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[-james-]

Reddit is home to plenty of good and bad things. Pretty good metaphor for this debate actually. The problem is that everyone views everything as black and white. I never said he wasn't a cunt.

[Manc]

Steve Bruce all over again.

[Lofty]

He's demonstrably an idiot though. When it was suggested advertisers would leave X, he said 'go fuck yourselves' like he was king dick. Now he is crying they won't advertise and trying to sue them, at the same time as he himself retweets racebaiting misinformation to escalate the situation in the UK. I wonder why they don't want to sell Mars bars next to those posts? :D

[Lewis]

Isn't his allegation that they all conspired to not advertise, which is arguably cartel/price fixing sort of behaviour? He might not get anyway with it but it's hardly without any sort of merit.

He is a cringe Reddit cunt, and clearly more of a manager/driver-througher than the engineer some people seem to think he is, but lol at the idea of him just being some bumbling chancer. 'He only bought Tesla!' Yes, with the money he made from...

[randomlegend]

Isn't his allegation that they all conspired to not advertise, which is arguably cartel/price fixing sort of behaviour? He might not get anyway with it but it's hardly without any sort of merit.

He is a cringe Reddit cunt, and clearly more of a manager/driver-througher than the engineer some people seem to think he is, but lol at the idea of him just being some bumbling chancer. 'He only bought Tesla!' Yes, with the money he made from...

...his dad owning an Emerald mine?

[Kikó]

Elon clearly has a vision about what he thinks the world should be and how it should be. How smart he actually is is questionable, he sounds like someone who is smart until you actually listen to him properly. He's probably off his head on ket* these days to be anyway coherent.

*Completely a joke, he's probably never done drugs.

[Pepe]

but lol at the idea of him just being some bumbling chancer. 'He only bought Tesla!' Yes, with the money he made from...

Nah mate, if my dad had left me a couple of million I and not him would definitely be the richest person in the entire planet. Luck of the draw. Like pks.

[Pepe]

I don't know whether he is 'smart' but he took some far fetched ideas (electric cars, private space rockets) and made them into viable businesses the way no other person/company managed to and became the wealthiest person on earth in the process. If he is an idiot, then I wish I was that kind of idiot, and this is coming from someone who used to lol at Tesla (still do a little bit).

[Spikey M]

He can be a fantastic business man and still be a thick cunt. Alan Sugar managed it.

It's a bit like when people think educated people are necessarily intelligent. Some of the biggest retards going have masters degrees.

Education =/= business acumen =/= intelligence.

[Pepe]

I would bet that business acumen and intelligence are strongly correlated. Education and intelligence certainly are, as much as it we try to pretend otherwise.

[Spikey M]

I would bet that business acumen and intelligence are strongly correlated. Education and intelligence certainly are, as much as it we try to pretend otherwise.

And yet we have doctors believing in homeopathy. 9 times out of 10 it's because they are doctors in non-medical fields, but I have to ask how someone can be both educated enough to be a doctor AND thick enough to believe that the cure for something is more of what caused it, but watered down. And the more you water it down, the stronger it gets. These are both very educated and very thick individuals (and probably scammers).

[Pepe]

They do exist, but they are a minority. There are less thick doctors than thick bricklayers.

I would gladly take a 2 point IQ hit to get musk's business acumen.

[Magic]

Spot the people who have never worked in business.

[Lewis]

Nah mate, if my dad had left me a couple of million I and not him would definitely be the richest person in the entire planet. Luck of the draw. Like pks.

If that version of events is true then at the very least he's the best investor in the world, which would suggest he's reasonably intelligent.

[Dark Soldier]

There are less thick doctors than thick bricklayers.

As someone who's job is to speak with doctors all day, every day, I counter this massively.

[Pepe]

If that version of events is true then at the very least he's the best investor in the world, which would suggest he's reasonably intelligent.

I am sure someone will come and tell us that investors are also all morons. I don't even know who can be assumed to be of average intelligence at this point. What a place.

[Spikey M]

If that version of events is true then at the very least he's the best investor in the world, which would suggest he's reasonably intelligent.

He hasn't invented anything. He owns companies that invent things, there's a difference. Again, he's basically Steve Jobs.

[Lewis]

Steve Jobs was pretty clever.

[Spikey M]

Clever enough to not accidentally buy social media platforms that he doesn't actually want, atleast.

[Lewis]

Would letting a treatable cancer kill you be worse than having caught AIDS? That must have been some dilemma for him legacy-wise.

[Lofty]

My mate got 13 A*s at school, went to a top UK university, now has a PhD and teaches there. He is a very clever guy when you talk to him. I once watched him 'lock' his mountain bike to a waist high bollard.

[Manc]

Can you even take 13 GCSEs?

[Luke Emia]

Can you even take 13 GCSEs?

Yeah if you are a massive nerd.

[randomlegend]

12 was standard at my (very shit comprehensive) school. I did 13 because I did stats as well as maths (which all top set maths did).

I got straight A* and also know how to lock a bike up so fucking go me.

[Lofty]

One of his was Latin.

[Danny]

1821298755016274066

:lol:

[Kikó]

https://metro.co.uk/2024/08/08/woman-first-shared-fake-southport-suspect-rumour-sparked-riots-arrested-21389346/?ito=article.desktop.share.top.twitter

Delicious.

