Hell Bus crowdfunder reached its target thank you!
I made this!
Thanks to UnclePills for posting it here previously, but just to say the anti-Shell greenwashing bus is now fully funded and I'm ploughing away at getting it made. Will be at the Lakes International Comic Festival in Cumbria in october and Glasgow for COP26 in November.
Will update future locations/events here: royaldutchhell.com
Cheers!
Hell Bus Crowdfunder | Projects | Darren Cullen
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Thanks to UnclePills for posting it here previously, but just to say the anti-Shell greenwashing bus is now fully funded and I'm ploughing away at getting it made. Will be at the Lakes International Comic Festival in Cumbria in october and Glasgow for COP26 in November.
Will update future locations/events here: royaldutchhell.com
Cheers!
Hell Bus Crowdfunder | Projects | Darren Cullen
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Good work!
You know where to come for more of that sweet middle-class guilt money!
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You know where to come for more of that sweet middle-class guilt money!
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It kind of reminds me of Gorillaz
fire coming out of a monkey's head
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfDE9-SDxiQ
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fire coming out of a monkey's head
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfDE9-SDxiQ
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He's one of those people whose talent is so diverse it's hard to keep track of him.
I have a book of his called Oak Mot which is a book with lots of the words crossed out to make a new story, and then there's this song...
( , Fri 17 Sep 2021, 9:52, Share, Reply)
I have a book of his called Oak Mot which is a book with lots of the words crossed out to make a new story, and then there's this song...
( , Fri 17 Sep 2021, 9:52, Share, Reply)
Just discovered this band
They are a 2 piece husband and wife band and I think they are bloody good so thought I'd share. That is all.
( , Thu 16 Sep 2021, 13:05, Share, Reply)
They are a 2 piece husband and wife band and I think they are bloody good so thought I'd share. That is all.
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Ok but...
I can't get over the fact, that the man looks like a skinny Julian from trailer park boys. I shouldnt judge a cover of a book by its look
( , Thu 16 Sep 2021, 15:22, Share, Reply)
I can't get over the fact, that the man looks like a skinny Julian from trailer park boys. I shouldnt judge a cover of a book by its look
( , Thu 16 Sep 2021, 15:22, Share, Reply)
Good to know that Carl Sagan
was an ignostic. The world needs more of them.
( , Thu 16 Sep 2021, 15:22, Share, Reply)
was an ignostic. The world needs more of them.
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I'm not sure it does. Not any more.
I appreciate an educator would have needed to use this kind of rhetoric in American society of the time, that outing yourself as an atheist was career suicide.
But it's not a direct answer. It's avoiding the question, or belittling the quality of the question and by extension the questioner. It sounds wise, but it's no wiser than a three year old repeating 'why?' to each of your answers.
( , Thu 16 Sep 2021, 15:50, Share, Reply)
I appreciate an educator would have needed to use this kind of rhetoric in American society of the time, that outing yourself as an atheist was career suicide.
But it's not a direct answer. It's avoiding the question, or belittling the quality of the question and by extension the questioner. It sounds wise, but it's no wiser than a three year old repeating 'why?' to each of your answers.
( , Thu 16 Sep 2021, 15:50, Share, Reply)
A god is a fictitious personification of nature, or of a natural force or forces, created by man to provide debate-stifling answers to questions beyond our understanding of the time.
IMO, Gods are best understood through the Marxist perspective, with the understanding that the creation and promotion of gods/religion affords power to those who control the religious narrative.
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IMO, Gods are best understood through the Marxist perspective, with the understanding that the creation and promotion of gods/religion affords power to those who control the religious narrative.
( , Fri 17 Sep 2021, 14:29, Share, Reply)
So by your definition, God does exist (as a fictitious human construct).
I'd go for a simpler definition and say "God is a supernatural entity" and my position is that it does not exist.
But that is surely the problem that is being highlighted by Ignosticism; there are countless different definitions of "God", and without a commonly agreed definition, debating God's existence is meaningless.
