News of the day

[Shindig]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DPZ2YchX4AIdynQ.jpg

[Lewis]

I always thought 'blacking up' included doing a voice and presenting yourself as some sort of racial stereotype. In which case that costume would be offensive, but me dressing up as Nelson Mandela because he is my favourite celebrity would not necessarily be. Then again, people get offended by haircuts these days, so why risk it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46548044

A man has been rescued after spending two days trapped in a grease vent at a vacant Chinese restaurant in California, police say.

:sick:

That is grim as fuck.

[Disco]

12 years in prison for damage to grease.

[Shindig]

China's greatest export. I was going to bring up Michael Barrymore's blackface of John Barnes but I can't find the video.

[John]

I'm never sure why they translate the time into GMT on that sort of story.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Style guide. Same as how they always have to turn currencies into sterling.

[John]

Style guide. Same as how they always have to turn currencies into sterling.

I get the currencies though, to give the reader a better idea of the values involved. I just can't see how it's of any benefit to know what time it was here when a particular event was going on thousands of miles away.

[randomlegend]

How else will people be able to answer the question "Where were you when the man was rescued from the grease vent"?

[Baz]

California man. :D

[Giggles]

Of course.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6497595/Gingerbread-men-banned-Scottish-Parliament-new-drive-stamp-sexism.html

[Spikey M]

If I ever see a lollipop lady again, I'm hitting her with the car.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I get the currencies though, to give the reader a better idea of the values involved. I just can't see how it's of any benefit to know what time it was here when a particular event was going on thousands of miles away.

In some stories it will be relevant or at least somehow of interest to convert the time that something happened back to our time (e.g. when an earthquake struck, or someone's death was reported, or what time a sports fixture starts) so it will be in the style guide that all times from other time zones have to be reported in the same way, even if it is a story about someone falling into a bin or whatever.

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06vhx0g

Getting bullied? Write them a poem. Bullies love poems.

Your face I'll punch,
Your arse I'll kick,
Give me your lunch,
You ginger prick.

[Giggles]

https://www.rte.ie/news/2018/1216/1017458-roscommon-attack/

This one is going to grow and grow here and isn't done by a long way. What the state broadcaster is neglecting to say in the article is that the 'security' mentioned in the article were a group of loyalist paramilitaries hired by the bank. The group of locals should have put them on pikes as a warning.

EDIT: That wiki edit :cool: (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBC_Bank_Ireland)

[niko_cee]

The article that wiki thing links through to (this one) (http://theliberal.ie/alleged-uvf-linked-security-firm-badly-beaten-by-irish-patriots-at-kbc-roscommon-eviction/) really is something else.

[Giggles]

The article that wiki thing links through to (this one) (http://theliberal.ie/alleged-uvf-linked-security-firm-badly-beaten-by-irish-patriots-at-kbc-roscommon-eviction/) really is something else.

The lad that runs that website is a nutjob, though what he's lacking in writing talent he isn't lacking in facts.

[phonics]

Why do cyclists always win SPOTY? I've never met anyone that likes cycling but the moment you do something in the Tour de France you're a shoe in.

[Giggles]

I see you lot did the token 'women in pointless sport' thing too this year with those netballers. Our women's hockey team won team of the year last night in our version of the awards, fucking jokeshop.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Why do cyclists always win SPOTY? I've never met anyone that likes cycling but the moment you do something in the Tour de France you're a shoe in.

SPOTY is all about how mobilised your voter base is, and you know what cyclists are like. It's an absolute cult. Add in some Celtic fringe nationalism and Geraint was a shoo in.

Motorbikes are similarly mental, there was an Ulster motorbiker who came second last year whom I still haven't heard of.

Lewis Hamilton should have won it easily and indeed should have won it for the last few years. He's the leading British sportsperson by far.

[niko_cee]

I dunno. Geraint's a worthy winner (of a meaningless bauble). Maybe if Hamilton was the No.2 guy on his all-conquering team we could talk.

There's also the fact that Hamilton's probably going to be back for more, but for Thomas that was probably a once in a lifetime shot.

Cycling probably isn't any more fringe than F1 these days.

[Boydy]

Sports personality of the year is a load of bollocks anyway. Who cares who wins?

[Giggles]

I presumed he was a rugby player.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Sports personality of the year is a load of bollocks anyway. Who cares who wins?

It's a competition on terrestrial telly, millions do.

[Offshore Toon]

She's had loads of surgery. No Polish woman looks like that.

They can have 'olive' skin (not as dark as hers) but the arse et al, nope.
Polish people look like they've come through the randomiser on Zoombinis.

[niko_cee]

The lad that runs that website is a nutjob, though what he's lacking in writing talent he isn't lacking in facts.

Stuff like 'Irish patriots' and blithering on about disparaging jokes about the pope show just how significantly we fail to understand the backstop and all it's apparently insidious nuances. I know it's a daft question, but did The Enlightenment bypass Ireland?

[Giggles]

Stuff like 'Irish patriots' and blithering on about disparaging jokes about the pope show just how significantly we fail to understand the backstop and all it's apparently insidious nuances. I know it's a daft question, but did The Enlightenment bypass Ireland?

Is there really any point in having that conversation with someone who has themselves well outed as a knuckle dragging Brexit poster boy?

[Spikey M]

Woof.

