News of the day

[phonics]

But for the purposes of my point, them being united by someone with nefarious motives (not hard to do I'd imagine given how easily a lot of them are manipulated) it would be bad.

What are we even discussing? How does this always happen?

Because it’s the internet and I’m bored. My thing was just calling Pepe, giggles and spikey weirdos and RL wrong. Then I said something about your fawlty towers post, retracted it and you kept going so now we’re here.

[Yevrah]

Welcome to 2012/13. Glad you could join us.

What happened to 2014? And I suspect society would be a much nicer place if this stopped. Judging people by their actions rather than the colour of their carnation (or the colour you think it is) would be much less antagonistic.

[Yevrah]

Because it’s the internet and I’m bored. My thing was just calling Pepe, giggles and spikey weirdos and RL wrong. Then I said something about your fawlty towers post, retracted it and you kept going so now we’re here.

I always keep going, it's a reasonably sized personality flaw, but useful in some other aspects.

[phonics]

What happened to 2014?.


Because I rethought about it and considered it slightly earlier afterwards.

Less antagonistic? Yevrah, 10 years ago members of this forum were finding out people’s landline number calling it to tell them they were going to die tomorrow and delivering pizzas saying ‘I know where you live’. Henry a BT salesman in Ireland made it his life’s work to threaten two children from St. Helens for playing football in their back garden and giving it a name. This is the internet. Less antagonistic? Why don’t you just redact it all like Fawlty Towers.

[Yevrah]

Because I rethought about it and considered it slightly earlier afterwards.

Less antagonistic? Yevrah, 10 years ago members of this forum were finding out people’s landline number calling it to tell them they were going to die tomorrow and delivering pizzas saying ‘I know where you live’. Henry a BT salesman in Ireland made it his life’s work to threaten two children from St. Helens for playing football in their back garden and giving it a name. This is the internet. Less antagonistic? Why don’t you just redact it all like Fawlty Towers.

I'm talking generally. Coming at things from a political bent appears to warp the view of what's actually happening. That's not cool.

[phonics]

Yevrah, come on now. What is political in your mind.

[Pepe]

How am I a weirdo? I did not say they should be run over. I merely pointed out that in this little altercation, people tend to side with the protestors, while if some ethnics were blocking the road to do donuts, people would side with the milf, despite both cases involving a handful of morons disrupting everyone just so they can have their shitty activity.

[Lewis]

2) These protests have to be be approved weeks in advance. Listen to the traffic updates or use waze if your life’s important enough to murder someone else over.

You get approval for things like 'March for x', which are advertised and policed. These are just random, and wouldn't be approved because it's illegal to block highways, hence the arrests.

[phonics]

You get approval for things like 'March for x', which are advertised and policed. These are just random, and wouldn't be approved because it's illegal to block highways, hence the arrests.

Hence why I mentioned waze.

[Lewis]

People who have politics as their hobby are often weirdos and always insufferable. Whether they support Real Left of FC Right doesn't really make a difference.

I've always liked this great quote about Star Wars nerds (https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1192222-a-lot-of-fans-are-basically-fans-of-fandom-itself) as a political explainer. The recent party conferences just looked like AA meetings for spastics.

[Spikey M]

At no point did I say they should be run over either. Just that it was going to happen at some point and the ensuing shitstorm is going to be great. But Phonics gonna Phonics and mega lol at him calling anyone a weirdo.

[Manc]

Would they move for an ambulance?

[Foe]

There’s videos on YouTube of them being dragged off the road so an ambulance can pass.

[randomlegend]

Anyone blocking an ambulance absolutely does deserve to be run over, ethnic or otherwise.

[Yevrah]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGTPSqI7Iuo

Absolutely ridiculous. Why are the police not nicking them first?

[Pepe]

I've always liked this great quote about Star Wars nerds (https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1192222-a-lot-of-fans-are-basically-fans-of-fandom-itself) as a political explainer. The recent party conferences just looked like AA meetings for spastics.

Yeah, he nailed it.

[Disco]

I never realised he looked so much like Alan Carr dressed up as Ellen.

[Shindig]

Nowadays he looks like a ventriloquist's dummy.

[Don]

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/oct/23/end-of-the-checkout-queue-stores-rush-to-deploy-till-free-technology

Many questions. Who can't deal with a small supermarket queue? Why would people have privacy concerns? Will this end the ease with which people can shoplift?

[Shindig]

Project Sarah sounds like a paedophile sting.

[Ian]

https://news.yahoo.com/colorado-hiker-lost-24-hours-223045119.html

:D :face:

[Kikó]

"Bloody spammers... at my worst moment as well NO I HAVEN'T BEEN IN AN ACCIDENT"

[Jimmy Floyd]

Relatable. Send a fucking text.

[Kikó]

Bet they left voicemails. Delete.

[Spikey M]

https://news.yahoo.com/colorado-hiker-lost-24-hours-223045119.html

:D :face:

:lol:

[Ian]

1452892180301889538

"You can grow trees."
"Well, you can grow all sorts of things."
"You can't grow concrete."
"Yes you can."

That's it mate, you tell him.

[Spikey M]

It's called the Concrete Jungle for a reason, idiot.

[SvN]

Have they really posted that thinking they've done him?

[Ian]

Nah, Spikey, that's just to fool you that it's organic.

It's why it's called CONcrete.

[Ian]

Have they really posted that thinking they've done him?

I'm prepared to believe that that fella genuinely believes he's donned him senseless.

[Pepe]

The fuck was that nonsense?


It's why it's called CONcrete.

:D

[Spikey M]

It's just a shame the Cons only grow on Greek Islands.

