News of the day

[niko_cee]

I see the good folk at Charlie Hebdo are are it again. :cool:

Let's hope for their sake that Nicholas Witchell doesn't have access to an Ak-47.

[Raoul Duke]

Poor Dire Maria: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/mar/15/angel-di-maria-leaves-psg-game-reported-robbery-marquinhos

[Kikó]

https://twitter.com/NetworksManager/status/1371146077093646339?s=09

Click at your own peril. 4 hit by lightning.

[Shindig]

The last one really took his time. :D

[Yevrah]

This might be the dumbest question I've ever asked, but did they all die?

[Baz]

Surprised only ones dead. The wimp of the four, obviously.

[Shindig]

I'm not surprised it's happened in India.

[Spikey M]

I think it was 2017 that a house in the next street got hit by lightning and caught fire. Sounded like a bomb went off and set off half the car alarms in the area.

From that day I've never understood how anyone survives a direct hit.

[Ian]

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

Roy. :cool:

EDIT: I've read about this guy a few times but didn't know he'd topped himself. No wonder.

Roy. :(

[Lewis]

Malcolm X was a cunt and something of an idiot, but the Nation of Islam were (are) a genuinely embarrassing set of retards, so people have had to make things up about his death as part of distancing him from them.

[Lewis]

Normally it takes a few weeks for the machine to kick in and dilute the protest's original message (murdered black man turning into Fawlty Towers being redacted etc.) but this protest seems to have managed it on its own in a matter of days.

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A few nonces who transitioned in prison on there as well. Top effort.

[igor_balis]

The last one really took his time. :D

Ric flair bump WOOO

[Dquincy]

The Royal family have played a blinder here. Hats off.

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[Spikey M]

Those kisses are shit.

[Jimmy Floyd]

They're not kisses, they're pluses, each one representing a person that would need to die before cousin Archie is next in line to the throne.

[Shindig]

Yevrah's future. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56399535)

[niko_cee]

Those kisses are shit.

Fucking well observed though if it's a ruse.

[Raoul Duke]

You know they say "papa" in the shit, affected "Nicole" way too, the little twats

[Shindig]

It's still a naff thing to do, mind. Sending cards to dead relatives you never knew. Unless they conducted a séance which would I would absolutely approve of.

[Dquincy]

It's still a naff thing to do, mind. Sending cards to dead relatives you never knew. Unless they conducted a séance which would I would absolutely approve of.

Lol. That's what made me chuckle. It's one thing to do it for your dead nan whom you sent some lovely summers with. But to do it for someone that died long before you were even a glint in your father's eye is PR'tastic. It's not even subtle.

[Jimmy Floyd]

You know they say "papa" in the shit, affected "Nicole" way too, the little twats

As opposed to the Bouba Diop way?

[Spikey M]

There is no right way to say Papa, but if there were it would be Pa Pa, not Puparrrr.

[Dquincy]

Puparrrr. :D

[niko_cee]

As opposed to the Bouba Diop way?

The 'Nicole way' is more inflected surely, unless that's also how people say M. Bouba Diop/Pizza Johns.

Papa Shango. :cool:

[Raoul Duke]

As opposed to the Bouba Diop way?

Exactly. Madonna had it right.

[Dquincy]

http://news.sky.com/story/sarah-everard-government-promises-immediate-steps-to-reassure-women-and-girls-in-wake-of-killing-12247200

Wonder what these immediate steps will be.

I don't doubt that women get harassed more so than men, but this was poor lady that got killed was done so by a lunatic. Surely the priority is to have less lunatics on the streets as the first item on the agenda.

As Niko said (I think), it seems that every main news headline of a bad event must action a deep review of society and it's alleged failings....mostly led on social media.

[Spikey M]

http://news.sky.com/story/sarah-everard-government-promises-immediate-steps-to-reassure-women-and-girls-in-wake-of-killing-12247200

Wonder what these immediate steps will be.

I don't doubt that women get harassed more so than men, but this was poor lady that got killed was done so by a lunatic. Surely the priority is to have less lunatics on the streets as the first item on the agenda.

As Niko said (I think), it seems that every main news headline of a bad event must action a deep review of society and it's alleged failings....mostly led on social media.

They're releasing a castration passport to go along with the vaccine one.

[Shindig]

All women must be accompanied by a man or another, more threatening woman.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The problem is men, aided by their habitual social empowerment at the expense of women, being unable or unwilling to rein in the expression of their sexual urges.

Good luck with Boris Johnson heading a taskforce to deal with that.

[Baz]

I'm quite a fan of the outrage being shown by people actually thinking anyone wants a 6pm curfew for men. Absolute thickos.

[Spikey M]

I'm quite a fan of the outrage being shown by people actually thinking anyone wants a 6pm curfew for men. Absolute thickos.

A guy I went to school with has been going in heavy on this.

"6PM, Best get home. Not because of Covid, because of my Penis!"

Many people have tried to explain that the curfew was a knowingly ridiculous suggestion designed to combat the idea that women shouldn't be out after dark, but he isn't to be swayed.

Bless him.

[Baz]

It's more to make men aware of the self-imposed curfew women put on themselves as they don't feel safe going out after dark, but yeah.

[niko_cee]

Whilst I wouldn't say it particularly bothers me, I do find the double-standards in play with broad, and inaccurate pontifications quite irksome these days. I would cite good old Donnie T from across the water as the prime example of say something stupid and get [rightly] pilloried. What was it he said about the streets of London not being safe due to the scourge of Muslim extremism? Absolute BS, but apparently, 6 months later they're not safe for women. Erm, ok. Inject yourself with bleach? What a fucking moron. Covid vaccines are quasi-ineffective? Gallic shrug from the outrage mob.

I have no idea of the exact context of that comment, but I would say it is inadvisable in a climate where swingeing curbs on freedom have become de riguer government policy, and that 'I was using hyperbole to prove a point' is pretty dodgy ground generally (when applied by causes you are less supportive of).

[Spikey M]

It feels like we need to return to the days of "life's a bitch" and "shit happens" window stickers.

Because that's all this is. Someone bumped into the wrong person at the wrong time. Shit for the family, sure. And the argument that many men have a problem with violence is undeniably true, but short of adding Estrogen to the water I don't know how you combat that.

