News of the day

[phonics]

Ah, I just saw the BBC Breaking version with no details. I assumed he might have had priors.

[Alex]

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.

I thought the same thing, actually.

There's something about that whole story that leaves a bad taste with me, even before it became clear what he had actually been up it. When it looked like he was a "hero" it was everyone's favourite feel good story (something the media fixate on far too much now, in my opinion), because even a (*gasp*) homeless man had helped people! You know, because they're usually such awful people and shit. But such was the magnitude of the tragedy even he got off his lazy arse and pitched in! So, of course, he's now deserving of our attention, so let's all raise some money and get him off the streets. He's earned it, after all! What a good lot we all are!

Now it's just a case of fuck him, throw the book at him, what a fucking scumbag etc. And what he's done is very fucked up, I'm not denying that. And he may well have done it based on little more than the fact that he's a massive cunt. But, you know, he did live on the streets. His life has obviously not been ideal up to this point. There are very possibly reasons behind the way he behaved that are beyond any of our comprehensions. Let's not consider that though, because it's not part of a narrative that makes us feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

[Lewis]

He must surely have got extra for doing it when he did it, like how looting gets you more than normal thieving.

[Jimmy Floyd]

When it looked like he was a "hero" it was everyone's favourite feel good story (something the media fixate on far too much now, in my opinion)

They do so because people are credulous morons and these things get massive clicks, which is literally the only thing any online journalism is aimed at. Almost every 'feel good' story you see is a lie or fake on some level.

[phonics]

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[Disco]

Edibles are bad news, there's no backing out once you realise you've made a mistake and it's only going to get worse from there.

[phonics]

American man wins a million dollars. His first priority is to go see a doctor, because he hasn't been able to afford one in a while. Doctor tells he him he has Stage 4 cancer. Man dies.

http://abc7chicago.com/3008129/?ex_cid=TA_WLS_TW&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_content=5a715b6404d30174ea2c161a&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

That's one hell of a week.

[randomlegend]

God bless America.

[Reg]

In no way related news, PETA have asked that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles become vegan: https://www.cbr.com/ninja-turtles-peta-vegan-nickelodeon/?utm_source=CBR-FB-P&utm_medium=Social-Distribution&utm_campaign=CBR-FB-P&view=list

[phonics]

God bless America.

But she stole the B from bless.

[Giggles]

:face:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5357037/Trudeau-mocked-telling-woman-say-peoplekind.html

[Pepe]

Canada a bit of a lolfest lately.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

What a colossal twat.

[randomlegend]

I don't understand this stuff about pardoning the crimes of the women of the suffragette movement. Isn't the message that gives basically "arson is justified so long as your cause is worthy"?

[Jimmy Floyd]

As my dear mother said to me last night, 'This woman stuff is all going a bit overboard'.

[phonics]

I don't understand this stuff about pardoning the crimes of the women of the suffragette movement. Isn't the message that gives basically "arson is justified so long as your cause is worthy"?

Yes because they won. It's how the world works. If you win, your actions are justified.

[Ian]

As my dear mother said to me last night, 'This woman stuff is all going a bit overboard'.

I think my mum is actively anti-feminist. She proudly tells a story of when she worked in a factory when she was younger and the men who worked there telling her that she'd put on weight because she had a fat arse and carrying her (literally, so goes the tale) off to be measured on a set of industrial scales.

She also hates basically any female TV presenter / newsreader basically on principle.

[randomlegend]

My girlfriend is pretty anti-'feminist'. If someone is doing something daft on the road she'll always say "I bet that's a woman".

I still think 'feminism' is just a bad term, in that it just sounds like it's about "Womyn>men" rather than gender equality, and has been hijacked by women who actually think that.

[phonics]

I work in an org that's probably about 75-80% women so you get all types. I manage to get along by not saying anything generic about women, and when someone else does and I ask if that means I can say that, the answer is always no.

I guess it's a bit, 'I can slag off my sister, you can't' thing.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'd personally outlaw all historic pardoning.

[phonics]

Why?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It's an empty gesture and you're applying current laws/society views.

[John]

It's the opposite of an empty gesture.

Not if the people getting the pardons have been dead for decades.

[Lewis]

Exactly. Why not pardon everyone we ever hanged? We don't do it anymore, so they were wronged. It's fucking Tom Watson's fault for getting all of those First World War shirkers let off.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They're used to make politicians look like they care.

[SvN]

If you were hanged for being a bummer, then I can see why a pardon is warranted.

Pardoning for violent crimes just because their cause was just is mental.

[Lewis]

You can see the arguments (not that I agree with it) for wiping all the gays' historical criminal records out, because they were just bumming about and minding their own business. Some of these hysterical women were planting bombs.

[phonics]

hysterical women...

[SvN]

You've been spending too much time on Twitter, phonics.

[Lewis]

Wow. Just wow.

[John]

Phonics, mate. Take a break from yourself.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

If you were hanged for being a bummer, then I can see why a pardon is warranted.

