News of the day

[Lofty]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-62826983 :D

[Pepe]

Baz there's a new role for you.

[John Arne]

Anybody who watches Bald and Bankrupt will know that he was arrested and "kicked out" of Russia recently.

So the video of his interrogation has been released. He seems to say exactly what anyone would say to get out of there, and fair play also keeps his cool.


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

[Waffdon]

Is he not a massive creep? Pretty sure he was exposed on Reddit. Comes across as such.

[Giggles]

He’s a nonce isn’t he?

[Don]

He's just a pussy connoiseur living his best life, no need to chuck him in with Saville ffs.

[Lewis]

I'm not overly familiar with him, but doesn't he have a smoking hot Slav wife? Unless she's about fifteen.

[Don]

He probs raved about some pristine 17 yo untouched jackfruit he came across in a whorehouse on the outskirts of Minsk and bitter old married fucks are trying to smear him.

[Shindig]

Divorced twice. Once in Britain then some Belarus woman did the same over there.

[Giggles]

He probs raved about some pristine 17 yo untouched jackfruit he came across in a whorehouse on the outskirts of Minsk and bitter old married fucks are trying to smear him.

17 is about 8 years too old for you anyway. Jackfruit indeed.

[Lewis]

This Chris Kaba idiot getting himself killed in London is good discourse. I appreciate that a certain type of person centres their worldview around excusing black criminals, but how was this particular scenario meant to play out? Does he get to run over an armed policeman before they do anything back?

[Don]

I knew shit was going down as soon as I saw a man had been shot dead in London as the location indicated it would be a BLM. I haven't read the details but I heard he was armed :D Stormzy, lad, stick to the oxbridge grants.

[Lewis]

He wasn't armed, but he had a firearms conviction, was driving a car that was flagged as being recently involved in a firearms offence, and when he was pulled over and blocked in by the armed police he refused to leave the car and tried to ram his way out. That is to say, he was executed by the state for the colour of his skin.

[igor_balis]

Is he not a massive creep? Pretty sure he was exposed on Reddit. Comes across as such.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldAndBaldrDossier/comments/judnlm/is_bald_bankrupt_really_a_sex_tourist_and_a/

It isn't great

[Giggles]

Top mandem blm gammon.

[John Arne]

Yeah, lots of weird stuff in there.

Also... Harold?

[Manc]

Sweden going far right. Didn't see that coming.

[Lewis]

Their migrant crime stats are astonishing. I mean, ours aren't much better, but we had some crime to begin with.

[Yevrah]

Any linkage?

It is funny that so many people moan about how racist this country is, citing Brexit as clear proof, when so much of the European population is genuinely bang up for the far right to take over.

[Manc]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/15/far-right-sweden-intolerance-liberalism-election-results

[Yevrah]

Cheers Manc, but was more interested in the crime stats.

[Lewis]

This (https://unherd.com/2021/04/swedens-migrant-rape-crisis/) gives an overview of sexual assault statistics specifically (and this (https://twitter.com/Composite_Guy2/status/1569252000730079236) the other day has the handy graphs from the study mentioned, and looks at the different categories of assault), and the gang/gun stuff - which has also exploded - has broken into various mainstream sites over the years.

[Yevrah]

Jesus fuck, it's like the grooming gangs all over again, if not worse. If that has contributed to the far right being as popular as they now are over then well done to the left. Another stunning piece of work you've presided over.

[Manc]

That twitter thread is wild.

[Giggles]

We’re going down the exact same path by currently being such a liberal shit hole and letting this filth run amok. With the likes of Sweden seeing sense then the rats will only flee to more comfortable surroundings.

[John Arne]

Grenfell China Style.

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[randomlegend]

https://i.insider.com/5171b4836bb3f7fd3e000003?width=1000&format=jpeg&auto=webp

"Grenfell China Style!"

[Spikey M]

Bit racist but :D

[randomlegend]

No further thought went into it than how well it fit the rhythm.

[Offshore Toon]

Definitely not racist, unless RL has a Taz-like obsession with East Asians.

[Shindig]

The blaze broke out in a 42-floor building housing an office of the state-owned telecommunications company China Telecom, according to the state broadcaster CCTV.

Y'know, at least it wasn't a residential high rise.

[Lofty]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-62925746

[Shindig]

Belfield made videos throughout his trial and posted them on YouTube

That's the thing that gets me about so many online personalities. They'll record anything. I bet his lawyer explicitly told him not to do that.

[Spikey M]

Belfield appears to be a cursed surname. Is he any relative of Levi?

