News of the day

[Giggles]

You're not out watching them or marching with them?

His KAT tattoo wasn't ready in time.

[SvN]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36794888

3 years?!?!? Are you fucking kidding me? This country is such a fucking joke.

[Magic]

Yeah I know but still, who the fuck does that sort of shit? Fucking James Bulger man, I'm almost in agreement with the sentence.

[Pepe]

Yet a proper criminal like Messi walks free.

[Giggles]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36794888

3 years?!?!? Are you fucking kidding me? This country is such a fucking joke.

Not nearly enough for the sick cow.

[Disco]

I saw this today, have we had a good lol at it yet? I would imagine Lewis has.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36786882

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

:D

[Magic]

What's funny about it.

[Giggles]

What's funny about it.

Because he's a headcase.

[Magic]

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/perth-kinross/223764/street-pastors-used-lollipops-defuse-t-tensions/

Aw, this is nice. I think. Unless they were also offering lollipops to kids.

[Baz]

I saw this today, have we had a good lol at it yet? I would imagine Lewis has.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36786882I'm genuinely devastated by this news. He makes being in the car all day so much more tolerable. :( Like this really REALLY sucks.

In other news: Optometrist who missed swelling in boy's brain guilty of manslaughter (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/15/optometrist-honey-rose-guilty-manslaughter-negligence-vinnie-barker-boots). Not really sure what to think of this.

[Giggles]

Some cops gunned down in Louisiana now.

[Shindig]

Oxford United Director found dead (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-36819017)


Further tributes have been paid to Mr Taylor, thought to be in his 60s, on Twitter.

The fact nobody seems to know his age is the thing I find weird.

[John]

Some twat has gone into a shop and left the handbrake off on his fucking bus, letting it take off rudderless down a fairly busy street in Glasgow. Apparently it hit nothing but cars and other buses, but what a mess that could have been.

[Bartholomert]

Seems like the right wing resurgence isn't merely a phenomenon confined to the West:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/437950/japans-new-fascism

"In 2013, at a Nippon Kaigi party celebrating Shinzo Abe’s new appointments to his cabinet — 15 of whose 18 members were Nippon Kaigi-niks — the old imperial “Rising Sun” flag was flown, pledges to “break away from the postwar regime” were made, and the (very short and controversial) imperial national anthem was sung."

:|

[Magic]

James Craig grabbed his victim by the hair, pulled her to the floor and then punched her on the head. He then savagely stamped on her arm, leaving her writhing in pain from a fractured and dislocated elbow.

-------

He extended his “sincere apologies” to his victim and claimed his actions had been “out of character” – a previous conviction for assault aside.

:D

[Bartholomert]

Three dead in shooting in Lincolnshire:

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/690881/Spalding-gunshots-Castle-Sports-Complex-swimming-pool-police-incident

...dare I ask, is that an area with a high concentration of Muslims?

[Lewis]

Lots of Eastern Europeans, but not many Muslims. My guess would be mental old man.

[Magic]

Unlike Europe no you can't assume that.

[Magic]

It was a manic depressive dad murdering his whole family.

[Disco]

Beastly indeed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/item/76e3facf-33bb-42c4-9258-ea61f17f790b?intc_type=promo&intc_location=sport&intc_campaign=thebeast&intc_linkname=bbcthree_fac_article1

[Pepe]

Passing out after getting out of bed too quickly sounds like something Mahow would do.

[Disco]

There is a certain resemblance.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Passing out after getting out of bed too quickly sounds like something Mahow would do.

As if, it takes me about 30 minutes to get out of bed.

[Foe]

Three dead in shooting in Lincolnshire:

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/690881/Spalding-gunshots-Castle-Sports-Complex-swimming-pool-police-incident

...dare I ask, is that an area with a high concentration of Muslims?

Found out today this is dad, mother and sister of a guy from my work.

Apparently he was home at the weekend too. Terrifying.

[Giggles]

Siri knows :cool:

http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/7214293/Rangers-fans-fuming-after-iPhones-Siri-claims-club-is-only-four-years-old.html?CMP=spklr-_-Editorial-_-TWITTER-_-ScottishSun-_-20160719-_-News-_-520296184

[John]

They seem to have completely invented those 'fuming' Rangers fans, which is funnier than an Apple product being wrong or Celtic fans being obsessive nutters.

[SvN]

I can count at least one fuming Rangers fan.

[Giggles]

They seem to have completely invented those 'fuming' Rangers fans, which is funnier than an Apple product being wrong or Celtic fans being obsessive nutters.

In fainess it's not the highest quality article you'll ever see.

[John]

I can count at least one fuming Rangers fan.

There are still plenty of Rangers fans furious that we were liquidated based primarily on the expected result of a court case which we ultimately won, but nobody will be arsed over Siri getting the date wrong. They don't even have a quote from Facebook or Twitter to back up their headline, that's how poor it is.

