News of the day

[Spikey M]

He’s coming out the better of two loons there.

He - like Linehan - isn't wrong with alot of what he says, it's just mental that he cares this much. Does any of it really fucking matter? Why does he care if a straight woman that identifies as a gay man wants to say he's a man having an abortion? Whatever mate. Crack on.

[Shindig]

I was thinking about unfollowing him the other day. His feed is exclusively full of it. One dimensional plank.

[phonics]

I remember one day reading an article about Gamergate on Kotaku and one of the example tweets of these absolute nutjobs was my first roommate at Uni. I always hated him so I was happy to know I was right about him.

He was such an Apple fanboy claiming that 'everyone knew they were intrinsically better than a PC' that he claimed ITV rebranded to ITV because they'd heard Apple were releasing their own TV Channel and changed their name to fuck over Steve Jobs.

[Yevrah]

I do always think of ITV whenever I see an Apple TV advert.

[Spikey M]

that he claimed ITV rebranded to ITV because they'd heard Apple were releasing their own TV Channel and changed their name to fuck over Steve Jobs.

Nope. Sorry. Completely lost. What the fuck?

[Offshore Toon]

Nope. Sorry. Completely lost. What the fuck?
iTV

[Spikey M]

Oh for fuck sake. :lol:

[Shindig]

I remember one day reading an article about Gamergate on Kotaku ....

Yeah, that'll do it. I still can't believe that got out of hand in the way it did. And it's still a hill people will die on.

[Jimmy Floyd]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/07/taliban-name-afghanistans-new-government

The Guardian doing the Taliban for naming an 'all-male' cabinet is them peaking, I think, or perhaps troughing, I don't even know any more.

No alpacas or rescue dogs in the cabinet either which is disappointing.

[Lofty]

Pavel the vag police.

[Lewis]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/07/taliban-name-afghanistans-new-government

The Guardian doing the Taliban for naming an 'all-male' cabinet is them peaking, I think, or perhaps troughing, I don't even know any more.

No alpacas or rescue dogs in the cabinet either which is disappointing.

They painted over the George Floyd mural (lmao) as well. I'm not sure I like the sound of this 'Taliban'.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Has anyone checked on Yevrah today?

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/pensioner-dies-hit-heavy-load-falling-crane-mangotsfield-bristol-b955081.html

[Yevrah]

That was regrettable. I tried to warn people to stay clear, but sometimes they just won't listen...

[Yevrah]

Neil has jumped ship.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58464664

I wonder how long it took him to realise the whole endeavour was dog shit.

[phonics]

He’s been on holiday for months so I think about 3 weeks after the first show aired.

[Yevrah]

Promising to "change the face of news and debate" and then hiring Nigel Farage is some effort.

[Jimmy Floyd]

He probably didn't realise/appreciate that heads have gone, and the only TV news that will attract viewers is shock jocks and Farage etc. If it was 1990 he might have had a chance.

[phonics]

Absolute weirdo.

https://twitter.com/trans_safety/status/1437775069489647628?s=21

[Lofty]

Linehan really should have just deleted twitter, put on his Father Ted box set and cranked one out to the Jo Guest edition of Loaded like it was still his heyday. No-one needed this.

[Spikey M]

It took me 5 viewings of that to confirm that he said what I thought he said. Is he just doing surrealist comedy at this point?

[Yevrah]

I gave up after two. What did he say?

[phonics]

Lesbians don’t go out with women.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Who do lesbians go out with? Are they confined to their homes? You could have fooled me.

[Lewis]

AUKUS baby. Canada and New Zealand in the egg-fried shithouse. Give the Australians nuclear weapons. :cool:

[Queenslander]

Mates. :cool:

[Lewis]

France has been seething for fifty years about nobody sharing submarine information with them, and now Australia gets it and cans their order. :harold:

[Queenslander]

:drool:

[Spikey M]

AUKUS

https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/60488424/a-great-bunch-of-lads.jpg

:cool:

[Baz]

The Twitter handle is taken by some LA band who disbanded in 2013.

[Spikey M]

The Twitter handle is taken by some LA band who disbanded in 2013.
https://youtu.be/juziQ2-B5BY

[Queenslander]

Socialist Republic.


PM Ardern says Australian nuclear subs will be banned from New Zealand waters

https://au.news.yahoo.com/pm-ardern-says-australian-nuclear-013211616.html

[Spikey M]

I'd fire a few Covid tipped Missiles at the cunts for thinking they have any say on where the new D Generation X can go.

[Queenslander]

Nothing would give me more pleasure than forcing New Zealand to bend the knee towards Australia.

[Lewis]

No wonder they aren't in the new cool club. HMAS Robert Menzies will have to make its first overseas visit elsewhere.

[Queenslander]

Best mates club should have a massive war games exercise just outside New Zealand's maritime boundary or whatever.

[Yevrah]

Pretty embarrassing to have to admit that I didn't know trees got that big.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58592376

[niko_cee]

Aye, that General Sherman tree is quite a big bugger.

[Shindig]

Awwww, those are the little foil covers they give marathon runners. I wonder what Sherman's time was?

[Ian]

Tree. Pfft. General Sherman is a fish and I won't hear otherwise.

[Disco]

I'm fascinated to know what's next after alpacas and big trees.

[Lewis]

France has been seething for fifty years about nobody sharing submarine information with them, and now Australia gets it and cans their order. :harold:

France is recalling its ambassadors to America and Australia (not us though lol). :lol:

[Lofty]

Silly frogs. Aussies don't need Nukes anyway, didn't the Aussie navy repel an Iranian attempt to detain their boat by shouting 'fuck off!' Enough times? Unlike our idiots who meekly got taken into custody.

