• li10
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    7 months ago

    Right, but what the fuck happened in Stoke??

    • Starbuck@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Right? The premise of this meme is dumb, but is Stoke-on-Trent the Florida of England? I feel like this could be a really funny joke and I just don’t know what it is. And I want to know.

      • peto (he/him)@lemm.ee
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        7 months ago

        In England the joke is more than the next town over are subhumans. This goes for every town. Sometimes mutually. Think Shellbyville/Springfield rather than Florida man. It’s all just local slander, you could just as easily say Chatham, or Grimsby, or Cornwall.

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        7 months ago

        It’s not dumb you’re just ignorant of the context.

        Things you dont understand aren’t inherently dumb

        • Starbuck@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          No, that’s a really dumb critique of evolution. Plenty of other people have explained it in this comment section.

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            7 months ago

            I mean the humans of that time, and the “chimps” of that time. They’ve obviously gone off and had their own evolutionary track, and to my point, done so uncontested.

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      7 months ago

      Thatcher. All the work there was coal or high energy near the coal (pottery). So when coal went, and so did all it’s down stream industry (pottery). So there is no work and massive multigenerational unemployment. The place is a wreck. It needs massive investment that not only is it not getting but has never got.