guillotine (aka the sliceyboi) jokes are inevitable when folks are increasingly frustrated by the status quo and alienated from their local political processes. I'm actually kind of...impressed?...at how widespread those references are now, was def not the case even a year ago
― Simon H., Thursday, 10 May 2018 13:34 (six years ago) link
lol i'd forgotten about the sliceyboi meme, you know shit is getting real when people are giving cutesy nicknames to their preferred method of executing their oppressors
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 10 May 2018 13:39 (six years ago) link
Historically speaking, political polarization sliding toward violence is normal.
I type this in a comfy chair situated in a part of the country whose soil has absorbed blood from European settlement, native genocide, a violent revolution, a pretty frickin' divisive civil war, and massive resistance to civil rights.
To me, just that we're so reluctant to advocate violence speaks of a certain kind of (halting, piecemeal, fragile) progress for humanity.
― moresoupial (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 10 May 2018 13:40 (six years ago) link
Isn't there a thread where Mordy argues in favour of the death penalty?
― Kanye O'er Frae France? (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 May 2018 13:42 (six years ago) link
pro violence anti violent metaphors
― Mordy, Thursday, 10 May 2018 13:43 (six years ago) link
Ah, you're just disappointed we haven't lopped off any aristo heads yet.
― Kanye O'er Frae France? (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 May 2018 13:44 (six years ago) link
guillotine slices down and not up iirc this must be a sore point for many itt
― gneb farts (darraghmac), Thursday, 10 May 2018 13:48 (six years ago) link
look if you can make a reverse bungee ride you could make a reverse guillotine
― hepatitis groan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 10 May 2018 13:49 (six years ago) link
so you're advocating for like a guillotine cannon? i'm into it xp
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 10 May 2018 13:50 (six years ago) link
anyway i don't see guillotining as a thing in the grand tradition of the Terror, i just think that there will always be human beings who are intractably opposed to freedom and democracy and that come the reconfiguration of our socioeconomic system some hardened oppressors may leave us no choice other than to put them out of our misery. circumstances and method to be decided on the day.
― hepatitis groan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 10 May 2018 13:55 (six years ago) link
But Oliver was not the only effigy hanged that day. Alongside the stamp officer, the Bostonians suspended a large Jack Boot with the head of a demon poking from the top. The boot and demon were a reference to John Stuart, Earl of Bute, an unpopular former Prime Minister who was widely attacked as the mastermind of the Stamp Act.
https://timtattle.wordpress.com/2015/08/14/the-liberty-tree-protests-and-the-scots/
https://timtattle.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/bute.png
― scott seward, Thursday, 10 May 2018 14:00 (six years ago) link
i view it more as a kind of grand guignol social experiment: will the super-rich stop pointlessly hoarding their wealth if they see that a hundred or so of their peers are pulled from their ivory towers and decapitated by baying mobs? we'll never know unless we try, and we already have a control group in the form of the last 70 years or so of western culture!
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 10 May 2018 14:01 (six years ago) link
It’s the revolution LARPing that bugs me
― Mordy, Thursday, 10 May 2018 14:19 (six years ago) link
i must be missing the live-action element
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 10 May 2018 14:20 (six years ago) link
cosplay might be fun tho when everybody turns up as Che
― hepatitis groan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 10 May 2018 14:24 (six years ago) link
My Robespierre costume is almost finished, y'all
― moresoupial (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 10 May 2018 14:25 (six years ago) link
online crix always say “youre just having a larp!” until suddenly its their turn in the basket.
― Hunt3r, Thursday, 10 May 2018 14:26 (six years ago) link
that is a good post imo
― gneb farts (darraghmac), Thursday, 10 May 2018 14:29 (six years ago) link
agreed
help yourself to an orange slice and some lucozade hunt3r, good game son
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 10 May 2018 14:31 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llet_NVEK_Q
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Thursday, 10 May 2018 14:32 (six years ago) link
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara)
if dressing up in a balaclava and breaking an office building's window isn't revolution larping, i don't know what is
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Thursday, 10 May 2018 14:34 (six years ago) link
smashing the overton window
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Thursday, 10 May 2018 14:35 (six years ago) link
that's nothing new, though
― Simon H., Thursday, 10 May 2018 14:37 (six years ago) link
a tale as old as time, a song as old as rhymebalaclava and the break
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 10 May 2018 14:43 (six years ago) link
xp thx tho just tbc i'm pro critic, anti larp, and anti actual-heads-in-baskets for very real. prolly too much caring to be on thread topic, out for now.