[Queenslander]

Time to treat the local French like scaffolding Kiwis. :drool:

[Lofty]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58615829

Feel this isn't the last of the Bashir stories to come out.

[Queenslander]

The reason they are digging their heels in is because this could bring down the Federal Government.






NSW police never started investigating Christian Porter rape allegation, internal review reveals


The same document also reveals that police asked to close the investigation on the same day they received a dossier which included a statement by the woman detailing her allegations sent to police by her friends.



https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/20/nsw-police-never-started-investigating-christian-porter-allegation-internal-review-reveals

[Spikey M]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/17/chinas-lehman-brothers-moment-evergrande-crisis-rattles-economy

It's a good job the Chinese don't own half of London. :happycry:

[Spikey M]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/17/chinas-lehman-brothers-moment-evergrande-crisis-rattles-economy

It's a good job the Chinese don't own half of London. :happycry:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58632681

"HERE WE GO!"

It's pretty telling that the prospect of a stockmarket crash is being treated as a throw away event. It's been written in the stars for more than a year now.

Businesses closed, travel banned, stock prices (and Market Caps) at all times highs? Mental. This is the tip of the iceberg. The FTSE in particular has a long way to fall. The market has barely even reacted to Brexit yet.

[Don]

NHS is in for a tough winter though.

[Dquincy]

These climate change protesters blocking the m25 really need to fuck off.

I'm driving the whole of the m25 on Thursday (it's one of the great drives) and do not want to be held up by these wankers.

[Spikey M]

Why would you want to do a lap of the M25?

[Pepe]

Forcing cars to sit idling for hours seems like a great way to save the environment.

[Dquincy]

Why would you want to do a lap of the M25?

Have meetings dotted around the M25 over the course of the day, so will probably mean I'll do a full loop.

I remember a blonde ex took me to Chessington many years ago as a surprise. She went the wrong way round the M25 so it took nearly 3 hours as appose to 40 mins. Pre sat nav days.

[Dquincy]

Boris has 7 kids. He's been spreading his seed.

http://news.sky.com/story/boris-johnson-finally-confirms-how-many-children-he-has-and-changes-a-lot-of-nappies-12413590

[Ian]

If he's admitting to that many it's probably somewhere in the double figures.

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-58646917

Oi Queeny, where is our report from our man on the ground?

[niko_cee]

Bit like asking you what it was like if there was an earthquake in Gibraltar.

[Queenslander]

Not good the poor buggers.

Reddit should have good footage on r/melbourne and r/australia.

[Spikey M]

Bit like asking you what it was like if there was an earthquake in Gibraltar.


The earthquake was also felt in neighbouring South Australia and New South Wales (NSW).


:dc:

[Spikey M]

Is it your Birthday, Jimmy? (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58645719)

[Yevrah]

I still read this line with utter disbelief.


It says "all staff and their families, including young children and two newborns, and 162 dogs and cats have been delivered to safety."

And am staggered no one that I saw actually asked him what peril these dogs and cats were in.

[Spikey M]

The best bit was when he asked the Taliban for help.

Errrr... it's them you're meant to be fleeing, mate.

[Yevrah]

We need an update on the dogs and cats really. I mean, absolutely no chance I'd take one of the mangy things in, but I'd sleep easier if I knew how they were.

[Spikey M]

He's probably put it on his Twitter but I don't think I could suffer the smugness for long enough.

[Yevrah]

I'd assumed they were all dying in quarantine. I still can't get over the whole thing. Dogs and Cats. Utterly mental.

[Queenslander]

Earthquake footage looks intense.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/victorian-earthquake-destruction-shown-in-social-media-pictures/news-story/e4d0f836776db0850341db971d964a05

[Spikey M]

I'd assumed they were all dying in quarantine. I still can't get over the whole thing. Dogs and Cats. Utterly mental.

Hopefully one of them has Rabies, manages to bite someone and gets it back into circulation over here. It's what Gironimo would have wanted.

[niko_cee]

Presumably an Afghan evacuee rescue dog is the ultimate middle class status symbol.

[Spikey M]

Earthquake footage looks intense.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/victorian-earthquake-destruction-shown-in-social-media-pictures/news-story/e4d0f836776db0850341db971d964a05

That bloke filming himself planking deserved the ceiling to fall in.

[Queenslander]

Yeah that made furious.

[Queenslander]

Fuck me this also happened today.

The Police cleared the shrine of protesters with rubber bullets.

https://7news.com.au/business/workplace-matters/angry-mob-gather-at-melbournes-shrine-of-remembrance-sparking-stand-off-with-police-c-4036738?fbclid=IwAR3au0v6t1eVMMgf_Npx77FoWQ8kZXXpB 4m0WQP5PA56NjuJCHgure0mHQM


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X19Ez_67mtw



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

[Don]

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/sep/22/british-rail-logo-designer-appalled-by-green-makeover-mess

Nonsense tabloid article but made me smile.

[Lofty]

I commented on the Pen Farthing stuff and it just caused a pile on of mentalists telling me how I was wrong and he offered people seats on his plane, that nasty Biden wouldn't let him. Who am I to not credit this hero for bringing these animals here?

I'd wager far more than the afghan equivalents of rescue animals have been put down in the interim, due to no rehoming.

[Alex]

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Although I can't really endorse the idea of using (I assume maybe not very good) French to further antagonise the actual French over this nuclear submarine pact as a very good idea, I also can't deny the fact that it definitely is funny.

He looks so pleased with himself after he's said it. :D

[Disco]

I did have a chuckle at the EU suspending a trade deal with Australia until they said sorry to France.

[Yevrah]

:D As we saw with their Covid shambles, the EU is an incredibly petty organisation.

[Giggles]

Oi oi oi.

[Shindig]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58643437


"We had a few safety nets, but they weren't enough for Covid," says Marshall Kinder-Maiss, 20.

