News of the day

[Spikey M]

It's not on earth and we're all jealous.

[Lewis]

I hoped it would crash and ruin its cringe Twitter account.

[Shindig]

Congratulations. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56159731)

[Spikey M]

Lol

[niko_cee]

Yeah, I saw that earlier.

Look officer, it's not a bomb, it's a gender reveal device . . .


The death is the latest in a string of catastrophes to be linked to gender-reveal parties in recent years.

They can include prediction games, with the "big reveal" being made with fireworks and coloured smoke grenades.

But several large-scale parties have gone wrong, even resulting in several deaths.

A man from Michigan was killed earlier this month after he was struck by shrapnel from "a small cannon type device" fired during a baby shower, police said.

Two other gender-reveal parties were blamed for sparking wildfires in California in September 2020, and Arizona in April 2017.

:face:

[niko_cee]

Meanwhile, some poor old giraffe has met its maker ostensibly owing to a husband getting the wrong end of the stick (so to speak) when his wife said she want to nail a big black bull. (https://uk.yahoo.com/news/trophy-hunter-poses-valentine-gift-162512472.html)

You do have to wonder about some people.

[Disco]

Yeah who wants the heart, the head would be far more impressive.

[Offshore Toon]

It's called romance, idiots.

[Boydy]

White South Africans are the worst people in the world.

[Queenslander]

“I was literally like a little child for 2 weeks and counted down the days.”

:|

[Shindig]

And another ...


She claimed killing the animal would mean “a new bull can take over and provide new strong genetics for the herd”.

:|

[Spikey M]

Makes sense. Strong bullet repellent genetics required.

[phonics]

Tiger woods, big car crash, both legs broken.

[Shindig]

Didn't he get into a big one when his marriage went down the toilet?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He had back surgery just a month ago too.

[Queenslander]

Back on the pills?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/476466012024340483/813865762439299134/image0.jpg

Lucky to still be walking (or rolling in a chair even).

[Queenslander]

Bloody hell.

[Giggles]

Is that a ball of luggage?

[Jimmy Floyd]

He appeared on the coverage on Sunday night as he was tournament 'host' and was quite obviously jacked up on painkillers again. Eyes were completely gone. Everyone said it at the time as well.

[John Arne]

Nick Clegg working for Facebook caught me by surprise. Looks like he's been enjoying a fair number of sunday dinners, too. #BodyShaming

https://gyazo.com/4e3cc05445af8a33308d09a3f6c75af7.jeg

[niko_cee]

He's been with them for years.

[Ian]

Zuckerberg in "Looking like a robot" shocker.

[Lewis]

I read some American story about Facebook a while ago that featured Nick Clegg, and it treated him as if Deputy Prime Minister was some major role that made him the second most important person in the government, and then it struck me that that is what Facebook must think.

[Disco]

Zuckerberg in "Looking like a robot" shocker.

It's worse than that, he look like a fake robot.

[Yevrah]

I read some American story about Facebook a while ago that featured Nick Clegg, and it treated him as if Deputy Prime Minister was some major role that made him the second most important person in the government, and then it struck me that that is what Facebook must think.

Yep. They'll think it's the same as Vice President and definitely not something that was invented out of necessity to cobble a government together.

[Shindig]

How many Vice Presidents have laid a motherfucker out? EDIT: I'll accept Cheney.

[Disco]

Vice President is a nothing role as well though, so it's pretty comparable.

[Giggles]

Not much use to me these days but this is long overdue.


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[Don]

:cool:

[Kikó]

I read some American story about Facebook a while ago that featured Nick Clegg, and it treated him as if Deputy Prime Minister was some major role that made him the second most important person in the government, and then it struck me that that is what Facebook must think.

TBF, all good bluffers build up their CV to make it look like they were more important than they actually are.

"Oh aye I did the budget and basically ran the army mate"
*Like*
"..."

[Queenslander]

Brisbane in the box seat to host the 2032 Olympic games. :cab:

[Shindig]

"It's another beautiful 50 degree at the Gabba for the archery."

[Lewis]

That gives you eleven years to decide whether to just have one big 'Welcome to Country' at the start (as Billy Moore lights the Olympic flame) or one before every single event.

[Queenslander]

"It's another beautiful 50 degree at the Gabba for the archery."

They plan to have a hub in north QLD as well...

"We want to apologise to the team from Laos for the comments made by fans in Townsville."

[Queenslander]

That gives you eleven years to decide whether to just have one big 'Welcome to Country' at the start (as Billy Moore lights the Olympic flame) or one before every single event.

Id be okay with this to open and close the games.
https://youtu.be/rpim4HKHq3k

[Lewis]

Shite events like archery on the deck of Clive Palmer's Titanic. What have the other bids got?

[Queenslander]

Shite events like archery on the deck of Clive Palmer's Titanic. What have the other bids got?

I think we are the only one silly enough to bid for it.

We could hold break dancing in Rockhampton Im sure that will go down well.

[Queenslander]

Dont the hosts get to pick a sport? Mens and womens Rugby League has to be a goer.

[Lewis]

It would just be a thousand swimming events.

[Queenslander]

That is a fair point gross.

[Queenslander]

Good old QLD Labor with their ethics...

Nothing a few 'welcome to countrys' wont fix Im sure.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2472517629710942

[Lewis]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56205049

Now we'll never know if he did it.