Incidentally I'm the least furious Rangers fan you're likely to meet when it comes to that stuff. I advocated early and often for just taking the relegation on the chin and working our way back up.

[Magic]

They seem to have completely invented those 'fuming' Rangers fans, which is funnier than an Apple product being wrong or Celtic fans being obsessive nutters.

Seething. And I'm the one who needs to seek help. :harold:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36857370

Genuinely stunned at that.

Firstly that they were still making them and secondly that 750,000 units were sold last year. Who the fuck was buying them?

[Pepe]

Africa?

[mikem]

You people clearly don't have kids. It is people with home videos who don't have the time to move everything to another medium when you can buy a cheap vcr.

[Disco]

I'd imagine there's plenty of places where they have back catalogues of tapes they still want to watch.

As a counterpoint I only realised very recently that my PC doesn't actually have a disc drive of any kind.

[niko_cee]

Anyone who recorded their kids on a VHS compatible device is probably dead by now.

[mikem]

The footage will be from the 80's to the 00's. Digital camcorders used tape for well into the 00's. How many people still have the camcorder that played it?

[Magic]

Best thing is the police can't watch VHS now so...

[Giggles]

I'd imagine there's plenty of places where they have back catalogues of tapes they still want to watch.

As a counterpoint I only realised very recently that my PC doesn't actually have a disc drive of any kind.

Is there not even a USB A/C port or a micro SD slot?

[Disco]

USB ports obviously, but nothing else, I have no use for them. I'd evidently forgotten that I didn't spec this one with a disc drive.

[Giggles]

USB ports obviously, but nothing else, no use for them. I'd evidently forgotten that I didn't spec this one with a disc drive.

There would be very few these days with optical drives I'd say. Couldn't see much need.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I put a disc drive in mine but I've probably used it about 4 or 5 times since I bought the PC.

They're near useless now.

[Disco]

Indeed, and it's been nearly a year since I got this and Friday was the first time I even considered it. As it happened it probably took less time to download a copy of what I wanted to watch than it would have done to go upstairs and dig through the box of dvds that I haven't unpacked since I moved. There should be a drive on the older PC actually, which is on the same network but I haven't set up a proper separate monitor for that yet and running it through my second screen is annoying so bollocks to that.

What times we live in, where I don't consider two monitors to be quite enough.

[Bartholomert]

Canada going full Onion, fining a comedian for a joke he made about a singer being ugly:

http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/22/canada-orders-comedian-to-pay-singer-35000-for-offensive-joke/

[Giggles]

Such an enormous cock of a person.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/bob-geldof-yelled-at-fans-for-wearing-primark-because-he-wants-to-talk-up-the-working-classes-but-a7150896.html

[GS]

:nodd:

He could be a Labour MP with behaviour like that.

[Yevrah]

It may be obtuse of me to point out that Geldof on the Thames with a boat full of lounge-suited media twonks did almost more to swing ‘Average Joe’ Britain towards voting Brexit than Eddie Izzard’s Question Time ‘cerise beret and statement lip’ combo.

:D

[Yevrah]

For those who didn't see it.

29

:face:

[GS]

It does demonstrate quite aptly the problem with some aspects of the metropolitan liberal world view.

Those two are obviously extreme examples, but there's a streak of self-righteousness that is really quite unpalatable.

[SincereTheRebel]

Clyne sex tape reported online.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/liverpool-star-nathaniel-clyne-calls-8484704?ICID=FB_mirror_main

[Giggles]

Taz will have ejaculated his own body weight by now.

[Shindig]

Why don't ISIS bomb this out instead? (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-36879072)

[Disco]

I know they always choose the most ridiculous photos to go with these but fucking hell, look at the state of this lot. The guy probably died laughing.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-36891523

[Magic]

Summerlyn Farquharson

When you in a mixed race area an the maternity ward is lit with ratchet hoes and upper class rich white folks.

[Disco]

I also enjoyed what has to be the worst commemorative plaque in history.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/horse-racing/36892365

A bit of ragged perspex and a felt tip pen, did he owe them money or something?

[niko_cee]

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/british-council-charity-worker-calls-085502322.html

Love that headline. I bet he is a right little cunt.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I wasn't expecting that :D

[Smiffy]

.....

[Shindig]

Yeah, Diana had a very, very, very public life and death. On top of that, William and Harry had to deal with their parents' divorce at an early age. Harry went to Afghanistan, William did some RAF shit and then decided to support Villa. That's his decision and he lives with it. Every day. Every night.

[John]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/24/michigan-bottle-deposit-recycling-seinfeld

The Guardian must have been done over by The Onion or something there. Not a chance a bottle scam has been carried out by a man with that name.

[Giggles]

The way brown envelopes are done these days. What a fucking country.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/state-paying-4500-a-week-for-teenagers-flat-scandalous-says-judge-747014.html

[7om]

http://fox5sandiego.com/2016/07/31/woman-leaves-dogs-in-car-dogs-crash-it-into-walmart/

:cool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The two they interviewed couldn't be more stereotypical Virginian if they tried.

