Twitter

[Boydy]

My own accent is rubbish, it's like a very nondescript west midlands accent, but without the fun of a proper brummy/black country accent, or even something like a northampton accent. My mate from eastleigh thinks all of us from rugby "sound like yamyams", but he would think that, the thick southern cunt.

Stop lying, you sound posh as fuck mate.

[Jimmy Floyd]

From what I remember of igor's voice it was identifiably midlands.

I'd place it midway between Birmingham and Leicester. Drop that on a map, no idea.

[Spikey M]

I'd place it midway between Birmingham and Leicester. Drop that on a map, no idea.

I've been to Nuneaton, so trust me when I say that this is a cruel thing to say. You should apologise.

[igor_balis]

From what I remember of igor's voice it was identifiably midlands.

I'd place it midway between Birmingham and Leicester. Drop that on a map, no idea.

Pretty much. Draw a line between the two, then go almost exactly perpendicularly southeast from the middle of the line about 20 miles.

[phonics]

New Zealand? I always just thought you sounded reasonably well spoken English.

I once had one person say they thought I sounded Norn Iron but they're literally the only one so I think they might've just been a bit dim.

I think it just fluctuates based on who I'm talking to.

[Lewis]

It's not a language any more than scouse or geordie are a language. It just happens to be located in a place where people are grasping for tenets of nationalism at the moment.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-us-teenager-wrote-huge-slice-of-scots-wikipedia

FACT.

[Pepe]

Here a version o ma 10 oor coorse available for free. Lairn yersel aboot yer language.

Please share widely ��

Your voice maitters!

:harold:

[Kikó]

Oh that's swung it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's no different to when you lot do the London accent thing typed out, e.g. oi you lot ah suppawt fackin miwwwaww you cant.

[Giggles]

It's no different to when you lot do the London accent thing typed out, e.g. oi you lot ah suppawt fackin miwwwaww you cant.

That’s just all English accents since Brexit for me.

[Spikey M]

That’s just all English accents since Brexit for me.

Ahhh fackin dare yew? Arr yew fackin schtewpid?

[Giggles]

Ahhh fackin dare yew? Arr yew fackin schtewpid?

Exactly, the very same way that’s been our only one for decades. Same as we’re all sitting on stone walls saying begorrah to horses, all of you are going ‘innit caaaant’ throwing a stool through a foreign cafe window.

[Shindig]

There will come a point in history where my accent isn't associated with a hoax from the 80's.

[Spikey M]

There will come a point in history where my accent isn't associated with a hoax from the 80's.

I thought Raoul Moat was from Sunderland, but it turns out not.

Still, atleast I was reminded of this poor fucker (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10754823/Brother-David-Rathband-killed-blinded-Raoul-Moat-slams-new-ITV-drama.html) while finding out. :sick:

[Ben]

There will come a point in history where my accent isn't associated with a hoax from the 80's.

He was from Castletown (Sunderland) was he not? As my wife keeps reminding me, there's a huge difference between Geordie and Mackem.

[Shindig]

Tell that to West Yorkshire Police.

[Baz]

Can't scroll Twitter anymore. Every 5th tweet is some shite promoted ad.

[Mike]

Get Tweetbot

[Baz]

Funny thread:

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[Lofty]

A thread accusing Jack Monroe of being a grifter, which is hilarious because it is all based on her own tweets and articles but Jack herself has claimed quoting her own words is libellous :D

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[Jimmy Floyd]

I've thought for a while that she/they (I can't get on board with neutral pronouns, soz if that makes me a Hitler/Stalin hybrid) is a psychopath.

[Kikó]

I don't think psychopath but definitely a narcissist. The woe is me, give me some money blog post the other day was utterly shameful.

[Ben]

Who is this person?

[Lofty]

Essentially someone who went on the dole for a few months a decade ago and has span a career out of it as the rent-a-gob of the poor.

[Baz]

So many people jumping to defend them. :gs:

[Boydy]

I've thought for a while that she/they (I can't get on board with neutral pronouns, soz if that makes me a Hitler/Stalin hybrid) is a psychopath.


I don't think psychopath but definitely a narcissist. The woe is me, give me some money blog post the other day was utterly shameful.

There's a strong correlation between these two things.

[niko_cee]

A modern day iteration of referring to oneself in the third person?

[Jimmy Floyd]

I am always careful around this sort of thing for obvious reasons, but I think wanting to refer to yourself as something other than he or she requires a certain amount of attention seeking. The only time I could run with it would be if someone was going to transition and entered a sort of interregnum phase, where they wanted to leave the old gender behind but weren't ready to assume the new one yet.

[Baz]

What if they didn't transition (presuming this means lobbing your knob off?) but started to identify as and dress like a female, and even legally changed their name from male to female.