Pardoning for violent crimes just because their cause was just is mental.
It's a nice gesture but it's meaningless at the end of the day.

Oh and lol at Phonics.

[Giggles]

Did phonics delete something because I can't see what you're all on about.

[Kikó]

Calm down phonics.

[Giggles]

That clears it up at least.

[Baz]

Lol

[Giggles]

Didn't know scrapping daylight savings was even under consideration. Hopefully they fuck it off once and for all.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2018/0208/939344-clocks-eu-parliament/

[phonics]

An Indian military officer gave the Pakistani intelligence agency classified information in return for nudes :D

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[Baz]

Simon Thomas (of Blue Peter and Sky Sports News game) tweeted this: https://agriefshared.com/2018/02/09/my-secret-battle/

[-james-]

Poor bloke.

[Kikó]

He's been struggling for a while. Seems a top bloke as well.

[McAvennie]

Man, that's a tough read.

[Ian]

The guy who's been charged with the murder in the road behind my flats apparently gave Edinburgh prison as his address. Sounds a nice fellow.

[Spikey M]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-43033055

:rosebud:

[Baz]

Was this (https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154377954750225&id=633675224&set=ecnf.633675224&source=49&ref=br_rs) taken in Halfords bogs?

[Spikey M]

Bit creepy.

[Giggles]

:cool:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43035474


A suspected big cat poacher has been eaten by lions near the Kruger National Park in South Africa, police say.

The animals left little behind, but some body parts were found over the weekend at a game park near Hoedspruit.

"It seems the victim was poaching in the game park when he was attacked and killed by lions," Limpopo police spokesman Moatshe Ngoepe told AFP.

"They ate his body, nearly all of it, and just left his head and some remains."


Should have stuffed and mounted the head on a wall.

[Spikey M]

“Limpopo police spokesman”

You mean the Limpopo Popo you wasteful cunts.

[Disco]

“Limpopo police spokesman”

You mean the Limpopo Popo you wasteful cunts.

Shit that's good.

[Giggles]

Nutter with a gun at a school in Florida. 16 reported dead so far.

http://www.thejournal.ie/school-shooting-florida-3852444-Feb2018/

[John]

Seventeenth school shooting this year according to a Beeb man earlier.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Imagine how bad it would be if guns were illegal though.

[Spikey M]

I don’t know why they bother reporting on it anymore. It’s sad for the kids, but ultimately it’s the fault of their whole society, often including their parents.

[phonics]

Australia, not content with having half of parliament resigning for the crime of being half English. Have instituted the cruellest imposition on their leaders. They're no longer allowed to have sex with their staff. And people are in uproar. It's being referred to as 'The Bonk Ban'

https://www.buzzfeed.com/joshtaylor/hasta-la-vista-barnababy?utm_term=.muJaZXJl4#.pePGe5g1m

[Spikey M]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-43057574

Chinese woman joins handbag in X-ray machine

That picture :D

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

https://s18.postimg.org/fn0y6uknt/no_need.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

[SvN]

Bang out of order that is mate.

[SvN]

Reminds me of when Smiffy said Ian Brady "crossed a line".

[Lewis]

Twelve and a half years seems a bit lenient.

[Jimmy Floyd]

In Scottish prisons that's tantamount to life.

[Kikó]

Such a Scottish understatement as well.

[Giggles]

Kim Jong Un should press the button to fuck, because this kip of a planet needs to start again.

Hopefully the social justice warriors are first to burn.

http://www.nme.com/news/music/little-mix-jesy-nelson-cultural-appropriation-dreadlocks-2245809

[Dquincy]

Cunts.

[Yevrah]

If the examples within are the best that could be found, then I'm not sure this even registers on the OUTRAGE scale.

[Baz]

She used to be fat and fit and is now thinner and fitter omg

[phonics]

There is no outrage, stop getting in a strop over what papers tell you people are FURIOUS about. It's bollocks.

Literally every news story the Mirror run about Arsenal has an accompanying article saying 'X happened and Arsenal fans are OUTRAGED' and you click only to find they've found 5 tweets with a total of 6 likes.

Stop getting played by the game.

[Kikó]

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/16040086.Care_home_criticised_for_organising__inap propriate__pole_dancing_performance_for_residents/?ref=rss

Must be a low point if you're a pole dancer and being hired for a care home.

[Byron]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43171297

Stephen Fry had an operation for bum cancer.

[randomlegend]

Prostate cancer isn't really bum cancer. Hope he's alright, he seems like a decent lad.

[Magic]

Probably related to all that bumming he was doing.

[Disco]

I've heard that's how it works.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I've heard that's how it works.

It is a fact that no straight man has ever suffered from prostate cancer.

[Giggles]

When I seen magics post I thought he was still talking about hammers breakdown.

[Yevrah]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-43165745

Loving DKris tweeting that image in disgust and the BBC subsequently highlighting it to millions.

