smyth_normal
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@RusGarbageHuman Yeah, I felt so bad for the guy. Complete whiplash; going from one of the best moments of his life to being the target of shrieking opprobrium in a matter of hours.
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Giving women institutional power is always a mistake. I remember shirtgate like yesterday.
It was one of the things that kicked everything off.
Camus@newstart_2024
The guy just landed a spacecraft on a comet — one of the most impressive scientific achievements in years. His reward? A public struggle session because his bowling shirt had scantily clad women on it. Helen Andrews points out the quiet cost of institutional feminization: HR departments now hunt down any maverick personality and stamp it out. We’re losing innovators we’ll never even know about, all because someone focused on the shirt instead of the comet. This is how wokeness actually works. Have you seen real excellence get punished for something trivial like this?
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@kitoen2173 You're right about Cornish, but Welsh has held on surprisingly well compared to the others. It's more widely spoken than Scottish and Irish as far as I'm aware. It would be great to see a Cornish revival one day.
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@smyth_normal I find it deeply regrettable and frightening that Celtic languages are on the verge of disappearing. Welsh… hang in there…!
And I pray that the culture and traditions of the former kingdom will continue to be passed down for generations to come.
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ブリテン史勉強する前のぼく「へーお魚が突き出てる謎の食べ物スターゲイジー・パイは、イギリス・コーンウォール州という町の料理なのかー」
勉強後「コーンウォール……ッ！！！！ウェールズとはまた別の、独自の言語と文化を持ついにしえの国…！あの国の名物料理だったのか…！！！（興奮」
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@suburbancreeep Has it really got so bad they need to put up signs instructing customers not to harass employees?
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State of Christchurch
Yesterday, an attempt was made by us to “leave home and do something nice”, and all I can do is convey my overwhelming sense of horror at what I saw. Which in short, is some kind of hideous post pandemic dystopia, where the middle classes engage in mind numbing leisure activities and the poorer people jostle beneath an ever present and oppressive world of commands.
First thing we did was go out for lunch. Which we never do. Because it’s largely out of our financial means as well as being an absolute have. We ended up at a hideous establishment with borderline hostile staff (earthquake era hipster attitude), matching 2010s decor and food that can only be described as oily, tasteless slop that was barely edible. I begrudgingly ate it because it cost a lot, and I struggle to waste food. $50 for that privilege. The clientele largely consisted of shrieking, passé, motley hipsters who I’m assuming almost all of whom espouse the same (right) ideas on social media and beyond, upholding the interests of the status quo. Why wouldn’t they? They seem quite happy. It’s hard enough being amongst the population when I’ve had a few beers, but when sober it’s intolerable.
Next stop was an “exhibition” in The Arts Centre’s Observatory. Climbing the historical wooden stairs we came upon an installation that was nothing more than a trite, box ticking, money grabbing, derivative joke. How much were the people who put that together paid? I’d hate to think. To call it what it is would no doubt raise ire and contempt from the aforementioned drones.
Last stop, The Chemist Warehouse, because I needed a new toothbrush.
Oh. My. God.
Signs at the entrance asking customers to please not abuse the staff. A line of flashing screens advertising health and wellness products, while people who look like the result of generations of mineral deficiencies yell at each other beneath the incessant hum of the advertisements, which I can only liken to an industrialised scalpel coercing a weeping, festering wound to pay up for its treatment.
I have been telling myself how lucky I am to live here in the relative safety of New Zealand, but after yesterday, the allure of moving to London and getting stabbed holds sway. If it’s true that we are generally 20 years behind Britain then fast forward to The End, please.
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@saltyreigns Never going to happen. A managerialist-style democracy is basically a work placement scheme for quota-mongers of all stripes.
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NZ needs to get over this pathetic obsession with unwritten race quotas.
Two of the three coalition parties in govt are run by maori men ffs.
Holyhekatuiteka@2ETEKA
This is bad. Real bad. Just horrible Te Gimp is so useless he just got kicked around like a Coke can by Tova O’ Brien. The man cannot handle himself, he cannot even handle a hack like this idiot. He goes red, loses all composure and just gets ridden by talentless Tova. This is not a leader. Thank god for WP & NZFirst who are dragging this dud over the line. WP is less than 10 points behind Luxon as preferred PM. Conventional wisdom within polling companies is that Incumbent PM’s hold a 7-10% default support for PPM. This guy is a boat anchor and surely it won’t be long before voters wake up and push WP past this clown. He’s a loser, he always a loser and he is getting WORSE so he will always be a loser.
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Now that petrol prices are rising again people have stopped harassing me about never learning how to drive.
