News of the day

[Spikey M]

He made the whole of Australia cry by taking his dog on holiday. He has his moments.

[Giggles]

How many IrnBru WKD's does it take to turn your shit orange?

Ask Amber Turd.

Oioi!

Rep.

[Jimmy Floyd]

He made the whole of Australia cry

Not hard.

[Raoul Duke]

His "lunch" the other day was something to aspire to. I had a ham and cheese sarnie and some Walkers.

[Shindig]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53377298

Brits falling off balconies is such a Monday-Friday thing but ...


Police in Malaga told the Mail they were "investigating" the death of two men in Marbella after "one man landed on another man, killing him as well".

Bonus.

[Spikey M]

When I was a kid I used to spend 2 weeks every summer with my family in London (and my cousin would spend 2 weeks in Southend. Poor sod). One year, I must have been about 9, I got taken to his dads flat for dinner in Lewisham. As we arrived, a TV was thrown from the 4th floor of a highrise and crashed to the floor about 2 foot from some lucky cunts head.

He was understandably troubled by this and offered 'You could have fucking killed me!!!' In response, only for a woman to appear on the balcony and shriek "YOU WANT A FUCKING TRICK SHOT?" As she threw a snooker cue, snooker balls and the fucking triangle at him.

I don't know how I had forgotten about this until now.

[Kikó]

😂

[Shindig]

I was expecting that to end with the table going out. :D

[Spikey M]

I was expecting that to end with the table going out. :D

It possibly did, but we were ushered away pretty quickly.

[phonics]

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Why are the police involved in this? A social worker of some form, sure, but what is putting an arrest on a 12 year olds record improve society?

[Shindig]

I'd argue a social worker's a waste of resources.

[Spikey M]

Social workers are a shit show. I speak to them regularly at work and have never known one be anything but a responsibility dodging waste of space. They are employed to protect the vulnerable, yet their training seems to be entirely on how best to avoid having to do so.

[phonics]

Sounds exactly like a Police Officer.

[Shindig]

Actually, their roles differ significantly. :dc:

[Lewis]

It seems more like a go and talk to the parents and leave them to it offence.

[Don]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jul/12/one-workers-experience-at-coronavirus-hit-herefordshire-farm

To name her Karen is pretty good.

[Giggles]

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/tour-operator-cancels-guided-cycle-after-learning-tourists-from-us-had-not-self-isolated-after-arriving-1010700.html

This is what should be done with all those yank tramps.

[Don]

Your link is broke but I do fucking love those How We Mets. I imagine normal people get warm and fuzzy reading them whilst I OD on cynicism :*)

[Don]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/14/worm-found-in-tonsil-of-japanese-woman-with-sore-throat

I really didn't need to view this as a big sushi fan.

[Shindig]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/07/13/german-police-rambo-style-black-forest-manhunt/

Lass uns Fischen gehen. Ich habe Hühnchen.

[Giggles]

Going well so far then.


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[Manc]

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/jul/14/end-of-the-office-the-quiet-grinding-loneliness-of-working-from-home

Anyone downloading The Sound of Colleagues should be taken out in the street and shot.

[Don]

I like to lol at these cretins who talk of missing the office and talking of the negatives of wfh and there's certainly a strong air of nostalgia for the good days and financial greed that clouds my judgement but deep down, there's clearly valid points there. But yeah, I'm still firmly in the 'keep this going pls so I can be worth as much as Rupert Murdoch by next year'.

Remember the early lockdown sweats of whether we'd be back by June and my season ticket cancellation would backfire :*)

[Jimmy Floyd]

I can reveal (from a now full office) that if 'the sound of colleagues' involves my currently reality of a 60 year old woman talking about herself CONSTANTLY then you really don't want to download that soundtrack.

[Manc]

There's an option for the office dog, yet nothing for a fire alarm or rollicking.

[Shindig]

Or a suspicious package, or a terrorist attack. It's like the training's all been forgotten.

[Lofty]

I'm quite lucky that I actually enjoy working with my colleagues and get on well with them, have quite a lot of banter and social with them too. Can imagine it being hell working in a team where you like no-one.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I like most of my colleagues but I wish they would shut the fuck up sometimes.

'Ooh, the office is too quiet,' no it isn't.

[Boydy]

I can reveal (from a now full office) that if 'the sound of colleagues' involves my currently reality of a 60 year old woman talking about herself CONSTANTLY then you really don't want to download that soundtrack.
Everyone back off furlough then?

Were there any adjustments made to the office or was it just 'meh, fuck it, back to normal'?

[Shindig]

I'd take that over the 50+ bloke asking me what games I've been playing. Or those weird conversations he had with the retired woman where he'd explain what games he'd been playing.

Serious, unrelated news about babies. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53409521)

I don't get how they project that massive a drop-off. Also, Nigeria's projected population is swinging hard the other way. :D Just bring the excess Nigerians over. Solved.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Everyone back off furlough then?

