You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).
Catherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her
Imagine if we had a Culture Secretary who could stand up for and shout about the importance of the creative industries. Such a shame no such position or person exists…
after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet
The best of the best
My godfather was convinced I’d be a silver alien because my mum used a microwave when pregnant with me.
I was born on a full moon.
Might go with one of those being the reason I’m neurodivergent.
About as much science in that as the paracetamol nonsense.
‘How could you not like Jeremy Corbyn?’
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Same as it ever was.
Love love love that Labour has been all ‘it must be a woman’ about their deputy leader, but any sniff of a leadership challenge and its right back to ‘only this white man can save the party’. And when I say love, I mean am utterly exhausted. (And very much not a Labour voter right now).
Awesome opening to tonight's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert... youtu.be/HMGD1KCYFOw
I heard there was a secret ooze that turned four reptiles into dudes, but you don’t really care for turtles do ya
people will tell you they don't understand gender fluidity then look right at a ship called the Edmund Fitzgerald and call it "her" without missing a beat
Pretty much every trans person I know in real life & on here has said where Streeting can shove his “olive branch” & explained why the “care” he’s championing is tantamount to conversion therapy. I think I’ll listen to them over centrist commentators who think this is Streeting’s redemption arc.
Who put up the barriers, Wes?
WHO PUT UP THE FUCKING BARRIERS?!
Gordon Ramsey: I ordered steak tartare and you've brought me an omelette?
waiter: yeah, chef's a minotaur, he doesn't like doing steak
GR: jesus christ, can I speak with him?
[waiter starts to gather up his ball of string and disappears into the catacombs]
GR: *whispers* fuck me
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
"Falkner has, in the course of her term of five years, never attended a minuted meeting with a transgender person
in attendance"
I didn't know that. She clearly has a SERIOUS issue against trans people.
New statement from the Lemkin Institute of Genocide Prevention, released today (5th September)
This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”
Members of my family were tortured and killed in the Holocaust because countries like Britain said it wasn't their problem. Everyone said never again. And here we are. It's sickening beyond belief.
Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal
Being a white guy is hard. Sometimes I have intense feelings about a movie and I have to lie down until the urge to start a podcast goes away.
AB B♭A
oh weird i'm just drawing a venn diagram of people who think we need men patrolling the streets to keep women safe and men who think metoo went too far and you'll never guess how it's turned out
Every day my joints are shocked and disgusted that I would use them for their intended purpose.
if I ever go properly "screaming about nothing in particular in the street" mad it will be due to having spent too much time having read about the opinions of men who have absolutely never cared about women's rights for one moment in their lives but decided to pretend just for the sake of racism
Corbyn is doing to the trans community what he does best - avoiding confrontation with his bigoted pals. It’s the same shit he pulled with the Jewish community. Nothing overt just - avoidance. Whether it’s prejudice or cowardice is irrelevant. He’s not and has never been the answer.
Freelance arts workers are earning an average annual salary 20.5% less than the benchmark set by the Living Wage Foundation’s ‘Real Living Wage’.
My mum has had life long problems with her ears/hearing because of measles, being born before the vaccine. She’s one of the ‘lucky’ ones that she’s alive and the damage wasn’t more severe. Furious that idiots have got us here. Thankful to have been born when vaccines existed.