News of the day

[Ben]

Taz's gammon stuff is often tiring but he's spot on here.

[Giggles]

It's a bit off brand though. Do his lot not behead rainbow people?

[niko_cee]

The weird thing is it's not even really a rainbow, is it? Unless the picture on twitter was colour distorted. It's half a rainbow at best.

[wullie]

One of the last Umbro kits had little rainbow crosses on the shoulder, can't remember if there was a fuss or if people were just too distracted by England being shit.

[Shindig]

Not to mention the rainbow laces and armbands our captains have been wearing. The sooner the steampots realise it's just marketing, the better. Same goes for the retards in the gaming sphere assuming some consultancy firm has more sway over a game than the developers that create them.

[Spikey M]

The weird thing is it's not even really a rainbow, is it? Unless the picture on twitter was colour distorted. It's half a rainbow at best.

It's the transgender flag, isn't it? Something like that, anyway.

Personally I'm more offended that they're being produced in Cambodian sweatshops by 8 year old with missing limbs before being flogged for £85.00.

[Shindig]

It's most definitely not the trans flag. By the looks of it, it's the bisexual flag with a hint of non-binary. They've got 15 flags in all, including one for straight allies.

https://www.volvogroup.com/en/news-and-media/news/2021/jun/lgbtq-pride-flags-and-what-they-stand-for.html

C'mon, Tumblr. You don't need flags for everything.

[Don]

The best part of it is there's no link to trans, LGBTQIA+, RL, or anything of the sort whatsoever. It's been explained as being a link to the 1966 training kits.

One flagshagger must have incited all this with one wild tweet (would love if it was actually traced back) or something and then you have all the usuals like Lee Anderson and black cab drivers all jumping on it because it makes them relevant.

Brav, they're charging £120+ for something costing them less than a tenner, use your voice for some good at least.

[Spikey M]

Everyone's allowed a flag apart from fackin ingerland.

[Spikey M]

The best part of it is there's no link to trans, LGBTQIA+, RL, or anything of the sort whatsoever. It's been explained as being a link to the 1966 training kits.

One flagshagger must have incited all this with one wild tweet (would love if it was actually traced back) or something and then you have all the usuals like Lee Anderson and blacl cab drivers all jumping on it because it makes them relevant.

Brav, they're charging £120+ for something costing them less than a tenner, use your voice for some good at least.

Then it's even more lol. You know they'll only double down upon being told that though.

[-james-]

Isn't it just an utter genius marketing ploy?

[phonics]

It's just the colours on the rest of the kit. When did we lose the ability to say 'Shutup Granddad you're being an absolute melt'

[Spikey M]

It's just the state of our ridiculously polarised society at the moment. Everyone's ready to kick off at a moments notice.

[Don]

I've just ordered 24 (3 of each (S, M, L, XL) for both home and away) :drool: Will update the kit thread once they arrive if anyone wants mates rates.

[Ben]

You need some more Xs for the Shepherd’s Pie crew.

[wullie]

The real travesty on the home kit is that collar which resembles a chunky Next cardigan favoured by dads.

[Spikey M]

I've just ordered 24 (3 of each (S, M, L, XL) for both home and away) :drool: Will update the kit thread once they arrive if anyone wants mates rates.

One for each gender? :mad:

[Jimmy Floyd]

Russia and China vetoing a cease fire at the UN if contingent on hostages being released. Why don't they want the hostages released?

[Ben]

I understand there's politics at play but aren't Russia historically close to Israel (Abramovich etc.)?

[Spikey M]

I understand there's politics at play but aren't Russia historically close to Israel (Abramovich etc.)?

They're pretty reliant in Iran for weapons at the moment though.

[Don]

Russia have kept their hands clean from supporting the genocide. China and them have consistently been on the right side here. Big up Algeria for vetoing too.

Their explanation for it is based primarily around the resolution's wording and details. An immediate ceasefire is what needs to be called, not a fucking fake negotiation offer on behalf of Israel which also looks to clear the US and UK's tainted names. The fucking cheek of these cunts to u-turn and try and make out they're calling for a ceasefire now. And the state of this...

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[Spikey M]

Labour's handling of this has been legitimately baffling. Should Hamas be holding hostages? No. But neither should Israel and genocide is very much the nuclear option for supposedly trying to get them back.

Yes, we support a ceasefire. Then we need to sit down and arrange the release of all hostages. That should be the position. It's piss easy and it's not as if Hamas or Israel care what he has to say anyway.

[Ben]

We (as in the West) have had a mare with this one. Weren't Labour politicians getting sacked for asking for this very ceasefire?

[Don]

Yeah but Israel has a right to self-defence. A ceasefire back then would have ONLY benefitted Hamas (not including the 30k lives obvs). Now that those lives have been wasted is when a ceasefire becomes a good idea.

[phonics]

Israel have killed more hostages than they've got back.

[Don]

I thought it was still 3 hostages saved by IDF and 3 shot dead by them. Those numbers are what Keir must be pointing to when he suggests the 30K deaths were worthwhile.

[Spikey M]

We (as in the West) have had a mare with this one. Weren't Labour politicians getting sacked for asking for this very ceasefire?