Were there any adjustments made to the office or was it just 'meh, fuck it, back to normal'?

One bloke is sitting in a different area for spreading out purposes, and we're still in casual clothes, but otherwise completely as normal.

[Manc]

I popped in the office two weeks back. Perspex screens as far as the eye could see. Every other desk vacant. One way walking system.

[John Arne]

Picked up my new passport today. Looks black to me. Also, no pre-printed signature.

[niko_cee]

They always were black though, back when they were massive. I know they say they were dark blue, but, to the eye, they weren't, they were black.

[Kikó]

I popped in the office two weeks back. Perspex screens as far as the eye could see. Every other desk vacant. One way walking system.

Do you work in financial services?

[Manc]

Not currently.

[Kikó]

Ah ok. Only reason I ask is because that sounds like our office. Temperature checks, perspex, 2m distancing, hot desks banned (hurrah!) and limited occupancy.

[Manc]

The full works. I'd happily dip into the office, but I'm new to the job and there's not much scope for socialising.

[SvN]

We're doing 2 days a week with 50% of staff in on each of those two days. Tomorrow is the first day, will be good to see everyone and actually work from an office instead of home.

[Foe]

Ah ok. Only reason I ask is because that sounds like our office. Temperature checks, perspex, 2m distancing, hot desks banned (hurrah!) and limited occupancy.

We are going to total opposite. Every desk is a hot desk you have to book into to go in the office, then gets cleaned each night.

I’m in no rush to go back.

[Giggles]

Thankfully I never got a tramp stamp of my sign.

https://www.todayfm.com/news/now-13-star-signs-nasa-discovery-1046246

[Ian]

First Pluto and now this.

Cancel NASA.

[Disco]

I love that they've changed the dates, get fucked horoscope morons.

[Baz]

I love that they've changed the dates, get fucked horoscope morons.

My thoughts exactly. Some girl on my Instagram is always putting Pisces related shite on her story. I hope she’s changed.

[Shindig]

Every star sign is the variation of the same non-committed theme.

[Manc]

I've been living a lie.

[Don]

Every star sign is the variation of the same non-committed theme.

Classic cynical Capricorn.

[Giggles]

Couldn’t watch those prods. 1282325383396941829

[Spikey M]

We should honestly just force you into one nation and let you settle this shit with a good old Civil War.

[Giggles]

We should honestly just force you into one nation and let you settle this shit with a good old Civil War.

Flying confederate flags is nothing to do with us. That’s their own thing.

[Giggles]

It’s a nice change of pace from our flag, GAA jerseys, and effigies of dead Catholic children on them though.


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[Spikey M]

Giving a fuck about which version of Christianity went out of fashion about a century ago. You all need to just let it go.

[Giggles]

Giving a fuck about which version of Christianity went out of fashion about a century ago. You all need to just let it go.

It’s a bit chunk of your country that gives the big fuck. Nothing to do with us thankfully.

[Spikey M]

Who are the 'Prods' of which you speak?

[Lewis]

Boydy, GS, and the Boys.

[Giggles]

Who are the 'Prods' of which you speak?

Northern planter loyalists. The ones who make the bonfires. People barely know what religion you are in actual Ireland.

[Lewis]

Pavel must have been as well because he never used an Irish flag. That gives us a six-man tag match/cripple fight of:

Boydy/GS/Pavel vs Henners/Fry/Il Fuce

Noogle as special guest referee in a tight top.

[Giggles]

Henners is as British as they come. I’d say he never even bothered getting the handout Irish passports they got. CJ on team Boydy too.

[Lewis]

'What a minute! King, that's... That's Glenn and Scoobs!'
'Glenn you idiot!'
'OH MY GAWD!'
'What the hell is she doing here?!'
'THE THREE-HUNDRED POUNDER!'

[Boydy]

My passport's Irish.

A nation once again, a nation once again...

[Giggles]

My passport's Irish.

A nation once again, a nation once again...

So is the one that the slav has next door to me, but he’s polish or something.

[Boydy]

Alrighy, Gemma O'Doherty.

[Giggles]

I’d rather see the slavs have them than the nordies, I think crazy Gemma would disagree with that one.

[Lewis]

So is the one that the slav has next door to me, but he’s polish or something.

:cool:

[John Arne]

Trump's youngest son, Barron, is 6' 5" and he's only 14. Eastern (central) European genes :)

[Queenslander]

That doesnt sound healthy.

[John Arne]

That doesnt sound healthy.

There's a clip of him playing football. Decent touch for a big man.

[Queenslander]

Of course a Trump plays soccer.

[Boydy]

He has marfan syndrome.

[Don]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DomKZEuV4AAP3Zu.jpg:large

Genetically, it's a strong lineage.

[Ian]

And it turns out his middle name was Christ. Excellent stuff.

[Giggles]

They should have just known it wasn't true just because it came from theliberal.ie without even having to check it.


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[Giggles]

The Greens proving as useful as ever.