The urge to fight and fuck is somewhat stitched into our DNA. We spend much time making sure people know that violence against women isn't ok. It can't be a surprise to anyone.

[Ian]

https://static.standard.co.uk/2021/03/15/17/534ac4b7fd53b8768d7cb468720ab1c3Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaC wxNjE1OTE0NDg3-2.58628730.jpg

How has this cost £2.6m?

I'm in favour of Prime Minister Henry Hoover though.

[Spikey M]

Last night's Panorama will answer that for you.

[Ian]

I'm obviously not going to be going back to watch that but this (https://www.itv.com/news/2021-03-05/downing-street-spends-26m-on-refurbs-for-white-house-style-press-briefings) breaks it down a bit better but still a bit vague so I'm going to assume that's just how much they've paid to jizz-proof those Union Flags.

Also had a good lol at "This spending is in the public interest as the new broadcasting of lobby briefings will increase public accountability and transparency about the work of this Government now and in the future." Sure it will.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The flag stuff is such American bollocks. We're Britain, we don't need to wave a flag (or 4 flags) in your face. We just colour your land in pink.

[Spikey M]

The answer, as you well know, is because one of Matt Hancocks mates over-ordered some blue carpet for a job.

[Ian]

:D

"Nice one, Matt, shall we call it ten grand per square foot?"

[Spikey M]

Blue is a bit EU for me. Have another 5 million and do it in white (red would be too communist).

[Kikó]

The flag stuff is such American bollocks. We're Britain, we don't need to wave a flag (or 4 flags) in your face. We just colour your land in pink.

Actually, what the last year has brought out is how much we (politicians) need to show how much we are flag wankers.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Actually, what the last year has brought out is how much we (politicians) need to show how much we are flag wankers.

I suspect it's 25 year old idiot spads misreading polling that produces that. The public are patriotic in the sense that they think well of their country (unlike Corbyn, for example) but I think there's a big difference between that and getting hard ons for flags and symbols.

[Kikó]

There is a house a couple of doors down from my grans that erected a flagpole to get an england flag in the front garden. It's one of the strangest things I've ever seen.

[Shindig]

My parents used to live near a flagpole household. It's kind of quaint when it's out in the suburbs.

[Jimmy Floyd]

There's a permanent cross of St George in a garden just across from me, which I can often see fluttering from my bedroom window. Very handy for those mornings when I wake up from a bad dream thinking I'm French.

[Baz]

Two flag nonces near me. One just has a Jamaican flag up constantly and the other seems to switch between random Proud Boyd approved designs.

[Shindig]

Now I can respect a proud Jamiaican. Or a Proud Boyd. :D

[Ian]

ProudBoyds. :cool:

[Yevrah]

Two news stories that horrified me in different ways today:

Preparing for some nasty shit to go down in our lifetimes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56413920

And fucking hell, we really are an unbelievable species.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-56411157

[Lewis]

I interviewed for a nuclear policy job in 2019 and said that, should we choose to keep pretending that we're a credible nuclear power, we needed more warheads to do it (my number was 'closer to three-hundred', and twice that if you want to hassle China). I got the same 'What about the Non-Proliferation Treaty?' response off them that all of the anti-nuclear campaigners are coming out with, but all that does is commit you to thinking about talking about things. If it wasn't meaningless nobody would have signed it.

Not that it will happen. We'll have at least two more strategic reviews in the next decade, and each of them will scale the numbers back, so they will suddenly decide in around 2029 that the current number is exactly right.

[7om]

What makes a country a credible nuclear power?

[Shindig]

To be honest, the only nuclear powers I fear are the ones just mental enough to drop one. Ahmedinejad's Iran, North Korea and that's it. Even then, I only worried the former might drop one on Israel whilst the latter might drop on in the sea off South Korea.

[Dquincy]

And fucking hell, we really are an unbelievable species.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-56411157

These developing countries are 2000 years behind the western world. Absolutely barbaric.

[Lewis]

What makes a country a credible nuclear power?

It means being capable of actually using what you have for what you want to use it for - so if North Korea wants them to directly threaten the Americans then they aren't, because their delivery systems are shit, but if they want them to hold off an invasion then maybe they are.

For decades our deterrent policy was based on the 'Moscow Criterion', which is the idea that if one submarine can flatten Moscow then the Soviet Union/Russia will at least think twice about pushing us to the brink (hence always having one chugging around out there). You could definitely flatten Moscow with one submarine, but the thinking behind it was that Moscow was of absolute importance to them because it contained ninety per cent of all the decision-making centres etc., which isn't really applicable to China, so a comparable policy aimed towards deterring them would need to be able to scrub about ten cities.

With that in mind, this can't really be aimed at China, and it's not really adding anything to whatever Russian policies currently exist (getting new tactical munitions might if NATO wants to Europeanise a bit), which is why it sounds like a wheeze to avoid any further reductions.

[mugbull]

The UK doesn't need more warheads. In terms of nuclear deterrence, the UK is basically an exclave of the US, so you can count our WMDs to your total. You should instead prioritize things you have a comparative advantage at, such as Stilton cheese

[Jimmy Floyd]

What if we want to bomb Spain and you don't?

[Shindig]

Mobilise ETA.

[Spikey M]

The UK doesn't need more warheads. In terms of nuclear deterrence, the UK is basically an exclave of the US, so you can count our WMDs to your total. You should instead prioritize things you have a comparative advantage at, such as Stilton cheese

The US just elected a Pro-EU candidate with significant Irish-American donors and a history of not being massively fond of the UK.

The US also has a history of not being particularly quick to back us in war. ~3 years late to both World Wars and opposed to the Falkland War all together.

We're just another military base to them.

[Don]

I was having a real grim day but this piece on Syrian war victims on BBC news has really sorted me out. Properly brutal stuff, the sort you wonder how it even got allowed to air on the news. Get it watched on iplayer if you missed it, first 10 mins of the news. God bless perspective.

[mugbull]

The US just elected a Pro-EU candidate with significant Irish-American donors and a history of not being massively fond of the UK.

The US also has a history of not being particularly quick to back us in war. ~3 years late to both World Wars and opposed to the Falkland War all together.

We're just another military base to them.

If someone nuked a military base of ours we’d be in it to win it

[Queenslander]

How interesting.


