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I wrote a book called “Crap Towns”. It seemed funny at the time

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amiga386 ◴[26 Apr 25 01:58 UTC] No.43800248[source]▶
> There’s a website (I won’t link to it) that has kept on running a survey of the worst places in the UK for years and years

I will, it's ChavTowns.

https://web.archive.org/web/20061013053524/http://www.chavto...

Still running as https://www.ilivehere.co.uk/

Also the owner is giving up on it as of the start of this year -- mainly because nobody visits the site; churnalists just freeboot it and they rank higher on google. https://www.ilivehere.co.uk/top-10-worst-places-to-live-in-e...

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mvdtnz ◴[26 Apr 25 03:16 UTC] No.43800617[source]▶
That author on Slough,

> Ricky Gervais encapsulated its brutalist new town grim with ‘The Office’ before giving up and writing lame punching-down anti-woke “gags” for the educationally subnormal

That's a very strange reading on Gervais' post-The Office career. After The Office he did things like Extras, a sitcom about extras on TV and film sets, Derek, an emotional series about a well-meaning care worker who thinks it's more important to be kind than popular, and After Life, a series about a man who loses his wife young and how he deals with grief.

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Apocryphon ◴[26 Apr 25 03:26 UTC] No.43800667[source]▶
There’s also his standup career of being extra atheist as if the world has never seen a famous lapsed Christian Brit
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labrador ◴[26 Apr 25 04:20 UTC] No.43800912[source]▶
I concluded Noah's Arc was bollocks when I was 8 so I don't know why he goes on about it at his age
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1. mckn1ght ◴[26 Apr 25 04:30 UTC] No.43800946[source]▶
Because people in power of a similar age still go on about how they think it’s true?
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2. graemep ◴[26 Apr 25 08:31 UTC] No.43801867[source]▶
Who?

I know there is the odd biblical literalist in power in the US, but have never come across one in the UK. The biggest group of Christians in the UK are Anglicans (who are not usually biblical literalists, although there are evangelical groups within it that might be) and Catholics (church firmly against Biblical literalism, although there might be odd individuals).

I think the reason atheists argue with Bibilical literalists is that its easy. It is somehting of a straw man: you pick a sub-group that is easy to debunk/discredit and then discredit the whole group by association. This has always been a problem: St Augustine talked about the damage done by people who interpreted the scriptures as contradicting what is known to be true in the 4th century.