News of the day

[Shindig]

I have absolutely no idea why the knackers round my way pick the bookies next door to have their fights.

[Ian]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48696123

The fuuuuuck.

[Pepe]

That's fucked up alright.

[SincereTheRebel]

Sick individuals.

[Shindig]

Spy on your kids.

[Giggles]

Big time. This has been in the news recently here, fucking horrifying stuff, all seemed to come from shit they seen online.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2019/0618/1056057-boy-a-forensic-case/


Mr Hoade examined a backpack found in a search of Boy A's home after his arrest, and its contents, described by gardaí as the boy's "murder kit". They included a homemade mask, described as a "zombie" mask. It had holes for the eyes and nose and was jagged at the bottom with red paint simulating blood around the mouth area...

Boy A was also shown various images from his phone, during his interviews. A screen shot of videos included one entitled "15 most gruesome torture methods in history". And the search history of the phone showed there had been a search for abandoned places in Lucan.


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[-james-]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48696123

The fuuuuuck.

https://www.instagram.com/darnell50k/

The Alaskan girl must be as smart as rocks to get talked into it by that.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

darnell50k
Anyone wanna play avance warfer on ps4

darnell50k
Come on girls im looking for that purfic one

[Lewis]

I'd leave this one lad.

[Baz]

I’d murder most people for nine mil. Myself included, before you all call me selfish. :baz:

[Disco]

I can hear Henry counting his coppers already.

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-48580041


Scientists hope a new type of medication could boost healthy growth in children born with dwarfism.

Sam Short, nine, from south London has been on the treatment for three years as part of an international trial.

:lol:

[Shindig]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48731021

Awww.

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48739532

And the award for most dramatic cunt goes to:

"around midnight [a few hours after the flight landed] freezing cold still trapped in my seat in complete darkness."

Trapped in my seat. It's a fucking seatbelt.

Still, should grab her a few grand.

[SvN]

That's hilarious. What a fucking drama queen.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

How does that even happen though?

Getting left behind not being too mong to open your seatbelt.

[Ian]

That's pretty terrifying. I was on a plane once. Could've been me.

[Smjffy]

Was walking past my nearest tube station earlier and saw some kids chasing another kid into the station. Walked back past a few minutes later and there were police cars, then an ambulance. Now been confirmed there was a stabbing. #London

Bit mad, though. There are quite a lot of lunatics around here, especially at Aldi in Tottenham, but I've been enjoying it more than anything. These kids looked about 15 or younger. Maybe its not as safe around here as I thought.

Many years back now but I'll never forget the first time I travelled to London with a friend, jumped on a bus late at night before a group of blacks got on, kicked shit out of some drunk on the floor and stole whatever he had, phone etc and simply got off at the next stop. I was young at the time and had barely been outside of my tiny home town as far as I recall. Given what you read about London in the papers etc. Scary first impressions.

Then I moved there. Well, near there rather and I found it wasn't so bad if you were street wise.

[Smjffy]

How does that even happen though?

Getting left behind not being too mong to open your seatbelt.

The plane was shut down so she couldn't tell whether the seat belt light was on or off. It is a real dilemma, you know.

[SincereTheRebel]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7174761/Grandfather-sacked-Asda-sharing-anti-Islamic-Billy-Connolly-sketch-Facebook.html

[Queenslander]

Rural Australia at it again.


Nazi memorabilia auction in Western Australian city condemned as 'morally repugnant' by Jewish group

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-24/jewish-group-calls-kalgoorlie-nazi-memorabilia-auction-repugnant/11239134?pfmredir=sm

[niko_cee]

The "tools of the devil" line reminded me of some book (launch?) I saw the other day explaining that the Catholic Church abuse scandal was actually the work of the devil.

In both cases it was man wot done it. We should probably try to avoid pinning blame on imaginary beings.

[Spikey M]

Does that mean that I'm not the devils type and my spiritual arsehole is safe?

[SincereTheRebel]

Some of you may find the images in the link disturbing

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7182785/Man-looking-like-mummy-rescued-spending-MONTH-bear-den-Russia.html

[Spikey M]

Well, there's some nightmare fuel.

[Ian]

I assume I posted it in here last year when a guy got murdered in the flats near mine:
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/killer-murdered-old-school-friend-16453674

[SincereTheRebel]

That is the second time Ive heard someone commit murder, only to be found in McDonalds soon after. There was a stroy of a guy who shot someone in Footlocker becuase he had the last size shoe he wanted. He then continued to shop around and was arrested in McDonalds eating a cheeseburger later in the day.

Some people are sick.

[SincereTheRebel]

GMB guests clash over claim Toy Story 4

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7187097/Its-story-toys-GMB-guests-clash-claim-Toy-Story-4-RACIST.html

:face:

[Giggles]

It's cess.

[Giggles]

GMB I mean.