Twats.

[Lewis]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-43174862

:cab:

[Yevrah]

I'm guessing you're a step ahead of me with the :cab: but how is that even possible? Surely you'd just piss and then shit yourself.

Any doctors care to explain?

[Disco]

It doesn't say anything about not pissing. Impressive effort nonetheless, if he gets to 40 I say let him off.

[John]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-43165745

Loving DKris tweeting that image in disgust and the BBC subsequently highlighting it to millions.

Twats.

"The worst thing that one person can do to another is to take a selfie in such a situation," tribal activist Dhanya Raman told BBC Hindi.

:D Absolutely, I bet the bloke was more miffed with the selfies than the knives.

[randomlegend]

I'm guessing you're a step ahead of me with the :cab: but how is that even possible? Surely you'd just piss and then shit yourself.

Any doctors care to explain?

As disco said it seems to be that he hasn't had a shit rather than not had either.

Not having a shit for that long voluntarily is pretty amazing but I can see it might be possible. Like you I would have thought he'd shit himself but maybe if you manage to hold out long enough you get completely constipated/impacted.

I definitely don't believe you could go that long not having a piss though. You'd piss yourself for sure and if you somehow didn't you'd be seriously ill or dead long before that amount of time passed from kidney failure. Your bladder would probably rupture as well.

[Giggles]

Some explosion in Hinckley, apparently a supermarket went up.

[phonics]

We don't have an NBA thread so:

Player turns over the ball after giving team-mates mum a high five with the ball still in play

https://streamable.com/kk5j3

[Lewis]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-43257323

lol Randrew.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

That's the best effort I've seen on The Chase-

https://twitter.com/Chapper5/status/969261059877081088

[Spoonsky]

We don't have an NBA thread so:

Player turns over the ball after giving team-mates mum a high five with the ball still in play

https://streamable.com/kk5j3

That's in Salt Lake City! Arena's 10 minutes from my house.

[Giggles]

They must be delighted.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That's the best effort I've seen on The Chase-

https://twitter.com/Chapper5/status/969261059877081088

I'd be seething if I was on her team.

[Giggles]

Few little scummers down near tallaght were filmed earlier robbing a Lidl and a Centra. They've since burnt the Centra down after getting the days takings and went a bit more creative on the Lidl.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/z6m3483dykkmqgr/VID-20180302-WA0041.mp4


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[Giggles]

Fairly handy with a digger all the same. Getting a few good clatters on the safe 'obtained' from the Lidl.


https://youtu.be/m02dNFmzO3c

[John]

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/weird-news/mums-shock-spots-son-eating-12115716

This is the best example of the 'utter non story' in years. I thought that woman's durable fridge was unbeatable, but this is somehow more meaningless.

[Boydy]

"They told me it's just a coincidence," said the mum.

:D

Well, obviously.

Also 'Kaiden'. :sick:

[Spikey M]

That’s just a shit version of this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3021286/Ryan-Mason-s-tattoo-goes-viral-Twitter-user-likens-12-year-old-self-following-senior-England-debut-Italy.html

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Why would he get a tattoo of Randrew on his arm?

[Disco]

So he can live on in a proper functioning body.

[phonics]

This tweet popped up in my feed today, I've seen it before but every time it gets a loud guffaw everytime so I felt the need to share it.

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[Magic]

Thanks Twitterbot.

[phonics]

No problem. Do you too, 'need a fat bitch' these days?

[Magic]

No I've got one already, thanks.

[phonics]

In real news, this is nuts.

- Woman testifies against police in police brutality case.

- 2 weeks later she's arrested for leaving a restaurant without paying

- she gets severly beaten up in jail by 'unknown assailants' to the point that she's sent to ER

- she's released after showing the receipt she had on her when leaving the restaurant to show she paid.

- prosecution refuses to release the CCTV footage of her getting beaten to identify the assailants.

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

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4392586-Mooney-v-Fort-Lauderdale.html

It's an open shut brutality case. I hope these cops get 30 years.

[niko_cee]

On the flipside, take a beating for $15m+ would at least be worth considering.

[phonics]

Another turned Russian spy exiled to the UK looks to be dying after eating something dodgy.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/05/salisbury-incident-critically-ill-man-is-former-russian-spy-sergei-skripal?CMP=twt_gu&__twitter_impression=true

[Magic]

Another turned Russian spy exiled to the UK looks to be dying after eating something dodgy.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/05/salisbury-incident-critically-ill-man-is-former-russian-spy-sergei-skripal?CMP=twt_gu&__twitter_impression=true

:drool:

I love how Russia still plays this game.

[phonics]

They all do. We just don't report on the non-Russian/Chinese/North Korean ones.

The Israelis are up to their necks in assassinations and so are the rest. One of the guys working on the 9/11 Report (I think it was that, maybe it was the torture report, it was a major public report) had his car hacked into and his brakes turned off 3 days before he was supposed to testify, it was described as a normal car crash but no-ones been able to put together how a car driving normally in a 30mph zone would crash that bad.

