News of the day

[Spikey M]

What does Queer bring to the table that wasn’t covered by Lesbian, gay or bi? I mean, even Lesbian isn't really needed. Why not just Gay and bisexual? Simplicity people. Come on.

[Spikey M]

Also, the 'sexuality and gender are not related' drum has been well beaten, so why is the T in there?

This is a fucking mess. Out of the way Gok Wan, I'll sort this out.

[Jimmy Floyd]

LGBT etc will go to the wolves along with BAME quite soon. I don't know why all deviants have to band together.

[phonics]

Also, the 'sexuality and gender are not related' drum has been well beaten, so why is the T in there?

This is a fucking mess. Out of the way Gok Wan, I'll sort this out.

Are we really having a go at people being inclusive of people who total less than 1% of the population over pedantry?

The reason why people use LGBTQ is because if you just talked about one of them people would give even less of a shit about their day to day issues than they already do.

[Lewis]

It's on the gays really. Somebody should have stepped in and stopped the freaks turning up to pride parades in latex dog outfits, but they didn't, and now women have been abolished.

[phonics]

LGBT etc will go to the wolves along with BAME quite soon. I don't know why all deviants have to band together.

One of my first tasks at my job was livestreaming a press conference where a paikistani transgender woman frequented at a bar (not brothel) where 'deviants' as you say might hang out. They were rounded up by police, gangraped by police in prison and then had their head shaved.

There are a billion stories better, worse or somewhere inbetween across the planet. That's why they band together.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm not really into any of this stuff at all, but from my limited observations, a lot of Ls Gs and Bs seem to harbour quite a lot of mostly unspoken resentment towards Ts, and vice versa - I'm not sure why, really. Perhaps it's because Ls Gs and Bs feel that their still very shaky conversation with the mainstream has been drowned out by the very very loud T-related arguments, while Ts no doubt feel resentful that Ls Gs and Bs (mainly Ls and Gs) have been acknowledged by the mainstream in a way that they haven't been.

It's not a sustainable discourse because the two are very different things indeed. I guess the reason they are lumped together is that most straight people don't understand any of it so it's convenient to drape it all under the rainbow and trot out some platitudes a couple of times a year.

[Jimmy Floyd]

One of my first tasks at my job was livestreaming a press conference where a paikistani transgender woman frequented at a bar (not brothel) where 'deviants' as you say might hang out. They were rounded up by police, gangraped by police in prison and then had their head shaved.

There are a billion stories better, worse or somewhere inbetween across the planet. That's why they band together.

I can see that but in the west as it all inches very slowly (like an arctic glacier) towards the open, I'm pretty sure it will fragment.

[phonics]

I'm not really into any of this stuff at all, but from my limited observations, a lot of Ls Gs and Bs seem to harbour quite a lot of mostly unspoken resentment towards Ts, and vice versa - I'm not sure why, really. Perhaps it's because Ls Gs and Bs feel that their still very shaky conversation with the mainstream has been drowned out by the very very loud T-related arguments, while Ts no doubt feel resentful that Ls Gs and Bs (mainly Ls and Gs) have been acknowledged by the mainstream in a way that they haven't been.

It's not a sustainable discourse because the two are very different things indeed. I guess the reason they are lumped together is that most straight people don't understand any of it so it's convenient to drape it all under the rainbow and trot out some platitudes a couple of times a year.

I think judging the movement from that sort of birdseye view does make modern discourse seem very dumb but you and I grew up in a world where Eddie Izzard's sexuality was wild. That it's even happening at all in a mainstream contest is a massive progression. Chemical castration to bitching about him/her in 50 years is a great thing.

[phonics]

I guess the reason they are lumped together is that most straight people don't understand any of it so it's convenient to drape it all under the rainbow and trot out some platitudes a couple of times a year.

I forgot to mention that this is completely correct.

[Lewis]

It's because one invalidates the other. If I throw some heels on and call myself Louise, but none of my fellow lesbians are interested in my balls, who is and isn't what they claim to be?

[Jimmy Floyd]

I think judging the movement from that sort of birdseye view does make modern discourse seem very dumb but you and I grew up in a world where Eddie Izzard's sexuality was wild. That it's even happening at all in a mainstream contest is a massive progression. Chemical castration to bitching about him/her in 50 years is a great thing.

I guess, and I'm definitely a little bitter than I'm not even eight or ten years younger than I am.

[phonics]

It's because one invalidates the other. If I throw some heels on and call myself Louise, but none of my fellow lesbians are interested in my balls, who is and isn't what they claim to be?

Who cares what they claim to be or not be? is the better question in that scenario.

[phonics]

I guess, and I'm definitely a little bitter than I'm not even eight or ten years younger than I am.

Jim, as someone who has to pretend I'm down with the kids. I'm not sure the TikTok generation would be your era.

[Jimmy Floyd]

A conventional lezzer wouldn't have to be into a woman with balls any more or less than they would have to be into a woman who likes Spandau Ballet, or competitive yachting, or Jarlsberg.

[Lewis]

In which case their supposed sexual preference is actually just an aesthetic preference, and they're not actually lesbians, they just like long hair and small hands.

[Baz]

I’m in.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Jim, as someone who has to pretend I'm down with the kids. I'm not sure the TikTok generation would be your era.

No but those people weren't around in 1995 to have the belief very firmly put in one's head from a young age that being gay was not something that one wanted to be.

[Spoonsky]

In which case their supposed sexual preference is actually just an aesthetic preference, and they're not actually lesbians, they just like long hair and small hands.

Liking girls =/= liking all girls

[Spikey M]

Are we really having a go at people being inclusive of people who total less than 1% of the population over pedantry?