And what if that same person raped their own mother, who was living with dementia, multiple times and got arrested. Should that person go to a mens or womens prison?

https://i.imgur.com/fB1ERS1.png

[Spikey M]

Going by the picture, Broadmoor.

[Ben]

What if they didn't transition (presuming this means lobbing your knob off?) but started to identify as and dress like a female, and even legally changed their name from male to female.

And what if that same person raped their own mother, who was living with dementia, multiple times and got arrested. Should that person go to a mens or womens prison?

https://i.imgur.com/fB1ERS1.png

That's where a lot of people get infuriated by this. It seems you can identify as whatever you want and the law has to go along with it. Like with sports, it'll take a watershed moment for authorities to realise they've got to reign it in a bit.

[Shindig]

I'll say it again, whoever's working through the paperwork on that case deserves indefinite leave and infinite money.

[Pepe]

The most notorious was Karen White (previously Stephen Wood), a self-declared transwoman without any physical alterations, who was placed in a women’s prison in 2017 after being convicted of burglary and grievous bodily harm. White also had a past record of sexual crimes, including pedophilia. Within three months of being placed in the women’s estate, White had sexually assaulted two women, and while in prison two other rapes committed by White in the outside world also came to light after victims came forward. It also emerged that White had requested female hormones from prison authorities, but bragged to one of his victims that he was not taking them due to the fact that they made it impossible for him to get an erection.

:harold:

https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/jails-without-gatekeeping-evidence

Things getting better though, if that link is to be believed.

[-james-]

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No fucks given. Fair play.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The 'people are struggling with the cost of living and you've just referred to a thing that isn't Aldi own brand' takes are incredibly dull, tbf.

[Spikey M]

I can only assume it comes from people that weren't previously struggling and didn't give 2 fucks about people that were until now.

[Giggles]

If people couldn’t aspire to own things like yachts then the human race would never have achieved anything.

[-james-]

The 'people are struggling with the cost of living and you've just referred to a thing that isn't Aldi own brand' takes are incredibly dull, tbf.

I agree. It's just unusual to see a billionaire responding in such a way to the riff raff that tweet at them.

[Pepe]

They should do it more often.

[Lofty]

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[Lewis]

That must be from years ago right? They can't both still be doing stuff.

[Kikó]

Apparently. Both incredible bores for different reasons.

[Lewis]

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[Spikey M]

:lol:

[Lofty]

:D

[Bernanke]

Elon seems determined to take the company down.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/twitter-offices-closed-1.6655881


Hundreds of Twitter employees are estimated to be leaving the beleaguered social media company following an ultimatum from new owner Elon Musk that staffers sign up for "long hours at high intensity," — or leave.​
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Early Wednesday, Musk had emailed Twitter employees, saying: "Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore."​
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The email asked staff to click "yes" if they wanted to stick around. Those who did not respond by 5 p.m. ET on Thursday would be considered to have quit and given a severance package, the email said.​
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As the deadline approached, employees scrambled to figure out what to do.​
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In a poll on the workplace app Blind, which verifies employees through their work email addresses and allows them to share information anonymously, 42 per cent of 180 respondents chose the answer "Taking exit option, I'm free!"​
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A quarter said they had chosen to stay on at the company "reluctantly," and only seven per cent of the poll participants said they "clicked yes to stay, I'm hardcore."​
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The company notified employees Thursday evening that it will close its offices and cut badge access until Monday, according to two sources. Security officers have begun kicking employees out of the office, one source said.​
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Musk took to Twitter late on Thursday and said that he was not worried about resignations as "the best people are staying."

Offering 100% of employees an out when 90% of them hate you seems like a solid strat. What a business genius he is. :lol:

[Jimmy Floyd]

Is he a Russian asset? Spending £44 billion to destroy a company / social network in a few weeks seems fishy.

[7om]

If he takes twitter down then he’ll go down as a modern day hero.

[Ben]

Shame his car company has a cult following because otherwise they’d be going down the tubes as well. £600 a month for a poorly constructed shitbox built by slave labour, no thanks.

[Lewis]

There is a slight possibility that Twitter was over-staffed and he sort of knows what he is doing.

[Boydy]

Twitter probably was overstaffed but there's not a fucking chance he knows what he's doing.

[niko_cee]

Abolishing working from home and then shutting all the offices sounds like a multidimensional chess move.

[Disco]

Musk is a colossal twat, it's as simple as that.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The strangest thing about Musk is the cult like following he has.

[Spikey M]

Not really. He's rich and engages with the plebs by posting memes and pretending to be one of them. He's basically a hugely more punchable Ryan Reynolds, who has done the same with Wrexhams mong fans.

[Ian]

Of course Musk has an ardent following. Demented weirdos fucking love a rich, demented weirdo.

[Gray Fox]

He never actually wanted to buy, did he?

