One of the things that's REALLY obvious these days, if you're a Wrestling fan, is how shitty populists use social media to build cheap heat and sell storylines. Once you see it, you can never unsee it.
In conclusion, more people should watch Wrestling.
This also holds true for most television interviews of Farage, Boris, Trump and co. too. They're never there to answer questions. They're there to cut a promo about how pumped and right they are.
And how no one should DARE question that unless they want to be crushed.
most interviewers - deliberately or not - play to that. The feed them a line to get a good response.
Particularly true in the US. So many presenters there think they're walking in the footsteps of Edward R Murrow.
They're not. Those footprints belong to Mean Gene Okerlund.
Of course I should point out that this is why I should probably NEVER be invited onto a panel show with any of these people.
Because you can be damn certain I'd be putting Farage through the Spanish Announcers Table mid promo.
"But trading under WTO rules we will be able to..."
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
Your stream today is entirely dependent on this floof releasing me before 10am.
Tbf, should happen. He's proper deep snoozing, so in about 20mins he'll wake up, panic at being so comfy, and sprint back to his "safe space" in the spare room. Poor thing.
Personally my interview questions for a new Met Commissioner would just be throwing a bunch of Commander Vimes quotes at them and asking them if they agree.
With Vimes, Pratchett showed he perfectly understood both the complexity and correct way of policing a large city.
Vimes/Pratchett on consent policing:
"When we break down, it all breaks down. That’s just how it works. You can bend it, and if you make it hot enough you can bend it in a circle, but you can’t break it. When you break it, it all breaks down until there’s nothing unbroken."
Vimes/Pratchett on the application of the law:
"The common people? They’re nothing special. They’re no different from the rich and powerful except they’ve got no money or power. But the law should be there to balance things up a bit."
Also actual LOLs at the Met Police Federation thinking most Londoners are going to side with them vs the Mayor.
Even the racists here would quite like a police force that gave a shit at a senior level about investigating/dealing with base level crime like burglary and theft.
You can only get away with being a racist/misogynistic police force if you at least take care of the Little Englanders when they report low-level crime like burglary/theft.
Kicking in doors in high-vis and walking out waving a few baggies only impresses Home Secretaries.
I'm still amazed how fast we've moved from "don't ever touch me!" to "scritches required at all times pls" with Little Stray Kitty.
Hopefully a good sign that he'll come back once the door is open.
No firm ETA on that at the moment due to my tooth drama. But soon.
I should say that we'd have already opened the downstairs doors if it wasn't clear that he's pretty satisfied with life right now.
Still yowls at cats through the window occasionally, but is so much more relaxed in himself and discovering new experiences like duvet deep snoozes.
He's got a deep, quiet rumble of a purr. I still remember him almost jumping out of his skin the first time he did it. As if he had no idea he could make that noise.
@CrusaderKings Stream will kick off when the DLC drops, about 5pm UK time.
Excited for the new culture features, and been planning this run as a way to show them off for a while.
Plus it gives us an awesome opportunity to talk about real Roman Britain, and how cultures merge/Empires retreat
@CrusaderKings So you'll be able to tune in live for lots of gameplay discovery and historical natter (plus some proper Roman mythbusting if people cash in their histofacts) from about 5pm via the link below.