• @[email protected]
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    1772 months ago

    There’s an even larger one between the atlantic and pacific ocean, just north of the gulf of mexico.

  • @[email protected]
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    561 month ago

    It took me way to long to realise its Britain. My first thought was, that it would be the US and then got confused because this wasn’t the US.

    • @[email protected]
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      121 month ago

      I once had to stay in Birmingham after a cancelled train. On leaving the station I was accosted by a drunk demanding cigarettes, who started swearing at me after I admitted I didn’t smoke. That’s my only experience of Birmingham, I have to assume it’s typical.

    • @[email protected]
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      71 month ago

      Yes I have, and I found it to be rather pleasant actually… But then I am from Wolverhampton so it could just be the comparison.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 month ago

      I will always have a soft spot for Birmingham for giving us Black Sabbath. Luckily, I have never been there though, so the reality will not ruin it for me.

  • @[email protected]
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    271 month ago

    My brain worked so hard to make this look like America, even though now I know it isn’t I’m pretty sure its still the USA

  • southsamurai
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    242 months ago

    That’s so brutal, black metal fans burned a church in its honor

    • @[email protected]
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      122 months ago

      Yo the church was burning when we got here we just didn’t wanna let it burn without a proper send off

  • @[email protected]
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    212 months ago

    I had a good, deep, cathartic laugh at this I didn’t realize I was in need of. UK politics has been an interesting but unfun mess for a long while.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 month ago

      They’ve just stated to unfuck themselves out of tgeir own neolib brainfuck. Guys like Garry and Giantsomething

    • @[email protected]
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      102 months ago

      I genuinely don’t get why hating the UK has become so popular recently. Like, sure we have our problems, but it’s not that bad…

      • @[email protected]
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        71 month ago

        Have you not lived through the political shit show we’ve had? Brexit, COVID scandals, Boris Johnson, Farage, stagnating wages, poor productivity, inflation, high energy prices, NHS in crisis, housing shit show…and there’s no end in sight. Think the UK hasn’t been doing that badly is quite a willful refusal to see how we compare to the rest of the world and where we could have been if we functioned better.

      • Steve Dice
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        62 months ago

        Is it recently, though? As far as I can remember, specifically England has been the US of Europe. Or you mean the UK as a whole?

        • @[email protected]
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          21 month ago

          Economically it’s definitely not doing well. Politically it’s been a shitshow but many countries have. I definitely hate the situation but not the people/culture/(country) as such.

      • luce [they/she]
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        randomly choosing a random outgroup to collectively hate must be ironically funny sometimes(see: jokes about the fr*nch) Genuinely there is no other reason. sometimes people will create justifications/other explanations for it but really its just absurdist humor with a pinch of tribalism. edit: i should add though, usually this type of humor is meant to be ironic by most of its participants. the more i think about it, the more it seems this is more rude than funny.

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          Look we made a bunch of overblown jokes against the French for a while…

          …then they got BASED organizing ferociously for their workers’ rights…

          …Then we stopped joking so much…

          …and now they’re not doing so hot again.

          I think there’s a causative effect here. Should the jokes continue in order to spur them to greatness once more, even if only out of spite?

      • @[email protected]
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        41 month ago

        UK export neoliberalisn,evagelicals and that traitor against all human Boris,UK will not be allowed to live that down for 100 year. UK stop having shit ideas.

      • @[email protected]
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        42 months ago

        Malibu Ken replaced None shall pass as my favorite but NSP still holds a place in my heart

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          32 months ago

          Malibu Ken isn’t an Aesop album it’s a Malibu Ken album. TOBACCO should not be underestimated and is great on his own too.

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            I mean… Malibu Ken is … basically just Aesop Rock + Tobacco, right?

            Like, the sub header/alt title for the album is ‘Aesop Rock and TOBACCO are Malibu Ken’.

            Like how Garbology is Aesop Rock + Blockhead?

            I… get that you can split hairs over exact naming schemes…

            …but Malibu Ken just literally is Aesop Rock on vocals and lyrics, just as Garbology is Aesop Rock on vocals and lyrics. He just partnered with different musicians for the ‘beats’.

            But anyway yes, Tobacco is fucking awesome, so is Black Moth Super Rainbow.

            nothing sounds like how he … makes music. It’s incredible.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 month ago

            Can I not be jazzed about the collab? Geez. It’s 2 of my favorite artists arguably randomly coming together to make magic.

            I consider it an aesop album x Tobacco collab album so therefore it is also an aesop album

            • @[email protected]
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              11 month ago

              Sure, whatever. I just think the way shit is credited actually matters, e.g. “Run the Jewels” isn’t a Killer Mike album even though he’s on every track, just like “Kid A” isn’t a Thom Yorke album. Shobaleader One’s work is separate from Squarepusher even though it’s literally the same person.

              Artists make subtle choices when crediting their work, but yeah it’s ultimately subjective so do you.

        • @[email protected]
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          32 months ago

          Skelethon > everything (tho i do like ITS, the song Vititus has a weirdly nostalgic vibe)

          • @[email protected]
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            21 month ago

            I think NSP just got me because I took was grown in a royal dirt of Suffolk county’s flooring.

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    What do you think would happen if a population stayed within its own cesspit of a gene pool for a thousand years? ;)

    Edit: typo.

  • IninewCrow
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    72 months ago

    Maybe this is the remnant of the last technological civilization that collapsed and disappeared, leaving behind a super massive floating wastepile in the Atlantic Ocean and eventually settled into where it is today. Along with all the survivors that have long since forgotten where they came from.

  • @[email protected]
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    51 month ago

    blighty has it’s problems but they’re resolvable. rejoin the EU. Support Ukraine. Restrict 5 eyes intel until the US get’s it’s shit together. Lead NATO.

    problems, but feasibly resolveable problems.