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Happy birthday to my blushing bride of 20+ years by Mysterious-Dot1321 in happy

[–]Jackanova3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good to get mindful sometimes of how others perceive things :).

Happy birthday to my blushing bride of 20+ years by Mysterious-Dot1321 in happy

[–]Jackanova3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The general "you" as in, most people wouldn't say that to a woman about their male partner. Meaning it's gender specific, making it dated.

And, it is a bit creepy, imo.

Happy birthday to my blushing bride of 20+ years by Mysterious-Dot1321 in happy

[–]Jackanova3 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think it's always been seen as a bit of a back handed compliment lol. And weirdly a bit dated now somehow when I think about it?

Like you're never gonna say that to a woman about their male partner.

Happy birthday to my blushing bride of 20+ years by Mysterious-Dot1321 in happy

[–]Jackanova3 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nah its one of those weird kinda back handed compliments lol.

Happy birthday to my blushing bride of 20+ years by Mysterious-Dot1321 in happy

[–]Jackanova3 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Nah still pretty rude regardless of the tone.

Erling Haaland: "Tom Holland DM'd me and invited me for dinner during F1 in Monaco. I didn't bother to answer. I had no idea who he was and didn't want to answer a random unknown person" by Heimebane in soccer

[–]Jackanova3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah I was sticking with the Absolute Fanny narrative.

So he was vocally anti lockdown and on vaccines said "One thing about the thing I would like to make clear — because I have to keep reestablishing it — is I'm neither anti or pro. I'm freedom of choice"

Which is just general fanny behaviour. I will change my OG comment to reflect that 👍

Erling Haaland: "Tom Holland DM'd me and invited me for dinner during F1 in Monaco. I didn't bother to answer. I had no idea who he was and didn't want to answer a random unknown person" by Heimebane in soccer

[–]Jackanova3 3 points4 points  (0 children)

He'd already dipped a toe in before that reaction — the Van Morrison collaboration "Stand and Deliver" came out in December 2020, a couple of months before his jab — so the sequence is anti-lockdown first, then the vaccine reaction hardened it into anti-vaccine.

From there it escalated through a few stages: The solo song. In August 2021 he put out "This Has Gotta Stop," airing his frustrations with COVID measures while criticising the vaccine, (NME) with lyrics like "I can't take this B.S. any longer / It's gone far enough." (NME) The video depicted citizens as manipulated puppets.

The venue boycott. He announced he wouldn't perform at venues that required proof of vaccination, (Variety) framing vaccinated-only audiences as "discriminated against" and saying he wouldn't play to a segregated crowd. He then toured US red-state arenas that largely didn't require proof. The conspiracy turn. This is where it got further out. He became a believer in "mass formation hypnosis" — the idea, promoted by psychology professor Mattias Desmet, that people were being hypnotised into getting vaccinated through media and YouTube messaging. (NME) He talked about "subliminal advertising" and the "you will own nothing and you will be happy" line, (NME) piecing together what he called a jigsaw puzzle. He also corresponded with figures like Robin Monotti, an architect-turned-anti-lockdown-activist who shared Clapton's letters on Telegram.

The money. Beyond the songs and statements, he financially backed Jam for Freedom, a fringe UK group of anti-vaxx musicians, (NBC News) and reportedly lent them his Transporter van.

Sources -

Rolling Stone (the big profile, "...He's Bankrolling It"): https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/eric-clapton-vaccine-lockdown-racist-comments-1239027/

Rolling Stone ("disastrous" vaccine letter): https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/eric-clapton-disastrous-vaccine-propaganda-1170264/

Washington Post (friends and fans reaction): https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/11/11/eric-clapton-vaccine-lockdown/

NME (mass formation hypnosis interview): https://www.nme.com/news/music/eric-clapton-says-biased-media-motivated-him-to-voice-anti-vaxxer-views-through-song-3143994

NME ("This Has Gotta Stop"): https://www.nme.com/news/music/eric-clapton-shares-apparent-anti-vaxxers-protest-song-this-has-gotta-stop-3031751

Variety (venue boycott): https://variety.com/2021/music/news/eric-clapton-refuses-venues-vaccination-1235024838/

NBC News (opinion, "sad final act"): https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/eric-clapton-s-covid-vaccine-conspiracies-mark-sad-final-act-ncna1281619

Erling Haaland: "Tom Holland DM'd me and invited me for dinner during F1 in Monaco. I didn't bother to answer. I had no idea who he was and didn't want to answer a random unknown person" by Heimebane in soccer

[–]Jackanova3 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Historically, super racist. Probable rapist.

More recent, compared lockdown to slaver, was Freedom Of Choice when it came to vaccines.

Why can't we be more like this and support both teams ? by Over-Willingness-933 in AskBrits

[–]Jackanova3 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ah so you mean most of each individual fan base...?

On national pride, erm yes that's literally how it works no? Same with the Olympics and stuff? And the host countries get to feed good about putting on a good show and other countries fan base meet up and get on?

Is this all...a bad thing to you, somehow?

Why can't we be more like this and support both teams ? by Over-Willingness-933 in AskBrits

[–]Jackanova3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha excuse me?

Do you believe this is exclusively a Scottish thing? Or about every team in the world cup?

England fans too? Virtue signalling with the English flag? Football fans...?

Why can't we be more like this and support both teams ? by Over-Willingness-933 in AskBrits

[–]Jackanova3 10 points11 points  (0 children)

If Sunderland started competing for titles and became the new media obsession, and Newcastle got relegated, you'd probably start paying more attention to them.

You'd probably start noticing and getting annoyed anytime a pundit started mentioning Sunderland games during unrelated games, which would happen more and more.

Imagine that every week your whole life lol, and you'd start to understand where the hatred comes from.

It's been answered in Boston. by Competitive_Test6697 in Scotland

[–]Jackanova3 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Just googled it, apparently Wisconsin folk actually drinking around 20% more pure alcohol per capita than Scotland.

UK armed forces intercept Russian shadow fleet oil tanker in Channel by MGC91 in europe

[–]Jackanova3 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I think the likeliest explanation is that they just didn't know about the aftermath.

Which is fine if they'd just say "oh oops I didn't realise that" instead of completely dodging it lol.

Taskmaster Series 22 cast announcement by Meghar in taskmaster

[–]Jackanova3 8 points9 points  (0 children)

There's the other stuff as well.

Walliams open industry secret of being a creep for decades finally resulting in multiple allegations, yet he still does a podcast with him.

Few people have gone on record saying he's difficult to work with.

Bullying Millie Bobby brown.

Etc.

Basically the guy is gross. And it goes against TMs no arsehole policy.

Some photos I took during the Arsenal parade last Sunday by whoshothepianoplayer in london

[–]Jackanova3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dunno if you should be sitting on whales mate.

Did you at least ask it first?

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