News of the day

[7om]

Apologies if this has already been set up. Couldn't find anything through the search function.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3242147/The-older-better-mother-seeks-British-sugar-daddies-spoil-pay-daughters-private-school-fees-wants-wealthy-suitors-too.html

:drool:

[Magic]

Which daughter is the :drool: referring to?

[7om]

Yours.

[Magic]

http://media0.giphy.com/media/QE8hREXIgRXeo/200.gif

[Giggles]

http://www.joe.ie/news/hundreds-of-drink-driving-cases-in-ireland-could-be-thrown-out-on-a-tiny-technicality/512761

Might hopefully put another nail in the coffin of the stupid language.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://www.iconeye.com/404/item/3864-rca-student-radically-improves-the-uk-plug

What a brilliant idea.

[Boydy]

That's good, that.

[AE]

Aye, I agree. Still unsettling to think someone should've made something like that a few years ago.

[Lewis]

https://www.thedodo.com/man-builds-dog-train-for-rescued-pups-1362467342.html

Fuck that is amazing.

[Lee]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34336951

I always enjoy these stories. I'm not surprised Nuneaton and Bedworth is the least anxious area in the country. They're all unemployed and spend hours each day fucking their siblings.

[John]

Apologies if this has already been set up. Couldn't find anything through the search function.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3242147/The-older-better-mother-seeks-British-sugar-daddies-spoil-pay-daughters-private-school-fees-wants-wealthy-suitors-too.html

:drool:

What the fuck is going on with her face? She looks like someone has pushed in the bridge of a creepy doll's nose.

[Boydy]

Those happiest parts of the UK things seem to coincide with where the least educated people are. Fermanagh and Omagh, fuck's sake. You go west of the Bann in Northern Ireland and you're into proper hillbilly territory.

[Disco]

https://www.thedodo.com/man-builds-dog-train-for-rescued-pups-1362467342.html

Fuck that is amazing.

Is that the Korean version of Yo Sushi?

[Spoonsky]

https://www.thedodo.com/man-builds-dog-train-for-rescued-pups-1362467342.html

Fuck that is amazing.

Another reason for you to move to Texas.

[Magic]

Those happiest parts of the UK things seem to coincide with where the least educated people are. Fermanagh and Omagh, fuck's sake. You go west of the Bann in Northern Ireland and you're into proper hillbilly territory.

Me and Waff are in trouble.

[QE Harold Flair]

NSFW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QKxu7zUmoI

You'd be better off dead really.

[phonics]

Don't be a cunt Harold, put some warning up first next time.

[QE Harold Flair]

There's a warning right at the start of the video.

[Toby]

There's also a still screen of his face...

[Magic]

It's surely discriminatory to spoiler that. You can't go round in real life asking people with hideous deformities to spoiler their ugly mugs.

[QE Harold Flair]

There's also a still screen of his face...

Oh no!

What face, by the way? :baz:

[QE Harold Flair]

https://cdn.liveleak.com/80281E/ll_a_s/2015/Sep/29/LiveLeak-dot-com-838_1443555263-foamhairwoman_1443555298.png.resized.jpg?d5e8cc8ec cfb6039332f41f6249e92b06c91b4db65f5e99818bdd395484 2ddd725b5&ec_rate=230

'This picture proves once and for all how important it is to read the label on the can. It shows a mystery woman who reportedly ended up in A&E after confusing her hair mousse with a can of expanding builder’s foam. The image, believed to have been taken at a hospital somewhere in Eastern Europe, has been widely shared on social media on Tuesday. She can be seen sitting in a waiting room looking understandably unhappy with her situation with a giant solid helmet of polyurethane foam on her head. Expanding polyurethane foam has a number of uses in DIY situations – although ‘hair product’ is not one of them Builders’ and at-home-handymen used the foam for everything from preventing leaks, to filling gaps during construction and holding items in place.'


Laugh out loud.

[Toby]

FW: FW: FW: FW: RE: FW: RE: Talk about a bad hair day!!!!

[niko_cee]

That stuff is unfathomably sticky, and pretty bad for you, so yeah, lol at her.

[SGH]

I'd be interested to hear from her what kind of style she was going for in the first place. Looks fairly punk.

[QE Harold Flair]

It looks like a traditional head dress.

[Disco]

It's also perfect for dealing with hornet nests.

[Lewis]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3256029/Woman-dreamed-blind-DRAIN-CLEANER-poured-eyes-fulfil-lifelong-wish-says-happier-ever.html


A woman who dreamed of being blind arranged to have drain cleaner poured in her eyes to fulfil her wishes. Jewel Shuping, 30, from North Carolina has Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID), a condition in which able-bodied people believe they are meant to be disabled. Her desire to lose her sight was so strong that she decided to blind herself - by having a sympathetic psychologist pour drain cleaner into her eyes.

What's the difference between her and a tranny?

[Magic]

At least she followed through unlike most of the workshy cunts in this country.

[Toby]

I read a good article on 'BIID' a year or two ago. Pretty sure this is it: https://medium.com/@readmatter/why-would-somebody-want-to-remove-a-healthy-limb-ffe4494b4f21

It's pretty fascinating, there are people who literally chop arms off because they don't feel like they're part of their body. And like transgenderism it's often a lifelong thing where they feel an uneasiness from a very young age.

I don't know if there has been much research into how much of it is actually physiological and how much is just in their head. I guess that isn't even properly established for transgender yet.

[Davgooner]

App wankers get a pasting.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/01/slander_app_founder_slandered/

[Magic]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3262459/Police-shut-street-fight-outside-station-turns-riot.html

#blacklivesmatter

Fucking hell are you kidding me it happened on Hoe Street! :D

[phonics]

Walthamstow :cool:

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

France train terror hero stabbed in US-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34480404

[QE Harold Flair]

That's a Muslim. I'm calling it right now.

