Steve Bullock

Oh now I get it. Dubai is Golgafrinchan Ark B.

Ironically, “They we’re going to attack them anyway so we had to join in“ was one of the excuses put about by Blair Iraq apologists at the time.

They are literally running with “we have always been at war with Eurasia.” Unreal.

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Congratulations, the virtual dead persons’ review of your paper has arrived and Jeremy Bentham thinks you’re a cunt.

If they had them in a dossier they could just read out the same lies every day and wave the dossier at people.

Great! Now you can pay to have dead people tell you you’re wrong.

Even worse, they can fucking read.

Maybe it’s a bad idea to put people in charge of government who are eager for the rapture.

Can’t believe the US hasn’t even bothered to put all of its made-up reasons for attacking Iran into a dossier. Fucking amateurs.

I agree. They should be available in Belgium where I live and where I assume you and everyone else on this platform must live because it’s the only country that exists even though it says in your bio that you’re in the UK.

(Am I doing this right?)

Very much depends on perceptions of success. I ended up in a career I hadn’t really wanted, never really fitted, & never progressed far in its hierarchy, but I had enormous fun, was rarely bored, and got to do weird things like go to Transnistria and speak in COREPER so I consider it a big success.

Wowzers!

Amazon review: "Customers find these hinges to be of excellent quality and durability, with one mentioning they are reinforced at the corners. They are easily adjustable and perform well for their intended purpose, with one customer noting they can support a horse."

Awesome pic!

You just have terrible luck with your visits David. I’m having to get quotes for roller blinds and aircon because it’s so hot and sunny here in the summer 😆

It’s a death cult

That actually looks lovely.

Man gets stick at team building event.

Well, at least it gets you out in the open air.

Paintball? Laser-tag?

😆

You know, I’ve played that song live and in rehearsals hundreds of times in 3 or 4 different bands and and I’ve never known what the “Fire” refers to.

My best guess is the fire of passion, but, as I say, it’s a total guess.

Like, I don’t think I’m a particularly moral or good person, but when I’ve done someone harm I feel bad about it because of the harm I caused to them, and my dismay that it was me that caused it. Not because a higher being tells me it’s wrong.

I know it’s wrong. It’s harming someone FFS!

Yes! I think the whole absolution thing makes them feel like there’s an easy way out. Bit of repentance, all forgiven, then off to heaven. Job done.

It’s like outsourcing having a genuine conscience.

And if, even if, it were somehow true that the lives of others didn’t matter, that human life had no intrinsic value or dignity, and conscience was a con, would we not still find it better if we decided to act and think as if it did? Even if we had to pretend.

Maybe I’m wrong. I do admit the possibility.

Maybe human life is meaningless and people are merely pieces on a chessboard to be used & sacrificed on a whim.

But my life feels more valuable than that to me, and I’m pretty sure other people feel the same about theirs and their loved ones’ lives.

I find it hard to maintain any faith in humanity when I can wake up in the middle of the night feeling devastatingly guilty about a mean but ultimately harmless thing I did when I was seven, while other humans can kill a hundred children in their primary school and sleep soundly through the night.

YouTube video by R.E.M. - Topic Orange Crush

“I've had my fun and now it's time
to serve your conscience overseas“

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YouTube video by Lidia Country Joe Mcdonald - Feel Like i'm Fixing to Die Rag - Woodstock '69

Gimme an F!

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