Just reading that they could get 10 years under a draconian law Trump signed in to protect statues, which would be some fine karma.
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"The show's opening montage [...] shows him using his genitals to keep a lion away from a group of children."
News story here, all episodes here.
(, Thu 7 Jan 2021, 18:10, Reply)
but don't worry, it's all here:
b3ta.com/links/1558128
(, Thu 7 Jan 2021, 19:03, Reply)
Yeah, it got copystruck moments after I posted... but it's all on their website.
DR is the Danish equivalent of the BBC, so it's a legit site.
That link (to b3ta) doesn't work for me, presumably 'coz it's someone who blocked me, or I blocked, or summut. That's why I didn't know it was GC, I hadn't seen it.
(, Thu 7 Jan 2021, 20:42, Reply)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3sGocnMP3A&ab_channel=Daniel
(, Sat 9 Jan 2021, 13:07, Reply)
Really? Thanks for enlightening me. Us in the provinces really don't know how to tell fake news from the real news...
(, Thu 7 Jan 2021, 17:18, Reply)
Bloody LUXURY.
Round 'ere we just have olds. We don't want that fancy London stuff.
(, Thu 7 Jan 2021, 20:16, Reply)
Luxury! We used to dream of having mud. We only had sand and had to spit in it to make mud.
(, Fri 8 Jan 2021, 6:21, Reply)
Ronseal. Lyrics by me, and you can expect a shedload of these to come out this year. Cheers, all.
(, Thu 7 Jan 2021, 12:16, Reply)
This is absolutely incredible. I want everyone to see it. In the world.
(, Fri 8 Jan 2021, 10:43, Reply)
Happy New Year, you handsome beast you.
(, Thu 7 Jan 2021, 10:48, Reply)
there was a song about penis envy, anal humour and pubic hairs.....oh wait..(nsfw because of..well you know)
(, Wed 6 Jan 2021, 22:31, Reply)
And I LOVED this song.
I've tried to play it open handed
I've tried to make a fist of this
Even when the questions are candid
My arrows miss
I've heard about your fragile ego
Your shield, your sword
What am I expected to do?
Shout man overboard?
Brilliant lyrics. I'm sure you can picture someone like this in your life: 'I've heard about your fragile ego: Your shield, your sword'
here's a slightly happier song by the same artist.
youtu.be/CIvdWzBO3rU
(, Thu 7 Jan 2021, 13:55, Reply)
Can't think what made me think of this.
:|
(, Wed 6 Jan 2021, 22:00, Reply)
Psych professionals have been warning people for years.
(, Wed 6 Jan 2021, 22:26, Reply)
Is that the bare arms one, or the one about the catering arrangements?
(, Wed 6 Jan 2021, 23:17, Reply)
Section 4, apparently.
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However anyone who thinks the “red wall” fell because people were voting for the nobodies who were prospective parliamentary candidates and not Boris is beyond delusional.
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Which is done in a way a bit more democratic than in the UK.
The MEPs elect their President. The UK PM is "Elected" by the winnng party and their allies.
(, Thu 7 Jan 2021, 0:02, Reply)
MEPs elect the president of the parliament.
Member states elect the president of the council.
The council proposes and the parliament elects the president of the commission.
You should select better sources of information to form a reality-based world view.
(, Wed 6 Jan 2021, 23:52, Reply)
The president of the parliament is, technically, voted in by MEPs. The reality is the two dominant eu parliamentary parties, the EPP and the PES , split the post by cosy convention (because in reality there are two presidents in every parliamentary term as the presidency doesn’t last for the same amount of time as the parliament) so you have, simply by convention, the situation where the two parliamentary parties only ever vote for their own candidate every other election. If you think that’s democracy, you’re even more stupid than I thought.
The president of the council is elected by the heads of state. If you think an election with an electorate of 28 resembles a democracy, you make Joey Essex look bright.
