danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
I’m not a huge fan of being awake myself.
Laurence Fox. The twat.
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"Woke" is a term I've only ever heard used by people who are against it, without any explanation of what it is.
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Starry Wisdom
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Dom Traynor
Tino Pai
I'd completely forgotten about Nims Obunge of the Haringey Peace Alliance. Pleased to see he's still around.
krtek a houby
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From loony left, to politically correct, social justice warrior to woke... all these so-called insults. It'll all very nebulous and the type of person that uses such terms always seem to be angry or deliberately on a wind up.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
To be fair I did first hear (well, read) the term “woke” as a self descriptor among young American liberals. It didn’t become an insult until later.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
broadly, to go back to 'the good old days' when white, cisgender, heterosexual, able-bodied, middle class men were automatically at the front of the queue everything and everyone else 'knew their place' and kept quiet and / or hidden
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I had associated it with The Matrix and thought it was just the equivalent of scales falling from eyes about a great injustice
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
I haven’t seen the Matrix, so I didn’t make that connection.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
You might be familiar with the red pill nonsense that MRAs come up with. I thought it was the same.
Doctor Carrot
Marxist Henchman
“Silenced man” has literally never been louder
Laurence Fox is still being silenced, according to his latest two-page spread in the Daily Telegraph.
newsthump.com
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
The first film was alright until conspiraloons started taking it literally. That put me off it a bit. The 2nd and 3rd films are shite.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Yeah, scales falling from eyes, that sort of thing. It’s a fairly straight forward metaphor. My problem with any of these things is that it implies there are unwoke, sheeple, with false consciousness, whatever the term of the day might be.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
In the film, the unwoke are the entire human race, living as slaves to AI and living in a simulated reality
PR1Berske
Alligator in chains by the park gates.
Can't find the tweet now, I saw earlier someone explain how the commonality amongst so many of the loudest right-wingers (and it would include Nick Griffin as well as Nigel Farage) is how everything is anchored to their childhood, some idealised, Poirot episode, invented truth version of a time when they felt safe and protected, and although I'm sure it's a bit "armchair philosophy" to link it to mothers and motherhood, there has to be a reason why it's always men, men of a type, men of a certain background, who are the common thread from the Brexit/lockdown sceptics of 2021 right back to the blackshirts.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Yeah, right. So only a rarified few are awake. Like the Brights or whoever.
I know that now that it’s become a swear people don’t tend to call themselves woke now - certainly in the U.K., certainly my age group - but initially they did, and it’s never a good look.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I dunno. I like being awake. Better than being asleep
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Don't think that an idealised, invented truth version of a time when they felt safe and protected,is just confined to the right to be honest .
But that's not it's origin. It's nothing to do with The Matrix.
PR1Berske
Alligator in chains by the park gates.
A very fair point well made. Political spectrums are cubes or circles, not straight lines. Point taken.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
That’s no loss to me, it’s only been a few posts since the suggestion was made to me.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
I always remember that Geoffrey Pearson book Hooligan
gosub
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What about Timmy Mallet?
There must be a term for those who spent the mornings of their formative years watching Timmy Mallet
mx wcfc
Well-Known Member
I met Timmy Mallet once in the bar at a WCFC away game at Maidenhead United. Not sure what that's got to do with anything.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Timmy Mallet is one of those children’s entertainers who has never been tarred with the Yewtree brush and rightly so, as he’s apparently a very nice man with a big big heart
gosub
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I cast no nastercians with that regards towards Timmy Mallett. It is more that I have a brother ten years my younger, and whilst he VERY MUCH enjoyed WACaday my own endurance of it could well be described as "woke"
He is still really annoying though.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Yes, but his appeal is not for you as you’re grown up.
He’s a smashing fella:
‘Life goes a gazillion miles an hour. You have to fill it’: Timmy Mallett on what he did next
A huge children’s TV star in the 1980s, Mallett is now an artist and has written a new memoir. It charts the bike ride he took, inspired by his older brother, who had Down’s syndrome and lived an extraordinarily rich life
I didn't like him as a kid either TBF.Yes, but his appeal is not for you as you’re grown up.
He’s a smashing fella:
‘Life goes a gazillion miles an hour. You have to fill it’: Timmy Mallett on what he did next
A huge children’s TV star in the 1980s, Mallett is now an artist and has written a new memoir. It charts the bike ride he took, inspired by his older brother, who had Down’s syndrome and lived an extraordinarily rich lifewww.theguardian.com
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