[Manc]

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/feb/25/mr-potato-head-no-longer-a-mister-gender-neutral

[randomlegend]

Politicians crying their tits off about being sent fake emails by some researchers to see how long it would take to get a reply is hilarious. "Appalling" ffs. Get a grip you bunch of cunts.

[Dquincy]

Don't really see the point. Presumably it comes with attachments to make it into either a 'Mr' or a 'Mrs'.

Edit: Manc

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56209007

Lol

[randomlegend]

Unpopular opinion I imagine, but I think it's wrong to do that to someone who was 15 when they made that decision and when it's very well known how predatory and brain-washing groups like ISIS can be. If the situation were picked up before she left I'd imagine she'd have been treated as a vulnerable individual and it would've been a safeguarding issue rather than criminalising her. Left and married a Dutch recruit as a 15 year old? She couldn't even legally consent to that in the UK.

Lol at the assertion she's a significant national security risk.

[Lewis]

She looks alright in that picture.

[niko_cee]

Isn't this just a technical point about her being allowed back to challenge the decision, rather than a substantive endorsement of what was a pretty shabby thing for the government to do?

[Spikey M]

She looks alright in that picture.

I put her in the shameful lustage thread a while back. She is at the top of her genre.

[Spikey M]

Unpopular opinion I imagine, but I think it's wrong to do that to someone who was 15 when they made that decision and when it's very well known how predatory and brain-washing groups like ISIS can be. If the situation were picked up before she left I'd imagine she'd have been treated as a vulnerable individual and it would've been a safeguarding issue rather than criminalising her. Left and married a Dutch recruit as a 15 year old? She couldn't even legally consent to that in the UK.

Lol at the assertion she's a significant national security risk.

I doubt it's particularly unpopular outside of UKIP Twitter.

She's a knob, but she was clearly groomed online and as far as I'm aware, apart from being the miserable wives of IS 'soldiers', women don't exactly do alot over there. What is her actual crime?

[SvN]

I think people would have more sympathy if she'd changed her viewpoint in the last 6 years. She only wanted back in because of the free healthcare.

[randomlegend]

People who've undergone that sort of grooming need some actual help to change their views. You can't expect to just stick then under armed guard in Syria and have them become enlightened.

People are so quick to judge those who are in situations they have absolutely no comprehension of.

[Spikey M]

I don't think being stripped of my citizenship and being left in a detention centre in the desert would convince me that I was wrong to have believed that the west is evil and hates my people, either.

[Lewis]

She has been treated harshly all things considered. That said: fuck her.

[Spikey M]

That's pretty much summed up my thoughts on the matter.

Oh dear, how sad, never mind, if you will.

[Kikó]

It's not about liking her or feeling sympathy for her specifically (arguable based on what's said above about the indoctrination/grooming that took place at a young age) but it does set a potentially dangerous precedent if a government can basically decide you stateless (especially if you don't have a second nationality).

[Yevrah]

As the Bulger case has demonstrated time and time again we have a weird response in this country when children do heinous things. And when it's the wrong/right type of heinous our values and application of human rights goes out of the window.

[Shindig]

Probably because kids that age should know better. I know parenting comes into it but kids doing those types of things are so, so rare.

[Spikey M]

Hasn't one of the Bulger killers repeatedly been nicked for possessing child porn? Odd example, lad.

[Yevrah]

Hasn't one of the Bulger killers repeatedly been nicked for possessing child porn? Odd example, lad.

Not recently as far as I know (unless he's done it again), but he did a while ago.

They were tried in an adult court when they were too young to have been prior to their crime and the general consensus still appears to be that we should have lynched them. It's a sound example.

[Giggles]

They should have been buried alive at the time.

[Lofty]

Rightly or wrongly, bringing her back would be more of a headache. If she never reoffends she will still need police protection etc more than likely and anything she is given will be held up as ridiculous compared to our brave servicemen etc.

And if she reoffends then she either blows herself up in poundland and it's a shit show or is a standard bearer for radical Islam in the UK. It's not great fucking her off but probably the least sticky of the options available. Can you imagine a Corbyn led government letting her back in :D

[randomlegend]

Probably because kids that age should know better. I know parenting comes into it but kids doing those types of things are so, so rare.

If a kid is groomed into having sex with a load of 40 year olds, nobody says "it's their own fault they should know that's wrong". This isn't any different.

If anyone should be given the benefit of the doubt and every attempt made to reform them, it's children.

[Kikó]

Having awkward citizens is probably one of your responsibilities. Basically saying she's a citizen of nowhere feels like an abdication of duty.

[Lofty]

If a kid is groomed into having sex with a load of 40 year olds, nobody says "it's their own fault they should know that's wrong". This isn't any different.

If anyone should be given the benefit of the doubt and every attempt made to reform them, it's children.

Actually if a kid is groomed into doing that more often than not the authorities class it as a lifestyle choice rather than a genuine issue and the public are outraged, it's the reverse of what is happening with Begum.

[Kikó]

Hasn't one of the Bulger killers repeatedly been nicked for possessing child porn? Odd example, lad.

It doesn't mean that 10 year old children shouldn't be treated like 10 year old children in respect to the law. To basically parrot the Secret Barristers latest book, the law needs to treat everyone equally even the ones we don't like.

[randomlegend]

Yeah it's a massive problem how people are willing to rip up the rule book as soon as it's someone they REALLY don't like.

[Lewis]

If every other high-profile deportation case is anything to go by she will end up back here eventually, but doing it like this at least sort of leaves the door open to not having to let her back in. If they let her back in now by the time they got round to actually (somehow) winning the case she would be fifteen kids in with Taz and get to stay for them.

