En Passant
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1 minute ago, TQR said:Do you also hate margarine, the BBC, Henry VIII's disability and the McDonald's uniform?
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.
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9 hours ago, TQR said:So, many thousands of people sleeping on the streets because they've got no money, how do we deal with this? Fine them, of course.
9 hours ago, YoungWillz said:Haven't they admitted their jails are full and are having to release folk early to get more people in?
What's the point of jailing these folk? So they can let out a more serious offender?
Desperate.
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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3 minutes ago, DevonDeathTrip said:Less of that please!
We've had complaints.
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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On 13/03/2024 at 21:40, RoverAndOut said:Zone of Interest - saw it last night, really unsettling watch but well worth it if you get the chance. Possibly the most aural film I've ever seen (it completely deserved its Best Sound Oscar). Hard to watch this outwardly very normal family punctuated with subtle reminders of the horrors being committed. Plot was meandering, but it was much more a character study. Christian Friedel and Sandra Huller are superb. Still thinking about it
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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7 minutes ago, Clorox Bleachman said:Still with my trusty 21-year-old Ellesse backpack
Nice place to spend Easter. Given you're a youngster, that'd make that backpack about the same size you were when bought surely?
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59 minutes ago, Sly Ronnie said:The story so far: I'm ruling out the May dates, even 6th June is probably a squeeze if Sunak decides to call after the local elections.
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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46 minutes ago, The Old Crem said:Lizzo sounds mentally fragile with her latest statement. One to consider?
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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- 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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16 minutes ago, harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy said:
It’s only a crypto-sentence. As soon as he’s able to convince enough gullible fools that he won’t serve any time at all, he’ll be free as a bird.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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2 hours ago, mymango said:I reckon he'll survive the year and die before his birthday next year.
Carter echo, echo, echo.
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44 minutes ago, time said:Regarding recent discussions on what (or who) exactly is a 'nonce', according to someone on Xwitter it stands for "Not on normal courtyard exercise". Which is as convoluted (and inaccurate) a backronym as "chav" standing for "council house and violent/ce"
Completely agree. Far too 'composed' not to be a backronym imho.
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1 hour ago, YoungWillz said:It's very easy to change your citizenship, very very difficult to lose your domicile of birth.
Not if you're Shamima Begum apparently.
1 hour ago, YoungWillz said:this is a storm in cup of cafe au lait.
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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1 hour ago, maryportfuncity said:Aye, bit harsh on the average penis to have to endure such a comparison, eh?
It's ok, I just compare as Dwayne rather that Boris. Nothing to do with his nickname at all - nothing.
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9 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:If I have a soiree at the weekend, with vol-au-vents and aperitifs, followed by a meal including an entree and a dessert of croquembouche (that's profiteroles you know), then a stroll around the garden pointing out my plants flowering in their jardinieres, glass of champagne in hand, for example?
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.
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7 hours ago, Sod's Law said:Blackpool South MP Scott Benton has resigned. Another by-election imminent. How many disgraced MPs would we need to shed before we have a General Election by default?
Disgraced? I'll say. Not satisfied merely offering lobbying services for £4,000 a month, he has history deer worrying in Richmond Park
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57 minutes ago, prussianblue said:I can't take him seriously as someone I know has fucked Owen and said he was crap in bed
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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41 minutes ago, millwall32 said:The original Star Wars has a huge cast, but off the top of my head, I can't think of many of the who are still alive apart from James Earl Jones, Harrison Ford, and Mark Hammill.
Off the top of my head you can add Dennis Lawson who is 4 years older than Hammill but younger than the other two.
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1 hour ago, Master Obit said:How is he not on mod preview?
I thought he was on mod preview..due to
QuoteAgreed.
@The Old Crem please stop clogging the forum up with every tweet you see. Or else it can and will go to time off/mod preview.
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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3 hours ago, The Old Crem said:When will he give his view on the New England shirt. He is bound to be asked for comment - everyone else has.
What's your view? You give it on everything else.
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5 minutes ago, maryportfuncity said:But I've seen others so offended the walked out on him.
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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9 minutes ago, Sod's Law said:the whole 'sticking ads in Prime movies
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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1 hour ago, time said:That'd be the booze & drugs.
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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47 minutes ago, millwall32 said:60% "He was a genius" and 40% "I've met him and I hated him."
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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3 hours ago, Bestparolanto said:I never thought it would be so hard to do it.
No gain without pain. Research is all.
There's some seriously dedicated poolers about and the competition can be fierce.
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WokeWatch™
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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".