It will be a bung for something, but yeah, no cunt is laundering money through Prince fucking Charles. Especially Quatari politicians. £3 million is about 20p to them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
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It will be a bung for something, but yeah, no cunt is laundering money through Prince fucking Charles. Especially Quatari politicians. £3 million is about 20p to them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
As someone who works in Anti money laundering, it's not literally money laundering. The Qatari Prince would be a high risk customer (because he's a politically exposed person) and a charity would likely be high risk (because they can take cash and can be linked to terrorist financing). What any bank taking that much cash should do is verify the source of the money before accepting it into the charity's bank account.
I've woken up to see I made a criminally wrong post 7 cocktails deep.
If there's a class that the Liberal Democrats are betraying, it ain't the working class.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/diving/61948675
Standard argument over banning obvs, but there was one nugget that caught my eye.
He understands how elite sport works, right?Quote:
"I was furious," he told iNews. "Anyone that's told that they can't compete or can't do something they love just because of who they are, it's not on.
They can compete against you if they want, Tom.
I am equally furious at Chelsea's refusal to give me a crack at the number 9 shirt on the basis of me being too old and too shit. Not very inclusive imo.
Yeah, this inclusivity stuff has jumped the shark somewhat. Is it going to take a freshly snipped Tyson Fury uppercutting Nicola Adams into Row Z before this shit stops?
Already happened in UFC or something didn't it? I'm sure I remember a quote from a female fighter who fought a trans fighter and said they'd never been punched so hard in their life.
"I’ve fought a lot of women and have never felt the strength that I felt in a fight as I did that night. I can’t answer whether it’s because she was born a man or not because I’m not a doctor. I can only say, I’ve never felt so overpowered ever in my life and I am an abnormally strong female in my own right. Her grip was different, I could usually move around in the clinch against other females but couldn’t move at all in Fox’s clinch,"
Tamika Brent after fighting Fallon Fox in 2014. Brent sustained a fractured orbital bone and a concussion during the fight and needed a wound in her head closed with staples.
The problem was it wasn't UFC, so wasn't high profile enough to effect a change. It's like when UFC started in 1993 and there were literally no rules; it took three or four years of increasingly violent but increasingly popular events for anyone to take note and regulate it.
The moment a transwoman flogs someone in actual UFC or boxing then it'll be the end of it. It's a shame that weightlifter did fuck all at the Olympics because that might have been enough had they got a gold medal.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/s...close-27352019
I absolutely love the photo they've used at the top of this story and that there's no explanation.
Phwoar!
I'm getting some Bjork stalker vibes from that. :D
Never even heard of this chap, but fuck me is that video moving.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-62006852
10 year old in Idaho who was pregnant as a result of rape had to travel out of state to get an abortion.
Murica.
Should have just controlled the semen entering her body, lazy bitch.
So she could get an abortion? I thought that the Supreme Court had BANNED ABORTION.Quote:
Originally Posted by randomlegend
Literally nobody said that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pepe
Pepe, this appears to have broken you a bit. Keep it together son.
He appears to be the only calm voice I’ve read on it all since it happened.
Imagine thinking this was the thing to post.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pepe
I don't have the knowledge on American Constitutional Law (very few people do) to have an opinion on whether the Supreme Court's decision was right or wrong, so I don't. I would like the Federal Congress to come up with a sensible abortion law for the entire country, but since this is a place where some states think that abortion should not be allowed under any circumstance and others think that abortion should be allowed until moments before the birth, no questions asked, then that has proven to be complicated and I do not think that it will happen any time soon. The next best thing is to let each state choose what their abortion law should be, which is where we are now. If I lived in a state like Ohio, where abortion is completely banned, or Colorado, where it is allowed at any time, and I was allowed to vote, I would vote for people who propose more sensible laws (assuming the rest of their program is agreeable, of course.) Since I live in a state that does not have extreme laws like that, I simply do not worry about it. Apparently that makes me an insane person.
There's a huge difference between not worrying and actively saying it's not a problem if raped children have to travel potentially hundreds of miles to receive necessary medical care.
Stop being an uncalm voice in the room RL.
I am not saying that it is not a problem. I am saying that access to abortion still exists in the US, even in the most extreme case that they could find. People need to be calm, wait for the dust to settle, and see how things pan out. Something tells me that it won't be the horror that everyone claims it will be. Or lets impeach/murder the Supreme Court justices instead, that sounds more reasonable.
Also, Americans drive hundreds of miles for a bag of crisps.
"Women will be just fine".
Why are you so invested in the laws in Ohio anyway? Planning to move there any time soon?
Because I'm a human being who cares if shit things happen to other human beings.
Nice of you to care so much about people, especially when it comes to the trendy topic of the day in the most popular country in the world. It is true that when it comes to horrors that occur in this planet, no one has it worse than American women. I am sure that your caring will make them feel much better.
Crusade of the week.
If it helps the cause RL, I don't actually care but still think the ruling was batshit bonkers.
By the ruling, do you mean the supreme court ruling? Care to explain what the case was about?Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
Not really, I don't care.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pepe
There might be a bus ride in it, but the average American birthing person will more than likely still find it easier to get an abortion past twelve weeks than the average European, so the sight of European politicians lining up to beal about it was pretty lol. Emmanuel Macron showing his office right up was a particular highlight.
Aren't some states planning to introduce laws to stop people travelling to other states for abortions?
And what if you can't afford to travel to another state for one anyway?
The very same Supreme Court will stop states barring people from crossing state lines for them, and the abortion charities, all flush with seething extra cash, will just pay your travel expenses as well since they won't have to keep as many buildings heated now.
You shouldn't have to travel to another state to get an abortion, it's madness.
I don't care about how the thing came about, but as far as I understand it a thing happened in the US that means states can now ban abortions when they couldn't before. If that's not factually correct I'll stand down, but if it is factually correct, it's a stupid thing to have happened.
EDIT: And do I care? Not particularly. Just calling out the stupidity of it while others seem hell bent on defending it. I don't know why.
This really is one of the weakest, stupidest lines people trot out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pepe
If it has such a minor effect on access to abortion why get rid of it in the first place? It seems rather disingenuous to say it never mattered when it's been the defining ruling on the subject for the last 50 years.
My opinion on the matter is basically what Yev said. I'm not particularly arsed, it's just yet another thing that makes America backwards shithole.
Do you all object to the very notion that elected politicians should be the ones to decide the rules around it, like in pretty much every other country in the world (including this one), or is the dispute about the time limits on being able to get one? If so, what should the restrictions be?
Sigh. The objection is having to travel to another state to get an abortion. It's stupid and unnecessary at what could be a quite horrific time for the individual involved. I can't really make it any clearer than that. Again, if that's factually incorrect/100% won't happen I'll stand down.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
If it were here I would object to anything that resembled a removal of reasonable access. Doubly so if it was a bunch of Nationalist Christians trying to push it through which is what this looks like.
I guess Pepe and Lewis's point is the supreme court haven't made that happen, rather the states themselves who are enacting their handmaid's law.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
No they won't. Treating the Supreme Court like it's the only place in the entire world not affected by the political leanings of those making the decisions and actually just sancresantly reading the text are mouth breathing morons.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
Semantic gymnastics, yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kikó
Which is a stupid one, as they knew full well what would happen if they did.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kikó
How is that the main objection? If the abortion limit was one week, but you could get it done locally, is that better than having to travel but being able to do so up to twenty-odd weeks? Unusually for you, this sounds a lot like not actually wanting to have a position on something.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
Alright Worzel.