Posts by Sam F
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No further encouragement for our undercover provocateur, please.. :)
Is that what you sophisticates are calling it now?
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Shit - actually a less dramatic 500-odd votes from Macedonia. Point still ands.
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Although: WTF, Macedonia?
Yes, may the Skopje 34 live in infamy!
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He and Friedman spend all day bench pressing anvils, buffing themselves and counting the days 'til Maggie gets there.
I love this forum so much.
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Perhaps. I like to think of it as PAS' own __Duke Nukem Forever__.
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Gah. Provokes. When do we get an edit button, overlords??
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I have a theory it was hacked together in a few years by scribes working for the Emperor Constantine who wished, in an attempt to bring the declining Roman Empire under control, to replace pantheism with a rigorous and prescriptive state religion based loosely on Judaism.
But with bacon sarnies allowed.
Your theory provekes my intellectual curiosity, and also a bitchin' hunger for bacon sarnies. Well played.
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Heh. I'm now very fond of Andrew's mockable Touareg. Seeing one on the motorway is vaguely cheering.
Likewise. However, I still hold despicable biases against the (likely totally blameless) owners of the related Audi Q7 and Porshe Cayenne. Especially the blasted Cayenne. They seem to be everywhere.
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Hmm. Looking back, Gareth Ward put my point a lot more clearly:
perhaps the fair criticism would be to state that not everyone quite gets that so certain people (already inclined that way I'd imagine) see the joke in the stereotype, rather than in the lampooning of the stereotype.
I would love to be proven conclusively wrong on this, but sadly I think there are a lot of people who don't necessarily follow "racist doctrine" but who still carry around patronising, ignorant attitudes towards people different from themselves - particularly when they believe that they are modern inclusive people, and thus don't understand why anyone has the right to criticise their attitudes.
So it's not that enjoying Little Britain makes you an [x]-ist - a point which I don't think Finding actually put forward - but that when you put exaggerated stereotypes in front of a general population, you will get many people who see the exaggeration and laugh, and many other people who see the stereotype, and are likely relieved to be able to laugh at it publicly. It sucks that thoughtful comedians have to deal with this stuff when considering how to make a joke, but sadly we live in a world where biases attach to people, not petunias.
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Let's get the game designers to make the voting systems work. Might make the polling booth more exciting and attract the yoof vote. :)
I have this wonderful vision of young people waiting patiently to enter the booths, with the silence occasionally broken by cries of "Boom! Headshot!"