copybot.bsky.social
English copywriter in Paris.
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#smalldickenergy
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The influence of French in polite British society for hundreds of years.
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You’re unhinged.
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It’s amazing Corbyn lost twice really: you’re all so nice, welcoming and persuasive.
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Keep on keeping on, champ.
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I can’t find any evidence that his interest in public transport was criticised per se by Labour colleagues, still less that he was “lambasted” for it. The criticism seems to be for being a bit shit, which was fair comment.
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I’ve looked it up: it was in July 2018, and the criticism from Labour MPs was about talking about buses at PMQs instead of focusing on Theresa May and her inability to control her party. Which seems to me to be a criticism of tactics rather than strategy.
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Finally, an answer. When did this happen? I’d like to look it up.
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A bit? He’s a fucking liability. Happily the electorate agrees.
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Ok, that was weird.
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And yet look who understands that it’s seats that count, not numbers of votes.
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So to be clear the ‘Reeves mob’ in the original post is everyone who isn’t a Corbyn fan? You do know that’s nuts, right?
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Yes, yes. They’re all the same except the sainted Jeremy. Who is a narcissistic has-been. Let him go.
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A bit? He’s a fucking liability. Happily the electorate agrees.
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Yes well she did the country a service. But I was specifically asking about public transport.
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You’re very keen to keep this going, champ.
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This is pathetic.
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And so you have to deflect furiously. It’s pathetic.
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I did read it. It’s still nonsense. You cannot justify your initial claim.
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But the point is that this lambasting of Corbyn about public transport by people close to Reeves never happened. And the evidence presented is laughable.
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The sun, the Spectator and Tory MPs are not Labour supporters. Like the electorate, they probably prefer Reeves to Corbyn. But Corbyn is a clown.
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It’s good to call out idiocy.
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Ok, true. On the evidence of this conversation, you’re an idiot. It’s true that in every other respect you may not be an idiot, and this is the only idiocy you have ever presented.
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You’re an idiot.
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So you can’t actually remember Reeves or her supporters doing what you claimed, and you’re having a go at strangers on the internet instead of admitting it.
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Tory MPs, the Sun and the Spectator: all working for Rachel Reeves, famously.
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I just want you to say what you claim you remember.
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And the Spectator is on Reeves’s side, is it? I see.
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Yes ok. What did they say and when?
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#smalldickenergy
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When was Corbyn lambasted for talking about the importance of public transport by Reeves?
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Do they have to play home and away, or is it just 5 games?
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That’s a poor headline
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Yes. You used it wrongly earlier. The word you wanted was “implication”, not “inference”. Being a pro, I know this stuff.
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You could look up “inference” while you’re at it.
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It might be your inference, but I can’t see that it was the implication. It was simply a statement of fact. He is not entitled to it.
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And if you look at the original post, it's clearly being used in the main sense.
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Sure. Nobody is disagreeing there. But the meaning as in 'you're being a bit entitled' is secondary - it's a figurative meaning used as an adjective which derives from that past participle being deployed as an adjective. That's all I was saying. Quite why it was difficult is anyone's guess.
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It's a past participle of a verb which is being used adjectivally. But I'm not sure the part of speech is really the issue so much as the definition of the word.
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It's a past participle of a verb. But yes. I'm not sure why people are really arguing, but I imagine it makes them happy. And we're all entitled to a little bit of happiness now and again.
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You're entitled to your opinion. Oh look - there it is again.
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So the caller here feels entitled and is acting entitled about something to which he is not necessarily entitled. Words are hard sometimes, aren't they?
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But it is something to which you are entitled. You've got it! Well done.
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So if I am entitled to legal representation that’s a feeling that I deserve special treatment, is it?
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That’s very much a secondary meaning. If you are entitled to something it’s about legal rights, not feelings. If you act entitled it’s closer to what you’re saying. Come on: you know this.
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That isn't what it means. You're confusing it with a sense of entitlement.
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I’ve never seen anyone wearing a burqa in Europe. You see the odd niqab, but never burqas.
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I find it hard to keep up, and even harder to summon the energy to try. But doesn't this mean Farage's kids are non-white?
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My wife is both British and non-British, and my kids are French, Canadian and British. They are apparently, therefore, about as non-white as they can be. Which will come as a shock to them.
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He’s a lot smarter than Trump, that’s for sure.