[niko_cee]

Hey man, I'm not the one offering a (credible) return to violence as the outcome of a supranational political decision. I'm saying the average British Joe Public really doesn't understand the ostensible reality that paramilitary gangs are still so prevalent and powerful on the island of Ireland, which means we don't see why THE BORDER is such a massive deal. I also don't understand how that is allowed to be the case, but hey-ho.

And my interest in Brexit is mostly from the perspective of watching Rome burn, seeing as I'm entirely outwith it and didn't even vote.

Maybe the Republic of Ireland and/or the EU/Holy Roman Empire should be more honest about their actual position on the issue of the Irish border. It isn't that there shouldn't be a hard one, it's that there shouldn't be one at all. Trichet was treading that line (unwittingly the massive dolt) on Newsnight the other night.

Edit, whilst I must admit it is fun to prod you with disparaging comments about the Irish, I do try to resist calling you a bog-brained Murphy, so maybe you could return the favour.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The problem in the relations between England and its Celtic neighbours is that the neighbours in question never realise just how little England knows or cares about them. They tend to interpret this as arrogance, when in fact it is massive apathy. The same as any big to small neighbour relations the world over.

All the historical brutality/oppression by us has always stemmed from that same apathy. We don't hate you, we just neglect to remember that you exist until you shout loud enough for us to send over a crack squad with guns and that.

[Giggles]

Hey man, I'm not the one offering a (credible) return to violence as the outcome of a supranational political decision. I'm saying the average British Joe Public really doesn't understand the ostensible reality that paramilitary gangs are still so prevalent and powerful on the island of Ireland, which means we don't see why THE BORDER is such a massive deal. I also don't understand how that is allowed to be the case, but hey-ho.

And my interest in Brexit is mostly from the perspective of watching Rome burn, seeing as I'm entirely outwith it and didn't even vote.

Maybe the Republic of Ireland and/or the EU/Holy Roman Empire should be more honest about their actual position on the issue of the Irish border. It isn't that there shouldn't be a hard one, it's that there shouldn't be one at all. Trichet was treading that line (unwittingly the massive dolt) on Newsnight the other night.

Edit, whilst I must admit it is fun to prod you with disparaging comments about the Irish, I do try to resist calling you a bog-brained Murphy, so maybe you could return the favour.

Firstly, the story I posted has zero to do with Brexit or backstops or anything like that. It was about a monumental fuck up by a bank in hiring a group of vigilante loyalist terrorists to come into this state to put people out of their homes. No matter how right the repossession was, your black and tans forcing people from their homes here is still a little too fresh in history to think it was going to pass off without any bother. I've already explained to you about the nutter that owns Liberial.ie from the story you found on Wikipedia, old Leo has form and has been in court so may times that he could take up residence in one of them.

On Northern Ireland, I'll let you in on a little secret about it. History dictates that we need to be seen to want it and that you need to be seen to want to keep it, but in reality if it disappeared into the sea then both states would be over the moon. It's a political basket case, devoid of any skilled work force of any numbers or industry (public service is all they can manage), and is like stepping into the 1970's in comparison to Ireland and mainland Britain. The reality is that we never want either the debt it would bring or having to completely re-write our own state in an futile attempt to appease thousands of angry orangemen. Personally, the bigger and higher the border the better, if that's what becomes of you lot wanting to get some brown people off your island (who are most likely only there because you pillaged their homelands at some stage too) then it's an added bonus.

"Holy roman empire"? Are you just a charicature of Paisley now? :D Might as well go full whack I suppose. Also, it's 'Ireland'.

[Spikey M]

The thing is, none of the general public give a fuck about a hard border between the North and the South. They'd be quite happy to keep the border open if it weren't for those cheeky Romanians they imagine using it as a back door.

If May could get a "RoI citizens can come and go as they please" clause agreed, the deal would probably be accepted by parliament. It'll never happen, mind.

[Giggles]

The thing is, none of the general public give a fuck about a hard border between the North and the South. They'd be quite happy to keep the border open if it weren't for those cheeky Romanians they imagine using it as a back door.

If May could get a "RoI citizens can come and go as they please" clause agreed, the deal would probably be accepted by parliament. It'll never happen, mind.

Her government are propped up by a cult that would want us as the last people to be able to travel freely, so it wouldn't stand a chance.

[Jimmy Floyd]

You imagine that, but 'immigration' as a political issue is mainly about a) language and subservient to that, b) race. The Irish may indulge in the odd spot of bombing and other japes but they tick both those boxes so they'll be waved through like the Aussies, Kiwis and Dutchies.

[Giggles]

Most of the IRA who bombed your country weren't from Ireland. Very few actually were.

Though as rational as you're being, as you can be at least, on the subject, you really have no idea what absolute headcases the DUP and loyalists in general in NI are. Nobody is accaptable and we're top of the pops.

[Lewis]

We have had a Common Travel Area for almost a century, and nothing in the Good Friday Agreement says we cannot have normal border checks. The European Union and its supporters have just pretended otherwise to keep us tied into their bullshit, idiots have conflated normal border procedures with British Army roadblocks, and even bigger idiots have bought into both.

[Spikey M]

They're the Young Earth anti-abortionists that haven't had a sitting parliament in about 4 years. They're pretty mental alright.

[Giggles]

Seeing as those mongs haven't been able to form a government between them for two years, could they not rip up the Good Friday Agreement at this stage anyway? Surely there's a case for voiding it when neither party can be arsed making any use of it.

