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This feels like if one of the 'modern art is bullshit! Anyone could do that!' people actually tried to give it a go
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Aging nerd, office drone and recovering librarian. TTRPGs, retrofuturism, gushing about Pratchett and increasingly radicalised political takes. Please ignore my bad posts, unless they made you mad, in which case know that I meant every word.
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This feels like if one of the 'modern art is bullshit! Anyone could do that!' people actually tried to give it a go
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YouTuber boxing feels more honourable and dignified than this
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Would much rather unlock big head mode tbh
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There's a reason he's almost as insufferable as 'Titania McGrath'
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The Pinot Grigio Posadists of Peckham will tell you this is bad for immigrants, but I just added an extra side of bombay aloo to my Friday takeaway to celebrate.
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Oh that's not good. This guy damn near threw a tantrum on stream when Kendrick counter-punched Family Matters with Meet The Grahams
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Thanks, I tried to craft that one for maximum psychic damage
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No Justice Without Mercer: 25-part true crime podcast where Johnny Mercer finds out who really DID call his wife a prostitute in the Plymouth Herald comment section Semper Ad Victorian: Jacob Rees-Mogg and Niall Ferguson discuss how the Torys can learn from the political lessons of the 1840s
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Coffey Klatch: Therese Coffey and Gillian Keegan discuss their various enemies Trussed Up: Liz Truss explains BDSM practices to Nadine Dorries to decide if she'd like Boris to do them to her Political Animals: A zookeeper coaxes Jonathan Gullis to give political insights by offering him bananas
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Allowing myself one single moment of election night joy to go 'Ohhhhhhhh Jeremy Coooooorbyn'
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Have you ever seen a hat that fits?
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Everything is too small for his head. He looks like he sat on a bike pump
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A bunch of the movies are on Netflix and I keep meaning to give them a try out of sheer curiosity
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And some of it... seems quite fun? Apparently each of the movies have some pretty bombastic large battle scenes and it's wild to think that everyone who isn't a generic good is basically Japanese Gareth Gates
youtu.be/-EzuzPOiwy0?...
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But none of this was enough so THEN they created an entire MCU-esque franchise called High&Low where they're all delinquent teenage gang members who have fist fights to 'protect' their turf. There are currently 5 TV series, 7 movies, 2 stage shows, 1 videogame, 1 anime and 3 manga
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My favourite weird idol-esque bit is High&Low. First there was a 17-member Japanese boy band called Exile, then some of them got their own side projects and ended up with 11 more bands. THEN they brought them together as a supergroup called Exile Tribe (apparently about 85 people at this point)
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His brain 100% went to foie gras and adrenochrome before the Tory media training kicked in with 'Sound like a poor person! SOUND LIKE A POOR PERSON!'
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The games a finely-tuned dopamine machine. So many little touches like the speeding up of the activation jingle, the little bounce of the card animations being triggered, it's like someone's scratching the itchy parts of your brain
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According to Sky, the Lib Dems have 'one last stunt' ready for the end of the campaign
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As a former librarian I am positively drooling at the resources and services in this thread
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... Just remembered that I'm on BlueSky so I should probably clarify that I meant good egg in the British sense, not the trans sense.
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Jer's trumpet broke which is unfortunate as they seem like a good egg. If you are a cursed child of the third wave ska revival like me, you should check out their stuff and consider whether you want to support them so we can get more goddamn bangers like this one:
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Chris Brookes rules, anything he does with Maki Itoh is gold
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Making my grand return to social media to announce: Bippity-Boppity-Boo The allegations against me are untrue 😡
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Finally got around to watching The Fall Guy last night and man, that film did not deserve to flop. I haven't had a film carry me along on sheer charm and charisma like that for ages.
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Enjoy yr girlgriend.
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Attacking their budget plans from the left because they keep threatening to cut away, cut away
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I know Britain had a fairly close flirtation with open fascism in the inter-war period of the 30s. Importantly we did not pull back from it by voting for a sensible group of political moderates. We did it by beating the piss out of them and the police at the Battle of Cable Street
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Every NJPW top guy longs, in their heart, to be a comedy midcarder
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The guy who very earnestly tried to tell Dril that he wasn't goping to get anywhere on here unless he replied more was truly incredible.
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I cannot tell you the relief I felt in my heart when it showed her putting a condom over it in the last photo
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The Curse of Michael Myers was a wild movie because it tried to hype up Michael as some kind of druidic course but just ended with him getting the brakes beat off him by Paul Rudd with a pipe.
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If he's going to be undead the least he could do is cast some dark magicks
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How about this for a spicy take: Elden Ring and Gone Home employ the same storytelling techniques
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You have to meet the minimum stat requirements first.
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You should subscribe to this so I can choose which of you I'd take into a dungeon
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It's kind of like the guys out of Supernatural. Dumbass picking up random spooky shit and using it to beat the brakes off of ghosts
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And yet he would have beaten Trump handily in a general election for all the reasons I outlined and more 😘
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Bernie didn't just consistently outperform Hilary in polling against Trump, but outperformed her in the primaries in key states that ended up going Trump like Wisconsin and Michigan. Asserting Bernie would have lost based on a fat load of nothing is what the kids call 'cope'
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We tried using it on the CIA in Cuba but it only gave them Seasonal Affective Depression and a tummy ache.
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Trump: Kendrick was nasty, very nasty indeed, saying all those things that weren't true, not true at all, and then there were the 10,000,000 Guatemalan illegal immigrants who swarmed the border to tell us Kendrick won Biden: Well Jack... thing is... thing is... well Jack... thing is... you see...
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Imagine trying to have the conversation with your granddad where you tell him that, after his fifth crash, maybe it's time to stop driving. Except it's relinquishing control of the world's largest nuclear arsenal.
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Being on the left just means constantly dealing with a version of Cassandra's curse where you have the power to see into the present and have to wait years for the dumbest motherfuckers alive to catch up
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"I didn't abuse my partners, what REALLY happened is she threatened to call the police on me unless I hard reset her brain by choking her out again (which I didn't do in the first place actually)" is up there with "Would you believe in God if a Christian baby was refusing the last parachute?"
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I got this beast of a compilation free with a sound card, of all things
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Absolutely quaking in my boots at the prospect of cheaper and shittier goods than the ones Amazon already sells
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