News of the day

[Shindig]

You can't build it up enough. Golden. :D

[Alex]

http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/16889825.knuckle-fight-in-wrexham-captured-on-cctv/

This Barney is seriously brilliant. Wait for 1m44

I can't stop watching it. :D

Do you think he's just pissed, or has he got caught up in it and one of them has clocked him?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Polska biało-czerwoni...

[phonics]

I can't stop watching it. :D

Do you think he's just pissed, or has he got caught up in it and one of them has clocked him?

It's the bloke with his top off previously no? There's a couple of cuts in the video.

[Shindig]

I can't stop watching it. :D

Do you think he's just pissed, or has he got caught up in it and one of them has clocked him?

I think it's the former. He's not punch-drunk.

[Pepe]

Just booze-drunk.

[Alex]

It's the bloke with his top off previously no? There's a couple of cuts in the video.

I don't think so, when he goes down the shirtess guy running past him appears to be chasing the other shirtless guy up the street. You can briefly see him right at the top of the shot. Unless somebody else has disrobed and jumped into the fray to replace him. :D

[Baz]

http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/16889825.knuckle-fight-in-wrexham-captured-on-cctv/

This Barney is seriously brilliant. Wait for 1m44
:lol: Had he been caught too, or was he just drunk?


EDIT:: Ah didn’t see the new page.

[John]

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/banksy-artwork-selfdestructs-moments-after-being-sold-at-sothebys-for-1million-a3955111.html

Deeply lol, but what a twat Banksy is.

[SvN]

That is hilarious.

[Shindig]

I bet there was applause as well.

[-james-]

God what a load of fucking wank. Fuck off.

[Spikey M]

I’m sure there was a pretentious political point being made, but still, pretty lol.

[Pepe]

It's not really 'destroyed', is it? I bet whoever bought that thing could flip it instantly for like 10x the price, since now it is oh so famous. The 'art world' is just a load of wank. 'Anti-establishment.' :harold:

[igor_balis]

The KLF should bring back the award they gave to Rachel Whiteread in order to give it to Banksy.

[Alex]

They're all in on it to some extent though, surely? I have a hard time believing that one of the worlds most prestigious auction houses sells a piece that valuable with absolutely no idea that it's been housed in a frame that contains a concealed, remotely activated fucking shredding device. :rolleyes:

[Giggles]

They're all in on it to some extent though, surely? I have a hard time believing that one of the worlds most prestigious auction houses sells a piece that valuable with absolutely no idea that it's been housed in a frame that contains a concealed, remotely activated fucking shredding device. :rolleyes:

Exactly my first thought too.

[Lewis]

They will have known, which was why they paid way over the odds in the first place.

[Giggles]

:rolleyes:

https://m.independent.ie/entertainment/television/tv-news/police-speak-to-father-ted-cocreator-after-twitter-transphobia-row-37393122.html

[Baz]

^ Thats the worst website I’ve ever been on.

[Giggles]

^ Thats the worst website I’ve ever been on.

Yeah I highly doubt that.

[phonics]

It's the only thing he ever talks about. He's dedicated his retirement to arguing about trannies.

[Giggles]

It's the only thing he ever talks about. He's dedicated his retirement to arguing about trannies.

This tranny seems to go looking for it.

[Spikey M]

I’ve always been pro-LGBTQ community, but the Trans-mob aren’t half making it difficult not to lol at the ‘T’ element at the moment. There was someone on Twitter banging on about how tampons should be free (fine) and that Trans-females should be included in that. UWOTM8. You don’t have to act like a cunt just because you feel like you should have been born with one.

[Shindig]

Harassment doesn't need to be a hashtag, for starters.

[Lewis]

It's the only thing he ever talks about. He's dedicated his retirement to arguing about trannies.

It's funny because he was probably the most high profile whinger about the Nazi pug.

[Giggles]

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/they-want-us-to-drop-our-culture-and-throw-it-aside-traveller-families-wont-move-into-17m-homes-without-stables-and-land-37394115.html

1. Build stables
2. Move them in
3. Petrol + match
4. Society instantly better off.

I should be running things here really.

[mugbull]

Traveller is the Irish gypsy, right? If they’re anything like the Czech ones there’s not much you can really do to help, they just don’t get it

[Jimmy Floyd]

They're much worse than the European kind. The tinkers are just straight up thieves and rapists.

[Giggles]

Yep, and have no understanding as to why these may be wrong in any way.

[Lewis]

Hang on, Irish 'travellers' are worse than the European kind? I doubt it. Them Romani ones are a pestilence.

[Giggles]

Ours are here too ever since they got protected status as a minority.

[SincereTheRebel]

Giggles has stood out more because of the Ireland flag in his avatar. Based on his news links about Ireland and Irish people, I've come to the conclusion that they are wore than Haitians and Jamaicans. Romanians in Wolves are seriosuly efficient. You find them in the skip on your drive way, digging around trying to find treasure in your trash.