[Lofty]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-62943952

[Spikey M]

A mini version of the war we have all been hoping for. Hopefully they get the nukes involved and flatten the Midlands. Everywhere between Watford and the Lake District please lads.

[Ben]

I thought South Asians in Leicester were almost exclusively Indian? Unless the Pakistani sect are rolling in from out of town just for aggro.

[Lewis]

If it is twenty times more Indian then the Pakistanis are twenty times more willing and able to rustle up a crowd of seething idiots, so they end up breaking even for things like this.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Looks like Hindu nationalists are the bad guys, as always.

[Lewis]

Alright Peter Oborne. Hindustan all the way.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They just cut the NFL feeds to give us this minute silence.

I'm SEETHING.

[Ian]

They just cut the NFL feeds to give us this minute silence.

I'm SEETHING.

Not on Game Pass. :cool:

[Jimmy Floyd]

Alright Peter Oborne. Hindustan all the way.

The word seems to be that they've led a shedload of Modi fans in on student visas in the last year or so and they're the ones who have caused it all, rather than the 'communities' who were already there.

[Lewis]

I read that, which people seem to be relieved about, like it's something we shouldn't worry about. But it doesn't say much for the multicultural paradise that a couple of uninitiated head-wobblers spouting off can turn the full city into a communal warzone. If anything it makes it worse.

[Spikey M]

Italy going Far Right now too. First time since Mussolini.

These Fascist cunts had better bring back flamboyant hand gestures if nothing else.

[Giggles]

Finally people are waking up and turning their back on free for all unmanaged immigration. We're miles off it and have some hard years ahead before we'll see the same.

[Kikó]

Free for all unmanaged immigration doesn't exist.

[Giggles]

Maybe not in your ivory tower.

[Spikey M]

For anyone within the EU it does. And it has been a problem, no matter how uncomfortable that may be. Essentially unlimited labourers from the Eastern Block happy to work for 75p an hour is half the reason wages have been stagnant for nearly 20 years.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Also the reason why half the restaurants/coffee shops etc in this country exist.

[Kikó]

Freedom of movement doesn't mean unmanaged immigration. Actually speak to people who are non-eu citizens and ask them the challenge to live in the UK permanently (it's expensive, time consuming and not at all easy).

People paying under minimum wage is a criminal issue, you should report it.

[Spikey M]

Freedom of movement doesn't mean unmanaged immigration. Actually speak to people who are non-eu citizens and ask them the challenge to live in the UK permanently (it's expensive, time consuming and not at all easy).

People paying under minimum wage is a criminal issue, you should report it.

I quite clearly said "for people within the EU".

Your hyperbole detector may need checking too.

And Jimmy, there are far too many Coffee nonces in this country. If a Far Right Government would address that - and betting shops, and phone case shops - the bring on Tommy Robinsons Barmy Army.

[Kikó]

I know but giggles said it's a free for all when it clearly isn't. Being an immigrant, I'm not going to complain too much about having the opportunity to work in a different country.

[Spikey M]

You're not poor enough to get away with calling yourself an "immigrant".

You're transnational. Like the Queen. Or One of those Rockefellar Illuminati lads.

[Kikó]

I'm heterosexual actually.

[Giggles]

Unmanaged is allowing them to operate above the law, which is definitely the case. Look at what brought on these changes in Sweden, and we're (along with many others) are going down the same road.

[Yevrah]

The EU project is looking like a bit of a disaster at the minute. Ushering in a new dawn of far right parties across the continent is some achievement.

[Kikó]

Italy have fluctuated right and left since forever.

[Kikó]

Unmanaged is allowing them to operate above the law, which is definitely the case. Look at what brought on these changes in Sweden, and we're (along with many others) are going down the same road.

Asylum seekers in Sweden isn't the same as immigration.

[Spikey M]

Italy have fluctuated right and left since forever.

This is the first far right government since Mussolini according to the BBC atleast. Fluctuating between Centre left and centre right is normal, lurching to the wing nuts on either side is less so.

[Yevrah]

And the other places, where they’ve got in or are now a major party?

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's about fading memories of war, isn't it?

I was in Verdun on Friday, you won't see the far right getting in there.

[niko_cee]

Wasn't Five Star founded as a joke in Italy? Major party of government within however many years so it's not as if they don't have form for oddball political selections. Given they are rampantly Catholic as well I would imagine they are quite [socially] conservative by default.

[Spikey M]

It's about fading memories of war, isn't it?

I was in Verdun on Friday, you won't see the far right getting in there.