[Spikey M]

It doesn't mean that 10 year old children shouldn't be treated like 10 year old children in respect to the law. To basically parrot the Secret Barristers latest book, the law needs to treat everyone equally even the ones we don't like.

You are absolutely 100% correct and only a moron would argue that. But, with that it mind:

They stoned a 2 year old, shoved a battery up his arse and beat him to death on some train tracks. Fuck 'em.

[Shindig]

Begum would've been better off turning down every interview and having some kind of legal rep doing all the press. As soon as she opens her mouth, she does damage to her case. And it doesn't help her husband's a paedo.

[Queenslander]

Can you guys stop stealing our moves.

[niko_cee]

It's not about liking her or feeling sympathy for her specifically (arguable based on what's said above about the indoctrination/grooming that took place at a young age) but it does set a potentially dangerous precedent if a government can basically decide you stateless (especially if you don't have a second nationality).

Short of inventing one for you (which is arguably the case here) they can't actually do this.

[7om]

She should be allowed back to the UK, for me. Then immediately arrested and hung for treason.

[Dquincy]

I'm with Zom.

And Spikester and Lewis getting boners over her is a worry.

[mo]

Hanged.

[Kikó]

That'll show those barbaric bastards.

[Shindig]

It made me wonder, "Oh, I wonder what America did with the Columbine kids?" before remembering how that ended. :D

[Lofty]

A quick google suggests the yanks have sentenced 22 under 18's to death since 1985 but they were all on Death Row for a while before being given the lethal injection.

[randomlegend]

A quick google suggests the yanks have sentenced 22 under 18's to death since 1985 but they were all on Death Row for a while before being given the lethal injection.

Jesus fucking Christ.

Americans are just irredeemably appalling.

[Spikey M]

"Under 18" needs further information. How many were 6, how many were 17?

[phonics]

When they were killed or when they were sentenced?

[Spikey M]

Did the crime.

[Queenslander]

It is really good banter when their other Nationality is from New Zealand.

[phonics]

American sports suspensions are hilarious. When they’re not giving people 1 game bans for steroids, Malik Beasley has just received the equivalent of a 6 match ban in football for... pointing an AK 47 at a couple who were house hunting in the neighbourhood, then being found with pounds of weed and a stolen gun (that wasn’t the AK 47) by police officers called by said couple.

He’ll be going to jail for 6 months once the seasons ended...

[Jimmy Floyd]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-56218554


On Wednesday, during his show on Bayern3, Mr Matuschik played the group's cover of Coldplay's "Fix You" on his show, calling it "blasphemy".

"For this you will be vacationing in North Korea for the next 20 years!" he added.

Mr Matuschik then described BTS as "some crappy virus that hopefully there will be a vaccine for soon as well".

The host then started to backtrack telling listeners: "You can't accuse me of xenophobia. I have a car from South Korea. I have the coolest car ever."

Good old German sense of humour. That said, I reckon there's a creeping threat of 'fandoms' as they are known (always of utter crap) trying to cancel people (often under racist/whatever pretences) because people don't like the same stuff they do.

[Disco]

So apparently a large slice of the city I live in was evacuated yesterday and I had absolutely no idea.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-56221697

[Jimmy Floyd]

Pretty sure I planted that in 2007.

[Disco]

It has resulted in the somewhat bizarre circumstance of being told by the Coast Guard to stay inside today if at all possible. We are at least 10 miles from anything resembling a coastline.

[Lofty]

"Under 18" needs further information. How many were 6, how many were 17?

The majority of that stat were 17.


When they were killed or when they were sentenced?

They were sentenced at that age then executed in their 20s or later.

Pre 1985 it gets worse: in 1959 a 17 year old was executed in the gas chamber. In 1944 they put a 14 year old in the electric chair... afterwards there was significant doubt about the conviction.

[Lewis]

We need some sort of democratic hanging system to absolve the state of any errors that it might make. Amend the sentencing guidelines to allow for it (which would have the added bonus of neutralising any Legal Twitter criticism because The Law), and then when some national elections roll around have another ballot with all the potential executions up for vote.

'When you go to the polls tomorrow, think about those little girls...'

[Shindig]

Keep them in prison for a bit which will allow for enough time to ensure they definitely did it. Rose West, come on down.

[Disco]

This did not feel particularly controlled (even if I initially thought the wind had blown a door closed upstairs).

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[mo]

I have very little recollection of the Selby rail crash and just saw it's the 20th anniversary. Baffled that the gimp who caused the whole thing has claimed it was fate and doesn't think he should be blamed for the deaths! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-12591249 (I know it's an old article, found it when looking for more pictures of the crash)

[niko_cee]

I thought the same [about no recollection] which I can probably attribute to being at uni at the time and news being an awful lot less ubiquitous back then.

[Disco]

There are plenty of unlucky coincidences that made that crash worse but I think it's probably fair to blame it on the guy who decided to drive across the country on almost no sleep and only woke up once he was sat on the west coast main line.

[Shindig]

I can't even blame the bird he was sexting. What an absolute pest.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If you had 10 accidental deaths on your record I reckon you would find a way to absolve yourself of it, in your own mind. What else can you do? You'd end up topping yourself.

[Shindig]

Become a spokesman for rail safety. That's the other route.

[Spikey M]

If you had 10 accidental deaths on your record I reckon you would find a way to absolve yourself of it, in your own mind. What else can you do? You'd end up topping yourself.

