News of the day

[Disco]

Instant liquidation would be preferable.

[Shindig]

Talking shop is so, so shite.

[Raoul Duke]

I thought talking shop was when you talk about work in a non-work context?

[Shindig]

Ah, you're right. Still talking exclusively about work is fucking dull. It's why I dislike the new team. They have nothing else.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Bitching about management is endless fun. Talking about the work content, less so.

[SvN]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51235939

Talk about trying to hit the minimum word count.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I was doing some reading earlier and I found that:

- This thing
- SARS
- All three plague pandemics in human history
- Quite possibly the Spanish flu

all originated in China. Is this just statistics because they have a large population, or are they somehow likely to engender pandemics over there?

[phonics]

I was doing some reading earlier and I found that:

- This thing
- SARS
- All three plague pandemics in human history
- Quite possibly the Spanish flu

all originated in China. Is this just statistics because they have a large population, or are they somehow likely to engender pandemics over there?

I mean there's lots of factors. Large population, spread over large area, different immune resistances to rest of the world, worse hygienic practices, higher poverty rate, more traditionally 'nomadic' people.

I think the last 3 are the biggest factors.

edit: Just read a fact that in 1900 the worlds population was 1.6 billion. China's population 100 years later was 1.2 billion. Crazy.

[Spikey M]

All of the above is correct, but let's not forget that they're also eating bats, live rats, snakes, and their nans shit coated dildo by all accounts. Wronguns.

[phonics]

I was filing that under hygienic practices

[Yevrah]

Has anyone here tried bat?

[Jimmy Floyd]

You were the one who had the chance.

[Yevrah]

In China? Never been.

[Raoul Duke]

I think he's referring to your loft infestation

[phonics]

I thought it was a dog at the ex-wife.

[Shindig]

You can't eat a broom.

[Spikey M]

Not with that attitude.

[Yevrah]

I think he's referring to your loft infestation

Ah, so he is.

I'd have gone to prison for doing that here.

The Bat Soup videos doing the rounds online really are the worst food based thing ever.

[niko_cee]

So what's Alastair Stewart been tweeting to get insta-binned by ITN?

[bruhnaldo]

Alastair is my favorite English name i think.

[SvN]

Pretty sure it's Scottish

[bruhnaldo]

News of the day to me, my boy :drool:

[John]

He replied to a black guy with a Shakespeare passage about apes, which sounds amazing but he's used the same passage a few times in response to non blacks so really it's just an offence seeking twat doing his thing.

[Smjffy]

Those peadophile hunter people have just had a live feed on the Facebook of their latest catch....turns out he's from five miles down the road and works at a place I went for an interview at last year. Ming. I knew I recognised the face! Madness.

[Baz]

They got me.

[Shindig]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-51332996

Comic sans, the quotes, the photos lifted from his 'wacky' facebook. There is no God.

[mugbull]

Its pretty funny

[Baz]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-51332996

Comic sans, the quotes, the photos lifted from his 'wacky' facebook. There is no God.

It’s great.
In the "facts and stats" section, he states he is 6ft tall, that his index finger measures 6.82cm and he has kissed more than three girls.:lol:

[Ian]

So the BBC did a news story in which they mixed up two black MPs when selecting their photo.

The Evening Standard went all "hold my beer" when they reported on the BBC's mistake by using a third, unrelated black woman for their story.

[Shindig]

Man, first Kobe / LeBron and now this.

[Ian]

I'm sure it was recently that they put a picture of Martial under a Rashford headline too.

[John Arne]

Just received a message from the government, presumably from Dear Uncle Ho himself.....



Nationwide against nCoV. Please comply with regulations and recommendations of the health sector. Do not distribute false information. Do not profit from disease. Encourage good work, condemn negative behavior. Vietnam is determined to win the pandemic!

[Ian]

I didn't even know a pandemic was something one could win so no wonder I never have.

[Pepe]

I guess they're talking about this:

https://target.scene7.com/is/image/Target/GUEST_0313f621-d762-4e1d-9855-e32163314488?wid=488&hei=488&fmt=pjpeg

[Ian]

I was only joking Pepe, everybody knows you win the pandemic (https://www.kongregate.com/games/darkrealmstudios/pandemic-2) is by starting in Madagascar. :nodd:

[Pepe]

Forgot about that one. :drool:

[Ian]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-51388635


The prosecution decided not to proceed on a count of rape following Dempster's plea change part way through his trial. He admitted two counts of sexual assault by penetration.

What's the difference?

[niko_cee]

I think it depends which orifice you penetrate.

[Ian]

Oh, so "Oh don't worry, he didn't rape her. He's not a MONSTER, it was just the old lady's [whatever] he stuck it in?"

Seems a bit of a pointless distinction to me.

[Giggles]

I think this is the saddest thing I’ve read in a long time. Poor man.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/andrew-mcginley-s-funeral-eulogy-for-his-children-conor-darragh-and-carla-1.4157468

[Ian]

Fuck. :(

Any idea why the mother seems to have done it?

[Giggles]

Sketchy enough details but apparently she went a bit crazy that there was no future for them so she poisoned them and herself but she was found before it killed her.

[Spikey M]

Fuck me. I could barely read that, never mind him.

[Yevrah]

I've got tears in my eyes.

[Lewis]

How is Philip Schofield simply gay if he has a wife and two kids? Isn't he bisexual (or 'pansexual'/whatever) at best?

[-james-]

I daresay him claiming that he had been into it with her would not have flown.