[Baz]

Next time there’s something bad, I’m gonna leak John Lightfoot as the bad man.

[Lewis]

Meanwhile that tool who was reporting fantasy acid attacks against Muslim women in Middlesbrough was meeting government ministers today.

[SvN]

They're really churning out the prison time for anyone connected to the recent rioting. This one sticks out as a bit "WTF?" to me:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czrg70xgm5zo

Crazy that he's in prison 5 days later.

Edit: Actually, it was less than 48 hours. He live streamed at 10pm on Wednesday and he was jailed Friday morning.

[Waffdon]

https://news.sky.com/story/girl-11-and-woman-34-stabbed-in-londons-leicester-square-13195834

Some place

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They're really churning out the prison time for anyone connected to the recent rioting. This one sticks out as a bit "WTF?" to me:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czrg70xgm5zo

Crazy that he's in prison 5 days later.

Edit: Actually, it was less than 48 hours. He live streamed at 10pm on Wednesday and he was jailed Friday morning.

Lock up all TikTok wankers.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm sorry to say this, but: heads have gone.

[Spikey M]

We're straight back to School Shooting news coverage. The more they cover this stuff and the reaction to it from the public, the more nut jobs will want to do it.

[Waffdon]

https://news.sky.com/story/girl-11-and-woman-34-stabbed-in-londons-leicester-square-13195834

Some place

White man committed the crime and stopped by a Muslim. England and its racist residents in tatters

[Spikey M]

White man committed the crime and stopped by a Muslim. England and its racist residents in tatters

1822999063190470992?t=Lf-tqCzr5pRSN9bVqZ5amA&s=19

Eastern European. I'm not sure what the EDL lot do with that.

Edit: the fella that posted this appears to be a crank, so this may well be complete bollocks.

[SincereTheRebel]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8rx5lv0ydno

This happened behind my building. People were out yesterday evening, looking for the lad :(

[Jimmy Floyd]

Eastern European. I'm not sure what the EDL lot do with that.

Edit: the fella that posted this appears to be a crank, so this may well be complete bollocks.

The clock is ticking! Political left desperately hoping his name is Lee Smith, political right praying for Mateusz Kaminski.

[niko_cee]

What if it's Matty Cash?

[Spikey M]

Win win.

[phonics]

White bloke disarmed by a security guard called Abdullah. Tommy Robinson on the ropes.

[Spikey M]

Conspiracy innit

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[Kikó]

They're really churning out the prison time for anyone connected to the recent rioting. This one sticks out as a bit "WTF?" to me:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czrg70xgm5zo

Crazy that he's in prison 5 days later.

Edit: Actually, it was less than 48 hours. He live streamed at 10pm on Wednesday and he was jailed Friday morning.

Not for me. You played with fire and get what you deserve.

[Spikey M]

That would be great if various other scumbags were also getting what they deserve, but they aren't. It's taking years to prosecute crimes at the moment. I'm not sure how they justify prioritising low hanging fruit like Tracy from Bishops Stortford posting about wontin are cuntry back on Facebook.

[Ben]

Something about keeping the proles in check.

[Shindig]

Plus it's real easy to prosecute when all the plebs have video of their own crimes.

[Kikó]

And they're admitting guilt generally.

[Lofty]

That would be great if various other scumbags were also getting what they deserve, but they aren't. It's taking years to prosecute crimes at the moment. I'm not sure how they justify prioritising low hanging fruit like Tracy from Bishops Stortford posting about wontin are cuntry back on Facebook.

Because the majority of crimes are commited against other people. When you commit crimes against the state the boot lands on your neck.

[randomlegend]

That would be great if various other scumbags were also getting what they deserve, but they aren't. It's taking years to prosecute crimes at the moment. I'm not sure how they justify prioritising low hanging fruit like Tracy from Bishops Stortford posting about wontin are cuntry back on Facebook.

I mean it's patently obvious why. There was real potential for the situation to get out of control and charging people quickly was felt to be a worthwhile undertaking as a deterrent. It clearly worked as well.

[Yevrah]

Yep, that shit and any twats hanging on to it absolutely needed to be stamped out ASAP.

[Spikey M]

Did it though? This shit always dies down eventually anyway. 3 nights appears to be the threshold. That's about how long the Tottenham riots lasted for, anyways iirc.

[Lewis]

I'm all for giving stiffer sentences to people actually causing criminal damage and attacking the police, but some of the sentences being handed out for supposedly stirring things up are ridiculous when people have been chanting for Israel's destruction every weekend for months with the Met running interference for them online.

[phonics]

I love being able to completely make shit up about the people I don't agree with because the people I do agree with are facing consequences.

(fwiw I'm not a big fan of these social media charges unless you are literally organising the stuff rather than 'appearing to incite' it)

[niko_cee]

It's probably pretty chilling in general terms, but seeing as it targets absolute knobheads exclusively I find it hard to be too bothered.

[Lewis]

I love being able to completely make shit up about the people I don't agree with because the people I do agree with are facing consequences.

(fwiw I'm not a big fan of these social media charges unless you are literally organising the stuff rather than 'appearing to incite' it)

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What do you think phonics? Do you think they meant peacefully jihadding for better pay and conditions?