This is pretty much what I was about to post.

Unless you're a socio/psychopath those are the only options.

[Alex]

True. Although whatever conclusion you came to so that you could sleep at night, you would also probably keep it to yourself, wouldn't you? And not go on record telling the media you believe the fact that you stayed up all night texting a bird, got in your car, fell asleep at the wheel and inadvertently caused the deaths of ten people to be "fate".

[Lewis]

He probably came up with that mindset when he went bald and has just adapted it to other unfortunate events.

[Spikey M]

True. Although whatever conclusion you came to so that you could sleep at night, you would also probably keep it to yourself, wouldn't you? And not go on record telling the media you believe the fact that you stayed up all night texting a bird, got in your car, fell asleep at the wheel and inadvertently caused the deaths of ten people to be "fate".

It does bring an unfortunate dose of narcissism to the table, yes.

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-56234900

I'm a bit puzzled by moving country to get out of the limelight, only to give prime time interviews to Oprah and James Cordon, it has to be said.

[Queenslander]

How many millions would those 2 interviews pull in for them?

[Shindig]

It's astonishing, really. She can act, he's an ex-serviceman. And yet, in the need for self-sufficiency, they plump for that.

[Spikey M]

It just makes no sense. They apparently FLED the media, but I now see more of them than ever.

If you couldn't be arsed with the Royal bollocks and just want to live it up in LA with the celebs then just own it. Only a handful of 70+ weirdos would particularly care.

[Yevrah]

I felt sorry for them at the time, but they should have just said that they didn't want to do all the royal shit. If you're being hounded by the media and you don't like that and want to change it, you don't then invite Oprah and Corden into your life.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The royal family and Americans don't mix. The royal family is (by necessity for its survival) about austere duty and public service (hence they can't handle having knobheads like Andrew around), whereas America is about glamour and money. Like Wallis Simpson before her, Meghan will have come over here expecting the fairy princess treatment and been absolutely baffled by the cultural differences and by the lack of media fawning. In America everyone with money is structurally protected against most forms of censure. Here we are much more cynical and the press take no prisoners. She'll have decided she hated it, and then decided to move back to the comfortable world of LA without wrecking her marriage, which means Harry coming with her leaving the firm. She then has nothing to do because she's abandoned her career, and she knows nothing else except just to be in the public eye and drawing attention to herself.

'The press', whilst no angels, are just a convenient scapegoat. She also seems to have become a convenient moral pin up girl for the British left, which is a curious one. Really though it's a fable about the massive differences between the US and Britain which are often missed as the former's monoculture extends its tentacles year by year.

[Kikó]

You can want to be famous on your own terms rather than by proxy via being in the Royal Family. I don't think being famous necessarily means they want the media digging into what Megan's dad thinks about her or some other bollocks.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If you don't want to be in the Royal Family then don't marry Prince Harry, or if you must marry Prince Harry, then make him leave it for you.

She wanted to be in the Royal Family but didn't like what it was when she got there and beat a hasty retreat. I'm not sure that is the Royal Family's fault any more or less than it is hers. The two things just aren't compatible.

[Ian]

"The press take no prisoners" is just one of those euphemisms for people/a group being cunts, like when somebody is A Character, doesn't Suffer Fools Gladly or they Just Call It Like They See It.

No, as "The Left" would have you believe she hasn't had a hard time of it from the press just because she's a bit foreign and brown to be in our precious family of philandering pro-nonce inbreds. But it's also not true that they haven't been cunts around the whole thing, and switched between acting like the spiteful wounded party and fawning over wedding dresses and babies. They can't moan about fame when they court it on their own terms, they both know how this shit works better than that and presumably don't need the money at this stage. The tabloids shouldn't be digging like mad into somebody's past then gleefully rolling around in it like a pig in shit and then pretending they don't understand why said person might want them to fuck off.

Also anybody who actually wants to be part of the Royal Family wants their head read.

[Yevrah]

You can want to be famous on your own terms rather than by proxy via being in the Royal Family. I don't think being famous necessarily means they want the media digging into what Megan's dad thinks about her or some other bollocks.

Which the press will always continue to do as long as they're both in the spotlight. If they genuinely thought it would stop just because Harry gave up his title, irrespective of what else they did, then they're actual morons.

[Jimmy Floyd]

You know what you're getting into when you marry Prince Harry. She isn't some poor innocent darling. It's much the same as if one of us normies chose to marry a slaughterhouse worker, we'd have to be prepared for the house to stink of animal guts. Either it's worth it or it isn't, up to you.

[Spikey M]

What sort of discount do they get on Steak do you reckon?

[Lewis]

Short of actually going and living a private life, like when European royals marry nobodies and get normal jobs/quietly enjoy their millions, ironically their best bet for living a half-way normal life was just being working royals. They would have maintained the widespread public goodwill that they enjoyed until they started moaning (something people forget making it about her being barely black), and they could have bullied/gamed the press to a much greater extent than they can now.

[Don]

That bish is bad news, it was clear since day. Harry will end up in a very dark place in the coming years now that he's chosen her above family.

[Jimmy Floyd]

A true all-timer:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvY-uhHXcAUby3o?format=jpg&name=900x900

[Spikey M]

:lol:

[7om]

What the fuck.

[Ian]

Is this part of a very special genre of nonsense along with the 'now I suck off dogs for Quavers' one?

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56172456

I'd love to know how many women get their faces rearranged off the back of articles like this.

