News of the day

[Kikó]

The pictures of the crater are pretty bonkers.

I just see a pile of dust.

[Spikey M]

Why is it black and blue?

[Disco]

I still think Mossad did it.

Judging by some of the pictures coming out of how the stuff was being stored it wouldn't have been hard.

[Disco]

I just see a pile of dust.


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[Kikó]

Actually you're right. It's a white dress.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Someone named Laurel did it.

[Spikey M]

Pepe is going to be gutted he's missed this.

[Lewis]

Further to my mental reaction point, I realise he probably heard about the Lebanese mandate and jumped on the first plane, but why is Emmanuel Macron bowling around lecturing them like it is any of their business? There has been plenty of complacency/incompetence-induced death in France over the past few years and I don't recall anyone telling them to sort themselves out.

[Dquincy]

Because he's a self serving prick.

[Queenslander]

There are 170 sights in South Australia alone with massive amounts of ammomium nitrate. :cab:

[mugbull]

Lebanon is essentially the size of Hawaii

[Shindig]

https://mapfight.appspot.com/us.hi-vs-lb/hawaii-us-lebanon-size-comparison

Essentially, it isn't. :D

[Disco]

Only because they blew half of it away.

[Spikey M]

Protip: if you don't know the size of somewhere, go with "an area the size of Wales".

[Disco]

Area is measured in football pitches, this is known.

[Spikey M]

You're saying Lebanon is the size of a Welsh Football Pitch?

[Disco]

Essentially yes.

[Spikey M]

Shinners, run that map comparison.

[John Arne]

Absolutely pissed it down for 2 days here

https://gyazo.com/9bfb77d9beb96a1d026fda302d46c3e8.jpeg

[mugbull]

https://mapfight.appspot.com/us.hi-vs-lb/hawaii-us-lebanon-size-comparison

Essentially, it isn't. :D

I meant Hawaii the island. Theyre both around 4k square miles

[Yaysus]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10831266/lawyer-britains-hardest-cop-machete-attack/

what the fuck

[Spikey M]

Leave it to a German to make a naked geezer having his laptop nicked by a pig sound boring.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-53692475


While the man was bathing, she writes, the boars calmly ate a pizza from his backpack and then "they were looking for a dessert".

"They found this yellow bag and decided to take it away. But the man who owned it realized it was the bag with his laptop.

"So, he was very focused and run [sic] behind the boars in order to get it back."

The onlookers "adored him how focused he stayed and when he came back with his yellow bag in the hand we all clapped and congratulated him for his success".

Just laugh and call him a cunt ffs.

[Manc]

Is that a small child in shot? Modern.

[Queenslander]

It is actually happening! :drool:



Victorian sports minister Martin Pakula will soon begin negotiations and Queensland is expected to host the decider, according to the Herald Sun.

The grand final is expected to be played at night for the first time the 122-year history of the VFL/AFL, and is being slated for October 17 or 24.


https://7news.com.au/sport/afl/process-begins-to-move-afl-grand-final-out-of-melbourne-c-1226584


If they give us the Boxing Day Test as well as the Melbourne Cup this covid nonsense would have been well worth it.

[phonics]

Googling found me this picture of Dale Winton and it's mesmerising:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/270326079648956433/741988034320400414/1856.png

So many angles... Why are his legs several feet apart? A gay man in the 90s wearing a leather jacket with ill fitting sleeves? Is the Mark Ecko shirt supposed to convince the kids he's down with urban streetwear?

But most distressing, the dressings section of the salad bar that seems to be mostly pineapples and bananas?

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/270326079648956433/741989019117682738/unknown.png

[Spikey M]

I think the most pressing question is 'Why were you Googling pictures of Dale Winton?'

[phonics]

I think the most pressing question is 'Why were you Googling pictures of Dale Winton?'

Have a look at this and ask why I wasn't before now. Can you find a more 90s picture than this?

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/270326079648956433/741990875441266718/Celebrity-Supermarket-Sweep.png

[Shindig]

"Jet and Wolf aren't available? Shit."

[Spikey M]

I do love how smug the blonde is about those chips.

[Shindig]

I think that's Daniella Westbook before the coke hit.

[phonics]

I think the most pressing question is 'Why were you Googling pictures of Dale Winton?'

https://i.imgur.com/iFkE7p5.png

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

lollllllllllllll

I can't stop laughing.

[Lewis]

Have a look at this and ask why I wasn't before now. Can you find a more 90s picture than this?

https://i.imgur.com/WBxi6Dt.jpg

[phonics]

lollllllllllllll

I can't stop laughing.


You'd be sending me lollllllllllls left and right if you thought it'd get you mod privileges. After that it's only a matter of time before you'd start asking me for pictures of my nipples you perverted little weasel.

