Perforated urban youth.
Perforated urban youth.
These are all great names for rap collectives.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd1qzwjdvrlo
Everybody's Changing(venues).
Someone I know's dad is involved in the company that runs that venue, he basically hasn't been home for about 6 months because the whole thing has been a fuck up on a grand scale. Not really sure why.
It sounds pretty simple, they didn't finish building it before they started taking bookings.
That must be standard practice I'd have thought? Can't build a big venue and then have it sit around empty for a few months boost you arrange the first bookings.Originally Posted by Disco
I phrased that poorly, I meant taking bookings for before it was finished.
It sounds like they've succumbed to actually expecting British contractors to finish a job when they said they would.
I don't really see why they've built it to be fair. The AO/M.E.N arena holds pretty much the same as this new one will and is in a far better location, being in the middle of the city centre, literally on top of a train station and all.
Is it owned by Man City, or just located on their site?
The involvement of those who come from the desert will be why it has been built.
Palms will have been greased. Or should that be oiled?
Why are they announcing 'One of our officers is a pedo rapist' like they've just signed a left back from Ligue Un?
I assume the Met reckon this sets a dangerous precedent and that they should have blamed the six year old.
Police Forces keep doing this. From a management perspective, it's obviously an issue that they have a load of wife beating, black hating, kiddie fiddlers on the books, and they want the public to see them sorting it out. But - like most managers - they haven't bothered to think about the effect this is going to have on the Police officers that aren't horrible cunts. They're paid a pittance to do a hard and often dangerous job. Handing every scumbag they encounter a list of insults to throw at them is not going to help improve staff retention / recruitment.
Shouldn't they have, I dunno, arrested him? What with them being the police and announcing they know he sexually assaulted a child?
Fair.
Spikey with the #itk.
The calibre in public sector PR is fucking low, to say the least. At least the force can get all the best people who want to be police officers, as well as all the worst. In the backup roles they're choosing from the 10 people who are willing to earn 5p a week to trot out this kind of low rent shit.
They have skipped over a lot of issues to try and meet their recruitment targets. I saw some report ages ago saying trainees who had been caught stealing, and even assaulting a senior officer, had been kept on due to pressure to increase their numbers. Sounds good.
The long term plan should be make policing a properly professional job that has attractive salary and benefits (like early retirement) for those who reach the high standard. Instead doing it on the cheap is a race to the bottom. One Chief Inspector was complaining they had graduate recruits unwilling to work nights and weekends and being shocked by the level of confrontation and violence they were encountering
Maybe they all need to apprentice in top Ireland for a year to give their heads a wobble.
Palestinian flags BANNED at Eurovision, lol.
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/g...veals-29112482
Reddit was right.
She's come out and threatened legal action against Gadd.
Didn't she also call him a wee wazzock?
I live next to the court and there was a bunch of press outside. Not normal as most of it's just drunk driving charges and that sort.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...ester-68968718A British woman has pleaded guilty to being part of a global monkey torture network.
Holly LeGresley, 37, from Kidderminster, was a participant in a private online group that was paying people in Indonesia to kill and torture baby monkeys on video.
Well, thanks for that.
Fucking hell.
That is fucking insane.
I'm not one of these cuddly loving pro-animal people, but animal torturers need to be off the streets for good, it's as sure a sign as there is that you'll do the same to people.
I caught part of a documentary about that presumably when this was first going to court or something. Fucking miserable stuff.
Not even going to click that link, the aussie dog torturer one a while back was my limit.
Aye same. I’ve watched hundreds of people burned alive or chopped up or whatever but animals! Nah mate.
Was once out on the piss and a homeless person had a dog with no paws. Ruined my day.
I'm a twit
Monkeys are wankers though.
All about who you know.
Of course she's going on Piers.
Edit: Also, apparently a Daily Mail journo had an interview with her and has said she's now stalking him
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...ing-again.html
I was fully expecting to hear from her. I gave her my number because it is perfectly understandable that an interviewee would wish to contact the journalist who would be telling her story to the world, perhaps with additional thoughts and observations or to correct some facts.
But not within ten minutes of my departure. That's when the calls had begun. She called three times during my short drive home, all of which I answered and which lasted in total 19 minutes.
The next day there were ten calls, the one after that 14, and the day afterwards 24 – all of them from a No Caller ID number on screen.
And when I failed to answer - as, I have to admit I began to do as that 'No Caller ID' message kept popping up - there were the rambling stream-of-consciousness messages - just like the ones the fictional Martha leaves in the TV show.
Five messages totalling ten minutes on the first full day, nine totalling 20 minutes on the second, 16 totalling 53 minutes on the third.
These messages were not attacks on me, but on Richard Gadd, other staff who'd worked at the Camden pub, on Scottish MPs and their families.
Then on the Saturday there were 19 calls - and, as I attempted to communicate with her by email instead, 18 voice messages were left, totalling 40 minutes.
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Sounds like she was very well portrayed
I'm a twit
That is absolutely incredible
Of course she's going on Piers.
Edit: Also, apparently a Daily Mail journo had an interview with her and has said she's now stalking him
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...ing-again.html
Sensational. I hope she stalks Piers next, ideally for the rest of his life.
A high calibre of candidate we have.
If he ran for labour round here, he'd be a shoe-in.
I'm a twit
Yeah he'll be getting a Netflix series some point soon.
Hopefully!
I'm a twit
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-69006714
And the only person who goes to jail for the litany of war crimes committed by Australian [and other] forces in Afghanistan is ... *dramatic pause* ... the guy who exposed it all.
The details of his trial were proper lol as well, with all avenues of defence being ruled inadmissible on national security grounds.
The friendlyjordies youtube channel has some good stuff on it all.
That must be the least effective Whistleblowing system to ever see the light of day.
Is it really whistleblowing if you expose exactly the opposite thing to what you intended?
If he got away with it it would set the precedent that you can leak whatever you like to the press and if it happens to show any wrongdoing - whether you recognised it or not - you're in the clear.
Last edited by randomlegend; 14-05-2024 at 10:40 AM.
Yeah. There are all types of whistles. Referee's whistles, dog whistles. Sometimes in life you're Clattenburg, sometimes you're Bobby Madley.
Why would this be bad?
Exposure of serious wrongdoing would normally be in the public interest, wouldn't it? Even if done somewhat unintentionally. Otherwise I think you could create some interesting scenarios if a whistleblower is required in law to have direct intent towards a specific end.
I'm also not certain it was exactly the opposite of what he was trying to expose, although perhaps his thesis that the top brass cover their own arses by picking on the minions where needed should have informed him of how this would play out.
That can't be a serious post.
Oh, ok then.
Also, somewhat typically the BBC reporting on it is dreadful, this explains why it wasn't the exact opposite of what he was trying to expose, in his own words:
So, just because he perhaps had motivation B as his main gripe, he was very cognizant of set of facts A.“Afghan civilians were being murdered and Australian military leaders were at the very least turning the other way and at worst tacitly approving this behaviour … At the same time, soldiers were being improperly prosecuted as a smokescreen to cover [leadership’s] inaction and failure to hold reprehensible conduct to account.”
I was just going by the quote from the journalist who was in receipt of the guys evidence and what he claimed they showed.
The above quote is hard to make head nor tail of. The claim there appearing to be that military leaders were covering up troops unlawfully killing people by...prosecuting them for it?
This is the first I'm seeing of this case so perhaps you know more about it than me. I simply take issue the idea you should be able to release whatever state documents you want with any justification and get away with it if they happen to reveal wrongdoing. That is patently absurd.
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