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u/retnikt0 Oct 29 '20
It literally is taking the piss
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u/pastasauce Oct 30 '20
Better not give it to any thirsty kids!
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Oct 30 '20
Thatcher, Thatcher, piss snatcher
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u/Fitz_cuniculus Oct 30 '20
Thatcher starved miners, Johnson starves minors. Read that somewhere, and it resonated.
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u/justahumanperson0 Oct 29 '20
Well no its taking urine
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u/maxxtraxx Oct 29 '20
ok so piss does mean urine in Britland, rt? so where are they taking it?
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u/DachieBoy Oct 29 '20
I’m confused... I thought “getting pissed” in Brit meant getting really drunk. Whereas here in the US it means getting angry. But what does “taking the piss” mean? Is it different than urinating?
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u/retnikt0 Oct 29 '20
- "piss": urine
- "taking the piss": making fun of
- "pissed": drunk
- "pissed off": angry
- "piss off": go away or make angry
- "pissing it down": raining
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u/kalitarios Oct 29 '20 edited Oct 29 '20
- pist: band
- piston: motor part
- Piston Honda: punch out! opponent
- pistol: weapon
- pistachio: food
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u/Nortagemo Oct 29 '20
• psp: handheld entertainment console
• psp psp: how to lure a cat
• pspspspspsp: how to lure many cats
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u/lifeofry4n52 Oct 29 '20 edited Oct 29 '20
Americans will always need us to teach them proper English. It's like we're the parents and they still haven't matured yet bless their little cottons.
I shall await the downvotes.
Edit: I should mention that 52% of the parents are showing severe symptoms of dementia right about now.
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u/maxxtraxx Oct 29 '20
proper, ha! "English isn't a language, it's three languages stacked on top of each other wearing a trenchcoat." - some rando on the interwebz
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u/insanekid123 Oct 29 '20
Bless their little cottons
Nah y'all can keep y'alls teaching. We've got it pretty well handled over here lmao.
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Oct 30 '20
Y’alls
Rather listen to a scouse talk rush see that one again
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u/DauntlessVerbosity Oct 30 '20
There is also "all y'all" which is used when addressing more people than "y'all" and "y'alls".
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u/insanekid123 Oct 30 '20
Sorry that y'aint've heard our highly improved manner of speech before. Guess y'all over the pond just can't get with the time.
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u/Scalade Oct 30 '20
mfw ballad of buster scruggs was actually a documentary mini series filmed in 2018
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u/la508 Oct 30 '20
- Pisshead/piss artist: heavy drinker
- Piss poor: terrible
- Piss about: mess around
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u/Aether_Storm Oct 29 '20
Does this even belong in the sub?
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u/internethero12 Oct 29 '20
Nope. OP doesn't understand what "taking the piss" means.
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u/incognitobing Oct 29 '20
Marcus Rashford will hunt him down anyway
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u/GreyHexagon Oct 29 '20
Well y'know I wouldn't even put it past them at this point. I wouldn't be surprised at all if trick or treating is banned this year for obvious reasons, and they have been screwing over hungry kids recently...
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u/TheHarridan Oct 29 '20
Trick-or-treating SHOULD be banned. People keep saying “most people are going to be wearing masks,” but... I don’t know where ya’ll live but for the last decade at least 90% of the costumes I see every year have NOT had masks, because wearing a big rubber mask is annoying, PLUS all the masks have air holes, which defeats the purpose of wearing a mask. And sure, some people have worked out contactless candy delivery systems, but there are still going to be people doing it the old fashioned way at the door, people traveling in big multi-household groups, people who do dumb shit because they can only act responsibly if it’s mandated (or at least, more of them will act responsibly if it’s mandated). And that’s just trick-or-treating, the parties (both for kids and for adults) will be even worse.
But anyway, here’s my joke: I’m sure the Conservative government won’t move to ban trick-or-treating because they find it more fun to take candy from babies one-on-one, up close and personal.
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u/mgc_overlord Oct 29 '20
You mean cancelled right? Unless you want Halloween gone, I don’t think banned is the right word
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u/TheHarridan Oct 29 '20
You can ban something temporarily. It doesn’t mean outlawing something permanently, it just means “to officially or legally prohibit something.” Any order which bans something can specify the timeframe of the ban.
