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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64794712

    This one was never going to have a happy ending, but it's going to make one hell of a Netflix series one day.

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    Once when we were grad students, my wife and I were having lunch in the grad student office of her department (languages), which was in the basement of some old building. Two grad students from Spanish came in, shouting hysterically that 'we have been assaulted!' Turns out that someone had put a couple of 'it's ok to be white' posters in the building and they were completely losing it. I lolled.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pepe View Post
    Once when we were grad students, my wife and I were having lunch in the grad student office of her department (languages), which was in the basement of some old building. Two grad students from Spanish came in, shouting hysterically that 'we have been assaulted!' Turns out that someone had put a couple of 'it's ok to be white' posters in the building and they were completely losing it. I lolled.
    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    As esteemed as those pollsters might be [no idea] it doesn't take long looking at their website to realise they are absolute charlatans.



    ORLY?

    Is that even what woke progressive activism aims at?
    This is serious stuff Nico. No asking questions about were this dumb nonsense comes from, lol. As Pepe says, this all originated from some 4chan white supremacy trolling at US universities in 2017 as per this story:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...s-the-country/

    And then, several years later, Rasmussen turns it into a trolling internet poll. They are not a dishonest pollster per se. 538 includes them in their pollster averages but uses them as their textbook example of a pollster that consistently demonstrates a specific house effect:

    https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings/

    The origin is trolling on US campuses. The genius scientific poll on American racial views is less thorough than what I filled out when I bought a couch. The pollster is somewhat shady. The framing of what it means comes from an internet weirdo having a racist moment. This is a dumb thing. Just lol at it.

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    The BBC probably should have included some of this staggeringly important context in the article to be fair. At face value "it's OK to be white" seems fairly straight forward and for obvious reasons I don't check in with the Alt Right particularly regularly.

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    It is a truly terrible BBC story.

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    Quote Originally Posted by -james- View Post
    It's nowhere near as bad as the aristocrat's daughter who ran off with the evil black man last month, with no hint of either of them having committed a crime.

    Lol this has aged badly.

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    The drip feeding of info by the police doesn't help to be fair. If a baby and a woman have disappeared with a convicted sex offender then release EVERYTHING straight away.

    You know a story is fucked up when when the best case scenario is that a baby froze to death in the tent on the first night.

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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...shire-64797676

    There's me worrying I have misremembered my GCSE grades on my CV.

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    I went to college with a guy that moved to New Zealand and one of my friends gave a fake reference for him over the phone. The guy is now a Police Officer over there off the back of it.

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    The lol thing is that she would still be getting away with it if she didn't blow it suddenly becoming a greedy pleb.

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    I think I may have posted a while ago about an American lady cop (married) getting bukake'd by several of her colleagues.

    Well, turns out she claims she was groomed.


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    The baby has been found dead as expected.

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    Yep. That's the smile of a woman who isn't lying.

    She had run her gem and crystal-selling company for 15 years but footfall was down post-Covid and no-one came into her shop, so she had to close.
    Go on ...

    Libby has multiple disabilities, which prevent her from working full-time for an employer.
    You ran a fucking business!

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    lol

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    Selling “crystals” on Etsy is hardly running a business. It’s stealing a living, if nothing else.
    I'm a twit

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    Aren't Crystal's meant to be healing? No wonder she went bust.

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    She had a physical shop and blamed covid's effect on footfall for it's closure.

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    Geezer like Stephen Bear should not be making it out of a prison alive.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Don View Post
    Geezer like Stephen Bear should not be making it out of a prison alive.
    Is he not your hero? His twitter page is...interesting.

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    I had a soft spot for him as he reminds me of my cousin but he's mentally very fragile and looks like a prime target in a prison environment so it'll be interesting to see how he copes.

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    He's ready for it he has been practicing with his anal invader 3000 for months. Wonder what the lads will make of his mangled cock.

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    As this is a sex crime, won't he get locked up with the nonces? Lol at him.

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    I have never heard of this person, but lol at the idea of turning up to court everyday in a hired roller with a cane looking like some embarrassing Connor McGregor as a mafia don caricature.

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    He's hust some reality TV mong. I'm not even sure which show. Just remember the OUTRAGE when he put a video on Twitter.

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    YouTube star famous for hilarious kebab reviews expecting baby despite having vasectomy

    I think I'd be getting a paternity test on that one, mate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    As this is a sex crime, won't he get locked up with the nonces? Lol at him.
    I found out today that 'nonce' means 'not on normal courtyard exercise'. Never really considered where the term had come from before, but there you go. Every day's a school day.