The reason why people use LGBTQ is because if you just talked about one of them people would give even less of a shit about their day to day issues than they already do.

We've already done the inclusive thing by including 'other' as a gender option and mx as a title. Not that there isn't a long way to go, obviously. It's not pedantic to wonder why a gender is listed alongside sexualities if gender and sexuality are unrelated. Why don't we just chuck Vegans, the depressed and the disabled in there if we jut want to ring fence anyone that falls outside of Bamsters comfort bubble.

[Spikey M]

It's not a sustainable discourse because the two are very different things indeed. I guess the reason they are lumped together is that most straight people don't understand any of it so it's convenient to drape it all under the rainbow and trot out some platitudes a couple of times a year.

That probably is it, but it's all the more reason to fight it. All LGBTQ+ does is give Laurence Fox a catch all term for anything he doesn't like. He must think Immigrants are in there somewhere.

[mugbull]

This is straight out of a Dave Chappelle bit

[Don]

At risk of adding too much tinder:

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/dec/02/the-bame-women-making-the-british-outdoors-more-inclusive

:happycry:

[Spikey M]

:D I'm not reading any further. That title is a belter.

[Yevrah]

Well, I for one am shocked that the countryside is racist. It needs cancelling immediately.

[Don]

You reek of white privelege. Look at her go, taking pictures of herself on a hill with hijab, she's basically MLK reincarnated.

[niko_cee]

Do we still have that lottery thread? (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-55154525)

:drool:

[Lewis]

Liking girls =/= liking all girls

They don't like girls. They merely have a 'type' like everybody else.

[Spikey M]

Do we still have that lottery thread? (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-55154525)

:drool:

I still remember that fucking my head up and Henry being about ready to behead me. (Unless there's been a newer thread, that one was about 13 years ago.)

[Lewis]

At risk of adding too much tinder:

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/dec/02/the-bame-women-making-the-british-outdoors-more-inclusive

:happycry:

Amongst people from ethnic majority backgrounds, the main factors restricting use of the chicken shop included the cost of visiting … and problems linked to transport, a lack of knowledge of the urban environment and a lack of 'cultural habit' of visiting … There was a fear of discrimination, as well as different patterns of use and a lack of culturally appropriate provisions.

[Disco]

Do we still have that lottery thread? (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-55154525)

:drool:

Sweet sweet vindication after all this time.

[Kikó]

20 people winning is so bittersweet.

[Queenslander]

Dolls come in white and white only...





Kmart Australia has launched, ‘Baby Charlie with Down Syndrome’ dolls on their website.

The company reached out to Down Syndrome Australia to ensure the creation process was done respectfully.

Down Syndrome Australia is excited with the launch and says "We are pleased that Kmart has taken steps to widen the diversity in its toy range with a number of new fashion dolls and baby dolls with disabilities."

The new collection also features a doll in a wheelchair and another who is vision impaired.

https://i.ibb.co/mB855bB/FB-IMG-1606986641826.jpg (https://ibb.co/cvLhhkv)

[Spikey M]

:cab:

[Queenslander]

FFS who is this for?

https://www.kmart.com.au/product/baby-charlie-with-down-syndrome---assorted/3294801

[niko_cee]

I like the disability mix pack.

Only 6 bucks as well.

[Queenslander]

:D


Imaging giving one of these dolls to a disabled child? I would feel like a bully.

[Spikey M]

FFS who is this for?

https://www.kmart.com.au/product/baby-charlie-with-down-syndrome---assorted/3294801

I suppose there must be kids out there that want dolls that resemble their younger siblings. Little girls in particular like emulating their mums, but this is the nichest niche that's ever niched.

[Queenslander]

I suppose there must be kids out there that want dolls that resemble their younger siblings. Little girls in particular like emulating their mums, but this is the nichest niche that's ever niched.

Yeah fair enough Im such a cynical bastard.

[Spikey M]

Don't get me wrong, they'll sell about 12 and cynicism is the right response. It's a PR exercise. "How can we get the disabled coin?".

[Queenslander]

Im due to go to Kmart on Saturday so Ill prowl the girls doll isle to see if there is much action.

[Spikey M]

I'm not sure prowl is the best choice of words in that sentence. :D

[Queenslander]

No other way to put it.

[Spikey M]

"The Queensland Prowler was apprehended today. He was observed by Kmart security acting suspiciously down the Girls toy isle and was heard to be shouting "I only want the disabled ones" as he was forced into the back of the Police Car."

[Queenslander]

:lol:

[Disco]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/horse-racing/55166943

Has there been a weaker excuse that was so readily accepted by a sports governing body? I say sport, it's only horse racing which doesn't really qualify.

[Pepe]

Those dolls are like the "anti-racist baby" books. For the crowd that needs to show their allegiance in all circumstances.

[Baz]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/horse-racing/55166943

Has there been a weaker excuse that was so readily accepted by a sports governing body? I say sport, it's only horse racing which doesn't really qualify.It's a crying shame though cos if anyone cos going to "take horse racing to the next level" in terms of popularity it was sure as shit gonna be him.

[Boydy]

What does it matter if a jockey's taking coke anyway? It's not gonna make his horse run faster, is it?

[Disco]

No they have other drugs for that.

[Don]

How tf was a jockey going to take horse racing to the next level? That Italian midget was good cause they could take the mick out of his Italian accent back before ILM. What the fuck did this meathead have to offer?

"If you touch an area repeatedly, you will fail the test..."

:D

[Shindig]

Now I want a sport where the horses exclusively take cocaine. Someone must've studied that.

[Disco]

That exists, it's normal horse racing.

