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SanguinePar

@ sanguinepar @lemmy.world

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  • Is streetwear a joke?

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  • I don't see anything wrong, or even odd about what he's wearing. It's just a jacket and some shorts. If I passed him in the street, I doubt I'd even register his clothes tbh.

  • What in your country/area is totally normal but visitors get excited for?

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  • People who urge crowds to burn down hotels full of refugees should absolutely be arrested. This isn't free speech. It's far-right thuggery. Also, you didn't beat shit. The French military did.

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  • This is the story:

    BBC News - Lucy Connolly released from prison after race hate post on X - BBC News

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yl7p4l11po?app-referrer=search

    She's since become a bit of a cause celebre for the hard of thinking right wing establishment.

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    Because that story doesn't have it, here's more context and what she said:

    In July last year, prompted by a false rumour that an illegal immigrant was responsible for the murder of three girls at a dance workshop in Southport, Connolly posted online calling for "mass deportation now", adding "set fire to all the... hotels [housing asylum seekers]... for all I care".

    Connolly, then a 41-year-old Northampton childminder, added: "If that makes me racist, so be it."

    EDIT 2 - in fact, her exact words were this:

    “Mass deportation now, set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards for all I care … if that makes me racist so be it.”

    At the time she had about 9,000 followers on X. Her message was reposted 940 times and viewed 310,000 times, before she deleted it three and a half hours later.

    In October she was jailed after admitting inciting racial hatred.

    Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3nn60wyr6o

  • People who urge crowds to burn down hotels full of refugees should absolutely be arrested. This isn't free speech. It's far-right thuggery. Also, you didn't beat shit. The French military did.

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  • Agreed. Also, she pled guilty.

  • I spotted a spotted sandpiper. I love how they bob as they walk.

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  • Was it spotted before you spotted it? Or did your spotting it spot it?

  • You're drunk at the arcade while your husband plays dancing games. What do you do while you wait?

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  • Drink more.

  • my galaxy S3!!

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  • That's amazing!

    Bloody toddlers! 😁

  • my galaxy S3!!

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  • It was. Still felt dumb though 😁

  • my galaxy S3!!

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  • Loved my S3. Broke the screen when I leaned against a wall to help my toddler climb down and heard a crack from my trouser pocket 😨

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    What do you think is the holy grail of unreleased movies or tv series or something thats still "in the vault"?

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  • Never actually made, as far as I know, but mine would be whatever it was David Lynch was doing for Netflix, under the name Wisteria (or possibly Unrecorded Night, it seems to have gone by both names at various points). Cancelled due to the pandemic and never really explained as far as I know.

    Hell, I'd just like to know what it was going to be - something Twin Peaks related? Something completely new? The further adventures of Jack the killer monkey?

    EDIT - apparently his daughter Jennifer has said they're considering releasing the script. That was June 2025, so hope springs!

  • [ASIA] Who is your favourite Asian author?

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  • My knowledge of Asian authors is pretty limited, but I'll go for Haruki Murakami.

    I'd recommend pretty much anything of his. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle is one of my favourites though.

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  • Never smoked (although I probably got a fair bit second hand from my dad, back in the day)

    Don't do crazy drinking, but do enjoy a cold pint or two now and then, and maybe a few more if I'm out at a gig or something. And in the summer I'll often have some bottles chilling in the fridge.

    Also enjoy an occasional whisky - single malt, nice and smoky, preferably.

    Don't usually have other spirits, maybe vodka or rum in a cocktail, but pretty rarely tbh.

  • YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection

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  • No worries - the general point still stands though I think 👍

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  • True happiness is something that should make you happy in the moment and in the long run.

    I'm not sure I agree - why is a long term aspect necessarily for something to constitute true happiness?

    If I can't remember something, does that mean it didn't make me "truly happy"?

    If so, that would mean that a child given a toy they play with for years but eventually lose interest in and forget as they grow older, didn't experience "true happiness" from that toy, which doesn't seem right to me.

    I don't think permanence or longevity are factors in whether ones happiness is true or not.

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  • Agreed - that's why many people love, say, the Mona Lisa, or Starry Night.

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  • I think you're going to have to provide a generally acceptable definition of "true happiness" - and a definition that isn't contingent on the points raised in your question.

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  • Depends on context - if said amiably between friends, it could be fine.

    In the context of your comment about it being your boss who said it, and why, I'd say it's pretty insulting (if not necessarily an intended insult).

    It's pretty dismissive of you as a person, instead focusing on your value (to his bar) in terms of attracting male customers. It's not very respectful of you tbh.

  • Which cartoon foods did you always want to try?

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  • YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection

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  • The way Africa looked on maps has never had any bearing on my or probably anyone's thinking of how important the country is in global politics or economics.

    Africa isn't a country though, it's a continent with dozens of independent, distinct and diverse countries in it.

    And one possible impact of the continent being represented much smaller than it really is, is people thinking of Africa as a single country.