News of the day

[Kikó]

He should go away and join Actual Madrid.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Reducing Jose Mourinho to 'the earlier supervisor' is brilliantly cold.

[Kikó]

https://manchestermatters.co.uk/local/murder-investigation-launched-after-paramedics-discover-mans-body/

Terrible - they've found this guy's physique.

[mugbull]

That whole article reads like it's been through the rounds on Google Translate

[Ian]

I'm really glad Cummings is getting that big tax break. Finally some money he can set aside to combat his eyesight problem.

[phonics]

Thought Laura Kunoosynoosburg offering to pay it herself was an odd ethics issue.

[Boydy]

Thought Laura Kunoosynoosburg offering to pay it herself was an odd ethics issue.
She what?

[phonics]

It was just a joke about her being a bootlicker. That Keir Starmer attack from 'a senior government source' was so fucking lol.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Dom will have been lolling his socks off getting four of them from rival outlets to tweet that at the same time.

[Boydy]

"Rival" outlets.

[Lewis]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54538639

It is absolutely fucking mental to still be building this. What would it take to kill it?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Well, they're all owned by different people.

[Jimmy Floyd]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54538639

It is absolutely fucking mental to still be building this. What would it take to kill it?

They've already bulldozed things for it haven't they? Probably crossed the Rubicon a while back.

[phonics]

Why would they say no to another round of brown envelopes?

Such an absolute ball of corruption.

[Kikó]

Struggle to understand how something can take until 2040 to complete and it still being relevant.

[Lewis]

The economics of it were questionable at thirty billion, which was why the argument shifted to capacity; but that doesn't necessitate that route at that speed. You could bring the Great Central Main Line back for a few billion and then let local councils waste the rest. If we still have an economy left anyway.

[Yevrah]

I cannot believe that given how long this thing has taken and how much money it's already cost that it still won't be operational for another 8 years.

What are they doing?

[phonics]

Taking bribes.

[Boydy]

Doesn't it only shave like 15 minutes off the current journey time from Birmingham to London?

[Don]

But it also has capacity upsides for the current bog-standard lines so it's actually worth it if you think it prevents me from having to stand up for 30 mins from MK and possibly gives more early morning trains for my nights out :drool:

[Yevrah]

Doesn't it only shave like 15 minutes off the current journey time from Birmingham to London?

I think I'm right in saying that based on what Japan had decades ago, it was already a crap train as soon as the idea was conceived.

[Spikey M]

And all for £90 a pop.

[Don]

£90 big corporates will be more than happy to pay in order for their big central London officeblocks to thrive...

[Jimmy Floyd]

The country has only had two decision-making PMs in the last 50 years (Thatcher and Blair), the rest just drift along clinging to power and let fingers go into pies, Boris is no different, and I don't see Keir being any different either.

To cancel HS2 you'd need a Thatcher figure to storm into the room and shout fuck off. Not going to happen with the amount of contracts etc that will be tied up in it and the number of people it would upset.

[Boydy]

How much would it cost to build some sort of metro system in a city? I feel like you could probably build them in a good few major British cities for the price of HS2.

https://www.citymetric.com/transport/birmingham-isn-t-big-city-peak-times-how-poor-public-transport-explains-uk-s-productivity

I read this article a while ago which compares Birmingham to other similar sized European cities and explores how poor public transport impacts the UK's productivity. It's an interesting read.

[Spikey M]

Any investment in Birmingham is a waste of money.

[phonics]

I haven't been on the new Birmingham trams. They seem nice though.

The ones in Manchester were terrifying, over here they make them emit a fake noise so you don't get run down by a silent 5 ton train.

[Disco]

Large scale rail project over budget and massively late? Sounds about par for the course, I wonder if you adjusted the APT/Intercity fiasco for inflation if it would be better or worse than this. My gut feeling is HS2 will cost more (because of the extra infrastructure) but be better (by actually working to some degree).

[phonics]

How did a country that ruled 1/3rd of the world become so awful at infrastructure?

[Disco]

All the good stuff we built in the 1800's is still in the way, and we're obsessed with building dumb roads rather than sensible trains.

[Lewis]

The unions ruined the APT, and the InterCity was an excellent design. This is just out-and-out wank.

[Spikey M]

How did a country that ruled 1/3rd of the world become so awful at infrastructure?

It's the fate of all empires to decend into shite.

[Disco]

The Intercity worked but it was a 1940's solution to a 1970's brief. The Japs were donning everyone with the bullet train at the same time lets not forget.

[Lewis]

Yeah, built on brand new networks with unlimited budgets. British Rail wasn't quite there.

[Shindig]

£265m in 80's money got you the Tyne Metro. Money well spent, except for the station at Manors.

[phonics]

Can someone inform me whether Twitter is working at the moment? Otherwise, I think the argument with the Fenerbache fan club got me banned...

[Spikey M]

You're safe, it's fucked.

Well, I mean you're probably going to get stabbed by some Turkish Don's, but Twitter is down.

