They should be thankful that they can't go to a Pontins.
What is Pontins? It's basically Butlins, right?
Yeah, they're a little smaller thus cheaper and their entertainers wear blue coats instead of red apparently.
I was 1 letter away from being banned from Pontins.
Boydy had a bit of a close shave n'all.
Oi @Giggles, you safe?
Giggles is definitely an O'Reilly.
I'm going with McHarg.
Giggles used to have his full name as his username.
Oh, I always wondered who it was posting as Fintan McGarrigle.
Giggles is Lewis Betts?
I used to love Pontins. We used to go off the back of the Super Soaraway Sun's £10 holidays. Properly depressing good fun.
Edit: I just remembered I won a dance competition and won some watch. Fucking hell I must have looked like a twat.
I thought that story was going to give us the origin of the walking boots.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-new...ckpot-23589563
I'm not sure you would ever get over that (the Camelot spokesperson hardly helping).Originally Posted by The Mirror
This loser ginger with a Carhartt shirt doesn't deserve $10
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56251452
I feel like I'm living inside an episode of Brass Eye or something sometimes.Streaming platform Twitch has backtracked on a new policy to change its spelling of "women" after criticism from transgender communities.
The company had said it would use the term "womxn" in order to be more gender neutral in its language.
But LGBT communities online called the change transphobic because it suggested trans women were not women.
You can imagine someone at Twitch's head office shrugging and asking what they hell people want.
And there is pushback from the white nationalist corner.
The comments section from real accounts is mental.
https://www.facebook.com/12598267075...7945444891738/
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/it-could...bat-hate-crimeIt could soon be illegal to fly the Nazi flag in Victoria as state moves to combat hate crime
Those recipe articles with someone's life story are really annoying but most #contentcreators I've seen talking about them basically admit they know they're shit and annoying but they have to do it for search engine optimization or some shit.
Of course it’s that bad. One of, if not the best trainer of racehorses has been exposed for not actually giving a shit about horses in his yard. This has come a fortnight before the biggest horse racing event of the year (Ascot can suck a dick) and now the majority of owners are removing the horses from his yard and moving them elsewhere - including the highly coveted, unbeaten, odds-on favourite for the Mares Novice Chase, Envoi Allen.
Then on the back of the leaked photo of Gordon Elliott straddling a dead horse and flipping the peace sign, a video of jockey Rob James comes out of him pretending to shag a different dead horse. Yet another person who is expected to put a horses welfare above anything else, yet he’s seen having a laugh over a dead horse. Disgraceful.
There’s also rumours of Elliott using a cattle prod thingy on a horse called Labaik, and shooting another horse and just leaving it out on the field for other horses to see, but I don’t think there’s any evidence of this [yet].
Gonna be a weird Cheltenham festival with most of Elliott’s horses under someone else’s name, no amateur jockeys and no crowd.
I'm a twit
Anyone that thought race horse owners cared about their horses beyond their money making properties is a bit of an idiot.
Anyone who thinks people involved with horse racing don’t care about horses is a bit of an idiot.
For a start, Gordon Elliott is a trainer, not an owner.
I'm a twit
Part of the owners team, then. The whole sport is rife with dead horses. Nobody cares.
I'm sure there are those who do care but being involved in horse racing doesn't strike me as the best way to express that.
I reckon of all the 'big' sports, horse racing is probably in the most long-term trouble. Maybe rugby union as well once the steroid and concussion problems get ennumerated.
Yeah, there'll be some stable hands and vets whose dream it is/was to work with horses, but that's about it. We're talking about a sport that pumps these animals full of poison to make them run faster, run for longer and jump higher, then puts a bullet between their eyes when they get injured doing so. It is not a long hop between not caring about that shit and actually finding it funny.
In my admittedly limited experience horses arent too bothered by the sight of dead horses. They know exactly what the fucking van that collects them is about though.
Horses are surprised by anything and everything and it could be something new on any given day.
Indeed, but now that you can gamble on everything under the sun, horse racing's constituency is smaller than ever. Chuck in a load of animal welfare concerns and you've got a bit of a problem, I think.
That said, boxing involves beating people up and aiming for significant head injury on live TV and the public still seem to get stoked for 'big fights', so who knows what these things can weather.
Boxers do it fully aware of their doping and brain damage risk, mind.
Horse Racing is just shit. I'm no Animal Rights nutter, so I generally don't pay to much attention to it, but it probably should be banned if Animal Welfare is a thing we take seriously and, again, it's baffling that anyone that likes it could be surprised by the complete lack of care the horses are shown by their owners.
It's the same as Greyhound racing. We had an ex-racing Greyhound when I was a kid. We got him from a rescue home, where he had eventually ended up after someone found him in a field having been shot with an airgun. They are racing tools, not animals.
Greyhounds are exploited more than horses.
Mass graves and shit down here
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56266514
How can anyone think that logo on the left resembles Hitler?
Neither of them do.
TTH should come together to force a large company to change something. All it takes is a few tweets for an opportunistic blogger to put together an article.
The one in the middle looks a bit like him.
'Matalan forced to apologise after its "Beadle-handed Webcam Nonce" past knee-length shorts provoke...'
I'm still blown away by the tech involved in the delivery robots we have here and this is another similar advancement.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56266494
They're telling me how it happens in the article and I still don't believe them.
F me. That is just mental. Hopefully a one off incident by a lunatic.
Whatever it was, it's gone.
Unfortunately that one did work.