News of the day

[Spikey M]

Christ, Boydy could go looking for 8 figures.

[Boydy]

I got a first so lol at him.

[Disco]

Unless he gets a million quid, you'll have missed a trick and wasted your time.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/item/93f087a5-33e5-49a5-b36b-0605c3fd2820

We'll finally have proof!

[phonics]

Neo-Nazis organize an anti-immigration rally and upon finding out that counter protesters would be showing up outsourced beating them up to some Poles.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/far-right-polish-hooligans-recruited-13962683.amp

[Giggles]

The bullshitometer is beeping rapidly again.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/trinity-college-to-drop-freshman-term-over-inclusivity-concerns-1.3308470?mode=amp


Trinity College Dublin will now refer to freshman students as junior and senior “fresh” students in order to be inclusive to all gender identities.

[Jimmy Floyd]

We just call them all 'freshers', which achieves the same purpose while maintaining the wahey-wahey-let's get naked vibe apparently so crucial to any university culture.

[niko_cee]

I thought university was all very serious business these days.

[Giggles]

He's really punched the wrong fella this time round.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/wellknown-irish-celebrity-punches-cartel-associate-in-dublin-pub-36359501.html

https://www.mmamania.com/2017/11/29/16716154/report-conor-mcgregor-serious-danger-mob-bosses-demand-ransom-barroom-brawl

[phonics]

Is it weird that a war criminal just committed suicide on camera in The Hague and it's not even the 8th biggest story of the day?

[Jimmy Floyd]

If you mean yesterday, then yes.

[Magic]

Was a pretty cool thing to do like.

[Spikey M]

He's really punched the wrong fella this time round.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/wellknown-irish-celebrity-punches-cartel-associate-in-dublin-pub-36359501.html

https://www.mmamania.com/2017/11/29/16716154/report-conor-mcgregor-serious-danger-mob-bosses-demand-ransom-barroom-brawl


‘The Wig’ is probably the worst nickname a gangster has ever had.

[Shindig]

Was a pretty cool thing to do like.

I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often.

[Danny]

‘The Wig’ is probably the worst nickname a gangster has ever had.

What was the one who was apparently banging Gerrards wife? Pancake or something equally as retarded.

Also,

https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/5033413/iranian-woman-50-surgeries-idol-angelina-jolie/?utm_source=FBPAGE&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SprnklrSUNOrganic&UTMX=Editorial:TheSun:FBLink:Statement:Fabulous

lol

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fucking hell.

She looks more like Amy Winehouse's corpse.

[-james-]

https://www.instagram.com/sahartabar_official/

I feel like any half respectable surgeon has to say "love, you've had enough" at about 15 surgeries prior to now.

[Lewis]

As bad as her face obviously is, I don't think the make-up really helps.

[Shindig]

I don't know what she thinks that nose is.

[Magic]

Is it even real i thought lad bobble trolling uhoj to much stells lol

[Danny]

https://media.giphy.com/media/4pMX5rJ4PYAEM/giphy.gif

[Magic]

Scum cunt.

[phonics]

lol what a cool country:
https://i.imgur.com/MFvFV2v.png

[Shindig]

I mean, if she dies, she's no longer possessed. Also, not actual news.

[Jimmy Floyd]

This Pizza Hut / the Sun stuff is quite bizarre. Totally incompetent PR staff who think a few tweets make any difference to anything.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

I hope there's a company out there that'll just tell them to fuck off. This pandering is pathetic.

That being said, the 'I'm never eating at pizza hut again!!1' tweets are somewhat amusing.

[Giggles]

Crazy cans of piss. It's about time they were just told by all to fuck off and wind their necks in.

[Disco]

What's this now?

[Giggles]

What's this now?

Scousers won't eat Pizza Hut any more because they had some offer vouchers in the Sun. They are losing their shit over it.

[Disco]

If none of them read it how do they know?

[Lewis]

They could have got the free pizza and given it to a homeless.

[Baz]

And free wrapping paper from Paperchase. :panda:

[phonics]

The wildfires have started in California again and some of the imagery is insane.

Imagine if your commute home looked like this:
https://i.imgur.com/DBH7JrM.png

[Spikey M]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-42271150

I mean... I... well. Yeah.

[Kikó]

Should have let him die tbh.

