5-year-old british kid passes LSD exam
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Not enough Islamophobe?
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Not enough Islamophobe?
@RaceProUK said:"ISLAMIC IMMIGRANT CHILDREN STEALING JOBS FROM TAXPAYERS".
FTFY&M
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So just for shits and giggles, I typed in 'daily mail' plus that headline into Google.
First two results:
Anyone who didn't understand what the DM is like... now you do.
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This is sad, but it's sadder that people still read that kind of crap and believe it.
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Anyone who didn't understand what the DM is like... now you do.
Is there something wrong with those stories?
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Hyperbole, purporting to be news, misdirection, take your pick.
For example, the latter one... yes, a specific subset of the population can abuse the benefits system in a specific way which is SCANDALOUS.
And ignoring many more serious abuses of the system made by people that are not convenient scapegoats, because they're not white, British and middle-income earners.
Or, better example, they had a huge campaign to 'clean up child pornography online'. Whilst on their own website having pictures of barely-legal borderline-celebrity teens in bikinis and other similarly scantily clad situations and talking about how 'all grown up they are now'.
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Damn! I knew I was missing a DM buzzword.
@RaceProUK said:"ISLAMIC ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHILDREN STEALING JOBS FROM TAXPAYERS".
There. That's better.
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You also forgot the qualifiers on taxpayers, either 'hardworking', 'honest' or 'British'. But then you're getting long enough to be stretching credulity even by DM standards.
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You also forgot the qualifiers on taxpayers, either 'hardworking', 'honest' or 'British'. But then you're getting long enough to be stretching credulity even by DM standards.
Believe it or not, the first version did actually have 'hardworking' as a qualifier, but I took it out before posting it.I shouldn't have.
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And ignoring many more serious abuses of the system made by people that are not convenient scapegoats, because they're not white, British and middle-income earners.
Do they really ignore those other things, or do they get their own articles? I recall seeing stuff in the DM that pointed out white people abusing the system.
Hyperbole, purporting to be news, misdirection, take your pick.
Not seeing any of those, honestly.
Or, better example, they had a huge campaign to 'clean up child pornography online'. Whilst on their own website having pictures of barely-legal borderline-celebrity teens in bikinis and other similarly scantily clad situations and talking about how 'all grown up they are now'.
Um...OK. I don't really see a contradiction here. We can argue about taste, but one is illegal and against cultural norms and the other is maybe poor taste.
But then you're getting long enough to be stretching credulity even by DM standards.
If the facts were incorrect (as I've seen in some DM, and indeed any news outlet) that'd be legit, but all you've done is say you have a different opinion.
I have a different theory on what's going on here: oikophobia.
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They generally don't get their own articles except for when it's really bad and might outrage Middle England. DM knows its target audience well.
As for the CP example, one is illegal, yes. Being a news institution that simultaneously condemns it publicly - and engages in something not that far away from it at the same time - is more than a little bit cynical.
Thing is, you're seeing Mail Online. The actual paper is worse.
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Thing is, you're seeing Mail Online. The actual paper is worse.
Fair enough. But it sounds a lot like the sort of complaints you hear about Fox News or Rush Limbaugh from people who never watch / listen, and they get lots of (virtual) high fives just for mouthing the party line about how terrible certain things are.
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I live with a Daily Mail reader. It is one of the things we do not talk about in this house now.
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"The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter."
-- Some old bloke
Actually, you don't even need to talk to them. Just drive to work in the morning, or better yet, read the driving anti-patterns thread, and remember that the vast majority of those people can vote.
Pretty much everyone on Fox is trolls.
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"
ISLAMICASIAN IMMIGRANT CHILDREN STEALING JOBS FROM TAXPAYERS".You forget that 'Asian' is the PC codeword for Muslim in (certainly UK) newspaper headlines and articles.
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You forget that 'Asian' is the PC codeword for Muslim in (certainly UK) newspaper headlines and articles.
In the US people would think you were talking about Chinese or Japanese people.
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In the US people would think you were talking about Chinese or Japanese people.
As would a significant proportion of the UK. That's why they use it. To detract from those they are talking about.
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You forget that 'Asian' is the PC codeword for Muslim in (certainly UK) newspaper headlines and articles.
Is it? I thought Asian would mainly refer to the Indian population.
In the US people would think you were talking about Chinese or Japanese people.
The world is confusing :)
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I recall seeing stuff in the DM that pointed out white people abusing the system.
Only if they're labour voters on benefits. The Mail doesn't exactly hide its political allegiance
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Only if they're labour voters on benefits.
I would be shocked if any of the people profiled in the article I read had ever voted. Either way, they were leaches who deserve all of the media abuse they got.
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I see you are their perfect target demographic - aside from an ability to critically think.
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I see you are their perfect target demographic - aside from an ability to critically think.
The demographic who thinks hereditary welfare recipient isn't a good occupation for a society to encourage?
