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>>385138Can’t go cause it clashes with uni shit, but I’m hoping to go to UK Ponycon later this year. Anyone else here going?
>>386215I would like to go. I went last year. But I don’t know if my work schedule will allow it.
>>386216Well hope to see you there
>>386215I've never gone to a ponycon, let alone an anime con. I feel like I might be overwhelmed by the tis, my own or others.
Plushie looks cute though.
>>386219Come on anon, you should go to one. They are fun. Everyone else there is as degenerate and mentally ill as the rest so you won’t feel out of place. You’ll be just fine if you go alone and don’t talk to anyone, and it’s very easy to make friends and meet new people.
The next one is Griffish Isles in Manchester in two weeks
https://www.griffishisles.uk/ >>386222Yeah, that's ones a bit too short notice for my budget. Also, Manchester. Birmingham in October isn't looking too good either, cause of the bin situation.
>>386225Surely the bin strikes must be done by then
>>386231Depends really. £6k is quite the pay reduction.
>>386232Fair point. Maybe they’ll move have to move the con, if that’s even possible at this point
>>386233Should be okay, it's only the binmen employed by the local council that are on strike, rather than private service binmen. Not sure I can justify the £500 hotel room though.
>>386236WHAT?! No way it’s that much
>>386261That's about standard for 4 days at a reasonably modest hotel. I have found somewhere else £200 cheaper though. I just have expensive tastes I guess?
>>386270Fair enough, I was looking at around 200ish (Premier Inn - which for non Anglos is a misleading name)
>>386215>UK PonyconI went last year. As the first con I've been to it was pretty decent, don't think I'll bother this year because the venue has changed, Nottingham was practically at my doorstep. Griffish isles looks kinda shit, I really wanted to go to camp equestria last year; it was small but looked really cozy. This year I'm saving all my autism for mare fair but if there's another camp equestria I'll definitely be taking my motorhome.
>>386219Everyone there is somewhat autistic, it's easy to make friends.
>>386391>Birmingham is too farBirmingham is such a tiny distance from Nottingham. The nearest pony convention to me is four hours away. Every single other convention requires getting on a plane. I really wish I had conventions so close.
I was at Camp Equestria last year. It was great. There was a tent where the musicians played, and a fire not far away, where you could sit by the fire and listen to music, or roast marshmellows. There was a hot water dispenser where you could get tea, instant coffee, or cook ramen that I bummed off of people. People also set up a little arcade with games. It was great. I know the organizers. I've asked them repeatedly to make a second one, but they don't seem to want to. At least not until after BronyScot in July 2026, which they will help with.
Ahh yes, the daily reminder that we all live in a meme country.
>>386462>under 18s aren't allowed to smoke or drink because it harms their health>6 year olds get stuck on puberty blockers because they once said pink was a pretty colourcan still join the army at 16 though
>>386435Prince of Wales sails today.
>>386474Dying for Israel is a far nobler calling than being an NHS defecit.
>>386419>>Birmingham is too farTrue, but it is a shithole. It's early days, I'll consider going especially if anons are up for meeting up.
>Camp EquestriaOh man sounds like I really missed out, hope they do another one sometime, I know there's a few mlp camps happen in Europe sometimes, I'd be tempted to go if it looked good enough. My concern is being left out while everyone speaks their native tongue.
>>386794I’d be happy to do an anon meet up, just gotta raise the cash to go first, but I’m gonna be working all summer (student) so I should have plenty
>>386871Sounds interesting, if I still have any cash after Make Fair I will gladly join in other Brit/Euro Anons adventure.
>>386871>>386926I'm interested. I'll probably be skint after marefare but I don't have to pay for fuel so travel costs aren't an issue.
>>387368Alright I suppose. 4chan is showing slightly more signs of life.
>>386222 imagen not accepting the trans mental illness bleak men would never be woman that a fact. Undestand that faggot.
>>387483greedy niggers, i've never paid and never will
>starlink lad is a horsefucker
In other news
>The ridiculous Lord Cashman – once a two-bit player in EastEnders – claimed this week that trans people are fleeing abroad seeking asylum because they’re terrified for their safety after the Supreme Court ruling that said a trans woman isn’t a woman. Really? Can he name these people? I very much doubt it because it’s believed no one has ever fled Britain to successfully claim asylum in another country. Which is probably why Cashman hasn’t been able to provide a jot of evidence to support his ludicrous claim.
>This is just hysterical rhetoric from a bloke who’s upset the Supreme Court didn’t do what he and his cronies at Stonewall wanted it to do. Because Cashman, who apart from his lacklustre stint in EastEnders, is also one of the founders of Stonewall, that insidious pressure group which now is as powerful as any union and has infiltrated every major institution in Britain – and brainwashed it. Except of course the Supreme Court which is probably why he’s throwing his toys out of the pram.
>Stonewall is also the reason countless NHS Trusts have been grovelling to the trans lobby this week, hinting they’ll defy the court ruling and falling over themselves to reiterate their unstinting support for the transgender and non-binary community.
>Pity these trusts haven’t been as vociferous in their support of the biological women in their care who have been degraded, embarrassed, even frightened at having had to share wards, toilets and other private spaces with men who called themselves women. Many were even more frightened by the tsunami of vitriol that came their way if they dared complain.
