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This is a link post A "different" prize for the winner
Ellen Van Dijk tweeted her prize for winning the Friesland Tour
o_O
(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 17:05, Reply)
This is a normal post Has to be a joke...

(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 17:16, Reply)
This is a normal post How are you pronouncing Dijk?

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This is a normal post EasyToys (a Dutch bedroom tool company) are a pretty prolific sponsor of sporting events in the Netherlands.
Trust the Brits and the 'Muricans to clutch their pearls over it!

Edit: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloeizone_Frysl%C3%A2n_Tour
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This is a normal post It was beauty killed the beast.

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This is a normal post 'We're all like little psychopaths watching this seagull getting mauled'
Say members of public who seem to think that touring a concrete prison complex populated by animals displaced from their natural environments to be exploited for entertainment by gawping humans is otherwise totally fine and not fucked up at all.
(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 18:22, Reply)
This is a normal post Since most zoo animals are captive born so can't be safely returned to the wild
And their costly care requires selling tickets to gawping humans, the only solution is to stop breeding those animals and sell them to Findus
(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 18:42, Reply)
This is a normal post I'm all for sanctuarys and other less exploitative means of conservation.
But let's be real, zoos are exploitation first, conservation a very distant second.
As you rightly state, the majority of the inmates are born into captivity and would stand about as much chance of surviving in the wild as Christopher McCandless should they ever be released. So, it just turns into an endless loop of breeding generation after generation of increasingly less authentic examples of each breed so that generation after generation of increasingly less authentic examples of our breed can walk around tormenting them.

We should absolutely stop breeding them if the primary objective is for financial gain. No need to turn them into dinners, though. We can just try to give them as comfortable and as dignified a life as we can until they die naturally and then build something useful on the site, like a treatment centre for addicts or an animal rescue centre.
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This is a normal post I've seen your username before online
butterscotch used it. great minds eh?
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This is a normal post Butterscotch aka Badger Sized Rat aka Mental Ross?
Small world, indeed ;)
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This is a normal post indeed :D
indeed :D I used to be on here all the time a few years ago.
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This is a normal post You’re increasingly less authentic.

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This is a normal post I mostly agree with you, I'm quite disgusted with myself.
Luckily you naturally wandered off into eugenics territory so I can still feel morally superior and the natural balance is maintained.
(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 22:22, Reply)
This is a normal post But then where will I go for my interspecies death matches?

(, Thu 10 Mar 2022, 7:42, Reply)
This is a normal post I agree that zoos ideally should be phased out
But keep in mind many do participate in and raise funds for conservation work in the field. The reality is that people are much less generous when it comes to supporting animal causes so not sure who will fund dead end zoos. Also regarding "authenticity",
captive breeding among ethical zoos is designed to optimise genetic diversity. There's actually a lot of effort going into that. Another point to consider is the shrinking areas available for wildlife. Many parks now require management at a level that blurs the line between captive and wild populations.

Still, it can never justify Chinese zoos importing wild elephants from Zimbabwe and Namibia.
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This is a normal post zoo could raise more money for conservation if they pimped out their animals
Who among us hasn't dreamed of fucking a penguin? Or an ocelot. Or a threeway with a tapir and a capybara? At 20 quid a pop there'd be queues around the block
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This is a normal post I hope they start releasing monkeys
into seaside towns with a seagull problem.
(, Thu 10 Mar 2022, 8:41, Reply)
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then we'll need to start releasing elephants to kill the monkeys

then sharks with lasers to kill the elephants
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Maybe it shat on his car.
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This is a normal post {:-D

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This is a link post Music guessing game

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This is a link post I think I just found a new friend for atomic.

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This is a link post Ukrainian defiance

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This is a normal post didn't realise it had all that stuff on the end
full clip here: twitter.com/HIGH_TIMES_Mag/status/1500207158461353994
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This is a normal post It's one of those annoying clickbait headlines
That turns out to be essentially wrong - the emailed guidelines weren't official policy and have since been clarified to allow the words "war" and "invasion".
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Still, what's wrong with "border malfunction" or "irregular recoupling"?
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This is a normal post Yeah, I did read that far.
It may not be official policy, but it’s very revealing about existing mindsets and attitudes at that organisation. What is essentially wrong is that this email was written and sent at all. It won’t have been some nutter acting alone gone rouge. I realise the UN needs to be highly inclusive, but when they start lying in order to achieve that, frankly I wonder if there’s any point to it at all.
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This is a normal post This reminds me of that time when you thought leaving the EU was in our own national interest
When in fact the whole campaign and the Tory party had been paid for by Putin and you were stupid enough to fall for it all. Convinced, you were
(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 14:37, Reply)
This is a normal post Yes, mate. Putin rigged Brexit.
That’s why your hero Corbyn wanted us to bend over backwards to placate Putin.
And your heroine Carole Cadwalladr keeps losing libel cases because, you know, Putin.
(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 17:18, Reply)
This is a link post Boeing Space Freighter Fully Reusable 420 Ton Payload Rocket Spaceplane
Crazy two-stage giant space-plane concept from the 1970s, lovingly animated by Hazegrayart.
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This is a link post Don't think I remember hearing Rick Astley swear before
Good cover, too
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This is a normal post good job ricky!