[phonics]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-held-47-days-without-12142775#ICID=sharebar_twitter

Remember the bloke who wasn't taking a shit after swallowing drugs. 6 weeks later and still not having had a shit. He's been released.

[-james-]

I have questions.

1) How has he not shat himself?
2) Presumably he is not doing a poo because he is indeed guilty. Surely the gear in question dissolved some time ago?

[Magic]

That would be me, with my persistent overwhelming fear of doing the toilet in front of people.

[Disco]

Amazing.

This should form the basis of a new justice system.

[Magic]

Punishment based on fear?

[Greg]

Imagine finally being able to take that shit. :drool:

Bliss.

[phonics]

Amazing.

This should form the basis of a new justice system.

Now you might have murdered someone but if you can win a game of 'The Floor Is Lava' for 14 days then you can go free.

[John Arne]

In a similar theme, Vietnamese authorities were alleged to have kidnapped an exiled businessman in broad daylight in Berlin last year (then drove him to Czech Rep and flew out of there). Ze German's were not happy.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-vietnam/germany-charges-vietnamese-man-in-ex-oil-executive-kidnapping-idUSKCN1GJ1BI

He was recently sentenced to life imprisonment.

http://www.dw.com/en/vietnamese-businessman-kidnapped-in-berlin-gets-life-in-prison-in-hanoi/a-42248440


They said Thanh and the woman had been bundled into a truck and taken to the Vietnamese embassy in Berlin on July 23. It is unclear, they said, how Thanh got to Vietnam but his companion was flown to Hanoi hours after she was seized.
“The kidnapping of (Thanh) and his companion was carried out by Vietnamese secret service employees, other people from the embassy in Berlin and a few Vietnamese citizens living in Europe, including the suspect,” said prosecutors.

[phonics]

Oh yeah by the way that Russian spy who got poisoned? The Emergency Worker who took them into hospital is now also dying. Must have been some nasty shit.

[randomlegend]

Imagine finally being able to take that shit. :drool:

Bliss.

I imagine you'd feel like you were being turned inside out.

[niko_cee]

Oh yeah by the way that Russian spy who got poisoned? The Emergency Worker who took them into hospital is now also dying. Must have been some nasty shit.

This is where it starts getting a bit serious. No one particularly cares about an ex-spy being bumped off (within reason) but if some FRONT LINE HEROES get caught up as collateral damage then you have yourself a major incident.

[Lewis]

There was some Russian government stiff on the news last night suggesting it might have been something to do with organised crime, and they couldn't lol it off hard enough; but it is a bit unusual (not to mention sloppy) to definitely be a government job. It probably is, but people already giving it the large'un could do to wind it in a bit for now.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It is a government job.

[phonics]

Why do they even bother denying this stuff?

Putin went on TV saying he would make sure he swallows his 20 pieces of silver.

[Disco]

All in the game yo.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I got the nerve agent, you got the briefcase...

[Shindig]

Let's make lots of money.

[Yevrah]

How was the nerve agent likely administered in this case?

[phonics]

If it's got the Emergency Worker as well it's probably airborne.

[Yevrah]

Yeah, which is what got me wondering.

Did the assassin just lob it at them both? Seems a bit clumsy if so. Could you even do that without fucking yourself over?

[phonics]

I got the nerve agent, you got the briefcase...

Nah, they failed twice before apparently. This is more Ziggy than Omar.

Speaking of dying of Nerve Agents. Remember this girl killing Kim Jong Uns brother for NK? That was this time last year.

https://i.imgur.com/HlLwpN6.png

It feels like a lifetime ago. I'm genuinely starting to think 'news' is moving so fast now that it will be a major factor in our extinction.

[Lewis]

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Well done to both. Top lads.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Chimp smokes 40 a day
BONG!

[Lewis]

What are 'animal rights' if not the freedom to smoke? Pinkos. We didn't win all those wars for this.

[niko_cee]

That orangutan is a legend.

[Spikey M]

King Mong didn’t even take it down.

[phonics]

Another turned Russian spy exiled to the UK looks to be dying after eating something dodgy.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/05/salisbury-incident-critically-ill-man-is-former-russian-spy-sergei-skripal?CMP=twt_gu&__twitter_impression=true

Another Putin critic living in the UK has been found dead in his appartment.

[Jimmy Floyd]

We should pull out of the World Cup immediately. Utter cowardice not to do so.

[Disco]

It would be worth it just for the reaction of all the plebs.

[Giggles]

Nobody will be pulling out, isn't it worth a fortune?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Plebs are irrelevant, why when a government is conducting murders on your soil would you then take part in an event that is basically a month-long promotional jamboree for said regime.

[phonics]

Nobody will be pulling out, isn't it worth a fortune?

Participating in it is probably worth a few tens of millions from Sponsorship at best.