[Magic]

Jesus Christ. :sick:

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

I'd be surprised if it wasn't.

[phonics]

The Sacramento police department said officers responded to a report of a stabbing in an area of midtown Sacramento known for its nightlife at 12:46am. The victim, identified by police only as a “man in his 20s”, was believed to be out with a group of friends when a physical altercation broke out, and led to him being stabbed multiple times in his upper body, police said in a statement.

The victim was transported to the hospital, where he is being treated for non-life-threatening injuries, according to authorities.

Sacramento police detectives were called to the scene to assist with the investigation. No arrests have yet been made.

“The assault incident is not related to a terrorist act,” the police said (https://twitter.com/SacPolice/status/652152551068995584) on Twitter. “Assault occurred near a bar; alcohol is believed to be a factor.”

It appears the confrontation began as a “verbal argument” that escalated into a physical fight, a Sacramento Police Department spokesman said. He emphasized that the incident was not related to the victim’s life-saving action on a French train. “It appears alcohol was a factor,” the spokesman said, echoing the police department’s comment on Twitter.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/08/spencer-stone-stabbed-france-train-attack

and the Police's statement in full

http://www.sacpd.org/newsroom/releases/liveview.aspx?release_id=20151008-113

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

No shit.

[Magic]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3265116/French-train-attack-hero-Spencer-Stone-STABBED-Sacramento.html

It was Asian men that did it, outside a gay bar. How can they say this isn't terror related? Also the British guy involved is in protective custody. Something amiss here.

[Pepe]

So Asian = terrorist?

[Magic]

Not a random attack + knives + Asian men + guy that prevented a terrorist attack saving hundreds of lives = yes?

[Pepe]

http://i.imgur.com/whYfFDU.gif

[Magic]

Pepe you're so mid-noughties. We're not afraid to call things for what they are now.

[phonics]

Bloody hell, I'd forgot that a girl I went to school with's brother was murdered a year or two back. His fiancee just got 40 years :cab:

[Disco]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34504319

[Boydy]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34504319

A better story in the related links at the bottom -Heinz QR porn code too saucy for ketchup customer - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33200142

[Disco]

You wonder what he was hoping to find out.

[Toby]

Another of those stories where a girl goes on a night out, ditches her friends and is reported missing before she overcomes the hangover:

http://news.stv.tv/west-central/1330572-kara-dorman-clydebank-found-safe-well-missing-night-out-glasgow/

I wonder if the police just react with a sigh when they're reported?

[Magic]

A questionable pic but definitely would.

[Boydy]

Djibril Cissé tried to blackmail Mathieu Valbuena over a sex tape.

http://www.espnfc.com/lyon/story/2660511/djibril-cisse-arrested-over-valbuena-blackmail-report

[QE Harold Flair]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/brit-babysitter-facing-jail-sexually-abusing-boy-13-article-1.2396624

I doubt he was complaining.

[phonics]

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/oct/19/police-officer-charged-with-seven-counts-of-rape?CMP=twt_b-gdnnews

Copper arrested for seven counts of rape :sick:

[Gray Fox]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-34568984

Man flips out on an airborne flight, bites another passenger, collapses and then dies.

[Disco]

Drug mule?

[Gray Fox]

Most likely. A woman from the flight has been arrested for drug offences, so I would assume so.

[Boydy]

The One Direction concert that was meant to be on in Belfast tonight got cancelled only a few minutes before it was due to start with the arena full of all the waiting fans.

:lol:

[Giggles]

The One Direction concert that was meant to be on in Belfast tonight got cancelled only a few minutes before it was due to start with the arena full of all the waiting fans.

:lol:

Jesus I'd say there's a second Lagan flowing with the tears tonight :D

[Boydy]

I'm looking through Twitter for stuff about it now.

656455586175954944

She is going to be gutted. If you look at the replies to that tweet, she's been waiting since 9am this morning.

:D

[Giggles]

If you'd tickets, why the fuck would you be there since 9am? Gobshites.

[Magic]

Sad cunt you are, Boyd.

[Boydy]

If you'd tickets, why the fuck would you be there since 9am? Gobshites.
To be in the front row.

Sad cunt you are, Boyd.

Why? I was only looking for a video of the announcement there and all the booing that I saw earlier but can't find again.

[Spoonsky]

I got you Boydy.

https://www.facebook.com/stuartrobinsonradio/videos/1031032733587276/

Poor man. Surprised they didn't lynch him.

[Boydy]

Cheers.

Yeah, it must've taken some guts to go out and deliver that announcement. They/the venue seem to be getting stick now for leaving it so late just so they could sell merchandise and burgers and drinks.

[Giggles]

Most likely. A woman from the flight has been arrested for drug offences, so I would assume so.

Bags of baking soda :cab:

http://www.joe.ie/news/fresh-developments-in-the-bizarre-story-of-the-aer-lingus-flight-diverted-to-cork/516498

[Lewis]

Cheers.

Yeah, it must've taken some guts to go out and deliver that announcement. They/the venue seem to be getting stick now for leaving it so late just so they could sell merchandise and burgers and drinks.

You can imagine GS marching around backstage demanding they rinse everybody before announcing it.

[Lewis]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/34589969/google-worker-23-living-in-van-in-staff-car-park-to-save-money

Is the idea that I read that and think how hard it is for people to live in San Francisco? Because he just comes across as a stingy weirdo.

[Toby]

He's not really living in it. I guess, "man with hotel-like office facilities sleeps in van" isn't a very good headline though.