[mugbull]

I don’t know if they’re worse than European gypsies, because I don’t think it’s possible to be, but I appreciate the thought

[igor_balis]

Whatever you think of the various LGBTetc "movements", I think it's pretty obvious that Linehan is unambiguously in the wrong, here. I'd say he's borderline gone a bit mental. As Phonics says, it's ALL he fucking talks about. And it's not just replying to people "looking for it".

[phonics]

As happens with any celeb who have too much invested in Twitter as their personality, it has absolutely broken his brain.

[Boydy]

Nah, not always. See Rob Delaney.

[Giggles]

Lenihan being wrong doesn't in any way make that other fruitcake right by constantly going looking for it.

[Kikó]

Traveller is the Irish gypsy, right? If they’re anything like the Czech ones there’s not much you can really do to help, they just don’t get it

Do you reckon this is true? It's such a different culture embedded that I can't see how they would become part of society unless they chose to.

[mugbull]

It's a two-way street with mutual antipathy, but they're so far removed from civic participation in any form that I just don't see how they would ever be able to. At least in Ireland (I'm guessing) they're few and far between, but in Eastern Europe they're a significant demographic factor and the loathing is very entrenched. The scale of their anti-social behavior is pretty astounding really. It's nothing like any other race issue of our time.

[Spikey M]

I don’t know how different their populations are in size, but the Traveller community is definitely noticeable here. They regularly take over fields and car parks, con people out of money, then move to a different part of town (leaving all their shit behind). The police are too scared to visit their sites so they pretty much do what they want. They have a track record of keeping vulnerable people as slaves and the men go about securing their wives by holding them up against a wall and demanding a kiss. Once they get one, you’re engaged.

Vermin.

[mugbull]

Do they look like a different race? In Czecho they do look Middle Eastern and you can tell pretty much immediately just from skin color and facial features

[Giggles]

They've no distinguishing physical features here but you could pick one a mile away.

[Kikó]

I think the police angle is interesting. Is it worth the bother when you can arrest some kid for posting an offensive word in a tweet?

[Jimmy Floyd]

I've tried to use the police here a few times in the last 2-3 years (we had a problem for a while with gypos and other teenage louts verbally abusing kids and causing criminal damage around my cricket club and its surrounding public park) and the only time they got off their arses was when one of the louts finally crossed a line and called an Asian child 'Mohammed', as I think when race gets involved it ticks some kind of box that gets them flocking to the scene.

Even in that case, the parents of 'Mohammed' asked how they would prevent further such incidents from happening, and the police said there was nothing they could do so their advice was to get their son to play an indoor sport instead. Not even kidding. That was the moment I realised May's time at the Home Office set us on a path to a kind of Mad Max society.

[Spikey M]

Do they look like a different race? In Czecho they do look Middle Eastern and you can tell pretty much immediately just from skin color and facial features

Aside from their ridiculous clothing, no. It’s the accent that gives them away. ‘It ain’t Irish, it ain’t English, it’s just Pikey’.

[Giggles]

Someone was sleeping the day they were handing out cop on.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2018/1009/1002004-irish-tourist/

[John]

How does someone that fucking thick live to be nearly forty? Warning labels have gotten too good.

[Giggles]

How does someone that fucking thick live to be nearly forty? Warning labels have gotten too good.

I seen the headline and expected it to be some 17 year old on a school trip. Thirty fucking eight :face:

[Shindig]

Look, having O'Doyle was 'ere scratched on to Auschwitz probably sounded like a good idea.

[Boydy]

He was probably in Krakow for a stag.

[Disco]

A stag weekend involving a trip to a concentration camp? Bit of a tonal shift.

[Giggles]

Yeah it'd be an odd one to put on the itinerary for a stag.

[Shindig]

"C'mon, fellas. Where else are we gonna go?"

[Alex]

Yeah it'd be an odd one to put on the itinerary for a stag.

You would think. If this silly bastard was in charge of said itinerary though it's entirely possible he just thought he was going to some sort of Polish version of Beamish, or something.

[Lewis]

It sort of is.

[Shindig]

Beamish, previously named 'Pit Hill', is a village in County Durham, England, situated to the north east of Stanley. The village is contained within Hell Hole Wood

Of all the names to get away from, lads.


To the south is the village of No Place

Lads! At least Pity Me stuck with it.

[Boydy]

There's plenty of stag dos in Krakow, some of them must go to Auschwitz.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I reckon (having been to Dachau) it would make your lust for life in the evening still the greater.

[Ian]

My brother in law went to Auschwitz on a stag and i thought it was fucking peculiar behaviour. I mean I guess if you're there for the first time and plan to be again there's an element of, "Well, since we're here" but still.

[Baz]

I can’t view this thread at work cos of pornography warnings. :cab:

Also here’s me in auschwitz:
https://66.media.tumblr.com/9f85b03a350fcc5b47b0613ec2573271/tumblr_op64taRM8Z1qfd4hso1_1280.jpg

[Giggles]

You look like you've just finished off a group.

