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Pullover, creep.

So good.  Megaknitty One ... no, I've gone too far.

[BOOM!]

It's a Jimper

BOOM!

I respect the closed door of your home, under normal conditions, and your right to do as you please (so long as you're not harming others) inside that space ... I also respect the property rights of companies to precisely the same extent

Why is a community, rather than an individual, less deserving of your respect than an amorphous, unnatural entity such as a Plc?

It's a jumper.  A jumper.





Knitting by Rachael B, photography by JJ Abrams.

I don't have the right to roam Alton Towers, or any private property, without the consent of the property owner

Why do you respect the right of a PLC* to extract a profit more than the desire of a community to know who's in their midst?


* Merlin Entertainments Plc, in this case

... passports are simply one aspect of the pervasive illusion of control. In reality, I am a natural, flesh and blood creature belonging to this planet and naturally free to roam. The Powers That Shouldn't Be, however, have reduced this right to the level of a mere privilege, to be granted, denied or withdrawn at their whim.

Do you have the natural, inalienable right to right to roam in Alton Towers?

I've never seen the UK A Star Is Born rip-off Breaking Glass

I've a vague memory of that song from the first time round. Don't think I've heard it since.  I love it. I'm going to listen to it now as I clean my boat.

The most interesting thing my rabbit hole dive turned up was that the US release of the film ends on that scene and the triumphant note it strikes.

The UK version ends with the main character leaving the stage to find the band have broken up, her relationship's over, and her management have conned her into selling out. She suffers a nervous breakdown on the tube and ends the film drooling in a sanitorium!

Two cultures, divided by more than our common language.

[Ideological]

... imagine you're leaving a golf club ... The golf club says 'well, now you're leaving, you no longer have easy access to our facilities'.  Not really a punishment.  It's what happens when you leave an organisation

Or Netflix
Or a gym
Or cancelling a subscription to a comic

Tharg is no more punishing lapsed subbers by not mailing them a copy of 2000ad every week than the EU is punishing the US by not allowing its chlorinated chickens tariff-free access to your belly.

Ideological Brexiters calculated that the benefits of membership were outweighed by the benefits of leaving, which is their right as free agents.

Those who voted to Leave as a vague, directionless, existential howl of protest against the state of things in general are the ones who see loss of access as a punishment. No resolving that one; no point in trying.

Not 2000ad, but what the hell. Like everyone else on Earth, I've never seen the UK A Star Is Born rip-off Breaking Glass. Google tells me it predated Disney's Tron by 2 years*




* The production designer of Breaking Glass was probably ripping off something they'd seen at an art exhibition or a fashion show, but following the Lipstick Traces of influence is interesting in itself

[TordelBack]

Why would anyone want to be part of a "hateful" organisation that would actively try to destroy any people who want to leave it?

You may have misread the ironic tone of TordelBack's comment.

I couldn't care less whether May stays or goes, but the plan she's trying to get through is the least-worst of any of the versions of Brexit that stand a realistic chance of happening.

Whatever version of Brexit we eventually get, everyone will hate it and nobody will be happy.

Which is why we're doomed to keep hearing the same tired grievances we've endured for the last three years (from both sides) for the rest of our lives. For our generation, this will never end.

a Second Referendum is the only way to sort this mess out before it's over the cliff's edge.

Your fellow Britons do not share your certainty:

We should leave the EU - 39
We should stay in the EU - 42

A general election would resolve the Brexit problem - 18
A general election would not resolve the Brexit problem - 64

A 2nd referendum would resolve the Brexit problem - 31
A 2nd referendum would not resolve the Brexit problem - 51

He's trying to figure out if her mouth is coming or going.

Kuenssberg's mouth is like Momentum's Brexit strategy; just when you think you've figured it out, it goes all weird and wrong again.

Apollo and Rafael

And yet people take the piss out of schemie families who call their kids Logan or Rihanna.

The look on Faisal Islam's face.  Kuenssberg was asking Tezza if it was time for her to resign.