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Penis,

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Penis

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idk, Alabama or Mississippi

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Pinotage posted...

What the fuck are you guys doing in Victoria?

Victoria's gone back into full lockdown, to my understanding.

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That seems like the unfortunate reality of it right now. Regardless, we should definitely do everything we can to prevent a wider spread at the moment. Best case scenario, the virus stops here. Worst case scenario, the spread isn't as bad as it would have been if we took no action.

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Queensland is the American South of Australia, after all.

Seriously though, this is fine. When Victoria had a coronavirus flare-up, a bunch of people crossed over into NSW before they closed down the borders and reinstituted lockdown procedures. At least one of those fucks was infected with coronavirus himself, and it created another outbreak here in NSW.

I don't blame Queensland for putting up a barricade to prevent people from crossing state lines illegally, considering the circumstances that we're living in. And hey, even though QLD is typically characterised as a bunch of crazy conservatives (what other state would give Pauline Hanson and Fraser Anning a platform?), this barricade isn't because "southern Australians are sending their worst, they're sending rapists and thieves" - it's because dumb fucks keep breaking lockdown procedures and infecting other people with coronavirus, and no-one wants another flare-up.


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This isn't really news, it's been out there for like 5 years at least. A bunch of Velma/Daphne scenes were cut.

Apparently the movie was going to be a more adult skewering of the Scooby Doo formula, but WB cut most of its subversive elements.

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The Last of Us 2 played fine, but I'm not really that big on the big, linear setpiece games Naughty Dog has been doing since the PS3. I mostly enjoyed it because I was playing it alongside a friend via his copy of the game, and we had different styles of play that complemented different sections of the game which made it fun to trade the controller off.

All of these galaxy brain "I platinumed the first game, here's a laundry list of bad points from a forum post accumulating the most negative aspects of the game" takes are stupid. Crouching/going prone is fine. The AI is about as buggy as any AAA game release - there's some jittery movement and occasionally some weird teleportation stuff, mostly in regards to swapping places around for cutscenes sometimes, and it gets the job done the rest of the time with minimal or no incident. It's a minor point at best, and I don't know why you're fronting over it.

Like imo, it's a solid 7/10 game - no higher, no lower. People slurping the game's nuts with perfect 10 scores is dumb - same deal as with Metal Gear Solid 5, I really like that game but it's not a 10/10 - but this aggressive dressing down of people who just sort of played the game, acknowledge it's existence as a decent enough piece of media and moved on reeks of small dick energy and tribalism. Dude wants game recs, not a condescending talking down to about how the second game is a stupid game for morons. If you're going to be a limp-dicked pussy about a game you don't like, recommend something better.

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I also just bought the Contra collection on Switch, it should be down to like $5 USD if it's on sale in America. I got it for $7.50 AUD, down from $30.

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If you liked Ori, you might like Rayman Legends. It's available on all current systems, and it's pretty cheap when it goes on sale.

It has a ton of content, including most of the levels from the previous game. It makes Origins totally obsolete.

Depending on how much they are, I also recommend getting the first Mega Man X Legacy Collection. I only got into Mega Man X earlier this year, and with no word of a lie, that game still holds up alongside more modern video games. 2 and 3 are pretty good too, and if you end up petering out around X4 like I did, you still get three solid platformers.

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zithers is drama free, and he rarely makes things about himself. He's a part of the conversation, not the shoehorned centre of attention.

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Coronavirus deaths hit 200k by November. News stories circulate about Trumpers "trolling" inner city polling places by showing up and yelling xenophobic slogans at PoC voters, and/or coughing all over people who are lined up to vote. People who vote in person face coronavirus infection, but mail-in ballots aren't counted even as hundreds of thousands of Americans die due to the virus.

America records the least amount of open polling places in the last 50 years, all of which are present in predominantly conservative areas.

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Nah, I think the 140,000 dead Americans in 5 months will weigh on America's conscience more than a fucking tax rate will.