[phonics]

1715751560167223683

What do you think phonics? Do you think they meant peacefully jihadding for better pay and conditions?

So actually that pretty much lines up with my stated position above. Was he actually organising a Jihad and signing people up to go blow up a synagogue? No. Was he being a twat, yes. The statement says he was identified and would be spoken to to shut the fuck up and stop being a twat. He was also definitely put on a list where he will be surveilled for the rest of time.

I don't think you should be jailed for saying that 'people on boats deserve to die' I think you should be jailed if you're trying to organise a group of people to sink boats.

edit: Further googling suggests that the group who organised said demonstration have been classified as a terrorist organisation so I doubt the Met are running much interference for them.

[Yevrah]

Educate me, what else does/could calling for Jihad mean?

[phonics]

Educate me, what else does/could calling for Jihad mean?

I mean technically Jihad really just means to struggle/exert against something but that's mealy mouthed bollocks.

To put it into white terms, I feel that, "We've got to do something about these muslims/immigrants/boats" and "We are going to do something about these muslims/immigrants/boats, meet me here to do so" should be treated differently when it comes to legal action.

[Lewis]

So actually that pretty much lines up with my stated position above. Was he actually organising a Jihad and signing people up to go blow up a synagogue? No. Was he being a twat, yes. The statement says he was identified and would be spoken to to shut the fuck up and stop being a twat. He was also definitely put on a list where he will be surveilled for the rest of time.

I don't think you should be jailed for saying that 'people on boats deserve to die' I think you should be jailed if you're trying to organise a group of people to sink boats.

edit: Further googling suggests that the group who organised said demonstration have been classified as a terrorist organisation so I doubt the Met are running much interference for them.

People are currently being jailed for sharing racist memes to nobody on Facebook (https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/24513379.sellafield-worker-jailed-sharing-offensive-facebook-posts/), because the judge deemed that they had 'to be viewed in the context of the current civil unrest up and down this country'; but matey gets 'spoken to to shut the fuck up and stop being a twat' and the police trying to contextualise his remarks in a way he clearly never meant in order to justify doing nothing about it in the immediate aftermath of a massive terror attack. It is obviously a farce and ought to undermine any faith that these are neutral institutions.

They were also only proscribed as a terror organisation a few months after that footage, largely on the back of their out-sized role in all of the demonstrations, so the Met will have been happy to defend them as just another happy 'community' organisation.

[Yevrah]

I mean technically Jihad really just means to struggle/exert against something but that's mealy mouthed bollocks.

To put it into white terms, I feel that, "We've got to do something about these muslims/immigrants/boats" and "We are going to do something about these muslims/immigrants/boats, meet me here to do so" should be treated differently when it comes to legal action.

I don't make the rules, I'm Yevrah, but if calling for Jihad doesn't fit within this definition then it's hard to see how the police aren't dealing with these things in a way they really shouldn't be.


The Met Police’s “What is hate crime?” document states:

“The offence of incitement to hatred occurs when someone acts in a way that is threatening and intended to stir up hatred…
Hate content may include: messages calling for violence against a specific person or group”

One can debate whether the law should exist, but given that it does it's absolutely staggering that he wasn't arrested and charged.

[Jimmy Floyd]

They don't criminalise anything specific to Muslims, because it's just too much hassle.

[Yevrah]

Which is really storing up a load of problems to be unleashed later on down the line.

We had enough of rabid Christianity and its impact in this country and having finally largely got over that, willingly ushering in the nuttier fringe elements of another religion to fill the vacuum seems a tad short sighted.

[Spikey M]

"Ioan Pintaru" apparently. Doesn't seem very British or very Muslim. Win win.

Now, has anyone seen Mahow?

[niko_cee]

Sounds Romanian.

[Spikey M]

We had a Romanian living in Sweden at one point didn't we? Find him.

[phonics]

People are currently being jailed for sharing racist memes to nobody on Facebook (https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/24513379.sellafield-worker-jailed-sharing-offensive-facebook-posts/),

So the thing I said was bad you also think is bad. Good to know.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Why the fuck is a Romanian of no fixed address in the country? Anyway, meanwhile down under:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62r7lpx421o

Heads have gone.

[niko_cee]

Why the fuck is a Romanian of no fixed address in the country?


Begging?

[Spikey M]

Romanian, not Scottish.

Soz waff.

[Spikey M]

Monkeypox is back.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/08/mpox-outbreak-puts-africa-on-brink-of-official-public-health-emergency

What happened to all the the cases we were getting over here? Did they just stop? Or did the media just stop reporting it?

[Giggles]

Why did the change the name :D

[Spikey M]

Why did the change the name :D

Wokery.

https://www.who.int/news/item/28-11-2022-who-recommends-new-name-for-monkeypox-disease

[Shindig]

Mpox was robbed of a gold medal in breaking the other day.

[Giggles]

What a fucking world.

[Ben]

Somehow a load of cyanide has found its way into the canal in Walsall. :cab:

[niko_cee]

The UK's waterways obviously upping their game to fend off any threat from balloons challenging them for the position of top novelty death perpetrator.