Three weeks before the UK went into lockdown in March 2020, he and his partner Joanne thought their dreams had come true. After 18 months of trying to conceive a child, Joanne had just given birth to a baby boy, Roman.

Trying to conceive? Pet, you were 17 when you started. :D


They are now £4,000 in rent arrears and have been served with an eviction notice. They must leave the house by 11 October.

Not having a kid would've solved that.


When the couple were both working full-time, they used to take home around £2,000 a month. Their £450-a-month rent quickly became unaffordable as overdrafts were maximised to pay for living expenses. They've struggled to pay rent ever since.

Yeah, that's what happens when you take one person's ability to earn and add another mouth into the mix. At 19.

[Spikey M]

Something doesn't add up there at all. They were either Furloughed and above UC earning qualifiers - so pay your rent, you're 20% down, cut back elsewhere - or they were out of work - so claim UC and they pay your rent for you.

I genuinely believe the Government banning evictions has caused more problems than it solved. It was perceived as permission to not pay their rent by alot of people, and they've absolutely fucked themselves in the long run.

[SvN]

Absolutely. A friend of mine helps his dad manage a few rental properties, and he had some tenants - who were still working throughout lockdown - just stop paying rent, because they knew they could get away with it. Last time I spoke to him, they were 10 months behind and refusing to pay or leave.

[Yevrah]

Once Fulough was established was there any need for anyone to pay absolutely no rent for a year?

This, I suspect, is another reason why we have no workers at the moment for minimum wage roles. The young uns' went home to their parents and those who'd moved out thought 'FREE MONEYZ'.

[Shindig]

Some people are just unstoppably thick, as well. Like a YouTube bloke I follow who has pissed away $128k in 11 months on drink and mobile games. A year after having $133k written off via a bankruptcy that wouldn’t have got through if it weren’t for Covid.

[Boydy]

Fuck landlords.

[Boydy]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58643437



Trying to conceive? Pet, you were 17 when you started. :D



Not having a kid would've solved that.



Yeah, that's what happens when you take one person's ability to earn and add another mouth into the mix. At 19.
I don't know if the article has been amended but it says he's 27 when I click on the link.

[Kikó]

I reported my landlord and estate agent to trading standards for trying to charge me fees for drawing up the new contract, asking for a end of tenancy checkout and end of tenancy clean. Fuck you cuntos, respect the Tenancy Act 2019.

[niko_cee]

So, anyway, this whole gas business got my BS feelers tingling earlier in the week. I was wondering to myself whether the much reported rise in the price over the last year or whatever it is that is most commonly reported was simply one of the many things which 'has gone up a lot' since bottoming out during covid. I have no expertise in the field, but cursory googling suggests maybe this is the case:

https://www.erce.energy/graph/uk-natural-gas-nbp-spot-price/

I have no idea of the provenance of that source, but other places seem to largely mirror what it says.

So, my question is, with gas prices ostensibly well within normal parameters, why is there such a massive crisis leading to loads of energy companies going bust? Is it a phenomenon related to the practice of fixing utility prices over a period of months/years (admittedly a practice with which I wasn't familiar until quite recently)? Have loads of 'energy providers' simply sprouted during covid because prices were at rock bottom, fixed in contracts with consumers on the assumption of this remaining the case forever, and now that it isn't and you actually have to pay for gas they are all going bust [presumably rather than lose money on the forward contracts they have committed to]? All seems very suss to me.

All the big players getting people to lock into 3 year deals now when the market is at its absolute peak [potentially] also seems like a somewhat questionable practice.

[Shindig]

I don't know if the article has been amended but it says he's 27 when I click on the link.

It has. Kind of puts their position in a different light.

[Dquincy]

http://news.sky.com/story/sabina-nessa-man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-teachers-murder-12415653

Here come the lady protests/vigils.

Ps. But I'm pleased that the alleged perpetrator has been caught.

[Lewis]

That is such an unlucky one. The window to have killed her must have been tiny. Hang him, and hang that cunt who killed the sleepover family too.

[Dquincy]

That is such an unlucky one. The window to have killed her must have been tiny. Hang him, and hang that cunt who killed the sleepover family too.
That sleepover one is extra horrible. :(

Perhaps have the trial first and then ship them off to an island. I really think a prison island is a great idea. No guards or rules on the island. Leave them to it.

[Lewis]

It is. Kill your partner by all means, but why kill not even your kids and their friend?

[Shindig]

The Gabby Petito case looks dodgy as fuck, too. The bald bloke does a runner whilst his parents appear to actively hold up the Feds.

[Dquincy]

The Gabby Petito case looks dodgy as fuck, too. The bald bloke does a runner whilst his parents appear to actively hold up the Feds.

Yeah that is an odd one. Wonder if he's hiding or has he off'd himself? I think the former, but surely someone would see/find him.

[Lofty]

The sleepover one is pure psycho behaviour and needs to be punished beyond the scope of what the law offers. The Gabby Petito one seems pretty open and shut, cabin fever and her fella has snapped and killed her.

The schoolteacher one, I genuinely don't think this is a random attack. The walking route from her house to the pub wasn't even direct via the park. To chance your arm on a random killing at that time of night with people around is very odd (I know killing is odd, obviously, but people who kill opportunistically are usually either interested in the process or product). I haven't seen it reported if anything was stolen, presumably not sexually assualted - police might keep things under their hat of course. To me that makes me think she will have known the killer, even vaguely.

[Lewis]

I thought it might have been some 'community' thing at first when they were being a bit cagey about details.

[SincereTheRebel]

I had to visit four diesel stations tonight for fuel. I dont keep up with the world as much as I should, but it seems energy shortages have been a thing over the past week.