[phonics]

Thank god. Although that would be a pretty good CV where I lose 2 accounts due to fights with Elon Musk and Turkish Nationalists.

[Smjffy]

:D That's a relief. I thought I got banned or limited because I've been on a mad spree this evening.

[Lofty]

How did a country that ruled 1/3rd of the world become so awful at infrastructure?

Privatisation, cost cutting etc.

I had to study if for a course on Rail Operations Management (lol) and essentially the problem in the UK is that every so often a big project is green lit, but when it finishes the specialists needed are allowed to retire or drift off elsewhere and there is such a gap that when the next project happens there has been a massive skills drain. Where in Germany for instance their rail infrastructure upgrade projects are completely mapped out for decades ensuring they have a well skilled workforce on hand at all times. The only rail project delivered on time in my rail career was the Ordsall Chord junction in Manchester and that has proved to be a white elephant.

[Lewis]

The Germans have spent ten years too many building an airport that has gone five times over its budget, and their armed forces don't work. Plus they pollute like fuck and all of their car companies are bent, so let's not get too wrapped up with that lot.

[mugbull]

The Brandenburg airport is their new national shame, and it's like a fifth of the cost of this railway.

And as if you give a fuck about pollution

[Lewis]

It's something the Germany are brilliant lobby always forgets, and quite a big deal these days I'm led to believe.

[Lofty]

It's not really the Germany are brilliant lobby more just an example of how the continental rail system works better than the UK one, for a myriad of reasons. Essentially boiling down to 'lol privatisation'

[Lewis]

Private enterprise built the railways, and it was sorting them out after the First World War. It's all been bollocks since the government stepped in.

Anyway, I'm not sure how privatisation/cost-cutting explains large infrastructure projects running away with themselves when it happens across every sector and has been for decades, through the communist years and since. I think half the time they just fuck the initial sums up, whether deliberately to establish a foothold from which to plead sunk costs or just because planning the finance for something ten years away is ridiculous by definition. The Olympics for example went four times over budget, which sounds bad, but could it ever really have been done on anything like its initial budget? I think the last significant national project we did on time and on budget were the Resolution class submarines, which a bit of a crash programme and essential, so the cost was the cost and that was it.

[hfswjyr]

Privatisation, cost cutting etc.

I had to study if for a course on Rail Operations Management (lol) and essentially the problem in the UK is that every so often a big project is green lit, but when it finishes the specialists needed are allowed to retire or drift off elsewhere and there is such a gap that when the next project happens there has been a massive skills drain. Where in Germany for instance their rail infrastructure upgrade projects are completely mapped out for decades ensuring they have a well skilled workforce on hand at all times. The only rail project delivered on time in my rail career was the Ordsall Chord junction in Manchester and that has proved to be a white elephant.
For what it's worth, it was exactly the same with the UK water industry when I worked there a few years back. I think the general public would be shocked at how many assets/processes are broken down and there is no investment to fix them - all the while the owners are paying huge dividends to overseas pension fund owners.
And then everyone is shocked when untreated waste spills into the rivers, OFWAT issues another record breaking fine, further reducing investment. And so it goes on.

[Queenslander]

You get coal mine... you get a coal mine... etc



https://i.ibb.co/NpT0w0D/FB-IMG-1603171518878.jpg (https://ibb.co/k0mLYLb)

[Queenslander]

Sun Cable plans to build the world's largest solar farm on Newcastle Waters Station in the NT

By 2027, the project could supply 20 per cent of Singapore's power supply

The NT's Environment Protection Authority is calling for public comments on the 12,000-hectare solar farm proposal

The seething that good dusty dead country is going to benifit Singapore. :drool:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2020-10-20/newcastle-waters-station-nt-set-for-worlds-biggest-solar-farm/12785256?utm_medium=social&utm_content=sf239020348&utm_campaign=fb_abc_news&utm_source=m.facebook.com&sf239020348=1

[phonics]

What do you think it is that causes Police officers to feel they need to justify every awful thing they do instead of taking a slight moment of self reflection?

1318958805879820288

It's the same psychosis that makes them want to be Police in the first place right?

[Shindig]

At 3 months, she's probably not showing.

[randomlegend]

At 3 months, she's probably not showing.

She looks like a right lump so almost certainly not.

phonics
Perhaps she should have been thinking about her baby when she decided to try to get in a fight with a police officer.

[phonics]

"She got what was coming to her"

Very cool line of thought from a doctor.

[Alex]

He's not really saying she got "what was coming to her", is he? Nobody is out here thinking people deserve to miscarry their unborn children phonics. There are consequences to your actions though.


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

Does that look like a particularly easy situation to manage to you?

After already being separated from the partner you were scrapping with, probably don't then wade back into the situation by following the copper who just split you up down the road (shoving somebody out of the way who tries to stop you in the process) and throw a punch at him. All whilst three months pregnant.

[Lewis]

I was big manning it at work the other day saying I could shrug a taser off, but seeing that I don't know.

