Interesting deconstruction of The Orb's Little Fluffy Clouds
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Varmint, Wed 20 Jul 2022, 16:29,
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SHE-HULK: Attorney At Law
Disney strikes again ruining shit.
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Boris Johnson's Press Secretary, Wed 20 Jul 2022, 12:41,
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How exactly is that ruining anything?
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 20 Jul 2022, 13:36,
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Is it woke?
I think that's what the kids say these days
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Wed 20 Jul 2022, 13:45,
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I can't wait for our new PM to come in and get rid of all that woke rubbish.
You know, all that woke rubbish that's stopping everyone from doing everything.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 20 Jul 2022, 17:08,
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I'm looking forward to the new PM getting rid of all that sex and race equality woke rubbish.
Incidentally, here's an opinion from someone who went to Liz Truss's school.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/18/liz-truss-roundhay-school-foreign-secretary-education
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antmulder Flick your icefloss, Wed 20 Jul 2022, 22:47,
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As someone who went to university with her….
She wasn’t unhinged when she was a Lib Dem. But now she has power. Yay.
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I wonder if
There will be a cameo by Birdman and Peter Potomus?
YOU WILL LIKE THIS!... probably not.
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The invisible ham Fig rolls are the best, Wed 20 Jul 2022, 13:55,
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Oh yeah
I have tried watching that...it has its own direction.
Ha Haaaa
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The invisible ham Fig rolls are the best, Wed 20 Jul 2022, 22:04,
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I do wonder since when did turning into the/a 'Hulk'
mean getting taller and thinner?
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joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Wed 20 Jul 2022, 15:44,
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Apparently due to her receiving via blood transfusion a milder version of what her cousin, Bruce Banner, had
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It's like you can't take Marvel science completely seriously.
DC science otoh, perfectly reasonable.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Wed 20 Jul 2022, 17:20,
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I feel sorry for the HR department that has to deal with all the wronged/betrayed scientists working in the in-house labs
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The Firestorm case would be a nightmare.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Thu 21 Jul 2022, 17:04,
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the rest of her should stay the same, with just her tits getting green and massive
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 21 Jul 2022, 0:47,
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That looks uncannily like Glenn Danzig in the thumbnail
Now, THAT'S something I'd watch.
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It was a nice twist on Jonathan Pie and I hope we will see more.
As for how long I think it depends on how long it takes to re-arrange all those notes.
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jonbob loves you, Wed 20 Jul 2022, 3:51,
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Time for a probably misinformed rant from a foreigner
What the fup is wrong with the left in Britain?
You're going to have either a female or ethnic minority prime minister next, something Labour has never achieved or indeed even attempted. The last Tory government was more ethnically diverse than anything Labour ever had, and it was the Tories that legalised same sex marriage, not Labour, eventhough they had 13 years to so do. To an outsider, it is obvious that Labour are the old fashioned/racist/conservatives and the Tories are actually much more progressive.
And yet, there they are, demonizing the evil Tories.rather than cleaning up their own party.
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Tusk knows where you live, Wed 20 Jul 2022, 19:46,
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Maybe because we don’t think having a female and/or brown PM is such a big deal these days.
We’re still faced with a choice between an absolute moron of a woman or a filthy rich Asian guy. I don’t care about setting silly precedents, I want a competent leader.
Never mind that the NHS and minimum wage were brought in by Labour. As for gay marriage, I honestly think it would have been brought in at about the same time regardless of which party was in power. Never forget that it was a Tory government who was responsible for our version of “don’t say gay”, and a Tory government who want to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda.
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jonbob loves you, Wed 20 Jul 2022, 20:31,
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Regardless of the ethnicity of the leadership
they represent the interests of the membership who are, in the most part, very white, very old and very rich.
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Is that actually true, though?
They did get a whopping majority in the last election, that can't all have been rich old white people.
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Tusk knows where you live, Wed 20 Jul 2022, 21:24,
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I'm talking about the membership not the voters
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/tory-party-demographics-revealed-ahead-of-leadership-election-and-they-make-for-pretty-grim-reading-329194/
97% white
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Yes it's true.