[Queenslander]

That sleepover one is extra horrible. :(

Perhaps have the trial first and then ship them off to an island. I really think a prison island is a great idea. No guards or rules on the island. Leave them to it.


We can offer you mates rates to use either Manus Island or Nauru. Politicians from the opposition and the cross bench and the Media arent allowed in so you are free to do what you like to them...

[phonics]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/270326079648956433/890704952547225642/image.png

[Queenslander]

He has got such kickable face.

[Queenslander]

Riverfire Preparation: MRH-90 Taipan helicopters are flying over Brisbane ahead of the big event on Saturday night.


https://www.facebook.com/7NEWSBrisbane/videos/4234375590021178


Climate change can do one.

[Queenslander]

One meeting with Joe Biden and the cuck Liberal Party do a complete 180* on climate change.


Josh Frydenberg pushes for net zero commitment, asks super funds and insurers to assist traditional industries

https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/josh-frydenberg-pushes-for-net-zero-commitment-asks-super-funds-and-insurers-to-assist-traditional-industries/news-story/36ad10c07afeb3032b99534cf82d6565?fbclid=IwAR2WAbFY ISglS80M0-O-vpZ32pRUNBVyzcbRIlo0kzvrRnJA2HCGinljbaU

How the fuck are they going to deprogramme all those red pilled boomers they have spent 10 plus years brain washing against climate change?

lol

[Lewis]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/07/taliban-name-afghanistans-new-government

The Guardian doing the Taliban for naming an 'all-male' cabinet is them peaking, I think, or perhaps troughing, I don't even know any more.

No alpacas or rescue dogs in the cabinet either which is disappointing.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/24/afghanistan-taliban-enforcer-says-amputations-will-resume

Another good one today: 'Trials and convictions were rarely public and the judiciary was weighted in favour of Islamic clerics, whose knowledge of the law was limited to religious injunctions'.

[Spikey M]

https://frinkiac.com/img/S15E12/1006797.jpg

"You Taliban sure are religious people"

[Alex]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/24/afghanistan-taliban-enforcer-says-amputations-will-resume

Another good one today: 'Trials and convictions were rarely public and the judiciary was weighted in favour of Islamic clerics, whose knowledge of the law was limited to religious injunctions'.

I feel like having one crazy (or even completely missing) eye really does give you the cutting edge when it comes to climbing the ladder in the world of extremist Islam.

[Shindig]

I'm amazed they get that old considering they've been fighting for two generations.

[Dquincy]

This petrol shortage once again demonstrates how many utter selfish morons there are in the UK.

One can only imagine the chaos if a genuine crisis hit this country.

[Lewis]

I filled up because I was at Asda and the queue was short, but there was a few people getting shirty with each other. 'I was in there!' And yet you're not mate. Interesting.

[Spikey M]

The media and the government don't help. The second they say "there's no need to panic buy" it's like the fucking starters pistol.

[Dquincy]

Yep.

There are people filling up a load of Jerry cans in their car. Absolute twats.

[igor_balis]

I feel like having one crazy (or even completely missing) eye really does give you the cutting edge when it comes to climbing the ladder in the world of extremist Islam.

I detached the retina in left eye years ago, should I have some anti-radicalisation training?

[Baz]

Morrisons car park was completely reconfigured to cater for all the muppets queueing up to fill there cars up. By sheer luck both my cars have near full tanks as of Tuesday so lol at them.

[Lofty]

I went to BP as my tank was nearly empty, there were signs saying it was a £30 fill max and anyone trying to beat the system was scolded via the PA system :D

[Shindig]

I hope it was Steve Coogan on the intercom.

[Queenslander]

I went to BP as my tank was nearly empty, there were signs saying it was a £30 fill max and anyone trying to beat the system was scolded via the PA system :D

How do they stop people filling up over the 30 quid?

[Yevrah]

The newspapers on this yesterday were a genuine disgrace. I’m tenting in Bournemouth and every single road within two miles of a petrol station yesterday was at a complete standstill.

And, of course, we will actually run out of fuel if this idiocy keeps up.

[Giggles]

I filled up this morning myself because I know all the mongs here will start stockpiling based off your news and papers.

[Spikey M]

Just went to pick up the shopping from the Click and Collect and the scenes were beautiful. Particularly enjoyed the GAMMON shouting at the people laughing and taking photos of the queue.

I don't know why they haven't put the price up to £50 a litre for the weekend.

[Spikey M]

I filled up this morning myself because I know all the mongs here will start stockpiling based off your news and papers.

This is just a different way of saying you panic bought Giggers.

[Giggles]

I went at 5:30am instead of blocking up the whole place like a spastic. Did the shopping and all while I was out so now I’m beached with a coffee and a custard tart and can lol at the plebs on the news later.

[Spikey M]

Oh Giggsy.

[Jimmy Floyd]

This stuff really makes you realise the far-reaching consequences of the collapse of the media industry. The desperation for clicks / to sell the last few papers leads them to abandon all standards they may once have had.

[Dquincy]

I filled up this morning myself because I know all the mongs here will start stockpiling based off your news and papers.

Oh mate. :facepalm:

[Dquincy]

This stuff really makes you realise the far-reaching consequences of the collapse of the media industry. The desperation for clicks / to sell the last few papers leads them to abandon all standards they may once have had.

Agreed. As retarded and selfish much of the public is, the tabloid media have been an utter disgrace for so long. Which is worrying considering the absolute power they have.

[Giggles]

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[Spikey M]

:D

[Shindig]

There's a gig going on for climate change. I bet half the cunts still have their Make Poverty History wristbands.

[mo]

I can't hear 'Make Poverty History' without wanting to say 'cheaper drugs now' after it.

