BF2S Forums Where are all the whiny peaceful "Enlightened" European now?

bojo spent 10 years ensconced in europe writing piffle about the parliamentary process for the knaves gallery back at home. somehow i sincerely doubt he's our strongest negotiator in the matter. nobody in europe takes him seriously and for good reason.

i see we sent michael gove, he of the white-ringed and powder penumbra'd nostrils, to brussels for all of about a day. another clown with a portfolio that should have been swapped out for some party string a long time ago.

funny definition of 'rescue', to 'deliver' a no brexit deal ... which, er, would have been the result of just as well doing nothing for the last 3 years.

'special delivery! recorded mail: we brought you a large container of fuck all. sign here please'.

https://twitter.com/SebDance/status/1340248648198868992

there’s been a lot of funny articles asking the gammons on the spanish costa del sol the same question. most of them seemed to assume it was their god-given right to stay in their expat communities near benidorm, watching only fools and horses on repeat forever.

they sound a bit like you in australia tbh.

evil incompatible muslims are ruining christmas! again!!!

https://twitter.com/mohammadhussain/sta … 98981?s=21

i’ve certainly never reported any experiences like this of having a muslim housemate. i am shocked and appalled.

uziq wrote:

evil incompatible muslims are ruining christmas! again!!!

https://twitter.com/mohammadhussain/sta … 98981?s=21

i’ve certainly never reported any experiences like this of having a muslim housemate. i am shocked and appalled.

Cute series of posts. His roommate seems to take Christmas pretty seriously though. I've left the lights up all year before, though not plugged in. Some of the nearby business parks don't take them down either. There is no menu here, just what you feel like eating. One of my grandmas stressed about that kind of stuff (a real stickler for western food formalities until she got too old to care). The other would just go out to a restaurant or have mac & cheese or something.

No traditional movies to watch. I think one year I watched Robocop. Usually give games a break and do something else though. Tomorrow, I might work on my uke.

The most stressful aspect are the gifts and exchange etiquette. I ask someone if they want to exchange gifts, and they're like nah. Then sometimes they'll buy one anyway. I keep some sealed, reserve DVDs just in case of emergencies.

re: lights

Once your hooks and snaps are in, they can generally just stay there. I also put up Easter colors, red white and blues, and Halloween.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

uziq wrote:

evil incompatible muslims are ruining christmas! again!!!

https://twitter.com/mohammadhussain/sta … 98981?s=21

i’ve certainly never reported any experiences like this of having a muslim housemate. i am shocked and appalled.

Cute series of posts. His roommate seems to take Christmas pretty seriously though. I've left the lights up all year before, though not plugged in. Some of the nearby business parks don't take them down either. There is no menu here, just what you feel like eating. One of my grandmas stressed about that kind of stuff (a real stickler for western food formalities until she got too old to care). The other would just go out to a restaurant or have mac & cheese or something.

No traditional movies to watch. I think one year I watched Robocop. Usually give games a break and do something else though. Tomorrow, I might work on my uke.

The most stressful aspect are the gifts and exchange etiquette. I ask someone if they want to exchange gifts, and they're like nah. Then sometimes they'll buy one anyway. I keep some sealed, reserve DVDs just in case of emergencies.

re: lights

Once your hooks and snaps are in, they can generally just stay there. I also put up Easter colors, red white and blues, and Halloween.

I love getting people gifts for Christmas. I would totally do this to someone and not expect anything in return. I like hand maid gifts. I would prefer something cheap and thoughtful than anything in monetary value.

nobody thinks it’s a good deal, though, except the predictable grunts of assent from the ERG and farage. what has led to a collapse of enthusiasm across the board, tacitly, is the victory of biden. the ERG and other paleo-neoliberals like rees-mogg were hoping for a bright future with a trumpian free-trade atlantic pact in which their hedge fund portfolios could bulge.

what we have is just a deteriorated relation with our biggest trading partner in every way. johnson as ever is more concerned with ‘optics’ than substance. being able to bring ‘glad tidings’ on christmas is a more important victory to him than anything in those 2,000 pages of boring political deal.

What I loathe about this is articles with titles like these:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the … acked-down

How fucking stupid are these people?

SuperJail Warden wrote:

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

The most stressful aspect are the gifts and exchange etiquette. I ask someone if they want to exchange gifts, and they're like nah. Then sometimes they'll buy one anyway. I keep some sealed, reserve DVDs just in case of emergencies.

I love getting people gifts for Christmas. I would totally do this to someone and not expect anything in return. I like hand maid gifts. I would prefer something cheap and thoughtful than anything in monetary value.

I love buying, wrapping, and giving them too. The full shebang. I just don't like to make people uncomfortable if they have nothing in return. I like opening them, though.

It would be nice if there were more socially acceptable pathways to determining whether or not people want to exchange gifts. Or maybe my family's just weird. One gathering I recall as a kid, they did that bit where the presents would all go into a stockpile, people would pick them out, and there would be endless swapping before it was concluded. Probably cool for adults but made for a ton of devastated toddlers who would have their gifts, maybe one they really wanted for awhile, forcibly removed. Like a parent would go over and rip it out of their hands to give to another kid.

If the goal was to build some sort of fellowship, I don't think it was working as intended. The result of course was the best stuff often went to the favorites. What an experience, never participated since.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

It would be nice if there were more socially acceptable pathways to determining whether or not people want to exchange gifts. Or maybe my family's just weird. One gathering I recall as a kid, they did that bit where the presents would all go into a stockpile, people would pick them out, and there would be endless swapping before it was concluded. Probably cool for adults but made for a ton of devastated toddlers who would have their gifts, maybe one they really wanted for awhile, forcibly removed. Like a parent would go over and rip it out of their hands to give to another kid.

If the goal was to build some sort of fellowship, I don't think it was working as intended. The result of course was the best stuff often went to the favorites. What an experience, never participated since.

Thats one of the weirder things I've heard.

Dilbert_X wrote:

Thats one of the weirder things I've heard.

uziq wrote:

mormons, man.

isitreallythough.thor

I never actually encountered it again or heard about it when I was still at the church. I would hazard it's more of a midwest/mountains thing, since a number of people at the event were from there. You can find identical gift exchange idea and variations in similarly-geared kitsch web-mags. Probably more of a cute party idea for adults, but pass.

I feel compelled to once again separate myself from this. I didn't spend much time at the church, and left as a kid. Most of my knowledge of it comes from anecdotes from family and non-acquaintances, and independent reading. As such, I regard it (though not all members) as profoundly two-faced, bullying, and greedy. Not to mention dangerously meddlesome in childhood development. Kids then were told that they were a part of some grand generation of high-quality souls. What a mindfuck for some people.

I've been told by my parents that when we left, I was asked for my input on the matter, and that I said I had the books and could read them on my own time whenever I wanted. I don't think that's changed, but there is probably over 20 layers of dust on that book case (beautiful editions though, one of my grandpas had it personalized for me).

If I went back to a church, the LDS would be under the barrel of choices.

https://twitter.com/Barcajim3/status/13 … 7193326593

yep.