I know he made the offer, but I'm sure I read that he wanted to see some back end data that you'd only get if you were about to own the gaff. He then tried to back up but Twitter then brought up some legal bollocks that meant he was committed to the takeover.

Given he could likely Bezos his money back up in no time, if he wrote off $45bn, he could absolutely be looking to tank it into the ground. I don't think he is though.

[Lofty]

There is a slight possibility that Twitter was over-staffed and he sort of knows what he is doing.

Apparently his entire engineering teams have resigned so we'll find out when the world cup starts and the traffic goes through the roof.

[Bernanke]

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"Top 10 examples of code" is one of the funniest things I've heard related to software engineering.

[Disco]

You'll never believe number 8.

[igor_balis]

There is a slight possibility that Twitter was over-staffed and he sort of knows what he is doing.

You don't actually believe that, as much as you would like to in an owning the libs enemy of my enemy is my friend kinda way.

[Ian]

You'll never believe number 8.

:D

[Lewis]

You don't actually believe that, as much as you would like to in an owning the libs enemy of my enemy is my friend kinda way.

I'm not an Elon Musk fan, but he has a reasonable track record of getting things done with his companies, so the idea that he's just bowled in like some fat-handed amateur is a bit of a stretch.

[Giggles]

You don't actually believe that, as much as you would like to in an owning the libs enemy of my enemy is my friend kinda way.
Or thinking Vlad is right.

[Kikó]

He's walking into a company though that the tech engineers can find work elsewhere easily (unlike rocket scientists). But if you're going to go for radical change, you may as well do it early while you can.

[Offshore Toon]

I think Musk is a bellend but if he'd done that at Man United everybody would be praising him for clearing the deadwood. He'd do better than Steve Bruce at least. Actually, there's a point, get Bruce in at Twitter to set up a solid defence against spambots.

[wullie]

If he does fuck the whole thing up, he'll claim that was the plan and then just find another 40 billion in an old pair of jeans while they sing his praises on Parler and Truth Social.

[igor_balis]

I think Musk is a bellend but if he'd done that at Man United everybody would be praising him for clearing the deadwood. He'd do better than Steve Bruce at least. Actually, there's a point, get Bruce in at Twitter to set up a solid defence against spambots.

Yea and it might also have worked if he'd done it in my house, letting my mother life in peace, what's your point?

[Giggles]

Yea and it might also have worked if he'd done it in my house, letting my mother life in peace, what's your point?

What exactly is yours?

[igor_balis]

Dunno

[Kikó]

I think Musk is a bellend but if he'd done that at Man United everybody would be praising him for clearing the deadwood. He'd do better than Steve Bruce at least. Actually, there's a point, get Bruce in at Twitter to set up a solid defence against spambots.

Dunno the example would be him releasing most of the players and the match day staff then trying to work out why we're struggling to play the next fixture. The Bruce idea is solid though.

[Offshore Toon]

42% ain't most. You'd be fine.

[Dquincy]

Make your vote count.

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[Lofty]

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[Shindig]

Truth Social is America's "Big Tent" social media platform that encourages an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating on the basis of political ideology.

How long will that hold up?

[Bernanke]

He's back.

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[Giggles]

Lovely, now we’ll have weeks of pink haired nose ring cunts threatening to close their accounts. That won’t get boring at all.

[Don]

Great bit of content on twitter revolving around this:

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[Dquincy]

I'm clearly too old as I have no idea what is going with those posts.

[niko_cee]

I liked the lengthy type description of someone born in the early 80s, probably holds pretty true if you are that age and still live somewhere where you might encounter the type of person who would write a lengthy exposition of 'types of people' on twitter. I definitely identified with some of it, but you need to get out of central London life before you hit your mid-30s unless you are ludicrously weathly or, I guess, gender divergent.

[Lewis]

The people either side of that Deano compilation - the lolling and the seething - both fail to recognise that he is a sympathetic character ultimately happier than both of them, as the meme format makes clear.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I've always thought that the Owen Jones 'don't say chav' line of thinking is largely a mechanism aimed at continuing to justify/romanticise such people's deep-seated guilt at their journey from one space into another, and this stuff pretty much confirms it.

[Gray Fox]

Mr. Free Speech, not so much.

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[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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Someone new is coming in as the face of the company then.

[Spikey M]

Lol. Bet he's seething.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I doubt it.

I bet his investors have told him he needs to step down and put up the poll knowing he'd lose so it looks better on him for DOING IT FOR THE PEOPLE.

[John Arne]

Also, I think it has more daily users than ever before - the advertisers will be all over it right now.

[Raoul Duke]

He'll probably appoint Liz Truss

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64034892

Poll to be re-done?

You only get free speech on Twitter now if you pay. lol.

[Spikey M]

Seething. :drool:

[Giggles]

Has anyone done the Mastodon thing yet? I don't really understand how the server things work on it but I believe it's basically a carbon copy of Twitter in design.