[Spikey M]

I think that's Daniella Westbook before the coke hit.

Shit. It is as well. That's tragic.

[Disco]

I think that's Daniella Westbook before the coke hit.

No it isn't.

[phonics]

I was going to say, that would put her a good 12-15 years older than all the footballers she was shagging.

[Disco]

I believe that is Melandra Burrows. I never realised Cobra locked so much like John Cena.

[phonics]

Who’s the bloke with the plant pot in the shirt? Was he on a soap?

[Shindig]

I should've cottoned on when I saw Viv Windsor but I can barely remember the Emmerdale cast beyond the bloke in the wheelchair, his wife and Zoe Tate.

EDIT: Nasty Nick Cotton, phonics.

[phonics]

Far left is Ghislaine Maxwell in a middle of a cycle of steroids.

[Disco]

Emmerdale/Coronation Street bod. John Altman/Nick Cotton. Burrows with the chips. Debbie Arnold. Vogue(?). And Cobra.

[Giggles]

You'd be sending me lollllllllllls left and right if you thought it'd get you mod privileges. After that it's only a matter of time before you'd start asking me for pictures of my nipples you perverted little weasel.

For such a love the world ponce cunt you’re not really a man of the people are you?

[phonics]

For such a love the world ponce cunt you’re not really a man of the people are you?

Are you asking for a nipple pic as well?

Disgusting.

[Giggles]

Are you asking for a nipple pic as well?

Disgusting.

No. Where did I do that?

If that’s all you can muster then you’re a higher waste of a jip than I ever even thought.

[phonics]

It’s Sunday giggles. Cheer the fuck up and ask to have a gander at my nipple.

[Giggles]

It’s Sunday giggles. Cheer the fuck up and ask to have a gander at my nipple.

Did you just ask me for a dick pic? Oh lollololololoooololol.

Fucking hell, at least delete all the above when you come down you embarrassment.

[phonics]

EDIT: Nasty Nick Cotton, phonics.

Confirmation that my picture is more 90s than Lewis’

[Lewis]

He was barely a regular character in the nineties so think again.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://i.imgur.com/aQMTyxl.jpg

The grin from the kid closest to Bret :D

[Shindig]

A google of 'most 90's photo ever taken' has this as the top result:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0f/31/fe/0f31fe3b2377624c5f3e706d8eba5212.jpg

[Manc]

https://i.imgur.com/aQMTyxl.jpg

The grin from the kid closest to Bret :D

Superb jeans.

[Dquincy]

Entire Lebanon government and the PM to resign within hours.

http://news.sky.com/story/beirut-explosion-lebanon-pm-to-resign-within-hours-as-entire-government-steps-down-12046586

[Lewis]

I'm not really sure what they expect from their government when the only way you can form one is by keeping literally everybody, if not happy, then satisfied enough not to start killing each other again. How is any system like that, let alone one run by Arabs, not going to be the most useless, bent one going?

[Yevrah]

Someone's been shot near the White House, according to Trump, according to the BBC.

[Queenslander]

It is actually happening! :drool:





https://7news.com.au/sport/afl/process-begins-to-move-afl-grand-final-out-of-melbourne-c-1226584


If they give us the Boxing Day Test as well as the Melbourne Cup this covid nonsense would have been well worth it.


It is 28 degrees in Cairns today. :drool:

https://i.ibb.co/7Srgxr2/FB-IMG-1597197637724.jpg (https://ibb.co/VLMH0M2)
upload (https://imgbb.com/)

[Dquincy]

Holy shit sticks that was close.

Video - Moment man is saved from oncoming train.

https://news.sky.com/video/share-12048244

[Queenslander]

Ooff before Victoria as well. Lol



Queensland has become the first Australian state to ban gay conversion therapy

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/queensland-has-become-the-first-australian-state-to-ban-gay-conversion-therapy

[Lewis]

They were worried a ban would stop them converting people into being gay.

[Queenslander]

:D

[Don]

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/aug/14/it-hasnt-sank-in-residents-win-60-rent-reduction-in-london-council-flats

I do like a good perve on people's finances (hence my love of spending diaries, particularly those by gash on Refinery29). Anyway, £120 a week for a 3-bed in London all so some fat muzzy can go to Benidorm? I'm seething.

[Dquincy]

I read that as "fiancée". So got quite excited only to be disheartened at what Russell was really talking about.

[SincereTheRebel]

Hero. Why they havent named him, i don't know.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-australia-53792016

[Spikey M]

:cool: What a don.