[Ian]

Yeah surely giving away the name of the thing is incredibly counterproductive? Like the thing they have in some bars where it's like "Go to the bar and ask for x" makes sense because that's easy enough to hide what you're doing.

[Disco]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/horse-racing/56234556

Lol at all the outrage and hand wringing over this, what did they think went on in horse racing?

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56237818

Lol

[Jimmy Floyd]

Why do people in these situations always say 'I apologise for any offence caused'? Is it some legal wriggle that their lawyers tell them to do? Apologise for what you did wrong, not for the offence it caused.

[niko_cee]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/horse-racing/56234556

Lol at all the outrage and hand wringing over this, what did they think went on in horse racing?

I was wondering the same. Is it really that bad?


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56237818

Lol

You know it must be serious if you actually get sentenced to jail time in Europe. Even if you do serve it 'at home', lol. Fuck knows what you'd have to do to go to prison itself (assuming they exist). Presumably be poor and/or foreign.

[Queenslander]

Cherubs.


A South Australian private school has promised to act on calls for greater cultural awareness training after a video was circulated showing students "lynching" a black baby doll.

The short video, which was posted to social media app Snapchat, shows a group of Trinity College students in uniform laughing as they use hat strings to tie the doll around the neck and hang it from a tree.

The students had been given a black and white baby doll as part of a classroom project, and hung the black doll from a tree in the video.





https://www.sbs.com.au/news/elite-south-australian-private-school-issues-apology-after-laughing-students-were-filmed-lynching-black-doll

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56241653

That website needs to be reinstated immediately.

[Ian]

'Recipe Filter' on Chrome is meant to do the same thing

[Queenslander]

Get it together fellas.


Australia is set to effectively ban a far-right extremist group for the first time with UK-based Sonnenkrieg Division (SKD) to be formally listed as a terrorist organisation.



https://www.sbs.com.au/news/neo-nazi-group-set-to-become-first-right-wing-terrorist-organisation-listed-in-australia

[Spikey M]

A cursory Wikipedia search tells me that it's the UK branch of an American (of course) Far Right Group... with 18 members.

There seems to be hundreds of these little groups, mind. As you say, get it together lads.

[Queenslander]

Peter Dutton swears to us they are dangerous.

[Dquincy]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56241653

That website needs to be reinstated immediately.

That's a great website. So annoying when you're looking for a recipe online and you have to scroll through someone's life story before getting to the ingredients. Cunts.

[Shindig]

"After the death of my first child, this ravioli really taught me how to live."

[Spikey M]

*insert multivitamin advert here*

[Dquincy]

"After the death of my first child, this ravioli really taught me how to live."

:D

[SvN]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56241653

That website needs to be reinstated immediately.

I read the Twitter thread and genuinely felt my blood boiling. Most of the attention was about it being a white male taking away income from non-white females, and tagging his employer to try and get him sacked. The world has gone bonkers, and it's past saving.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Far be it from me to be a contrarian, but is it that hard to scroll down to where the recipe is? They're the content creator, so if they want to put in 500 words of guff about how their uncle Stuart used to make them lick this ragu off his ballsack then it's up to them. They don't owe you a concise recipe.

[Shindig]

Binny Shah-Patel says she shares recipes that have a personal connection to her late grandmother.

You know what recipes have a connection to other people? All of them. It's not fucking special. Do these idiots think food only goes back two generations?

It was shut on a matter of copyright and that's absurd.

[Spikey M]

Far be it from me to be a contrarian, but is it that hard to scroll down to where the recipe is? They're the content creator, so if they want to put in 500 words of guff about how their uncle Stuart used to make them lick this ragu off his ballsack then it's up to them. They don't owe you a concise recipe.

The recipe is rarely in one place. There will be 4 adverts and 3 pictures between each step. And if you're really lucky, they'll have each step on different pages with snazzy adverts that you have to watch 15 seconds of before being able to read each one.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Well that's how they make their money / stay vaguely solvent. It's better than having to go out and buy a Delia hardback.

I'm surprised someone hasn't made a Netflix/Spotify type thing for recipes where you pay £3/month and get everything in one place on an app. Probably because there's so much great stuff out there gratis, in which case there isn't a problem.

[Spikey M]

I have a cupboard / kindle full of books that says it isn't.

[hfswjyr]

Recipes on the website were only visible to the user who imported them, “similar to if a user had printed the recipe or copied it into a [document]”, he wrote in a series of posts on Twitter.

The poor guy is being bashed for putting notepad online.

[Kikó]

Far be it from me to be a contrarian, but is it that hard to scroll down to where the recipe is? They're the content creator, so if they want to put in 500 words of guff about how their uncle Stuart used to make them lick this ragu off his ballsack then it's up to them. They don't owe you a concise recipe.

Do agree with this. Unfortunately, websites cost money to host and run.

Also, Stuart's ballsack raghu is one of the best.

[Spikey M]

They obviously have a market and fair play to them, but it remains annoying

In all honesty, the life story is probably more annoying than the adverts. The adverts actually serve a purpose. The unnecessary and made up backstory of how you discovered Moussaka is just obnoxious.

Shut the fuck up about your trip to Santorini with your your Grandad in 1992 and tell me how many cloves of garlic, dickhead.

[Ian]

Seeing as I'm too lazy to actually install the Chrome add-on I tend to just hit End now and scroll up.

[Kikó]

They obviously have a market and fair play to them, but it remains annoying

In all honesty, the life story is probably more annoying than the adverts. The adverts actually serve a purpose. The unnecessary and made up backstory of how you discovered Moussaka is just obnoxious.