( , Sun 19 Sep 2021, 1:14, Share, Reply)
I quite like the ignostic position
In that it acts as a counterpoint to the atheistic position, which presupposes the legitimacy of the god position/question.
Ignosticism says "Theists and atheists haven't even got clear boundaries for their argument. I'm not engaging in discussion about something you lot can't even agree on the definition of."
It says "I'm not going to define my position as opposite to yours, when you can't even define your position."
It's an intellectually tidy way of saying "You don't even know what you're asking me, so fuck off."
( , Fri 17 Sep 2021, 23:00, Share, Reply)
In that it acts as a counterpoint to the atheistic position, which presupposes the legitimacy of the god position/question.
Ignosticism says "Theists and atheists haven't even got clear boundaries for their argument. I'm not engaging in discussion about something you lot can't even agree on the definition of."
It says "I'm not going to define my position as opposite to yours, when you can't even define your position."
It's an intellectually tidy way of saying "You don't even know what you're asking me, so fuck off."
( , Fri 17 Sep 2021, 23:00, Share, Reply)
The man is a liar!
His cup is empty but he still drinks because we want him to.
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His cup is empty but he still drinks because we want him to.
( , Thu 16 Sep 2021, 15:34, Share, Reply)
did he really chew him up?
Seemed quite a nice civil exchange and I'm not sure the questioner really disagreed with him.
I guess everything these days has to be someone destroying someone else.
Nice clip tho nonetheless.
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Seemed quite a nice civil exchange and I'm not sure the questioner really disagreed with him.
I guess everything these days has to be someone destroying someone else.
Nice clip tho nonetheless.
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Futurama 1980 Happened this week 41 years ago...
Lot's of great bands, Durutti Column, Echo & The Bunnymen, Soft Boys, Siousxie and The Banshees among others but linking to my favourite band performance at the weekend who were "....Or was he pushed?"
Warning - rewinding the video may expose you to Punk-era Mick Hucknall.
( , Thu 16 Sep 2021, 10:21, Share, Reply)
Lot's of great bands, Durutti Column, Echo & The Bunnymen, Soft Boys, Siousxie and The Banshees among others but linking to my favourite band performance at the weekend who were "....Or was he pushed?"
Warning - rewinding the video may expose you to Punk-era Mick Hucknall.
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Cat weirded out by echo
猫の鳴き声にエコーをかけてみた[ネコー] #喵喵歌 Singing Cat
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猫の鳴き声にエコーをかけてみた[ネコー] #喵喵歌 Singing Cat
( , Thu 16 Sep 2021, 5:05, Share, Reply)
Like The Smiths but with an actual singer.
who isn't a tiresome racist crank.
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who isn't a tiresome racist crank.
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when I saw the flyer l presumed it was an internet jape
I think a jape would have been better tbh
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I think a jape would have been better tbh
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I would go out tonight, but I'm never gonna give you up...
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I like the SMiths and I like Morroseys solo stuff
but I couldn't give half a shit about what he thinks about anything, really.
Same goes for all musicians. Unless they're fiddling wiv da kiddies or molestin the wimmin, I just don't give a fuck what they say or do.
( , Thu 16 Sep 2021, 15:11, Share, Reply)
but I couldn't give half a shit about what he thinks about anything, really.
Same goes for all musicians. Unless they're fiddling wiv da kiddies or molestin the wimmin, I just don't give a fuck what they say or do.
( , Thu 16 Sep 2021, 15:11, Share, Reply)
I read this post before my first tea of the day
and totally misunderstood it in my decaffeinated state to be referring to Robert Smith. I’ve spent the day worrying that he was a racist crank and not just a lovably shambolic old goth.
Reread it this evening and realised my mistake.
( , Thu 16 Sep 2021, 22:25, Share, Reply)
and totally misunderstood it in my decaffeinated state to be referring to Robert Smith. I’ve spent the day worrying that he was a racist crank and not just a lovably shambolic old goth.
Reread it this evening and realised my mistake.