[Manc]

Lofty

[Ian]

They haven't named him because they've seen Jaws: The Revenge and know fine well that those fuckers will never give him peace and he'll be punching out sharks for the rest of his days.

[niko_cee]

Surf Life Saving NSW chief executive Steven Pearce praised the husband - named by media as Mark Rapley - for his quick action.

:cab:

[Lewis]

This (https://inews.co.uk/news/scotland/scots-wikipedia-language-articles-native-speaker-mistakes-610689) is a great story. The kid has blown the racket wide open. :lol:

[Spikey M]

What a bawbag.

[Giggles]

Thought he was going to hang in there. The public and the newspapers are going to be sorry for this one.


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[randomlegend]

One of the new F1s got arrested during their night shift the other night. We've been told today by the foundation programme director that they definitely won't be coming back and whilst they can't tell us what happened it will be in the papers soon enough.

Must be something pretty juicy

[Spikey M]

Dr Shipman?

[Jimmy Floyd]

As in they did something during their shift that was arrest-worthy, or the plod came knocking to catch up with their extra-curricular activities?

Pretty tasty if the former.

[randomlegend]

As in they did something during their shift that was arrest-worthy, or the plod came knocking to catch up with their extra-curricular activities?

Pretty tasty if the former.

I've spoken to people who were around on the night and they don't know what it was about so presumably the latter. Definitely got the impression from the FPD that it was something Dring related though

[Baz]

Dring?

[Ian]

The capital D is throwing me off from thinking it's just a typo of drink or something.

Doctoring?

[niko_cee]

Either that, or the term for the (undoubtedly top notch) Drill scene in Tring.

[Kikó]

I think he was the one arrested and still under the influence of drink.

[Spikey M]

*dring.

[randomlegend]

Doctoring

[Giggles]

Doctoring

I hope it was a typo.

[Spikey M]

Doctoring

Fake passports?

[Shindig]

Anything to get around the quarantine.

[Baz]

I didn't know you worked with Ronaldinho.

[randomlegend]

I hope it was a typo.

I honestly couldn't think of another way of writing it at the time. The fact it could be written 'doctor' was completely gone from my brain.

[Spikey M]

Does that happen often?

There's no easy way to tell you this. I'm afraid you have... ah... what do you call those lumps that kill you?

[Shindig]

"You're pregnant."

[Queenslander]

Right on time...

https://i.ibb.co/1fm8Lqq/FB-IMG-1598874818911.jpg (https://ibb.co/kgSQx88)
upload pic (https://imgbb.com/)

[Shindig]

Stupid flammable trees.

[Manc]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/28/media-blitz-to-get-workers-back-to-offices-amid-pandemic

Let them die.

[Dquincy]

Uk 47th place in global broadband speed. What a shower of shite. We're BRITISH! Rule Britannia!

http://news.sky.com/story/uk-slips-13-places-in-global-broadband-speed-table-12061548

[phonics]

Public-Private sector in action there.

[Gray Fox]

I, for one, welcome our new Lichtensteinian overlords

[niko_cee]

Seems the Russians have been off 'sightseeing' (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54002880) again.

[Offshore Toon]

Dunno why they didn't mention that Jersey are 2nd. Guernsey in 48th! :lol:

[niko_cee]

*reply posted at 4.55*

They must have not done the test when JT turned the whole island off for a day or whatever it was recently.

Our internet is absolutely shocking unless you pay through the nose and live in town.

Does seem an odd metric though. Is this just a test of 'basic' internet as, otherwise, isn't it largely contingent upon what sort of connection you pay for?

[Lewis]

Liechtenstein tops the global table with average speeds of 229.98Mbps with the US in 20th on 71.30 Mbps and South Sudan bottom with 0.58Mbps.

We're lucky to break that Sudanese level at work. It's actually quite good, because it can't get paywalls up before you stop the page loading, so I can track the [further] demise of the Telegraph without having to pay for it.

[Shindig]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54036637

I'm still waiting for someone to successfully pull off blackface for years before being found out.

[niko_cee]

Isn't that literally the plot of The Human Stain?

[Shindig]

The reverse. Silk passes as a Jew despite being African-American.

[Pepe]

She looks every bit as latina as I do.

[John Arne]

USC Communications Professor Placed On Leave after Using Chinese Word That Sounds Like Racial Slur

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/usc-communications-professor-placed-on-leave-after-using-chinese-word-that-sounds-like-racial-slur/

You couldn't make it up.

[Giggles]

I’ve long said the world is fucked and at this stage anyone who disagrees with me is a mong.

[hfswjyr]

More info https://www.nationalreview.com/news/usc-professor-placed-on-leave-after-black-students-complained-his-pronunciation-of-a-chinese-word-affected-their-mental-health/

Clearly overly sensitive, or potentially just trying to position for a better grade?


