Mike Morris (@MD_Morris) profile picture

Mike Morris

@MD_Morris

British/Irish architect. Morality mainly derived from Dr Who, politics somewhere between Tony Benn and Lenin. @MikeMorris@mastodon.ie

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Joined March 2009
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There's a frightening number of people in this world who really seem to believe "We could have avoided Nazism, if only I'd been around to wittily point out the logical fallacies in Hitler's arguments."
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"Good evening. Bomb, shooting, weapons cache, this man says the council need to put out more benches, and a man in Dungannon shows us his collection of ice cubes. Good night."
KM2 archive (@KillianM2) profile pictureKM2 archive
@KillianM2Aug 24
'Local news' on BBC NI really was very different to all the other BBC regions in the 90's. (New Years Day 1993)
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Comedians, of course, are near-exclusively concerned with forming serious countries
saint-just's top guy (@solarfoid) profile picturesaint-just's top guy@solarfoidAug 24
This type of twee Irishness ("chicken fillet roll nationalism") has to be eradicated if we're ever going to be a serious country
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Someone doesn't like Joni Mitchell
Wefail (@wefail) profile pictureWefail@wefailAug 13
Image from Wefail (@wefail)
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I kept seeing Jason Arday's name on links and wondering why the hell so much attention was being given to some academic. Then I saw a photo and went "ohhhhh I see" The UK print media as a whole are racists who can go fuck themselves
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I think this might be because, piece of work though Rowling is, she hasn't been accused of serially sexually abusing young women
Abby (Sandman reread ☥) (@Queener_Weener) profile pictureAbby (Sandman reread ☥)@Queener_WeenerAug 13
You know it’s really telling that the entirety of Gaiman’s former fanbase dropped him instantly but JK’s still makes excuses but maybe it’s because we read other books than just Harry Potter
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Thing is, an awful lot of great films are based on books which aren't considered great. So either novels are a much, much higher form of art, or there's quite a lot of films that are better than the books. I've not read The Exorcist but I'll bet the book is better.
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@omgsidewalksAug 12
I'm tired and sıck of people saying: “the book was better than the movie.” Give me a movie that was actually WAY BETTER than the book. I want to know which books were so bad that Hollywood had to save them.
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People are taking offense at *this*.
Sam Street (@samstreetwrites) profile pictureSam Street@samstreetwritesAug 12
Ireland sure loves the 'one small stand next to three big stands' bowl stadium design.
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And of course anyone who makes that case is not allowed to have any opinions on anything ever again. Yes, that includes voting
Bill Z (@BillZaboski) profile pictureBill Z
@BillZaboskiAug 13
Replying to @omgsidewalks
I think there is a case to be made that The Lord of the Rings movies are better than the books. I am not sure I’d make it, but I think that’s essentially when the line changed where they got good enough to catch up with imagination and they also let them be very long as a series
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Yeah, I get like that when I start drinking at 7am too
Peter Bleksley (@PeterBleksley) profile picturePeter Bleksley
@PeterBleksleyAug 11
I go for a haircut, the barber can’t understand what I’m saying. I go for a coffee, the barista can’t understand what I’m saying. I go for a pint, the barman can’t understand what I’m saying. Welcome to my home city of London in 2026.
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"She's always a woman to me" is just about the faintest praise imaginable
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I like watching a certain section of British society wrestle with the impact of Rod Liddle, while all of Ireland choruses "he's the guy who ran off and left his wife for a young one"
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Wonder if I'm the only one who hears the news and goes "oh yeah Ceuta, that's where Henning Wehn went before he took an unscheduled holiday in Morocco and was listed as a missing person" Would I Lie To You corrupts us all
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Cos Russians are called Oleg and they have yachts the size of arks
Olga Bazova (@OlgaBazova) profile pictureOlga Bazova
@OlgaBazovaJul 28
Why are rich and successful business people in Russia called "oligarchs", but anywhere in the West they are simply "billionaires"?
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I've not seen this said enough so here goes. A 1.7% overspend needs actioning but it's not a major disaster. Starmer's Labour wanted to emphasise Tory economic incompetence, their equivalent of Liam Byrne's note. Inflicting hardship on people was *entirely* a PR choice.
Mike Morris (@MD_Morris) profile pictureMike Morris@MD_MorrisJul 26
This is the fiscal black hole that amounted to 1.7% of government spend, much of which was already known about, that Labour used as a reason to take people's winter fuel allowance
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The problem with holding Starmer up as a principled, sensible leader who didn't get recognition for his endeavours is... he was neither principled nor sensible. He was an opportunist, duplicitous empty suit who had no idea what to do in power once he got there
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This is the fiscal black hole that amounted to 1.7% of government spend, much of which was already known about, that Labour used as a reason to take people's winter fuel allowance
ali (@ali__samson) profile pictureali@ali__samsonJul 25
Keir Starmer’s biggest mistake was first addressing the fiscal black hole instead of making a TikTok with Rachael Reeves about the merits of scampi fries over pork scratchings.
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Three Lions on the shirt It makes us all feel dirty Thirty years of hurt And then another thirty
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Crying shame to go to the stands and see a heartbroken David Beckham, after all the things he's done for David Beckham
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It is indeed true that the first time I tried American food, I thought I would never recover.
Joe McBride (@McBrideLawNYC) profile pictureJoe McBride
@McBrideLawNYCJul 7
Team USA lost the game. America won something bigger. Millions of Europeans, Asians, and Africans just discovered American food, American hospitality, and air conditioning. They will never recover.
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In GAA the winner must always be magnificent but I'm calling it now: that was purely a Cork implosion. Limerick will murder Galway.
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