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Family of a murder victim: Please don’t use our child’s death to spread hate and division.
Reform and co: (uses their child’s death to spread hate and division)
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Local Facebook’s Thoughts On: Child-Friendly Drag Shows
I (white middle-class Brit) grew up going to child-friendly drag shows. They were called “pantomimes” and they were very popular. They were a family-friendly Christmas activity, you’d go to the theater and there would be sing-alongs for the kids and the odd naughty joke from the drag queen. My primary school would take everyone out to one when Christmas rolled round.
This was VERY NORMAL in the UK. Drag queens were NORMAL. They were on TV, they were in movies, they were NORMAL. Let’s take a look at the reaction to this horrific story about an innocent man labelled as a pedophile for being a drag queen.
Huh…. I guess no-one cares about white British cultural heritage anymore.
Good Omens 3
(huge spoilers ahead)
That was Nice but I wish it was a little bit more than Nice. Jesus was bafflingly underused which is a shame because Bilal Hasna was EXCELLENT. I did like that they managed to sneak a tiny cameo in of Adam the Antichrist seemingly maybe dating Jesus in the rewritten world!
Everyone is so mad about the ending but I’m not. Asa and Anthony are Aziraphale and Crowley in every way that matters as far as I can see, they’re a cosmic fanfiction turned canon, it really worked for me. I accept it might not work for everyone.
I don’t know. I’m fine with what we got, but I probably would have been fine if it really had ended at season 2. There’s just something so, I don’t know, meta-poetic about a pair of fictional lovers separated forever because their God turned out to be a rapist.
Pokopia
It’s the APOKEALYPSE!
Pokopia is at its core a very sad game, far sadder than I expected, but I had a ton of fun playing it. It scratches the itch left behind by Animal Crossing perfectly.
My favourite feature was the camera, as always.
Look at all those little guys! All my favourites in one place… Except Spheal. WHY DID THEY NOT INCLUDE SPHEAL. Maybe for the DLC?
Oh I forgot to mention, I also hopped back on Pokemon Go for the first time in a very long time to collect the Pokopia Ditto.
Local Facebook’s Thoughts On: Eid
It was Eid on… Friday? Look I don’t know anything about Eid, I just know the Muslim community has a big celebration and I see lots of people around in nice sparkly outfits.
There was a party in Victoria Park! Children and adults alike. Everyone was welcome regardless of religion. Let’s what the Facebook userbase has to say about it.
First of all, Karen Hilton wants you to know that she saw an event where Muslim children were playing and instantly wished death on those children. A horrible, slow death at that, since that’s what being bombed does to you. She was unashamed of saying this in public and multiple people liked that she said it.
Nigel Moore can’t see non-white people having fun without thinking of the ways in which he could hurt them.
Sarah Collin loves Britain so much she almost learned to spell it!
There was a fence and they did have to pay to get in. However I think Michelle Stanley is complaining that if she turned up, she… wouldn’t have had to pay?
ICE have killed multiple people.
A newspaper from 1922
Recently my father-in-law showed me a 104-year-old newspaper that had been kept in the family attic. I LOVE that kind of thing so I was eager to take pictures!
February 28, 1922. The Princess Mary referred to is this one, the great-grandchild of Queen Victoria.
The various aristocrats attending the wedding.
Call the Midwife finale
This show has been ongoing for most of my adulthood, it feels like, and now it’s over. I’m so sad. I’m looking forward to the prequel series and the eventual movie but it’s going to be so weird not having CTM to watch at the beginning of every year. I loved it so. Yes the finale was cheesy and overblown and the ghosts bit was so silly but I don’t care. They don’t make ’em like that anymore.
“Rest” in piss Ian Huntley
Soham murderer Ian Huntley dies after prison attack
I was still a young teenager when the Soham murders happened, not really all that much older than the victims. My family were on holiday in Cornwall, and it was the first time I had a hotel room of my own instead of sharing with the rest of my family. So every night I’d go upstairs to my own hotel room and turn on the TV (this was pre-smartphones) and watch the news and see people desperately searching for those little girls in their red football shirts. It sent my anxiety through the roof.
Hope he’s burning in hell.