[Lewis]

It seems like quite a binary, old-fashioned distinction to make, assuming he never only shagged his wife twice in thirty years. You can like anyone these days Phil.

[niko_cee]

Aye, so passé.

He could have at least come out as being in a relationship with a Ford Cortina or something. Or some sort of electric vehicle perhaps.

[Baz]

Only a matter of time before it's out that he was inappropriate with Gordon.

[SincereTheRebel]

Women bring you so much pain and suffering and you think, fuck this. Im over to the other side.

[Spikey M]

I don't understand why it's news.

[SincereTheRebel]

How long has he been perpetrating the fraud?

[Baz]

How long has he been perpetrating the fraud?Well, he’s 57.

[Bam]

Women bring you so much pain and suffering and you think, fuck this. Im over to the other side.


I don't think they could ever bring me that amount of pain!!

[Jimmy Floyd]

He will have been subject to a tabloid sting here. Which, by the way, is why it's news - because people love to read about it.

[Shindig]

Have any of the red tops went with, "Phil is out of the Broom Cupboard" as a headline?

[Giggles]

All the usual jokes flying about but when you watch the clip from Good Morning I don’t know how anyone can be as angry as people are being really. Fair play to him.

[phonics]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/270326079648956433/675379989499215913/EQKi7XRXsAEzdl9.png

wild

[Disco]

What was bizarre about it?

[Giggles]

What was bizarre about it?

It’s BIZARRE because he’s GAY.

[Disco]

It must be very tiring working on a tabloid.

[Alex]

It must be very tiring working on a tabloid.

Imagine leaving university with your journalism degree in hand, all wide-eyed and enthusiastic and ready to change the world, and then.....

[Baz]

Better than a local rag.

[Giggles]

Only if you’re taking money.

Tabloid ‘journalists’ should have their head held in a bucket of water at birth.

[phonics]

While I will spit on any journalist, just to stand up for them slightly, they don't write the headlines.

[igor_balis]

Print journalism is just fucked, you'd be about 25 years late if you did media at uni with the intention of making a nice career working for newspapers.

Has anyone been on the website for their local newspaper recently? It's a fucking shit show. My old hometown has a population of ~100,000, and the main newspaper seems to have one full time journalist, and the website has, BY FAR, the most irritating, intrusive adverts. If you scroll down past the article, they just have loads of shit like OMG THIS SINGLE MOM MADE $5000 AN HOUR WORKING FROM HOME IN NUNEATON. I don't even blame them, how the fuck could a provincial town's newspaper make money in the current climate?

I am absolutely part of the problem, but I think it's...an issue that my (our?) generation expects to get news for free. The problem is that the kind of money traditional newspapers used to make absolutely can't be replicated by online advertising and stuff. Despite being Tory rags, I kinda agree with the Times paywall model. It's very easy to say that the MSM is partly responsible for being out of touch, and it's also true that the internet has enabled independent blogs etc to fill the gap a bit, but there's absolutely no way that the kind of important investigative journalism that traditional news media used to fund can be replicated by little independents. Peter Oborne's blog post about the way the telegraph went to shit is a very good encapsulation of this.

[igor_balis]

I'd say that infotainment, propaganda and PR copy as news is, to a huge extent, a symptom of MSM not having the resources to do actual news stuff.

[Jimmy Floyd]

'Coming out as gay' is a horrid concept in the first place. I was what you would call in the closet for years, not wanting to 'come out' because of the fear of it, and then in the end I did some stuff and thought you know what, why should I have to 'come out'? If anyone is really interested they can come and find me right here. They aren't, and I proceed as normal. No soppy social media posts, no press conferences, no announcement parties, and it's just less stressful this way. If anyone asks me certain things I kind of hint at it and either they get it or they don't, whatever. Then if at some point someone finds out third party or whatever and has a problem that I didn't tell them earlier then, you know, it's their problem, not mine.

I respect those who want to do it announcement style, if it works for them, but the tabloid idea that secret gays are lurking everywhere under cover of darkness waiting to be uncovered is fucking stupid and from the 80s if not 70s.

However, what I will say is it took me fucking years of mild torment and small a anxiety to reach this logical position and Philip Schofield grew up at a time when it was actually frowned upon, rather than just quietly looked down upon when I was a teenager and now it's seen as kind of ok, for the most part, at least in the West. It's not quite so simple as straight people think. But it should be.

[Lewis]

Was that 'Miss Daisy' warehouse retard the first person to suss you out?

[igor_balis]

'Coming out as gay' is a horrid concept in the first place. I was what you would call in the closet for years, not wanting to 'come out' because of the fear of it, and then in the end I did some stuff and thought you know what, why should I have to 'come out'? If anyone is really interested they can come and find me right here. They aren't, and I proceed as normal. No soppy social media posts, no press conferences, no announcement parties, and it's just less stressful this way. If anyone asks me certain things I kind of hint at it and either they get it or they don't, whatever. Then if at some point someone finds out third party or whatever and has a problem that I didn't tell them earlier then, you know, it's their problem, not mine.

I respect those who want to do it announcement style, if it works for them, but the tabloid idea that secret gays are lurking everywhere under cover of darkness waiting to be uncovered is fucking stupid and from the 80s if not 70s.

However, what I will say is it took me fucking years of mild torment and small a anxiety to reach this logical position and Philip Schofield grew up at a time when it was actually frowned upon, rather than just quietly looked down upon when I was a teenager and now it's seen as kind of ok, for the most part, at least in the West. It's not quite so simple as straight people think. But it should be.