>These women had every right to be treated with dignity and care on single sex awards but were denied it because of hospitals’ slavish devotion to the trans lobby. They weren’t bigots or transphobes but that’s how our supposed health service made them feel.
>The truth is people like Cashman don’t care about the fear of biological women. They haven’t for one second considered the fear and the humiliation they’ve experienced thanks to them having to share their private spaces with trans women?
>And all these frightened, vulnerable people Cashman and his cronies are talking about, it’s a pity their voices have been drowned out by the aggressive trans mobs that hit London’s streets last week inciting the murder of people who disagreed with their ideology.
>And they’re due to do it all again this weekend
[Read more] >>386198>heatwave in mayToo early in the year for this shit. Fingers crossed it'll at least mean clear skies at night so I can see the moon.
>>387630Neighn. Zer vill be clouds.
>>387623So now that the Supreme Court has told them what's what, where do they next go? The ECHR? Terrorism?
>>387675I'd really like to know why we sold Chagos. Sure, it's not a big deal - just another in a long list of small humiliations - but why? What do we get out of this? Less overhead on overseas bases? Better prices on chinkslop?
>>387676Because we're run by traitors basically.
>>387685Pretty much that. Just realised I haven't done the news for the past few days.
>>387687Sorry, been having a pretty shitty week. I'll do better.
>>387688I do appreciate you doing it.
>>387676Sell? It's to be given over to Comorros or whoever and then leased back at the cost of many billions of dollars.
>>387697Run by traitors, as I said.
So will you guys return to 4chan, or stay here? Personally I'm staying.
>>387699I'll certainly go back to see what's what but the slower pace here is quite nice once you get used to it. Having posts fed into you every minute and having to formulate potentially quite complicated replies quickfire is very mentally taxing and I'm pretty sure not good for you to do for too long. This time of decompression away from it has done us all some good I think, so yeah I may stick around in some capacity as well.
>British scientists could experiment with techniques to block sunlight as part of a £50 million government funded scheme to combat global warming. The project will be funded by the Advanced Research and Invention Agency, known as ARIA. >Professor Symes said the project would not use toxic substances and that an environmental impact assessment would be published before any outdoor experiments and that communities in the area would be consulted. Amazing. Wasn't Gates wanting to do exactly the same thing?
>>387700I popped on briefly after it came back up, still exactly the same content like nothing had changed.
>I'm pretty sure not good for you to do for too long(you) addiction is a very real thing. No different from likes on social media. I'm content with the speed of things.
>I may stick around in some capacity as well.I'll do a better job on the news links in future. Might even start archiving them.
>>387703Yeah (you)s are a thing for sure, but I do mean the pace. Like your brain is not meant to be running that intensely over a long period and you start to slip. Your attention span goes to shit to the point you're not even reading whole posts before you reply and you start writing in shorter sentences. Basically turn into a bot. I would probably never even write a post like this there, instead like 5 1-2 sentence replies instead.
>>387703Also saw that 4chan came up briefly today too. Looked like most of the threads were just whatever was on the board when it went down. There were a couple of new ones going "Hey it works" but that was about it.
>>387706Uncle Ted wasn't wrong when he proclaimed that the industrial revolution was the downfall for humanity. The faster media we consume, the faster we seek out more. Dopamine addiction is a genuine sickness of the modern era. We're social creatures (like pone) and seek validation, akin to that Pinkie and Donk episode. Some people do that by starting an OnlyFans, others sit on imageboards spamming from different IP addresses in a British political general because that's the only social interaction they can get.
Slow imageboards are a boon. They allow for genuine engagement, and passively encourage posters to put effort into their responses, to further the conversation. There is still a degree of (you) addiction, but it's spread out over a longer period of time.
>>387708>There were a couple of new ones going "Hey it works" but that was about it.It's back up and running now.
>>387712Huh. So it is. The main page still returns and error but you can go to the board through the URL. Whatever, I'll look at it later.
>>387712>They allow for genuine engagement, and passively encourage posters to put effort into their responses, to further the conversation.Yes this is true. Taking a minute to actually think about what you are writing rather than trying to have a conversation with 5 people simultaneously on different topics where you are all posting faster than the cooldown timer. I suppose you could say that /pol/ is a victim of its own success in that way. As board speed increases, quality nosedives. Though on the other end if you feel like you are talking to yourself in an empty room it's not so nice either. There is definitely a sweet spot somewhere in the middle.
>>387716That's one of the many things I disliked about brit/pol/, you were encouraged in one way or another, to post as fast as possible. Threads often died during peak hours before I could respond. Cross thread conversations weren't always successful as people either forgot or were engaging in a new LARP. As you wrote, quality died with haste. I did have some interesting conversations, certainly, but I would liken that experience to screaming into the void only to get a faint, flickering light as a response.
>>387722There you scream into a mosh pit and might get some sense out of it sometimes. Here you scream into the void and it sometimes replies lol.
>>387723An apt description. I've been reading through the history of /mlpol/, quite interesting.