[Spikey M]

1452973816959881236?t=lULjfBf58dGkDvI2YolxaA&s=19

He DEFINITELY knew about this study being conducted at the Univesity of Colorado ahead of time.

[Ian]

That was some hasty Googling from Talk Radio's social media bod.

"Lads, we've GOT him!"

[Jimmy Floyd]

They probably funded the study. 5D draughts.

[randomlegend]

1452892180301889538

"You can grow trees."
"Well, you can grow all sorts of things."
"You can't grow concrete."
"Yes you can."

That's it mate, you tell him.

Him not even dignifying it with a response was the absolute best comeback to that.

[Shindig]

The scenes when that concrete bacteria results in a new strain of tuberculosis.

[Spikey M]

From "Stay At Home" to "DON'T GO HOME!".

[Shindig]

Housing crisis takes on a new meaning.

[Waffdon]

The Queen on her way out? ��

[Ian]

Christ I hope not.

Half the country crying itself dry as if it's going to make any difference on their day to day lives, the others being performatively unfussed.

[Spikey M]

Team Performatively Unfussed :cool:

[Lofty]

Christ I hope not.

Half the country crying itself dry as if it's going to make any difference on their day to day lives, the others being performatively unfussed.

Other countries wanking themselves dry.

[niko_cee]

Definitely some bad vibes around the Queen binning off loads of events. She looked well skinny in the C4 news thing I saw about Cop26 as well (not sure I've ever noticed the queen's neck region before) which can't be a good sign. If she croaks before next week we could be looking at a 2 week half term.

[Boydy]

I'm no fan of the monarchy but I'll probably be a bit sad when the queen dies. Seems like a nice old lady.

[Lofty]

I'll be fucked off if I don't get the extra Bank Holiday next year, literally the only benefit the skivers give us.

[Giggles]

Other countries wanking themselves dry.

I’ll have a month of being disgusted at how many cretins here care.

[Baz]

I'm no fan of the monarchy but I'll probably be a bit sad when the queen dies. Seems like a nice old lady.

Who has turned a blind eye on a large number of questionable goings-on in her family, such as paedophilia and racism.

[Shindig]

What 95 year old wouldn't do that?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Do we still have to keep next year's absurd Bank Holiday arrangements if she croaks?

I will be sad but I'm also bang up for a round of God Save the King.

[Lewis]

Who has turned a blind eye on a large number of questionable goings-on in her family, such as paedophilia and racism.

Hard to tell whether this is praise or criticism.

[Spikey M]

Me, Baz and Waff performatively enjoying our bonus bankholiday.


https://youtu.be/8eCIhZhLwGU

[Giggles]

Were they told to bring their creepy uncle on a day out?

[Spikey M]

Leave Baz alone.

[Ian]

Nah Spikey just invites himself.

[Kikó]

Were they told to bring their creepy uncle on a day out?

Oh this is the first time you've been introduced to the Famleigh? Oh you lucky man.

[Giggles]

Whatever they are, I really hope it's the last too.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Just looked at their instagram, and am now having vivid daydreams about poisoning their water supply and lolling at the corpse-strewn house the next day.

[Ian]

Not yet, Jimmy. There's still posting gold to come from your current job.

Save the prison diaries for later life.

[Kikó]

The famleigh need to be mown down for the sake of everyone.

[Spikey M]

I'm disappointed none of you remember that GEM from when it broke the Covid thread back in January.

[Ian]

Oh don't worry, I remember it.

[Lofty]

Execution is a bit strong but sterilisation is recommended.

[Yevrah]

So do I. I'm puzzled as to how it has so few views though.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Probably comes from Tiktok and they have since posted it cross-platform in order to increase their business prospects (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/10523508).

[Giggles]

I’m going to make the assumption that if any harm come to them then Baz and Mike will hunt you down.

[Manc]

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/oct/27/john-lewis-pulls-controversial-advert-for-being-potentially-misleading

[Kikó]

The comment by Judith Woods has triggered me big time. We're only generation rent because everything is unaffordable you twat.

[Spikey M]

Sort of. If Generation Instagram weren't spending £12 grand a year on holidays and city breaks they'd be able to save up for the deposit easy enough.

It's not as easy as it was for Generations past (not by a long shot), but it is doable if you just save your money rather than spunking it up the wall.

If you'd rather have the holidays than 10 years of saving, then that's cool but that's a conscious choice that's being made, getting on the property ladder is not "unaffordable".

[Jimmy Floyd]

Yeah and 30 years ago that wasn't a conscious choice that had to be made, because property was affordable.

[Spikey M]

Granted, but property still is affordable. Just not easily. Also, 30 years ago we didn't have a consumerist society like we do now. They may have had more affordable housing, but they also didn't spend all their money on iPhones, holidays and oh god I've become one of them.

[Ian]

And not everybody is positioned to end up in a job early doors where they can afford to save. I know plenty of people who don't have a house or much by way of savings but also weren't fucking off on holiday all the time. They just had jobs that didn't much allow for either.

[Ian]

oh god I've become one of them.

:D

Tell us what's wrong with the youth of today, grampa, I'll get you an Ovaltine.

[Manc]

At what age do you become out of touch?

[Kikó]

My anecdotal experience for those buying in London (which isn't the whole of the UK) was you either had to have a parent die, have very wealthy parents, move into help-to-buy or a shared ownership property. The latter two usually ending up out in east London somewhere.

More of my manc friends have been able to buy but one mate for example was able to buy a two bed terrace in Denton (not a great area) for £60k. Which is a deposit in London.

[Spikey M]

I'm looking for my communist flag lads, give me a minute, I last had it in 2012.

