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Is the pope a…: 6 January 2025; US catholic conservative commentator and media personality, Megyn Kelly, fulminated yesterday after having watched Conclave. In this awards contender, Ralph Fiennes plays a cardinal who uncovers scandalous secrets at the Vatican during the organisation of a papal conclave. The plot twist is delivered when the pope elect confides to Fiennes' character that he/she/they is intersex and has…da-da-DAAAA…girly bits, albeit only on the inside.
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No sex please, we're batshit: 13 November 2024; I was hoping for laughs out of POTUS'24, but I never dreamed of anything quite like this!
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Tears of an unclown: 9 November 2024; Trump's election victory has delivered in spades. Not least Jimmy the Smug choking back tears on air. And that's a WIN folks! (applause)
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No shit!: 22 October 2024; The death of Paul Di'Anno, Iron Maiden's original frontman, gives the BBC's music-mad, soy-supping Mark Savage another opportunity to reveal how unsavage he really is.
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Wicked not wikkid: 18 October 2024; For anyone who considers The Wizard of Oz somehow lacking in the character motivation stakes there's Wicked, a prequel to give the wicked witch of the west a backstory. I'm led to believe that the stage show musical has been wildly popular.
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Simply Simu: 15 October 2024; Sometime actor Simu Liu displayed an above-average fragility on Canada's Dragon's Den in response to a couple of white people attempting to appropriate his cultural identity…by marketing a canned bubble tea drink. Of all things.
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Hey kids, let's put on a show!: 10 September 2024; An am-dram theatre in Bedfordshire is putting on a show. The Girl on the Train, as it happens. The story features dark content such as domestic abuse and alcoholism. Ooh!
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Bad breaking: 10 August 2024; As the Olympic Games have broadened their scope from the traditional feats of speed and strength, which could be readily decided by objective measures such as time taken; distance thrown; and last man standing, they've ~~progressed~~degenerated to more populist sports and subjective measures of skill. I'm sure it's very clever, but synchronised swimming was the very nadir for me; dancing in a pool is totally fucking lame. And now we have synchronised diving; skateboarding; and breakdancing.
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Grammaries: 9 August 2024; Through complete weblink happenstance I came across a 2021 article on Medium by Katie Edwards (who?), entitled No, You’re Shit: Grammar Pedantry and Knowing Your Place. As a member of the Grammar Police myself, albeit merely a lowly beat patrolman, I thought it might be worth seventeen minutes of my time. As they say, 'tis better to travel hopefully…
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Are you triggered?: 8 August 2024; Tiffanie Turnbull's breaking report of a zoologist who's been exposed for committing acts of extreme sadistic abuse towards animals is headed with a trigger warning:
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Make-up free moment: 29 July 2024; Eurosport has sacked veteran commentator Bob Ballard, for a sexist remark following the final of the women's 4×100m freestyle relay, when the victorious Australian team were taking their time getting to the podium for the baublebash. His co-commentator, Lizzie Simmonds, immediately branded his remark outrageous. Immediately after she'd pulled the stick out of her arse that is.
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Pope on the ropes: 21 June 2024; If, like me, you read the headline Pope told off by student for using anti-LGBTQ language and thought Pope Francis had been indelicate again, then you'd be wrong. It appears that fragile student twink was referring to Frankie's earlier slip in using the word frociaggine last month. A sin for which he'd already apologised.
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The sorry ©rapper: 20 May 2024; Rapper Sean Diddy Combs has apologised, after he was caught on CCTV physically attacking an ex-girlfriend in 2016.
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All the alumns: 6 May 2024; I can't recall how I got here, but get here I did. The here in this case being pondering the word alumni. To the best of my knowledge, which isn't much, in Britain we used to refer to graduates of a university or college as just that, graduates; alumni seemed to be used more in the US. Perhaps that was just a skewed perception. Dunno. (shrug)
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Blackface: 29 February 2024; The latest episode of British institutional fragility comes courtesy of the British Board of Film Classification raising the age rating for Mary Poppins, from U to PG, because a derogatory term [hottentots] originally used by white Europeans about nomadic peoples in southern Africa is used to refer to soot-faced chimney-sweeps. (snowflake)
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Friends ununited: 9 February 2024; A little controversy has arisen over a Super Bowl ad for Uber Eats, the premise of which is that people forget things.