[Shindig]

I can't look at that ditch any other way.

[Giggles]

It is a horrid place though, especially the museum part where they've the shoes and glasses and all. How the fuck some cunt thought it was an idea to scrape his name in a wall is beyond me.

[Spikey M]

A stag weekend involving a trip to a concentration camp? Bit of a tonal shift.

“Walt Steinburg, he’s our maaaaate”.

[John]

https://metro.co.uk/2018/10/08/40000-banksy-piece-now-worth-just-1-after-owner-shredded-it-to-increase-value-8018715/

As inevitable as this was, it's still my favourite thing that's ever happened. Could not be happier with that.

[SvN]

Hilarious. What sort of moron thinks that's going to work?

[phonics]

The kind of moron who paid 40k for a Banksy piece in the first place.

[Pepe]

Worked for the first moron who thought it would work.

[Alex]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45810709

I've read this a couple of times now and I still don't fully understand what's going on. But:


Like women, womxn refers to females, but it is an attempt to get away from patriarchal language.

Dr Clara Bradbury-Rance, fellow at King's College London, said the spelling "stems from a longstanding objection to the word woman as it comes from man, and the linguistic routes of the word mean that it really does come from the word man".

The word is also supposed to be inclusive of trans women, and some non-binary people.

But how is it pronounced? "I've heard womxn pronounced in lots of different ways. I've heard some pronounce it 'wo-minx'," Dr Bradbury-Rance says.

I mean, fucking hell. :facepalm:

Imagine sitting around and thinking/worrying/being annoyed by something like this? Imagine that being your field of expertise. I mean, "wo-minx"? Fuck off

I'm not sure if I'm getting old and/or out of touch, because I've always considered myself to be quite a progressive, liberal person, but all this is honestly starting to make my head hurt a bit.

[Giggles]

Just when you think it all can't get any more surreal they go and surprise you.

[John]

There's been 'Latinx' as a non-gender specific alternative to Latina/Latino for a while now, so it was a matter of time before someone else got in on the act.

All this shit got tiresome a while back, but it's getting truly silly now. The generally accepted names for our species are human and mankind, I wonder when those will need changed.

[Shindig]

Does she not realise 'man' goes much, much further back into our species? We're called humans.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

At times I hate having got on to twitter to be exposed to constant that sort of lunacy. The BBC even entertaining articles like that is nauseating.

[Alex]

The BBC News homepage is horrendous now, a worrying proportion of it is made up of nonsense like this.

[mugbull]

I genuinely think the media is overblowing this, often for people like you guys who get riled up about it. I live in the biggest liberal bubble on Earth and I know of no one who is even remotely interested in `womxn` or such banalities. The most annoying it gets is when (cis) people write their preferred pronouns on nametags, but that seems like a minuscule price to pay

[Disco]

99% of people don't care about this rubbish. If you aren't a dickhead then it really doesn't matter what terminology you happen to use.

[phonics]

It's fuelled by what people click on. People see this stuff, get angry about it, click on the link to read more and link it to somewhere else to show other people who will be similarly annoyed. Just as you did, so they'll put more of it in peoples view and the cycle repeats. The whole mantra of 'they wouldn't print nonsense if it didn't sell' was bullshit spin in the Newspaper days. However, when you've got hard numbers on how many people read this article vs that article to the point you know how long it took them to read it or if they even got to the end of it before stopping.

They even phrased the article as a question to get more people to click through and Betteridges Law still applies.

"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."


If the headline asks a question, try answering 'no'. Is This the True Face of Britain's Young? (Sensible reader: No.) Have We Found the Cure for AIDS? (No; or you wouldn't have put the question mark in.) Does This Map Provide the Key for Peace? (Probably not.) A headline with a question mark at the end means, in the vast majority of cases, that the story is tendentious or over-sold. It is often a scare story, or an attempt to elevate some run-of-the-mill piece of reporting into a national controversy and, preferably, a national panic. To a busy journalist hunting for real information a question mark means 'don't bother reading this bit'

On the actual subject, this is all relatively harmless (you are not going to get hounded in the streets for saying women, ever.) and innocent but people who don't agree with it make such a big deal about it that it looks like the worlds caving in.

It's the whole UNIVERSITY CAMPUS PC BRIGADE cycle again and again and again.

[Boydy]

I genuinely think the media is overblowing this, often for people like you guys who get riled up about it. I live in the biggest liberal bubble on Earth and I know of no one who is even remotely interested in `womxn` or such banalities. The most annoying it gets is when (cis) people write their preferred pronouns on nametags, but that seems like a minuscule price to pay

Yeah, it's only used in very small circles. It is funny watching everyone here get wound up about it though.

[phonics]

Harold was frothing at the mouth over this shit a decade ago if you want a good sign you're being knobs about it.

