including fuct's.
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# ? Jun 19, 2024 16:43 |
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Mesopotamia posted:I used to post in here a lot, but do have to agree I have been turned away by the insular nature. I enjoyed it being something of an island, but don’t enjoy it being an island that actively tries to block new people coming in. This is a shame btw as I've seen you around and know you're a good poster. For what that's worth coming from me... all well and good me saying "I was saying Boo-urns"
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# ? Jun 19, 2024 16:43 |
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bessantj posted:More time for her to go after squirrels. Yeah that's a pretty accurate assessment. ADHD means having your dopamine levels all hosed up and instant gratification is about the only way to get them to where they should be
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# ? Jun 19, 2024 16:44 |
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vanity slug posted:just checked in oxford and oriel college's statue of cecil rhodes is still standing, unfortunately too high to make it easy to tear down Announcing they were going to remove it then doing an immediate u-turn when various alumni threatened to pull funding was one of the most craven things I've ever seen. Probably mentioned it itt before but it's literally constructed so as to place Rhodes above Kings and Priest, looking down his nose at them. Tacky as poo poo.
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# ? Jun 19, 2024 16:44 |
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bessantj posted:More time for her to go after squirrels. Yep, like with pretty much everything he puts out PirateSoftware is dead on with this. It's not always easy to put these structures in place for yourself though. HopperUK posted:Maybe. The admins were trying to walk a line and not break anyone's privacy including fuct's. Sure, but with an information vacuum we're likely to fill it ourselves and what we saw was a dude get harassed by chat thread IKs and to a lesser degree a GBS mod and get perma'd for his reaction
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# ? Jun 19, 2024 16:44 |
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HopperUK posted:I was a bit distressed by the thread reaction to the fuctifino situation to be honest. I haven't spoken up before because I don't want people here to decide I don't belong here. But I saw some of the PMs he sent and they were beyond just angry, they were well into territory that gets people shown the door. I think people are reacting less to a single incident and more to the perceived ongoing animosity from the other thread
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# ? Jun 19, 2024 16:46 |
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HopperUK posted:I was a bit distressed by the thread reaction to the fuctifino situation to be honest. I haven't spoken up before because I don't want people here to decide I don't belong here. But I saw some of the PMs he sent and they were beyond just angry, they were well into territory that gets people shown the door. The whole thing was a bit like walking into your local pub and some lad is on the ground being booted by 8 other bigger boys. Maybe he was in there doing mad poo poo and provoking people, maybe they just didn't like the look of him. But overall you're probably not gonna recommend that pub to your mates who are coming into town the following weekend. In theory it should be easy to say who started what, but there seems to be a lot of grudge-bearing and obfuscation and weird PMs being thrown around everywhere. Also, yes I'm aware that spectacularly bad posting is not the same as physically having a go at someone, I'm just using the power of analogy which has made me such a high-impact, high-volume poster. E: vvvvv tend to agree with this, as someone who has been banned multiple times over the decades for making really lovely posts, but never perma'd . I like to think I got a bit better at not being a complete dickhead Failed Imagineer fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Jun 19, 2024 |
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I will say, unless the content was properly vile I think a perma was an overreaction - I'm not really sure why this couldn't have been handled with a Ban+30 or something.
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# ? Jun 19, 2024 16:48 |
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History Comes Inside! posted:If it gets to the point that we have to consider retaliating for something with loving nuclear weapons then we’re already tremendously hosed I entirely agree, like I said, I would much rather nobody had them. However, if we do disarm, someone has to go first and someone has to go last. Would you honestly trust the US or Russia if they go last? Would you want either one of them to be the final country on the planet that only has them? I'm not sure how I feel about that
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# ? Jun 19, 2024 16:49 |
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Tesseraction posted:From the Graun: Figures a guy called Seldon would talk about the fall of empire
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# ? Jun 19, 2024 16:50 |
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HopperUK posted:I was a bit distressed by the thread reaction to the fuctifino situation to be honest. I haven't spoken up before because I don't want people here to decide I don't belong here. But I saw some of the PMs he sent and they were beyond just angry, they were well into territory that gets people shown the door. I mean, fair enough if it got bad behind the scenes - no reason to doubt you there. But it wasn't exactly the first step of the conversation, y'know? The original chain-probing and the harassment around it weren't in good faith and shouldn't have happened.
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# ? Jun 19, 2024 16:50 |
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Tesseraction posted:TBF vitamin P's case is a bit different, since he's explicitly told "you're no longer allowed to post here because of your cruel and harassing behaviour" and then goes back to doing it, and editing out harassment is the kind of thing IKs are allowed to edit, to my understanding? Mostly he just keeps trying to weigh in on the subject of discussion, which I don't object to in and of itself but he was ejected by common acclaim for being a real dickhead and he hasn't apologised for that and I don't have any indication he wouldn't do it again if it came to it. And he doesn't listen to being told not to post because he specifically seems content to post whatever and then immediately get probated as long as people have to read it, like some sort of posting flasher in a trenchcoat. So I started just editing them out and he stopped posting. Seems like a desirable outcome. Hopefully he's doing something else with his life.
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# ? Jun 19, 2024 16:51 |
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Mega Comrade posted:What changed my mind on Trident was discovering that we are completely beholden on the US to maintain it. So if ever US pulled the plug on support it would fall apart within months. Well, poo poo. I didn't know that and that is actually a great point you've made. I don't like us being as close to the US as we are considering how loving mental their country has got over the last 20 years. I worry we get dragged into far too much of their poo poo tbh. I'm going to have a think on this but you may have managed to change my mind with that fact.