[Kikó]

And not everybody is positioned to end up in a job early doors where they can afford to save. I know plenty of people who don't have a house or much by way of savings but also weren't fucking off on holiday all the time. They just had jobs that didn't much allow for either.

This is a really good point. I was spending the same as I'd spend on mortgage repayments if I was able to save/live with parents. It wasn't all going on avocado lattes and instagram weekend trips.

[Jimmy Floyd]

And if you try renting in London (anything other than a dingy room in a hellish 5-bed house share) you're spending £800/month+ before the first avocado has been crushed in anger.

[Boydy]

Granted, but property still is affordable. Just not easily. Also, 30 years ago we didn't have a consumerist society like we do now. They may have had more affordable housing, but they also didn't spend all their money on iPhones, holidays and oh god I've become one of them.

I thought your national service comment when I was moaning about noisy kids the other day was sarcastic but now I'm not so sure.

[Spikey M]

Anyone living in London is an idiot and that's a hill I will die on.

Absolute shithole.

[Ian]

This is a really good point. I was spending the same as I'd spend on mortgage repayments if I was able to save/live with parents. It wasn't all going on avocado lattes and instagram weekend trips.

My mate just bought a house having lived with his parents until he was 28 and genuinely seemed baffled as to why I hadn't just bought one.

He'd worked in some of the same shit jobs as me and knew I rented but hadn't put that together. It's fine, it just shows that we all don't really think other people's situations through.

Which is fine if you're just some mong like I am but when you're advocating for how things should be run it can sometimes help to look past the end of your own nose but that seems a rare trait.

[Kikó]

I loved living in Arsenal. Do one.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I lived in Queens Park Rangers and that was great too. There's a reason the north is affordable.

[Shindig]

And not everybody is positioned to end up in a job early doors where they can afford to save. I know plenty of people who don't have a house or much by way of savings but also weren't fucking off on holiday all the time. They just had jobs that didn't much allow for either.

What defines early doors for you? I was unemployed for 5 years coming out of college. Now I'm looking at my pension thinking, "Aye, I could shave a few years off my sentence." Although I never really had debts to deal with as I stayed with the parents until I found work. And the wasted time always had me thinking about making up for it. Plus I had parents who grafted and saved. I always thought they were skint. :D

I think that's the main issue. You learn nothing of fiscal responsibility at school. Coming up, I saw plenty of young'ns drop their pension contributions because that's tomorrow's problem or it's for old people. I'd rather plan for a future I might not live to see, just in case I do.

[Spikey M]

I thought your national service comment when I was moaning about noisy kids the other day was sarcastic but now I'm not so sure.

:D I was mostly Kiko baiting in my first post, although there is some truth to it. Alot of the people moaning they're stuck at home with their parents in their 30's COULD have been saving to buy a flat.

It's shit that it takes 10 years of solid saving to buy a shoebox above a chipshop, but that's where we are and it isn't going to change so you have to play the game.

Of course smug boomers like Judith can fuck off, considering she presumably bought the 5 bed house she lives in (with 4 unused bedrooms, no doubt) for about 20 grand, and she should keep it shut.

[Ian]

What defines early doors for you?

Well I didn't get a job that actually allowed me to save much until I was 30-odd what with rent and everything and obviously with the shit jobs comes debt in the event anything expensive comes up (not holidays, I didn't fork out for one myself until I was in my 30s) you need to find the money somewhere so you go credit cards, etc. I have an alright job now but live in my overdraft to pay off debt and then can hopefully at some point start saving for a house.


I think that's the main issue. You learn nothing of fiscal responsibility at school. Coming up, I saw plenty of young'ns drop their pension contributions because that's tomorrow's problem or it's for old people.

I read a thing once that said a study shows that when the human brain thinks of itself in the future it behaves the exact same way as it does when thinking of another person, not the way it does when you think of yourself in the present. If that thing I read is correct (or I haven't misunderstood it because I'm an idiot) a lot of folk are pretty much wired to go "lol fuck that guy" half the time. Luckily my last few jobs they basically tell you some of your salary's going toward a pension.

[Ian]

It's also great when the person telling the Youth that they need to buckle down, work hard and save is some peer on Twitter whose dad is the Duke of Horseington.

"I failed my exams and worked really hard and look at where I am with just a trifling mil or two from mater and pater along the way!"

[Spikey M]

Well I didn't get a job that actually allowed me to save much until I was 30-odd what with rent and everything and obviously with the shit jobs comes debt in the event anything expensive comes up (not holidays, I didn't fork out for one myself until I was in my 30s) you need to find the money somewhere so you go credit cards, etc. I have an alright job now but live in my overdraft to pay off debt and then can hopefully at some point start saving for a house.

This is the bracket of people I really feel for. If you have to rent then saving for a deposit is going to be really fucking tough. Not least because the rent is more than the equivalent mortgage would be. Is moving in with the parents for a bit not an option? Or is - as I presume to be the case - a cycle of rent and debt preferable to doing so?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Empathy is a rare and underrated quality.

[Ian]

This is the bracket of people I really feel for. If you have to rent then saving for a deposit is going to be really fucking tough. Not least because the rent is more than the equivalent mortgage would be. Is moving in with the parents for a bit not an option? Or is - as I presume to be the case - a cycle of rent and debt preferable to doing so?

I've been staying at my parents for the last month (see the Big C thread) and honestly I'd rather be poor (relatively, I know I'm not ACTUALLY poor) than do it long-term. It's driven me up the wall. I can't even imagine the state I'd be in if I subjected myself to it for a year or whatever.

I spend money that I don't strictly NEED to but as with the moving-in-with-my-parents thing you have to make a choice sometimes between small things that help you get through the week (a takeaway, a meal out with friends, some overpriced beers for wankers) or spending as little as you can get away with to speed up the process and, again, I accept that that is a decision I'm making.