[John]

This 'Byron Burgers' stuff is getting more lol every time I hear fresh news about it.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2016/jul/31/not-just-crickets-thousands-of-insects-released-at-byron-restaurants-in-pictures

[Magic]

Have you been? It's fucking breathtakingly average.

[Disco]

Free locusts though, top notch.

[Magic]

https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/fp/cops-severe-injury-mans-attack/

Hmm. 6 months for assaulting four police officers, one seriously.

What did those twitter trolls get, 3 years or something?

[phonics]

Sounds more like he was resisting arrest and a copper hurt his back.


He was convicted of assaulting PC Charles Demore by struggling with him and causing him to fall against a door frame, to his injury.

He was also found guilty of assaulting PC Scott Hunter by struggling with him, to his severe injury.

Ling was found guilty of resisting four police officers by struggling violently with them and lashing out with his arms and legs.

[Magic]

Same thing isn't it?

[Magic]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-36950013

This reminded me of 'how.

[Pepe]

http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/2F94/production/_90608121_dutchman-2.png

:lol:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I was wondering when someone would post that :\

At least mine actually turned up at the airport.

[SincereTheRebel]

Referee Mark Clattenburg new tattoo's :lol: (https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/premierleague/1545474/mark-clattenburg-tattoo-referee-gets-ink-while-on-holiday-in-spain-to-mark-taking-charge-of-champions-league-and-euro-2016-finals/)

https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/nintchdbpict000256422109.jpg?w=810

[SvN]

Fucking pleb.

[SincereTheRebel]

He is a cornball.

[Davgooner]

An Emirates 777 has gone up in flames after crash landing in Dubai.

760766969452851200

[Davgooner]

Looks like the gear collapsed and one of the engines was smashed away from the wing. Emirates are reporting all passengers and crew as safe, which is miraculous.

760776129808662529

:|

[Boydy]

Furious mother 'squirted her boob' at a woman who told her to move while she was breastfeeding because it was distracting her husband (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3725576/Breastfeeding-mother-squirted-boob-woman-complained.html)

:D

[Magic]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3733212/You-bit-c-Judge-s-foul-mouthed-response-racist-thug-hurled-abuse-dock-jailed-insulting-black-Caribbean-mother.html

:D

EDIT: Oh my God:

DISTINGUISHED JUDGE WITH RECORD OF LETTING PAEDOPHILES WALK FREE


I love how they managed to get that sub-story in, however read a little bit closer and:

Last August Judge Lynch made headlines when she apologised to two teenage girls after sentencing guidelines prevented her from jailing a pervert who sexually abused them at his animal sanctuary.

[Magic]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-37083951

:D

[Magic]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-37103668

:(

[niko_cee]

I've always been a bit terrified of kites for this very reason, and there was me thinking I was being totally irrational.

[Spammer]

Some lads put up wires between trees in our local woods at neck height. Wasn't allowed to cycle around there for months when I was a kid.

[Ian]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-37105035

So I thought it was surprising enough that of these two:

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/5A8B/production/_90797132_capture.jpg

it was the one on the left who was the main culprit.

And secondly when I scrolled down and saw that the murder was because the one on the left had been dumped by this guy:
http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/C74E/production/_90822015_hi034763222.jpg

The mind boggles.

[Boydy]

The one on the left looks like Chelsea Peretti.

[Shindig]

How does that hair happen?

[Magic]

She looks like that cycling bird.

[Giggles]

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/brazilian-police-seek-to-seize-john-delaney-s-passport-1.2763730

:drool:

Throw away the key.

[Baz]

Is this (http://zedic.com/lg-42dl550-fix-repair/) a group internet trolling session? :cab:

[Boydy]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-37154912

:lol:

[bruhnaldo]

There was a petition to rename the baseball team in Cincinnati the "Cincinnati Harambes" ffs

[Disco]

There was a guy spamming 'Dicks out for Harambe' in chat the other day, it's everywhere.

[Lewis]

It's always the unfunny knobheads driving these sort of things to feel like they're part of something (see also: 'Boaty McBoatface').

[bruhnaldo]

Listen, I'm the last person to jump in the #BlackLivesMatter Social Justice Warrior queue..

But am I the only one who finds this Harambe shit extraordinarily racist?

As if people are making fun of what happens when a black guy gets killed in America? Or am I overthinking it?

I hate to sound like one of those hyper-sensitive dickheads but it just really, really strikes me as kinda fucked.

[phonics]

767776683126554625

[John]

You're probably not the only one, but I can assure you all the others will be stupid and ludicrously sensitive, so I suggest you rethink that position.

[phonics]

767776683126554625

A follow up tweet from 2 months previous

738868491688644608

[bruhnaldo]

Nah you're right John. I mean I'm not about to go cause a fuss on Al Gore's interwebz about it to anyone and, normally, I'm the first one to say "Fuck off it's just a joke for crying out loud."