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[Spikey M]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DomKZEuV4AAP3Zu.jpg:large

Genetically, it's a strong lineage.

https://frinkiac.com/img/S03E17/1077054.jpg

[Shindig]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-53436447

We knew it was coming. :(

[Jimmy Floyd]

Kris Hendrix, campaigns manager at the RAF Museum, said the dog - which the BBC is not naming - was a "drinking buddy" for squadron members and would consume litres of beer before passing out.

One of the most absurd sentences ever written by a state broadcaster.

[Ian]

"Sir Edward Leigh, Conservative MP for Gainsborough, said he was "very fearful of our ability today to erase or re-write history"."

Yawn.

[niko_cee]

Never fear, Wikipedia won't be silenced.

I see it was the full strength racial slur.

[Lewis]

That is possibly the most pathetic one yet.

[Manc]

Little did the driver know, the dog was absolutely steaming and in no fit state to be crossing the road.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Are the annals going to give the dog (an animal of reasonable historical interest, I would say) a fictitious name that he didn't actually have, or will he just be The Dog With No Name? Or The Canine Formerly Known By A Racial Slur?

[Baz]

My mums dog was called Nigger when she was a kid.

To this day, when questioned she simply says he was brown and that’s that.

[Manc]

Christ. :D

[Jimmy Floyd]

'Nigger' was reasonably commonly used here until about the 1960s or 70s. I wonder what words we currently say will be out of service in 50 years.

'Woman' has always struck me as ripe for the chop. Man with a womb? You can do better than that, crusties.

[Ian]

If it caused a rise in the creepy use of "females" though. :sick:

[SincereTheRebel]

'Woman' has always struck me as ripe for the chop. Man with a womb? You can do better than that, crusties.

I wasnt even aware of that. How is that even possible when women came first..

[Giggles]

I thought the nutters didn't use the 'man' part of woman any more?

[Ian]

What? Who the fuck is calling them Wos?

Other than perhaps JonWo.

[Giggles]

Was it not some shite like Wox or Woxan or something? Phonics will know.

[Spikey M]

Do you mean Mx instead of Mrs, Miss or Ms?

[SincereTheRebel]

Do you mean Mx instead of Mrs, Miss or Ms?

Pick-A-Mix

[Raoul Duke]

Was it not some shite like Wox or Woxan or something? Phonics will know.

You're thinking of Terry Wogan


Do you mean Mx instead of Mrs, Miss or Ms?

This one makes sense to me - the latter is the only one which is permanent, the others denote marital status...which is a bit creepy?

[Ian]

Alright Captain Woke, thinking women needn't be defined by their relationship with men.

You'll be letting them drive next.

[Raoul Duke]

I already genetically engineered the Coronavirus to ensure everyone has to wear masks. Praise be to Allan

[Jimmy Floyd]

Mrs/Miss is handy for kids to assess the credibility of school teachers, so I just think we should bring in a male equivalent to even things up. 'Master' for a young man sounds a bit paedo so I think we'll go with you can only be 'Mr' if you're married (to a woman, obviously, don't want any funny business), and before that you just have to go by your name alone.

[Giggles]

Woxan.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Woxan

[Spikey M]

You're thinking of Terry Wogan



This one makes sense to me - the latter is the only one which is permanent, the others denote marital status...which is a bit creepy?

It's one of those things I'm fine with by virtue of not giving a fuck. If it doesn't hurt anyone and requires no extra effort from me, then I'm fine with pretty much anything. Bonus points are awarded for winding up the Daily Mail comments section.

[Ian]

Doesn't everything wind up the Daily Mail comments section?

[Spikey M]

Doesn't everything wind up the Daily Mail comments section?

Usually only if it's something that doesn't actually matter.

[Lewis]

They will still use 'woman', but they will stick all the trannies under it as well, so then actual women will get lumped with shit like 'non-male' and weird medical terms like 'people with vaginas'. That is why they don't use 'female', because of the biological sex issue.

[Spikey M]

Yeah, that legitimately does piss me off. JK Rowling needs to learn where to stop, but her initial argument was right. If we're now able to call Mahow in a dress a 'woman', whilst someone without a Y chromosome has to be reduced to a bleeding fanny, then things have gone more than a bit off piste.

[phonics]

Did my post go missing or have I had a dig at Mahow in the wrong thread?

[phonics]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tyrese-haspil-associate-accused-of-stealing-arrested-in-grizzly-nyc-murder-of-tech-ceo-fahim-saleh?ref=home

This is the ultimate argument against 'Start-Up' people being successful because they are intelligent rather than just having money already.

"Investigators ran a credit-card check and determined that Haspil’s was used to buy the saw and cleaning supplies used after the murder, and that his card was even used to pay for rides to and from the crime scene, the source said."

At least pay in cash for your fucking murder cleanup and getaway drive. Fucking amateur.