Probably, yeah. The lure of the wing nuts has always been held off by the knowledge of what they did, but the knowledge has mostly died off now. Its just names and dates in textbooks now.

[Ben]

Is this Italian coalition even far-right? It's not like they're opposed to democracy and other than the "no gays" thing from one of the parties involved, the main policies are pretty much Tory: chop the top tax rate, Eurosceptic, cut immigration (until the economy tanks, necessitating a U-turn) amongst other usual nationalist and populist policies that are commonplace.

Or is "no gays" the difference between small-c conservatism and the far-right now? I won't argue with anyone who says yes.

[Shindig]

Just how far right is a government that needs watered-down righties like Berlusconi's lot to form a majority?

[Spikey M]

Is this Italian coalition even far-right? It's not like they're opposed to democracy and other than the "no gays" thing from one of the parties involved, the main policies are pretty much Tory: chop the top tax rate, Eurosceptic, cut immigration (until the economy tanks, necessitating a U-turn) amongst other usual nationalist and populist policies that are commonplace.

Or is "no gays" the difference between small-c conservatism and the far-right now? I won't argue with anyone who says yes.

I won't pretend to be an expert in Italian politics, so I have no idea how Far Right they are. I'm just going off the headlines.

I would consider "no gays" as Right Wing territory though. I'd have to read the rest of their policies to see how bad they are outside of that, but I don't have the time or interest required to do so.

[Kikó]

It's about fading memories of war, isn't it?

I was in Verdun on Friday, you won't see the far right getting in there.

How was Verdun? On my list as well as the Somme.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Haunted. I wasn't prepared to see 16,000 graves and a load of actual bones, to be honest.

[Spikey M]

France must be covered in war cemeteries. We went to one near Le Touquet as we were passing and it was massive. Pretty much exclusively American and British too. I imagine all the French graves are in the South where they all fled to.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I also went to Omaha Beach, where someone had spray-painted 'GAME OVER KRAUTS' onto one of the machine gun bunkers on the bluff. Truly a touching memorial.

[Kikó]

We're going to the Chapel of Bones today in Evora so going to see some skulls as well [take it to the travel thread - Ed]

This also explains a lot as well https://www.psypost.org/2022/09/right-wing-individuals-are-more-likely-to-fall-for-political-bullshit-according-to-new-research-63961

[Spikey M]

Take some spray paint.

[Lewis]

This Italian government will be a bit like the last 'populist' one. It will make a load of noise, do a few symbolic gestures, and then fall to bits after its first meaningful collision with the European Union.

[Ben]

Why break tradition.

[randomlegend]

Haunted. I wasn't prepared to see 16,000 graves and a load of actual bones, to be honest.

When I went to Auschwitz it's was seeing all the belongings/hair piled up in the museum that really fucked me up.

[Pepe]

Does it even matter who is in power in Italy. I imagine it to be a bit like Mexico, where no matter who you choose, things will run the same way: poorly.

[Lewis]

When I went to Auschwitz it's was seeing all the belongings/hair piled up in the museum that really fucked me up.

That was the gift shop.

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63029226

Lol

[Kikó]

Does it even matter who is in power in Italy. I imagine it to be a bit like Mexico, where no matter who you choose, things will run the same way: poorly.

The underground economy probably dictates this a little as well. This was quite interesting https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/beware-italys-mafia-entrepreneurs/2022/09/17/d6276e06-365e-11ed-a0d6-415299bfebd5_story.html

[Yevrah]

I still can't get over how much of a shit tip Naples was when I flew into there last year. Genuinely the worst place I've seen in a first World country and by some margin too.

[Ben]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63029226

Lol

Diesel :cool:

[Giggles]

I’d love to know where the government are getting all this cash they’re giving us in various forms. Sort of thing that doesn’t end very well.


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[Lofty]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11258103/Horny-24-stone-Southampton-student-forced-date-sex-leaving-large-love-bite.html

[Spikey M]

:rosebud:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

She still looking for someone?

[Ben]

“Sex-without-consent trial”

So rape then.

[Spikey M]

Women can't commit rape under UK law.

[randomlegend]

Yeah it's a quirk of the UK legal definition of rape (requires penetration with a penis). Functionally it shouldn't make any differences as the sentencing guidelines are the same for the female equivalent, but I do think being branded a "rapist" holds a certain weight other crimes don't.

[Ben]

Apparently the Supreme Leader is (almost) dead. Not the best timing considering the Islamic Republic is being toppled. What you hearing Taz?

[Don]

There was this rumour about a week or 2 ago but he made an appearance. He's been silent last 2-3 days so who knows.