Just seems like some people are taking the opportunity to chug some Diet Racism rather than just a wry laugh.

[John]

A follow up from before?

How are those things news? Has he murdered his room mates?

[phonics]

A follow up from before?

How are those things news? Has he murdered his room mates?

Check the second picture in the first tweet. Yes he murdered his room mate.

[Spikey M]

Germans told to stockpile food and water for civil defence - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37155060

[GS]

Wir schaffen das.

[bruhnaldo]

"Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told a group of schoolchildren that Germany must be prepared to react if water or food reserves were poisoned, or if oil and gas supplies were interrupted."

*cleans non-existent glasses that I'm using for this bit*

"told a group of schoolchildren"

But why?*


* - tell schoolchildren, in case that's not clear.

[Spikey M]

Because Germans, without exception, are fucking mental.

[Giggles]

Yet they own us all.

[Boydy]

They don't own Harambe.

[Giggles]

They don't own Harambe.

He is?

[leedsrevolution]

A dead monkey and I want no further mention of him on this forum.

[niko_cee]

On the subject of zoo-based grief I'm now trying to work out if I missed the fact that the annoying little fuc-knut of a polar bear in Berlin died 5 years ago, or if I just erased the news from my mind.

[bruhnaldo]

How could you be annoyed by a Polar Bear?! They're quite possibly the cutest thing on the planet.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

A dead monkey and I want no further mention of him on this forum.
A dead gorilla, mate.

[leedsrevolution]

Dont be racist.

[GS]

It's a good job we have the European Union, which stops the Germans exercising economic hegemony over the cont...

Wait.

[phonics]

CHRIST YOU ARE SO DULL

caps

[GS]

You'll get over it eventually.

[Giggles]

Christ. And it's in an absolute kip of an area too.

http://www.joe.ie/news/pics-two-images-show-just-bad-renting-crisis-getting-dublin/558119

[Boydy]

Facebook fires trending team, and algorithm without humans goes crazy (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/29/facebook-fires-trending-topics-team-algorithm)

'Module pushes out false story about Fox’s Megyn Kelly, offensive Ann Coulter headline and a story link about a man masturbating with a McDonald’s sandwich'

:D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That last one must be a real thing on one of those fake news websites though.

[Disco]

Hang on, are they fake news sites or fake news sites?

[Disco]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/swimming/37228544

Nice job not surprising anyone at all Korea.

[Lewis]

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/caf-customer-calls-police-after-he-was-served-the-wrong-type-of-tea-a3335251.html

lol at him. What a legend.

[mikem]

This is pretty long but makes me sad that we very rarely get coverage of a story like this anymore.

http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-framed/

[John]

This is pretty long but makes me sad that we very rarely get coverage of a story like this anymore.

http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-framed/

The level of criminality involved is vastly different, but this (https://www.propublica.org/article/false-rape-accusations-an-unbelievable-story) is another great long form article in a similar vein.

[mikem]

Thanks, I love this kind of writing and don't understand why there is seemingly no market for it.

[SvN]

Man charged with Eddie Izzard beret theft

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-37270275

http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/173EC/production/_91021259_mediaitem91020904.jpg


The comedian gave chase in high heels and retrieved his headwear with the help of police.


The beret has since been taken away by police as evidence.

[GS]

Eddie Izzard associating himself with your campaign is usually the death knell for it.

I like to think his appearance on Question Time won the day for Leave.

[Disco]

Say what you like about Izzard you're unlikely to beat him in a foot race.

[Shindig]

Nah, he's all long distance. Sprint 100 meters, catch a bus and you're sorted.

[Giggles]

Cunt should be publicly flogged. Hopefully at the least he gets a massive bill.

http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/hay-you-cant-do-that-limerick-tunnel-closed-after-truck-mishap-35039964.html

[Giggles]

Magic must be raging.

http://www.joe.ie/news/british-sas-sniper-kills-isis-flamethrower-executioner-with-a-crack-shot-moments-before-he-torched-12-hostages/559788

[John]

The SAS. :cool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He'll only be raging if liveleak don't get hold of the video.

[SvN]

This is pretty long but makes me sad that we very rarely get coverage of a story like this anymore.

http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-framed/

I just read this by the way, and it is brilliant. I recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it yet.

I could read stuff like that all day.

[Magic]

https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/fp/thieves-struck-ian-shower/

That headline though. And the picture. :D

[Shindig]

The 22-year-old games assistant operator told the Tele that he can’t afford to replace the items and hopes that a public appeal can bring them home.

Couldn't spring £8 a month for contents insurance?

[Magic]

He's not a fucking pizza delivery guy, mate.

[Spoonsky]

https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/fp/thieves-struck-ian-shower/

That headline though. And the picture. :D

Ian McWelby?

[Lewis]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/grandad-dies-just-45-minutes-8838192

Yeah, after they turned up.