[Giggles]

Reebok make perfectly legitimate UFC t-shirt and is then forced to apologise because gobshites don't know their countries.

http://www.joe.ie/sport/irish-ufc-fans-react-furiously-to-this-reebok-ireland-t-shirt/516559

[Lewis]

If they stop selling it they've given in to terrorism.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Reebok make perfectly legitimate UFC t-shirt and is then forced to apologise because gobshites don't know their countries.

http://www.joe.ie/sport/irish-ufc-fans-react-furiously-to-this-reebok-ireland-t-shirt/516559

If the slogan was 'Republic of Ireland' it would have been legitimate.

[Giggles]

If the slogan was 'Republic of Ireland' it would have been legitimate.

There is no such country as Republic of Ireland. You're thinking of a football team.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

There is no such country as Republic of Ireland. You're thinking of a football team.

Or the sovereign state...

Ireland is the island that encompasses both the Republic and Northern Ireland, no?

[Giggles]

Or the sovereign state...

Ireland is the island that encompasses both the Republic and Northern Ireland, no?

You're right that the geographical island is called Ireland, but the state is also called Ireland. Again, there's no such country that's called the Republic of Ireland.

[Yevrah]

I'm confused.

The fuss has been caused by the map not including Northern Ireland, no?

Which is presumably a legitimate complaint if there's no such country as Republic of Ireland. Yet Giggles first post claims that the t-shirt is perfectly legitimate.

Educate me.

[Giggles]

I'm confused.

The fuss has been caused by the map not including Northern Ireland, no?

Which is presumably a legitimate complaint if there's no such country as Republic of Ireland. Yet Giggles first post claims that the t-shirt is perfectly legitimate.

Educate me.

The t-shirt shows an outline of the country of Ireland and has the word Ireland written over it, which is correct in every way. Yet goons who think we still have some tie to Northern Ireland got their knickers in a knot and started tweeting Reebok forcing them to apologise for doing fuck all wrong.

[Lewis]

'The Republic of Ireland' is not an official name (it was originally used by us to disrespect them), and since the t-shirt presumably refers to that dickhead with the gorilla tattoo it's about the country he's from ('Ireland') rather than the landmass.

[Giggles]

'The Republic of Ireland' is not an official name (it was originally used by us to disrespect them), and since the t-shirt presumably refers to that dickhead with the gorilla tattoo it's about the country he's from ('Ireland') rather than the landmass.

Both Ireland and the UK used to play silly buggers with names until they both agreed to go official in 1998.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

McGregor's coach (who is from Dublin) wasn't a fan either tbh:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CR2d3j3WoAAOIf0.jpg:large

It was removed because he threatened for his gym (SBG Ireland) to walk from Reebok, probably wouldn't have worked if Conor wasn't with the gym.

[Lewis]

They could make everybody happy with a 'British Isles' t-shirt (shortened to 'British' if it was found to be more stylistic).

[Giggles]

McGregor's coach (who is from Dublin) wasn't a fan either tbh:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CR2d3j3WoAAOIf0.jpg:large

It was removed because he threatened for his gym (SBG Ireland) to walk from Reebok, probably wouldn't have worked if Conor wasn't with the gym.

His girlfriend is still from the UK though no matter how he wants to paint it.

[Giggles]

They could make everybody happy with a 'British Isles' t-shirt (shortened to 'British' if it was found to be more stylistic).

I still say we'd never had any of these problems at all, even a lot of the balaclava based ones, if they'd all just agreed to name the small country Western Scotland back in 1921. It'd have all sunk in better by now as the similar names is still keeping the drongos clutching to something.

[Lewis]

Ireland should have just named itself 'Greater Liverpool'.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The whole island or Ireland itself?

[Giggles]

Ireland should have just named itself 'Greater Liverpool'.

It would clash with Liverpool becoming a German peninsula now.

[Boydy]

Giggles' hatred for Northern Ireland.

:harold:

[Giggles]

Giggles' hatred for Northern Ireland.

:harold:

I don't hate it. I just don't want it associated with us.

[Boydy]

You should probably try to get them to change the constitution then.

[Giggles]

You should probably try to get them to change the constitution then.

That was changed with the 19th amendment. There's no claim to northern Ireland now. Though there's still some wanky claim of the nation as a people. If they'd stop handing out passports to them then I could live with it.

[Boydy]

I know it was changed but there's still the 'aspiration' for a united Ireland.

And I've got one of those passports. :baz:

[Giggles]

I know it was changed but there's still the 'aspiration' for a united Ireland.

And I've got one of those passports. :baz:

That's the sorry part about it is that you can get one, and why they should never have bent over on that one for that agreement.

As far as I'm concerned there's nothing to unite. Ireland, which was born in 1949 when they left the commonwealth, was never divided.

[Toby]

It's hilarious how many people blindly swallow up that "Ireland is the name of the island containing two countries, the Republic of bla bla bla" and preach it to people without any thought it might be wrong. Mahow trying to correct Giggles, an actual Irishman, is a particularly lol example.

[Giggles]

It's hilarious how many people blindly swallow up that "Ireland is the name of the island containing two countries, the Republic of bla bla bla" and preach it to people without any thought it might be wrong. Mahow trying to correct Giggles, an actual Irishman, is a particularly lol example.

Though Lewis is right in a way that the correct name was never recognised officially by the UK until the good Friday in 1998 even though it had been internationally for decades previously.

Most unionist Northern Irish still refer to us as the 'Free State', which ceased to exist 78 years ago. But that's more in a derogatory way than an uninformed way.

[Toby]

It's mostly Americans I see doing it. The kind who are basically what Spoonsky would be like if he'd ended up on Reddit or something instead of here.