But we don't get a bar subsidised by the tax payers.
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jonbob loves you, Thu 21 Jul 2022, 2:41,
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Not many tory voters (~13.9 million) are party members (~200,000).
They got a whopping majority because of FPTP, but it doesn't reflect their share of the vote (43.6%).
If we had a system of proportional representation with 2nd preference ballots, etc, we would have more sensible electoral outcomes.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Wed 20 Jul 2022, 21:43,
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Ah, no, I have to take issue with that.
I live in a country with PR. As a result, my vote never goes to an actual person, but to a party. There is no local representation in parliament, no MP holding local surgeries, no one single parliamentarian to hold acountable as they all hide behind the gray collective party responsibility. This lead to a huge chasm between voter and representative. Not only that, but no party will ever realistically have a majority and any goverment will be a coalition - meaning no party can ever be held acountable for actually delivering on their manifesto. Combine this with a system where the actual government ministers aren't members of parliament means voters can't even get rid of party leaders by voting them out. FPTP may not be an ideal situation, but you have much more influence on actual government policies than an RP voter will ever have.
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Tusk knows where you live, Wed 20 Jul 2022, 22:29,
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That's just the way your country has decided to impliment PR.
No reason why you couldn't have a list of individuals and a Nth preference column. No reason why your constituency rules couldn't have recall/retrigger clauses that apply to individual representatives. These are choices that have been made, they're not intrinsic to the concept of proportional representation.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Wed 20 Jul 2022, 22:37,
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Few people vote for a particular candidate in the UK, just the colour of their tie.
So our situation isn't all that different to yours. There's no reason why the MP for a given constituency shouldn't hold surgeries, though I suspect that you overestimate how much impact they actually have anyway.
Coalition government is a double-edged sword but I say that one of them is blunted: you do lose some accountability but voters absolutely remember what parties do while in a coalition (just look at the Lib Dems) and having a government that can only realistically pass the legislation that a real majority of the public voted for sounds like a Good Thing to me. A fringe benefit of coalition government is that there's a larger pool of MPs to choose from when it comes to government posts. Where do you live? It seems bizarre to have heads of government departments that aren't MPs (or whatever you call them).
FPTP is definitely not an ideal solution; it allows a minority to get away with things that the majority oppose, just because of the way boundaries have been drawn. The cherry on the cake is that the direction of the UK government is about to be set by a person elected by less than 1% of the populace. Fuck that.
A presidential style of government à la USA* is patently wrong, but I'm open to the idea of a hybrid system (it's worth a try) wherein we have a reformed upper house (sorry Lord Winston, you were one of the good ones) elected by PR and a lower house elected by FPTP, but without the latter having power to overrule the former. If that works then perhaps we could continue on to PR all round. Who knows, we could even add a third chamber of old-style peers to give advice to the other two, appointed entirely by dint of wisdom rather than political backhanders.
*The filibuster rule** is just so fucking stupid. I'm all for consensus in government but expecting a supermajority in a two-party system basically means that nothing will ever get done.
**Which isn't actually a real rule. I mean come on, having people stand up and talk and talk until the clock runs out is a popular Radio 4 programme***, not a system of government.
***Insofar as any Radio 4 programme could be considered popular.
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jonbob loves you, Thu 21 Jul 2022, 3:41,
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I'm in the Netherlands
Ministers are usually (but not exclusivly) selected from elected parliamentarians, but when they become ministers, they are no longer part of the parliament and their seat goes to whatever candidate was on their party's election list but didn't get in. On the plus side, it means the government itself can't vote on their own legislation - although their parliamentary parties obviously can.
As for getting 'legislation that a real majority of the public voted for' yeah, no, that doesn't happen as all legislation will be a compromise between the ruling parties and therefore exactly what nobody voted for. Perhaps I am overestimating the importance of having a single person responisble for representation, but I do like the idea of having just the one target to pelt with various rotten fruits rather than a mass of politicians who don't have to care about losing a few hundred votes as their seat will be safe either way. The good thing is that we have litterally dozens of parties, to cater to your specific flavour, rather than just a few. I suppose the grass is always greener on the other side.
