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UROD: Bare Nails, Full Clown Show
I like clear nails on a woman. Any race. Clean, trimmed, no lacquer. They look like health. Painted nails always make me wonder what is being covered. That is a preference, not a theory of history, not a policy paper, and not a cry for a royal commission.

The BBC turned the same look into a class issue and a quiet act of cultural erasure. An editor let that leave the building. A woman skips the salon because forty quid for a fill is money she does not have. In the Beeb that choice becomes counter-signaling, blankness, and a coded insult to Black, Latino, and Asian nail art. My taste is eyes and skin. Theirs is a seminar with a byline and a moral aftertaste.

House style. Knife crime becomes a narrative. A failed school becomes underfunding plus unconscious bias. Energy bills become climate virtue. Immigration numbers become kindness. A man who wants a quiet pint becomes a problem of belonging. Take a cost paid by people who cannot leave the room, then launder it into a status contest for people who never meet the bill. The writer gets the panel, the clip, and the glow of having found oppression in a buffed nail. The public gets another lecture and the same empty wallet.

Incentives beat sermons. Nobody in that newsroom is paid to write “some people stopped buying gel because it chips at work and the rent cleared the account.” They are paid, praised, and promoted for locating a hierarchy in cuticles. Concentrated applause for the desk. Diffuse waste for everyone who still has to live in the country the desk describes. License-fee money buys the fog. The fog buys the next piece about yoga, gardening, pronouns in the canteen, or who is allowed to enjoy a Sunday roast without a race audit.

Immigrant women built the salon trade for cash, not a curriculum. Working people pick cheap, fast, or nothing because trade-offs are real and free lunches are a myth. The Beeb calls that ideologically thin. Loud nails are vulgar. Bare nails are class betrayal. Either verdict keeps the factory that manufactures moral weather reports fully staffed. The bubble never has to choose between a fill and the electric bill. It chooses the story that flatters the bubble.

Look at the rest of the output and the pattern is not subtle. Ordinary competence gets recast as privilege. Ordinary disgust at disorder gets recast as phobia. Ordinary standards in speech, dress, or hygiene get recast as exclusion. The point is not to inform a plumber in Birmingham. The point is to keep a class of talkers employed at talking. If the nails are bare, the talkers invent shame. If the nails are painted, the talkers invent theft of culture. The nails are incidental. The sermon is the product.

I like what I like. Clean nails look healthy. Paint makes me suspicious of the surface. That sentence would send a commissioning editor hunting for a historian, a beauty journalist, and a quote about white standards. They cannot leave a preference on the table. It has to be processed into politics or it does not count as work. That is leftist idiocy as an occupational habit: every private taste must be public property, every private choice must confess an ideology, every adult trade-off must be a hate crime in waiting. A newsroom that cannot see a hand without drafting a hierarchy will not see a country either.

If an editor cannot bin cuticle theology on sight, the crisis is not the public’s taste. It is a taxpayer-backed newsroom so high on its own incense that fingernails look like a frontier of justice and a man saying he likes clean nails looks like a manifesto. I did not need a class analysis to look at a hand. They needed a class analysis because without one they have nothing to sell. The nails were never the story. The people paid to invent one were.

#defundthebbc

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How the bare nails trend became a class issue https://t.co/2ztyWvUcrX

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@BBCNews https://t.co/IDAF3ntKWo

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UROD: Bare Nails, Full Clown Show
I like clear nails on a woman. Any race. Clean, trimmed, no lacquer. They look like health. Painted nails always make me wonder what is being covered. That is a preference, not a theory of history, not a policy paper, and not a cry for a royal commission.

The BBC turned the same look into a class issue and a quiet act of cultural erasure. An editor let that leave the building. A woman skips the salon because forty quid for a fill is money she does not have. In the Beeb that choice becomes counter-signaling, blankness, and a coded insult to Black, Latino, and Asian nail art. My taste is eyes and skin. Theirs is a seminar with a byline and a moral aftertaste.

House style. Knife crime becomes a narrative. A failed school becomes underfunding plus unconscious bias. Energy bills become climate virtue. Immigration numbers become kindness. A man who wants a quiet pint becomes a problem of belonging. Take a cost paid by people who cannot leave the room, then launder it into a status contest for people who never meet the bill. The writer gets the panel, the clip, and the glow of having found oppression in a buffed nail. The public gets another lecture and the same empty wallet.