[John Arne]

Watching a bit of this Benghazi inquest in the US - it's a complete partisan shitfest. Absolutely rubbish.

[John Arne]

Also, there are about 15 photographers sat on the floor in front of her during the whole thing.
Again, what is the point?

[Lewis]

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/oct/22/bastian-schweinsteiger-nazi-doll-sue

'They all look the same' is up there with the great defences.

[phonics]

Is that Boehner doing his best impression of Blinky Ben in the background?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CR7c73GWEAAn1LL.png

[Magic]

See that stupid shit about ethnic police officers? So they need ethnics even if they're total shit in areas full of ethnics to 'generate trust' but they want more ethnics in areas full of non-ethnics to also 'generate trust'.

Makes sense, Theresa May you appalling cunt of a woman.

[Magic]

On a much, much more amusing note:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3283220/Mother-filmed-giving-birth-bound-plane-deported-Taiwan-WITHOUT-child-faces-20-000-fine-airline.html

:D

[Lewis]

Given that the police force is made up almost entirely of chippy wankers on a power trip it is a bit of a mystery how it doesn't attract more ethnics.

[Pepe]

'Not only did you take the lives of both yourself and your child as a joke, you also took the schedules of a plane full of people as a joke - all because of your child's American passport!
'An entire plane had to be diverted, causing scheduling problems for all the other innocent passengers.
'The crew also had to stay for the night in Alaska. Do you know the true social cost of your actions?'


Fuck off.

[Magic]

Given that the police force is made up almost entirely of chippy wankers on a power trip it is a bit of a mystery how it doesn't attract more ethnics.

They had to ship loads of blacks in to NYP because of the lack of them there. :D

[John Arne]

Kate Burley has such an annoying fucking voice. Everything she says sound like a arsey sarcastic comment, which 50% of the times it is.

[Magic]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-34613148

'Transmisogyny'

:D

[QE Harold Flair]

Fuck off.

I would agree with your sentiment if she wasn't a one-woman breeding whore who flew to other countries to give birth deliberately to get citizenship. She deserves the fine and more.

[phonics]

While the statement on the petition web page does not cite examples of Ms Greer's alleged anti-transgender views, it accuses her of "continually misgendering trans women and denying the existence of transphobia altogether".

Sounds heavy hitting.

[Lewis]

To be fair she's given them some right grief over the years. I think she once tried to get one chucked out of/banned from a women's college. Not that it matters. FREE SPEECH, mate.

[Pepe]

I do like that term transmisoginy.

[phonics]

"“What they are saying is that because I don’t think surgery will turn a man into a woman I should not be allowed to speak anywhere.”

Greer said that she did not understand the mindset of those who had signed the petition, adding: “I do not know why universities cannot hear unpopular views and think about what they mean.” What could be more absurd than censorship on campus?


The author compared the recent growth of campaigns against speakers as a result of their views on transgender issues to the “Father 4 Justice” movement, which ran a high-profile campaign for improved rights for men denied access to their children.

“They were a right pain in the arse and they did not do their cause any good at all. This is very like that.”

Her response

[Lewis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B8Q6D4a6TM

:cool:

[QE Harold Flair]

Already posted by myself in the QT thread. Still, I'll take the credit via pm.

She's right, of course. But I'm fairly sure she's been a driving force behind campaigns which deride whoever it is she didn't like.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/boxing/11950435/Chris-Eubank-changes-his-name-to-English-to-stop-being-confused-with-his-son.html

He's nuts.

[Magic]

I know most of my news items with regards to cars burning usually involves videos of multiple Russians/Brazilians being burned alive in their shitbox cars, so here's a refreshing change.

http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/perth-kinross/they-were-real-heroes-workmen-save-two-from-blazing-car-after-perthshire-accident-1.907156

Proper #LADHERO stuff, that.

[John]

Along similar lines, this bloke (http://www.kirkintilloch-herald.co.uk/news/local-headlines/hero-paul-returns-to-scene-of-horrific-crash-1-3924434) is a friend of a friend. He's an insufferably loud twat, but he's done well there.

From the sidebar of that Courier article. (http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/scotland/warning-ban-on-alcohol-advertising-near-schools-could-criminalise-parents-in-sportswear-1.907144)

Fucking lol at that.

[Magic]

Schoolboy got stabbed to death not far from where I was working today. Grim stuff. His name was Bailey Gwynne. I've been scouring Facebook for any clues as to why he was murdered but no joy. Two pupils I believe have been charged.

[phonics]

I saw that story, I've doubled my selfie-intake since then, no chance of me getting murdered and having that as my photo on the news.

[Magic]

So, pictures of the killer are on the Mail website. Apparently he was being bullied about his weight.

[Disco]

Media reaction will he interesting if it turns out the killer was a victim too and the dead guy was a massive cunt.

[Magic]

I think its a safe assumption to make. Shame. Only so much someone can take before they snap. Surprised I never copped for a good chibbing as I was a proper psychological bullying cunt in school.

[Disco]

If only you'd been twatted in a curry house, I could have made a 'Delayed Korma' joke.

[Magic]

Shish, that's harsh.

[John Arne]

I'll have naan of that please, Magic took a big phall from grace that night.

[Benny]

How long do you think you can curry this on for?

[Magic]

Why are you doing Bangladeshi puns, you cunts.

[Disco]

I'll tarka look at my diary and see how much time I have.

[Magic]

HAHAHAHA PUNS! *kofte* wankers *kofte*

[Disco]

HAHAHAHA PUNS! *kofte* wankers *kofte*

You're like a child, alright lets give Magic a hit of attention so he feels wanted.

Everyone aloo-k at him for a minute.

[Luca]

Years iftar the fact and Magic's still getting grief for that.