Though there's always the chance that I'm underestimating Americans in this scenario. I'd like to downplay the possibility, but god I've seen some stupid shit being reflected in the US population.

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I do agree that if 16 year olds are going to sleep around it should be with people who are close to their age. Someone in their 20s should not consider "16 year old girls" as a type.

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Lost_All_Senses posted...

Yeah, we only like people that lick books around here

Too many shoe-shining jobs have been lost to automation! #BringBackTheTongue

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I'll wait until the updated third version, Pokemon Nonbinary

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Becker lasted longer than the confederacy

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The Washington Cornucopias

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Jagr_68 posted...

cue the Dan "Dan Schneider" Snyder jokes!

Dan "If she's under 5 feet, I'll lick her feet" Schneider's favorite football team is run by Dan "I put the 'intern' in 'internal creampie'" Snyder

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If Kramer went on a racist rant against a black heckler, he'd be Michael Richards

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If Jerry Seinfeld robbed a liquor store, he'd be Jerry Crimefeld

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You're living in the #1 country on Earth for COVID infections and deaths. Almost twice as many Americans are dead from COVID as the next worst country, and over a million more people are infected in America than the next worst country.

If you go to a theme park with those kinds of figures, risking your health - and the health of everyone at the park and/or at home, depending on whether you're infected before or after Disneyland - to get a photo with a cartoon character, eat a turkey leg and go on a rollercoaster, then you need to get your fucking priorities straight. Wake up to yourself.

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fan357 posted...

How could you possible recommend starting at season 3? Important things happen in 1 and 2. The whole show flows together. Im surprised you didnt like season 5 as much. 4 and 5 are my favorite. Best episode overall for me is Free Churro. Will Arnett after his ass off.

Dude wasn't interested in watching the show, so I made a suggestion.

Season 5 wasn't entirely bad, and Free Churro was a good episode. But I hated Flip, I wasn't too hot on the opioid storyline, and there was a solid stretch of three gimmick episodes in a row. One of those gimmick episodes was Free Churro, sure, but to go from a drawn out monologue episode to INT.SUB with its wacky character design reimaginings to a four-way flashback episode about Mr Peanutbutter's ex-wives - it felt like it was too much.

INT.SUB is probably my least favourite gimmick episode of the series - I like the storyline, but the names and the designs got really, really old. And two of my other least favourite characters in the series are Katrina and Jessica Biel, so Mr Peanutbutter's Boos coming off the tail end of the prior two gimmick episodes felt like way too much.

Bojack does good concept episodes, but three in a row really started to wear on me - if any other season of the show had extended stretches of unique concept episodes back to back like this, I didn't notice it enough to care. And outside of Free Churro - which in itself is a bit of an endurance test, artistry be damned - neither of the two following episodes were particularly remarkable. INT.SUB had a tired framing device and its gimmick was annoying after a while, and Mr Peanutbutter's Boos focused on some of my least favourite characters in the show.

It doesn't seem like much, but that's a quarter of the entire season that just doesn't gel together that well, and it's on top of Bojack's opioid rage being one of my least favourite storylines in the show and Flip being my least favourite character in the show. It wasn't a bad season of television, but I preferred season 4 and the worst aspects of season 5 brought it down.

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If they don't want to get shit on, they can take off their red hats.

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Beveren_Rabbit posted...

Sorry the show wasn't Rick and Morty enough for you to like it

Well, that's rude. I just thought the writing started to suffer around season 5, and I don't know how to take the last season. I liked the show, but in hindsight I think it ended on kind of a weak note. Excellent penultimate episode, and the season started off strong, but by virtue of its cancellation as opposed to coming to a natural end I think the last season suffered a bit.

Don't even talk to me if you're not familiar with Moral Orel, son. Rick and Morty my ass. although I did really enjoy season 4 after season 3 was kind of a letdown

R1masher posted...