[phonics]

No it looks like it sucks and is a level of responsibility I wouldn’t take on. I’m also not allowed to go round tasing people for that reason.

[Pepe]

When I was working in a restaurant, a customer left his taser on his chair once (must have dropped from his pants). I chased him down and returned it, but maybe I should have kept it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Should have used it on him before returning it.

[Pepe]

That would be mean.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Well it's better than using it on him and keeping it.

[Don]

Lol at any twitter maggot seeing that headline and taking the ACAB line until the video emerges and it turns out it's pond life and we're all better off if it leads to a miscarriage.

[phonics]

Says the midget with a man bun.

[phonics]

1318998199818964993

Would be a really nice way to round out 2020 with the Moon falling out of orbit and crashing into the Earth.

[Don]

Hun, are you ok?

[phonics]

You'd be best to judge after flouncing off in a huff for years because people made fun of your user name.

[Shindig]

Flying observatory that made new discovery is able to ‘pick up phenomenon impossible to see with visible light’, space agency notes

So .... it's not the Clangers?

[Disco]

https://i.imgur.com/q4jkmBn.jpg

[Don]

You'd be best to judge after flouncing off in a huff for years because people made fun of your user name.

What? :happycry:

[phonics]

:happycry:

Add a man bun onto that and yeah, that’s pretty much what it looked like.

[Don]

Fam, this isn't twitter, check yourself.

[phonics]

Fam, you’re from Milton Keynes not London, check yourself.

Edit: those in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones I know but it was too open.

[Don]

This has been an awful waste of our time and you've made me long for my Giggles interactions for at least they were coherent and quenched my thirst for conflict.

[phonics]

1319020554217787393

lol

[Spikey M]

Taz trying to pretend he didn't strop off like a little bitch, Phonics trying to pick people off for pretending to be people they aren't (it would be more fun if you hadn't already owned it)

The Glass Jaw, Glass House, El Twatico is going to penalties.

[Don]

Calling me a little bitch :drool:

[Shindig]

His lass lets him on the internet.

[Don]

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/AnguishedBruisedIaerismetalmark-size_restricted.gif

[John Arne]

More than 100 dead, and thousands homeless after severe flooding in central Vietnam

https://gyazo.com/22799eda566ded648ed826e529b9a53f.jpeg

[Ian]

I know it's not the matter at hand here but what the fuck is that road sign in the bottom left picture? I do hope it's a warning about TIE Fighters.

[randomlegend]

I know it's not the matter at hand here but what the fuck is that road sign in the bottom left picture? I do hope it's a warning about TIE Fighters.

Is that not also in use in the UK? I'm sure I've seen it here.

EDIT: Google says no.

[Giggles]

7 ton per axle limit?

[randomlegend]

https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/images/d/d0/Axle_Weight_Limit_Sign_Coventry_-_Coppermine_-_14896.JPG

Giggles is correct, and they do exist in the UK (above is in Coventry apparently).

[Ian]

Huh, well I've managed to never notice those.

[randomlegend]

Huh, well I've managed to never notice those.

They aren't in the government road sign guide thing so I think they are obsolete.

[John Arne]

Yup, I would guess it's what RL pointed out - max weight limit on a bridge.

[Spikey M]

Cholera20. :happycry:

[Queenslander]

Queensland Liberal National Party rounding up Aboriginal kids after dark as an election promise does not surprise.


Queensland police would be given powers to round up teenagers found out at night and detain them at “community refuges” under a curfew proposal from the LNP.

Opposition Leader Deb Frecklington will roll out a six-month curfew trial for young people in Townsville and Cairns if she is elected Premier.

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/lnp-non-committal-on-controversial-youth-curfew-extending-to-south-east-20201022-p567r1.htmlhttps://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/lnp-non-committal-on-controversial-youth-curfew-extending-to-south-east-20201022-p567r1.html

[Jimmy Floyd]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-54611965

Quite aside from how this story has somehow turned into a whingeing unions making a mountain out of a molehill vs whingeing cost-cutting bosses debate (like everything that happens on rail transport in the UK), this line at the end is pathetic:


A Banksy spokesperson said they had no comment to add.

[Queenslander]

Old mate catches a massive bull shark then goes on to pat it in knee high water.


https://www.facebook.com/131855023499821/posts/3842504679101485/?sfnsn=mo

[Jimmy Floyd]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-54682565

This sounds legit from our friends in the Gulf. Find an apparently abandoned baby in an airport, what do you do? Obvious first response - pull a load of young women off a plane, take their pants down and inspect their vaginas.

[Shindig]

Moon thing! (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54666328)

Okay, that is actually worth the BIG HYPE NASA gave it.

[Yevrah]

Nice use of offensive in that article. It's not offensive you dafty, it's sexual assault.

[Lewis]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000nwrq

'Due to the unique way the BBC is funded...'