[John Arne]

Likely to kick off on Thailand again soon. Highest court, backed by the military, has just effectively sacked the PM.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8jl0ekjr0go

Disney World is arguing a man cannot sue it over the death of his wife because of terms he signed up to in a free trial of Disney+.

Jeffrey Piccolo filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Disney after his wife died in 2023 from a severe allergic reaction after eating at a restaurant at the theme park.

However, Disney argues its terms of use, which Mr Piccolo agreed to when creating his Disney account in 2019, means they have to settle out of court.

:lol:

[niko_cee]

Yet another episode of South Park come to life.

[Ben]

That's absolutely insane.

[Shindig]

They're very wild about nobody dying at Disney World. Moving the bodies out to declare them dead outside, etc.

[Yevrah]

Like Nurburg.

[Spikey M]

It's a amazing that the cuddly cartoon company started by a Nazi is still managing the same trick all these years later.

[phonics]

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

Trying the Wayne Hennesy defence.

[niko_cee]

In other criminal justice news that case where the CPS refused to take a rape case to trial because the victim might have had 'sexsomnia' is properly lol.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyxdpezyllo

[Pepe]

Jade described the CPS decisions during this time as “more damaging” to her than the night of the incident, saying the legal process had turned her world “upside down”.

Ok

[igor_balis]

That manages to cover a lot of where the country has gone wrong.

Can't wait for supertanksii to be appointed minister for cockwombles

[Lofty]

Her ironic veneration of Hitler and blaming the jews and saudis for 9/11 will keep her out of a Starmer government, at least.

[Shindig]

Motion capture prudes. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c23l4ml51jmo)

It does seem like a horrendous situation to be in but there's a distinct lack of, "Nah, I'm not doing that scene."

[Lofty]

Fair fucks to them, to be honest. The whole 'not telling them what the job is til they turn up' part is shady as fuck and suggests they knew if they put it out openly they'd be struggling to recruit. Also if you just need a woman to simulate sex noises (consensual or otherwise) and not much else just contract in a sex worker, ten a penny these days.

Also, there are literally dedicated voice artists who specialise in this shit now, thanks to the golden era of degeneracy the internet bestowed upon us.

[Shindig]

It is but I get the sense 99% of voice actors take any job they can get. At least the non-union ones. Presumably they don't start asking questions until the job starts.

[niko_cee]

Can't be that often that a super yacht sinks.

And then the guy on it might be someone who has recently given the US a bit of a bloody nose.

Not at all suspicious.

[Waffdon]

Do you think the US ordered the tornado?

[Spikey M]

You'll have to check with Le Tiss.

[niko_cee]

I've asked and he says yes.

[Spikey M]

Devious bastards.

[Yevrah]

I see slavery is alive and well in the Scottish fishing industry. I await Magic casting the entire population of Scotland as slavers because of a few bad apples.

[Spikey M]

Properly racist country.

[niko_cee]

https://gsy.bailiwickexpress.com/gsy/news/apologies-all-round-atc-sends-back-late-night-exeter-flight-was-within-moments-landing-airport-had-closed/

Local news tastic but this is such a lol story. Plane literally on approach to land when it's turned round to fly 80 miles back to its destination, having already been heavily delayed, because it was due to arrive 90 seconds after the airport was normally due to shut. You'd be beyond furious.

[Pepe]

I'm out from work at five and I don't give a fuck.

[Jimmy Floyd]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/19/mike-lynch-stephen-chamberlain-codefendant-dies-car/

:sherlock:

[niko_cee]

Bet he was jogging near a US base.

[Shindig]

So .... I know the boat's gone down in Sicily but, any chance of mafia involvement?

[Magic]

All the people who were on it deserved to die.

[Shindig]

Including the child?

[Lofty]

And they say the English are a hateful people.

[Magic]

Including the child?

Would probably have grown up to be a cunt so yes, especially the child.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Drawn-out aquatic disasters involving the super rich are becoming a fun annual tradition. Titanic 'submersible' last year, now this. What next year, Jeff Bezos eaten by a killer whale? We can only hope.

[Ben]

Why's it getting so much time devoted to it on the news?

The cynic in me reckons it's them saying we need to care more about billionaires and I can't really see why this isn't the case because it's a pretty boring story really.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's August and the competing news is probably something about a Berkshire man seeing John the Baptist up a penguin's anus.

[Shindig]

Rich man and his co-accused win legal case. Immediate celebrations involve untimely deaths.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Here we go. Welcome to August!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1w78ylrq8jo

[Yevrah]

This line absolutely killed me on multiple levels.


Magic, 8, has been taken to see Sphen's body to help the penguin understand his partner will not return.

But let's take it seriously for a minute.... The idea that Magic didn't know Sphen was not coming back is preposterous and I refuse to believe animal people wouldn't know that, which (if further proof were needed) makes these animal people dangerous nutters.

Why are you forcing a penguin to look at another penguin's corpse? How can a penguin consent to that? What is wrong with you?

[Magic]

So I'm a gay penguin now? Nice.

[Spikey M]

We should all just be happy that there's so little going on in the world that this is considered news.

[SvN]

This line absolutely killed me on multiple levels.
But let's take it seriously for a minute.... The idea that Magic didn't know Sphen was not coming back is preposterous and I refuse to believe animal people wouldn't know that, which (if further proof were needed) makes these animal people dangerous nutters.
?
I don't really follow what you're saying here, to be honest. But this is a fairly common recommendation in multi-pet households.

