i got the joke, was just wondering if anna chancellor has some previous that led to her being picked for this role
― plax (ico), Sunday, 17 January 2021 20:54 (three years ago) link
please understand i get jokes
As someone who can nap any time and any place, and once napped bolt upright during an especially dull one-to-one lunch with a party leader, I am disappointed that Downing St has issued a categorical denial that the PM takes afternoon naps. Much of my best work is in the...— Robert Peston (@Peston) January 19, 2021
twilight zone of semi consciousness— Robert Peston (@Peston) January 19, 2021
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 17:35 (three years ago) link
btw anybody who makes an outraged tweet because J Clarkson has had an outrageous opinion for money is, at the very least, a dick
― Un tranquillo posto di scampagna (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 19:11 (three years ago) link
lol yes, the correct way to use the bill grundy show with sex pistols approach: "oh very good say something else outrageous"
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 19:21 (three years ago) link
Now follow this: "Biden's great, great, great grandfather, Edward Blewitt, left Ballina, co Mayo, Ireland for America during the Irish famine 170 years ago, which could mean he is well disposed towards Great Britain". Christopher Hope in Britain's Daily Telegraph.— Eoin Ó Murchú (@Eomurchu) January 19, 2021
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 09:58 (three years ago) link
Sarcasm?
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 10:00 (three years ago) link
one thing I'm sure about is that type of third generation Irish identity genealogy you get in the US sucks absolute arse
― calzino, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 10:13 (three years ago) link
gropy Joe to the bbc correspondent "hey I'm Irish!" that was fucking embarrassing
it's like people who claim a working class identity cos their great-granddad went down on a miner once
― calzino, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 10:23 (three years ago) link
Funny how they're far less likely "Hey, I'm German!" even though there's more with German ancestry than Irish.
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 10:49 (three years ago) link
I think you need to view that clip in the context of it resurfacing, which was that it boiled the piss of people like your Tom McTagues and therefore we can be a bit more lenient on old Joe on this point.
Ireland is extremely good at promoting itself and its agenda. It costs money but can achieve a lot. Whatever the rights and wrongs of the Brexit backstop debate, for eg, London totally lost the PR battle to Dublin. In part because of this kind of thing👇https://t.co/vAG5WD7jZ7— Tom McTague (@TomMcTague) January 18, 2021
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 10:49 (three years ago) link
me, normally: the thing about being Irish and being proud of it is that you have to take into context the history of the place and the revisionist promotion of it as an inherently progressive place when the politics are still really reactionary in terms of the parties we elect and -Tom McTague: literally anything he posts about Irelandme: YEAH LAD OLD JOE ISN’T GOING TO GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THE UNION, SUCK IT
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 10:53 (three years ago) link
Funny how they're far less likely "Hey, I'm German!" even though there's more with German ancestry than Irish.Don't worry, they'll do it with absolutely any European ancestry whatsoever.
― shivers me timber (sic), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 11:05 (three years ago) link
"I'm Dutch, my parents can trace their ancestry back to Pennsylvania."
― shivers me timber (sic), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 11:07 (three years ago) link
"I don't have a driver's license, but I love cars, because I'm Sicilian."
― shivers me timber (sic), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 11:09 (three years ago) link
They do, but undoubtedly some ancestries are prized above others.
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 11:10 (three years ago) link
Yes, it is generally more a) spurious and b) profoundly-felt re Irishness.
― shivers me timber (sic), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 11:15 (three years ago) link
In later life my dad went full shamrockbegorrahjaysus although his ancestors were CoI/Methodist on his dad’s side and fully Huguenot on his mum’s.
― scampopo (suzy), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 11:29 (three years ago) link
huguenot very slept on in these discussions
― mark s, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 13:12 (three years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Huguenots
― mark s, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 13:14 (three years ago) link
I always thought Brando was a huge knot
― calzino, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 13:23 (three years ago) link
Annoyed that my ancestor who was in charge of British prisoners during the Revolutionary War and my other more direct ancestor who was with Washington at Trenton (and devised burning the landed British barges) aren’t on that list, pffft.