( , Thu 16 Sep 2021, 22:25, Share, Reply)
What joy and a lot of love in the house
I've always thought Astley was rather hard done by his SAW image, a very rich white soul voice that should have been put to greater use (not that I don't like a lot of SAW, mind)
( , Fri 17 Sep 2021, 9:58, Share, Reply)
I've always thought Astley was rather hard done by his SAW image, a very rich white soul voice that should have been put to greater use (not that I don't like a lot of SAW, mind)
( , Fri 17 Sep 2021, 9:58, Share, Reply)
"Kreayshawn"?
Fuck right off.
I mean, I'm sure it's very good and all, but I'm not clicking anything with a name that mangled.
( , Thu 16 Sep 2021, 8:32, Share, Reply)
Fuck right off.
I mean, I'm sure it's very good and all, but I'm not clicking anything with a name that mangled.
( , Thu 16 Sep 2021, 8:32, Share, Reply)
There ain't half been some lucky bastards
NSFW
Not "wankers getting squashed by trucks".
Make Ozzy man bald again. #FuckCancer
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Not "wankers getting squashed by trucks".
Make Ozzy man bald again. #FuckCancer
( , Wed 15 Sep 2021, 19:28, Share, Reply)
That sounds rather interesting
I've only dipped in a few places but definitely worth a full listen.
*click*
( , Wed 15 Sep 2021, 17:11, Share, Reply)
I've only dipped in a few places but definitely worth a full listen.
*click*
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Counting fidgety seated people
"We have proposed a new method that has enabled WiFi signals to count a stationary seated crowd, using their natural body fidgets."
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"We have proposed a new method that has enabled WiFi signals to count a stationary seated crowd, using their natural body fidgets."
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Wonder if they still get the same error when there is no one there
Need to read the paper and find out
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Need to read the paper and find out
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Needs an idiots guide to how the WiFi setup actually detected people.
Would be far less impressive if it were simply counting mobile phones.
( , Wed 15 Sep 2021, 14:21, Share, Reply)
Would be far less impressive if it were simply counting mobile phones.
( , Wed 15 Sep 2021, 14:21, Share, Reply)
Quatres roues bonnes, trois roues mauvaises.
I mean, if it was good enough for Charles de Gaulle...
Man fined for driving Citroën DS on motorway with only three wheels
( , Wed 15 Sep 2021, 2:10, Share, Reply)
I mean, if it was good enough for Charles de Gaulle...
Man fined for driving Citroën DS on motorway with only three wheels
( , Wed 15 Sep 2021, 2:10, Share, Reply)
I've always liked old Citroen's.
As a kid, the ones with the headlights that turned with the steering never failed to amaze.
( , Wed 15 Sep 2021, 8:14, Share, Reply)
As a kid, the ones with the headlights that turned with the steering never failed to amaze.
( , Wed 15 Sep 2021, 8:14, Share, Reply)
Police Squad vs M Squad
I knew they'd done this with Airplane, but didn't realise that Police Squad was also an old show with jokes added.
"We would have come earlier, but your husband wasn't dead then."
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 23:53, Share, Reply)
I knew they'd done this with Airplane, but didn't realise that Police Squad was also an old show with jokes added.
"We would have come earlier, but your husband wasn't dead then."
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would have made blocking out the scenes pretty easy
interesting link, I knew it was homage to it but didn't realise it was a shot for shot rip-off
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interesting link, I knew it was homage to it but didn't realise it was a shot for shot rip-off
( , Wed 15 Sep 2021, 2:11, Share, Reply)
Police Squad was full of subtle clever bits.
Like the rubbish bins at the start of each episode.
( , Wed 15 Sep 2021, 2:59, Share, Reply)
Like the rubbish bins at the start of each episode.
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I read that the ZAZ model was a joke in foreground or a joke in background but never both at the same time. If a character has exposition heavy dialogue foreground there will be a stupid visual joke going on in the background. It's really clever.