[Lewis]

You can't go flouncing out of sporting events because of what governments get up to. Before long nobody would be competing in anything.

[phonics]

You can't go flouncing out of sporting events because of what governments get up to. Before long nobody would be competing in anything.

This is a long way from us saying we took down Apartheid by not playing cricket.

[Giggles]

Plebs are irrelevant, why when a government is conducting murders on your soil would you then take part in an event that is basically a month-long promotional jamboree for said regime.


Participating in it is probably worth a few tens of millions from Sponsorship at best.

Bingpot.

[Jimmy Floyd]

You can't go flouncing out of sporting events because of what governments get up to. Before long nobody would be competing in anything.

Maybe if it's private clubs, but these lot go around calling themselves 'England'. It's not about the sport, anyway, it's a conveniently available and eye-catching 'sanction'.

[Kikó]

We could go about actually enacting sanctions against them rather than welcoming their coin.

Oh well, Russia are currently bossing it. Or we're in the midst of the ultimate mind game from the US/UK to make the Russians seem like they are.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's all empty talk from the Ruskies, they need to do this to make themselves seem more powerful than they actually are, but we still shouldn't stand for it.

Once all the KGB era people die off they'll be alright.

[phonics]

A fifth bomb has gone off in Austin, Texas.

[Giggles]

5th today or had I missed something over the weekend?

[phonics]

5th today or had I missed something over the weekend?

Don't feel bad for missing it. It seems to be targetting black people so it's not a big deal according to the media.

Four over the course of 5 days or so. Mail bombs disguised as delivery packages.

The last one involved a trip-wire so it's someone who knows what they're doing.

[phonics]

NBA players are great.

You have Krie Irving, MVP, Franchise star, Max-Salary Cap player and Flat-Earther.

And now we have Jordan Clarkson who thinks that Dinosaurs were like dogs for giant humans.



Clarkson: I don’t believe in dinosaurs either. Well no, I actually do. I believe that — this is gonna get a little crazy. I’m gonna take y’all a little left on this. OK, so y’all know how we got dogs and stuff, right?
DJ Montage: Right.
Clarkson: So, I think it was bigger people in the world before us, and, like, the dinosaurs (were their) pets.
DJ Montage: On a leash? Like a pet? So how big were these people?
Clarkson: Oh, you look at a dinosaur. They got to be three times bigger than them.
DJ Montage: Where are there bones?
Clarkson: Mmhm.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

*Americans.

There's an NFL player who thinks dinosaurs are fake but mermaids are real.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000686138/article/william-hayes-still-out-on-dinosaurs-in-on-mermaids

"No, I don't believe dinosaurs existed," Hayes said in December, via ESPN.com. "Not even a little bit. With these bones, it's crazy because man has never seen a dinosaur, we can agree on that, right? But we know exactly how to put these bones together? I believe there is more of a chance you will find a mermaid than you will a dinosaur because we find different species in the water all the time."

[Pepe]

Don't feel bad for missing it. It seems to be targetting black people so it's not a big deal according to the media.

The last couple of victims were not black.

[Disco]

Hence why we're hearing about it now.

[phonics]

The last couple of victims were not black.

You're referring to the old Latina lady? She picked up the package from a neighbours doorstep so it didn't get stolen.

So far all the 'intended' targets have gone to the same black church.

The trip wire one and this Fed-Ex one are the first non-delivered ones.

[Browning]

The article I read said that two white people were injured by the trip wire one, so I'm guessing he meant them.

[phonics]

The article I read said that two white people were injured by the trip wire one, so I'm guessing he meant them.

That would be the one that activated the 150 FBI officials. So I think Disco nailed it.

[Pepe]

Hence why we're hearing about it now.

Maybe. I heard of it when it was only two victims so far and the going assumption was that it was probably racially motivated, which sounded a bit premature to me.

Maybe you're more racist in the UK.

[Giggles]

I really hadn't heard about it at all and I've seen a fair few news bulletins the past week or two.

[Pepe]

I don't know how much coverage it is getting since I don't really follow the news, but it must be getting some coverage, since I heard of it almost right away.

If it is not getting as much coverage as, say, a school shooting (one more this morning btw,) my guess is that it is because there are no clear party-based stances you can take on it, so beyond saying 'bit of a shame, that' there is no large swathe of the population you can shout at for how awful/Hitler they are.

[Giggles]

I don't know how much coverage it is getting since I don't really follow the news, but it must be getting some coverage, since I heard of it almost right away.

If it is not getting as much coverage as, say, a school shooting (one more this morning btw,) my guess is that it is because there are no clear party-based stances you can take on it, so beyond saying 'bit of a shame, that' there is no large swathe of the population you can shout at for how awful/Hitler they are.

Our news consists of border with UK and snow in alternating orders, with whatever is the latest Vradkar fuck up mixed in to pad it out.

[Giggles]

They're all at it now.

https://www.rte.ie/news/munster/2018/0320/948779-castletroy-mcdonalds-digger/

[Pepe]

That has to be the best method for robbing anything.