Never watched it, I think Im taking your advice (?) and am never going to

Honestly, if you were gonna watch the show, I would recommend watching any of the episodes that has a score higher than 9.5 on IMDB - of which the show has multiple. That, or start with season 3. But that's only if you don't care too much about the wider narrative.

No_U_L7 posted...

i think they really didn't anticipate this being the last season and really rushed things, expecting 1 more season

sounds like they wanted bojack in prison for half a season and then the last half would be his redemption final arc

instead it got rushed and we got what we got. i don't mind any of what happened, but they def left way too many storylines underdeveloped or left hanging

I read about this, they got an extra 4 episodes to expand the season but apparently season 6 was already in the can when the decision came down. At least we got the second last episode out of it, that shit was phenomenal.

sabin017 posted...

The show is generally at its best when it reveals its hand at the end of some seasons, usually taking you for an unpredictable ride. It's also interesting how the characters treat the fractures in their lives, for better or worse.

My favorite episode is the underwater one.

Absolutely. The highlight of season 4 - which was already packed with pretty great episodes - was the episode which revealed all the stuff about Hollyhock. I think season 4 was the last season that really nailed those "concept" episodes, and that other shoe dropping at the end of the season. Season 5 felt like a step too far, and season 6 kind of ended in a flaccid note I felt like.

I keep gushing about it, but the second last episode of the entire show was such a banger. I also really liked Stupid Piece of Shit and That's Too Much, Man!.

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How did you feel about the show?

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eston posted...

Clearly the 13 year old knew what he was doing, but the dad definitely needs to face charges because you don't keep loaded guns in the couch where they are accessible to all your children

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Philoktetes posted...

millennials think it's cool and epic when AOC plays videogames instead of governing but it's bad when trump plays golf

She's playing on her off time, Trump is taking days off the job specifically to play golf.

It costs taxpayers thousands of dollars to fund Trump's golf trips, AOC playing video games is free.

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Even after getting hooked on the show for a while, I don't know how I felt about it.

I think the writing hit its peak in season 4. Season 1 scratched the surface of the emotional heart of the episode, season 2 had some of the show's most iconic moments but I don't know how I feel about the Secretariat payoff, season 3 had a weak first half with Jill Pill and Cuddlywhiskers... but the second half of season 3 is where the show started to really climb, and season 4 carried on that momentum imo.

The last half of season 3 and the entirety of season 4 had my favorite moments in it. Sara Lynn's death is one of the darkest moments of the show, I love how Todd was revealed to be asexual, Princess Caroline and Ralph's relationship was one of my favorite parts of the show, the second episode of season 4 might be the best episode of the show, and while I'm divided on Hollyhock's involvement in the show, the twist about her lineage was pretty hype. I also thought that Mr Peanutbutter and Diane's divorce was well deserved, and I think the head it built up to was one of the better notes for the season to go out on.

Season 4 also had some moments that I didn't like. Mr Peanutbutter's ex-wives were some of my least favourite characters in the show, and even for Bojack Horseman the ski race for the governorship of California was silly and over the top. The whole governorship arc felt pointless, and then it just resolves with no fanfare or stakes. I think it was the start of the show's writing going south.

I respect the point of season 5, in that it's trying to portray a nuanced picture of celebrity abuse stories, and I respect the show making a point about the normalisation of shitty behavior through popular media. But I feel like this is where I started to not like the show as much. I didn't think the Henry Fondle subplot was funny, I wasn't big on the drug addiction storyline and the violence that Bojack enacts near the end of the season felt like a bit too much, even with the shitty things he's done. Bojack and Diane's fight about Sara Lynn feels kind of wrong all round, with Bojack's specific type of nastiness and Diane going as hard as she did on Sara Lynn's death - it just didn't sit well. And I think Flip is the worst character that the show ever had, hands down.