[Benny]

Must have bhuna stressful morning for Magic to get this worked up.

[Luca]

Probably got daalayed on the motorway.

[Disco]

That's a phaaly good bet.

[John Arne]

I'll tarka look at my diary and see how much time I have.

You know what they say about tarka... It's like a tikka, but a little otter.

[Disco]

Raita on!

[Giggles]

Pack of saags.

[Mazuuurk]

Guys come up with something new these puns are the samosas before.

[Mazuuurk]

Makes me feel sick, I think I need to vindaloo.

[Lewis]

Somebody explain puns to him, please.

[Mazuuurk]

Why don't you go rip your own dick off and fuck yourself in the ear with it you miserable twat.
Although using a Q-tip might tickle you more.

[Magic]

:D

It's ok Maz. CHICKEN TIKKA MASALA.

[Disco]

The only problem is I really want a curry now. :(

[QE Harold Flair]

You can't curry on like this.

[Byron]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34684973

The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire

In all seriousness, who the fuck lets off pyrotechnics in a nightclub, knowing that part of the décor is polystyrene? Leave that sort of stuff to Rammstein.

[Angelsaint]

Not getting all anti Muslim but am I the only one that reacted to the "Romanian" name Raed Arafat ?

[Disco]

It doesn't say he's Romanian, it also doesn't say he's a muslim so I'm not sure what you were reading.

[Giggles]

Does everywhere just descend into madness on Halloween or is it just this kip? 6 stabbings alone last night, 1 dead and 2 critical, ambulances being bottled attending injuries, and fire brigades attacked after houses were set on fire.
Granted, there's a couple of areas in the city where this is regular but what is it about one night that makes it so widespread?

http://www.thejournal.ie/man-critical-stabbing-dublin-2419880-Nov2015/

[Henry]

Anonymous hacked the KKK and have released a list of members, which includes several US senators & mayors from the Republican party.

http://www.ibtimes.com/anonymous-begins-publishing-ku-klux-klan-member-details-online-2164710

[niko_cee]

I watched a programme about the Klan recently. Can't remember which channel it was on, but it was quite amusing. The impression I got was that it isn't really a thing any more, as much as a bunch of disparate and unaffiliated groups professing to be the real Klan (The White Knights of the KKK, run out of a shed somewhere, seemed to be the main one for the purposes of the programme). They really are just flat out batshit, but then I saw some American lawyer going on about Guantanamo on Newsnight after that British guy was released and I realised the ability to seriously believe (or espouse) things entirely outwith any sane view of the world isn't a trait specifically reserved for racists.

[QE Harold Flair]

Most of them probably are big racists, but it's worth nothing that no other race other than the white race is deemed racist for being proud of their race.

[Henry]

Most of them probably are big racists, but it's worth nothing that no other race other than the white race is deemed racist for being proud of their race.

This is often a talking point of the White Power movement (of which you're definitely a fellow traveller at this stage) but it's complete nonsense. The Black Panthers for instance, are ridiculed as big racist cunts all of the time.

[Dquincy]

This is often a talking point of the White Power movement (of which you're definitely a fellow traveller at this stage) but it's complete nonsense. The Black Panthers for instance, are ridiculed as big racist cunts all of the time.

Do the black panthers attack people of other creed or colour?

[Henry]

Do the black panthers attack people of other creed or colour?

They have been known to do so.

[Boydy]

Is this the New Black Panther Party you're talking about?

[niko_cee]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06fq188

That was the programme I think. Some of the black folk were as bad as the white divs. One woman in particular was one of the most offensively racist people I think I've ever seen.

[Dquincy]

Most of them probably are big racists, but it's worth nothing that no other race other than the white race is deemed racist for being proud of their race.

That's a bloody good point. But I assume this is because there are more 'white' people than 'black' people.

[niko_cee]

Are there?

Yellow POWAH!

[Dquincy]

Are there?

Yellow POWAH!

A quick google check suggested it. But it depends who you group in with the whities.

FYI - I'm against segregation.

[Raoul Duke]

Don't forget the Pink Panthers. Those guys are bonkers.

[Boydy]

It's been announced today that a factory in my town is closing down and will be gone by mid 2018. Probably one of the largest employers in the town and this comes within a year of another large factory announcing it was closing down too. Two of the largest employers with decent manufacturing wages in the town closing down within a year of wach other. This place is going to be a proper depressing post-industrial wasteland soon.

[Disco]

How odd, I thought of you when I heard it on the news just now. Assuming it's the same one anyway.

[Boydy]

Michelin in Ballymena?

Did it make to the national news? I assumed it'd just be on the local news.

[QE Harold Flair]

That's a bloody good point. But I assume this is because there are more 'white' people than 'black' people.

So what?

[QE Harold Flair]

This is often a talking point of the White Power movement (of which you're definitely a fellow traveller at this stage) but it's complete nonsense. The Black Panthers for instance, are ridiculed as big racist cunts all of the time.

Smear tactics are so yesterday, try another route.

The Black Panthers are, but then they're not representative of your average ethnic 'proud of my race' person. Can you think of any white person who is vocally proud of their race who is not deemed racist in some way? Now do the same with black people. You have thought of one already.

[Mellberg]

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/nov/03/new-uk-passport-design-features-just-two-women

New British passport design features seven men and two women. Everybody riots.

Do they want to replace William Shakespeare with Dame Edna Evrage?

[Jimmy Floyd]

June Sarpong.

If you give a fuck about that you should lose your citizenship.

[Lewis]

If lasses wanted to be on passports centuries down the line then they should have done more.

[simon]

Smear tactics are so yesterday, try another route.

