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    WokeWatch™

    Eddie Marsan a few days ago in The Graun
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    WokeWatch™

    Fucks me right off. It's a flag, get a grip. Fuckin symbolism, fuckin political jumping on a populist bandwagon, fuckin nationalism if you like - people are people whatever nation. I think Gordon Sumner (sting) and his 14 hour tantric sex marathons is a loony but he got one thing right - (he hopes) "the russians love their children too".
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    WokeWatch™

    With a passion. As for acting, well, it's acting ffs. The idea that a gay can't play straight or vice versa is bonkers.
  4. Assuming that one of the primary reasons that people are sleeping rough is, cough, not having any money, fining them is unutterably stupid. So you're left with jailing them for non-payment. Further, if they are sleeping rough due to not having any money in the first place, one might reasonably assume that if fined and/or consequently jailed the re-offending rate would be, oh I don't know, 100%? The cost of keeping anyone in jail for a year is around £47,000. Which is around £13,000 more than the average salary in the UK. There might be a lot of hurdles to some realistic fix such as universal basic income.... ...But surely we can do better in the 6th largest economy in the world than jailing people with no money for non-payment of fines because they're sleeping rough because they had no money.
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    1. Jimmy Carter

    A: Godwins Law B: An amusing gif of a footballer waving an imaginary card at the ref that I can't be arsed to source.
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    Seen Any Good Films Lately?

    I watched this last night and agree it's unsettling but more for what you don't see than what you do - I expected this going in of course but it's still a weird experience. I'd also recommend seeing it without reading any more about it if you can avoid doing so. Not so much because of possible spoilers, more because I feel it's one of those films that's a better experience the less you know beforehand. A recent refreshing of what you know about Auschwitz wouldn't go amiss or detract though, amongst others there's a reference to 'Canada' that you'd miss unless you remembered what it was in context. It definitely benefits from decent sound equipment if you can get it, either at the local cinema or one of those home surround setups preferably with a sub, it's not crash bang wallop but you'd miss a lot without it. Not for those that need 'in your face' entertainment though, a lot of its impact is inside your head already if you know anything about the holocaust.
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    Holiday Thread

    Nice place to spend Easter. Given you're a youngster, that'd make that backpack about the same size you were when bought surely?
  8. Is this is still open to new entries? - I scrolled back and saw no ruling - if so, 3 Oct 24. However since some dates and associated votes are now ruled out it seems a smidge unfair to allow new entries to a sweepstake system, so if disallowed I shan't complain.
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    Ideas and possibilities for 2025

    She's 35. And if being pissed off about people getting in your face is a 'suicidal mental health crisis' we're all in trouble. A week? Already?
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    Hospitalization Pool

    King Harald King Charles Linda Nolan Miloš Zeman Pope Francis James Whale Alberto Fujimori Ozzy Osbourne Jair Bolsonaro Jean-Marie Le Pen subs Imelda Marcos Wendy Williams Mostly a menage of those posted in threads hereabouts - excluding anybody I never heard of outside of here, which limits me a bit. Still, we'll see.
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    Life In Prison

    Not going to happen. He's really going to do the time. He'll stand as the antithesis for other over-priveleged kids to claim it isn't privilege. Martha Lane-Fox etc etc.
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    Mahathir Mohamad

    Carter echo, echo, echo.
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    The English Language

    Completely agree. Far too 'composed' not to be a backronym imho.
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    French Deathlist 2024

    Not if you're Shamima Begum apparently. That'd be storm in a coffee cup (with milk). What you really want is tempete dans une tasse de the (according to google translate anyway, my french is up to the task of coffee but not tea or storms). Anyyyyywayyyyyy. Surely it's a French list for French members and they can call on whomever they like really - non? It could be as unimportant as once used french polish, drank french onion soup or even do what one does in a french letter (though how would one know?). Centreville just doesn't have the same ring to it as Downtown mind.
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    By -Election Bingo 2019-2024

    It's ok, I just compare as Dwayne rather that Boris. Nothing to do with his nickname at all - nothing.
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    French Deathlist 2024

    Then I'd say you've a reasonable chance of declaring yourself, or your guests, eligible for a French Deathlist as you've clearly been lying to all of us for a while about living anywhere near Glasgow at all.
  17. Disgraced? I'll say. Not satisfied merely offering lobbying services for £4,000 a month, he has history deer worrying in Richmond Park
  18. I wouldn't know (or care), but my problem with him is that he always seems so far up himself he doesn't need anyone else anyway.
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    Films with entirely dead casts

    Off the top of my head you can add Dennis Lawson who is 4 years older than Hammill but younger than the other two.
  20. I thought he was on mod preview..due to But he did a crafty swerve on that by stating he was going for a walk to consider his position - then basically opening the door, looking out and deciding it was too cold or raining or a wednesday or summat and coming straight back here with more bs.
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    Sven-Göran Eriksson

    What's your view? You give it on everything else.
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    I'm going to see Jerry Sadowitz...

    I've never understood this type of behaviour. What exactly were they expecting? It's not as if you could go in thinking you were seeing something as anodyne as a Peter Kay routine on dunking your biscuits or Michael McIntyre on anything.
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    Room 101

    Which, even though I didn't use the video that much anyway, was the final straw on my Prime membership. 9 quid a month is 108 a year, not much in the great scheme maybe, but I'm rarely in that much of a hurry and in the month or so since I quit it's taken maybe a day longer and is still free if you do 20 quid or so. Further, Amazon is not the cheapest by default anymore, the ratings are 'gamed' to hell and back, everything is some alpha-betti spaghetti name where the quality is at best questionable and at worst just dreadful. And lastly if I can give money to anyone who isn't Bezos and is preferably a british company (ha! I try) so much the better. Their returns are good though, at least for me, never had an issue.
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    Alex Higgins (And Snooker)

    Entirely possible, though again, I've known a bunch of people did too much of both and were perfectly pleasant throughout. Still I guess it doesn't help if you have a mean streak underneath that shines* through. *Yeah, I know, I chose the word anyway.
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    Alex Higgins (And Snooker)

    Of course the two aren't mutually exclusive. I've always considered him one of the most gifted natural players but never bought into the 'peoples champion' bullshit, I always thought he was a selfish arsehole - at least as much as one can tell from what's available publicly.
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