[Boydy]

Hey, we're pretty decent at IT these days.

[Baz]

http://www.irishnews.com/magazine/daily/2018/12/18/news/yorkshire-tea-s-brew-sing-backlash-as-new-bags-get-lukewarm-reception-1511047/

Tea bag crisis.

[Disco]

It's fine, it's only Yorkshire tea which is shite to begin with.

[SincereTheRebel]

You dont realiase how good PG Tips are until you try other tea. Yorkshire and Typhoo are terrible.

[niko_cee]

I can't really pick the difference between any of the major tea brands, or most own brand efforts.

It's only when you have tea on foreign shores that you really appreciate how badly wrong a tea bag can go. I appreciate there are some exemptions to this rule.

[Giggles]

Tea is muck anyway.

[Baz]

Dementia reversed in Australian mice (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-18/dementia-cure-possible-after-breakthrough-qld-study/10629688?sf204474027=1). This could be pretty mega.

[Shindig]

Excellent. I'd rather die of cancer.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-46622772

Statement, a women-only festival in Sweden, has been found guilty of discrimination by Sweden's Discrimination Ombudsman (DO).

The DO said that describing an event as "male-free" breached the country's anti-discrimination laws.

The publicity issued in the run up to the event "discouraged a certain group from attending", the regulator added.

lol.

[phonics]

Gatwick being shutdown because of this drone stuff is ridiculous. You can't get a drone near the airport here because they have a radar that emits a signal blocker so they just fall out of the sky if they get anywhere near. How has the second biggest airport in the country not got something similar?

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

I hope whoever's responsible gets shot.

[Boom-Boom-18]

It is insane, I am amazed it has been able to go on for so long.

[Raoul Duke]

Dementia reversed in Australian mice (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-18/dementia-cure-possible-after-breakthrough-qld-study/10629688?sf204474027=1). This could be pretty mega.

You already posted this, a couple of days ago

[Disco]

Shame it only works on mice.

[Baz]

Gatwick being shutdown because of this drone stuff is ridiculous. You can't get a drone near the airport here because they have a radar that emits a signal blocker so they just fall out of the sky if they get anywhere near. How has the second biggest airport in the country not got something similar?https://i.imgur.com/PLgma7S.jpg

[Jimmy Floyd]

Gatwick being shutdown because of this drone stuff is ridiculous. You can't get a drone near the airport here because they have a radar that emits a signal blocker so they just fall out of the sky if they get anywhere near. How has the second biggest airport in the country not got something similar?

Gatwick has such as well (obviously), but this drone is/was fitted with something clever that allows it to get around it.

[Pepe]

Remember when radio controlled aircraft was just for nerds and weirdos? Why are drones so popular with the general population? It's the camera, isn't it?

[phonics]

Yeah no-one liked remote control cars or anything before. Must be the selfies.

[John]

They've loaned a load of specialised cameras from my mate's company. Must be some drone.

[phonics]

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

An obituary to be proud of

[Giggles]

Dragging the tans into it seems to have backfired on them slightly anyway.

1076451050192818176

[phonics]

Nice of the Police to give their details to the press before charging them. Now they've let them go, they'll be getting nice out of court settlements from Fleet Street for Christmas.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Carole Madwoman has gone full tinfoil hat on this.

[Lewis]

HYBRID WARFARE is going to keep shit academics and wankers in articles and funding for the next ten years.

[Pepe]

HYBRID WARFARE is going to keep shit academics and wankers in articles and funding for the next ten years.

Get on that gravy train.

[Lewis]

I would say nothing about it is new, then I would get owned by the revelation that Clausewitz never once mentioned Twitter.

[Pepe]

Sounds like a fruitful academic career right there.

[Ian]

Fears of new Indonesia tsunami as Anak Krakatau volcano seethes (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-46667970)

That volcano is ON THE ROPES.

[mugbull]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46690647

Scenes when he ends up in Angola

[Spikey M]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/WK1g7KnyWqCq1cLRmTtprg/plus-size-shopping-i-feel-isolated-from-the-high-street

Lose some weight then, you fat cunt. I sit here weighing - as I last checked - 86kg, I can't wear 'slim fit' shirts anymore and my my t-shirts now call me 'large'.

What of it? I wear large, because I am bigger than average and I can't wear slim-fit because I ain't fucking slim. Every mainstream shop has a fatty range. Go shop there. You aren't being neglected, you're being a cunt.

[Queenslander]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/WK1g7KnyWqCq1cLRmTtprg/plus-size-shopping-i-feel-isolated-from-the-high-street

Lose some weight then, you fat cunt. I sit here weighing - as I last checked - 86kg, I can't wear 'slim fit' shirts anymore and my my t-shirts now call me 'large'.

What of it? I wear large, because I am bigger than average and I can't wear slim-fit because I ain't fucking slim. Every mainstream shop has a fatty range. Go shop there. You aren't being neglected, you're being a cunt.

Hilarious.

Im bald meaning people getting hair cuts makes me feel isolated.

[Baz]

Turkish barber turned me away when I asked for one of them posh shaves.

DISCRIMINATION!

[SincereTheRebel]

The moonface looking ting

[John]

Physical stores stock enough of the best selling items in the best selling sizes to meet predicted demand. Everything else waits in the warehouse until it's specifically requested.

