LiamK

It's one thing that keeps catching me out. Like, Liverpool has a Santa Dash every year and some Everton supporters wear blue Santa outfits, but it's just A Bit Of Fun, not a Police Are On Alert situation.

Watching the Traitors is very instructive for this. People making the wrong assumptions about other people based on little to no evidence. Even ones who come in with an umderstanding of human behaviour and knowledge of prior seasons make the same mistakes. Humans are silly.

Assumed this was a parody of a real quote. Checked. Realised it was real. Screamed internally.

So does Tikka Masala count as British food, then?

Okay, I might have missed something, but what's with the wierdly specific "iced coffee"? Is that code for "gay people"? "Women"? "People who never served in the army"?

"In these situations, you really find out who your friends are" I think the people you've known for years saying to their multi-millionaire friend "Ed, I think you've got this one wrong" are probably more your friends than those going "oh Ed, you are correct about everything and you smell lovely".

Oh no Americans are replying to this (deliberately) ambigiously worded headline.

The first match at Anfied after Charles was coronated began with them piping God Save the King over the stadium speakers. Which resulted in a minute of solid booing. I was very proud.

in memory of peter cullen let's remember one of his best line reads

Okay I'm going to need check-ins on Dick Van Dyke, Tom Baker, Christopher Lloyd, Quentin Blake and David Jason at least every six hours. Get detachments out to McCartney, Dench and Palin. And I want 24-hour full-team monitoring on Attenborough. Move, people, move!

As far as I can understand, this is like if Trump's behaviour was so toxic it somehow managed to make Scotland cheer on England at the football.

I've just logged on to X for the first time in a year to check Glinner's profile, and it really is unhinged. Every single post is either screaming at people with pronouns in their bio, or just general waffle about "protecting women from men in dresses". It's just sad.

I cannot express this any better.... the frustration is real

Some great new reaction images to use when people are obtuse on BlueSky.

Harold Wilson, with a majority of four, had the courage to say that the winner of the Smethwick by-election would be greeted “like a leper” in Parliament. Ted Heath, trailing in the polls, fired Enoch Powell. The comparison with the Labour government and Conservative opposition now..oy.

A guy is let down that no-one came to visit him.

Okay, that was worth getting up for.

Honestly, are people looking at this and thinking that this is anything other than Greggs doing "banter" for attention/publicity? Like, you can think it's a rubbish joke, but it's also clearly a joke. "Freedom Fries" was anything but.

People DO get that the Gregg's Mexican food notice thing is just a cheeky joke, right? It's not like "Freedom Fries" which (I believe) was genuinly out of a sense of miaguided patriotism. No-one is boycotting Mexican (well, as close as we get to Mexican) food. It's just a bit of fun.

Took the boy to his first pro union festival in Paisley. Told him the guy being burned was part of the 1% and he deserved it.

The Toryiyama one on the third image is especially hilarious, because he's actually left in the original eye outline (Goku style open eyes) and then drawn another set of eyes further in.

I need someone I trust to tell me if the "Europeans hate air conditioning thing because of racism" is making a good point or not. I've not got the brain energy to try and figure it out for myself.

I dunno. I'm pretty sure "refusing to put the central heating on until it's cold enough that you can see your breath" is a universal British dad trait.

How the hell is Larry the cat 19? Does consuming the souls of Prime Ministers extend his life?

Frankly, this is as astonishing as someone writing an article in the paper about how hard it was when they found out that their white daughter was going out with a black man.

Arguing with a friend who likes the social media ban because "at least they are doing something" and trying not to scream at a WhatsApp chat.

Keir Starmer: I respect the founder of The Mloly Rose Foundation and the tragic event that led to the creation of this charity for suicide prevention and safer online environments Also Keir Starmer: Guess I'll just ignore the views or recommendations put forward by the Molly Rose Foundation.

Easy.

A wee group of angry balaclava and mask-wearing anti-immigration guys tried to stop the good people of Glasgow showing solidarity with migrants and standing up to racism and fascism. Well, the far right are far outnumbered... #RefugeesWelcome #MigrantsWelcome #NeighboursNotStrangers #Glasgow

Can't believe we got both "the riots in Northern Ireland would have gone better if more people had guns" AND "agriculture is bad because it caused slavery" in the same week.

Even aside from, y'know, the whole history of NI, does this person not realise what has happened in the US in just the last year? Do they think that things would have worked out better for everyone if those non-white people had pointed their legally owned firearms at ICE officers?

Counter protest against the far-right in Liverpool. Please share it. Even if you're not in Liverpool, you might have followers who are and help is gonna be needed

its also a good time to remind people not to 'no true Scotsman' the Irish as incapable of racism. The same rioting happened in Dublin in 2023, & people in Scotland also like to imagine we're immune to racism. Oppressed groups are just as capable of hatred as anyone else, as we've seen in Israel.

Love how we've decided that groups of young men dressed in black with their faces hidden walking around setting fire to vehicles and houses are now "protests" and not "violent hooliganism".

"Food surpluses -> inequality" I'm not an expert in this field, so could someone tell me what "food shortages" would do to "equality"?

I love Babylon 5 but I got to a point where I thought stuff like this was a bit too clunkly and lacking the subtlety of how it would happen in reality. I was wrong.

Section 28 was passed on this day in 1988. It didn’t come out of nowhere. It came from a society where 75% of people thought homosexuality was wrong. It came from a society that believed ignorance was better for children than any knowledge of lesbian or gay lives. 🧵 1/16

It's okay everyone. We just need to persecute two or three more minorities and then you will finally be able to get a doctor's appointment.

At some point you'd think all the highly paid government analysts would go "huh, turns out trying to appeal to vibes rather than arguing facts doesn't work", but nope.

Oh, that's rubbish news. 😟

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