― scampopo (suzy), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 14:39 (three years ago) link
none of my ancestors are apparently from anywhere more exotic than County Cork, however there is this guy who seems pretty interestinghttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancelot_Errington
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 14:43 (three years ago) link
the view in the US seems to be that the irish gene is dominant
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 17:44 (three years ago) link
A little unsure where the break would be presumed to be between irish diaspora of catholic origins and those of the other sects tbh
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 17:48 (three years ago) link
yes i concur.
although it is funny to think about the scots-irish peple whose ancestors were peep o day boys turning over in their graves when they donated to NORAID
― Fenners' Pen (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 17:55 (three years ago) link
Ive eaten at the restaurant beside the huguenot graveyard here in town and tbh i dont see what the fuss is about the soup
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 18:03 (three years ago) link
My Irishes emigrated to Ontario before every single male child of theirs went to America armed with a medical degree, to serve in various backwaters with hospitals.
― scampopo (suzy), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 18:11 (three years ago) link
tbf a lot of them were rebels who hated the English, so not all bad
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 18:45 (three years ago) link
Im actually lost bit lookit
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 18:46 (three years ago) link
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Wednesday, January 20, 2021 2:49 AM (eight hours ago)
gabbneb???
― Canon in Deez (silby), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 19:22 (three years ago) link
Remember when Patrick Maguire used to write for the bad NS? Awful awful content
The just slightly too enthusiastic Biden joy amongst the blue ticks is the dawning realisation that they have collectively fucked it into the heart of the sun, IMO pic.twitter.com/a03sNQDUxG— Flying_Rodent (@flying_rodent) January 21, 2021
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Thursday, 21 January 2021 10:02 (three years ago) link
TERFs are confused
I am SO happy that Biden won and Trump lost. But this is terrible https://t.co/meJ2OskCtv— Hadley Freeman (@HadleyFreeman) January 21, 2021
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 21 January 2021 10:31 (three years ago) link
Thoroughly normal people.
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Thursday, 21 January 2021 10:45 (three years ago) link
O THANK YOU, Uncle Joe, for taking away women's sex-based rights, which those before us fought so hard to win! Would you like to wipe your bum on we giggling gals of your fan-club next? It's OUR PLEASURE!— Julie Burchill (@BoozeAndFagz) January 21, 2021
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Thursday, 21 January 2021 10:46 (three years ago) link
Julie Burchill fought for women's sex-based rights? When?
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 January 2021 10:51 (three years ago) link
fishhook theory confirmed again
― calzino, Thursday, 21 January 2021 10:57 (three years ago) link
No, no, it was those before her! Are you accusing her of egotism?
― up-the-arts corner (Matt #2), Thursday, 21 January 2021 10:57 (three years ago) link
Poor Julie, between this and Joe being a proud Fenian, it must have been such a hard day for her
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Thursday, 21 January 2021 10:58 (three years ago) link
Those before her did the fighting - Charles Shaar Murray, Nick Kent.
― mahb, Thursday, 21 January 2021 11:01 (three years ago) link
Getting sonned by a bookshop, you love too etc
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Thursday, 21 January 2021 11:07 (three years ago) link
Hi yes, we are an American bookshop in London. Owned by an American. She is the sole-proprietor. Pays taxes in America and Britain. Thank you. https://t.co/NmUzZkpwSR— The Second Shelf in Second Lockdown or Third or? (@secondshelfbks) January 21, 2021
I do have to wonder how someone so thick with no discernable writing talent has managed to have such a successful career in journalism
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 21 January 2021 11:32 (three years ago) link
It's almost as if it's who you know not whether you're any good or not
― Un tranquillo posto di scampagna (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 21 January 2021 11:37 (three years ago) link
"all the worst parts of the Equality Act"
― nashwan, Thursday, 21 January 2021 11:40 (three years ago) link
Jobs for life.
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 January 2021 11:44 (three years ago) link
inherited wealth
― plax (ico), Sunday, 24 January 2021 20:42 (three years ago) link
second shelf is an excellent little bookshop, well worth a visit if you’re in soho, fantastic range of women’s and gender diverse writing.
― Lord of the RONGS (Fizzles), Sunday, 31 January 2021 12:47 (three years ago) link
yes i saw that. hadley freeman also covering herself in glory lashing out at the excellent women’s and gender diverse bookshop the second shelf is good timing as well. not sure how much of a choice you get but ew, do not want to read anything by hadley freeman even if it’s about My Favoruite LRB HERO Patricia Lockwood She Can Do No Wrong. (i haven’t read priest daddy and have no particular urge to - should i?)
― Lord of the RONGS (Fizzles), Sunday, 31 January 2021 12:50 (three years ago) link
RONG thread
― Lord of the RONGS (Fizzles), Sunday, 31 January 2021 12:51 (three years ago) link