Reform, and the death of the Tory Party

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PurplePenguin

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You might spot quite a bit of humour on here that's not marked by emojis. I might not have been entirely serious.

I've got a very good friend on FB with whom I used to exchange some pretty spicy contrary opinions (sans emojis) that onlookers might have thought we hated each other, but actually we were both teasing each other all the time. And despite his petrolheadedness, we're still very good friends. I think.

I'll never understand your love for emojis.
 

No Ta Doctor

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It's all very weird - not politically or terrorist motivated, not thought to be targeted but someone has allegedly driven half the length of the country to commit murder.

Shït can sometimes go very very wrong in the darker corners of the extreme kink community. Yes, you do now have images of Anne Widdicombe in your head that bleach cannot remove
 
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briantrumpet

briantrumpet

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I'll never understand your love for emojis.

I don't 'love' them any more than other ways of communicating something, but they are genuinely interesting as a paralinguistic feature worthy of research. https://www.nextscientists.com/index.php/science-conf/article/view/573

I guess I like their function in humour, either by use or deliberate non-use.

"The piece examines how emojis enhance clarity, express emotions, foster connections, and introduce humor [sic] in English-speaking cultures."
 
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briantrumpet

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FWIW, I dislike their use if the pretence is that something is funny when it's just an insult: I might insult a very good friend, either with or without a wink (in person) or emoji wink, but if I call someone I don't know well the same name and stick an emoji in to pretend it's a friendly insult, it's emoji abuse, I'd argue.

Equally, I enjoy very droll humour that doesn't do the "badoom tish" ("Its a joke, folks!!"), but sometimes it risks someone taking it seriously. Which in itself can be funny, to be fair.
 
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briantrumpet

briantrumpet

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Spotting a pattern? They want Farage to be free to speculate for political gain on a live case, but anyone calling him out is endangering him, so they shouldn't.

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Spotting a pattern? They want Farage to be free to speculate for political gain on a live case, but anyone calling him out is endangering him, so they shouldn't.

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Love the way they think Farage has been 'hounded' considering the media seem to have cut him enormous slack compared to any senior politician in any of the main Parties. It's only in recent weeks he has come under any kind of scrutiny from many of them. Meanwhile, he's a regular for 'questions must be asked' whenever there are any indiscretions by others reported.
 
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briantrumpet

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Love the way they think Farage has been 'hounded' considering the media seem to have cut him enormous slack compared to any senior politician in any of the main Parties. It's only in recent weeks he has come under any kind of scrutiny from many of them. Meanwhile, he's a regular for 'questions must be asked' whenever there are any indiscretions by others reported.

'Hounded' is simply 'held to account', as all politicians should be. The fct that they get all tetchy when they are held to account suggests they want to be beyond accountability, almost as if they've got stuff they want to keep hidden.
 
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