[Shindig]

No, he was throthing because he was dying.

[Giggles]

It's snowballing. Heads need to be cracked now.

[Shindig]

The internet enables it to surface and organise a lot more.

[phonics]

It's snowballing. Heads need to be cracked now.

As someone who works on trans issues, it’s really not. What you are seeing is people who have no idea what it is to see these people be persecuted trying to look like they’re ‘doing their part’ in the easiest way possible.

[Lewis]

It is the media over-blowing it, but it's also the government/institutions caving into the most vocal minority of twats every single time. Universities are the obvious example. Most students probably aren't censorious freaks, but the two per cent of them that make the most noise seem to have the administrators constantly on the run. This is why that judge bollocks in America is interesting. It's the first time (or at least the biggest time) that the screeching fannies have been told to go and fuck themselves.

[mugbull]

I'd rather the screeching fannies hype themselves up over a judicial nomination than let another "I am a strict constructionist" hack onto the Supreme Court.

[Pepe]

The left has gone to far! Look how [NYT best seller] Jordan Peterson is being SILENCED!

[Lewis]

Isn't he bilking in about a hundred grand a month off a crowdfunder? Legend.

[Pepe]

Yup. He has made millions of dollars in donations. People are weird.

[igor_balis]

Screeching virtue-signalling twats are bad but I also dislike hate crimes so I try to forget all about it so I don't get sad.

[Shindig]

Yup. He has made millions of dollars in donations. People are weird.

$10 for personality tests and stuff as well.

[SvN]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-45816893

First of all, imagine going to the media because this happens.

Secondly, it's the law you cretin.

Thirdly, your screaming brat will no doubt ruin the enjoyment of the film for others, so either get a babysitter or stay at home.

[niko_cee]

I know it's not funny but this (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-45825838) did raise a smile re: the trans debate.


Prosecutor Christopher Dunn told the court: "She is allegedly a transgender female.

"The prosecution say allegedly because there's smatterings of evidence in this case that the defendant's approach to transitioning has been less than committed.

:D

[John]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-45816893

First of all, imagine going to the media because this happens.

Secondly, it's the law you cretin.

Thirdly, your screaming brat will no doubt ruin the enjoyment of the film for others, so either get a babysitter or stay at home.

She sounds like an unbelievable cunt.

[John]

https://amp.theguardian.com/football/2018/oct/11/chelsea-to-send-racist-fans-auschwitz-instead-banning-orders-antisemitism

:lol:

I would fucking love to have been in the room when that idea came up.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Nothing can possibly go wrong with that.

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-45809169

No. No it isn’t. It’s straight forward advice to help you avoid the type of sick cunts that unfortunately walk among us. Is ‘don’t keep your wallet in your back pocket’ Victim blaming? Fucking hell.

[niko_cee]

It can't be long until they come for the little green man that tells you it's safe to cross the road.

[Spikey M]

#NotAllMen tell womxn when to cross the road.

[Shindig]

It can't be long until they come for the little green man that tells you it's safe to cross the road.

Ah, so that's why she hit me.

[Giggles]

Interfering snowflakes strike again.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6273199/Somali-man-deportation-stopped-good-plane-passengers-revealed-gang-rapist.html

[Lewis]

They should have kicked the whingers off.

[Spikey M]

What a bunch of utter pricks

[Disco]

Of course he hung it up, I'm amazed he isn't on the money yet.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-45861868

[Jimmy Floyd]

Calvin Coolidge loitering in the background not laughing is the best bit.

[Shindig]

I'd hang that up. It's great. The democrats one is alright but it's clear the Republicans had better picks. Also, Bush Sr. standing seems a little off.

[wullie]

Was Trump in it all along? It looks like they've painted his head over someone else.

[Lewis]

It's great that he just stuck it up. Hillary Clinton would have had the artist commit suicide.

[mugbull]

It's great that he just stuck it up. Hillary Clinton would have had the artist commit suicide.

What?

[Giggles]

What?

It's great that he just stuck it up. Hillary Clinton would have had the artist commit suicide.

[Lewis]

I'm not at liberty to say any more.

[mugbull]

Hillary would've loved to see her female visage in among all the wasp-y men, she would make it front and center.

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45870948

We’re going balls deep in this shit now.

[niko_cee]

I'm not sure that turn of phrase is sufficiently inclusive.

Mandatory Gender Rage Story (https://uk.yahoo.com/sports/news/not-fair-runner-fumes-transgender-world-champion-075054632.html)

That is pretty lol, particularly in the context of women's sport being much more prominently pushed these days. Mainstream acceptance ruined by a bunch of semi-pro trannies. Oh the irony. On the plus side I guess some of those not at all suss athletics records might be achievable again. Move over Caster!

[Yevrah]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45870948

We’re going balls deep in this shit now.

Surely then we go full circle and everything (and therefore nothing) becomes a hate crime?