Honestly, I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Should everyone just ignore stuff like that? Is it good that stuff like that happens?
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Should everyone just ignore stuff like that?
Hey, it worked for the local government and cops in Rotherham.
It didn't work for the 1500 or so white girls who got turned into sex "slaves" but you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet amirite?
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No, they seem to target the demographic that presumes no welfare is acceptable whatsoever, because Middle England presumes that only useless spongers could possibly be in that category, and bonus points for immigrants.
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I sometimes wonder if the people coming to Britain for "benefit tourism" are the same ones who steal jobs off honest, hardworking Brits
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No, they seem to target the demographic that presumes no welfare is acceptable whatsoever,
I feel like this a lot, and it's usually an overreaction to the stupid bullshit that goes on. Certainly there are plenty of people who abuse the shit out of it (flabdablet will no doubt be along shortly to lecture me with his "fuck you I got mine" shoulder alien schtick).
OTOH, people overreact to the overreaction and start defending the indefensible.
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The mail online is probably the worst of all the papers. However most newspapers have the same sort of horrid mix of titillation and shock.
For example the Duchess of Cambridge was photographed topless by a French newspaper. The Sun which has a topless model everyday on page 3, said about how a British newspaper would never show the Duchesses' breasts.
As one comedian put it "I had to pass the picture of the good tits to read about the shit tit"
Edit: I was reading the metro I think it was last week and on the same page was the headline "cannibal ate a 21year old girl".Next to it was Kate moss in some skimpy outfit like she was laid out as if she was the next course.
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There's very little difference between making a challenging Angry Bird level and building a PC.
Both have parts. (bricks, beams, ice blocks)
Both have optimal combinations of parts.
Both have parts that don't combine well. (support a horizontal beam by a single vertical beam not in the center)
Both are worried about efficiency. (The lightest amount of material to deflect attacks. Too much material makes it easy to get a higher score).
Both have failure points. (If the structure physics are wrong it collapses).All which leads to.
Both require critical thinking and memory.
Therefore, if your kid spent all his angry bird time on IT, he'd be able to take the test too.
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>Buddy:
Pretty much everyone on Fox is trolls.
That's their job.
It's hard work, but somebody's gotta do it.
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It's hard work, but somebody's gotta do it.
At least they're good at their jobs. That's more than most people can say.
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The Daily Mail also claim that pretty much everything causes cancer.
http://www.lazerhorse.org/2013/06/15/list-daily-mail-give-cancer/#
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i'm mildly disappointed that CANCER did not appear on either list...
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The Daily Mail also claim that pretty much everything causes cancer.
Don't forget their list of things that help prevent it.
And that the intersection of those two sets is non-trivially non-empty.
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The Daily Mail also claim that pretty much everything causes cancer.
Probably been talking to the State of California.
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Related: A complete list of things caused by global warming1
1: Not actually complete, list was last updated May 2012. But a big ass list.
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Could be worse. One of my best friends grew up in a household that read the Sun.
Also, [url=http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/toys/dailymail/]fun-ness[/url].
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I actually find the Sun less offensive. It has no pretence about its place, unlike the DM that pretends to be better than the gutter snipe it is.
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It has no pretence about its place, unlike the DM that pretends to be better than the gutter snipe it is.
Here we go, the British caste system rears its ugly mug yet again. No wonder we fought a war.
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No wonder we fought a war.
three actually, if we're counting the wars where brittania and 'murica are on opposite sides of the conflict.
the number is higher if you want to count the times we're on the same side
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I'll just leave this here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI
I first saw this as a live performance using a projector
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three actually, if we're counting the wars where brittania and 'murica are on opposite sides of the conflict.
Yeah, but there's one that really mattered in the context of my comment. The others kind of followed from the outcome of the first.
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hmm... fair enough. i'll accept that argument.
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Here we go, the British caste system rears its ugly mug yet again. No wonder we fought a war.
Yes, the Sun knows its place and the DM pretends to be high-falutin'.
Are you seriously telling me that no other country on Earth has a caste system between 'lower class', 'middle class' and 'upper class'?
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Are you seriously telling me
Not that I recall.
...no other country on Earth has a caste system between 'lower class', 'middle class' and 'upper class'?
Oh, so if the other countries said they were invading Afghanistan, then you would be excused in invading too? (Actually, I thought @accalia's link about the history of Britain's wars was interesting, and the bit about a series of four--so far--Anglo-Afghan wars reminded me of stuff like the Punic wars, and I wondered if they were actually as different in the ways they were fought as these were. History is weird that way).
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No, I'm merely saying that this is how it is. And it's a product of a grossly inefficient system where people are invariably mismatched from their true capability and their skills are invariably unused efficiently.
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Ultimately, it's human nature, though not every culture formalizes it. Mostly I was just going for the cheap joke.
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Yup. Sucks, don't it?
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No, I'm a big fan of cheap jokes.
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I meant more the whole 'humanity is fucked up' part.