In New Zealand’s Southern Alps, braided rivers radiate turquoise from the glacial flows coming off snow-capped mountains. Breathtaking vistas like these have provided the backdrop for Hollywood epics like Lord of the Rings and underpin one of the world’s most recognised tourism campaigns, “100% Pure New Zealand”.

But behind New Zealand’s clean and green image is a dirty truth — its freshwater rivers are among the most polluted in the developed world. Last year, a government report found nearly 60 per cent of the country’s rivers carry pollution above acceptable levels, with 95 to 99 per cent of rivers in pastoral, urban and non-native forested areas contaminated

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-16/new-zealand-rivers-pollution-100-per-cent-pure/13236174?utm_medium=social&utm_content=sf243960431&utm_campaign=abc_hobart&utm_source=m.facebook.com&sf243960431=1

[Ian]

Probably explains the stunted growth of Hobbits.

[Dquincy]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/un-women-covid19-is-most-discriminatory-crisis-for-women-antonio-guterres-un-women-united-nations-donald-trump-joe-biden-b1817658.html%3famp

UN Women: COVID-19 is `most discriminatory crisis' for women

The bandwagon is on the move.

[Spikey M]

From what I've witnessed it's true that women are bearing the brunt of it. I work with 4 women with children. All of them have been looking after the kids at home whilst working. Myself and the other 2 dad's tend not to have to (thank fuck).

[Dquincy]

I've seen it the other way round where two fellas in my office asked to go on furlough as their wives also worked and they were struggling with childcare.

There are struggles on both sides of the equation.

[Lofty]

If someone nuked a military base of ours we’d be in it to win it

That will be a crumb of comfort to western europe during the ensuing nuclear winter.

[Queenslander]

Probably explains the stunted growth of Hobbits.

Only explanation of their under 18s.

Edit: I have a massive chip so I have to dig in when possuble.

[John Arne]

Doesn't it kill 2 men to every 1 woman?

[Queenslander]

Imagine voting for the Liberal Party.


Australia accused of flouting international obligations over child's 'disturbing' deportation to New Zealand

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/australia-accused-of-flouting-international-obligations-over-child-s-disturbing-deportation-to-new-zealand

[mugbull]

That will be a crumb of comfort to western europe during the ensuing nuclear winter.

Yeah, well, that wouldn’t happen, because nuking Europe would be akin to nuking Philadelphia.

You can count on us :happycry:

[Jimmy Floyd]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-56438842

I swear a Tokyo Olympics official resigns over something or other almost every week, but this is the best yet. I can only assume the brilliance of the gag was lost in translation.

[Shindig]

Can they get Beat Takeshi to introduce an obstacle course during the marathon?

[Queenslander]

Japan rules!

[Manc]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/18/toxic-chemicals-health-humanity-erin-brokovich

[Lewis]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9376341/Teacher-47-beaten-death-cage-fighter-ex-boyfriend.html

Is this bad because a woman was killed, or good because a nonce was killed?

[niko_cee]

How come we knew about these women being under a patio in Dundee considerably ahead of the beeb?

Or is their most recent story about it just a cobbling of older stuff?

[Spikey M]

Because we have Waff, our man on the street / because dead women are fashionable again.

[Shindig]

Mr Henderson said: "Many women have to get up early hours and go to work and they are fearful of coming out of their street and putting their key in their car door.

You could probably pick a better example than someone with their own transport.

[Queenslander]

Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!



The federal opposition says farm workers need to be guaranteed a minimum wage if they are paid according to how much produce they pick.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-19/labor-backs-union-push-to-change-farm-labour-piece-rates/13261510?utm_medium=social&utm_content=sf244077281&utm_campaign=fb_abc_news&utm_source=m.facebook.com&sf244077281=1

[Dquincy]

http://news.sky.com/story/goldman-sachs-junior-bankers-warn-bosses-they-could-quit-over-98-hour-working-week-12250846

98 hour weeks. :saywhat:

[Don]

I like how even the most prestigious of investment banking environments isn't safe from the soft shite brigade these days.

[Bernanke]

Joining GS and then complaining over sub 100 hour weeks. :happycry: Like fuck are you actually leaving if you went through all the bullshit to get there. You'll get a nice substance addiction, shorten your lifespan 5 years, and rake in more cash in bonuses than the average person makes in a year, it's all upside.

[Lewis]

If they're anything like actual GS they'll settle for ninety-seven hour weeks.

[Pepe]

I still don't believe that people actually work those hours. I think that they are full of shit.

[Danny]

I still don't believe that people actually work those hours. I think that they are full of shit.

100%.

There is an incredible amount of people over here that ignore a normal work life balance as though its some sort of badge of honour but thats just got to be bullshit

[phonics]

It's easy to do those kind of hours when you're just sitting in conference calls not actually doing shit.

[Shindig]

Or travel, assuming they can still run that racket in a pandemic.

[Kikó]

It's easy to work those hours when you're working in live deal environments. Just because they are at Goldman, it doesn't mean you should expect to have zero sleep. Just hire a few more grads.

[Shindig]

Haribo has a street value. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56461868)

[Kikó]

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What an egg.

[Ian]

Does he think his own subtitle is deeply ironic rather than actually true or does he just have an unusual level of self awareness for his sort?

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-56475333

2nd one in 2 weeks. :uhoh:

[Ian]

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/mar/22/bbc-chief-told-to-use-more-than-one-union-jack-in-annual-report

Thank goodness everybody's got their priorities right.

[Jimmy Floyd]

There really are some absolute morons who become MPs.

[Queenslander]

At least you dont have a bunch of rapists running up and down the halls.

[Ian]

Sounds like somebody doesn't love The Flag enough, traitor.

EDIT: Out the way, QL.

Also: what?

[Spikey M]

Would any non-moron want to be an MP?

Worse than MP's, are Councillors. I used to work with this cunt. (https://democracy.southend.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=1773)

I still have him on Facebook, asking his 'friends' why THIS CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT is not prioritising things he personally likes.

Give us a fucking dictator.

[Spikey M]

"Thankyou to the resident who brought to my notice the state of the pavement outside 1 Cliffsea Grove (The Priest's House at Our Lady Of Lourdes Roman Catholic Church.)

This has been reported to the Highways Team, who will inspect the site within 24 hours, and I will report back to you on how they get on."

A modern day hero.

[Queenslander]

Sounds like somebody doesn't love The Flag enough, traitor.

