News of the day

[Shindig]

"This is where babies come from. Now stop asking."

[Queenslander]

I hope ISIS bombs his church...


George Pell says he was a 'scapegoat', warns of one-sided justice system in first TV interview since acquittal

https://www.facebook.com/125982670754724/posts/3298992050120421/

[Baz]

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.

Got a link?

[Queenslander]

All thanks to MP Peter Dutton.


Key points:
Earlier this month the Federal Court ruled Tharunicaa's asylum bid was not afforded procedural fairness by the Federal Government
The Government has now been ordered to pay legal costs of $206,000
Supporters of the family are pushing for Tharunicaa's asylum bid to be assessed again

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-27/commonwealth-ordered-pay-costs-biloela-family-appeal/12189602

[Queenslander]

RIP A League


With the worst kept secret in Australian sport now well and truly out of the bag, Australian football at an elite level appears to be just months away from being on its knees.
Foxtel’s scheduled payment to FFA, honouring the broadcast deal it signed in 2016 worth $346 million, has been missed and without football on the pitch to broadcast, the media giant now eyes an opportunity.
https://www.theroar.com.au/2020/04/28/goodbye-a-league-it-was-fun-while-it-lasted/

[mugbull]

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52504187

This guy is total wackadoo. He's sad Grimes might dump him so he's going to become a hobo. Nice

[Lofty]

Honestly Musk is a mega fraud. Put me in a family rich enough that it's a funny story when I pawn the family emeralds and see what a genius I am. 'Let's just think of say, a self driving electric car, and pay some people to make it happen'

'Oh Elon you truly are the real life Tony Stark!'

[Boydy]

I'd be sad if Grimes was gonna dump me.

Isn't she about to have his kid though?

[mugbull]

I don’t think he’s any more of a fraud than any tech entrepreneur is, he’s just more unhinged and driven by a need for acceptance. And Grimes is a fucking jump scare

[Giggles]

I'd be sad if Grimes was gonna dump me.

Isn't she about to have his kid though?

Does “Grimes” have a real name?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I bet he's actually a paedo.

[Boydy]

Does “Grimes” have a real name?

Probably but I don't know what it is. She's a musician and just goes by Grimes for that.

[Boydy]

I don’t think he’s any more of a fraud than any tech entrepreneur is, he’s just more unhinged and driven by a need for acceptance. And Grimes is a fucking jump scare
A jump scare?

[Spoonsky]

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52504187

This guy is total wackadoo. He's sad Grimes might dump him so he's going to become a hobo. Nice

That's the ultimate "quitting my corporate job at age 30 to start a travel blog"

Grimes went to my university. So did Arcade Fire and Leonard Cohen back in the day. Unfortunately I think the talent skipped my generation.

[Lewis]

The most impressive thing about Elon Musk is his hair transplant.

[Shindig]

A jump scare?

I watered down bomb scare? Like his actions are mostly confined to twitter. In work, he's doing something right like getting capital from really stupid people.

[Baz]

Does “Grimes” have a real name?
https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/0/06/Frank_Grimes_tombstone.png

[Manc]

From Amber Heard to an anime character. :facepalm:

[Don]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-london-52511481

The Ring footage has, for some ridiculous reason, been made openly available for viewing. I warn you, do not watch it unless you want to seethe your absolute tits off. My boner is in tatters. But godbless the crime footage thanks to tech :drool:

https://ring.com/share/6821974552295156449

[Jimmy Floyd]

Clear as day face shots for all the perpetrators, they are going down for twenty each. Glorious.

CCTV the best thing that has happened to society in the last 20/30 years. Needs to be loads more of it.

[Shindig]

Track and Trace. A glorious new age.

[Giggles]

Must get one of those. I’ve one looking at the driveway from upstairs (sent the cops footage from it only last Friday) but it’s slow to display when you call it up on the Google Home.

[Kikó]

Clear as day face shots for all the perpetrators, they are going down for twenty each. Glorious.

CCTV the best thing that has happened to society in the last 20/30 years. Needs to be loads more of it.

Absolute bollocks.

[Baz]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-london-52511481

The Ring footage has, for some ridiculous reason, been made openly available for viewing. I warn you, do not watch it unless you want to seethe your absolute tits off. My boner is in tatters. But godbless the crime footage thanks to tech :drool:

https://ring.com/share/6821974552295156449Whats going on there? Group of burglars target a house where someone is failing to deliver a parcel [so nobody must be home]? Why does the delivery man charge at the door seconds before they arrive? It’s him who comes back out, now sans jacket, with blood on him, right? Who’s the man who turns up and eventually calls 999? The woman comes and runs in presumably to check on a child? Why was the child home alone? Or did someone answer the door and then get charged? I don’t get it.