[Lewis]

Mahow would be in the conversation if I had to pick some potential TTH trannies. To cover the full spectrum him (leans right into it, dyes his hair pink, wears revealing clothes and goes around trying to get turned away from female changing rooms so he can moan online); Hammer (more conservative about it than you would imagine); mokbull (the intelligent, hyper-aggressive type - the 'Navy SEALs of SJWism' as Steve Sailer calls them); and Boydy (transitions at about sixty because a bad divorce throws his brain out). Boyd would easily pass the best as well, so it's a shame to leave it so late.

[phonics]

The correct order is actually;

Hammer - Societal misfit that thinks it'll gain him acceptance
Shindig - Gamer who hated trans people until it became an issue his gamer mates would call him out on. Transitions because the first selfie he posts after transition gets more compliments than any other photo he ever took.
Yevrah - Late in life divorcee, gets a bit to into the culture after a wiki search of Father Ted makes him ask why Graham Linehan isn't popular anymore

[niko_cee]

Mrs/Miss is handy for kids to assess the credibility of school teachers, so I just think we should bring in a male equivalent to even things up. 'Master' for a young man sounds a bit paedo so I think we'll go with you can only be 'Mr' if you're married (to a woman, obviously, don't want any funny business), and before that you just have to go by your name alone.

Esquire?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Esquire is to do with class isn't it? I suppose we could culturally appropriate it for the task.

[niko_cee]

Apparently so but I had no idea with Bill S Preston Esquire being my only real familiarity with the term.

I think it's suitably archaic and indeterminate to be repurposed.

[phonics]

Esquire is if you have a law degree I think.

[niko_cee]

In America, in the Uk it's some form of quasi-nobility somewhere between a 'gentleman' (???) and a knight.

Aka something knobheads write after their name.

[Giggles]

The only sex.

Edit - I replied to Lewis post at the bottom of the last page before I seen there was a new one. Basically, you can’t choose it.

[phonics]

In America, in the Uk it's some form of quasi-nobility somewhere between a 'gentleman' (???) and a knight.

Aka something knobheads write after their name.

I checked it out, it literally means 'anyone with no other qualifications' which is a perfect summary of the type of upper class member that would use it.

[Spikey M]

I spoke to an 'esquire' on the phone once. He hadn't signed his Coutts cheque. He was indeed a rather spectacular cunt.

[Jimmy Floyd]

What is a gentleman? I presume you had to be one to qualify to play for Gentlemen as opposed to Players. I guess it's having private income or something?

[niko_cee]

Land ownership and/or having the right to vote maybe?


Originally, a gentleman was the lowest rank of the landed gentry of England, ranking below an esquire and above a yeoman; by definition, the rank of gentleman comprised the younger sons of the younger sons of peers, and the younger sons of a baronet, a knight, and an esquire, in perpetual succession

:cab:

[Spikey M]

"lowest rank of the landed gentry" according to Wiki.

[niko_cee]

So, basically a homeowner in modern parlance?

[phonics]

The homeowners son who is too old to be living there.

[Spikey M]

We keep landing back on Mahow.

[Shindig]

I don't like Master as a title. It's supposed to be for kids, right?

[Spikey M]

It's only for kids unless you're a deviant.

[Lewis]

I notice a lot of civil service have degree letters in their e-mail signatures. Nobody cares about your MA love.

[Giggles]

Master is wrong no matter what the age.

[Manc]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/17/german-police-capture-black-forest-rambo-after-six-day-manhunt

[mugbull]

People complain about the militarization of US police, fairly, but then see what happens when your cops are pussified

[Shindig]

Nah, I'm with the cops on this. He has no body count.

[Lofty]

Last week Judge Esther Salas was brought in to oversee a lawsuit regarding Deutschebank's handling of Epstein's finances, today a geezer dressed as a Fed Ex guy turns up at her house, kills her son and wounds her husband, before being found dead from apparent suicide. (https://abcnews.go.com/US/federal-judges-son-shot-killed-husband-injured-attack/story?id=71871708) Just more extremely normal things happening in the Epstein case.

[Shindig]

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/hitman/images/a/ae/Delivery_man.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20170220131758

I hear they're looking for drivers.

[Kikó]

The Epstein civil suit has nothing to do with the Epstein trial. Investors are suing DB for taking Epstein on as a customer.

[Lofty]

And who else is a high profile customer of DB that has recently had judgement passed regarding the release of financial records?

[Kikó]

It's massively irrelevant.

[Lofty]

As are the apparent suicides of Thomas Bowers, Val Broeksmit, Calogero Gambino, Pierre Wauthier, Carsten Schloter, Martin Zenn and David Rossi. Wonder what the link there is.

[Don]

https://i.redd.it/ne7dlhqi6pn11.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d1/56/79/d15679ca1801eb9006a73e799a552897.jpg

https://i.redd.it/pja01ca29ipy.jpg

[Kikó]

As are the apparent suicides of Thomas Bowers, Val Broeksmit, Calogero Gambino, Pierre Wauthier, Carsten Schloter, Martin Zenn and David Rossi. Wonder what the link there is.