[Yevrah]

I don't really follow what you're saying here, to be honest. But this is a fairly common recommendation in multi-pet households.

Animals understand the concept of death, Magic would have known Sphen was sick and therefore if he didn't come back, why. If we're valuing animals on the same level as humans, why are we forcing them to look at the corpses of their loved ones? And if that's the recommendation and one of the household gets hit by a car are you supposed to scrape Jemima's stiffened and decomposing corpse off the road and show Tiddles?

[Yevrah]

We should all just be happy that there's so little going on in the world that this is considered news.

Look, the penguin was a gay icon right. Get with the programme.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's the perfect storm for a BBC article: needless anthropomorphising of animals, and ID politics.

'I'm a gay penguin, but I won't let the seals' jibes get to me'

[Boydy]

Animals understand the concept of death, Magic would have known Sphen was sick and therefore if he didn't come back, why. If we're valuing animals on the same level as humans, why are we forcing them to look at the corpses of their loved ones? And if that's the recommendation and one of the household gets hit by a car are you supposed to scrape Jemima's stiffened and decomposing corpse off the road and show Tiddles?
I know you English are weird about funerals and don't bury folk till about a month later when the body's started decomposing but in Ireland (north and south, catholic or prod), it's very common for relatives to bring the deceased home and have them in an open coffin for a day or two so people can come say their goodbyes.

I'm sure it's very common in plenty of other countries too. See also: the term "open casket funeral".

[Magic]

Animals understand the concept of death, Magic would have known Sphen was sick and therefore if he didn't come back, why. If we're valuing animals on the same level as humans, why are we forcing them to look at the corpses of their loved ones? And if that's the recommendation and one of the household gets hit by a car are you supposed to scrape Jemima's stiffened and decomposing corpse off the road and show Tiddles?

They need to know and understand the death. If they just disappear that is traumatising as fuck for an animal, regardless of how sick they were.

[Yevrah]

I know you English are weird about funerals and don't bury folk till about a month later when the body's started decomposing but in Ireland (north and south, catholic or prod), it's very common for relatives to bring the deceased home and have them in an open coffin for a day or two so people can come say their goodbyes.

I'm sure it's very common in plenty of other countries too. See also: the term "open casket funeral".

Yeah, I've no problem with that. I went to see my Dad after he'd died, but my Sister chose not to, which I'd say is also fine too. Good job she wasn't a penguin, or a pet in SvN's household.

[SvN]

They need to know and understand the death. If they just disappear that is traumatising as fuck for an animal, regardless of how sick they were.

Yep. Again, this is a common recommendation, providing there's no risk of infection, etc from the deceased animal.

[SvN]

Also, a hearty LOL at the idea that a penguin is sharp enough to think "I haven't seen Magic in a while. He was a bit under the weather last time I saw him, he must've popped his cloggs".

[Yevrah]

Also, a hearty LOL at the idea that a penguin is sharp enough to think "I haven't seen Magic in a while. He was a bit under the weather last time I saw him, he must've popped his cloggs".

It's funny that on the one hand you veer towards giving animals the same dispensations we'd allow humans, but on the other you think they're brain dead.

[SvN]

It's not binary - as always, it doesn't have to be all or nothing. Steve Bruce isn't the worst manager in the world because he's not good enough to manage Manchester United.

[Yevrah]

It's not binary - as always, it doesn't have to be all or nothing. Steve Bruce isn't the worst manager in the world because he's not good enough to manage Manchester United.

No idea how you've lurched to that, I'm not suggesting that you think animals are brain dead and I think they're capable of beating Musk and Bezos to Mars, but I do think they're capable of understanding harm and ultimately death pretty well - their behaviours across the animal World demonstrate this time and time again and it's a pretty basic concept for mammals to grasp.

[Yevrah]

I've also never said Steve Bruce was the worst manager in the World, just that he's a bad one. The binary bollocks is all on you my friend.

[randomlegend]

No idea how you've lurched to that, I'm not suggesting that you think animals are brain dead and I think they're capable of beating Musk and Bezos to Mars, but I do think they're capable of understanding harm and ultimately death pretty well - their behaviours across the animal World demonstrate this time and time again and it's a pretty basic concept for mammals to grasp.

It requires pretty high level cognition to understand that a companion who was ill and has now disappeared is likely dead. You're very much underselling it.

I'm not sure what behaviours from the animal "World" (capital letter) you are referring to as evidence animals are capable of understanding this.

I highly suspect they aren't, but there appears to be no real evidence on way or another. Given there's no harm to be done by showing them and potentially a significant benefit, I don't see the issue.

[Ben]

Full on discussion about gay penguins. TTH alive and well.

[Spikey M]

Assassination conspiracies, LGBTQ penguins and Steve Bruce in from the cold. What a page.

[SvN]

These dogs are on the run after murdering someone.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c80egr50vmmo

Clearly we're underestimating their cognitive abilities.

[Magic]

Have we got a survey of dead gay animals on whether they miss their partners or not? EU preferably.

[Yevrah]

Scottish fishermen released those slaves yet Magic?

