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Post by UnseenI on Jun 5, 2020 6:58:06 GMT
The past is another country
Here is an ironic reminder of a time when Donald Trump was the hope for the future. Poster ‘Sel’ on the old forum made a comment that by coincidence matched one of Ben Garrison’s cartoons: ”They have been programmed by the media into perceiving Trump as an almost-unparalleled hate figure who will completely obliterate the world, and now he's got power, so they're lashing out, like little toddlers who have been spoilt for far too long but have now lost their privilege; and I, for one, am enjoying the spectacle.“ My reply: “Great minds think alike:" In Ben Garrison's own words: ‘This cartoon speaks for itself. Trump is surrounded by spoiled brats who are used to getting their own way. Trump is thwarting that, so he gets called all sorts of unsavory names. He’ll let the PC establishment crowd cry themselves out. The tots in the room need some tough love.’” grrrgraphics.wordpress.com/2016/04/11/the-adult-in-the-room-donald-trump-ben-garrison-cartoon/Who is the toddler with the temper tantrum now!
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Post by UnseenI on Jun 8, 2020 19:59:52 GMT
Prince Andrew and the FBI Part I
I thought that there was going to be a big development today, but it was just the same old claims and counter-claims. The DM has a good picture of a possible hideout he could use if anyone does come to interview him:
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Post by UnseenI on Jun 8, 2020 20:00:52 GMT
Prince Andrew and the FBI Part II
We can only wish!
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Post by UnseenI on Jun 9, 2020 19:39:01 GMT
Fabeness be to the Auntie...Polari speak comes to the church
First posted in 2017 on the old forum: “A Church of England theological college has apologised after trainee priests held a church service in the antiquated gay slang language Polari to commemorate LGBT History Month. The service, held at the chapel of Westcott House in Cambridge on Tuesday (2 February), backfired after causing some members of the congregation to be "considerably upset and disquiet". The event was described as "an attempt at queering the liturgy of evening prayer, locating the queer within the compass of faith, and recovering for the Christian tradition a sense of its own intrinsically subversive jouisance," according to the event programme. The service included a prayer that referred to God as "the Duchess" and adapted the traditional " Glory be to the father, and to the son, and the Holy Spirit" line of the Lord's prayer to say: " Fabeness be to the Auntie, and to the Homie Chavvie, and to the Fantabulosa Fairy". www.ibtimes.co.uk/cofe-college-regret-trainee-church-service-held-polari-gay-slang-lgbt-history-month-1604836I had trouble believing this, but it's in the MSM so it must be true. I had to look up one word, and I don't mean the Polari stuff: 'jouissance' is enjoyment in French. Fantabulosa Fairy? That would make a great user name! I wonder whose 'good idea' this ridiculous Polari service was, and whether we shall see any more of such travesties. The hippie names for God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost are Daddio, Laddio and Spook, but I have never heard of their being used in a church service - yet.
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Post by Tsar on Jun 11, 2020 17:30:53 GMT
Why don’t you tell us what you really think of ‘Seanx’? A boring, repetitive, bog-standard, ten a penny shitlib. A man whose worldview is identical to that of the BBC. A globohomo shill larping as a radical. A lunatic who would go off his head whenever anyone challenged his Coca Cola corporate ideology. A weakling who wouldn't last 5 minutes in a debate without mods propping him up. That'll do to be getting on with.
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Post by UnseenI on Jun 11, 2020 19:10:41 GMT
Thank you for the laugh.
I am still not sure that he was David Icke posting under a new name. Seanx was ranting in Truth Zone and different incarnations of Sanctum Zone, and much of it was critical of David Icke.
He said his twin brother joined the DIF and soon got banned.
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Post by Tsar on Jun 12, 2020 17:47:08 GMT
I wonder whose 'good idea' this ridiculous Polari service was, and whether we shall see any more of such travesties. The hippie names for God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost are Daddio, Laddio and Spook, but I have never heard of their being used in a church service - yet. Time to abandon this wishy-washy, culturally corrosive shitlib cult and return to tradition. Hailaz Wōdanaz!
