OI GUVNAH YEW GO' A LOICENSE F'DAT DEYUH POIN'Y KNOIFE COR BLOIMEY INNIT?

A Hollywood actor who glamorizes psychotic murderers on death row as the good guys told England to ban pointy knives

!burgers point and laugh at the !britbongs

I always assumed that these movies were trash, based on watching short excerpts online but today I was like, ok I feel like giving one a chance. I saw Iron Man ages ago and I thought it was ok but completely forgettable, hadn't seen any other MCU movie.Went online and searched for what people thought were the best Marvel movies. Saw some people saying Infinity War. Ok, I put on Infinity War. Ahahaha what is this shit? I'd say this is for children, but there were children's cartoons being made 30 years ago with 1/100th of the budget that are better.

Terrible acting (good actors but obviously they're not allowed to actually use their talents). Terrible visual effects that look like a low-budget videogame cutscene. Constant melodramatic music. Why does anyone like this shit? I'm not even against capeshit in general, there's some capeshit I enjoy. But this is just moronic tier slop.

Holy shit what a bum

I have one of his books. It's supposed to be aight.

I hate it I hate it I hate it. 90% of our student body relies on it to complete their work. There is near to no originality in their writing and work. We are nearing complete dependence on it from some students. AI checkers work sometimes but students just use AI then switch the words around to avoid this.

I know the upside that it has for us as a society, but we are losing creativity and gumption with every improvement. I hurt for them. I used to read beautiful student writing and didn't have to question if it was written by a program. Now I am forced into skepticism. How can we lose so much with advancement?

/u/Academic_Let_1043

What are you actually losing? Oh no kids are cheating? Kids always cheated! This is the calculator argument all over again

but a lot of triumph.

'the tarot comes around again'

a line from an odd action movie, the Mask of Zorro, which has stuck with me

all of these young men bitter at wokes discovering that they need to worship the divine feminine, or there's simply no point

but

I spent all of my energy trying to teach them when they weren't listening

and now I feel empty and tired, and think

teach yourselves, then, because you would not hear me when I said that you have to accept women for what they are.

but this is unfair.

and

maybe they were listening.

life is so difficult. I could never have guessed half of the successes I would achieve simply by making a persistent and consistent effort.

even so.

I think most of my writing is behind me now.

Slaaaaaaapfighhhhhhtt!

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskCanada/comments/1ik35o9/comment/mbl2wwq/?context=8

Ahaha now they are doggin on their universal healthcare

No... we want to get away from this crap, not get drawn in further.

Weird that Israel is on board.

It's not weird at all. It will be American soldiers who get attacked and not the IDF. They get what they want without assuming the risk

American $$$$$$$ American lives. For a fricking sand war that will never end. NOT A FAN OF THIS BS AND WHY I TOLD EVERYONE NOT TO SIGN UP FOR THE MILITARY EVEN UNDER TRUMP.

but i thought he was the most peaceful president ever

This is dumb

We were on such a winning train until this move. Why put American lives at risk in a place full of wild muslim terrorists.

You are a scared and weak cuck.

We will bomb the crap out of Gaza and take all their resources and women and be richer and stronger than ever

surely the average joe will get richer

Can't say that I'm on board with this idea. What happened to America First?

This is America First. You're just not smart enough to understand how.

Why? What use is that shithole to us? What use are those shithole people to us? Frick that noise, let Israel deal with their own problem using their own money.

Trump tower Gaza

Lots of sleeper accounts with little to no post history yelling the loudest about this right now.

everyone i don't like is a bot

This is a brilliant decision. I know we don't want to get involved but what this is doing is daring the terrorists to frick with us. If they do anything now in the Gaza Strip we can bomb the shit out of them because we can say Iran and all those other idiots declared war on the United States.

It'll make the Democrats side with Muslim extremists and Iran and further expose them.

Which will convert Jews in the US to the Republican Party.

It will kill all Democrat fund raising except in Portland, San Francisco, and other Blue shitholes.