[Jimmy Floyd]

These dogs are on the run after murdering someone.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c80egr50vmmo

Clearly we're underestimating their cognitive abilities.

Released an image of one of the dogs they're looking for :D

It's a fucking dog, just bring them all in and see who confesses.

[Magic]

"Don't approach them"

I, for one, am glad that's the advice. I have a habit of carelessly approaching four-legged murder death jawed killer dogs.

[Pepe]

Weren't gay penguins an episode of Parks and rec?

[Pepe]

As for the dogs, are we sure they did it or is that a typical case of police bias?

[Luke Emia]

I've also never said Steve Bruce was the worst manager in the World, just that he's a bad one. The binary bollocks is all on you my friend.

He’s not a bad manager. He’s not Paolo Di Canio, Steve Keen or that mug Charlton had that time. Would I want him at my club? Absolutely fucking not. But, he’s not a terrible manager and down the years he’s been pretty decent at what he does. It’s dull as ditchwater to watch but he has a level which is probably the Championship, like Neil Warnock. You could probably say he’s a poor man’s Sam Allardyce.

[Kikó]

Did someone mention Steve Bruce?

[phonics]

My Mum: "I'm not sure about that part of Worcester you're in, it seems a bit rough, make sure you're careful there's alot of crime around.

The crime around:

https://i.imgur.com/GG9HQQK.png

[Magic]

The top story in my area yesterday was the council rejecting planning permission for some new windows on someone's house that looked the same as the old ones.

[Magic]

https://i.ibb.co/VWFkcWm/Screenshot-2024-08-22-08-38-45-198-com-android-chrome.jpg

[Shindig]

Stephen Eighteen sounds like an actual bot.

[Lofty]

'I just make memes'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c77llj41mxjo.amp


He was another local celebrity - yes, they're all dodgy - going by Man Behaving Dadly or something like that. He could be found standing around looking smug at every local event for a few years. It hadn't occurred to me that he had dissappeared, but lol at him anyway.


The scam will come out when they track down the bird who authorised the payments. Nailed on that he's having an affair with her or something


That manages to cover a lot of where the country has gone wrong.


He's exactly the type you'd expect them to hire for it too. A middle class twerp, virtue signalling to Facebook Mums, regularly getting it wrong and having to apologise for doing so. Geezer has never had an original or independent thought in his life.

This cunt is the gift (grift?) that keeps on giving: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/19/truth-seekers-inside-the-uk-elections-fake-news-war-room

[Giggles]

The brown envelope is alive and well.


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[Spikey M]

It will be for the same reason that HS2 has been cut back after building 15 yards of track in 7 years and already being over budget. There'll be prefered suppliers that double their price for the tax-payer, half because they can and half because it's a pain in the arse working for them. You'll need a health a safety assessment before every screw goes in, 7 managers to sign off that the screw is actually in and a whole HR team incase Big Dave whistles at a woman walking past.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3vx0kq2xr2o

Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei has died days after being doused in petrol and set on fire by a former boyfriend.

The 33-year-old Ugandan marathon runner, who competed in the recent Paris Olympics, had suffered extensive burns after Sunday's attack.

:|

Fucking hell.

[Magic]

Absolutely mental. Men are unreal.

[Magic]

Between that and the French guy inviting people to rape his wife (and the amount that actually did)...

[niko_cee]

That is certainly one of the weirdest stories going. When I saw it resurface the other day I thought not another one at first, but then see it is the same one just at trial now. Presumably all of the other rapers are being done as well?

[Shindig]

Yes, 51 men are in the dock.

[Baz]

In a row?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Choo choo.

[Dquincy]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3vx0kq2xr2o

Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei has died days after being doused in petrol and set on fire by a former boyfriend.

The 33-year-old Ugandan marathon runner, who competed in the recent Paris Olympics, had suffered extensive burns after Sunday's attack.

:|

Fucking hell.

The dad's quote in the article.

[Magic]

She's a toast winner now.

[Spikey M]

Considering they've been locking up old dears for poorly spelt racist Facebook posts, 9 years (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9d18449ye4t) doesn't seem like alot for setting fire to a hotel full of people.

[Magic]

There was an 81 year old charged? :D

[John Arne]

The dangers of bamboo construction strike again.

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[Magic]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyvpd7zyprdo

Jaw dropping stuff. French men really are the pits.

[Jimmy Floyd]

But Mazan’s 74-year-old mayor, Louis Bonnet, sought to play down those tensions, arguing that most of the alleged rapists came from other villages and seeking to frame the Pelicots as outsiders who hadn’t lived there long.

Think this quote ascends to a level of Peak France previously thought unreachable. Chapeau.

[Shindig]

Some of the quotes make it sound like a town full of Pavels.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg5g24rr6lo

[niko_cee]

Dominique Pelicot had invited men to have sex with his wife “without her knowledge” in a post on the Coco.gg website, which was shut down only last June. Last year it counted 500,000 visitors a month.

That's a Guernsey domain name. :face:

[Magic]

Some of the quotes make it sound like a town full of Pavels.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg5g24rr6lo

“I don't understand why the media are making such a big deal about it. It is because people like drama, gossip.”

I actually still don't believe that's how they all feel. Is France a hotbed of rape or something? Do none of them have daughters?