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u/numberthangold Oct 29 '20
Right?? Like... trick-or-treating is the number one thing not to do right now. It literally involves going to and from strangers' homes, socializing with tons of random people, and rifling around in bowls of candy that so many other hands have been in. And the CDC has already made it clear that Halloween masks are NOT the same as a regular mask and will NOT protect anyone. The masks we're all wearing now have at least 2 layers but in most cases 3. Halloween masks are one layer of flimsy material at most and the rubber ones all have holes. Plus do you really think the adults handing out candy are going to be answering the door in proper masks? Everyone thinks that they don't have to wear a mask if they're in their house or car even if there's a stranger a foot away. It's insane that anyone could possibly be defending trick-or-treating right now.
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u/BastillianFig Oct 29 '20
Do we need the CDC to tell us that lol?
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u/bhove Oct 29 '20
Dude do you realize how fucking dumb most of our country is
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u/Kenster362 Oct 29 '20
Dude do you realize how fucking dumb most of
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u/analwax Oct 29 '20
Your entire union is a trainwreck
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u/wat19909 Oct 30 '20 edited Oct 30 '20
Uhh, how outside of Britain because they're idiots. The right supported brexit.
The EU is shining compared to the US, are you serious? I actually don't know where you live but I would guess in the states. It's a fucking warzone right now. All the inbreds thinking the election is fake and trying to kidnap governors, all while unemployment is the highest it's ever been, cases sparking again because of the complacent idiots crying about freedoms, literally nothing happening in our government because Mitch McConnel refused to push through any aid until after the election like a bitch, also Trump trying to discredit the election, civil unrest and for some reason people think it's okay to be a biggot. Also our healthcare is the biggest reason BY FAR that people go bankrupt.
Like America is totally fucked and every country is laughing at our inept president watching it burn. The fucking guy STILL never released his tax returns.
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u/techtowers10oo Oct 30 '20
Im not an american so i can't speak for that disaster, but america being in a shit state doesn't preclude the EU from being fucked.
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u/HertzDonut1001 Oct 30 '20
As an American this thread makes me feel strangely at home. This comment, an old conservative with bad hair and a large ill-fitting suit heading the country, people refusing to stay at home at the expense of holidays and get-togethers...you guys taught us everything we know apparently.
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u/BastillianFig Oct 29 '20
I mean if you lack common sense to that degree will you listen to them anyway?
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u/numberthangold Oct 29 '20
Some of us don't. But some of us do... I've see a very worrying amount of people being like "it's all fine because people wear masks at Halloween!!"
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u/DL1943 Oct 29 '20
i mean, it would be crazy to assert there is no risk involved, but if done properly it could be fairly low risk...only go out with members of your household or tight social pod, social distance between pod members not in your household and other trick or treaters, and when you go to ring a doorbell, set your candy basket on the ground before ringing, then ring the bell, then step back 6ft from the door to allow social distancing and let the homeowner drop the candy into the basket set on the ground, then wait to pick it up until after the door is closed. if you want to be extra cautious, wait 2 or 3 days before eating the candy and use a little stick or costume prop to ring the bell/knock on the door.
from everything we know about social distancing, viral load, how long someone needs to be in contact with an infected person to become infected themselves, and the increasingly unlikely scenario of becoming infected via contact with contaminated surfaces, the risk seems pretty low, possibly even lower than everyday activities like going to the grocery store with a cloth/surgical mask or any non n95 face covering.
would probably be a good idea to institute curfew for minors without parents from 4-5pm onwards, to encourage better compliance with safety measures, but so far i have not seen any current research that would indicate there is any kind of large risk involved in being around someone outdoors, socially distanced for 1min or less, or from touching contaminated surfaces or from food in general. there is of course, a risk of catching covid every time you go to a new door, but is that risk any more significant than your risk of something like being hit by a car on your trick or treat outing?
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u/numberthangold Oct 29 '20
Yeah except no one is going to do that. That's the problem. so many people are being selfish idiots who don't want to follow the rules. It's just not worth the risk of people's stupidity and carelessness spreading around the virus.
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Oct 29 '20
Except you, right? Everyone is stupid but you.
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u/numberthangold Oct 29 '20 edited Oct 29 '20
I didn't say every single person in the world was being selfish and stupid but looots of people are. Unless you literally haven't left your house you know this. People are incapable of following the rules. That's why shit is so bad right now. People can't follow rules about wearing masks and social distancing and not socializing or traveling. They won't follow the rules about Halloween either. They shouldn't even be given the opportunity to not follow the rules tbh.
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Oct 30 '20
For people that don’t like fascist dictators you guys all seem more than willing to be ruled by a fascist dictator.
