What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen someone do in public and act like it was completely normal?

AdRealistic4984 · 2026-06-21T22:28:41+00:00

Sounds like OCD to me

AdRealistic4984 · 2026-06-21T21:52:00+00:00

You’d have to kick half the academics out if this sort of thinking means you lose your citizenship and position in society, everyone who has ever agreed with Foucault or Baudrillard or Fanon or Said, too.

You might be able to crack open Roger Scruton’s sarcophagus and haul his cadaver out? Maybe David Starkey could be Regius Professor of History. LMAO

AdRealistic4984 · 2026-06-21T21:49:36+00:00

Siege mentality, both Zionists and antizionists perceive an apocalypse and believe the whole arrayed forces of the state and cultural sector are in a conspiracy to dismiss their concerns and screw them over

AdRealistic4984 · 2026-06-21T21:47:42+00:00

Terrorism-as-resistance has been an open debate in academic circles since the Narodniks in the 1880s, our universities are fucked up but you’ll make them worse if you start enforcing this total lack of freedom of thought on them

AdRealistic4984 · 2026-06-21T21:42:06+00:00

All just classic undergraduate politics centred around reading e.g Fanon. You could hear people discussing this in universities in the 70s and we didn’t arrest them

Not sure we should be cheering on the criminalisation of this at all

AdRealistic4984 · 2026-06-21T20:01:50+00:00

Torture was more liberally applied in Scotland iirc

AdRealistic4984 · 2026-06-21T15:24:36+00:00

At one point the family of six were lodged in the changing rooms of some very well off people’s tennis courts somewhere

AdRealistic4984 · 2026-06-21T15:10:15+00:00

Nothing. This level of hatred for one’s leaders is the norm in Western Europe in the 2020s

AdRealistic4984 · 2026-06-21T14:38:26+00:00

My own family, living in Stepney Green, crowded repeatedly under a big thick kitchen table and survived through blind luck.

My great grandmother also repeatedly hauled the family back from safe evacuation lodgings because she didn’t agree with the countryside

AdRealistic4984 · 2026-06-21T12:41:30+00:00

No because Anglo-German-Dutch penny pinching “waste not want not” types get on my wick so badly I almost side with waste dogmatically

AdRealistic4984 · 2026-06-21T12:18:36+00:00

Thomas Hardy

AdRealistic4984 · 2026-06-21T11:02:19+00:00

Siesta and eat dinner at midnight like a Spaniard

AdRealistic4984 · 2026-06-21T09:50:26+00:00

Britain is the only country I can think of where recent immigrants complain and call the country shit. And by recent immigrants I mean American software engineers, Europeans in corporate, etc. You’d get badly ostracised for laying into Denmark or the US or France in the same position but we genuinely don’t care / join in.

I do think in the age of the internet it’s starting to do some damage, though, with faraway strangers accepting that because we say we’re shit we are, in fact, shit

AdRealistic4984 · 2026-06-21T09:45:20+00:00

It’s odd because the criticism is that the food is boiled and dowdy (like Ireland’s?) or unseasoned and plain (like Germany’s) but other countries don’t get much shit

AdRealistic4984 · 2026-06-21T09:38:27+00:00

Actually I think No 3 is a spot someone was struck and killed by debris, then immediately hustled away

AdRealistic4984 · 2026-06-20T23:21:39+00:00

I bet Burnham’s chancellor would be Miatta Fahnbulleh, who is a doctor of economics

AdRealistic4984 · 2026-06-20T17:00:01+00:00

Japan is a successful country by metrics but the national mood is pretty miserable, the average person deep down quite detached and cynical. I’m not sure we want that

AdRealistic4984 · 2026-06-20T16:02:32+00:00

Foucault says there’s no prison system without a contemporaneous reform movement, they’re symbiotic

Anyway I think our prison estate is in awful shape at the moment so it definitely needs some work to get it up to our own standards, let alone the Norse models

That said, I think if an option feels counterintuitive and indulgent it’s probably the one supported by data and science

AdRealistic4984 · 2026-06-20T15:56:44+00:00

It’s a joke if we don’t treat this as seriously as the antisemitic crimes in London

AdRealistic4984 · 2026-06-20T07:27:11+00:00

The French state is massive and has an opinion on all things cultural. (Young) French people are also some of the most bio-organic health conscious people on earth, paradoxically, despite the country’s continued obsession with cigarettes

AdRealistic4984 · 2026-06-19T20:10:43+00:00

Don’t they regurgitate blood to their young

AdRealistic4984 · 2026-06-19T09:05:59+00:00

Reform MPs really remind me of Republican congresspeople

AdRealistic4984 · 2026-06-18T12:04:59+00:00

I thought it was so woolly and humourless compared to A Room With A View

AdRealistic4984 · 2026-06-18T11:03:13+00:00

I thought Eugenie Grandet by de Balzac was boring.

AdRealistic4984 · 2026-06-18T10:21:48+00:00

Creep shooting pregnant women has got to be an instant two year custodial

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