[SincereTheRebel]

I'm not sure that turn of phrase is sufficiently inclusive.

Mandatory Gender Rage Story (https://uk.yahoo.com/sports/news/not-fair-runner-fumes-transgender-world-champion-075054632.html)

That is pretty lol, particularly in the context of women's sport being much more prominently pushed these days. Mainstream acceptance ruined by a bunch of semi-pro trannies. Oh the irony. On the plus side I guess some of those not at all suss athletics records might be achievable again. Move over Caster!

Why cant there just be a transformer league. from male to female and female to male?

[SvN]

I can't believe I agree with Katie Hopkins.

[Yevrah]

I'm not sure that turn of phrase is sufficiently inclusive.

Mandatory Gender Rage Story (https://uk.yahoo.com/sports/news/not-fair-runner-fumes-transgender-world-champion-075054632.html)

That is pretty lol, particularly in the context of women's sport being much more prominently pushed these days. Mainstream acceptance ruined by a bunch of semi-pro trannies. Oh the irony. On the plus side I guess some of those not at all suss athletics records might be achievable again. Move over Caster!

Competitive sport is the thing that makes this particular train come off the rails and when Katie Hopkins is more on the side of right than wrong you know you've got a problem.

[Yevrah]

Jo Brand's take on things, particularly Germaine Greer.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/10/women-avoid-transgender-debate-fear-reaction-jo-brand-germaine-greer-feminism

Now I don't personally particularly care how people are defined, but I suspect there are a number of birth-women who do and if they do, they should probably consider toughing up for the shout down and get ready to voice an opinion before the horse has bolted.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45873664

Piers Morgan in being a cunt shocker.

[Lewis]

That no-mark tranny weightlifter dominating the women was a laugh, but it will probably take something like a Wimbledon champion or an international footballer to make people think hang on mate that's a bloke that is.

[SvN]

Yep, as soon as it happens in a proper sport, shit will hit the fan.

[phonics]

Everything I read seems like the arse is about to fall out of the economy really badly. I might have to abandon my plans of moving back.

[Spikey M]

Yep, as soon as it happens in a proper sport, shit will hit the fan.

I’d cut my cock off and make it happen, but it would be like the Southpark episode where Cartman bullshits his way into the Special Olympics.

[Pepe]

As if you could cut it at any 'proper sport,' even against women.

[phonics]

Everything I read seems like the arse is about to fall out of the economy really badly. I might have to abandon my plans of moving back.

It's worse than I thought. I'm never coming back.

https://i.imgur.com/62hO4lY.jpg

[SvN]

The difficulty is, there are no lines drawn, so it's open to abuse. All it takes is one male tennis player in the top 400 to suddenly decide he's a woman and he'll be dominating the women's sport. Who decides whether he's a real "woman" or not? Is it once they start taking estrogen? Or once they change their legal name to Susan?

[Spikey M]

As if you could cut it at any 'proper sport,' even against women.

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/012/132/thatsthejoke.jpg

[Disco]

Someone getting hurt in one combat sport or another may also do it.

I think we'll end up with some sort or rules based on the age someone decided to make the switch. If you've gone through puberty/teens as a male then transitioned to female then you'll have a massive advantage over other women, and in anything with a contact/physical element that becomes dangerous to other competitors.

[Alex]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45873664

Piers Morgan in being a cunt shocker.

Daniel Craig looks fucking ancient in that photograph.

[Pepe]

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/012/132/thatsthejoke.jpg

In my defense, I have never watched South Park.

[Spikey M]

That’s made it worse if anything.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Daniel Craig looks fucking ancient in that photograph.

He's method, they're doing Bond as a pensioner for his last film.

[John]

Someone getting hurt in one combat sport or another may also do it.

I think we'll end up with some sort or rules based on the age someone decided to make the switch. If you've gone through puberty/teens as a male then transitioned to female then you'll have a massive advantage over other women, and in anything with a contact/physical element that becomes dangerous to other competitors.

There was a trans woman knocking out women in MMA a while ago, but the outrage died before it could really get going when she was brutally knocked out by a natural woman.

[Shindig]

And the weightlifter Lewis mentioned missed out on Commonwealth medals (something like that) because their arm snapped during a lift. See, transitioning doesn't do much for your bones.

[Giggles]

:face:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/oct/18/kleenex-drops-mansize-branding-from-tissue-boxes-after-complaints-sexism

[niko_cee]

I thought Keira Knightley's Disney musings were more. :face:

If she think their version of the Little Mermaid is bad then she should read the original.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Of course Lisa Hancox's child definitely said that.

[Giggles]

Of course Lisa Hancox's child definitely said that.

Kids seem to talk a lot of shit these days.

1052604712502026242

[Pepe]

:face:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/oct/18/kleenex-drops-mansize-branding-from-tissue-boxes-after-complaints-sexism

It's not that big of a deal. It was a shit name anyways.