Season 6 had some of the show's beat episodes. The first episode, with the stars in a bottle, was an excellent start to the season, and as the first half went on I thought that maybe Bojack could turn it all around and be a better person.

But the second half was rough to watch. I almost feel like the characters should have been more disgusted after he tells them about what he did to Sara Lynn, but maybe it was his reluctance to elaborate and the restrained disgust that Diane and Princess Caroline show towards him that make that episode as effective as it was.

But it's the circumstances leading up to Bojack's second interview, and everything with Sara Lynn's mother, and the investigative journalists who have the most annoying gimmick ever - that kind of torpedo the show for me.

Season 5 and 6 lean heavily on season 2 and 3 for their stories - they rely so heavily on moments that made the show iconic in the first place. Bojack never took responsibility for what happened with Penny, and Sara Lynn's death was his lowest moment. But Sara Lynn's mother is shown as a self-absorbed nutjob who exploited her daughter since childhood, pursuing Bojack for a payday, and Bojack being blindsided by the New Mexico stuff in an interview doesn't feel like him taking responsibility and being held accountable either - it feels like a footnote to worsen the severity of a larger accusation. It doesn't help that we don't see Penny and/or Charlotte at all after the interview, so we don't know if Bojack being taken to task gave them closure in the end.

At the end of the day, Bojack did exploit his power. It's important to see him take responsibility, and maybe seeing how flippantly he regards his accountability for another 30 minutes of attention should have clued me in that in the end, as long as he can get off scot free and get some good press out of it, it doesn't affect him that much.

Maybe that was the point of S6, part two. Bojack can put all that behind him, because he was the person who did bad thig to others, as opposed to someone who had bad things happen to him at the hands of another person. That doesn't mean he was never a victim, and it's hard to recover from childhood abuse, but that doesn't excuse horrible things you do as an adult.

I dunno. I think the show got really heady at the end there, and I don't know what to think of it. Like, Bojack is an abuser to multiple people, implicitly or explicitly, but the show does focus on Bojack and his emotional peaks and dips. When the other shoe drops regarding Penny in season 6, the focus is still on Bojack and how it hurts him to be confronted by it as someone who perpetuated it, rather than on depicting its effect on Penny as a victim. We've seen Bojack get sober, we've seen him reform - the show has specifically focused on that. And while it does cut back to Penny and Charlotte, it doesn't tell us how they feel in the wake of the allegation coming to light. I don't know how I feel about that. And I don't know how I feel about the later season stuff about Sara Lynn's death.

Bojack Horseman was a good show, and while I respect that its latter seasons tried to make a more hardline stance about people like Bojack in response to people using him as an enabler for their own toxicity, I don't know if I can reconcile the show's ethics with its narrative. I'm happy Bojack lived, for what it's worth, and I'm glad the core cast all seem like they're going to be okay - with or without each other. But I don't know if my time with the show was ultimately worthwhile.

Like even when I was fully invested in the show, there were episodes that would totally sour my mood. I would be trying to put a positive spring in my step some days, and after an episode or two of the show, I would feel emotionally drained. I think my time with the show might have even been a net negative. I don't know. It was a wild ride.

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This should be good. Tag

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coh posted...

People really pretending like MGS ever had a good story lol

MGS was always corny and convoluted as shit, that's what I liked about it. Like damn, even the game with the most clout ends with a phone call between a gun-twirling cowboy man and the president of the United States of America. It's goofy as fuck.

The thing is, even at their worst, Metal Gear stories have a lot of flavor to them. There's a creative flair, there's an offbeat humor to it all. The stories were getting less and less cohesive around the time of MGS3, with all this new retconned stuff that would go on to slowly choke the franchise, but at the end of the day there was enough flavor to the dialogue and cutscenes that it was a total romp every single time.

