Flagg wrote: SCRawl the turd is up to his old tricks. He's locked the Clarkson is a Cunt thread and split off a couple posts to BotB. I love how he's the worst mod ever.
it's great that literally nothing happened wrt the breivik thread
i wonder if anything ever will, or if they'll just pretend that two posters didn't have a meltdown
tying this back to the post i'm quoting
Purnellbyl wrote:I do not see any reason to believe it was not intended as an over-the-top piss take rather than, as Flagg seems to think, some kind of political position. The relative value of the joke is in the eye of the beholder, but presenting it as something other than bad taste does not fit the context of what he was saying.
Losonti Tokash wrote:I liked the part where Clarkson said he works for a living.
Or when Starglider said nurses don't contribute anything meaningful to society.
They don't have $20,000 computers to make shitty sims on, so obviously they contribute nothing. Is it wrong to wish for him to have a traumatic brain injury so he can witness how useless nurses are firsthand?
St. Arglider wrote:There were in fact several calls of 'Jeremy Clarkson for prime minister' at my working lunch today. I think the sentiment in the City is that the public sector (and specifically public sector unions) are blackmailing the country to continue getting very generous pensions while doing almost nothing useful. This is of course somewhat ironic.
no need for flesh nurses in his world of computer jesus!!!
B-A-K-U-S-T-R-A wrote:
no need for flesh nurses in his world of computer jesus!!!
No, he's pointing out that the (financial sector) workers who were saying this actually get ridiculous pensions and pay for little work-he's making fun of them, not agreeing with them.
B-A-K-U-S-T-R-A wrote:
no need for flesh nurses in his world of computer jesus!!!
No, he's pointing out that the (financial sector) workers who were saying this actually get ridiculous pensions and pay for little work-he's making fun of them, not agreeing with them.
counter: his posts, the fact that he's a confurvative, the phrasing of his post all agree: thatcherite fuck.
Birdfucker St. Arglider wrote:Reality is seeping into the public sector bubble, oh no poor things.
They are powerful draws for people who want a job where they won't be fired no matter how badly they perform, and know they'd never get a performance benfit in the private sector so go after fixed entitlements instead. These are not people we want to attract to any job. The recent unrest is largely because for the first time since Thatcher, public sector workers are actually at risk of being fired (although of course with massively generous severance compared to private sector workers).
The UK has very few people who want to get rid of the government; the group of colleagues I mentioned earlier all dislike the public sector (or at least their stereotype of it), but they pretty much all want to reform it into working practices and attitude similar to the private sector rather than eliminate it. I broadly agree with that part; I would happily pay government workers a lot more if they were correspondingly more productive.
B-A-K-U-S-T-R-A wrote:in fact, he just responded:
this is literally "union workers are lazy"
literally
don't defend such a fucker, dude
Shit, I wasn't prepared for that kind of doublethink-he pretty much just said that he knows plenty of people in the private sector who do nothing useful, then says that lazy workers wouldn't do well in the private sector.
starku wrote:people have much higher expectations of entrenched workforces
in a way that they don't have high expectations of entrenched wealth
social justice right? incompetent rich people are better than incompetent public servants
exactly, but,
St. Arglider wrote:The assumption of the public sector is that their benefits can always be funded simply by raising taxes. Public sector unions and civil service middle managers in particular see the private sector i.e. the majority of workers as something to be ruthlessly strip-mined for their benefit. In that sense they are pretty similar to the financial elite; obviously they get less individually but there are a lot more of them.
starglider thinks that unions are literally all thieves
i personally prefer jaerimuse, who whine about teh unionz while bragging about how they totally exploited markets to fuck people over (and then it bit them in the ass and they shut up about it).
EDIT: chockers may have redeemed himself with this:
Choculol wrote:I can't stop myself, it's like picking a scab or (when I was younger) popping a zit. Besides, the pain of Los or Stark or Bakustra or what's-his-name pales beside the fanfic, art and science gold on the site.
St. Arglider wrote:There were in fact several calls of 'Jeremy Clarkson for prime minister' at my working lunch today. I think the sentiment in the City is that the public sector (and specifically public sector unions) are blackmailing the country to continue getting very generous pensions while doing almost nothing useful. This is of course somewhat ironic.
no need for flesh nurses in his world of computer jesus!!!
Meta and I laughed at the bird furry for like forty-five solid minutes last night. Every time we started to settle down, one of us would say something like "Put it in my cloaca!" or "I wonder if we could pay Dalton to change his avatar to Big Bird" or "I'll bet his favorite makeout song is 'Rockin' Robin'" or "Starglider is a bird furry" and we'd lose it again. It was pretty great.
SCRawl the turd is up to his old tricks. He's locked the Clarkson is a Cunt thread and split off a couple posts to BotB. I love how he's the worst mod ever.