[Disco]

What happened to ram raiding, that was all the rage in the 90's

[Lewis]

lol Count Dankula has been done for teaching his pug to do a Nazi salute. We're a joke country.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

What a farce.

Do you see some of the shit Mike 'Forehead' Stuchberry posts about it on twitter? What a colossal twat.

[Lewis]

Is he still a thing? He looks like a composite of every mail order bride customer ever.

[Bernanke]

Bomber-guy is reported dead.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-43478002

A man has died after his head became wedged under the electronic footrest of a cinema's "Gold Class" seat.

:cab:

[John]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5876736/tesco-blunder-t-shirt/amp/

Ignore the mistake on the t-shirt for a moment and consider this;


Shopper Rob, from West London explained: “I popped in the branch and found a new range of T-shirts so I bought three.

They need to do a follow up article digging into the mentality of that man.

[Spikey M]

Is that a lesser story than the old fridge-freezer? It’s close.

[Shindig]

I'll say this about Count Dankula, he's one of a long line of terrible legal defenses. You can rile your lass up all you want but you don't need to video it and put it on your channel for thousands and thousands to see it. And then... y'know, to throw free speech in there as an afterthought.

[John]

That's already been topped by the kid who wasn't eating cottage pie.

[John]

https://amp.theguardian.com/music/2018/mar/26/eagles-of-death-metal-jesse-hughes-march-for-our-lives-bataclan

He sounds delightful. I bet Mert will buy all their albums the moment he reads that.

[Lewis]

Those teenagers are wankers though. Especially that gimp faced Malcolm in the Middle looking one.

[Kikó]

Why are they wankers?

[Pepe]

Because they are teenagers.

[Lewis]

They seem like a pretty obnoxious bunch between the attention-seeking, that little bald Mexican bloke appearing to justify having bullied the shooter, and the general sense that clever and/or cynical grown-ups are behind most of what they get up to. There is another one of them who is actually meeting politicians and looking to get things done, but nobody cares because he isn't spouting off and accusing Marco Rubio of murder.

[Kikó]

I think if you've nearly died through a guy shooting up tour school, you have a bit of leeway when it comes to being obnoxious.

[phonics]

This is what Lewis wants:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL_p9qjfu5U

[Pepe]

It's all a Democratic Party ruse. The Women's march, the Science march, the Anti-gun march. They're all 'We hate the Republicans' marches. There is a lot to hate, mind, but lol at thinking the Democrats will solve any issues, like their big man Barack did.

[Lewis]

I'm possibly just a cynical person, but I doubt next time the Muslims wipe a load of people out you'll have indirect victims being given massive media platforms to imply that Democratic lawmakers are selling the next generation out for better curry and cheaper taxis - which, having nearly died, they would have every right to do, and we would have to listen.

[Giggles]

Classy.

https://www.donegalnow.com/news/woman-helped-buncrana-pier-tragedy-claim-mcgrotty-estate-3/215412

[John]

If that's as it appears hopefully she drowns in hot piss very soon.

[John]

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/16116675.The_Scheme_star_Marvin_Baird____loses_jai l_job_after_mobile_phone_fell_out_of_bum_in_front_ of_warden___/

Lewis remember that whopper? Comfortably the best program ever made.

[Lewis]

His bird saying he didn't mean to knee her in the stomach on the bus was its peak.

[Shindig]

Those teenagers are wankers though. Especially that gimp faced Malcolm in the Middle looking one.

Somebody Hogg. Yeah, he's opposed to ID badges and see-through backpacks at school. They're preventative steps, dickhead. £10 says he's got a massacre in him.

[phonics]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DZSXmjlW0AAuIT5.jpg:large

[Kikó]

Wonder if she'll sit at the same table as Charles.

[Pepe]

Those teenagers are wankers though. Especially that gimp faced Malcolm in the Middle looking one.

I read a bit about the whole thing this morning and the results are as lol as expected. That little twat has already been covered. My favorite part by far was finding out, after all the fanfare, that MLK's granddaughter is nine years old. Yes, that's definitely who we want leading the RESISTANCE. Then there is the Hispano-lesbian progressive Godzilla with her Cuban flag on her shoulder. Gays can't marry over there, love. If only they could criticize Marco Rubio in a more humorous way, they would have me in their pocket. But no, it is all serious business with kids these days.

[Magic]

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/dundee/627736/man-jailed-for-threatening-to-kill-dundee-housing-workers-after-showing-them-pictures-of-illuminati-and-haemorrhoids/

Nice unexpected twist.

[phonics]

The rivalrous nations of Indonesia and Malaysia have come together in their shared annoyance at... Greg from Masterchef, after eliminating a contestant for not having crispy chicken in their Chicken Rendang

https://www.yahoo.com/news/uk-masterchef-judges-spark-rendang-ding-dong-105728479.html


In Malaysian cyberspace, a Facebook page "Justice for Chicken Rendang" was set up collecting signatures for a petition demanding an apology from chefs Wallace and Torode.