Youthful optimistic me thought the arguably bigger 2009 riots were the ones and they got shut down quickly even though it was predicated on more serious matters than whores in hijabs. I don't hold much hope of meaningful change but Kim K and that slut Nazanin are backing this one so the heavyweights could sway it.

[Lewis]

One day the Americans will finally nobble the Islamic Republic, get all excited, and then the newly-formed Khomeini Party will win the first elections with about seventy per cent of the vote and stuff the government with its clerics and militia leaders.

[Lewis]

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As you do. It's like a weird sketch.

[randomlegend]

"former medical student" lol

[Lewis]

A lot of people seem to think it's an actual war memorial, so her community service could be explaining why it isn't.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Whoever produced the shit needs to see a doctor.

[Yevrah]

A fair bit to unpack in that. I hope she enjoys her time in custody.

[Shindig]

Don't even know where to start with that.

[Spikey M]

"former medical student" lol

Technically you are too. Stay away from the Churchill Monument.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Private jets (and aviation generally) make fuck all difference to anything.

[randomlegend]

Technically you are too. Stay away from the Churchill Monument.

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[Giggles]

Private jets (and aviation generally) make fuck all difference to anything.

Fuck all that any of them cranks protest against mean anything.

[Pepe]

Private jets (and aviation generally) make fuck all difference to anything.

2.5% of all carbon emissions, mate. MASSIVE DAMAGE. Enjoy your Waterworld.

[Shindig]

Speaking of meaningless protests, anybody bother with the 'DON'T PAY YOUR BILLS ON THE 1ST!' bollocks?

[Spikey M]

I'm not fond of the idea of CCJ's and bailiffs turning up at my door. So no.

[Yevrah]

Presumably it died a death anyway when average usage was capped at £2,500.

[Shindig]

And the government were just going to chuck money at it to chop bills down for six months.

[Jimmy Floyd]

https://i.ibb.co/JC0LN63/qf.png (https://imgbb.com/)

This is the sort of headline I want to see on a Monday morning.

[Ben]

Nothing like piling on the French to get a bit of patriotic support.

[Lofty]

Presumably it died a death anyway when average usage was capped at £2,500.

It's only a cap on unit price though, not a hard cap on the final bill. Plus £2500 is far in excess of previous prices. I have still seen some stuff floating around, assume it will pick up when the cold sets it and it goes sub zero at night.

[Ben]

It's nailed on to be a long, cold winter isn't it? No chance we get out of it with one of those mild years.

[Spikey M]

Just been called a "jumped up posh cunt". Oi Floyd, what time is Cricket this Sunday?

[Ian]

What did you do and how rough was the person calling you posh?

[Spikey M]

I pointed out that McDonald's is not an essential outgoing and I believe that answers both questions.

The question it doesn't answer is how I aimed for the Job Thread and ended up in here. Don't put me on bowling duty, Jimmy.

[Ian]

Desperately trying to think of a joke for Jon's Threan but I'm going to have to settle for a posho probably being able to spell.

[Ian]

Don't fix your typo when I've mocked you for it, you coward.

[Spikey M]

Failing upwards like my hero Liz.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Plebs historically did the bowling, while gentlemen did the batting and then drank in a separate bar afterwards. Send a note up from the saloon bar if you need any more information from me.

[Yevrah]

It's only a cap on unit price though, not a hard cap on the final bill.

Yeah I know, that’s why I said cap on average usage.

[Kikó]

Cricket isn't posh.

[Spikey M]

Not for aristocrats like you, no, but we can't all afford to join a sex trafficking club.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Sports ranked by poshness, poshest first

Polo
Showjumping/dressage
Rowing
Tennis
Motor racing
Golf
Cycling
Rugby union
Athletics
Cricket
Football
Rugby league
Snooker
Horse racing
Boxing

There's an argument for horse racing to be a lot higher, but its true heartlands are shrivelled old men with cigarettes in bookies.

[Pepe]

Athletics needs to be divided further. Wide discrepancy among disciplines. On average, probably below cricket.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I put it in the middle as it's a bit of an unknown to me. I visited an athletics club earlier in the year (to try and do a deal to use their infield for cricket) and couldn't place them at all except that they were all quite weird and very earnest. Think it might be the sport of choice for noted social segment The Gays.

[Pepe]

Not sure how things are over there. Over here, long distance running is all scrawny Vermont kids, while short distance running is all waves and big butts. Then you have the multi-sport categories, where the more sports you add, the posher it gets.