If us doing the peacekeeping works, congrats we've also ended all war in the Middle East.

If they attack us, we get to forcefully end the wars in the Middle East.

I don't like putting our soldiers in harm's way but this truly is the strongest deterrent to unchecked mayhem.

4d chess

Everything good he's done so far has just been overshadowed by this FRICKING R-SLURRED move. What the frick is this?

@Kongvann rightoid drama

@kaamrev

the United States shall promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination, including racially discriminatory property confiscation.

Hecko!

Hello Rdrama, it's time for your Minecraft YouTuber Autism fest again!

It's always insightful to engage in a bit of market research.

I gotta know what my contemporaries are up to, my competition!

Ladies and gentlemen the Minecraft YouTuber TommyInnit.

Now I do not want to do a deep dive on who this guy is because I do not feel like writing 1000s of words today.

But the run down is this guy was some 16 year old kid (hes 21 now) who made his way to fame through the Dream SMP Live Minecraft server, which streamed to hundreds of thousands of concurrent viewers.

Since then he has fallen out with the YouTuber 'Dream' and the coalition of streamers has split off into two camps. Both r-slurred but arguably the "Tommyinnit" side is worse.

I personally find this guy to be utterly obnoxious, cringe and is the very epitome of the current oversensitivity of Minecraft fans which plague my hobby and source of income.

Here is a timestamped youtube video of the kind of guy he is!

NOT THE R-SLUR!!!!!

>My mum worked with adults with disabilities

Yeah, she is your mother after all

Tommyinnit fancies himself a bit of a comedian, he does live shows where he charges $60 dollars per ticket to see him do the worse comedy routine ever.

I am utterly convinced that with no practice I could do better than him right now.

(timestamped video, watch like 30s if you can lmao)

THIS IS THE SHITNERNET

In pursuit of his comedic genius, he has started an internet show called "This is the Internet" and the target of my autism today.

I actually really like the idea and concept for the show, where he does like an episode once a month re-capping and making fun of internet trends and stories, like Norm Macdonald but for the zoomies like me!!!!

The one problem is... Is painfully fricking unfunny and bad.

The show starts ok, and I don't have much to say about the intro, other than I would of been funnier to film real homeless instead of an actor.

Then we get to the main shot of his newscaster desk and the amateurish problems become apparent immediately

See that microphone? That is not a prop, that is the actual microphone the audio is coming from, as a result you can hear every microscopic movement he makes on the desk, even movement of his hands, and as the mic has no stabilizer he bumps is constantly!!!

Like its fricking crazy, its a static shot you can just attach a boom mic, and have the desk mic for a backup. And r-slurred production plagues this 20 min video.

Watch Joke

Ok first joke of the episode he looks at his wrist even though he doesn't have a watch, something I like in premise, but I think he holds it too long and it's too obvious that it kind of breaks it.

A better example of this joke is from this timestamp from the Amazing Digital Circus

And how would you follow up this silly 1s gag of a nonexistent watch?

Oh yeah, r-slurred train noises for an excruciating 12s, where he spits everywhere.

And this is a common trend in this video is that TommyInnit does not know when to end a fricking joke.

Like this should of been cut out anyway, but if you had to include it... LIKE 1 SECOND AT MOST

Peepee Joke

Tommy mentions how Magnus Carlson was disqualified from a chess tourney for wearing jeans, which leads to a joke about how he's against wearing trousers and shows that his actually naked below the suit.

Once again, a joke which can work but it should be a more subtle visual gag.

If he had a larger newsroom set or was on location he could have two men carrying a mirror in the background somewhere, which shows his bare butt to the camera while he says something else, not drawing direct attention to it.

Maybe not even have the context of Magnus Carlson at all and just have it has an absurd background visual with no explanation.

example of this type of joke done right from Naked Gun 2 1/2

But at the moment its obnoxious, in your face and goes on way too long.

GOES ON TO LONG

Goes without saying, CUT THE JOKE SOONER HOLY SHIT!