[Spikey M]

The Darwin Awards have been robbed in a big way.

[Kikó]

Internet pranksters are the worst thing the internet created. Absolute boring tossers who need to have their arms removed.

[Spikey M]

That ‘group of friends’ are absolutely Bantasaurus’ mate, don’t be soft.

Anyway, I’m off to do a line of rat poison.

[John Arne]

Internet pranksters are the worst thing the internet created. Absolute boring tossers who need to have their arms removed.

Especially the pricks who something fucking stupid (like slapping the arse of some bloke living in the roughest neighbourhood in New York), and then when the guy turns around to lamp them they shout "it's a prank, chill out dude.... it's a prank". Act like a cunt, you get treated like one.

[Spikey M]

Most of them are fake anyway. That Jack Jones prick is for a start.

[Foe]

Forties pipeline being shutdown for a couple of weeks because of a crack.

Expect your petrol and diesel prices to soar.

Fill her up.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

Local esso was £1.30 for super unleaded yesterday. Two weeks before it was £1.20 and the same price as regular but I get the feeling that was a mistake.

[-james-]

Love the BBC's spin on the Froome story. If he was Spanish they'd have had "CYCLIST DOPED UP TO EYEBALLS".

[Jimmy Floyd]

He is a fucking cheat and so is Wiggins.

Hopefully Brailsford will end up in the Jimmy Savile reputation bin, the absolute tosser.

[Lewis]

Love the BBC's spin on the Froome story. If he was Spanish they'd have had "CYCLIST DOPED UP TO EYEBALLS".

Fair play to the 'Related to this story' people though.

[Byron]

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42338067

To be fair, that's quicker than pretty much the whole of Norfolk.

[Pepe]

Now to wait for Sagan to be exposed.

[Disco]

Who would be shocked if they'd just pivoted to using higher doses of legal drugs in some kind of pseudo-doping half way house? Also, asthma must be the sporting equivalent of stress or back pain, I wonder at what point it crosses over into just having lower lung capacity.

[Giggles]

Treating PE as a proper subject :face:

https://www.balls.ie/irishlife/leaving-cert-finally-getting-sport-injection-really-needed-379300

[SvN]

We were forced to do GCSE PE at my school. What a joke.

[Shindig]

I think I managed to bin it off as part of my options.

[Kikó]

Looks healthy
https://twitter.com/Digger_forum/status/941275883939270656?s=08

[phonics]

For the IB we had to do 50 hours each of the below:



Creativity – arts, and other experiences that involve creative thinking.
Activity – physical exertion contributing to a healthy lifestyle, complementing academic work elsewhere in the DP.
Service – an unpaid and voluntary exchange that has a learning benefit for the student. The rights, dignity and autonomy of all those involved are respected.


On top of your everyday subjects. It was the best part of the entire program and everyone should nick it.

[Giggles]

Fucking child.

https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2017/1214/927409-geldof/

[Jimmy Floyd]

Has everyone finally worked out that Aung San Suu Kyi is a witch then? Took their time.

[Lewis]

That Sinn Fein bloke CALLING HIM OUT (not unreasonably from their loser perspective) for stoating about Ireland calling himself 'Sir' was good.

[Lewis]

One of my all-time favourite David Cameron moments was when he gave a speech after Bob Geldof at some shite, and when Geldof went for a handshake Wor Dave manhandled him into a weird hug. Unfortunately, I think it was a 'WebCameron' production, and that stuff went down the memory hole with Ed Vaizey.

[Spikey M]

If he doesn’t want to have the same stuff as dodgy fuckers, then he should probably give away all of his money. I’ll take it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/dec/14/imac-pro-apple-expensive-computer-creative-professionals

New iMac Pro starts at £4,899 with the top spec version at £12,279.

https://media.giphy.com/media/iFyiEzcbVS0gw/giphy.gif

[Giggles]

What the fuck is 128GB of RAM for?

[Baz]

What the fuck is 128GB of RAM for?Gaming. :chortle:

[Raoul Duke]

Professional photo and video editing mainly.

[Lewis]

It's not inconceivable that they are worth that to professional outfits, but would the non-Apple equivalent (if there is stuff as good) cost as much?

[Disco]

No, you could do the same for half with ease.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Plus you could then upgrade parts.