Geo-politics is disgusting and it's one of the rare positives of Social Media that it's going to get harder and harder for governments to get away with it. You can't shill for Israel when we can all see exactly what's happening.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If you're busy convincing yourself that Russia and China are on 'the right side' rather than their own side, then you're just another gullible fuck really. Russia, who killed more Muslims in Syria and Chechenya than would even fill the contents of Bibi's wet dreams for a year. China, who put them all in concentration camps. The right side.

[Don]

My guy, the time for drawing parallels and indirect assessment is over. The UK and US have enabled genocide and must be held fully accountable.

[Dark Soldier]

This flag discourse is sensational. I hope it's some absolute don at Nike towers knowing how easy it would be to activate the gammonati like this. You could take a dump into these people's open mouths and they'd not get as triggered as they do when they sniff out such an opportunity to vent.

They all wank into a union jack hanky screaming 'for king and country'. Absolute scenes when someone calls them a 'snowflake' back and they lose their fucking nuts.

[Lewis]

I'm not sure why the national flag needs a 'playful update'. The flag is the flag. If it doesn't fit the design, don't include it. Luckily we have an Iranian here to tell us to get over the perceived mis-use of important symbols.

[Giggles]

I'm not sure why the national flag needs a 'playful update'. The flag is the flag. If it doesn't fit the design, don't include it. Luckily we have an Iranian here to tell us to get over the perceived mis-use of important symbols.

Exactly. Our generation were taught that it's something you always respect (ours not yours). Back in the day, if you hung one at the gate for a match you daren't even leave it out for nightfall.

[Guybrush]

Where was the outrage on the other occasions that the kits had different-coloured flags on? Or was that before 'wokeness' was invented?

[Spikey M]

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DISGUSTAN.

[Lewis]

That sort of thing is also naff.

[Spikey M]

So are we saying she's actually dead/quadraspaz on a life glug?

Quadraspaz on Chemotherapy, apparently.

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[Giggles]

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DISGUSTAN.

I get it here but I can never get my head around British people being such limp wrists.

[Giggles]

Quadraspaz on Chemotherapy, apparently.

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Because of The Crown I'm just picturing the 28 people behind the camera.

[Giggles]

In fairness, this just shows what a cesspit the media, social or otherwise, really is.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm not sure I've ever heard her voice before. Bit common.

[Spikey M]

I get it here but I can never get my head around British people being such limp wrists.

Limp wrists about what? Nike tweaking the flag so it matches the colour scheme? Mini's have red Union Flag brake lights. The police have black and white union flags. Jamaican Brits often incorporate green into the mix.

What's the problem?

Remake the flag out of piss, shit and vomit and I'd potentially understand some of the outrage, but anger over this is just pathetic.

[Jimmy Floyd]

People are very choosy about flags. They'll chuck the Ukraine one on every building but call defenders of our own 'flag shaggers'. Then you have our friends in the gulf who are very keen to wave the Palestinian one around when it suits them (but not to take any of its refugees) but any sighting of a rainbow flag is an insult to the prophet.

Best to treat them as what they are, just journalistic shorthand.

[Lewis]

Using elements of the flag in designs is usually just a bit lame, but Nike giving it an 'update... to unite and inspire' implies that there is something wrong about the current one, which is a slightly odd position for a sportswear manufacturer to take.

[Yevrah]

But completely in keeping with how businesses are these days.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Give it a few years and we'll all be swearing oaths to Jeff Bezos rather than our countries anyway.

[phonics]

The only flag I believe in.

https://i.imgur.com/kmeQ3dr.png

[Luke Emia]

Two things about Kate Middleton. The woman has cancer the press and social media are scum it’s a private medical situation no one else’s fucking business and she shouldn’t have needed to make a statement on it. You’d imagine someone in the press has got hold of this and have told her either announce it or we will.

Secondly now we will have to hear about her as if she is the only person who has ever had cancer. The press will now completely switch and it will be like she is sainted.

[Luke Emia]

Do we think that if Nike were in charge they would have they do a ‘playful update’ of the Top Ireland, Scotland or Wales flag?

But on the other side who really gives a fuck apart from black cab drivers and Millwall/West Ham fans? The actual England football badge is on there, that hasn’t been changed.

[phonics]

Do we think that if Nike were in charge they would have they do a ‘playful update’ of the Top Ireland, Scotland or Wales flag?

But on the other side who really gives a fuck apart from black cab drivers and Millwall/West Ham fans? The actual England football badge is on there, that hasn’t been changed.

Yep considering they literally already did it to Scotland and Brazil.

[Luke Emia]

Yep considering they literally already did it to Scotland and Brazil.

I stand corrected. But anyway who really gives a fuck?

[phonics]

Homophobes. I don't think people have quite grasped how much of this all is about really fucking hating gay people even though you're not allowed to anymore. So you have to create fake outrage that's not directly calling gay people slurs to get your anger out.

[Giggles]

Do we think that if Nike were in charge they would have they do a ‘playful update’ of the Top Ireland, Scotland or Wales flag?

But on the other side who really gives a fuck apart from black cab drivers and Millwall/West Ham fans? The actual England football badge is on there, that hasn’t been changed.
Fuck Nike, Adidas or we go with O'Neill's.