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Post by UnseenI on Jun 13, 2020 19:51:34 GMT
I thought that you were a committed Celtic Catholic!
I do like Odin myself.
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Post by Tsar on Jun 14, 2020 0:01:09 GMT
Not any more. I never really was. I always disagreed with Christian ideas such as Original Sin and the worship of helplessness and the demonisation of pre-Christian tradition. I was a cultural Catholic who appreciated the social order provided by older forms of Christianity. (I got married in a CofE church as well, which didn't go down well with my family, so my Catholic points are quite low at the moment... ). The good parts of old Christianity - its moral code - are pre-Christian anyway. Christianity had to be altered to suit the Europeans for it to gain traction in Europe, and so European Christianity is far more akin to pre-Christian European religion than to the other Abrahamic faiths. I once heard that Roman Catholicism is 80% paganism and 20% Christianity, which is about right, so why not cut out the middle man, go straight to the source, and embrace tradition? I never have been ritualistically religious, but I've always valued tradition. I'm Gaelic Irish and Lowland Scots, so I'm Celtic-Germanic, and particularly interested in ancient Germanic traditions and their revival.
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Post by Tsar on Jun 14, 2020 0:04:48 GMT
I dragged the thread a little bit off-topic there: if we want funny, how about David Icke's idea that blonde-haired and blue-eyed people are either outright aliens, or are humans with extraterrestrial DNA? I learned about this idea of his from Seanx, who used to parrot Icke's ideas as though they were gospel. Well, I guess me and most of my family are aliens, then! I mean, it couldn't just be that blonde hair and blue eyes are really rare human phenotypes, present mostly in Northern Europeans, caused by adaptation to the weak sunlight and long, dark winters of our ancestral forests, could it? Nah, we must be space reptiles.
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Post by UnseenI on Jun 15, 2020 7:18:21 GMT
Paganism and Catholicism
“I once heard that Roman Catholicism is 80% paganism and 20% Christianity...” This diagram shows an interesting way to describe the pagan/Roman Catholic path. I tried to make it larger, but no luck. The mainstream red arrow has 'Christianity' written on it; the yellow arrow has 'Paganism' below and this turns into 'Roman Catholicism':
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Post by UnseenI on Jun 17, 2020 9:03:24 GMT
A reaction to the EU Referendum result
Many political campaigns are now ancient history, so this thread seems like the best place to recycle some amusing material from the old forum.
I posted this on June 24th 2016 after seeing some reactions to the Leave majority:
“The Remainers are still going strong on Mumsnet, although they have calmed down a bit.
The dedicated EU Referendum 2016 section has 23 pages of threads now! Some of the individual threads have more pages than that.
I remember reporting their predictions of civil war and people dying in the streets because of funding cuts for medical research; I would like to see some more like that!
Most of the posts are repetitive and predictable. I have not got the time and energy to trawl through them all, but I did find a very long one that elicited a critical reply and a gem of a response to the reply:
‘too long didn't read. summary?’
‘Summary: Conspiracy theory lizards woo homeopathy Islington custard cream.’”
My reaction:
They forgot ‘vegan’ and ‘gender neutral’!”
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Post by UnseenI on Jun 17, 2020 9:04:52 GMT
Jeremy Corbyn’s conspiracy theorist supporters
The DM had an amusing article in 2016 about the beliefs of some of Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters: “…it is a remarkable characteristic of the modern Hard Left that its ranks are chock-a-block with conspiracy theorists who are prepared to believe the Establishment capable of any skulduggery imaginable. Crash any of its gatherings (not that I would) and I bet you’ll find at least a couple of those present are convinced the 1969 Moon landing was a fake, mocked up in a film studio, Martin Luther King was assassinated by the CIA and the Israeli secret service was responsible for 9/11. If you think I exaggerate, consider the speaker at Wednesday night’s meeting of the Islington North Labour Party, who answered the charge that Mr Corbyn is unelectable by scowling no one is electable in Britain without the support of Rupert Murdoch and the Israeli ambassador!… How did the Labour Party come to this? “ www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-3735467/TOM-UTLEY-clad-tweeds-stumbled-Corbynista-pub-meeting-stared-Labour-s-snarling-wreckers-face.html#ixzz4H5reaWjs
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Post by UnseenI on Jun 18, 2020 8:34:46 GMT
The video is playing 'Now you see me now you don't'! Here is a link just in case: Sundance
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Post by UnseenI on Jun 19, 2020 8:19:08 GMT
Protective overkill?
