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[–] 137 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Internal monologue: "I'm scared of them because they are cooler than me, and maybe even smarter."

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  • [–] 64 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Maybe smarter? The average one brain cell orange cat is smarter than this guy.

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  • [–] 80 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I would guess that it's more because there are three people in the shot and they are all young women, and two of those young women look slightly different than the OP wants them to look (one has dyed hair and one has a scarf).

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  • [–] 60 points 1 year ago

    god forbid the children have style

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    If you replace "woke" with "human rights", you understand what these people are talking about.

    These people hate basic human right.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    They hate freedom of expression and want everyone to live how they demand.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Young person has eccentric dress sense.

    Right wing chud, catatonic with rage: "WE NEED TO MAKE THIS ILLEGAL".

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    i like saying that history doesn't repeat, it rhymes...

    but bloody hell, this is literally the exact same thing we get every single generation

    "those young people, completely indecent, just look at the way they dress! their hair! the music they listen to! this technology they use! what will become of them. When i was young i was perfectly obedient and listened to my elders." you could attritbute that sentence to any era of human history and you'll be correct, literally all the way back to the beginning of written history this rings true

    Socrates complained about how the youths depend on paper and books too much. And since then little has changed but the exact thing the olds complain about

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What kind of absolute fucking loser forges their entire identity around not liking other people's fashion choices?

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago

    Dyed hair... ankh... fashion conscious business attire...

    I for one welcome our new Goth representation in government. We need more of this.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Psych: "Ok so you're here because *checks notes* digestive on twitter didn't like the outfit you wore at the Youth parliament."

    Girl: "Yes."

    Psych: "Well that's not an illness so..."

    Charlie Simp: "STOP RIGHT THERE, I SENT HER HERE SO YOU CAN FIX HER!"

    Psych: "Fix her?"

    Charlie Simp: "MAKE HER NORMAL!!!"

    Psych: "Normal how."

    Simp: "Make her look and act like how I demand people do! You know, long hair, normal make up, normal fashion..."

    Psych: "So remove all individuality from her?"

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Youth parliament, model UN, all those places, they have always been great places to meet smart girls. Just wish teenage me had just a little more game.

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  • I think the issue is that young lady with the headscarf. The poster is just trying to pretend it’s about hair colour, but it’s about skin colour

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Tweet by Charlie Simp, huh?🤔

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Drip too hard

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I lived in Wales for a year a few years back. Actually colored hair was way more common over there when I was there. Even in older adults.

    Had teachers with pink hair in their 60s.

    Tattoos also more common. I recall one of the professors lookee like a Goth girl. She also gave me mediocre grades on everything I submitted to her. 😅

    Septum piercing. Always wore black. And long jet black hair. She also told us how to pirate research papers and textbooks on day one. In a power point.

    Idk. The culture there was just more chill about alternative style. At least while I was there.

    I was in Swansea.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    maybe it's Wales, maybe it's just academia. smart people are usually capable of figuring out that self expression no matter how eccentric is harmless and simply brings colour to the world

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Surely. But I'm still in academia. My most recent university was in Chicago. People there are more clean cut. Few alternative looking grad students but not professors. Professors all look like standard teacher types. Clean cut.

    Only knew of one other grad student with a visible tattoo on her wrist.

    I had a face piercing (Monroe). She has a side nose ring. Can't think of anyone else with either.

    Maybe it's just that culture at that university. Swansea was just really different to me.

    Also something funny about Wales.

    So here (,until the last few years) Starbucks was pretty popular, wouldn't you say,,?

    Like the hip young people. The career go getters. The hipsters. All hanging around starbucks. But not in Wales.

    Costa coffee was their hip coffee chain. Starbucks was like. .. idk how to phrase this without sounding shallow. But I'll try.

    Rough people hung out at Starbucks.

    Like. People who looked like drug addicts. Always outside chain smoking. Rough people. The 2 am Denny's crowd. You know.

    Starbucks was so disliked, that small Starbucks , like the one inside a university building and one at a museum I visited, tried to hide their brand so people wouldn't know it was starbucks until you got your cup. No apron logo. No racks with cups. No logos on anything anywhere. Except the to-go cups.

    I'm 100% serious.

    Local people always said that Starbucks coffee was shite.

    I remember taking a video of the goings on to send it to a friend to show how much they tried to hide they were a star bucks. Cause this was like peak star bucks popularity time (2017-2018).