But it doesn't alter that even for people in similar but slightly easier/better circumstances than mine it's still an absolute pig to save and get the house if your every thought is "Do I NEED to spend this?"

[Manc]

If you have to rent then saving for a deposit is going to be really fucking tough.

No fucking shit.

[Spikey M]

I've been staying at my parents for the last month (see the Big C thread) and honestly I'd rather be poor (relatively, I know I'm not ACTUALLY poor) than do it long-term. It's driven me up the wall. I can't even imagine the state I'd be in if I subjected myself to it for a year or whatever.

I spend money that I don't strictly NEED to but as with the moving-in-with-my-parents thing you have to make a choice sometimes between small things that help you get through the week (a takeaway, a meal out with friends, some overpriced beers for wankers) or spending as little as you can get away with to speed up the process and, again, I accept that that is a decision I'm making.

But it doesn't alter that even for people in similar but slightly easier/better circumstances than mine it's still an absolute pig to save and get the house if your every thought is "Do I NEED to spend this?"

Sorry to hear you've got shit going on. I stayed away from the Cancer thread as its "a trigger" for me, as the kids would say. Bastard of an illness.

[Baz]

I’m going to make the assumption that if any harm come to them then Baz and Mike will hunt you down.You have a big misconception of me if you think I’ve ever heard of those people, nevermind like them.

[Giggles]

Would that not be regarded as top bantz?

[Cord]

I went down the live like a trappist monk for 15 years route, and all I've got out of it is 50% stake in a pretty shit house and the distinct sensation that I've wasted the best years of my life.

So my advice to the yoot of this world is smash as many fucking avocados as you like.

[Lewis]

The HOUSING CRISIS is largely a South East thing, and over the lifetime of the mortgage you probably pay less than you used to on genuine interest rates, but I wonder what extent the proliferation of university education has done to housing prospects. Not so much in terms of the debt ('debt'), but 1) you spend three years making no money whatsoever at a time when our parents were still living at home and saving [from the jobs they got straight out of school with no proper application process]; and 2) if Portsmouth if anything to go by, half the inner housing stock has been turned into student share houses for the twenty-odd per cent population increase that wouldn't otherwise live here.

London housing though lmao. I look at jobs there and short of almost doubling my money nah mate.

[Pepe]

Is the idea that home ownership was easier back in the day even true though? Did more people actually own their homes in the 70s or whatever?

[Pepe]

Five seconds of Googling led me to this:

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/20210421_Metro_ItnlHousing_UK_1.png

[Lewis]

We just compare it to our parents, who were the first generation for it to really be a 'thing'. Their parents mostly lived in shit council houses and rented their telly.

[Pepe]

Our parents bought their houses when? 80s? 90s? If that single plot is to be believed, things don't look that much worse off.

[Pepe]

With that said, I agree that houses are way too fucking expensive.

[Lewis]

The national picture will distort things. In somewhere like Hull it will have gone from even lower to even higher, and London, where all the coverage comes from, the numbers will be tragic.

[Kikó]

Because all the houses in London are built to be owned by dodgy money.

[igor_balis]

I managed to save about £5,000 in 9 months working in a fairly basic admin job in...2015, I think. Then I moved to Edinburgh, went mental, and came home in 2016 with £4,000 of credit card debt. This is pre-coke as well. If I'd not done the latter and just kept doing that data entry thing I could easily have been in my own 2 bed flat or something by now, but I would have probably ended up fucking my life up one way or the other anyway so it isn't worth dwelling on too much.

[Spikey M]

I do wonder if renting should be as taboo as it often is. Or rather, if owning should be seen as the big "completed it m8". Obviously Landlords can be cunts, but there are alot of benefits to renting too.

Starting with... well... the benefits. If you lose your job, the government will cover your rent for you. If you have a mortgage, it's up to the Big Bad Bankers, who may or may not give you a mortgage holiday.

If you spring a leak or the boiler goes pop, the landlord has to get their wallet out, rather than you having to have a tearful conversation with the Insurance companies that never pay out for anything.

[Shindig]

Yeah, having that kind of cover in an emergency is great. I've yet to have a bad landlord. Having a place truly my own would be great but buying comes with it's own risks. You could inherit a shithole or, ten years down the line a council's modernisation plan could result in your home being demolished. The only obligation you have as a tenant is to keep the place clean.

[Giggles]

You get rent covered? They must spend some millions on that.

I do love the idea of just being able to ring if something breaks, though covid was a great excuse for doing fuck all there for a good while.

[Spikey M]

Housing Benefit yeah. It's capped at a certain amount, so it won't necessarily cover it in full, but it will cover a decent chunk.

[Ian]

Well on the one hand there's that, on the other there's when your landlord should just properly fix something and they do the bare, cheap minimum so they don't. My boiler's been due a replacement for at least three years, they send a fella out to fix it, he says "Yeah this really needs replacing, I'll stick that in my report", they presumably go "lol nah" and then it breaks again in about four months.

EDIT: Out the way Spikey.

[Giggles]

Well on the one hand there's that, on the other there's when your landlord should just properly fix something and they do the bare, cheap minimum so they don't. My boiler's been due a replacement for at least three years, they send a fella out to fix it, he says "Yeah this really needs replacing, I'll stick that in my report", they presumably go "lol nah" and then it breaks again in about four months.

EDIT: Out the way Spikey.

I had the very same one for years with the gas burner. The last time some plumber came out and said it was unsafe and badly needed replacing. Heard nothing for about a week before some handyman sort of lad was sent out to replace something and get it going. Id say they still haven’t done it.