[Ian]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48789836

I mean.....

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Just bomb the whole country.

[Giggles]

That's some 'fall'.

https://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/irish-news/watch-we-will-continue-to-fight-these-claims-cctv-shows-man-slipping-in-supermacs-after-photographing-wet-floor-38262458.html

[Shindig]

He knows to file a personal injury claim he has to be injured, right?

[Pepe]

That's awesome. :D

[Spoonsky]

It’s a better bet than Taz’s toothbrushes tbf.

[Spoonsky]

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/01/737580145/freak-summer-hail-storm-blankets-mexicos-guadalajara

What the fuck?

[Pepe]

What the fuck indeed. Don't even know what to make of that one.

[Shindig]

Truck all that shit to the polar regions before it melts.

[Giggles]

The Mexicans must still be using plastic straws.

[Spikey M]

They use rolled up notes.

[Yevrah]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9416351/dared-eat-gecko-australia-dead/

Special. As is the other example further down the page.

[SincereTheRebel]

They won. They completed the dare.

[Yevrah]

Coming thick and fast today.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-48830212

How in the fuck do you cling to the bottom of a plane from Nairobi and get as far as a garden in London? I don't even....

[Yeldoow]

He would have been in amongst the landing gear.

[Yevrah]

All the answers here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33199985


Other extreme wheel well survival stories
1969 - Armando Socarras Ramirez, 22, managed to withstand the effects of a flight from Havana, Cuba, to Madrid, suffering frostbite but no major damage

1996 - Pardeep Saini, 23, stayed alive during a 10-hour flight from Delhi to London, but his brother Vijay died falling out of the aircraft as it approached Heathrow

2000 - Fidel Maruhi survived the 4,000-mile journey on a Boeing 747 from Tahiti to Los Angeles

2002 - Victor Alvarez Molina, 22, got through the four-hour flight on a DC-10 from Cuba to Montreal, Canada

2014 - Yahya Abdi, 15, stowed away in a Boeing 767 from San Jose, California, to Maui, Hawaii

Remarkable.

[Yevrah]

And more from one from 2015:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33222405


"If someone were to ask the odds of surviving in a wheel well from Johannesburg to London, there's not one expert who'd give them a chance." Kreindler says that, if it turns out the man survived the flight without the use of an oxygen supply, medics would be very keen to study his genetic make-up.

[Lewis]

The Sun has a picture of the impact crater. The sunbathing man must have been absolutely coated in him. :sick:

[Spikey M]

The Sun has a picture of the impact crater. The sunbathing man must have been absolutely coated in him. :sick:

Link us up fam

[Spikey M]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9417223/sunbather-stowaway-fell-3500ft-kenya-airways-jet-shock/

There it is. :sick:

[mugbull]

“Landlord Bob Renwick” looking about 15 years old

[Shindig]

The body's frozen. There's unlikely to be any splashback.

[Disco]

More like the end of Demolition Man.

[Queenslander]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9416351/dared-eat-gecko-australia-dead/

Special. As is the other example further down the page.

Fuck him. These types of cunts are ones running around drinking out of theirs shoes and pissing in their mouths at urinals.

[Shindig]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/9409699/student-swimsuit-vagina-hanging-out-upside-down/

Pet, your snatch is eating that.

[John Arne]

Some elected bloke rocked up to EU parliament and claims he was refused access because he was black!!11!!!. The accompanying picture shows him wearing shorts, a back to front baseball cap and 'fuck facism' t-shirt. What a cunt. Why do newspapers print this shit?

[Boydy]

That's Magid Magid and he's an MEP.

[John Arne]

That's Magid Magid and he's an MEP.

Correct. Seems like a decent bloke, but really needs to dress more appropriate for work.

[Boydy]

He's always dressed like that. Some Americans got upset a while back when he was Lord Mayor of Sheffield because there was a picture of him squatting and wearing the ceremonial chain in his office.

I don't think they understood the ceremonial chain and thought he was just wearing his own 'bling'. :D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I like his 'Donald Trump is a wasteman' shirt.

[John]

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/seagulls-worthing-beach-hawk-southern-water-a8986576.html

This has made my afternoon.


A water company’s bid to to scare seagulls away from a beach on the south coast in a bid to reduce “bird pollution” has been suspended following a local outcry.

Using hawks, falconers were employed by Southern Water for the task, which has previously been effectively used at airports, in a bid to stop the birds from defecating onto the beach and into the sea.

[niko_cee]

I'm sure we had the original story about this woman in here (https://uk.yahoo.com/news/lawyer-jailed-for-swearing-and-spitting-at-cabin-crew-who-refused-her-more-wine-is-found-dead-064457512.html)

:uhoh:

[Ian]

Topping herself after she's come out of prison? Odd.

Also in the sidebar is a story about a 2-year old Cambodian wandering off and getting eaten by crocodiles. Grim stuff.

