June 2013
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January 2013
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April 2012
9 posts
March 2012
9 posts
DAMFINO: The Baker Street Club Raids →
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In 1918, two men who had met at the San Francisco YMCA leased two flats at 2525 Baker Street, where they held private parties for gay men and offered rooms for gay men to have sex in private. In February, the San Francisco Police Department Morals Squad and US Army police put the Baker Street…
Thom Daily: THE TALENTED MR GERVAIS →
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— Thom talks Hollywood, atheism, and tapeworms with Ricky Gervais
It’s 11am on a rainy Chelsea morning, and I’m sitting in an acheingly-hip gastro-café, watching Ricky Gervais tuck into a plate of garlic-fried maggots. “They’re full of iron, good for the tapeworm - try some!” - he insists,…
February 2012
5 posts
hipster animals: A Hipster Aesopimal Fable →
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Several years after graduation, City Mouse got a message on Facebook from her best friend from high school, Country Mouse (who actually lived in a suburb). More out of a sense of obligation than anything else, City Mouse friended her.
When City Mouse was back in her hometown to visit her…
O'Daighre's Tumblaighre: (TW?)Remember that Justin Bieber fantasy confession Tumblr a while... →
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(TW?)
Remember that Justin Bieber fantasy confession Tumblr a while ago? This whole Chris Brown apologism thing reminds me of that, and how so many of those ‘confessions’ were from teenage girls essentially imagining themselves being actually raped by Justin Bieber. The whole “Team Breezy”…
January 2012
1 post
December 2011
2 posts
doubleclue: My problem with being called a 'Scrooge' →
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Now, as many of you may know by now, I’m not one for Christmas. Sure, as a child I was infatuated with the great awe and excitement that Christmas brought, and Christmas day was always something to look forward to and enjoy. Somewhere along the way I drifted away from this ideological belief that…
I really dislike 23rd-2nd December-January. Its the shittest time of the year.
“Because that’s the thing about Scooby-Doo: The bad guys in every episode aren’t monsters, they’re liars.
I can’t imagine how scandalized those critics who were relieved to have something that was mild enough to not excite their kids would’ve been if they’d stopped for a second and realized what was actually going on. The very first rule of Scooby-Doo, the single premise that sits at the heart of their adventures, is that the world is full of grown-ups who lie to kids, and that it’s up to those kids to figure out what those lies are and call them on it, even if there are other adults who believe those lies with every fiber of their being. And the way that you win isn’t through supernatural powers, or even through fighting. The way that you win is by doing the most dangerous thing that any person being lied to by someone in power can do: You think.” —Ask Chris #81: Scooby-Doo and Secular Humanism (via love-and-radiation)
I can’t imagine how scandalized those critics who were relieved to have something that was mild enough to not excite their kids would’ve been if they’d stopped for a second and realized what was actually going on. The very first rule of Scooby-Doo, the single premise that sits at the heart of their adventures, is that the world is full of grown-ups who lie to kids, and that it’s up to those kids to figure out what those lies are and call them on it, even if there are other adults who believe those lies with every fiber of their being. And the way that you win isn’t through supernatural powers, or even through fighting. The way that you win is by doing the most dangerous thing that any person being lied to by someone in power can do: You think.” —Ask Chris #81: Scooby-Doo and Secular Humanism (via love-and-radiation)
November 2011
5 posts
A Sensitive Man: The Isolationism That We Currently Experience →
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Being a ‘flarf’ poem constructed out of snippets of the always hilarious Mancunion Politics section.
A question to Uncle Geoffrey about his strong capitalist avocations,
Frankly antediluvian,
First hand and undeniable,
Some form of Dickensian delusion and inequality between men and…
September 2011
3 posts
Of seasonal disasters.
Last week someone asked me did I care about the reported destruction of billionare Richard Branson’s house due to a hurricane, I said yes as its never nice to have your house destroyed, I followed this by mentioning that I didn’t think it deserved the reporting it did. Nor did whatever hurricane it was that week. I honestly find the reports of a hurricane hitting the US and only 3 people dying despite it effecting millions of people is something to celebrate. Well done america for having the infrastructure to warn your populace, then evacuate people, and even then most houses aren’t destroyed. Some are, and the Katrina disaster was a combination of many other factors, mainly due to the city being below the sea line and atrocious response. But generally, hurricanes, which have a season, are not news. We then hear about the remnants of it going up to New York and all that, still, not. news. What is news is when again, as happens every year, the monsoons hit the subcontinent, and villages are washed away. Every year, people die and the numbers are regularly much higher than the worst disasters that effect high income countries. Everyone needs to get some damned perspective on these things. There, twitter is being pissy and I just wanted to say this.
Tetanus
From the French “tet”, meaning head, and “anus”, Latin for butt. So, tetanus in fact means “butt head”. This is a medical fact.
August 2011
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July 2011
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May 2011
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April 2011
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O'Daighre's Tumblaighre: If you love the royal family, you should be a republican. →
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I am a republican. I do not believe that this country should have a monarchy of any sort, no matter how powerless it may be. However, I will acknowledge that many arguments my fellow republicans offer are quite weak.
Many republicans argue that the monarchy costs us too much money. Monarchists…
Tom wrote something that was nice.
Rushing Canterbury
I rode this yesterday, it was fun.