[Dquincy]

An old lady asked me to get my cock out whilst I sat outside a cafe on Portobello Road this week. That was a strange conversation.

[Ian]

Yeah whatever, Igor.

[Kikó]

She said "get that cock out". Subtle difference.

[Giggles]

Did you get it out?

[Dquincy]

She said "get that cock out". Subtle difference.
:D


Did you get it out?
I did not. I was with a client at the time, so I politely told her to leave me alone. She then said it again and said she "wanted to see how big it is...". Was a bit surreal to be honest.

[Spikey M]

Your mother in law is getting out of hand.

[Shindig]

It's not that strange if it's a porn shoot.

[Queenslander]

XR blocked some of the exists off the freeway and a bridge in the Brisbane CBD this morning during peak hour.

These Melbourne fellas are going to be in the AFP database for the rest of their lives now. lol


Extreme global warming protesters BURN an Australian flag on the steps of the Victorian Parliament declaring Australia a 'climate pariah'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10151075/Extreme-climate-activists-burn-Australian-flag-steps-Victorian-Parliament.html?fbclid=IwAR1P_qrLXEG0q3-HP133clcRfEkx_DSsjOuH6RPcH1rUhZ-Eq1MEX77iPlk

[Spikey M]

Burning things unnecessarily is a great way to stop climate change. Well in mates.

[Queenslander]

The Brisbane mongs are always gluing themselves to the road. :cab:

[SvN]

I saw this article randomly today. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59118683

Which included this photo.

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/A47E/production/_121301124_gettyimages-1340632723.jpg

I haven't watched any TV Talent Show since about 2011. But how long has Simon Cowell looked like a shaved Simon Weston?

[Ian]

There's something weird about the photo of Barlow I can't put my finger on as well.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Barlow looks like he's had a stroke.

[Lewis]

I never understood why Louis Walsh, who has forgotten more about managing successful acts than Simon Cowell will ever know, was always treated as the lol opinion compared to Cowell the expert. It's been one long twenty year burial, and the silly Irish cunt has gone along with it every step of the way.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Because he has a funny face and talks all potatoes.

[Disco]

And is probably quite happy to be paid lots of money for making some meaningless telly.

[Don]

Louis looked like the sort of cuck that doesn't just invite them round but asks to eat the creampie after too. Of course he's not going to fucking be taken seriously for the serious business of serious pop.

On that note, this was a nice read:

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/music/2021/10/cliched-lyrics-one-note-melodies-and-unbearable-corniness-what-more-could-you-want-from-an-ed-sheeran-album

[Don]

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/nov/01/restaurant-offers-budget-version-of-salt-bae-gold-covered-steak

“This time last year people couldn’t afford to feed their kids and now social media is full of receipts for how much they’ve spent at a restaurant,” said Stirk. “It just feels wrong. It doesn’t sit right with me."

*proceeds to sell £3,000 worth of gold leaf wrapped steak to the public*

Classic gammon behaviour that, always having to thinly veil their true intent.

[Lofty]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-59069662

[Spikey M]

https://youtu.be/aU59Qn21d0Q

[Lofty]

:D

[Jimmy Floyd]

I have two principle issues with Salt Bae, as follows:

- The grauniad style guide second-mentioning him as 'Bae', as if it's his surname.

- I have developed a concern, looking at several photos, that he may be awfully short.

[Spikey M]

He's a twat, but the mongs attending his restaurant and spunking £22 on a Vodka Redbull and £600 on a bit of cow so they can post it on Instagram are far worse.

Fair play Mr Bae, even if you are a manlet.

[Shindig]

In September 2018, a famous Czech internet personality Týnuš Třešničková became a victim of a failed fire show in the Nusr-Et steakhouse in Istanbul, resulting in 35% TBSA burns. Several other guests also faced less serious body burns.

I'm not touching white meat that rare.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The pictures of the food that I've seen don't even look all that appealing.

[Dquincy]

"A mum has given birth to the 'third biggest baby' in the UK"

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"Butter bean" :D

[Baz]

There's a person called Salt Bae?

[Jimmy Floyd]

He's called something Turkish, he uses Salt Bae as his pseudonym while dropping rock salt onto beef and charging mugs £850 for it.

I say mugs, but are they mugs? They have £850 to spend on a plate of beef, while I have instant coffee and make my own salad dressing.

[Lewis]

Good on Mr Bae. He sounds like he has a great life. Apparently he barely works in any of the restaurants, and the corporate child molesters who own him just fly him into wherever the big celebrity is going to be that night for the photo (or where all the seething about bills will be, so London at the minute).

[Queenslander]

The different State day light savings times down here is always a shambles.

We are an hour behind Tasmania, the ACT, Victoria and NSW, half an hour behind South Australia, half an hour in front of the Northern Territory.

WA is 2 hours behind us but they are a million miles away

https://i.ibb.co/Hz9CfkW/australia-dst-time-zone-map.gif (https://imgbb.com/)

[Luca]

I've been to the Nusr-Et in New York (not on my dime). The steak was...fine? Well seasoned (as you might expect), decently tender, underwhelming flavour - nowhere near the best I've had. I'd have certainly felt like a mug if I was on the receiving end of the bill given the absurd pricing.

Mr. Bae was not in attendance, but at one point nearly the entire restaurant erupted in some sort of spontaneous dance when they turned up the music. Kind of like a shit flashmob, with bimbos waving table napkins. I assume this is done once per seating. I continued to eat my steak.

[Spikey M]

.
I say mugs, but are they mugs?


Mr. Bae was not in attendance, but at one point nearly the entire restaurant erupted in some sort of spontaneous dance when they turned up the music. Kind of like a shit flashmob, with bimbos waving table napkins. I assume this is done once per seating. I continued to eat my steak.