[Spikey M]

Yeah, that doesn't sound very gay at all.

[Ian]

There's an argument for horse racing to be a lot higher, but its true heartlands are shrivelled old men with cigarettes in bookies.

Exactly, what's posher than profiting off the poor, miserable and desperate?

[Shindig]

Probably gatekeeping the upper middle class.

[Ian]

Yeah but that wouldn't work as a spectator sport as you'd need somebody to find vaguely supportable.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's been a while folks, but I'm pleased to report an utterly stupid animal-based story has surfaced.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-63131251


A goat stole the show during a cathedral's animal blessing service by "singing" along to the organ music.

Two-year-old Pablo's "bah-rilliant" performance at Worcester Cathedral's annual event has made him a social media star.

His vocals led to fits of giggles by staff from Atwell Farm Park near Redditch and cathedral choir members.

"I think when he was bleating it was all echoing back at him. He was having a lovely time," farm staff said.

The video of Pablo and his alpaca friends Minstrel and Barnaby was shared by the cathedral on TikTok has since had 1.6m views and 240,000 likes.

The service was filmed by the BBC's Songs of Praise programme, but it is not clear whether Pablo's exploits will make the final edit.

I'm sorry, who comes up with this stuff? Absolute nonsense of a country. Those alpacas never far from the scene of the crime either.

[Shindig]

He wasn't singing either. He was clearly distressed. Also, they don't bah. They do this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-cAc7tnDYU

[igor_balis]

He wasn't singing either. He was clearly distressed. Also, they don't bah. They do this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-cAc7tnDYU

Glad to see someone else has picked up my mantle (well, circa 2015) of posting weird youtube videos.

[Shindig]

It's the first thing that came to mind. Help.

[Shindig]

Craig David has psychotic powers. (https://uk.yahoo.com/news/craig-david-claims-psychic-abilities-220900604.html)

Not a typo and, yes, I am using yahoo news because the Evening Standard is behind a paywall.

[Boydy]

Craig David has psychotic powers. (https://uk.yahoo.com/news/craig-david-claims-psychic-abilities-220900604.html)

Not a typo and, yes, I am using yahoo news because the Evening Standard is behind a paywall.
Psychotic powers?

[Spikey M]

I had an ex with psychotic powers. Would not Bo Select her again.

[Shindig]

I mean, if he's hearing voices from his ancestors, he's probably psychotic.

[Lofty]

That nurse surely cant expect to get off with killing those babies if the prosecution has evidence that she was the only floating around when they all died?

[phonics]

That story wouldn't be front page news prior to sentencing if they weren't 100% certain she's going down. They'd be too terrified of Libel to do that.

[Lofty]

Is that only since they did it to Christopher Jeffries?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Serial killing babies will get her the fabled whole life term, won't it? Good to see one of those a year.

[SvN]

It all seems rather tenuous to me. From the article I read earlier, her being on duty while there were unexplained deaths seems to be the only evidence.

[randomlegend]

It all seems rather tenuous to me. From the article I read earlier, her being on duty while there were unexplained deaths seems to be the only evidence.

NICUs aren't run like a standard hospital ward and in a situation like this I can imagine it's quite easy to pin down who is likely to have been responsible.

[Shindig]

Wild theory: Randrew did it in his crusade against midwifery.

[Manc]

Or Lee.

[Disco]

He always did like baby folding a bit too much.

[randomlegend]

As if they'd let midwives into NICU :harold:

[SvN]

NICUs aren't run like a standard hospital ward and in a situation like this I can imagine it's quite easy to pin down who is likely to have been responsible.

Do they even know the cause of deaths though? I know that the prosecution is accusing her of injecting air into their IV (or something along those lines), but is that even detectable?

I remember reading about a similar case a few years ago, and it was all conjecture and guesswork in terms of what they were doing.

[Lofty]

She repeatedly searched for one of the babies parents on facebook which seems suspect.

[SvN]

I reckon there's more suspect stuff in your search history.

[randomlegend]

Do they even know the cause of deaths though? I know that the prosecution is accusing her of injecting air into their IV (or something along those lines), but is that even detectable?

I remember reading about a similar case a few years ago, and it was all conjecture and guesswork in terms of what they were doing.

I don't do post-mortems and air embolism is a pretty rare cause of death so it's not something I'm super familiar with, but there seems to be plenty of case reports of air embolism proven at post-mortem by the presence of air in the heart or a major vein.

[Lofty]

I reckon there's more suspect stuff in your search history.