Thanks for your insight, Jim.

I think what's always annoyed me, as a STARIGHT MAN, is the fucking disingenuous way some straight blokes will roll their eyes and say shit like WHY DO THEY MAKE SUCH A BIG DEAL ABOUT IT?? WHY ANNOUNCE YOU'RE GAY, WE DON'T CARE MATE DO WHAT YOU LIKE!!

It can, and often does, come from a good place (from lads who genuinely DON'T care about someone's sexuality), but sometimes it get's a bit "why isn't there a WHITE history month"... deliberately reductive refusal to acknowledge the cultural and societal context. I agree that people shouldn't have to come out, but i think more power to those who choose to.

And people in the media who try to out people can get fucked.

[mugbull]

I imagine that if you’re not publicly “out” (and you’re not a famous person with circles of connections stretching infinitely in every direction) it must be hard to find guys to sleep with or date

[SincereTheRebel]

It's interesting because in a breakup when you have your partner defending you even after you have broken her heart. Its puts you in a great position. His pimp hand is strong.

Question. In order to be gay, do you only have to think about performing sexual acts with the same-sex or do you have to follow through and actually do it physically?

[Shindig]

I imagine that if you’re not publicly “out” (and you’re not a famous person with circles of connections stretching infinitely in every direction) it must be hard to find guys to sleep with or date

Nah, you just pay them like Lily Allen did.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Was that 'Miss Daisy' warehouse retard the first person to suss you out?

No, but he still does that and has other versions for other people. One of my colleagues gets 'Mar-leeeeen!' from Fools and Horses every time he walks past.

[Spikey M]

Trying to put people who don't care about someone's sexuality in bed (oo-er) with people who want a White History Month is the reachiest reach that's ever been reached for.

It's like putting people who believe in 'One race, the HUMAN RACE' in bed with 'I don't care where you're from m8, you can fuck off back there'.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I imagine that if you’re not publicly “out” (and you’re not a famous person with circles of connections stretching infinitely in every direction) it must be hard to find guys to sleep with or date

Depends what publicly 'out' means, for a normal person without a media/public profile you are only as 'out' as you are to the person standing next to you. Because there are so few gays around you have to go looking for them regardless of whether you're out or not, unless you head to places designed for this like gay bars, grindr etc.

If anything it would be more difficult for a celeb aiming to stay underground, as they probably leave some kind of paper/camera trail every time they do anything.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Trying to put people who don't care about someone's sexuality in bed (oo-er) with people who want a White History Month is the reachiest reach that's ever been reached for.

It's like putting people who believe in 'One race, the HUMAN RACE' in bed with 'I don't care where you're from m8, you can fuck off back there'.

There's a dividing line between things like your post at the top of this page (genuine bewilderment as to why this matters) and people who are annoyed about having to have such things in their conscience and use that as a cover, which igor correctly identifies. It's pretty easy to spot which is which.

[Spikey M]

It's interesting because in a breakup when you have your partner defending you even after you have broken her heart. Its puts you in a great position. His pimp hand is strong.

Question. In order to be gay, do you only have to think about performing sexual acts with the same-sex or do you have to follow through and actually do it physically?

It's about desire. If you want to get jiggy with a member of the same sex, you're gay. You can get gay Sincey's, chucking their jizz about and clocking up loyalty points at the local Sexual Health Clinic, but you'll also get gay people that are all Mahow about it. Rest assured, both Sincey and Mahow are equally gay in this scenario.

[Spikey M]

One thing I've found very telling, is the amount of people OUTRAGED at his treatment of his wife. The same people wouldn't give a shit about a celebrity having an affair in any other circumstances - including if Phil had been having a go on another woman.

Anyway, it turns out my initial feeling of passivity was actually wrong, because the general response to this has shown that the world is still a much more homophobic place than I thought it was. The slurs may have been shamed underground, but the mindset is still strong.

[Ian]

Anyway, it turns out my initial feeling of passivity was actually wrong, because the general response to this has shown that the world is still a much more homophobic place than I thought it was. The slurs may have been shamed underground, but the mindset is still strong.

This is my pattern of response with a lot of these things, from "I don't care and I don't see why anybody else should" to just being annoyed by the braindead reaction to it from the mongs.

[Disco]

There's still a decent slice of society that, while not kicking your head in for it, will certainly think less of gay people. Some of that may be residual hurr-durr playground bullshit but the effect is much the same.

[Kikó]

https://i.ibb.co/72M0c3g/IMG-20200208-WA0003.jpg

I just had a chat with this cunt.

[Giggles]

Is it Taz?

[Kikó]

Aye. Off to Brentford.

[Giggles]

I assume he’ll be back with a few posts in a month or so.

[Yevrah]

Ask him how he feels about Daniel Sturridge now?

[Spikey M]

Dat bun.

[Disco]

Who's Taz?

[Giggles]

Who's Taz?

Sorry, Don.

[Foe]

Dat bun.

We need more info.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It's about desire. If you want to get jiggy with a member of the same sex, you're gay. You can get gay Sincey's, chucking their jizz about and clocking up loyalty points at the local Sexual Health Clinic, but you'll also get gay people that are all Mahow about it. Rest assured, both Sincey and Mahow are equally gay in this scenario.

It's my story to tell, prick.

[SincereTheRebel]

Living Life Lads

[Lewis]

We need more info.