[Shindig]

Maybe not France, just that entire village.

[Baz]

That's a Guernsey domain name. :face:

Lots of websites use it cos its short and it's infamy with gaming.

trashbat.co.ck from cook islands still the champion though.

[Pepe]

I actually still don't believe that's how they all feel.

Yeah, mate. They ALL feel that way. Every single French person.

[Magic]

Yeah, mate. They ALL feel that way. Every single French person.

Well if they're comfortable enough with it and say things like that publicly you've got to reckon there's not a lot of push back in private to have those thoughts or conversations.

P.s rapist cunt

[Pepe]

Maybe media chooses the quotes that will lead to the more clicks. Or they are all rapists. Could go either way, really.

[Magic]

Maybe media chooses the quotes that will lead to the more clicks. Or they are all rapists. Could go either way, really.

I don't think anyone would say that sort of stuff over here tbh. Maybe common in Bexico though.

[niko_cee]

Probably just lack a solid dogging scene for these reprobates, what with their affaire d'amour and other affectations.

[Spikey M]

Go on Magic, smash the patriarchy again, my son.

[Yevrah]

Magic's view that if a small group of people say or do something then that's representative of an entire country is fascinating.

[Magic]

Magic's view that if a small group of people say or do something then that's representative of an entire country is fascinating.

It's a good barometer especially if they say rancid stuff publicly. :thbup:

[Yevrah]

It's a good barometer especially if they say rancid stuff publicly. :thbup:

A good barometer you say...?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd9dnk34k41o

[Magic]

Sorry that's capitalism mate, wrong conversation.

[Yevrah]

Sorry that's capitalism mate, wrong conversation.

No no, it's definitely Scotland.

[Pepe]

It's a good barometer especially if they say rancid stuff publicly. :thbup:

Does that apply to other identity traits or just nationality?

[Magic]

Does that apply to other identity traits or just nationality?

Just nationality. Community vibes and all that.

[Yevrah]

What the fuck is this?


Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said he is “interested” in learning about Italy’s scheme to send migrants rescued at sea to Albania to process their asylum claims, ahead of his first official visit to Rome.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnvdy6ze761o

[Baz]

It’s 100 days til Christmas.

[Spikey M]

So, while their locking up Big Tracey from Staines for wanting are cuntry back, Noncey Huw has been given a suspended sentence. :happycry:

[niko_cee]

Two tier sentencing.

[Spikey M]

More like utterly baffling priorities.

[Lofty]

They never send nonces down unless they've been turbo noncing, anything less than physically comitting crimes is a suspended sentence, even reoffending whilst serving it is unlikely to trigger a custodial sentence.

[Lewis]

So, while their locking up Big Tracey from Staines for wanting are cuntry back, Noncey Huw has been given a suspended sentence. :happycry:

He also appears to have successfully pleaded Mental Health giving him a drink problem, which would have been an interesting defence for banged up for posting shit on Facebook.

[Lewis]

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As the only Northerner in my office...

[Magic]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2kk1g66n7o

Lol how most capitalist ventures end.

[niko_cee]

A new this is fine meme is born.

[Bernanke]

This Hezbollah pager attack is the wildest thing. Only two options is either Israel distributed hundreds of pagers laced with explosives, or somehow they managed to simultaneously overheat the batteries?

[Shindig]

Israel infiltrating the supply lines like that is some gangster shit.

[Giggles]

Getting to the stage where good old Adolf wasn't far off the mark. Pity they weren't completely wiped out.

[Lewis]

:lol:

[Spikey M]

:|

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

You're such a cunt, Giggles.

Genuinely scum.

[Raoul Duke]

Pagers?

[Giggles]

You're such a cunt, Giggles.

Genuinely scum.

Yet most of you limp wristed cunts wouldn't say that they're cunts/scum, yet I'm the one that hasn't minced a heap of kids. The world we live in.

[Giggles]

And yes I know Hezbollah aren't Israeli, but I've seen enough today when they're mentioned.

[Lewis]

Yet most of you limp wristed cunts wouldn't say that they're cunts/scum, yet I'm the one that hasn't minced a heap of kids. The world we live in.

Similarly, as clever as this pager trick is, indiscriminately blowing loads of them up is pretty dangerous, and we ought to be making it clear to them that they are on their own when the retaliation comes through.

[Spikey M]

Yet most of you limp wristed cunts wouldn't say that they're cunts/scum, yet I'm the one that hasn't minced a heap of kids. The world we live in.

Yeah, most Jews also haven't minced a heap of kids. Saying the post-war foundation of Israel was a bad idea would be one thing, supporting the genocide - including of Jewish children - in concentration camps is another. Your head needs a wobble.

[Bernanke]

Pagers?

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cwyl9048gx8t

[Magic]

Just watched that. Holy fuck. Imagine doing this with smartphones. :drool:

[randomlegend]

But daughters have smartphones, Magic. Daughters.

[Spikey M]

Typical man revelling in violence.

[Magic]

But daughters have smartphones, Magic. Daughters.

Well if that isn't the creepiest thing you've ever said.

[randomlegend]

You are so dense :D

[Shindig]

I'm just imagining how good it would've been if The Wire ended on this.

[niko_cee]

Walkie-talkies now.