[Luke Emia]

Homophobes. I don't think people have quite grasped how much of this all is about really fucking hating gay people even though you're not allowed to anymore. So you have to create fake outrage that's not directly calling gay people slurs to get your anger out.

Ah so maybe Chelsea fans as well as West Ham and Millwall fans then?

[Mike]

They should make the away kit full rainbow.
And the flat they’ve done is better than the actual flag.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The only flag I believe in.

https://i.imgur.com/kmeQ3dr.png

His SEETHE about that made it all the sweeter.

[phonics]

His SEETHE about that made it all the sweeter.

First they came for Tony Khan, and I said nothing because I didn't wank dogs...

[Spikey M]

Even the biggest flagshag could get behind that going on the England shirt.

[Giggles]

Is it a government thing or just a modern Instagram etc thing that you're all such unpatriotic twats?

[phonics]

Is it a government thing or just a modern Instagram etc thing that you're all such unpatriotic twats?

Have you seen the state of this country for the last 50 years or so? Would be like singing a Pledge of Allegiance to my wheely bin to start the day.

[Luke Emia]

Is it a government thing or just a modern Instagram etc thing that you're all such unpatriotic twats?

Na I really want us to be BACK and not Arsenal BACK but properly BACK like when we used to “rule the fucking world.”

In all seriousness anyone over the age of 50 has spent the last 40 years pining for a better time which coincidently was before the UK was in the EU so they’ve got their own way and it’s turned out to be just as shit now(if not even maybe quite a bit shitter) than it was before. All the stuff that was the EU’s fault has probably turned out not to be their fault and actually can be laid at the door of just how shit the country has become.

Maybe the answer is that we need to recreate the Empire maybe that was the last time we were actually any good. Perhaps then I’d feel a bit more patriotic.

[Spikey M]

Is it a government thing or just a modern Instagram etc thing that you're all such unpatriotic twats?

You don't like England but we have to?

To clarify: I like my country. The countryside, my family, my neighbours, the depth of history, the music etc.

I am not a huge fan of what many of our ruling elites have done. From the Empire, to the break up of the empire, to the various bullshit wars we've been Yank lapdogs for. Poverty is increasing. While at the same time the rich are getting richer. As a consequence, many of us aren't feeling particularly INGERLUNDy at the moment.

[Lewis]

Homophobes. I don't think people have quite grasped how much of this all is about really fucking hating gay people even though you're not allowed to anymore. So you have to create fake outrage that's not directly calling gay people slurs to get your anger out.

This would only work if the flag change was a deliberate political message, which would make all of the supposedly pointless OUTRAGE actually justified.

[phonics]

Did you take like a large hit to the head sometime in the last few years?

[Lewis]

Why did you say homophobes specifically are annoyed and not racists or Catholics?

[phonics]

Because they're all calling it a woke, gay flag despite it having nothing to do with any symbolism whatsoever, Lewis, you fucking daftie.

[Lewis]

What did they change it for then? Seems like a weird thing to do, and then highlight with the second post of their online announcement, if it was completely meaningless.

[Shindig]

Here this out, lads. Four lions on the chest. Rubber dinghy rapids, bruv.

[phonics]

What did they change it for then? Seems like a weird thing to do, and then highlight with the second post of their online announcement, if it was completely meaningless.

Because its a graphic designer doing something different for flair. Just like they did for the Brazil flag. And the Scotland flag. And the hundreds of thousands of times it's been done to the flag across hundreds of thousands of brands you absolute numpty.

[phonics]

Look at the flagrant disrpect of OTHER PEOPLES NATIONS going on

https://i.imgur.com/7P3ZG7r.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/3BeYRBc.jpeg

You're an odious little toad, who hasn't had an original thought in a decade. Grab a pint of milk and get in the bin.

[Lewis]

When did Nike make Scotland kits? What did they do to the Brazil flag? Why are you conflating all these things as being the same?

[phonics]

More disgusting woke nonsense from corporations that should be true patriots, Umbro.

https://i.imgur.com/HUEcJWc.jpeg

We used to be a country. It's a fucking emblem, it gets remixed to fit a design. All the time. Every day. I'm off to sing Rule Brittania at the bin.

[Lewis]

How did Umbro announce that design? Did they call it a 'playful update' and suggest that the current flag was lacking in particular politicised platitudes?

I don't even care about the kit, since I won't be buying one, but why refuse to even accept the possibility that they meant what some people think they meant? I appreciate that the idea of large corporations having identical politics to you, original thinker, is difficult, but if they came out tomorrow and said 'yeah lol we gayed the flag up what you gonna do?' you would be frothing over it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Britain is still as patriotic as ever, it's just that for some unknown reason we've been instructed to channel most of it into the celebration of a useless health system and the fact that some non-white people now live here, which understandably doesn't go down great everywhere.

If Vlad bombs Norwich tonight we'll all be in our Union Jack (with correct colours) flak jackets within the hour.

[phonics]

How did they gay up the flag you gigantic incel

[Shindig]

I've finally got round to seeing the England 1966 training gear and erm ... I think it's a bit tenuous. It looks a lot more LGBT than the red-white-and-blue gear those guys wore.

