UK Politics Thread (Part 1)

These ads are just bizarre.

Basically saying the creative professions are screwed for the foreseeable future and need to go do something else. There is likely some truth in there, but spending money on it is just incoherent, especially from a government that is more or less backing its way to a herd immunity strategy where everyone should just get back to normal. Fairly sure that the average ballet dancer can realize for themselves their life plan is a smoking ruin without needing a poster.

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Most of them only got 2:2s. That’s why they’re ballerinas.

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Doing wonders for my daughter’s ballet ambitions.

Twats.

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The joke is that I’d imagine the number of people who actually earn a living out of ballet dancing is dwarfed 1000 times over by those in the events community who’ve done pretty much nothing all year. Strange they went for ballet IMHO.

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Ah, I see your angle now. Incidentally, I couldn’t see any reference to “progroms”.

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they said he was an ‘existential threat’ on the front page, but somehow this example doesn’t make it for you

No, no, it’s very clear where you’re coming from.

Might be a good time for both of you to step back from this particular conversation?

I wonder why that would be? :thinking: But yes, I’ve read enough.

you can’t say ‘ruling class’ because it’s a trope

you can send flowers to nancy astor’s grave, though. that’s cool

2:2s? Presumably some secondary school qualification reference?

Ever since my graduate school days and the annual coming of the American Dance Festival, I have had a soft spot for not particularly intellectually accomplished dancers…

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2:2 is how we write the undergraduate degree classification lower secondary. First, Higher secondary (2:1), Lower secondary (2:2), Third (pass).

Colloquially they’re known as Geoff Hurst (first), Attila the Hun (2:1), Desmond (Tutu, 2:2), and a Thora Hird (3rd).

It was a crap Tutu joke. I apologise.

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I was so proud the day I got my Desmond.

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Didn’t actually exist. Football was only invented in 1992.

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Thanks @cynicaloldgit. My shit joke now looks much better…by comparison. You’re a gent.

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You are not voting against Trump ?!
No excuse is good enough for that in my book. So if you can’t get what you want you will watch your country burn to satisfy your own ego.How incredibly solidaric of you. You are not a leftist when you willingly risk Trump getting reelected because you need to make an ideological point, you are an individualist of the highest order and you should stop calling yourself a socialist. If you think there is no difference between Biden admin, which will basically be a a bit to the right of Obama and Trump then you do not comprehend politics. You are basically voting for Trump, your country has a two party system, there is no moral or philosophical excuse good enough to be so incredibly selfish and self destructive when you have open eyes. I find your stance completely unfathomable. While I know there are many who think like you do ( I read twitter after all), the logic of it is just unfathomable in how selfish it is.

Don’t say you don’t know how bad Trump is. You do. And yet…

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Ye.

I like that.