3310s and those stupid big buttoned phones Amstrad made next on the blowing up block.

[Magic]

Fax machines and dot matrix printers.

[Ben]

I'm usually one to take the Fuck Israel stance on anything but this is some pretty cool James Bond shit.

[Alex]

I'd have probably binned the walkie-talkies after the pagers all explodes yesterday, to be fair. Just to be on the safe side.

[Yevrah]

Quite. Any device big enough to have an explosive in it would have been chucked into the sea.

[-james-]

Fucking armchair terrorists in here.

[Shindig]

I mean, they pick that kind of tech because it's harder to trace. The IRA never used a landline for their codewords, did they?

[Kikó]

I'm usually one to take the Fuck Israel stance on anything but this is some pretty cool James Bond shit.

Dr Nokia

[Bernanke]

I'm usually one to take the Fuck Israel stance on anything but this is some pretty cool James Bond shit.

It's absolutely psychotic behavior to rig hundreds of small electronic devices and then set them off after they have been dispersed in the population.

[niko_cee]

Thousands. It's utterly insane. Chutzpah.

[-james-]

Just been browsing the Israel subreddit and it's almost as bad as the snuff videos coming out. All bloodthirst and glee.

[Ben]

It's absolutely psychotic behavior to rig hundreds of small electronic devices and then set them off after they have been dispersed in the population.

Quite.

I'm very much still Fuck Israel, but I can't help but appreciate the ingenuity on this one.

[Lofty]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz6x635wpjxo

Not like the signs weren't there.

[Magic]

Fayed's entrepreneurial career began on the streets of Alexandria, Egypt, where he hawked fizzy drinks to passers-by. But it was his marriage to the sister of a millionaire Saudi arms dealer that helped him forge new connections and build a business empire.

Ah yes.

[Yevrah]

How did a lookie lookie man marry the sister of a millionaire Saudi arms dealer?

[Dquincy]

How did a lookie lookie man marry the sister of a millionaire Saudi arms dealer?

You not seen Aladdin?

[Shindig]

This week's internet-related drama. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgn8d04kdko)

That'd be a big domino to fall but Dr. Disrespect came back to youtube this month. Nowt sticks.

[Magic]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2kk1g66n7o

Lol how most capitalist ventures end.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7819kx4498o

Is this from a Simpsons sketch or Futurama? Captain Brannigan?

Lol his name is actually Stockton Rush. Fuck me.

[wullie]

Mrbeast isn't the kind of name that fits a chap with chubby cheeks and a sensible side parting.

[Lofty]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly3j8g342ro

Missed this one.

[niko_cee]

I'm sure the facts of that featured on one of those reality tv police shows - maybe Night Coppers, was that in Brighton?

[Baz]

Two counts?

[Manc]

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/sep/25/phillip-schofield-return-tv-after-quitting-this-morning-cast-away-channel-5

You can't keep a good man down.

[Boydy]

He is said to have turned down “lucrative offers” from ITV and the BBC for the Channel 5 role, according to the Sun, who first published allegations of the affair in 2019.

You'd think the BBC would be staying well clear given their history of employing nonces.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Channel 5 just wanted to make sure he couldn't nonce.

[Yevrah]

Amazing how he was once considered so brave for being forced to tell his wife (that he’d lied to for 40 years) that he actually liked young cock.

[Spikey M]

Amazing how he was once considered so brave for being forced to tell his wife (that he’d lied to for 40 years) that he actually liked young cock.

More amazing still that they had the power to make her go along with it.

[Magic]

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/tories-dished-out-114-million-to-companies-for-undelivered-or-cancelled-covid-contracts-383278/

I mean whatever sir Twat does it will never come close...and yet...

[Giggles]

Makes a €335,000 bike shelter look like a bargain.


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[Spikey M]

That jumper is a bigger scandal.

[Manc]

Coal Palmer.

[Magic]

Feels like the Israel and Ukraine things are coming to a head now. Nuclear war, anyone?

[Kikó]

Not this weekend, I'm busy. Let's raincheck.

[niko_cee]

In all of the dead bum operation woman business this struck me as being straight out of Brass Eye:


British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS)

[Shindig]

Just Stop Oil Paintings (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c243v5m0r0lo)

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Being on the right side of history means nowt if the future is fucked.

[Shindig]

Maybe they're Andy Warhol fans?

[randomlegend]

The paintings are behind glass presumably (given they are reportedly undamaged)? It's such a weird way to protest. Paintings have nothing to do with the oil and gas industry and given they are behind glass you're not even doing anything significant. It seems like the most futile, irrelevant thing ever. I guess it does get in the news.

[Shindig]

I think there's some BP link in regards to donations to the museum but it's still a dumb target.

[Spikey M]

Must be oil paintings.

[niko_cee]

It seems like the most futile, irrelevant thing ever.

Quite apt then.


Must be oil paintings.

:D

[Magic]

Israel. :cool:

Looking forward to the documentaries and films about this.

[niko_cee]

Taz's boys getting donned senseless at the moment.

[Spikey M]

Twitter is incredible at the moment. Blue haired Brits and Yanks absolutely furious at the killing of a terrorist.

You can oppose the killing of civilians in Palestine without supporting cunts like this, you know?