EDIT: Out the way, QL.

Also: what?

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/23/morrison-vows-to-fix-culture-of-parliament-and-acknowledges-rubbish-and-crap-endured-by-women

[Spikey M]

Our former PM once fucked a pigs head and that's just the news that they allowed to get out.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I like The Flag. It's nice to see it here and there as a reminder that one is part of a society that is greater than oneself. However, why it would have to feature on the pages of a textual report I have absolutely no idea. The text could say 'Flags flags flags! Get 'em up everywhere! A union jack froth on every canteen rice pudding! Tattoos of the flag on every presenter's bicep!' but this guy wouldn't like it if there weren't coloured pictures of it on the report, seems to be the gist.

Which brings me back to the point that explains basically all failings in modern life: people are too attached to pictures, and don't read enough.

[Kikó]

I like The Flag. It's nice to see it here and there as a reminder that one is part of a society that is greater than oneself. However, why it would have to feature on the pages of a textual report I have absolutely no idea. The text could say 'Flags flags flags! Get 'em up everywhere! A union jack froth on every canteen rice pudding! Tattoos of the flag on every presenter's bicep!' but this guy wouldn't like it if there weren't coloured pictures of it on the report, seems to be the gist.

Which brings me back to the point that explains basically all failings in modern life: people are too attached to pictures, and don't read enough.

TLDR version:
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61LE57aPW1L._AC_SL1500_.jpg

[Waffdon]

Flag shaggers are the weirdest people on the planet. Such nonce behaviour.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Like it. Nice low crotch to contain his massive Great British balls. Bit disappointed he hasn't got an NHS mention on there somewhere though.

[Spikey M]

I'm sure it's on the back of the flag.

[Ian]

Can't be, that is the back of the flag isn't it and he's holding it the wrong way?

Another traitor for the noose.

[Kikó]

Not even wearing a poppy.

[Shindig]

Or clapping.

[Lewis]

The flag stuff is a bit weird either way, but everyone was quite happy for it to be on pants and biscuit tins for twenty years when it was slightly ironic and Team GB non-threatening, so I just put it down as another thing people have found to seethe about the current government over since it seems to be mainly remain ponces and Scottish people who type in their accents.

[Shindig]

And I trust an airline more when there's a flag on it.

[Spikey M]

https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/78/590x/Plane-672496.jpg

[Shindig]

<looks at EgyptAir's record>

Fair. :D

[Queenslander]

Prime Minister of Australia.

:lol:


Earlier today I shared with Australians my profound regret and deep disappointment as I acknowledged the terrible mistreatment of women in this country over a long period, and specifically in relation to the disgraceful events that have occurred in our workplace at Parliament House. I meant what I said about having listened, and being committed to doing everything I can to make the changes we need to make to deal with these issues. I owe it to all women in this country, not least the women in my own life so precious to me. I owe it to them to do better.

In the course of today’s media conference when responding to further questions I deeply regret my insensitive response to a question from a News Ltd journalist by making an anonymous reference to an incident at News Ltd that has been rejected by the company. I accept their account. I was wrong to raise it, the emotion of the moment is no excuse.

I especially wish to apologise to the individual at the centre of the incident and others directly impacted. I had no right to raise this issue and especially without their permission.

What matters now is doing everything in my authority to take the actions that are needed to fix the culture in our Parliament and work to make Australia a safer place for women.

It is also of the utmost importance that I continue to focus on the needs of those facing our flood crisis, and continuing to lead our country out of the COVID-19 pandemic and global recession.

We have achieved a lot together. None of us may be perfect. We all have our faults, but when we come together as Australians we always achieve great things and can confront any challenge.

[Lewis]

'I would like to begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the kitchen sink/pile of ironing near which we gather today...'

[Queenslander]

:lol:

He has hidden behind his wife and daughters a few times as well.

Parliment House sounds like massive piss up.

[Lewis]

If we get a Sir Les Patterson comeback then they won't have been assaulted in vain.

[Queenslander]

If we get a Sir Les Patterson comeback then they won't have been assaulted in vain.

He would do a fine job just need to tweak the punchlines.

[Queenslander]

Carn Boris pile it on! :drool:


Scott Morrison
Australia's climate policies not ambitious enough for summit invite, Boris Johnson told Scott Morrison


https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/24/australias-climate-policies-not-ambitious-enough-for-summit-invite-boris-johnson-told-scott-morrison

[Queenslander]

Faaarrrk me! Early election is on the cards down here...



Sky News host Peta Credlin has accused Liberal staffers of holding gay “orgies” at Parliament House claiming she was dubbed “a bitch” for trying to sack staff involved in the behaviour.


Prime Minister Scott Morrison has accused the man who masturbated on desks of “shameful” behaviour and Finance Minister Simon Birmingham has urged them to “pack their bags”.

Ms Credlin said the names of other Liberal staffers involved in the masturbatory acts at Parliament House were known to her.

“The other three that Peter van Onselen broke in his story this week, I know who you are. I see you,” she said.

“The former minister who is alleged to have male prostitutes delivered to Parliament House … the former minister? I see you too.


Is Tony Abbott still working for you blokes? Id be lobbing some of these allegations his way.

https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/peta-credlin-claims-historical-gay-orgies-took-place-at-parliament-house/news-story/e2615b83019bcfd71d15a6a8b73a26ec

[Ian]

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/sailor-marvel-nirvana-among-unusual-23783384

"Smokey." :D

Also loving that there were still a few 'Khaleesi' and misspellings thereof knocking about, from people who presumably gave up before the end or somehow failed to understand the "setting thousands of people on fire" thing.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I never understood why people liked her at literally any stage. Even the book character had nothing going for her, but add in the wooden acting and there's not a lot to love.

[Ian]

No, neither the character or performance really had a redeeming feature.

[Yevrah]

I think inflicting the name of a Game of Thrones character, on your child, for life, is up there in the list of unpunishable crimes.

[Queenslander]

Those boys names are from crackhead families?

Edit: Whoops just remembered my poor nephew walks around with Cruz as a first name.

[Ian]

Also whoever has called their kid Bear-Blu may as well have just called him Rangers.

[Spikey M]

My daughter was telling us that she's been playing with Anne Boleyn at school alot recently and we had been wondering why a parent would do that to their child.

