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Indeed. And he's been sued so many times "forthwith" is the kind of word he must have picked up, even if he doesn't understand it (along with pretty much everything else)

Just Larkin about...

LET'S NOT PLAY FRISBEE WITH THAT POET ANYMORE. [This is a comic strip, with a poem laid over it. On each panel a new line of the poem is written. The scene is a park, in the summer. A man in a trenchcoat - implicitly Philip Larkin - stands folorn, motionless, looking at people throwing a frisbee. It becomes apparent as the comic progresses that they are trying to play frisbee with him. He stand stock still for the whole comic, watching the frisbee as, panel by panel it soars closer and closer to him]. After contemplating the approaching frisbee for two silent panels, Philip begins his thoughts: Unloosed, unheralded, You soar toward me Across the dying afternoon. bright disc of childhood, Long since thrown wide Of Youth's green imaginings, Your slow declining arc Figures a sky-written truth: We will all succumb, and soon To earth's hard oblivion. [The frisbee hits Philip on the head with a resounding DONK. He falls backwards, to the ground. [Ends]

Let's Not Play Frisbee With That Poet Anymore

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

Make any comment about the evil of AI on the internet and you inevitably get these people saying, "Ah, but you can't halt progress." You know what else people thought was progress not long after it was invented? Asbestos.

Having read the (unpaywalled article now), it's obviously more nuanced than the headline, although if I were Zak Asgard I'd be miffed at having become the face of incels there. But my point still stands as to the nature of the sad men who completed the survey in the way the headline highlights

Collapse of late capitalism due to morons shooting themselves in the face? Seems apt...

There are moments when I think "Isn't it a shame Tate doesn't have a friend who can just say 'Mate, you're making a twat of yourself, just stop it'", but they soon pass...

For Andrew, it's a constant battle against his obvious insecurities, which as the rest of the world knows was a war he lost many years ago

Totally and utterly

Good question - too many answers though...

I'm not afraid to say that I LOL'd

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And yet every political party bar the Greens (and the LibDems when the mood takes them) are still behind austerity as an approach...

Can't imagine Whedon will be involved for obvious reasons, which only leaves Adam Baldwin's 'problematic' nature

I know commenting on something you haven't read is bad, but... bsky.app/profile/red-...

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Exactly so. I still remember about 10 years ago, when not having read it for years I picked up a copy with a voucher when we were on holiday, and couldn't believe quite how trashy "The Thunderer" had become. Can't imagine it's been on an upward trajectory since then

Not sure it's been anything more than another right wing rag for years

Masthead article on The Times - "Why men my age want wives to obey"

I've not read the article, but I'm assuming the answer is "Because I'm a whiny 'incel' who's believed all the nonsense pumped out by the manosphere"?

I find this man so uniquely and utterly unattractive . I don’t GET men’s worship of him.

He’s so obvious a bunch over overcompensation’s in stuffed in a “tragic biracial” housecoat .

Powered by coke, self loathing and lack of therapy.

I’d respect it more if he was honest about the grift

👍 Not that I'm trying to get all MERP about it in terms of tables
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Only if the nature of the crit is the same in both cases - it's fun one-shotting a baddie, but less so if it happens to your PC. An NPC crit should do more narrative / long-term damage

"Eighty years on from now, they will be remembered as appeasers and traitors" - why wait so long? After all, Rothermere's Hitler-supporting Daily Mail is *still* with us, even if should have been consigned to the dregs of history years ago

If You see This, Post a Character that starts with the letter N.

Sir Not-appearing-in-this-film

The horror! 😱

Is there some kind of GoFundMe that I can pay into to help you during these obviously distressing times of lovely weather and super lunches? 😉

Darren Cullen's ACAB badge, done in the style of the Sega logo

On the one hand, some kind of punctuation mark to indicate irony/sarcasm is needed now more than ever. On the other hand, stupid/humourless people can, by default, be ignored due to their stupidity and/or humourlessness

[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]