[Spikey M]

Turns out she did need the plane I guess.

[Shindig]

I'd imagine the incident wrecked her career. And the cancer on her face probably spread.

[Giggles]

It's fucking madness she ever got jail time anyway.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Yeah she should have been given a medal for spitting in people's faces for not getting what she wanted.

A modern day hero.

[Spikey M]

Yeah she should have been given a medal for spitting in people's faces for not getting what she wanted.

A modern day hero.

She was a cunt, but where is the offense deserving prison time?

I presume it was fucking the flight schedule up that actually saw her banged up?

[Giggles]

Yeah she should have been given a medal for spitting in people's faces for not getting what she wanted.

A modern day hero.

No, but when you see the way they cut some filthy benefit scum loose over and over again it's a joke.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Intentionally spitting at someone is classed as assault.

The racism didn't exactly help and neither did being drunk on the plane which carries a maximum sentence of 5 years.

[niko_cee]

Didn't she get done for a racially aggravated public order offence? Add a plane into the mix and it would be impossible to not do time for that. What do they say? Get in the sea?

[phonics]

Didn't she get done for a racially aggravated public order offence? Add a plane into the mix and it would be impossible to not do time for that. What do they say? Get in the sea?

Kicked off after told she wasn't allowed a fourth bottle of wine (note: it was technically breakfast at the time), called the steward an 'Indian money grabbing cunt', smoked a fag in the toilets and then spat in his face.

[Giggles]

That's all good stuff but people that continually partake in voilent crime, etc are allowed just repeat and repeat without a hint of a custodial sentence.

[SincereTheRebel]

:D

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7216093/One-worlds-famous-circus-tamers-mauled-death-four-tigers.html

[Spikey M]

I always find that stuff grimly satisfying. It's like a matador getting half a tonne of bull to the face. Glorious.

[SincereTheRebel]

It brings a huge smile to my face seeing captured animals play and destroy with human life.

[Ian]

I always find that stuff grimly satisfying. It's like a matador getting half a tonne of bull to the face. Glorious.

This is definitely peak because in that case it's a mock fight and everything. The bull dies anyway but at least the big bastard gets to go down in a blaze of glory.

[SincereTheRebel]

Speaking of bulls

Naked protesters lie in a 'crime scene' in Pamplona

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7216673/54-semi-naked-protesters-lie-crime-scene-Pamplona-represent-bulls-killed.html

[Giggles]

Dickheads.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48886403

A US hospital switched off life support for a patient after the wrong family gave its consent, a lawsuit alleges.

The man was taken to Mercy Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, in April, after being found lying unconscious beneath a car, naked with facial injuries.

He died after they agreed to switch off the life support, but the real Mr Bennett later showed up at a barbecue.

His family were arranging his funeral when Mr Bennett reappeared, having been away.

Amazing.

[Shindig]

I clocked that last night but didn't read it. Wow.

[Baz]

:lol:

Sounds like a sitcom episode.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The strolling into a barbecue, picking up a burger and going 'What? Why are you...' is a great image.

[randomlegend]

"Both families are now suing the hospital and the city of Chicago for negligence and inflicting intentional emotional distress."

Intentional? Wut?

[Giggles]

Everything is intentional where there's a handy few bob to be extorted.

[SincereTheRebel]

Im late to the news, but what a world we live in.

https://metro.co.uk/2019/07/04/halle-bailey-little-mermaid-casting-racists-can-accept-crab-carribean-accent-not-black-little-mermaid-10114353/

[Ian]

"I can't believe that half-fish / half-woman who makes a bargain with a magical half-woman / half-cephalopod and has a West Indian lobster for a mate is going to black. Ugh, so unrealistic!"

[Lewis]

About five people moaned, and the most prominent one was a fake account seemingly set up to stir the BACKLASH wank.

[Ian]

And half of them will just be nerds who'd be as angry if she was white but brunette like when a small group of weirdos got all worked up about Daniel Craig's hair.

[Pepe]

Yeah but what does it say about our society?

[SincereTheRebel]

The worst version of this was that girl who stepped-down playing some lesbian character in a movie becuase she wasnt a lesbian in real life.

[Ian]

I heard Mark Hamill isn't even a real Jedi.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

A Twitter user began a debate by writing: ‘Correct me if I’m wrong, but isnt it physically impossible for Ariel to be black? ‘She lives underwater, how would the sun get to her for her to produce melanin?! Nobody thought this through..?’

:D

[John]

The worst version of this was that girl who stepped-down playing some lesbian character in a movie becuase she wasnt a lesbian in real life.

That was Scarlett Johansson giving up a trans role because she wasn't trans. I reckon she just couldn't be arsed with all the whoppers so soon after she'd got past the whinging over Ghost in the Shell.

