The only footballer that I know of who changed sides in a match was Socrates. He wouldn’t have joined the fascists though, he famously left Brazil because of the dictatorship, then claimed he joined Fiorentina so he could read Gramsci in the original Italian. He also became a medical doctor during his playing career.
None of this has anything to do with Boris, but right now I need to remember that some people are awesome.
Marx was right. Socrates was offside.
The Existential Comics version annoys me
Why is Camus playing out of position? He should be in goal.
Camus played goalkeeper for the Racing Universitaire d’Alger junior team from 1928 to 1930.
And he was such a good goalkeeper, he came to the conclusion that life was pointless.
While it’s his natural position, he’s playing midfield in this game to explore the pitch in the search for meaning.
There’s a possibility that she will get dragged in anyway. Despite a non-binding vote last week, there is a good chance that BJ will ask her to prorogue Parliament. This would put her in a position of choosing between publicly defying the stated will of a sitting Parliament, or publicly defying the will of her MP. A normal MP would not put her in such a position, but with BJ you never know.
My fantasy is that there is a vote of no confidence, BJ manages to piss off the DUP, the non-fascist parties form a coalition that is bigger than the Tory coalition, and either Jo Swinson or Nicola Sturgeon becomes PM.
Here’s the thing: do you really want to be depending on the English Tory party deciding that it didn’t stand for greed and selfishness and preferrment in order to restore sanity? Because recent US experience of just such predictions have been way off the mark. If you were still a halfway decent human being, albeit a right wing bigot, you would have left the Tory party in disgust long ago. So with the white americans’ republican party.
At 93 years of age, that’s probably true of most things she does these days.
Wait. I understand this game: non binding votes are sacred though aren’t they? They are the only ones you can’t run again when further facts emerge. It’s true: it’s not written in the constitution.
I strongly disagree: nothing would make a united Ireland a greater possibility than decades of peace, prosperity, and progress. Brexit will deliver none of that. In fact it stops it dead.
It may, and seems likely to help dissolve the union but it emboldens extremists in northern Ireland and their English military allies. They are ascendent.
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Please stop calling him Boris. He’s not your friend, he would happily fuck your wife and then send someone around to beat you up.
Even his family don’t call him Boris.
Apologies. Didn’t realise that everyone on the site would be getting a notification on that Duh.
#stilllearningtherules - so what would be good form? Delete the post?
(edited for extra mortification)
Maybe Chumbawamba can reunite to dump it on his head.
It doesn’t actually work that way. You just @'ed an account called “boingboing”. Keep calm and carry on. (About that, at least.)
Should I remind you that her mother lived for about a decade longer than that? And Elizabeth still seems to maintain a rather full schedule of appearances and activities, despite being 93? I suspect she’ll be around for a while longer yet.
Thanks for that 
The Queen doesn’t have any Corgis anymore. The last one died in 2018. This doesn’t make you wrong, though.
Here’s a list of direct quotes from the man who is now UK prime minister:
On Imperialism:
“The problem is not that we were once in charge, but that we are not in charge anymore.”
Consider Uganda, pearl of Africa, as an example of the British record. The British planted coffee and cotton and tobacco, and they were broadly right. If left to their own devices, the natives would rely on nothing but the instant carbohydrate gratification of the plantain.
“The best fate for Africa would be if the old colonial powers, or their citizens, scrambled once again in her direction; on the understanding that this time they will not be asked to feel guilty.”
On the UK’s relationship with the Commonwealth:
“It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-wearing picaninnies.”
On Tony Blair’s peacekeeping efforts in the DRC:
“They say he is shortly off to the Congo. No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and their tribal warriors will all break out in watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down his big white British taxpayer-funded bird.”
On changes in leadership:
For 10 years we in the Tory party have become used to Papua New Guinea-style orgies of cannibalism and chief-killing, and so it is with a happy amazement that we watch as the madness engulfs the Labour Party."
On Barrack Obama:
(His actions were)“a symbol of the part-Kenyan president’s ancestral dislike of the British Empire"
On Libya:
“They’ve got a brilliant vision to turn Sirte, with the help of the municipality of Sirte, to turn it into the next Dubai. The only thing they’ve got to do is clear the dead bodies away and then we’ll be there.”
There is nothing I can say to condemn him more than his own words already do. He is an utter disgrace, a hideously venal streak of aristocratic nastiness that exemplifies all that is wrong with the British elite class.
BoJo seems to be trending.
