Meanwhile in the Pentagon: ‘Autonomous drones you say…’

Unmiscegenated - I’d bet there’s plenty misogyny flying about in those voids.

Far as that cat is concerned they’re the real star in that picture and the strange human is just photo-bombing.

Now all we need is for the CIA to take responsibility for the Islamic State and the circle of life (and death) is complete.

Look into the history of 2-Tone, you’ll find that it was not appropriated but a movement deliberately calculated to bring black and white teenagers together.

Ska is simple, fun music that cares little for anything other than being fun, and is often gleefully immature.

Ska, as youngsters know it today, was reinvented by the 2-Tone movement in the UK (specifically Coventry) in the late 70s. The scene was overtly political and as @NuPNuA has stated was a deliberately multicultural movement, hence the name.

If you want to hear some original ska from Jamaica then have a look for songs by Prince Buster but beware you will find some historical attitudes.

I kind of believe that she might have come from aliens…

When is the sequel to Industrial Society and its Future coming out?

Just FYI, the CEO of Fable Studios is one Edward Saatchi. His father is Maurice Saatchi whose advertising agency was partially responsible for ten years of Conservative rule under Margaret Thatcher. The family absolutely has previous with union bashing.

Thanks, I didn’t see it and now have read it :)

Can someone post the text? Medium won’t let me sign in.

Yes, I agree. I just wanted to point out that Brexit wouldn’t have happened without some fairly serious money being put behind it (UKIP’s funding had to come from somewhere and there were not one but two pro-Brexit campaigns Vote Leave and LeaveEU) and that money had to spent with a purpose.

This is a great post but I would say that there were some people who were absolutely dedicated to achieving Brexit and in large part their participation can be explained by the proposed financial transaction tax.

The idea that a supra-national entity might be able to impose a tax that could be difficult to mitigate was absolutely intolerable to various millionaires and billionaires e.g. The Telegraph owning Barclay Brothers. Any downsides from the resulting chaos, which in any case would only affect the working and lower middle classes, would be more than offset by the ability to bank offshore and retain their profits untaxed.

I look forward to the aliens response being something along the lines of, “You’re God’s best boys and girls, yes you are, who are blessed little ape-beings? You are, yes all of you.”

Can you give an example?

I sometimes will write in a ‘telling a funny story’ style that is a little more ornate than everyday speech to make it more comic in tone throughout.

So I see you’ve got 8 downvotes for saying this, that’s because some people have a stupid personal rule that says if someone complains about downvotes then they should be automatically downvoted. This is a stupid redditism. Downvote me as well if you want but know that here we can see who you are if we decide we actually give a shit.

Got in a drunk argument with a raccoon, which led to my first underage drinking ticket because I refused to be spoken to in that tone

Perfectly understandable and the fact that you later became friends shows that establishing boundaries is important.