[Lewis]

That was a bit weird, and you would have said that the lad who created it seems like the biggest gimp that has ever lived were it not for the various melts popping up and discussing it all like it was a serious social phenomenon. What was that 'Rare Pepes' interlude about? How does that work?

[John Arne]

Today I learnt that my uncle is the very recently deceased Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri. Either that, he he strikes a startling resemblance to him.

[niko_cee]

What was that 'Rare Pepes' interlude about? How does that work?

Yeah, that was just plain weird.

[Ian]

Moon thing! (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54666328)

Okay, that is actually worth the BIG HYPE NASA gave it.

Re: the "moon base" stuff, do we actually gain anything from having a moon base or do humans just hate seeing a natural resource going unexploited?

[Spikey M]

Re: the "moon base" stuff, do we actually gain anything from having a moon base or do humans just hate seeing a natural resource going unexploited?

Is it not just that it would be cool and it's cool to do things that are cool?

[Ian]

Maybe they could open a club up there.

[Shindig]

A moon base would most likely be scientific in nature. Pity Elon Musk will get there first and ruin it.

[Spikey M]

More like Moon Bass amirite?

[Ian]

There aren't fish up there, stupid.

EDIT: Out the way, Jimmy.

[Jimmy Floyd]

They were talking about the Moon base being the base camp for a Mars mission.

[Spikey M]

They just found water, idiot.

[Ian]

Yeah but it'll be too cheesy from all the moon cheese. Fish can't live in that.

[Spikey M]

If they can live in the Thames, they can live in the Sea of Tranquility.

[Ian]

Alright, you win this round Attenborough.

[Raoul Duke]

The Moon would be a useful leap-off point for further exploration - lower gravity/thinner atmosphere means it's much easier to launch from there, plus it's close enough to resupply.

[mo]

Woolworths is coming back to the highstreet, apparently. https://metro.co.uk/2020/10/27/woolworths-set-to-return-to-the-high-street-next-year-13486187/

Sure to be crap. It'll never live up to people's rose-tinted memories. Plus the pick'n'mix was extortionate.

[Yevrah]

Woolworths is like Serie A being broadcast on terrestrial tv. Everyone says they love it, but no bugger will actually bother.

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-54701239

Jurassic Park :drool:

[Ian]

I believe that Woolworths story has been confirmed to be a hoax.

Because apparently we've hit that level of lockdown boredom.

[Kikó]

We are fucked - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/oct/27/sleeping-giant-arctic-methane-deposits-starting-to-release-scientists-find?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

[Spikey M]

Nah we're fine, our climate is nice and moderate. There's Billions that absolutely are fucked, but they're all the poverty cases we already resent for trying to come over so it's nothing a bit of racism won't sort.

[Kikó]

The planet is interconnected and not just about whether you can sit in your garden in September.

[Giggles]

My new tax senses are tingling.

[Spikey M]

I fear you missed the heavy dose of sarcasm that post was intended to carry.

Edit: out the way Tin Foil bonce.

[Kikó]

Apologies spikes.

[Ian]

I love that a post ending "it's nothing a bit of racism won't sort" was responded to seriously. :D

I think you may be sending out the wrong image, Spikey.

[Lewis]

It's the logical end-point of how we already live our lives. If we were willing to give up the majority of our comforts for the benefit of people without them we already would be doing.

[Manc]

The planet is interconnected and not just about whether you can sit in your garden in September.

May I ask what personal steps you have taken to help the planet?

[Lewis]

Lee and Benny have given up meat, and GS gone fully vegan. And you mate? :humb:

[Giggles]

I always thought GS would end up a huge fan of sausage.

[phonics]

One last heel turn for Mr. Chorizo.

[Don]

Embrace climate change and the destruction it will cause. One needn't spill a tear for mother nature and planet Earth, they will adapt and do just fine. And without that, all you're left with is man unable to let go of his ego.

I'll add some rhyming words to the above or break it up into a Rupi Kaur style structure before I publish it.

[Kikó]

May I ask what personal steps you have taken to help the planet?

What relevance would the answer be?

[Boydy]

https://i.redd.it/whnuvoh4od031.jpg

[Spikey M]

Embrace climate change and the destruction it will cause. One needn't spill a tear for mother nature and planet Earth, they will adapt and do just fine. And without that, all you're left with is man unable to let go of his ego.

I'll add some rhyming words to the above or break it up into a Rupi Kaur style structure before I publish it.

Sadly George Carlin pipped you to the post on this by about 30 years.

[Giggles]

What relevance would the answer be?

Showing you’re not full of hot air about it for a start.

Don’t your get about 12 flights a week?

[Kikó]

It's just methane.

[Lewis]

shit meme

In the context of the third world getting screwed by climate change 'Daws' is in the castle moaning that that labourer should have been there an hour ago and can forget about a tip.

[Kikó]

It won't be just the "third world".

[Pepe]

Indeed. My beachfront properties might be slightly affected.

[Lewis]

It will be. The rich West could adapt easily enough if we absolutely had to.