( , Wed 15 Sep 2021, 7:26, Share, Reply)
don't get me wrong, I dug it
saw airplane! (released as "flying high" in australia) as a nipper as thought it was the funniest movie I'd ever seen, though with each outing their movies got less funny and more obvious
( , Wed 15 Sep 2021, 7:36, Share, Reply)
saw airplane! (released as "flying high" in australia) as a nipper as thought it was the funniest movie I'd ever seen, though with each outing their movies got less funny and more obvious
( , Wed 15 Sep 2021, 7:36, Share, Reply)
They did this with Zero Hour!/Airplane as well
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-v2BHNBVCs
( , Wed 15 Sep 2021, 7:27, Share, Reply)
Fascinating that
Sledge Hammer also does a very good remake of Assault on Precinct 13 for a whole episode.
( , Wed 15 Sep 2021, 10:16, Share, Reply)
Sledge Hammer also does a very good remake of Assault on Precinct 13 for a whole episode.
( , Wed 15 Sep 2021, 10:16, Share, Reply)
The Fall
I made this!
Been dicking around with some orchestration and out came a simple chord idea.
Mind your ears. Hope you like it!
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 21:33, Share, Reply)
Been dicking around with some orchestration and out came a simple chord idea.
Mind your ears. Hope you like it!
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 21:33, Share, Reply)
I have yet to crack a smile at this guy
The yanks seen to have an inexplicable adoration for him, It's like he did something funny once but I've never found it and he lives off that reputation but isn't funny any more. Completely don't get him.
Maybe his skill is that he acts like he is funny so convincingly that nobody notice he isn't
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 20:49, Share, Reply)
The yanks seen to have an inexplicable adoration for him, It's like he did something funny once but I've never found it and he lives off that reputation but isn't funny any more. Completely don't get him.
Maybe his skill is that he acts like he is funny so convincingly that nobody notice he isn't
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 20:49, Share, Reply)
Each to their own. I enjoyed his childlike glee when he told a risky joke
youtu.be/pIKlq1r6gdY
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youtu.be/pIKlq1r6gdY
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 21:11, Share, Reply)
I tried and tried
so many people raved about him, but yeah. Mystified as to what the appeal was
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 21:50, Share, Reply)
so many people raved about him, but yeah. Mystified as to what the appeal was
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 21:50, Share, Reply)
I've never heard of him.
Response so far isn't making me want to watch the link.
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 21:59, Share, Reply)
Response so far isn't making me want to watch the link.
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 21:59, Share, Reply)
he's done a few funny bits its over a long career, but I agree his output is far less than his contemporaries
he oftendoes did old "mother-in-law" material, repackaged relying on his persona and ironic deadpan to carry it off, and lot of his other stuff is mostly about confrontation and cruelty to other people in the business. But I think some people like this persona, and like the put-downs which the yanks have more of a tradition with. I think he's pretty second-rank, but does at least has had his own schtick
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 23:32, Share, Reply)
he often
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 23:32, Share, Reply)
Passive aggressive rationalisation on the passing of a clown
is pretty low. Bravo.
( , Wed 15 Sep 2021, 1:11, Share, Reply)
is pretty low. Bravo.
( , Wed 15 Sep 2021, 1:11, Share, Reply)
oh, didn't pick up that he was deaded, just thought it was a lame link
ive amended my comment accordingly
( , Wed 15 Sep 2021, 2:44, Share, Reply)
ive amended my comment accordingly
( , Wed 15 Sep 2021, 2:44, Share, Reply)
Did you seriously just make a 'Don't speak ill of the dead' remark?
Mumsnet is over there ===》
( , Wed 15 Sep 2021, 7:26, Share, Reply)
Mumsnet is over there ===》
( , Wed 15 Sep 2021, 7:26, Share, Reply)
Oh come on...
Cheers was one of the best sit-coms of all time
( , Wed 15 Sep 2021, 8:08, Share, Reply)
Cheers was one of the best sit-coms of all time
( , Wed 15 Sep 2021, 8:08, Share, Reply)
male american stand-ups
are tripping over each other to point out McDonald's genius: that being the apparent novelty of telling shit jokes to subvert expectation, as if this was the ultimate expression of comedy.
he got away with it because he mugs well and his peers were already all-in.
i'm kinda hoping louis ck will surface at some point and fucking set fire to his legacy, his sycophants and then himself.