[SvN]

The delivery man is part of the gang. It's a ruse to get them to open the door.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Absolute bollocks.

I take it you've never been a victim of crime or had to try and apprehend anyone. It's very simple these days, if there's CCTV you will catch them, if there isn't you won't.

[Shindig]

Or you've never had to complain about any service ever. Any complaints system without recorded calls is a nightmare to resolve.

[Kikó]

I take it you've never been a victim of crime or had to try and apprehend anyone. It's very simple these days, if there's CCTV you will catch them, if there isn't you won't.

I have been the victim of crime but to think that CCTV is some catch all saver compared is nonsense.

"CCTV the best thing that has happened to society in the last 20/30 years" is hyperbolic drivel.

The correct answer is Tony Blair.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Tony was a big CCTV fan wasn't he? I could make up and mend with him over a couple of glasses of red, being filmed from behind a flowerpot.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

We had our family minibus driven into at home early in the morning by a paper delivery guy who claimed it wasn't him despite him also having a massive dent in his car and paint flakes from his all over ours. A neighbour had CCTV which meant he was fucked though.

CCTV is great.

[Boydy]

'family minibus' :D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

'family minibus' :D

It's a 9 seater.

I think the proper term is MPV.

[Lewis]

I struggle to get as animated about CCTV as my fellow liberty lovers seem to. It seems a bit daft to complain about passive things like that whilst you're bowling around leaving detailed paper trails across every other walk of life.

[SvN]

Mahow's Party Van?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Mahow's Party Van?

Where the fun never starts...

[Giggles]

I'd have blanket outdoor CCTV everywhere if it were possible. If you're not up to anything you've nothing to hide.

[Kikó]

Yeah that's solid logic.

Welcome to China.

[Spikey M]

What exactly would worry you?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Kiko clearly has something to hide.

[Disco]

Mahow's Party Van?

More like his own Sunshine Bus.

[Kikó]

What exactly would worry you?

What would worry me about mass surveillance? rESEARCH ON THAT PLEASe

(Although take Lewis' point re: the acceptance of mass surveillance because we have phones)

[Pepe]

Far Eastern people love them because they absolutely can't get enough of dehumanising themselves and submitting to authority.


CCTV the best thing that has happened to society in the last 20/30 years. Needs to be loads more of it.

I lolled.

[Spikey M]

What would worry me about mass surveillance? rESEARCH ON THAT PLEASe

(Although take Lewis' point re: the acceptance of mass surveillance because we have phones)

I want your answer, not Googles.

Also, note that we are talking about a specific form of surveillance.

[niko_cee]

With that face morphing technology that can be done in real time live tv CCTV as a conclusive form of evidence is frankly terrifying, to the extent that you believe the state/police to be a corrupting and malignant agent.

So probably not too much of a concern in the UK.

[Kikó]

My take on it is with increased surveillance it becomes easier to use technology with unintended purposes. People who are considered enemies of the state due to their political views can be targeted (and I'm talking about say an environmentalist for example rather than communist for the motherland). While we have a relatively benign government in the UK compared to say Chyna, I still don't approve to more cameras, more tracking and more interference for the supposed trade off of increased security.

There are more human based approaches to policing without the need to track our every movement.

(Yes I know google do that anyway but we shouldn't accept that either)

[Spikey M]

I'm not accepting 'they'll use it to keep an eye on weirdo's' as a fair answer. Soz.

[niko_cee]

The danger is as a very powerful tool it should probably be kept out of the hands of complete idiots, like the government or the police, as much as possible.

[Spikey M]

I'd rather we stopped putting idiots in positions of power, rather than deliberately hindering our ability to stop various crimes.

[Ian]

While we have a relatively benign government in the UK compared to say Chyna

Shouldn't speak ill of the dead. :nono:

[Kikó]

I'd rather we stopped putting idiots in positions of power, rather than deliberately hindering our ability to stop various crimes.

Well that's a different thing really.

I'll just go with niko's answer as it's the right one.

[Luca]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/lockdown-reopen-office-coronavirus-privacy-11588689725?mod=hp_lead_pos5

To Lewis' broader point, this will be equally, if not more, significant than a load of CCTVs everywhere. @Jimmy, this is where "IoT" went.

[Spoonsky]

I lolled.

:D

You mean Jimmy's cultural stereotyping might be a load of shit? What...

[Jimmy Floyd]

Having CCTV up isn't submitting to authority. It's allowing authority to catch bad guys. I mean, if you're pro-criminal then fair enough.