Mistresspiece though. :D

I did hear some of my wife's colleagues talking about 'craftsmanship' and other sexist terms. It is just bored elites with nothing better to do, no need to get too hung up on it.

[Giggles]

It's not that big of a deal. It was a shit name anyways.

Mistresspiece though. :D

I did hear some of my wife's colleagues talking about 'craftsmanship' and other sexist terms. It is just bored elites with nothing better to do, no need to get too hung up on it.

But the insane minority are able get these things changed. Where does it stop?

[Pepe]

Best one was some woman telling another one that "black eye" is a racist term. They are both white as chalk, of course. Luckily, a black woman stepped in and said that using the term was ok. The offender says she will still refrain from using the term in the future just to be safe.

[Pepe]

But the insane minority are able get these things changed. Where does it stop?

What do you fear they'll change?

[Boydy]

Those tissues weren't the size of a man anyway.

[Giggles]

What do you fear they'll change?

How far can it go when you're dealing with such loons? Be a crime to have a cock soon.

[phonics]

Jesus christ, do you lot have some newsletter to get you irate about gender or something?

[Spikey M]

Best one was some woman telling another one that "black eye" is a racist term. They are both white as chalk, of course. Luckily, a black woman stepped in and said that using the term was ok. The offender says she will still refrain from using the term in the future just to be safe.

My (black) auntie took her daughter to Nursery with a black eye once. When she explained the injury, they corrected her with ‘bruised eye’. She lol’d in their faces and pointed out that black is a colour outside of the skin world and calling something that is black ‘black’ is not racist. Bonkers.

[Spikey M]

Jesus christ, do you lot have some newsletter to get you irate about gender or something?

Just a WhatsApp group.

[Shindig]

A newsletter? How the fuck are you in media, phonics?

[phonics]

A newsletter? How the fuck are you in media, phonics?

Email newsletters > social media strategies. Something I shared with a diff forum:


As someone who ignores impressions, the amount of people who click on the link of a post we're not 'boosting' that isn't offering a scholarship is somewhere between 50-150. Outside of that we've no idea who's actually read it. ​

Our two email lists of 15k and 100k average a 25-35% open rate (high if you compare it across industrial standards but we're speaking to an engaged audience) and of those that open it 7-20% of those opens click on the link inside. Even if we're using the small list, assuming the low end of the average open/click rate, that works out to around 370.
​
We still can't claim those 370 people are conversions but even ignoring conversion rate, '25% open rate' sounds way better to my bosses than '0.4% engagement rate'.

That's how I'm in media. And also I'm a fucking Graphic Designer so none of the above is my job.

[Spikey M]

“Way better”

Glass houses, but fuck it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I reckon most of the 'benefits' to organisations of social media are largely myths or wishful thinking.

[phonics]

Says the man posting on a forum that raised hundreds of pounds so 12 people could continue to talk to each other.

[Baz]

I’ve decided I hate all women.

Let it be heard.

[phonics]

Can't be trusted not to be offended by my alpha aura. Eliminate them.

[Lewis]

My (black) auntie took her daughter to Nursery with a black eye once. When she explained the injury, they corrected her with ‘bruised eye’. She lol’d in their faces and pointed out that black is a colour outside of the skin world and calling something that is black ‘black’ is not racist. Bonkers.

My uncle's step son is half-caste, and his school refers to him as 'dual heritage' instead of mixed race. The poor little bastard has never met his black dad ('Really?!', I hear you cry), and doesn't even know he's mixed race, so that makes no sense whatsoever.

[Boydy]

My uncle's step son is half-caste, and his school refers to him as 'dual heritage' instead of mixed race. The poor little bastard has never met his black dad ('Really?!', I hear you cry), and doesn't even know he's mixed race, so that makes no sense whatsoever.

Stop being a cunt.

[phonics]

Half caste and then that, my word.

[Giggles]

Is half cast(e) bad now as well? Like actual bad and not just twitter pc culture bad.

[Lewis]

I meant dual heritage.

[niko_cee]

I'm pretty sure half-caste has always been bad.

[Kikó]

Half caste hasn't been used since the 70s. Or that poem in English GCSE.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Half caste hasn't been used since the 70s. Or that poem in English GCSE.

That poem pissed me off so much.

[phonics]

Is half cast(e) bad now as well? Like actual bad and not just twitter pc culture bad.

It was bad when Love Thy Neighbour was still running.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I've blocked Lewis's posts and phoned his local paper.

[Kikó]

Lewis would like to apologise if he caused offence.

[Lewis]

It's all the Brexit stuff in the news.

[Spikey M]

Is half cast(e) bad now as well? Like actual bad and not just twitter pc culture bad.

It means half-pure. So yes.

[igor_balis]

I tell myself Lewis is a mischievous scamp on the wind-up as a way to enjoy his consistently funny posts, then he posts something like that which makes me think he's probably just a horrible racist cunt. Then again, I enjoy Woody Allen films and Chris Benoit matches so maybe I need to separate the art from the artist. Had any good pizzas lately, mate?