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Tusk knows where you live, Thu 21 Jul 2022, 15:06,
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I think that everyone getting 10% of what they want is better than 44% getting 90% of what they want.
Especially when the 44% are a coalition of gullible fearful idiots and nasty cunts.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Thu 21 Jul 2022, 15:46,
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You should get yourself down to your local Conservative Association love
See how many diverse faces you see there
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Absolutely correct
It’s only the Tory Party who would gift the opportunity to a third-rate Thatcher tribute act and a barely competent multi-millionaire to lead them.
Labour are stuck in the past with their insistence on being capable of actually governing.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 20 Jul 2022, 21:17,
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In charge of taxation, wife a tax exile
That would have brought down the government in any normal country
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Fined by the police for breaking a law he shared collective responsibility for.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 20 Jul 2022, 21:54,
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If you judge them by the content of their character...
...and not by the colour of their skin you'll find that they're all awful cunts.
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VicJameson : fucking internet virgins since, Wed 20 Jul 2022, 23:08,
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coloured skin ≠ progressive
having a vagina ≠ progressive
Idi Amin and Thatcher
having progressive policies and doing progressive thing = progressive
is there anything else you'd like cleaned up, apart from coloured vaginas?
as to the same sex marriage act 2013, this was drafted and introduced by the liberal democrat Lynne Featherstone, and all parties gave their MPs a free vote on it. 126 conservatives voted for the bill, while 134 voted against it. It passed with labour and the other parties voting majority for it. I'm not sure how you think this paints the Conservatives as progressive, though I guess Cameron allowing a free vote wins some minor points.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 20 Jul 2022, 23:55,
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having a vagina mdoes indeed ≠ progressive
but selecting someone with a vulva as party leader sadly still is, and Idi Amin wasn't an ethnic minority in Uganda. You could have used John Vorster as an example.
I do take your point, though, even if I still feel Labour is not managing to portray itself as a progressive, inclusive party.
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Tusk knows where you live, Thu 21 Jul 2022, 0:15,
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I think there's an american perspective about race that doesn't necesarily translate to other countries
there, generally black voters lean democrat, and blacks tend to lower socio-economic status, so that having more representation in your party is seen as progressive, aligning with things like affirmative action
In the UK the largest minority are indian and pakistani, and they're not generally of lower socio-economic status, and if anything their traditional views on cultural issues are more conservative than the median.
I guess the other thing is that there's no bible belt in the UK that the conservatives need to pander to. Guys like Cameron and Johnson are intertwined with The City, the financial hub, and the big media conglomerates (and were both ex-journos). Their policies have widened the gap, with the rich getting richer and the middle class and poor getting poorer. The opposite to this is progressive taxation that spreads the wealth more fairly, and less privatisation of public assets. They're not fighting the culture wars and personally I think don't give a fuck about it one way or the other, apart from some half-hearted bleating about wokeness to test if there's any votes in that
But, yes, labour have their own issues, but I think it's not getting more brown faces but finding someone with a fucking spine that's not so terrified of putting some 'boro brexit voting blockhead offside that they can't call out it's obvious shitness and offer a solution.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 21 Jul 2022, 0:39,
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You get a click just for using 'boro correctly.
The fact that I tend to agree with the rest of what you wrote is incidental.
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jonbob loves you, Thu 21 Jul 2022, 4:02,
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cheers,
in the early days I followed a blogger calling himself the Teesmouth, and a big boro supporter. had a regular gig writing for bbc sport before he got the axe
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 21 Jul 2022, 13:44,
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Free flights to Rwanda = super progressive
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Thu 21 Jul 2022, 1:53,
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Cameron was a vocal supporter of Section 28 a couple of years earlier
Gay marriage was simply a way to shed the nasty party image whilst holding on to 99% of the nasty policies
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Which again begs the question
why didn't Labour introduce this when they were in power? I know Tony Blair was to busy with the wholesale slaughter of Iraqis, but surely Gordon Brown could have found the time?