I'll take a salad please, Jim.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I haven't heard 'bimbo' for a while. Very refreshing flashback to 1990s red tops.

[Shindig]

Bimbo Caught in Saucy Romp Bonk with MARRIED Tory MP.

[Lofty]

Surprised by Baz not being aware of Salt Bae.

[Baz]

Surprised by Baz not being aware of Salt Bae.

I certainly give off the wrong impression on here. Giggles thought I was a fan of some Instagram incest family the other day.

[Lofty]

It's the purchasing of sex offender NFTs that does it.

[Don]

https://youtu.be/b0sGu1A72Rw

Knew the owner was a don when I met him a few weeks ago. Seething I wasn't there but I'll be going round on Saturday to praise and support it.

[Queenslander]

Im definitely old and behind the times but how is she considered a person of colour?

https://i.ibb.co/r7T0PMq/251456104-10152808347324999-4077786983760653185-n.jpg (https://ibb.co/JB0tL28)

[Spikey M]

Im definitely old and behind the times but how is she considered a person of colour?

https://i.ibb.co/r7T0PMq/251456104-10152808347324999-4077786983760653185-n.jpg (https://ibb.co/JB0tL28)

Person of colour = not white, no?

[Giggles]

She’s the same colour as me. Am I not white?

[Pepe]

Asian is a color over here.

[Pepe]

Unless we're talking about academics, then Asian = white.

[Queenslander]

She’s the same colour as me. Am I not white?

Yep asians are white here as well.

[Spikey M]

She’s the same colour as me. Am I not white?

If you're the same colour as her, no.

[Spikey M]

If you're the same colour as her, no.

Or rather, not if you share the same facial structure. Maybe we need to change the term to "people who don't look WASPy enough"?

[Queenslander]

I reckon Id offend a local Japanese or Korean person if I referred to them as a person of colour.

What colour are they I wonder, yellow?

[Spikey M]

But presumably they'd also be offended if you did this:

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

Which Steve and Bruce wouldn't be (atleast not directly).

Whichever way you slice it, there's a difference in appearance and that difference has lead to racism, whether it's skin shade, eye shape, or whatever.

[Queenslander]

I guess Im just going off the Asian Australians in my suburb as the majority have strong Aussie accents and I reckon they'd not be impressed with me calling them a person of colour.

Im also a simple man.

[Giggles]

Or rather, not if you share the same facial structure. Maybe we need to change the term to "people who don't look WASPy enough"?

Facial structure is a colour?

[Spikey M]

Facial structure is a colour?

That's why I said maybe we need to change the term.

Or stop investing so much in skin colour and give it the same relevance as eye colour, but that's not going to happen any time soon.

[Ian]

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Fucking hell. :D

[Jimmy Floyd]

That's almost up there with the Jamaican dead son hotel room mannequin.

[Lofty]

That is up there with Battle of Britain sausages :D

[Ian]

That's almost up there with the Jamaican dead son hotel room mannequin.

???

[Giggles]

That's why I said maybe we need to change the term.

Or stop investing so much in skin colour and give it the same relevance as eye colour, but that's not going to happen any time soon.

I’m not the one calling her coloured.

[Spikey M]

I’m not the one calling her coloured.

I didn't say you did.

[Jimmy Floyd]

???

Don't tell me you aren't familiar with this classic? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46475631

[Giggles]

In what world could anyone think that was a good idea?

[Spikey M]

:D I'd forgotten about that.

[Shindig]

I don't care how good their intentions were, that's horrific. :D

[Ian]

Oh for fuck's sake I'd forgotten that one. :D

A chilling mind came up with that one.

[Spikey M]

He's made Macaulay Culkin look a right noob.

[Lewis]

This (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-59167648) seems like it should be the lead story everywhere. Fucking WOT mate?

[Pepe]

Nah, this should be: https://www.bbc.com/news/disability-59042087

EDIT: But yeah, that's wild. Murder, corpse sexual assault, kiddie porn. Man really did it all.

[Bernanke]

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-59147747

[Spikey M]

Daft cunt.

[Ian]

It's a shame she made that, the bin bag full of hair would have made a handy like-for-like replacement for BoJo if anything happens to him.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's a good example of why Boris is popular despite basically everything about him. People just like him. No reason, no logic. There doesn't have to be.

[Ian]

People just took his bumbling oaf act at face value rather than as a cover for an unpleasant moron.

[Manc]

Could have at least got her roots done.

[Yevrah]

If ever there was someone in the wrong job, it's her. Akin to Ronnie O'Sullivan deciding to wash cars for a living.

[Ian]

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Nice of Lord Wolfson to out himself as a filthy pervert so nobody had to do it for him.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Do I have to click on the link to find out what 'family pornography' is?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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It's just so easy to unintentionally capture a woman breastfeeding a baby in a picture a man was intending to use as sexual gratification.

[Yevrah]

There are no words. Why does the sexual gratification thing need to even be mentioned in his (bullshit in the first place) argument?

Who are all these people currently taking breastfeeding pictures in the first place? I knew of no such issue.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Do I have to click on the link to find out what 'family pornography' is?

So, it's taking pictures of your wife to have a wank to later. Righto.

[Spikey M]

That would be Spousal pornography, no? Family Pornography by definition would have to include kids, siblings, parents, cousins, or atleast an Auntie or Uncle.

If he isn't outed as a nonce by the end of 2022, someone isn't doing their job properly.

[Luca]

That his example was “it would ruin my potential to take photographs of my wife to masturbate to” instead of “it would ruin my potential to take photos of my little boy Timmy building a sand castle” (or something to that effect) is really quite bizarre.