“It was confirmed that the pronunciation of this word is much different than what Professor Patton described in class,” the students wrote. “The word is most commonly used with a pause in between both syllables.
Nope, it actually (unfortunately) sounds very similar and is pronounced with little to no gap between the two characters.

On the other hand, that screenshot shows the most "Greg Patton" looking man I've ever seen.

[SincereTheRebel]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54036637

I'm still waiting for someone to successfully pull off blackface for years before being found out.

:lol:

[John Arne]

Maybe we need a seperate thread for SJWs.

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:D

[Giggles]

:D Fucking hell.

[Yevrah]

You can still live a perfectly normal life ignoring all of this absolute wank, so until such time when that is no longer the case I suggest we all should.

[Kikó]

Fact.

[John Arne]

I done a Twitter clearout, should stop me seeing some of this drivel.

[Lewis]

I clocked the other day at work that most of the feminist/race/gayness-based content on the departmental intranet is written by the same white man (who, yes, has a cartoon avatar with a bald head and a[n epic] beard). Meanwhile, all of the actual working women and ethnics, save for the odd Alice in a non-job, are just cracking on, which leads me back to what was obvious years ago: that it's all just a racket for comparatively wealthy/well-connected women and brown people to pretend they've done it the hard way and get in on the victim train.

'Yes I'm on a free ride at one of the most prestigious universities on the planet, but...'

[Baz]

I don’t get it.

[Spikey M]

You can still live a perfectly normal life ignoring all of this absolute wank, so until such time when that is no longer the case I suggest we all should.

And pass up on stuff like this?

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[phonics]

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[Don]

Big fan of the final two lines.

On two separate occasions two insect bites drew a fairly sizeable amount of blood today. Don't think I've ever had that before, shit getting serious out there.

[Yaysus]

And pass up on stuff like this?

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That's, thankfully, a parody account

[Dquincy]

Wonder if it smelt nice.

http://news.sky.com/story/farm-fire-kills-around-2000-pigs-in-northern-ireland-12066613

[Shindig]

One firefighter has suffered minor burns on his feet and has been taken to hospital for treatment.

I challenge you not to read that back to the tune of 'This Little Piggy'.

[Spikey M]

I literally couldn't read that to that tune.

[Dquincy]

:D I'm with Spikey.

If you had "little" in front of "firefighter" then maybe...

[Shindig]

My brain put 'little' in there.

[phonics]

I'm assuming Yevrah has already shot his load at this giant statue that got finished recently.

https://i.imgur.com/0haq2LN.jpg

[Spikey M]

How do they even go about making things like that?

[Disco]

They make it in blocks and just slot it all together.

[Boydy]

Where is it?

[Kikó]

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

[Spikey M]

Nearly 10 billion for that. How much to we send them each year? :happycry:

[Yevrah]

Yeah, been watching that one closely.

I want to fly to India, rent a car and drive to the fucker.

[Baz]

Come and visit this modroc cock instead

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/20090614_The_Dream_Sutton_011.jpg/200px-20090614_The_Dream_Sutton_011.jpg

[Kikó]

Yeah, been watching that one closely.

I want to fly to India, rent a car and drive to the fucker.

Just look out of the window.

[Pepe]

Looks fantastic. Massive statues should be more of a thing everywhere.

[SincereTheRebel]

Looks fantastic. Massive statues should be more of a thing everywhere.

Yeah, that is amazing.

There is a one in dakar which is only 50 meters high, but it still looks great regardless.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Monument_de_la_Renaissance_africaine_%28cropped%29 .JPG/1280px-Monument_de_la_Renaissance_africaine_%28cropped%29 .JPG

[Spikey M]

Looks fantastic. Massive statues should be more of a thing everywhere.

Britain shouldn't be building anything until the cliffs have had a fresh paint job.

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qaNgjqOjcJA/RXKVaLHYHDI/AAAAAAAAAAM/oryneoHSVK4/s320/dover.jpg

[Yevrah]

Looks fantastic. Massive statues should be more of a thing everywhere.

Sadly democracies don't really stand for them.

[Giggles]

Sadly democracies don't really stand for them.

They're coming to an end anyway.

[Offshore Toon]

Depends which way society moves. We might switch to giant statues only as they can't be easily pulled down.

[Don]

Statues breed idolisation of individuals which is pure poison in every form. Plant a tree instead and go read Hello!

[Shindig]

Yeah, been watching that one closely.

I want to fly to India, rent a car and drive to the fucker.

The platform its own raises more questions than answers. Imagine being crushed by that.

[Jimmy Floyd]

They are favoured by authoritarian, fascist, ethno-nationalist states, which is why India has stuck one up.

