Independent Leyton Orient Forum

There really is a f***ing scandal in how a minority of nimby moaners have been very useful in the gentrification process of areas that actually has stuff that’s valuable to the community

The flashback episode that just completely changes how you view Sofia is excellent.
Also credit to the actor playing young Oz, he nailed it

The slowest T-1000 you’ll ever see

(additionally, every suicide/mental health organisation advises strongly against ascribing external causes of suicide. It would be quite surprising were there to be a surge of suicides where the cause was concluded to be a change of approach to how distress is treated. One might also say that if it ...

Some irony people is talking about free speech X/Twitter - You can post whatever you want Bluesky - If you post that only men can have a penis, you'll get banned.... Also makes me laugh people selectively choosing, everyone using iPhones and clothes made in sweatshops, supporting companies daily th...

Some irony people is talking about free speech X/Twitter - You can post whatever you want Bluesky - If you post that only men can have a penis, you'll get banned.... Also makes me laugh people selectively choosing, everyone using iPhones and clothes made in sweatshops, supporting companies daily th...

I received the following from my employer and was wondering if ceb could fact check it for me? Since the NHS imposed restrictions on treatment for young trans people in 2020, deaths have surged. As the questioning of the existence of trans people continues, the hate crime statistics released by the...

The reason a lot of places don’t know to give mermaids a wide berth is because (as this thread shows) it takes an almighty effort to articulate and maintain a left of centre objection to trans rights activism. In virtually everyone’s mind, across the political spectrum, there’s a casual assumption t...

I can see the ad agency execs thinking that this would generate publicity. I don’t for one second think they wanted to do good or serve a cause. I can’t see the Boots directors wanting this sort of negative publicity. I can’t see the actress wanting this level of grief. Point one: agree Point two: ...

“ But if this was the obvious reaction (I don’t know enough on the subject or the previous incident to say otherwise), wouldn’t the actor or her people have said best to swerve this work opportunity?” Why would an actor not want the mixture of a big payday for a couple of day’s work plus the chance ...

And I 100% believe that *challenging* the racists is a good thing. But that’s why I think this ad - and the choice in casting - is so cynical. If the advert was designed as a unifying nudge towards people accepting a black woman version of a female character, then you’d maybe avoid casting someone f...

“ Maybe I’m naive but I just don’t see that this reaction was the one expected, or that Boots or the actress would have gone with it if they’d known.” I do think that that is genuine naivety then. Come on, Christmas stuff has always been a flashpoint in culture wars before culture war was even a thi...

A vapid fool is exactly the type of person who would choose someone on the basis of being an easy headline in culture war discourse

why is he buying up fish & chip shops?

*closes other tab featuring two lesbians cosplaying as elves*

and why does it?

I think you misunderstand. It *is* demeaning, but it’s damning of the intentions and motivations of the creatives who know exactly who is on the radar of culture war stuff. Adverts no longer get the attention they used to, so a big part of advertising is being able to be part of The Discourse. After...

I’m trusting Adz on this. It takes someone truly innocent to say they use social media for “fantasy” as a truncation of fantasy football

The boots advert is designed as rage bait, and some people have duly obliged.
The idea that the people complaining about it are reacting to something that wasn’t carefully calibrated to provoke exactly that reaction is ludicrous.

On the subject of evacuee children, I’ve got this brain itch - I’m sure there was a word other than “evacuation” that was specifically used to describe the concept of kids being homed in the country during the war, a term so closely associated with it that it was like, the name of a project in prima...

It seems very engagement bait-y all round. There’s a lot of “who likes food? I have to say I think it’s overrated!” level posts just trying to get interaction

Jesus Christ

A dispreference for hearing a female voice that results in the person not watching the show would have nothing to do with the presenter being a woman?

You’ll have to show your working there mate

“Acting as if the post being referred to was by a different entity that happened to share my name, so posting as if in thorough and obvious agreement with the person who had a little pop” has clear potential to be a trend as good as “flat out deny I said what I just said”