[Pepe]

Fuck me, that one has been gone for a decade at least.

[Pepe]

Imagine if that is your dying wish and those four show up. Talk about disappointment.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fucking hell, the first picture :sick:

[niko_cee]

Imagine if that is your dying wish and those four show up. Talk about disappointment.

:D

My thoughts exactly. Presumably all the proper players were busy with strategic corporate partnerships.

[Lewis]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/alan-barnes-disabled-pensioner-10-pounds-katie-cutler-pr-bill-claire-barnes-mugged-a7311751.html

That's basically Giggles' worldview as a new story.

[Boydy]

What a little cunt.

[John]

Hopefully he gets mugged again.

[Kikó]

£10 seems fair.

[Giggles]

I don't get it.

[Magic]

Who'd have thought a total, flat-out, 9000RPM benefit fraud spastic wouldn't really understand the value of work?

[niko_cee]

The 'PR' person (lol) sounds like the one who needs launching into space.

[Magic]

They'd need a big fucking rocket.

[Disco]

She's stood next to someone who looks like they've been shrunk in the wash.....but you're probably right.

PR (like almost any kind of consultancy or design work, sorry phonics) is one of those fields in which you just make up a number you would like to be paid and ask for that.

[phonics]

She's stood next to someone who looks like they've been shrunk in the wash.....but you're probably right.

PR (like almost any kind of consultancy or design work, sorry phonics) is one of those fields in which you just make up a number you would like to be paid and ask for that.

In my case you look at how many hours you've worked and times it my 30.

[Boydy]

Man stuck in coffee machine delays train (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-37336440?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=57daccc3e4b0c27cfe0047da%26Man%20stuck %20in%20coffee%20machine%20delays%20train%26&ns_fee=0#post_57daccc3e4b0c27cfe0047da)

Lofty had a bad day at work.

[Shindig]

I'm not trying to be controversial but this is a bit bollocks.

First woman on the front line. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37391807)

I mean, its great you're accepted as one but... to be a statistic for doing this very thing ... is fucking daft. I dunno, at some point I'm arguing semantics and I'm surprised no women have been on the front-line til now. I mean, women have served in the forces for decades.

[Lewis]

It's a bloke. Look at 'her'.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He could at least put a wig on.

[Giggles]

If that's meant to be a woman then they need a refund.

[Shindig]

I didn't even look at the photos. What you've done is change your name by deed, £35 for your name in history, Chris.

[John Arne]

Vietnam corruption and incompetence in a nutshell. Guy in a car with government plates driving down the wrong side of a main road, apparently half-cut, and the copper (in beige) is telling other people to calm down and waving oncoming vehicles out of the way...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKUoQjY7XQs

Fuck's sake.

[John Arne]

Maggie Smith won an Emmy last night, in 2016.

She was first nominated for a BAFTA in 1958, and won an Oscar in 1969.

Cracking career longevity.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/f6/f0/06/f6f006484c8b4a60d9c40b3a5c176ce9.jpg

[John]

Angela Lansbury was similar, although her bookends weren't wins. Nominated for an Oscar in 1945 and an Emmy in 2005.

We had a thread on the old board about actors who'd had preposterously long careers, or who'd kept working until a ridiculous age, and I think Eli Wallach and Betty White were the winners.

[Shindig]

Mickey Rooney kind of destroys the history books in that regard. First role in 1927, last in 2014.

[John]

He's something of an anomaly in that he was doing stage work before he was two and went on to actually have a career in acting, but he isn't miles ahead of everyone by any metric. Hitler's favourite actor worked from the early twenties until he died this decade.

[Shindig]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Herr_Heesters.png

Okay, that's what hands look like at 105.

[phonics]

One of the eggheads has just been arrested for murder

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/sep/22/cj-de-mooi-eggheads-arrested-over-killing-in-netherlands?CMP=twt_gu

[Lewis]

That would explain his smugness.

[Shindig]

I like how I didn't need to open that to know which one it would be.

[Disco]

Does he still have that amazing website?

[Shindig]

On a self-recorded YouTube video,[8] CJ claims to have had a highly abusive childhood, causing him to run away from home shortly after his seventeenth birthday and become homeless beginning in Rotherham and Sheffield. The video described how he travelled to London, jumped on a ferry to Amsterdam and later moved on to Cologne, where a chance encounter outside a gay bar led to the beginnings of his modelling career. De Mooi said that in 1988 he may have killed a man who was attempting to mug him by punching and throwing him into a canal in Amsterdam.[9]

Alright, then. This definitely happened.

[Boydy]

I like how I didn't need to open that to know which one it would be.
:D

Yeah, it was always going to be CJ.

[niko_cee]

I thought it would be the old dear.

[Disco]

I was hoping it was for killing one of the other ones, revenge for getting booted off the show.