HOLY SHIT CRINGE, I know hes a kids entertainer but god darn, this is shit you do to make your very very young toddlers laugh

Genuinely this thread is just to make you guys suffer because I had to watch this, so did you

SKIT 1

This is obviously meant to be a parody of MrBeast and Hype style Youtubers.

He's doing something lame but biggining it up as something super duper epic, except I dont think he fully commit to the bit.

• The music should be more obnoxious, like dubstep or something

• He should have like 10 camera angles of the same lame stunt

• Tons of ridiculous digital zoom ins and post production motion blur

• I would of just said random money figures randomly to take the piss out of their money obsession. (500 dollar bottle of coke wow!)

The biggest problem with the skit is pacing, I believe in a comedy rule which I came up with after watching a horrible Jim Sterling Video.,

"A joke should never take longer than 60s to setup and payoff"

And establishing the parody, the coke and Mentos and the reaction is a tall order for 60s, so in cases like this you need to make the joke evolve somehow.

Have something to break it up into pieces, by sprinkling in smaller jokes in while your building the setup.

You could make a quick jab at overuse of merchandising.

Or ridiculous product placement in the background.

Just something to tithe the viewer over until you can get to that longer punchline. And help further establish the satire element

Now too be fair Tommy mostly avoids this problem, managing to get to the Mentos part within 15s pretty efficiently.

but keep this part in mid for the proceeding....

3 MINS OF FOOTAGE

Where hes taking the piss out of the amount of replays which works, but he just keeps the joke going way way way way too fricking long without any evolution.

I seriously encourage you to watch the whole skit and just be in shock with how long it goes on for

He should of done this replay joke for 20s at most, then hard cut to him choking and almost vomiting up the coke looking and sounding ill because he deepthroated it. as the joke "evolving" by undercutting the extreme editing.

Bonus points if you then pan to a random passer-by looking confused and disgusted.

SKIT 2

I am going to skip over a lot of the other shit jokes because its very much the same of what I've already covered

This is just the peak of the amateurish filming. First off how do you mic a scene that badly wtf. Everyone's mic quality is different, did they have 1 mic between them. Legit wtf?? It sounds fricking awful.

And the video is completely fricked up. Look at this shot/reverse shot

The colours and depth of them are completely fricked up, with the tommy shot being incredibly faded out and desatured, which creates a giant disconnect when these two are supposed to be facing each other.

This is further again compounded by the bad audio difference.

Anyway what's this skit about?

5 MINS ON A POOP JOKE WTF

Again I encourage you a ton to watch and suffer through this skit, because it's so fricking bad the whole thing should just be cut.

THIS GUY CHARGES 60 DOLLARS PER TICKET TO SEE HIM LIVE!

>Side note my friends said this guy looks like me, im an austictic with face blindness, is this true?

POOP JOKES

So the premise of the skit if Jack Manifold (also a YTuber) is proposing that Tommy starts making poop content for youtube as an idea, to which they act confused, thus inadvertidly revealing he is into it.

• First off this should be filmed handhold style with lots of manual zoom in's on faces and try to emulate the style of the Office.

• Poop is such a lame unfunny thing to centre this skit around

• This is not an idea that can last 5 mins

A friend and I came up with a concept for the scene to try and make a funny skit out of it.

That instead of poop, Jack is proposing a new mascot for some merch called the "Grapist" where its the mascot of their new grape flavoured juices (you can make fun of prime)

And Tommy and the rest of the boardroom is trying to politely tell him that it sounds like r*pe, but he is oblivious.

You could do a visual joke where he shows a drawing of children sucking the grapists juice sacks, and it looks really really bad, but he just acts innocent and unaware about it.

Edgy but better that POOP FUNNY HEHE!

Serious this is negative comedy

the worse joke in the episode

I have no idea what the fricking joke is here legit.

Shrimpena

BEST JOKE IN THE EPISODE

THIS WAS WRITTEN BY 3 PEOPLE WHAT THE FRICK

This was made by a production of a small team, which I unironically could make better by myself.

