Blimey

It’s so easy to light the blue touch paper on here isn’t it?

comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 56 seconds ago
Blimey

It’s so easy to light the blue touch paper on here isn’t it?


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I’m quite flattered that they made an account just for me Ginger. Bet you’ve got a few of those yourself

comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 2 minutes ago
Blimey

It’s so easy to light the blue touch paper on here isn’t it?


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At the same time, you have the patience of a saint with the recent interactions you’ve had to endure.

comment by Robbing Hoody - keepy up arbiter. Don’t ... (U6374)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 56 seconds ago
Blimey

It’s so easy to light the blue touch paper on here isn’t it?


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I’m quite flattered that they made an account just for me Ginger. Bet you’ve got a few of those yourself
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I’ve a fair umber do accounts it has to be said. Sadly, my wife has access to most of them

comment by Winston (U16525)
posted 49 minutes ago
comment by 1manontherun 7-0 (U4291)
posted 50 minutes ago
Why am I seeing Kier Starmer and sausage memes today?
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Because he seemed to accidentally say sausages instead of soldiers in his speech.
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Ahh thanks!!

Hardly meme worthy though 🤷🏽‍♂️

comment by Sat Nav (U18243)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 2 minutes ago
Blimey

It’s so easy to light the blue touch paper on here isn’t it?


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At the same time, you have the patience of a saint with the recent interactions you’ve had to endure.
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Meh. If I was hurt by the daft things said to me, I’d have abandoned this long ago. It’s not a lot more than just stirring the pot and reading some of the hysterical reactions to me.

Some people do get very easily worked up and can’t realise when they’re doing it which is amusing

Anyways; just for more giggles. See the government has signed off the rest of the rail workers pay deals and asked them to stay schtum

No doubt it’ll contribute to this ever increasing “black hole” and of course fortify other unions to demand similar. No idea why mind.

And even better; no improvement is required either yet it’s going to modernise our country and get it “back to work”. Money for old rope.

comment by Robbing Hoody - keepy up arbiter. Don’t talk to me unless you can do ten (U6374)
posted 14 minutes ago
I’ve just noticed your only other post from that account was also dedicated to me.

Must have mugged you right off at some point and humiliated you. Sorry about that and hope everything is okay at home.
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It’s probably Winston.

comment by Winston (U16525)
posted 1 hour, 22 minutes ago
comment by 1manontherun 7-0 (U4291)
posted 50 minutes ago
Why am I seeing Kier Starmer and sausage memes today?
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Because he seemed to accidentally say sausages instead of soldiers in his speech.
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Winston’s already distracted by what he’s going to dunk into his yolks on Saturday morning.

comment by rosso says the time has come to unlock the unlimited Pote-ntial of the Fernçalvenoo triumvirate (U17054)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Winston (U16525)
posted 1 hour, 22 minutes ago
comment by 1manontherun 7-0 (U4291)
posted 50 minutes ago
Why am I seeing Kier Starmer and sausage memes today?
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Because he seemed to accidentally say sausages instead of soldiers in his speech.
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Winston’s already distracted by what he’s going to dunk into his yolks on Saturday morning.


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I love it when you talk dirty.

comment by Winston (U16525)
posted 10 minutes ago
comment by rosso says the time has come to unlock the unlimited Pote-ntial of the Fernçalvenoo triumvirate (U17054)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Winston (U16525)
posted 1 hour, 22 minutes ago
comment by 1manontherun 7-0 (U4291)
posted 50 minutes ago
Why am I seeing Kier Starmer and sausage memes today?
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Because he seemed to accidentally say sausages instead of soldiers in his speech.
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Winston’s already distracted by what he’s going to dunk into his yolks on Saturday morning.


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I love it when you talk dirty.
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US public schools banned 10,000 books in most recent academic year

‘More than 10,000 books were banned in US public schools from 2023 to 2024, according to a report, marking a stark increase over the year before as Republican-led states pass new censorship laws.
The survey from PEN America suggested that bans of books nearly tripled nationwide, from 3,362 the previous year.
At least 13 titles were banned for the first time, including Alex Haley’s Roots: The Saga of an American Family, which describes the journey of an enslaved person from Africa to the US, and James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain, the acclaimed semi-autographical work set in Harlem, New York...’

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/23/pen-book-bans

Just having a browse through the list of all book bans across districts nationwide, and it includes Frankenstein, Go Set A Watchman, Kindred and Fahrenheit-451, which I can only assume is a pess take

I thought these people were all about free speech?

Also Kandinsky: The First Abstract Watercolour Painting; King Kong; Macbeth; Octavia Butler’s prescient Parable series (I assume for having a crack at Christian Nationalism); Puberty is Gross but Also Really Awesome; Raphael: His Life, Works, and Times; Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry; Slaughterhouse Five; and The Canterbury Tales (wtf? )

comment by Joshua The King Of Kings Zirkzee (U10026)
posted 9 minutes ago
I thought these people were all about free speech?
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They r

There own free speech

I remember watching, with amused bemusement, programmes about fringe Americana years ago, now those programmes are called the News.

comment by rosso says the time has come to unlock the unl... (U17054)
posted 4 minutes ago
Also Kandinsky: The First Abstract Watercolour Painting; King Kong; Macbeth; Octavia Butler’s prescient Parable series (I assume for having a crack at Christian Nationalism); Puberty is Gross but Also Really Awesome; Raphael: His Life, Works, and Times; Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry; Slaughterhouse Five; and The Canterbury Tales (wtf?)
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Do they give reasons why?