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Great insights there from "Charlie Simp"

    Obviously in training to suck up to Farage and his ilk. Fortunately I've never heard of him before so he's obviously not very good at it.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    I fucking love seeing women with partially dyed hair. YOU GO GIRL!

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I wish I could pull this look off

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    A normal person sees cool hair but a conservative is only seeing red.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago*

    Says some incel cosplaying a dusty old wanker that thought both David Bowie and Elton John were cool AF.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    Why are they always so terrified of hair dye?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I know very little of UK politics, what is that group for/against?

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    It's essentially a model parliament, but one that gets contact with the actual government. Under-18s fight for election and hold debates in the same manner as the House of Commons

    No, I have absolutely no idea how this makes it "woke" beyond that some people just use the word to mean "thing I don't like"

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I'm not really against but I think instead we should just ban anyone over 60 from voting...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Pretty sure he's just some edgy teenager.

    He probably spent most of last month hanging flags upside down on lamp posts, and calling himself patriotic, it's the sort of thing people like him do. Everyone else calls him a prat

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The funny thing is that the Union Jack is not quite symmetrical. You can hang it upside down, but it takes a very trained eye to see it’s upside down.

    That’s part of why ships fly a solid red flag with a Union Jack quarter, so it’s readily apparent when they are in distress.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Never mind getting the Union Jack the right way up, at least some of those dumb fucks managed to paint the Danish flag on a roundabout because they forgot what the English one looks like

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The point is: the people hanging them on lampposts don't know that, hence half of them being upside down.

    To be fair, as somebody who has put flags on lampposts, it's slightly difficult to coordinate the flag orientation when you're at the top of a ladder.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Why? Its just a picture, what did she say?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It doesn't matter what she said, they hate her for her appearance. Plus there's nothing more dangerous than a young person engaged in politics like this.

    I used to be a part of the UK Youth Parliament, and whilst there were a decent number of Tories, I never met someone who was a part of UKIP. The young people who support UKIP/Reform are a completelt different archetype

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Anyone have the speech that person made that has the tweeter so mad?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    I'm summarising, but I bet it went along the lines of

    • "be nice to people"
    • "everyone deserves to live and enjoy some modern comforts"
    • "maybe we shouldn't destroy the planet we live on"

    You know... Real sick shit

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Charlie Simp needs a nap

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    Just watched through the latest UK youth parliament session, they seem to be Member from Essex, and they talked about the cost of the environment and how money doesn't get us shit, great shit! https://www.youtube.com/live/5qnNCoiYmKE?t=7838

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Puts a celery leaf under their poppy, I understood that reference

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    There's a specific hair color I refer to as "mental health red". Every girl I've talked to that has had it, was, uh, off in some way. It's a REALLY shiny, fake red, not a natural tone at all. Also common after break ups.

    People with dyed hair in general though? Can't say I agree.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    I see the only common factor here is you. I have had many interactions with people sportingbright hair colours, including reds, and they were quite reasonable people.

    I would look inwards if I were you.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Cool, but at least one of them completely admitted she's got a lot of issues (nonviolent, so we were pretty good friends until we fell out of contact) and another was actually very violent - against me and at least one other former partner I know about - and SHE was the one who told me about it, not the victim. We were kind of a thing for a bit, but eventually the sex wasn't worth the constant gaslighting and attacks.

    Then there was one who said she'd dyed her hair "mental breakdown red", but I never got to know her well enough to figure out how much of it was a joke. There was a "this is a joke, but like all jokes, it's not completely out of thin air" energy about it.

    Truth be told, I know one girl who has a similar hair colour and seems completely sane. Don't know her too well, kinda stopped talking after school and she was pretty introverted back then, but she's been rocking it as her style for a few decades now. The common thing between the others is that they all did theirs after some traumatic event, which is where I got the hypothesis that radically changing one's appearance might be a trauma response - hence my nickname for it: mental health red.

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    Life itself is nothing more than a collection of anecdotes. Outside of math and philosophy, all our knowledge is based on anecdotal/empirical evidence. And in terms of psychology in particular, "everyone", "always", "never" and "nobody" aren't really terms you should use. I never said everyone with red hair is insane or something, I just said a large amount of people with bright red dyed hair seem to have issues. It's a red flag to keep out for.

    Now the question is, how deeply did you know all the people sporting bright hair colours, and can you be sure for real that most of them had no traumas they were dealing with? Someone being "reasonable" doesn't mean they're healthy. Nor does having mental health issues mean you have to be unreasonable or even unpleasant.

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