[John Arne]

I sometimes wonder if half you lot understand what racism is.

Making a shitty joke on a football manager forum, is not it.

[Baz]

That poem pissed me off so much.My [white] teacher read it in a Jamaican accent. :cab:

[Shindig]

So did my Yorkshire teacher. It was .... something else.

[niko_cee]

I must have missed the cut on that one.

Lewis is obviously on the wind-up. He's just very good at it, which makes it seem more genuine.

[Spikey M]

I used to describe myself as ‘quarter-caste’ which is doubly offensive because my fractions were out.

[SvN]

My [white] teacher read it in a Jamaican accent. :cab:

We listened to a tape of a someone with an over the top Jamaican accent reading it.

"E'splaaaayn yersel', whu yu meeeaan, when yu saaay... aaaaaalf casssste?"

[Kikó]

It was someone from the Caribbean wasn't it who wrote the poem?

[SvN]

They all sound the same to me, mate.

[Kikó]

Guyana https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/john-agard

[SvN]

Nick Clegg now works for Facebook?!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45913587

I didn't see that coming.

[Giggles]

Deliberately jump on outside of train.
Injure yourself.
.
.
.
Profit.

https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2018/1019/1005313-rebecca-kelly-court/

[SvN]

That has ruined my entire weekend.

[Boydy]

Sounds more like she had a severe brain injury before the incident.

[John]

Mine too. Hopefully the brain injury worsens and she dies before a penny is paid.

[Shindig]

What a terrible injustice. I hope her kid grows up to beat her.

[Baz]

You’re all dreadful.

And dreadfully jealous.

[Boydy]

Mine too. Hopefully the brain injury worsens and she dies before a penny is paid.

Seems a bit much.

[Giggles]

You’re all dreadful.

And dreadfully jealous.

Idiocy shouldn't be rewarded.

[Spikey M]

He’s a Scouse. Cheating half a mil out of a company is commendable.

[Spikey M]

Me and the Mrs just had to do a quick shop in Sainsbury’s and we saw a bloke use the round bit of a key in his trolley. I tried it, and it worked for me too.

Absolute scenes.

You’re welcome.

[Giggles]

Me and the Mrs just had to do a quick shop in Sainsbury’s and we saw a bloke use the round bit of a key in his trolley. I tried it, and it worked for me too.

Absolute scenes.

You’re welcome.

Your 2p's work in the €2 ones here so I put one on a keyring.

[Baz]

The effort of drilling a hole into a 2p was surely not worth it.

[Giggles]

The effort of drilling a hole into a 2p was surely not worth it.

I've a pillar drill and was out for a fag so it was about 8 seconds of my time.

I must round up a stock of 2p's so I can just leave the trolley where I was parked when I'm done.

[Boydy]

Do most supermarkets not just have those brakes on the trollies that are activated when you get a certain distance from the shop these days? I haven't put a quid in a trolley in years although it's very rare I actually use a trolley.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I once had to transport fifty bottles of wine about 400 yards in two trollies, and I can confirm that because of the above we had to pick the trollies up and fucking carry them.

[Lewis]

I seem to have an almost superpower-like ability to pick the shittest, wobbliest trolley available.

[Spikey M]

Do most supermarkets not just have those brakes on the trollies that are activated when you get a certain distance from the shop these days? I haven't put a quid in a trolley in years although it's very rare I actually use a trolley.

Most of them do, but you still get the odd throwback. The fact that we live in a cashless world these days makes this even more of a life saver when you get blind sided by one of them.

[Baz]

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/i-felt-sick-mum-shares-15311948

Free heroin with every Spoonies meal deal.

[mugbull]

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/i-felt-sick-mum-shares-15311948

Free heroin with every Spoonies meal deal.


“The lady and her child shouldn’t have had to go through the trauma of having an HIV test at the hospital.

“The manager at the pub would like to offer the lady a £50 gift card for use at the pub.

“This in no way underestimates the situation that she faced.”

Jokes

[Spikey M]

That in no way underestimates the situation that she faced.

[Giggles]

Wouldn't be a week without a bullshit compo claim.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/woman-who-slipped-on-spilled-cream-in-dunnes-stores-awarded-75k-37462668.html

[niko_cee]

The best bit of that story is that she sued her employers (eh?), and ended up jobless a year later (lol).

:cab:

[Boom-Boom-18]

There has been a helicopter crash in the Leicester City stadium car park (the owners were inside after taking off from the pitch as normal).

[Giggles]

1056272559120048129

[Giggles]

By the look of the fireball on SSN it doesn't look good for the owner and family.

[igor_balis]

https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/45121123_10160963296430384_8969733872765894656_o.j pg?_nc_cat=100&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr3-1.xx&oh=2ad465274c2293ac989a984621a2d424&oe=5C7F40C5

Outstanding

[John]

https://preview.ibb.co/fufHsf/FB-IMG-1540989973275.jpg

Lovely.