Explain the link.

One case was about sexual assault by Epstein.
One case is a civil suit against DB by their investors because DB took on a client like Epstein. It's not about a cover up or about proving Epstein's ties to his pedo island.

[SincereTheRebel]

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/hitman/images/a/ae/Delivery_man.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20170220131758

I hear they're looking for drivers.

:D

[Lofty]

Explain the link.

One case was about sexual assault by Epstein.
One case is a civil suit against DB by their investors because DB took on a client like Epstein. It's not about a cover up or about proving Epstein's ties to his pedo island.

Thomas Bowers - DB executive who signed off Trump's loans
William (Val is the son, got that wrong) Broeksmit - DB executive with knowledge and files relating to Trump's loans who's stepson Val is co-operating with the FBI and Congress over
Calogero Gambino - DB executive helping US regulators investigate Libor rigging.
Pierre Wauthier - Zurich exec who complained in his suicide note about his new boss Josef Ackerman who transferred in from DB. Ackerman denied any wrong doing but quit soon after.
Carsten Schloter - Swisscom exec took his life a few weeks before Wauthier.
Martin Zenn - Zurich CEO
David Rossi - Head of Communications at Monte dei Paschi di Siena committed suicide by falling from a window, enough suspicion about it being homicide they were looking at reopening the case.

It's possible it's all a coincidence but I didn't realise these rich bank guys were such suicide risks.

[Boydy]

I'd not heard of any of this before but supposing there is a conspiracy of some sort there, what are these guys supposed to know?

[Disco]

Which door is open.

[Lofty]

The suggestion is it's all to do with the Libor scandal including stuff like financing Trump when he was bankrupt, Monte dei Paschi di Siena being financed by DB in deals where they overpaid for assets etc.

[niko_cee]

With absolutely no knowledge of the subject, wealthy ne'er-do-wells facing an end to their cosseted existence and/or time in a federal pound-you-in-the-ass penitentiary probably rate fairly high on the suicide risk scale.

[Shindig]

I can never look at Blackfriars Bridge without thinking, "An Italian banker somehow managed to hang himself there."

[Lewis]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-53487143

Is that a fail?

[Spikey M]

It's increased awareness, so no.

[Kikó]

Thomas Bowers - DB executive who signed off Trump's loans
William (Val is the son, got that wrong) Broeksmit - DB executive with knowledge and files relating to Trump's loans who's stepson Val is co-operating with the FBI and Congress over
Calogero Gambino - DB executive helping US regulators investigate Libor rigging.
Pierre Wauthier - Zurich exec who complained in his suicide note about his new boss Josef Ackerman who transferred in from DB. Ackerman denied any wrong doing but quit soon after.
Carsten Schloter - Swisscom exec took his life a few weeks before Wauthier.
Martin Zenn - Zurich CEO
David Rossi - Head of Communications at Monte dei Paschi di Siena committed suicide by falling from a window, enough suspicion about it being homicide they were looking at reopening the case.

It's possible it's all a coincidence but I didn't realise these rich bank guys were such suicide risks.

But the person who died is the son of someone on a civil case regarding suing the bank on its choice of customer. It's not about Epstein or his guilt or what he did or didn't do.

And I'd go with niko_cee, time in prison for high end execs is probably not the greatest for morale.

But more likely it's conspiracy.

[phonics]

2020 story of the year has to be this Ukrainian guy taking people hostage to get out the message that people need to watch a documentary from 2005 featuring Joaquin Phoenix.

[Shindig]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53497347

Stage names. A never-ending problem.

[Ian]

My favourite of those was Lady Antebellum changing their name to Lady A, then raising a legal case against the black woman who'd already released multiple albums under that name.

Because that's how you prove you're not a racist.

[Shindig]

I don't even know what grounds would allow you to do that.

[SincereTheRebel]

That's America.

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53497347

Stage names. A never-ending problem.

I had always assumed he was black. I've no idea how that survived this long.

[Don]

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jul/28/soap-dodger-meet-the-doctor-who-says-we-have-been-showering-wrong

This is essential reading and not just because it supports the view that Lewis' arsewiping people are a filthy bunch.

[Giggles]

The intro was enough to dismiss him as a lazy filthy cunt.

[SincereTheRebel]

And all of this is to find a way to cheat death

[John Arne]

The US Department of the Treasury announced today that Vietnam has repaid all the debts to the US that the former South Vietnamese borrowed before 1975.

https://www.voatiengviet.com/a/bo-tai-chinh-my-vietnam-da-tra-jet-no-vnch-tu-thoi-chien-tranh/5520679.html

[Queenslander]

The US Department of the Treasury announced today that Vietnam has repaid all the debts to the US that the former South Vietnamese borrowed before 1975.

https://www.voatiengviet.com/a/bo-tai-chinh-my-vietnam-da-tra-jet-no-vnch-tu-thoi-chien-tranh/5520679.html

The seppos are so fucked!