I wonder how interested a paper would have been in 2001 when I had to wait for Fopp to get me in a copy of Violent By Design, because they couldn't cater to my specific needs that day.

[Alex]

Physical stores stock enough of the best selling items in the best selling sizes to meet predicted demand. Everything else waits in the warehouse until it's specifically requested.

I wonder how interested a paper would have been in 2001 when I had to wait for Fopp to get me in a copy of Violent By Design, because they couldn't cater to my specific needs that day.

:D

Long out of print is that, John. I hope you've still got it.

[Pepe]

I feel the same way every time I go to those MASSIVE SAVINGS department stores over here. They never have anything in small. :(

[Giggles]

I feel the same way every time I go to those MASSIVE SAVINGS department stores over here. They never have anything in small. :(

Didn't know they sold condoms in those shops.

[Pepe]

Donned.

[Baz]

:D

[Disco]

https://entertainment.inquirer.net/311859/p2fb-macaulay-culkin-to-change-his-middle-name-to-macaulay-culkin

TTH Internet Bellweather.

[Pepe]

That might be our biggest e-victory yet.

[Spikey M]

I don't get it.

[Giggles]

I don't get it.

Macaulay "Macaulay Culkin" Cuklin.

[niko_cee]

Yeah, I don't get it either. Is it something to do with the 'TTH' (I'm aware of the double the) name being duplicated in this new iteration (main forum and the sub-forum)?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Have you not read Lewis's posts in the past?

[Lewis]

Yeah, the TTH Style Guide.

[Spikey M]

Macaulay 'Please can we meet irl' Culkin.

[Lewis]

Yeah, the TTH Style Guide.


'Hillary' and 'Bernie' (and 'Jeb') get the 'treatment' because referring to these people as if they're your mates or a stand-alone brand is lol. Nobody refers to Marco Rubio as 'Marco', or Martin O'Malley as 'Martin', and if they did they would be lolled at too.

See also: 'Pep', 'Brendan', and all of those shit initialisms like 'LvG' and 'AVB'. Balls nicknames like 'The Special One' and 'The Little Genius' are also fair game provided people use them seriously, as are things like Jurgen 'Jurgen Klopp' Klopp (and Phil 'Phil Brown' Brown) that capture the self-importance of that particular person.

It began with Yevrah always referring to Rafa Benitez as 'Rafa' in order to mock Liverpool fans familiarising him, but it also served to undermine his credentials as well. God knows who then introduced Phil 'Phil Brown' Brown to the board, but we haven't looked back.

[Pepe]

Idiotmouse 'Idiotmouse' Mouse.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Idiot 'Idiotmouse' mouse?

[Pepe]

Idiotmong 'Mouse' Mong?

[Yevrah]

Ah, 'Rafa', those were the days.

[Lewis]

He still hasn't won the Premier League.

[Spikey M]

Mahow has made Pepe look a right mug.

[Pepe]

You wot?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Having a mare here, Spikes.

I was working in collaboration with the great man and would never attempt (and it would fail) to make him look like a mug.

[Spikey M]

Pepe making Monghow look a right mug.

[Pepe]

:cool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.neweurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Trump_01.jpg

Prick.

I hope they build through your abuela's house.

[Pepe]

Who's that?

[Pepe]

Wait, was that directed at me?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Wait, was that directed at me?

Yeah, do one.

[Pepe]

I've been donned.

[Giggles]

Steal wine, get 4 grand.

https://www.thejournal.ie/tesco-worker-fired-bottle-of-wine-4422415-Jan2019/

[Ian]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46768242

Police in the US state of Arizona have launched a sexual assault investigation amid reports a patient in a vegetative state for a decade gave birth.

Fucking hell.

[SvN]

My name's Buck, and I'm here to fuck.

[Shindig]

Imagine if she wakes up and has to hear that news.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/46768802

A 90-year-old American cyclist has been given a public warning for violating anti-doping laws.

Carl Grove claimed contaminated meat was the reason he tested positive for epitrenbolone after the US Masters Track National Championships.

Shooting up even at 90.

[mugbull]

Honestly though if you’re 90 you’re taking so many meds that the likelihood that not one of them is prohibited by some athletic federation is really slim

[Pepe]

You can get therapeutic use exemptions.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He should have used Jon Jones' excuse and claim it was tainted cock pills.

Wouldn't have been punished AND people would think he's a legend for still 'banging sloots' at 90.

[Shindig]

I still think Sesil Karatancheva saying she had a miscarriage at 15 was the best doping excuse.

[phonics]

Why is this train stabbing in Surrey such big news? Is this the first crime to have happened in the county this decade or something? The Guardian are pumping out stories at a pace.

[-james-]

It relates to a middle class white man on a day trip with his son. Speaks to the core of their demographic innit.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Not sure he was middle class (Surrey has a lot more shit areas than people realise) but he was white and on a train line that a lot of journos probably use.

There is a formula for which crimes get most news coverage, and Levi Bellfield made it his life's mission to achieve a record score. Attractive white young woman/girl in affluent area in or near London is the maximum points available, ie. Milly Dowler.

[niko_cee]

It's a pretty shocking story, even if thinking so makes you some anti-blacklivesmatter bigot.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Just read that he 'owned an IT firm' which I suppose makes him a member of the bourgeoisie but there's something quite off about the quotes emanating from those around him.