(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 8:18, Reply)
This is a normal post Never Gonna Give You Up's follow up single
was a long time coming but the story arc is quite something.

Nice job Rick!
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This is a normal post Also
I now hate horses.
(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 22:36, Reply)
This is a normal post Worst of all the animals.

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This is a link post Do you have erectile dysfunction..? NSFW
Do you have unusually saggy balls..?
Well have we got the perfect product for you
(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 15:55, Reply)
This is a normal post nudge them with your nadgers

(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 16:22, Reply)
This is a normal post Barge in with your balls.

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This is a normal post make a vast difference with your vas deferens

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This is a normal post Bizarre.
Surely, that is another answer to a question that no one was asking.
(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 17:38, Reply)
This is a normal post Gives 'Balls Deep' a whole new meaning.

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This is a normal post It failed on Dragons' Den
The dragons loved the slick pitch and lively demo but when asked about net profits the entrepreneurs couldn't even provide a ballpark figure
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I think that’s nuts
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This is a normal post Grim.

(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 21:42, Reply)
This is a normal post "Can I stick my balls up you?"
"You what?"
"My balls. Can I stick my balls up you?"
"Ewww. No. How is that even possible anyway?"
"Well I shave them, stuff them into this device, then put some other bits on to make it fit properly, then put that up you."
"Fuck. Right. off."
"No, see it'll be great..."
"What, screwing me with a strap-on when you have a functioning cock already? What did you think would be the answer to that?"
"Err, yes?"
"You fucking weirdo. You're not getting anywhere near me for A MONTH!"
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This is a link post I made this eight years ago I made this!
Told you he was a wrong'un
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This is a normal post You are b3ta's own Carole Cadwalladr!
Joele Crabwallaby
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enjoyed that, good to get an accurate account of history and events.
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This is a link post A clever piece of twitter bottery
Scans corporate accounts for Women's Day support tweets and then goes and finds the gender pay gap for that company and tweets that.

Egg on lots of faces
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This is a normal post ha!
That's great.
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This is a normal post Nice, and it's not all bad news
"In this organisation, women's median hourly pay is 16.5% higher than men's." - South & East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership
@SELincsCP
(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 12:42, Reply)
This is a normal post Sexist cunts.
I'm going to protest outside their office.
(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 14:01, Reply)
This is a normal post In that example they may get paid more
but I bet they still struggle to get lids off jars.
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This is a normal post It's been keeping my piss nicely boiling all day.
Although the Young's Pubs figure of 73% dates from the middle of first lockdown when they only had about 38 people. Still...
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This is a normal post Haha good idea!

(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 14:27, Reply)
This is a normal post Obviously they're constructively comparing the same job role
And not just taking a cheap shot to rile people up and be cool?
(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 14:34, Reply)
This is a normal post Given that equal pay was supposed to happen decades ago, so what.

(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 14:40, Reply)
This is a normal post To be fair, he has a point.
Dave might be in Procurement making £40K a year, while Janet might be a Buyer and on £26K a year.
Or maybe Dave and Janet are both in Procurement, and Dave has been with the company for 10 years, while Janet only started at the end of last year.

I'm not suggesting for one second that sexual/gender discrimination doesn't exist in the workplace, but this bot is making the problem seem far more severe than it actually is.

There's research to suggest that women are generally less likely to negotiate a wage rise than men. Maybe that's down to perceived/actual discrimination in that workplace, or perhaps women are just less likely to be as proactive/assertive as their male counterparts.
I'm sure that when it comes to stay-at-home parenting, it's still overwhelmingly the mother that decides to cut back on their hours/take an extended sabbatical from their chosen career. Not saying they should be penalised for that, but you certainly aren't going to make much in the way of progression, either.