[Kikó]

I'm on it. It's not really like twitter. No algorithms pushing things into your timeline, it's slower and a bit clunkier. It's not got the same stickyness as twitter so not sure whether it really will be the replacement.

[Spikey M]

I have no idea what "stickiness" means in that context.

[Kikó]

It doesn't make you want to keep logging in and Doom scroll.

[Boydy]

Has anyone done the Mastodon thing yet? I don't really understand how the server things work on it but I believe it's basically a carbon copy of Twitter in design.

I don't get the server thing either. Do I join one server and then I can only follow and see tweets from other people on that server?

[Boydy]

It doesn't make you want to keep logging in and Doom scroll.

Well that's no good then.

[Kikó]

I don't get the server thing either. Do I join one server and then I can only follow and see tweets from other people on that server?

No, you can see toots across servers.

[Giggles]

It doesn't make you want to keep logging in and Doom scroll.


Would that not just be down to a much smaller user base currently?

[Kikó]

Partially but I don't think they have the same mechanisms boosting posts you might like into your timeline. The timeline in general works pretty differently.

[Giggles]

I relented ages ago a changed my Twitter feed to Home rather than Recent. It’s probably better once you get used to it.

[Baz]

Has anyone done the Mastodon thing yet? I don't really understand how the server things work on it but I believe it's basically a carbon copy of Twitter in design.

I thought I did ages ago when I first heard of it but when Twitter started to go South (allegedly. I’ve noticed zero difference tbh) I tried to access it and searched my emails and it seems to have either not happened or I did it wrong.

Terrible name though. Sounds like an app Hammer would rate domiciliary S&M on.

[Baz]

My blue sub expired but my blue tick remains.

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For me, anyway.

[John Arne]

Looks like Twitter is down. Unable to log in.

[Queenslander]

It's working for me.

[John Arne]

Yeah, works on my phone, but not on the website. Something fishy.

[mo]

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Andrew Tate with possibly the greatest self-own in recent history.

[Spikey M]

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[Waffdon]

It’s funny but I’m not really sure it makes a difference. You’re telling me they didn’t have eyes on his property and were relying on social media to jump on him?

His brother is a right shagger

[Giggles]

Whatever he’s done I’d still have him over that poison dwarf.

[Spikey M]

I've no idea what's been going on in general to be honest. I just thought he was another one of those cringey ALPHA MALE rent-a-gobs until yesterday.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I wonder if these are Greta's own zingers or if she has a writing team. Probably her own?

[Boydy]

She's gen z, those kids are ruthless.

[Yevrah]

I've no idea what's been going on in general to be honest. I just thought he was another one of those cringey ALPHA MALE rent-a-gobs until yesterday.

I thought similar, but apparently he's a massive con artist and human trafficker, who quite brilliantly (or fortuitously) threw the scent off that by upsetting the left with his comments about Women.

Greta's pizza box tweet is immense stuff.

[Jimmy Floyd]

She's gen z, those kids are ruthless.

Sometimes I think that and at other times I see they are bringing supermarkets to a standstill queuing up to buy 'Prime' energy drinks (promoted by KSI or whoever that wanker is) and I think they are more slavishly capitalist than any prior generation.

[Lewis]

He's another one of these people - Katie Hopkins, Alex Jones, Piers Morgan now he's on some nobody channel - who normal people wouldn't ever hear about if saddos didn't feel the need to amplify everything they do and say getting outraged about it.

[Yevrah]

He's another one of these people - Katie Hopkins, Alex Jones, Piers Morgan now he's on some nobody channel - who normal people wouldn't ever hear about if saddos didn't feel the need to amplify everything they do and say getting outraged about it.

Indeed and he's trousering $5m a month apparently and up to now had little/no light placed on the illegal shit he was doing as all the focus was on his "young pussy is better as it's had less dick through it" comments.

[Spikey M]

I might give it a go (minus the trafficking). I'll get some practice in on Keeks and Boyd and launch a new Twitter page in January. @LiterallySmallMinded.

[Lewis]

Do the trafficking here (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-64115862) and you just get suspended from it.

[Lofty]

A bit old now but I missed this, basically the woman who crucified that racist nana at the palace event is bent as fuck and so is her charity :D

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[niko_cee]

That's quite an effort.

Just sounds a bit like Kids Company all over again, which is depressingly unsurprising.

[mo]

He's another one of these people - Katie Hopkins, Alex Jones, Piers Morgan now he's on some nobody channel - who normal people wouldn't ever hear about if saddos didn't feel the need to amplify everything they do and say getting outraged about it.

Except, that's not quite true in the case of Tate, who has a massive following of young lads (from perhaps as young as 10, as far as I've heard anecdotally) who follow what he says to an almost disciple-like devotion. By contrast, ask those Tate disciples about Hopkins, Morgan etc and the vast majority would have no clue. Anyone who says they've never heard of Tate before, ask the young lads in your extended family, I reckon most will know the name at least.