( , Thu 16 Sep 2021, 14:26, Share, Reply)
are tripping over each other to point out McDonald's genius: that being the apparent novelty of telling shit jokes to subvert expectation, as if this was the ultimate expression of comedy.
he got away with it because he mugs well and his peers were already all-in.
i'm kinda hoping louis ck will surface at some point and fucking set fire to his legacy, his sycophants and then himself.
( , Thu 16 Sep 2021, 14:26, Share, Reply)
Jake Thackray On Again
Heard a podcast interview with Isy Suttie and she mentioned this guy. Never heard of him. REALLY happy to have discovered him, though.
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 19:31, Share, Reply)
Heard a podcast interview with Isy Suttie and she mentioned this guy. Never heard of him. REALLY happy to have discovered him, though.
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 19:31, Share, Reply)
Carrot
"he gave me a wink and a terrible grin, the way that rapists do"
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 19:48, Share, Reply)
"he gave me a wink and a terrible grin, the way that rapists do"
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 19:48, Share, Reply)
Crikey - you've just taken me back about 45 years!
I loved his songs, but I never realised how skilful his guitar playing was. Brilliant stuff.
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 19:50, Share, Reply)
I loved his songs, but I never realised how skilful his guitar playing was. Brilliant stuff.
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 19:50, Share, Reply)
Is Sacha Baron Cohen making a new Borat movie?
9/11 tribute float features smoking twin towers
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9/11 tribute float features smoking twin towers
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 16:57, Share, Reply)
Wow - that opens up a whole can of worms
Let's go for floats commemorating all the other atrocities on their anniversaries.
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 17:11, Share, Reply)
Let's go for floats commemorating all the other atrocities on their anniversaries.
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 17:11, Share, Reply)
Like statues commemorating slave owners?
Little bit of politics.
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 17:44, Share, Reply)
On the topic of statues
I tend towards keeping them but updating the plaque if necessary as societal norms change.
But that float - I can't put my finger on why but a recreation of the event as it happened seems massively disrespectful.
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 18:10, Share, Reply)
I tend towards keeping them but updating the plaque if necessary as societal norms change.
But that float - I can't put my finger on why but a recreation of the event as it happened seems massively disrespectful.
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 18:10, Share, Reply)
Not sure how that'll work on a plaque, what's your idea?
Like, "BTW, Churchill was a bit racist"?
---I'm not being argumentative for the sake of it - it's a genuine question.
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 18:28, Share, Reply)
That's a fair question
I'm not sure there's an answer that will cover all cases. For Churchill I can appreciate that some people feel aggrieved that he is almost universally celebrated. If the plaque doesn't currently say "He was brill" then I'd argue that anyone who cared should look it up and find the history, hopefully warts and all.
Would having a link to online up-to-date information (I hesitate to suggest a QR code) satisfy the argument that the truth should be told? I suspect that a minority will only be satisfied by the removal of the monument - IMHO that smacks of erasing history, but I'm lucky enough to have not suffered discrimination.
BTW was there a link recently to a video about the case for/against removing statues? I need to watch that.
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 19:39, Share, Reply)
I'm not sure there's an answer that will cover all cases. For Churchill I can appreciate that some people feel aggrieved that he is almost universally celebrated. If the plaque doesn't currently say "He was brill" then I'd argue that anyone who cared should look it up and find the history, hopefully warts and all.
Would having a link to online up-to-date information (I hesitate to suggest a QR code) satisfy the argument that the truth should be told? I suspect that a minority will only be satisfied by the removal of the monument - IMHO that smacks of erasing history, but I'm lucky enough to have not suffered discrimination.
BTW was there a link recently to a video about the case for/against removing statues? I need to watch that.
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 19:39, Share, Reply)
Hmm, it is difficult.
The current Wikipedia article about him has over 600 words before pretty much a footnote, "and also for his imperialist views, including comments on race."
That will no doubt change soon.