[mugbull]

It's funny because that RAM capability is there ostensibly in view of future memory needs, but at the same time Apple products (and tech in general) go obsolete after a few years so you wouldn't even be able to use that computer once this becomes a 128 Gb RAM world

[Lewis]

I would be interested to know whether actual businesses are more or less likely to be taken in than individuals. You would think not, but that fails to account for 1) idiots; and 2) the potential to appear to other idiots through packing your workplace with Apple products.

[Pepe]

The 'creative' lot lap this shit up no matter the price.

[Giggles]

Professional photo and video editing mainly.

You don't need 128GB to do that.

[John Arne]

You don't need 128GB to do that.

I'm no computer expert, but my mate is always saying that software simply isn't designed to make use of anything more than 12GB RAM - nor is any other hardware in the machine. And as someone above said, by the time the software does catch up - they'll be a new Mac/PC to buy with 256GB RAM.

[Giggles]

I'm no computer expert, but my mate is always saying that software simply isn't designed to make use of anything more than 12GB RAM - nor is any other hardware in the machine. And as someone above said, by the time the software does catch up - they'll be a new Mac/PC to buy with 256GB RAM.

Exactly that (probably higher than 12GB at this stage though). I wouldn't mind Raoul when it comes to Apple though. If they crunched up a few small children/kittens into the enclosure to make it run faster he'd still worship at the temple.

[Baz]

I thought my 18 GB was a stupid amount.

[Disco]

I suppose if you look at all their stuff as a tax on chronically gullible then it's not so bad.

[Jimmy Floyd]

My mum was looking at those wireless headphones for her iPhone the other day.

'£160????!?!?!?!?!??!??'

'Just get an adapter.'

'For bloody headphones???!?!!!!?!?!??'

God we miss the old time :S smiley.

[Giggles]

Fair fucks to them. Is taxing inheritance a thing in most places or is it just a scam here?

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2017/1215/927697-tax-marriage/

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

You can get round it though tbh.

We (my Dad's kids) got round it by putting it in a trust for his wife which runs out after X amount of time (we went for 2 years as it was coming up to that) at which point it becomes ours.

If she dies within 7 years we're liable to inheritance tax but we've taken out a life insurance policy which will pay for the tax should she die.

[Lewis]

Legends. When we brought EQUAL MARRIAGE in a few people suggested that, because the legislation lacks the sexual element[s] that makes incest illegal, in theory there is nothing to stop you and your dad doing likewise.

[John]

I don't think you've mentioned that before, and it puts all your bleating about her being a grasping bitch into new context.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I don't think you've mentioned that before, and it puts all your bleating about her being a grasping bitch into new context.

Not really.

She contested her own daughter's claim to a life insurance policy in an attempt to make us feel sorry for her so we gave her a cut of our inheritance, she's constantly attempted to look kind but has fought and lied throughout and almost threw all her toys out when she was asked to pay for her 8 year old son's costs at mediation and made it so they had to take money from an education fund. She was also illegally taking rent from the property that was to be sold for our inheritance.

etc etc.

She's also stopped us from seeing our half-brother.

Her idea was for us to sign over all our shares to her and she'd gift it back to us as soon as the sale went through. She'd have been off back to the house my Dad bought in Ukraine (which she claimed never existed despite showing us plenty of photos) as soon as the money hit her bank account.

[Spoonsky]

For the IB we had to do 50 hours each of the below:



Creativity – arts, and other experiences that involve creative thinking.
Activity – physical exertion contributing to a healthy lifestyle, complementing academic work elsewhere in the DP.
Service – an unpaid and voluntary exchange that has a learning benefit for the student. The rights, dignity and autonomy of all those involved are respected.


On top of your everyday subjects. It was the best part of the entire program and everyone should nick it.

I forget you did IB. CAS hours. :cool:

CAS, HL, SL, EE, TOK. IB loves their acronyms.

[Lewis]

http://courtnewsuk.co.uk/jail-scouse-terrorist-gelled-comb-look-syrian/

Bit of everything for me there.

[Spikey M]

Who knew you could ‘Syrian up’? Is that what Luca has been doing?

[Spikey M]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-42486085

Fucking hell. Are we now at the stage where describing dresses to a female item of clothing is offensive?

[Kikó]

If you can't take the piss out of your family on social media then the world etc etc.