[Manc]

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jul/30/sex-party-club-founder-defends-170k-government-covid-19-loan

Inb4Don.

[Don]

That social network is a bit of me. Bumble changed my life, godbless it.

[Spikey M]

The seppos are so fucked!

It's glorious in it's transparency, isn't it? Start a Civil War in another country. Fund your favourite side at very (probably un)reasonable interest rates and watch the money pour in.

Absolute cunts. The problem is I'd be amazed if we weren't doing the same thing. We sell arms to the Saudis at the very least. Or we were until very recently and only stopped because it was deemed illegal.

[Lewis]

The North Vietnamese started the civil war, and, as much as they have forgotten it, the Americans were on the right side. The least Vietnam can do is pay that piddling amount back if they ever want American assistance against the Chinese.

[Lofty]

See our traveller friends got 16 years, and 13 years respectively for dragging that copper to his death. Can't help but feel it should've been a lot longer, half that and out on parole on good behaviour, they'll be back at it because they have no stake in society.

[Lewis]

It does make you wonder what sort of manslaughter would qualify you for life ('life') if not something like that.

[Spikey M]

I reckon dropping Napalm on women and children might find the yanks very much on the wrong side of history.

[Ian]

I reckon dropping Napalm on women and children might find the yanks very much on the wrong side of history.

Er, you appear to have forgotten about at least one of The Flag or The Troops.

[Spikey M]

Flag, troops, face, get a test.

[Lewis]

The Viet Cong were absolute ISIS-like scummers, and the North Vietnamese weren't much better once they started winning. Compared to that lot (and their affiliates) the American involvement was positively virtuous.

[Queenslander]

I thought the French started the war because they didnt want to give up Vietnam as a colony? And the Americans sent in Military advisers in well before the Yanks officially got involved.

[Lewis]

It ended up being temporarily partitioned when the French pulled the plug (pending theoretical reunification elections/the assumed collapse of the southern state), which was when the Americans stepped in to support the non-communist half against reality. They should have let the Australians run the actual war.

[Queenslander]

Fair enough.

That Ken Burns documentary shows the French to be proper cunts. My one and only source for that war.

Im still yet to meet a Vietnam Vet who isnt a complete broken mess of man.

[Shindig]

https://news.sky.com/story/driver-dials-999-during-newcastle-police-chase-and-says-abort-or-ill-drive-off-bridge-12041089

Pro moves.

[Dquincy]

Art is subjective and blah blah...but this is mental.

A woman has reportedly won £12,000 for a piece of art featuring thousands of forward-slash characters on an A4 piece of paper.

https://e3.365dm.com/20/08/1600x900/skynews-poppy-lekner-parkin-drawing-prize_5057514.jpg?bypass-service-worker&20200803214531

http://news.sky.com/story/new-zealand-drawing-featuring-typed-forward-slashes-wins-art-competition-12041955

[Disco]

Nice work if you can get it.

[Spikey M]

It must be an incredible feeling. Do you think the people making shit like this actually think it's good? Or do they lol themselves silly as soon as nobody is around?

I reckon the only barriers to entry are that you have to look like an artist (Read: nause) and be able to blag a load of meaning into things.

[Dquincy]

It must be an incredible feeling. Do you think the people making shit like this actually think it's good? Or do they lol themselves silly as soon as nobody is around?

I reckon the only barriers to entry are that you have to look like an artist (Read: nause) and be able to blag a load of meaning into things.
The article says she made it (or, typed it) the day for the entry date. Sounds a bit lol to me.

[Disco]

It must be an incredible feeling. Do you think the people making shit like this actually think it's good? Or do they lol themselves silly as soon as nobody is around?

I reckon the only barriers to entry are that you have to look like an artist (Read: nause) and be able to blag a load of meaning into things.

People believing you're an artist is the only barrier, most of which will be background and circumstance.

[Jimmy Floyd]

'I had to really concentrate the entire time', she says, as if Titian was just chucking some paint on the canvas and hoping for the best.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Interesting survey which fully justifies my anti-French position:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eej5fS3XoAEnAwT?format=jpg&name=medium

[Baz]

What did Colombia do wrong?

[Spikey M]

It's pretty much just 'no' to anyone that's not in the EU, isn't it?

[Shindig]

Do Finland and Malta not get on?

[Ian]

Meanwhile Romania just likes everybody it seems.

[Giggles]

I don’t get how it’s done. Does it mean the UK would help nobody or nobody would help the UK?

[Ian]

The UK would apparently be willing to help almost everybody (got my doubts about that) and most would be unwilling to help us (seems believeable.)

[Giggles]

I couldn’t see any country helping any other one any more unless there was something in it for them.

[Jimmy Floyd]

What is it the Greeks are bitter about by the way, was it us saving them in the war, our 19th century occupation of the Ionian Islands, our tourists wrecking their islands?