[Pepe]

Surely I can get a kickstarter going for a massive statue of George Floyd and raise the required $500 million in a week.

[Shindig]

It'll be this but face down.

https://i2-prod.chroniclelive.co.uk/incoming/article9101177.ece/ALTERNATES/s1227b/Gulliver.jpg

[Dquincy]

Yeah, that is amazing.

There is a one in dakar which is only 50 meters high, but it still looks great regardless.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Monument_de_la_Renaissance_africaine_%28cropped%29 .JPG/1280px-Monument_de_la_Renaissance_africaine_%28cropped%29 .JPG
Nip slip.

[Queenslander]

Monster croc swims beside a boat in FNQ.

https://www.facebook.com/363623854300/posts/10159156397569301/

[Baz]

Whoever is hanging framed tweets (http://bit.ly/tweetsframed) on their walls needs to go outside more.

[SvN]

?ref_id=0527951701

https://i.imgur.com/Z67xrLW.gif

[Boydy]

:D

Ffs.

[Giggles]

The fuck? I had read this a couple of times already today and thought it was one of those Onion/Waterford Whispers type articles.


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[Baz]

https://i.imgur.com/Z67xrLW.gif

It was copied straight from the email.

I only do Amazon.co.uk

[Don]

https://i.ibb.co/yN6bW1K/image.jpg

This geezer not familiar with the GTA series?

[Spikey M]

1304473757935980545?s=19

Happy Birthday Giggles.

[Disco]

Wow that is some commitment to the scam.

[Giggles]

That’s beautiful.

[Lewis]

Speaking of scams:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8720649/Aboriginal-cricket-star-Dan-Christian-hit-disgusting-racist-abuse.html

Australians know this sort of thing is balls don't they? I know they're not allowed to say so, but he's at best a quarter indigenous (which would make Ryan Giggs black), and didn't grow up around it all other than day tripping to cultural things, so by what standard is he really?

[Lewis]

What do proper aboriginals - at least half, and who obviously look like aboriginals - think of these cases? From what I can gather you obtain your aboriginal status by saying you are and having the 'community' accept you; but that seems like it would incentivise them accepting anyone who talks the talk, especially high profile people.

[phonics]

Lol these are the hats the New York Yankees will be wearing tonight.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ehp_0gvXcAIhzNY.jpg

[Dquincy]

I don't get it.

[Giggles]

Same.

[Pepe]

Supporting the police bad, don't you know.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They're standing with the NYPD...

[Giggles]

No harm, about time we saw a change in this bullshit.

[Dquincy]

Bang on, Gigs.

[phonics]

Less than a month ago they were beating the shit out of the city populace.

9/11 responders were 90% firefighters and the cops union have spent years making sure that they get any money Firefighters do to pay for the cancer treatment caused by all the asbestos they inhaled in that time.

[Giggles]

Less than a month ago they were beating the shit out of the city populace.

9/11 responders were 90% firefighters and the cops union have spent years making sure that they get any money Firefighters do to pay for the cancer treatment caused by all the asbestos they inhaled in that time.


That reads like a reddit post from someone who is also talking 5G and lizard people.

[Lewis]

The things working people can achieve with strong unions. Good for them.

[phonics]

That reads like a reddit post from someone who is also talking 5G and lizard people.

They literally had to get it named after a cop to get it through as no-one listened to the Firefighters union.

Read up on the James Zadroga act of 2010 and the efforts to get it enacted after it expired in 2015. Sorry that you're uninformed.


The things working people can achieve with strong unions. Good for them.

Quite.

[Giggles]

They literally had to get it named after a cop to get it through as no-one listened to the Firefighters union.

Read up on the James Zadroga act of 2010 and the efforts to get it enacted after it expired in 2015. Sorry that you're uninformed.



Quite.

There’s a long way between your type and informed.

[phonics]

What’s my type?

[Giggles]

The sjw helen lovejoy professionally offended type. The modern day shrieking pussy.

[phonics]

Helen Lovejoy?

[phonics]

Oh the Simpsons character. I was thinking of the SoccerAM presenter.

Also not sure what it has to do with being informed. You can think my reading is wrong not that I haven’t read.

[SincereTheRebel]

I think ive watched every 911 documentary and there was definitely some funny business going on

[Giggles]

Oh the Simpsons character. I was thinking of the SoccerAM presenter.

Also not sure what it has to do with being informed.

You got it fairly quickly at least.

[phonics]

Hopefully slow enough that you managed to catch yourself up with the history of the Zadroga act. What are your thoughts on my interpretation of events?