It would have to be spectauclarly suspect for it to be more suspect than searching for the parents of a baby you were then witnnessed attending with blood coming out of it's nose, telling the parent it was fine and then putting a non existent meeting between the parent and doctor in the notes.

There's only so many ways you can slice 'big tits' on a search algortihm, trust me I've tried.

[Shindig]

Local Giant Admits to Tit Slicing.

[Dark Soldier]

Try 'Cromulent Knockers' Lofty and if the missus asks just show her loads of front doors.

[Manc]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/18/coffins-left-hanging-in-air-after-second-naples-cemetery-collapse-this-year

Yikes.

[randomlegend]

Isn't Naples meant to be an absolute shithole?

[Spikey M]

That's actually the best thing in the city by all accounts.

[Don]

It's no Maldives.

[Yevrah]

It's an absolute disgrace. Nice pizza mind.

[Ben]

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Good choice of headline.

[Jimmy Floyd]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11331315/Shocked-curry-fan-spots-face-Boris-Johnson-korma-resemblance.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline

I'd like to think this is rock bottom, but I'm sure we still have many leagues to plunge through.

[Spikey M]

Sir Beer Korma on the ropes.

[phonics]

And the guy who took the photo looks like an egg.

[Ian]

"Spots" is a strange typo for "created a very slight resemblance of."

The plate of curry would be as adept a PM, of course.

[igor_balis]

"Spots" is a strange typo for "created a very slight resemblance of."

The plate of curry would be as adept a PM, of course.

Reminds me of the "vision" of Bishop Brennan

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[Lofty]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-63313556

[Ben]

I thought you had to hand your passport in when on bail? You know, to stop you going abroad and never coming back.

[Spikey M]

Speaking of the mom, I was reading through this the other day:

https://kiwifarms.net/threads/hollie-dance-lisa-pittaway-ella-carter-archie-battersbee-lauren-summers-dignity-for-all-archies-army-spread-the-purple-wave.124942/

Local rumblings that she was the aggressor in this.

https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/23044910.basildon-road-rage-incident-sees-three-released-bail/

[niko_cee]

I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation, but, absent that, the video (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-63355950) of Hu-Jintao being led off to the death chamber and the [non] reaction of all the various waxworks is, to borrow a phrase, rather chilling.

[Yevrah]

In episode whatever of the BBC website's quality control being nowhere to be found, this Woman did not get £28,000 into debt because of the cost of living crisis, as harsh as that may sound.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-63285820

[Shindig]

Bailiffs in full body armour? Yeah, there's no detail to this.

[Spikey M]

Oh noes, not a stabproof vest for their own protection.

[Shindig]

Body armour conjures up different images to me.

[Spikey M]

As it was intended to.

[Giggles]

It reads like the video for The Pretender at the door.

[Kikó]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-63389045

Hope you're ok Taz.

[Lofty]

In episode whatever of the BBC website's quality control being nowhere to be found, this Woman did not get £28,000 into debt because of the cost of living crisis, as harsh as that may sound.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-63285820

'Rather than tell my kids 'sorry we're skint' and buy them an appropriately priced gift I decided to take loans at obscene interest rates.'

[-james-]

https://safeguarddefenders.com/en/blog/230000-policing-expands

An NGO did this report on Chinese "overseas police stations". Someone did some sleuthing (https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/ye0f99/loong_fung_restaurant_is_a_chinese_police_station/) and seemingly one of them is in Glasgow at the same address as this rather popular restaurant in the middle of town (Loon Fung on Sauchiehall street).

[Ben]

Another one is Hunter Realty on Watford Way in London. Here (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11942495/officers) is the list of directors on Companies House. :sherlock:

[Spikey M]

The boys in blue make a cracking crispy beef, you have to give them that at least.

[mo]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63405119

Nuns with bad habits.

[Spikey M]

It's better than touching kids lad. Priorities.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-asia-63442399

153 dead in Seoul.

Crushed because some people fell down in a narrow alley.

[Lewis]

It's a difficult one for the heuristic this. They wouldn't normally force something like that, but then they might also have just piled in like lemmings because a sign told them to. We'll have to see.

[niko_cee]

It was probably not a fair reflection of what happened, but I got the sense from the news report I saw on this last night that the crushees were staying on the pavement rather than spill onto a road that was being used by cars at the time, which sort of plays to that slavish adherence to rules narrative. I guess it was just a stampede type situation in a very confined space. And all for Halloween. It would be funny if it weren't an actual full-on tragedy.

[Lewis]

The action footage I saw appeared to show the White Man finding his way up a wall whilst the rest of them heaved around waiting for an authority figure to come and sort things out. Case crosed.

