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| I speak fluent lanyard |
de-mothballing
paint the target round the arrow
hymn sandwiches
polite golf applause
fabricated gibberish
spectacular, breathtaking foolishness
taskification
architectural lift music
misbegarbled
rube-coded
Social potholing: You live as a tramp and write Down and Out in Paris and London.
Begrudgery of the highest order.
Circuitous black hole of web-based enquiry forms. (Shahrar Ali)
downdating
(A 70s house has been tentatively updated over the years. You remove –
sorry, “rip out” – the boring standard 90s panelled wood kitchen units
and restore the formica originals. See makeunder. Destore?)
Shoulder seasons (spring/autumn)
respectfulness theatre (pronouns, “gestating bodies”, “pregnant people”)
chronological snobbery: temporal parochialism
I don't want to be a fun-sponger. (Morning Live)
Who is more spiritually correct?
Explain that to me in crayons.
He ended up at room temperature with three bullets in his chest. (imdb)
He was a type to which I do not warm. (LW)
Turn your brains on!
Courtney Cox’s family were 100% old stock Wonderbread.
Pointless to try and teach critical thinking using “toy examples” of syllogisms etc.
DEI milk (oat, almond etc)
The Desolation of Yesterday's Future. (@AlistairMorley)
Sometimes the trash takes itself out. (@FloreFlos)
Can someone more fluent in lanyard explain what ‘place-based cooperation’ means? (@aswren)
A deeply weird mix of tweeness and vulgarity. (Fergus Butler-Gallie on crude greetings cards)
Weapons grade levels of mawk and nause. (Rob Chapman)
Of any attempt to slow climate change: The WEF wants to use it to steal our platelets.
[On the new Sense and Sensibility] Marianne wouldn't look that dishevelled, either. These new adaptations completely sand off Austen's stratified society so that impoverished but still gentry-bred daughters dress and behave somehow worse than lower class servants. (@thefudge_on_ao3)
Not saying it's hot on the London Underground today, but I've just seen Virgil leading Dante down the steps at Oxford Circus tube station. (@MarksLarks)
An embarrassing thing about a fear of thunderstorms is if you look up info on how to cope, it mostly gives you tips on how to support Rover & Mr Whiskers during a storm. @stoneandthestar)
I do not have a “gender identity” in the same way that I do not have sin or Thetans. (@thefempire50)
Men stayed out of women’s spaces because both society and the law punished them if they did not. That norm is disappearing, and the law is disappearing — or being tortuously reinterpreted into nothingness — along with it. (Róisín Michaux)
The premise, as you frame it, setting aside it's the wankage of the uni caf, is flawed: this isn't women's problem to solve. So the goateed-Herman Hesse-readers on the quad can debate this all afternoon if they want. Doesn't change a thing: We're us, no one else is, walk on. (@mmcdonaldlewis)
It will be interesting to see how in coming days genderists will seek to circumnavigate the Finnish study. My money is on an all-purpose bleat about "insufficient data", possibly overlaid by the usual babble about "lived experience", "cisheteronormativity" and other gibberish. (@QcWynter)
Years ago a joke went around Labour circles full of student Corbynista types that we should each own a 'privilege card' scored 1-100, so that the knotty shibboleths and table manners of modern left politics could be quickly circumvented. (@leftrestoration)
When doing multiple countries by train, you can wind up back in a situation from early 20th century where you're dealing with various border-bureaucrat "Kafka traps." (@JacobAShell)
Keir Starmer to accuse Anas Sarwar of 'mountain strongholdism'. (@phased_bemused)
You can do all these things and the cultural undertow will still carry many away. (@BeanMimosa, in answer to “How do I stop my daughters going woke?”)
MPs are CLUELESS. I would honestly rather a flock of pigeons made these decisions, at least then there’s a random chance they might get one or two calls right. (Rupert Lowe)
Too many groups jumped on the bandwagon, and now the wheels have fallen off. (@AEthelswin)
Now for my traditional Christmas afternoon activity - fielding the irate and confused messages of family members and friends who have had to go to Christmas sermons which were pitched at the intellectual level of a whelk. (@_F_B_G_)
You look like you're playing a man who sells waterbeds in a movie about the 1970s. (@RyanGirdusky)
Wait why are ppl trying to normalize the infantilization of the glorification of the gentrification of the justification of the commodification of consumerism which perpetuates religion psychosis and overstimulates my niche theory... (@fawnncel)
There is a certain pleasure in a really grim English day. Ideally 7 or 8 degrees, unbroken crypt-like gloom and hammering it down all day. (@surplustakes)
One of those days where you throw open the curtains and the room gets darker. (@SoVeryBritish)
A loveless and inhumane cross between an elephantine sandwich box and a bureau for secret police and faceless functionaries. (@createstreets on one of Oxford’s Brutalist masterpieces)
The entire argument falls apart if you simply rub two neurons together. (@MarmotRespecter)
Not trying to be a doomer, but we're currently living in a world where the only children in the USA who will reliably learn how to read are the ones with parents that are willing to teach them and successfully avoid the minefield of junk curricula and gimmicks. (@readtoyourkid)
America is going bankrupt quickly, but everyone is whistling past the graveyard. (Elon Musk)
Metal Injection just described my band's new stoner metal album Canticles to the Fungal Suzerain as "an impenetrable slab of fuzz-soaked doom". (@saturnalreturn)
PCSU conference sends a letter to delegates about toilets, explaining the recent confirmation of the law and the danger of lawsuits. @FranklyGaslit asks: Do we have to read it through the same gritted teeth through which it was written?
From the NHS clap-a-longs to slebs singing ‘Imagine’, we nearly drowned in a wave of maudlin claptrap. (Spiked.com recalling lockdown.)
(Neo)liberals are obsessed with the word "building" and i think they like its flavour of cinder blocks and rebar and workmen's lunch pails; the impression it lends that they're about something concrete, rather than stirring up a phantasmagoric cloud of bullshit. (@snackowska)
Oh boy. I knew I shouldn’t have posted about Mars. 1.2 million views! And a lot of responses from people who I wouldn’t describe as being hinged. (@monstroso)
Decline and Fall is in fact full of lies and you should NOT read it unless you already have a black belt in the history of the period... Pagans knew very well how to be intolerant and even fanatical, Exhibit A being of course their oppression of Christianity. (@pegobry_en)
Deinococcus radiodurans is a type of bacteria that is resistant to radiation doses that could kill a human being, can withstand acid, dehydration and cold, and is able to survive outside of the International Space Station for three years. Scientists call it Conan the Bacterium. (@qikipedia)
He had the IQ of a house plant. (Bill Pronzini)
Adapted, seemingly in the dark with a shovel, from Amy Liptrot’s prizewinning memoir... (Kevin Maher, Times on The Outrun)
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