[John]

I'm always a big fan of headlines about how a victim's family 'condemn the attack', as though if they hadn't explicitly said so we might all assume it was well deserved and they were all surreptitiously lolling into their sleeves.

[Lewis]

It is simply that whilst the aspiring rappers and promising footballers were stabbing each other nobody really cared. And why should they? But if these feral retards are breaking out into decent society (see also: that doorman getting stabbed the other day) then we have an issue.

[Baz]

Someone I know from childhood posted on Facebook the other day ’Name of who stabbed [tagged person]? Cash.’ as if he’s some big time gangster looking to seek revenge.

He pretty much openly admits to being a drug dealer while maintaining a taxman pleasing job as a painter, and I’m fairly certain he’s gay too. Quite the character! It’s a shame we didn’t keep in touch.

[Disco]

So that's what happened to The Reid.

[niko_cee]

It is simply that whilst the aspiring rappers and promising footballers were stabbing each other nobody really cared. And why should they? But if these feral retards are breaking out into decent society (see also: that doorman getting stabbed the other day) then we have an issue.

This guy does sound more like a care in the community nutbar than a lost member of the Wood Green Massive.

[Raoul Duke]

Yeah, this will just be some random mentalist rather than Praise Be To Allan.

[Ian]

I just Googled "doorman stabbed" as I'd missed the story and the Sun headline it pops up with is: "Thugs who killed bouncer outside New Year’s sex party ‘were actually Albanian gangsters hunting fraudster hos"

Well that's told me all I need to know, I reckon.

[Raoul Duke]

I just Googled "doorman stabbed" as I'd missed the story and the Sun headline it pops up with is: "Thugs who killed bouncer outside New Year’s sex party ‘were actually Albanian gangsters hunting fraudster hos"

Well that's told me all I need to know, I reckon.

@Wedge

[John Arne]

I just heard Lady Gaga say something along the lines of "as a women working in music, it's really hard to be taken seriously in the music industry".
:/

[phonics]

I just heard Lady Gaga say something along the lines of "as a women working in music, it's really hard to be taken seriously in the music industry".
:/

She was raped by someone senior in the music industry so I can imagine that she probably faced a barrier or two outside of just the literal physical assaults.

[John Arne]

She was raped by someone senior in the music industry so I can imagine that she probably faced a barrier or two outside of just the literal physical assaults.

She is worth, apparently, over $275m... some in the music industry are clearly taking her seriously. As for the rape, not quite sure what that has do not with people taking her seriously - yes, of course there have been barriers to her success (some much more horrific than others), I'm not saying otherwise.

[phonics]

Even after she’s made that money she wasn’t allowed to choose her own producers despite being raped by one of the producers her label picked last time. I don’t understand how you think ‘she has money therefore she’s taken seriously’ is a serious point. Marilyn Monroe was well paid as well, don’t think she was taken seriously outside of mafia bosses also raping her to get back at JFK.

[Pepe]

She is worth, apparently, over $275m... some in the music industry are clearly taking her seriously.

She said hard, not impossible.

[Lewis]

The FEMINAZIS would have a field day with phonics white knighting for her whilst mixing her up with somebody else.

Wow. Just wow.

[bruhnaldo]

She was raped by someone senior in the music industry so I can imagine that she probably faced a barrier or two outside of just the literal physical assaults.


Even after she’s made that money she wasn’t allowed to choose her own producers despite being raped by one of the producers her label picked last time. I don’t understand how you think ‘she has money therefore she’s taken seriously’ is a serious point. Marilyn Monroe was well paid as well, don’t think she was taken seriously outside of mafia bosses also raping her to get back at JFK.

Isn't this Ke$ha and not Lady Gaga?

[Pepe]

Phonics. :lol:

[Giggles]

Never let something like facts get in the way of a phonics crusade.

[Lewis]

I respect so many women, and so intensely, that I occasionally confuse them.

[Shindig]

He virtue signaled so hard he blinded himself. Mert would've loved this. :(

[phonics]

I respect so many women, and so intensely, that I occasionally confuse them.

(https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lady-gaga-reveals-sexual-assault-to-howard-stern-56885/)Or maybe it's just that common. (http://time.com/3616084/lady-gaga-rape/)



Lady Gaga claimed in a recent interview that she was sexually assaulted by a producer when she was 19.


Last year, Gaga sang “Swine” at South by Southwest, while covered in colored vomit. She told Howard Stern on his morning show Tuesday that the performance was meant to demonstrate that a man “could never, ever degrade me as much as I degrade myself.” The singer went on to say that she had been raped by an older man when she was a “very naive” teenager. The incident made her “a shell of [her] former self” and the true gravity didn’t hit her until years later. But she has since sought therapy.


Gaga has not publicly spoken about the assault before, and said Tuesday that she didn’t “want to be defined” by the incident. “I’ll be damned if somebody’s gonna say that every creatively intelligent thing that I ever did is all boiled down to one dickhead who did that to me,” she said.

[Pepe]

a man “could never, ever degrade me as much as I degrade myself.”

https://media1.tenor.com/images/12c6f8ca8a8d259381ad5894a9fb653c/tenor.gif?itemid=4677199

[Shindig]

Sounds like an open challenge.

[Pepe]

Magic

[Lewis]

As I said, the fog of respect...