[Kikó]

The NYPD having a terrible reputation isn't really being controversial. You could literally have watched the news in the last 8 weeks and watched them beating people and abusing power. I know some people welcome lurching into authoritarianism but it's not everyone's idea of fun.

[phonics]

I know not many places have the advantage of mountains creating the need for Dams but how is Switzerland at 75% renewable energy while France/US/UK are between 15 - 30.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-get-75--of-power-from-renewable-sources/46016854

[Shindig]

There's an easy answer for this. Namely, Britain is a big lump of coal. We take the easiest option. Switzerland can attract the renewables with tax breaks.

Plus there's probably some British stubbornness in there. We don't pivot with any grace.

[Spikey M]

We barely use coal anymore.

[Queenslander]

What do proper aboriginals - at least half, and who obviously look like aboriginals - think of these cases? From what I can gather you obtain your aboriginal status by saying you are and having the 'community' accept you; but that seems like it would incentivise them accepting anyone who talks the talk, especially high profile people.

The children and grand children of the stolen generation is the main reason this comes up a lot. Aboriginal people are quite inclusive to white people who have aboriginal blood and/or who grew up in the culture.

[phonics]

There's an easy answer for this. Namely, Britain is a big lump of coal. We take the easiest option. Switzerland can attract the renewables with tax breaks.

Plus there's probably some British stubbornness in there. We don't pivot with any grace.

Attract the renewables? What does that mean, do natural resources emigrate?

[Shindig]

Yes. They're people like you and me.

[hfswjyr]

What do proper aboriginals - at least half, and who obviously look like aboriginals - think of these cases? From what I can gather you obtain your aboriginal status by saying you are and having the 'community' accept you; but that seems like it would incentivise them accepting anyone who talks the talk, especially high profile people.

Cultural identity is more than simply bloodlines.

[hfswjyr]

There's an easy answer for this. Namely, Britain is a big lump of coal. We take the easiest option. Switzerland can attract the renewables with tax breaks.

Plus there's probably some British stubbornness in there. We don't pivot with any grace.

I'd generally agree with this.

Hydro is really the main renewable source in history so far, with wind and solar making a dent recently. Some countries have the right terrain and rainfall to make hydro work easily (NZ to be 100% renewable by 2030). Other countries are not so lucky, and have to use political willpower to make it happen.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/modern-renewable-energy-consumption?year=latest&time=earliest..latest

[Queenslander]

Cultural identity is more than simply bloodlines.

100%

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54108336


Kellogg's says these lids will still produce the distinctive "pop" associated with the product.

Oh thank god.

[Baz]

Pringles are some of the worst crisps going.

Also that article calls them tubes rather than pipes, so it’s safe to completely disregard.

[Spikey M]

They are pretty shit but it's definitely a tube.

[Kikó]

Pringles are excellent.

[SincereTheRebel]

Pringles are some of the worst crisps going.



Fuck off

[Baz]

They are pretty shit but it's definitely a tube.Not according to Samadini

[phonics]

Pringles are good but my Mum worked for P&G meaning it was the only crisp I ever had (staff discount)

Can't eat them now.

[Giggles]

A pipe? Away now.

[Ian]

Sama goes the whole hog by referring to it as a pipe of [colour.]

Nothing quite like doing some gaming with him when he lets you know he's tucking into a pipe of brown.

[Spikey M]

That just sounds like he's a Smackhead.

[Ian]

Yeah but he doesn't have cardboard furniture anymore so if he is a smackhead it's apparently working for him.

[Shindig]

Did a wolf blow his old house down or something?

[Lewis]

Cultural identity is more than simply bloodlines.

It's more than just knowing about where the local tribe - but not you - live and what they paint. If it isn't, and day-tripping in and out of it from an otherwise comfortable white existence passes, then it's effectively meaningless because you're deriving all of the perceived benefits of the experience without actually living it.

[Spikey M]

I have Lewis right to be fair. I have a Black Grandad but I have no idea what it is to actually be Black.

[Lewis]

You hear 'mixed heritage' occasionally now instead of mixed race, but that seems to intrinsically link race and culture in quite a weird way that the social workers can't have thought through properly.

[hfswjyr]

It's more than just knowing about where the local tribe - but not you - live and what they paint. If it isn't, and day-tripping in and out of it from an otherwise comfortable white existence passes, then it's effectively meaningless because you're deriving all of the perceived benefits of the experience without actually living it.
Sure, but who are we on the outside to judge where to draw that line?


I have Lewis right to be fair. I have a Black Grandad but I have no idea what it is to actually be Black.
Which is fine if you don't identify with that culture. But there will certainly be many cases where your skin colour doesn't necessarily match the stereotypical culture you are brought up in. Imagine if you did grow up in the black community and an outsider came over and told you your skin wasn't dark enough and your whole upbringing doesn't count. It is surely up to that community to decide on those matters.