I can only speak for myself, but I'm in no doubt that I'd be on a significantly smaller salary than I am now if I hadn't negotiated for raises during my annual reviews. I'm still to meet a Boss that has offered an employee more money without any kind of prompting.

I'm sure somebody will trot along on their high-horse at any moment to berate for for being a massive sexist, though. Oh well,
(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 16:07, Reply)
This is a normal post How come Dave got the job in procurement
and not Wendy?
(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 16:45, Reply)
This is a normal post Because Wendy is ginger.

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This is a normal post Utter utter bastard

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This is a normal post :D

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This is a normal post For a centrist you have very predictably right wing views on everything.
Where do you stand on abortion?

I'm curious because being anti-abortion seems to be one of the pillars of American right wing radicalisation, but it's a hard sell to those socialised with British values.
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This is a normal post Yawn.

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This is a normal post It has been shown
that if men take an extended time off work, when they return they are penalized more than women for a similar gap, as far as wages and promotion opportunities are concerned.

It's also true that, up to the age of 30, the median wages of women are greater than that of men.

It's only after a significant portion of them leave work for an extended amount of time to have children that the wage gap appears.

All of these are true statements. Read into them what you will. My apologies if any of these facts cause dissonance with anyone's chosen world-view.
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This is a normal post Women's lifetime earnings are less than men
largely due to childbearing being an exclusively female role. However. if men take an extended time off work it could be because they went to jail, or took an extended holiday (sorry "went travelling": I am a traveller, you are a tourist, they are trippers).
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This is a normal post does that include the 3% testicle bonus?

(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 23:48, Reply)
This is a normal post Testicles are only 0.08% of the average male bodymass
which means they are being overvalued by approx 37x
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This is a normal post Yours, maybe.
Mine are closer to 15%
(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 18:30, Reply)
This is a normal post median averages are bs

(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 8:22, Reply)
This is a normal post seriously though
you seem to be applauding the same witless spin it seems to think it counters
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This is a normal post If women are being paid less than men
for the same job, you can report that to the police because it is illegal.

My wife recently wanted to reduce her hours working, so she could do more 'quality of life' activities.

I reminded her she was an agent of the patriarchy and contributing to the problem of women having a lower median wage.

She laughed and then got on with her day. I love her.
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This is a normal post You mansplaining monster

(, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 16:47, Reply)
This is a normal post How dare you come on here flaunting your stable loving relationship.
Some of us gave up years ago.
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This is a normal post Hahah, great stuff
We need more of this sort of thing every time that some fuckwitted PR person wants to hijack a social justice campaign for cheap publicity.
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This is a link post Latvia's Eurovision 2022 entry
Eco friendly lyrics
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This is a link post Ivor Cutler and Linda Hirst - Women Of The World

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This is a normal post Jim O'Rourke - Women of the World
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG0MOPmofMs
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This is a normal post Beautiful song wonderfully arranged, but thanks a fucking bunch for the worst LP cover of all time Jim.

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This is a normal post He's a tonic.

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This is a link post Willie Rushton - Top Hat, White Tie and Tails

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This is a link post Ukraine is game to you?!
Remember folks, never start a land war in Asia.
(, Mon 7 Mar 2022, 22:57, Reply)
This is a normal post No need to worry, The Donald has got this
edition.cnn.com/2022/03/07/politics/donald-trump-ukraine-china-russia/index.html
(, Mon 7 Mar 2022, 23:22, Reply)
This is a normal post Trump is insane
but that was clearly standup material rather than foreign policy.
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This is a normal post How can anyone be sure after the covid recommendations?

(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 0:15, Reply)
This is a normal post it's hard to tell after drinking so much bleach

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This is a normal post it's probably a brazilian

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Someone's off their meds.

UNRELATED malapropisms on mumsnet (gasp), a few good ones.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4497734-To-have-used-a-MALAPROPISM
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This is a normal post Have you defecated to Mumsnet?

(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 9:11, Reply)
This is a normal post Only in the search for more toilet humerus.
Just avoid the 'Look what I shat out of my fanny today' threads.
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This is a normal post Of they moved on from penis beakers

(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 14:43, Reply)
This is a normal post That was ages ago.
IIRC it included such delights as the poo knife.
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This is a normal post Where else am I going to get my transphobic pearl clutching.

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This is a normal post we all prefer a shaven pussy mate, what's the issue?

(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 10:59, Reply)
This is a normal post You're only supposed to shave your own pussy.