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 21:01, Share, Reply)
The problem with these fuckwits defacing statues and chucking them into harbours
Is that they're unwilling or unable to put the actions/beliefs of these historical figures into any kind of logical context or perspective.
They're holding these individuals to the 'woke' moral standards of the 21st century despite the fact that Colston, for example, was making his mark in the late sixteen-fucking-hundreds.
Churchill, fair enough, a bit more contemporary. But so fucking what if he was 'a bit racist'? It was the first half of the 20th Century. Find me a White British Aristocrat from that era that didn't have some kind of racial prejudice.
I get that it doesn't make having a racial prejudice any less bad, but he probably wasn't surrounded by the types of people that would have been challenging him to rethink his views on those kinds of things.
This fucking 'cancel culture' nonsense is a cancer. Colston was involved in a trade that in 2021 is almost universally agreed as being deplorable. But if you continue to erase these figures from history, you also continue to erase the relevance of the slave trade as (for better or worse) an incredibly important factor in the industrial revolution and ultimately the Britain we live in today.
It's important that we keep these kinds of figures relevant. Because they are relevant. Bristol has a statue of Colston because he's incredibly historically relevant to Bristol. 'Cancelling' him not only prevents people from learning about his positive aspects, but also his negative ones. Give people the option to make their own minds up about these figueres. Otherwise it amounts to nothing but censorship.
We don't need an obituary on these plaques. Just a name and date of birth/death. If people want to learn more they can visit the local museum or plug the person's name into their portable telecomputer. Still won't be enough for the Moral Outrage Hunters, mind.
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 20:51, Share, Reply)
Is that they're unwilling or unable to put the actions/beliefs of these historical figures into any kind of logical context or perspective.
They're holding these individuals to the 'woke' moral standards of the 21st century despite the fact that Colston, for example, was making his mark in the late sixteen-fucking-hundreds.
Churchill, fair enough, a bit more contemporary. But so fucking what if he was 'a bit racist'? It was the first half of the 20th Century. Find me a White British Aristocrat from that era that didn't have some kind of racial prejudice.
I get that it doesn't make having a racial prejudice any less bad, but he probably wasn't surrounded by the types of people that would have been challenging him to rethink his views on those kinds of things.
This fucking 'cancel culture' nonsense is a cancer. Colston was involved in a trade that in 2021 is almost universally agreed as being deplorable. But if you continue to erase these figures from history, you also continue to erase the relevance of the slave trade as (for better or worse) an incredibly important factor in the industrial revolution and ultimately the Britain we live in today.
It's important that we keep these kinds of figures relevant. Because they are relevant. Bristol has a statue of Colston because he's incredibly historically relevant to Bristol. 'Cancelling' him not only prevents people from learning about his positive aspects, but also his negative ones. Give people the option to make their own minds up about these figueres. Otherwise it amounts to nothing but censorship.
We don't need an obituary on these plaques. Just a name and date of birth/death. If people want to learn more they can visit the local museum or plug the person's name into their portable telecomputer. Still won't be enough for the Moral Outrage Hunters, mind.
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 20:51, Share, Reply)
Would you be happy in a house or workplace with a picture of Hitler on the wall?
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 21:15, Share, Reply)
Well that would depend entirely on the relevance.
Is it a Hitler museum?
I think we can all agree that the reason these statues are usually erected is that the historical figure being depicted has both local relevance and has left a lasting positive legacy on the local area. I don't really know where poor Adolf would meet those criteria outside a war museum.
I'm by no means an advocate of Churchill. If anything, I think these days he mostly serves as an icon for the tabloid reading nationalist gammon scum. But should he be commemorated? Abso-fucking-lutely.
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 21:20, Share, Reply)
Is it a Hitler museum?
I think we can all agree that the reason these statues are usually erected is that the historical figure being depicted has both local relevance and has left a lasting positive legacy on the local area. I don't really know where poor Adolf would meet those criteria outside a war museum.
I'm by no means an advocate of Churchill. If anything, I think these days he mostly serves as an icon for the tabloid reading nationalist gammon scum. But should he be commemorated? Abso-fucking-lutely.