[SincereTheRebel]

:D

Who is that, Bissaka?

[John]

It is.

[Pepe]

That's great. :D

[Spikey M]

Outstanding

[Giggles]

I'm not getting it.

[Spikey M]

The picture.

[Kikó]

It's a different black player.

[Giggles]

Ah. I'd never have gotten it.

[Giggles]

\o/

https://amp.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/man-62-who-tripped-while-pushing-past-elderly-man-on-dublin-bus-loses-60k-damages-claim-37483014.html

[niko_cee]

"fell like a log"

:D

[Pepe]

I love that Giggle's biggest interest seems to be frivolous lawsuits.

[Magic]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-46070239

Harold's narrative. :drool:

[randomlegend]

https://i.imgur.com/6gb0qy0.png

:lol:

[SincereTheRebel]

Taz up to his old tricks again.

[Pepe]

At least he behaves like every other 14 years old.

[bruhnaldo]

I didn't believe it was a real story until I scrolled further up and saw the bit from BBC.

I just assumed it was a meme prank someone was doing on a substitute lmao

[Shindig]

All I could think of is how this must've happened before.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-46071811

The CV of a five-year-old boy in Shanghai has attracted a large amount of attention on Chinese social media.

The 15-page document is thought to have been produced in application for a place at a competitive school and lists a variety of sections detailing his "unique" personality, "rich" hobbies and "colourful" experience.

There are also sections on his loving family and educational values, as well as an appendix of all the books he has read in 2018.

According to Hong Kong newspaper the South China Morning Post, the document claims he has read 10,000 books.

Fucking hell.

[Spikey M]

Everyone lies on their CV.

[Boydy]

I could read 10,000 books in a year if I didn't have to go to work too.

[Lewis]

I doubt it mate.

[Baz]

https://media1.tenor.com/images/604b151af7261a5707cf2ef30f97c08d/tenor.gif?itemid=5458141

[Lewis]

You look so much better with your long hair.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Now say it looks like Mike because he also wears glasses.

[Baz]

We wish we were as cool as Bill. :cool:

[Magic]

I could read 10,000 books in a year if I didn't have to go to work too.

You've just got a job you sneering middle aged cunt.

[Boydy]

You've just got a job you sneering middle aged cunt.

Don't take your anger that your job will be gone soon out on me.

[Magic]

Don't take your anger that your job will be gone soon out on me.

No need.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Top seller now that he's made TWO deals.

So fuck you Boydy.

[Boydy]

https://media1.giphy.com/media/l2QEfBzYNAUAiN0Ri/giphy.gif?cid=3640f6095bdcd3007530687936963b55

[Jimmy Floyd]

I rinsed 4,000 euros out of La Coruña this afternoon just on a si si señor and a whistle, and that on All Souls Day when they are asleep all day as opposed to for most of it. You need to get out of IT and into fixing broken combine harvesters.

[Lewis]

He doesn't strike me as being particularly suitable to engineering environments.

[Magic]

Top seller now that he's made TWO deals.

So fuck you Boydy.

3rd.

[Pepe]

He doesn't strike me as being particularly suitable to engineering environments.

Fighting words right there.

[Magic]

Says the fat librarian.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46088884

Edgley left the Kent town on 1 June, and has not set foot on land since, swimming for up to 12 hours a day and eating more than 500 bananas.

He has battled strong tides and currents in cold water, braved storms, jellyfish and swimming in late autumn.

The effort has taken its toll on his body, resulting in shoulder pain, wetsuit chafing and his tongue has partially disintegrated from salt water exposure.

:sick:

[randomlegend]

I really wanna see.

[Shindig]

https://www.redbull.com/gb-en/ross-edgley-great-british-swim-tongue

It's not that bad, actually.

[Jimmy Floyd]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-46099562

Is it no longer possible for people to act like cunts without the need for it to be investigated as a made-up crime?

[Lewis]

I like that it's the 'Grenfell Tower investigation team' doing it, as if it's somehow related to that, rather than (sadly) routine business.

[Spikey M]

Can we charge the LADS that carry out a funeral for their old FIFA games, when a new one is released, with something?

[Kikó]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-46099562

Is it no longer possible for people to act like cunts without the need for it to be investigated as a made-up crime?

Social media has completely regressed the world.

[Lewis]

One of the all-time great Deadly Dominic observations was his description of David Cameron as seeing the role of Prime Minister as being 'the nation's uber-pundit', which I always think of when I see Theresa May commenting on rubbish.

[Yevrah]

I think chaps we just have to accept we're all getting old (some more so than others, hello me), the world is moving and we don't like it.

I mean, there are numerous examples of the world running mad, but I'm sure it was exactly the same for our parents and for their parents.

The beauty for us is that unlike our generation's new things, most of this shit is so easy to argue against, without even knowing the finer detail in most cases.