Then there was a picture of them playing together put on Tapestry (it's an app which schools use to keep parents updated these days) and it turns out that she's actually called Amber-Lynn, which is somehow worse and I desperately want to know if they did it on purpose or are just too thick to realise.

[Ian]

I thought the double-barrelled first names were questionable enough when looking down the list of Scottish ones and then saw a 'Tommylee' which is even worse.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I never understood why people liked her at literally any stage. Even the book character had nothing going for her, but add in the wooden acting and there's not a lot to love.

I recently went through them again as audiobooks (Roy Dotrice's accents are horseshit and ruin them) and I had forgotten how shit she was in the books.

[Shindig]

One of my cousins named their bairn after a Wood Elf. :moop:

[Ian]

Which one? Which wood elf I mean, not which child.

[niko_cee]

Then there was a picture of them playing together put on Tapestry (it's an app which schools use to keep parents updated these days) and it turns out that she's actually called Amber-Lynn, which is somehow worse and I desperately want to know if they did it on purpose or are just too thick to realise.

Deeper layers to that naming faux-pas as well, although probably best not to raise them in polite company.

I have some perfectly normal friends who have a daughter called Isla. Then they had another and called her Skye. I mean, really? The mum's a jock and all.

[Pepe]

How do English speakers pronounce Isla?

[niko_cee]

Eye-luh (I'm shit at attempting phonetic spelling).

[Shindig]

Aisle-ah.

[Pepe]

:harold:

[Shindig]

Which one? Which wood elf I mean, not which child.

Tauriel. What I'm hoping is they settle on Tori at some point.

[Pepe]

ease-lah would be semi-acceptable.

[Boydy]

"Crystal-Jordan" :sick:

[Ian]

Eye-la.

EDIT: Bit late. :D


Tauriel. What I'm hoping is they settle on Tori at some point.

Google tells me Tauriel is a film-only character from the awful Hobbit films??

[Boydy]

Honestly we should have a list of acceptable names and you can only pick from that. Some of these people are fucking their kids over from the very start. Crystal-Jordan or Diamond-Rose aren't going to become doctors or lawyers are they?

[Jimmy Floyd]

No doubt Pepe moops around campus talking about Caribbean ees-lands and wondering why he's been cancelled.

[Pepe]

Honestly we should have a list of acceptable names and you can only pick from that. Some of these people are fucking their kids over from the very start. Crystal-Jordan or Diamond-Rose aren't going to become doctors or lawyers are they?


Calling them Mary won't suddenly turn them into Nobel prize winners.

[Boydy]

Calling them Mary won't suddenly turn them into Nobel prize winners.

No but they'll be treated differently at school by teachers. Their chances of social mobility are being fucked from the start.

[niko_cee]

Isn't that (THE LIST) sort of what they have in France? So maybe not.

[Pepe]

At least they won't need to come up with a stage name when the inevitable happens.

[Shindig]

Google tells me Tauriel is a film-only character from the awful Hobbit films??

That's what Google told me as well. :D Google's a stupid name for a kid, whilst we're at it.

[niko_cee]

It's the poor mid-child age buggers called Alexa you have to feel for.

[Dquincy]

How do English speakers pronounce Isla?

Ish-ma-la

[Lewis]

You shouldn't be allowed to call your kids diminutives like 'Jack' or 'Harry', and the surname as a first name trend ('Lewis' has fine form as both) is a reasonably consistent way to identify the parents as mongs.

[Jimmy Floyd]

My grandfather, before he deservedly died 21 years ago, used to claim that Jack was short for Ernest (his name).

[Ian]

'Deservedly died'?

Is that just for saying Jack is short for Ernest, or...?

[Ian]

Also I don't care either way about kids being given the shortened version of a name for their actual name but it does annoy me when parents saying they're calling a kid by one name and then go "But we'll just be calling him [short version.]"

Just give 'em the short version then.

[Jimmy Floyd]

That and for calling me a 'clumsy clot' when I dropped an ice cream aged six or so. Also for leaving my grandmother for the dullest woman ever born, causing the former's suicide. You see? It gets dark real quick when you start having shit opinions about names.

[Spikey M]

Also I don't care either way about kids being given the shortened version of a name for their actual name but it does annoy me when parents saying they're calling a kid by one name and then go "But we'll just be calling him [short version.]"

Just give 'em the short version then.

That is annoying, but more annoying are the parents that get pissy when you call their offspring by anything but their full name.

At my mates wedding, his mum reprimanded the father of the bride during his speech for calling him "Sam" rather than Samuel. Obviously everyone laughed, but she wasn't joking. He might have well called him "cunt".

[Ian]

I like how you've given the ice cream top billing.

He sounds like a fun fellow.

[Ian]

That is annoying, but more annoying are the parents that get pissy when you call their offspring by anything but their full name.

At my mates wedding, his mum reprimanded the father of the bride during his speech for calling him "Sam" rather than Samuel. Obviously everyone laughed, but she wasn't joking. He might have well called him "cunt".

On his wedding day? :D Christ.

[Spikey M]

I had never met her before (nor have I seen her since) so I'm unsure if it was a case too much Shiraz or if she's just a wanker. Probably both.

[Lofty]

A friend of mine named his daughter Arwen and his son Colin, in possibly the most juxtaposed pairing ever.

My half brother is called Jem Starship though so I can't laugh too hard :moop:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

My half brother is called Jem Starship though so I can't laugh too hard :moop:
Sorry, what?

[Lofty]

The product of my mad hippy dad meeting and even more mad hippy woman. Anti-vax, anti-law, anti-capitalism, though funnily enough not anti-benefits.

[Offshore Toon]

How tall is your half bro?

[Lofty]

He's 4, so not very at the moment.

[Spikey M]

:D

[Don]

Guardian with a major scoop:

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/mar/24/exclusion-rates-black-caribbean-pupils-england

I reckon 2021 is the year when fried chicken shops will be labelled as institutionally racist.

[Lewis]

The linked article about schools being institutionally racist is a real brain rotter.


Other times, schools might request educational psychologist support for children of Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds to explore qualities which, from a white European perspective, might be perceived as traits of autism, such as difficulty maintaining eye contact or participating in reciprocal conversations with adults. But in reality these “traits” might reflect the child and their family’s cultural values and norms.

