Twelfth Post!

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Re: Random Internet Misc

[(Anonymous)]

Ooof, Alice Sullivan at Bristol Uni. Mounted police against the protestors! All really aggressive.

It makes me think about the stats that an angry and controlling man is most likely to kill you when he thinks the relationship is over.

Also, I’m pretty sure that my friend’s daughter goes to Bristol, and she’s been telling me about all her friends transitioning including lots of young women identifying as twinky gay boys and posing like they’re anime characters (she showed me pictures). The land that time forgot.

Re: Random Internet Misc

[(Anonymous)]

I was just reading about this! Same thought!

I also wonder if Bristol's curious retro style here is because it's a bit posh and a bit small. Maybe they're hosting the Aggro Protestor Fringe while the mainstream go to London to march around for other things?

Re: Random Internet Misc

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, Bristol is supposedly where London goes when it can’t stay in London, but in the same sense that they go to Brighton.

As in, I was really shocked wandering around Brighton at how White British it was, in a way that I haven’t seen a city or moderately-sized town be for at least 5 years. In the evening, the clientele of all the restaurants and bars, but also the waitstaff which is amazing. Only bouncers and delivery drivers were not. I was amazed. (Filia itself was more diverse)

It is a particular pocket of ruling-class and associated hangers-on, I think, none of the lower classes, nobody who’s immigrated in the last couple of generations. It is its own culture, and it exists in particular pockets in London, and in Brighton, and now in Bristol. I’m not sure it controls such a high proportion of anywhere else. Oxford has the house prices for it, but has too much of an established culture and communities around the university and churches for it to take hold, though it has certainly tried.