"We're thinking of you"
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I've been doing this for years and I've not been absuing poor mice to do it.
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and a galactic prick
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Flight attendant describes dealing with an unruly passenger.
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When did news channels started including links to the YouTube/Instagram channels of the people they interview?
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www.snopes.com/fact-check/alfredo-rivera-video/?utm_source=agorapulse&utm_campaign=1p
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A play 8 saw years ago, thought someone might enjoy
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The radio4 adaptation with John Hurt is good.
Didn't realise the man himself was on Desert Island Discs
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0093zcz
Rouge Male is on YT
m.youtube.com/watch?v=yMtGmGa8KZ0
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also met Jeff a couple of times in my soho days. He was utterly toxic to everyone in a way I then found amusing.
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Plain simple outstanding performance from Peter and the rest of the cast. Click
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Still not as funny as the piano gags.
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Was in Kefalonia a couple of years ago, and in the evening we would sit in the beachside restaurants and watch Zakinthos burning across the water.
It felt like having a front-row seat for the apocalypse.
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I'll pass, thank you.
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After the second episode it lost its yuck factor and therefore any interest.
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I have only seen the word "phwoar" written out. Is this what it sounds like?
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Here is a more obvious pervert, demonstrating
m.youtube.com/watch?v=mqVA6FqJibk
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UK versions are available here (although that's not showing up on my phone, but it is available via the Wayback Machine).
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ro.uow.edu.au/ozlondon/
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Until EVERYTHING can be fixed perfectly, no attempts should be made to improve anything at all.
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Bloody idiotic if you ask me. More likely to add viewers than remove them. It also plays right into the whole “cancel culture” shtick that GB News are pushing.
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Karen Stenner would agree, just heard this
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000y7sq
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They don't change minds and just reinforce existing prejudices. If you thought Farage was a dick, you'll still think he's a dick. If not, same applies.
It's why Labour are in a downward sprial and the Tories are still ahead in the polls. This kind of student level politics is an expensive in-joke that does nothing to change the status-quo.
I really wish politics would grow up, but there is little sign of it happening.
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It's pretty obvious, they want people to put pressure on the main stream sponsors of GBnews to pull out and stop advertising there
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Silencing the views of people you disagree with is not as progressive as they think it is. GBNews is entirely legal and regulated by OFCOM. I don't find it interesting or enlightening, so I don't watch it.
I don't want it to be forced out of business, because all you do then is confirm that the political left are authoritarian wankers who are frightened that people might hear different points of view and no longer listen to them.
If the only way you can get your message across is by shutting down other channels or voices, then perhaps your message and arguments aren't that good to start with?
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Of course GB news is legal, but its USP is that it presents a particular view of the world that is based on prejudice and dislike of "others", fronted by scammers like Farage. I don't think anyone would argue with that (including GB news supporters; it's why they watch it!)
Sainsbury's are very keen to publicise their inclusive and non-discriminatory corporate policies, so it seems entirely appropriate for customers to ask them how they square that with providing ad revenue to GB news, and Sainsbury's are free to ignore those customers if they calculate it doesn't harm their bottom line.
I think you also have to question whether every voice deserves equal weight. Let's be honest, no one would be worse off without Farage. He can squeak away in the corner, but he's not providing anything that deserves a national platform.
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Doesn't that apply to just about any news outlet that isn't explicitly centrist?
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That's the problem right there. As soon as a group sets itself up as judge and jury over whose voices should be heard, things start to go very wrong. You decide whether someone's voice is worth listening to by choosing whether to listen to it, not by preventing others from making the same decision.
As for GB News, if it is doing anything illegal or prejudiced it will get shut down for it. If it isn't and you don't like what they say, switch it off. Easy.
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"As soon as a group sets itself up as judge and jury over whose voices should be heard, things start to go very wrong. You decide whether someone's voice is worth listening to by choosing whether to listen to it, not by preventing others from making the same decision."
A "group" setting itself up as "judge and jury"? That's very dramatic. I'm talking about basic editorial judgements about who gets airtime, which is unavoidable unless you are suggesting that we should hear from everyone in the world about every subject?
The BBC famously gave Nigel Lawson a national platform to comment on climate change, despite the fact he's just a shill for the climate sceptic lobby who has repeatedly been caught peddling false information. If you're going to present an alternative climate sceptic viewpoint, he wasn't the person to do it, and didn't deserve the platform he was given.
Farage is just pandering to the prejudiced to earn himself some cash. He's not contributing anything to the debate on immigration, so we lose nothing if he's not on national TV.