[Spoonsky]

Ah, true, but deciding to put a mask on because it's safer during a pandemic is bowing down to Dear Leader himself.

We're all pro-authority.

EDIT:

What's the difference between accepting CCTV because it will probably catch more criminals, and accepting facemasks because it will probably reduce the spread of coronavirus? Yet one is suddenly dehumanizing because - surprise - they're Asians.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52557291

Elon Musk and singer Grimes have confirmed they have named their baby X Æ A-12.

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What the fuck?

[Don]

Is that mess bigging up Burial? :cool:

[Lewis]

She's got most of that A-12 information wrong. Somebody tell her before they register it.

[Yevrah]

I'm all for a free society, but you really shouldn't be allowed to do that. It's not a name.

[niko_cee]

The A-10 is where it's at anyway.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

She's got most of that A-12 information wrong. Somebody tell her before they register it.

It's amazing that they don't even know their favourite aircraft.

Although the U-2 > SR-71.

[niko_cee]

Also what sort of thing to do to a kid (other than give it an absurd name) is to have that name in some way reflect 'the precursor to the parents' favourite thing' - are they suggesting they are going to have another one and like it more?

[Shindig]

This is why two stupid people shouldn't hook up. And the A-12 is fucking lovely to see in person.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-8285497/Hiannick-Kamba-discovered-alive-four-years-reported-DEAD-following-car-crash.html

Congolese footballer Hiannick Kamba has been found alive this week in Ruhr, Germany, according to reports – more than four years after being declared dead.

The former right-back reportedly died on January 9, 2016, in a car accident in his native country Congo.

However, Bild have claimed that Kamba is alive, aged 33, and back working as a chemical technician at an energy supplier in Ruhr.

[Spikey M]

And the A-12 is fucking lovely to see in person.

Nonce

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Nonce

How dare you call someone that.

[Spikey M]

How dare you call someone that.

Very easily.

[Boydy]

Not really sure where to post this but here seems as good a place as any.

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[mugbull]

Are they actually filling the stadiums with cutouts? That's some Twilight Zone shit

[Lofty]

Could send my ultimate pic for 19 euros I suppose.

[Don]

I read about some thinking to allow fans to activate noise in the stadium via their phones. If that has any kind of truth to it :D

[Alex]

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Some things are just better kept to yourself, Brian.

[Baz]

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Ian Wright receives racist messages on Instagram
Posts screenshots on Twitter
The lads gets doxxed to high hell :D

[Lewis]

That seems bizarre enough for 'I was hacked' to stand up.

[Don]

That's a cracking IG-rape. Imagine if it gets him convicted, too :D

[Shindig]

Imagine, right ... if it was Collymore.

[igor_balis]

https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.15752-9/96406026_3606788589338400_3045403074408480768_n.pn g?_nc_cat=103&_nc_sid=b96e70&_nc_ohc=RldpR8ygJ8AAX_hKYi_&_nc_ht=scontent-lht6-1.xx&oh=d5ba25e54230eeed07b67a2fa6fc1e53&oe=5EDE77B9

sad!!

[Spikey M]

:lol:

[Manc]

:D

[Giggles]

I don’t get it, am I supposed to make out the text in the photos?

EDIT: Ah, I see the post above now. Couldn’t for the life of me figure out the Ian Wright thing apart from him being one of my favourite players for years when I was younger.

[igor_balis]

Bet you didn't rate Ali Daei though.

[Giggles]

Bet you didn't rate Ali Daei though.

Are you joking or are you really offended by it?

[mugbull]

How can i post rep on mobile

[Baz]

How can i post rep on mobile

Click the star that’s about an inch below the avatar.

Unless you use the godawful mobile skin, then idk

[Giggles]

Click the star that’s about an inch below the avatar.

Unless you use the godawful mobile skin, then idk

God bless that mobile skin. The full site on a 5-6” screen is horrific.

[mugbull]

Click the star that’s about an inch below the avatar.

Unless you use the godawful mobile skin, then idk

I must be using the mobile skin, don’t see a star. Dont mind it tho. I still use Reddit on my Safari app even though they keep trying to make the UI unusable

[John Arne]

This guy is apparently English, but I can't place his accent at all.

Thoughts?


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

[Queenslander]

Does he sound a bit Australian?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He's from Devon.

[John Arne]

Does he sound a bit Australian?

Possibly, yeah.

[Queenslander]

Sounds a bit like how to do in Sydney.

[Queenslander]

Possibly, yeah.

Listen the way he says suck (sark) at like 35 seconds.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He's from Barnstaple but now lives in the Czech Republic...