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-46794476

A Japanese men's magazine has had to issue an apology after publishing a list ranking universities on how easy it is to convince female students to have sex at drinking parties.

The article mentioned five colleges where students were "easily available" at drinking parties, and described how to "coax" women and judge whether a woman was sexually available based on her clothing and appearance, reports say.

I guess Mert wont be publishing his US version now.

[Spikey M]

On a scale from Clarkson to Morrissey, where is Phonics these days?

[Shindig]

That's impossible to call, given Mozza's opinions on rape.

[phonics]

On a scale from Clarkson to Morrissey, where is Phonics these days?

You realise Morrisey is super-right wing these days? I'm not sure how your scale works. This all coming out of me disagreeing with someone saying "women have it easy in music, look at how much Lady Gaga made" does show some absolute desperation to be mad about certain things.

[Spikey M]

Oh.

I meant Kelly Clarkson.

[phonics]

I have no idea who that is.

[Kikó]

Don't deadname Kelly again.

[phonics]

What can I say apart from that it's clearly hard for a woman in the music industry to get me to pay attention to her. Let alone take them seriously.

[Baz]

You can't miss her nowadays.

[Disco]

I disagree, no idea who it is either.

[Spikey M]

I have no idea who that is.

Well, Since you've been gone you've had time to look her up.

If you still don't know then that's because of you.

[phonics]

Well, Since you've been gone you've had time to look her up.

If you still don't know then that's because of you.

Sure, what of it? Where is the own here?

[Spikey M]

Walk away. I am Invincible.

[Giggles]

Second one in a month. These empty hotels seem to be very flammable.

https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2019/0111/1022537-update-on-hotel-fire-in-roosky/

[Lewis]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46843265

Twenty-one? There was a Hull Daily Mail story a few weeks ago with every idiot who got put away in 2018, and I reckon I could have picked out a good 85/90% of the sexcases on appearance alone.

[SvN]

He looks in his mid 30s.

[Boydy]

Teen crashes car after driving blindfolded for Bird Box challenge

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jan/11/bird-box-challenge-teen-car-crash?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard

People are really fucking dumb.

[Giggles]

That's a whole pile of juice for one factory.

https://amp.independent.ie/business/irish/intel-will-use-four-times-as-much-power-as-galway-city-in-leixlip-37703874.html

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-46814527

I'll take 3.

[Kikó]

We are in a place where this is a normal statement:

Lynda Mayall, 61, who lives near Wakefield, bought a kit after hearing reports of how the UK may struggle post-Brexit.

"I'm not worried about Brexit, I'm worried about the aftermath," she said.

"I feel that there's going to be a bit of chaos for the first six months until border controls are sorted.

[Boydy]

Should I be prepping? I barely keep enough food in the house to make dinner. I go to the shop most days.

[Jimmy Floyd]

We're not leaving, so you'll be fine.

[Disco]

What a bunch of morons. Short of actual nuclear war is there a circumstance in which we would be in danger even of rationing let alone anyone actually going without for any length of time?

[Pepe]

If THE LEFT takes over.

[Spikey M]

What a bunch of morons. Short of actual nuclear war is there a circumstance in which we would be in danger even of rationing let alone anyone actually going without for any length of time?

Have you never seen a Zombie film?

[Lewis]

Somebody - I think Cracked, but I don' t want to check in case the algorithms start forcing all of their shit content on me - did a decent breakdown once of why zombies would be the shittest predators ever and turn into mush after a week. We could easily see a week out.

[bruhnaldo]

Well that's a bit like Shaun of the Dead isn't it. It was just the initial crazy bit and then the army sorted it all out overnight.

[phonics]

I always enjoy a story about large corporations getting fucked but McDonalds have just lost the 'Big Mac' trademark.

I was half way through the article when I read this.

https://i.imgur.com/s6PUBsn.png

In what world have they not used 'Big Mac' since 1996?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/15/mcdonalds-loses-big-mac-trademark-legal-battle-supermacs?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_b-gdnnews&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1547632761

[Spikey M]

That is both lol and mental.

[niko_cee]

I've a feeling something's either been lost in translation there (is the dispute actually about the trademark for 'SnackBox'?) or an EU Trademark (or whatever it is) probably isn't worth much as the issue is dealt with at national level.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's a misprint isn't it? It reads like McDonalds were trying to stop them using 'Supermac'.

The Guardian is notorious for just printing any old shite without proof reading it.

[Giggles]

Not sure what went down about trademarks, etc but it was mainly about McDonalds stopping them expanding outside here because of the Mac in the name and now they can't stop them.

[Giggles]

Judge in being useful shocker :drool:

https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/358043/jail-sentence-for-man-caught-speeding-on-limerick-motorway.html

[mugbull]

2 months in prison for speeding is retarded

[Giggles]

2 months in prison for speeding is retarded

It's an excellent deterrent for all the cunts at it. A few more of those and you wipe most of it out.

[mugbull]

Death penalty for littering is also a great deterrent

[Giggles]

Death penalty for littering is also a great deterrent

Now that's a retarded one.

[mugbull]

Make the punishment fit the crime right?

[Spikey M]

Speeding can kill. Littering, unless you live in a cartoon featuring a banana skin, doesn’t.

[Giggles]

Speeding can kill. Littering, unless you live in a cartoon featuring a banana skin, doesn’t.