[Baz]

What exactly does he tell them to do?

[SincereTheRebel]

For the most part. Increase income. Increase fitness. Pursue women. Escape the matrix.

[Spikey M]

"Get rich and sleep with as many women as possible but don't value women that do the same" seems to be his normal line.

[Boydy]

A bit old now but I missed this, basically the woman who crucified that racist nana at the palace event is bent as fuck and so is her charity :D

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https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/034/711/Screen_Shot_2020-07-24_at_11.33.38_AM.jpg

[mo]

What exactly does he tell them to do?

I don't believe he tells them to do anything. But I suspect the question was disingenious anyway. Look at the post beneath yours - the lack of critical skills to determine the deeply troubling views Tate puts across is part of the issue (but this is getting onto a wider issue around education and parenting now, so I'll stop).

[Baz]

I was being serious, with you saying they’re like disciples.

I don’t know anything about him other than someone I know claimed he once offered to fly him to Romania to “sort his life out.”

My biggest takeaway is why is this hateful troll so popular.

[Shindig]

The pictures of his compound definitely point to more than just internet money.

[Jimmy Floyd]

My biggest takeaway is why is this hateful troll so popular.

You know how boomers always go on about David Bowie's face paint being symbolic of the ultimate teen rebellion against the stuffy old norms of the age, or whatever it is they say? Well, nowadays the teen rebellion is against the liberal establishment norms of the age, questioning the orthodoxy. Do we really have to be nice to women, or is that just something dull old people say?

With team sport in particular basically not existing in schools, is there any organised outlet for masculinity?

[Boydy]

With team sport in particular basically not existing in schools, is there any organised outlet for masculinity?

This sounds a bit boomery.

Pretty sure football and rugby teams are still very much a thing. And I'm not sure they're bastions of respect for women either.

[Giggles]

My biggest takeaway is why is this hateful troll so popular.

She just came along at the right time and climate change is very fashionable right now.

[Boydy]

The sort who fall down the incel (I'm assuming Tate's followers are a bit like that but tbh I don't know a whole load about him) rabbit hole probably aren't those who are involved in, or any good at, sports.

[Boydy]

She just came along at the right time and climate change is very fashionable right now.

Ok boomer.

[Giggles]

Ok boomer.

Appeals well to the generation that lost their sense of effort at a mindfulness retreat.

[Spikey M]

The Internet has just been a pretty exhausting place for men in recent years as it's become fashionable to blame all men for the actions of a select few. From that we had #MeToo, #KillAllMen, #itsAllMenUntilItsNoMen, etc.

Eventually some men - especially young men and boys that haven't seen waves of this stuff before - just had enough of being told they are valueless pieces of shit by the short haired women on Twitter and TikTok and the inevitable push back began. But said pushback is via cunts like Tate, rather than, you know, sensible people, so we end up even more polarised.

The Algorithms have predictably funnelled everyone into the normal echo-chambers too. Everyone just needs to get off the Internet for a bit.

[Don]

The sort who fall down the incel (I'm assuming Tate's followers are a bit like that but tbh I don't know a whole load about him) rabbit hole probably aren't those who are involved in, or any good at, sports.

What the fuck are you on about? He preaches banging bishes and generally doing all the things that prevent a young lad from going soft like many of you melts.

[Pepe]

I never heard/read/watched anything by that Tate person. The only reason I know about him is because of all the people bitching about how awful he is, which is pretty lol. From what I gather, it seems to be the whole 'alpha male' schtick, which has always been and will always be popular among young men.

[Shindig]

Everyone just needs to get off the Internet for a bit.

This. Touch grass once in a while.

[Jimmy Floyd]

This sounds a bit boomery.

Pretty sure football and rugby teams are still very much a thing. And I'm not sure they're bastions of respect for women either.

No but the facts of life are that men aren't all going to be flower-arranging cardigan wearers, so if society doesn't provide some sort of outlet for stuff (mass sport being a good example) then they'll find their own.

[Boydy]

No but the facts of life are that men aren't all going to be flower-arranging cardigan wearers, so if society doesn't provide some sort of outlet for stuff (mass sport being a good example) then they'll find their own.

Yeah, I'd agree with that but I don't think sport has disappeared.

[Boydy]

Everyone just needs to get off the Internet for a bit.

This is probably the crux of it.

From echo chambers to influencers to porn to people socialising more online and less in real life, the internet is probably just fucking awful for society.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

What was the name of the Turkish boy on here who lived in America? Not sure if he was only on the old forum.

Anyway, he's absolutely nailed on to be a Tate fanboy.

[Lewis]

Mert just latched onto whatever he needed to at the time, so he's more likely to be full-on corporate he/him now.

