Things You Just Don't Care About

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.

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

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!

It’s the revolution LARPing that bugs me

i must be missing the live-action element

cosplay might be fun tho when everybody turns up as Che

My Robespierre costume is almost finished, y'all

online crix always say “youre just having a larp!” until suddenly its their turn in the basket.

that is a good post imo

agreed

help yourself to an orange slice and some lucozade hunt3r, good game son

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llet_NVEK_Q

i must be missing the live-action element

― 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

smashing the overton window

that's nothing new, though

a tale as old as time, a song as old as rhyme
balaclava and the break

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.

you’re like the left wing version of those watering the tree of liberty guys

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 Hottentots
We welcome here – but not the Scots.

who even remembers there was scot hate in this country? seems like such a quaint hate at this point.

The Irish hadn't arrived yet, that explains it.

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*

https://scottiemomdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/20140301_092613.jpg

scrotch

All this Scotching is making me itch

its 'ittish'

it was all that wool...

i refuse to rise to this obvious scotbaiting

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7d/ff/73/7dff738e6f8462ec351cb177ffac5526.gif

https://media1.tenor.com/images/fee4c42905940c86f9807cb37a7222a1/tenor.gif?itemid=4877861

i'm reading a book right now where edinburgh is being destroyed by sentient moonseed and its making me want to go to scotland.

the sooner that edinburgh is destroyed by sentient moonseed the better tbh

Just the people though, leave the buildings, esp. pubs.

neutron jock

just read the flood of comments and only thing of value is learning the scotch had jock itch

you're welcome.

thanks buddy

*hi five*

Bari Weiss

All this Scotching is making me itch

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 10 May 2018 16:35 (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its 'ittish'

― 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.

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

xp ty ty but rly its 'neutron jock' all day tbh

idgi :-(

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

It's not your audience, deems.

i know, I know

Eurovision

Lots of people always seem to be very keen to talk about how uninterested they are in Eurovision

I can do without hearing the fake poptimist from The Tax Payer's Alliance so very interesting take on the extravaganza, though. But that does serve me right for watching the wretched Marr Show.

Lots of people always seem to be very keen to talk about how uninterested they are in Eurovision

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 13 May 2018 09:38 (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cmon now

I'd say I'm genuinely uninterested. I'm only aware of its existence because I see people tweeting about it, but don't know where I'd even go to watch it if I wanted to.

I guess I am mostly perplexed by some of my friends, who don't appear to engage with any other sort of harmless campy events, completely lose their shit whenever Eurovision rolls around.

maybe they like Eurovision but not any other campy events