I have seen some strange sights while out and about in London, including a man in casual summer clothes and a motorbike helmet with visor! This reminded me of an episode in the IT Crowd in which Moss wears a bike helmet to peel an orange:
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Post by UnseenI on Jul 30, 2020 17:39:32 GMT
Where did you get that hat?
Bizaarre hats have been featured in some royal threads. Here is a very good example of something that is ‘out there’: There is an old music hall song that is very suitable even though it was written in 1888: Where did you get that hat Where did you get that tile Isn't it a nobby one And just the proper style I should like to have one Just the same as that Wherever I go they'd shout "Hello" Where did you get that hat
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Post by UnseenI on Aug 2, 2020 7:21:31 GMT
"I'm Gaelic Irish and Lowland Scots, so I'm Celtic-Germanic, and particularly interested in ancient Germanic traditions and their revival." It is good to see you back on here Tsar - I hope that all is well with your family and that you are getting more work. I do sometimes wonder about you: are you some kind of shape-shifter? Your avatars and signatures change a lot! As for religion, didn't you once join the Orthodox church? Have you been transitioning politically?
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Post by UnseenI on Aug 8, 2020 18:17:37 GMT
Wild boar steals laptop from German nudist
We do have a Pigs thread, but this is funny enough for here: “In the pictures a middle-aged man can be seen striding after the tenacious wild boar and its two piglets as they made their way across the grassy meadow. The boar had a small yellow bag clenched in its mouth which it later transpired contained the man's laptop.” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8603767/Naked-man-forced-chase-wild-boar-snatched-laptop-naturist-hotspot-Germany.htmlThe unnamed man had been sunbathing at Teufelssee, a lake west of Berlin, on Wednesday evening before becoming embroiled in the unexpected encounter
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Post by UnseenI on Oct 5, 2020 8:11:22 GMT
A mood-lifting video
I have never seen anything quite like this before. How does the drum major run leaning backwards without falling over?
Only in America...
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Post by UnseenI on Nov 10, 2020 19:40:26 GMT
Jimmy's secret army
The recent death of actor Geoffrey Palmer has reminded me of a very good scene from the TV sitcom The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin.
It was first screened decades ago, but is still very funny.
Reggie's brother-in-law Jimmy, played by Geoffrey Palmer, reveals to Reggie that he plans to raise a secret army to defend Britain when the balloon goes up.
Jimmy explains to Reggie what kinds of people his secret army will be against:
Jimmy Anderson: Forces of anarchy. Wreckers of law and order. Communists, Maoists, Trotskyists, neo-Trotskyists, crypto-Trotskyists, union leaders, Communist union leaders, atheists, agnostics, long-haired weirdos, short-haired weirdos, vandals, hooligans, football supporters, namby-pamby probation officers, rapists, papists, papist rapists, foreign surgeons - headshrinkers, who ought to be locked up, Wedgwood Benn, keg bitter, punk rock, glue-sniffers, "Play For Today", Clive Jenkins, Roy Jenkins, Up Jenkins, up everybody's, Chinese restaurants - why do you think Windsor Castle is ringed with Chinese restaurants?
Reginald Perrin: You realise the sort of people you're going to attract, don't you, Jimmy? Thugs, bully-boys, psychopaths, sacked policemen, security guards, sacked security guards, racialists, Paki-bashers, queer-bashers, Chink-bashers, anybody-bashers, rear Admirals, queer admirals, Vice Admirals, fascists, neo-fascists, crypto-fascists, loyalists, neo-loyalists, crypto-loyalists.
Jimmy Anderson: Do you think so? I thought recruitment might be difficult.
All episodes of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin are available on YouTube, and the above scene can be viewed as a short extract:
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Post by UnseenI on Nov 15, 2020 8:09:55 GMT
Brexit and the Titanic
Here is an addition to the posts about the Titanic in the Brexit thread.