This fricker has gotten 1m views and I have no idea how anyone finds this guy funny

is this mass psychosis.

I don't think I'm an expert or a pro but holy shit.

I hate modern Minecraft YouTubers. I need to help fix the culture....

I said ignore

!chuds tired of winning yet?

ciggy ciggy ciggy ciggy ciggy ciggy ciggy ciggy ciggy ciggy ciggy ciggy ciggy ciggy ciggy ciggy ciggy ciggy ciggy ciggy

redscarepod ciggy hours

I was just going to leave the thread blank for two reasons:

1) Since the film is so in love with cutesy little meta-metacommentary it seemed appropriate because

2) I felt absolutely nothing for this movie,

however that's too subtle, so like Cabin in the Woods itself I will now belabor the point long past anyone's ability to care.

I honestly don't even know where to begin with this. It wasn't offensively bad or anything a la Black Swan, it isn't good-bad like Chopping Mall, it's not just plain old serviceable and therefore solid in its decency like The Omen, and it certainly isn't good. And it's like it was written to preemptively shield itself from criticism.

I could call it formulaic. The defense would be that of course it's formulaic, that's the point of the movie haha they even named the generic slasher archetypes at the end, the formulaicism is part of the joke.

I could call it uninspired. The defense would similarly be that of course it's uninspired, there's a Cube-style room of rooms with all the monsters from everything, it's all deliberately derivative and referential.

I could call it not scary. The defense would again similarly be that this is also intentional, look how it's also billed as a comedy. Nevermind that it's not funny either, because it's also billed as a horror.

The plain and simple of it is that it is formulaic, and this goes for the meta-meta narrative as well. Yes the silly organization's point is to enact the contrived ritual that plays out with horror movie tropes because it's supposed to, that's not whats formulaic about it. It can be argued that every beat up to the descent into the facility is formulaic by design, but once they're through that door that excuse falls flat.

The plain and simple of it is that it is uninspired. One of the technicians remarks early on that they're allowed to cheat to make things play out as needed as much as they want. Later we see that security personnel gunning down the sacrifices meets the requirements—there's no reason not to lead with that and just shoot the whore first. Or to bomb the cabin after shooting the whore. Or literally anything else. The overarching narrative cannot be flimsy because the arguably intentionally shitty internal narrative is wink-wink-shitty to allow room for that larger one. The overall story is just there as an excuse to make 8104 different references (HAHA THE WHITEBOARD TALKS ABOUT THE R*PE TREES FROM EVIL DESD LOL) and give 3 second cameos to creatures from other movies. The facility and organization itself is just a Cube Zero knockoff anyway.

The plain and simple of it is that it is neither scary nor funny. There are no stakes even with the apocalypse on the horizon and then actualizing to end the film. Everyone is boring and sucks. Literally Shaggy from scooby doo as the lead can't go any other way. The humor predates it by several years but it all smacks of that atrocious Rian Johnson Star Wars movie with the yo momma joke; it's quip "comedy" without the quips but the exact same degree of unwarranted and omnipresent self-satisfaction.

This is, however, a lot more negativity than Cabin in the Woods strictly deserves. I don't feel any sort of profound loathing for it or anything, it did nothing to elicit any particular emotion that strong. It's a completely unremarkable hour and a half.

For a movie with such an incredibly promising cover and inexplicably golden critic reviews from the beforetimes when critics evaluated things by metrics other than how much gay s*x a film has in it, the only thing I feel in any notable sense is confusion as to how either of these things happened. That and I want to watch Hellraiser because cenobites are great even if they are bootleg and have 30 seconds of screentime in an utterly mid movie.

★★☆☆☆

!kino your thoughts?

cc @LainkeyKong as requested

Because sometimes you'll have to contact tech support. And they'll refer to you by your stated name. And you'll have to sign off your emails with your stated name. And in my case those emails are sent from a gmail account that proudly shows my real, actual name.

I'm just happy that I had the restraint to avoid naming myself Nate Higgers or the like.

