News of the day

[Giggles]

The local alternate pub near me has only gender neutral bathrooms. The stalls go in this order seat always up, seat alway down, seat always up, seat always down etc.

Not a piss trough in sight as well.

That’s just crying out for some to piss all over all the seats.

[Queenslander]

It isnt really a space that attracts retards though more of a theatre kid, lgbtq, fit women and beta cucks like me vibe.

Cheap beer is good reason to go.

[bruhnaldo]

When you said alternate I thought that was the implied vibe tbqh.

[Lewis]

If it's all artificial why do these 'non-binary' people always carry on like idiots? You could still be relatively normal and identify as whatever you want. It's like how trannies always end up as parodies of women or lesbians.

[phonics]

If it's all artificial why do these 'non-binary' people always carry on like idiots? You could still be relatively normal and identify as whatever you want. It's like how trannies always end up as parodies of women or lesbians.

Because you literally never interact with them in real life so your entire concept of them is formed by the headcases that get into the news. Loads of them do.

[Disco]

It's like vegans, you only ever hear of the twats.

[bruhnaldo]

Or how you guys go on about Americans.

:charm:

[phonics]

Bruh, a Boston University PHD student pointed at my New York Yankees hat and said 'Cool hat, we have those in America too!'

Sometimes stereotypes are right.

[Disco]

There's always an exception that proves the rule.

[bruhnaldo]

Bruh, a Boston University PHD student pointed at my New York Yankees hat and said 'Cool hat, we have those in America too!'

Sometimes stereotypes are right.

In this instance the stereotype would seem that Americans are nice, pleasant, friendly, and polite! So I guess I just HAVE to agree with you this time.

[Smjffy]

It's like vegans, you only ever hear of the twats.

Oh no, you see them too and they seem to be increasing. I love sending the FoH back out to inform them that the veg has honey in it so where do they stand on bees and the chips have palm oil so where do they stand on that. It makes me sound clued up but really I'm just being pedantic because a vegan diet differs wildly from my own.

Then again...flexitarians can fuck right off because it shouldn't even be a 'thing'.

[Shindig]

I've told this story before but the only transgender I've met almost refused to open their door to greet me. I was only asking if any of my post had turned up at hers. Rather than open the door like a normal person, she kept it locked and talked through the letterbox until she realised I wasn't there to point at her or something.

[Smjffy]

I had a driving instructor show up as either Brian or Una before he/she passed away a few years ago. For me it was far more ballsy to come out then than now but I do sympathise with the lass you're talking about, probably made all the harder with all the other supposed genders springing up.

[bruhnaldo]

No kidding a week or two ago my cousin in Ohio said a friend of his I met had decided he was now "Daisy" instead of "David". He's also married with a wife. Er, she. I really don't mind calling folks by their preferred pronouns or whatever the fuck because I believe in the idea that people should do whatever the fuck they want so long as they don't hurt anyone.

Anyways, I guess she came out as a transgender woman and was subsequently fired from her job.

I've met both her and the wife before and they were honestly very nice, lovely people. Just an interesting dynamic I never really thought of before.

Ironically, the only other transgender person I ever met was also in the same area (just across the bridge into West Virginia) as another one of my cousin's friends worked at the local comic book shop and sure enough was a "her" despite you know, seemingly not be.

I would have imagined living in Florida where things that seem out of the ordinary compared to the rest of the country are pretty normal it would be a more common occurance, but perhaps the passerby's just pass better? I don't know.

Ironically, the first gay man I ever met in person was also up north in the Ohio/West Virginia area and again one of my cousin's friends. That was the early 2000s, though, of course, where being gay was still a huge deal.

[bruhnaldo]

I have to say for the longest time I never really had time for these folks in the sense of "ok dude is it really that serious wear some panties and a skirt if you want" but nowadays I guess I'm a bit more empathetic to the idea that it is actually something to struggle with rather than just a fashion choice or whatever.

[Shindig]

To be honest, the gay and lesbian people I've met and worked with have bagloads of confidence. Real sound people that seem comfortable and confident in themselves. They've figured it out.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The ones you know about, at least.

[Giggles]

As you can imagine, lead balloon.


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[John Arne]

I had a lad working for me over here for 2 years. Born a chick, identifying now as a guy (but kinda still looked like a chick with short hair). His girlfriend also worked in the company. He didn't mention his gender once in 2 years, was never offended when people referred to him as 'she' - which unfortunately, I did quite a lot - however, i tended to correct myself and carry on.
I then met a similar guy (former girl) on a night out with a few mates - and it was the most painful 2 hours ever. Just constant rabbiting on about himself, about life's injustices and how basically everybody else in the world was to blame - that may be true, unfortunately, I had already established that he was a bit of a tit - so wasn't that bothered.

I don't know what the point of this post it.