It stops his nose knocking against his chin.

[John Arne]

A Thai guy is letting fly and 12 die.

He went to Terminal 21, tried to kill everyone and now he's on the run.

Corporal Jakrapanth, a known pyscopath, killed a squaddie and his wife over the rights to a gaff.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/08/thai-soldier-kills-many-in-shooting-rampage

[Baz]

https://i.ibb.co/72M0c3g/IMG-20200208-WA0003.jpg

I just had a chat with this cunt.Is it warm there? :cab:

[Spikey M]

Oh, he has dark skin har har har.

Fuck off Baz.

[Shindig]

No but he has exceptionally hairy arms.

[Giggles]

Oh, he has dark skin har har har.

Fuck off Baz.

I just assumed he meant no jacket :D

[Foe]

I just assumed he meant no jacket :D

As did I. I wondered the same as it’s fucking freezing up here.

[Spikey M]

I just assumed he meant no jacket :D

(I'm 99% sure he did)

[Boydy]

That hair. Fucking hell.

[Ian]

He looks like he should be serving in a vegan cafe.

[John Arne]

He looks like he should be serving in a vegan cafe.

Oh, he should be our slave, serving us, just because he has dark skin? FUCK YOU, RACIST. /Spikey

[Ian]

I'd say serving vegans all day is a date worse than normal slavery.

[igor_balis]

Saveus.y2don

[phonics]

Back to Scofield. I've found out there's some weirdos who think he's part of some child grooming conspiracy.

I was innocently browsing Twitter when this article popped up

1226267767780859905

I disagreed with the basic premise in the lede saying that Phil hadn't recevied the criticism that this other person I haven't heard of did so was intrigued to see the replies. Where I see this tweet

1226269658405146624

Intrigued by this (and because his avatar/display name combo was a giveaway that there'd be some proper gammon stuff to laugh at) where I find this

https://i.imgur.com/C5QDmnz.png
https://i.imgur.com/2Nnn9EK.png

Some people are such weirdos.

[phonics]

In other news while I was looking through Gammonland via Keith's TL I learned of the existence of Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union to fight the Maoist Climate of Intolerance' which is very funny.

1225373913087168513

[Lewis]

I was a bit confused by that Jameela Jamil 'coming out' statement. Surely you have to put that sort of thing into action before qualifying for the status? You can't just say you've felt it but I'm happy with my boyfriend thanks. Then again, she does seem like a bit of a dickhead.

[Kikó]

To answer the question posed earlier, yes it's cold. Taz should be wearing a coat.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Don's don't need coats.

[Manc]

He looks like a beta version of Mert.

[SincereTheRebel]

Don's don't need coats.

If he was about that life, he would have one draped over his shoulders

[Shindig]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-51436805

Yep.

[Yaysus]

He looks like a beta version of Mert.

:happycry:

[SincereTheRebel]

https://i.ibb.co/KmQN6n7/dffdf.jpg (https://imgbb.com/)

[Baz]

https://shadowchaser75.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/tv20noels20house20party20noel20edmonds1.jpg?w=1100

[SvN]

That means that the password you use for the website has been compromised. Check haveibeenpwned.com (http://haveibeenpwned.com)

[Shindig]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-51493282#

It's just getting sadder now.

[Ian]

In that second picture he looks like an off-brand Jeremy Renner.

Or Josh Homme, maybe.

[Disco]

Came up with it in the pub did he? Sure it wasn't when multiple other people did very similar things.

[Ian]

Don't really know where to put this as I can't be arsed cropping and uploading the image for the funny pictures thread but my mate's found a flyer on the landing outside his flat that on one side says:

DO YOU LIKE SINGING,
AND GOING TO BENIDORM A LOT?
MEN AGED 40 TO 60 WANTED FOR
A 1950'S DOO WOP GROUP

With contact details. I'm assuming the distributor has received a lot of "What are you trying to lure me into?" responses previously because this flyer also has a separately-printed sticker on the back that says:

THIS ADVERT IS NEITHER AIMED SOLELY
AT GAY MEN OR STRAIGHT MEN,BUT,
SOLELY AT MEN WHO LOVE SINGING
AND LOVE BENIDORM IN EQUAL MEASURE

[Disco]

What if my love for Benidorm outstrips my love of singing? I feel unfairly excluded from this.

[Ian]

Then you can FUCK OFF and get your own flights to Benidorm.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-51493282#

It's just getting sadder now.

His website is so cringey.

[Disco]

Just imagine the sort of grasping, desperate women you'd get responding to that kind of thing. They'll be perfect for each other.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I might have to do it, those women sound perfect for me.

[Shindig]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-51515557

The war between graffiti and street art never ends.

[Disco]

An honourary 'Get a Grip Mate' award to the man describing that as 'devastation'. Top melodrama from you sir.

[igor_balis]

Banksy is so fucking shit

[Lewis]

Obviously his messages are a bit subtle for you.

[Luca]

If that works... oi Don Luca

It worked.

[Lewis]

Wahey. See you in 2025.

[Spikey M]

Dj luca in da house, yea n*gga!

[Shindig]

Big ups Chef Samsung.

[Lewis]

Always good to catch up with Luca. :)

[Luca]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/15/world/asia/xi-china-coronavirus.html

This ex-post-facto posturing is pretty good from Xi. It either means we’re absolutely fucked, or they’ve turned the tide.

[Spikey M]

He's become a bot and he's not even the best bot we have. :(

[Luca]

AI is a hell of a drug.