[Queenslander]

:cool:

https://i.ibb.co/m5cd84q/241249870-10161552904602995-1992918641529879157-n.jpg (https://ibb.co/ZzMvmx8)



https://youtu.be/BAXpIwFeUAA

Choppers at 4 minutes.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Another in the Taliban series (from BBC):


Since taking power in Afghanistan on 15 August, the Taliban have been promising a milder form of rule than in their previous tenure.

But there have already been numerous reports of human rights abuses carried out across the country.

A new dawn has broken, has it not.

[Dquincy]

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:d

[Spikey M]

:lol:

[Lewis]

Every petrol station I've seen today has been closed, which is annoying since I need some air in my tyres. Why don't they just put the price up when this happens?

[Pepe]

Buy a bicycle pump mate.

[niko_cee]

Can't you get pumps that run off the car plug thing?

Using a bike pump, even a decent one, is a laborious task to say the least.

[Manc]

1441798046719877121

:d

The review makes this.

[Giggles]

Is Howard Cox someone or just a randomer with some enemies?

[phonics]

He’s a lobbyist for petrol companies according to his Twitter bio.

[Giggles]

Excellent.

[Lewis]

A lobbyist for consumers.

[Lewis]

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[Spikey M]

:D

[Jimmy Floyd]

The bit I don't understand in this whole thing is why does anyone give a fuck about Christmas turkeys to the point where there is specific emergency legislation for them?

I have half a tank to drive to work on, hope it lasts me long enough for this shit to be sorted out or else it's a three-train extravaganza. Time for a bit of lift and coast into roundabouts.

[Offshore Toon]

Are places actually running out of petrol or are there just queues at the moment?

[phonics]

I didn’t even think there was a petrol shortage announced. Have we gone full American and people heard there was a potential gas shortage and ran to the local Esso?

[Giggles]

The tabloids announced it.

[Don]

Some BPs have definitely shut. I'm doing my usual driving till on the last 10 miles on the fuel counter before realising I need to refill it. It's all a big Remain/Tesla/AA con.

[Jimmy Floyd]

There isn't/wasn't actually a petrol shortage. It's basically a comms disaster. BP said they were closing a couple of far flung stations briefly due to no drivers (which is an established thing), the media went huge on it (as they are desperate for clicks) and it snowballed from there into nationwide panic-buying, which in a collapsed nation with no civil society is both unstoppable and inevitable, as we saw last year.

At least half the stations in the country are dry right now.

In short: heads have well and truly gone.

[Spikey M]

Are places actually running out of petrol or are there just queues at the moment?

Petrol is running out, but only because people are being idiots. The supply is normal, demand is through the roof.

Give it until Wednesday and no cunt will be buying Petrol because they've got a years supply in the shed.

[phonics]

I’d blame that on bad comms policy but they got the black bloke to announce it so media were never going to listen to his actual words anyway.

[phonics]

Can’t remember if it was UK or USA but I’ll never get over that video of people putting petrol in plastic bags during the last shortage. A person that stupid should not be alllowed to operate a 1 ton weight that moves at 80mph.

[Lewis]

Remember the fuel strike threat in 2012 when that woman set herself on fire decanting petrol near her oven? Hopefully we get one of those in the next few days.

[Yevrah]

I was at a Sainsburys over the weekend as an old boy who probably does 10 miles a week normally was packing his bags while telling the cashier how he and his wife both did a Giggles first thing that morning. The cashier then said she'd also panic bought before work.

Utterly furious inside I wondered how far one could go with this before the cashier would find it unacceptable, so as I was packing my bags I struck up a conversation about it before telling her that me and the Mrs have four cars at home and while we only ever drive two of them we'd filled all of them up at 4:57 this morning. Not a hint of disturbed was seen on her face before she then said, without any hint of irony, "you can't be too careful, can you".

It's a shame the Chinese didn't let a far worse virus escape.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's the driving kids half a mile to school that winds me up. Takes hours and hours off my life, that. That's how it is in the west now, post internet age - everyone is an island.

[Lewis]

Opening scene on the moon, the flag the US placed can be seen and in the distance is earth, we zoom in through Google Maps to a Sainsbury's. A middle aged...

[Yevrah]

:D

Not really sitcom worthy that one, sadly.

[Yevrah]

We're having to suspend 20 year+ competition laws to get out of this.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58701620

Would probably make more sense to suspend all of the newspapers involved in Friday's debacle, but obvs no one has the balls even have a go at them.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Is it even newspapers per se? Facebook mum hysteria can feed off the slightest thing.

[Yevrah]

And what in the sweet mother of fuck is this about?

The headline confused me enough:

Labour conference: Not right to say only women have a cervix, says Starmer

And two paragraphs in I'm utterly broken.


Sir Keir Starmer says it is "not right" to say only women have a cervix amid a row involving one of his MPs.
Rosie Duffield came under fire after supporting online criticism of a tweet, which referred to "individuals with a cervix" to be inclusive of trans men.

The incident was called transphobic by trans rights supporters - but Labour MP Ms Duffield rejects the claim.
Asked about the row, Sir Keir said claiming only women have cervixes was "something that shouldn't be said".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58698406

[Giggles]

The Sun being able to get the army on the streets in a matter of days shows how much they really run the country.

[Yevrah]

Is it even newspapers per se? Facebook mum hysteria can feed off the slightest thing.

The story was rumbling for a while no, then this appears and, well...

https://i.postimg.cc/vmHT9q09/120676529-front.jpg (https://postimg.cc/0zF91fR2)

[Boydy]

It's the driving kids half a mile to school that winds me up. Takes hours and hours off my life, that. That's how it is in the west now, post internet age - everyone is an island.

Prompted by me just having a quick browse of it and it relates to your "facebook mums" and everyone is an island stuff, but have you ever looked at Nextdoor? It is fucking horrendous.