[phonics]

The famous LGBT rainbow I can see it now, it goes dark red, red, blue, dark blue and pink.

[randomlegend]

Christ, I've only just bothered to look at this flag nonsense since having now spanned 3 pages of this thread I'd assumed it must be something momentous.

How can anyone's life be so devoid of meaning that they can bring themselves to care about shit like this? It's a stupid fucking logo on a football shirt. Even if it was the mega-gayest-transest St George's flag imaginable (it isn't) who fucking cares. Put it over a silhouette of Winston Churchill getting bummed by Donald Trump for all I care. It doesn't matter.

[phonics]

To be fair to Lewis and his troglodyte views. You wouldn't understand how dangerous it is that corporations are trying to turn the world gay because you've already dedicated yourself to a life of making chocolate and enjoying fancy tasting menus. Definitely not caused by an undercurrent of Homophobia though!

[Luke Emia]

Britain is still as patriotic as ever, it's just that for some unknown reason we've been instructed to channel most of it into the celebration of a useless health system and the fact that some non-white people now live here, which understandably doesn't go down great everywhere.

If Vlad bombs Norwich tonight we'll all be in our Union Jack (with correct colours) flak jackets within the hour.

You might be out but Randrew and me will be dead.

[phonics]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fv-K87MWwAAiXvZ.jpg

[Lewis]

To be fair to Lewis and his troglodyte views. You wouldn't understand how dangerous it is that corporations are trying to turn the world gay because you've already dedicated yourself to a life of making chocolate and enjoying fancy tasting menus. Definitely not caused by an undercurrent of Homophobia though!

I don't know whether it is a deliberate political statement. Maybe it is. Maybe it isn't. I just think that the prominence that they initially gave to a supposedly inconsequential detail, and the use of that weird NGO-speak that you literally only ever hear in highly-politicised settings, makes me think, on balance, that they initially intended it to be one. Why are you, somebody who normally likes to present themselves as being a weary sceptic, so unwilling to entertain the possibility that maybe they did mean something by it?

[randomlegend]

Who fucking cares if they did.

I just bought a new stethoscope and I got a pink sparkly one. Gaying up the NHS. Umadbro?

[phonics]

Okay in this world where I'm a sceptic that thinks corporations are trying to turn the frogs gay. Why is it different colors on the away kit? Surely if they were comitted to this bit about making people wear the gay shirt they would have focus grouped the ideal gay colour combination that isn't quite gay enough for you to notice unless you're a true patriot such as yourself. They had to ask permission for this, is the FA also in on the plan to make people gay?

And then if they were trying to imply gayness, why not go the whole way, why would they stop at those famous rainbow colours of 2 shades of red, 2 shades of blue and pin?

Or maybe you're just a little on edge and afraid of colours for some reason that definitely isn't to do with being weirded out by gay people.

[Luke Emia]

In other news Tom Skinner has said he doesn’t like the new flag. I might have to change my views on giving a shit. Bosh…

[Lewis]

The away kit doesn't have the flag detail does it?

Like I said, I'm hardly dead convinced on it. I just think that it probably was meant to be something. The idea that the FA, who have thoroughly compromised and embarrassed themselves over the last few years embracing contentious political causes, were on board is hardly far-fetched either. Why do you think that thinking that this is possible is akin to believing that 'corporations are trying to turn the frogs gay'?

[phonics]

I'd never heard of this person and google immediately got me here

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And now I'm strapping on a Union Jack (with all the rainbow colours not just 3 of them) Suicide Vest to go blow up his house.

[phonics]

The away kit doesn't have the flag detail does it?

Like I said, I'm hardly dead convinced on it. I just think that it probably was meant to be something. The idea that the FA, who have thoroughly compromised and embarrassed themselves over the last few years embracing contentious political causes, were on board is hardly far-fetched either. Why do you think that thinking that this is possible is akin to believing that 'corporations are trying to turn the frogs gay'?

Call me a world weary cynic but I think the company with a 140 billion dollar market cap is more interested in making money than appealing to a market that makes up 3% of the population.

[Spikey M]

That pie looks drier than an orgy at a WASPI protest.

[phonics]

I'd never heard of this person and google immediately got me here

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And now I'm strapping on a Union Jack (with all the rainbow colours not just 3 of them) Suicide Vest to go blow up his house.

Drinking an 'Italian' beer owned by a Danish company as well. Fucking disgrace to the nation.

[Ben]

Beans in a ramekin. :facepalm:

[phonics]

Fucking hell this bloke has loads of fans. I'm looking through the replies and had to take off my Suicide Vest because this is going to have to take a wider, more strategic and violent plan.

https://i.imgur.com/GlGfsvi.png

Poor Mike Moyes here appears to be a year older than me with a hairline hanging on for it's life. The kid seems innocent enough but she'll probably be gay by 12 so may as well off her too to save my country.

[Spikey M]

Charlie quoting the one liner of the decade there.

[Lewis]

Call me a world weary cynic but I think the company with a 140 billion dollar market cap is more interested in making money than appealing to a market that makes up 3% of the population.

Why has football embraced all of the rainbow flag stuff to the extent that FIFA, and not Adidas and Nike, had to squash its use in Qatar? Money matters and weight of demographic numbers ought to have ruled that out, and yet... Do you genuinely not think that large corporations have very publicly championed particular social politics to the extent that any of this is possible?