"As a Malaysian, if I could, I would personally go to the show and rendang their head. Uncultured swine, doesn't know variety of cuisine and claims to be Masterchef?" wrote Facebook user Jin Wee on the page of Malaysian newspaper The Star.

[Spikey M]

2 g’s. He’d have you for that.

[phonics]

2 g’s. He’d have you for that.

How could I forget. Probably one of the all time Twitter interactions.

[Pepe]

Who here is raising a theyby?

https://www.thecut.com/2018/04/theybies-gender-creative-parenting.html

[Shindig]

But ... there's a gender at birth.

[Spikey M]

There’s a gender at conception, but you know, feelings and tolerance and stuff.

[randomlegend]

Difference between sex and gender.


The World Health Organization states, "'[s]ex' refers to the biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women," and "'gender' refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviours, activities, and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men and women."

That said all this "OMG gendering babbers is OPPRESSION!!1!1!!!1!" is obviously a load of old shit

[Spikey M]

Yeah, I have no issue with someone with a cock and balls feeling like they shouldn’t have them and undergoing treatment to rectify it. It’s none of my business, it’s not harming anyone, crack on.

Forcing it on a baby? Fuck off. You’re messing with a child’s ability to socialise at one of the most basic levels (from 3+ kids generally play in gendered groups) and there is absolutely no way they’re not going to get bullied at school.

[Disco]

The best thing about this is that it's reminded me of the last time this kind of story came up. The parents lawyer was a woman who spelled her name without capital letters because she felt oppressed by them or something. Classic.

[Pepe]

The names are good though. Sojourner Wildfire. :cool:

[Disco]

Sounds more like a name for a caravan.

[Spikey M]

I can verify that.

[-james-]

https://twitter.com/jenanmoussa/status/982935563694215168

This is quite good. Interesting chap.

[phonics]

Quick game. Law firm or cult?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DaVGxqMXcAA2O0H.jpg:large

[randomlegend]

Both?

[Spikey M]

This what happens when Frat-boys like Mert get legal qualifications.

[randomlegend]

It doesn't mention any bumming.

[phonics]

lol someone hacked the account that hosted that Despacito song so now it's back down to 0 views.

They would have been making absolute bank for the rest of time. Doing back of a napkin math, they would have made at minimum 1.75 million dollars from ads on that one video up to now.

[phonics]

984413443833913344

lol

[Disco]

Only solution is to arm the homeless.

[John]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/17/southwest-airlines-plane-makes-emergency-landing-engine-broke

Fuck. That.

No wonder Bergkamp took a ferry everywhere.

[Spikey M]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-jersey-43842740/tourist-takes-crowdfunded-trip-to-british-islands

It’s not often you get a free holiday for being a fucking idiot.

I might get my Fiesta confused with a Lamborghini. ‘Oh, I thought the BHP was a bit off’.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43846243

Allison Mack arrested on sex trafficking charges, lol.

[Giggles]

:drool: Crooked cunt.

987604924446969857

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

I think this might be even more ridiculous than the Count Dankula debacle-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-43816921

The screenshot was passed to hate crime unit PC Dominique Walker, who told the court the term was "grossly offensive" to her as a black woman and to the general community.

The Liverpool Echo reported that Russell's defence had argued the usage of the word had changed over time and it had been used by superstar rapper Jay-Z "in front of thousands of people at the Glastonbury Festival".

Prosecutor Angela Conlan said Russell's defence also argued her profile "wasn't public", but it had been proved in court that anyone could access it and "see the offensive language".

[Baz]

^ That’s diabolical.

[Lewis]

Doesn't that make rap music illegal?

[John]

That's deeply pathetic. I honestly hope whoever reported it to police dies, painfully and soon. We need rid of that sort of fuckwit.

[Baz]

I should probably delete my Twitter.

[Giggles]

In b4 phonics calls you all animals in a fit of outrage.

[niko_cee]

Doesn't that make rap music illegal?

This was my first thought.

Turns out the only thing worse than letting the great unwashed loose on the internet is letting plod and the judicial system loose on them.

[Shindig]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-43834243

That's quite a reaction.

[Yevrah]

Regarding the story above, if we're convicting people because they've caused offence we may as well pack up and go home now.

[Shindig]

It's bollocks. Especially when the result of causing offence is just more twitter rage.

[Dquincy]

Just don't worry about it chaps.

[Pepe]

Doesn't that make rap music illegal?

Only for whites.

[Spikey M]

So we’ve reached the stage where context doesn’t even matter? The N word (because I guess I should be scared to type it in full now, even if just for clarity) has become Voldemort. What a fucking shambles.

[Shindig]

http://www.13abc.com/content/news/Local-woman-suing-after-injury-at-Insane-Clown-Posse-show-480417543.html

I guess the court had an open slot.