I've just read that article...

ROOTS is banned...Roots ffs! I assume The Corrections is also banned, Maeve Binchy?

comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by rosso says the time has come to unlock the unl... (U17054)
posted 4 minutes ago
Also Kandinsky: The First Abstract Watercolour Painting; King Kong; Macbeth; Octavia Butler’s prescient Parable series (I assume for having a crack at Christian Nationalism); Puberty is Gross but Also Really Awesome; Raphael: His Life, Works, and Times; Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry; Slaughterhouse Five; and The Canterbury Tales (wtf?)
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Do they give reasons why?
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The reasons aren’t included on the PEN database.

At first, I was laughing about the irony of these Reps banning loads of books critical (in one way or another) of book bans, pointing to the kinds of societies which ban books, etc.

Then you realise that it isn’t ironic or accidental at all. It’s perfectly calculated.

The kinds of people who will want certain kinds of books banning from school libraries also won’t want kids thinking about the fact, thinking about what kinds of people ban books, or learning about what book bans have often been precursors to historically.

comment by rosso says the time has come to unlock the unl... (U17054)
posted 37 minutes ago
comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by rosso says the time has come to unlock the unl... (U17054)
posted 4 minutes ago
Also Kandinsky: The First Abstract Watercolour Painting; King Kong; Macbeth; Octavia Butler’s prescient Parable series (I assume for having a crack at Christian Nationalism); Puberty is Gross but Also Really Awesome; Raphael: His Life, Works, and Times; Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry; Slaughterhouse Five; and The Canterbury Tales (wtf?)
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Do they give reasons why?
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The reasons aren’t included on the PEN database.

At first, I was laughing about the irony of these Reps banning loads of books critical (in one way or another) of book bans, pointing to the kinds of societies which ban books, etc.

Then you realise that it isn’t ironic or accidental at all. It’s perfectly calculated.

The kinds of people who will want certain kinds of books banning from school libraries also won’t want kids thinking about the fact, thinking about what kinds of people ban books, or learning about what book bans have often been precursors to historically.
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I think it could be the culminatuon of Tea party/Maga organised strategies over the last decade or so, like minded retrogrades exploiting, democratically, the American system of elected officials, from the lowest levels up, school boards, town councils, state education boards etc to impose their disinterest in the wider world, America first only works if the next generation is deliberately kept educationally ignorant.

Hector, this is why they starve the public education system and hype the charter and private systems.

comment by rosso says the time has come to unlock the unl... (U17054)
posted 1 hour, 16 minutes ago
Also Kandinsky: The First Abstract Watercolour Painting; King Kong; Macbeth; Octavia Butler’s prescient Parable series (I assume for having a crack at Christian Nationalism); Puberty is Gross but Also Really Awesome; Raphael: His Life, Works, and Times; Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry; Slaughterhouse Five; and The Canterbury Tales (wtf?)
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Phew, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin made the cut.

comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 18 minutes ago
comment by rosso says the time has come to unlock the unl... (U17054)
posted 1 hour, 16 minutes ago
Also Kandinsky: The First Abstract Watercolour Painting; King Kong; Macbeth; Octavia Butler’s prescient Parable series (I assume for having a crack at Christian Nationalism); Puberty is Gross but Also Really Awesome; Raphael: His Life, Works, and Times; Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry; Slaughterhouse Five; and The Canterbury Tales (wtf?)
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Phew, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin made the cut.
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So did the one with the stories about killing children even ripping them from the womb. And girls getting their dad drunk and raypping him. It's a great read.👍

comment by son of quebec (U8127)
posted 15 minutes ago
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 18 minutes ago
comment by rosso says the time has come to unlock the unl... (U17054)
posted 1 hour, 16 minutes ago
Also Kandinsky: The First Abstract Watercolour Painting; King Kong; Macbeth; Octavia Butler’s prescient Parable series (I assume for having a crack at Christian Nationalism); Puberty is Gross but Also Really Awesome; Raphael: His Life, Works, and Times; Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry; Slaughterhouse Five; and The Canterbury Tales (wtf?)
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Phew, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin made the cut.
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So did the one with the stories about killing children even ripping them from the womb. And girls getting their dad drunk and raypping him. It's a great read.👍
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Don't know that one.

comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by son of quebec (U8127)
posted 15 minutes ago
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 18 minutes ago
comment by rosso says the time has come to unlock the unl... (U17054)
posted 1 hour, 16 minutes ago
Also Kandinsky: The First Abstract Watercolour Painting; King Kong; Macbeth; Octavia Butler’s prescient Parable series (I assume for having a crack at Christian Nationalism); Puberty is Gross but Also Really Awesome; Raphael: His Life, Works, and Times; Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry; Slaughterhouse Five; and The Canterbury Tales (wtf?)
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Phew, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin made the cut.
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So did the one with the stories about killing children even ripping them from the womb. And girls getting their dad drunk and raypping him. It's a great read.👍
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Don't know that one.
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Come on, Boris. Starts in Mesopotamia centuries in the making? Still don't know? The sequel finds the protagonists in Rome. And the finale is the end of the world. <wink>

So it's not Stephen King then?