[Lofty]

Petrol is running out, but only because people are being idiots. The supply is normal, demand is through the roof.

Give it until Wednesday and no cunt will be buying Petrol because they've got a years supply in the shed.

Exactly, the Morrisons near me announced they sold 32000 litres of diesel in 24 hours, normally that lasts them 5 days.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Prompted by me just having a quick browse of it and it relates to your "facebook mums" and everyone is an island stuff, but have you ever looked at Nextdoor? It is fucking horrendous.

No. Do I need to add it to my Orwellian watch list?

All one needs in a society is for individuals to believe that they are part of something bigger than themselves. Doesn't even matter what. In the last 10 years it's gone.

[Kikó]

Next door is like Facebook but all the people on it live near you. It's fucking awful.

[Giggles]

Sounds fucking septic. This is why you don't have neighbours at all.

[Dquincy]

No. Do I need to add it to my Orwellian watch list?

All one needs in a society is for individuals to believe that they are part of something bigger than themselves. Doesn't even matter what. In the last 10 years it's gone.

Like Jonestown, and that ended well.

The leader of that cult was reverend Jim Jones. Your username is making a lot of sense now... Jimmy Floyd Jones.

[phonics]

No. Do I need to add it to my Orwellian watch list?

All one needs in a society is for individuals to believe that they are part of something bigger than themselves. Doesn't even matter what. In the last 10 years it's gone.

Wonder why when the party of individuals > society has run the joint for 15 years.

[Jimmy Floyd]

40 plus years. Maggie obviously laid the groundwork for all this (most of it necessary), TB ran with it (the absolute king of 'aspiration culture' as Lofty describes above), and then DC brought the Etonian complacency that was needed to allow the hyenas to move in, and which the aforementioned duo just couldn't match. The current bunch of ghouls have zero ideas, they're just on the take.

I can't wait until my generation and the one below gets into power and makes things even worse with its deranged take on 'socialism'. I haven't heard a single positive vision for the country, from any side, in at least 10 years.

[randomlegend]

The current bunch of ghouls have zero ideas, they're just on the take.

And yet you'll still vote for them.

Or perhaps not since they did the one thing you apparently can't abide and put taxes up.

[SvN]

I went to buy petrol on Saturday as I was running a bit low (25% of a tank left), and 6 places near me were all closed as they were empty. I drove to visit my mum yesterday and noticed Sainsbury's was open, but had a queue - so I went there. While queueing I saw at least 10 people filling up containers with petrol, most of which didn't even bother putting any in their car.

It's these cunts who are responsible for the shortage. I don't know why places haven't put some sort of measures in place to prevent it.

[Don]

Is it not illegal to hold petrol outside of a vehicle or some shit? I'd fucking love to see one of these trannies at a petrol station. I'm having to go to one today as need to drive to Heathrow tomorrow. I presume motorway stations are all fine so that's my last resort.

[Disco]

It has to be a regulation container, you can't just fill up a bin or put a paddling pool in your boot.

[Boydy]

Why not just ban containers for the meantime?

[Spikey M]

Because people are running out of fuel and have no choice but to use a Jerry Can.

[Yevrah]

Fair play to George Eustice for blaming the people for this shambles and boo at the official Downing Street response saying he wasn't.

[Manc]

Driving to Gatwick on Wednesday and I can't find fuel anywhere. :moop:

[Manc]

Secured. Filled the fucker up for good measure.

[Dquincy]

Driving to Gatwick on Wednesday and I can't find fuel anywhere. :moop:

Cycle it.

[Dquincy]

General opinion of the public on the blaming of the current petrol crisis. Interesting that even the Leave voters accept that Brexit is partly responsible.

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[Dquincy]

But there is also this...

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[Shindig]

Last Labour Government? :D

[Jimmy Floyd]

Probably will be the last Labour government if their current conference is anything to go by.

Remain voters are still fighting the last war.

[Lewis]

I thought it might have been some 'community' thing at first when they were being a bit cagey about details.

Not quite. I hope those immigration takes from after the tennis are still warm.

[Lofty]

Any twat filling a jerry can on a forecourt right now should be executed on the spot. Would solve quite a few problems quickly I imagine.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I googled 'jerry can' just now to see where you would actually get one from, as I've never seen one in the wild I don't think. Clicked onto Halfords to look at the 10 litre version and got '386 people are viewing this now'.

20 quid. This was the first review (4 stars out of 5):

dose wot it says on the tin
you need to get the funnal to go with it. the magnettic lid is briliant.

[Lofty]

https://www.dailysabah.com/sports/football/ex-fenerbahce-besiktas-player-sezer-ozturk-tied-to-fatal-shooting

[randomlegend]

I googled 'jerry can' just now to see where you would actually get one from, as I've never seen one in the wild I don't think. Clicked onto Halfords to look at the 10 litre version and got '386 people are viewing this now'.

20 quid. This was the first review (4 stars out of 5):

dose wot it says on the tin
you need to get the funnal to go with it. the magnettic lid is briliant.

You must have seen them, loads of petrol stations have them in.

Or do you not drive?

[niko_cee]

Anyone with petrol based garden equipment public enemy number 1 at the moment then I guess.

I've been doing a bit of lift and coast in sympathy with you all. Always reminds me of some C5 shitumentray about the world's oikiest fuckers where they'd countdown to some idiot going that step further than lift and coast and turning the engine off going down some mountain road in a hire car only to realise [too late natch] that turning the engine off engages the steering lock and off the cliff you go . . .

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

You must have seen them, loads of petrol stations have them in.

Or do you not drive?

I don't think I've ever seen a proper metal jerry can at a petrol station. They usually have those cheap and crappy plastic ones.

