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I have a theory that Scarlett deliberately wanted a bit of yellowface controversy because it would distract from that other controversy where someone asked if she thought it was right that she was a human rights ambassador to the UN while profiting from an Israeli firm that racially-oppressed Palestinians and she said "you're right, that's hypocritical" and then quit as a human rights ambassador but kept on taking Sodastream's money.

Anyway, I loved Kung Fu and the Charlie Chan mysteries as a kid (Northern Irish television was showing those well into the 2000s).  I'm sure this will be fine.

It'll probably be fine - lots of white kids are called Motoko Kusanagi.

"Zack Snyder should've watched Watchmen."

I think it's great that Hollywood is making more films with Asian lead characters.

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Sorry about your mate, Sharky.

Indeed. Under-employment is a very real element in these figures. Two people wanting forty hours a week but only getting twenty are functionally equivalent to one person in full-time employment and one unemployed, but the figures only show two employed people.

Are these numbers calculated by tax contributions or a reduction in the number of claimed unemployment benefits over a certain period?  I only ask because I'm curious how many cash-in-hand workers pay their taxes, and how many sick and disabled people might have successfully found work since dying.

WAYHEY - good call. Now whatcha gonna do all you Prof Bears and Saucey Franks?

Post even more shite than usual to compensate.

Shut it, nerds.

The director's name is Screaming Mad George.

That is all.

I always assumed "righties" wasn't a thing because "lefties" was meant to be derogatory, not descriptive.  There's loads of insulting terms for right wingers, though: Tories, Nazis, LibDems, Blairites - Bennites will probably be one when the Labour party splits at the end of the month, too.

I would imagine the Reptilians have removed it from the internet by now.

I don't imagine it's anything sinister, they're probably just taking precautions in case they need to impose martial law somewhere.

The idea that Corbyn is any more or less gaffe-prone than Gonk in human form Ed Milliband is an odd one, but he's currently taking his media advice from someone who works at the Guardian.  From thence, things have proceeded as one might expect.

the appallingly timed Chakrabarti peerage

There was never going to be a good time for the Chakrabarti peerage as it was always going to be seized upon to revive and further the antisemitism narrative regardless of when she was nominated.  She was marked from the moment she failed to deliver what the media wanted, and it says a great deal about the UK that it so readily agreed to the media's version of events about a woman of colour.