Originally posted by Hot Pepsi
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But you are aware an invention called television, right? And on it they show shows. -
Tubbs: genuinely interested: are you in the UK? (Sorry about the multiple thread questioning).Originally posted by Tubby Isaacs View Post
The reason I ask, is that I claim to be 'au fait' with Nevada politics, more than a normal Nevadan. Because, I wake up at 10pm, read the local rags online, have a look at the grauniad, then 4 minutes later, throw on Trevor Noah.
I know maybe... 100 people, on a regular, face-to-face basis. Not one of them watches cable news. Not one.
*I just counted the people who know my (sur) name here... aside from colleagues, I can think of 40. That's scary. I never tell anyone my surname.Comment
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Yeah, in South Wales.
I'm economically inactive, so I have time on my hands. I like stuff on in the background when I'm on here. It's US Golf at the moment.Comment
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Sorry to go even further off topic, but why does the fact that you don't watch TV mean that it deserves to die?Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View PostComment
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No, no, NO.Originally posted by pebblethefish View Post
Mr HP is ... the guy who makes me go "did I really think that?" and then "yeah, fucking right I did". Because he sees the things that the ursus collective sees objectively. He sees them emotionally.
Or, you know, those fucking Russians that I spent the whole of my childhood learning their alphabet and grammar, and watching the "De Svedanya neta, de svedanya" on TV (Russian: Language and people, on the BBC... look it up! I had a Lithuanian teacher in primary, and a goddamn 'Latvian' in secondary, who hid uner the cover of (he's dead) Mr Przybelawak' in secondary. He was good with the right hand at belt. We used to worry about whether or not we could smell him... when he used his left hand for the biff, he was literally, unhinged. Willaim Markey, how are you, now?))))
WOW. Memories.Comment
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Oh, and wait: I once met a Polish guy in the 90's, so Brexit. xComment
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Yeah, and I've watched several lifetimes worth of crap on it.Originally posted by Tubby Isaacs View Post
I had a pretty nice TV, but then it stopped working with Apple TV and concluded, with much effort, that the new Apple TV software just wouldn't work with this six year old TV. So - perhaps in a moment of irrational frustration - I gave the TV away to a friend who didn't have HD. At the time, I planned to buy a better one, but then discovered that I didn't really miss it. If I really need to see a game or something, I go to a friend's house and bring food as compensation or to a bar.
I watch Netflix et al on my fire. I'm thinking of getting a thing that will project video from my iPhone onto a screen. I can probably pick-up projector screen at University salvage for cheap.Comment
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Because there's no longer any reason for us to continue to have to pay the cable company for lots of channels we don't watch or be beholden to the network's schedule. An increasing number of people have shown that they're willing to pay for just what they want to watch, when they want to watch it via the internet, with or without ads.Originally posted by pebblethefish View Post
It's not just about me, to be clear, but the number of people adopting my approach is increasing.Comment
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US-style 24 hours news deserves to die because it relies on filling time with non-stories but TV can still do drama and journalism if it truly wants to.Comment
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Emma Gonzales and David Hogg, another awesome interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr1oyK5lvqQComment
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an awesome interview- with 7000 down votes and comments like "actors" and "Emma Gonzalez will have at least one abortion in her life" from which i take
1) the right are really worried
2) they are utterly loathsome and have to be destroyedComment
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US military vets are quitting the NRA: "in order to teach, now you have to be a soldier? That’s insane,” Could be nothing, a straw in the wind, or substantial change. But when combat veterans start opposing the NRA, you'd figure the latter have the beginnings of a credibility problem among their supporters.Comment
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Rubio's reply here at least suggests that he wants to be the dog that wags the tail when he votes on these issues, and won't just parrot the NRA platform. But his bland "second amendment" answer as to why he needs to accept NRA money is clearly evasive bollocks. You can be "2nd amendment rights" without accepting gun money. The real answer is he fears that the NRA scum will abstain from voting if they don't have a compliant horse in the race.
I would like to think that the GOP has lost Florida for a generation (Trump + the backlash from this shooting) but it is too soon to say. Florida swings with the wind, but there are built-in GOP advantages such as felon disfranchisement.
OTOH, anecdotally, I have numerous 19 year old students whose parents will get citizenship when the kids turn 21. Unless the GOP has some nasty policy up its sleeve for those people, it's a ticking demographic bomb that will fuck them in Florida, and maybe Texas, Georgia and Arizona.Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 23-02-2018, 01:44.Comment
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Courtesy of the responses to something ursus just retweeted, I am now reading a conversation involving a gentleman who says the age at which people can own guns shouldn't be raised to 21 because it would outlaw '60% of our military.' I wish someone would point out to him that there are many countries around the world where private citizens either actually or effectively aren't allowed to own guns, but those countries still have armies. But I can't be arsed wading in myself.Comment
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God is no longer providing the discounts HE used to
https://twitter.com/straightastoner/status/966847682231681024
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It turns out there was a police officer at the school, actually posted there iirc, he got to the building at 90 seconds but then didn't go in and waited outside. He was initially suspended and has now resigned.
Armed guard at Florida high school failed to enter building and stop shooter
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...y_to_clipboard
There's also a tweet from the manchild as well, words fail me.Last edited by Antepli Ejderha; 23-02-2018, 06:16.Comment
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Trump suggests the radical policy proposal of having a ratings system for movies https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-...stem-on-moviesComment
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Well, I'm going to show some appreciation for this.Originally posted by Tubby Isaacs View PostComment
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This has really annoyed and saddened me. There's a reason that people are called heroes and it's because what they do is beyond the ordinary response. This policeman is a human being. He should not be named and shamed for being reluctant - for whatever reason - to put himself in danger or confront an armed teenager. Now watch him kill himself.Originally posted by Antepli Ejderha View PostComment
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Well I don't think he should have been named publicly, but I think it's right that he was suspended, and it seems would have been sacked had he not quit.Comment
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Yeah, if you don't do the job you're employed to do, you can expect some sort of rap on the knuckles even if your lack of attention doesn't result in seventeen schoolkids getting murdered. Seems a bit of an odd thing to be annoyed about, compared with the rest of it.
HahahaOriginally posted by ad hoc View Post
It's like 1996 all over again.I’m hearing more and more people say the level of violence on video games is really shaping young people’s thoughts.Comment
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I hadn't realised that LaPierre went full on anti semitic and named three wealthy Jews who were behind this "move to European socialism"
https://forward.com/fast-forward/395...ocialism-rant/Comment
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