Billy Porter, the lad from Pose was moaning the other week though about how he doesn't even get into the room for any role without 'flamboyant' somewhere in the description, so straight actors need to stop acting gay so he can get more work. This was not long after he absolutely welcomed all the headlines he got for turning up to an awards do in a silk dress.

[Lewis]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9464840/pack-of-steak-vladimir-putin-face/

:lol:

[Spikey M]

That's brilliant :D

[Shindig]

The reddest of meats.

[Giggles]

Most of this shit is to be expected because of the way the world is now, but there's still a few clinkers in it.

https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2019/0719/1063973-manholes-policewomen-gender-neutral-alternatives/


"he" or "she" - will be changed to the neutral gender like "the attorney" or "the merchant".


The municipal code will also replace the terms "sorority" and "fraternity" with "collegiate Greek system residence


and a "pregnant woman" will now be referred to as a "pregnant employee".

[Pepe]

That's what happens when you elect a just graduated from Berkelol 20 years old.

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-49033715

Today I found out that the organisation that oversees boob jobs is called BAAPS. :rosebud:

[Raoul Duke]

RIP Gizmo, taken too soon (!): https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-49070562

[Spikey M]

What a shit dog.

[John]

That couple will have split up within the year. Lol at the little dig at him being too short to save the dog.

[Disco]

I blame Chris Packham.

[Lewis]

That couple will have split up within the year. Lol at the little dig at him being too short to save the dog.

I thought that too. :lol:

[Ian]

"Any dog under fifty pounds is a cat and cats are pointless."

Wise words.

[bruhnaldo]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-49033715

Today I found out that the organisation that oversees boob jobs is called BAAPS. :rosebud:

i wonder if this would be a good job

[bruhnaldo]

Also cats are fucking awesome.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49085026

Instead of reading "The 50th Anniversary of the First Moon Landing", it now reads "50th Anniversary of the First Landing on the Irish".

[Lewis]

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

[Baz]

What a shit dog.There was a story in the local paper about a dog that was found after being missing for three years.https://www.sthelensstar.co.uk/news/17786903.family-reunited-dog-missing-3-years/. But they’d already replaced it so sent it living with another member of the family. :cab:


> Gets his dog back after three years.
"Soz, we already got another"
> Sends recently returned dog to live with his mum.

[Giggles]

Jesus lads, rob a van or something.

https://www.joe.ie/news/two-men-allegedly-steal-building-materials-flee-scene-sulky-ram-garda-van-horse-676284

[SincereTheRebel]

Fuck.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7287487/Premier-League-football-stars-paedophile-father-jailed-20-years-child-rapes.html

[Spikey M]

I'd put £10 on it being John Terry's dad.

[Ian]

What are the legal reasons he can't be named? Is it due to the victim rather than him?

Not that it won't come out soon enough.

[Disco]

Other ongoing cases perhaps?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'd put £10 on it being John Terry's dad.

Terry's Dad is 61.

[Giggles]

More slimy greedy cunts.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/ireland/irfu-forced-to-tackle-fans-hit-by-rugby-balls-at-the-aviva-73zzdjfr7

[Shindig]

Fuck that noise. You can't prove intent over that.

[Giggles]

Fuck that noise. You can't prove intent over that.

They're almost guaranteed to win that here.

[Ian]

What absolute bollocks.

Ban them from everything for life.

[SincereTheRebel]

More slimy greedy cunts.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/ireland/irfu-forced-to-tackle-fans-hit-by-rugby-balls-at-the-aviva-73zzdjfr7

I have to subscribe and pay to read the full article. Is top or bottom Ireland struggling that much for coins?

[Giggles]

I have to subscribe and pay to read the full article. Is top or bottom Ireland struggling that much for coins?

Bless.

[Spikey M]

It's a British paper Sincey.

And yes. Yes we are.

[SincereTheRebel]

It's a British paper Sincey.

And yes. Yes we are.

Why would that even be a thing in 2019? That would be like paying for porn.

[Boydy]

Loads of newspapers and magazines have paywalls now because they don't make enough from advertising online to keep their stuff free. Are you only just discovering this?

[SincereTheRebel]

Loads of newspapers and magazines have paywalls now because they don't make enough from advertising online to keep their stuff free. Are you only just discovering this?

Yes.

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-49149461

:drool:

[Boydy]

Lol at all them moaning.

[Pepe]

Supermarket snobs, don't even know what to say about them.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Waitrose is awful, though still not as bad as the M&S food hall.

[Pepe]

My favorite supermarket snobs around here are those who take pride in never shopping at Walmart, and then they tell you how awesome Aldi is. Their no-brand dodgy products all look complete shite. The only reason I go there is to buy chicken for my cats, since it is the cheapest one you can find.

Wait, does that make me a supermarket snob?

[John]

Big fan of Ian Hall worrying about the variety of cheese on offer.

[Spikey M]

Hopefully the Lidl soon closes and gets replaced with a Mosque. That's the follow up article I need.