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-55146906

"Sam underwent surgery in 2015, going from 5ft 4ins (162cm) to 5ft 7ins (170cm)"

Imaging going through all that and still being a manlet. :harold:

[Don]

5'7" is average, you gimp.

[Giggles]

Average for a manlet maybe.

[Shindig]

A lad I went to school with had that done. Turns out it just makes your legs brittle. One slide tackle and they're amputated at the knee.

[randomlegend]

5'7" is average, you gimp.

5' 9" is average.

5' 7" is somewhere around 20th centile.

[Spikey M]

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/EE21/production/_90516906_tallest_people_inf624.png

Even by Iranian standards he's pint sized.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

5' 9" is average.

5' 7" is somewhere around 20th centile.

Isn't it 5'10" now?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Why do the Dutch waste their time striving for 'beautiful football'? Get the big lads in the team and play kick and rush and they'd be on at least 3 World Cups by now.

[Ian]

Can you lads leave Taz alone?

Pick on somebody your own size.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55224031

:D

[Spikey M]

I saw that earlier. Having an Italian wife would do that to a man. An American wife would've had him swimming to Malta.

[Jimmy Floyd]

https://twitter.com/BhamCityCouncil/status/1336235080197550081

I thought this sort of shit had died with Tony Blair's credibility.

[Kikó]

Bastards chose not to use Equality Street as well.

[Spikey M]

Equality Road?

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/10/19/article-2050854-0E70972700000578-831_468x457.jpg

[Pepe]

Humanity Close :D

[Disco]

Humanity Close :D

If Perry Barr is anything like I remember then that's a warning rather than a street name.

[Shindig]

Bastards chose not to use Equality Street as well.

Steering clear of a lawsuit.

[Spikey M]

Equality Road?

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/10/19/article-2050854-0E70972700000578-831_468x457.jpg

This picture and my Avatar could be a spot the difference.

[phonics]

This picture and my Avatar could be a spot the difference.

I think you've misunderstood the core concept of spot the difference.

[Don]

Love these headlines:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/dec/11/black-staff-at-lloyds-are-paid-20-less-than-their-peers-bank-reveals

They should do them for the reverse too.

"Black people 588,365% more likely to stab people than white people."

Black paygap :D

[Queenslander]

China is well and truly putting Scummo and the Liberals in their place ATM.


China accuses Australia of breaching free-trade pact by blocking $14b of business deals

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/asia/china-accuses-australia-of-breaching-free-trade-pact-by-blocking-14b-of-business-deals-20201216-p56nwo.html

[Shindig]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55331063

How did you expect that to go, Julie?

[Lewis]

The only way calling Muhammad a nonce is 'not defensible from a moral or intellectual standpoint' is if you refuse to judge historical figures by modern standards, which is basically all of their moral and intellectual standpoints. Well done publishing idiots.

[Baz]

To be fair I’ve read some of the translations, during an argument between others on another forum, and yeah there’s some definite noncing going on from Muhammad in the Quran.

[Spikey M]

As has there been in kebab houses from Derby to Milton Keynes.

[Queenslander]

Most Australian Farmers are scum.



A Victorian woman is facing almost 300 animal cruelty charges after wildlife officers allegedly found the carcasses of 140 protected native birds, including 128 wedge-tailed eagles, at her property.


https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/17/victorian-woman-charged-with-animal-cruelty-after-almost-130-wedge-tailed-eagles-found-dead

[Ian]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55370919

This just seems like another 'lol Americans be suing their family' story but the age of the son really made me smile.

[niko_cee]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55435940

What kind of headcase would you have to be to (a) do this sort of thing (b) think it is anyway a good idea and (c) then take photos of you having done it?

I suppose their chance to go to Nepal (?) to participate in that mass cow beheading thing has probably been scotched by covid and/or it no longer being a thing.

[Lewis]

Spaniards.

[Giggles]

Is there A DEAL?

[niko_cee]

Yes mate, no seed potatoes for you though.

[Giggles]

Is there A DEAL?

Or basically, are Lewis, Jimmy, and Niko happy or not?

[niko_cee]

No one cares. Lewis has expressed muted optimism in the election thread.

[Spikey M]

Nigel Farage has both lamented and taken full credit for the deal on Twitter so take from that what you will.

[Giggles]

If those three don’t like it then it won’t mean Britain sailing the seas locking up the locals again, so I’ll take muted as some positive.

[Spikey M]

I imagine it's the deal the EU wanted with some minor concessions.

[Giggles]

Lots of sweaty cunts on the news standing outside posh buildings saying fuck all.

[niko_cee]

Sounds like they did alright on fish, but then, how do you gauge anything? [And who gives a fuck about fish?] I always hated 'negotiation', just two parties taking idiotically intransigent positions and never shifting, so did France ever think 15 years was a likely 'transition' period? Did the UK think 3 was? Presumably not. They've probably secretly sold 'us' out, which would be quite funny, because all the main users of our fishery (we and the northern french) want Boris, Biscuit and Barnier as far away from doing anything to do with it as possible. We get along alright as it is, thanks.

Anyone who thought that Brexit was about the immediate trading opportunities in the aftermath was sort of missing the point of the whole thing.

[Giggles]

That all reads like I’m happy, and all the non Little Englanders will be pleased enough too.

[phonics]

They’ll find a new culture war soon enough.

[Lewis]

*thirty years of complete and utter anti-conservative cultural supremacy*
'Hang on a minute.'
'THIS DANGEROUS CULTURE WAR BEING STOKED BY THE RIGHT IS...'

[phonics]

I said what I said, go find someone else’s pronoun to get angry at.

[Lewis]

Lewis - correct/corrector

[Spikey M]

This fishing stuff is properly funny. Who the fuck gives a shit? Cross border transaction fees? No problem. Visa's for travel? Absolutely. Health Insurance needed for holidays abroad? Fill your boots. But you want to come over here and and catch our cockles? Fuck off you slags.