[Queenslander]

He's from Barnstaple but now lives in the Czech Republic...

I was convinced.

[Lewis]

He sounds like he's putting whatever accent it is on.

[Disco]

He's from Devon.

But doesn't have even a hint of the accent, although I'd want to erase all trace of Barnstaple if that was where I was from.

[Spikey M]

This guy is apparently English, but I can't place his accent at all.

Thoughts?


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

He's just a gay posh bloke. He's basically Judge Rinder.

[Queenslander]

He's just a gay posh bloke. He's basically Judge Rinder.

So Eastern suburbs of Sydney.

[Disco]

He sounds like someone else but I can't place who it is. Helpful comment this.

[Queenslander]

At least 10 words had an Australian accent.

[Spikey M]

He sounds like someone else but I can't place who it is. Helpful comment this.

It's Judge Rinder.

[Disco]

I don't know who that is so I doubt it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He's just a gay posh bloke. He's basically Judge Rinder.

You reckon his wife knows?

[Spikey M]

You reckon his wife knows?

Probably deep down.

[Baz]

Someone in my WoW guild (lolwut loser) is the gayest man ever, yet somehow his wife is in the guild too.

Just last night he was annoying us all, singing along to the [admittedly very good] crab song from Moana.

[Shindig]

The thing that annoys me more is he fronts about 15 different channels.

[Shindig]

Harsh. They're wearing clothes. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52740867)

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Spaced out too.

[Queenslander]

That is just good banter.

[Jimmy Floyd]

For all my Korean immersion and knowledge, I had no idea they had actually banned pornography. Explains a lot.

[Queenslander]

I think Ill put the capital of the People's Republic of Queensland and New Zealand in Brisbane where we work 5 day weeks.


Jacinda Ardern flags four-day working week as way to rebuild New Zealand after Covid-19


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/20/jacinda-ardern-flags-four-day-working-week-as-way-to-rebuild-new-zealand-after-covid-19

[Luca]

I've never heard anyone suggest a four-day workweek as a means of promoting domestic tourism. The logic is...fine, I guess (presuming a 4 day workweek means 4x10 and not 4x8, so pay would remain constant), but it's a weird way of selling it.

[Queenslander]

I've never heard anyone suggest a four-day workweek as a means of promoting domestic tourism. The logic is...fine, I guess (presuming a 4 day workweek means 4x10 and not 4x8, so pay would remain constant), but it's a weird way of selling it.

I dont understand how most things work but this just comes across as a non starter.


hfswjyr What is the vibe like where you are about this idea?

[Shindig]

We're already working a 4 day week in our office. At first it made sense due to our workloads being low but it looks like that's starting to pick up.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It sounds like a sop to the idea of shutting the borders for years (there will be whole areas of NZ kept going by foreign tourism). Not remotely workable, even in New Zealand.

The future is everyone working 2/3 days a week from home. Wins on childcare and work/life balance, wins on costs for business, doesn't lose vs international competitors who are working full weeks.

[Ian]

Meanwhile, in Jimmy's boss' office....
"Yes, everybody in the office 7 days a week! That's the ticket! If nobody goes home or meets their friends then nobody can catch anything! Brilliant!"

[Ian]

Alternate version is that he sacks everybody but Jimmy.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If he knew what my name was it would be a start. I walked past him the other day, said good morning, not even a flicker.

[Shindig]

Johnny Ford Handlebars. I'll be working from home probably until they give me the boot. Or until they need bodies in to work the phones. Before this all kicked off, they were wanting to reduce the footprint in the office so I can only see this being permanent.

[Ian]

I'm sure I read once about some semi-prominent business leader of some sort who would freeze and not move or speak if confronted by a normal person trying to speak to him but I'm buggered if I can remember who.

It's entirely possible I'm thinking of a Simpsons episode...

[Don]

Saw this yesterday and it does seem to be the more longer term future.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-21/shopify-is-joining-twitter-in-permanent-work-from-home-shift

Brings a whole new world of interesting problems regarding compensation, taxation, talent pool, etc as well as the mental health problems it will lead to during the adaptation phase but this is a revolution we'll live through in our lives.

[Spikey M]

Alternate version is that he sacks everybody but Jimmy.

'Allow me to introduce our new South Korean head of Operations'

[Shindig]

You might get a few more people giving a shit about overtime.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I actually had a call from a Korean bloke yesterday, calling himself 'Kenny', brought back all kinds of nostalgia for the old shit squad - Hank Kim, Leemaster Lee, Grass Song, all the boys.

[Ian]

Hank Kim is a quality name.