[Don]

Didn't get the fuel. Counter at 39 miles. Motorway servife station is 20 miles away. Heard someone today say they were out. Will be banter if that holds tomorrow lunch-time.

[randomlegend]

I don't think I've ever seen a proper metal jerry can at a petrol station. They usually have those cheap and crappy plastic ones.

Was Jimmy specifically talking about the metal ones?

[Giggles]

A jerry can is the metal one that the Germans used to use. The plastic ones are just a fuel can.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I haven't ever been looking for one, so no doubt I have seen them but not noticed them.

[randomlegend]

I did not realise that was an official distinction but it does appear to be.

[Giggles]

That’s where the Jerry name comes from. Though it is probably used for them all now like one of those things like hoover or vise grips.

[Lofty]

Metal Jerry Cans these days are more likely to be seen having been upcycled into shit portable mini bars.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That’s where the Jerry name comes from. Though it is probably used for them all now like one of those things like hoover or vise grips.
German engineering stolen during the war effort because the English petrol cans were too expensive, heavy and shit.

[Ian]

Apparently some group of crackpots called "Moms for Liberty" are trying to stop Tennessee schools using a book which describes how seahorses mate. It's apparently "too sexy" for children.

Stupid sexy seahorses.

[Spikey M]

I mean, the female does get the male up the duff. It's basically feminist porn.

[Offshore Toon]

That’s where the Jerry name comes from. Though it is probably used for them all now like one of those things like hoover or vise grips.
Yeah, during the Occupation over here (and probably Guernsey) any gal that slept with a German officer was called a Jerry-Bag.

[Baz]

Prompted by me just having a quick browse of it and it relates to your "facebook mums" and everyone is an island stuff, but have you ever looked at Nextdoor? It is fucking horrendous.I got myself an absolute massive lot of 1999-2003 era Pokémon cards from there so I will never ever bad mouth it.

[Spikey M]

Right, I want 2 minutes of doorstep clapping for Callum (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-58725111) tomorrow tonight you ungrateful bastards.

[Ian]

I'm going to set fire to a car in his honour.

[Disco]

I did one yesterday this morning, does that count?

[Dquincy]

I did one yesterday this morning, does that count?

https://c.tenor.com/7QhoA9wcstgAAAAC/confused-no.gif

[Kikó]

He means last morning.

[Disco]

No, next morning but only after the last one.

[Ian]

This weekend or next?

[Spikey M]

I did one yesterday this morning, does that count?

Was it before or after half past to 10?

[Kikó]

Are you talking about 930 or 1030 ?

[Spikey M]

Yes.

[randomlegend]

https://c.tenor.com/7QhoA9wcstgAAAAC/confused-no.gif

That's what I imagine you look like.

[Lewis]

The details of that Sarah Everard murder are pretty grim. If that isn't a whole life order then they need to lower the threshold.

[Ian]

Yeah, "grim" is exactly the word that came to mind when I read it. He clearly can't be let out.

[Boydy]

Hope he gets absolutely terrorised in prison.

[Lofty]

The details of the case a grim enough. Then you find out he was nicknamed 'the rapist' when he was working for the CNC driving round the M25 starkers and flashing people, generally making women around him feel uncomfortable and the Met sign him up and give him a prestige role.

[Spikey M]

Hope he gets absolutely terrorised in prison.

Hopefully one of the guards let's it slip who he is. Even on the nonce wing he'll be Mr Popular.

[niko_cee]

Back on the weekend thing, that was actually the plot of an episode of Apple and Onion [child owners may recognise if they are fortunate] tat I saw the other day, which caused me to raise an eyebrow.

As to the other thing, some sort of life long experience of being put through a wood chipper [obviously I guess that experience would be about as long as was left of your life but you get what I mean] sounds about right for that chap.

[Dquincy]

That's what I imagine you look like.

Nah, this is me...

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

[Shindig]

The more I hear about Sarah Everard's murder, the more I'm creeped out by it. Opportunist cunt. Although any copper handcuffing you over Covid bullshit would've sent immediate alarm bells.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Coming from a police family as I do, someone using handcuffs as an accessory in a murder will properly send shivers down spines. About 90% of the force would be bringing the rotten fruit to the hypothetical gallows.

[Disco]

Proof if it were needed that you don't trust the filth.

[randomlegend]

Bit harsh, Jim and I have had our differences but I've always thought he seems trustworthy.

[Lewis]

I'm always a bit confused by these 'Male Violence' narratives. Have I misunderstood them, or are they ultimately predicated on the assumption that men - Men - are somehow uneducated on this stuff, and that women get battered and killed because because people don't know any better, and society, etc. It seems to me that you could put us all through two years of mandatory consent and anti-violence training and the likes of him would still do things like that, because that's literally what makes him a criminal.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Male violence has been going on a while. It used to be how everyone got fed, before Uber Eats.

[Yevrah]

The details of that Sarah Everard murder are pretty grim. If that isn't a whole life order then they need to lower the threshold.

What did he actually do? Everything I've read states abduction, murder and disposal of the body, but no details whatsoever.

And he'll last about 5 minutes in prison I should imagine. I won't shed a tear.

[Ian]

He pretended he was arresting her on COVID breach grounds is the crux of it. Cuffed her and got her in the car and then obviously didn't take her down the nick.

[Jimmy Floyd]

He told her he was arresting her for a breach of the covid regulations, handcuffed her, put her in a car, raped her, killed her, burned her, put her into bags and buried her.

All in all, I wouldn't be surprised if the judge errs on the side of a custodial sentence.

[Yevrah]

As fucked up as that is, I'm not sure it's in the same order of magnitude as some (if not all) of the names on here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prisoners_with_whole-life_orders

Maybe him being a police officer changes things.