[Kikó]

Karen is going to be fuming when she has a £200 phone bill again after visiting Majorca.

[niko_cee]

She won't be able to afford to go.

[Shindig]

Stop in Gibraltar instead, Karen.

[Giggles]

The Gardai have downed a black lad under half an hour away. Just what we all fucking need right now.

[Giggles]

In between burning cars and all, a shower of the cunts attacked the shop that yer man robbed and assaulted staff in :rolleyes: Would be a great crowd to mow a truck into the middle of.

[Giggles]

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[Lewis]

The shooting sounds like it couldn't have been more deserved as well.

[Giggles]

The shooting sounds like it couldn't have been more deserved as well.

100% deserved but these things are never about that.

[Lewis]

Give Ireland back to the Irish
Make Ireland Irish today

:violin:

[Giggles]

There’s still far more of us if they really want a war.

[Giggles]

The shop that had the cheek to be the one he tried to rob.


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[Lewis]

The police were next door enforcing mask rules.

[Giggles]

I know the shop, there’s plenty of room outside it to get a bin lorry or something down.

[niko_cee]

Where are those thieves with the JCB when you need them eh?

[Giggles]

Where are those thieves with the JCB when you need them eh?

Same class of benefit scum.

[Bob Sacamano]

I read this off another forum

From what i have gathered so far, the man shot dead George Nkencho seemed to be an African migrant, he is alleged to have essentially gone on a rampage before being shot dead.. his behaviour leading up to his dead is as follows..

Beat his girlfriend severely, allegedly with a hammer.

Left home, went to a store and beat the gay guy working there, apparently kicking his teeth out.

Slashed some other person across the face with a knife.

Led the police on a chase, whilst holding a machete.

Would not listen to demands to drop his weapon for apparently over an hour.

Got tazed and maced, didn't work.

Lunged at the police, got shot 3 times and died.


Now black activists on Twitter are calling for attacks on white Irish people, and are proclaiming that they will outbreed the whites in Ireland. The police on scene during the shooting have been doxxed and the token negro politicians are kvetching about systemic racism in Ireland.. Roving gangs of African migrants are running around attacking whites in Dublin and Twitter is removing any video showing the whites being attacked.

:face:

[Giggles]

I read this off another forum

From what i have gathered so far, the man shot dead George Nkencho seemed to be an African migrant, he is alleged to have essentially gone on a rampage before being shot dead.. his behaviour leading up to his dead is as follows..

Beat his girlfriend severely, allegedly with a hammer.

Left home, went to a store and beat the gay guy working there, apparently kicking his teeth out.

Slashed some other person across the face with a knife.

Led the police on a chase, whilst holding a machete.

Would not listen to demands to drop his weapon for apparently over an hour.

Got tazed and maced, didn't work.

Lunged at the police, got shot 3 times and died.


Now black activists on Twitter are calling for attacks on white Irish people, and are proclaiming that they will outbreed the whites in Ireland. The police on scene during the shooting have been doxxed and the token negro politicians are kvetching about systemic racism in Ireland.. Roving gangs of African migrants are running around attacking whites in Dublin and Twitter is removing any video showing the whites being attacked.

:face:

Pretty much bang on. The bother also held a rally yesterday where he talked about finding the cop and “ending” and “terminating” him. With the 15 grand they’ve got in the Gofundme already he probably won’t be too hard found.

[Giggles]

Worst of all in it has been the media and the politicians who are either left mentalists or afraid of their shite to get tarred as a racist. This was bad enough as she’s a former TD, though from an extremely left party.

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This is even worse as she’s the current minister for justice. Nothing to say on any of it except below. When RTÉ reported on it on the national news they mentioned peaceful protests and interviewed some bint that said George (who had just beaten a shop worker to hospital and has previous for beating his Mrs with a hammer) “wouldn’t hurt a fly”. The whole thing is going to collapse in on itself one of these days.


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[Shindig]

The main problem is that they can just turn it to, "Well, nobody should die at the hands of police. BOO!"

[Giggles]

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

[mo]

Brilliant choice of tank picture :chortle:

[Kikó]

Incredible lingual gymnastics to claim someone with a knife was otherwise unarmed. Surely you know it's nonsense as you write the tweet.

[John Arne]

Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba, and one of China's richest men has not been seen since 31st October.

In the past, he had towed the line and was even a member of the communist party, however, lately he has been more critical of economic policies within the country.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jan/05/where-is-jack-ma-chinese-tycoon-not-seen-since-october-alibaba

[Luca]

I'm thinking the probability distribution of his whereabouts is 70% gulag, 30% in hiding.

[Spoonsky]

I hope they've smuggled him out of the country in a cello case like this (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/dec/31/carlos-ghosn-escaped-japan-hiding-in-a-musical-instrument-case) don.

[Luca]

I was discussing that with some friends. Smuggled out to Taiwan and then into hiding in the US, singing state secrets like a canary, would be such a phenomenal outcome.

[Jimmy Floyd]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-55546760

This article was a proper rollercoaster ride, beginning with me wanting to make arrangements for the immediate nuclear bombing of Dubai, then moving on to wondering who on earth it is that wants to follow 'reality stars' sitting in apartments on instagram (and who it is that finds them anything other than subhuman deplorables), and finally ending at the realisation that I am geopolitically aligned with Jedward.

[Shindig]

"That coronavirus? Totally them, mate. :cool:"

[Spoonsky]

There are stunning numbers of hours spent by teenagers watching 'YouTubers' carry out their boring lives. I mean like doing the grocery shopping.