[Giggles]

Christ. I had to double take this to make sure it wasn't a joke site.

http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/how-to-be-a-man

[GS]

http://bbc.in/2dRWiIl

It's hard to see what the way forward there is, really. Further concessions from FARC and re-running the referendum, or literally having to carpet bomb the jungles and flood them with troops in a 10-1 ratio to try and annihilate them militarily.

[Lewis]

I wonder how a similar vote would have gone here at different periods. There might have been polling done over the years, but I bet we would have voted likewise at least into the late-nineties.

[GS]

When they had a referendum on the Good Friday Agreement here, it was a landslide 'Yes' vote. There was a small hardcore on the republican side who considered it a sell-out, and a somewhat larger minority on the unionist side who weren't having anything to do with "Sinn Fein IRA" - but most people just wanted the fucking thing to be over with.

We let out the prisoners as well, but there's nobody today - who should be taken seriously, anyway - who can say we'd have been better off if the GFA had been rejected.

For all the shite this place gets, the peace process here is probably as good a benchmark as any of how to deal with these things.

The south had to have a separate referendum to amend their constitution, in effect recognising the right of self-determination for the north and not claiming jurisdiction over 'the six counties'. That got about 94% of the vote, so presumably the only people who voted against it were Gerry Adams' mates and a few embittered Irish speakers in the Gaeltacht.

[Lewis]

I meant if they ran it across the United Kingdom as a whole.

[GS]

I meant if they ran it across the United Kingdom as a whole.

The yes vote in Colombia was concentrated in the areas with violence, apparently. It was the areas less affected which voted no - I suppose it's easy to be militant when you're not affected by it.

If you'd run it across the whole UK, turnout probably wouldn't have been that high. Would that many people really have cared? It probably would have been voted down through a coalition of white nationalist skinheads who would want the IRA summarily executed and hard left IRA sympathisers who would reject any deal not ending the "British imperial presence".

It's probably a good job it didn't go to an all UK vote, because fuck that.

[Jimmy Floyd]

In the 70s, 80s and 90s, everyone cared about the IRA. In my early childhood I remember it constantly being the biggest news topic, along with the Balkan wars.

By '98 it would have been voted through on a tide of Blairism though.

[Giggles]

The passports were too big a concession for me. I'd have just let them wipe each other out.

[GS]

In the 70s, 80s and 90s, everyone cared about the IRA. In my early childhood I remember it constantly being the biggest news topic, along with the Balkan wars.

By '98 it would have been voted through on a tide of Blairism though.

Your early childhood was the early nineties, when it was moving towards the ceasefire, it's initial breaking (bombing of Canary Wharf) it's re-establishment and then the GFA. It was definitely prevalent as a result, but probably not at the forefront of the national consciousness in the preceding years - outside the major incidents.

There were a number of high profile incidents, like the mortar attack on Downing Street and the Brighton bombing - but I'm far from convinced it was a sufficiently prevalent issue in "GB" that most would have been overly fussed about some peace deal going to a referendum. Quite a lot of people over there don't realise we're even in the UK, for fuck sake.

[John Arne]

Interesting fact of the day, I was born in Londonderry due to my father being in the British Army in '82, and I was also in Manchester (well, Stockport) on the day of the Arndale bombing. Survived both.

[phonics]

Interesting fact of the day, I was born in Londonderry due to my father being in the British Army in '82, and I was also in Manchester (well, Stockport) on the day of the Arndale bombing. Survived both.

My aunt left one of the pubs, that got bombed by the IRA in Birmingham in the 70s, about 20 minutes before it went off after an argument with her boyfriend.

[John Arne]

Did she thank him?

[phonics]

No idea if he even made it our or not. My Dad mentioned after a discussion we had when I told him I'd watched In The Name of the Father. Not exactly something to bring up at the Christmas table.

[Disco]

It was very much at the forefront of current affairs coverage throughout most of the 90's, the later you get the more emphasis there was on the peace process but it never went away. Anyone even vaguely informed on domestic issues would have been well aware of it.

[GS]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ct2JFApWYAAjJfB.jpg

Mate.

[Shindig]

Piece of piss.

Q: Are you having a good Friday?

Grand: 54%
So it is: 46%

[Baz]

Ched Evans gets cleared today. :eyemouth:

[Spoonsky]

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/mother-of-two-fell-off-bike-and-died-moments-after-taking-this-selfie-a3360441.html

Oof.

[Lewis]

'Today her grieving husband called on the government to toughen up its approach to cycle safety'. Mate.

[Spikey M]

"Using a hand held mobile phone whilst cycling is not illegal per se. However, you could commit an offence of careless cycling. It is also not advisable for the obvious safety reasons"

http://m.askthe.police.uk/content/Q604.htm?viewsinglecontentelementid=34128

I'd imagine cunting about for a selfy would qualify. Fine the husband.

[Boydy]

'Today her grieving husband called on the government to toughen up its approach to cycle safety'. Mate.

Yeah, I thought that too.

She'd also been at the pub so had probably had a few.