[John Arne]

The US navy getting scared by a few Chinese fishing boats :D

https://apnews.com/article/taiwan-fish-pacific-ocean-oceans-china-810be144e62b695da2c6c0da65e9f051



But in this case, the Chinese captains of several fishing boats did something unexpected. Three vessels sped away, one turning aggressively 90 degrees toward the Coast Guard cutter James, forcing the American vessel to take evasive action to avoid being rammed.

“For the most part they wanted to avoid us,” said Coast Guard Lt. Hunter Stowes, the highest-ranking law enforcement officer on the James. “But we were able to maneuver effectively so that we were safe the entire time.”

[Spikey M]

Team 1 in the mud.

[Ben]

BBC News has just run a feature on Christian nationalists in America. Absolutely fucking wild these people, saying Satan has taken over the country. No wonder Jim Jones managed to lure 1,000 of them down to Guyana and off them.

[Boydy]

They need a few more Jim Joneses.

[Shindig]

Branch Davidians. :cool: / :uhoh:

[Jimmy Floyd]

I think Jonestown might be the single most bizarre thing ever to happen in relation to a western country. Every time I read about it I cannot believe that any of it happened, and relatively recently too.

[Kikó]

America has completely lost itself to Christian extremism masked in Q Anon. It's inherently broken.

[SvN]

I think Jonestown might be the single most bizarre thing ever to happen in relation to a western country. Every time I read about it I cannot believe that any of it happened, and relatively recently too.

Not sure if you're into podcasts, but Casefile did a 3 parter on Jonestown that is excellent.

[Lofty]

The Casefile episodes are great for a sober, no nonsense examination of it all. I like The Last Podcast on the Left's episodes too though because they really highlight how fucking farcical the whole thing was.

[Yevrah]

This is brilliant too.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000d27r

Think it's somewhere on Amazon now.

Looking forward to the Di Caprio movie. He'll be nailed on for his second Oscar with that one.

[igor_balis]

The best Jonestown related media is Anton Newcombe and co's discography.

[niko_cee]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-63557850

I hope the coroner is ready for the shitstorm that he's about to have released on him.

[randomlegend]

To be honest the main thing I've taken from that case is that it's quite reassuring that the systems put in place actually work and don't bow to pressure.

[Lofty]

Not the system that should have seen the kid removed from her care, obviously.

[randomlegend]

Well yeah that's a whole other kettle of fish.

[Spikey M]

I love that she's still a media darling, when everyone local thinks she's a complete cunt. She had to be kicked out of the cemetery a couple of months ago for having a birthday party for him. They were all pissed up and dancing around.

[Ben]

Did we used to care about US midterm elections? BBC is telling I should really care if their front page is anything to go by.

[Jimmy Floyd]

BBC types are obsessed with local elections in Kentucky, but Marine le Pen quitting the other day barely got a murmur.

I suppose this time they matter in the sense that if Trump's boys do well it could be trouble for Ukraine aid, but it doesn't look like Trump's boys are doing well.

[Spikey M]

Since Obama, yeah. I know people more up to date on Yank politics than our own. Depressing really.

[Ben]

Those pricks are the reason "on the weekend" and "off of" are now part of our day-to-day lingo.

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-63569908

:harold:

[Ben]

Other people in the crowd started chanting "God save the King" ... at the protestor.

Save the King from those killer eggs. :cab:

[randomlegend]

To be honest I see nothing wrong with arresting people who throw projectiles (even if they are only eggs) at other people.

[Yevrah]

Indeed. Is the assumption here that it's fine because he's privileged and THE KING?

[Don]

I like the subtle 'Not my king' sign in the background.

I saw this earlier and, yes, I know what you're thinking, there's an editorial error in stating 5ft9 as the average and not 5ft8. But if you put that to one side, it remains a bloody alarming article. Sounds brutal.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/nov/09/would-you-have-your-legs-broken-to-make-yourself-taller-the-men-who-go-through-hell-for-a-little-extra-height

[Spikey M]

The assumption appears to be that I was :harold:ing him being arrested, rather than what he shouted and the reaction of the Royal Ultras.

[Lofty]

I like the subtle 'Not my king' sign in the background.

I saw this earlier and, yes, I know what you're thinking, there's an editorial error in stating 5ft9 as the average and not 5ft8. But if you put that to one side, it remains a bloody alarming article. Sounds brutal.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/nov/09/would-you-have-your-legs-broken-to-make-yourself-taller-the-men-who-go-through-hell-for-a-little-extra-height

Gattaca edges closer.