Check his hard drives.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That his example was “it would ruin my potential to take photographs of my wife to masturbate to” instead of “it would ruin my potential to take photos of my little boy Timmy building a sand castle” (or something to that effect) is really quite bizarre.

Check his hard drives.
They're also part of his sexual gratification portfolio but he can't admit to that publicly.

[Luca]

That’s the implication, yes.

[randomlegend]

Presumably the reason he was outlining that particular scenario is because the amendment specifically refers to photos taken of breastfeeding women without consent for the purposes of sexual gratification? I haven't read it so I don't know, but that's surely what he's getting at. That they would be breaking that specific law kind of by proxy/technicality?

I'm not suggesting for a moment it's not a fucking weird thing to be going on about, just trying to make sense of the logic.

[Luca]

Yeah, that’s probably it. Still, odds-on wrong’un.

[Waffdon]

M90 at Perth has had a busy few days. A lorry went through the barricades on a flyover on Friday dropping about 20 foot straight to the road below resulting in the driver being killed (no idea how it didn’t land on any cars, might have been too early in the morning). Now tonight a bus has randomly went on fire and exploded causing tailbacks for miles.

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-news/7949177/m90-perth-crash-lorry-driver-dies-flyover-police/amp/

[Manc]

Went on fire?

[Waffdon]

The IRA were involved apparently

[Shindig]

"We heard someone important was on this bus. This megabus with the £1 fare to Leeds."

[SvN]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59216104

Fucking hell, the entire thing is insane, right down to the baby swap.

[Don]

Serves the fucking weirdos right for thinking they can interfere with Allah's work.

[Spikey M]

That is legitimately fucking mental. It's up there with those parents that had their kids taken away when they were incorrectly found guilty of abuse, then when they were cleared the authorities just went "Yeah, soz like, but they're not your kids now. They've been adopted lol."

[Giggles]

Who’s shooting up where?

[Dquincy]

It's like Giggles doesn't have the Internet apart from TTH.

[John Arne]

So some historian did a Hitler impression at a Cambridge Union debate about Good Taste... he did the impression to prove that bad taste exists.

They have now blacklisted him.

https://www.insider.com/cambridge-university-sorry-for-speakers-adolf-hitler-impersonation-2021-11

The fuck is wrong with these people?

[Spikey M]

Universities jumped the shark long, long ago. You MUST NOT say anything that could be offensive, even if only doing so to show that it is offensive.

[John Arne]

Reminded me of a news presenter or someone reading a quote from someone else who got it to trouble for said quote. Presenter proceeded to get into trouble for reading the quote. I don't think they reported on reporter getting into trouble for reporting.

[Shindig]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-59226569

Slightly better than Alan Partridge stealing a traffic cone.

[Spikey M]

I once mooned a Princess Cruise Ship from our balcony on P&O Azura, so I stand in support of my brother in arse.

[Shindig]

Were you tackled by six police officers when you got home? :D

[Dquincy]

I once mooned a Princess Cruise Ship from our balcony on P&O Azura, so I stand in support of my brother in arse.

Cruise holidays. Would you recommend them to a friend (who lives jusy across the water from you)?

[Dquincy]

Not sure if this is news, but I've left the house today without my belt. Walking around London today with a loose waistline is going to a nightmare. (And no way am I buying a new belt when I have a good one at home).

[Spikey M]

Cruise holidays. Would you recommend them to a friend (who lives jusy across the water from you)?

Pre-pandemic, yeah. Not so sure now as they're being particularly strict on testing etc, and getting stuck in a tiny cabin for 2 weeks after testing positive would be even more miserable than on a normal holiday.

Once all this bollocks finally fucks off though, go for it. It's great. Although I'd only do a fly-cruise, otherwise you end up with a load of sea-days getting to the Caribbean or wherever. With a Fly-Cruise you get to explore a new place every day. I think we did Barbados, Antigua, St Vincent, St Kitts, St Lucia, St Maarten and Tortola.

[Dquincy]

Nice one, thanks

[Shindig]

I'd love to do that if I could keep the travel sickness at bay.

[Spikey M]

I'd love to do that if I could keep the travel sickness at bay.

It wasn't too bad as the waters there are pretty calm. We had one rough night going past Puerto Rico where drinking in the bar at the top of the ship proved to be too much for a few stomachs, but otherwise it was smooth enough.

I think it's more of a problem with Mediterranean cruises, especially if you have to go past the Bay of Biscay, which looks fun. Think even my stomach would give out.


https://youtu.be/XNbppXZMv3U

[Dquincy]

Was your lodge one of those containers?

[Kikó]

Not sure if this is news, but I've left the house today without my belt. Walking around London today with a loose waistline is going to a nightmare. (And no way am I buying a new belt when I have a good one at home).

I think loose fitting trousers are cutting edge of fashion in London. The more of the underpants on show, the better.

[Giggles]

Quincy doesn't seem like the mandem blud type.

[Offshore Toon]

Universities jumped the shark long, long ago. You MUST NOT say anything that could be offensive, even if only doing so to show that it is offensive.
I got into war with the feminist society at Sussex in 2013 and survived. I was the original 'can't be cancelled'.

[randomlegend]

So some historian did a Hitler impression at a Cambridge Union debate about Good Taste... he did the impression to prove that bad taste exists.

They have now blacklisted him.

https://www.insider.com/cambridge-university-sorry-for-speakers-adolf-hitler-impersonation-2021-11

The fuck is wrong with these people?

Well by banning him they've confirmed he unequivocally won the debate

[Dquincy]

Quincy doesn't seem like the mandem blud type.

It's true. I carry no shanks on me.