[Spikey M]

I'm always a bit confused by these 'Male Violence' narratives. Have I misunderstood them, or are they ultimately predicated on the assumption that men - Men - are somehow uneducated on this stuff, and that women get battered and killed because because people don't know any better, and society, etc. It seems to me that you could put us all through two years of mandatory consent and anti-violence training and the likes of him would still do things like that, because that's literally what makes him a criminal.

This exchange made me lol the other day:

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How is that conversation meant to go exactly?

"Yeah, glad you're well Uncle Bob, it's been nice catching up... before I go, you've not been stalking and raping women have you? No? Phew! Because you do realise I would be opposed to that, right? Yeah... yeah. REALLY opposed... anyway sorry I interrupted dinner, keep your hands off the Chicken legs you dirty bastard. Laters"

[Giggles]

I don’t get the ‘grim’ness of it either. Yeah it’s horrendous obviously but every time you hear of something like this they’re generally raped and murdered so it’s not really that different. Especially for a group of people that lol at death on a daily basis.

[Lewis]

As fucked up as that is, I'm not sure it's in the same order of magnitude as some (if not all) of the names on here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prisoners_with_whole-life_orders

Maybe him being a police officer changes things.

It isn't really, but it was in the news and we discussed it here before.

[Ian]

It's not the rape and murder that makes this more grim than the usual cases, it's the "copper casually able to kidnap a woman with witnesses who wouldn't have thought to do anything about it because he's a copper" bit.

[Lewis]

This exchange made me lol the other day:



How is that conversation meant to go exactly?

"Yeah, glad you're well Uncle Bob, it's been nice catching up... before I go, you've not been stalking and raping women have you? No? Phew! Because you do realise I would be opposed to that, right? Yeah... yeah. REALLY opposed... anyway sorry I interrupted dinner, keep your hands off the Chicken legs you dirty bastard. Laters"

There is also a healthy overlap between this sort of wishful wibble and people who would generally be against longer prison sentences for violent cunts.

[Shindig]

It's not the rape and murder that makes this more grim than the usual cases, it's the "copper casually able to kidnap a woman with witnesses who wouldn't have thought to do anything about it because he's a copper" bit.

Yep. Terrifying. Presumably with no pre-meditation. He wasn't stalking her. He clocked off a 12 hour shift and thought, "I sure could go for some rape about now."

[Jimmy Floyd]

He'll get life minimum 40 years or something, and the twitterati will be up in arms for a few hours.

[Boydy]

Yep. Terrifying. Presumably with no pre-meditation. He wasn't stalking her. He clocked off a 12 hour shift and thought, "I sure could go for some rape about now."
He had hired a car and was driving around in a loop. He was clearly looking for a victim.

[Shindig]

Fine, strike one sentence from that post.

[Lofty]

I don’t get the ‘grim’ness of it either. Yeah it’s horrendous obviously but every time you hear of something like this they’re generally raped and murdered so it’s not really that different. Especially for a group of people that lol at death on a daily basis.

It is the fact he was a copper abusing his power that amps it up. If you or I saw this on the street and thought it was awry we would have been unable to do much about it I assume, unless you were willing to call his bluff.

In the past, especially in the states there have been killers posing as police officers to commit similar crimes but for it to be the actual police officer doing it is an order of magnitude worse.

[Shindig]

I can't imagine Giggles putting a stop to it. "What's that officer, she's skirting Covid laws? Give her one for me. Burn her body when you're done."

[Lofty]

:D

I imagine the only card to pull is kick off and give it the 'best call for back up then eh?' But if he's legit you're properly fucked.

[Spikey M]

And even then, if the wrong passer-by turns up they'd help him control you.

[Lofty]

Have to go turbo cunt and live stream it, style out the stigma when you're safely at home.

[Boydy]

He also had a history of flashing and was nicknamed "the rapist". He could/should have been stopped before it got this far.

[Yevrah]

He also had a history of flashing and was nicknamed "the rapist". He could/should have been stopped before it got this far.

And that is the most shocking part about the whole thing for me. I wonder if the public outcry about many men being scum distracted from this utterly unavoidable aspect being held to account properly.

[phonics]

Sorry, what?

[Yevrah]

That the conflating of wolf whistling and cat calling (that I shouldn't need to add are both absolute dickhead things to do) with rape and murder, as if they were on a spectrum was a nonsense, but perhaps a convenient nonsense for the powers that be as none of those things are problems that can be solved on Twitter, but did divert some focus from the fact the met had a copper running around doing vile things in plain sight on a watch that seemingly allowed it.

[phonics]

Sorry you’re saying that it’s #MeToos fault that the Metropolitan Police hired a flasher nicknamed ‘The Rapist’ and gave him a sub machine gun because they can’t tell the difference between a perverted headcase and a guy who’s a bit too forward because they’re too concentrated on what people on Twitter(a minority percentage of the population) say?

Got to say, that’s not a great review of the Met.

[Yevrah]

Sorry you’re saying that it’s #MeToos fault that the Metropolitan Police hired a flasher nicknamed ‘The Rapist’ and gave him a sub machine gun because they can’t tell the difference between a perverted headcase and a guy who’s a bit too forward because they’re too concentrated on what people on Twitter(a minority percentage of the population) say?

Got to say, that’s not a great review of the Met.

I'm not talking about Me Too at all, I'm talking about the aftermath of this specific killing and where the focus of outrage was.

[phonics]

They probably didnt even want to murder Mark Duggan in cold blood and then plant a pistol on him but Twitter told them he was a bad man so they just shot him 7 times.

The metropolitan police is an awful collection of corrupt officers who protect their own going back to before Jimmy Saville was molesting kids under their watch.

[Yevrah]

And I'm saying it was entirely the fault of the met for letting a headcase carry a badge and that this seems to have been lost in the noise somewhat, or at least was at the time.