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4 minutes ago, Farmduck said:

My Rant: SUPERMARKET EGGS

I had my own ducks and chooks (and turkeys and geese) for about 20 years. Since I've no longer had them, I've had to buy supermarket eggs. WTF are these things? I used to have incubators and after a week I would take infertile eggs out and eat them. Those eggs, after a week at 38°C and 90% humidity were in infinitely better condition than supermarket eggs. I've seen supermarket eggs that haven't even reached their Use-By date so stale that the yolk falls apart as soon as you crack them.

I bet I haven't bought eggs from a supermarket in 30 years.

I either use donny market home produce stalls or old Jack.... he has an allotment at the back of Rosehill park. Fine eggs.

Similarly, though supermarket bread has improved no end this century, you still can't whack Leverton's off Kilnhurst road.....

I like to keep my supermarket shop to a minimum and support locals as much as possible. 

Biggest rant on this.... I can get local milk delivered!!!!!!

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1 hour ago, JohnM said:

My point really was to find out what Mark S was up to that meant he had paid over £4 million in tax. Want some of that!

My daughter was told she wasn't eligible for student finance as I'd earned 26 million the previous year!!!!

 

 

"Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice, socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality" - Mikhail Bakunin

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14 minutes ago, Phil said:

My daughter was told she wasn't eligible for student finance as I'd earned 26 million the previous year!!!!

 

 

Well done. Are you getting the beers in? ?

"it is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it."

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35 minutes ago, Griff9of13 said:

Well done. Are you getting the beers in? ?

Didn't I get you one?

 

oh well never mind 

"Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice, socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality" - Mikhail Bakunin

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Just now, Phil said:

Didn't I get you one?

 

oh well never mind 

I can see why you acquired so much money...

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All this identity politics and inclusion and intersectionality has finally gone too far. New York's Westminster Dog Show will this year, for the first time ever, include cats!

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On 31/1/2017 at 7:27 PM, Phil said:

My daughter was told she wasn't eligible for student finance as I'd earned 26 million the previous year!!!!

I have to confess, I am with teh authorities here.  You are being a bit tight fisted and could afford to help her out.

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1 hour ago, Farmduck said:

All this identity politics and inclusion and intersectionality has finally gone too far. New York's Westminster Dog Show will this year, for the first time ever, include cats!

I've been away for a while and don't understand the first part of this ?

And so the future begins...

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1 hour ago, Farmduck said:

All this identity politics and inclusion and intersectionality has finally gone too far. New York's Westminster Dog Show will this year, for the first time ever, include cats!

Are they going to join forces gang up on budgies, hamsters or some such?

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58 minutes ago, BD92 said:

I've been away for a while and don't understand the first part of this ?

You're lucky. I wish I'd never heard of that stuff. I've tried twice to explain it and both times I've accidentally wiped everything I wrote. I'll try again later.

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13 minutes ago, Farmduck said:

You're lucky. I wish I'd never heard of that stuff. I've tried twice to explain it and both times I've accidentally wiped everything I wrote. I'll try again later.

You will only upset someone or everyone (and every variation in-between) by trying to explain it.  

With the best, thats a good bit of PR, though I would say the Bedford team, theres, like, you know, 13 blokes who can get together at the weekend to have a game together, which doesnt point to expansion of the game. Point, yeah go on!

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9 minutes ago, Bedford Roughyed said:

You will only upset someone or everyone (and every variation in-between) by trying to explain it.  

In literary terms it's like a cross between 1984 and Alice in Wonderland. But surely tis a wondrous place, where concepts that might seem laughable to a rational human are actually taught in universities and relied upon to make laws and Govt policy. Here are two magical examples:

- Because of the magical properties of "Male Privilege" a 20-year-old Scouser on the dole actually wields more political power than Teresa May, because she's a woman.

- There's a wonderful clip doing the rounds on YT of the Cape Town Uni student who posits that Newton's Laws are not suitable for African Universities because he was white (and European and male and a colonialist) and hence his ideas aren't culturally appropriate.  Yep, that's right! There's no gravity in Africa. The other funny part about that video is when one of the other students laughs he is told he is being disrespectful and is asked to leave.

Now I don't understand how a black student can be micro-aggressing anyone since, being black, he has automatic, irrevocable victim status but I'm sure Franchesca Ramsey can explain it.

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Massive sections of the left moved away from tradition class politics because it's hard work and the rewards are slow to come, hence all this "identity politics" nonsense. 

"Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice, socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality" - Mikhail Bakunin

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9 minutes ago, Phil said:

Massive sections of the left moved away from tradition class politics because it's hard work and the rewards are slow to come, hence all this "identity politics" nonsense. 

I could be very easily convinced that the whole idea of Identity Politics was to splinter and dissipate the Left. Most of it is so moronic that it supplies Fox News and other outlets with an endless supply of idiotic straw men (or straw persons, or maybe even straw entities) to denounce as "the Left."

Then throw in the term cultural Marxism and the job is complete. We reach the point where a 3rd Wave Fem can spout a 20-minute rant against oppression without ever mentioning income disparity or the Third World yet it's still dubbed "Marxist"?@?#?$?%?

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7 hours ago, BD92 said:

I've been away for a while and don't understand the first part of this ?

BD92!!!!

Wonderful to have you back!!!!!

The people who have joined in the last eight years have all been rubbish!

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16 hours ago, Farmduck said:

I could be very easily convinced that the whole idea of Identity Politics was to splinter and dissipate the Left. Most of it is so moronic that it supplies Fox News and other outlets with an endless supply of idiotic straw men (or straw persons, or maybe even straw entities) to denounce as "the Left."