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Tusk knows where you live, Thu 21 Jul 2022, 15:18,
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Fucking hell
Do you know anything about this? Have you heard of Section 28? Civil partnerships? That's what they were doing. Dismantling all the openly homophobic shite the tories had brought in over the previous 20 years
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Looks like he's been doing his own research.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Thu 21 Jul 2022, 15:48,
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it?s probably that ww see past race and gender
and see (at least the current) Tory party as a group of individual and collective failures. On a personal level they are venal corrupt liars, and on a professional level they are inept to a degree previously unseen.
The choice given is between this lot and the current alternative. Regardless of the mess that the opposition present. they still have more appeal
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Oh mate
They are not
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/gender/parliament
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Thu 21 Jul 2022, 7:19,
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Kitty parkour with casual violence and watersports
Chatty little beast too, this might be a game.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Tue 19 Jul 2022, 23:16,
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was expecting a drag act called Kitty Parkour
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Dick Wonder ₐ wₒₙₖy, wₐᵥy wₒₙdₑᵣ, Wed 20 Jul 2022, 11:38,
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I had no idea how vast their secret society is.
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cowcat Bituminous squeegee, Wed 20 Jul 2022, 19:17,
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Pretty much everywhere habitable is carved into marked cat territories.
Patrolled and defended, you should have seen the scat politics when my two big male cats died.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 20 Jul 2022, 21:14,
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Now, THAT'S not something you see every day...
NSFW
Wait for the replay.
Edit: Might not be for everyone due to person getting injured. He's moving at the end, though. So assuming he didn't die.
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Man am mashup
Not going to click like as its a little bit snuff tbh
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hoppitygoestotown The temporal displacement occurred exactly, Tue 19 Jul 2022, 23:03,
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warning: bloke falling down two stories, likely sustaining severe fall injuries
i know it's a spoiler, but quite a few people avoid watching videos like that, Swagatha.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 19 Jul 2022, 23:06,
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It's okay, his shoes stayed on
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Tue 19 Jul 2022, 23:23,
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I wanted that to be a stunt...
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Tue 19 Jul 2022, 23:27,
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I wish I'd read these comments before I clicked.
I'll not be clicking on another Streamable Video.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Wed 20 Jul 2022, 0:50,
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"Sperm hijacking as success strategy"
Female Prussian carps use sperm of other species to stimulate their eggs to divide. The genetic material of the male is then broken down in the egg cell without being used (sperm-dependent parthenogenesis)
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Tue 19 Jul 2022, 19:22,
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Not that I'm 'one of those' or anything
But I really enjoyed the fabulousnessing of Ken
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VicJameson : fucking internet virgins since, Wed 20 Jul 2022, 17:09,
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I am one of those.
Drag does nothing for me, and I find "fabulousness" repellant.
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jonbob loves you, Wed 20 Jul 2022, 22:30,
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I'm not 'one of those', but my ex is.
I kinda agree. However, the first few seasons of Ru Paul's Drage Race (before they started allowing female contestants to compete) are fucking amazing.
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I’m confused.
Maybe I’m one of them, not one of those.
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jonbob loves you, Wed 20 Jul 2022, 23:07,
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There are many colours in that rainbow!
Me, I used to glam up and dress a bit camp or kinky in my youth, and everyone just assumed I was a gay lad - but I've never been interested in anyone's knob but my own.
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Thu 21 Jul 2022, 13:32,
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The 5,6,7,8s
My club hosted the first show of their UK tour in April. My favourite gig this year .
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amoebaboy chose for death by unga bunga on, Tue 19 Jul 2022, 15:02,
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I saw them in April, in Leeds!
Was worried they might be one hit wonders, but far from it - fantastic musicians, really good fun, and great tunes. Would see again.
Oh, and happy candles!