One of our Kuala Lumpur office goes by "Bryan."

[Spikey M]

Leemaster Lee is a Korean rap star

[John]

I actually had a call from a Korean bloke yesterday, calling himself 'Kenny', brought back all kinds of nostalgia for the old shit squad - Hank Kim, Leemaster Lee, Grass Song, all the boys.

I meant to post about one of the Koreans coming to my mind the other day. I was out for a wander and went past someone absolutely blasting Lady in Red in their garden. Was reminded of the IT man disappearing into the network room for a listen to same.

[Jimmy Floyd]

:D

The IT man in question was known only as 'Mr Han', like he was some kind of secret agent. He donned the system by maintaining both Korean and British passports (which you aren't allowed to do under Korean law).

[Lewis]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52793339

What a pointless thing that is.

[Luca]

Something something four horsemen.

[Shindig]

The related article has me more worried.

MURDER HORNETS! (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/52533585)

EDIT: And this:

"Cover for me." (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/motorsport/52793139)

[niko_cee]

They're just asian hornets aren't they? The things they murder are bees.

[Jimmy Floyd]

They kill 30-40 Japanese people a year, apparently, but then selfie sticks probably do double that.

[Shindig]

I just linked it because I loved the phrase murder hornets. Plus them crushing bee colonies is ... fucking shit.

[hfswjyr]

I've never heard anyone suggest a four-day workweek as a means of promoting domestic tourism. The logic is...fine, I guess (presuming a 4 day workweek means 4x10 and not 4x8, so pay would remain constant), but it's a weird way of selling it.
A lawyer firm made national news last year promoting their "4 day working week", or 32 hour weeks. Looked a bit like a publicity stunt, but apparently good enough for them to continue it.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/02/no-downside-new-zealand-firm-adopts-four-day-week-after-successful-trial


I dont understand how most things work but this just comes across as a non starter.


hfswjyr What is the vibe like where you are about this idea?
Due to business/workload, many companies (including mine) have already been working 4 day weeks with the 5th day as forced leave (annual leave or leave without pay). So we are already doing it. Could be a huge burden on people if it was made permanent (essentially a 20% pay cut).


It sounds like a sop to the idea of shutting the borders for years (there will be whole areas of NZ kept going by foreign tourism). Not remotely workable, even in New Zealand.

The future is everyone working 2/3 days a week from home. Wins on childcare and work/life balance, wins on costs for business, doesn't lose vs international competitors who are working full weeks.
Tourism, in particular overseas tourism, is huge for NZ. There are certainly many tourist towns feeling the financial pressure at the moment, most noticeably Queenstown. While domestic tourism will help, it won't be nearly enough to make up for the lack of international tourism who tend to be the largest spenders.

Interestingly enough, Australians tend to spend the most in NZ, so this trans-Tasman bubble could actually help.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/article.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=12275346

[Don]

Woke up to this (https://twitter.com/melodyMcooper/status/1264965252866641920?s=20) and end the day to this (https://twitter.com/kirkacevedo/status/1265311739354116096?s=20). Man lost his life in the second one but the first is more disturbing somehow.

[Shindig]

The first feels like some proper gangstalking madness.

[Baz]

The second has spawned all kinds of memes. :cab:

[Don]

Fucking loving the uprising. The cunt was ironically originally done for cheque forgery too, the whitest of crimes.

https://youtu.be/721JQZw6Spg

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52810220

People are buying basic USB drives that have "crystals" on them to protect from 5G for £339 :harold:

[Giggles]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52810220

People are buying basic USB drives that have "crystals" on them to protect from 5G for £339 :harold:

Natural selection.

[Spikey M]

https://metro.co.uk/2020/05/29/man-stoned-death-lullington-castle-kent-12774272/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

A man has been stoned to death in Kent. Fuck sake.

[Giggles]

https://metro.co.uk/2020/05/29/man-stoned-death-lullington-castle-kent-12774272/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

A man has been stoned to death in Kent. Fuck sake.


However, because it is a remote village with a chocolate box feel to it

A what?

[Spikey M]

Pass.

[Disco]

Bucolic. Picturesque.

[Spikey M]

I've never had a picturesque box of chocolates.

[Shindig]

I only ever see pictures of villages on boxes of shortbread, to be fair.

[Spikey M]

Yes. Biscuit tin would have made sense.

[phonics]

1266451354861686784

lol.

[Boydy]

1266451354861686784

lol.

Is that the one people were on in the joint launch with NASA?

[Boydy]

Bucolic. Picturesque.

I hate the word bucolic. It doesn't sound like what it means. It sounds like a disease.