[phonics]

It’s almost like trying to encompass someone’s individual identity in a world where you’re less than a day from the other side of of the planet is a completely futile goal.

[Spikey M]

Which is fine if you don't identify with that culture. But there will certainly be many cases where your skin colour doesn't necessarily match the stereotypical culture you are brought up in. Imagine if you did grow up in the black community and an outsider came over and told you your skin wasn't dark enough and your whole upbringing doesn't count. It is surely up to that community to decide on those matters.

Fair. Although the discrimination towards my mixed race cousins comes from black people just as much.

[Lewis]

The problem is that 'drawling the line' is exactly what these people are doing with the PROUD INDIGENOUS MAN routine. By all means by proud of being descended from them (I hesitate to call it a 'background'), but in reality - both in race and in culture - you're a [predominantly] white Australian. The fact that his identity occasionally being questioned is the worst part of being an aboriginal probably tells you how deeply immersed in it all he is.

[Pepe]

I know not many places have the advantage of mountains creating the need for Dams but how is Switzerland at 75% renewable energy while France/US/UK are between 15 - 30.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-get-75--of-power-from-renewable-sources/46016854

You answered your own question.


You hear 'mixed heritage' occasionally now instead of mixed race, but that seems to intrinsically link race and culture in quite a weird way that the social workers can't have thought through properly.

The relevant crowd around here has moved on to "identify as" for race too:


The Office of the Associate Provost of Equity and Inclusive Excellence and the Institute for the Study of Black Lives and Cultures are preparing a virtual directory of Black staff and faculty. Black students have requested such a directory for several years. If you identify as a Black faculty or staff member and give permission to be included in this directory, please fill out this form.

Ignoring the issues of having such a directory, if "identify as" is the accepted threshold, why are people chimping out about that professor who claimed to be black?

[Queenslander]

The problem is that 'drawling the line' is exactly what these people are doing with the PROUD INDIGENOUS MAN routine. By all means by proud of being descended from them (I hesitate to call it a 'background'), but in reality - both in race and in culture - you're a [predominantly] white Australian. The fact that his identity occasionally being questioned is the worst part of being an aboriginal probably tells you how deeply immersed in it all he is.

It's really not a problem down here.

[Lewis]

Yet you all moaned when Tony Abbott, a proud English man, wanted to bring back knighthoods for the culture. Double standards cobber.

[Queenslander]

Not really he is a massive dickhead and he turned off most of the Liberal party with his captains call.

[Lewis]

Anyway: Scotland (https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12650652/brits-horrified-ayrshire-dead-sister-underwear-facebook/)

[Spikey M]

:|

There was a woman on our local selling Facebook page a couple of years back trying to sell her Rapant Rabbit. She got about 500 abusive comments before some weirdo offered her double the asking price if she used it before he picked it up.

She accepted.

I often wonder where he buried her body.

[Giggles]

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[niko_cee]

Seeing as we don't really have a cycling thread it's mildly amusing seeing Dave Brailsford's empire slightly blowing up in his face these past few weeks.

Sky lolling their tits off that they got out when they did.

[Ian]

There is some excellent, delicious hypocrisy being vented forth by the Twitter angries over Barbados deciding that actually maybe that monarchy 4000 miles away should just bugger off.

[Queenslander]

Big fuck you from the People's Republic of Queensland. Labor should invite PM Ardern over as a double back hand.


Prime Minister Scott Morrison will be required to quarantine himself for 14 days before entering Queensland if he wishes to join the state election campaign.

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/prime-minister-will-quarantine-himself-like-everyone-else-if-entering-qld-20200917-p55wf1.html

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54189113

Lol

[Ian]

He is such a twat.

[Shindig]

Nothing would bring me greater pleasure than seeing that twat charged for the murder of King Robbo.

[Alex]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54189113

Lol


The ruling quoted from one of his books, in which he said "copyright is for losers".

:D

What a fucking absolute tit.

[Spikey M]

I'd love to know who he actually is so I can makesure I'm not inadvertently funding his shit.

[Yevrah]

It's a collective, no?

[Spikey M]

No idea.

[Boydy]

It's Neil Buchanan.

[Offshore Toon]

It's one of the blokes from Massive Attack, or at least that's what I've heard/read many times.

[Spikey M]

I thought Damon Albarn was the lead theory?

[Jimmy Floyd]

The lead theory is some bloke from Bristol called Robin Gunningham.

The art is shit anyway, stencil art can do one.

[Baz]

It's one of the blokes from Massive Attack, or at least that's what I've heard/read many times.