Shut the fuck up about your trip to Santorini with your your Grandad in 1992 and tell me how many cloves of garlic, dickhead.

4 cups.

[Spikey M]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/pontins-blacklist-ireland-boris-johnson-b1810387.html?utm_source=upday&utm_medium=referral

Fucking hell. :|

[Lewis]

:lol:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They should be thankful that they can't go to a Pontins.

[Spikey M]

What is Pontins? It's basically Butlins, right?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Yeah, they're a little smaller thus cheaper and their entertainers wear blue coats instead of red apparently.

[Offshore Toon]

tell me how many cloves of garlic, dickhead.
At least double what they specify.

[Spikey M]

1366687806052048896?s=19

I was 1 letter away from being banned from Pontins. :D

Boydy had a bit of a close shave n'all.

Oi Giggles, you safe?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Giggles is definitely an O'Reilly.

[Shindig]

I'm going with McHarg.

[Boydy]

Giggles used to have his full name as his username.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Oh, I always wondered who it was posting as Fintan McGarrigle.

[Spikey M]

Giggles is Lewis Betts?

[Kikó]

I used to love Pontins. We used to go off the back of the Super Soaraway Sun's £10 holidays. Properly depressing good fun.

Edit: I just remembered I won a dance competition and won some watch. Fucking hell I must have looked like a twat.

[Shindig]

I thought that story was going to give us the origin of the walking boots.

[Lewis]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/couple-lose-182m-euromillions-jackpot-23589563


A couple claimed they missed out on a £182m EuroMillions jackpot when their numbers were drawn but their ticket payment didn’t go through. They had played the same numbers for five weeks in a row, before all seven digits appeared in Friday night's draw. Rachel explained how she had set up her account to automatically buy a EuroMillions ticket for each draw - but when payment for Friday's ticket was attempted, the lottery account did not have enough funds.

I'm not sure you would ever get over that (the Camelot spokesperson hardly helping).

[mugbull]

This loser ginger with a Carhartt shirt doesn't deserve $10

[Alex]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56251452


Streaming platform Twitch has backtracked on a new policy to change its spelling of "women" after criticism from transgender communities.

The company had said it would use the term "womxn" in order to be more gender neutral in its language.

But LGBT communities online called the change transphobic because it suggested trans women were not women.

I feel like I'm living inside an episode of Brass Eye or something sometimes.

[Shindig]

You can imagine someone at Twitch's head office shrugging and asking what they hell people want.

[Queenslander]

And there is pushback from the white nationalist corner.

The comments section from real accounts is mental.

https://www.facebook.com/125982670754724/posts/4317945444891738/


It could soon be illegal to fly the Nazi flag in Victoria as state moves to combat hate crime

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/it-could-soon-be-illegal-to-fly-the-nazi-flag-in-victoria-as-state-moves-to-combat-hate-crime

[igor_balis]

Those recipe articles with someone's life story are really annoying but most #contentcreators I've seen talking about them basically admit they know they're shit and annoying but they have to do it for search engine optimization or some shit.

[Baz]

I was wondering the same. Is it really that bad?
Of course it’s that bad. One of, if not the best trainer of racehorses has been exposed for not actually giving a shit about horses in his yard. This has come a fortnight before the biggest horse racing event of the year (Ascot can suck a dick) and now the majority of owners are removing the horses from his yard and moving them elsewhere - including the highly coveted, unbeaten, odds-on favourite for the Mares Novice Chase, Envoi Allen.

Then on the back of the leaked photo of Gordon Elliott straddling a dead horse and flipping the peace sign, a video of jockey Rob James comes out of him pretending to shag a different dead horse. Yet another person who is expected to put a horses welfare above anything else, yet he’s seen having a laugh over a dead horse. Disgraceful.

There’s also rumours of Elliott using a cattle prod thingy on a horse called Labaik, and shooting another horse and just leaving it out on the field for other horses to see, but I don’t think there’s any evidence of this [yet].

Gonna be a weird Cheltenham festival with most of Elliott’s horses under someone else’s name, no amateur jockeys and no crowd.

[Spikey M]

Anyone that thought race horse owners cared about their horses beyond their money making properties is a bit of an idiot.

[Baz]

Anyone who thinks people involved with horse racing don’t care about horses is a bit of an idiot.

For a start, Gordon Elliott is a trainer, not an owner.

[Spikey M]

Part of the owners team, then. The whole sport is rife with dead horses. Nobody cares.

[Ian]

I'm sure there are those who do care but being involved in horse racing doesn't strike me as the best way to express that.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I reckon of all the 'big' sports, horse racing is probably in the most long-term trouble. Maybe rugby union as well once the steroid and concussion problems get ennumerated.

[Spikey M]

Yeah, there'll be some stable hands and vets whose dream it is/was to work with horses, but that's about it. We're talking about a sport that pumps these animals full of poison to make them run faster, run for longer and jump higher, then puts a bullet between their eyes when they get injured doing so. It is not a long hop between not caring about that shit and actually finding it funny.

[SvN]

There’s also rumours of Elliott using a cattle prod thingy on a horse called Labaik, and shooting another horse and just leaving it out on the field for other horses to see, but I don’t think there’s any evidence of this [yet].


:D :D :D

"Shit lads, we could be next".

[Lofty]

In my admittedly limited experience horses arent too bothered by the sight of dead horses. They know exactly what the fucking van that collects them is about though.