[Boydy]

Anyone who goes to Dubai on holiday shouldn't be allowed back into the country. Not because of coronavirus, just because they're a cunt.

[Luca]

Anyone who goes to Dubai on holiday shouldn't be allowed back into the country. Not because of coronavirus, just because they're a cunt.

There goes the football, then.

[Disco]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-55546760

This article was a proper rollercoaster ride, beginning with me wanting to make arrangements for the immediate nuclear bombing of Dubai, then moving on to wondering who on earth it is that wants to follow 'reality stars' sitting in apartments on instagram (and who it is that finds them anything other than subhuman deplorables), and finally ending at the realisation that I am geopolitically aligned with Jedward.

I saw this https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/55546167 and also wondered what the fuck he was even doing there in the middle of a pandemic. But then we had customers in today who must have been in their 70's and they were talking about how they've just booked a cruise departing Miami in May so I assume some people must live in some sort of alternate reality.

[Spoonsky]

Meanwhile in Canada. https://www.mtlblog.com/en-ca/news/this-insta-account-calls-out-quebec-influencers-who-allegedly-travel-during-the-pandemic

[Shindig]

Someone messing up an answer on The Chaser is apparently news.


Asked which classic Disney animation centres on cats in Paris, Esnart answered 'Aristocrats'.

Unfortunately, host Bradley Walsh was unable to accept that as the correct answer, which is, of course, The Aristocats. The stumble cost Esnart a vital couple of seconds, which ultimately resulted in her losing out on a massive £50k cash prize. Considering that Esnart clearly knew the answer, those watching at home couldn't believe she was penalised for her mispronunciation.

Wrong answer. Complain to Bradley Walsh all you want, though.

[Ian]

She wouldn't have been given that on any quiz show going, surely?

[Spikey M]

I'd hope not. It's clearly not a mispronounciation. Maybe being 'nearly right' is good enough now.

I was only 5 numbers away from the Euromillions jackpot. Cough up you bastards.

[Dquincy]

Golfer Angel Cabrera on Interpol's wanted list. Did not expect that.

http://news.sky.com/story/angel-cabrera-golfer-arrested-in-brazil-for-extradition-police-say-12188413

[Jimmy Floyd]

Sounds like a spot of wife-beating or similar, how does that get you on Interpol's Code Red list?

[Dquincy]

Yes, a bit extreme to say the least.

I liked the bit about disrespect to authorities. Didn't realise being disrespectful was illegal, but the yanks have something called 'contempt of cop' which allows them to arrest people if they're disrespectful to a cop. Or, shoot them if they're an ethnic minority.

Officials in Argentina have charged a suspect with assault, theft, illegal intimidation and repeated disrespect to authorities between 2016 and last year...

[SvN]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-55699002

I could have done without reading that.

[Kikó]

I mean this quote :
"He added: "How do we carry on living with this information? How can we carry on breathing with this information?"

They've almost opened a pandroa's box of pain with the further investigation. Absolutely tragic story, what a disaster the manchester arena bombing is/was.

[Offshore Toon]

And yet Tony Bellew walks a free man. :nono:

[Spikey M]

I read that earlier too. I would be out for blood.

[Shindig]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-55707197

I'm sure the swan just flew in but I've got a mental image of someone launching it through a window in a neighbourly dispute.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The Queen should fine her for having a window there.

Protect swans!

[Lewis]

My brother drove into a swan years ago just as it was flying across the road. It took half the windscreen out and splattered everything inside except him. They had to replace the full interior, and his wife got coated in swan and apparently had a full-on MELTDOWN.

[Disco]

Swans are twats, jumped up geese nothing more.

[Giggles]

Are they really gamey or more of a white meat?

[Disco]

Very oily but more like pork than turkey or duck.

[Giggles]

Nice. I’d love to get my hands on a bit some day.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Are they really gamey or more of a white meat?

It's illegal to eat them in the UK I believe.

Heard they're gamey though.

Unless you're on about Goose, which is gamey but really nice.

[Giggles]

I think it is here too.

[Giggles]

Mr Justice Seamus Noonan said it was "universally known by reasonable adults of normal intelligence that boiling or very hot water has the potential to shatter an ordinary glass vessel".

:drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool:


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[Jimmy Floyd]

The lawyers in Ireland sound like they're having an absolute field day.

[Spikey M]

:drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool:


1352010873368416257

You can tell she's an absolute prick just by looking at her. She's the type that turns up at the soft play, let's Tyler-Tyler and Poppie-pop's run riot then flies off the handle when someone isn't happy about Tyler-Tyler pushing their 2 year old down some stairs.

[Shindig]

Irish those names up a bit. Naill-Ciaran and Shioban-Shivon.

[Giggles]

She’s an import so they might as well be Slav and Slavina.

[Dquincy]

:drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool:


1352010873368416257

Definitely would. Even if she is a burns victim.

[Giggles]

Definitely would. Even if she is a burns victim.

Big time.

[Queenslander]

This Navalny mate has some big balls.



https://youtu.be/ipAnwilMncI

[Queenslander]

Relevant write up on Australia Day meaning fuck all in the grand scheme of things.


I come from a pretty typical white-bread family in typical suburban Australia. In fact the specific place I grew up was Ipswich, Queensland. It’s the home of Pauline Hanson’s infamous fish ‘n’ chip shop. Her kids even went to my high school for a bit. So that’s my where I’m coming from… and I have literally no memories of Australia Day.

I have fond memories of Christmases with the family, Easter nights spent leaving out carrot sticks for the Easter Bunny, and solemn mornings listening to the last post on ANZAC Day. I have memories of observing a minute silence on November 11, and ringing in the new year at midnight on December 31. But I don’t have one single childhood memory of celebrating Australia Day.

