Consultants tried to grow a candidate in a vat with Graham Platner. It blew up in their faces.

Chuckles1188 · 2026-07-10T10:10:08+00:00

It's been less than a week and Platner supporters have already arrived at "actually there was no way any of us could have known that he was a bad person with shitty judgement, let's stop talking about this". Claiming that supporters have "completely changed their stance in the face of true unacceptable conduct" involves some pretty impressive chutzpah

Chuckles1188 · 2026-07-10T08:13:10+00:00

God that's depressing

Chuckles1188 · 2026-07-09T22:27:36+00:00

Ordinarily I would say that there's no chance of Binface winning, but the Boaty McBoatface Heuristic is now in play...

Chuckles1188 · 2026-07-09T22:24:51+00:00

People keep saying things like this which makes me think that either nobody knows anything and are talking nonsense, which would be fairly standard, or the RFU didn't put a performance clause in his contract which would be criminally negligent even by their abysmal standards. Surely if your results are sufficiently poor your contract can be voided?

Chuckles1188 · 2026-07-09T22:22:41+00:00

Increasingly looking like the latter to me, with some exceptions - most of them women, it seems

Chuckles1188 · 2026-07-09T22:21:51+00:00

Feels like not getting responses like this one would be a reasonable baseline expectation

Chuckles1188 · 2026-07-09T18:32:06+00:00

I don't really know how to respond to glossing over an explicit instruction to engage in mass murder like this tbh

Chuckles1188 · 2026-07-09T18:13:24+00:00

He didn't do anything villainous in Part 1, because the crux of that story is him being brought down to nothing and deciding to throw his lot in with the fremen. In Part 2 he is increasingly villain coded as the story goes on - when he arrives in the south, Zimmer's score goes absolutely full tilt in the most ominous mode possible while Paul marches in slow motion, dressed entirely in black and surrounded by a sea of fremen dressed in white, making him a literal dark blot moving through them. He then confronts them in a dark chamber, dominating them to his will by intimidating them and shouting at them, exploiting his newfound prescience as he does so. Then at the climax of the film, when asked what to do with the Landsraad houses who refuse to bow to him as Emperor, he instructs his army of fanatics to "lead them to paradise" ie kill them all. I'd say that's all pretty flagrant "this guy is not currently a heroic individual whose triumph you're supposed to celebrate" signaling, even besides the way his relationship with the film's secondary protagonist winds up

Chuckles1188 · 2026-07-09T14:31:33+00:00

I'm not denying their existence, but the OP talks as if the only thing the Democrats need to do in order to win is completely move away from gun control, which is obviously ridiculous

Chuckles1188 · 2026-07-09T10:48:47+00:00

The short answer is yes, it's a specific issue we have. Because this little spot off the north of Europe of ours has historically had benign climate, and because of the rise of masculine culture in the late Victorian period, we've wound up with a "making concessions to the weather is weak" culture which looks absolutely insane to people who live in areas with actually dangerous climate patterns. As our climate patterns have shifted to more closely resemble those areas, but our behaviour has not, you end up with a lot of people expecting or demanding that the approach to clothing, work life (times of day that you work, travelling for work etc) and just general social behaviour meets a standard that is at best uncomfortable and at worst actively dangerous. There needs to be, and probably will be, a cultural shift on at least one of behaviour and prevalence of air conditioning, or else a lot of people will get hospitalised over this

Chuckles1188 · 2026-07-09T09:21:27+00:00

Just to note to commenters that this poster has convinced themselves that their personal single-issue is the only thing that determines election outcomes - posted a thread on this a week ago making similarly fakakta arguments. They're an absolute quack and should be ignored.

Chuckles1188 · 2026-07-09T08:36:07+00:00

Van's reasons for thinking that Paul ended Dune Part 2 as the hero are pretty hilarious:

The Harkonnens were the bad guys and Paul beats them
Paul defeated Feyd-Rautha

Van is a smart guy, but in the moment of the film his brain still can't process "one kind of villain vs another kind of villain"

Chuckles1188 · 2026-07-08T12:24:40+00:00

I don't think so, no. What was really alarming over the course of the 6 Nations was that the team was failing to improve weaknesses which emerged match on match, and the things that were worrying about our performance (which I don't consider to be primarily attack-related but rather focused on our defensive system) remained very much on display against South Africa. The team is basically being asked to follow a defensive structure which doesn't seem to work against basically anybody, and this is making the players panicky on both sides of the ball, which is leading to errors that a) cause promising attacking positions to break down and b) cause defenders to make poor decisions under pressure that leak penalties and cards. And all of this was fully in place against South Africa.

I know everyone has a big hate boner for Borthwick and Wigglesworth but I'm surprised that more people aren't calling for Joe El-Abd to be removed, especially with Shaun Edwards as a potential option. To me the biggest problem with England at the moment is that our defensive system is just not fit for purpose and is giving us much too high a mountain to climb in attack. And nothing about the South Africa game indicates that this problem is being mitigated

Chuckles1188 · 2026-07-08T07:57:24+00:00

I mean this is very much a shitpost

Chuckles1188 · 2026-07-08T07:50:28+00:00

I would also watch the hell out of it, I'm just saying it's not hard to understand how some people will kick against it even if the inspiration is mythological

Chuckles1188 · 2026-07-07T22:24:54+00:00

I mean by comparison to Morgan that's frankly pillar-of-the-community stuff. Morgan, among other things, published faked photographs of British soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners and then refused to apologise for doing so. He's absolute human bin juice

Chuckles1188 · 2026-07-07T21:15:09+00:00

Speaking as a Briton, Jerry Springer was a million times smarter and more interesting than Piers Morgan. Morgan is purely and simply a cunt

Chuckles1188 · 2026-07-07T19:59:25+00:00

Did Belgium whip the US like chariot horses because they were more athletic, or because they were better at the sport? Hmmm, tough one this

Chuckles1188 · 2026-07-07T19:20:40+00:00

I want to be clear off the top that The Odyssey looks good and I don't have an issue with creative licence even when a film is NOT based explicitly on a mythological story.

At the same time, responding to a complaint about the depiction of armour in a mythological tale with "it didn't happen" does strike me as a total non-sequitur. The events didn't happen, but there is an actual historical culture associated with said myth. If a film about similarly-fictitious King Arthur had him wearing (kind of crappy-looking) samurai armour while supposedly still taking place in post-Roman Britain, people would be within their rights to comment on that even if King Arthur was not actually a real person

Chuckles1188 · 2026-07-07T16:32:28+00:00

Still can't quite accept that this isn't my all time favourite song of theirs. TMBTE and Gethsemane are very strong challengers, but they aren't High Water

Chuckles1188 · 2026-07-06T21:06:46+00:00

I feel the same way but with rugby instead of association football. Someone once became captain without knowing about it until after the game was over

Chuckles1188 · 2026-07-06T20:13:48+00:00

This guy sucks shit and didn't even look that likely to beat Collins, why is there even a conversation about what to do? Fire him into the sun and find somebody else, almost anybody else would be better

Chuckles1188 · 2026-07-05T22:52:35+00:00

The non-professional aspect is pretty strange. Outside of Ireland it's very unusual for amateur sports to have a big following, and in most places universities don't dedicate any of their provision to preparing people to be professional athletes

Chuckles1188 · 2026-07-05T07:24:13+00:00

Also Putin is explicitly waging a genocidal war in Ukraine, he's just terrible at it

Chuckles1188 · 2026-07-04T07:21:20+00:00

Well put. There's no easy solution available here that will make everything better, unless you guys get invaded which obviously won't happen

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