The name I signed up with came from this meme which randomly popped in my mind when registering

Enter BetAt least one of the following people will be murdered or critically injured in a murder attempt on or before March 4th, 2025: Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran - 7 bets

Enter Betno, but we'll have some other murder/terrorist attack related to DOGE within the next month - 35 bets

Enter Betnothing ever happens - 174 bets

500 marseybux bounty for sending me the link when it happens.

If nobody sends the link, I'll spend a few minutes looking !remindme march 5th ":marseybeandoge:"

!bets !goomble !goomblers !goombling !project2025

closed

!nonchuds !burgers imagine if we lose our superpower and soft power status due to fElon's r-sluration lmao

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1iic6hd/usaid_was_investigating_starlink_over_its/

https://old.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1iijq3w/usaid_was_investigating_starlink/

https://old.reddit.com/r/AnythingGoesNews/comments/1iibzbn/elon_musks_enemy_usaid_was_investigating_starlink/

https://old.reddit.com/r/AntiTrumpAlliance/comments/1iif10l/elon_musks_enemy_usaid_was_investigating_starlink/

https://old.reddit.com/r/the_everything_bubble/comments/1iigacg/elon_musks_enemy_usaid_was_investigating/

https://old.reddit.com/r/Foodforthought/comments/1iig8vw/elon_musks_enemy_usaid_was_investigating/

https://old.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/comments/1iipls5/elon_musks_enemy_usaid_was_investigating/

https://old.reddit.com/r/uspolitics/comments/1iiiakk/elon_musks_enemy_usaid_was_investigating/

https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/496605242

https://lemmy.world/post/25160779?scrollToComments=true

https://lemmy.world/post/25175633

https://lemmy.world/post/25161476

The more you know.

Elon Musk’s Enemy, USAID, Was Investigating Starlink’s Contracts in Ukraine https://t.co/GMRCbRSstO

— James Tate (@JamesTate121) February 5, 2025

Elon Musk's Enemy, USAID, Was Investigating Starlink Over Its Contracts in Ukraine https://t.co/pNW8E7OFG4

— Gizmodo (@Gizmodo) February 5, 2025

BlueSky:

Elon Musk's Enemy, USAID, Was Investigating Starlink Over Its Contracts in Ukraine https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-enemy-usaid-was-investigating-starlink-over-its-contracts-in-ukraine-2000559365

— Gizmodo (@gizmodo.com) 2025-02-05T14:01:04.834Z

https://skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile%2FGossiTheDog.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy%2Fpost%2F3lhgslvg5wta2

Orange Site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42950041

News Articles:

The Times

Text:

People who identify as animals have been warned not to discriminate against others "on account of their species" at an event this weekend. The Scotiacon convention is expected to attract 1,200 "furries" to the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Glasgow. Its code of conduct warns that "harassment of any kind is not tolerated", which includes race, gender, sexuality or "the species of someone's fursona" — jargon for the animal that a person identifies as. Guests are also warned against exhibiting artworks depicting paedophilia, described as "cub porn", or humans having s*x with animals.

The organisers said: "We are aware that this is a difficult rule since the actual age of drawn characters is open to interpretation, especially where they are in a cartoon style. "Appearances count. Characters with a very childlike appearance and/or baby face may be considered children in the context of this rule." The event began in 2011 and has grown from a few dozen attending to 1,170 "furs" last year. Tickets cost £45 a day, or up to £480 with hotel accommodation. The code of conduct for artworks also states: "No zoophilia and/or bestiality involving humans or largely human-like characters (eg anime catgirls, elves or centaurs) with animals or largely non-morphic characters (four-legged) is allowed. "Other species-transcending sexual activity (eg anthros and humans) is generally allowed. "Potty-related activities are highly discouraged. This includes scat, watersports, adult diapers in use, and vomit. We do not entirely exclude this content but only seek to accept items with very mild depictions which would be suitable for a general viewing public." Delegates must not come dressed in "fetish gear" such as "anatomically correct" costumes, jockstraps or exposed buttocks. However, dog collars, leather wristbands and "accessories used in an innocent context, such as a dog harness that is part of a sled dog costume", are permitted.