[phonics]

Charlie quoting the one liner of the decade there.

I was going to screenshot the sheer amount of people going 'FUCKING HELL TOM YA CANT SAY THAT ABOUT HER COOKING, YOU'LL BE ON THE COUCH *various laughing emojis*' and I ran out of space on my iphone.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I do enjoy his missives, even if he'll be dead from a heart attack within ten years with some of the breakfasts he posts. 4,000 calories before 7am.

[phonics]

Cardiac Arrest. Bosh.

[Lofty]

The only flag I believe in.

https://i.imgur.com/kmeQ3dr.png

https://i.ibb.co/4YW4z1y/received-958877875810993.jpg

[John Arne]

So Kate has cancer. I get the need to want to keep it relatively quiet - but they really did fuck this up from a PR point of view.

[John Arne]

This flag debacle has detracted from the model (an AI generated model) is very sweaty and has the thickest neck in the world.

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Also, lol at the community note. And lol at Lewis for thinking this is anything more than a creative person messing around, as they have for all of these Nike international releases.

[Kikó]

It's the immigrants trying to take our flag.

[Spikey M]

I don't know, Lewis was right about immigration getting out of hand.

https://i.ibb.co/PFc5x9Q/FB-IMG-1711282323084.jpg

[niko_cee]

We're here, we're clear, we don't want any more bears!

[Lewis]

Also, lol at the community note. And lol at Lewis for thinking this is anything more than a creative person messing around, as they have for all of these Nike international releases.

I wasn't going to post it yesterday because it was boring, but the last designer to alter the flag on an England kit is quoted here (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-68632971) admitting to putting a deliberate political spin on it. Honestly, for people who normally see corporate conspiracy around every corner you lot are being remarkably dense about this.

[niko_cee]

'Playful interpretation' was obviously their idea of a soft launch, and then the frankly disingenuous 'explanation' linked to 1966 doubled down on that. Plausibly deniable inclusivity. It's not something Nike or the FA should really be dabbling in, as evidenced by the reaction, ridiculous as it might be. At least the last guy is/was open about what he was up to, and you can agree or disagree with that from whatever perspective you want.

[Spikey M]

I will say that this sentiment:


"come to represent a particular type of bloody-minded person - usually with a degree of what we might call aggressive patriotism"

Needs to fuck right off. I'm not a "flag nonce", but those that are should be free to fly their own nations flag without being branded a racist thug. We grant people from every other nation on God's green earth this right, it shouldn't be taboo to fly and England Flag in England.

[niko_cee]

Ding dong. Though it's not like any of the rest of the cunts will be much better.


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Not a chance this youngest ever PM that's succeeding him is 37. He looks about 60. Christ knows what he'll look like after a period in office, which often seems to age leaders significantly.

It should also be noted that that is quite a funny picture of Varadkar.

[Shindig]

Are we still enforcing a Palestine flag ban?

[Giggles]

Not a chance this youngest ever PM that's succeeding him is 37. He looks about 60. Christ knows what he'll look like after a period in office, which often seems to age leaders significantly.

It should also be noted that that is quite a funny picture of Varadkar.

I couldn't believe he was under 40 either. He's, some drip and popular enough that he only got elected in his own constituency last time round on the 15th count. More of the exact same to come, they'll be forcing people out of their homes to let welfare immigrants in next.

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[Lewis]

He looks like a young person playing an old person in an old film.

[Shindig]

You know what gets me about the Union Jack? The Welsh get a bit short changed. Stick a dragon on it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

St George killed the dragon, too bad.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I don't know, Lewis was right about immigration getting out of hand.

https://i.ibb.co/PFc5x9Q/FB-IMG-1711282323084.jpg
Piss off we're full.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

St George killed the dragon, too bad.
Probably died of natural causes and he claimed the non-evictory.

[niko_cee]

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:lol:

[Shindig]

Is it really a march if you're in a mobility scooter?

[niko_cee]

I see Harvey Elliot has been dragged into it by wearing is collar up 'in protest' for the U21s.

[Ben]

Some Facebook page posted a meme of the Nike cross flag so I took a quick look at the names of all the "angry reacts" and as expected it's the most gammon mix of names you've ever seen.

John Edwin Taylor
Alan Ramage
Peter Finch
Bob King
Billericay Town FC
Nigel Lowe
Alan British (lmao)
Kenny Lord
etc...

[Shindig]

Peter Finch?


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

[Spikey M]

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Time to vote Reform.

[niko_cee]

Vote Starmer. Get Fritzl.

[Kikó]

Everyone deserves a second chance.

[Disco]

Basements are all the rage too, he could make a killing as it were.

[Lewis]

An illegal basement extension would get him into more trouble than the noncing.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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Pissing hell.

[Lofty]

Wow, that was ridiculously quick.

[John Arne]

Just came to post that. Not great driving by the ship.

[niko_cee]

Good to see Captain Schettino managed to get back into work.

[Ben]

He's not even close to the gap. :D

[Shindig]

Man, I was expecting some good old fashioned structural failure due to fatigue. Not a ship taking out the supporting column. :|

[Yevrah]

That's so bad one wonders if it's deliberate. Failing that, mechanical failure?