― Hunt3r, Thursday, 10 May 2018 15:06 (six years ago) link
you’re like the left wing version of those watering the tree of liberty guys
― Mordy, Thursday, 10 May 2018 15:19 (six years ago) link
that poem at the end of the scotophobic tree waterer thing is really something:
The Scottish people is rejected,The world besides will be accepted.Jews, Infidels and HottentotsWe welcome here – but not the Scots.
― scott seward, Thursday, 10 May 2018 15:20 (six years ago) link
who even remembers there was scot hate in this country? seems like such a quaint hate at this point.
― scott seward, Thursday, 10 May 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link
The Irish hadn't arrived yet, that explains it.
― Kanye O'er Frae France? (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 May 2018 15:23 (six years ago) link
During the evening celebrations, the Bostonians toasted to ‘A Repeal of the Stamp Act, and a perpetual Itching without the Benefit of Scratching to its Friends’. This was a reference to the notorious ‘Scottish Itch’, the common stereotype being that dirty, lice-ridden Scots were constantly scratching themselves.
*tries not to scratch*
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 10 May 2018 15:24 (six years ago) link
https://scottiemomdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/20140301_092613.jpg
― scott seward, Thursday, 10 May 2018 15:33 (six years ago) link
scrotch
― gneb farts (darraghmac), Thursday, 10 May 2018 15:34 (six years ago) link
All this Scotching is making me itch
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 10 May 2018 15:35 (six years ago) link
its 'ittish'
― gneb farts (darraghmac), Thursday, 10 May 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
it was all that wool...
― scott seward, Thursday, 10 May 2018 15:56 (six years ago) link
i refuse to rise to this obvious scotbaiting
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7d/ff/73/7dff738e6f8462ec351cb177ffac5526.gif
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 10 May 2018 15:58 (six years ago) link
https://media1.tenor.com/images/fee4c42905940c86f9807cb37a7222a1/tenor.gif?itemid=4877861
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 10 May 2018 15:59 (six years ago) link
i'm reading a book right now where edinburgh is being destroyed by sentient moonseed and its making me want to go to scotland.
― scott seward, Thursday, 10 May 2018 16:06 (six years ago) link
the sooner that edinburgh is destroyed by sentient moonseed the better tbh
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 10 May 2018 16:08 (six years ago) link
Just the people though, leave the buildings, esp. pubs.
― Kanye O'er Frae France? (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 May 2018 16:08 (six years ago) link
neutron jock
― gneb farts (darraghmac), Thursday, 10 May 2018 16:51 (six years ago) link
just read the flood of comments and only thing of value is learning the scotch had jock itch
― F# A# (∞), Thursday, 10 May 2018 17:35 (six years ago) link
you're welcome.
― scott seward, Thursday, 10 May 2018 17:37 (six years ago) link
thanks buddy
*hi five*
― F# A# (∞), Thursday, 10 May 2018 17:42 (six years ago) link
Bari Weiss
― flappy bird, Thursday, 10 May 2018 18:08 (six years ago) link
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― gneb farts (darraghmac), Thursday, 10 May 2018 16:47 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
too good for Excelsior but maybe the wrong kind of lol for Nerd Lols. anyway, salute.
― hepatitis groan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 10 May 2018 18:47 (six years ago) link
chief -- have an itch?
lemme introduce ye to yer new burd
https://images.homedepot-static.com/productImages/8a9abff8-ccbd-4d8f-b288-a75e70d3e4d7/svn/scotch-brite-sponges-scouring-pads-88hd-cc-64_1000.jpg
― F# A# (∞), Thursday, 10 May 2018 19:32 (six years ago) link
xp ty ty but rly its 'neutron jock' all day tbh
― gneb farts (darraghmac), Thursday, 10 May 2018 22:12 (six years ago) link
idgi :-(
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 11 May 2018 07:59 (six years ago) link
look even i cant believe im doing this but
Welch is also known for abolishing the nine-layer management hierarchy and bringing a sense of informality to the company.[17]
During the early 1980s he was dubbed "Neutron Jack" (in reference to the neutron bomb) for eliminating employees while leaving buildings intact
― gneb farts (darraghmac), Friday, 11 May 2018 08:11 (six years ago) link