British/Irish architect. Morality mainly derived from Dr Who, politics somewhere between Tony Benn and Lenin. @MikeMorris@mastodon.ie
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There's a frightening number of people in this world who really seem to believe "We could have avoided Nazism, if only I'd been around to wittily point out the logical fallacies in Hitler's arguments."
I kept seeing Jason Arday's name on links and wondering why the hell so much attention was being given to some academic.
Then I saw a photo and went "ohhhhh I see"
The UK print media as a whole are racists who can go fuck themselves
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I think this might be because, piece of work though Rowling is, she hasn't been accused of serially sexually abusing young women
You know it’s really telling that the entirety of Gaiman’s former fanbase dropped him instantly but JK’s still makes excuses but maybe it’s because we read other books than just Harry Potter
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Thing is, an awful lot of great films are based on books which aren't considered great. So either novels are a much, much higher form of art, or there's quite a lot of films that are better than the books.
I've not read The Exorcist but I'll bet the book is better.
I'm tired and sıck of people saying: “the book was better than the movie.” Give me a movie that was actually WAY BETTER than the book. I want to know which books were so bad that Hollywood had to save them.
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And of course anyone who makes that case is not allowed to have any opinions on anything ever again. Yes, that includes voting
I think there is a case to be made that The Lord of the Rings movies are better than the books. I am not sure I’d make it, but I think that’s essentially when the line changed where they got good enough to catch up with imagination and they also let them be very long as a series
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I like watching a certain section of British society wrestle with the impact of Rod Liddle, while all of Ireland choruses "he's the guy who ran off and left his wife for a young one"
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Wonder if I'm the only one who hears the news and goes "oh yeah Ceuta, that's where Henning Wehn went before he took an unscheduled holiday in Morocco and was listed as a missing person"
Would I Lie To You corrupts us all
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I've not seen this said enough so here goes.
A 1.7% overspend needs actioning but it's not a major disaster. Starmer's Labour wanted to emphasise Tory economic incompetence, their equivalent of Liam Byrne's note.
Inflicting hardship on people was *entirely* a PR choice.
This is the fiscal black hole that amounted to 1.7% of government spend, much of which was already known about, that Labour used as a reason to take people's winter fuel allowance
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This is the fiscal black hole that amounted to 1.7% of government spend, much of which was already known about, that Labour used as a reason to take people's winter fuel allowance
Crying shame to go to the stands and see a heartbroken David Beckham, after all the things he's done for David Beckham