[Giggles]

Does that link work for anyone else?

[Jimmy Floyd]

It works for me until the stupid New York Times headline font appears and then I have to close it.

[Luca]

Edited with the actual link.

[Giggles]

I forgot Apple had went all Google with their news.

[phonics]

Toby Young crying that 'the snowflakes have won' because 'Andrew Sabisky, suggested black Americans have a lower average IQ than white citizens and labelled public outcry over female genital mutilation a 'moral panic'. Mr Sabisky also said that 'women's sport is more comparable to the Paralympics than it is to men's' and reportedly advocated legally enforcing the uptake of contraception to stop unplanned pregnancies 'creating a permanent underclass'.' has been asked to resign. Incredible. I genuinely think that anyone who uses the words 'free speech' don't understand the concept.

[niko_cee]

Imagine the fallout if Lewis ever gets on the spag gravy train.

I have no idea who this guy is, or how much of a nutter he is or isn't, but doesn't his suitability to 'be in government' depend what he's in there doing? If he's a dab hand at IT systems and that's what he's doing does it matter that he's also a massive bigot?

[phonics]

He's a policy advisor so I think the bigotry might be the issue.

Also, if you look at how tech works, having a bigot in charge is quite the issue.

[niko_cee]

If he has expertise in a field unrelated to whatever he's posted on internet forums x years ago then I don't think that should necessarily preclude him, otherwise do you not just end up with vanilla nitwits who never put a foot out of line, but have basically no actual skills (ie the civil service)? I assume it's just Cummings trolling anyway. He's probably gone back and found these posts for everyone to get outraged about.

[phonics]

What policy field won't be affected by thinking the average black person has a double digit IQ? I'm not saying that he would be putting that front and center of every idea he had but I think about it in the sense that those movement/light detector based things have a larger fail rate when used by a black person than white. There's consequences to all decisions.

[niko_cee]

As far as I can tell he stands accused of making some indefensible comments to that effect 6 years ago (2014) and making what appears to be a utilitarian argument about 'cognitive enhancers' two years later. Now, fair enough, if he's still bowling around saying or thinking those 2014 things now then that's a problem, but if he isn't then is it still a massive problem? People say or think stupid things all the time, I' not sure it should be a permanent bar to any form of public office.

[phonics]

Quick thought experiment: How recently could he have said/thought these things and it not be an issue, because by the tone of 'indefensible' you seem to recognise they're bad. 6 months? 2 years?

[niko_cee]

6 years?

It depends if these are still his views (or if they ever were). It's obviously easier to accept that they aren't (if he says they aren't) given a longer span of time between the point of judgment and the point of offence. So maybe 2 weeks would be pushing it. If he's still bowling around believing in racial/genetic/class purity or whatever then have at him by all means. Unless he's a drains policy specialist, in which case just leave him to plan the sewers and make sure he's not racist about them.

[phonics]

How are you supposed to know what he believes if we’re told that he believes the exact opposite of what he believed when no one knew who he was.

[Shindig]

You can believe owt on twitter and then change your mind. It's all posturing bollocks.

[phonics]

Doesn’t owt mean nothing?

[niko_cee]

Presumbly he's posted a lot more on whatever blogs or forums one trawls through to find this stuff, so do these things stand as outliers, is there more of this, or has he only ever committed his world view to the internet on three occasions espousing racist ideas about IQ, the need to neuter the poor and the fact that a few kids as collateral damage is acceptable if everyone gets a B in GCSE maths? I would want to see a broader survey of his abhorrent views before deeming him a monster beyond redemption. People espouse stupid ideas all the time, particularly via the (historically) anonymous medium of the internet (maybe question the wisdom of using your own name).

Owt means 'anything' apparently, t'was on The Chase earlier. I thought it was 'something'.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Doesn’t owt mean nothing?

It means n'importe quoi.

[phonics]

Presumbly he's posted a lot more on whatever blogs or forums one trawls through to find this stuff, so do these things stand as outliers, is there more of this, or has he only ever committed his world view to the internet on three occasions espousing racist ideas about IQ, the need to neuter the poor and the fact that a few kids as collateral damage is acceptable if everyone gets a B in GCSE maths? I would want to see a broader survey of his abhorrent views before deeming him a monster beyond redemption. People espouse stupid ideas all the time, particularly via the (historically) anonymous medium of the internet (maybe question the wisdom of using your own name).

I'm not saying he should be locked up. However, I don't think that the bar for public office should be set at 'slightly above monster beyond redemption'. Enoch Powell was drummed out for less than what this bloke espoused. At least he recognised ethnics as smart enough to infiltrate and subsequently destroy society.

[niko_cee]

I'll defer to Lewis on Enoch but can't help but feel you might be doing him and his legacy of being a racist a bit of a disservice by saying a random comment on a random blog from 6 years ago outdoes his lifetime's work in the field.

[phonics]

For sure, I'm being a bit facetious.

[niko_cee]

He's resigned.

:D

[Lewis]

Imagine the fallout if Lewis ever gets on the spag gravy train.

This is genuinely what has stopped me putting an application in. Who needs it?

[phonics]

Using my free speech to call Toby Young a twat/pedophile has got some proper cursed people in my mentions.

https://i.imgur.com/3DXFo3A.png

[Lewis]

Then again, imagine my face on the front of the Metro with 'Number 10 advisor mocked Hillsborough dead to Only Fools and Horses theme'. I'm in.

