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“Rest” in piss Ian Huntley

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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.

Graham Linehan thinks women should not vote

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I wondered what the British TERFs had to say about Renee Nicole Good, a bi woman shot down by ICE in broad daylight. They claim to be defenders of LGB women so they must be rightly furious, right?

I went to Graham Linehan’s page.

Oh, but it got worse. He reposted a tweet (with an ableist slur in the title) calling for women in America to be stripped of their right to vote.


I feel like I’m screaming into a void when I see people like Jonathan Ross (not the Jonathan Ross who killed Renee Good, the wildly popular British TV personality) and Richard Ayoade praise Linehan. It revolts me that these men coddle each other. Linehan is a very clear danger to women. His hatred for us is horrifying. What is it going to take for the British media to finally label him as the dangerous, disgusting misogynist he is, and how many women will he hurt before that happens?

Flags again

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It wasn’t just my Pride flag that got torn down. (Course, I say torn down but I didn’t actually see that. It could have been that the wind just blew it away. I kind of doubt it given the area I’m in, though.) They’re being torn down elsewhere in Leicester in direct acts of intimidation towards LGBT people.

Someone posted about it on r/leicester. I joined in. It wasn’t fun. There was the “clearly a hoax, no LGBT person has ever been abused” person:


The people who insist they’re not allowed to fly the English flag despite one flying in virtually every town for as far back as people can remember:


Guys who just really, really want to be allowed to say the r-word:


And same old tiresome , tiresome storybook monsters who think I’m a fool and a hypocrite for caring about other people.

Meanwhile, people have been killed for flying Pride flags.

Flags

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If you’re British you’ve probably already heard of the campaign to fly English flags everywhere to “protest” migrants being in the UK. It is deeply upsetting and upsetting the people around me as well.

Unfortunately one particularly obnoxious flag is now flying in my home village. I looked at it and I thought how desperately unfair it was that that flag is allowed to be plastered over every city as a “you’re not welcome” to migrants, while the victims of the Pulse massacre got their flag painted over as a warning to LGBT people.

So I found a small flag I got from the Leicester Pride event and wrote on it.


Then me and Dave, god bless him, went out in the dead of night and attached the Pride flag to the lamppost.


Went past the same lamppost today and the Pride flag was gone. I was disappointed but not surprised. I wonder what happened to it. Did anyone read the message?

Southport

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God, I am absolutely LIVID about what happened in Southport. The most appalling attack on young girls happens and then a bunch of racists show up to smash up the town, destroy a mosque (when no-one involved has the slightest connection to Islam) and attack people. I cannot imagine the pain being felt by residents of that community right now, who now have to spend a day cleaning up instead of grieving for three young lives cruelly taken away.

Fuck the EDL. May they burn in hell forever.

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jakeperalta:

‼️ if you live in the UK please vote in the general election (4th july) ‼️

  • when can I vote? 7am to 10pm
  • where can I vote? check your poll card or visit wheredoivote.co.uk (if you’re a student registered at your home and term time addresses, you can vote at either but not both)
  • who should I vote for? visit getvoting.org for your candidates and tactical voting info
  • what do I need to take with me? just photo id is required (list of valid id here), your poll card is NOT required
  • what if I can’t make it? you can register for an emergency proxy vote until 5pm

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michaelgovehateblog:

General election announced for the 4th of July, make sure you are registered to vote! Remember if you’re a student you can register with your home address and term time address but can only vote in one (could be a good idea to think tactically on this – which constituency more needs your vote to help kick the Tories out)

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sing-you-fools:

very-uncorrect:

j4gm:

typhoidmeri:

pollydoodles:

hacash:

vonlipwig:

wilbursoot-brainrot:

quinn-tessent1al:

dappermouth:

anytime someone from the UK orders a print from me I’m delighted because the addresses tend to be charming and sound completely made-up, I just suspend my disbelief and accept that I’m sending a package someplace with a name like Bristleberry House at Ditchmallow in Brambleford-on-Cotton—incredible lmaooo I bet this gets delivered to you by a badger in a little coat

The replies to this post are fucking hilarious

@bigbraveboop

I am once again posting my ever-growing collection of towns that sound like PG Wodehouse characters:

All of these areas are places you would certainly get killed in on Midsomer Murders.

I mean these are cute but I also need you to know I grew up near a place called Nasty

this post is absolutely bafling as a british person because like 85% of these names just feel so incredibly normal to me it’s so jarring to see how non-british people react to them

you can’t convince me there isn’t some dude – sorry, some bloke named Kirby Underdale who lives near that last sign. he drives a little too fast, it makes everyone nervous, and his neighbors decide to have a sign made and installed instead of talking to him about it.

Oh man, I live right near one several of these places.

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