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In Topic: The UK Politics Thread
26 May 2024 - 10:55 PM
Tiste Simeon, on 26 May 2024 - 04:01 PM, said:Yeah it does seem a little like he's trying to throw it, especially if you consider he's kind of been thrown to the wolves by his party...
However, it is also true that there are tons of gammons who mutter about the youth of today and how we should bring back National service, teach them some discipline etc. so he's possibly playing to the Brexit/Reform crowd there.
It should also be noted that the aforementioned gammons never had to do it themselves.
This is very much who it's for. If Reform get a significant chunk of the Tory vote this time there's probably little chance we'll be seeing a Reform MP, but the Tories will be screwed. And this goes doubly so if tactical voting is a factor; which, from the Local Authority elections a few weeks back, it looks like it will be. The gammons have this fantasy-1950s idea of a Britain that never really existed that they want to revive (it's more like "reify" tbh, but try explaining what that word means to them); y'know, before all the LGBTQ people, women and POCs started getting "ideas above their station". National Service is really just shorthand for all of that.
It doesn't matter that the Armed Forces definitely don't want it. It doesn't matter that it would cost an arm and a leg and that money would have to come from somewhere. It even doesn't matter what National Servce was actually like: I'm old enough to have spent time in the workplace with people who actually did National Service, and some of the stories I heard from them, the ones without the rose-tinted spectacles, are pretty horrific. -
In Topic: The UK Politics Thread
22 May 2024 - 07:55 PM
I mean, "Yay! General Election!"
But also, professionally speaking at least, now nothing gets decided or done for 6 weeks at just the point where a whole bunch of things needed to be decided and/or done. Treading water for 6 weeks should be fun... -
In Topic: Reading at t'moment?
22 April 2024 - 08:25 PM
Cuurently reading Max Gladstone's new Craft Sequence novel Wicked Problems. Are the antagonists from some of the previous books going to save the world? I guess we'll have to see. Fun so far, if a little disjointed. I'm only 1/3 of the way through, so it may come together later. -
In Topic: Dune Remake
22 April 2024 - 08:20 PM
Snyder strikes me as someone who can produce very striking visual imagery but who also, somewhat paradoxically, seems to have a very small imagination. -
In Topic: Music
21 April 2024 - 10:17 PM
New Squarepusher is out. And, as always, I'm reminded that the man is up there with the Aphex Twin for producing absolute bangers...
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Tsundoku
12 Nov 2024 - 11:02Tsundoku
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11 Nov 2016 - 16:06Tsundoku
17 Jan 2014 - 06:30Maybe "palaver", "cant" (there's a word the Yanks have ruined) or "glossary" ... ? Nope. :P
amphibian
07 Feb 2011 - 06:22Tsundoku
31 May 2010 - 09:44At least you don't kill threads :P
stone monkey
30 Apr 2010 - 23:52