[Disco]

Horses are surprised by anything and everything and it could be something new on any given day.

[Disco]

I reckon of all the 'big' sports, horse racing is probably in the most long-term trouble. Maybe rugby union as well once the steroid and concussion problems get ennumerated.

Horse racing is entirely dependent on gambling and as such has almost nothing to do with the animals themselves. The most bent past time in existence and it's what more idiots than you can count choose to bet on every day. Incredible really.

[niko_cee]

and shooting another horse and just leaving it out on the field for other horses to see


I'm sorry, this is just straight :D.

Reminiscent of Stewart Lee's Horse in a field bit which I can't find a link to for the life of me (comedy vehicle S2E2).

[Jimmy Floyd]

Horse racing is entirely dependent on gambling and as such has almost nothing to do with the animals themselves. The most bent past time in existence and it's what more idiots than you can count choose to bet on every day. Incredible really.

Indeed, but now that you can gamble on everything under the sun, horse racing's constituency is smaller than ever. Chuck in a load of animal welfare concerns and you've got a bit of a problem, I think.

That said, boxing involves beating people up and aiming for significant head injury on live TV and the public still seem to get stoked for 'big fights', so who knows what these things can weather.

[Spikey M]

Boxers do it fully aware of their doping and brain damage risk, mind.

Horse Racing is just shit. I'm no Animal Rights nutter, so I generally don't pay to much attention to it, but it probably should be banned if Animal Welfare is a thing we take seriously and, again, it's baffling that anyone that likes it could be surprised by the complete lack of care the horses are shown by their owners.

It's the same as Greyhound racing. We had an ex-racing Greyhound when I was a kid. We got him from a rescue home, where he had eventually ended up after someone found him in a field having been shot with an airgun. They are racing tools, not animals.

[Kikó]

:D :D :D

"Shit lads, we could be next".

Arf.

If it works for the Mafia then..

[Queenslander]

Greyhounds are exploited more than horses.

Mass graves and shit down here

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

:D :D :D

"Shit lads, we could be next".

It's like Karl Pilkington thinking that if you place an axe near a chicken coop they'll lay more eggs because they're scared of the consequences.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56266514

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/5E64/production/_117346142_hitler.png

How can anyone think that logo on the left resembles Hitler?

[Shindig]

Neither of them do.

[Offshore Toon]

TTH should come together to force a large company to change something. All it takes is a few tweets for an opportunistic blogger to put together an article.

[Disco]

The one in the middle looks a bit like him.

[Lewis]

'Matalan forced to apologise after its "Beadle-handed Webcam Nonce" past knee-length shorts provoke...'

[Spikey M]

:D

[Don]

I'm still blown away by the tech involved in the delivery robots we have here and this is another similar advancement.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56266494

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvojX4JWYAcxVds?format=jpg&name=large

:D

[Pepe]

:harold:

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-56286719

:cool:

[Shindig]

They're telling me how it happens in the article and I still don't believe them.

[Dquincy]

F me. That is just mental. Hopefully a one off incident by a lunatic.

IzzSoMedia/status/1367656141447192576?s=19

[Spikey M]

Whatever it was, it's gone.

[Dquincy]

Whatever it was, it's gone.
Now?

https://twitter.com/JonathanCanyon/status/1367744731032285189?s=19

[Spikey M]

Unfortunately that one did work.

[Shindig]

They normally just rape them.

[Dquincy]

:lol:









:nono:

[Baz]

If anyone wants to watch the video, or see uncensored pics, let me know.

[Kikó]

What a weirdo.

[randomlegend]

I met a schizophrenic guy once who'd cut his mum's head off.

[Baz]

IDGI :henn0rz:

[Magic]

Some Dennis Nielsen wannabe chopped up his bird and her kid and dug a 4ft grave then cemented it over and nobody really noticed. In one of those new build estates where literally everyone can see in your back garden. Weird.

[Boydy]

And then boasted about it on an internet forum.

[igor_balis]

:D

[Lewis]

Not with a four foot grave.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56307153

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has listed his first ever tweet for sale, with bids reaching $2.5m (£1.8m).

"Just setting up my twttr," the post, sent from Mr Dorsey's account in March 2006, reads.

It will be sold as a non-fungible token (NFT) - a unique digital certificate that states who owns a photo, video or other form of online media.

But the post will remain publicly available on Twitter even after it has been auctioned off.

The buyer will receive a certificate, digitally signed and verified by Mr Dorsey, as well as the metadata of the original tweet. The data will include information such as the time the tweet was posted and its text contents.

:cab:

[Shindig]

Fucking tokens. :D Fuck this Earth.

[Dquincy]

The world is changing to be ever more moronic. But maybe it's a generational thing. I'm sure our parents thought the same when we were young.

[Queenslander]

Lindsay Lohan has her own as well apparently they are just tax a dodge.

https://decrypt.co/57366/lindsay-lohan-bitcoin-lightning-nft-sells-50000

[Alex]

I think I might prefer the never ending COVID news cycle to "Harry and Meghan", you know.

[Spikey M]

Is there a world in which it wasn't Prince Philip that was worrying about how dark the sprog was going to come out?

[Ian]

No, it was absolutely him.

[Ian]

Actually I suppose it could have been Andrew if brown kids just don't turn him on.

[Alex]

He probably just straight-up asked her to her face too.

[Alex]

Actually I suppose it could have been Andrew if brown kids just don't turn him on.

:D

[Jimmy Floyd]

Between Prince Philip's spotless reputation and Danny Baker's BBC career, that child has a lot to answer for.

