What getting raptured taught me about B2B sales

It’s funny how there’s basically two types of European aristocrat left: a) Someone who owns the castle and art collection but otherwise just likes running the family brewery (90 percent of them) b) Someone who owns a pair of callipers and bankrolls the local branch of the Fatherland Front.

Blew a mate’s mind yesterday when I noted that one of the senior members of the House of Oldenburg is the Deputy Leader of the AfD whilst the Jacobite pretender is a nice octogenarian with a politely quiet boyfriend who has a younger brother who owns a very well regarded brewery.

I like this Guardian piece. www.theguardian.com/film/2023/oc...

You are in a polycule of weird (derogatory) Nazi psychopaths with a bizarre fetish for cuck chairs I am in a polycule of weird (delightful) queer trans furries with a fetish for spreadsheets We are not the same

This is another way in which the online, commenty right is getting totally divorced from the sorts of people who *should* be voting for them. And having had a foot in both on camps, politics and journalism is a good two or three decades behind even average practice in the corporate world.

[CNN ‘KEY RACE ALERT’ JINGLE]

Have any of these people ever held a real job in their lives? As someone who does work in the private sector my main interaction with HR is emailing them to ask how many days holiday I have left

this skeet's been aging like garbage on a NY street corner. have progressed past annoyance.

All of the most insane people I have encountered in different context over the last 15 years of being online are slowly but surely merging into one giant blob of lunatics

Mithras is perhaps one of UK new-right Twitter's more obviously mentally ill participants to understand where we're up to

honestly this is a great book but i also have the mental image of a guy in a boston accent going "hey, i'm respecting my ancestors here"

Labour Left 🤝 Labour Right

It is with something close to hysteria that I must announce the 6th or maybe 7th faction within Your Party, and that's without counting the joint communiqué from the Scottish branches, which I am minded to.

The sheer contradictions of anti-immigration activists - immigrants have too much rights but also are an enemy to social cohesion, they segregate themselves yet are everywhere these days - shows the extent to which 95% anti-immigration activism is just status anxiety.

I don't know who any of these men are, but that second guy looks like the long dead scion of a decrepit manson from a Lovecraftian inspired horror game

Psychologically very fascinating the extent to which the two historically major parties just hate their actual electoral coalitions.

A proper British success story

the whale car wash, n. 50th & meridian, oklahoma city, oklahoma, 1979

Hartwell terrace, Queens Road, Hyde Park, Leeds, 1970s, photo by Peter Mitchell.

For people who don't know about this, here are some details. www.desertsun.com/story/news/c...

The problem that will run into is that trying to put more and more constraints on the presidency is an *extremely* limited safeguard as these will be gradually eroded by the need of the executive to act with relatively large levels of flexibility just due to the huge gaps in the Constitution

What Will Stancil the man did or did not say or believe is broadly irrelevant when discussing Will Stancil the MMO raid boss everyone logs on to fight with their buddies.

One of the curious Merrivale stone rows on Dartmoor; two of them separated by a leat. More here Merrivale Rows - Stone Rows, Cist, Cairn and Cairn Circle - Dartmoor, Devon share.google/cw6nefrKafse...

"could you arrange for Corbyn and Sultana to have a massive falling out?" "you don't need a genie for that my master"

I was frozen out in the lean winter years When the dollars were few and the faces were mean I was frozen in business and frozen in love I took a ten minute nap, man, I never woke up

Having a named, organised faction before you have a named, organised party is the most far-left thing Ive seen. Amazing scenes. Congrats guys. You really are a self-parody

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The solution is clear: reduce the number of columnists

I’m not sure how I feel about Kimmel’s replacement, tbh.

One of the most annoying things recently is the tendency of various Westminster Bubble types on the right to beg for the US government to investigate or sanction the UK including actual MPs, which is fascinatingly out of step with public opinion and frankly borderline treasonous

Radio Amarillo was asked: What is the name of the sea between Texas and Florida? Radio Amarillo answered: We do not comment on the Gulf of Mexico

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I do think a lot of the attraction of London is being steadily annihilated by the rising cost of living

I don't even think multiculturalism is a thing that differentiates London much from the wider UK. Birmingham or Manchester is if not quite as diverse certainly very very diverse

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"But Thiel’s Antichrist checklist—a paranoid obsession with apocalypse, control, and surveillance—describes Thiel himself." newrepublic.com/article/2004...

Viz various comments about the size of the pension bill etc, UK Govs have done a pretty good job of pushing the retirement age back unlike France, and the state entitlement is not huge on a per person basis

Patel is under immense political pressure to confirm the outlandish evidence-free claims of Donald Trump, JD Vance, Steve Miller, et al that Charlie Kirk's assassin was a leftist. They've already staked this out as a pretext for a political purge. You think he'll let the facts speak for themselves?

young men should join d&d groups, where they will either meet women or discover that they were one all along.

Don't wish to attack the sincerity of anyone's religious convictions its telling that "right wing loon recommends you go to churches who's priests are pretty conservative and very online" whereas as someone with liberal views I fit in fine at my local church in a rural area

Given how decentralised Reform policy making is stand by for Kruger to start driving through some eye-brow raising social policy if given half a chance I think

Only if it can raise production of dentists

I'm pretty confident Avigdor Lieberman sends him plenty let alone everyone else

I always remember when Anne Robinson tried to do her school ma’am act on Ricky Hatton on Celebrity Weakest Link. AR: “Ricky - you were the weakest link in that round. Why do you think that is?” RH: “Probably because I get punched in the head for a living, Anne.”