[Giggles]

Not sure about anywhere else but Aldi here is most own brand stuff (Specially Selected) that's made in the same place as the stuff for everyone else.

[SvN]

Aldi is superb for meat, fruit and veg.

[SincereTheRebel]

Waitrose is overpriced.

[mo]

Only cunts shop at Waitrose.

[Disco]

That is hard to argue against.

[bruhnaldo]

A 2016 study by Lloyds Bank suggested being near a Waitrose could add 10% to a property's value. The boost given by a nearby Lidl store was a more humble 2%.

I mean that kinda sucks though.

[Disco]

Well, only cunts are obsessed with house prices so that would seem to work out.

[bruhnaldo]

You gotta be a cunt to care about the value of your home/homes in your neighborhood? Why's that?

[Spikey M]

Because unless you're moving it doesn't matter.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Only cunts shop at Waitrose.

I am a cunt.

[Pepe]

Well, only cunts are obsessed with house prices so that would seem to work out.

:nod:


I am a cunt.

:nod:

[Alex]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-49149461

:drool:

I was hoping somebody would have picked up on this. :D

I read it earlier at work thinking "if I wasn't actually looking at this, on the BBC website, I would think it was very good satire".


"Three quarters of the people who live here are not Lidl customers," said shopper Daphne Simpson."

Well they're obviously not good enough Waitrose customers to stop them selling the location off either are they, Daphne? So you better prepare yourself to mingle with the great unwashed, you snooty old bat. :rolleyes:

[randomlegend]

Waitrose is good for having some ingredients you can't get other places, but it is definitely expensive.

[Offshore Toon]

Waitrose and Aldi are the best.

[Lewis]

Lidl is better than Aldi because of its bakery (which is right up there), but the Aldi/Lidl cheapness gimmick is largely a myth anyway, so why bother with either for most of your shopping?

[Spikey M]

It definitely isn't a myth. Our standard weekly shop at Tesco is £80. It's about £55 at Aldi.

[Lewis]

It all seems like-for-like with supermarket brands, since their premium meat is just as expensive as what Asda have.

[Baz]

It definitely isn't a myth. Our standard weekly shop at Tesco is £80. It's about £55 at Aldi.Same. Morrisons is usually about £60 whereas it's about £40 in Aldi.

When did we all get so middle-aged? :cry:

[mugbull]

Aldi has been making inroads into the USA and revolutionizing the American South, or so I've heard

[bruhnaldo]

Imagine not shopping at Publix.

[mugbull]

No idea what that is

[Lewis]

Same. Morrisons is usually about £60 whereas it's about £40 in Aldi.

When did we all get so middle-aged? :cry:

Morrisons is pretty expensive.

[Giggles]

Imagine not shopping at Publix.

Or Whole Foods, where a fruit salad is $20.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'm a bit put off by Aldi/Lidl as I see them as Netto-copies.

They're probably much better than that though.

[Max Power]

My local Lidl bakery is awesome. Can’t say I do much more than load up on pastries when I’m in there though.

[Browning]

They build a Lidl right by my house. I walk past it and right through their car park to go to Tesco....

[phonics]

lol at all the people piddling over 20 quid on their weekly shop. There's less of a price difference between my daily vs your weekly. Paid all this money but it all goes on just fucking exisiting.

[Lewis]

Shut up then.

[bruhnaldo]

20x52 is 1040 which works out to about $1264 a year ffs. Starting to rethink my own shopping habits thanks to phonics.

[phonics]

20x52 is 1040 which works out to about $1264 a year ffs. Starting to rethink my own shopping habits thanks to phonics.

Don't do that or you'll never have any fun again. I worked out I spent around 6 thousand a year on beer and cigarettes (not including going out) which works out at nearly 8% of my yearly spending and that helps no-one.

edit: Did a bit of 'gross' math and that works out at slightly over 18% of my available money and that's without the drugs. Jesus, maybe I just need a rehab clinic and a 401k.

[Pepe]

No idea what that is

The slightly better than Walmart supermarket in Florida. Everyone has one. It was Schnuks in St Louis, Price Chopper in NYS, Giant over here.

Last time I was in Florida they had some new, posher Walmarts. I thought that was lol.

[Pepe]

Aldi over here seems pretty cheap, but everything also looks complete crap. Like, worse than Walmart crap. People claiming they have good stuff are fuckin' weirdos. Their meat in particular looks atrocious, I almost feel bad feeding my cats their chicken.

Then again, I never buy meat in the supermarket. :lewis:

[Pepe]

Or Whole Foods, where a fruit salad is $20.

Whole Foods is the biggest pit of wankers that you will ever find. The only thing that probably comes close is REI. :sick:

[bruhnaldo]

The slightly better than Walmart supermarket in Florida.

Lol get the fuck outta here with this fucking slander.