The President of the European commission is nominated by the European council, and subsequently “elected” by the European parliament. For elected read rubber stamped. There is only one candidate to vote for. The vote is yes or no. The parliament has never rejected the council’s nominee. An attempt at introducing some actual democracy into the process was attempted with the introduction of the spitzenkandidat process (can’t be bothered to explain this to someone so stupid), but in 2019 the European Council rejected the Spitzenkandidat of the leading party, and instead nominated their own candidate, just like they always have done.
Now fuck off you stupid lying nonce.
(, Thu 7 Jan 2021, 0:26, Reply)
I can also see that this confrontation with reality has taken its toll, emotionally speaking. That resentment you feel would be better directed towards those who have filled your head with nonsense rather than those doing their best to correct you.
(, Thu 7 Jan 2021, 0:38, Reply)
As I have briefly tried, and evidently failed, to explain some of the basics to you, I’ll dumb it down for you.
President of parliament- taken in turns every other “election” by one of one of the two major parties’ candidates. Not in reality an election at all. They. Take. It. In. Turns.
Council president- “elected” by the 27 heads of state. This tiny electorate engage in as much chicanery as FIFA delegates. It. Is. Not. Democracy.
Commission president- one nominee proposed by council, “elected”, i.e. rubber stamped, every single time without exception by parliament.
Just because they call it an election, it doesn’t mean it has anything to do with a democratic process. Go and get a LLB with two compulsory years of EU law and we’ll talk again.
(, Thu 7 Jan 2021, 1:10, Reply)
You claimed that the EU appoints presidents, while the US elects them. But since then you have accepted the reality that the EU institutions elect their presidents.
But to maintain some sort of ideological dignity, you twist the facts to fit your flawed narrative.
A cursory glance at the timeline of parliamentary presidents shows that they do not take it in turns, and there are more than two main parties. Nothing about your argument resembles the truth.
Your argument that the heads of state elect the council is flawed. If you think the heads of state of the EU have such great power, a) that flies in the face of the argument that the EU holds power over the member states, and b)it's cute to think that a given head of a member state is calling those kinds of shots within their own political hierarchy, and c) there are only 27 member states. We left. Because you won.
I'm not happy about the electoral conditions of the commission president, but it is, as you point out, called an election.
If you are concerned with elections not being democratic processes, why did you cite the example of the USA as an elected president? You know it's not a popular vote that decides the presidency over there, right?
(, Thu 7 Jan 2021, 2:38, Reply)
The eu parliament gets to vote for ONE candidate proposed by the council to be commission president. How, anywhere but China, is an election with one candidate a real election? The council’s candidate is NEVER rejected. It is a de facto appointment. Sure, they call it an election, but it’s nothing of the kind.
Yes there are lots of parties in the eu parliament. Well spotted. Since at least the early 90s (my eu knowledge pre Maastricht is not exhaustive) the EPP and the PES have split the role between themselves. You can claim there are more than two main parties if you like, but it only reveals your ignorance. Anyone who knows anything about eu party politics knows there are only two shows in town, the EPP and the PES.
You’ve really gone off the deep end when you claim that my argument that heads of state elect the council president is flawed. Fucking google it you thick cunt. That’s how it works, it’s not an argument, that is literally how the system is set up and works.
You throw nouns like truth and verbs like correct around while simultaneously exposing you profound ignorance as to how the system works and making up lies about how you think it works. Go and get an LLB and you might actually learn something.
Popular votes are one form of democracy, an electoral college is another, FPTP is another, PR, STV, etc etc. None of these systems are used by the European Union to “elect” its various presidents, stop talking shit. Even the eu top dogs mutter sheepishly about what they call a “democratic deficit”, and yet liars like you insist, with religious fervour, that it’s a democratic institution with meaningful elections.
Next you’ll be bleating on about the eu parliament being a beacon of political democracy. You’re so ignorant you almost certainly don’t know that MEPs cannot introduce bills. MEPs cannot actually make any laws themselves. There is simply no system or means of doing so. The mechanism is not there, it does not exist. All they can do is rubber stamp what is put before them. On the vanishingly few occasions they have voted against laws proposed by the commission, the commission usually rehashes the legislation and it typically gets through second time round. Sometimes though they simply bypass parliament and enact the law anyway, because there is a mechanism for that. That’s eu democracy in action.