[mugbull]

Surprise, surprise, they’re like any other group of people on earth. Some cool, some lame. All of them at least have the balls to shapeshift in this day and age.

[Spikey M]

Unfortunate phrasing.

[mugbull]

One could say it was deliberate

[Baz]

As you can imagine, lead balloon.


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Saw the Rubberbandits crying about this.


Fyi. The apeshits up in Dublin council are spending 23 million on a white water rafting facility, during a housing crisis. To build one house in Dublin, 2019 according to the independent is 200k. So they could have built 115 houses with that money. For scale. That's equivalent to a housing estate for 115 homeless families.

Where’s the fun in that though?

[Spikey M]

I'm just glad they calculated how many houses 115 houses can house.

House.

[Ian]

Spikey's new avatar is every bit as confusing as it was when he first got one of Mahow.

Taz (Don, sorry) next please.

[Smjffy]

I'm just glad they calculated how many houses 115 houses can house.

House.

Imagine if they had to calculate how much it would cost and Natalie Bennett had the calculator.

£200,000 for a house to be built in Dublin seems very excessive though, no?

[bruhnaldo]

Imagine having avatars turned on.

[Ian]

Imagine not.

Then you wouldn't see the majesty of big Jeff.

[Spikey M]

Imagine having avatars turned on.

You're missing out.

[Boydy]

Imagine if they had to calculate how much it would cost and Natalie Bennett had the calculator.

£200,000 for a house to be built in Dublin seems very excessive though, no?
No. It's stupidly expensive. I've heard of people moving from Dublin to London because it's cheaper.

[Smjffy]

To build? Not to buy. I would have thought the cost of land alone in London would surpass that of Dublin.

In short though, housing is all fucked. One day I think I'll live in a camper van.

[Spikey M]

Depends where you're buying in London. You could probably by a shoebox in the armpit of Barking for £300k.

[randomlegend]

I watched a documentary on those super basements people were/are building in London and I'm sure they said it's the only place in the world it's financially worthwhile because of the insane cost of land in London.

[Giggles]

:drool: And there she thought she was going to breeze back in for a free gaff and tip on as normal. Hopefully she’s torn limb from limb inside.

https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2019/1204/1096941-lisa-smith/

[Queenslander]

Tony checking in on his nonce mate.

https://7news.com.au/news/george-pell/former-prime-minister-tony-abbott-drops-by-to-see-convicted-paedophile-george-pell-in-melbourne-prison-c-585274

[Shindig]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50667553

Elon Musk's defence is complete bollocks.

[Alex]

I was just reading that too, Shinners.

The bit about him being scammed out of money by a fake private detective offering to dig up dirt on the bloke was a particular highlight. :D

[niko_cee]

His defence appears to largely be:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxEweP2TiMk

[Alex]

Do we have any South African's on TTH who can confirm whether or not "pedo guy" is indeed "a common insult" in their native land? :D

[Smjffy]

As it happens I actually work with two South Africans. I'll go and ask now. :D

EDIT: Not in.

[Yevrah]

The £40k to the conman is probably the most interesting thing about the case, even if it is pocket change to Mr Musk.

[Disco]

Do we have any South African's on TTH who can confirm whether or not "pedo guy" is indeed "a common insult" in their native land? :D

I have a Zimbabwean who knew of it and didn't think it was that bad.

[SincereTheRebel]

Its the Ugandans who will probably take offence to it all.


https://youtu.be/rf0Lv3egcMc

[Shindig]

Do we have any South African's on TTH who can confirm whether or not "pedo guy" is indeed "a common insult" in their native land? :D

We had one but I don't know if he made it across to the current board. Fundi Tsotsi or whatever his name was.

[mo]

No kidding a week or two ago my cousin in Ohio said a friend of his I met had decided he was now "Daisy" instead of "David". He's also married with a wife. Er, she. I really don't mind calling folks by their preferred pronouns or whatever the fuck because I believe in the idea that people should do whatever the fuck they want so long as they don't hurt anyone.

Anyways, I guess she came out as a transgender woman and was subsequently fired from her job.

I've met both her and the wife before and they were honestly very nice, lovely people. Just an interesting dynamic I never really thought of before.

Ironically, the only other transgender person I ever met was also in the same area (just across the bridge into West Virginia) as another one of my cousin's friends worked at the local comic book shop and sure enough was a "her" despite you know, seemingly not be.

I would have imagined living in Florida where things that seem out of the ordinary compared to the rest of the country are pretty normal it would be a more common occurance, but perhaps the passerby's just pass better? I don't know.

Ironically, the first gay man I ever met in person was also up north in the Ohio/West Virginia area and again one of my cousin's friends. That was the early 2000s, though, of course, where being gay was still a huge deal.

The Lib Dem candidate for my constituency is trans, Helen Belcher. Married with two grown up kids but think it was mid-2000s decided she was, well, a she now. Still married. Wonder what that transition was like for the family.