The alternatives to which are ignore it (racist) or justify it on those same cultural grounds (racist). A cynical person would think you literally can't win with these mongs.

[Queenslander]

How about this for brain rot... :boydy:


“As a part of the LGBTQIA+ community I believe my sexual identity is owned by me, not a brand and that the outdated meaning no longer applies. Isn’t it time for this double entendre to end?” the petition reads.

Golden Gaytime - a toffee and vanilla flavoured ice cream, dipped in chocolate and covered in biscuit pieces - was first released in Australia in 1959 by ice cream giant Streets.

https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/food/pressure-on-food-giant-to-change-outdated-name-of-beloved-aussie-ice-cream-golden-gaytime-c-2423649

I wonder if he will petition all the old luvs named Gay/Gaye?

[Spikey M]

People like that just enjoy being victims. There's no other explanation.

You would imagine a member of the LGBT community would have enough real bigotry to deal with, mind.

[Queenslander]

Without a doubt.

[Ian]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56506466

I think it's fair to say there's very little about this that I understand.

He's spent nearly $3m of cryptocurrency (which in itself I still don't really understand the purpose of) to 'own' a Tweet that literally anybody can see whenever they like by Googling it, if they so desired.

[Queenslander]

Apparently in America they donate them and use the value as a tax writeoff

[Spikey M]

Crypto Whales chuck their money at a load of shite all the time. The guy in question is probably one of the Bitcoin Billionaires, so £3m for a tweet is pocket change to him.

[Queenslander]

As for influencers, Paris Hilton sold a cat painting for $17,000, Decrypt reported. And Lyndsay Lohan sold her "Lightning" NFT for $50,000 and promised to donate the funds to charities that accept cryptocurrency, according to Decrypt.


https://www.businessinsider.com/nft-celebrities-grimes-mark-cuban-lindsay-lohan-gronk-shawn-mendes-2021-3

Someone said something on some podcast.

[Shindig]

https://news.sky.com/story/union-flag-set-to-be-flown-on-uk-government-buildings-every-day-12255637

More ministerial flag worship.

[Ian]

Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said: "The Union flag unites us as a nation and people rightly expect it to be flown above UK government buildings."

Yeah, sure.

[Kikó]

I don't care about the flags as it's pretty commonplace in other countries to have flags displayed prominently. What I care more about is this is another Tory "war on woke/PC" agenda point. They're absolutely ramping up this false narrative/battle.

[John Arne]

This is fucking weird.... This seems like it such be a much bigger story.



The headteacher of a school in West Yorkshire has apologised to parents after a teacher displayed satirical cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad.

Gary Kibble, the head of Batley grammar school, apologised to parents for the inappropriate use of the cartoons, taken from the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, during a religious studies lesson this week which sparked a protest outside the school on Thursday morning.

“Upon investigation, it was clear that the resource used in the lesson was completely inappropriate and had the capacity to cause great offence to members of our school community for which we would like to offer a sincere and full apology,” Kibble said in an email sent to parents that promised further investigation.


https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/mar/25/batley-head-apologises-for-teacher-using-charlie-hebdo-cartoons

In what fucking world is that innapropriate... if some of the kids are Muslim... so fucking what. It's religious studies... all religions can get fucking tanked.

[Lewis]

Mufti Mohammed Amin Pandor, one of the community leaders who met the school’s leadership, told protesters that the school understood that what happened was “totally unacceptable”. “We’ve asked for an investigation, an independent investigation, and we have asked also for some of us to get on the investigation’s panel,” Pandor told the remaining protesters. “That is what we’ve asked for, whether they do it or not, we can’t force them.

Think what you're saying mate.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's not all religions though, it's the particular stinking, hypocritical sense of entitlement fostered within British Islam. They are happy to send people out 'protesting' to dictate public policy on things like that, and yet their businesses just don't pay any tax, which means the local councils where they live are all completely skint. Almost as bad as the tinkers.

[Don]

I don't think tax avoidance is an Islamic problem brah.

[Lewis]

That Batley/Dewsbury area might well be the worst part of the entire country, and yet it's the home of Fox's Biscuits. A great big fucking flag on the side of the factory would sort these primitives out.

[Yevrah]

My personal view on Charlie Hebdo cartoons is that they're dreadful - not in a particularly offensive way, just a dreadfully unfunny one. But, if you're teaching about Islam in schools and not talking about the attacks some of their fuckwits have perpetrated in recent years and then not showing what led to one of those attacks in particular, you're doing it wrong.

[Pepe]

But, if you're teaching about Islam in schools and not talking about the attacks some of their fuckwits have perpetrated in recent years and then not showing what led to one of those attacks in particular, you're doing it wrong.

Do you apply that same logic to the teaching of any other topic?

[Yevrah]

Do you apply that same logic to the teaching of any other topic?

Have you an example in mind of where I wouldn't?

[Don]

What does the cartoon have to do with the study of the religion? :D

[Pepe]

Have you an example in mind of where I wouldn't?

We can start with the other religions. Is talking about pedophilia in class needed when talking about the history of Christianity?

Do you also think that it is essential to mention how many slaves Washington had when talking about the American Independence?

[Shindig]

So much of RE these days is about other things. The teacher was probably going on about freedom of speech.

[Spikey M]

We can start with the other religions. Is talking about pedophilia in class needed when talking about the history of Christianity?

Do you also think that it is essential to mention how many slaves Washington had when talking about the American Independence?

In a basic overview of the subjects, no. In a thorough one, yes.

Why would you ever hide unsavoury elements of a subject? Let's just bin the World Wars of the syllabus and focus on puppy's and rainbows.

[Lewis]

Also if you did mention paedophilia in a lesson about Christianity Christians wouldn't be outside the school acting like that.

[Pepe]

I don't know what grade it was. Was this a "thorough" class on Islam, or a basic overview?

[Pepe]

Also if you did mention paedophilia in a lesson about Christianity Christians wouldn't be outside the school acting like that.

Don't get me wrong, I do not think that they are right to moan. The protesters can fuck off, and the teacher should be allowed to do his thing.

[Spikey M]

I would imagine thorough. A basic overview would be. Islam was founded in 800AD, in the desert, by a geezer called mo, there's a couple of VARIANTS and this is what they believe...

If you're getting into terrorism and the like then it has to be somewhat thorough. Or they have Tommy Robinson teaching the class, I guess.