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 21:20, Share, Reply)
Nah, I mean like... in your regular workplace.
For example.
If they had swastikas on the walls.
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 21:39, Share, Reply)
What would my workplace be commemorating through the medium of Nazi imagery?
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 21:57, Share, Reply)
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 21:57, Share, Reply)
Buddhism?
I knew a (white, European) guy who had a bunch of Buddhist swastikas tattooed about his person. He didn't loved to tell people that there wasn't any problem with that, and delighted in correcting people who thought he was a Nazi.
Bit of cock really.
( , Wed 15 Sep 2021, 6:50, Share, Reply)
I knew a (white, European) guy who had a bunch of Buddhist swastikas tattooed about his person. He didn't loved to tell people that there wasn't any problem with that, and delighted in correcting people who thought he was a Nazi.
Bit of cock really.
( , Wed 15 Sep 2021, 6:50, Share, Reply)
I'm pretty sure he was a nazi,
and you're the only person who swallowed the Buddhism story.
( , Wed 15 Sep 2021, 12:39, Share, Reply)
and you're the only person who swallowed the Buddhism story.
( , Wed 15 Sep 2021, 12:39, Share, Reply)
There's quite a difference between a religious swastika and a Nazi one
( , Wed 15 Sep 2021, 18:04, Share, Reply)
( , Wed 15 Sep 2021, 18:04, Share, Reply)
True. But the differences are entirely contextual.
I've met individuals like the chap you mentioned. In my experience, they're neither far-right nationalists nor followers of Buddhism/Hinduism/etc.
More often than not, they're the slightly unhinged types teetering on the edge of full-blown mental illness who enjoy the attention they receive from being provocative and/or non-conformist. The types of folk usually dealing with some kind of unresolved childhood trauma who would rather end up on the streets with a roaring smack addiction than even consider appearing vulnerable by asking for help.
Nonetheless, if that's the case, then the swastika's purpose is to cause controversy/offense and therefore is a 'bad' swastika - in my opinion.
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I've met individuals like the chap you mentioned. In my experience, they're neither far-right nationalists nor followers of Buddhism/Hinduism/etc.
More often than not, they're the slightly unhinged types teetering on the edge of full-blown mental illness who enjoy the attention they receive from being provocative and/or non-conformist. The types of folk usually dealing with some kind of unresolved childhood trauma who would rather end up on the streets with a roaring smack addiction than even consider appearing vulnerable by asking for help.
Nonetheless, if that's the case, then the swastika's purpose is to cause controversy/offense and therefore is a 'bad' swastika - in my opinion.
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"Bristol has a statue of Colston because he's incredibly historically relevant to Bristol."
Bristol has a statue of Colston because he was a wealthy and influential establishment figure who made substantial philanthropic donations. Part of his wealth was the proceeds of slave trading.
Nobody has "cancelled" Colston. In fact, I would go so far as to say that recent events have probably raised his historical profile higher than it has been for many years. I think that displaying the toppled statue with its graffiti in a museum setting, with appropriate background on Colston and the associated protests makes for much more interesting and engaging history than a nondescript public statue that most people pass without a second glance.
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 22:04, Share, Reply)
Agreed to all of the above.
Do you honestly believe the mob had planned all that in advance, though? Or was it just a happy accident set in motion by a bunch of fuckwit SJW's practicing some social disobedience?
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 22:17, Share, Reply)
Do you honestly believe the mob had planned all that in advance, though? Or was it just a happy accident set in motion by a bunch of fuckwit SJW's practicing some social disobedience?
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 22:17, Share, Reply)
My understanding is that people have been objecting to Colston's statue and the failure to address the slaving aspect of his history for many years.
I think the BLM protests gave momentum and a much higher profile to complaints that people had been making for a long time, with limited effect. Given the mood of the moment, I think people seized the opportunity to knock the statue down, and I reckon that was no bad thing.
( , Wed 15 Sep 2021, 19:10, Share, Reply)
If you care so much about the history of Colston...