[Giggles]

I never seen the word before today.

[Shindig]

The NASA launch is tomorrow.

[Spikey M]

*was?

[Shindig]

Nope, it's still on. They're unrelated. This was Elon fannying about with a prototype.

[Waffdon]

Anonymous outing the Royal Family as peados. Who would have thought?

What a year.

[Boydy]

Anonymous outing the Royal Family as peados. Who would have thought?

What a year.

What happened?

[Waffdon]

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[Jimmy Floyd]

The Duke of York possibly involved in shady business involving Epstein and paedophiles? Can't believe the MSM have covered this up.

[Lewis]

Have they just figured everyone in his address book was a fellow nonce?

[Raoul Duke]

Seems a fair bet

[Shindig]

Alright, place your bets. How many dozens has Fergie fiddled?

[Kikó]

Er, what?

[Shindig]

Duchess of York is in the list.

[Don]

I see the talk of police brutality, institutional racism and some dogshit videos are now circulating regarding UK police. Buzzin to see these cunts start smashing shit up in London in the name of fuck all. Fuck off.

[Smjffy]

Er, what?

Did we automatically think the same Fergie since *spit* there is only one 'Fergie'?

[Spikey M]

Will.I.Am would have grassed her up if she'd been doing anything like that.

[Kikó]

Duchess of York is in the list.

Ah.

[Giggles]

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[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52830257

Breaking news: Woman turns off webcam.

3rd top story. Fuck off.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The human interest stories they put on there are an absolute shitshow (largely targeted at the American market, as is a vast quantity of the stuff they attempt to put out nowadays).

[Spikey M]

The human interest stories they put on there are an absolute shitshow (largely targeted at the American market, as is a vast quantity of the stuff they attempt to put out nowadays).

The problem here is that the 'interest' portion of the piece is entirely missing. Atleast 'My Wife Left Me For Isis' could get your rage juices pumping.

[Queenslander]

:drool:


"The numbers are clear — our economy is so fundamentally built on Asia. We have to shift our focus a bit, particularly now that they're recovering so much quicker," said Adam Triggs, a co-author of the plan and director of research at the Australian National University's (ANU) Asian Bureau of Economic Research.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-03/coronavirus-calls-for-australia-asia-economy-post-covid-19/12307646

[niko_cee]

I thought it was funny reading about Rio Tinto 'accidentally' blowing up a bunch of aboriginal caves the other day.

[Queenslander]

I thought it was funny reading about Rio Tinto 'accidentally' blowing up a bunch of aboriginal caves the other day.

I was gobsmacked. Even for a company like that, that was insane.

[Queenslander]

This got me good.

https://i.ibb.co/pbks13T/Screenshot-20200603-184004-Instagram.jpg (https://ibb.co/vVMrcJW)

[Lofty]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52920291

[Don]

Jesus, I've been on a real Nacho Vidal mood the last couple nights, too. George Floyd and now this. Someone fucking protect Janet Mason.

[mo]

Jesus, I've been on a real Nacho Vidal mood the last couple nights, too. George Floyd and now this. Someone fucking protect Janet Mason.

Having googled Janet Mason and discovered a weird stalker-y twitter account, I think it's safe to say she's already in trouble.

[Don]

If you follow, I'll follow you back.

[Queenslander]

Fair suck of the sav 60 000 hectares of back burning in a day!


Key points:
A prescribed burn by the Australian Defence Force has raised questions, after 60,000 hectares was burnt in one day

Defence Department says it has permits to conduct controlled burns over 90 per cent of its Mount Bundey Training Area

Fire experts say Defence's fire management strategy in the NT is unusual and does not seem to prioritise conservation or biodiversity


https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2020-06-05/defence-force-burn-on-mount-bundey-comes-under-fire/12316080?utm_medium=social&utm_content=sf234760634&utm_campaign=abc_darwin&utm_source=m.facebook.com&sf234760634=1

[Queenslander]

Legend.


NSW environmental award given to Bottle'O'Bob for raising $40,000 by recycling

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-05/nsw-environmental-award-given-to-man-who-recycled-290k-cans/12324898

[Spikey M]

Rebrand him Bottle Job Bob immediately.

[Kikó]

Looks like someone was stabbed outside the flats this morning. Great start to the day!

[Queenslander]

It is Queensland day today I expect a nod towards Brisbane as sign of respect.



Queensland Day is a celebration of Queensland’s birthday and its official separation from New South Wales as an independent colony on 6 June 1859. It is an opportunity to commemorate the state’s culture, heritage, people, places and industry.



