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I think you are right. I've met (mostly American) people who treat service people the way she treats, well everyone.

But I'm not convinced there is a point in his stories. It's more like he has an kernel of an idea, doesn't overly question it, and just goes with that.

I haven't been on bluesky for maybe a year. I came back just to see if anyone felt this way.

I was right away v uncomfortable when she was so strong on it being only the english speakers.

It's so odd that it must be a plot point.

That does sound really frustrating.

But I would love one of the people I have argued with to have gone as high as an (even outdated) scientific paper. Normally it's just some website or instagram reel.

He's wrong for me too. I hate Tuesdays, the February of the week.

I think I've met her

Rather than trying to win them to her cause, trying to kill the soldiers, one by one, in broad daylight is exactly the sophistication I would expect of her coup.

Kemi: Yes...and?

You're doing god's work.

That voyeur perv.

The thing with toxic masculinity is that there will always be another self proclaimed 3d chess grandmaster to fill this role of "person who does not see the people he is standing on while he makes awful decisions".

Must be useful for the PMs to have that queue of sociopathic scape goats.

As this came up first, I thought it was rhyming slang, and there was news about failures at Thames Water again.

The thing about Trump. He's not afraid of telling it as it isn't.

Yes, but we would have said this showed how "authentic" he was, or something equally vapid.

There's nothing redeeming in him, but I don't mind that he's angry about breaking a cease fire, even if he's part responsible for the firing. Especially as he was angry with Netanyahu too.

I was on a kitsch tour of LA years ago, and the guide said "on the left is the toilet where poor innocent George Michael was arrested for being gay. So unjust, they don't arrest Ben Affleck and Matt Damon!"

To this day I refer to him as Poor, Innocent George Michael.

@fairphone.com trying to tempt me with the Fairphone 6, which looks great, but I'm nearing 3 years with the excellent Fairphone 4.

Stop! I have over 2 more years to go here!

I assume you are holding most of it back for the publication of "It's All One Book: Dating For Good Boys, Raising Good Boys, Nudging Good Boys and Starting a Business For and With Good Boys"

Lovely to see a photo of someone exercising their telekinetic super power as well.

It's such a low bar. Excuse the pun.

I concede!

I might politely laugh at whatever horrible tasteless joke they made, then feel gross at myself. But I wouldn't feel the need to call out their genocidal ways, like I would with Goebbels, Netanyahu and Putin.

Which would spoil that pint.

Oh I did, and I totally agree with the last para.

But, I just feel like I have met these types, and my reaction is not based on their political views, but their personalities, and it is "don't make eye contact, don't engage, coyote ugly myself out of talking with them"

Really, no offence meant. But I have never understood this idea.

I may spend too much time in the pub, each of those are the types I know instinctively to avoid.

Farage - loud, obnoxious, blowhard
Boris - toff, psuedo intellectual a-hole
Trump - firstly, doesn't drink. Secondly, rapey idiot.

The guy looks like daredevil, how could he not win?

It's great.

I wouldn't be surprised if you get several letters threatening to sue you as people just assume you are talking about them.

I'm back to Madagascar* on Sunday, and feel exactly the same way.

*fully saying this as an opportunity to boast

In order to argue with my dad, I listen to the Speccies podcasts, incl their out loud articles.

The content is really poor. It's a mix of woe-is-me, under attack landlord style stories, and faux-proustian, over written, cutesy filler.

a man in a suit and tie is talking to another man in a white hat . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is talking to another man in a white hat .

"Anglofuturist" is a word you could 100% be convinced there is a silly swear word hidden within.

You were first. This is where we get Obamas level.

I know it's not even close to the point, but his suit is getting weirdly close to this

What I like about this, is that he sounds 1 part Brad Pitt from 12 Monkeys and 1 part Linkedin profile.

It's nice to see both these so seamlessly melded.

The interesting juxtaposition of this usage.

The use of "whey", almost a homonym to the enthusiasm of "Wahey", followed immediately by "pipette", with the feminine suffix.

Clearly showing the character putting an overtly proud facade onto his concern over his own masculinity.

Also, everyone is wrong about the talking thing.

It's not bad to speak to people on public transport, it's bad to be spoken to. That's what we really don't want.