And even if they had the same chance, 2 months and a driving ban is a bit less severe than firing squad.

[Spikey M]

Although Fly-Tipping should be a capital offence really.

[Giggles]

There's a great push on that here at the minute. Someone in Fingal county council had the sense to buy a load of wildlife cameras and there's massive fines being doled out.

Except to travellers, because to punish them would be racist.

[Spikey M]

Is it anyone but our traveller friends anyway?

[Giggles]

Is it anyone but our traveller friends anyway?

You'd be surprised.

[mugbull]

Obviously prison time for speeding is completely absurd. You'll get the prison if you kill someone.

[Giggles]

Obviously prison time for speeding is completely absurd. You'll get the prison if you kill someone.

It's better to stop people doing it than waiting til they kill someone.

[Shindig]

Agreed.

[mugbull]

It's better to stop people doing it than waiting til they kill someone.

Didn’t you advocate for running red lights if you don’t see anyone crossing the road a few days ago?

[Giggles]

Didn’t you advocate for running red lights if you don’t see anyone crossing the road a few days ago?

Very specific red lights yes. I'm an observant driver.

[John]

I love every name in that article, but 'Cois na hAbhainn, Tuam, County Galway' is my favourite. I'm choosing to believe that capital A is a stylistic choice, like in Amsterdam ArenA, rather than a typo.

[Giggles]

Abhainn (river) is the word and the h goes in if followed by the 'na'.

[Giggles]

Though in fairness, I should know not to praise a judge. This guy was in the same court with the same judge today and only got a driving ban.

https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/358271/driving-ban-for-addict-who-reversed-car-at-limerick-gardai-before-high-speed-chase.html


A man who reversed a high-powered car directly at Limerick gardai forcing them to take evasive action has been banned from driving for three years.

[Queenslander]

Bloke injects himself with semen to cure his back pain.

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-18/man-hospitalised-inject-semen-into-arm-to-cure-back-pain/10727310?pfmredir=sm&s

[Spikey M]

Well then...

[Queenslander]

Real Ass Dude of the year!

[John]

https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/local-news/prince-philip-crash-land-rover-15697987

I love how tenuous that local angle is.

[Spikey M]

That's the biggest thing linked to Coventry since a lady got her tits out on a horse and a church had it's roof blown off.

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-46924289

[Queenslander]

Imagine telling a Dr that was your conception...

[Lewis]

If the court believes it is 'morally unacceptable to regard a child as a financial liability', couldn't that also have implications for a woman trying to get money out of a man who didn't want a kid?

[niko_cee]

I feel the real question no one is asking in this whole Prince Phillip crash thing is where the fuck was he going?

[Kikó]

Dogging.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The idea that Prince Philip still drives on public roads (or ever has, for that matter) is bizarre to me, white Fiat Uno notwithstanding.

[Lewis]

What a machine though just shrugging it off at his age.

[Shindig]

The idea that Prince Philip still drives on public roads (or ever has, for that matter) is bizarre to me, white Fiat Uno notwithstanding.

"Dazed by the sun." is probably an excuse he was expecting to use in court. Maybe change that with camera flashes.

[Giggles]

I don't want to trigger phonics or anything, but what the fuck?

https://m.facebook.com/britishtransportpolice/photos/a.323104971171991/1244843678998111/

[bruhnaldo]

"Are you anything but a white male?" is so hot right now.

[Baz]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/20/spice-girls-comic-relief-tshirts-made-bangladesh-factory-paying-staff-35p-an-hour

Isn't this the case for most "made in [loser country]" stuff?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Yeah but we hold Mel C to higher moral standards.

[SvN]

I don't want to trigger phonics or anything, but what the fuck?

https://m.facebook.com/britishtransportpolice/photos/a.323104971171991/1244843678998111/

It's poorly put together, but there's nothing wrong with what they're doing. The Twitter thread (https://twitter.com/BTP/status/1085921479345229824) is pretty funny, though.

[Pepe]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/20/spice-girls-comic-relief-tshirts-made-bangladesh-factory-paying-staff-35p-an-hour

Isn't this the case for most "made in [loser country]" stuff?

Maybe we should be thanking them:

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Cover-Story/The-rise-and-rise-of-Bangladesh


Earlier this year, Bangladesh celebrated a pivotal moment when it met United Nations criteria for graduating from "least developed country" status by 2024. To Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the elevation to "developing economy" means a significant boost to the nation's self-image.


On many fronts, Bangladesh's economic performance has indeed exceeded even government targets. With a national strategy focused on manufacturing -- dominated by the garment industry -- the country has seen exports soar by an average annual rate of 15-17% in recent years to reach a record $36.7 billion in the year through June.

[John]

https://metro.co.uk/2019/01/21/woman-changed-race-using-melanin-injections-believes-conceive-black-children-8368722/

That's pretty intense lunacy.

[wullie]

https://i.imgur.com/ciV96W3.png

https://i.imgur.com/aJsQDVt.jpg

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

‘No,’ Martina replied. ‘It’s a mix of Michael and me. I’m pretty sure it will be black or milk chocolate or a little bit light, it doesn’t matter.’

Jesus.

[Ian]

https://metro.co.uk/2019/01/21/woman-changed-race-using-melanin-injections-believes-conceive-black-children-8368722/

That's pretty intense lunacy.

That is amazing.