Queensland has always played a central role in the Labor story. From the shearers strike culminating in the first gathering of Labor members under the Tree of Knowledge in Barcaldine in 1891, to the first Labor Government in 1899; the Labor Party has a strong and colourful history in Queensland.

You're welcome World!

[Queenslander]

This is a big deal for Townsville...



About 1,000 people also gathered in Townsville, North Queensland, this morning, for a peaceful rally to stand against black deaths in custody.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-06/black-lives-matter-rallies-held-across-australia/12325442

[John]

Hang on, Townsville is a real place? I thought it only existed to get attacked on Cartoon Network.

[Queenslander]

Hang on, Townsville is a real place? I thought it only existed to get attacked on Cartoon Network.

:lol:


Yes and you would not like to live there.

[niko_cee]

Happy birthday the non-ironincally dubbed 'Smart State'. I'll have a XXXX for you if I see one as I go about my daily business.

I doubt John would want to live in any bit of it.

[Queenslander]

Happy birthday the non-ironincally dubbed 'Smart State'. I'll have a XXXX for you if I see one as I go about my daily business.

I doubt John would want to live in any bit of it.

Thank you!

We have plenty of Scottish Queenslanders in Brisbane!

[John]

Happy birthday the non-ironincally dubbed 'Smart State'. I'll have a XXXX for you if I see one as I go about my daily business.

I doubt John would want to live in any bit of it.

If you mean any bit of Australia then you're right. I want no part of a country with spiders so big you can hear their footsteps.

[Queenslander]

Nah its all bullshit.

[Ian]

Queenslander, defending the spiders. (https://xkcd.com/1530/)

[Spikey M]

Holy shit I gave him my address.

[John Arne]

Fear the horse mounted police

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[Queenslander]

Are they donkeys?

[John Arne]

Are they donkeys?

Governments sticking with the horses story. Mongolian, apparently.

[Jimmy Floyd]

To think Genghis Khan and his seven dwarves reached the gates of Vienna on those.

[Queenslander]

Governments sticking with the horses story. Mongolian, apparently.

We should give them all our wild brumbies.

[Disco]

They're just further away.

[Queenslander]

Australia really is enormous.


A series of photos of a large, sleek black cat sauntering into the bush in south-west Victoria has reignited the long-held belief by some that panthers or pumas roam our wild places undetected

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-10/otways-big-black-cat-caught-on-film/12335606

[Disco]

We get those here but on the moors, it seems people want to fill any mostly empty place with imaginary wild cats.

[niko_cee]

Are you suggesting The Beast of Bodmin isn't real?

[Disco]

I'm suggesting it's not a panther certainly. Bodmin just wants to be special because it's the shittest moor.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If there were panthers moving around Devon then I suspect the number of sheep/pony/cow/child carcasses found strewn around the place would be significantly higher than its current zero.

[Disco]

Some of those things would belong to farmers too so you'd never hear the end of it.

[John Arne]

There's no such thing as a panther, iirc. They are either jaguars or some other random "big cat"...

[Baz]

Human the Pridelord :cool:

[Ian]

There's no such thing as a panther, iirc. They are either jaguars or some other random "big cat"...

Yeah it's a term used to refer to either leopards or jaguars born with all black fur.

[Jimmy Floyd]

'Panthera' is the genus of all big cats so I guess we are all panthers deep down.

Panthera tigris - has won 15 majors
Panthera uncia - snow leopard
Panthera onca - jaaaag
Panthera leo - li-on
Panthera pardus - not the former Crystal Palace dancesmith, but the leopard

Here ends today's lesson.

[Queenslander]

We just have massive feral cats.

[thommo]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52990714

Baffling decisions. Multiple Oscar winning film, first Oscar for a black actor/actress ever and a film that is over 80 years old. Surely people who watch this can determine that this is a film of its time and not the views of HBO or whatever streaming service hosts it?

[Disco]

Yeah it's a term used to refer to either leopards or jaguars born with all black fur.

Look cat nerds, you're missing the most important part which is panther sounds much cooler and will therefore be used without fail by any local journo writing about such things.

[Boydy]

Jimmy should get a cat.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Steady on, I haven't given up on life yet.

[Boydy]

:(

I got one just before lockdown.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The admin involved in having a cat flap carved into my front door would be worse than any benefits provided by the panthera aloofius in question.

[Ian]

Look cat nerds, you're missing the most important part which is panther sounds much cooler and will therefore be used without fail by any local journo writing about such things.

And a thousand times cooler than a jaguar being called a jagwar.

[Disco]

I use my neighbours cat. It's a great arrangement, it pops in for head scratches and associated cat based lolling around and I don't have to feed it or care if it gets run over. Ideal.