Academic studies have disclosed the tensions within the furry community which includes subdivisions such as herbivore or carnivore, predator or prey, traditional animals or more fantastical creatures. In 2023 the Anthropomorphic Research Project, an international group of academics, highlighted problems including "bigotry, discrimination, intolerance and bullying in the fandom". Last year it emerged that a Scottish pupil had been allowed to identify as an animal in Aberdeen. The city council said at least one child had been recognised as having species dysphoria but it declined to specify which animal. In species dysphoria, a person feels that their body is the wrong species. People with the condition are sometimes known as therians. Numerous children are said to have tried to identify as animals, including foxes, dragons, birds, snakes and sharks, although it is unclear whether they were serious. Last year the Scottish Daily Mail said a secondary school pupil had been allowed to identify as a wolf. A council, which the newspaper did not name, said the pupil was part of a group known as furries.

Scottish Daily Express (Article Linked in Tweet)

Rightoids of X React:

in case you wanted to know how Scotland was doing:

a bunch of furry degenerates are congregating in Glasgow this weekend and the police have literally issued them a stern warning to not r*pe kids or animals pic.twitter.com/RsjsH66ZqV

— pagliacci the hated 🌝 (@Slatzism) February 4, 2025

Reddit Threads:

r/NotTheOnion

r/offbeat

r/unitedkingdom

r/scotland

r/glasgow

Even the usually lib-leaning bongs of Reddit are pretty cognizant of what the furry subculture really en-tails, and opt to get in on the cyberbullying.

https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1ih08by/furries_warned_not_to_abuse_other_species_at/mat3nk3/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1ih08by/furries_warned_not_to_abuse_other_species_at/mavamce?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1ih08by/furries_warned_not_to_abuse_other_species_at/mat678q/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1ih08by/furries_warned_not_to_abuse_other_species_at/matl5us/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1ih08by/furries_warned_not_to_abuse_other_species_at/mawpas2/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1ih08by/furries_warned_not_to_abuse_other_species_at/matctaa/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/1ihjgru/furries_warned_not_to_abuse_other_species_at/maz5eq4/?context=8

Of course, some onlooking Amerilard furtwinks take issue with this rampant fursecution.

https://old.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/1ihsjvq/furries_warned_not_to_abuse_other_species_at/mazp5jl/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/1ihsjvq/furries_warned_not_to_abuse_other_species_at/maztizu/?context=8

Bros, I thought being trans-species was just an alt-right hoax...

https://old.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/1ihsjvq/furries_warned_not_to_abuse_other_species_at/mb007z5/?context=8

https://old.reddit.com/r/offbeat/comments/1igue1h/furries_warned_not_to_abuse_other_species_at/matkvbu/?context=8

To conclude: Say what you will about bongs, but at least it's like the one western country where shit like furry conventions get appropriate pushback and backlash in the media every time they're held. Lest we forget, the same convention was met with protests and journos digging up the vile NSFW accounts of attendees just a couple years ago.

History Thread 1

History Thread 2

History Thread 3

!britbongs

The instability, the trumpflation - really not good for folks that enjoy the market.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/2/6/404

https://archive.ph/eF9xx

There was this !dutch violinist/ orchestra director who became famous worldwide, by having these "informal" classical music concerts/shows, where peeps in the audience would dance in the aisles, or even the musicians or André himself would walk down the aisles themselves, while celebrating famous classical music.

This was considered radical for Boomers, who found the dour and sour and uptight classical music conformity of Europe to be to too stifling. People like my parents were pretty excited to watch his shows and performances on DSTV, which had become more common in Safrica, and appreciated his musical acumen, whilst having much more lighthearted tones in his shows.

Here's a bull attacking a woman!!

He also looks like an eccentric mad-scientist nutjob with his hair!