[bruhnaldo]

Jesus, maybe I just need a rehab clinic and a 401k.

lmfao same bro. same.

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49225001

:cool:

[mugbull]

Whole Foods is the biggest pit of wankers that you will ever find. The only thing that probably comes close is REI. :sick:

REI is only a pit of wankers if you hate going outside

[Pepe]

Don't choke on your granola mate.

[mugbull]

Don’t tel me you hate granola too

[Spikey M]

Well nobody really likes it, do they?

[Giggles]

Well nobody really likes it, do they?

I love it. So much so that I dare not buy it at all these days.

[mugbull]

As long as it’s sweetened with honey it’s fucking fire

[Spikey M]

Well that leaves mokkers in a very difficult situation anyway.

I've had it with yogurt when trying to be healthy, but I generally give up after a few days. I just find it boring.

[mugbull]

The best ones are the clusters. I don’t know if they’re actually that healthy, given how sweet they can be, but god damn

[Disco]

I like the stuff with little bits of freeze dried fruit in them.

[Lewis]

I love it. So much so that I dare not buy it at all these days.

Yeah, you get a kilogram bag thinking you'll get ten bowls out of it, and then it's gone in four.

[Kikó]

Granola isn't healthy but it is bloody good.

[mugbull]

Well nobody really likes it, do they?

Looks like you've been owned, fool

[Spikey M]

Looks like you've been owned, fool

You're agreeing with the general consensus, fool.

[mugbull]

Crazy I know

[Lewis]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-49230308

:cab:

[Shindig]

I hope the kid pulls through to grow up and push him back.

[Baz]

+1 for the granola love.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49234054

McDonald's paper straws can't be recycled.

Last year, it axed plastic straws, even though they were recyclable, in all its UK branches as part of a green drive.

But the US fast food giant says the new paper straws are not yet easy to recycle and should be put into general waste.

Those paper ones are absolutely shit.

[Pepe]

The whole straw madness has been pathetic.

[Giggles]

The whole straw madness has been pathetic.

Something all these huggers could latch on to without having to do anything.

[Pepe]

Something all these huggers could latch on to without having to do anything.

True, but also:


A petition by irate McDonald's customers to bring back plastic straws has so far been signed by 51,000 people.

Get over yourselves.

[mugbull]

Drinks taste better without straws anyway

[Jimmy Floyd]

I much prefer the paper ones. Down with plastic.

[bruhnaldo]

I can't stand the paper ones tbh.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-49234874

A drug dealer in Brazil was caught trying to escape from the jail where he was locked up by disguising himself as his 19-year-old daughter.

Prison authorities in Rio de Janeiro released a video showing the inmate wearing a wig, a silicone mask, a bra and a tight-fitting T-shirt.

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/F329/production/_108194226_ffc520ec-2368-4f72-8d74-22ac95ba2e51.jpg

:lol:

[Spikey M]

Would.

[SincereTheRebel]

Would.

Savage :D

[Pepe]

That video is great. :D

[Shindig]

And now he's dead. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-49248568)

[Spikey M]

Wouldn't.

[Pepe]

Shiiiii

[Pepe]

https://blog.gaijinpot.com/mcdonalds-japan-accidentally-creates-sexually-suggestive-drink-cups/

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EApFDCrUcAAoyOm?format=jpg&name=small

[Giggles]

Do these idiots not realise people can see them?

https://www.thejournal.ie/officers-leading-black-man-by-a-rope-in-texas-sparks-outrage-4755043-Aug2019/

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49332640

Massive amount of time for 'Jess Tye' going out of her way to be a feminist stereotype whilst, with a straight face, talking about the dangers of gender stereotyping.

[John Arne]

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/aug/14/first-ads-banned-for-contravening-gender-stereotyping-rules

It seems that one of the ads was banned as the women sat on the bench showed the woman being "passive" as opposed to rock-climbing. All adverts are going to be banned soon, aren't they?

[Boydy]

All adverts are going to be banned soon, aren't they?

Good tbh.

[randomlegend]

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/aug/14/first-ads-banned-for-contravening-gender-stereotyping-rules

It seems that one of the ads was banned as the women sat on the bench showed the woman being "passive" as opposed to rock-climbing. All adverts are going to be banned soon, aren't they?

Fucking hell.

[Pepe]

And you lot dare mocking the US. :harold:

[Pepe]

My favorite part:


Meanwhile, three people complained about an ad for the Volkswagen eGolf car.

If that is all it takes, then I expect that some internet folks will be having a lot of fun with this soon.

[mugbull]

Wow, they’re banned? In the US they just get pulled voluntarily. Add this to the retarded UK libel laws as a win for the Great States

[Lewis]

We're a joke for this stuff. Puritan scummers. They want shooting.

[Disco]

Anyone who's had the misfortune of watching American telly with any regularity could tell you it immeasurably more awful than anything even our worst channels might put out.

