The current biggest con is the disparity between the 1% and the rest of us.
Upper-middle-class people are brainwashed into thinking they’re the 1%. They’re not – they’re paupers compared to the actual people ruining the planet.
The clue is in the number. The 99% us need to join together and remove 99.9% of the wealth from the 1%. Hell, they’d still be rich, I think that’s more than fair.
So, I was trying to book a fancy restaurant and nearly committed till I saw they had a dress code which said no sports clothing / trainers.
I have an abdominal hernia which means I have to wear certain types of top for comfort, polo shirts usually. And the oedema in my feet means that two hours in fancy shoes = next day hobbling.
It’d be nice to have fancy food but I guess I’ll just give my money to somewhere not so up its own arse.
SO – I bought Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes on iTunes and was appalled by the crappy encoding. This amazing film was rendered into a blocky, cyberdelic nightmare of hanging faces and shifting backgrounds. I complained.
Apple told be to get bent.
SO… I complained again.
And they caved.
Never give up. Be the squeaky wheel and you will get the grease, baby.
During the conversation, Healy mentioned that he once messaged Ice Spice on Instagram, which opened the floodgates for Friedland and Mullen to refer to her as an “Inuit Spice Girl,” saying: “This chubby Chinese lady. ‘Yeah, I rap and [make] music.’ Do they talk like that? Do Inuits talk like that?” What followed was their unabashed mocking of Chinese and Hawaiian accents while Healy laughed along.
If Healy was embarrassed like he told the audience he often is when he finds himself in hot water, which happens at a perplexing frequency, it didn’t show. “Yeah, that’s what Ice Spice is like,” he agreed, co-signing the mockery more than participating. In another instance, the hosts encouraged Healy to message the rapper on Instagram for clarity. “So you slide into her DMs and ask ‘What are you? A fucking Eskimo or something?’”
Whether it’s Morrissey, Philip Larkin or Healy, the amount white people will bend over backwards to forgive their favourite racists is extraordinary.
I listened to the original podcast and it was two rich white men being HILARIOUSLY racist. Nick Mullen was the Clarkson and Healy was a bully sidekick, Hammond re-incarnated. Watch below and just replace every mention of Hammond with Healy, it works perfectly:
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In the Noughties, I joined Last.fm, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, Google/Gmail and many other services that, back then, were the plucky upstarts.
Some died, some grew wealthy and then more and more evil. With our data, with our interactions. And I watched as years of my data was sold on from company to company.
DPReview is just the latest reason for me to never, ever put any effort into a privately-owned, centralised service again.
Women and children have been failed by the Metropolitan Police, with racism, misogyny, and homophobia at the heart of the force, a blistering review says.
Baroness Casey says a “boys’ club” culture is rife and the force could be dismantled if it does not improve.
People moan about fantasy and SF and superhero media but you know what fantastical, unbelievable fairy tale world irks me most?
COPAGANDA
Any sane person knows that #ACAB and that they’re a white supremacist street gang. Even our media, with its hideous bias, has to print the truth of what scum the police are.
It’s not a couple of bad apples, it’s a rotten barrel. If good cops do join, it’s simply a matter of time before they’re harassed out of the force. Or worse.
This isn’t CRAZY TROT JYOTI MISHRA saying this, this is what the report above by a FUCKING BARONESS has to conclude. A BARONESS, a pillar of the establishment itself, a bona fide member of our ruling class. Fuck me, how bad do the police have to be that one of the elite has to publically shit on them?
Meanwhile, our TV is swimming with great cops solving cunning murders. I’m watching the Luther feature film currently and it features black SuperCop! Luther falsely imprisoned before being sprung and no doubt defeating the evil serial killer singlehandedly.
In real life, not so much. In real life, stalking, raping and murdering women.
Me: Doctor, I’ve broken my arm. GP: It’s cos you’re fat.
Me: Doctor, I stood on a nail. GP: It’s cos you’re fat.
Me: Doctor, I’ve got a bad ear infection. GP: It’s cos you’re fat.
Me: Doctor, I’m fat. GP: Have you tried eating less and doing more? Me: I was first put on a diet as a 7yo. They never work. GP: It’s cos you’re fat. And a liar.
Me: Doctor, I have gonorrhea. GP: Have you thought of getting a gastric band?
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