>>>mlpol/archive/18636Direct link incase the above doesn't workhttps://mlpol.net/mlpol/archive/18636 >>387725I was actually here when this site was first made. It's why I know it existed. Would be nice to read about what happened in the mean time though, so cheers.
>>387728Where did you leave off at?
>>387728It's an interesting account. Never knew that /qa/ was flooded with pone.
>>387729Can't remember really. I think I just looked around for a couple of days like "Hey cool, this exists" but then just kind of forgot about it with whatever else going on in the world.
>>387733Well, there were a number of false-flag raids. Like, one time we raided /cm/ (cute males) as though it meant cute MARES. Never claiming credit, it was just about fucking with people. IDK if you were around for the endchan32 raids but THOSE lads (and I'm told, like soyjack it was just one dude) they fucked us up. No kidding, they knocked us OUT
>>387736Eh? I don’t remember that. Are you talking about the sports people?
>>387738Yes. I might be mixing up the source, endchan32 was the antifa links iirc.
But yes, it was the sp people. What was the name of the one who nuked us? Casper? Ghost? Its been so long. But yeah, he made us his biatch for a minute.
Unlike soyjack, which is credited for 4chan
>>387725Just had a thought. No doubt more than a few people decided to just fuck off from 4chan over all this, so quality on /pol/ might improve somewhat now with less posters making noise.
Having read through that account, I feel like April next year could be quite entertaining. The downside is it requires at least 200 people in a coordinated effort.
[YouTube] Rarity - Idea!
[Embed]>>387747An ill formed thought, the machine never changes, and I have no desire to return there except for the above amusing idea.
>>387753Might be more forlorn hope than anything but it might help. Who knows.
>>387754Wishful thinking I'm afraid.
>>387739So what were you raiding over? Or was it just for the lulz and it went horribly wrong?
>>387756Let them settle in a bit. They're all excited right now.
(Yes I am going to keep thinking about that wish)
>>387764Bet you five bits
or a pint that the place will not have changed a month from now. Deal?
>>387699Britpol and ponies are both relevant to my interests, so I'll stick around.
In other news, I bought everything I need for Griffish Isles next weekend
>>387787Come on over, we don't stab. Much.
>>387776Not in london though, £8 a pint is ridiculous.
>>387780Thank you. Means a lot that people are at least interested in engaging here.
>>387797People are watching a thing if you want to join.
>>387823
Applicable to UK, Ukraine, Russia, and Israel
>>388070I know this pain, in my local area, when went for a walk (decade ago or so), maybe 1 person per 50~ people had dark skin (indian/arab/african/whatever), now it feels like the street is made out of them from anywhere between 15% to 30%.
>>388071Walked past the hostel for homeless people earlier whilst shopping. Loads of coalskinned foreigners hanging around outside each with a bottle of frosty jacks. I dread to think what summertime is going to be like.
>>388079>pass by a hotel on my daily route>real hotel, intended for holidaymaking and the like>all i see coming and going are towelheads>even the door staff are arabs>it's literally just a daycare for raft ridersNational indignation aside, I guess it's better that they live there than on the streets. The local indigenous smackheads would probably eat them alive.
Investing millions in solar and then millions more in dimming the Sun.
Levels of low IQ only possible in the UK.
>>388220Our government is a clown show.
>>388272the world runs by bunch of arkham asylum patients
>Our government is a clown showso it is true about most govs on this planet
<i compare them to redditorator/discordant mods with much more power irl >Islamophobia is the irrational fear of, hostility towards, or hatred against the religion of Islam or Muslims in general.
I wouldn't call a genuine concern irrational.
>>388289i am an ex-muslim , islam is retarded and still in its ''dark age'' era , you could find some open-minded or western lovers or just chill people
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but why the fuck would you follow a religious that:
1.allows pedophilia and child marriage (FROM AGE OF 9!!!
2.allows sex-slavery and force marriage and rape
3.looting and salvaging other countries and jihadists >>388290Don't be coy. Millennia ago, islam embraced the enlightenment and brought mathematical concepts still in use today. What afflicted islam was ignorant tyrants.
Not unlike Christendom
>>388290yeah i know , it was good for its
"golden era"so many medical and scientific advancements happened
but any religion can get fucked when it is far from its root
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but i live in iran and i tested the pure islam and how much extreme it can be when it is in power
islamic theocracy is shitit can be said about most theocratic style govs >>388291>Millennia ago>brought mathematical concepts still in use todayPerhaps. But what everybody cares today, including you, are the European Industrial Revolution's fruits, meaning technology.
>What afflicted islam was ignorant tyrantsWhere I live, it is infected with muslims, from the maybe 500 homes I have entered in the last years, there was not ONE SINGLE ONE in which the inhabitants owned a book, except the koran. It is not the leaders, it is those people per se who are born backward, narrow minded, soulless, and are unassimilable. Not to mention that have been our declared enemies for centuries.
>>388294i once said
>there are no extremist islamists and there are no liberal/progressive muslims>just retarded muslims<maybe it be a bit over generalization buti could hardly find a muslim whom brain are not in a thought controlled cage of traditional islam
whom that not chained themselves from the ability to criticize ass-backward trads