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Flapthink crime: 12 October 2023; According to figures released by the UK Home Office, transgender hate crime has risen by 11% over the last year in England and Wales. That sounds quite startling, until you look into what constitutes a hate crime.
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Delicate sensibilities of trivial celebrities: 11 October 2023; Through nothing other than abject boredom, I started reading Laura Martin's The difficulties facing Hollywood super-producer Ryan Murphy’s TV empire on BBC Culture. At almost 2000 words, it's quite long for what it is. And it's not as interesting as I first thought, especially since I've seen none of Murphy's work. Consequently, I didn't finish reading it; but I did get far enough in to learn that black transgender actress Angelica Ross had a hissy fit on set over a crew member who was operating the vehicle she had to drive on camera wearing a racist T-shirt every day.
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How!…?: 23 September 2023; Three Canadian women have been accused of falsely claiming Inuit heritage to defraud indigenous organisations of benefits. It's a pretty shonky thing to do; some people simply have no morals. But it upset Aluki Kotierk, president of one such organisation, more than most.
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Will the real Slim Shady please grow up?: 29 August 2023; It's a time-honoured tradition in US politics, whereby Republican campaigners use popular music to show that they're down wit' da kidz, and musicians order them to not use their performance for political gain. It's petty, but a recording is a recording, and recordings are covered by copyright restrictions on public performance, so fair enough.
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Emojional unintelligence (clown): 2 June 2023; A coalition of Germany’s regional broadcasters has released a list of extreme right wing emojis, use of which on social media can be used to identify you as a fascist pig. These include a student raising their hand, as a nazi salute; an okay symbol alongside a glass of milk, for white supremacy; a clown face, as comment on non-extreme right-wing politics; and a red cross, in place of a swastika. I shit you not: (cross) = (swastika)…(whatever)
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All aboard the Snowflake Express: 16 May 2023; Most on-board train announcements can best be described as unexciting—the next station stop is…, change here for…, etc.—to the point that they become intrusive and annoying. But passengers aboard the ÖBB service from Bregenz to Vienna were recently treated to a little pep talk from one of Austria's more (in)famous scions: that nice Herr Hitler. Two clips of speeches were played; short, but enough to cram in a crowd chanting Heil Hitler and Sieg Heil.
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No nudes is good news: 31 March 2023; An Australian ocean swimmer has resigned from her surf club, after receiving notice that she'd breached their no nudity policy when changing out of her swimming costume…in the changing room. Club members are directed to shower in their swimming costume, and change under a towel; at that point, one might as well just go to the beach and save the membership/entrance fee. Surf Life Saving New South Wales' CEO sought to avert mockery:
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0s and 1s: 30 March 2023; I don't know why this qualifies for BBC Worklife per se, other than zoomers have to work like the rest of us, I guess; but Jessica Klein seeks to educate us as to How young people are shaking off gender binaries. The relevance of zoomers to work life, I can understand; their gender binarism is another matter entirely. Unless these attitudes are having an impact on the provision of toilet facilities in the workplace. (confused)
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No shits for Springtime (poop): 21 March 2023; You can't keep a ~~good journalist~~hack urinalist down, and once again Marianna Spring has sprung into mithering over trolls on Twitter. Oh, and pimping her gossamer-thin investigation, instigated by personal butthurt and treated derisively by the space cadet:
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Springtime for Hateler: 6 March 2023; Marianna Spring is the BBC's disinformation and social media correspondent. Her role is to seek out problems on teh soshull meejah and whinge about them. This time, it's about hurt fee-fees on Twitter, particularly hers. First World problems, huh? (snowflake)
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Tax-free travellin': 5 March 2023; Ireland's gyppos—sorry, Travellers—want their history and culture to be taught as part of the curriculum in Irish schools.
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Spared: 5 March 2023; In yet another interview—sorry, online conversation—Prince Harry says he always felt different to the rest of his family.
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Dahling: 20 February 2023; The late Roald Dahl's publisher, Puffin, hired sensitivity readers to flap‑flap‑flap, and rewrite his works for a modern audience; presumably one of emotionally-fragile adults. And, thus, tiny minds at Inclusive Minds have gone through his collected works, excluding the unwords and wrongthink that triggered their butthurt detectors.
