Comment on Keir Starmer in crisis as Labour drops to 16% in devastating new poll

Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  we can no longer afford circuses, we can barely afford bread.

  hear hear

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• Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What does nonces mean here? Non native speaker here!

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  • waz@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It originated from prisoners who have done something despicable, so that they would be at risk from the rest of the prison population: Not On Normal Courtyard Exercise. NONCE.

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    • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Almost none of these abbreviation based etymologies are true - they’re made up years later, normally as a joke, and somehow you end up with people spreading them about as facts.

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Thanks!

      For me it was Number Used Once in cryptography 😁, or in french it’s some sort of arch bishop or something IIRC.

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    • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Huh!

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  • Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Nonce: child rapist.

    Refering to Trump mostly, but our Prince Andrew is also a child molestor. He’s walking free and living a life of luxury few of us will achieve.

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Seems to be an incomplete anwer, see the answer of @waz

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      • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        So (can’t edit) pedo or worse/similar.

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  • flamingos@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Paedophiles.

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