[Jimmy Floyd]

The ship must have failed in some way, you can't just mis-steer into a bridge.

[Shindig]

It's shipping. I'm not ruling out a drunk as fuck, sleep deprived Singaporean who was on his mobile watching porn. Or a completely empty bridge (ship's bridge, not the bridge bridge).

[Disco]

The exact same thing has happened before so it's not really that bizarre.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Bridges are hard to spot.

[niko_cee]

US waterways upping the ante as ever.

So you think drowning a few dog walkers and chemical assailants is impressive?

[igor_balis]

Ffs McNulty

[Ian]

Bridge and balloon both start with B. Coincidence????

[Danny]

Brobably

[Luke Emia]

Bridge and balloon both start with B. Coincidence????

So does Bovid…

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Apparently it was going too fast and lost power.

They sent in a distress call just before hitting the bridge.

[Gray Fox]

Crazy to think how fucked Baltimore is by this one ship going off course.

I can't imagine how much time and money it's going to cost to fix it. Never mind the amount of people that will have died and some that probably went into the water never to be found.

[niko_cee]

Think given the time and the fact that the ship sent a mayday they managed to mostly make sure no one was on the bridge.

Still mad though.

Going to be one hell of an insurance claim.

[Lofty]

Sheeeeeeit.

[phonics]

https://i.imgur.com/HvSTLlm.png

Ruh-Roh

[Giggles]

Is that a young Red Forman?

[Raoul Duke]

That is mega

[phonics]

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[Spikey M]

:D

[niko_cee]

:D

"If you give a crab anti-depressants" is surely a line straight out of Brass Eye.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Waff is putting on his swimming trunks.

[niko_cee]

This Channel 4 Post Office stuff (https://www.channel4.com/news/covert-recordings-obtained-by-c4news-prove-post-office-covered-up-scandal-for-years) is pretty tasty.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Paula's going to jail, surely. Absolute travesty that she's not as big a national hate figure as, say, 'Fred the Shred' was.

[niko_cee]

Are there any conspiracies doing the rounds about this being the work of THE PATRIARCHY? Almost all of the bad guys seem to be women.

[Yevrah]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68683304

Er, wot? How far do you go with this stuff? We built a car park on top of Richard III and no one was that fussed, but if we're going to be that concerned about the 93bn humans that came before us (and are very much dead not giving a shit) we should probably pack up our tools now.

[Spikey M]

With all the legitimate problems going on around the world, it really is a wonder that people manage to fund such unimportant shite to care about.

[Ben]

It's by design. Get the little people angry about skin binding and flags on football kits so they haven't got time to revolt against the really bad stuff.

[Ben]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68682198

"We should have always been using a percentage of your water bill to improve infrastructure but we didn't, so we need another 40% off you to do it without impacting shareholder bonuses."

The cheek of these cunts.

[Pepe]

Anything that happens in universities should just be ignored.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Chris Weston said he wanted to "reassure our customers that it is very much business as usual for Thames Water".

He said the company was "quite a long way off" from nationalisation and "a lot that has to happen" beforehand.

However, he said it was "eventually possible".

So it's happening.

[Spikey M]

The sooner the better

[wullie]

Instead of fannying about removing 150-year old skin from books, universities should do real work like not having to rely on Johnny Foreigner for baked beans (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-67654207).

[Ben]

Oh it's inevitable for sure. Just having to pay off these leeches hurts though. Having said that, FT said in 2019 it would cost about £14.5bn to nationalise water (probably £20bn now), versus £100bn for this HS2 shambles so far.

EDIT: Out the way wullie

[Spikey M]

Oh it's inevitable for sure. Just having to pay off these leeches hurts though. Having said that, FT said in 2019 it would cost about £14.5bn to nationalise water (probably £20bn now), versus £100bn for this HS2 shambles so far.

EDIT: Out the way wullie

Make them half the water bill and they'd be happy to talk.

[Ben]

Apparently George Osborne intervened directly to stop Ofwat preventing Macquarie's debt-financed takeover of Thames Water.

Obviously Osborne is a cunt but how is he not a lot more hated? He should be in the gallows.

[niko_cee]

Now the BBC are piling in (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68663750).

Somebody's gonna get absolutely fucked. Quite possibly the lawyers and consultants. :drool:

[randomlegend]

Now the BBC are piling in (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68663750).

Somebody's gonna get absolutely fucked. Quite possibly the lawyers and consultants. :drool:

Spreading my whining over two threads, but NHS management culture is exactly the same as this was.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-68689172

I'd love to see a Netflix documentary on this robbery.

[Spikey M]

1769743979883491584?t=3dQPDfZ_TAGv8UkcWPXehA&s=19

:rosebud:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68687789

I'm sure the Brits going will take this on board and drink responsibly.

[Giggles]

:cool: Hopefully all the cunts pretending to be Ukrainian follow suit.


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[randomlegend]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/30/physicians-associates-qualify-courses-degrees/

:vomit:

[Spikey M]

https://youtu.be/HMGIbOGu8q0?si=7S_-M0v2kkxclgvY

[Don]

This leak being substantive or not, presumably the government will now be forced into publishing their legal advice on Israel's actions :mjpopcorn:

[Ben]

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/mar/30/boat-race-report-cambridge-oxford

The Tories finally stopped a boat!