[bruhnaldo]

There's a trillion channels.

[Spikey M]

Of shite and infomercials.

[Lewis]

I always seem to find American 'soccer' streams and it mostly seems to be hormone replacement clinics and ride-on lawnmowers. And yet ninety per cent of the telly this forum wanks over is American.

[Spikey M]

They're good at prime-time dramas. It's their daytime tv that's the problem. And the thousands of adverts. Gender stereotyping adverts. Scum.

[bruhnaldo]

Daytime tv is literally catered to single moms and crackheads who don't want to do anything with their lives. Of course upstanding citizens such as yourselves would have no interest.

The only redeeming factor between 10am-7:00p is the local* news and The Price is Right.

*-edit

[mugbull]

This...Is...JEOPARDY!

[randomlegend]

Americans have absolutely no business taking the moral high ground on anything related to adverts, given they allow medication to be advertised directly to...patients? Customers? Horrific.

[mugbull]

The problem there goes a lil bit deeper than the ads

[bruhnaldo]

This...Is...JEOPARDY!

Jeopardy is great dinner theater and I appreciate you recognizing it's greatness.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I love American shit TV.

American Pickers, Pawn Stars, Storage Wars are tier two. Forged in Fire and Top Chef are Tier One.

[bruhnaldo]

Americans have absolutely no business taking the moral high ground on anything related to adverts, given they allow medication to be advertised directly to...patients? Customers? Horrific.

As opposed to advertising gambling to gambling addicts?

The way you say it is if they're advertising cancer treatments to the poor. It's generally just some type of "Do you not shit enough? It could be a lack of fiber!" bullshit that comes with 137 side effects including death.

[bruhnaldo]

Plus we get all of your best bullshit shows. Big Brother, Pop Idol, MasterChef..... all redone in bigger and better (read: ridiculously over-produced) fashion.

[Pepe]

I love American shit TV.

American Pickers, Pawn Stars, Storage Wars are tier two. Forged in Fire and Top Chef are Tier One.

That's all cable mate, not for the common folk.

[bruhnaldo]

You're not watching enough American TV if your advertising complaint isn't directly related to shit like...

"Have you or a loved one ever drank green tea on a hot Tuesday in the shade next to a Carrier air conditioning unit in the sun? You could be entitled to legal compensation. Call Lytal, Morgan, Morgan & Humphries now at 1-800-GET-PAID for a free consultation."

[bruhnaldo]

That's all cable mate, not for the common folk.

I mean if you're thinking you're going to get a lot out of channel 26.3 HD-5 off the ol' antenna, well..

[randomlegend]

As opposed to advertising gambling to gambling addicts?

The way you say it is if they're advertising cancer treatments to the poor. It's generally just some type of "Do you not shit enough? It could be a lack of fiber!" bullshit that comes with 137 side effects including death.

It's taken me all of two minutes to find adverts for Opdivo, a monoloconal antibody for advanced lung cancer being advertised direct to patients.

[Pepe]

Local car dealers put out some cracking ads once in a while.

[Lewis]

If they were advertising pretend ME cures every day would be a Super Bowl Party round Randrew's.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I also watched some glass blowing competition from America on Netflix.

I still don't understand the science behind glass blowing though. Whereas after watching Forged in Fire I feel like I could make a (shit) knife if I had the tools.

[bruhnaldo]

It's taken me all of two minutes to find adverts for Opdivo, a monoloconal antibody for advanced lung cancer being advertised direct to patients.

On television right now? Or did you literally google "cancer commercials America" and snagged the lowest hanging fruit?

Mind you, which only would've popped up "in all of two minutes" if it was universally panned and therefore creating several search results as opposed to something mindlessly scrolling every 20 minutes on television like what we're actually talking about?

An outlier doesn't create the condition.

[Disco]

I meant the adverts rather than the programmes, specifically the ones that spend a few minutes at the end telling you to go to a doctor if the medication they're flogging makes your dick rot off or your arms catch on fire or any of a hundred other horrifying symptoms.

[randomlegend]

On television right now? Or did you literally google "cancer commercials America" and snagged the lowest hanging fruit?

Mind you, which only would've popped up "in all of two minutes" if it was universally panned and therefore creating several search results as opposed to something mindlessly scrolling every 20 minutes on television like what we're actually talking about?

An outlier doesn't create the condition.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akHe34P8wwg

Monoclonal antibody for ulcerative colitis.


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

Diabetic medications.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVNZ8ZBP5gY

Antidepressants.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VEZBVT_a3M

Our friend the monoclonal antibody for lung cancer. I could go on...

A friend who is core medical trainee (so she has 3-4 more years experience than me) went to the US recently and was absolutely shocked at the stuff being advertised on TV, such as the aforementioned monoclonal antibodies (which are properly dangerous drugs only prescribed by consultants). It's fucking insane that it's allowed.

