• GreyShuck@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      Blackadder already did it back in the '80s. The Sense and Senility episode was taking the piss out the ‘heroic’ stance long before the Tories actually starting doing it seriously.

    • Skua@kbin.earth
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      There were a few too many top Tories doing it to dismiss it altogether, it’s just that none of them could pull it off so they all quickly stopped doing it. Whether it was actually inspired by that TED Talk that a bunch of people ascribed it to is another matter

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    1 year ago

    Holy shit it really is the exact same as the Dark Souls pose. That does explain why I felt like a hollow after they’d been in power for a while

    I am now simply forced to imagine Theresa May cartwheeling through her beloved fields of wheat while wearing Havel’s armour and the dark wood grain ring

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    1 year ago

    Rest easy knowing that the personality coach who taught them that probably billed them a smooth 5k for this service and is now chilling on Bali while you change clothes to go to your second job.

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    1 year ago

    Me when it’s hot outside and my ballsack is pasted to the inside of my thigh like damp pastry on a rolling pin but I’m too polite to just reach in and peel it off.