[John Arne]

Here's something I learnt. Third World to Yanks basically means countries not their mates and not Commie countries - It's a kinda political term for everyone else. To me it always countries that are bascially mega poor and have no food or Playstations.

[Kikó]

Eco-systems collapsing i.e. our food sources not being available will affect the rich as well as the poor. Unless you think stifling heat and extreme weather events are purely a poor problem.

[Spikey M]

Third world in this respect would be countries that already endure famine, flooding, drought, forest fires. Even with money, I'm not sure how the likes of Australia are hoping to deal with it. The gaff is already on fire for 3 months of the year.

Plus, as Keeks says, it's going to shaft eco systems. The seas are already emptying, reefs dying off and forests are pretty much all plantations now.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Third World is a Cold War era term, the Second World being the communists and the First World (and their problems) being the West.

It got replaced by the time I was at school with 'developing countries', not sure what the current terminology is. SOAS used to like 'the global south' in my degree but that's SOAS for you.

[Lewis]

I believe 'shithole countries' has made a comeback. All the food problems, temperatures, sea levels etc. can be got around with the sort of pissing about and lifestyle changes that people aren't currently willing to make. Australia, well. Stolen land. You shouldn't be there anyway.

[Disco]

We could resurrect TPLACs with appropriate adaptations for other regions.

[Queenslander]

Nice one Perth.


Basil Zempilas, who was elected to office earlier this month, told listeners of the breakfast show he co-hosts on 6PR it was "wrong" for someone to identify as a different gender to their physical anatomy.

"If you've got a penis mate, you're a bloke," he said yesterday morning.

"If you've got a vagina, you're a woman. Game over."

Mr Zempilas then laughed off a suggestion by co-host Steve Mills that he would likely come into contact with transgender people in his role as Lord Mayor.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-28/trangender-advocates-criticise-new-perth-lord-mayor-comments/12823952

[Lewis]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54747089

Ironically this would have been avoided had they been a bit more prejudice themselves and said we're not putting someone who looks like that on the telly.

[Don]

That's some backtracking to go from a reasoned explanation of the tattoo that they've clearly asked the poor guy about to 'we are investigating'. Bowing to the maggots.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I watched the first episode and it was alright other than Lee Mack. He seemed to have a voice over one liner for everything a contestant said.

It was extremely irritating.

[Boydy]

That's some backtracking to go from a reasoned explanation of the tattoo that they've clearly asked the poor guy about to 'we are investigating'. Bowing to the maggots.

What they haven't included in that article is the fact that one news outlet found his dad and he's still alive.

[Don]

Fucking BBC.

[Disco]

They could at least post a picture of him so we can decide how idiotic they're being.

[phonics]

https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/the-chop-contestant-darren-1603210283.jpg

[Queenslander]

Strong beard.

[Spikey M]

He is a beautiful racist bastard.

[Disco]

That's not exactly clear, is there a picture of Goebbels on the back of his head or something?

[Baz]

That's not exactly clear, is there a picture of Goebbels on the back of his head or something?Lots of numeric tattoos are known white supremacist things. I thought it was a bit of a stretch at first but he’s enough of the “well-known” ones that it’s definitely the case with him. Eg 88=HH=Heil Hitler, also Homegrown across his top lip.

Someone called Dawn Foster on Twitter @DawnHFoster did a lot of research into it, but it’s so lost in a load of anti-Tory gumph that I cba linking, soz.

[Giggles]

Some stretch. You could turn any number into whatever you wanted.

[Baz]

That's exactly what they (you know, nazis) have done, really.

[mo]

twitter.com/alexvtunzelmann/status/1318893472238178304

Bit of explanation about the tattoos.

Anyone who tattoos their face like that is clearly a wrong un anyway.

[randomlegend]

88 = Heil Hitler is EXTREMELY well known. I can't imagine any tattoo artist would put it on someone's face without making them aware of how it would be interpreted.

[randomlegend]

twitter.com/alexvtunzelmann/status/1318893472238178304

Bit of explanation about the tattoos.

Anyone who tattoos their face like that is clearly a wrong un anyway.

This says "page not found" for me.

[Giggles]

This says "page not found" for me.

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[Don]

88 = Heil Hitler is EXTREMELY well known. I can't imagine any tattoo artist would put it on someone's face without making them aware of how it would be interpreted.

EXTREMELY :D Fam, we don't all roll in prison yard circles.

[Giggles]

1019 Jimmy Saville.

[Max Power]

Everyone’s favourite fascist Gianluigi Buffon used to wear 88 at Parma didn’t he? Before people started asking questions.

[Don]

"I have chosen 88 because it reminds me of four balls and in Italy we all know what it means to have balls: strength and determination," he said. "And this season I will have to have balls to get back my place in the Italy team."

The plot, though, thickens. "At first I didn't choose 88," he explained. "I wanted 00 but the league told me that was impossible. I also considered 01 but that was not considered a proper number. I liked 01 because it was the number on the General Lee car in the TV series the Dukes of Hazzard."