Then you should understand that firstly the statue wasn't erected until more than 170 years after his death.
theconversation.com/edward-colston-statue-toppled-how-bristol-came-to-see-the-slave-trader-as-a-hero-and-philanthropist-140271
Secondly they tried and failed to agree on a plaque before the statue was pulled down.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-47670756
( , Wed 15 Sep 2021, 22:32, Share, Reply)
Then you should understand that firstly the statue wasn't erected until more than 170 years after his death.
theconversation.com/edward-colston-statue-toppled-how-bristol-came-to-see-the-slave-trader-as-a-hero-and-philanthropist-140271
Secondly they tried and failed to agree on a plaque before the statue was pulled down.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-47670756
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How many people stop and read the wee plaques on statues? I'm all for taking these statues down and sticking them in a museum surrounded by displays that give a bit of context about the person and their background. That seems a lot more relevant and educational than just leaving contentious statues in place "because history".
I've even seen some people suggesting that all figurative statues of real historical figures should be removed from public places (regardless of whether they were "good" or "bad") which is a bit extreme, but I see where they are coming from.
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 22:14, Share, Reply)
You should post this in the image challenge suggestion thread:
b3ta.com/questions/imagechallenge/
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b3ta.com/questions/imagechallenge/
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 23:41, Share, Reply)
remember those lads that got arrested for the grenfell tower cake thing?
edit: not a cake apparently
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 18:51, Share, Reply)
edit: not a cake apparently
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 18:51, Share, Reply)
This is a cake though
twitter.com/threateningcake/status/1304441444837457922
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twitter.com/threateningcake/status/1304441444837457922
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In the comments:
"What's not clear in this video is that they were also playing recordings of the voicemails the victims left for their loved ones".
Fucking HELL!
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 19:27, Share, Reply)
"What's not clear in this video is that they were also playing recordings of the voicemails the victims left for their loved ones".
Fucking HELL!
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 19:27, Share, Reply)
It's not going to be a good Borat movie judging by the trailer
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 19:33, Share, Reply)
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 19:33, Share, Reply)
I'm surprised they didn't have little people dangling on wire of the topside of the towers
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 19:59, Share, Reply)
Wow, spectacular insensitivity and tastelessness went into that.
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 21:20, Share, Reply)
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 21:20, Share, Reply)
just had a quick look again, apparently it was created by the local GOP party and they got a honorary award
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKUQwfCTS2I
( , Wed 15 Sep 2021, 13:25, Share, Reply)
They like to party.
They like them Grand, they like them old, and above all, they like to party.
This is their song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS7Xi1kM3oU
And if they had, wisely, opted for taxation without representation, it would have sounded like this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK84yRphzZs&list=PLOmjSdLaOdM767bLU0p5xEMPE8JZVH6Io&index=97&t=5s
( , Wed 15 Sep 2021, 14:46, Share, Reply)
They like them Grand, they like them old, and above all, they like to party.
This is their song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS7Xi1kM3oU
And if they had, wisely, opted for taxation without representation, it would have sounded like this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK84yRphzZs&list=PLOmjSdLaOdM767bLU0p5xEMPE8JZVH6Io&index=97&t=5s
( , Wed 15 Sep 2021, 14:46, Share, Reply)
gentlepaw
I made this!
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mod: Bye Gentle Paw. Hello Disco Paw.
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 16:27, Share, Reply)
At Gentle Paw, we want to not only create pet products but also create a safe and happy environment for all of our furry friends.
mod: Bye Gentle Paw. Hello Disco Paw.
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 16:27, Share, Reply)
I wonder if there are any disgusting rumours circulating about gentle paw?
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What advantages do these have over a standard supermarket carrier bag?
I've been using a bag for life on my dogging trips for ages now, never felt the need for anything harder wearing.
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 16:46, Share, Reply)
I've been using a bag for life on my dogging trips for ages now, never felt the need for anything harder wearing.
( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 16:46, Share, Reply)
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( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 16:58, Share, Reply)
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( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 17:41, Share, Reply)
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Meanwhile, she's damaging her brand nicely.
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( , Tue 14 Sep 2021, 17:50, Share, Reply)
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