Until my 20s I don’t even think I could have told you what day it was on, and I certainly couldn’t have told you what the significance of January 26 was. Was it the day Captain Cook first arrived? The First Fleet? Federation? Shane Warnes’s birthday? I had no idea and neither did anyone else. Australia Day, for white Australians, was just not really a thing.

https://theshot.net.au/general-news/as-a-white-australian-heres-what-australia-day-means-to-me-fuck-all/

[hfswjyr]

Are we sure the reason he can't remember is not because he was blackout drunk each year? From what I've seen from afar, "Straya Day" is for drinking and listning to tripleJ hot 100.

[Queenslander]

Pretty much.

My 1st Australia day was getting black out drunk listening to JJJs hottest 100 in the mid 2000s did not celebrate before then.

Triple J have moved the top 100 to the 23rd now.

I reckon the Cronulla riots shot into the mainstream.

[Queenslander]

:cool:

https://i.ibb.co/8NPNNdm/FB-IMG-1611577121127.jpg (https://ibb.co/HBGBBxK)

[niko_cee]

Relevant write up on Australia Day meaning fuck all in the grand scheme of things.



https://theshot.net.au/general-news/as-a-white-australian-heres-what-australia-day-means-to-me-fuck-all/

Surely no one really has fond childhood memories of Australia Day (other than in the ilk of that go and get your old man a beer advert) as the main thing about Australia Day is getting pissed up and/or participating in some vaguely dangerous boating if you live anywhere near Sydney Harbour?

Edit, I see this point has been covered.

[Don]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-london-55796445

:hail:

[Queenslander]

Surely no one really has fond childhood memories of Australia Day (other than in the ilk of that go and get your old man a beer advert) as the main thing about Australia Day is getting pissed up and/or participating in some vaguely dangerous boating if you live anywhere near Sydney Harbour?

Edit, I see this point has been covered.

Despite being the biggest dont change the date group the boomers did not celebrate Australia day in the 90's.

[John Arne]

Kellyanne Conway tweeting a topless photo of her 16yr old daughter is a surprising thing to do, even for that unhinged pyscho-bitch.

[John Arne]

Despite being the biggest dont change the date group the boomers did not celebrate Australia day in the 90's.

My brekkie yesterday :drool:

https://gyazo.com/19c090e77b766c40f5a9a03e0899d5a7.jpeg

[Queenslander]

My brekkie yesterday :drool:

https://gyazo.com/19c090e77b766c40f5a9a03e0899d5a7.jpeg

:drool:

[Queenslander]

Kellyanne Conway tweeting a topless photo of her 16yr old daughter is a surprising thing to do, even for that unhinged pyscho-bitch.

Isnt that revengr porn of the sorts?

[John Arne]

Isnt that revengr porn of the sorts?

Many suggest it could be CP. However, I had assumed 16 or over wouldn't be - but it's not something I'm prepared to Google for clarity :D

[Queenslander]

Yeah Im steering clear of this one.

[hfswjyr]

My brekkie yesterday :drool:

https://gyazo.com/19c090e77b766c40f5a9a03e0899d5a7.jpeg

What's that sauce for the sausage rolls?

[John Arne]

What's that sauce for the sausage rolls?

It was some sort of tomato salsa number. It was too thick, though.

[Giggles]

Why do they do Australia Day in Vietnam?

Also, I thought it was mince which would have been excellent.

[John Arne]

Why do they do Australia Day in Vietnam?

Also, I thought it was mince which would have been excellent.

My boss is an Aussie and treated the office. There was mince in the sausage rolls (rather than a proper sausage).

[Lewis]

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.


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

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55820614

Them separating in the summer makes it sound like Emma Portner was asking the same question.

[Don]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2021/jan/27/police-remove-hs2-rebellion-protesters-euston-square-gardens-in-pictures

Boooo. Also why are they all inbred(-looking)?

[SvN]

A bunch of jobless retards with nothing better to do.

[Don]

I mean they could be smashing back the beers with the lads but they choose to do this, that's commendable.

[Manc]

Picture #13 looks like a white version of you.

[Don]

Digger Don.

[SincereTheRebel]

Ive met him in the real. He is white with a tan.

[Don]

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/27/hs2-protesters-hope-to-occupy-euston-tunnel-for-weeks

The four are now in the tunnel :cool: sounding quite wise too. Bit lol though if they just continue to build around them until they're forced to come out :D They're not in a location which affects the trainlines themselves which is silly, probably just delaying the building of the station Upper Crust.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

"According to the protesters the entrance to the tunnel is concealed by a large, fortified stronghold built from pallets"

:D

[Jimmy Floyd]

One of the activists currently inside the tunnel says that Wednesday’s protest is “the most important moment” in his life so far.

The most telling quote. This sort of thing is all about self-aggrandisement.

[Disco]

You can tell Glastonbury is off this year, all the stringy dog brigade have to find something else to do (ie leave rubbish all over).

[Yevrah]

It should have been binned off years ago, so whatever their motivations, fair play to those who're happy spending time in a shit tunnel in an effort for sense to be seen. Which it won't be, but hey ho.

[Lewis]

The best (only?) defence of high-speed rail is its potential environmental benefits, so lol at them tramps.

[Shindig]

"SAVE SOME TREES 4 OUR KIDS."

Isn't there like government initiatives to encourage planting a load of trees?

[Spoonsky]

The best (only?) defence of high-speed rail is its potential environmental benefits, so lol at them tramps.

I was going to say, trying to stop this on grounds of climate change doesn’t make very much sense.

Yevrah what are the problems with it?