It's the social media element of it which is probably the issue. He's quite a famous person.

[-james-]

I thought there was an element of nastiness to the video. Having uncle Lewis Hamilton telling you you shouldn't be wearing what you want to wear isn't going to help in any way.

[Magic]

Nice to see the real him (a cunt) rather than having the PR machine doing his thinking for him.

[Giggles]

As much as I'd normally love a bit of Hamilton bashing, the uproar over this is a massive load of bollocks.

[Jimmy Floyd]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-42494944

Time to get Kenny Dalglish to resume his character witness career, I guess.

[Giggles]

Justice for Flanno.

[Shindig]

He probably took a swing at Van Dijk after his medical.

[Giggles]

:D

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[Giggles]

Tame enough by current standards but that's our first muzzer attack I think.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2018/0103/930792-dundalk-death/

[Disco]

:D

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I really really hope he releases a rap album this year, can you imagine how up it's own arse it would be.

[Jimmy Floyd]

As long as it's better than the Jacques Villeneuve single he can do what he likes.

[Lewis]

He ought to be impervious to the OUTRAGE twats (more so than any other sportsman anyway), so it was a bit of a shame when he caved in and had every dead driver spinning in their graves.

[Giggles]

He ought to be impervious to the OUTRAGE twats (more so than any other sportsman anyway), so it was a bit of a shame when he caved in and had every dead driver spinning in their graves.

The apologising was the only thing he did wrong in it all. Like the Griezman thing a few days before.

[Jimmy Floyd]

He made up for it by then going through liking every tweet which said 'u shudnt have 2 apologise m8!'

[Lewis]

If serious, this rap album stands a better chance of de-railing his knighthood than tranny bashing, so he should have doubled down on it and hammered the kid some more.

[Jimmy Floyd]

His tax status will kill the knighthood stone dead. Based on other sportsmen of this era he should have it already otherwise.

[Lewis]

He should start calling his tax affairs 'reparations'.

[Disco]

You'd be better off not being a dick to your nephew in public in the first place, that's an easy one to avoid.

[Jimmy Floyd]

He started to lose me earlier in the year with his 'I'm just a kid from the UK', as if most F1 champions grow up in the Bronx.

[Disco]

He's had the right mix of mercurial talent (which translates to arrogance off the track) and people blowing smoke up his arse for a decade that you really have to ignore him outside race weekends. Still, he's carrying on a fine tradition of great drivers being tossers in almost every other respect.

[Magic]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-42540738

I think that's an utterly amazing story. Remember everyone was like 'awwww homeless do have hearts too lol' now it's like 'WHAT A CUNT KICK THESE CUNTS ON THE STREETS EH GET THEY SPIKEY THINGS UP AGEN SO THEY CANNAE SLEEP'

:drool:

[John]

You might be saying that, because you're deathly allergic to nuance.

[Magic]

I'm the man on the street.

[Boydy]

So the wife has kicked you out then?

[Magic]

:D

Zing. Literally burst out laughing.

[Giggles]

This could get fun. Anything you own with an ARM/Intel/etc chip in it could end up running 30% slower.

https://www.wired.com/story/critical-intel-flaw-breaks-basic-security-for-most-computers/

https://security.googleblog.com/2018/01/todays-cpu-vulnerability-what-you-need.html?m=1



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[Bernanke]

http://news.abs-cbn.com/trending/01/04/18/penis-whitening-fad-drives-social-media-nuts


BANGKOK -- A Bangkok clinic that has drawn 100 men a month to its penis whitening service has caused a stir in Thailand, with social media users both baffled and alarmed by the phallic fad.

The Lelux Hospital, renowned for its body whitening expertise in a country obsessed with skin color, began offering the unconventional treatment six months ago after a male customer complained of "dark parts" on his groin.

"These days a lot of people are asking about it. We get around 100 clients a month, three to four clients a day," Bunthita Wattanasiri, a manager for the Skin and Laser department at Lelux Hospital told AFP.

The procedure, which uses laser whitening, got wide play on Thai television and social media on Thursday after the hospital released images of a man undergoing the treatment.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That's the sort of story that Karl would find on the Ricky Gervais XFM shows.

[SvN]

Did you hear about fellas in Taiwan? Apparently, they're getting their knobs painted white.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Really would have fit in with knob news.