[Giggles]

Our great unwashed scrounger party are looking to pull down half of Galway.

https://www.rte.ie/news/connacht/2020/0609/1146337-monuments-galway/

[niko_cee]

I was wondering if we were going to have to tear down any statues over here and wondered about good old Victoria, but I see the people of Leeds are way ahead on that one.

Oriel College should replace Cecil Rhodes with a Mugabe statue.

[Queenslander]

2017 ... :|



On August 14, the department discontinued those place names - Mount Nigger, Nigger Head and seven instances of Nigger Creek.

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/queensland/racist-place-names-to-be-struck-from-the-record-in-queensland-20170828-p4yvlm.html

[John Arne]

2017 ... :|

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/queensland/racist-place-names-to-be-struck-from-the-record-in-queensland-20170828-p4yvlm.html

Politically correctness GONE MAD!

[Queenslander]

:D

[randomlegend]

Australia really is enormous.



https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-10/otways-big-black-cat-caught-on-film/12335606

Just me who thinks those photos just look like a normal sized domestic cat?

[Shindig]

"And the voting concludes. This creek shall now be known as Creeky McCreekCreek."

[Queenslander]

Just me who thinks those photos just look like a normal sized domestic cat?

Apparently the ferals in the outback are about 50% bigger.


"People need to get over the idea the cats are panthers. It is just not on," he said.

"They are big feral cats, at least 50 per cent bigger than a house cat and they are powerful."


https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-05/panther-sightings-in-regional-wa-not-helping-fight-feral-cats/9932584

[Queenslander]

Top blokes.



Mining giant BHP has announced it will place on hold plans to destroy dozens of sacred sites in WA as part of a major mine operation, following a national backlash over Rio Tinto's blasting of sacred sites in Western Australia's Pilbara.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-11/bhp-halts-aboriginal-site-destruction-after-rio-tinto-protests/12345566

[niko_cee]

"plans to destroy dozens of sacred sites"

:D

Makes them sort of sound like cat-stroking, volcano-dwelling arch-villains.

[Queenslander]

Influencers are slammed for posing in BLACKFACE in a horribly misguided effort to show solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8407103/amp/Influencers-wear-BLACKFACE-solidarity-Black-Lives-Matter-movement.html?__twitter_impression=tru

[Ian]

So The Sun has gone pro-domestic abuse.

EDIT: Looking at it again "pro" was probably a gut overreaction but I still don't see why you'd present it in that way.

And The Sun is awful so being harsh on them is probably justified anyway.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Sometimes with the tabloid press I wonder what sort of people are in those editorial meetings making decisions, and just how removed they are from the reality of the world around them.

[Disco]

You must have to be such a massive whopping cunt to get there, no wonder their output is complete trash.

[Spikey M]

Yeah, but Bam wouldn't read anything if they weren't still in print. Stop be ableist.

[phonics]

Sometimes with the tabloid press I wonder what sort of people are in those editorial meetings making decisions, and just how removed they are from the reality of the world around them.

I thought they were a reflection of the people a few weeks ago?

[Kikó]

The Sun needs to be buried asap.

[Foe]

Keep the crossword though. Many fond memories failing to complete that and re evaluating my intelligence.

[Ian]

1271773669338107905

Check out the mong in green who rocks into view at 11 seconds.

[Spikey M]

1271894102079082502?s=19

A thread.

[Ian]

:D

I'm not sure there are even any police where he's walking toward.

[Boydy]

1271791145367080960

[Spikey M]

:D

[Kikó]

:D

I'm not sure there are even any police where he's walking toward.

He was bee-lining towards the small female copper.

[Ian]

That sounds about right.

[Giggles]

Fucking Greens into government here. There’s the pockets picked just when I everyone needs a few bob to get back going again.

[John Arne]

North Korea appears to have blown up the Korean liaison office
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-northkorea-southkorea-office/north-korea-appears-to-have-blown-up-inter-korean-liaison-office-yonhap-idUKKBN23N0V7

[John Arne]

India v China :drool:



Three members of India’s armed forces have been killed in a “violent face-off” with Chinese soldiers on their disputed Himalayan border, the Indian army has said in a statement.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/16/india-says-soldiers-killed-on-disputed-himalayan-border-with-china

[Spikey M]

You're in the splash zone fella.

[Bob Sacamano]

The Chechyn/Algerian shit going down in Dijon is pretty nuts

[Ian]

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One of the great minds of our generation.

STATCHOOS! IT'S ALL OVER!

[Spikey M]

Get the Muslamic Rayguns to London pronto.