[Boydy]

Mert.

[Spikey M]

Mert just latched onto whatever he needed to at the time, so he's more likely to be full-on corporate he/him now.

He came back briefly as "Bartholomew" didn't he? So he appears to be appropriating from a Jewish colleague these days.

[Baz]

Bartholomert

[Lewis]

He had the nose for it.

[Giggles]

You can be sure that whatever he’s doing he’s doing no good anyway.

[Dquincy]

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:D lol

[phonics]

Once again the dumb cunt is trying to make the shitty algorithm the default on Twitter. I hate it.

[Don]

This is great. Lol at this country.

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[Spikey M]

5€ to watch Inter Milan and I'm over here paying £20 to watch Southend vs Shambolic Rovers.

[Lewis]

It wasn't that long ago that the big Italian teams could barely sell out half the ground, so cheap tickets are probably a response to that.

[Shindig]

I think Footy Adventures ruined those footy tourist types for me. All his videos are him trying to vaguely pretend he knows a thing about the club he's going to see.

"I'm off today to go and see one of the oldest clubs in the world. Formed in 1845, that makes them one of THE oldest clubs in existence. They still ply their trade almost 200 years after they formed. That's amazing. That's a lot of history. Can you believe this club has been going since 1845?"

[Boydy]

This is great. Lol at this country.

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How much was Fleetwood away and how much did he spend on that trip?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

How much was Fleetwood away and how much did he spend on that trip?

https://i.imgur.com/kAF2XRe.png

£2 cheaper than Fleetwood.

[niko_cee]

He flew to Milan and ostensibly became homeless, so probably not that much.

[The Merse]

How much was Fleetwood away and how much did he spend on that trip?

£130 exc food, though offset by having somewhere to stay in Paris.

I can believe Fleetwood cost an arm and a leg as I've heard horror stories of getting there as there's no train station - cursory Glance online suggests from Reading it's a train to Paddington, then off to Euston, then to Preston and a bus... 5 hour trip with what? A £20 ticket for that level? Easy to see it being £150+

[Don]

A comparison is in the replies but he did the trip for £130ish I think which is the same as an overnight trip at Fleetwood.

[Don]

K, will refresh next time.

[Spikey M]

Southend have Darlington at home tomorrow and I imagine any Darlington fans making the trip down will be paying about that. Poor cunts.

[Giggles]

He used the word plur for player when he wasn't even tight on the character limit, so he really needs to drown in his own piss.

[Spikey M]

He used the word plur for player when he wasn't even tight on the character limit, so he really needs to drown in his own piss.

https://youtu.be/jWi4duoDV58

[Lewis]

You must be able to do loads of roundabout 'cheap' trips if you can devote four days to doing it, but part of the premium you pay for doing Fleetwood away the easy way is not having to do that.

[Don]

All I know is this country is a rip-off. My thoughts and prayers to anyone who'd rather pay for Fleetwood away, any spa break in this country or a fucking £35 lunch at a chain restaurant rather than devote a bit more time and get a better quality product/service abroad for the same or less.

[Boydy]

The country is shit but I'd still rather not spend a night on the streets in Milan.

Also, TIL: Fleetwood is up north, not down south. Always thought it was a minor London or home counties club for some reason.

[Jimmy Floyd]

You're thinking of Mick Fleetwood.

I went to the Open at Turnberry for 4 days, now that was a very silly place to try and get to on a normal person's budget. Worth it though.

[Baz]

Fleetwoods minging. Would rather sleep rough in Milan than in an airbnb in Fleetwood.

[niko_cee]

You're thinking of Mick Fleetwood.


Fleet Services [or the less likely actual Fleet thereabouts].

[Boydy]

You're thinking of Mick Fleetwood.

I went to the Open at Turnberry for 4 days, now that was a very silly place to try and get to on a normal person's budget. Worth it though.
I don't know who that is.


Fleet Services [or the less likely actual Fleet thereabouts].

I don't know where Fleet services is. Nor have I heard of it before.

I thought I was maybe thinking of Forest Green but I've looked them up and they're from fucking Gloucestershire. I had them nailed on being Greater London with their vegan stuff.

[Mike]

Twitter seem to have blocked access to third party apps like Tweetbot, which sucks as using the official app is a pain.

[Spikey M]

I don't know who that is.



I don't know where Fleet services is. Nor have I heard of it before.

I thought I was maybe thinking of Forest Green but I've looked them up and they're from fucking Gloucestershire. I had them nailed on being Greater London with their vegan stuff.

There's Waltham Forest or Bethnal Green in London, otherwise I've no idea. That said, I can't really understand haw you're getting Fleetwood and Forest Green mixed up anyway.

[Don]

The answer is Ebsfleet.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I don't know who that is.

You've never heard of Fleetwood Mac?