[Magic]

Outstanding local journalism here:

https://i.imgur.com/M4PosfW.png

[John]

It's impossible that two old men died in Dundee, presumably.

[Magic]

It's the same guy the article above is exactly the same pic butI couldn't fit it in.

[Boydy]

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/former-eastenders-actress-tracyann-oberman-slams-pretentious-restaurant-after-husband-accidentally-a3732841.html

Not read the story yet to find out what the fuck happened but that headline. :D

[Disco]

He's a moron is what happened.

[Giggles]

Bet he fucking wins too.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/burglar-sues-shop-owner-after-he-injured-his-testicles-while-robbing-the-premises-36468641.html

[phonics]

Animals behavior around humans is endlessly fascinating

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTLla0hXkAAEJDz.jpg:large

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2003/jul/03/research.science

[Spikey M]

:D Bastards. Clicky, smiley bastards.

[Shindig]

This is how it starts, man.

[Raoul Duke]

So long, and thanks for all the fish

[Magic]

Did anyone see that surgeon who burned his initials on to his patient's new livers when they were transplanted? :D

I love that banter. Wonder how he got found out.

EDIT: And the 53-year-old's actions were only discovered when a botched operation meant one of his patients had to have more surgery a week later, leading a different surgeon to spot the liver specialist's calling card.

LOL.

[John]

You should stick 'LOL' in as your signature. It appears at the start or end of about three quarters of your posts anyway.

[Magic]

That's because 3/4 of them are funny.

Imagine tearing in to some cunt and seeing UP THE RA on their pancreas.

[John]

So you're laughing at your own jokes in all caps. Cool.

[Magic]

But it actually happened.

[Disco]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42677604

Top work.

[-james-]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42677604

Top work.

At least they know it works.

[niko_cee]

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-fans-birthday-celebration-spoilt-14154183

:D

[Lewis]

He probably didn't care, and the poor bastard just sat there as his relatives seethed and refused to open it.

[John]

https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/coventry-fridge-freezer-thats-still-14149734

What a magnificently dull story.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I like that they're asking for more stories like it.

[John]

I want to know how it came about. There's no reasonable way for the paper to find out about her old fridge.

[Giggles]

Snowflakes horrified by Friends shocker.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/friends-netflix-sexist-racist-transphobic-problematic-millenials-watch-a8154626.html

[Mazuuurk]

People need to relax a bit.

[phonics]

This is down the road from me.

14 coppers to take down 1 unarmed bloke :D Literally everyone in shot has pepper spray, a taser and a fully armed pistol.

https://www.facebook.com/20minutesonline/videos/1807718855927631/

[Spammer]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42725776

Newsnight presenter has been stalked for 20 years apparently.

Turns out i know the stalker :lol:

[SvN]

Which one of your clubs did he go to?

[Spikey M]

Birds of a feather

[Spammer]

I used to run football sessions for a charity in Oxford and he used to come along.

Seemed like a nice bloke. Im sure it's just a big misunderstanding.

[phonics]

You've probably heard by now about the paedo olympic Doctor who was sexually assaulting kids.

They're currently doing victim statements where they get to say what they want to their assaulter. I heard one that was awful, the guy was considered a family friend and the victim was ostracized from her family for years for 'trying to smear' the doctor, her Dad killed himself when he realized all the stuff she'd told him was true. There's over a hundred of victims telling stories like this and now this piece of shit says 'this is too much for me to take'

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I hope he dies in there.

[Disco]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-42737259

Shaved, sure.

[Lewis]

He should grow that beard back. Poor bastard.

[John]

He's shaved it just close enough to emphasise the baldness, the twat.

[Jimmy Floyd]

There are different types of bald man. Not all should shave. I'd look like a melon (though I am now a perma-beard).

[Lewis]

Harry probably looks bald under strong enough lights as well. Who needs a DNA test?

[phonics]

954115466552848385

"Don't you know who I am? I'm KatieKekistan88. My subscribers will hear about this!"

[Giggles]

That lad that runs the White Moose is class. Nice spot too.

http://www.thejournal.ie/dublin-cafe-war-on-vegans-2411242-Oct2015/ :cool:

[John]

He sounds like an arsehole.

The best part of that story is that she cites 'Universal Orlando' as one of her success stories, as if people wouldn't know fucking Disneyland existed without her YouTube account.