Brexit: A Titanic Disaster from Comedy Central is an amusing little mash-up film in which some characters in the film have the faces of politicians.
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Post by Tsar on Dec 4, 2020 0:17:27 GMT
Consoooooooooooooooom! Don't ask questions, just consooooom product and get excited for next product!
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Post by Tsar on Dec 11, 2020 0:55:23 GMT
We're at the most commercialised, exploitative time of year, where people spend thousands of pounds on crap they don't need because everyone else is doing it. I've even heard in the past of people getting dodgy loans from loan sharks to buy presents. If only Christmas could be decoupled from destructive capitalism and made about the Nazarene again: humility, gratitude, looking forward to the year ahead and thinking how we can do better.
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Post by UnseenI on Dec 11, 2020 9:00:07 GMT
The commercialisation of Christmas
I am not guilty myself; I buy inexpensive, useful, carefully chosen presents throughout the year as I come across them. I know what you mean though. This 'must-have' – only £12.99 - says it all:
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Post by Tsar on Dec 21, 2020 1:27:09 GMT
The worst part of it all is the toxic implication that if you're not spending a fortune on your children, you're failing them. Because we're trained from birth to associate spending with happiness, to many, wanting what's best for your children translates into spending the most on them.
Under capitalism, anything that can be monetised, will be. That is capitalism: there is nothing it won't commodify. Nothing is too sacred. Not love, not family, not Christ. Not even the most pure instinct in the world, to look after our children. Even that's ruthlessly monetised and exploited, causing needless worry, tension, and problems at what should be a happy time of the year.
Nobody should give into it. Our children don't need shiny new toys - they need us.
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Post by UnseenI on Feb 23, 2021 18:46:21 GMT
Brexit phonebox messages to Europe
The Brexit thread has a post about a Brexit phonebox in Dungeness during March 2019 where people could share their feelings about leaving the EU. Some of the audio messages that people left are still available online as transcripts. Some of the messages are quite amusing. There is a real 'doozy' that I will leave until last. The majority appear to be from Remainers. Some of them sang relevant farewell songs, including Ray Charles's I can't stop loving you (EU?)! A typical message: “I love you so much we’re so sad to leave you, bye. “ These are apparently from Leave supporters: “Hasta la vista baby”. “Frenchman says soft cheese is better but I say MON DIEU! No whatever you stay over there with your camembert and keep your hands off my Cheddar!” There is someone who doesn't know how to leave a message and just says this: “Oh, do I press that now? No, afterwards.“ Here is a baffling message: “Yeah just want to say that did you know that San Pellegrino actually contains the same amount of sugar as a can of Coke. I know, troubling “ www.leaveamessage4europe.com/
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Post by UnseenI on Feb 24, 2021 19:07:08 GMT
Brexit and the EU omelette
Here is another Brexit phonebox message to Europe. This contributor chose a very strange way of telling us that it will not be easy to remove the UK from the EU: “Right I’m going to make a lovely EU omelette. First of all I’m going to chop up my ingredients. I’ve got tomatoes form Spain. Some peppers from Italy. Nice onion from France, I’m dicing them up nice and small. Not forgetting a few slices of German salami and diced potatoes here from Ireland. Right, I’m gonna mix them all up her now. Now get the lovely colours. Right let’s put them in the greased pan. Slug of olive oil there from Greece and lets turn up the heat. Right now we need something to bind them all together so we’ve got some lovely free range eggs from the EU. EU eggs beep, beep, beep, beep. Right pour the eggs in the pan, so the EU is binding them all together. Right turn up the heat, turn up till it’s nice and golden. Now we’re gonna add some nice Cheddar cheese from the UK. I’ve grated it all up and `i’m sprinkling it all over the omelette. There we go look, lovely. Right now its melting right into the omelette, look at that. Right mixed in now. Right let’s turn up the heat, right up, really really high. Oh god recipe the recipe now says we have to take the UK of out the omelette, that’s what it say. So we’ve got to take the cheese out of the omelette…Jesus Christ. “ Cheddar cheese again! www.leaveamessage4europe.com/
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