Then throw in the term cultural Marxism and the job is complete. We reach the point where a 3rd Wave Fem can spout a 20-minute rant against oppression without ever mentioning income disparity or the Third World yet it's still dubbed "Marxist"?@?#?$?%?

This sub-forum is a safe space and you have disrespected it.

I say no platform for people like you with your drakist privilege. :rtfm:

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2 hours ago, longboard said:

This sub-forum is a safe space and you have disrespected it.

I say no platform for people like you with your drakist privilege. :rtfm:

That's a pity. Today I was going to move on to Race Privilege, Gender Wage Gap and Gender Queer Non-binary issues.

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49 minutes ago, longboard said:

Fowl ableist!

That's so dis-empowering...

Look who's talking! Everyone knows that longboards were invented by the white coercive heteronormative Patriarchy to make surfing difficult for women. That means you're a Nazi, too.

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1 hour ago, Farmduck said:

Look who's talking! Everyone knows that longboards were invented by the white coercive heteronormative Patriarchy to make surfing difficult for women. That means you're a Nazi, too.

Nothing wrong with heightism Godwin.

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20 hours ago, Farmduck said:

Look who's talking! Everyone knows that longboards were invented by the white coercive heteronormative Patriarchy to make surfing difficult for women. That means you're a Nazi, too.

I would complain, but I have no idea what coercive heteronormative Patriarchy is meant to mean

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1 hour ago, Bleep1673 said:

I would complain, but I have no idea what coercive heteronormative Patriarchy is meant to mean

I was being a bit redundant there since the heteronormative Patriarchy is, by definition, coercive. Hope that's cleared it up for you.

Funny thing just happened: I was looking for an example so I googled "heteronormative patriarchy" and it said "do you mean white heteronormative patriarchy?" You know, I guess I do mean that.

 

Here goes:

You know how, if you are a white straight male you always get every job you ever apply for and, if you only ask for $1 million/year, they'll say "No, no, you're a man so we'll give you $2 million!" That's Patriarchy at work. Earlier I mentioned a hypothetical Northern dole ####, who happens to be male, hetero and white, let's call him Keef Mersey. Let's say Keef, who dropped out of high school at 14 because it was interrupting his drinking schedule, decides now, at 20, that he wants to be an engineer. He just rings a major construction company and tells them to get rid of a female engineer, or a brown- or black or Chinese engineer or a gay engineer so they can give him the job. The company will immediately do it because they recognise his white, male, hetero privilege. Because Patriarchy.

Another advantage Keef has is that he can rape and murder women at will and he will never be charged or convicted of anything. In fact, since the victims were women, the cops won't even investigate and will just chalk it up to rough sex followed by suicide. With his new job, Keef can get married and keep his wife chained to the kitchen sink. He's allowed to beat her, starve her and rape her whenever he feels like it. When he's sick of her, he can divorce her and the judge will give him everything and tell the woman to get on her bike and just be grateful she's lived this long. Because Patriarchy.

By now, at the age of 25, Keef is eligible to be promoted to CEO of a Fortune 500 company despite having no relevant qualifications and never bothering to turn up to his previous job, because white, heteronormative patriarchy demands that every white male - except gays - has a natural right to be rich, lazy, stupid and powerful.

 

Now you might think, "That's BS!!!" but you'd be wrong. You would be demonstrating that you are a mysoginistic, wife-beating, privileged, transphobic, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic tool of the Patriarchy, using your privilege to continue the oppression of .... well, just everybody except white men. You are probably also a Nazi.

 

I think that covers most of it.

 

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1 hour ago, Farmduck said:

I was being a bit redundant there since the heteronormative Patriarchy is, by definition, coercive. Hope that's cleared it up for you.

Funny thing just happened: I was looking for an example so I googled "heteronormative patriarchy" and it said "do you mean white heteronormative patriarchy?" You know, I guess I do mean that.

 

Here goes:

You know how, if you are a white straight male you always get every job you ever apply for and, if you only ask for $1 million/year, they'll say "No, no, you're a man so we'll give you $2 million!" That's Patriarchy at work. Earlier I mentioned a hypothetical Northern dole ####, who happens to be male, hetero and white, let's call him Keef Mersey. Let's say Keef, who dropped out of high school at 14 because it was interrupting his drinking schedule, decides now, at 20, that he wants to be an engineer. He just rings a major construction company and tells them to get rid of a female engineer, or a brown- or black or Chinese engineer or a gay engineer so they can give him the job. The company will immediately do it because they recognise his white, male, hetero privilege. Because Patriarchy.

Another advantage Keef has is that he can rape and murder women at will and he will never be charged or convicted of anything. In fact, since the victims were women, the cops won't even investigate and will just chalk it up to rough sex followed by suicide. With his new job, Keef can get married and keep his wife chained to the kitchen sink. He's allowed to beat her, starve her and rape her whenever he feels like it. When he's sick of her, he can divorce her and the judge will give him everything and tell the woman to get on her bike and just be grateful she's lived this long. Because Patriarchy.

By now, at the age of 25, Keef is eligible to be promoted to CEO of a Fortune 500 company despite having no relevant qualifications and never bothering to turn up to his previous job, because white, heteronormative patriarchy demands that every white male - except gays - has a natural right to be rich, lazy, stupid and powerful.

 

Now you might think, "That's BS!!!" but you'd be wrong. You would be demonstrating that you are a mysoginistic, wife-beating, privileged, transphobic, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic tool of the Patriarchy, using your privilege to continue the oppression of .... well, just everybody except white men. You are probably also a Nazi.

 

I think that covers most of it.

 

Mate. I think you need a hobby.;)

 

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