[Lewis]

Yeah, he could have just said no. Twat.

[Giggles]

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/norwegian-liverpool-fan-names-daughter-14176597

[Magic]

Unnwa sounds like a Nigerian tribeswoman.

[niko_cee]

Should have called her Kenneth.

[Lewis]

Wouldn't it be great if the club put a statement out condemning him for ruining her life.

[phonics]

This is why everyone from the rest of Northern Europe is called Bjorg Bjorgsen/son. They can't be trusted without regulation.

[John]

Surely if you're giving her 'one name each' you make the dodgy football song one a middle name, so you can pass your strange obsession onto the poor kid who can't object without them having to spend their life explaining what a dick their dad was to everyone they meet.

[Magic]

Wouldn't it be great if the club put a statement out condemning him for ruining her life.

She'd be the victim then, they wouldn't like that.

[John]

That hotel has sent the freeloader a bill for the 'exposure' they've given her. Five million euros. :D

Giggles' mate has redeemed himself.

[Giggles]

The terms :D


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[phonics]

No idea where to post this but it's so satisfying it can't go unposted.

miserlythickarizonaalligatorlizard

** Fixed for phonics, sincerely SvN

[Giggles]

No idea where to post this but it's so satisfying it can't go unposted.

miserlythickarizonaalligatorlizard

What sort of tags are those?

[phonics]

What was I doing wrong there SvN?

[SvN]

There was a [color] tag in there.

[phonics]

Not one that I added. Weird.

edit: Oh because I copy/pasted from the 'How do you do this' thread. Whoops.

[Jimmy Floyd]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42791079

Why not just lower prices you wankers.

[phonics]

Or raise them and stop stocking shit product. Moving back to the UK and finding Sainsburys and Tesco on pretty much level pegging quality wise was a shock to my middle class core.

Also maybe consider being a supermarket instead of a bank/petrol station etc.

Like honestly, how many 10s of millions of pounds were wasted on shite like this:


Sainsbury's Entertainment was a transactional website which provided films as downloads or for streaming, using Rovi Corporation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rovi_Corporation) software.[151] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainsbury's#cite_note-151) The site arranged to register with ATVOD (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATVOD) as a video on demand (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_on_demand) service.[152] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainsbury's#cite_note-152) The website also sold MP3 downloads as well as eBooks through aNobii (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANobii).[153] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainsbury's#cite_note-153) The site began operating in 2010 and until March 2014 also sold physical products including DVDs, CDs, Blu-ray discs and books. These were posted to the customer by a distributor, which after 2011 was Sainsbury's subsidiary company: Global Media Vault Ltd.[154] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainsbury's#cite_note-154)[155] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainsbury's#cite_note-155) Customers received nectar points from shopping at Sainsbury's Entertainment.[156] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainsbury's#cite_note-156) Sainsbury's announced in September 2016 that it would close the business on 30 November 2016

[Jimmy Floyd]

I've come to the conclusion that diversifying ultimately kills any business, and you need to just stick to what you're good at.

Give me an MBA now.

[phonics]

You can't wangle investment out of idiots without diversifying. You'd be chucked off your MBA within a week.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Think about it. You don't ever see a kebab van that also mends curtains.

If only top businessmen knew about this genius wisdom.

[phonics]

But you do see a kebab man who does shit pizza profiting off of a pissed up Sama.

[Raoul Duke]

Sainsbury's (and other retailers) shitting jobs out the window isn't anything to do with "diversifying". It's primarily a) everything going online/automation, b) Amazon and c) competitors like Lidl/Aldi doing the same thing at less margin

[Lewis]

Them automated tills are still absolute shit.

[Jimmy Floyd]

They're mankind's greatest innovation yet. Never again will an old woman judge me for buying chicken kievs and two kinds of cheese.

[Giggles]

Or take ages talking to some other old biddy about the husband's gammy leg or the daughter in Australia.

They're fine so long as you've packaging and a barcode.

[Raoul Duke]

There's a new Amazon store where you don't even have to check out. Just chuck the shit in your bag and go. Probably not so great news if you're one of the millions of checkout staff mind...

[Shindig]

They'll be replaced by drones in a couple of years.