:D

[randomlegend]

EXTREMELY :D Fam, we don't all roll in prison yard circles.

Just Google "88". It's not some underground secret.

[Disco]

Maybe in the baby folding fraternity, I don't think I'd ever have made that connection.

[randomlegend]

You lads clearly have a Louis Theroux deficiency. Get on some Miami Mega Jail.

[Kikó]

Maybe in the baby folding fraternity, I don't think I'd ever have made that connection.

:D

[Pepe]

88 = Heil Hitler is EXTREMELY well known. I can't imagine any tattoo artist would put it on someone's face without making them aware of how it would be interpreted.

'The lads at Reddit...'

[Queenslander]

State Election tonight and my seat flipped Green knocking out the former Deputy Labor Leader in the mean time.

The middle and upper middle class white women seething will sustain me for years to come.

[Shindig]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-54760265

I was hoping one of them would be R-One but nevermind.

[Manc]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/02/russias-sausage-king-killed-in-moscow-after-crossbow-attack-vladimir-marugov

Sounds like the plot for a Fargo sequel.

[Giggles]

Shit appears to be going down in Vienna.

[Queenslander]

Jesus fucking Christ!


Hospital patient, 20, is 'gang-raped by a doctor and medical staff before being murdered' in latest horrifying sex attack in India

https://trib.al/YBXdnyz

[Spikey M]

It's a strong field, but I think India might be the worst country in the world.

[Queenslander]

It's a strong field, but I think India might be the worst country in the world.

I would hate to see who challenges India for the title.

[Spikey M]

I would hate to see who challenges India for the title.

I would say China, but there's probably some South American and African dictatorships that are good value.

[Queenslander]

Whoops forgot about China. Actually probably everywhere and we can call it a tie.

[randomlegend]

The Mexican cartels have got to put their country in with an outside chance.

[Queenslander]

3 way tie atm.

[Ian]

It's clearly India for having produced hideous soft drink Thums Up.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Nigeria has a strong claim to the title, if only for the output of its film industry.

[Disco]

Are we not ignoring the obvious places like North Korea or Syria?

[mugbull]

NK is probably better than some as long as you don’t have much of a personality. I’d go with Liberia or South Sudan

[Offshore Toon]

It's clearly India for having produced hideous soft drink Thums Up.
How is it hideous? I've had a few as a corner shop in Brighton sold it and the guy who worked there was passionate about it being India's number one cola drink. It was alright.

[Offshore Toon]

The Arab countries are all in with a good shout for worst country. Probably Saudi Arabia as the worst.

[Ian]

How is it hideous? I've had a few as a corner shop in Brighton sold it and the guy who worked there was passionate about it being India's number one cola drink. It was alright.

Maybe they've changed it since I had much of it, other than a can my mate got me when we were discussing it we're talking the better part of 15 years since I had it when I was in India and had it a bunch of times but regardless of how refrigerated it was it always seemed a bit more viscous and sickly even compared to other sugary, fizzy caffeine-y things. Definitely used to have a slightly weird odour as well because I remember being in a restaurant or something there, my dad had ordered me a Coke and we could both tell without even tasting it that it was a glass of Thums Up rather than the usual Coke or Pepsi. "Odorous" isn't a quality I was looking for in a soft drink.

[Offshore Toon]

Maybe they've changed it since I had much of it, other than a can my mate got me when we were discussing it we're talking the better part of 15 years since I had it when I was in India and had it a bunch of times but regardless of how refrigerated it was it always seemed a bit more viscous and sickly even compared to other sugary, fizzy caffeine-y things. Definitely used to have a slightly weird odour as well because I remember being in a restaurant or something there, my dad had ordered me a Coke and we could both tell without even tasting it that it was a glass of Thums Up rather than the usual Coke or Pepsi. "Odorous" isn't a quality I was looking for in a soft drink.
I had it probably around 2018 and it just tasted like Coca Cola. Over the years they've probably just slowly turned it from the original recipe into the Coca Cola one.

[Ian]

Probably. I don't blame them.

[Lewis]

Pakistan is the worst country in the world.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's not even the worst country out of any of the ones it borders.

[Lewis]

It might be more accurate to say that Pashtuns are the worst people in the world, since they cause all the problems in Pakistan and elsewhere.

[Shindig]

I give North Korea a pass because it was genuinely blown to bits and no amount of Russian buildings will spring any recovery. It might as well be an open air museum.

[Ian]

https://metro.co.uk/2020/11/05/naked-attraction-star-walks-off-set-after-being-overwhelmed-by-vaginas-13541229/

Happy Friday, lads. Turns out this is the headline I needed to start my day properly.

[Don]

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/nov/10/john-boyega-worries-blm-rally-speech-in-june-will-harm-career

:happycry:

[Lewis]

You can't even say 'blacklisted' anymore.

[Queenslander]

Not a chance he gets cancelled.

[Spikey M]

It will help his career and that will be 90% of why he did it.

[Queenslander]

More Christian values from the Queensland Liberal National Party.