(, Thu 7 Jan 2021, 3:41, Reply)
In fact, on reflection, I doubt you did get it. However credit where credit is due for spotting a joke, even if you don’t understand it.
(, Thu 7 Jan 2021, 13:32, Reply)
Pro-tip: If you ask someone if they are illiterate, you will undermine your argument a lot less if you use a question mark rather than a full stop.
As I don't want to lie for a living, getting an undergraduate law degree seems like a waste of time and money.
You do not present as law graduate material, especially when you drunkenly mistake me for SockCooker and call me a paedophile. You do not present as a law graduate because your rhetorical style and logical capacity are so stunted.
I can't be bothered to go through your posts pointing out everything that's wrong in them. Suffice to say, your insults do not help your self destructive cause, which is shared by the National Front, Britain First, BNP, UKIP, etc.
(, Thu 7 Jan 2021, 14:31, Reply)
They’re not arguments, they’re factual statements about how the various presidents of the eu get to be president of the institution they’re head of. This is not anti eu propaganda, it’s all information available on the eu’s own website.
You say you can’t be bothered to point out where I’m wrong. The truth is that you can’t refute what I’m saying because it’s factually accurate. So you resort to the utterly puerile “he’s anti-eu, therefore he’s brainwashed/racist/evil” bullshit, and completely avoid the issues being discussed. Utterly pathetic.
(, Thu 7 Jan 2021, 16:58, Reply)
The truth is I'm bored of this bendy bananas level of wrongness that you keep spouting.
Your rhetorical style is how fascists grind down their opposition, you make a false claim, then defend it with 16 more false claims, and defend each of those with yet more false claims, until there's just too much bullshit to wade through and the original point is forgotten. Those wise enough to walk away appear to concede.
It is an accurate and true statement of fact that the EU elects its institutional presidents. You agree. I'm happy. Good day to you.
(, Thu 7 Jan 2021, 17:55, Reply)
You even conceded that the ‘election’ of the president of the commission, arguably the most powerful individual vis à vis international trade, is unsatisfactory. All these elections are a travesty of democracy, and you know it.
(, Fri 8 Jan 2021, 1:24, Reply)
The subjects of the UK have no democratic way to select who represents them in our 2nd house. The subjects of the UK have no way of choosing their head of state, because God appoints our head of state through birth into a German aristocracy.
If you hate the anti-democratic elements of European bureaucracy, surely you must hate the aristocracy and especially the British monarchy, right?
We should campaign for a British republic together.
(, Fri 8 Jan 2021, 15:01, Reply)
twitter.com/b3ta/status/1346929071649914883
to be honest though, he probably wouldn't be the most right wing nut on here
(, Thu 7 Jan 2021, 0:03, Reply)
while never coming here again
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So have a bit of beauty in these weird times.
I'm currently practicing this amazing piece by the late great Roland Dyens.
Belated best wishes to y'all.
(, Wed 6 Jan 2021, 20:36, Reply)
That’s first rate spin. The artistic interpretation of a tripod is a quadruped. Fantastic. Get that man a job as a SPAD pronto.
(, Wed 6 Jan 2021, 19:18, Reply)
"I do declare there is no pleasure like reading" sounds innocent enough but it's spoken by a decidedly not-erudite Caroline in Pride and Prejudice talking shite to impress (edit) Darcy.
Seems like nobody at the Mint reads much.
(, Wed 6 Jan 2021, 19:44, Reply)
All those words are actually in the book.
(, Wed 6 Jan 2021, 20:09, Reply)
are a million, three hundred and thirty three thousand, three hundred and thirty three to one they said.