The Black Panthers are, but then they're not representative of your average ethnic 'proud of my race' person. Can you think of any white person who is vocally proud of their race who is not deemed racist in some way? Now do the same with black people. You have thought of one already.

One isn't the same as the other though.

If I'm vocally proud about being a white person, what does that say about me? It says I'm proud that white people enslaved and discriminated against other races and nothing else.

However, if I'm vocally proud about being a black person, that says I'm thankful that my ancestors overcame slavery and discrimination and fought their way into being considered equal to white people in society.

[Lewis]

The only context I ever see references to 'black pride' is in lame attempts to give poor kids a bit of self-respect. I think if you're so desperate for self-esteem that you have to be proud of your race then you've got bigger issues that need solving.

[Foe]

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/nov/03/new-uk-passport-design-features-just-two-women

New British passport design features seven men and two women. Everybody riots.

Do they want to replace William Shakespeare with Dame Edna Evrage?

That isn't news. It's a non event. There's one page on a passport you actually pay attention to and it's just a picture of some ugly twat in a hoody. The rest of the passport may aswell be trace paper.

[phonics]

The new passports are crap.

[QE Harold Flair]

One isn't the same as the other though.

If I'm vocally proud about being a white person, what does that say about me? It says I'm proud that white people enslaved and discriminated against other races and nothing else.

However, if I'm vocally proud about being a black person, that says I'm thankful that my ancestors overcame slavery and discrimination and fought their way into being considered equal to white people in society.

I'm thankful my ancestors invented nearly everything good the world has to offer. Most white people did not enslave anyone, and in fact many black people enslaved their own people or sold their own people to slave masters. See, you're doing what I expected - only thinking of the worst things. If you want to go down this route then what have black people ever invented, compared to my quite excellent white ancestors? If you want this silly tit-for-tat then I'm afraid white people win every time. I'm all for equality when it comes to being proud of who you are and where you come from, but that doesn't exist with guilt-ridden apologists like yourself.

[Disco]

Michelin in Ballymena?

Did it make to the national news? I assumed it'd just be on the local news.

Yup, it was on the radio when I was driving back to work.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Pretty much all popular music can be traced back to black people. Especially Guns n Roses.

[QE Harold Flair]

Well, I did say 'nearly everything'.

[Giggles]

It's been announced today that a factory in my town is closing down and will be gone by mid 2018. Probably one of the largest employers in the town and this comes within a year of another large factory announcing it was closing down too. Two of the largest employers with decent manufacturing wages in the town closing down within a year of wach other. This place is going to be a proper depressing post-industrial wasteland soon.

It was a tyre place closing that turned Craigavon into a steaming shithole too. Well, one of the things.

[Boydy]

I'm thankful my ancestors invented nearly everything good the world has to offer. Most white people did not enslave anyone, and in fact many black people enslaved their own people or sold their own people to slave masters. See, you're doing what I expected - only thinking of the worst things. If you want to go down this route then what have black people ever invented, compared to my quite excellent white ancestors? If you want this silly tit-for-tat then I'm afraid white people win every time. I'm all for equality when it comes to being proud of who you are and where you come from, but that doesn't exist with guilt-ridden apologists like yourself.
Your ancestors (like the majority of white people's) were probably shit-munching peasants who invented fuck all.

[Boydy]

It was a tyre place closing that turned Craigavon into a steaming shithole too. Well, one of the things.

I saw Martin McGuinness tweet about it and someone replied telling him he should start blowing up cars again so there'd be more demand for tyres. :D

[Magic]

It's been announced today that a factory in my town is closing down and will be gone by mid 2018. Probably one of the largest employers in the town and this comes within a year of another large factory announcing it was closing down too. Two of the largest employers with decent manufacturing wages in the town closing down within a year of wach other. This place is going to be a proper depressing post-industrial wasteland soon.

Our one is seeing a £52 million investment. Presumably at the expense of your shitty one. :drool:

[Boydy]

The only context I ever see references to 'black pride' is in lame attempts to give poor kids a bit of self-respect. I think if you're so desperate for self-esteem that you have to be proud of your race then you've got bigger issues that need solving.
Same goes for 'white pride' (and probably any other race) - it's only for bellends with nothing going for them in life.

[Boydy]

Our one is seeing a £52 million investment. Presumably at the expense of your shitty one. :drool:
Yeah, probably. They're investing in the Stoke one too, I think.

[Magic]

Dundee > Ballymena.

There's a phrase that's probably never been uttered before.

[Giggles]

Dundee > Ballymena.

There's a phrase that's probably never been uttered before.

That's akin to picking which method being killed you'd prefer.

[Boydy]

Obviously Dundee is better. Pretty much anywhere is better than Ballymena. I hate the place.

It's still quite sad to see the place you grew up become a completely rundown shithole though.

[simon]

I'm thankful my ancestors invented nearly everything good the world has to offer. Most white people did not enslave anyone, and in fact many black people enslaved their own people or sold their own people to slave masters. See, you're doing what I expected - only thinking of the worst things. If you want to go down this route then what have black people ever invented, compared to my quite excellent white ancestors? If you want this silly tit-for-tat then I'm afraid white people win every time. I'm all for equality when it comes to being proud of who you are and where you come from, but that doesn't exist with guilt-ridden apologists like yourself.

People inventing things has fuck all to do with their race though, does it.

White people can't be proud of being white without coming across as racists because there's nothing positive that white people have done with regards to race. That's the point I'm making. Who invented what has absolutely no bearing on somebody being proud to be black/white.

[Giggles]

Obviously Dundee is better. Pretty much anywhere is better than Ballymena. I hate the place.

It's still quite sad to see the place you grew up become a completely rundown shithole though.

All that springs to mind when I think of Ballymena is that no matter when anyone refers to it, they always say Ballymena-hi. Or Ballamema-hi to be more precise.