[Boydy]

You've never heard of Fleetwood Mac?

Yeah but I couldn't have named any of the members.

[Pepe]

There is Fleetwood. Then there is Mac.

[igor_balis]

Yeah but I couldn't have named any of the members.

yet you can probably name every single member of bowling for soup you rancid cunt

[Giggles]

Play nice, hipsters.

[Boydy]

yet you can probably name every single member of bowling for soup you rancid cunt

You and your Paramore tattoo can fuck right off.

[Giggles]

You and your Paramore tattoo can fuck right off.
But their lyrics understand his life.

[Spikey M]

We've all heard of Paramore so there's no way he has a tattoo involving them.

[Lewis]

igor would have that wanker tattoo coverage where it's just loads of random things spaced out all down his arms.

[Lewis]

Boyd would have a sleeve, some Irish writing, and the day his nan died.

[Boydy]

I don't have any tattoos cause I think they're generally a bit naff.

[Baz]

Same. Why graffiti a work of art? :baz:

[igor_balis]

igor would have that wanker tattoo coverage where it's just loads of random things spaced out all down his arms.

oh yeah, an aesthetic best described by some YouTube bloke re: that cretin Sam Pepper, saying his arm looked like a MySpace page.

I have thought about getting the KLF pyramid blaster thing cus it looks cool and the KLF are cool but I'm not cool so it will probably make me look even less cool.

[igor_balis]

also I appreciated the detail of you not capitalising i in igor there, even at the start of a sentence

[Baz]

Kyle Newacheck (who? Karl from Workaholics. No, seriously, who?) has a tattoo on his shoulder of ‘words he relates to’ or something as equally dumb.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b2/25/af/b225afcea1b392039bc785bd53229db9--karl-words.jpg

[Boydy]

You should get all your workplace titles done.

[Baz]

I know an old bloke who drinks in the pubs I used to who has ‘bitter’ and ‘mild’ on each nipple, and ‘empty’ on his belly. Strange fella.

He also insists he has Rhyl on his knob, after telling that “I’ve got that famous welsh town tattooed on my todger” line, and I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if he did.

[Lewis]

oh yeah, an aesthetic best described by some YouTube bloke re: that cretin Sam Pepper, saying his arm looked like a MySpace page.

I have thought about getting the KLF pyramid blaster thing cus it looks cool and the KLF are cool but I'm not cool so it will probably make me look even less cool.

Shame the Rick and Morty one is so prominent on your forearm.

[igor_balis]

Kyle Newacheck (who? Karl from Workaholics. No, seriously, who?) has a tattoo on his shoulder of ‘words he relates to’ or something as equally dumb.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b2/25/af/b225afcea1b392039bc785bd53229db9--karl-words.jpg

that's very...er, Jeff Hardy

[niko_cee]

I thought one of the words was hummus, which raised a smile, but then realised it wasn't.

[Baz]

I thought one of the words was hummus, which raised a smile, but then realised it wasn't.

I wouldn’t have been surprised if it was.

[Spikey M]

Kyle Newacheck (who? Karl from Workaholics. No, seriously, who?) has a tattoo on his shoulder of ‘words he relates to’ or something as equally dumb.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b2/25/af/b225afcea1b392039bc785bd53229db9--karl-words.jpg

You can't have that tattoo and drink Coors. Pints of unpasteurised Yak milk would be more on brand.

[John Arne]

Spelt 'mum' wrong, too.

[Giggles]

Baz?

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[Baz]

Baz?

1625546671626108950I’d definitely do that. Waiting for the £5 referral to come back to Airtime Rewards (https://airtimerewards.app.link/k2cjQUCbqxb) so I can get all my family on board and get free phone bills for a few months. (Also wish they’d get Morrisons back. :( )

[Giggles]

Is this down for anyone else? Mine is a carbon copy of what it was an hour ago.

[Waffdon]

Yeah, the newsfeed is anyway. I can see tweets if I go onto a specific account but nothing updating otherwise

[-james-]

Reported a tweet for threatening violence today and Twitter helpfully showed me an example of an illegal tweet for comparison:

https://i.imgur.com/9vupblO.png

[Spikey M]

Grass.

[Raoul Duke]

Amusingly, @violator appears to be (maybe?) a real account of some graphics designer :D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Disgraceful stuff from Phonics.

[Gray Fox]

I thought it would have been Liam Neeson.

[Spikey M]

He has a very particular set of (racial slurs).

[Shindig]

My timeline's going to get a lot cleaner. I've finally stopped following Pavel.

[Baz]

Follow me instead.

[Boydy]

Just had a look for Pavel on there. Christ.

[Shindig]

Yep. I preferred him when he fancied himself as a photographer. If I was to guess, I'd say he's been unemployed for decades. Terminally online retweeting things but offering no opinion of his own.

[niko_cee]

Has he gone full Linehan or full hobo?