[phonics]

Posting on here is the safest thing one could do as long as your account isn't linked to the same email especially with the old place gone.

[Lewis]

It's more that it's linked to my name and personal information.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Someone on here would dob you in even if the intrepid men and women of Fleet Street didn't find you. Harold or Wedge, if they were different people.

[phonics]

Did we ever find out if Chinny ran for MP?

[Baz]

It's more that it's linked to my name and personal information.

There’s a horse called Simply The Betts.

[phonics]

If he has expertise in a field unrelated to whatever he's posted on internet forums x years ago then I don't think that should necessarily preclude him, otherwise do you not just end up with vanilla nitwits who never put a foot out of line, but have basically no actual skills (ie the civil service)? I assume it's just Cummings trolling anyway. He's probably gone back and found these posts for everyone to get outraged about.

Seems that according to Guido Fawkes he was the top advisor for fucking defense so I think we can give him slightly less benefit of the doubt.

[Giggles]

“Culture”

1230219728599289863

[Pepe]

:lol:

[Giggles]

:lol:

A protected species thanks to our last government.

[Pepe]

Who is? I have zero clue what is going on, but the unintelligible shouting from the people filming made me lol.

[Giggles]

The travelers (knackers, pikeys, gypsies) You can’t think they’re cunts any more, by law. Even though they’ll prowl around and rob the eyeballs out of your head.

[mugbull]

Looks like they’re having more fun than you’ve ever had

[Baz]

Poor horses.

[Queenslander]

Western Australia has taken an enormous lead as the most racist state within the Federation.



RSL bans Welcome to Country, Aboriginal flag at Anzac Day, Remembrance Day ceremonies in WA


https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-21/rslwa-bans-welcome-to-country-aboriginal-flag-anzac-remembrance/11986324?pfmredir=sm&sf230441610=1

[niko_cee]

:D

The best bit being they still allow the NZ double anthem.

[Queenslander]

:D

We are going backwards faster than the States.

[Giggles]

I read all that but still didn’t pick up on what RSL stood for or what they were.

Anyway, just don’t get too racist and send all our dregs back. We were glad to see the back of them.

[Queenslander]

RSL looks after the social part of life for the vets.

[Jimmy Floyd]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51602975

I'm not necessarily saying they're wrong in what they say, but why are the Harry Dunn people in the news every other day? Who is driving the boat there?

[Shindig]

And is the boat on the right side of the water?

[SincereTheRebel]

Power cut in Wolves are alarms are going off all over the place.

[Queenslander]

Didnt teach this in school.


The blackbirding trade
What happened on Tanna is known as blackbirding.

Tens of thousands of Pacific Islanders throughout Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands also became caught up in the trade.

It was started in 1847 by a New South Wales-based grazier, and 16 years later the idea to import Pacific labour was picked up further north in Queensland.

Until the trade ended in 1901, around 62,000 people — mostly boys and young men — were taken to work on sugar plantations.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-21/blackbirding-legacy-haunts-tanna-vanuatu/11764586

[Queenslander]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51602975

I'm not necessarily saying they're wrong in what they say, but why are the Harry Dunn people in the news every other day? Who is driving the boat there?

He has been forgotten about down here for the most part. I dare say the US are telling Dutton and Scummo to not say a word.

[The Merse]

Meanwhile, in Wales; doctors advise against inserting frozen veg up one's own rectum: https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/doctors-warning-people-not-insert-17802129

[Spikey M]

Bloody Health and Safety nuts.

Does this mean they've worked out where Smiffy has been going wrong?

[randomlegend]

Meanwhile, in Wales; doctors advise against inserting frozen veg up one's own rectum: https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/doctors-warning-people-not-insert-17802129

Prolly works

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Bloody Health and Safety nuts.

Does this mean they've worked out where Smiffy has been going wrong?

He just wanted to loosen it up so the tube slides in easier next time.

[Foe]

Probably should have sold some shares 6months ago. :uhoh:

[Shindig]

I mean, frozen anything will probably reduce the swelling.

[Baz]

I like how the article is about not advising it, but also gives very specific and clear instructions on what to do.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-51656545

A 111-year-old former teacher and engineer from Hampshire is set to be confirmed as the world's oldest man.

Bob Weighton, who was born on 29 March 1908, is expected to be named as the new record-holder following the death of 112-year-old Chitetsu Watanabe.

'Mon Bob :cool:

[Ian]

And doesn't even look like one of those where they look so old their life is a misery and they're just praying for the sweet release of death.

[mugbull]

He said the secret to his longevity was "to avoid dying".

Mad lad

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RTMByO4py4

What a guy.

[Yevrah]

109? He looks about 80.

[Pepe]

Probably a racist.

[Queenslander]

Back to business. Eg Wombat cull

The planned cull will take place near Point Pearce — on Aboriginal-owned farmland.

According to traditional owner and Adjahdura/Narungga and Ngadjuri elder Quenten Agius, the farmer who rents the land from the Aboriginal community is having his equipment broken when he runs over the animals.


https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-02/wombat-cull-approved-by-sa-government-following-request/12016388?pfmredir=sm

[Spikey M]

Haven't they all been cooked?

[Queenslander]

Haven't they all been cooked?

Oh yeah. Plenty of people are still fostering them and making sure wild populations can be repopulated.

Not the poor old farmer though heaven forbid they take responsisbilitly for managing their land. The victim farmer is truly uniquely Australian.

