The Pulse Of The Nation
We’re nearly all vegan now.
Yes, you guessed, it’s a Guardian headline. For an article in which an oddly confident Barbara Ellen asks,
Who isn’t vegan in some way these days?
Ms Ellen describes herself as a “dairy-dabbling vegetarian.”
Update:
In the comments, Rafi reminds us that, even according to the Vegan Society, vegans make up barely 1% of the UK population.
Which is practically all of us, if you’re using Guardian maths.
It’s surprising to me, how many people there are out there who feel their success in life is unearned and therefore assume everybody else’s success is as well. Why pretend that hard work or talent or risk-taking are worth rewarding when “everybody knows” that it’s all just accidents of birth or blind luck? And since the winners don’t really deserve their wealth, it’s perfectly okay to take it away and trade it to the losers in exchange for their votes.
Not surprising that they should feel that way, mind you — just that there are so many of them.
Lords and barons mouthing nakedly communist bollocks.
Neither a lord nor a baron, and to be honest I’m not exactly clear what “friend of Jeremy Corbyn” Andrew Murray‘s social standing is other than “something vaguely aristocratic in Scotland”, but he seems to fit the bill.
Elsewhere, this seems like good news.
It’s the “cashmere of the resistance.”
… and the comments on that thread!!! Hruska MacPherson is a preening twit deserving of all mockery, but it looks like she just presents a target for the WhiteWomenBad crowd including one comment asserting that MacPherson and her rich cohort all voted for Trump.
Elsewhere, this seems like good news.
More of that.
And if your politics, on which your in-group status depends, is to a large extent role-play, which is to say, pretentious
Thirty years. And now, finally, we guys sitting in the basement wearing rubber elf ears are no longer the most ridiculous LARPers.
. . . are no longer the most ridiculous LARPers.
Historic chart.