[Shindig]

It's a lot of money for one line. Money that could've gone towards doing more with our current infrastructure. Not that reopening disused lines would've been cheap. They'd be in use quicker than 2027, though.

[Queenslander]

Grim.

https://i.ibb.co/wWLvsmd/FB-IMG-1611789241356.jpg (https://ibb.co/nc0WCJw)

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fucking hell.

[Giggles]

That’s mild enough for India.

[Don]

That gives no context, I bet they still view it as a bad deed.

[Queenslander]

That gives no context, I bet they still view it as a bad deed.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bombay-high-court-groping-case-india-child-sexual-assault/

[Queenslander]

I wonder if they sex each other in?


https://i.ibb.co/P9rkzKK/FB-IMG-1611816880542.jpg (https://ibb.co/1d0cJ11)
image sharing (https://imgbb.com/)

[Kikó]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bombay-high-court-groping-case-india-child-sexual-assault/

Reads like it's a poorly drafted law. Still astonishing.

[Queenslander]

I wonder if they sex each other in?


https://i.ibb.co/P9rkzKK/FB-IMG-1611816880542.jpg (https://ibb.co/1d0cJ11)
image sharing (https://imgbb.com/)

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/peter-dutton-lashes-lunatic-far-right-extremists-but-critics-say-his-government-is-underplaying-the-threat

[SincereTheRebel]

Reads like it's a poorly drafted law. Still astonishing.

If you touch a child, no problem. However, If you kill a cow over there, you would be stoned to death.

[Don]

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/newsbeat-55857270

Nevermind my views about the premise of the article and the impact of these shows on society, I just tried reading it and the use of the 'they' pronoun is a fucking literary mess to read. This must be my first taste of it. Very apt.

[Spikey M]

"Jamie with their partner". It just doesn't fucking work. Maybe "Jamie and their partner"? I don't know...

[Lewis]

Who decided that the space between genders had to have the complete freak/loser aesthetic? I worry that people might just confuse them for attention seekers.

[Spammer]

Seeing northern Irish people waving union jacks is embarrassing. What you playing at. If they knew how rarely anyone thinks of them when you hear the term 'British'. Who are they kidding? Nobody over here regards you as British mate

[Spikey M]

I mean, I do...

I don't really care about the concept of being British (although they're part of the UK, Not Britain, right?) So it's not something I sit thinking about, but if I do think "Britain" I think Norn Iron a long time before I think of Guernsey or the Isle of Man.

[John Arne]

I've always been slightly triggered by 'British' referring to being from the UK, rather than Britain.
UKish, surely?

In the same vein Brexit should be UKexit.

[Jimmy Floyd]

'British' is a much more pleasing word, regardless of its accuracy, as you've just demonstrated. 'UK' sounds crap to my ear, I associate it with mid-atlantic accents at the UN.

[Ian]

I think Norn Iron a long time before I think of Guernsey or the Isle of Man.

Well those aren't technically part of the UK so that's just "being correct."

[niko_cee]

We (the island/crown dependency folk) are 'British' though, by nationality (according to the passport at least). The British Isles (may include full Ireland) is the whole shaboodle versus Great Britain, the main island landmass only (hence Great Britain and Northern Ireland), isn't it? In short, it's confusing.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Great Britain is an island. Britain is a nation. The UK is a state.

The confusion comes from the misguided idea that one can only be part of one nation, because in a lot of the world there is no such doubling up. I consider myself both English and British. Some people in Eng/Sco/Wal/NI would reject Britishness, whereas others would feel British but not English/Scots etc (I suspect many ethnic minorities with colonial heritage might feel this way).

Presumably many in the crown dependencies consider themselves British but are evidently not English, Scottish or Welsh.

Northern Ireland obviously adds in a further layer of complexity with Ireland being introduced as a third nation you could be part of. I'm sure there are people who consider themselves British and Irish (and Northern Irish), and I don't see what the problem with that would be.

I think also in these days of hard categorisation, nobody understands the difference between a nation and a state. The Irish nation and the Irish state are two very different things.

This post was brought to you by the first year of my BA in politics.

[Boydy]

I'd probably consider myself all three of those.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I personally think multiple identities is a good thing, where possible, as it gives you more perspectives on the world. Most of the violence that goes on is people who only have one rigid identity trying to tell other people that they have to be like them, too.

Many nowadays seem unable to divorce nation/region from state, which is where some of the more fervent FBPE type people come a cropper, as they can't imagine being European without also being subject to its embodiment in the EU political organisation. Similarly, Little Englander mentality is idiots trying to tell people that they aren't allowed to feel European as well as British/English, which of course they very well are.

[Lewis]

I disagree with much of that. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a nation state, the constituent parts of which are Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Great Britain is a nation state, the nations of which are England and Scotland. England is a nation comprising England and Wales, which, in spite of fictions contained in various local government acts, has not been a nation state for centuries (and realistically never was). Northern Ireland is a complicating factor because, whilst Ireland was a nation within the then nation state, and now have their own nation state, our people over there did not constitute a nation but do now due to a century of quasi-solidarity.

Nations are primarily based in ethnicity, which is why governments stress Britishness, why the SNP very deliberately refer to their broader grievance constituency as 'the people of Scotland', and why Northern Ireland.

I am English and British. I am English because that is my nationality, rooted as it is in my English ethnicity, and British because I am a citizen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. This is why ethnic minorities identify with 'Britishness'. You cannot be English-Indian, only British-Indian, because India - or whatever sub-section of it - is their nation. If I had kids with a saucy doctor with a big nose called Priya, they would be British owing to them falling between two stools and landing on their passport. Maybe if she died in childbirth and, in my distress, I swore them off curry for life, their English identity would be strong enough to pull them into our orbit; but I don't know.

