Weapon of Sass Destruction

Because it's got nothing to do with where you were born, or if you're a legal resident, and everything to do with how many shades darker your skin is than your local MAGA official.

They have to do something with the sweepings off the cookie factory floor...

As I recall, Brianna wasn't killed in a school yard. She was murdered in a park, on a saturday.
Controlling kids access to media on their phones, for 7 hours a day, 5 days a week, in term time, isn't gonna stop them being indoctrinated with bigotry the rest of the time.
This scheme is nonsensical.

Taking their phones away for 7 hours a day is gonna do Jack shit, because they'll have access to the toxic shit they find on there for the other 17 hours a day, plus whatever bigotry their parents/peers feed them.

Brianna wasn't murdered in a school yard.

Kids can be truly demonic and cruel. They were cruel in my school days and we didn't have mobiles or the internet readily available back then. Yeah, phones are exacerbating the issue to some extent, but we should be teaching kids about empathy and kindness, and how to navigate life safely...

About 8 months in, obviously not following the "right" people 😜

Fucking hell, whoever made that needs some kind of intervention... religious or otherwise.

I feel like the only people who don't want rent controls are *checks notes* shitty landlords.
I reckon people renting accomodation are really invested in their rents not being hiked over and above inflation rates whenever their landlord feels like it.

Is he shopping at Harrods?

At this rate you'll need to change your name to "Cabour Lunts".

99% of the country is screaming at them to TAX THE FUCKING RICH, and they're walking around with their fingers in their ears going "La la lalala, we can't hear you!"
Guess we wait and see if they enact this, and whether they slip a few more points down the voting intent score board.

Like, they want people to save so they don't have to rely on pension credits and other benefits when they hit retirement, but they seem intent on punishing mid-earners for doing so by taxing the mediocre amount of savings they've managed to accrue?

Are they actively trying to disenfranchise their voter base? Cos while 20k in savings is hard to reach for a large majority of people, 4k is very reachable for a decent chunk.
I can't imagine it's gonna bring in enough tax to fix the NHS tho. Unlike taxing fucking billionaires.

Oh she's a fucking *delight* isn't she.
I wish I'd never had the misfortune of knowing she exists 🙁

By that logic, I'm a swan... 😜

I had never heard of Carole Malone until today.
Oh, to have remained in blissful ignorance of her existence.

Jesus Christ Carole, screaming like a banshee isn't making your argument more credible at all 😐

People go and get help to quit both smoking and drinking from their GP due to health concerns ALL THE TIME, without fear of being reported/arrested. I've known addicts and users of illegal drugs that have wanted to get off them, but are afraid to seek help. The war on drugs hasn't worked.

You've met some average English people, right? If Scotland and Wales get independence, the first thing ole Nige and his cultists will do is start spouting shite about Welsh and Scottish immigrants, and trying to rebuild Hadrian's Wall and Offa's Dyke.
And I'm only half joking (I'm also English).

Miriam Margolyes is an absolute National Treasure, and all round beautiful soul, like an exceptionally foul-mouthed, quintessentially British Dolly Parton.

US citizens not wanting a King is fair enough, but the commenter in this thread who said "we gotta work on our Canadian brothers and sisters. Do they even like Charles III" could be construed as a dig at Canadian forms of Government 🤷
I'm a Brit, we're never getting rid of our Parasitic Monarchy 🙄

My dude, I'd say a rather large chunk of us Brits hate Charles III. Monarchy should have died with Elizabeth II.
There's still a few rabid Monarchists out there tho, and the toffs bring in the tourists for some daft reason. A good many of them Americans. Go figure 🤷

I am one of those weird people who cannot *not* finish a book once I've started. Even if it's the most boring book in the world, I will sit and read/listen until the last page.
Except Moby Dick, started but never finished; it haunts me like some kind of... I dunno... pale aquatic mammal...

Old SF/F doesn't necessarily equal *good* SF/F. And some of it is impenetrable for people who *are* into the genre, let alone those who are new to it.
I read Wuthering Heights around the same time, and The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker, both of which I loved. CB is an experience tho 😆 2/2

I read 20000 Leagues Under the Sea at the age of about 19 I think. Had I not already been a SF/F fan already, having read a LOT of Pratchett, Tolkien etc, I think that book might have put me off. I remember pages and pages of lists of flora/fauna, and very little about the story. 1/3

Not mad, it's a good point. But Zack doesn't *just* do social Media, he goes out and speaks to people too, in constituencies that aren't necessarily Green "friendly". Reaching folks on social media isn't necessarily bad if those folks hen chat to friends IRL too.

It's almost like running an exceptional social media campaign with a positive, hopeful message, and making clear, decisive statements against Fascism, and corporate greed, is more popular than "keeping with the status quo" and "hoping" to make some gains next election cycle.
Who'd have guessed?

He was a c*nt, sorry, "very deep in character", during filming of Suicide Squad too from reports I saw. A film that he was only in for about ten fucking minutes. The guy is toxic AF.

Every picture I see of that woman she looks like she's about to eat someone's face.
Or swallow a rodent whole.
Or smash through a wall to eat some tiny people.

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.