[Ben]

The Israelis have just blown up one of Taz’s top men in Syria.

[Don]

Presumably this is all just them (US included obvs) fishing for a reaction so as to be able to justify their disgraceful antics over the last 6 months. I suspect they only have a matter of weeks before they really lose meaningful support so hopefully we don't attempt anything until later. Our recent retaliatory strikes have been dogshit, hope we see a real improvement in the next one :drool:

[Kikó]

Russian lasers making US secret service Taz between the ears https://www.cbsnews.com/news/havana-syndrome-culprit-investigation-new-evidence-60-minutes-transcript/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7d&linkId=379846609

[Don]

We must save Ukrainians from these Russian space lasers.

[Ben]

This Havana syndrome theory has been around for years has it not?

[phonics]

And it's total nonsense.

[Kikó]

Why?

[phonics]

Repeat the story back to yourself "Russians have a undetectable gun that affects your balance and gives you a headache"

What's the end goal/aim of this magical invisible weapon and why have they only deployed it against Americans spooks in Cuba and Vietnam, two positions that are definitely filled with Cold War Freaks.

[Kikó]

All I can go on is the parties involved in the investigation who seem pretty credible. I'm not sure it's undetectable either, just not detected yet (if it exists).

[phonics]

What part of 'American Spook based in Cuba' is credible to you?

[Kikó]

The authors of the entire story aren't "American spook based in Cuba".

[Spikey M]

I for one fully believe that the country currently fighting a war with 2-3 decade old military tech, has access to a Dr Evil style space laser that they only use against countries they aren't at war with.

[Kikó]

They also have modern weaponry as well which they've deployed but it's not infinite which is why they're also using older tech now.

[phonics]

So the space laser has ammo?

[Lofty]

I wonder if they are still working on the gay gas.

[Spikey M]

So the space laser has ammo?

And can't be used on Zelenskyy or anyone of political / military importance in Ukraine.

[Kikó]

I don't think you're taking this seriously.

[phonics]

And can't be used on Zelenskyy or anyone of political / military importance in Ukraine.

American Exceptionalism at work. They've just got the perfect brains to be hit by an ammo requiring space laser.

[Disco]

Clearly it only targets freedom so naturally it's ineffective against the Ukrainian forces of world jewry and/or antifa neo-nazis (delete as aplicable).

[Raoul Duke]

Yeah, probably best to give Russia the benefit of the doubt, unlikely those guys would be up to no good

[Lewis]

Fibromyalgia for men in short-sleeved white shirts.

[phonics]

Yeah, probably best to give Russia the benefit of the doubt, unlikely those guys would be up to no good

Yes I should trust the CIA instead. They're historically reliable on this stuff. Even their own government is telling them to give their head a wobble.

[Spikey M]

And we're (or atleast I) doubting ability, not willingness.

[phonics]

Yeah my bigger issue is the existence of the space laser than Russia using one.

[Manc]

Driving a Mustang at 115mph isn't giving spy.

[Disco]

The Russians are very simple when it comes to this sort of thing (Makarov in the neck, trip to the fourth floor window sill etc), you get the occasional exotic outlier like the Bulgarian umbrella or a fancy polonium tea party but it's the CIA that are into the kinky stuff (smearing lsd on your door handles or obsessing over gaybombs and chairs that gives you cancer).

[Don]

Driving a Mustang at 115mph isn't giving spy.

The fuck circles have you been associating with? :D

Anyways, guys, some pristine whities have lost their lives in Palestine in a tragic accident. Let us remember them.

[Kikó]

Im truly onboard the Russian space laser gun and think all of you that are dismissing it are russian agents.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm a double agent. Russia and Wales, oddly. They told me to eliminate Huw Edwards with a space laser. Fucking brought the gay gas instead, didn't I, what a plonker.

[Lewis]

The fuck circles have you been associating with? :D

Anyways, guys, some pristine whities have lost their lives in Palestine in a tragic accident. Let us remember them.

The media had us going referring to them as 'British nationals'. It was play on for a while. Now we ought to be stopping whatever assistance we're giving them.

[Don]

The old guy's mugshot is a solid middle-class gammon and that young Rugby lad with the blue eyes, Turkey teeth and Hinge-mageddon jawline :chefskiss:

[Don]

Dear god, all three were ex-military, too. Watch the UK remove its shit-ridden cock from out of the zionist hole within 48 hours.

[John Arne]

7.5 magnitude earthquake off Japan/Taiwan coast..... Tsunami warning issued.

[John Arne]

How the fuck is this still standing?

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[Bernanke]

Israel triple tapping some chefs and claiming it unintentional really is reaching satire level of what they think they can get away with.

Lol at Rishi calling it a "tragic incident" that killed three of your citizens.

[phonics]

Israel triple tapping some chefs and claiming it unintentional really is reaching satire level of what they think they can get away with.

Unintentionally through the logo

https://i.imgur.com/EPmhWbV.png

[Bernanke]

And the supposed "intel" that justified it is that they saw one Hamas member with the convoy, meaning 3 cars full of aid workers is reasonable collateral for them to take out one rando militia dude.

