• IcyToes@sh.itjust.works
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    24 days ago

    Maybe they vet candidates. Screen out the crap and the SPads and we get a reasonable list. Maybe require some consensus on appointments.

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      24 days ago

      Spads.

      A appropriately ugly term. It conjures images of them being cut into long chunks and deep fried in oil. Either that or some archaic, non-PC term for a person with some mental deficiencies

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        24 days ago

        Spads. An amalgamation of special advisers used in the term of politics and appointments to the House of Lords. The context is everything here. A quick search would have shown you this. If your brain conjures up negative connotations and non-PC termd, that is on you.

        It’s OK to say you do not know.

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          Oh, I know full well what a fucking spad is.

          I just fucking hate them collectively, individually and linguistically.