[Yevrah]

Musk won.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50695593

£145m in damages though? What a complete fucking chancer.

[Lewis]

Someone with more money than Elon Musk should immediately call him a nonce on Twitter.

[Queenslander]

:D

[Shindig]

It's so fucking bollocked.

[phonics]

Musk won.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50695593

£145m in damages though? What a complete fucking chancer.

Thats how it works. You ask for that and settle for a percentage. This guy didn't want to settle though which is where I'm confused.

[Shindig]

I mean, Musk tripled down on it. There were follow up tweets about child brides and he paid someone to DIG UP MORE. Also, you can't settle on a paedo allegation. Makes you look like a paedo.

[Lewis]

This volcano wiping a few tourists out is interesting. A privately-owned volcano as well, putting the nationalised ones to shame.

[Raoul Duke]

Obviously someone's secret lair

[Yevrah]

Golden Globes criticised for all-male director nominees https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-50725073

Interesting that that article doesn’t put forward a single film by a female director that should have been nominated.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The identity politics thing is out of control now. This thing about only gay actors being allowed to play gay parts is utterly ludicrous but people in certain narrow circles seem to lap it up.

[Smjffy]

I was reading how the Mr Men books are sexist just a few days ago. :cab: I'm immune to all this bollocks these days although it still winds me the fuck up. Have people not get anything better to do?

[Lewis]

I wonder if Charlize Theron knows anybody with the contacts/resources to help female directors. Maybe a big name actress who could agree to be in their projects. Somebody like that.

[Ian]

I'm immune to all this bollocks these days although it still winds me the fuck up.

So. Not immune, then. :D

[Smjffy]

:henn0rz: One of my personalities is immune, the other gets wound up? Ha.

[John]

The identity politics thing is out of control now. This thing about only gay actors being allowed to play gay parts is utterly ludicrous but people in certain narrow circles seem to lap it up.

I did think that was fucking bonkers when I first saw Billy Porter being hoisted shoulder high for comparing straight actors playing gay to a white actor blacking up. Take that to its inevitable conclusion and acting ceases to exist, because only a forty six year old retired competitive windsurfer can play a forty six year old retired competitive windsurfer.

It's been coming for a while, but the point at which I noticed the extreme willingness of minority groups to cut off their face to spite their nose in this arena particularly was when they torpedoed that film about a questionably transgender criminal because Scarlett Johansson had taken the role instead of a trans actress, as though a film on that subject gets made on a ninety million budget without some serious star power involved. So the film dies, and all the supporting roles that could have gone to trans performers and helped build a couple towards being genuine stars die with it.

[Shindig]

I was reading how the Mr Men books are sexist just a few days ago.

I'm sure there's a Little Miss equivalent.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/50760437

The surfing at the 2024 Paris Olympics will take place in Tahiti.

[mugbull]

Didn't the horse racing at the Sydney olympics take place in Sweden or something because they couldn't get the horses on a plane to Australia?

[niko_cee]

No.

[Baz]

Horse racing at the olympics :drool:

[Shindig]

I can confirm that's a fat 'No'. Unless Sweden is located 45kms outside of Sydney.

[mugbull]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equestrian_at_the_1956_Summer_Olympics

Was the Melbourne olympics. Soz.

[John]

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/former-beauty-queen-and-ex-girlfriend-of-liverpool-footballer-convicted-of-funding-terrorism-11884850

Sheyi Ojo's ex has been rumbled for funding ISIS, and she's pretty much blamed him for sending her down that path by shagging about.:D

[phonics]

Thirty four pound? Surely there’s some slightly higher rollers in that movement they could be looking at?

[Alex]

34 quid too. :D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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:rosebud:

[Spikey M]

:lol:

[Foe]

:lol:

That the stoltmann brothers? Saw them in a gym up north a year or two ago. Ran the other way. Dudes are enormous.

[Spikey M]

I don't know whether it's odder that you quoted me to ask that or that I know who the Stoltman brothers are.

[Foe]

They’re from Inverness way and sometimes use the same gym I do when I’m there.

Could’ve quoted mahow, but he doesn’t seem the weight lifting
type. You’ve been nailing bulking season so assume you’d be all over who they were.

[Lewis]

Tom Stoltman, the younger and bigger one, will win World's Strongest Man in the next few years.

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-50819996

The video :lol:

[Pepe]

Hero. :cool:

[phonics]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/270326079648956433/656662519443882025/unknown.png

Do you think there's a specific job title for a consultant that's only aim is to make peoples life slightly worse?

[Smjffy]

You could always balance it out by purchasing a squatty potty, I suppose.

[Queenslander]

This made lol


Men are showing up to The Wing and women are pissed


https://nypost.com/2019/12/17/men-are-showing-up-to-the-wing-and-women-are-pissed/amp/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&__twitter_impression=true

[Pepe]

:lol:

[Spikey M]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/270326079648956433/656662519443882025/unknown.png

Do you think there's a specific job title for a consultant that's only aim is to make peoples life slightly worse?