(, Wed 6 Jan 2021, 22:20, Reply)
Dear Lord What a Sad Little Life Jane but it’s performed by an Indie Band
(, Wed 6 Jan 2021, 17:42, Reply)
has also been uploaded by the creator to an actual video site, so I might actually find it in the future. Click.
(, Thu 7 Jan 2021, 15:09, Reply)
(with added butter)
(, Wed 6 Jan 2021, 16:51, Reply)
A failed pilot for a half-hour sitcom based on Indiana Jones, co-starring Jamie Lee Curtis. It's rubbish but it's expensive rubbish.
(, Wed 6 Jan 2021, 12:19, Reply)
so not sure it would have stood much of a chance
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Crikey.
(, Wed 6 Jan 2021, 20:28, Reply)
It can perform rescue operations, etch murals, hoist a flag and even steal ice cream from children.
(, Wed 6 Jan 2021, 11:57, Reply)
I like the style of it.
But why? I know attitudes to sex are very different in the Scandi countries but this is madness.
(, Wed 6 Jan 2021, 12:44, Reply)
But being Danish, here’s mine: The Danish equivalent to BBC has a long tradition for unorthodox kids-entertainment. As far as I know, their people creating it are usually young and have relatively large creative freedom in what they make.
The show has caused quite a stir in DK as well.
Bonus info: my 3 year-old likes it (at first he assumed it was a tail, until I broke the truth - which made it even better).
Fingers crossed for a female season 2...
(, Wed 6 Jan 2021, 22:53, Reply)
In the first episode when the dog bites his penis holding a sausage.
(, Thu 7 Jan 2021, 1:27, Reply)
When it's patently obvious that couldn't be further from the truth!
I find it joyously bonkers and don't have much time for the guy claiming it's "a celebration of the power of male genitalia", like penises can actually do what's portrayed. I'm very glad they include a comment from a psychologist saying that the opponents "may be overthinking things....kids do find genitals funny".
Also: Dammit - you beat me to it!
(, Wed 6 Jan 2021, 14:55, Reply)
I blame religions and Victorian bullshit, Freud didn't exactly help.
(, Wed 6 Jan 2021, 18:20, Reply)
Better educated children who are not embarrassed to mention them are more difficult for abusers to manipulate or blackmail. So much so that committed predatory types go to other cultures where it is easier, like Thailand or Cambodia.
(, Wed 6 Jan 2021, 21:50, Reply)
you were beginning to sound like a naturist, and they seem to me to be attention seeking exhibitionists. I saw some nudists playing tennis once, balls flying around everywhere. It was pretty clear to me they were enjoying being looked at by those who passed by far more than they were enjoying the tennis. And they weren’t barefoot, trainers and socks, which made me think getting their cocks out was what it was really all about. Which given the courts were in a park with loads of kids all around the place made the whole enterprise highly suspect.
(, Wed 6 Jan 2021, 23:25, Reply)
AFAIK the naturists are more likely to have private resorts or beaches. I imagine for most people once the initial embarrassment is over, it might become mundane, pity teenagers though, unexpected boner!
(, Thu 7 Jan 2021, 0:07, Reply)
My 1-child test panel that has watched all episodes twice, is at the sexual awareness-level of “penis! - teeheh”. And I assume that the rest of the target-audience is similar.
I would argue that the creators (and the psychologist quoted) has a pretty good idea about their audience.
(, Wed 6 Jan 2021, 22:59, Reply)
Some nonsense about Danny's high note.
(, Wed 6 Jan 2021, 11:20, Reply)
Carry on in a galaxy, far, far away
(, Wed 6 Jan 2021, 0:03, Reply)
you can't have him voiced by both.
(, Wed 6 Jan 2021, 14:07, Reply)
Edit: brb, we've fucked up, delete the post before anyone else notices!!
(, Wed 6 Jan 2021, 18:14, Reply)
That was Williams consistently throughout that clip as Vader, and Hawtree as the gold robot.
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very phoenix / tame impala
(, Tue 5 Jan 2021, 22:13, Reply)
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