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@NevEngi Many holy men and women throughout history have lived the life of a hermit
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補足すると、私は人間を見ることができない病気なんだ。
人が集まるところに行くとPTSD の反応が出るから、私の文からは「生きている人間たち」という物が悉く喪失している。
私は生きているキリスト教信者を見てないよ。
私がさすキリスト教はイエスとそれに連なる文化と生活した痕跡と墓の下に埋まった信者たちのみだよ。
私が生きている人間を好きになるのは、悉く難しいね。
驚愕堂@dbvXwDscAy87x87
ほとんどのクリスチャンはキリスト教が好きだと言ってくれるだけでも嬉しいものです。いずれイエス・キリスト本人を好きになってほしいとは思っていますが。
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@kuro_neko816 That's very good to hear. I'm glad you found your place of saftey.
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@dand0ri How much great art would the world have missed out on without such resolute longing?
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@wheninthearea It's a sad thing, but the remnants of the aristocracy find those grand homes very hard to maintain. After the agricultural reforms in the 19th century, the nobility found it increasingly difficult to hold onto their patrimony.
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イギリスに住んでると、とんでもないお金持ちがいて、彼らのお陰で保全されてる豪邸や庭園があることを理解すると、確かに直視できないような大変な暮らしをしてる人々もいるが、ノブレス・オブリージュの気概を感じるわけですよ。
桜の咲く家@housekokokara
自分が住んでる街だけみてもわかるんだけど。 去年もうちの近所に長年あった豪邸ね、池に質の良い錦鯉を何匹も買っていて、松の木々が美しい庭園があった。建物も重厚感ある日本建築で相当立派だったんだけど、両親が亡くなってしばらくして取り壊したんだよね。 相続税、息子が1人で払えるわけないよね。。 その息子はサラリーマンでエリート高学歴高収入の50代だったんだわ。だから年収2,000万はこえてるはずだけど、そんな少ない収入じゃとてもじゃないけど相続税も固定資産税も維持費も払えないよね。。あんなに激務の、いつも会話してくれて礼儀正しい男性だったのに。お母さんが大事にしていた錦鯉も処分して、あの美しい庭園もシャベルカー2台入って取り壊してたよね。可哀想だった。 その跡地は外国人には買われなかったものの、今、ウサギ小屋みたいな建売住宅の一戸建て区画が20軒これから建つ予定だよ…。 全く緑も文化もない、ただの30坪の似たような無機質な箱が真っ直ぐ並んでるだけ。 鳥も見なくなったよね。空気も悪くなるよね。日本建築なんかじゃ全くなくて、ペラッペラの木材でできた建売の箱が、これからここに20軒建つことになる。 愚かだよね、日本の税制って。 あんなに地域に貢献した家族でも、ことごとく潰すなんてね。私はその両親がとある形で1,000万以上の寄付を市にしたのを知っている。なぜなら自分の身内がその市に寄付をした時に、前回のxxはあそこのxxさんからですと、市から聞いていたから。 社会貢献してきた家族からも、相続税払えないからと追い込むんだな。そりゃそうだ、10億近い家のために、サラリーマンに払える現金なんてないだろう。 親と暮らしたあの思い出の家に、できることから死ぬまでいたかっただろうに。そうしたら孫やひ孫がその高尚な日本文化を受け継いで、地域の平和を守ってくれただろうに。
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@DisgracedProp I've heard that narcissism, in its truest sense, relates to a complete lack of self-awareness. In the myth, it's not simply that Narcissus falls in love with himself, but rather that he doesn't recognise it's his own reflection that's bewitched him.
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@SolBrah Sol Brah, have you seen through it? Is it any better than it is in the movies?
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This is why democracy doesn’t work btw
Keith Siau@drkeithsiau
One example why a medication has been taken but doesn’t work. What other examples are there?
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@BovrilG @intelligentpawg Probably didn't want the short kids fraternising with the talls.
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@intelligentpawg does anyone know why when i was in elementary school they would pull me out of the bus and put me on a shorter bus
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does anyone know why when i was in elementary school they would pull me out of the class and put me in a smaller class
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Poetry fans will forever be forced to cope and seethe at the fact that a 6 year old boy effortlessly perfected their art form and put all their snobbish self-important “erudition” to shame.
Ending Bigly@EndingBigly
@Steve_Sailer @paul_jkrause Most recent? Probably this.
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@mai_inuk I've heard some other European peoples remark that English has a relative paucity of words for expressing "love." It seems that other languages might have more nuance when speaking about romantic love, platonic love, familial love and so on.
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イギリスで仲良くなった友達が息吸うように「I love you」って言ってくれるんだけど、最初照れくさすぎて戸惑ってたのが、いつのまにか私から「I love you」言うようになってて、やっぱ言葉で伝えないと相手に伝わらないよなってのと、言える時に言った方がいいよなって気づかせてくれたの本当にありがたい
HONEY Chan🌾👑🐃💐 CEN+RAL4/21福岡@honey_chan_08
米師ｻﾝもちゃんみなﾏﾏも同じこと言ってて感涙
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@_kruptos I suppose we just have to wait for them to topple over, like mouldering old ruins from other bygone eras
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Believing that the institutions of modern society, whether government, business or non-profit, are empty, neutral vessels waiting around for people to “recapture” them so a to fill them with “right wing” or “conservative” content is perhaps the biggest political delusion of all.
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