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Post by flatandy on Feb 20, 2023 19:33:07 GMT
TBF, I've not seen it yet. And it's been out for 93 years, too. The book's good.
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Post by happyhammerhead on Feb 20, 2023 19:41:08 GMT
No comment on the content, as I've not seen the films, but... What an utterly boring article. Inject a bit of humour FFS. Even - in fact especially - something ascerbic to take the piss. Nearly fell asleep reading that, |
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Post by unclejunior on Feb 20, 2023 19:42:14 GMT
Found Western Front too depressing & despite the great photography-it was lacking in the human touch that Spielberg brought to Saving private Ryan… and Schindler,s list
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Post by mids on Feb 20, 2023 19:43:46 GMT
That's because Germans were in it...
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Post by mids on Feb 20, 2023 19:46:09 GMT
No comment on the content, as I've not seen the films, but... What an utterly boring article. Inject a bit of humour FFS. Even - in fact especially - something ascerbic to take the piss. Nearly fell asleep reading that, As I usually do with Guardian articles I went straight to the comments, then read half the article when I got bored with the comments. All Guardian articles are humourless and boring. |
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Post by happyhammerhead on Feb 20, 2023 19:47:39 GMT
Well stop linking them, you ţwat!
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Post by Repat Van on Feb 20, 2023 22:50:43 GMT
If the Roald Dahl estate want to change a few words in some new versions of a handful of his books, why should everyone have a desperate pathetic meltdown about it? I wouldn't change it, but it's not my job, not by business, not my material, not my copyright, so I don't get a say in it. It's not banning content, despite the freakout from the pathetic snowflakes. Not like many right-wing administrations keep trying to do in the US. This. The people crying about this decision are the snowflakes. It’s not even as if they were forced which would be worthy of comment. The estate just decided they wanted to themselves. Big deal. |
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Post by Repat Van on Feb 20, 2023 22:53:33 GMT
The only one who seems to be freaking out is you. Aren't we just discussing it? You are definitely freaking out over it. You forgotten what you wrote? “ But literature is being rewritten because of 'wokeism'.” A couple of words being changed in a book by the Dahl estate is not “wokeism” nor is literature being rewritten. |
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Post by mids on Feb 21, 2023 0:03:32 GMT
Why are the left losing their sh*t (again) over some discussion about books? Why do they always start off on an extreme hysteria setting then get worse? First the books then straight into the Baftas without pause.
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Post by voice on Feb 21, 2023 0:55:34 GMT
Dry your eyes mate, your mascara is running, it's only a few words changed by the owners of the books, next you'll be asking the government to step in and call you a wambulance.
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Post by Repat Van on Feb 21, 2023 5:44:16 GMT
Why are the left losing their sh*t (again) over some discussion about books? Why do they always start off on an extreme hysteria setting then get worse? First the books then straight into the Baftas without pause. You still crying over this? |
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Post by mids on Feb 21, 2023 7:25:47 GMT
Dry your eyes mate, your mascara is running, it's only a few words changed by the owners of the books, next you'll be asking the government to step in and call you a wambulance. You need some pampering at one of your spa days that you lot go on when you're upset. Get some "you time" or whatever it is you say. |
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Post by flatandy on Feb 21, 2023 12:48:00 GMT
I really don't bloody believe it!
Apparently Oxford's traffic calming measures have become a target for a whole bunch of conspiracy loons. There was a protest in the city a few days ago where hordes of non-residents of Oxford descended on the city center complaining about "Climate lockdown" and how everyone in Oxford is going to be permanently trapped in their ghettoes unable to go beyond a 15 minute radius.
These crazies are a combination of covid-denialists, climate-science-denialists, neo-nazis and Jan 6 truther loons. But their big conspiracy is that you won't be able to use rat runs in Oxford and will instead have to use the ring road if you want to drive in a city that's already got way, way too many cars.
They've heard the term "15 minute city" and heard about "low traffic neighbourhoods" and have ignored that locals can still use any of the rat runs on 100 of the 365 days of the year and ignored that you can go where you like in your car and ignored that nobody is being stopped from cycling or walking or taking a bus to a different neighbourhood and have instead decided that this is a version of the Covid lockdown but you'll be trapped in your ghetto, and this is part of the "Great Reset".
Absolutely f**k**g nuts that a few bollards and traffic cameras have created this response.
Also totally worth noting that almost none of the protestors actually live in Oxford proper.
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Post by moggyonspeed on Feb 21, 2023 13:28:01 GMT
If Oxford were as awful as some say it is, why does the city have one of the highest inward-investment rates of any in the UK? It's a mixture of a number of things: its brand as a world centre of scientific and academic excellence; the industrial spin-offs that come from it; a well educated workforce; easy transport links (e.g. two separate train routes to London with frequent departures), a motorway nearby, frequent coach services to/from London and the rest of the UK, seven Park-and-Rides etc. etc.
Yes, some rat-runs have been blocked off, especially in the Iffley Road/Cowley Road "triangle" but, on the whole, it's not the local residents who are complaining.
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Post by perrykneeham on Feb 21, 2023 13:36:47 GMT
Also, the San Francisco of Central England.
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Post by flatandy on Feb 21, 2023 13:56:39 GMT
If Oxford were as awful as some say it is, why does the city have one of the highest inward-investment rates of any in the UK? It's a mixture of a number of things: its brand as a world centre of scientific and academic excellence; the industrial spin-offs that come from it; a well educated workforce; easy transport links (e.g. two separate train routes to London with frequent departures), a motorway nearby, frequent coach services to/from London and the rest of the UK, seven Park-and-Rides etc. etc. Yes, some rat-runs have been blocked off, especially in the Iffley Road/Cowley Road "triangle" but, on the whole, it's not the local residents who are complaining. sh*t football club, mind you. And getting worse as the season has gone on. |
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Post by flatandy on Feb 21, 2023 15:15:17 GMT
More "holy what the f**k**g f**k?" stuff. Does this person really exist? I don't bloody believe it. Some made-up author called "James Delingpole" has created a satirical article which ends: Earlier in the article it quotes a Romanian senator who believes that the earthquake was a warning message sent by the Powers That Be to Tayyip Erdogan because he's too right-wing and is too neutral on the Russia-Ukraine war. The "Delingpole" author claims that you won't hear this argument because the senator is silenced in the international media because he's "far right". It also claims that the technology to make earthquakes was invented by Nikola Tesla and then stolen by the US and hidden and is in control of the deep state. |
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Post by mids on Feb 21, 2023 15:23:05 GMT
Also, the San Francisco of Central England. It's worse than that; it's the Oxford of Central England. |
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Post by voice on Feb 21, 2023 17:34:33 GMT
This must be satire right?
That site looks like a collection of mids one line inanity.
Ffs, no one seriously wrote this I hope.
The ConWom’s Culture War
WE launched The Conservative Woman in 2014 as a counter-cultural offensive against the forces of Leftism, feminism and modernism – against the left-liberal cultural zeitgeist, to counter its anti-family, authoritarian identity politics and ‘equality and diversity’ ideology which had swept through the country’s institutions.
Long before Rod Liddle recognised the faith, family and flag virtues on which Boris Johnson’s Conservatives rode to victory in December 2019, we were giving voice to them.
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Post by happyhammerhead on Feb 21, 2023 18:43:35 GMT
And what is it about that extreme, far, centrist common sense that bothers you?
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