In 2010 he had a tour in

https://www.andrerieu.com/en/about-andre/my-biography/2010

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2086692/The-room-didnt-stop-spinning-months-Hit-crippling-ear-virus-violinist-Andre-Rieu-needed-quick-cure.html

Unfortunately his weak !dutch genes were no match for the filth and garbage of Safrica, and he got a debilitating ear infection mid tour.

DRAMA!

Drama had however occurred over time in the 2010s when André Rieu obtained the notable quirk, in that he REFUSED to speak the Colonizer language of Afrikaans!!!!

This caused a lot of seeth for Boers, who ironically made the lionshare of his fandom in the country, even beyond the large Bonglish CD-buyers in Cape Town. This social media drama has been largely purged by time and linkrot (omg this like 15 years ago ) But it was pretty big drama.

In his tours of 2010 & 2012, he had repeated numerous times that he had been disappointed in the demographics makeup of his shows, which as can be predicted, were always overwhelmingly

He was especially disappointed to find Safrican black peeps didn't really give a shit, despite his massive catering towards them in all his Safrican tours, whether in Cape Town or Suncity. Especially in his "My African Dream" shows, which he tailored to include lots of black opera singers, local black dancers, and it was still 99% mayo

https://www.news24.com/life/andre-rieu-refuses-to-speak-afrikaans-20110318

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André Rieu, King of the waltz and musical hero to many South Africans, still refuses to speak a word of Afrikaans or even Dutch onstage.

Last year already many of his fans asked why Rieu did not speak a word of Afrikaans or Dutch on stage.

He has toured across the globe, always making an effort to speak at least a word of the language of the country in which he is touring.

Rieu is aware that many of his fans in South Africa are Afrikaans speaking and that they are able to understand the Dutch heard on the DVDs.

Country's demographic

When Volksblad asked Rieu in an official enquiry why he does not speak Afrikaans or Dutch onstage in South Africa, he said: "No comment."

"He wanted to make it easier for his fans to travel to the show, because not everyone will be able to travel all the way to Sun City. He also hopes to then see an audience that is a better representation of the country's demographic."

Rieu has said that he would like to see an audience that is 50% black and 50% white. Last year, he asked the Bloemfontein Children's choir to perform with him in his hometown of Maastricht in the Netherlands. His condition that the choir should consist of 50% black members, was heavily criticised.

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Watch Andre Rieu talk about his South African tour in 2012, with a lead black singer to a white-only audience, and why everyone was in tears. https://t.co/ZNosC0yEvK

— Seema Chishti (@seemay) December 26, 2020

I tried really hard to find old twitter about drama when André Rieu stated in front of his 99% mayo audience how sad and disappointed he was that so few black peeps had come to his Cape Town and Suncity shows, and with many people stating how full of shit he was, because if he wanted a primary black audience, he should have hosted a show in Soweto stadiums (he didn't cuz it was unsafe )

Like holy hells there was scores of drama - you guys don't appreciate how linkrot has culled so much drama of our forebears

Like I remember newspaper articles about the drama and events but that shit is now banished to the shadowrealm i literally cannot find anything on the face of the internet to prove what I'm recounting to you guys, it's information just gone into the ether

RANDOM BONUS DRAMA: Reddit thread about André Rieu's detractors

https://old.reddit.com/r/classicalmusic/comments/jxoo3m/anyone_else_cringes_at_andr%C3%A9_rieu_performances/

The ultra premium all inclusive version with 7 days "early access" (paying extra to play a single player game early LMAO) is $130 and people who were grifted into buying it are not happy.

The largest map size in the game at launch is "normal."

Continent generation is broken beyond belief.

The UI was designed for console babbies and a complete mess on PC.

For a 4x strategy game there is very little info in game on how things work.

Maximum 5 human players for multiplayer.

All fixable problems tbh and I'm sure when I buy it in two years for 75% off it will be a very good game. People who spent $130 to beta test are getting exactly what they deserve.

What's funniest to me is there are very few complaints about the game itself. By all accounts it's a very fun civ game and a worthy successor to civ vi.