Hail Spud-tan

Actually this was foretold 5000yrs ago in Ireland.

Augustus! Save some room for later.

Do you not have otters?

I don’t call for an end to America over its hundreds of years of killings, murder, rape, slavery, genocide, ecocide, innumerable hypocrisies, and corrupting hegemony. I don’t come on here and sweatily proclaim that all I hope for is the fall of the American ascendency. I don’t because I recognise that America like Catholics or Muslims is a vast mix of people with a wide range of lived experiences and view points. And that not all of their history is terrible. Some of it is actually commendable. And the actions of the leaders often do not line up with the majority of their people.

Yes, true, Catholic church is outdated and reactionary with way more than it’s fair share bad actors but there are also hundreds of millions of Catholics, and people with Catholic backgrounds but no longer practicing, out there that are a wide mix of human beings that deserve a basic amount of respect.

You can, for clarity, include within the parameters of basic respect, to not have to endure your overgeneralising hostile invective.

I’m sorry but you come off as just another nutty reactionary to me.

Have a good day.

It’s perfectly legitimate to have issues with any organised religion but damning everyone brought up in their traditions is myopic.

I was brought up a catholic in Northern Ireland during the troubles. Similar prejudice was routinely trotted out to justify treating us as second class citizens. So surprise, surprise even now as an atheist, I find it a bit triggering, as anyone mght imagine, to hear someone singling out my persecuted community in such a toxic mischaracterisation. I didn’t ask to be catholic but I was brought up in a community of caring and open minded people. Sure there were arseholes but guess what every community has them.

What if they’re not actually short but have been squatting all this time!

There are some Catholics that are reactionary morons but the majority are not. Describing religions by the worst people in them doesn’t really come across as tolerant. Which ironically is what you’re accusing them of.

It’s a drawer that he’s pulled the keyboard into to free up desk space for highlighting text on the printouts.

More worryingly, the space between the bottom of the drawer and the top of the chair would make a XKCD character wince.

Ke-Ke Laa Wheatabix

It’s not always the government that censors

Mazogs on my godparents ZX81. The game was basically navigating a maze and occasionally fighting spiders. Which was a luck based thing where you just ran into them and waited for the result. Not very exciting but novel at the time.

But it probably wasn’t the very first game. I grew up in a tiny coastal tourist town that had four arcades. So it’s more likely the earliest games I played were in them but I don’t have a defined ‘first’ memory. They were fairly ubiquitous arcade games so: Space invaders; Donkey Kong; Pac-man; Asteroids; Frogger; Pole position; Paper boy; Lunar lander, etc.

I think the first game that I ever got addicted to (partly because I had the pocket money to sustain the addiction) was Ghosts and Goblins. Been chasing that buzz ever since lol.

I pronounced puddle as poodle up into my thirtys. Maybe I didn’t use it too often so it wasn’t noticed. My second wife did. Absolutely scundered!

In your own article…

“As president of Mind, Stephen Fry has done a huge amount to raise awareness and understanding about bipolar disorder and other mental health problems. He has supported Mind in our campaigning activities over the last decade and has helped enormously to change public attitudes in the UK about mental health for the better.”

Does that sound like sound like someone that needs to be ‘fucked’, or is it someone you can appreciate for their efforts relative to the society they grew up in but hasn’t quite followed the leading edge in understanding in their later years. This whole judging people by today’s standards can get a bit out of hand especially if you don’t know their context. They are people that pushed things in the right direction in their zenith, they aren’t perfect, no one is, but in their time, when they had a platform and used it more responsibly than most. Now they’re just a bit out of date.

You should be able to respect people’s background conditions (especially if you are purportedly standing up for a fairer understanding of various mental health conditions), you don’t have to agree with or respect everything they say now but you should respect them as humans beings especially given the positive pressure they exerted in their prime against way worse attitudes than we experience now.

Fry’s point isn’t terrible, it just lacks some qualifications. Cleese, on the otherhand, is a bit older and has much more dated notions. They shouldn’t be amped, but that’s what GB News is all about. Platforming regressive shite. GB news and all it’s founders should be ‘fucked’. They are darkly cynical cunts.

The pair of them’s blether should be judiciously ignored. Pat them on the back, put a blanket on their knees. But don’t fuck them.

Pray you can make a positive influence now as they did back in their prime.

Maybe the horse seems too ‘real’ in context. A touch of uncanny valley.

That can’t be true. I distinctly remember the shark in Jaws: The Revenge roaring. So get your facts straight.