Management.

[Lewis]

Those would be beneficial to humanity first and foremost.

[bruhnaldo]

This made lol



https://nypost.com/2019/12/17/men-are-showing-up-to-the-wing-and-women-are-pissed/amp/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&__twitter_impression=true

I mean but why do people have to be like that, though? Let women have their little club. Let men have their own little clubs. Why does there always have to be THAT guy/girl to fuck it up for people.

[Pepe]

Do you really want to make that argument?

[bruhnaldo]

Who arguing? I'm saying let people enjoy things.

[Shindig]

I bet the blokes turning up are some of their husbands.

[Spikey M]

They are. It says it in the article.

[Queenslander]

:lol:


“I think they’re just losers,” she says of the male plus-ones. “Or cucked boyfriends. It’s a legal fluke.”

[Spikey M]

Next TTH meet there?

[Queenslander]

:D

[Queenslander]

Adelaide looks like the end of days atm.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B6S2cCAAYYu/?igshid=1tkcb76e5di5f

[niko_cee]

RIP Hahndorf.

[Queenslander]

RIP Hahndorf.

Is there much coverage of the Australian wild fires in England?

[niko_cee]

Not really beyond how shit it looks in Sydney from time to time.

[Spikey M]

And how much of a dickhead your Prime Minister is.

[Queenslander]

Scummo is the ultimate chancer but far better than an actual facist Peter Dutton. :(

All the mainland States have wild fires and we have had back to back hottest average days on record. But yeah nah mate we have always had droughts and fires...

[Baz]

Wish it was sunny here. Even if it meant my garden was a fire.

[Queenslander]

:D

[Ian]

Is there much coverage of the Australian wild fires in England?

Bill Bryson (admittedly many years ago) once discussed our uselessness at reporting what's going on in other countries by comparing how often a given newspaper had headline about them and other things. I believe at that point we were broadly as interested in Aussie current affairs as we were in bananas.

Probably a bit better now with all the internet and 24 hour news and whatnot to fill.

There's only so many ways to write "Boris Johnson is a fucking cunt" after all.

[Kikó]

Scummo is the ultimate chancer but far better than an actual facist Peter Dutton. :(

All the mainland States have wild fires and we have had back to back hottest average days on record. But yeah nah mate we have always had droughts and fires...

And still they're pushing on with more mining for coal. Incredible.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Our foreign coverage is obsession with America and pretty much nothing else.

[Spikey M]

Plus we're a bit pre-occupied with whether Prince Philip will be home in time for Christmas Dinner. Which is a shame, because had it been this time next year Donald Trumps NHS would have fast tracked his discharge.

[Shindig]

That Harry Dunn woman sounds like a detestable twat. "I'm not returning voluntarily. I'm a mother. I've been very cooperative. Sorry."

[Spikey M]

I wouldn't return if I didn't have to either. 'Come back so you can lock me up? Sure!'

[niko_cee]

Absolutely yes, but I'm not sure many, or any, people would honestly return to 'face justice' if they had the option not to.

Does this mean she can never leave the US again if we issue an international warrant for her arrest or some such? We should really get a diplomat to run her over.

[Shindig]

She'd not get anything other than a guilty verdict over here. Even if the kid was speeding, she was on the wrong side of the road. She'll stay put in an embassy forever unless she gets the sack.

[Giggles]

It’s a nice story and all, but could she not have just moved 6 feet to either side if she had wanted?

https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/truck-driver-hailed-hero-after-17457164

[niko_cee]

I was wondering if any of the cricket (or sport in general) would be affected by the Aussie bushfires and lo and behold I see a BBL game was abandoned today.

[Queenslander]

I was wondering if any of the cricket (or sport in general) would be affected by the Aussie bushfires and lo and behold I see a BBL game was abandoned today.

Sydney has ash fulling out of the sky all over the city.

[Kikó]

It's just weather stupid.

[Queenslander]

It's just weather stupid.

Just a f#gg#t Greens Party conspiracy.

[niko_cee]

You'll be right, once all the bush has burnt.

Try to cut back on the exploding trees as well, sheesh.

[Queenslander]

You'll be right, once all the bush has burnt.

Try to cut back on the exploding trees as well, sheesh.

We have all the non whites to punish who are starting all the fires.

[Disco]

Australia has made it very clear it doesn't want people living there.

[Queenslander]

Australia has made it very clear it doesn't want people living there.

Socialists are the problem.

[niko_cee]

Australia has made it very clear it doesn't want people living there.

It tried remoteness, and when that didn't work it tried deadly animals, and when they didn't work, well . . .

