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    The headline here is better than the actual video.

    Watch police use riot shields and loaf of bread to control 'mental' Greenock swan

    To be fair, they can break a man's arm.

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    They've had it in America for years (I think it's one of the standard ones they give) but it's not part of the normal series of vaccines over here. You can get it though and it's well worth it. I think kids have to spend something like 7-10 days off school if they get it. No thanks.

    The chicken pox vaccine, that is.
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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    I didn't realise there was a Chicken Pox vaccine until this started popping up recently. Was it invented recently or were my parents just cheap and had me get it off some other kid? God that was a miserable few days.
    The chickenpox vaccine is not part of the routine UK childhood vaccination programme because chickenpox is usually a mild illness, particularly in children.

    There's also a worry that introducing chickenpox vaccination for all children could increase the risk of chickenpox and shingles in adults.
    https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-que...st-chickenpox/

    Don't remember where you were born but they may take a similar line.

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    The AfD (the BNP of Germany) have asked the police to list the most common first names to be arrested for knife crimes to prove THE BLOODY MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS ARE ALL CRIMINALS.

    I'm going to assume they were rather disapointed to find that they were literally all shit like Jens, and Sven.

    Michael (24 Fälle), Daniel (22 Fälle), Andreas (20 Fälle), Sascha (15 Fälle), Thomas (14 Fälle), Christian (13 Fälle), Kevin (13 Fälle), Manuel (13 Fälle), Patrick (13 Fälle), David (12 Fälle), Jens (12 Fälle), Justin (11 Fälle) und Sven (11 Fälle).
    https://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/...n_aid-37745459

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    Manuel? BUILD THE WALL!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pepe View Post
    Manuel? BUILD THE WALL!
    Waste of time. The World Cup taught us that Germany has no defence against Mexicans.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ian View Post
    Waste of time. The World Cup taught us that Germany has no defence against Mexicans.

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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47798717

    This behaviour is totally unacceptable and falls well below the high standards the Army expects
    Presumably the grouping wasn't tight enough.

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    Lads.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Disco View Post
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47798717



    Presumably the grouping wasn't tight enough.
    I saw Peston did a 'Won't somebody think of the children?' tweet earlier where he said something along the lines of 'Imagine how damaging this is to the reputation of the British Military around the world?'

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    I reckon, relative to his standing/profile, that Robert Peston is the shittest pundit of any form in the whole world. If he was a football pundit his analysis would consist entirely of things like '2-0 is the worst lead to have', and 'You can't write off Man United', but nobody calls him a cunt because he is the top boy.

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    Having the good fortune of being 'the economics guy' at the BBC during the financial crisis has been a literal goldmine for him.

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    Yeah, anything he says that is remotely of interest is down to him having access to people. His own 'takes' on things are utter shit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    Yeah, anything he says that is remotely of interest is down to him having access to people. His own 'takes' on things are utter shit.
    Quite and I'm starting to think him posting screenshots of his inbox benefits no-one except the person who sent the text.

    Was Andrew Marr ever any good? He's awful on that Sunday show which seems to be treated as the way to affect the bellweather of political discussion on TV.

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    The alternative is Martin Lewis telling us to bankrupt a small country by going ALL IN on their ISAs.

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    They should really rename the whole place, the insensitive bastards.

    [CS]Terrorists Win[/CS]

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    Why are they bothering with market research to pick their new name? If they're taking that much influence from the events of the Middle Ages they should just call themselves the Canterbury Tales and get on with it.

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    I was thinking yesterday how remarkable it is that there are still Redskins, Indians, Chiefs etc in American sports. Arsenal should probably be renamed as well in case it makes the poor little Muslim children think about gay sex.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    Why are they bothering with market research to pick their new name? If they're taking that much influence from the events of the Middle Ages they should just call themselves the Canterbury Tales and get on with it.
    Probably should just wind up altogether before someone hurts someone.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    I was thinking yesterday how remarkable it is that there are still Redskins, Indians, Chiefs etc in American sports. Arsenal should probably be renamed as well in case it makes the poor little Muslim children think about gay sex.
    There's a few blowhard sportswriters in the US that won't use the Redskins name in articles.

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    "Pre-match entertainment at home games usually features sword-brandishing mounted men dressed as crusading knights in chainmail and tunics adorned with crosses."

    Glad they've cut that out as a bunch of random guys doing a fucking Knights Tale cosplay really evokes images of the recent atrocities committed in the name of pewdeepie.