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# ? Jun 19, 2024 16:52 |
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The content was properly vile. I don't think the perma was an overreaction. I don't know how much weight that carries with anyone here. I like fuct and I was shocked to see it.
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# ? Jun 19, 2024 16:53 |
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OwlFancier posted:So I started just editing them out and he stopped posting. Seems like a desirable outcome. Hopefully he's doing something else with his life. Hopefully not flashing people from a trenchcoat...
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# ? Jun 19, 2024 16:54 |
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HopperUK posted:The content was properly vile. I don't think the perma was an overreaction. I don't know how much weight that carries with anyone here. I like fuct and I was shocked to see it. Fair enough, I have no reason to not believe you on that.
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# ? Jun 19, 2024 16:55 |
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Mega Comrade posted:What changed my mind on Trident was discovering that we are completely beholden on the US to maintain it. So if ever US pulled the plug on support it would fall apart within months. I suspect if that even looked like happening a) we'd be geopolitically hosed but b) we would be tooling up to be able to maintain it ourselves real fast. The warheads are ours, it's the rockets that are theirs, and while maintaining them is, well, rocket science, we are not North Korea (who can in any case make perfectly viable rockets) and could do it if we had to.
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# ? Jun 19, 2024 16:57 |
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Angepain posted:looks like crispix has been de-IK'd - specifically for editing posts, which fair tbh it is explicitly against the ik rules He shouldn't be the only person de-ID'd for bending the rules or taking the piss if that's the case. They should all be held to a higher standard of posting than us idiots.
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# ? Jun 19, 2024 16:57 |
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feedmegin posted:I suspect if that even looked like happening a) we'd be geopolitically hosed but b) we would be tooling up to be able to maintain it ourselves real fast. The warheads are ours, it's the rockets that are theirs, and while maintaining them is, well, rocket science, we are not North Korea (who can in any case make perfectly viable rockets) and could do it if we had to. I enjoy the notion of a nuclear deterrant that says if you declare war on us we will fire rockets indiscrimiately towards eurasia.
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# ? Jun 19, 2024 16:59 |
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OwlFancier posted:I enjoy the notion of a nuclear deterrant that says if you declare war on us we will fire rockets indiscrimiately towards eurasia. The US turns on us so we just send people to suicide bomb the US carrying warheads in old spitfires.
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# ? Jun 19, 2024 17:01 |
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HopperUK posted:I was a bit distressed by the thread reaction to the fuctifino situation to be honest. I haven't spoken up before because I don't want people here to decide I don't belong here. But I saw some of the PMs he sent and they were beyond just angry, they were well into territory that gets people shown the door. My opinion, while not seeing the PMs etc is that what he said must have been awful... But he could have had PMd turned off, given a ban, a serious slap on the wrists etc. it's known he had some issues but generally he seemed like a good egg for the most part minus his issues. I'm prob more sympathetic because I can relate to having a tough time with some of those things etc etc but I think he at least deserved a chance based on how long he had been here etc etc and he most certainly was somewhat provoked by that probe in the other thread for just paying his respects. That was uncalled for IMO
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# ? Jun 19, 2024 17:03 |
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Ragnar Gunvald posted:He shouldn't be the only person de-ID'd for bending the rules or taking the piss if that's the case. They should all be held to a higher standard of posting than us idiots. It appears the dickhead was also IK'd (unless their icons suddenly don't appear outside of their threads).
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# ? Jun 19, 2024 17:04 |
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OwlFancier posted:I enjoy the notion of a nuclear deterrant that says if you declare war on us we will fire rockets indiscrimiately towards eurasia. Well I'm not saying we would develop our own from scratch, more figure out how to maintain the US ones, but that probably would work as a deterrent in the sense that if we accidentally glass Paris or Moscow there's likely to be a global escalation.
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# ? Jun 19, 2024 17:04 |
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Ragnar Gunvald posted:Well, poo poo. I didn't know that and that is actually a great point you've made. The extent of the reliance is nuts. British subs have to visit the US base in Georgia for maintenance and rearming. We have no test site so that's all carried out under US supervision off the Florida coast. The generators, gas reservoirs, missile body shells, GPS, guidance and targeting systems, gravitational information and navigation systems are all provided by the US. What's even funnier. Is we don't even own the nukes on them, they are leased to us by the US. Trident is US foreign policy.
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# ? Jun 19, 2024 17:06 |
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feedmegin posted:I suspect if that even looked like happening a) we'd be geopolitically hosed but b) we would be tooling up to be able to maintain it ourselves real fast. The warheads are ours, it's the rockets that are theirs, and while maintaining them is, well, rocket science, we are not North Korea (who can in any case make perfectly viable rockets) and could do it if we had to.
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# ? Jun 19, 2024 17:07 |
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What I will say, as I don't think I've spelled it out. If anyone else ITT has problems with people harassing you, in or out of the thread, I would greatly prefer it if you would contact me about it rather than trying to annihilate them via retaliatory PM. I will try to help if I can.EvilHawk posted:It appears the dickhead was also IK'd (unless their icons suddenly don't appear outside of their threads). IKs only have the star inside their relevant thread.
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Rarity posted:Yeah that's a pretty accurate assessment. ADHD means having your dopamine levels all hosed up and instant gratification is about the only way to get them to where they should be mfcrocker posted:Yep, like with pretty much everything he puts out PirateSoftware is dead on with this. It's not always easy to put these structures in place for yourself though. Thank you, I have a friend with ADHD and while I don't think I can say "do this to cure yourself" I would like to suggest anything that may even help a bit.
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