[Yevrah]

The assumption appears to be that I was :harold:ing him being arrested, rather than what he shouted and the reaction of the Royal Ultras.

I was responding to Ben, you were fine Spikes.

[Ben]

I'm even more baffled then? I was mocking the bystanders who thought yelling "God Save the King" would protect him from flying eggs (obviously that wasn't why they were shouting it but the BBC phrased it as if it was). I didn't say it was acceptable behaviour on the part of the thrower.

[Ian]

"Eyewitness to egg throwing explains what she saw"

Thank god, somebody putting these events into terms I can understand.

[Shindig]

I had to translate that into pidgin.

Eyewitness to i gat dus throwing explains what she saw

[Ben]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63573988

:violin:

[niko_cee]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63499057

:D

[Pepe]

:lol:

[Spikey M]

Fuck me :D

[Giggles]

Someone’s getting sacked (or gassed) in the morning.

[Shindig]

I can't fathom how any of that has happened.

[Spikey M]

The same way the Social Media fuck ups happen. They have someone thick in charge of sending out app notifications and they didn't know what Kristallnacht was.

[Yevrah]

Is it a day of mourning or somesuch in Germany and therefore shows on calendars? If so, someone who is meant to check these things probably didn't know what it was and let it through.

[Shindig]

But that implies that person has heard of Kristallnacht but didn't know what it was. But also assumed it was some kind of public holiday? - Yev's covered it.

This all assumes the social media lad wasn't a massive Nazi who thought it would be funny.

[Jimmy Floyd]

They'll have a bot which, from an online calendar, harvests holidays in the various countries and automatically generates marketing material based on it. 'Celebrate Boxing Day with a KFCheese!' 'Celebrate Bastille Day with a Zinger Tower Burger!' 'Celebrate Independence Day with...' and so on.

And some American / outsourced Asian won't have known what Kristallnacht was when manually checking it.

[Don]

I've decided I'm getting a bucket for dinner tomorrow off the back of it so fairplay if it was intentional.

[Giggles]

Yup.

[7om]

Kentucky Fried Cheese sounds horrendous (amazing).

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63586271

TTH Village?

[niko_cee]

Ronny Rodriguez of Royal Invest sounds even dodgier than all of the other schemes we've had.

[Shindig]

I think we should skip this one and enjoy the inevitable cult/timeshare nightmare that buys the place.

[Pepe]

They'll have a bot which, from an online calendar, harvests holidays in the various countries and automatically generates marketing material based on it. 'Celebrate Boxing Day with a KFCheese!' 'Celebrate Bastille Day with a Zinger Tower Burger!' 'Celebrate Independence Day with...' and so on.

And some American / outsourced Asian won't have known what Kristallnacht was when manually checking it.

I mean, it says so on the article, which I guess no one bothered reading:


In a statement issued to Newsweek magazine, KFC Germany blamed the message on a bot.

The fast food chain said the "automated push notification" was "linked to calendars that include national observances".

[Danny]

1590284487023525888

That was pretty good yesterday.

[Lofty]

Aren't they a parody account?

[Giggles]

Has to be. I thought they were banned by Musk unless they have it stated.

[Baz]

Aren't they a parody account?

Yeah.

Same team that pretended to arrange a friendly with [another fake team] Wankford Rovers or whatever it was.

Still funny though. The "okay we did get the date wrong but" later tweet made me laugh.

[Ben]

Has to be. I thought they were banned by Musk unless they have it stated.

They can't even get round to banning people for making racist remarks under real football club posts so I think Streatham are safe for a while yet.

[Boydy]

I went for a pint with the guy behind Streatham Rovers once. Nice bloke.

[Lofty]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-63568949

[Spikey M]

Heard that on the radio in the car yesterday and was lolling. He reckons they tattooed him while he was in a Coma and doctored the finger prints on the real rapists file. :D

Let him off. What a lad.

[randomlegend]

As if he's got a wife. Can she possibly not be in on it? Imagine if she's not. Mental.

[Spikey M]

Probably just thick as fuck.

[Lofty]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-63636201

Sounds like a lot of faffing for an inferior product.

[SvN]

I'm already looking forward to the Guardian article that compares the unfavorable price of women's boots compared to men's.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Unlike you lot I haven't spent much of my life staring at women's feet, what is the difference?

[John Arne]

Less smelly and less hairy (usually/hopefully).

[Lofty]

Don't forget the sexist ball.

[niko_cee]

Don't forget the sexist ball.

:D