[Spikey M]

It seems reasonable to me.

[Pepe]

So we’ve reached the stage where context doesn’t even matter? The N word (because I guess I should be scared to type it in full now, even if just for clarity) has become Voldemort. What a fucking shambles.

Neither intent nor context matter. The only thing that matters is the perception of the receiver of the message.

[John]

There was a woman just now standing behind the ITV news man talking about the royal baby, straining herself to get a shitty little A4 sign with 'abortion is not the answer' on it into frame. I'm not sure what she thinks is going on, but I bet she's a huge arsehole.

[Giggles]

There was a woman just now standing behind the ITV news man talking about the royal baby, straining herself to get a shitty little A4 sign with 'abortion is not the answer' on it into frame. I'm not sure what she thinks is going on, but I bet she's a huge arsehole.

Maybe she has some ties to here. There's the dirtiest of campaigns in full flight here for an upcoming referendum on it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43864113

There's apparently OUTRAGE on Twitter about Delta/US Customs etc. If only she had ticked the box on the customs form saying she was carrying fruit, I'd also assume that they asked her at least once (they did when I landed at Oakland) at the various security desks.

Basically she's a massive cunt and moron.

[-james-]

Having a lol at "massive cunt and moron".

[Baz]

Is the whole country hearing about Alfie Evans or is it just local? I don't even know the story but there's some ill kid who I think is gonna have his life support switched off, and there's outrage. The dad even went to Rome and asked the pope for help (and apparently got it, and now little Alfie has Italian citizenship?) but what doesn't get reported so much is that the dad is an absolute bag-head loser who keeps being ejected from Alder Hey [childrens hospital] cos he stinks of weed and is stoned/high 99% of the time. Such a fucking chancer; he'll probably somehow end up rich out of it all too.

Then today there was a riot (https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/alfie-evans-protest-latest-updates-14565821) at the hospital by so-called supporters. What the hell's that about? At one point there was talk of storming the hospital and setting off the alarms so it had to be evacuated. How is that helping anybody? Saw someone crying on Facebook saying she'd heard the plan and was urging the mob not to as her son was on the operating table. :cab:

[Boydy]

Yeah, it's on the national news too.

[Gray Fox]

Taser the cunts. I'm all for them being allowed to ship him off to Italy to try more treatment or whatever, but when you're talking about potentially putting kids lives at risk, because afterall it's a fucking kids hospital, for the sake of 1 kid then you can get to fuck.

Get the vans ploughing into these fuckers.

[Shindig]

Pope should've been like, "Mate, I'm not a fucking doctor." and shut them out.

[niko_cee]

What the fuck are the Italians up to granting the poor little fucker citizenship? Can people not understand that the courts take decisions in the best interests of the child (ie probably not to be kept 'alive' as a vegetable indefinitely waiting for some sort of divine intervention) and that those interests are not necessarily 'what the parents' say'?

[Lewis]

Can we send the Italians the hospital bill? Maybe that's why the treatment has suddenly stopped.

[Disco]

I've been gloriously unaware of this, which is probably for the best as it seems everyone involved is tremendously annoying. I can understand the parents being irrational but anyone who actually thinks protesting at a hospital is a good idea should he shown inside and quietly euthanised.

Also, lol at putting your faith in the Italian legal system, that has to be the most desperate of last ditch efforts imaginable.

[phonics]

I find most space stuff quite dull but this is pretty cool how far everythings moved forward.

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[Lewis]

It's actually just moved closer over the years.

[John]

The first picture is just Pluto as rendered by Doom.

[Spikey M]

Or as a bystander in an undercover investigation.

[Shindig]

It's actually just moved closer over the years.

Such is the gravitational pull of a flat earth. :dc:

[SvN]

Arrest made in the East Area Rapist/Original Night Stalker/Golden State Killer case. Pretty huge news. 100% DNA match.


http://fox40.com/2018/04/24/sources-report-possible-break-in-east-area-rapist-case/

[Boydy]

The resulting podcast. :drool:

[phonics]

After being outbid, Fox have dropped out and Comcast will takeover Sky.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/comcast-formally-takes-murdoch-22bn-sky-bid-114518479.html

[Shindig]

Data caps for all!

[Danny]

SvN

Where at you seeing the DNA match thing?

[SvN]

It's being reported on reddit and also the EARONS forum. There's guys there who have links to the police department and reported it before any news.

[Danny]

:drool:

[Lewis]

lol Count Dankula has been done for teaching his pug to do a Nazi salute. We're a joke country.

He got fined eight-hundred quid, but he's raised (https://www.gofundme.com/fund-the-count-dankula-appeal) a hundred grand in a day to appeal. :cool:

[Pepe]

That's seriously lol.

[Shindig]

So he'd rather waste £100k of other people's money instead of pay £800 of his own. What a man of principle. Who could've known this private joke meant for his girlfriend (that he shared on an open platform for his subscribers - and anyone else using the service) could've resulted in such a thing?