[niko_cee]

I preferred the linked story to the off duty cop stoning one to death. :cab:

Cool as they are I can imagine wombats do a hell of a lot of damage both generally through digging and if you run them over, with that armour plated arse of theirs. Farmers are moany bastards the world over, but then I guess they'd say they probably fulfill a more important role in society than whingeing urban lefties. It's the same with the badgers over here. Oh the badgers!

[Queenslander]

I am definitely an inner city lefty whinging bastard but Ive also seen far too many videos of farmers killing native animals for laughs not for land management.

[niko_cee]

Don't they mostly just do "roo-shootin'" with those massive torches and/or dog fighting with those massive hunting dogs?

[Queenslander]

Don't they mostly just do "roo-shootin'" with those massive torches and/or dog fighting with those massive hunting dogs?

They do everything these days. I have seen wallabies, roos, wombats and birds all be destroyed in one sided slaughter for uploads.

Greyhound x pitbill seems to be the favorite dog of choice.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It was only recently I realised kangaroos are basically enormous rats, and it really changed my view of the world.

[Queenslander]

As long as we eat them. We waste far too much meat in this country in the name of land management.

Camel meat is another that is wasted.

[Ian]

Yeah but no need to get the hump about it.

[Queenslander]

:D

[Disco]

I expect you have the same problem we do (exacerbated by most of the country being a giant wasteland) in that animal populations aren't really managed, you just wait until it's a problem and then try and control them. Normally by getting a load of bumpkins together with rifles and shooting as many as you can find.

[Disco]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/51709473

Weren't we talking very recently about how American sport is just an excuse to sell you more stuff?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Zinger has been bitter about our side of the pond ever since Seve Ballesteros trolled him to death in the Ryder Cup 30 years ago.

As someone who watches every week, the article is bang on about the American coverage. Fedex dump fifty million dollars on the table and in return expect the broadcast to be a 5 hour rolling tape of a Fedex van driving past. They also seem to be obsessed with projecting a certain image which real sport is not able to provide.

The low point was when a couple of weeks ago, Harold Varner was leading and topped his tee shot on one of the holes, like a rank weekend hacker would do. They refused to show the shot on the basis that they think it's bad for the brand/sponsors to show golfers in a bad light. Then there was Patrick Reed blatantly cheating (again) back in December and they completely glossed it over and described him as 'the perfect gentleman'.

Proper Bernie-style bollocks. Luckily the European side of the game (and Sky) have brilliant coverage and there are a few outlets in America which cover it properly as well, but the official TV feed is a disgrace.

[phonics]

Igor made me aware to this huge bust made by #OurBoysInBlue.

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

#NotOnOurPatch

[Queenslander]

I expect you have the same problem we do (exacerbated by most of the country being a giant wasteland) in that animal populations aren't really managed, you just wait until it's a problem and then try and control them. Normally by getting a load of bumpkins together with rifles and shooting as many as you can find.


Yeah you're not wrong.

I dont understand why we dont sell.more camels to the arabs. They always say we have the most genetically pure and the largest roaming camel herds.

[Shindig]

Australia has camels? I never knew this. Are they making money from tourists riding them?

[Ian]

Australia has camels?

Another species that weren't native but some settlers or another went "Yeah sure why not lol."

[John Arne]

Apparently, it's ok to shoot kids, as long as they are on the other side of the border.

A 15yr shot in the face (and died) and a 16 year old shot 10 times in the back (and died). However, no prosecution because, although tthe weapons were fired from US soil, the kids were on the Mexican side.

Freedom, fuck yeah!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/02/supreme-court-cross-border-shooting-mexico

[Ian]

Serves 'im right. Staying over there, in his own country, not stealing American jobs.

[Queenslander]

Australia has camels? I never knew this. Are they making money from tourists riding them?

What Ian said. Apparently there is still over 1 million feral camels.

[Spikey M]

And 24.6 million feral people.

[Queenslander]

Pretty much :D

[randomlegend]

Yeah you're not wrong.

I dont understand why we dont sell.more camels to the arabs. They always say we have the most genetically pure and the largest roaming camel herds.

Aaall other coun-tries have inferior roa-ming ca-mels.

[bruhnaldo]

Apparently, it's ok to shoot kids, as long as they are on the other side of the border.

A 15yr shot in the face (and died) and a 16 year old shot 10 times in the back (and died). However, no prosecution because, although tthe weapons were fired from US soil, the kids were on the Mexican side.

Freedom, fuck yeah!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/02/supreme-court-cross-border-shooting-mexico

While this is fucked up can the government really prosecute a crime that was ....... technically.... committed on not American soil?

Wouldn't Mexico need to request extradition or some shit? Which they also would never grant, but...

damn wtf?

[Spikey M]

This is basically the same as murdering someone at sea, right? At which point the law of the perpetrators home country is put in place. You can't have people loopholing their way our of murder.

[John Arne]

I think you could reasonably argue that it was on American soil. The guy discharged his weapon whilst in the US, and that discharge killed a kid. You could argue that the location of the child was irrelevant. But yeah, it's an interesting case and raises some interesting questions about jurisdiction.

There must be preceded for things like War Crimes .. soldiers are often charged with those despite them taking place on foreign soil.

[bruhnaldo]

So appaently this shooting happened in 2012 and was criminally prosecuted in 2018. The dipshit who killed the guy was acquitted on one charge, deadlocked on another, and apparently another is to be prosecuted later.