[Shindig]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-50854359/the-studios-teaching-trans-women-how-to-be-more-feminine

"Transgendered women have a more difficult time because they essentially have a male larynx." She says that like she's dropping such knowledge. And the gay correspondent just nods. What a time to be alive.

[SincereTheRebel]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7818775/Tesco-charity-Christmas-cards-packed-Chinese-prison-SLAVES.html

[Giggles]

What’s the issue with making them work if they’re in prison (unless they’re not supposed to be in prison of course).

[niko_cee]

Aye.

What's the big deal with forced unpaid work?

[Disco]

They're foreign and criminals, that puts them slightly below amoeba in Giggles world.

[Giggles]

Aye.

What's the big deal with forced unpaid work?

Unpaid? They’re in prison.

[Giggles]

They're foreign and criminals, that puts them slightly below amoeba in Giggles world.

:lol: I get the criminals bit but ‘foreign’ coming from one of you is pretty laughable stuff.

[mo]

Because after all, communist regimes have such strong track records in Human Rights and habeas corpus.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Unpaid? They’re in prison.

If TV is anything to go by you're still meant to get paid (albeit a very small amount) into your commissary so you can buy shit.

[phonics]

It’s 35 cents an hour in the US. They make them fight California wildfires and shit. It’s mad.

[mugbull]

:lol: I get the criminals bit but ‘foreign’ coming from one of you is pretty laughable stuff.

The indignant Irishman strikes again

[Giggles]

It’s 35 cents an hour in the US. They make them fight California wildfires and shit. It’s mad.

That’s the stuff for them. If you don’t want to do it then don’t do the crime, it’s fairly simple.

[phonics]

Mate there’s a guy in Alabama serving a life sentence for stealing 9 dollars. You’re just an unempathetic shadow of a human being.

[mugbull]

Putting prisoners to work is obviously better than letting them wallow around the prison yard all day. 35 cents seems a bit low but i’m not familiar with the market economy in there so I don’t know what that buys.

[Lewis]

Bit of a mug move pinching nine dollars with life hanging over you.

[Giggles]

Mate there’s a guy in Alabama serving a life sentence for stealing 9 dollars. You’re just an unempathetic shadow of a human being.

I use up all my empathy on people who deserve it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

What about those that were wrongfully convicted?

[Spikey M]

No smoke without fire.

[phonics]

Lol at these members of the Venezuelan military that backed the American-coup that failed, had to flee to america for safety and are now imprisoned by ICE as illegal immigrants.

Well played lads. Backed the right side there.

https://twitter.com/trapiello/status/1208587436818862080?s=21

[bruhnaldo]

Grandpa always said, don't do the crime if you can't do the massive fire fighting for pennies on the dollar.

[Queenslander]

Blue Mountains fire filmed climbing up 200 metre cliff face in NSW Grose Valley – video


https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2019/dec/23/blue-mountains-fire-filmed-climbing-up-200-metre-cliff-face-in-nsw-grose-valley-video?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1577070838

[Kikó]

Grandpa always said, don't do the crime if you can't do the massive fire fighting for pennies on the dollar.

Ha!

[John]

Some of the things inmates do for 'work' in America are amazing. I think it's Alabama that pays them a bit more to sit in the middle of a rodeo arena at a card table and essentially play chicken with a riled up bull. Last to 'fold' wins some extra time outside.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Angola, Louisiana.

[Pepe]

This (https://www.chronicle.com/article/Was-It-Wrong-for-a-Professor/247753?cid=wcontentlist_hp_latest) article has reminded me how lol some of those videos were. Do you still have the ones you made Lewis, mate?

[Lewis]

You just made them through whatever the site was, so they will have gone down with the Old Board.

[Pepe]

Sad.

[-james-]

https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/ee4w15/8am_thrillseekers_young_couple_enjoy_exciting/

Not really news but saw this on reddit. It's about a 10ft drop to the river underneath that bridge. Ledgend.

[Ian]

How long have shops been selling "Lincolnshire Sprouts" and the likes? Has it been a while or are these special celebratory sprouts for our descent into bog-eyed lunacy?

[Ian]

At the other end of the spectrum I'm loving that PEPPA PIG ACTRESS LOOKS UNRECOGNISABLE ON 18TH BIRTHDAY!!!!! headline.

Incredible stuff.

[mo]

At the other end of the spectrum I'm loving that PEPPA PIG ACTRESS LOOKS UNRECOGNISABLE ON 18TH BIRTHDAY!!!!! headline.

Incredible stuff.

I mean, she even wore the red dress. What was unrecognisable?

[John Arne]

Is Kevin Spacey trying to become an actual real life super villian?


https://youtu.be/WCuuKhjLB0Q

[niko_cee]

:D

Has he bought any islands recently?

[phonics]

Jesus Christ, this is worse than them being forced to fight fires. Calling people telling them to vote for Mike Bloomberg.