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Plastica fantastica!: 10 February 2023; When Madonna appeared at this year's Grammy Awards looking every bit like the love child of Mickey Rourke and Jocelyn Wildenstein, the internetz were abuzz. Some commented that she should grow old gracefully, as if she'd give a damn for what anyone else thinks. The freakish visage wasn't her real face though, it was the result of the patriarchy photographing her through a beer glass.*
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Sore loser: 25 January 2023; Chinonye Chukwu, who wrote and directed Till, which garnered no nominations for this year's Oscars, showed magnanimity in rejection…by accusing Hollywoke of upholding whiteness and perpetuating an unabashed misogyny towards Black women. This is despite AMPAS doubling its female and ethnic minority members in 2020, as well as mandating arbitrary diversity criteria for nominations in the best picture category.
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Journalism 404: 7 January 2023; For those unfamiliar with the matter, Kotaku is a garbage-tier gaming site that employs urinalists in place of journalists. From what I can determine, the webzine isn't taken seriously among gamers—who are presumably its target audience—for several reasons, not limited to the quality of the writing, or lack thereof, and staffers' apparent obsession with politics over gaming.
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Boo-hoos and hurt fee-fees: 15 December 2022; Prince Harry has claimed it was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me over the Sussex's departure from royal life.
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A tale of two rocket men: 10 December 2022; Sir Elton John has ~~rage-quit~~flap-quit Twitter, over changes in misinformation policy under Elon Musk's ownership:
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What happened to the spirit of punk?: 9 December 2022; After the dinky butthurts criticised their choice of name, British punk band Slaves bent down, grabbed their ankles, and changed it to Soft Play. Very punk. Not.
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Triggered: 25 August 2022; There was a time when a TV or film production that contained graphic or upsetting scenes would be accompanied by an advisory content warning to that effect, so as to suitably prepare the unwary. And there's absolutely nothing wrong in that. Now, however, they're accompanied by trigger warnings.
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Oh no, poor lamb: 22 August 2022; In How workplace bullying went remote, Joanna York examines workplace bullying in the remote-work era on behalf of BBC Worklife (Hello Hybrid subdivision). But is she really discussing bullying, or simply hurt fee-fees, when she refers to unkind behaviour?
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Sadosacks: 19 August 2022; The Edinburgh Fringe has for decades been a bastion of cutting-edge, often raw comedy. This is where comedians go to try out their wildest, newest material, and where grown-ups go to be shocked as well as entertained. Snowflakes should look elsewhere.
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Half dutch: 16 August 2022; This cropped up as a most read lead on BBC News online. What at first appeared to be a compelling national statement on social media abstinence, however, turns out to be a very much more mundane tale of a minor celebrity stepping away from InstaTweet. What a let-down! (thumbdown)
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Nlightenment: 21 June 2022; I guess it's all a matter of perspective.
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Tweet in space: 26 April 2022; After a period of broad speculation, Elon Musk will buy Twitter for a cool $44bn. The announcement has some of the Twitterati weeping into their soy lattes, if not actually soiling themselves.
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Stoner: 11 January 2022; Protesters on the French overseas territory of St Pierre and Miquelon have attacked their MP, by pelting him with seaweed. Stéphane Claireaux took his ordeal stoically.
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Traumedy: 6 January 2022; Laughter is the best medicine, or so we're told. And a prescribed comedy course could be a new way to help people recover from trauma. The sessions will be free for participants, although presumably not for the UK taxpayer; they get their joy from their tax bill.
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Too damned precious!: 20 October 2021; Baldwin Cottage is a residence for women and transgendered persons attending Oberlin College and Conservatory, Ohio. The college recently upgraded the heating system in the residence, by installing new radiators. This triggered one of the resident twinks, Peter Fray-Witzer, because the work was conducted by real, biologically-relevant men. The sort of people who install and maintain heating systems.
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Funny, not funny: 16 October 2021; Outrage has erupted over Dave Chappelle's latest Netflix special, The Closer, as he took aim at the alphabet soupers—particularly the T—and the preferred pronoun poseurs. Verily, the dudgeon, it was high; and the salt, it flowed freely and in abundance. You cannot make fun of the trans, it seems.
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The revolution will be televised…: 28 September 2021; …for shitz 'n' gigglz.
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Racist sweatpants: 15 September 2021; In support of my earlier observation, that people don't know the meaning of racist, comes a report of the Balenciaga fashion house facing criticism, for nothing more than a $1,190 (£860) pair of sweatpants it sells rips off black culture.