[Pepe]

What's the big deal? It's not like you can buy them on your own anyway. Freedomz hur hur.

[Shindig]

When I was watching Spectrum over there, they spent most of the time advertising the channel itself. It'd be like BBC News 24 stopped every 5 minutes to give you a sizzle reel of Huw Edwards.

[bruhnaldo]

I could go on...

No one said there wasn't commercials about medicines.

You make it sound like how Trump and Bernie were up there saying they were gonna cure AIDS or whatever the fuck. The medicines they're selling actually do things. It's not snake oil.

You talking about people shouldn't be taking moral high grounds because they advertise ulcerative colitis treatment on daytime television lol.

[randomlegend]

First of all your argument was that they aren't actually advertising serious medications for serious illnesses - which evidently they are.

Now you've seen you were wrong on that, you've moved the goalposts to me apparently "making it sound" like they are selling fake medications, something I never even remotely suggested.

Yes, I am saying people who allow advertisement of dangerous medications for serious illnesses directly to patients on daytime TV shouldn't be taking the moral high ground on anything to do with advertising.

[Lewis]

What's wrong with advertising medicines? As long as they're not making stuff up about them who cares?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

What's wrong with advertising medicines? As long as they're not making stuff up about them who cares?

They go the other way and state every single possible side effect.

[Lewis]

Exactly. Your money, your body. Fuck the doctors.

[randomlegend]

For a lot of the same reasons as people coming to their doctor and demanding antibiotics for a viral sore throat has disastrous consequences.

[Lewis]

Is the anti-depressant resistance apocalypse a thing? Hopefully. Clear out some of the cretins.

[Spikey M]

Advertising them on TV is just including old people in the self-diagnosed, self-cured generation. It's just that they use the adverts during Ellen, we use Google.

[Shindig]

Is the anti-depressant resistance apocalypse a thing? Hopefully. Clear out some of the cretins.

Shame it won't work that way.

One of them will get clinically depressed, go postal and inspire a survivor onto medication that won't do the job. Circle of life. And death.

[Lewis]

Not here it won't. Relax.

[bruhnaldo]

First of all your argument was that they aren't actually advertising serious medications for serious illnesses - which evidently they are.

Now you've seen you were wrong on that, you've moved the goalposts....

Ya I stopped reading here tbh.

You said "Americans shouldn't take the moral high ground".

I insinuated you're acting like they're out here trying to sell fake cure all treatments to the poor as opposed to just advertising common medications and treatments available.

You then showed a bunch of outlier advertisements, mostly that ironically suggested actual medicines/treatments that were available, again not sure what's too morally bankrupt there.

You then quite literally stated that the said serious medicines needed a fucking doctor's prescription (and therefore doctor's consultation... and therefore would only be prescribed if absolutely necessary...)

You've fucked up your own argument, all I did was lend you the rope.

[phonics]

It's a circle.

All of the adverts you see are patented 'remixes' of already available drugs/treatments with little to no increased potency over what the doctor would traditionally prescribe but they will likely be more expensive than the now out of patent generic.

The adverts all tell you to 'ask your doctor about x brand' because they are not allowed to recommend this course of action unless prompted by the patient.

Prior to you even seeing the advert your doctor may have accepted money from the pharmaceutical company involved in making this or another drug, in turn these doctors who have received more than 5 grand from these corporations are literally 10 to 20% more likely to go with the brand name despite it's increased price and identical results.

As with everything wrong in America, it's money and greed at the expense of the public.

On the thing that started this all, as with a lot of things wrong in the UK. It's well intentioned idiocy, spaffed out by overpaid consultants, governed by useless jobsworths.

[randomlegend]

Ya I stopped reading here tbh.

You said "Americans shouldn't take the moral high ground".

I insinuated you're acting like they're out here trying to sell fake cure all treatments to the poor as opposed to just advertising common medications and treatments available.

You then showed a bunch of outlier advertisements, mostly that ironically suggested actual medicines/treatments that were available, again not sure what's too morally bankrupt there.

You then quite literally stated that the said serious medicines needed a fucking doctor's prescription (and therefore doctor's consultation... and therefore would only be prescribed if absolutely necessary...)

You've fucked up your own argument, all I did was lend you the rope.

This entire post is a perfect advert for what's wrong with advertising drugs to the public. You don't understand what's being advertised or the impact it has at all.

It's very strange to argue with someone who constantly sets out for you what your own argument is, and then tries to tell you why you're wrong, when you never made that argument in the first place.

[Queenslander]

As someone who takes cymbalta I cant see how advertising that is just business as usual. I took me a good 6 months for all the side effects to wear off.

Edit: IMO it is pretty scary that GPs down here are allowed to hand out drugs like cymbalta without any sory of therapy or referral to a proper clinical psychologist.