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I've only been "doing protests" since like 2019 but even I could tell you that. Then again I can somehow never underestimate the general wallet-inspection-proneness of the segment of the British left that forms Your Party

I can't understand how supposedly experienced leftists with decades in the field have never noticed that at every single protest, without fail, they turn up, infiltrate with those stupid placards, and if they get told to sod off they make their OWN protest to distract from the main one

The one ring labelled SWP Elrond: Expel them! They ruin every left-wing project. Isildur: No. I can work with them.

Your Party conference:

How a student in a diaper caused an eruption in one of America's biggest conservative youth organisations What one chapter thought would be a great stunt turned them into a mockery. This is what happened next.

Okay, apparently it wasn't him personally but it was a protest under TP that he endorsed www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

"x is x because it was just made to be x. That's it. Full stop" feels like some kind of logical fallacy

The sheer urge I would've had to write "facts don't care about your feelings" on the feedback

I remember when Kirk first started the thing and people were memeing on him for being a dipshit (plus the diaper incident), so the answer is no

OTOH I've always had a soft spot for Ardal O' Hanlon so I'm glad Gray Ham has fell out with him

I like the fact his name is Verity 😁

I'm the same but sadly the CIPD are very very anal about how learners sign. It's not the having to tell them they need a live signature, it's when I tell them and they go "hmm, pasting an image in a word document? No. I can only do this if it is a pdf, surely"

...were just taking the writing suggestions Grammarly or even Microsoft co-pilot were giving them (and apparently you can't turn co-pilot off). It uses up a load of our time and team resource as well 😮‍💨

They weren't so strict about it in the past and my manager would deal with the "improper" signatures but they've gotten REALLY anal about it. We also need to have some form of AI detection and penalisation even though no AI detection is foolproof and we get a lot of learners who...

Oh, I know, but for some reason CIPD are really picky about learners having a "live signature" i.e. an actual paper signature, so either they have to e-sign it or sign a piece of paper, take a picture of it and then crop it and paste it into the box on the learner details that says "signature"

"now put the lid on the jar. no, the jar" ass job

When I get stressed at work I literally just load up that Dan Hentschel short and stare at it for this exact reason

"You need to sign your assessment with an actual signature instead of just typing your name. Here are instructions on how you can simply and easily do this in Microsoft Word"

*learner re-uploads as a .pdf, which we do not accept, meaning I will have to email them again to explain this*

This mindset and deference to authority is why my mother never took the NHS to task for accidentally removing one of her ovaries during surgery to remove a fibroid

She only recently told me about this, as well!

Most people who have passing familiarity have been asking since day one: WHY split it this way, it doesn't work for the show so why do it for the film? Just make a studio ver. and a directors cut? But then they said we'll add new songs and one apparently involves very tricky visuals and it's a Glinda no. so I imagine they were pushing Grande REALLY fucking hard for that one

Add: I was in Morrisons y'day looking at the metric, varied, dystopian levels of merch (as there is and somehow the mountain of tie-ins is different in every supermarket! Nuts!) and I picked up the MATTEL Glinda doll and it looked so much like Grande it was uncanny so I imagine that REALLY helps

All I can say is that since Chu seems to be trying his absolute best to improve upon and surpass the stage show, he's probably been dreading having to do the second film because most people know it kind of goes to pot after Act 1. But he was pushed to split it into two films for $$$ (and also time constraints but mainly $$$) and all the anger and stress about it has been taken out on the cast

You can see this in the reviews, people are saying it's shit with varying degrees of knowledge about how many of the problems are inherited from the musical. Even the people who know what Act 2 is like are like "well yeah it's literally a tough act to follow, it was an improvement but not by much"

I don't deny she has trauma from multiple other sources in her life (nickelodeon) but stop making out she has full-on PTSD from the Arena bombing. It comes off as extremely insulting and belittling the experiences of the people who were in that atrium. That place is part of my childhood memories

Watching Slop about the weird shit happening with the wicked cast and I can't go into a single comment section without seeing some Clueless Yank(TM) wax philosophical, unchecked, about how brave their sweet little girl is for being in crowds after she Literally saw that suicide bombing firsthand

Yeah you know who else got into nazi shit as a teenager just to be haha lol funny edgy? Ian Brady

elon installs a new feature that publicly displays the country where your app was installed and operates from

people find out the most racist pro-US accounts are based in israel, india, bangladesh, etc

US DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY TWITTER BASED IN ISRAEL

elon pauses location feature

The way people treat trans people says a lot about how they treat people who are mentally ill, so it's probably no surprise the world sucks at dealing with both categories

Like "oh these people were just inherently Crazy anyway, they're lost causes, just leave them to hurt and delude themselves, what they're feeling isn't real, just ignore them lmao 🤣"

Do you think something's still attention seeking if it's how you really feel? Just thinking about how people's attitudes to gender identity are weirdly similar to how people used to joke about emo kids self-harming in 2007 because they were "just doing it for attention"

maps.app.goo.gl/3yH5xdnCUraz... why does everyone who's ever been up the M40 come here to write a humourously exaggerated review (it's because it seems to universally be the highlight of going along the M40)

(just noticed your surname so if I've mistakenly assumed she's British and not Irish I apologise in advance 😅)

"One ear Mozart, other ear the Chinese translation of the Bible" but for British women of a certain age