[Shindig]

The former by an absolute mile.


Anti-totalitarian. Trans-vegan.

What does that even mean!?

[Spikey M]

An edgy meat eater I imagine.

[niko_cee]

The short skirt steak was asking for it.

[Shindig]

Maybe the pride flag triggers him because he sees colours better than any of us.

[Lewis]

Pavel would be a prime candidate for trannyism if he was eighteen now.

lol also at James the grass.

[Boydy]

Has he gone full Linehan or full hobo?


The former by an absolute mile.



What does that even mean!?

Saw him retweeting some "15 minute city" protest stuff too.

Is he an anti-vaxxer and general conspiracy theorist as well?

[Baz]

Thank fuck he's no longer on here.

Relatively speaking, everyone on here is actually dead sound. We've done well.

[Shindig]

Saw him retweeting some "15 minute city" protest stuff too.

Is he an anti-vaxxer and general conspiracy theorist as well?

Not that I've seen but his whole feed has been TERF o' clock. for years. And I agree with Lewis. He's a prime candidate. Although I'm also amazed he's not on a register. Unless he is.

None of us that terminally online.

[Don]

What the fuck made you need to report a tweet? I mean unless there's family members involved I'm not having it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Snitching :drool:

[-james-]

There's this mega autist who had a falling out with my betting group (he tried to get us banned from betting venues after having a chimp out when we didn't pass on information). He posted a tweet threatening to kill someone's family. It would be really funny if he got banned.

[Baz]

His names not Woodsy is it. :sick: He's our resident mongo, and sounds similar.

[-james-]

Nah he's from Taiwan or something. Easily top 5 most unhinged gamblers I've encountered.

[Giggles]

It’s up and down like a hoors knickers today.

[Baz]

Twitter keeps sending me push notifications of tweets from people I don’t follow, like Gary Lineker and CNN.

Can someone tell me how to “lock down” my account so I only get told about stuff I care about, cos it’s getting more and more.

[phonics]

That’s in settings. You can turn it off.

[Baz]

Just made this price comparison thingy for Twitter Blue:

https://i.imgur.com/caCkQyA.png

Mad, that.

https://i.imgur.com/ziLwh76.png

[niko_cee]

What?

[Baz]

Twitter Blue is cheapest in Canada and most expensive in the UK.

[Raoul Duke]

He was born/raised in South Africa, no?

[Pen]

I’d think he’s from madatgascar, lol.

[7om]

Genuinely curious, Baz. What on Earth drove you to spend time making that spreadsheet?

[Baz]

Genuinely curious, Baz. What on Earth drove you to spend time making that spreadsheet?I plan on buying it for a new account I have (in the hopes of getting a gold ‘verified’ tick) but you have to wait 90 days between account creation and buying Blue, so figured I’d make it so I know what VPN to use when the time comes.

[igor_balis]

I plan on buying it for a new account I have (in the hopes of getting a gold ‘verified’ tick) but you have to wait 90 days between account creation and buying Blue, so figured I’d make it so I know what VPN to use when the time comes.

why you fucking loser

[Spikey M]

Second.

[Baz]

why you fucking loser

Trying to make a big online Last Man Standing game.

[phonics]

Someone called me a liberal so I called him a fat cunt and got an immediate 12 hour suspension and forced to delete my tweet calling him a fat cunt.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/270326079648956433/1090434612251078759/image.png

[Yevrah]

Are immediate suspensions a new feature?

[phonics]

I was given a prompt that I should edit my tweet or there might be reprecussions but I think that was there prior to the Elon takeover and nothing ever happened about it. I presume since they fired their content moderation team a computer just does it instead and banned me.

[Giggles]

I don't know why they don't just make the whole site subscription only, because that's where it's heading now.

[Spikey M]

Someone called me a liberal so I called him a fat cunt and got an immediate 12 hour suspension and forced to delete my tweet calling him a fat cunt.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/270326079648956433/1090434612251078759/image.png

Body shaming :nono:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Is anyone getting this instead of most images on Twitter:

https://i.imgur.com/CVBMrmU.png

They load properly when I click on the actual image though. Is it a new spoiler thing? Is it another thing that Elon has put in place to try to make you buy for a tick?

[Dquincy]

No.

[John Arne]

Literally every fourth tweet is a sponsored post at the moment.

It's becoming slightly more annoying.

[Kikó]

The site is pretty unfriendly for a free customer now (which I guess is the point). I'm hoping to hit a tipping point where I've blocked enough promoted ads that it's ok to use. Also reading replies now is pretty pointless as it's full of spam.

[Waffdon]

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Fuck me :lol:

[Baz]

Ahh so that’s who Luca has been going to posh restaurants with!

[Manc]

King Charlie living his best life.

[Lofty]

When he fingers Camilla is it classed as a gang rape?