[Magic]

Yeah it's about 7 or 8 times bigger, but it was a desolate shithole up until quite recently.

[Lewis]

They should cash in on the man-children and bring back DeLorean.

[Giggles]

They should cash in on the man-children and bring back DeLorean.

Doesn't that Kielty wanker still use his?

[Boydy]

They should cash in on the man-children and bring back DeLorean.

That's not a terrible idea. Stormont would probably fuck it up somehow though. And they've already missed the ideal date for the launch.

[Giggles]

That's not a terrible idea. Stormont would probably fuck it up somehow though. And they've already missed the ideal date for the launch.

They'd all have to disagree and cunt it up like the shower of kids they all are.

I swear to God if someone came along and said they were going to build 10 hospitals and run them free of charge for 50 years and all had to be done was vote it in at Stormont, there would still be a fucking 50:50 split.

[Magic]

The word 'Stormont' just screams fight, kill, murder, aggression. Does it actually mean anything? They should have called it 'Peacehouse' or something.

[Giggles]

The word 'Stormont' just screams fight, kill, murder, aggression. Does it actually mean anything? They should have called it 'Peacehouse' or something.

It's not even its name either. The building is just on Stormont Estate but it's not actually Stormont Castle.

[QE Harold Flair]

Same goes for 'white pride' (and probably any other race) - it's only for bellends with nothing going for them in life.

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/424184673938329600/FArA372x_400x400.jpeg

[Magic]

Ali was a cunt, calling Smokin Joe a nigger. Fuck was he thinking.

[QE Harold Flair]

People inventing things has fuck all to do with their race though, does it.

White people can't be proud of being white without coming across as racists because there's nothing positive that white people have done with regards to race. That's the point I'm making. Who invented what has absolutely no bearing on somebody being proud to be black/white.

That's clearly an absurd and hugely ignorant statement. Even were it the case, which it isn't, the same could be broadly said of any race. No 'race' is responsible for great race relations.

[QE Harold Flair]

Ali was a cunt, calling Smokin Joe a nigger. Fuck was he thinking.

A cunt he may have been, but scarcely someone who made nothing of his life.

[simon]

That's clearly an absurd and hugely ignorant statement. Even were it the case, which it isn't, the same could be said of any race.

It probably is ignorant, as in some far corner of the internet will be an example of white people doing good things with regards to race. But the general consensus is very bad. Slavery was bad. Not letting black people sit down on buses was bad. Any positives aren't well known and aren't the reason why people are proud to be white.

[Lewis]

Muhammad Ali, who famously won an Olympic gold medal and still got kicked out of a racist cafe. I wonder why he sought to turn his blackness into a positive.

[niko_cee]

What about the abolition of slavery?

Can the whites claim that?

[Jimmy Floyd]

White people have much more money than black people, on average, which is the difference, not the skin colour of various good and bad people historically. You don't need to feel proud of arbitrary things if you have enough cash to be proud of your gold plated speedboat instead.

[QE Harold Flair]

It probably is ignorant, as in some far corner of the internet will be an example of white people doing good things with regards to race. But the general consensus is very bad. Slavery was bad. Not letting black people sit down on buses was bad. Any positives aren't well known and aren't the reason why people are proud to be white.

As I have pointed out - blacks and Arabs were every bit as involved in the trading of slaves. Slavery isn't and wasn't a white thing.

[Spoonsky]

Black pride makes sense in the context of the Civil Rights Movement, because if you're trying to defend the rights of a certain group it follows that you would try to show that group as a cohesive thing, worth defending. Beyond that, yeah, it's far too arbitrary to feel any real pride about.

[Spoonsky]

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/26/morocco-poised-to-become-a-solar-superpower-with-launch-of-desert-mega-project?CMP=EMCENVEML1631

Morocco going solar. That's pretty cool.

[Pepe]

That is a quite impressive project although it will still be hydro doing most of the heavy lifting.

[Toby]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/04/romanian-government-resigns-nightclub-fire-victor-ponta

Nightclub goes on fire
People are angry
???
Government resigns

That seems a crazy escalation to me. :cab:

[Magic]

It seems like a very long running rift coming to a head, to be honest.

Lol no pun intended btw.

[Toby]

Keep your marriage talk to the relevant thread please.

[Magic]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3243094/South-African-police-discover-21-pieces-female-genitalia-Danish-man-s-FREEZER-drugged-wife-mutilated-her.html

:|

[Spoonsky]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/04/romanian-government-resigns-nightclub-fire-victor-ponta

Nightclub goes on fire
People are angry
???
Government resigns

That seems a crazy escalation to me. :cab:

In fifty years this will be one of those bizarre anecdotes you always find in history textbooks.

Europe is a weird place right now.

[Toby]

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/nov/03/new-uk-passport-design-features-just-two-women

New British passport design features seven men and two women. Everybody riots.

Do they want to replace William Shakespeare with Dame Edna Evrage?

Going back to this, the bigger offence is obviously that they look fucking awful:

http://i.imgur.com/3tMjVTi.png

[Magic]

Needs moar Dianne Abbott.

[John]

Surely there's a more innovative way to get Shakespeare in there than just sticking a pencil drawing of his face into an arbitrarily tippexed out bit of the image.

[Toby]

I don't really know what the purpose of it is, but the current ones have a similar light bit.

I'm sure most will have seen them by now but Norway's new ones are pretty classy:

http://i.imgur.com/vUOzRTV.jpg

[John]

They have a lighter bit, but it isn't in the middle of a full colour image so it doesn't look as daft. I'd also like to know why Shakespeare is in the middle of the 'Landmarks and Architecture' pages. There was definitely an architect among the people being 'honoured'. Stick him in there, you twats.