[niko_cee]

They've wrecked the automated tills over here (Waitrose being the only supermarket option, natch) by 'diversifying' them away from the quick check scan your own shopping as you go ninjas like me, to allowing hopeless proles to scan their shit at them, thus entirely destroying the concept of the quick check system. That Amazon place where you just walk out and it knows what you've had is obviously the next step, but I'm sure Anthony Worrall-Thompson already has a plan to bring that down.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The only disadvantage is when old people try and use them, but that applies to all machinery more complex than a knife and fork.

[Shindig]

Our job's going on about diversity in the dumbest way. "We've added options to your profile. Please fill them in so we can find out how gay, ethnic or minority the workforce is."

I learned a new acronym. BAME. Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic. I can't help but feel someone's short-changed in that.

[Giggles]

I'm so glad I work for a two bit operation with single digit employees. None of that work life, diversity, wellbeing bollocks. Come in, work, go home.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Our job's going on about diversity in the dumbest way. "We've added options to your profile. Please fill them in so we can find out how gay, ethnic or minority the workforce is."

I learned a new acronym. BAME. Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic. I can't help but feel someone's short-changed in that.

Are you stuck in 2001, crying for help from a time chamber? I often wonder.

[Disco]

It's called the Northeast.

[Shindig]

Try 1901. We steer clear of Beamish and their futuristic ideals.

[niko_cee]

Does this thread just reopen to that phonics video for anyone else?

[Boydy]

Them automated tills are still absolute shit.
I was in Tesco last week and they'd changed the UI on their self-service tills and the new one is fucking horrible. Have they done that everywhere?


There's a new Amazon store where you don't even have to check out. Just chuck the shit in your bag and go. Probably not so great news if you're one of the millions of checkout staff mind...

How do they stop shoplifting?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I was in Tesco last week and they'd changed the UI on their self-service tills and the new one is fucking horrible. Have they done that everywhere?



How do they stop shoplifting?

You scan your phone like an Oyster card as you come in. You need to have the app too otherwise you can't get in.

[Shindig]

Fuck the door up. Your move, Alexa.

[Jimmy Floyd]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42817263

Never change, France.

[Spikey M]

Has France ever managed to drain a bath without it raining babies?

[Spikey M]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42815603

Hopefully Netflix does to Sky what Sky did to ITV Sport.

[phonics]

If it were a proper country, all your TV would be coming through fiber anyway.

[Lewis]

What, show it up to be absolute shit and force everybody to up their game?

[SvN]

I reckon Sky will be gone within the decade.

[-james-]

Imagine paying for sky but not getting the dish. That's the whole point. Internet in the UK is far too wank for anything else. Sky Go has been a holocaust of a service since day 0 aside from that.

[phonics]

I couldn't find the US Politics thread so I'm just going to share this here.

The #Resistance is going well:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUZAQ6vVwAAsAWi.jpg:large

[Lewis]

Bless her, with her sources in her head.

[phonics]

In other news

956542843744587777

​THE XFL RETURNS.

[Jimmy Floyd]

He probably spent the entire three-month build up to McGregor v Mayweather masturbating.

[SvN]

What a nutter.

[phonics]

I bet 99% of the pitch is 'Standing for the national anthem is obligatory'

[wullie]

XFL Rule 1: everyone stands during the anthem

Rules 2-2000: TBA

[phonics]

I've put an over/under bet on the intro to have more than 17 flags.

[wullie]

If he's going back to failed ventures this could also be the relaunch of the WBF or that he's signing Mr Kennedy.

[Spikey M]

Bring back WCW and ECW and put Smackdown and Raw back together if you want to fix things up. Not that I’d go back to watching now, but that’s what killed it for me.

[Ian]

I take it you just mean have actual competition for them? NJPW may do that for him if their American shows kick off, expand, etc.

[Spikey M]

I don’t really care if he owns them, but it was fun having separate entities with different ways of doing things and different wrestlers. Just split them up and let someone else have a go at managing he smaller companies.

[John]

I couldn't find the US Politics thread so I'm just going to share this here.

It's half way down the first page and you were the last poster.

I'm not particularly familiar with Louise Mensch but everything I have seen has made her look like a thick arsehole.

[Spikey M]

It sounds like you are pretty familiar with Louise Mensch.