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it's just a billboard pointing out to people who sponsors a broadcast. If the advertisers get embarrassed enough by the public getting reminded of these facts to pussy out and stop funding shit, then that's their call. Probably shouldn't have associated with it in the first place. But don't confuse censorship with free speech. GB news have free speech, and so do the people putting up the billboard. and the advertisers have free choice too. and they all have to live with the consequences of that. no one is getting silenced, you just object to someone else having their two pence worth of opinion. and people choosing where to spend their dosh is just as much a freedom as speech. A more effective one than protest if you ask me. that's why the right whine about it the most. fuck em
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"no one is getting silenced, you just object to someone else having their two pence worth of opinion"
Hmm, finding that difficult to distinguish that from censorship myself.
So it's all lovely and perfectly legitimate to bully companies into withdrawing sponsorship. Until of course it's someone you approve of who gets defunded. And it is effectively censorship if you deny other voices the ability to raise funds to compete with left-approved channels.
I am just fed up of this tribal shit from the left and right who see anything they don't approve of as evil and must be stopped. And then dressing it up as perfectly OK because we aren't denying them free speech, just cutting off their means of funding. As if it's not the same thing in a media-driven age.
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"So it's all lovely and perfectly legitimate to bully companies into withdrawing sponsorship"
yep, that's fucking democracy and consumer power, and it's beautiful. GB news say what they like. these billboarders are saying what they like. people decide if they like gb news and it's advertisers or if they don't. The reason why it's effective in getting advertisers spooked is that enough people don't like GB news, now that they're aware that advertisers are bankrolling something they would have preferred to keep quiet. It's the opposite of censorship. It's free speech and it's consequences in action. If sainsbury and halfords want to sell themselves as responsible corporate entities while bankrolling shit, then they have to deal with the consequences of that choice of association. These billboarders arent the one putting pressure, it's an informed public. go whine about tribalism to someone else. I'll choose who I give my money too. Free speech doesn't carry with it the right to get funded free from scrutiny. what an absurd position.
If my aunt tells me the bloke on the corner shop is was saying racist shit to a customer, and I choose to go to a different shop rather give the cunt another penny, my aunt isn't censoring the shop, she's exercising her free speech by informing me, and letting me make a choice as a consumer. You just don't like the choices people make, but tough shit. That's part of a democracy also
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By your logic I could put up a poster saying "That cumquat_may off B3ta is a nonce, so don't employ them" and it would be OK. I mean it's not bullying and I'm not curtailing their right to talk about it, it's just helping employers make an informed choice. And my aunt told me about it, so it must be true.
Just democracy and Free Speech.
If you can't see the problem in what Led by Donkeys do, then I give up.
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And free speech comes with responsibility, so if your poster was a gratuitous libel, you would have to accept the legal consequences...
I am just fed up of this tribal shit from the left and right who see anything they don't approve of as evil and must be stopped
Are you suggesting that attacking the RNLI for doing its job and rescuing people is a valid position, and objecting to Farage's nonsense is just a "tribal response" by a particular political wing? If it is just political "tribalism" why do you think the subsequent public support for the RNLI was so overwhelming?
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Or do as others do and donate to the RNLI.
What I object to is any group that decides they are going to bring down legitimate media channels because they don't like the presenters or their viewpoints. If that becomes acceptable, then what's to stop someone like Farage doing it? He could drum up a lot more support than Led by Donkeys (Brexit anyone?) and is that where we want this to go?
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it faces the consequences of what it says and so, thanks to the these fine citizens bringing it to our attention, do his advertisers who support him. like that video below, maybe he'll find advertisers who just don't give a fuck who they associate with, like cash for gold. Sure, he won't get the big bucks, but maybe if he didn't spout poison he would.
Personally, I think the use of ethical consumer power is one of the best democratic developments of recent times. I went on a protest against the iraq war, there were millions of us in stretching through the west end. it did absolutely fuck all difference, blair just went ahead and we're still dealing with the shitty global consequences. But threaten the money, and suddenly things change. Nike realise that maybe they shouldnt be using sweatshops. If Halfords realise that if they associate and bankroll Farages nonsense, then a lot of people arent going to buy their shitty bikes, then that's a good thing. Coopers in australia was respected and popular beer brand. then it came out against gay marriage and people discovered it was funding the conservatives in it's home state. so they stopped drinking it. It's unclear which part you object to, somebody telling us what coopers are up to, like this billboard, or me making a choice not give my money to people whose principles I disagree with?
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You do know that Farage is already doing that, don't you? He has repeatedly criticised the BBC and called for it to be defunded. He's just getting a taste of his own medicine here, isn't he?
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unless I was, I suppose. The billboard writers aren't claiming anything that isn't true, if they did Farage could sue them.
as you don't seem to grasp. free speech has consequences, it's not freedom from responsibility of what you say. And people not choosing to buy peoples products or spend money with an advertising isn't actually bullying, Farage isn't a schoolchild and nobody's teasing him because he's got the head of a toad, that's just you trying to associate it with emotive language because you've got no other argument. It's interesting how you detest the identity politics language of the left, yet you try to use it as shield when you feel threatened.
