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Seemingly trivial things that you give absolutely no f's about, but others go apeshít over.

shimanobottombracketshimanobottombracket Posts: 376
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For me this would be lunar stuff. Supermoons, blue moons and lunar eclipses. These things often make the news too.

Smart phones

Astronomical transits, for example the ISS crossing the Moon or Mercury crossing the Sun.

Any and everything involving the royal family, not including deaths.

Tyre compounds, torque vectoring, adjustable engine management settings or stuff that is generally available to the public, but only really makes a tangible difference when racing or competing. Cycling world is the worst for this sort of censored . One example; a carbon fibre bottle cage costing £60 when I purchased the one next to it costing about a fiver. Come to think of it, that won't affect an individuals race performance either, not even negligibly.
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    mrfpb said:

    Led Zepplin.

    I owned one of there albums once, got rid of it to a grateful mate. Never again.

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    I'm putting this here because clearly she gives no f's about making a cup of tea and I am absolutely livid.

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  • veronese68veronese68 Posts: 26,336 Lives Here
    rjsterry said:

    I'm putting this here because clearly she gives no f's about making a cup of tea and I am absolutely livid.

    What the fuckfuckityfuckfuck was that!?!
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    nickice said:

    Fleabag. The Guardian is obsessed with it.

    Since you mention that ... Killing Eve. What a load of shizzle!
  • nickicenickice Posts: 2,439
    me-109 said:

    nickice said:

    Fleabag. The Guardian is obsessed with it.

    Since you mention that ... Killing Eve. What a load of shizzle!
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  • rick_chaseyrick_chasey Posts: 67,642 Lives Here
    oxoman said:

    Politics, BS, liars and people wanting to rewrite history because they don't agree with it. You can change the future not the past.

    History = study of the past

    Past = the past

    History is in a constant state of rewriting the past. That is the point of history.
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  • Darius_JedburghDarius_Jedburgh Posts: 675
    But you can't change the past. Not even the great unwashed in Bristol can do that.
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  • rick_chaseyrick_chasey Posts: 67,642 Lives Here
    edited June 2020
    Darius_Jedburgh said:

    But you can't change the past. Not even the great unwashed in Bristol can do that.

    Can change history, however.

    After all, the past can’t be changed, but our understanding of it is “history” and that is always changing.

    It’s why the whole “it’s revisionist history” bit is odd as history is in constant state of revision.
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  • Darius_JedburghDarius_Jedburgh Posts: 675
    You can't change history. You can learn from it.
    History is over and done.
    Only the pinkos and politically correct brigade try to rewrite history to suit their own prejudices.
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  • surrey_commutersurrey_commuter Posts: 18,068
    rick_chasey said:

    Darius_Jedburgh said:

    But you can't change the past. Not even the great unwashed in Bristol can do that.

    Can change history, however.

    After all, the past can’t be changed, but our understanding of it is “history” and that is always changing.

    It’s why the whole “it’s revisionist history” bit is odd as history is in constant state of revision.
    At some point in the late 60s and early 70s our opponents in WW2 stopped being Germans and became The Nazis, would you agree that was a conscious decision to revision that period of history.
  • rick_chaseyrick_chasey Posts: 67,642 Lives Here
    Anyway.

    Any superhero film which seems to break box office records every time they’re released
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  • blazing_saddlesblazing_saddles Posts: 20,678
    Darius_Jedburgh said:

    But you can't change the past. Not even the great unwashed in Bristol can do that.

    What I think Rick is trying to say is quite simple: You can change how the past is perceived and interpreted.
    In other words historical actions cannot be changed, but evaluations and therefore doctrine can, by future generations of historians.

    However, there will always be dissenters.
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  • rick_chaseyrick_chasey Posts: 67,642 Lives Here
    surrey_commuter said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Darius_Jedburgh said:

    But you can't change the past. Not even the great unwashed in Bristol can do that.

    Can change history, however.

    After all, the past can’t be changed, but our understanding of it is “history” and that is always changing.

    It’s why the whole “it’s revisionist history” bit is odd as history is in constant state of revision.
    At some point in the late 60s and early 70s our opponents in WW2 stopped being Germans and became The Nazis, would you agree that was a conscious decision to revision that period of history.
    Sure history is a living breathing thing but I think a lot of people miss out the fact that history is always contemporary (the subject just happens to be the past) and so gets buffeted by the preoccupations of the now.

    Of course, it’s not as linear as that as the past also impacts the present, but you get the idea.

    Today’s story of the past is different to yesterday’s and so on.
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    Stevo_666 said:

    Rumours that Dominic Cummings will get a knighthood.

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  • ProssPross Posts: 36,480
    rick_chasey said:

    Anyway.

    Any superhero film which seems to break box office records every time they’re released

    Was going to be my choice. Alongside science fiction they have no real-life rules they need to follow and yet somehow manage to follow the same, formulaic plot everyone and the fight scenes between two 'indestructible' superheroes are just mind-numbingly boring.
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