[Shindig]

I like how the selfie is clear evidence she's not wearing a helmet.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/37559853/the-22-year-old-chess-star-boycotting-iran-world-championships-over-hijab

Stunned that someone that hot plays chess.

Lol at her first name though.

[Spoonsky]

Could be your next hobby.

[Shindig]

"Polish man marries Nazi."

How could it fail?

[Raoul Duke]

That cycling story is so dumb. Pissed, taking selfies with no helmet or lights cycling along a London street. !00% guarantee if she had a helmet on she wouldn't have croaked.

I reckon 60% of cycling accidents are idiots doing similar things or cycling like twats.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Could be your next hobby.

Sadly I'm shit at it :(

Did cross my mind though.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-37572943

Howard Gayle said that the honour - Member of the Order of the British Empire - should have its name altered so that there is no reference to "Empire".

Obviously had to be a Liverpool player.

Member of the Order Seeking Justice for the 96.

[Shindig]

Commonwealth doesn't sound as good. You gotta think about branding, really.

[Spammer]

This is pretty inspirational:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu_ZPy5f2ek

[Giggles]

Build the fucking wall and have done with it. Shows how spineless our current government if this even gets consideration.
If we control it then fine, but any British state presence being placed in Ireland would need to be dealt with.

http://www.thejournal.ie/border-controls-ireland-3018480-Oct2016/

.

[Boydy]

James Brokenshire must be the most aptly named Secretary of State for Northern Ireland ever.

[Pepe]

Not Obama winning one levels of lol, but Dylan can fuck off.

[Jimmy Floyd]

London Trends · Change
Marmite

Bob Dylan

#SNP16

London Zoo

Gorilla

#RogueOne

Nobel

#TheChase

Mike Phelan

#StylistLive

Include all those in a 500 word short story, and win a prize.

[Raoul Duke]

Some gorilla has escaped from London Zoo. Could be another Harambe moment.

[Lewis]

786618702129143808

The one about it getting stabbed for being in the wrong postcode was a close second.

[ItalAussie]

Not Obama winning one levels of lol, but Dylan can fuck off.

He's been at short odds for a decade, so it's not that surprising. Plenty of writers have won in the past for their work in poetry. The fact that Dylan sings his is largely immaterial.

He's not even the first musical poet to win, although it's been quite a while since the last one (1913).

[Raoul Duke]

The greatest songwriter and lyricist of all time. Probably worth it.

[ItalAussie]

Lots of the reactions are interesting. The really top-notch literary figures are mostly pretty positive about it. It's the mid-range writers who are getting a little bit salty.

#ButDoesThisMeanICanWinAGrammy? — Jodi Picoult

You're about as likely to win a Grammy as your are the Literature Nobel, Jodi, so have at it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I can't tell if that mistake was on purpose or not.

I'm going to stick the boot in and claim it wasn't and Ital is a FUCKING RETARD.

[Giggles]

The greatest songwriter and lyricist of all time. Probably worth it.

And the worst vocalist. Though it's probably not for that.

[ItalAussie]

I can't tell if that mistake was on purpose or not.

I'm going to stick the boot in and claim it wasn't and Ital is a FUCKING RETARD.

It probably wasn't. :(

No Literature Nobel Prize for me.

[Lewis]

I like the sedate nature of the Nobel Prize. It's for a 'contribution', which you might not even notice for a generation, rather than just having done something at that moment in time. The fact that the Peace Prize is the least like that, and therefore the shittest and most prone to throwing up pish, speaks volumes.

[ItalAussie]

I like the sedate nature of the Nobel Prize. It's for a 'contribution', which you might not even notice for a generation, rather than just having done something at that moment in time. The fact that the Peace Prize is the least like that, and therefore the shittest and most prone to throwing up pish, speaks volumes.

This is a very good observation.

Every now and then, with the science ones, you get a result that obviously warrants acknowledgement immediately (Higgs et al. getting it immediately after the discovery of the Higgs Boson), but they are very much the exception. Most of the science awards are given out many years after the discovery, once its long-term impact has a little bit of context.

[Adamski]

And the worst vocalist. Though it's probably not for that.

I'm not sure Dylan is the worst vocalist of all time.

[Giggles]

I'm not sure Dylan is the worst vocalist of all time.

I had actually forgot Thom Yorke existed.

[mikem]

Honest mistake, really. Who would think a suicide bomber was a suicide risk?

http://m.dw.com/en/terror-suspect-albakr-not-classified-as-acute-suicide-risk-before-leipzig-jail-death/a-36030348

[Adamski]

Very high opinion of your own singing voice.

[Lewis]

This is a very good observation.

Every now and then, with the science ones, you get a result that obviously warrants acknowledgement immediately (Higgs et al. getting it immediately after the discovery of the Higgs Boson), but they are very much the exception. Most of the science awards are given out many years after the discovery, once its long-term impact has a little bit of context.

