I'm not sure my French is good enough to understand the full subtleties of Libé's review of the Michael Jackson biopic

Come to think of it, yes. But please consider I have the memory of a goldfish

BALLS OUT WITH DENIS

Good lord

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LORD HEALEY
SWIM
STARK BOLLOCK NAKED?!

Slight tangent but was once told of a mix up at a wedding. Someone requested ‘the Robin Hood song’, wanting Everything I do, I do it for you and instead walked in to ‘Robin Hood, Robin Hood, Riding through the glen’

🎶 Stalin with a nose ring I know, I know it's serious

‘This must help you get through things’ comments the pharmacist, handing over my adhd medication.
Well, that’s the point yes.

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Ever blow-dried a labrador?

Awful awful awful

Sondheim teaches 'Not Getting Married' from Company YouTube video by AllanWo

"Don't tell Paul, but I'm not getting married today."

Incredible.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR80...

Greens have always been an assortment of cranks, toffs, eugenicists, and stalinists. As they grow, the public swell their ranks. Unfortunately, the public have also always been an assortment of cr

Trip to Devonport’s 2nd hand bookshops.

The top shelf contained collected volumes of the Church of England magazine and Mao’s works from *while he was still alive*

black and white drawing of an underwater scene. a large bird sticking it's head into the water, surrounded by shocked fish

WHATS UP YOU WET MOTHERFUCKERS

An out of date ideology that invariably leads to mass death, authoritarianism, and the gulag here seen next to fundamentals of marxi-

Have been trying to remember where the hell the bookstores I was thinking of were in Auckland and have been told they were actually in wellington. Ah.

non zero chance that this leads to Trump firing him, considering how much Trump detests alcohol.

Paddington himself knocking on your supervisor’s door at the end of the meeting, your new lanyard in hand etc

Recalled a Belarusian woman in a Latin class we were taking during our PhDs asked what happened if we failed our confirmation reviews, ‘do we have to become civil servants?’ Phrased in such a way that a permanent secretary would be collecting you from the faculty.

‘Where are my dreamies?’

New acquisition

Yes, to the point where you find yourself nodding along uncritically if you’re not careful. Excellent book tho’, ditto evil in modern thought.

Only portions of it are truly fixed - and it is anything but easy to know which ones. This ought to be trivially true, but it's often forgotten in practice. New York Times columnist David Brooks, for example, recently wrote that the civil war in Iraq shows - regrettably - that Hobbes was right. 'Iraq has revealed what human beings do without a strong order-imposing state? He thereby overlooks a detail: The civil war in Iraq didn't actually arise in the state of nature. Ti's a product of many centuries of unjust coercion and treacherous designs. No one party is responsible for them all. But to invade a country, destroy its infrastructure, frighten and torture its civilians, and then lament that it reveals the bleakness of human nature is to have, at the least, a peculiar notion of causality.

OH NO

Adventures in ancestry: someone in Belfast appears to have named their son ‘Rainey’