The Elgin Marbles?

[Spikey M]

You've alot of time to be bitter when you retire at 35.

[Ian]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53633315

Am I just being ignorant of the business side of this or is it literally just Trump demanding money because he wants some?

[Spikey M]

I suppose you could argue that they're kind of trading in America and should be paying taxes? It all seems a bit Soviet though. Nice little role reversal.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I think it's just what he's done all his life, i.e. be a bullying, scamming bastard.

[Spikey M]

Actually the Mafia comparisons work alot better.

"That's a mighty fine app you've got there..."

[Giggles]

What’s that interview from where he has the sheets of paper that’s doing the rounds on Twitter at the minute. I spent the first minute trying to see who was playing him because I thought it was a spoof.

[Spikey M]

It said HBO in the corner but no idea on the show.

[Ian]

Is it the Axios / HBO one from yesterday? If so full thing's on Youtube.

[Giggles]

The interviewer is just bad enough that Trump probably comes across ok for most of it (once the over analytical media there rinses it) from the bits I’ve seen, not that anything would matter to his supporters anyway. He’s some fucking joker though.

[Ian]

Does he really come across okay? The only clip I've seen is where Trump is talking about the number of cases (did you know America has less cases than The World? Incredible, give the man the job for life) and the guy says he was asking about cases per population and a flabbergasted Trump says "You can't do that."

I may see if I can stomach the whole thing, maybe in the rest of it he comes across as intelligent.

[Giggles]

Does he really come across okay? The only clip I've seen is where Trump is talking about the number of cases (did you know America has less cases than The World? Incredible, give the man the job for life) and the guy says he was asking about cases per population and a flabbergasted Trump says "You can't do that."

I may see if I can stomach the whole thing, maybe in the rest of it he comes across as intelligent.

He doesn’t come across as ok, it’s just that the interviewer seems so bad that it gives his supporters an out.

[Kikó]

https://www.axios.com/full-axios-hbo-interview-donald-trump-cd5a67e1-6ba1-46c8-bb3d-8717ab9f3cc5.html

Full interview.

[Ian]

He doesn’t come across as ok, it’s just that the interviewer seems so bad that it gives his supporters an out.

Ohhh, I see what you mean.

Then yeah, you were right in the first place. His supports are too busy thinking Biden is a literal Nazi anyway so a pesky interviewer is the least of it.

[Spikey M]

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Fuck. That.

[randomlegend]

Holy shit

[Lewis]

Explosions are amazing. I would love to feel one. Not a deadly one, obviously; but just one that gave me a good fucking whack.

[Giggles]

Seen that a few times on Twitter but hadn’t copped it was such a big deal.

[Shindig]

Frig. The way that just ballooned makes me wonder if they've got hydrogen tanks or something by the docks. Also, whilst I don't fancy feeling an explosion, I wouldn't mind being caught in an earthquake. Just enough to feel a wobble.

[niko_cee]

Explosives warehouse.

[Disco]

Looks like fireworks or similar, you can see things touching off before the whole lot goes up.

[Giggles]

Fireworks could hardly do that could they? Sure it’s explosives.

[Disco]

What do you think fireworks are made of?

[Giggles]

What do you think fireworks are made of?

You’d want some amount to tear buildings down like that.

It’s Beirut, so why is everyone jumping on fireworks as the first explanation anyway? It’s a war zone at the best of times anyway.

[Disco]

Because that's what it looks like, it could be munitions of some sort but far less likely.

[Dquincy]

What do you think fireworks are made of?
Pretty sure fireworks would not cause that type of explosion.

Amazing watching the explosion. Surely more than the 10 people being reported dead. Hopefully not though.

[Disco]

Explosives are explosives, whether you're going to put them in munitions or catherine wheels they're all basically the same sort of stuff. Touch off enough at once and this is what you'll get, I say fireworks because firework factories/warehouses are many times more common that munitions depots. I suppose it could be fertilizer or something but again, same sort of stuff.

[Lewis]

1290704207817957377

Fireworks and probably some other industrial stuff knocking about. I saw someone suggest wheat silos, which would work.

[Shindig]

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

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

A couple of historical bangs. They don't happen often but... when they do, docks and ships pop.

[Kikó]

1290704207817957377

Fireworks and probably some other industrial stuff knocking about. I saw someone suggest wheat silos, which would work.

Yep read similar that the white cloud was from grain going up in the air.

[Lewis]

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Phew.

[randomlegend]

Have we got an official fireworks sponsor?

[randomlegend]

Explosives are explosives, whether you're going to put them in munitions or catherine wheels they're all basically the same sort of stuff. Touch off enough at once and this is what you'll get, I say fireworks because firework factories/warehouses are many times more common that munitions depots. I suppose it could be fertilizer or something but again, same sort of stuff.

That's not really true is it? Surely some explosives are much more explodey than others and they aren't putting the good stuff in commercial fireworks?

[Shindig]

Fireworks are mostly just gunpower.