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Bombs or blacklisting: 30 August 2021; As someone who doesn't read comics, even I'm aware of Frank Miller. If only through his works that made it to the silver screen: 300; Sin City, and it's sequel, Sin City: A Dame To Kill For; and The Spirit. Although the less said about the last one, the better.
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The other F-bomb: 2 August 2021; Matt Damon will no longer refer to homosexuals as faggots,* so as not to upset his daughter. He'll still gaily gather sticks into faggots of firewood though…until she finds something wrong with that too.
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Overreacting much?: 15 July 2021; Apparently, whities are appropriating black TikTok performers' dance moves without giving the original creators credit. That's pretty bad behaviour; after all, credit where credit's due. But, there's always one poor lamb who either has to fall back on hyperbole, or simply doesn't understand the true meaning of the words that they're using.
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Moaning Muslim: 11 June 2021; British actor Riz Ahmed wants an end to toxic Muslim characters…on screen.
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Poor little rich girl: 1 June 2021; After refusing to take part in post-match news conferences, Naomi Osaka has withdrawn from the French Open, citing mental health concerns. Other sports personalities have come out in support, but some have also reminded her, and us, that news conferences are part of the gig. Indeed, participation is written into the Grand Slam rulebook, which Osaka effectively signed up to. The media rights pay for the tournaments' pay days, which benefit all participants, not just those who're privileged with massive sponsorship deals.
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The transsporting life: 3 May 2021; In the same interview in which he announced his surgical diminution, Elliot Page objected to bans on transgender girls playing in girls' sports. (snowflake)
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Able was I: 6 April 2021; Sara Nović, writing on behalf of BBC Equality Matters, admonishes you for The harmful ableist language you unknowingly use. You heartless bastard! (mad)
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The name game: 15 January 2021; Mithering on behalf of BBC Worklife, Zulekha Nathoo explains Why getting a name right matters. If you can't be bothered to read the whole article, you're not alone. It's just another whinge about mispronunciation of names, and how it's your fault if you struggle with someone's name.
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Gone(ish), but not forgotten: 9 December 2020; Deadnaming is the practice of referring to a transgender person by the name that they used before they transitioned, even if that's only a trans-lite conversion. So Elliot Page's deadname is Ellen. Using the deadname is considered bad etiquette among the coddled minorities, as is using the wrong pronouns. And the queers on social media, who have nothing constructive to do with their lives, take it very seriously. (snowflake)
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It's finger cleanin' responsibly good: 25 August 2020; KFC is temporarily shelving its finger lickin' good slogan, in light of the pandemic.
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The complexity of superheroism: 30 July 2020; Way back in the mists of time, we considered the philosophy and psychology of superheroes and superheroism.
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Fear the frost: 24 June 2020; Being the wrong side of 50, I am somewhat behind the curve, not that I was ever ahead of it at the best of times. I'm aware of woke, snowflakes, pandering, and SJW, but only today did I discover that Marvel plan to reboot their superhero team, New Warriors, with their first non-binary character.* This character is also black and wears blue. His/her/its/their name? None other than…ummm…Snowflake.
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Fringe syndrome: 19 August 2019; The results are in, and Tim Vine hasn't won the Dave award for best joke at the Edinburgh Fringe. In fact, he didn't make the top ten shortlist. Was he even there?
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At least they bend their gender: 2 March 2019; Former women's swimming Olympic silver medallist, Sharron Davies, has come out; in support, that is, of Martina Navratilova's position that transgender athletes are cheating. Needless to say, the snowflakes are all a'dither, whining that:
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No skool like the old skool: 27 March 2017; Parent and journalist Laura June complains that leaving her three-year old daughter with the iPad and unsupervised internet access results in the toddler watching inappropriate content, including frightening derivatives of her favourite cartoon characters. Incensed that these parodies/knock-offs/call-them-what-you-will could offend or frighten her daughter, June does the only logical thing, ~~take away the iPad and parent her daughter properly~~complain to YouTube, and whinge to the world in general.
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Hubris: how gay!: 9 November 2012; In a perhaps unguarded moment during a light-hearted radio interview, New Zealand's prime minister John Key referred to a presenter wearing a gay red top. This outraged some who construed it as a slur against the homosexual community. Key later defended himself, stating that he used the word gay to mean weird rather than as a deliberate offence; the Oxford English Dictionary notes its use in this manner to mean foolish, stupid, or unimpressive.
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