A Brisbane City councillor said she was told to catch a cab to work after having a planned caesarean-section (c-section) birth early next year in response to her request to attend meetings online.


'It doesn't make us special'

An LNP councillor, Fiona Cunningham, is also expecting a baby in the new year, but said she "didn't share" Cr Cook's concerns and is opting to take leave after giving birth.

"I'm also having a caesarean — it doesn't make us special — thousands of women do this every day," Cr Cunningham said.

"Hybrid meetings would not work for me … I'm taking that time to spend with my baby."

Cr Cunningham said Cr Cook was not being "locked out" of any political process.

"She can listen in, she also has other colleagues in the chamber who can represent her views and who can represent her constituents," she said.

"This is not locking her out … and it's ridiculous to say that it is."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-11/pregnant-brisbane-city-councillor-denied-remote-working/12870466

[Queenslander]

Great news. This has been the worst kept secret for quite a while.



The government will appoint a special investigator to probe allegations of war crimes by Australian special forces in Afghanistan and prosecute any criminal misconduct, following a four-year inquiry into possible breaches of law between 2005 and 2016.


https://www.sbs.com.au/news/special-investigator-to-prosecute-alleged-war-crimes-by-australian-soldiers-in-afghanistan

[Ian]

Meanwhile over the government are/were trying to push through a law which would make it as difficult as possible to prosecute British soldiers for torturing people and whatnot.

[Queenslander]

The Federal Police actually raided the ABC and the Herald in Melbourne trying to supress the story but I guess there is that much there that Peter Dutton and his fellow facist goons cant get their way this time.

I can only assume they will be sending more brown people to our prison islands to blow off some steam.

[Queenslander]

We're up to 50 war crimes so far.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-16/soldier-war-crimes-inquiry-to-shock-and-disturb-australians/12886460?utm_medium=social&utm_content=sf240012598&utm_campaign=fb_abc_news&utm_source=m.facebook.com&sf240012598=1

[Lewis]

'Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!'

[Queenslander]

:D

[Queenslander]

Grim.




The Chief of the Australian Defence Force Angus Campbell has offered a "sincere and unreserved" apology to the Afghan people after a long-awaited report into the conduct of Australian Special Forces soldiers found "credible information" of unlawful killings by some soldiers.

The Brereton report into alleged war crimes was released publicly on Thursday, disclosing allegations of 39 unlawful killings and two allegations of cruelty involving 25 current of former Defence Force personnel in 23 separate incidents.

The report says none of the alleged crimes were "committed during the heat of the battle".


https://www.sbs.com.au/news/defence-force-chief-apologises-to-the-afghan-people-after-report-details-unlawful-killings

[Manc]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/19/pope-francis-instagram-like-brazil-model-natalia-garibotto

Sly dog.

[Queenslander]

China. :cool:



China's foreign ministry plans to target Australia's human rights record on Indigenous affairs and aged care as it ramps up its dispute with the Morrison government.

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/asia/why-keep-silent-china-to-target-australia-s-human-rights-record-20201119-p56g3e.html

[Lofty]

https://i.imgur.com/YZMZS1W.jpg

Non work safe link: https://twitter.com/Sam_Edwards81/status/1329393976324009985


Not work safe horrific 'after' pic:
https://mobile.twitter.com/alba201290/status/1329528503000293378/photo/1

[Ian]

Well I'm not gonna be clicking on them.

[Disco]

It's not that bad, like someone inflated it a bit then coloured it in with a marker pen.

[Baz]

That’s... th- I don’t even... fucking hell what

[Don]

Uncut penises :sick:

[Spikey M]

If my cock looked like that I don't think I'd be worrying about football training.

I'm not buying they way he said it happened either. I reckon he'd been doing some DIY Hammer style bandage and took it too far. He's Steven Gatelyed his dick.

[randomlegend]

Uncut penises :sick:

Mutilating infants' genitals :sick:

On a lighter note, if you get an intractable erection they sometimes have to stick a needle in it and draw the blood out to get it down. Important you all know that I feel.

[Spikey M]

Intractable erection needs further explanation and I'm not Googling it.

[Raoul Duke]

Great band - preferred their earlier albums though

[randomlegend]

There are conditions (sickle cell anaemia, spinal cord injury, perineal injury, multiple myeloma, etc.) which can cause you to get an erection which doesn't resolve for many hours. It's called priapism.

If untreated, the penis can become ischaemic and eventually gangrenous (i.e. it dies).

[Spikey M]

Well that's tonight's nightmare sorted anyway.

[randomlegend]

Well that's tonight's nightmare sorted anyway.

Google fourniers gangrene if you want some actual nightmare fuel.

[Queenslander]

Ill be sending that to my brother today cheers.

[Shindig]

Is fistula in anus as hilarious as it sounds?

[Baz]

Mutilating infants' genitals :sick:True dat.

Got mine done when I was 21 and never looked back. 10/10 Would recommend.

[Manc]

U fucking wot?