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    A word or expression called for one occasion, also.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mo View Post
    I found out today that 'nonce' means 'not on normal courtyard exercise'. Never really considered where the term had come from before, but there you go. Every day's a school day.
    That sounds too neat not to be a backronym, but maybe I'm wrong.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    YouTube star famous for hilarious kebab reviews expecting baby despite having vasectomy

    I think I'd be getting a paternity test on that one, mate.
    Met in November and engaged a month later

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    This Gary Lineker stuff is getting way overblown.

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    I saw Alistair Campbell railing against him on Newsnight yesterday which confirms in my mind that Gary is probably on the right side of this one.

    Still so hurt about that Gilligan stuff after all these years.

    Just get over it Al, everyone knows/thinks you lied about that stuff, not least because it was all shown to be demonstrable shite in the following years.

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    This Government are a horrible set of bastards, that much is true, but trying to make "stop the boats" out to be the birth of the Fourth Reich is smug silliness on a scale that possibly only Gary Lineker could manage.

    Just say it's a shit plan Gaz. No need to Goodwin yourself.

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    The way comparisons to the Nazi's are thrown about like confetti is really poor and were I Jewish I'd imagine I'd think it really isn't on - the seemingly accepted way these comparisons are made and received might be one for David Baddiel to consider if he ever does another documentary.

    Now, Mr Lineker might well say he wasn't comparing them to what the Nazi's did in the late 30s and 40s, but more the things that they were saying in the 30s and while that might be a fair point in some respects you simply can't mention the Nazi's at all without minds wandering to experiments, the disabled, concentration camps and 6m Jews.

    In short, just don't do it.

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    He's going to end up suspended/terminated by the BBC, which is ludicrous. Funny how the Tories don't moan about BBC impartiality (which is where this started, not the Nazi comparison) when it's Laura Kuenssberg waxing lyrical about Boris.

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    I'm conflicted on what should happen to him. On the one hand it is clearly ridiculous that a sports presenter can't voice an opinion on a national matter via his Twitter account, but on the other hand, rules are rules and I'm assuming Gary well knew them.

    Even if he does lose his job with the Beeb he'll just go and suck more desert cash cock, so I find it hard to feel sorry for him either way.

    It's also pretty lol that he thinks all of these people that are paying some serious money to come over in a dinghy are all legitimate refugees.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ben View Post
    He's going to end up suspended/terminated by the BBC, which is ludicrous. Funny how the Tories don't moan about BBC impartiality (which is where this started, not the Nazi comparison) when it's Laura Kuenssberg waxing lyrical about Boris.

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    I’d love to see immigration slowed down myself, but by fuck some of you are completely delusional.

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    Le Tiss should come out in favour of scuttling all dinghys just for balance.

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    I think Crisps is pretty clever with this stuff. He knows that any worthwhile effort to reform the BBC would have forcing him into a massive pay cut near the top of its to-do list (I don't dislike the guy, but his output clearly isn't worth what they pay him), so making himself into some sort of 'reluctant' Culture War figure is a savvy insurance policy. They either don't hassle him because they don't want to look like they are going after him, or they do - directly or indirectly - and then he cries about being nobbled by the Fourth Reich on his way to Sky Sports.

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    Really, who gives a fuck what the presenter of MOTD's political opinions are? It doesn't affect his job. A bit more scrutiny of the actual news presenters/editors/reporters wouldn't go amiss.

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    He looks like if Henners wasn't Irish.

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    What "very right wing" views does Andrew Neil hold, let alone shared on Twitter?

    Culture wars ahoy again it seems. Fuck me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lofty View Post
    Le Tiss should come out in favour of scuttling all dinghys just for balance.
    I'm pretty sure he's said recently they're part of a secret army that they're training up so I think he'd be keen.

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    Andrew Neil is the final boss of boomer politics. He's probably still in shock that Boris Johnson won a massive majority despite ducking his interview.

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    The thing I have seen is the Beeb let him rant about Qatar at the start of the World Cup(I’ve got no issue with that) but if they are going to let him do that it’s a bit rich to whinge now.

    Also let’s not kid ourselves if he said “Piss off we’re full’ the only papers that would be moaning are the Guardian and the Independent.

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    Given he's done this numerous times in the past one wonders how this occasion has ended up in a perfect storm, with the only logical conclusion being that there's a tory briefing style move against him.

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    He strayed into Holocaust comparisons which it's very easy for people to cry about if it suits them. He should have stuck to more general bealing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    Given he's done this numerous times in the past one wonders how this occasion has ended up in a perfect storm, with the only logical conclusion being that there's a tory briefing style move against him.
    100% - BBC bias and stop the boats is the perfect combination to rile up the hundreds of pointless Tory backbenchers who have somehow inherited government after all the talent got used up in the previous 4-5 iterations.

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    Just looked at Andrew Neil's wiki page and he is suing Jennifer Acuri for saying he went noncing with Epstein

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