phutatorius

@phutatorius@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I prefer calling them Goebbels or Himmler.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Vegan dildo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re not done yet. There’ll be a lot, but it might take a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The range of invective is far richer than that. American terms of abuse are far more limited.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “You leotard!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In England, twat (pronounced to rhyme with “hat”) is barely considered rude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People in the small-town South don’t take it well when you call them sister-fuckers, either, as I quickly learned.

  Didn’t stop me, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cancer sufferer works in the Netherlands

  Kankerlijer. You can replace cancer with any of a number of other nasty diseases.

  It’s also customary to tell someone “get cancer!” (krijg de kanker), “get tuberculosis!” (krijg de pleuris) or “get leprosy!” (krijg het lazarus). All map to English-language sentiments such as “eat shit and die” or “fuck off.”

  You can also just use “cancer” as a prefix to anything that happens to piss you off: cancer-influencers, cancer-sandwich, whatever. And the same goes for other diseases.

  I personally prefer “klootzak,” which means ball bag. The word rolls off the tongue so nicely. But then, everything said in Dutch sounds aggressively pejorative, even sweet talk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You fucking spanner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My, what a lot of conclusions you just drew on zero evidence. Almost impressive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Clarkson went into farming as a tax dodge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Farmers usually have a lot of money invested in capital equipment but their lifestyles are anything but lavish.

  They often hide it, but the farmers I know are far from poor. Like a lot of us, they’re rich in illiquid assets but not in terms of cashflow. That’s my situation too, and I don’t whinge about it.

  Inheritance tax is a tax on unearned wealth. There’s no reason to distinguish one asset from all others. Those inheriting almost invariably did nothing to earn it; it’s almost always an accident of birth that puts them in line for an inheritance. That, and the whims of some elderly person. A steeply progressive inheritance tax, with no exceptions besides spouses, would be ideal. And if you’re concerned about corporations grabbing all the arable land, regulate them to prevent any firm directly or indirectly owning more than, say, 10 hectares of land. A similar rule should apply to housing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  but clearly most Brits are dead against that.

  With the likes of Palantir sniffing about in the lobbies, there’s good reason to be against it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He hasn’t rescinded it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think he’s practical and level headed

  He seems to me frightened of the rightwing media and of Reform and twitchily reactive.

  You don’t defeat the enemy by becoming them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh? He banned weapons exports to Israel, publicly condemned Israel for war crimes, sanctioned a bunch of members of their parliament, ramped up aid for Palestine, committed to arresting Netanyahu if he ever steps foot on British soil, resisted joining the US and Israel with their attacks in Iran, and has recognised Palestine.

  And still has contracts for the Israeli military to train British troops, and still criminalises the expression of support for Palestinian rights. At best, we’re seeing some mixed messaging here.

  They’ve been a centre-left party for half a century now.

  Sure, because there’s no difference between Labour under Michael Foot or Corbyn and Labour under Blair or Starmer. /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the guy did give off the impression that he was genuinely trying to improve things and was giving it his all despite his party being a unruly shitshow

  Funny, all I saw was a smug time-server who didn’t give a toss about British people who aren’t rich.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  His attacks on trans people are also scummy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There probably wasn’t time to conduct a poll before Truss fucked off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your test for people?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes they do. Some people are that stupid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your test for people?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And what’s that say about common sense?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OK what is your Roman name?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Chile Verdius (cum cervino).