[Lewis]

I don't believe that particular allegation, because anybody who was truly anxious about the arrival about a quarter-caste child would be much more concerned about how ugly it was liable to be than about its darkness. And sure enough, it is an ugly little thing with a pasty ginger complexion. What people need to be looking into is this wedding claim. She might just be thick enough to have mistaken the dry-run for a wedding ceremony, but if not then their marriage is invalid and the Archbishop of Canterbury has knowingly presided over a farce.

[Ian]

I can't profess to being an expert on how racists think but "a racist wouldn't be worried about brownness" seems a flimsy defence when there's the much simpler reason, if you choose not to believe the accusation, that they both just think Prince Phillip / the accused is a cunt and decided to make up a lie that almost everybody would go "Yep, that sounds about right."

And it's not as if the royal family have much room to worry about ugliness when half of them look like their parents decided to get the horses in to give them a break from all the incest.

[Spikey M]

Also in a racists mind I imagine darkness and ugliness overlap quite a bit.

[Jimmy Floyd]

An interesting quirk about royal ugliness is that if you look at any photo of princesses Beatrice and Eugenie together, one of them always looks alright and the other like a mule, but it's not always the same way round.

[Lewis]

I actual reason I don't believe it is because it sounds like shite and they won't say who it was, and they also don't seem to understand who does and doesn't get particular titles.

[Yevrah]

Whether it's true or not, telling everyone about it but not saying who it was is a low move.

[Lewis]

Oprah (lol at that) has confirmed that she was told it wasn't the Queen or Prince Philip who said it, so it was either Charles, William, their women, or somebody completely irrelevant who you could easily throw under the bus if you wanted to make a point. They seem to have gone rather overboard in keeping the Queen out of it, which again makes you cynical because she is the one person literally everybody likes, even though presumably not a lot goes on without her knowing about it at the very least. It's a bit like saying Manchester United ran David Beckham out of town.

[Yevrah]

I did have sympathy for them both at one point, but their approach in the last six months seems completely at odds with the desire for the media to leave them alone, so one has to wonder whether they just couldn't be arsed with the no doubt incredibly tedious stuff you have to do as members of the royal family.

[Don]

It was all that racism what done it.

[Lewis]

I did have sympathy for them both at one point, but their approach in the last six months seems completely at odds with the desire for the media to leave them alone, so one has to wonder whether they just couldn't be arsed with the no doubt incredibly tedious stuff you have to do as members of the royal family.

Yeah, for all people want to spin it as everyone having been hostile from the start, everyone supported - or at least understood - their wanting out of it. It was only when it rapidly became clear that actually they just wanted to go and be American celebrities instead that people went decisively off them.

[Magic]

The Royal Family have their own HR department. Don't know why I found this so funny. Need one in mine too.

[niko_cee]

Aren't they exempt from basically all laws (as regards employment etc) so it would be interesting to know what that department does.

[Magic]

https://www.royal.uk/meet-our-people-yasmin

meet-our-people-yasmin

yasmin

:eyemouth:

[Magic]

The Privy Purse and Treasurer’s Office enables the Household to operate as a business. This includes vital support functions such as Finance, HR, IT and Telecoms, Internal Audit and Property Services. Many of the team hold professional qualifications in their field, and collaboration is at the heart of all that they do.

They have an IT department too. :D

The security policies on that omg. :uhoh:

[Spikey M]

https://theroyalhousehold.tal.net/vx/lang-en-GB/mobile-0/appcentre-1/brand-3/xf-3f76c93ec00f/candidate/so/pm/1/pl/4/opp/2358-Digital-Learning-Advisor/en-GB

Go on Majjers.

[Lewis]

Thirty grand a year to work in Central London on something important lol is there any wonder half our state is useless.

[Spikey M]

Do you think they're made of money?

[John Arne]

Quality trolling from Burger King on International Woman's Day

1368849338596745223

[Ian]

KFC's branding has changed a lot since I was last in one of their outlets.

I wonder how many people will have a grump about the initial tweet and not even bother reading the follow-ups.

[Kikó]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_j35t3GCsk

Lol.

[Don]

I don't get these pranks. They did something similar with influencers. Yes, people are willing to say and do anything if the price is right. The Katie Hopkins one had a good pic taken with it at least.

[mo]

Why on earth did they interview Mikhail Gorbachev?

[Shindig]

By the looks of it they didn't want the royal duties but got peeved about being cut out of the money. Hence hitting the talk show circuit as if neither of them have any discernable skills. What did you do in the Army, Harry?

[Waffdon]

https://i.ibb.co/VQWfTmT/5-D9-F29-BE-0-DC9-4-E01-B010-5-DD30-F0-A34-AA.jpg

[Lewis]

1368860227395854337

[Shindig]

"Drive Safe, mummy." <snipers appear and the kid just smiles>

[Lewis]

There is a Muslim doctor on the BBC programme blaming racism for disproportionate Bengali/Pakistani covid death rates whilst simultaneously bemoaning the fact it made things difficult for relatives to assist in preparing their dead for religious burials.

[Lewis]

The two talking heads discussing Bengali/Pakistani poverty have been a professor and a think tank tosser with Indian surnames. :happycry:

[randomlegend]

An interesting quirk about royal ugliness is that if you look at any photo of princesses Beatrice and Eugenie together, one of them always looks alright and the other like a mule, but it's not always the same way round.

Everyone should be doing an image search to see how true this is. Amazing :D