MGS5 doesn't have as much dialogue as most other Metal Gear games, and the dialogue it does have tends to be kinda flat and basic. A majority of the cutscenes are very mundane or playing up the shock value, and the villain of the game is barely in it to chew the scenery. Phantom Pain's plot - which is already pretty light compared to other MGS games - doesn't have the same wacky bounce in its step that MGS games tend to have. So even compared to other Metal Gear games, MGS5's plot falls especially short.

"mEtAl GeAr pLoTs WeRe NeVeR gOoD" bruh it's more than just giant bipedal robots launching nukes from railguns. It's the tone of it, the atmosphere the games set. A crazy plot is perfectly fine if it's paired with a tone that fills everything out. MGS5 dropped the ball on the plot, and there's not enough creative flair to fill in the gaps. Even for Metal Gear standards, MGS5 was a letdown.

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https://youtu.be/tH4rYsuDpNA

I know the thumbnail is shit, but his content is very off the cuff and casually sweary. It's great.

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SpaceBear_ posted...

Do people generally consider Friends to have a good ending?

Ross and Rachel getting together seemed pointless considering they had been on and off for ages. Nothing to say they won't break up again for the hundredth time.

My understanding is that the Friends finale is considered one of the great TV show endings. The fans got what they want, and it was a satisfying conclusion in the eyes of the media I was too young at the time to really get the show, so I don't remember shit from the time, but I do remember buzz about the ending from years after the fact.

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MGS5 has the worst story in the series, but it also has the best gameplay. I got the PS3 version on launch for $90 AUD, and I don't regret it to this day.

Honestly, I do think that MGS5 is a flawed product in a lot of ways. The way they do Huey in this game is just totally dogshit, to the point I retroactively hate how they put him in Peace Walker, and Strangelove got treated disgustingly. Just total disrespect all around. But the gunplay feels so good, I love how you're able to build your base up, I love the upgrade trees, I love how you're able to get into different mission areas and do certain tasks - it's the perfect podcast game.

I can't lie, the franchise was probably better off ending after the fourth game at the latest. I like Peace Walker a lot, but for narrative cohesion, no games should exist after MGS4 - hell, MGS3 even. The story of 5 is bland, it never really picks up, and once it starts to get worse it never gets better. Anything you liked about the Peace Walker characters is gone, and the whole game builds up to a twist that is totally, 100% unnecessary - it's like MatPat wrote the game to justify one of his pedantic game theories.

But at the end of the day, with its faults - especially regarding the story - Metal Gear Solid 5 is a fun game to play, and I can unironically say that I consider it to be good on the metric of gameplay alone. Bad Metal Gear game, at least as far as story goes, but I would still recommend it for its gameplay.

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I just saw the Scrubs finale for the first time in years, and it hit a lot differently now after seeing the How I Met Your Mother ending and being expected to settle for an ending I didn't like for how "clever" the championed "greater point of the show" is.

Sitcom endings really are hit and miss. You have classic endings that pander to the base and wrap everything up, like Cheers, but then you have the ones that split the fanbase down the middle at best - like How I Met Your Mother - where they take a shot at one last memorable twist to go out on top.

I think sentimentality is underrated nowadays, with Scrubs harkening back to the more emotional sendoffs in the style of Cheers, whereas shows like HIMYM go for a more postmodern, deconstructive angle for the sake of being different. It depends on the property, but ultimately I think I prefer a straightforward, earnest ending over an ending that tries to make its fame reinventing the wheel.

Like it can be argued that HIMYM's ending serves a greater point or whatever, but it does hurt to have followed that show for nine years, only for them to trot out a plot point that they cover like three, four, five times over the show's lifetime - which concluded negatively every time, and was consistently painted as a bad idea - instead of just giving people the carrot they'd been dangling in front of them for years. I guess Ted/Robin was that carrot for some people, but I don't think it's unreasonable for people watching How I Met Your Mother to have wanted the eponymous mother to be the end point of Ted's narrative.