(, Fri 6 Aug 2021, 23:45, Reply)
Wait until it is someone you support.
I personally detest Farage and all he stands for, but I also realise that what is sauce for the goose is also sauce for the gander.
Any tactic you create to remove voices you don't approve of will eventually be used against ones you approve of.
That's what bothers me, that the Led By Donkey idiots show others the way to cancel channels and shows they don't like.
(, Sun 8 Aug 2021, 10:37, Reply)
So that the message of the media outlet in question might move toward something less objectionable. You know, using the invisible hand of market forces to drive change.
If the channel content providers are convinced that they are right, they have every right to carry on saying whatever they want. But if they're likely to be swayed in their output by financial incentives, then that's probably for the best.
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All I'm getting from this is that you have a huge chip on your shoulder about the perceived 'left', and Mail-esqe bogeymanning. Let's get something straight, if you claim to be about balance and representing differing points of view, those points of view have to be curated in some way (otherwise we'd end up with the televisual equivalent of Twitter, and nobody wants that).
What that means is that these POVs must be evaluated for what they add to the debate. Farage's POV adds literally nothing. It's also worth mentioning that the right's emotive hysterical rhetoric regarding representaltion and cancellation is a clear fig leaf for 'we want the freedom to air prejudicial and parochial nonsense', which adds nothing to the debate they claim to crave.
A lot of it is the 'my ignorance is equal to your facts' fallacy. A flat-earther does not get to go head to head with any kind of scientist on any news outlet, because it would be a pointless waste of everyone's time. Creationism does not get to go head to head with evolution in a school curriculum because one is proveable and the other is not. It isn't a 'debate', it isn't a matter of opinion, it's a matter of 'please be quiet you attention-seeking cunt'.
If the right wants fair representation, it must say something worth listening to. The Sainburys debacle illustrates that more people find Farage irrelevant (and despicable) than those that don't, ergo on balance not worth people's time.
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If people's views are ignorant, illegal or offensive then that becomes immediately apparent when they are aired. Remember the BNP going on question time? They sunk without a trace after people heard his crap. The same will happen to GBNews if people don't like what they see and hear. What matters to me is that I don't think I or anyone else should decide for those people.
I really give up with this. I am just amazed that you and others think it is somehow right wing to say the things I have.
If you want the freedom to present your point of view, then you have to allow that same freedom to views you don't agree with.
If you think someone should decide whether those views should be aired, then the next question is who curates them? You? Government, Political parties? Activists?
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Sainsbury's have announced they are pulling their ads because "our customer’s feedback is very important to us” (I think that's a misplaced apostrophe and they have more than one customer).
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Sainsbury's main shareholder is the Qatari govt. Where free speech is banned, slavery is rampant and homosexuality is illegal.
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I know its Vice and Vice in silly but this was amusing
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The Dilbert Future had a whole bunch of woo in it about positive affirmation.
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Some would be grifters were fooled by a narcissist, sad.
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Trumpism has not gone away.
The Republican party is very far from being unelectable, but you wouldn't know that from listening to the so-called 'left.'
Gold investment scams have been a standard of commercial redneck media for at least as long as I've been paying attention (since the late 90s). Within the truck-nuts backyard rasslin' community, gold scams just don't have the negative connotations that we associate with them.
Alex Jones has a bigger audience now than when he was hawking water filters and gold bars while claiming Bill Clinton was the actual anti-Christ from the actual Bible.
Right wing credibility follows a different rule set to normal credibility.
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And on top of that of course, there's the wildlife too.
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It's not Limmy, but it could be.
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he will never know what love is, because in order for that to happen, he would have to stop being a self-centred facile prick.
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So the opening shot of him on the clifftop filled me with excitement. What a fucking coward.
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there's just no room for a piano player anywhere, and you can't pick the chairs up.
Its just nonsense
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I look forward to the follow-up video of them both being duct-taped to their seats.
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but instead almost lost his life after the eel entered his abdomen"
The Global Times
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Anguilliformes,
Anguilliformes for youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu....
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I like the last paragraph about carp.
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When the eel's up yer arse,
Because there's shite yeh can't pass,
That's a Moray!
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The newspaper has been the source of various incidents, including fabrications and disinformation.
It is part of a broader set of Chinese state media outlets that constitute the Chinese government's propaganda apparatus.[14][15] The Global Times has published COVID-19 misinformation and conspiracy theories.
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For that feeling when you're fully vaxxed
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This gets more and more hilarious as it goes on.
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- and this video was there.
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you know this is neil cicierega right? the guy who was doing the animutations back in the very early days of b3ta.
(, Thu 5 Aug 2021, 10:59, Reply)
But I didn't know he was on Beta in the early days.
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and this are old favourites of mine
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdyU_gW6WE
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