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    I was going to ask if they still charge about on horses before the games, I suppose they have to do something now Lord of the Rings has dried up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    I was thinking yesterday how remarkable it is that there are still Redskins, Indians, Chiefs etc in American sports. Arsenal should probably be renamed as well in case it makes the poor little Muslim children think about gay sex.
    Until last year the Cleveland Indians mascot was still a pissed up native American called Chief Wahoo. He was bright red and had a big feather poking out of his hair. It's bonkers.

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    What is it now? A pissed up rapist Mexican?

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    I was looking to see if there were any other mascots that were similarly bad but ended up reading an NYT article that had the following:

    Pratt has found herself in the middle of one such debate involving the Exeter Chiefs, the defending champions of England’s rugby union league.

    Exeter, which rebranded itself as the Chiefs in 1999, calls its team store the Trading Post and its online fan group the Tribe. Fans chat on a message board named Pow-Wow. Among the 15 bars at the team’s home stadium are Wigwam, Cheyenne, Apache, Mohawk, Tomahawk, Buffalo and Bison. Just inside the main entrance to the arena stands the team’s Five Nations Totem Pole, memorializing the five countries visiting Exeter for the 2015 Rugby World Cup (not, as some might guess, the five nations of the Iroquois Confederacy.)


    1) If you're going to go with the theme, lean all the way in I guess?
    2) Why the fuck is Exeter Rugby Club branding themselves to appeal to California Gold Miners from the 1840s?

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    I was looking to see if there were any other mascots that were similarly bad but ended up reading an NYT article that had the following:





    1) If you're going to go with the theme, lean all the way in I guess?
    2) Why the fuck is Exeter Rugby Club branding themselves to appeal to California Gold Miners from the 1840s?
    Cornwall is a poor but proximate market.

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    Move them to Brisbane and Call them the West Canterbury Reds.

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    FC United of Canterbury.

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    Precious FC because of the Richie era.

    Edit: As a Qlder I have 'hated' the Crusaders for 15 years.
    Last edited by Queenslander; 04-04-2019 at 06:05 AM.

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    Christchurch should really be branded #Muhammadmosque whilst they're at it.
    Last edited by Spikey M; 04-04-2019 at 06:25 AM.

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    You're not thinking modern enough. Rename them a hashtag.

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    Fixed it.

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    A guy I used to play football with played for that internet team hashtag united.

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    Haven't had one in a while.

    https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/...-37981874.html

    If the world was run right he'd have got a few clatters for being somewhere he shouldn't and that would be the end of it.

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    That one's hilarious

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    Saw this story the other day and thought of you Giggles.

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    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47812780

    ...it has since emerged that civil servants around the UK were offered counselling to help prepare for no deal.
    Dope dope

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    Speaking of dope.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...55181.html?amp

    "Most cannabis sold on streets contains faecal matter, study finds"

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    It amazes me people in the brexit article list "Reading the news." as their main hobby. Imagine that on a CV.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    Speaking of dope.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...55181.html?amp

    "Most cannabis sold on streets contains faecal matter, study finds"
    The smugglers eat the shit, right out of Narcos, and then shit it out and unpack it.

    You gotta go to one of their underground dispensaries for the primo

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    Missed opportunity to use the phrase 'the good shit'.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shindig View Post
    It amazes me people in the brexit article list "Reading the news." as their main hobby. Imagine that on a CV.
    No one should be putting their hobbies on their fucking CV anyway.

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    "Posting in the off topic section of an off topic forum" is right at the top of mine.

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    I now just have my name and contact details with 'Team Engineer' below them.

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    Why do employers ask what your hobbies are anyway? The answer is either going to be a lie to make you seem a good fit for the job ('I just make excel spreadsheets all weekend') or it's going to be the standard 'going out with my mates'. Who fucking cares? I barely care and they're my hobbies.

    @SvN do you ask? If so, why?

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    I imagine having proper hobbies translates very well into the workplace. If you're motivated and enthusiastic outside of work, there's a good chance you are inside of work too. Plus, you might as well shoot for the stars and try to get an IDEAL candidate for the job with similar hobbies to the current staff.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    Why do employers ask what your hobbies are anyway? The answer is either going to be a lie to make you seem a good fit for the job ('I just make excel spreadsheets all weekend') or it's going to be the standard 'going out with my mates'. Who fucking cares? I barely care and they're my hobbies.

    @SvN do you ask? If so, why?
    Have you ever been asked in an interview?

    I haven't.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    Have you ever been asked in an interview?

    I haven't.
    Yeah. With the exception of my Civil Service job I think I've always been asked.

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