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Varmint, Tue 19 Jul 2022, 16:01,
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Them and Shonen Knife are great Japanese girl bands.
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cowcat Bituminous squeegee, Tue 19 Jul 2022, 18:50,
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Lit bruv
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hoppitygoestotown The temporal displacement occurred exactly, Tue 19 Jul 2022, 17:48,
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17 happy candles up your bum
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Tue 19 Jul 2022, 17:56,
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The movie 'Yesterday' but he doesn't know any Beatles songs
I made this!
It was weird how well he knew all the Beatles songs. Here's a more realistic version.
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This vocalist is amazing - it's a cover but knocks the socks off the original
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colmcq2, Tue 19 Jul 2022, 10:47,
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Just came across this guy
Another amazing cover (not saying there are socks being knocked off tho!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr8agWD3lmY
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simbosan nuck nuck nuck, Tue 19 Jul 2022, 11:57,
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Oh I remember his Home song
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuWPseegaKw
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Tue 19 Jul 2022, 14:58,
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The Ultimate "Nightmare Before Christmas" Recap Cartoon
NSFW
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Mon 18 Jul 2022, 23:00,
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Didn't see this coming!
Was watching to see how much hate he put out.
There was some in the subtext, but nothing worse than Priti Patel.
There's only on way to find out.
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P-MONKE We're all fucked, Mon 18 Jul 2022, 22:30,
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He was never exactly sharp but it's still sad to see him so mentally deteriorated.
I don't get the appeal of the 'old man incoherently rambling about wokeness' scene. It's obviously a money earner as there are so many bitter old has-beens doing it.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Mon 18 Jul 2022, 22:55,
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Same here
The more deterioration I see in Jim Davidson, the less sad I am.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Tue 19 Jul 2022, 17:41,
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Believe it or not, there are some things I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Tue 19 Jul 2022, 18:06,
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So...
you don't want your enemies to live long enough to get old?
I can believe that.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Tue 19 Jul 2022, 23:57,
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Nah, Bernard Manning was proper British racist comedy
Davidson’s just a shadow of him, which coincidentally was what manning called black people
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 19 Jul 2022, 7:26,
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Why has he chosen a camel's bum
as a backdrop? Is there some subtext about getting the hump or something?
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Tue 19 Jul 2022, 9:03,
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"Put something on the background to make me look good"
and it was the only thing that worked
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Tue 19 Jul 2022, 17:40,
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I am fascinated with the lighting.
Did they get a request 'make me as white as possible'?
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Tue 19 Jul 2022, 15:01,
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We can learn from the Australians
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Mon 18 Jul 2022, 17:58,
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A beautiful song about Karl Kennedy from Neighbours
With the last episodes of Neighbours right around the corner, a friend of mine thought it was about time to honour one of his heroes.
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Soul Scorcher
Great tune for a very hot day - hope you're all dodging what you can of the heat.
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Varmint, Mon 18 Jul 2022, 15:05,
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I fuckin love this
Just put it on repeat in the car and drive round town. Whole album is a belter
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simbosan nuck nuck nuck, Tue 19 Jul 2022, 12:01,
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A happy customer! My work here is done.
I found it on Andy Smith's Trojan Document compilation - every tune on that is a good 'un.
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Varmint, Tue 19 Jul 2022, 12:19,
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Hot Hot Hot
Shirts off
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Mon 18 Jul 2022, 10:46,
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that was actually pretty cool
Those crazy Germans!
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simbosan nuck nuck nuck, Mon 18 Jul 2022, 13:00,
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when its too hot for lederhosen but you still have to slap yourself
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Jon Pertwee on Blue Peter in 1973.
Better than even that sounds.
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Sun 17 Jul 2022, 22:45,
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Amazing
Sean does not sound like Jon in the slightest. :o
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2Pints , at the third stroke, it will be, Sun 17 Jul 2022, 23:33,
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Did the car make it onto Doctor Who?
I was at peak Doctor Who age with Pertwee, and I don't remember it. I remember a bright yellow "vintage" car
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