Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 02/10/2026You do not have to hand it to Kemi under any circumstances 000
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Thanks Richard, I did the same thing with the same result. Some people are not willing to do the slightest research before spouting off. 110
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I’m not going unless there’s large amounts of sniper ammunition there 061
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 19/09/2026My relatives who *lived* through the entirety of Mao’s rule… 011
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Idiots like you show the horseshoe effect between communists and Nazis is real 000
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026No problem. Just enlist 501 of the finest AI bots to think about how best to protect your money 🤷🏻♂️ 2190
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 14/09/2026So, those responsible are going to get charged with a criminal offences then, right? Right????? 060
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 13/09/2026How about this bill under the Biden admin where all 221 house dems voted for trans rights policy? Does that count? www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...pbs.orgHouse votes to expand legal safeguards for LGBTQ peopleThe bill passed Thursday by a vote of 224-206 with three Republicans joining Democrats in voting yes. The Equality Act amends existing civil rights law to explicitly include sexual orientation and gen... 240
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 13/09/2026You can Google some of them and you might learn something Alternatively you can just keep talking uninformed bullshit 150
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Off the top of my head, some of the key dems actively seeking to make pro-trans policy: Ed Markey Pramila Jayapal Becca Balint Jeff Merkley Mark Takano Tammy Baldwin 140
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Maybe giving each of them $5,000 cash would help soften the blow? 001
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Didn’t he assassinate the leader of Iran and kidnap the president of Venezuela? Or was that a dream I had? 060
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I wish those generals a very short hospital stay before they meet their final resting place 130
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Just for reference. www.tiktok.com/@openbionics...tiktok.comThis was not on my 2025 bingo card🤣😬 #clanker #genalpha #comments #cyborg TikTok video by Open Bionics 120
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Ideal? I don’t think so. Real Minecraft fanciers prefer zero emissions 010
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Absolutely fantastic idea! Best if they also censor the word s*x though, or better yet use a euphemism like “they had naked cuddles” 000
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Finally, I don’t care if someone describes art forms I like as superfluous. Say that I like Donna Tartt’s novels, and someone says they lack merit. Quite a few people do! Well, it’s their opinion, and people are welcome to it. 000
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I find it very boring if a tv show spends 2 or 3 minutes showing a couple tastefully humping to jazz music, lingering shots of the guy’s back, the woman faking facial expressions of ecstasy, soft blue light filtering through the curtains. It’s cliched and dull and could be done in 20 seconds 100
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Different - yes. Unrelated - not really. A scene is much more likely to be seen as gratuitous if it is graphic. And yes, the central point is that I find sex scenes superfluous if they are distasteful to me, and / or if they are not advancing the characters or plot. In my opinion they rarely do 100
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 08/08/2026You are welcome to give examples of which of these films do something for you and/or benefit the art form and I would be interested to hear them 100
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I am very capable of not conflating them. I think it’s valid to have an opinion on the relative merit of an art form. You can have the opinion that all forms of art have equal merit, but that would be only your viewpoint. 100
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I’m not saying get rid of it, I’m just saying it doesn’t do much for me or to really benefit the art form 100
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I would say gratuitous nudity like in Swordfish or Game of Thrones, exploitative misogynistic stuff like graphic sexual violence in horror movies, and then random graphic portrayals of sex in The Counselor or Atomic Blonde 200
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 08/08/2026They certainly didn’t feel that it added to the bottom line in that they toned it down completely in the later seasons and the follow on shows 000
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I don’t think that’s true? They’ve certainly rejected graphic depictions of sex. But is that all sex? I think not. You can’t also say that older generations don’t feel the same way. If gratuitous nudity still sold, these films would still get made. The public notably rejected the horniness in GoT 100
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 08/08/2026It’s not that I don’t enjoy them per se. It’s that they have not proven to be an artistically fruitful genre compared to others. They often reek of misogyny and/ or exploitation. If you can give me some examples that you think have great merit I would love to hear them? 100
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I’m saying the converse - I don’t think you can make a good film into a bad film by making the sex scenes less graphic. It may serve a point but it’s very rarely essential 100
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I have watched Bound more than once, and I’m afraid to say that if the sex scenes were less graphic it would still be a great movie 200
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Uh. But to your point, I’m glad we’ve generally moved past the bigotry, misogyny and racism of that era 141
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Risky Business is also not in any way graphic apart from maybe a couple of topless shots. It’s not in my opinion a sex comedy as a coming of age comedy with a little bit of sex in it 141
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 08/08/2026And I’m not saying get rid of them or taking anything away from their enjoyers, but in general if cutting a graphic sex scene renders a film “bad” then it’s probably not a great movie in the first place 100
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Just my own personal preference and opinion - but erotic thrillers and sex comedies are pretty superfluous genres from my perspective. I’m not saying sex scenes as a whole are bad, but graphic sex scenes don’t add a lot, or even anything, for me except in specific cases (of which Crash is one) 200
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I mean most sex scenes seem entirely superfluous to me. I can only think of one movie - Monster’s Ball - where they had real significance to the plot and characterisation 441
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 07/08/2026The solution is clearly to revamp literary novels into the 40k universe: Pride and Plasma Guns The Great Guardsman No Cosmos for Old Marines Chimera and Punishers Love and Waaaaaaargh 1130
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I can’t wait for the totally normal responses to this 2120
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 02/08/2026The rest are (excluding Stella T who does appear to have had a posher history): Telesales, train driver, care worker, and another care worker 100
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 02/08/2026This guy’s bio says he was a market trader and a waiter before politics. You may well know better than me, but they’re certainly portraying themselves as from working class backgrounds 100
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I’m for bashing poshos as much as the next man, but they are pretty explicitly from working class backgrounds www.ourrestoration.org.uk/nec2026ourrestoration.org.ukLabour NEC Elections 2026 — Restoration 100
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 02/08/2026They are somewhat on the left side of the party and more focused on domestic issues and class. They are not visibly either implicitly or explicitly anti-Ukraine, but Stella T is a crank and potentially a grifter 170
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Perhaps the people who support no party were overwhelmingly against? 030
Large Toad @largetoad.bsky.social · 14/07/2026They would be 3 quarters full if immigrants weren’t over here taking our icy sundries 000