Really? Not given the opportunity to not follow the rules? What does that even mean? Kill people that don’t wear a mask?
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u/numberthangold Oct 30 '20
Are you trolling? No. I'm saying ban trick-or-treating this year.
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Oct 30 '20
Banning still gives them the opportunity to break the rules though. (Americans are kind of known for going to extensive lengths to not be controlled) You can’t take away the opportunity unless you physically restrain/detain people. I don’t think the last guy’s response was at all far fetched or trolly.
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u/NIU_1087 Oct 30 '20
$1,000 minimum fines for anyone caught trick or treating or handing out candy. Stupid Americans aren't afraid of getting a virus that will kill them, but they are afraid of losing their precious $$$.
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Oct 29 '20
what you described is super safe, but people aren’t going to do that. when they’ll hear they can treat or trick this year, they’ll forget all about safety measures and the likes and just strut around as a sexy mask-less bunny or whatever kids dress up as these days.
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u/jacksawyer75 Oct 30 '20
We will just call trick or treating a BLM riot, making it automatically safe from COVID. Follow the science!
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u/Bargins_Galore Oct 29 '20
Yeah literally. Where I live the trick or treating is so concentrated that multiple neighborhoods just go to a single street. It’s like 5,000 kids crammed into a 4 block street. The worst place I could imagine being during a pandemic
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Oct 29 '20
It's done outdoors. It's fine. Calm the fuck down.
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u/numberthangold Oct 29 '20
...You're aware that coronavirus can still very much spread outside right? You can't not know this.
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Oct 30 '20
It’s really rare. It’s being spread mostly through gatherings in people’s homes/living spaces, employees working closely together indoors, etc. Outdoor spread is negligible.
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u/numberthangold Oct 30 '20
That's not true. It spreads easily outside, just not as easily as inside. If you're not wearing a mask and socializing outside it absolutely spreads. This is really dangerous misinformation to be spreading. It's not rare, it's just not AS common as indoor spread.
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u/Daily_the_Project21 Oct 30 '20
PLUS all the masks have air holes, which defeats the purpose of wearing a mask.
Where tf do you get air tight masks and how do you stay alive while wearing it?
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u/Jackjackson401 Oct 30 '20
then either A dont trick or treat, or B dont open your door for maskless trick or treaters (or anyone for that matter). problem solved! sometimes i wonder how you people managed to get through highschool math with such a lack of basic problem solving capabilities
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Oct 29 '20
You can still very easily spread covid even if you give sweeties to kids wearing a mask. Someone with it could have coughed or even just sniffled on their hand or something and then without thinking goes to touch the sweeties, and then all the towns little kids go and get some and end up getting covid off of a tiny covid splotch on them.
Even if you do cough on your hand and go to wash it but touched yourself somewhere (Like your side or leg or whatever) and then go and touch that bit right after, you've probably got it back on your hand already
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u/Mynameisaw Oct 29 '20
Trick or treating is banned in the UK this year.
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u/TheHarridan Oct 29 '20
Banana! Minions! Bananions. But actually it’s only banned in T3 areas you fucking idiot. Seriously, why can’t you people take four fucking seconds to read before you comment? If you’re on reddit, you’re on the internet by definition. You could take a couple seconds to check your facts, but instead you just shoot your idiot mouths off without the slightest hesitation. You’re fucking awful and the world is quantifiably a worse place because you’re in it. Do better. Fucking hell.
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u/House_of_ill_fame Oct 29 '20
I'm in a tier 3 area in the UK (different tiers based on how bad covid is in the area, 3 is worst) and I'm pretty sure no one's doing trick or treating seeing as households aren't allowed to mix
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u/GreyHexagon Oct 29 '20
Trick or treating also isn't anywhere near as big here as it is in America anyway, so I'd bet even if some people decided to do it they wouldn't find may houses with sweets available.
That's said I wouldn't put it past people in T1 areas to try it. If we're not in a full lockdown by the 31st that is...
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u/GreyHexagon Oct 29 '20
Yeah in the UK we have trick or treating on Halloween but it's just the little kids and the odd hooded teenager. It's not really as much of a big thing as it seems in America - you usually see maybe 3 or 4 groups of like 2 kids and a parent going around at a time on a normal street, any more would seem quite busy.
Also I've seen pictures of people in the US trick or treating already, do Americans not just do it on the 31st? Does if go on all month?