[Pepe]

Pics or gtfo.

[Lewis]

I wouldn't expect a Latinx to understand specific national identities.

[Giggles]

If you’re British you’re not Irish. Their token passport means as much as the ones we hand Nigerians and Slavs.

[Lewis]

Boyd deleting his Bebo when 'Having a wee Guinness with my fellow paddies so I am' gets piled by Giggles and his mates. :harold:

[Giggles]

I near had a lad I worked with escorted from Belfast City airport one time when I asked him was his Irish passport fake because it had Craigavon as place of birth. I knew it would wind him but completely going off on one was a pleasant surprise.

[Lewis]

:lol:

[Lewis]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-55887124

I've just ordered a train driver's hat with 'HS2' embroidered on it.

[Shindig]

"My son willingly did this thing that I approve of and now he regrets it. PLEASE DO SOMETHING!"

[Spikey M]

Imagine being that cunts kid and being that ginger. What's the fucking point? He's probably only there in the hope of getting a high-speed train to the face.

[Alex]

Imagine being that cunts kid and being that ginger. What's the fucking point? He's probably only there in the hope of getting a high-speed train to the face.

Not only that but also being called "Lazer", to boot.

[Spikey M]

I had missed that. This is Baby P level shit.

[Lofty]

My mental dad named his second child (born 30 years after me, with his new hippy girlfriend) Jem Starship so I look forward to being billed for his funeral in 15 years time after a similar fruitless protest.

[Shindig]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55982131

Deserved.

[Spikey M]

Lol.

[Queenslander]

The seething from this will kill so many boomers.



EU to hit Australia with a border tax on carbon emissions

https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2021/02/08/carbon-border-tax-eu/

[niko_cee]

Don't virtually all of Australia's exports to Europe (wine? RM Williams Hats?) come to the UK? I'm sure there was some stat about how the common tariff was collected and most of it was collected by the UK, particularly with regards to antipodean goods.

[niko_cee]

Apparently gold is the big one (well, it was in 2016) and 98.8% of that comes to the UK, and 50.1% of all Australian exports [to the EU] in that year were to the UK.

Coal, well, yeah, you can see how that might be subject to 'carbon taxes'.

Meanwhile the UK only accounted for 14% of EU exports to Australia and the balance of trade is in Australia's favour. :happycry:

[Queenslander]

Like most things I dont know much about the ins and outs of it I just find it amusing because the boomers are in a trade war with China now add Europe with a carbon tax. The normal agro they walk around with plus this is proper lol.

[Queenslander]

Huh..



A New Zealand Maori leader was ejected from Parliament for refusing to wear a necktie in the chamber

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-10/nz-maori-leader-ejected-from-parliament-for-not-wearing-necktie/13139350?utm_medium=social&utm_content=sf242822865&utm_campaign=fb_abc_news&utm_source=m.facebook.com&sf242822865=1

[niko_cee]

Being a very old French person, she probably stole her mothers identity 40 years ago and is only in her mid-80s really.

[Jimmy Floyd]

That 'oldest person ever' who claimed to have met Van Gogh was bullshit. No one lives to 124.

[Baz]

I mean yesterday I learned someone held their breath for 24 minutes (thanks The Chase) so now anything is possible.

[Ian]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-56011594

Over the years, scientists have tried to calculate how many hippos are living in Colombia's waterways, with estimates ranging from 80 to 120 animals. "It is the biggest hippo herd outside Africa, which is their native region," veterinarian and conservationist Carlos Valderrama told the BBC.

Disappointed to learn it wasn't the same one.

[Yevrah]

More bad and unnecessary science here.


But such procedures are far from simple - or cheap - and Carlos Valderrama has experience of this. In 2009, he performed a castration of a male "cocaine hippo" as part of an experiment to study options to control the growing population.

Man with castration fetish gets to carry out procedure in the name of science.

[Disco]

Well he is a vet.

[Shindig]

Are any of these cocaine hippos actual addicts? Because that would solve it with some hippo heart attacks.

[Shindig]

https://www.news.com.au/world/middle-east/chaos-as-bears-turn-on-crowd-after-release-into-wild/news-story/e4f8faa19ff6cfaa359db47981b671ba

It's the picture that makes it.

[Yevrah]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-56075528

Soooo many questions....

[Spikey M]

She's female. The end.

[Yevrah]

I was thinking more along the lines of I hope the BBC have understood the repercussions for revealing that to the world (and her Dad) and this nugget:


Ex-UN rights envoy Mary Robinson, who had described Latifa as a "troubled young woman" after meeting her in 2018, now says she was "horribly tricked" by the princess's family.

Are all of these supernational bodies just habitually useless these days?

[Don]

The main one being why is her fitness instructor looking like she's about to get priority access to the vaccine.

[Disco]

I for one am shocked that people would be so poorly treated in Dubai of all places.

[niko_cee]

The first version of this panorama story was better (the escape one) because you knew it was all going to end in tears when she contracted some French mook to sail her across the Indian ocean.

[Queenslander]

Oi! Oi! Oi!

https://i.ibb.co/8Yy17GK/FB-IMG-1613634774836.jpg (https://ibb.co/tL0VJnm)

[John Arne]

Why have I only just discovered that back in 2011 Marcos Alonso was drink driving, crashed and killed a 19yr old passenger... And was given a €61k fine.

Being minted really does help, eh.

[niko_cee]

Unless you try to lead a secessionist movement I don't think it is actually possible to go to prison in Spain.

[phonics]

Why is everyone very excited about the Mars thing? Didn’t we do this a couple years ago and it got stuck in a hole?

[bruhnaldo]

I think it’s neat it’s kinda like the world’s longest putt if you think about it