It's basically how the honours system used to work before Tony Blair ruined it. Edmund Hillary got his knighthood as soon as he got down, and rightly so. But if you're a cyclist then let's give it a few decades because who cares about cycling mate.

[Giggles]

Very high opinion of your own singing voice.

Compared to them two? I sound like a cat being raped with a spade and that's still superior to off-key Dylan and the other drooling mess.

[ItalAussie]

It's basically how the honours system used to work before Tony Blair ruined it. Edmund Hillary got his knighthood as soon as he got down, and rightly so. But if you're a cyclist then let's give it a few decades because who cares about cycling mate.

If you're going to have honours, that seems the smartest way to do it. :nodd:

[-james-]

Baby born with adult-sized tongue can finally smile (http://nypost.com/2016/10/13/baby-born-with-adult-size-tongue-can-finally-smile/)

[Spammer]

https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/baby_with_adult_tongue_first_smi-11.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1286

https://poketouch.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/licking_pokemon_lickitung.png?w=648

[Raoul Duke]

Has it been licking it's own forehead?

[Disco]

Congrats Jamie Oliver.

[Magic]

We all laugh but she's a paedophile's dream come true.

[Shindig]

Adult-sized tongue's going to be a bit of misnomer if that keeps growing.

[Giggles]

Not a sport/person anyone would know here, but jaysus how hooked would you need to be?

http://www.irishnews.com/news/2016/10/14/news/tyrone-gaa-s-cathal-mccarron-i-gambled-gay-porn-cash-in-two-days-736196/

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

£200 for pissing on camera?

[Giggles]

£200 for pissing on camera?

Sounds like a good job until it leads to you getting bummed/bumming.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Sounds like a good job until it leads to you getting bummed/bumming.
He didn't need to accept the dicking though.

[Smiffy]

.....

[Foe]

That's nothing. When my sister was doing the modelling she was getting four figure offers for some of the most disgusting things you could possibly imagine. Pissing on a camera pales in comparison.

Mahow's a changed man these days though. Can't keep criticising him for his past mistakes.

[Disco]

Given that the view from my window looks like the apocalypse has started I'm going to guess that whoever said this fire was 'under control' was being rather optimistic.

[Spoonsky]

http://www.ksl.com/?sid=42051907&nid=148&title=police-looking-for-man-in-halloween-mask-following-rape-at-u-parking-lot

:|

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

We wont snitch on you, Spoon.

You're safe.

[Spoonsky]

I bet it was your lookalike.

[Magic]

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/fife/307884/sspca-chief-stuart-earley-steps-amid-anger-ludicrous-pay-packet/

Scottish RSPCA thing MD is getting paid way more than the PM. :cool:

For a charity that's had a big loss in income. So fucking lol at that. Never donating again. Not that I did to that Staffie saving shitfest anyway.

[Disco]

lol at Durgeon getting paid that much, for a nation famed for being tight you scotch do like to waste a lot of money, just look at what was spaffed on your truly awful parliament building. It's almost as if that stereotype wasn't based in fact.

[Lewis]

The stereotype was presumably formed before they started using our money for everything.

[John Arne]

All the crap about Poppy's on shirts made me aware that FIFA also outlow commercial messages;

Fifa, who govern world football, say they do not allow any political, religious or commercial messages on shirts.


Sure a Nike or Adidas logo is a commercial message.... and what about the massive '3' logo that Ireland used?

[Spoonsky]

Cubs win the World Series. :drool: :drool: :drool:

[John Arne]

Baseball :D

[Giggles]

All the crap about Poppy's on shirts made me aware that FIFA also outlow commercial messages;


Sure a Nike or Adidas logo is a commercial message.... and what about the massive '3' logo that Ireland used?

Ireland don't wear the 3 in games, it's only on the replicas. I think we've had a sponsor on that since the early 80's. Bit of a pisser you could never buy a jersey back in the day without Opel on it though.

We did manage to get a Rising centenary shirt through vs the Swiss earlier this year though :cool:

[Giggles]

Cubs win the World Series. :drool: :drool: :drool:

Errrr, yay?

Baseball :nono:

[Spoonsky]

Baseball :D


Errrr, yay?

Baseball :nono:

I used to think the same, but I've come around the past month. It's a great sport. That's not even relevant though.

The Cubs are one of the most popular teams in the country but hadn't won a World Series since 1908. The closest analogy I could come to would be Leicester winning the league last season, but if Leicester had as many fans as Manchester United.

[Raoul Duke]

To be fair, that's a 108-year wait to life the trophy. Even if baseball (a.k.a. rounders for Americans) is terrible, then you can respect the level of achievement.

[Spoonsky]

The Cubs' drought is folklore. We were on a river cruise in Chicago in 2008 and the guide said that if the Cubs ever won the World Series they'd add a fifth star to the city's flag. It's genuinely surreal to see them win it.

On a side note, I always assumed baseball was sort of equivalent to cricket?