Smoke Em If You Got Em
Riley, Nova, Milo, and Nate talk about the new civil rights struggle of our time: the plan to ban smoking in pub gardens. Then, a broader discussion of the miserablism of a PM whose approval rating is already at 23% only a couple short months into his government. Finally, we discuss an excellent article on the type of guy who becomes a middle manager in a private security guard company. It’s by Jasper Craven and is linked here: https://harpers.org/archive/2024/09/the-thin-purple-line-jasper-craven-private-security-guard/
Check out Milo's tour dates here: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows
Comments (40)
DESSERT WINE IS GOOD
"Tactical wind chime" is underrated
Keir Starmer: the Kathy Hochul of Britain?
Benedict Harem-Anime of The Rhode Island Harem-Animees
So I used to be a private security guard in America. It radicalized me, both because i didn't realize that the majority of what i'd be doing would be keeping homeless people from stealing things they clearly needed (food, tents, etc) but also because at least once or twice a week i went into situations where i didn't know if the person i was going to be speaking to (aggressive, stalking an employee, in a mental health crisis, o) had a weapon or whether they might want to attack. And for the reasons you listed we couldn't have weapons or do anything wild. So you know what we were trained/learned to do? deescalate shit. The police have NO excuse.
Lost it at eight mile starmer
AI image of an XL Bully smoking in a pub garden
Add in Captain Tom doing donuts in the sky
Weird way to learn Milo performed at my old job
This is my emotional support rot.
I worked as a security guard for like 4 years. It was a stupid easy job, I just collected a paycheck while playing on my phone. Allied Universal fucking sucks tho, they will fuck you over at every opportunity
Every pub in the UK now: https://youtu.be/Fj9bmAwe_98?si=7XjI7lWuw0W6LZE9 But for smokes of course
My sibling is deeply schizophrenic and has a trust set up by one of our parents before they died. Aside from me, they were the only person deeply suspicious of their trustee who eventually ended up getting arrested for comically large wire fraud. So yes, November is right, many people living with schizophrenia assuredly were not duped by Skint Keith Starmer.
Not accusing anyone of prejudice or ableism, but people living with schizophrenia aren't as stupid or inept as commonly held prejudice would have you believe. If anything it's impressive what they can do when believing they're under mind control.
The thing that gets me about all the austerity is we're not even saving up for anything! We're not skipping takeaways to afford a house (lol), we're skipping medical care and then we still won't have enough money to afford a house so fuck you
keir ora to you too Nova you fucking genius. knocked me right out
*kier starmer voice* it's shit, it's suppose to be shit, and if you don't like it may i direct your attention to this door
can't believe you called out my hometown in Illinois
Thank you for your PTSD-slash-service as SME here, Nate 🫡
Forgive my ignorance, but what is the chant that Nate says at 55:26? It is clearly a reference to something, from context I'd imagine this is a chant from some famous cult?
In the 1980s TV series Fist of the North Star, the hero Kenshiro will do his signature move of hitting a villain a thousand times really fast, which will cause them to literally explode, but on a time release. So, inevitably they'll say "ah you think your puny fists can defeat me?" and Kenshiro will always respond with "Omae wa mou shin deiru," which means "You're already dead." They almost always respond with "WHAT???" and then their heads / bodies / extremities explode.
I can't wait for the conservatives in the US to declare all cops woke and pass legislation allowing for privatized non-unionized police forces
I’ve kicked 6 allied security employees off the bus I drive in the last 3 months for trying to start fights with homeless people. Every one of them minding their own business looking for a place to sleep for 90 minutes. They’ve all been baffled when they get the boot.
Couple of thoughts, yay Nate episode, Milo’s comedy hour was indeed funny. Also 🎶 bonus 🎶
Champaign-Urbana being mentioned made my night lmao
Bring on the funk, bring on the ili-noise
Feels like the UK is just living six month in America's future
Indeed! When I (American) was living in the Smoke in the 80s, it looked like the UK was about 50 years ahead of the States. Suez was '59, but the US was decades away from its collective nervous breakdown over the collapse of its empire. Brits are catching up!
I feel compelled to point out that the POW-MIA flag has somehow become mainstream enough that it's flown at like every statehouse.
It's the law to fly it at post offices!
I keep forgetting how funny Nate is, but every Nate episode reminds me.
Yeah I wish he were on more often.
when i worked security i met a guy who wore a tac vest and 3 pistol grip lasers and was convinced that there was a like portland mafia based conspiracy to shoplift form the anime store he guarded rather than like people just stealing shit to sell on the internet
this shit just kinda is designed to make you go insane like in my case i was alone in an whole ass skyscraper sitting in the camera booth like at a certain point you become accutely aware of the panopticon around you
Cool, I have a gay-gurr counter.
Would an off brand sorting hat be the distributor cap?
to be fair i dont think keir starmer is compelling enough to induce delusions of reference
The fact that many Remainers' who hated Jeremy Corbyn's Brexit policies backed Keir Stramer (Corbyn's Shadow Secretary for Exiting the European Union from 2016 -2020) speaks volumes about their intelligence and/or honesty.
yay, nate episode!
Down with Oyster Handy