You mean Art Attack.

[Lewis]

Who was it who said he's Live/Laugh/Love for Britpoppers? Because they were right.

[Shindig]

The lead theory is some bloke from Bristol called Robin Gunningham.

The art is shit anyway, stencil art can do one.

Yeah, graffiti has more of a flourish to it. Stencil art is all boring and uniform. "Oh, you made a cut-out? Good for you. Now write KER$AL MASSIV4EVA on the side of this shed in free-hand."

[Disco]

I like the clearly lethal ones in the middle of bridges. Props to you 'Dobs'.

[Pepe]

https://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/mu-professor-put-on-leave-after-offensive-statement-about-trump-voters-during-class/article_5df26d56-90c2-528b-8b9d-2fbcffaa5841.html

https://twitter.com/herdanesthesia/status/1306674311579815937

:harold:

[Lewis]

Princeton sending that 'we are racist us like' letter out and the government taking them at their word and launching an investigation is unlikely to be topped by any university-related bullshit.

[Pepe]

Yes, that is great. No matter what the findings are, they will look like complete idiots. It's either 'we looked around and found no signs of racism, so get over yourselves' or 'you are right, you are a bunch of racist morons, so here is a massive fine'.

[Shindig]

And a three week course on race relations that they have to attend and also teach.

[Shindig]

https://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/18739001.high-wycombe-front-door-damaged-attempted-burglary/

This is the most local news thing I've read in a while.

[niko_cee]

Why's that?

This (https://guernseypress.com/news/2020/09/07/barbecue-owner-in-plea-for-cover-which-blew-away/) is the most ridiculous news story I've seen in our local paper of late. Half a page on page 3 of the paper. :face:

[Shindig]

That starts to read like paid promotion. I had the burglary down as as weird non-news story. It came to my attention after it was linked in an "Elsewhere in <blank>" section after reading a story about Leighton Buzzard's third earthquake. Going from that to "Door handle broke. Anybody know owt?" was jarring.

[Offshore Toon]

Why's that?

This (https://guernseypress.com/news/2020/09/07/barbecue-owner-in-plea-for-cover-which-blew-away/) is the most ridiculous news story I've seen in our local paper of late. Half a page on page 3 of the paper. :face:
This (https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2020/09/05/leading-florist-facing-jail-for-importing-crystal-meth/) was a corker over here recently.

[phonics]

Enjoyed this story about one persons old telly causing a towns infrastructure to collapse.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/sep/22/the-old-telly-that-brought-down-a-welsh-villages-broadband

[Ian]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54289715

Oh no I hope they're going to be okay. :( :( :(

[phonics]

35 million quid seems infinitely small compared to the amount they must be worth.

[Ian]

It's not cheap sending nonces to golf tournaments, you know.

[phonics]

You could be paying an Argentinian congressman to start sucking titty in the middle of a session thinking his camera is off instead.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/270326079648956433/758864559053865020/unknown.png

[Shindig]

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3102945/vietnam-busts-factory-washed-and-resold-used-condoms

Eurgh. This can't be the first time someone's done this.

[Kikó]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54289715

Oh no I hope they're going to be okay. :( :( :(

They've put Prince William on the transfer list. United are monitoring the situation.

[John Arne]

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3102945/vietnam-busts-factory-washed-and-resold-used-condoms

Eurgh. This can't be the first time someone's done this.

It's made up. They aren't used, just new one that were nicked.

[Don]

1310891227370467329?s=20

Mad ting. How much is that contraption cause I need one.

[Giggles]

Huge amounts of shite ----> <---- fan.


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[John Arne]

I'm not sure who Chris Teigan is, but she appears to have essentially live tweeted her miscarriage. It's very bizarre. Like, some of the photos of her almost look staged.

[Ian]

Yes, I saw a news article where there was a photo I assume for Instagram. Either she's asked somebody to get a picture showing just how sad she is so it can go on Instagram or somebody else has thought "I should really get a photo of this woman in her darkest moment" and she's then used it anyway.

I'm not disputing how traumatised she probably is but it's a weird thing social media has done to people if that's where their mind goes.

[Don]

Got a lot of time for the geezer responding to it with 'haha' :D

Fucking cretins.

[Kikó]

https://manchestermatters.co.uk/sports/manchester-united-have-a-decision-to-make-with-their-midfield/

This website is basically taking articles from another and using some sort of thesaurus to change the words and it just comes out with some absolute belters.

[Ian]

Too many bluffers and they’ll price Ole his job. The gamers he’s obtained there, they threw the earlier supervisor beneath the bus, they’ll do the identical to Ole," Keane spat.

Finally somebody with the balls to say what we've all been thinking.