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[Lewis]

Is Kevin Spacey trying to become an actual real life super villian?


https://youtu.be/WCuuKhjLB0Q

Is he meant to be Andrew Neil?

[Shindig]

Well, eccentricity has saved many perverts from persecution.

[Lewis]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-50915895

His face. He doesn't give a shit.

[Pepe]

Send him in for life. /Giggles

[Spikey M]

:cool:

[Giggles]

Stew.

[mo]

Surprised he's awake (the tortoise).

[Baz]

I’m going in. :panda:

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[Gray Fox]

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[Lewis]

1211265358008446976

:lol:

[Ian]

Are you having a breakdown, Baz?

[Giggles]

If Baz doesn’t go viral soon he’s going to explode,
this is desperation stakes. I’ve never seen an attention whore like it.

[Kikó]

I might unfollow him as it's desperately boring.

[Offshore Toon]

At least try and guide people to TTH.

[Baz]

Are you having a breakdown, Baz?

Nah. Just the result of boredom when I started my job. S’all scheduled; sorry to ruin the magic. I’m in the pub. The beer rating tweets are real time.

[Baz]

Only lost 4 followers, which suggests the remaining 836 aren’t real.

[Ian]

Don't be harsh on yourself. They might just have you muted.

[Lewis]

I might unfollow him as it's desperately boring.


Only lost 4 followers, which suggests the remaining 836 aren’t real.

Some of the Group have disobeyed orders. :o

[Boydy]

Just discovered that igor_balis is actually really posh.

[Offshore Toon]

Just discovered that igor_balis is actually really posh.
How so? That would make sense.

[Boydy]

He's not really. He just has a bit of a posh accent.

[Lewis]

We should start ringing each other up again. Penaldo ruined it with his pathetic English.

[Queenslander]

Fires are still raging.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/at-least-four-missing-homes-destroyed-as-fires-rage-in-victoria

Also the LNP are in "surplus" but cant afford to compensate the firefighters and re stock their supplies.

The people are crowd funding supplies in every state.

Canadian and Americans fire fighters who came over to fight the fires couldnt understand why the Australians were not paid.

[Queenslander]

How terrifying?! ����

A mother took this photo. Her two primary school aged sons are in the boat with her. They're out on the Mallacoota lake with around 5000 people as an out-of-control bushfire heads straight towards them.

Crowds are being told they may need to enter the water if the flames continue to head their way.

It doesn't look like it but this picture was taken in the daytime. The Victorian coastal town of Mallacoota woke up to a blood-red sky this morning.

As Mallacoota waits, send a message of support to those affected by the fire emergency ��
https://www.facebook.com/131493736883595/posts/2958191307547143/

[Giggles]

How so? That would make sense.

Would make a whole lot of sense.

[Jimmy Floyd]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50953410

One of my cousins and his fusty bird have set the date for their hetero civil partnership next autumn and invited me. I really have absolutely no idea why you would want to do that and not marry. Or rather, if you don't want to marry, why would you want to to do that?

I will not be attending.

[Giggles]

To get stuff from people but still be able to preach at dinner parties that the idea of marriage is like so archaic.

[Lewis]

I suppose the legal aspects of marriage could be attractive enough in their own right to justify those. The real plague are those 'naming ceremonies' that are literally pointless.

[SincereTheRebel]

That sounds like it could work. Sounds like it would be a much happier agreement if you continue to live apart.

[igor_balis]

Just discovered that igor_balis is actually really posh.

Oh fuck, I can't believe you've done this.

[Lewis]

'I say, do any of you chaps follow the Rick and the Morty?'

[Boydy]

Oh fuck, I can't believe you've done this.

:D

I was wondering how long it was gonna take you to see that.

[Shindig]

I've spoken to that man. He works for Sony.

[niko_cee]

Other than "because you're a bit of an arsehole" I don't really get why you'd get 'civilled' over just getting married in a registry office (where that option is available to you). I mean, the only civil I've ever been to was in a registry office, so what's the difference?

It was also probably at the same registry office as those two mooks in that article. lol

[Shindig]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50979485

A very Chinese story.

[SincereTheRebel]

https://mol.im/a/7845319

Nuts

[Alex]

Fuck that.

[Shindig]

I'm more freaked out by the photo of his lass. She looks like he's pregnant in the last one. Second date.

[SincereTheRebel]

I'm more freaked out by the photo of his lass. She looks like he's pregnant in the last one. Second date.

The dog is looking at his groin in disbelief.

[Lewis]

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'Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!'

[phonics]

What does he say after the word fucked. I've listened loads of times and the closest I can think of is 'by an elephant'.

[Shindig]

I heard milligan or nelligan.

[Spikey M]

+1 for Nelligan, but we're going to need a native for this one.

Queeny?