[Yevrah]

We can start with the other religions. Is talking about pedophilia in class needed when talking about the history of Christianity?

Do you also think that it is essential to mention how many slaves Washington had when talking about the American Independence?

If you're doing it properly, absolutely yes to both of those things.

[Don]

No one is doing any 'thorough' or 'proper' classes on that shit at that level so calm your gammon selves.

[Spikey M]

There's 4 religions worth a fuck and 5 (maybe more now) years of mandatory Religious Education. Maybe you just Brain Fogged it out you gommo.

[Don]

Fam, didn't you say yours was basically sticking a paki spot on yourself and doing an Apu impersonation? It certainly doesn't show now ofc.

[Yevrah]

Now I think about it's also interesting that no-one has ever asserted that 'acts of Paedophilia have nothing to do with Catholicism'.

[Spikey M]

Fam, didn't you say yours was basically sticking a paki spot on yourself and doing an Apu impersonation? It certainly doesn't show now ofc.

In Primary School, yes. Cheers for pointing out it starts earlier than Secondary School though. Quality assist.

[igor_balis]

This flagshagging shit is doing my head in, can't we just agree to a patriotism of vaughan-williams, cricket and a deep collective sense of shame? This, basically:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lMexzk3TA8

[Jimmy Floyd]

We can't agree on anything, the American culture war is here. If x person thinks one thing you MUST think the opposite and call them a cunt while you think it.

[Lewis]

This flagshagging shit is doing my head in, can't we just agree to a patriotism of vaughan-williams, cricket and a deep collective sense of shame? This, basically:

Cheers Very British Problems.

[Lewis]

Awkward phone silence... eye contact on the bus... cup of tea
*igor_balis liked and retweeted and probably bought his book*

[igor_balis]

I really don't like the way your imagined version of me is close enough to reality to seem plausible while also being exactly the kind of person i fucking hate. Dickhead.

[Pepe]

Wait, you get five years of religion education? :harold:

[Shindig]

I took five years because it's practically a free GCSE. The exam felt like a basic morality test.

[Spikey M]

Wait, you get five years of religion education? :harold:

Yep.

https://www.gov.uk/national-curriculum/other-compulsory-subjects

[Pepe]

Sex and relationship education. Shit, didn't know that your system was US levels of stupid.

Do you also not get calculus?

[Spikey M]

You mean maths m8*.

*Algebra :cool:

[Lewis]

I really don't like the way your imagined version of me is close enough to reality to seem plausible while also being exactly the kind of person i fucking hate. Dickhead.

My aborted WDYTOE entry on you was about how I used to have a friend who, apart from films, had no interests in common with me (he literally couldn't kick a football the embarrassing loser), but we met in sixth form and bonded on disliking all the same things and people. That would be us that, and then if I ever saw you with your greebo crew you would be real awkward trying to show me how funny you thought they were.

[Lewis]

Did we do five years of religious education? I can remember three years of it, but once we moved onto GCSE I'm pretty sure it dropped off. My school lumped all of the non-subjects together for assessment purposes, so three years of messing about in shit like RE, music, and drama meant I ended up in the actual spaz group for GCSE Art despite being really good at it.

[Shindig]

It was compulsory for me until Year 9. I took it as one of my options. The other option I took was History. They wound up being pretty similar, if I'm honest.

[Spikey M]

Did we do five years of religious education? I can remember three years of it, but once we moved onto GCSE I'm pretty sure it dropped off. My school lumped all of the non-subjects together for assessment purposes, so three years of messing about in shit like RE, music, and drama meant I ended up in the actual spaz group for GCSE Art despite being really good at it.

It was up to year 9 for us, then we had to choose from a group of mandatory subjects of which RE was one (along with a language and History, Geography and a Science I think).

These days it's just mandatory. Unless mummy doesn't want you to do it, anyway.

[Lewis]

It's almost worth having kids just to boot off about their school taking them to a mosque.

[igor_balis]

Pretty sure "religious studies" was a mandatory GCSE at my place, but i'm not sure how applicable that is. It was an old style eleven-plus grammar school, that did super wacky stuff in an attempt to claim that their "methods" got the genuinely very excellent exam results, rather than it obviously just being a non-fee paying school with a gigantic catchment area that got all of the smartest non-rich students (and even some of the rich ones). Teaching with the cheats on.

Some of their cynical, TES-baiting stuff was pretty good though. Cus they knew we were smart enough to blag it, they put a few AS subjects in our year 10-11 options. Had pissed an A in AS politics before starting sixth form rather than doing like geography or something. I'm a bad example for this one cus I pissed around playing text-based football management games the whole two years and got a D, but I think letting some people do AS Computing instead of GCSE ICT was pretty cool as well, ostensibly learning programming rather than pissing about putting word art in power points or whatever the fuck the divs were doing.

[Don]

I recall RE being a thing briefly but our [optional] GCSE was Philosophy & Ethics. I'm now a bit pissed I didn't have RE and its depth to be able to reach the muslim scholar levels of Abu Ibn Ali Spikey.

[Shindig]

I've got bad news for you. RE was all about ethics. Fuck all in there about Diwali or that thing the Jews read backwards.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I used to fall asleep in RE.

Fun times.

[Spikey M]

I recall RE being a thing briefly but our [optional] GCSE was Philosophy & Ethics. I'm now a bit pissed I didn't have RE and its depth to be able to reach the muslim scholar levels of Abu Ibn Ali Spikey.

I didn't quite reach those levels as the options I took were French and Your Mum. C'est le vie.

(I actually took History and Geography, but that was funnier. You're welcome)

[Dquincy]

I've got bad news for you. RE was all about ethics. Fuck all in there about Diwali or that thing the Jews read backwards.

Ethnics?

[Jimmy Floyd]

My RE (at a private school) was a stupid tosser teacher with sideburns telling us how the Iraq war was all about Bush stealing oil (this was 2003). The same teacher then flew into a mad rage at me a few years later when I told him I wouldn't be applying for Oxbridge. Lefties are weird.

For A level it evolved like a pokemon into 'Theology' and only about 3 people chose it, all churchy oddballs.

[Kikó]

I did five years of religious education but it was a Roman Catholic school so not massively surprised. It was my best GCSE as well netting me a cool A*.