[SincereTheRebel]

Micheal Jackson had biological blue eyed babies. Anything is possible.

[Smjffy]

It's scary that such people exist and more so that they get airtime. We should just cull them and dispose on the quiet. No one need know.

[Baz]

The biggest news here is John outing himself as a This Morning viewer.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-47029032

1089427293833850880

What a fucking idiot.

[Baz]

Jan 20
taking a break from social media. bye, for now. be back when im back x

Jan 27
(the tweet mahow posted)

whew, 7 days. and in those 7 days you managed to completely ruin your face. ggwp

[mugbull]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47047089

Luckily i’m in California. We might get some rain though :’(

[Giggles]

We're going to get some half assed waste of space snow.

[randomlegend]

What a machine though just shrugging it off at his age.

He came to the hospital I work at apparently. Didn't see him though. Also we have a procedure for if we have to admit the queen.

Fuck me what a dull post that is.

[Shindig]

So you'll break the news to us first before the press, right? It'll be bigger than Gary Speed.

[Jimmy Floyd]

We need a code phrase so it's googleproof. 'Greece 1-0 down'

[Spikey M]

'An Indian has been at the Electrics'

[Baz]

He came to the hospital I work at apparently. Didn't see him though. Also we have a procedure for if we have to admit the queen.

Fuck me what a dull post that is.

Look at his medical records, like those mooks who checked Alex Fergusons and got sacked.

[bruhnaldo]

A @mahow + bruh collaboration:

A Florida Man Allegedly Killed His Mom, Dad, And Brother After Sending $200,000 To A Cam Girl In Europe

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/florida-cam-girl-family-murder-grant-amato

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Bulgarian ones are rare.

[Bernanke]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jan/31/family-attacks-failure-to-punish-student-who-sexually-assaulted-girl


A teenager who was given an absolute discharge despite being found guilty of sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl was granted leniency because he acted out of “inappropriate curiosity” and not for sexual gratification.
During a three-day trial, Dumbarton sheriff court heard that Christopher Daniel, an 18-year-old dental student, had repeatedly touched the child’s vagina over her clothing as she sat on his knee playing on a computer.


Daniel left court with no conviction and without being placed on the sex offenders’ register because of concerns about the consequences for his future career, according to a statement published on Thursday detailing the sheriff’s reasoning.


Sheriff Gerard Sinclair concluded that the offence was “the result of an entirely inappropriate curiosity of an emotionally naive teenager rather than for the purpose of sexual gratification”.


He went on: “Any recorded conviction for this offence would have serious consequences in terms of the accused’s future career. On the authorities, this was also a relevant factor in deciding how to deal with the case. Any sentence would mean that he would probably be unable to continue his university course. The notification requirements of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 would automatically apply to a conviction for this offence unless an absolute discharge was granted.”

Solid work.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I might go and murder someone tonight, just out of inappropriate curiosity.

[Dan]

That’s absolutely insane. I’ve worked in probation for 18 months & I don’t think I’ve ever seen an absolute discharge given, never mind for a sexual offence.

[Shindig]

What was he looking for? Teeth?

[Queenslander]

Inappropriate curiosity is a deep search on porn hub.

[Baz]

I might go and murder someone tonight, just out of inappropriate curiosity.You only get away with it if you’ve got rich parents in an otherwise relatively deprived area.

[Spikey M]

You only get away with it if you’ve got rich parents in an otherwise relatively deprived area.

Don't encourage him.

[Queenslander]

Im sending that post off to MI5.

[John]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6652659/Teenager-jailed-buying-PlayStation-4-8-WEIGHING-paying-6lb-food.html

Just great.

[Alex]

Four months in jail seems a bit excessive.

[wullie]

I don't know which I like best, the ingenuity of the theft or the audacity to try it again the next day in the exact same shop.

[Spikey M]

I worked at Tesco a while back and a regular had been going to the Counter and ordering meat by the Kilo before scanning sugar at the self service. He only got rumbled because the scales at the butchers were out one day.

[Disco]

Sainsburys had something like a 3000% increase in sales of carrots after they brought in the robot checkouts. Must be worth it though.

[bruhnaldo]

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/ice-arrests-rapper-21-savage-says-hes-actually-from-uk/914024181

ICE arrests rapper 21 Savage, says he's actually from UK

https://twitter.com/wsbtv/status/1092156277168525313

"ICE spokesman Bryan Cox: “U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested unlawfully present United Kingdom national Sha Yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph AKA ‘21 Savage’ during a targeted operation with federal and local law enforcement partners early Sunday in metro Atlanta.”

[Baz]

What!

[mugbull]

ICE is composed fo the stupidest members of American society so this is almost certainly not true, but it would be so fucking funny if it was

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47117177

"I went up and down areas with a cosh, hoping I'd be approached by somebody - I'm ashamed to say that - and I did it for maybe a week, hoping some [uses air quotes with fingers] 'black bastard' would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? So that I could kill him."

Neeson has admitted that he wanted to kill a black person because his friend got raped.

[Spikey M]

How the fuck do you... I mean... Jesus.

[Gray Fox]

Black history month off to a flying start.

[Lewis]

I lolled out loud at that story. Why would you tell someone that?

[Giggles]

He must be sick of working.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/liam-neeson-interview-rape-race-black-man-revenge-taken-cold-pursuit-a8760896.html

Here's the interview.

Absolutely mental.