Edit: Unless...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelligen,_New_South_Wales

I was going to say "it's in an affected part of the country" but fucking everywhere is.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

https://i.postimg.cc/4428nHMg/pm.jpg (https://postimg.cc/nM7KPrpR)

[Shindig]

I can't believe we had bother. It's written on the side of the truck. :D

[Lewis]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/uknews/10678434/female-doctor-30-died-in-crash/

They really need to do something about these dangerous driving sentences. Ten months. I bet if you chinned him the day he came out of prison you would get a year.

[Lewis]

Elsewhere, this massive Asian rapist insisting on trials so he could prove the dozens of videos he had of him bum-raping unconscious people were consensual is right up there.

[Dan]

Dangerous driving usually gets pretty harsh sentences where we are - it’s not uncommon to see people get a few years, even if it’s just causing serious injury rather than actually killing someone.

You’ve got to go some to get put in prison for a punch, on the other hand- most ABH & GBH get community sentences.

[John Arne]

Elsewhere, this massive Asian rapist insisting on trials so he could prove the dozens of videos he had of him bum-raping unconscious people were consensual is right up there.

This seems like it should be much bigger story than the coverage it's getting. Isn't he the the most rapiest person ever convicted in the UK by a loooong way?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Maybe they don't want to publicise the availability of industrial strength date rape drugs too much, but I did think the same earlier.

[mo]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-51013458 - surely he must be innocent, as I can't even imagine how you would wrangle a seagull in the first place?

[Lewis]

Dangerous driving usually gets pretty harsh sentences where we are - it’s not uncommon to see people get a few years, even if it’s just causing serious injury rather than actually killing someone.

You’ve got to go some to get put in prison for a punch, on the other hand- most ABH & GBH get community sentences.

The sentences hardly ever seem to tally with what happens. That Polish lorry driver got ten years for wiping a family out because he was on his phone. Two and a half years per life, because he was mis-using potentially dangerous equipment. It's hard to imagine sentences being that light in any other context.

[Shindig]

This seems like it should be much bigger story than the coverage it's getting. Isn't he the the most rapiest person ever convicted in the UK by a loooong way?

I suspect they want to brush it aside as some gay cruising. Except the majority of his victims were straight and he was on social media saying how he liked to 'save them from their girlfriends'.

[igor_balis]

I'm not that bothered about the length of prison sentences for the absolute worst driving offenses, but I think generally they're far too lenient with the driving bans they dish out.

Like lee Hughes got banned from driving for 10 years. How the fuck is that not just a lifetime ban? I think any death by dangerous driving verdict should be a mandatory lifetime ban from driving.

[Baz]

This seems like it should be much bigger story than the coverage it's getting. Isn't he the the most rapiest person ever convicted in the UK by a loooong way?
Everything about it smacks of something dodgy. Even the idea of convicting him before releasing the evidence, and only then asking for more people to come forward, is a big strange.

[SincereTheRebel]

Elsewhere, this massive Asian rapist insisting on trials so he could prove the dozens of videos he had of him bum-raping unconscious people were consensual is right up there.


https://youtu.be/LLWlBgj0uOc

[Disco]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-50964040?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cj7qgdev69kt/carlos-ghosn&link_location=live-reporting-story

If you're going to skip out on 6.5m bail then this is the way to do it, like something out of a Bond film.

[Offshore Toon]

"I am dumbfounded," his lawyer, Junichiro Hironaka, told reporters in Tokyo shortly after learning of Mr Ghosn's flight. "I want to ask him, 'How could you do this to us?'"

What a bellend.

[mugbull]

That's the most Japanese reaction to such a thing

[Lewis]

The Japanese justice system sounds sufficiently mental to prove once and for all that only English-speaking countries have something like a handle on these things.

[Shindig]

They have something like a 99% conviction rate.

[mugbull]

The Japanese justice system sounds sufficiently mental to prove once and for all that only English-speaking countries have something like a handle on these things.
The English libel laws on their own are enough to suicide a nation, so not really

[Offshore Toon]

They have something like a 99% conviction rate.
I imagine that goes up one percent for immigrants too. I used to like the idea of visiting Japan, but I feel like there's a lot of xenophobia and paedophilia that I hadn't been taking into consideration.

[Queenslander]

I imagine that goes up one percent for immigrants too. I used to like the idea of visiting Japan, but I feel like there's a lot of xenophobia and paedophilia that I hadn't been taking into consideration.

The Japanese are very friendly and helpful towards tourists.

[Yeldoow]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50599080


Presenter Samira Ahmed has won the employment tribunal she brought against the BBC in a dispute over equal pay.

Ahmed claimed she was underpaid for hosting audience feedback show Newswatch when compared with Jeremy Vine's salary for Points of View.

The judgement said "her work on Newswatch was like Jeremy Vine's work on Points of View under section 65(1) of the Equality Act 2010".

This whole case baffles me.

The different profiles of the shows and the presenters only should make it obvious that they're not likely to be paid the same.