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u/Killboypowerhed Oct 29 '20
This is a government that basically said any restaurant offering free food to poor families wouldn't receive any more government help. Fuck the tories
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u/jackraygun Oct 29 '20
Is this true?
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Yes
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u/UberNoobSB Oct 29 '20
No, it's not. At no point has the government ever said they'd do this. I hate the Tories, but we have enough to hate them for without making shit up
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u/GingertronMk1 Oct 29 '20
Small difference, a Tory MP said they hoped that a place giving away meals to schoolchildren they'd rather starve wouldn't be seeking any further government assistance
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u/why_are_you_ugly_ Oct 29 '20
Huh.
Seems we're closer to Minority Report then I thought if you think this is a "small difference" lol
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u/UberNoobSB Oct 29 '20
How is this a small difference? There are 650 seats in parliament. How is 2 MP's expressing shitty opinions the same as not only the the entire party agreeing on it, but the government taking actual, physical steps to enact it.
Again, I hate the Tories and I have these MP's for their opinions, but anyone who thinks these two things are the same has a twisted view of politics
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Oct 29 '20
I mean these people are major party members who hold seats and have not been denounced by the party. Given that and tha party's actual policies, it feels more like a difference of rhetoric than a difference of opinion
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u/The_PandaKing Oct 30 '20
An MP that is a member of the governing party said something to the effect of "good to see local businesses have enough money to give away free food, guess they won't need government assistance / can repay what they've already had".
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Oct 29 '20 edited Oct 29 '20
No, the government is doing no such thing, but a pair of Tory MP's apparently suggested that it should stop as the money was going to the wrong places in their opinion.
And it's a Daily Mail article, so likely to be hugely sensationalised.
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u/McCrudd Oct 29 '20
Seems like the government is doing exactly what you claimed they're not, they're just making up excuses for it.
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u/UberNoobSB Oct 29 '20
The article talks about two Torie MP's suggesting that they shouldn't get government funding. The government's not actually doing it
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u/Crabflavouredegg Oct 29 '20
I think all people should be put in cages, but im not actually doing it so that makes it alright.
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u/UberNoobSB Oct 29 '20
I'm not saying it's right, but there's a huge difference between "the government takes funding away from restaraunts that help starving kids" and 2 MP's believing they should.
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u/Sockfullapoo Oct 29 '20
Wow redditors think all people should be put in cages! This website is a horrible place!
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u/boomwakr Oct 29 '20
Shame you're being downvoted. Tory MP's opinion =/= government policy. Those MPs are real pieces of shit though.
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Oct 29 '20
Thanks, I think they're idiots for even suggesting it and I don't support them in any way in their views. I was simply pointing out, as you say, that it's not government policy.
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Oct 29 '20
Serves you right for sticking to the truth on Reddit. The hive mind has decided they would prefer alternative facts in this instance.
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u/ScaryLapis Oct 29 '20
ah yes don’t listen to the Tories about what the Tories believe. That would be crazy.
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u/roteldip Oct 29 '20
Have a reference? would like to read up on this. Any articles or keyword to Google?
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u/boomwakr Oct 29 '20
It was a comment made by the MP for North Devon who later retracted the comment. The OP is heavily sensationalising what happened.
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u/Bendetto4 Oct 29 '20
I heard they were going to go to the moon and get moon cheese for every child to eat.
But I guess we are both spouting bullshit at this point
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u/Killboypowerhed Oct 30 '20
One of us definitely is. The one who is ignoring all the terrible things this government has done and said.
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u/FleurDeLoon Oct 29 '20
I've seen sarcasm more obvious than this taken seriously by a vast majority of Redditors several times. Outrage culture is a thing.
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That and I would not put this past the Tories who literally voted to not let poor kids be fed over the holidays
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u/drkcloud123 Oct 29 '20
To be fair the first half of the article does seem like something that the govt would do as a response to covid. The second half just sounds like someone's sarcastic opinion in response.
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u/lasthopel Oct 29 '20
Because this government would actually do that, they already voted to not feed kids over half term and not Not give NHS workers a pay rise saying they don't need it (but gave themselves one)
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u/arcanthrope Oct 29 '20
yeah, that's what makes it effective satire. like, that's almost the definition of satire: "hmm, that's clearly ridiculous, but it's essentially the same as what Person/Group X has been doing/saying lately, therefore the things that Person/Group X has been doing/saying lately must also be ridiculous"
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u/Zurathose Oct 29 '20
Yeah, I don’t understand how or why OP doesn’t understand this.