[Kikó]

Ill be sending that to my brother today cheers.

:D

[Giggles]

School basically informs students and parents that the staff are nonces :cab:



Female students at Presentation College Carlow were asked not to wear leggings or tight bottoms, as it is distracting for staff.

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[SvN]

He said that no remarks were made by teachers about feeling uncomfortable with the sight of girls in tight clothes and that comments claiming that on social media are “scandalous” and “damaging to staff”.

“I feel for our staff here who have taken the brunt of unsubstantiated rumour and slanderous stuff on social media. It’s a disgrace.

https://www.thejournal.ie/presentation-college-carlow-ray-murray-gym-gear-5278098-Nov2020/

[Giggles]

https://www.thejournal.ie/presentation-college-carlow-ray-murray-gym-gear-5278098-Nov2020/

Someone put it out there from the school and hung the male teachers out to dry.

[Queenslander]

That comment section is insane.

[Giggles]

The Journal comment section is folklore at this stage. Absolute cesspit.

[Queenslander]

More War?


A source briefed on the matter said the UAE had temporarily stopped issuing new visas to Afghans, Pakistanis, and citizens of several other countries over security concerns.

https://i.ibb.co/hYxkdwr/FB-IMG-1606348550541.jpg (https://ibb.co/tLwS2Fn)

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/11/25/uae-halts-new-visas-to-citizens-of-13-mostly-muslim-states

[phonics]

I know it's easy to mock twitter for being 'outraged' about something stupid but at this point the media is just inventing it.

I saw this article and clicked because I had to understand what the issue was.

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Then I get through it and I see the central plank of the article is a tweet with no replies, 27 retweets and 100 likes. That's not sparking outrage, it's barely a conversation.

Where's the article about the outrage sparked by my tweet that's just a picture of Tom Cruises ass in the movie Valkyrie if this is the standard?
https://i.imgur.com/4N5xQJl.png

[Giggles]

The world gets more pathetic by the day.


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[Lewis]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55115661

Couldn't they have just picked some random mong for a better kick-off than that?

[phonics]

It constantly amazes me how bad the people who are paid to kick a ball 3 times a game are at kicking a ball.

[niko_cee]

I'm not familiar with the oeuvre of the division/standard of that, but presumably that was intended as some sort of bobble kick rather than being a really shit attempt at a touchback.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Looked a bit Diana Ross to me.

[Spikey M]

That kick could set women's sport back about 50 years. Even I feel like giving Emmeline Pankhurst a slap for starting the movement that allowed that to happen.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It looked intended.

I imagine she either didn't have the leg to kick it deep enough for a touchback and/or the kick returner is dangerous so they didn't want him to advance the ball.

[Lewis]

Is there a particular skill to kicking an American football? Because it looks like the easiest money in sport.

[Giggles]

The main two things I’d imagine are starting the run up before the ball is there and how short a leash you’re on. That said, in a country that size you’d wonder how they can’t find 32 that are close to perfect.

[Jimmy Floyd]

None of their other sports require any long-kicking skill pretty much at all, as far as I can see, so no one would have learned it from birth like we do in countries with football, rugby and gaelic football etc.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

You kick it differently from a regular football (which is also why they'd have told her to do that) and, with field goals at least, there are many stages to it and if one of those stages goes wrong (e.g. even the holder putting it down wrongly) then the kick will fuck up.

[John Arne]

340kg unexploded bomb found in Hanoi.



On Saturday, Ta Nam Chien, chairman of the Vietnamese capital's Ba Dinh District, divulged that the bomb was found at 15 Cua Bac Street in Truc Bach Ward.

“Due to its excessive mass, the bomb will be left to the discretion of the Ministry of National Defense," Chien told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper


Quality passing of the buck.

https://tuoitrenews.vn/news/society/20201129/massive-unexploded-bomb-uncovered-in-downtown-hanoi/58018.html

[Queenslander]

Do they know who put it there?

[John Arne]

Do they know who put it there?

https://gyazo.com/e831ea4031cae644164834208d74910f.jpeg

[Queenslander]

God damn Seppos

[Queenslander]

RIP Fraser Island :(



Fraser Island bushfire burning on two fronts as Kingfisher Bay Resort guests told to leave and weather conditions worsen


https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-30/kingfisher-bay-resort-residents-told-to-get-out-fraser-island/12933406

https://i.ibb.co/RQkGXPd/FB-IMG-1606729988991.jpg (https://ibb.co/5sgXQvw)

[Lofty]

Debenhams finally going under now it seems.

[Lewis]

Philip Green could be solely responsible for bringing physiognomy back into the mainstream. If you didn't know who he was his appearance would tell you everything.

[Don]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55147975

There's enough there to keep us warm till spring :happycry:

I'm going to write in to BBC about their LGBT correspondent not being an LGBTQ+ correspondent.

[Lewis]

How can they be 'queer' if they're now a man married to a woman?

[Lewis]

Also they're five foot one. Transmanlet.