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'look what you made me do' is never the argument the oppressor thinks it is
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of course the cat wasn't distressed, it was getting handed regular victims without consequence, lil bastard was thriving
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'Attention all Twitter-bots! Attack the Nazis! This order cannot be countermanded!'
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'Do you find something horrific about my appearance when I wear my black hooded tracksuit on my evening strolls?'
#Uncanny
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i think the old man *was* a ghost, but it was in fact the ghost of the three hamsters in a trenchcoat who were furious at the family for relentlessly serving them up to the cat
#Uncanny
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'BUT HOW DID THE HAMSTERS ESCAPE???'
- that is the job of hamsters
'HOW WERE THEY ALL LAID OUT DEAD IN THE SAME PLACE???'
- that is the job of cats
#Uncanny
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'...an allegedly difficult battle with brain cancer'
lol
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they speak extremely sensibly, and get no answers except 'well... be more grateful!'
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and folks wonder why Gen-Z don't believe in democracy
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At the very least I know the devil's installed a life feed to show Kissinger how his heirs treat his legacy.
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otherwise you're just 'Yet Another whiny manager who's failed the Man U challenge, is there anything to be said for getting Fergie back?'
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possibly the biggest and most poisonous part of the Man U chalice is being unable to say 'guys, we're dreadful, and we're not going to win the league for many years yet while we focus on becoming structurally sustainable', because "expectations"
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in total fairness you're probably forced to be more reflectively humble at a tiny club with no money, and you can't just command £ms for your weird ideas. which is probably exactly why Man U are where they are.
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here's a case in point: Marti Cifuentes tried to get QPR playing one-touch possession football this season: by mid-November we were bottom of the league, 5 points off staying up.
he binned it and we're now 13th, 4 points off the playoffs.
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it's an endless cycle of Amazing Grace so i guess north London has lost a Vulcan
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this some dowager empress shit
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first encountered that on this drinks brand, never understood it fully ncnean.com
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my subconscious is SUCH a mf-ing hack
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they should call it RoboChop
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one thing i remember most was his realisation whilst writing Goodnight Sweetheart that he'd invented a 1940s beat copper (i.e. his dad) and called him PC Deadman.
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i saw his C4 documentary on it many years ago, superb study in 'having a weird relationship with tragedy'
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related, in case you're not aware, these lovely folks are the almost exact antithesis and ofc from Glasgow www.brewgooder.com
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somewhat in awe of his dedication to growing as a tosspot
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'Don't mention the wand! I did once but I think i got away with it..'
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John Cleese as John Cleese
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i mean it was useful in the sense that i immediately binned off this person as someone serious that i should listen to
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'It's too postmodern, and at the same time not postmodern enough'
a very specific type of 'brutal' that still winds me up to this day.