Those Norwegian ones are great.

[Toby]

I assumed that image isn't how it will actually appear when printed. If it's as dark as that any stamps are going to be illegible.

[Lewis]

It's best to be minimalist with these things, otherwise they risk looking shit (as above) and end up dating very easily. Look how well our national sporting emblems have held up.

[Giggles]

Unwashed farmer sets country back 20 years.


https://m.rte.ie/news/ireland/2015/1105/739823-farmer-land/

[QE Harold Flair]

The only woman on there should be Thatcher.

[Toby]

Unwashed farmer sets country back 20 years.


https://m.rte.ie/news/ireland/2015/1105/739823-farmer-land/

That seems totally fair.

[John]

Unwashed farmer sets country back 20 years.


https://m.rte.ie/news/ireland/2015/1105/739823-farmer-land/

How so?

[Giggles]

How so?

Because the site being planned would have dwarfed what is there already. They'll uproot the whole thing to Israel now.

[John]

In the Supreme Court's decision, Mr Justice Liam McKechnie said the IDA had never denied that it had no particular industrial undertaking in mind for the lands.

He said the authority was trying to create a land bank and added that the law did not give any power to the IDA to acquire lands not required for immediate use.

The court also ruled the IDA could not be satisfied the criteria laid down in the legislation for acquiring lands had been met because it had not established who the ultimate user of the land would be.

That would suggest there's no 'site being planned'. Do you have another article that demonstrates otherwise?

[randomlegend]

It doesn't just "suggest" it, it says they openly admitted it.

[Giggles]

That would suggest there's no 'site being planned'. Do you have another article that demonstrates otherwise?

No, but I spent enough time inside the walls there to know that there was/is a site well into the planning stages to match what they have in Portland currently. There is never anything officially announced until they play the sites off against each other for it but this was 95% (pending that site) after the delays in Tel Aviv with the newest process, as it was to go on an existing current process site outside the US.

[Dquincy]

So what?

Minority...and stuff.

[Raoul Duke]

Passport design is primarily about making it hard to forge, not looking pretty. That does look completely shit though.

[Toby]

I think everybody's aware of that. There are still plenty of better looking ones about and our current ones aren't bad at all.

[Benny]

Bit annoyed as I've just updated my passport, wouldn't mind getting a shit design one for the lols.

[Giggles]

I don't know where else to put this but it sounds and looks hideous.

http://www.thejournal.ie/eye-contact-experiment-2429455-Nov2015

[Magic]

http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/fife/former-countdown-champion-attacked-fife-supermarket-worker-with-wine-bottle-after-she-criticised-his-writing-1.909571

:D

[Boydy]

I looked up his book. The first comment. :D

[Toby]

Mine were sorted differently, so I just got the musings of some dreadfully smug English Lit students.


with a plethora of grammatical issues as a plus to the already stylistically-challenged narrative


appallingly written and tedious novel, which one supposes the writer intended to be an epic on the level of Lord of the Rings, we are continually assaulted by an avalanche of adverbs

I hope those are meant to be ironic too. :sick:

[Magic]

I'm dying to lay my eyes on the original review but there's no traces of it. :(

[John]

As always, local news is amazing. (http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/dundee/baptist-fireworks-killed-my-cow-claims-farmer-1.909542)

[Giggles]

http://www.joe.ie/news/dublin-man-who-phoned-in-a-bomb-threat-just-to-avoid-work-faces-community-service/520918

Phoning in an IS bomb threat from a payphone outside your house :D

[Magic]

I know this is the Heil/Fail etc but it's an absolutely disgusting story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3332749/Drink-driver-left-two-young-mothers-paralysed-high-speed-crash-spared-electronic-tag-stag-do.html

:(

[John Arne]

How on earth did he avoid a custodial sentence?

[Angelsaint]

Why the need of mentioning tattooed bouncer?

[wullie]

So you can tell him apart from the other guy in the photo who looks like a bouncer with tattoos!

[Toby]

What sort of "indecent images of a child" would warrant punishment but only to the tune of a £500 fine? It's surprising he got such a lenient sentence for the drink driving alone, but that that was part of the same incident and seems to be such a sidenote of the case is particularly strange.

[Davgooner]

The title of that picture. :D

[Angelsaint]

And me thinking that they could just write "the one on the right " or similar.

[Disco]

Why the need of mentioning tattooed bouncer?

Because they need to let you know how terrible a person he is. In the world of the Daily Mail having a tattoo automatically makes you the bad guy.

He is obviously an awful twat but, for instance, they're far less likely to mention a victim being tatooed. In short it's a terrible publication with an even worse website.

[Magic]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3331968/Male-rape-victim-reveals-attack-ex-girlfriend-left-feeling-weak-pathetic.html

What a fucking mook. Surely unless she fingered his g-spot he'd have to be aroused for this to have taken place?

[phonics]

He looks exactly like I would expect a GamerGater to look so I can imagine they're rallying around him.

[Shindig]

I bet he was twice the size of her. Powerless.

[Jeet]

Canadian Jackpot Winner Dies After Attempting To Gold Plate His Balls
http://viralcovert.com/jackpot-winner-dies-after-attempting-to-gold-plate-his-balls/

[John]

Would you stop posting these obviously fake articles, Jeet? It's not good enough and you're beginning to become a bit of a fucking pest.

[Magic]

Fucking hell they've shut the Edinburgh city bypass because some fucking lunatic is wandering about on it with a weapon attacking people that get out of their cars?

[Giggles]

http://www.thesportbible.com/articles/paul-gascoigne-has-revealed-the-shocking-truth-behind-raoul-moat-incident

:D