Interesting Links for 23-12-2020

[andrewducker]

Boris Johnson overrules official advice and puts cash-for-access ex-Tory treasurer (who gave £2.5m) in the House of Lords

(tags:corruption politics UK houseoflords )

Majority of voters believe government's coronavirus contract awards to Tory friends are corrupt

(tags:corruption pandemic conservatives )

Where UK/EU negotiations currently stand

(tags:UK Europe trade Doom )

Tesco limits purchases of toilet roll, eggs, rice, soap and handwash

(tags:shopping UK Europe pandemic Doom )

Rearranging Everyday Objects into Visually Satisfying Compositions

(tags:beautiful )

Japan introduces double-blind shipping

(tags:shipping Japan )

Why aren't Labour able to overtake the Conservatives?

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1341412374792835073.html
(tags:politics UK labour conservatives society )

Is Love Actually the worst film of all time? If you know of a worse one then... please don't tell me.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1341441607946657799.html
(tags:movies awful romance )

Megan Rapinoe, Billie Jean King & 174 female athletes sign brief supporting trans women in sports

(tags:lgbt transgender sports )

Comments

[calimac]

Not the only rant against Love Actually. Here's mine, and it has links (still active) to a long blog discussion.

My summary:
"It says it's about all kinds of love, but the vast majority is romantic love. And it seems to spend most of its time defining romantic love as 'sexual lust for someone you hardly know.' And it shows people in the grip of this passion betraying romantic commitments they've already made - if that bond means so little to you, what will this new one mean? ... It's not even real romance, but Movie Romance, which basically consists of creepy stalkers whose victims react in the way that only creepy stalkers dream of. In anything remotely realistic, it'd make the women scream, run away, and call the cops."

[mountainkiss]

Someone on Facebook pointed out that the PM subplot has become much more credible since the current incumbent took office.

[calimac]

And the US President in the movie? Intended as some kind of nightmare combination of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, reality has since had something like that too.

[rhythmaning]

That bloke hating Love Actually is why that woman's racist dad votes Tory...

[armiphlage]

Address-free shipping is a thing in the UK and other countries, too - I offer to send things post-restante to LJ/Dreamwidth friends in need who might be reluctant to give away their exact address. The anonymity of the Japanese service is even better.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poste_restante
https://armiphlage.dreamwidth.org/411568.html