@whisht

Now that’s a story.

My nearest is a fifth-former, when I was in 6th and in charge of the stage sound booth, trying to trick me into playing Plaistow Patricia to morning assembly. It hadn’t occurred to the tedious little shit that I was totally familiar with it (someone else can post it though1).

Besides, I already chosen this which…[Read more]

@geoffers

Yeah, that’s not too far off what they use!

@geoffers @thane16

Heh.

The Jessops (photo gear store) in Milton Keynes is occasionally prone to piping out really abstract expressionist jazz – I call the times they do this “We don’t want no steenkin’ customers” days

@whisht @geoffers @thane16

The thing you have to keep asking yourselves is “How likely is this to turn up on a grocery store mix tape”?

@whisht

Heh. People forget just how experimental that period from about 1968 to about 1973 was (although I think part of the issue here is that it is a TV mix, which was notoriously difficult in those days).

Any excuse:

@misslegaleagle

This is the dullest bunch of superheroes out there.

They aren’t superheroes. They are people. One of them has two hearts and a big brain, but still not a superhero.

@thane16

Errr…sorry…do people not know what as “ex” is? Is that unexpectedly English  idiom?

@kevinwho

Sorry, but this story set in the 1950s speaks so much to a world in which the US President is openly racist, black people in the US are disproportionately the victims of police violence and where, only yesterday over here, fascist thugs completely mis-identified the black person they were hurling abuse at (as well as calling a…[Read more]

@kevinwho

:shrugs: You literally said your mind was closed because white anti-racists weren’t represented in a story by a black writer about an issue of overwhelming importance to black people.

@kevinwho @miapatrick

The reason the story works so well  is that it never once loses sight of what the story was about just so that it could pause coddle the hurt feelings of whiney white boys.

But consider me a lost cause please, and don’t try to convince me.

Or, for that matter, those whose understanding of format-constrained storytelling is…[Read more]

@rosasucksandsodoess11

just deactivate my account or something

Or you could just change your handle to something less idiotic. It makes you come across as a whiney 13 year old with anger management issues. Or a US libertarian, which is much the same thing.

@margaret-blaine

But this one started with a troll name and posted all of the tropes from…[Read more]

@kevinwho

it’s, if I can coin a term, inciteful

And describing a scene where a British Asian woman and a British black man discuss there experience of racism as “makes me want to eat gravel” isn’t?

Riiiight.

As @bluesqueakpip alluded a couple of weeks back, the only question is in which Reddit sub they are discussing tactics.

@margaret-blaine

It’s the usual misogyny and racism dressed up in a posh suit.

The clue is in the user name.

@scaryb

It was there to share!

Not sure youtube wants to control the trollsome. Too much money in hate. Several accounts all using the same splash screens style and same font, all organising from the same Reddit sub, methinks.

@scaryb

Have a word with my ex, not my mum!

Mum supplied the helpfulnothelpful cooking advice.

@margaret-blaine @kevinwho

Don’t.

Feed.

The.

Troll.

@kevinwho

FFS. Don’t engage. Just report. A clue in the damned handle.

@craig @jimthefish

Intruder in the house. Clue in the handle.