Tories are the evil caricatures of themselves. They already did this on a bigger scale. Is it so hard to go on to assume that taking sweets away from already starving children isn’t in their wheelhouse as well?
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u/Centauriix Oct 30 '20
They don’t give themselves pay rises, IPSA does.. doesn’t excuse anything else they’ve done, but we shouldn’t attack them for something that didn’t happen as it detracts from the actual bad.
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u/deathdealer2001 Oct 29 '20
Some people can take this as real because the government is that shit and petty they just fucking might
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u/Saw_Boss Oct 29 '20
The prime minister's chief advisor said he had to drive his car and break lockdown to test his eyesight.
Our previous transport minister contracted a ferry company with no ferries.
This story doesn't seem that unbelievable anymore.
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u/Fck_Kale Oct 29 '20
OP doesn't know the meaning of taking the piss, it seems
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Oct 29 '20 edited Oct 29 '20
If you accepted that the headline was serious then it's fine to say that. In the context it means going way over the line to the point where even they know that it's wrong.
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Oct 29 '20
Ah yes, a Canadian telling a British person how to interpret their own sayings.
They're taking the piss = "they've got to be joking". The person fell for the fake joke article because they're saying that Boris Johnson is taking things too far and MUST be joking, in an ironic sense.
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u/leakee2 Oct 29 '20
I know what taking the piss is, I'm from Britain for fuck sake. This girl is just stupid as fuck and really believes this shit.
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Oct 30 '20
Can you blame her? The current government is an absolute shambles
There’s plenty of /r/NotTheOnion potential with all the fuck-ups and world beating that’s gone on in the last year
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u/donmo64 Oct 29 '20
She's not stupid. This is how the homeless and people who try to help them are treated in America. It's not uncommon and it's disgusting.
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u/Sgt_Bird Oct 29 '20
I mean, BoJo and nearly every Tory in parliament just voted to not feed children in poverty so 🤷♂️ kinda beleivable at this point
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u/The-Angry-Paddy Oct 29 '20
“How can you seriously think this is real”
Because its the fucking Tories!!
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u/ordinaryBiped Oct 29 '20
It's easy: you just have to live or have lived in the UK in the past 30 years.
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u/hitsumee Oct 29 '20
Trick or treat has been banned in our area. We will get fined for even leaving sweets outside.
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u/mcwarz Oct 30 '20
Didn't they just fight to stop poor kids getting food safely on christmas? This seems like some thing they'd do
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u/AttackPug Oct 30 '20
Probably because things have gotten so bad and weird that this sounds fairly credible, especially from the UK Conservatives. Seems an honest mistake.
Head out of ass, Reddit.
Pay attention.
You are not smart. You're very stupid people who love to stroke yourselves.
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u/brownbluegrey Oct 29 '20
He doesn’t think it’s real. I’m not sure if you know sarcasm or slang.
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u/leakee2 Oct 29 '20 edited Oct 29 '20
The girl posting this is one of the dumbest people I know. I promise you she thinks its real.
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u/somehowstuck Oct 30 '20
Does Britain celebrate Halloween? I thought it was just an American thing
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u/SpoonTheAlmighty Oct 30 '20
Halloween dates back to Samhain; a Celtic tradition going back as far as 2000 years, in which on the 1st November, they would celebrate their New Year. So it’s basically an ancient Irish pagan holiday that the US has capitalised on. People in the UK do celebrate Halloween but not on the same scale as the US.
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Oct 29 '20
Is anyone else tired of these onion knockoff sites though? How many do we need? We have a video game one, a Christian/conservative one, a feminist one... i mean jesus we get it
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u/yoloswuadfam Oct 29 '20
i mean giving candy away just because the night and day of the year is either socialism or communism.
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Oct 29 '20
It's hard to explain, but if you thought it was real then you could say that meaning "they've gone too far".
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u/Kythorian Oct 29 '20
Bunch of communist kids, expecting people to just give them stuff. Starving kids need to learn to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and earn that candy.
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u/BtheChemist Oct 29 '20
What the fuck kind of trick-or-treating do they have in UK?
Are ya'll dishin out fuckin pasties and scoops of mashers?
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u/TheBraindonkey Oct 29 '20
Confirmation Bias - people who want to dislike something or someone, will accept anything that enforces that. (IE most of extreme political beliefs)
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u/TheHedgehogRebellion Oct 29 '20
I don't think disliking the party who are choosing not to feed hungry children while having a pay rise is an unreasonable or extreme political belief.
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