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This is a normal post Does this bit mean that someone working for both the defence and the prosecution have to trawl through a year of Ed Sheeran photos in case they can prove otherwise?
'The musician told the court he quit social media in 2015, adding that for "the whole of 2016" he was "off" social media and was using a "flip phone from Tesco".'

Could be worse ways to earn a living I suppose
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This is a normal post Breaking: Old McDonanld files claim.

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This is a normal post + a
Oh I Oh I Oh
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This is a normal post It were "Eeh, Aye" up these parts.

(, Mon 7 Mar 2022, 16:53, Reply)
This is a normal post Is this from The Masked Singer?
I think it's Ed Sheeran
(, Mon 7 Mar 2022, 18:56, Reply)
This is a normal post he's a cunt because someone thinks him using the same two words in his song means he copied it?

(, Mon 7 Mar 2022, 19:06, Reply)
This is a normal post If people think the Dua Lipa vs Artikal Sound System wouldn't stand up in court...
...what chance is 'you used two similar words in a similar rhythmic fashion'?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnA1QmZvSNs
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This is a normal post well at least the media and the lawyers are making bank out of this nonsense i guess
maybe they could donate their profit to a suitable charity or something

maybe a charity set up to help those who have been involuntarily exposed to the moosick of ed sheeran and still suffer the ptsd perhaps?
(, Mon 7 Mar 2022, 21:36, Reply)
This is a normal post still feel i have a valid claim - lawyers should just do their job dagnabbit
let the lawyers sue each other for any harm they feel has been caused in the process once i have received my just rewards. cunts.
(, Mon 7 Mar 2022, 22:03, Reply)
This is a normal post You are Yosemite Sam AICMFP
Lawyers shouldn't sue each other it just ties up more lawyers that could be working on other cases
(, Mon 7 Mar 2022, 22:09, Reply)
This is a normal post rackin' frackin' nonsense - take it up with my lawyer
that's the cunning plan my man
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This is a normal post Is casual gingerism still okay?

(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 0:31, Reply)
This is a normal post pretend casual gingerism is okay i think

(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 0:39, Reply)
This is a normal post Easy.
Just tell people you don't want to punch him because he's ginger, just that you want to wipe that shit-eating grin off his face.
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This is a normal post Should we ask the Ginger Fuhrer?

(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 9:02, Reply)
This is a normal post Yes, start the National Gingers Day campaign.

(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 15:17, Reply)
This is a normal post so when is National Not Ginger day then?

(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 15:51, Reply)
This is a normal post You'll have to ask Rob

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This is a normal post Red Dead Redemption

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This is a normal post fuck knows how you draw that conclusion from this article

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This is a link post All aboard the choo choo tr...oh, we're there already!

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This is a normal post Seems reasonable to me.

(, Mon 7 Mar 2022, 11:07, Reply)
This is a normal post Well.
There are many legal cases that have hinged on just a single word or whether there is a comma present in a law or contract.

Words mean things, especially in laws, and if the law is being complied with to the letter, even if not in the spirit, then you'll have to change the law to remove the loophole.

That's like giving someone a ticket for doing 1mph less than the speed limit, because they whilst they are obeying the letter of the law, you have decided they are gaming the system to avoid getting a speeding fine.
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This is a normal post All Aboard, for Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga!*
*some onward connections will be required
(, Mon 7 Mar 2022, 13:46, Reply)
This is a normal post Sounds watertight, to the letter.
They’ll have to rewrite the exemption. You can get a telling off in the headmaster’s office for not respecting the spirit of the rules, but you can’t be done for not respecting the spirit of the law. The law has neither spirit nor soul.
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This is a normal post How capitalism works.

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This is a link post Gremlins 3 anybody?

(, Mon 7 Mar 2022, 8:15, Reply)
This is a normal post No thanks.
Gremlins was a fine children's movie, a solid 6 or 7 out of 10. Gremlins 2 was a cynical cash grab. Gremlins 3 would suck like new Ghostbusters, Tron, Star Wars, etc.

Maybe a streaming service could turn it into an award winning series that nobody watches, like Karate Kid.
(, Mon 7 Mar 2022, 15:17, Reply)
This is a normal post Cobra Kai has its terrible schmaltzy moments.
But it’s mostly very funny.

Your viewing experience may vary.
(, Mon 7 Mar 2022, 23:00, Reply)
This is a normal post
You need to watch Gremlins 2 again. There's a lot more going on than you remember.
(, Tue 8 Mar 2022, 0:14, Reply)

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