Incentives beat sermons. Nobody in that newsroom is paid to write “some people stopped buying gel because it chips at work and the rent cleared the account.” They are paid, praised, and promoted for locating a hierarchy in cuticles. Concentrated applause for the desk. Diffuse waste for everyone who still has to live in the country the desk describes. License-fee money buys the fog. The fog buys the next piece about yoga, gardening, pronouns in the canteen, or who is allowed to enjoy a Sunday roast without a race audit.

Immigrant women built the salon trade for cash, not a curriculum. Working people pick cheap, fast, or nothing because trade-offs are real and free lunches are a myth. The Beeb calls that ideologically thin. Loud nails are vulgar. Bare nails are class betrayal. Either verdict keeps the factory that manufactures moral weather reports fully staffed. The bubble never has to choose between a fill and the electric bill. It chooses the story that flatters the bubble.

Look at the rest of the output and the pattern is not subtle. Ordinary competence gets recast as privilege. Ordinary disgust at disorder gets recast as phobia. Ordinary standards in speech, dress, or hygiene get recast as exclusion. The point is not to inform a plumber in Birmingham. The point is to keep a class of talkers employed at talking. If the nails are bare, the talkers invent shame. If the nails are painted, the talkers invent theft of culture. The nails are incidental. The sermon is the product.

I like what I like. Clean nails look healthy. Paint makes me suspicious of the surface. That sentence would send a commissioning editor hunting for a historian, a beauty journalist, and a quote about white standards. They cannot leave a preference on the table. It has to be processed into politics or it does not count as work. That is leftist idiocy as an occupational habit: every private taste must be public property, every private choice must confess an ideology, every adult trade-off must be a hate crime in waiting. A newsroom that cannot see a hand without drafting a hierarchy will not see a country either.

If an editor cannot bin cuticle theology on sight, the crisis is not the public’s taste. It is a taxpayer-backed newsroom so high on its own incense that fingernails look like a frontier of justice and a man saying he likes clean nails looks like a manifesto. I did not need a class analysis to look at a hand. They needed a class analysis because without one they have nothing to sell. The nails were never the story. The people paid to invent one were.

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@BBCNews The fact that an editor didn't immediately toss this story as vacuous and baiting says everything about the state of the BBC.

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@TaraServatius @instapundit I thought all women were bi. Either sexual or polar.

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@JackPosobiec It was pretty good. Mariachi style but hit the target.

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@NickMatteo10 @S67047952 @Debonperc Trump used his time machine the Zionist Devils bribed him with to do it!!!!

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@PattieJ74664368 @MarkDavis Examples, please.

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@NFL_DovKleiman Do you have any examples of these "many" fans? Are they in the room with us now?

Or are they figments of your own prejudice?

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@red_beard_guy @Not_the_Bee What some call a Dunning/Krugerrand.

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@Not_the_Bee @elonmusk is something more substantial than an engineer. He is an effective engineer wrangler, a skill that makes herding cats look easy.

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@_josephine0_ Bless your heart....

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@Gunblaze1969 I would take a book. I got a lot of good reading in that way. Private. Quiet. No distractions.

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@compliantvc To the various replies, look up Poe's Law.

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@otokyo__ Maid cafes.

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@warrenmyers @wholemars had some cross training middies from Annapolis on the Eagle 35 years ago. Complete assholes with inflated opinions of their superiority. They got a hard lesson in seasickness when we cleared the breakwater.

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@mattvanswol Tribal honor culture in action. Being a better player is an affront that requires blood. Making a mistake and taking a penalty is an affront that requires blood. Trash talk is an affront that requires blood.

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@TonyKing38983 I had one of those. it’s the generator for a bicycle headlight.

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Both wrong. Ukraine has blown several Russian oil refineries to hell. Russia is no longer exporting refined petroleum products. That is ten percent of the world production off the market. Countries like Turkey and Brazil have to get their products from the same places we do and there just isn't the capacity. The result of more buyers and static supply is always higher prices. That price can come as money or as rationing but something has to regulate the demand.

A simple question that blows your greed theory away. If oil companies greed causes prices to go up does their altruism cause them to go down?

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@ssurovell Very well. Reduce the administration and make them co-sign all student loans.