[Don]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/59234391

Talk about a race to the bottom :D

[Spikey M]

Well, that empty gesture is going to make a world of difference.

[Don]

Racism was defeated eventually (see Kiko's departure from Great Britain) through similar 'empty gestures'.

[Spikey M]

Don't be fooled, Kiko only moved to follow in the footsteps of his hero. He's already been around the Beer Halls giving his speeches.

[Yevrah]

What awareness of homelessness needs to be raised exactly? Is there anyone living in this county who isn't aware of people being homeless and how utterly horrible it must be?

[Pepe]

Charities who focus on "awareness" should be disbanded and all their assets seized, the fucking wasters.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I think the PL are trying to save clubs from themselves there.

[Spikey M]

What awareness of homelessness needs to be raised exactly? Is there anyone living in this county who isn't aware of people being homeless and how utterly horrible it must be?

There are alot of people (probably most) that don't realise how widespread it is. Alot of people just think it's the people sat on sleeping bags in the highstreet. Druggies and Alcoholics.

The "housing crisis" is absolutely mental. There are families living in cars, sleeping on floors in friends houses and - if they're really lucky - staying in "temporary housing", which usually means bumping around properties like this (https://news.sky.com/story/under-siege-housing-scheme-blamed-for-turning-a-quiet-suburb-into-open-prison-12321472).

Awareness and action is desperately needed. Burnley wearing the wrong colour at home probably isn't going to cut it.

[Ian]

Teams needlessly play in away and third kits so often now I dunno how much people would even think about it if they only saw it at a glance.

[Kikó]

There are alot of people (probably most) that don't realise how widespread it is. Alot of people just think it's the people sat on sleeping bags in the highstreet. Druggies and Alcoholics.

The "housing crisis" is absolutely mental. There are families living in cars, sleeping on floors in friends houses and - if they're really lucky - staying in "temporary housing", which usually means bumping around properties like this (https://news.sky.com/story/under-siege-housing-scheme-blamed-for-turning-a-quiet-suburb-into-open-prison-12321472).

Awareness and action is desperately needed. Burnley wearing the wrong colour at home probably isn't going to cut it.

👏👏

[Shindig]

Teams needlessly play in away and third kits so often now I dunno how much people would even think about it if they only saw it at a glance.

They'd have to organise an applause or something just to hammer it home. Or get the homeless charities to set up shop at grounds as well. Homelessness isn't really a problem you can solve but you can make it slightly less shit.

[Spikey M]

It's not a problem you can solve but it's a problem we could reduce by about 99% fairly easily. But homelessness keeps housing prices going up so here we are.

[Lofty]

Remember when we were all aware of Kony. That helped.

[Spikey M]

Par for the times we live in. We care deeply about things for about 2 weeks, then if it isn't solved we move on.

Homelessness only stays on my radar because I talk to people that have suffered it more or less every day at work so it's easy for me to keep caring.

[Dquincy]

There are alot of people (probably most) that don't realise how widespread it is. Alot of people just think it's the people sat on sleeping bags in the highstreet. Druggies and Alcoholics.

The "housing crisis" is absolutely mental. There are families living in cars, sleeping on floors in friends houses and - if they're really lucky - staying in "temporary housing", which usually means bumping around properties like this (https://news.sky.com/story/under-siege-housing-scheme-blamed-for-turning-a-quiet-suburb-into-open-prison-12321472).

Awareness and action is desperately needed. Burnley wearing the wrong colour at home probably isn't going to cut it.

They just need to buy a house. Could even be an apartment.

[Spikey M]

It's like I always say to them; "just stop being poor".

[Giggles]

I’d say there’s a fair whack of them suffer from a good dose of bing bone idle, resulting in poorness.

[Spikey M]

The vast majority of them are evicted by private landlords (sometimes their own fault, sometimes not), can't find anywhere else (alot of landlords refuse benefit claimants) and end up on the council waiting list which can take years.

It's usually single parents with no support, for who getting a full-time job is impossible.

[Kikó]

Nah it's like giggles said. It's just pure laziness and we have zero inequality.

[Dquincy]

It's like I always say to them; "just stop being poor".

:D

[Lewis]

The vast majority of them are evicted by private landlords (sometimes their own fault, sometimes not), can't find anywhere else (alot of landlords refuse benefit claimants) and end up on the council waiting list which can take years.

It's usually single parents with no support, for who getting a full-time job is impossible.

The planning system strikes again. I think people also conflate those types of people with tramps, many of whom would find a way to fuck a house up and be homeless within weeks of giving them one, which makes it harder to 'solve' from a spending money on them perspective.

[Yevrah]

I've often wondered how hard it would be to steal a house. An empty one obviously.

[Baz]

They're not homeless, they're unhoused.

[Dquincy]

They're not dead, they're just not breathing.

[Shindig]

They're not unemployed, they're in between jobs.

[Raoul Duke]

I've often wondered how hard it would be to steal a house. An empty one obviously.

Not impossible: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-59069662

[Offshore Toon]

You could probably make a couple of thousand by curling up in a sleeping bag in Tottenham if they manage to get the go-ahead.

I haven't checked if they're playing at home, mind, so you might just get AIDS.

[Lofty]

I've often wondered how hard it would be to steal a house. An empty one obviously.

Easy, my dad squatted one in Brixton years ago. Even started making improvements. Had to laugh when he bemoaned some Serbians squatting it in his absence.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Surely easier back in those days when there weren't several sovereign nation wealth funds scrambling for every lot in London.

Must be very doable where there's no demand.

[Lofty]

Yes this was when Brixton was yet to feel the petrodollar grasp of gentrification where they started taking over pubs and kicking the regulars of decades out etc.