[Spikey M]

I did five years of religious education but it was a Roman Catholic school so not massively surprised. It was my best GCSE as well netting me a cool A*.

How do they cover the other religions at Faith Schools? Did the teacher spit after every mention of Protestants? Did they tackle the issue of noncing? (£10 on a practical lesson)

[Ian]

"And today we'll be discussing some of the hell-bound."

[Jimmy Floyd]

I suspect noncing is an issue in any closed-off environment (see football clubs, boarding schools, Woody Allen's house, etc etc ad infinitum), I don't think there's anything specific to religion. People like e.g. football more than religion though so it's handy to associate it with one and not the other.

[Kikó]

How do they cover the other religions at Faith Schools? Did the teacher spit after every mention of Protestants? Did they tackle the issue of noncing? (£10 on a practical lesson)

It was mostly Bible related (I honestly don't recall learning anything about other faiths and if we did, it obviously left no impression). So all the parables and key stories like the Samaritans, the 3 sons, Jesus "Day in the Life of" etc.

[Spikey M]

I suspect noncing is an issue in any closed-off environment (see football clubs, boarding schools, Woody Allen's house, etc etc ad infinitum), I don't think there's anything specific to religion. People like e.g. football more than religion though so it's handy to associate it with one and not the other.

The Catholic Church gets attacked because of its track record of moving paedophile priests around upon their discovery. Giving them fresh access to children in a community that is unaware of their past because it is deliberately hidden from them. I think that is fairly unique to the situation. Schools don't do that with teachers.

Plus, they claim to be the representatives of God on earth, which Mourinho aside, I don't think football coaches do. That puts you on a bit of a pedestal.

[phonics]

I found my ‘homework agenda’ from year 7 a while back. Had detention after every RE class for about 20 weeks straight. Bad boy.

[Queenslander]

The Catholic Church gets attacked because of its track record of moving paedophile priests around upon their discovery. Giving them fresh access to children in a community that is unaware of their past because it is deliberately hidden from them. I think that is fairly unique to the situation. Schools don't do that with teachers.

Plus, they claim to be the representatives of God on earth, which Mourinho aside, I don't think football coaches do. That puts you on a bit of a pedestal.

https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/

[Jimmy Floyd]

The Catholic Church gets attacked because of its track record of moving paedophile priests around upon their discovery. Giving them fresh access to children in a community that is unaware of their past because it is deliberately hidden from them. I think that is fairly unique to the situation. Schools don't do that with teachers.

Plus, they claim to be the representatives of God on earth, which Mourinho aside, I don't think football coaches do. That puts you on a bit of a pedestal.

It's the same old story regardless of setting, though - authority figure (God's authority, society's, the community's, etc) takes advantage of their trusted position and uses it to touch kids. The Church just has more overarching levers to cover things up, although Crewe Alexandra have been doing a very good tribute act.

What enables the Church to do these things is its power within society, rather than the fact that it is based around religious worship.

[Spikey M]

It's the same old story regardless of setting, though - authority figure (God's authority, society's, the community's, etc) takes advantage of their trusted position and uses it to touch kids. The Church just has more overarching levers to cover things up, although Crewe Alexandra have been doing a very good tribute act.

What enables the Church to do these things is its power within society, rather than the fact that it is based around religious worship.

I wouldn't argue any of that. But from the publics perspective, being "men of god" definitely adds to the offence. Being a Teacher is probably about level.

Meanwhile, being a Royal appears to go the other way. Nobody really cares.

[Shindig]

I know ships are big and all that but how is it going to take weeks to shift that sideways boat in the Suez?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56533250

[John Arne]

I heard that it's grounded both ends, so making it unusually difficult just to drag it out with a tug.

[Spikey M]

Get some Somalian Pirates in and it would be gone by lunch.

[Ian]

I wouldn't argue any of that. But from the publics perspective, being "men of god" definitely adds to the offence. Being a Teacher is probably about level.

Meanwhile, being a Royal appears to go the other way. Nobody really cares.

I guess the thing with the Royal Family being pro-nonce is that most people just use it / ignore it to fit their existing opinion of them.

And most people will never come into direct contact with any of them anyway so it doesn't hit so close to home.

[Ian]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56535575

"You can't beat the spontaneity, the team building, the culture that you create in a firm or an organisation from people actually spending physical time together," he said.

Not to mention the funnelling of money into public transport companies, the buying of massively overpriced sandwiches / coffees and the chance to have a preening boss strut about the workforce like god's gift. All the good stuff.

[Manc]

I'll never forget scoring 97/100 on a RE mock exam. Really let the creative juices flow that day.

[Shindig]

Prince Albert of Monaco weighed in on the Harry and Meghan stuff and the most shocking thing to me is how he sounds like a New York dock worker.

[Queenslander]

The AFL is intense.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1091934097946999

[Queenslander]

:cab:

https://i.ibb.co/HHthFYp/FB-IMG-1616975129273.jpg (https://ibb.co/0GCsDZV)

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-56568473

I'd rather get bullied.

[Ian]

Yeah, I saw that earlier. Surely it's not the change in activities but that, by the sounds of it, the kids are being more heavily supervised at all times?

[Jimmy Floyd]

That is pure Daily Mash.

Anyone who is anti-sport on any level (and it's almost always women - god, I'm on a proper misogynist roll at the moment) is inherently suspicious to me. 'Supervised activities' i.e. another hour of adults telling kids how to think rather than them working it out for themselves.

[Spikey M]

Is a rebranding from Jimmy Floyd to Milo Yiannopoulos on the cards?

[Ian]

He's never going to find a nice girl to settle down with if he carries this on.

[Don]

Eradicating natural problems through restricting freedoms. It won't catch on.

[Shindig]

Is a rebranding from Jimmy Floyd to Milo Yiannopoulos on the cards?

Probably not. (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/milo-yiannopoulos-ex-gay-b1815296.html) :D

[Don]

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/mar/30/turmoil-at-london-school-hit-by-flag-and-hairstyle-row

Keep emboldening them :happycry:

[Lewis]

Are you calling yourself white or doing your own thing once 'BAME' gets dropped? I'll put a welcome hamper together if you're coming over. All nice British jams and biscuits and that.

[Don]

The latter. People Against Kindred Idenitification.

[Lewis]

I hope I get an opportunity to use that in real life.