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I'm talking about the Prince Charles, near Chinatown, one of London's few (and fast disappearing) independent venues. It's a cinema that mainly shows classic movies, independent stuff and a lot of foreign films. You'll get The Thing, Oldboy and The Room all showing in a single day. I've got a million fond memories going there, getting drunk with my friends in the park nearby, eating American-sized portions of spicy food in this incredible Cantonese chicken place, then laughing our asses off at whatever so-bad-it's good flick they're screening late. It's sappy, but whenever I'm feeling depressed and anxious and I just need to get out of the house, it's always there for me.
But it's not going to exist for much longer. The property's owners, Criterion Capital, are trying to force through a break clause in the lease, giving them six months to retool the property how they see fit. If you don't know who Criterion Capital are, they're owned by Asif Aziz, London's apex landlord-c*m-parasite who has seemingly dedicated his life to destroying every business with any heart and soul in the city. He gutted the Trocadero to build a featureless mosque, shuttered the Junction Jazz bar by refusing to renew its lease, and now he's preying on this. Once Criterion gets their break clause, they'll almost certainly scrap the cinema and replace it with either housing for millionaire speculators or some generic, Brewdog Gastropub-butt atrocity that'll charge twelve pounds for a pint. It's not even that the cinema isn't profitable, it is, the developers just want to squeeze as much blood from this stone as possible, even at the cost of the city's entire identity. There's a petition to save it and I've written to the local MP, but I doubt that'll do much. Whole situation is just a bit shit tbh
Here's the petition if you want to sign it: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-the-prince-charles-cinema
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Funniest president of my lifetime. He brought CLASS and DIGNITY back into the White House
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At first it was smh smh cute twinks, our religion is the best. Women suck. Then they went for BIPOCs and s. And now it seems after all this time they kinda ran out of things to shit on.
They no longer even bash s as they always did as if it got them in some kind of trouble? and they chickened out to just saying "There are only two genders."
Is that how progress looks like? That you kind of run out of things to shit on and finally settle on these enbies that nobody cares about ultimately. even they don't really care that much.
I never seen in any NB groups even a single reaction to this new slogan because as I said these people usually don't really care at all about this stuff. It's the core characteristics somewhat.
Unlike s which the core idea is to fit in and be treated the same enbies don't give any frick.
So have my local rightoids finally found the perfect target?
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Only for Canadian citizens.
If you register by tomorrow 5pm Eastern Time, you will be eligible to vote in the leadership race.
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I'm enjoying the site but I want to be sure I am doing so in a sustainable manner. I enjoy posting images in threads, and I don't want the cost of hosting them to outweigh my donations. How much are the server costs if I post a PNG that gets 100 clicks? 2 cents?
I am happy to purchase the rDrama equivalent of carbon credits with Cumcoin to offset my digital pollution!
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You could definitely say I'm looking at things through rose colored glasses. But darn it really does feel like things took a turn for the worst around 2015. People used to be more normal and weren't all latching onto political causes and culture war BS. We didn't let our entire existence revolve around a certain WWE Hall of Fame inductee. It seems like everyone was a lot less lonely too. I find myself missing it a lot.