[Giggles]

Joining the 21st century (or 20th even), but it kind of takes the fun out of it.

https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2018/0125/936000-dail-politics/

[Spikey M]

Baffled us on the last day of our trip there, that did. All the pubs were shut but for some reason the hotel bar was allowed to stay open? It was understandably full of locals.

[Giggles]

Baffled us on the last day of our trip there, that did. All the pubs were shut but for some reason the hotel bar was allowed to stay open? It was understandably full of locals.

Hotels, train stations (with an intercity ticket), airport with a ticket. Off licences used to look like the apocalypse had hit on the Thursday.

[John]

We're going in the other direction with our alcohol regulation. Minimum unit pricing and the like.

Until you're fifteen you need to be accompanied by an adult in a shopping centre Nandos because they sell little bottles of cider.

[Disco]

Just split them up and let someone else have a go at managing the smaller companies.

That's not really the way it goes when you're a septuagenarian body building mahogany control freak vampire maniac.

[Spikey M]

Superb grapefruits though.

[Giggles]

We're going in the other direction with our alcohol regulation. Minimum unit pricing and the like.

Until you're fifteen you need to be accompanied by an adult in a shopping centre Nandos because they sell little bottles of cider.

That's on the way for us too. Both that and the above are because the government are in the Vintners Federations pockets on the issue and they don't want anyone drinking unless it's in a pub.

[SvN]

The madman has only gone and done it. The XFL returns.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

lol.

[Gray Fox]

Now let's ask some completely not pre-prepared questions.

[SvN]

The fact that he's bothering at his age means that the failure of the original inception must really keep him up at night.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Pretty much admitted that standing for the anthem will be in the rules :drool:

'Murica fuck yeah.

[SvN]

No players with criminal record at all.

[Gray Fox]

He said Tebow is welcome.

Mark this day down lads.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He's just dropped a huge thing which will fuck them up so much.

Just said that players 'even with so much as a DUI' won't be allowed to play. That rules out pretty much fucking everyone that's available to them.

[Jimmy Floyd]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42826028

Never change, France.

[Disco]

Hazlenut slop for kids and retards, they can keep it.

[Kikó]

Bet Lewis and 'how are fans.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Realising that the inside of a Ferrero Rocher is literally Nutella was one of life's great let-downs.

[Lewis]

Bet Lewis and 'how are fans.

It's gross.

[Ian]

Nutella is possibly the most overrated stuff in the world.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

You guys are fucking mental, it's amazing.

[phonics]

I was going to defend Nutella but by being on team 'How I'm kind of proving Jimmy's point about it being for children.

[Lewis]

His hand is just withered enough to get right to the bottom of the jar.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I don't understand why there isn't a milk chocolate spread that doesn't taste like sawdust. Too expensive to make, presumably.

[John]

Nutella is terrific in very small doses. The middle of a Ferrero Rocher is about the correct serving size.

[randomlegend]

Nutella is quality.

[phonics]

Damn, I really am on team children.

[Jimmy Floyd]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/26/paris-zoo-evacuated-50-baboons-escape/

Never change, France.


"Our colleagues have them surrounded," one policemen told Le Parisien.

Good moaning.

[Pepe]

Baboons. :cool:

[Disco]

So by this time tomorrow the baboons will have installed a puppet govt and de Gaulle will be back in Dartmouth dusting off his little radio.

[phonics]

Hartlepool FC are willing to sort it out in turn for saving the club.

[Shindig]

So by this time tomorrow the baboons will have installed a puppet govt and de Gaulle will be back in Dartmouth dusting off his little radio.

Live from the Calais Jungle.

[Ian]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-42863643

This is really near to me. Step aside, John.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://www.thecomet.net/news/axeman-arrested-in-hitchin-town-centre-after-armed-officers-attend-1-5372968

It's spreading south too.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

Nutella in small doses? What nonsense is this.

Shovel the stuff out the jar.

[John]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-42863643

This is really near to me. Step aside, John.

I know loads of people who knew him. A right narky twat, apparently.

[Ian]

An actual wrong'un or just a bit of a dick?

[phonics]

The homeless bloke who robbed the Manchester victims got 4 years. Which seems... high? I've no idea whether it is or not but you can be found guilty of raping someone and you're looking at 3 years.

[SvN]

Probably inflated due to his repeated thieving convictions.