[phonics]

https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116

Lol those Amazon shops where you didn't have to deal with a cashier wasn't AI it was just a bloke in India watching you on video.

[Shindig]

I just let the lass behind the counter serve me. It's just a fancy 7-11.

[-james-]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68769981

Probably a fun game that piggybacks off the success of Bananagrams, extremely clever to disguise it as rage bait to get it on the BBC front page.

[Baz]

Seen that where Joe Lycett said he’s planted stuff in the news to prove a point? This looks odds-on for that.

[Ben]

What’s his point?

[Baz]

Dunno

[Pepe]

Imagine being intimidated by "word games."

[Luke Emia]

My missus works for the National Trust and they often have the Daily Mail losing their shit at them.

Last week it was that they were making their scones ‘woke’. I mean fucking hell.

[John Arne]

This case is coming to and end, and the prosecution have recommended the death penalty be handed down to the lady who ran all of this.

Interestingly, the international coverage of this has been strangely quiet. $12bn is fucking huge - more than FTX.

Death it is. Ta ra, love.

[phonics]

Finally a country treating it's financial criminals correctly.

[phonics]

Perfect 'local man angry about something not particularly important' picture and headline combo here.

https://i.imgur.com/S3K4jnp.png

[Shindig]

Finally a country treating it's financial criminals correctly.

I'd rather get some of the money back before roping them.

[Spikey M]

The government pockets their estate. Simple.

[Spikey M]

Take that, Spacelaser. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68795603)

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

A laser show :drool:

[Shindig]

I hope they make cool noises.

[Boydy]

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This can't be good

[Jimmy Floyd]

Also very stupid as usual, let them carry on fucking up.

[Don]

Might need a thread for Middle East related events. I'm yet to verify but it's looking like we may actually have sent 50 Shahed drones. They'll take hours and if Zinchenko's useless family are shooting those down then they shouldn't do anything to Israel even if they're somehow not intercepted before but missiles may also be incoming. I have a boner and saliva production like [insert crude joke about TTH member here] but if it leads to full war, then I also will have bigger concerns related to family so play it cool for now.

[Lewis]

Might go and fill up the car.

[Don]

Cruise missiles away. We have a war. Well done to the Zionist supporters.

[Spikey M]

I really can't be arsed to die in a world war if I'm honest.

[Shindig]

I'll just dust off the essential worker letter I got during covid. That should stop me getting conscripted.

[Boydy]

What is the conscription age likely to be? Am I old enough to miss it yet? Will we even need conscription or will the nukes just start flying and we'll all be fucked?

[Jimmy Floyd]

What are we going to be conscripted into? Shooting at the Russians as they land at Margate? Not sure that's how war is conducted these days.

(I'd join up)

[Don]

Missile reports questionable. If we've caused all this drama with a load of toothless drones and we leave it at that, we've played a blinder. Scenes of jubilation on the streets of Iran, Palestine etc, Israeli society in a state of panic, statements from cunts like Rishi being met with the lols they deserve. Superb scenes.

[Bernanke]

Might need a thread for Middle East related events.

https://www.thethirdhalf.co.uk/showthread.php?172-The-Middle-East-and-co-(*sponsored-by-Mel-Gibson*)

[Spikey M]

What is the conscription age likely to be? Am I old enough to miss it yet? Will we even need conscription or will the nukes just start flying and we'll all be fucked?

18 - 50 apparently. Not that anyone would go. I wouldn't.

[Spikey M]

What are we going to be conscripted into?

Slaughter and cannon fodder.

[Lewis]

Missile reports questionable. If we've caused all this drama with a load of toothless drones and we leave it at that, we've played a blinder. Scenes of jubilation on the streets of Iran, Palestine etc, Israeli society in a state of panic, statements from cunts like Rishi being met with the lols they deserve. Superb scenes.

And Sydney wasn't even your lot this time. Turning a corner?

[Baz]

Sign me up, I’ll shoot anyone if it means I don’t have to do bedtime.

[Ben]

This isn’t as stupid as it might seem by Iran. To me it just looks like a bit of dick waving, meanwhile Israel and U.S. are losing their heads.

[Ben]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/10/the-line-saudi-arabia-scaling-back-plans-105-mile-long-desert-megacity-crown-prince

I'm shocked.

[niko_cee]

Hopefully they've still got plans for a venue to hold Ronnie's world championships in the scheme.

[Don]

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It's a strange article (12ft it) to have published but Owen Jones and similar soft cunts' replies have me lolling :D

[Lofty]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68853672

[Luke Emia]

She’s gone fully off the deep end since she was PM I mean she’s always been a self-righteous odious cunt. But, it now seems that she gone down some YouTube right wing rabbit hole in recent months like your nan would do or something.

There’s been stuff in the news about concerted efforts to get rid of her as the MP round here but all the other parties are at such a low base I just can’t see it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If it was the 16th century she would have been beheaded as a traitor by now, and frankly rightly so.

[John Arne]

I see the Guardian are now criticizing the guy from Baby Reindeer, the guy that was sexually abused by one partner, and stalked for a long time by another woman... for telling his story.