I think the difference between my feelings on the Scrubs finale and the HIMYM finale is that HIMYM felt the need to make this greater point, to pull the rug out from under you like it has this galaxy brain level idea. But it felt like it completely undermined the characters and the journey they had for the sake of that twist, even as recently as 2 episodes before the finale. JD and Elliot had that will they or won't they relationship like Ted and Robin did, where they kept getting together and breaking up over the course of the show, but the last season of Scrubs didn't build up to JD and Elliot building separate lives and growing as people before tearing it all down for the vague notion of "maybe it'll stick this time! what a pair of cards!"

It could be argued that the ending of Scrubs is schmaltzy, self-absorbed and lacking depth, but it does close the book on JD, and it's a nice, sentimental send-off to the show's central character. JD has the rest of his life ahead of him, and things are looking up. That's all it needs to be - I'm happy that the characters are happy. I spent 8 years in the shoes of JD as a kid, and his sendoff just felt like a great moment of closure.

After nine years of following HIMYM, it ended on a plot they had beaten to death, and to make it work they had to throw out the point of the show they had been building up to the entire time. But what makes it so much worse is that the last season was building to a greater point of maturity and emotional clarity - not just to Ted meeting the mother of his children and settling down, but to Robin and Barney moving forward with their lives. But it had to make the plot this bigger, more intricate, greater scope ending where the story was never about the mother, it was about Ted's feelings for Robin.

Having the idea 8 years before the show ended isn't much of a consolation, because it just meant they had to throw so much more character development, history and viewer engagement in the garbage at the end of season 9, compared to if they pulled that shit at the end of season 3.

It's nice just to have a happy, feelgood ending in a character-driven sitcom, where this chapter of these characters' lives is wrapped up and everything is okay.

This topic isn't an indictment of any and all unexpected twist endings, or endings that try to impart a broader theme or concept to elevate the material. But just having a nice ending in a show like Scrubs, where it's like a nice bow on top of a decent present - I miss that. I feel like there's not enough earnest endings like that any more, everything wants to get that last twist in to try and elevate it to the point of art.

I feel like the HIMYM ending kind of killed something innocent in me, and the ensuing defence of the Ted/Robin ending as the greater point of the show brought me into a more critical mindset that's reliant on discourse. I'm glad that the Scrubs ending holds up as well as it does for me, because I really needed something that I consider totally, unambiguously enjoyable like that.

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I told a friend about this when I was drunk, and he blindsided me today by asking about it. Keep us updated TC.

Edit: oh damn, you already went to the hospital. I'm glad things turned out okay

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Ricemills posted...

is the moderator dead?

Nah, just his career

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SevenTenths posted...

are you under the impression that america is the only place that treated and continues to treat black people poorly?

Absolutely not, and I'm not ignorant to Britain's atrocities committed over the course of centuries. I just didn't know that Britain had a Black Panther movement. By the title of the article I linked, it seems to be becoming a footnote in British history - historical revisionism claiming things were always good for black people in Britain, or at least glossing over any sort of civil rights activism of the late 60's.

I fucked up the title of the thread, I know.

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Panther*

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/27/britain-black-power-movement-risk-forgotten-historians

The Cambridge academic Robin Bunce said: "There is a fundamental danger of erasing the very notion of a struggle at all. I've been researching this for four and a half years and there have been so many occasions when people have said to me: 'There was no black struggle in Britain. You're thinking of South Africa or America.'

"The narrative that feeds it is the one that Britain is the utopia of fair play. We have such a commitment to individual rights, we have such a commitment to common sense and decency that there is no systematic racism in Britain."

Bunce and Paul Field have published a political biography of Darcus Howe one of the most significant black activists in Britain using him as a framework for a history of the black power movement in Britain.

They argue that key flashpoints, such as the trial of the Mangrove Nine in 1970 and the Black People's March of 1981 are becoming a kind of forgotten history.

In the book's introduction they argue "there has been a resurgence of outright denial, linked to the romantic, dumbed-down 'whiggish' view of history that suggests racism was always someone else's problem".