[Disco]

That's not really true is it? Surely some explosives are much more explodey than others and they aren't putting the good stuff in commercial fireworks?

Same idea just in different grades, so you could be looking a lot of fireworks or a smaller amount of munitions.

[randomlegend]

I find it hard to comprehend that almost any amount of fireworks could make an explosion that big but that may just be failure of my brain

[Dquincy]

They were just trying to blow up Covid.

[Lewis]

It looks more spectacular than it actually is. The death toll won't be particularly high, and all of the surrounding structures are pretty flimsy, so you just get a load of dust and crap blowing all over making it look like half the city has gone up.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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Seems the fireworks set off the sodium nitrate.

[Disco]

I find it hard to comprehend that almost any amount of fireworks could make an explosion that big but that may just be failure of my brain

They're essentially small bombs without a case (but extra sparkles) and rules about a big old heap of them lying around tend to be less stringent.

[Dquincy]

Reported 40 dead at the mo.

[Dquincy]

https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1290727311726215174?s=20

Incredible photo.

Edit: I don't know how you do that fancy link so you can see the tweet. A lot has changed since I left here and returned.

[Giggles]

https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1290727311726215174?s=20

Incredible photo.

Edit: I don't know how you do that fancy link so you can see the tweet. A lot has changed since I left here and returned.

That way.


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[Dquincy]

Beauty. Thanks.

[Dquincy]

Reported 40 dead at the mo.
At least 70 dead now.

[Yevrah]

It looks like a fucking nuke going off.

[Giggles]

I wonder how long the chemical was really there. May have been preemptive.

[Queenslander]

Mossad...

[Shindig]

Nah, always bet on negligence.

[Dquincy]

I see Donald has already claimed it was an attack/bomb that caused it.

[Ian]

"And, y'know, I'm probably the better at knowing what a bombing is than anybody else you've ever interviewed..."

[Spikey M]

The explosion itself looks like a nuke going off, but nothing that happened before hand makes it look like a bomb.

[John Arne]

This is weird.

A US college football coach reprimanded for using the n word, whilst asking a player to stop using it.

www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/29594841/tcu-coach-gary-patterson-apologizes-repeating-racial-slur%3fplatform=amp

[Disco]

I assume it's the cloud everyone is latching onto, that shape isn't exclusive to nukes it happens with any explosion that creates the right column of hot/expanding gases. Nukes just tend to be better at it than other bombs.

[Queenslander]

I grew up with Lebanese people only so Im biased.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If it was a nuke I somehow doubt there would be people posting mobile phone camera clips of it from seemingly a few km away.

[Spikey M]

If it was a nuke I somehow doubt there would be people posting mobile phone camera clips of it from seemingly a few km away.

Oh, it's definitely not one. Unless they now come in pocket sized. It just looked like that sort of explosion, but as Disco said, it's not not only nukes that have mushroom clouds.

Plus, it would in no way explain the weird flashes coming from the fire before hand.

[Lewis]

The reaction to this is mental. It's a plane crash-like body count and probably less property damage (cost-wise) than the recent Justice for Derek Chauvin protests. Yet the world is chimping itself off like they've had some mega earthquake and thousands missing. Why? It can't be the novelty value because the Chinese had a massive bang a few years ago and we all just lolled.

[Lofty]

Because it is a dramatic explosion captured on camera? The body count might not be as high as something like 9/11 but the footage is reminiscent of it.

[Ian]

Probably because it's just something to talk about that isn't Johnson, Trump or wankers banging on about facemasks.

[Don]

Lebanese are on-brand. Struggling people but fit. Those Caramel ladies :drool:

Plus they've probably ran out of scaremongering bullshit so could do with a week off to replenish the Northern city centre stock footage database.

[Dquincy]

Lebanese are on-brand. Struggling people but fit. Those Caramel ladies :drool:

Plus they've probably ran out of scaremongering bullshit so could do with a week off to replenish the Northern city centre stock footage database.

He's not wrong. Look at the figure on her....right before the explosion ruins her wedding day.

Bride poses for photo seconds before explosion
https://news.sky.com/video/share-12042987

[Shindig]

I'll be honest, the image of her being blown off her feet is funny. Also, I second Lebanese women being right up there.

[Spoonsky]

The reaction to this is mental. It's a plane crash-like body count and probably less property damage (cost-wise) than the recent Justice for Derek Chauvin protests. Yet the world is chimping itself off like they've had some mega earthquake and thousands missing. Why? It can't be the novelty value because the Chinese had a massive bang a few years ago and we all just lolled.

It seems to have basically done in their entire port, and broken the windows off of half the city. But it's probably more that the video is insane.

[Disco]

The pictures of the crater are pretty bonkers.

[Dquincy]

It seems to have basically done in their entire port, and broken the windows off of half the city. But it's probably more that the video is insane.

Imagine being a window manufacturer in that region. :drool:

[Queenslander]

I still think Mossad did it.