Besides that though she was paid exactly the same as the previous host of Newswatch Raymond Snoddy, so what has this got to do with sex discrimination?

[niko_cee]

The real outcome is that Jeremy Vine should be made to pay back the difference.

[phonics]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50599080

This whole case baffles me.

The different profiles of the shows and the presenters only should make it obvious that they're not likely to be paid the same.

Besides that though she was paid exactly the same as the previous host of Newswatch Raymond Snoddy, so what has this got to do with sex discrimination?

I mean that bits obvious. They were both being underpaid.

[Spikey M]

Or he was being overpaid.

[Yevrah]

I don’t understand it either. If the logic here holds then shouldn’t whoever presents CBBC be paid the same as Graham Norton?

[Yevrah]

Or he was being overpaid.

Jeremy Vine should be paid more to present Points of View than someone I’ve never heard of, presenting a show I’ve never heard of.

[Lewis]

The specific jobs it refers to are clearly similar and sufficiently bollocks to not really merit such a pay disparity (which also begs the question why they were even paying Jeremy Vine that much to do them). It's not about their overall role[s] and main position in the company.

[Ian]

To be fair I'm sure reading out the crank mailbag must be very taxing.

[Yevrah]

It was a popular show. I’ve never even heard of Newswatch.

[Spikey M]

Jeremy Vine should be paid more to present Points of View than someone I’ve never heard of, presenting a show I’ve never heard of.

We're both right.

[igor_balis]

I imagine that goes up one percent for immigrants too. I used to like the idea of visiting Japan, but I feel like there's a lot of xenophobia and paedophilia that I hadn't been taking into consideration.

My mate was briefly dating this girl who had been a massive weeb. She'd heard and dismissed all the nasty rumours about all that stuff, understandably assuming it was just racist bullshit. Once she was there on her big dream Japan trip, she'd been sat in this cafe with just her at one table next to a table of 4 businessmen and nobody else in the place except staff at the other end. She thinks they were speaking openly because as a black girl they just assumed she couldn't speak Japanese. Anyway, supposedly she overheard an exchange where one businessman told the rest that he still bathed his 14 year old daughter, and the rest just openly went like "OMG YOU'RE SO LUCKY I'M SO JEALOUS", and he just sorta winked smugly at them. I'd like to think it was just dark bantz, but she didn't think so, and it basically completely soured her on the country and she came home depressed and no longer a weeb.

[Ian]

Christ yeah, imagine the shock of finding out that Japan has some significant creepiness going on.

[Offshore Toon]

Asian people don't do banter, so that story is damning.

[SincereTheRebel]

Asian people don't do banter, so that story is damning.

There do fire takeaways though.

[Ian]

Reading some of the stuff about the Jeremy Vine tribunal and loving that one of their arguments was that he has a glint in his eye.

Should've been case closed really.

[Lewis]

'This boring old bag however...'

[Spikey M]

"He's had a fucking stroke!"

[Ian]

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Not sure if she's on the wind-up or the gin.

[Lewis]

lol at this Chinese virus being spread by them eating shit like bats. Hopefully people are writing their apologies to Morrissey as we speak.

[Spikey M]

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[mugbull]

"UyghurInfo"

[Disco]

The last thing you want to do after lunch is terror the world.

[Alex]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51261999


Chat about football or cricket in the workplace should be curtailed, a management body has warned.

Chartered Management Institute head Ann Francke said sports banter can exclude women and lead to laddish behaviour such as chat about sexual conquests.

:rolleyes:


"It's very easy for it to escalate from VAR talk and chat to slapping each other on the back and talking about their conquests at the weekend."

Yeah, because that happens all the time.

[randomlegend]

Isn't assuming that football talk excludes women sexist in and of itself?

[Manc]

Get her back in the attic.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Should women therefore not be allowed to talk about their major interests at work that exclude men?

[Jimmy Floyd]

A certain type of mainly boomer woman (my mum is one) goes into a psychotic frenzy if anyone talks about sport in their earshot. They don't accept the idea that it's s legitimate field like art or books, they think it is literally a pointless waste of time.

[phonics]

It is a pointless waste of time. That's why it's great.

[Disco]

Everything is a pointless waste of time.

[Spikey M]

Does this mean the women in the office aren't allowed to talk about any Reality TV or Soap Opera bollocks?

[Raoul Duke]

Kinda feel like I'd be willing to make that trade

[Kikó]

Work should be an environment where only work is discussed and who has put fish in the microwave.

[Alex]

Kinda feel like I'd be willing to make that trade

Actually, fair point. If the trade-off is that I don't have to listen to talk about Love Island or that latest diet you've all started but none of you are going to stick to them I'm more than happy to give up talking about sport.

[Alex]

Work should be an environment where only work is discussed and who has put fish in the microwave.

Should be grounds for instant dismissal.