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The book says Britain's black power movement was galvanised into existence by what was happening in the US and by speeches made at the Roundhouse in north London in 1967 by Stokely Carmichael. "From that point onwards you get this explosion of black power happening in Britain," said Bunce.
Within a week of the conference, an organisation called the United Coloured People's Association had expelled all its white members and a new black-power-orientated manifesto was being written. Within a year, there was a British Black Panther movement.

By the early 1970s, there was a significant black power movement in Britain that came to wider prominence with the Mangrove Nine trial.

The Mangrove was a Notting Hill restaurant that served as a wider black culture community centre. The police saw it as somewhere where terrorism was being cooked up, and "fundamentally believed black radicalism was criminal", said Bunce.

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I think it depends on the influence that someone has, and the severity of what they're saying.

There's some retail guy grumbling online like "goddamnit my boss at whole foods treats me like a piece of shit, I hate my fucking job" - like whatever, dude is venting about a bad day at work, let him have his space. No info about where he works, no names, just an expression of frustration - whatever.

But on the complete opposite end of the spectrum, you have a prominent personality with influence over a large audience - or a head writer for that personality - posting white supremacist buzzwords and racial/sexual slurs on an insulated forum where people are encouraged to be bigoted. That shouldn't be allowed to stand, because who knows how their racial bias is being expressed to their audience? Could be a TV personality, could be an internet personality, could even be a senator trying to appeal to the white nationalist vote and represent their interests in Congress. That shit needs to be exposed.

And then there's the unassuming person doing something shitty. Like a few years back, a couple moved into a neighbourhood where a guy had been selling street food for ages, and there's video of them yelling at this guy for having his cart on the side walk, about how he was apparently making it hard for them to walk their dogs. And it came to a head where this stupid chud of a boyfriend fronts on the street vendor, takes the man's cart and tips it over. Like yeah, fuck that random couple who came into a new neighbourhood and started yelling at this dude who had a business there before they ever lived there. If they're going to go around trying to ruin people's livelihoods and act untouchable while they do it, they can go and fuck themselves.

It's in the public interest to know the biases and general slant of public figures, as a general rule of thumb. Whereas if you try to expose and doxx that whole foods employee for venting about a bad day, on a private handle, in a way that isn't actively slagging the company off - that's a shitty thing to do. But then there's a middle area where some nobody is being a turd - and while doxxing would be extreme, I don't think there's any harm in shaming someone's behavior when they're unambiguously being a piece of shit and actively harming someone else with their actions. Naming, maybe not. Shaming - hell yes

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The first shutdown shouldn't have lifted when it did. You wouldn't need a second shutdown if things were still shut down, which would have helped to curb the Covid19 spread.

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Well shit, I didn't know thenwordbhad history like that. Etymology is super cool.

I think my favorite etymology rabbit hole would have to be learning about the origins of "milquetoast". It has its roots in an old treat food called milk toast, which was used as a fun and punchy last name of a popular newspaper comic character, Ike Milquetoast. He was portrayed as very nebbish and shy, tending to stay in his lane, and the term "milquetoast" became a popular colloquial term for people who resembled the comic character.

Nowadays we have the word milquetoast to describe that personality type, but no-one remembers the character who popularized it.

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Truth!

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Are you proud to be a Mayonnaise American?

I think "I had gone to the store" would be a better way to phrase it like that. Just a gut feeling.

I think the difference here is the use of "had". You can say "I went to the store" perfectly fine - it makes perfect sense. But you can't use "I gone to the store" - Whereas you CAN say "I had gone to the store" to recount your activities.

Considering "I went to the store" works as well as it does on its own, "I had went to the store" feels really unnecessary. It probably gets used in the same way that people go "yeah, nah, totally", but it's not the best way to phrase it. If there's gonna be a "had" in there, it should be there to make sense of a statement that doesn't work otherwise.

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