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Cake day: December 15th, 2025

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  • Re the meme: We don’t have to thank Paul for anything; it was Anthony Joshua who delivered what has to be a very short happiness to a lot of people on the internet.

    I say it has to be very short, because we have to make it very short. Paul doesn’t care about getting beaten up, he cares about money. He monetises being disliked, because he’s untalented, uncreative, and lazy. For those reasons, we must starve him of attention.


  • Judging by your other answer to the other commenter, which is pretty in depth and shows that you definitely have a clear understanding of what this illustrates and which outlines specific issues you have with this piece of art, I’d say I’m probably not gonna be able to teach you much of anything if that’s what you’re even looking for mate.

    To my mind, there’s probably not one specific meeting or moment that this piece is analogising as the modern Trump/Putin version of the Molotov-Ribbentrop, but the continued “peace talks” wherein Trump and Putin seem to collaborate to sell Ukraine down the river.

    As I don’t believe there’s a “modern” pact, I can’t answer your second question or third question directly, but can say that there were various territories which seemingly had agency removed from them in the aftermath of the historical MR pact, like Poland, being invaded by Germany and USSR.

    I think that dovetails a little with how it feels Ukraine is being treated at the moment by Trump and Putin.

    I think there’s certainly enough here to warrant this metaphor working, even if it’s not a direct 1:1 mapping.










  • You can totally start now. Although, and maybe this is just a me thing, I’d feel like a massive bellend if I referred to something that happened in, for instance, 2021 as “in '21”.

    I think I’d feel okay with “'01”, through to “'09”, then the teens feel weird again but only because it just feels weird to refer to a year as small as like… “'13”… although I don’t have that same problem with the naughties, maybe that’s because of the added “oh” making it seem like more than just a number? And then the twenties feel like big enough numbers to abbreviate but, yeah, again, I’d feel like a tool.