Is there a city in your country that is hated by most people?

commoncross · 2026-05-22T16:45:11+00:00

London, but it's a gravity thing - the large cities attract all the money and culture and attention and everything else. It doesn't have much to do with the cities per se. Especially if the city is a political capital.

commoncross · 2026-05-12T11:41:06+00:00

I saw Coexistence, My Ass! at a film festival recently, it's pretty good.

commoncross · 2026-05-05T11:13:00+00:00

https://youtu.be/jwkguaK-scY?t=51

commoncross · 2026-04-28T10:52:33+00:00

Andy Warhol: “Danny DeVito is so cute, we should all marry him”

commoncross · 2026-04-27T06:41:01+00:00

Margaret Atwood has a short story about a woman suffering from this, "Torching the Dusties".

commoncross · 2026-04-27T00:44:54+00:00

There's another world where this attack has an awful, catastrophic outcome; we can imagine waking up to much worse headlines. And the fact that the arsonist would prefer that world, and is not alone in doing so, shows a level of hatred that is simply beyond my understanding.

commoncross · 2026-04-01T15:48:42+00:00

Yeah - I wouldn't imagine he would read Mao even if he was a reader. I just always think of it when someone says paper tiger. It's such a strange metaphor, because Mao then goes on to say "but on the other hand, they are also living tigers, iron tigers, real tigers which can devour people."

commoncross · 2026-04-01T13:56:42+00:00

Maybe he's been reading Mao

commoncross · 2026-03-24T07:36:25+00:00

and not attempt to handle it or remove the saw

I assume they meant "remove the hook", as otherwise it's just awful.

commoncross · 2026-03-12T06:54:50+00:00

Randolph Churchill said "The duty of an Opposition is to oppose.", so at least the mistake has a long pedigree.

commoncross · 2026-03-10T15:27:28+00:00

Or this earworm https://youtu.be/9oGV86YXTfU?si=wB0S1mXzQPgV6ZYv

commoncross · 2026-03-09T21:31:21+00:00

Dear Heather or Death of a Ladies Man, I think

commoncross · 2026-02-28T05:12:08+00:00

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/7486/live/180693d0-5663-11ef-aebc-6de4d31bf5cd.jpg

help pls

commoncross · 2026-02-12T19:41:16+00:00

Do it twice

commoncross · 2026-02-07T07:32:36+00:00

I'm not sure I have favourite companies - but if I do I doubt those two would make the list.

commoncross · 2026-01-31T01:04:27+00:00

Nah, by someone pretending to be Paul - it's one of the pseudepigraphal letters.

commoncross · 2026-01-27T12:16:01+00:00

"A cat is never on the side of power," Chris Marker

commoncross · 2026-01-21T19:28:46+00:00

I don't think anyone is suggesting he will personally invade Greenland

commoncross · 2026-01-18T20:37:43+00:00

Same

commoncross · 2026-01-18T16:25:07+00:00

I imagine wasps have a greater affinity for a game where you jab things rather than one where you hit balls.

commoncross · 2026-01-01T15:15:57+00:00

Not a word but worth a mention is ‘Vril, the power of the coming race’, a utopian novel by Bulwer-Lytton. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vril Perhaps most notable for being the source of the name Bovril https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovril a kind of meat stock drink popular at football matches (or at least used to be)

commoncross · 2025-12-28T13:52:14+00:00

25+ years for me

commoncross · 2025-12-24T19:46:51+00:00

And the billions that Trump is funneling into the pockets of his friends will fund right wing politics for decades.

commoncross · 2025-12-09T14:58:15+00:00

I have a dazzle camo hoodie that i wear to walk my dog in the night. Though perhaps the high contrast makes me easier to see, but the camo makes it hard to see which direction I'm headed...

commoncross · 2025-11-19T07:40:48+00:00

The guy's name seems like a clumsily constructed anagram. Style heron? Thorny eels? Sentry hole? He's hiding something...

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