Both sides agreed on the basic facts: at about 11pm on 10 October 2012, two men climbed the border fence, followed by two other men hauling bundles.

Cameras detected them and police and Border Patrol agents responded to the scene. Some retrieved abandoned bundles with 22lb of marijuana, worth nearly $18,000. Others, including Swartz, confronted two men straddling the 18ft fence. Three people on the Mexican side started throwing rocks at the agents.

Some initial accounts said Rodríguez was not involved and merely walking home after playing basketball. He liked cloudy days, cookies and spending time with his sisters, his mother, Araceli Rodríguez, told the Guardian in 2015. “Even though he’s not here he’s still my son in spirit, in soul, in thoughts, in words.”

The prosecutors who sought to jail his killer accepted the teenager did throw rocks. But doing so did not pose a grave danger nor justify murder, said Wallace Kleindienst, an assistant US attorney. He argued that Swartz was “fed up” with people throwing rocks and opened fire not to “eliminate a threat” but “to eliminate a human being”.

It took the agent 34 seconds to empty his gun clip, move 45 feet, reload and fire three more bullets.

In emotional testimony, Swartz said he was frightened and fired after rocks appeared to hit a fellow agent and a police dog. “This has gotta stop. Somebody’s going to get hurt,” he recalled thinking. He said he aimed at what appeared to be two “shadowy figures” throwing rocks. After the shooting, he said, things went “gray” and he vomited.

Sean Chapman, a defence lawyer, said rocks could kill and agents had a right to defend themselves. “Yes, a gun is more powerful than a rock, but agents are authorised to respond in certain situations. That’s the mindset, that’s the way they’re trained.”

This all seems so fucked.

Sure, don't smuggle drugs across the border, but also did you really need to kill them once they already got away?! Talkin about some rocks hit your dog ffs.

[Queenslander]

Aaall other coun-tries have inferior roa-ming ca-mels.

:D

2 second google search and we already do.

[Giggles]

Not only dismissed, but ordered to pay costs :drool: It’s beautiful.

https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2020/0304/1120200-gaa-personal-injuries-claim/

[Queenslander]

200 animal Wombat cull in South Australia has been cancelled.

[Disco]

The emus have guaranteed wombat independence.

[Shindig]

I mean, they had to. Wombat's their primary food source.

[Queenslander]

Still some nut case developer in victoria knocking down gum trees with koalas still in them though. :(

[Shindig]

Dickhead. Those are endangered now.

[Queenslander]

https://au.news.yahoo.com/investigators-timber-plantation-koalas-spotted-in-felled-trees-011631609.html
Sorry timber plantation.

[John Arne]

This seems like the biggest non-story ever. Celebrities accepts offers of money to promote charities.



Caitlyn Jenner and Harry Redknapp have both accepted thousands of pounds in return for backing a fake charity set up by Channel 4 in a sting operation.
In a Dispatches documentary, Celebs For Sale: The Great Charity Scandal, to be broadcast on Monday evening, the two well-known faces are revealed to be part of a widespread practice of paying celebrities for public support.


https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/08/caitlyn-jenner-harry-redknapp-accept-cash-for-supporting-fake-charity

[Lewis]

Ironic when it's public support through taxpayers that keeps half of the charities going.

[Shindig]

Kinda goes against the whole not for profit thing. That's what makes it a story.

[Disco]

Surely they're just paying people for exposure, same as if they bought ad space somewhere.

[Giggles]

I did check for April 1st with this one I must admit.

https://www.newstalk.com/news/lidl-set-open-first-pub-ireland-980471

[bruhnaldo]

Apparently a guy who ran for Governor of Florida was involved in some kinda crystal meth orgy last night that resulted in a near overdose

1238469123350204417

[Shindig]

Something to lighten the mood: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-51878964


Conor remembers the clang of a metal sword falling to the floor beside him, and a fellow actor cradling him and asking, "Are you OK?"

The 800-strong audience remained still, assuming this was part of the play.

Then the silence was broken by the hurried footsteps of the company's artistic director walking on stage. He apologised to the audience and said the show must end. There was a round of applause, and the curtain fell.

I know an audience isn't going to react any other way but ... :D

[Queenslander]

George Pell walks free. Hopefully someone bombs his local church.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/george-pell-will-walk-free-from-prison-after-high-court-quashes-child-sex-abuse-conviction??

[niko_cee]

I suppose that shouldn't come as a surprise.

Hopefully Covid gets him.

[Queenslander]

Send him back to Italy.

[Queenslander]

The balls on this cunt. :D

Pope Francis decries ‘unjust sentences’ after cardinal George Pell acquitted
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/apr/07/pope-francis-decries-unjust-sentences-after-cardinal-george-pell-acquitted

[Queenslander]

Here we go...

"Melbourne cathedral vandalised as George Pell leaves city after first night of freedom"



https://www.sbs.com.au/news/melbourne-cathedral-vandalised-as-george-pell-leaves-city-after-first-night-of-freedom

[Lewis]

From what I remember of that first time round he probably was a nonce, but they clearly couldn't prove it properly, so they should just both agree on the year inside and call it quits.

[Shindig]

Nazis and pornography. The two cornerstones of the internet. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52243209)

[Lewis]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52274242

Unlucky lads.

[Giggles]

Nazis and pornography. The two cornerstones of the internet. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52243209)

There was one last week here where a sports club were running a Zoom session for kids one morning and they all logged on to some yoke in America trying to shove a melon up her box.